Week two of the NFL season has kicked off, all but one of my fantasy teams lost (even one that was the 2nd highest scoring team in the league), and well… the Browns are still the Browns, and the local writing reflects this:
In that column, I told everyone your boyfriend is fighting an interdimensional holy war between God, who hates the Browns, and an unnamed eldritch beast lurking beneath the 50-yard line who believes only in misery and perpetual night. This is exactly why it loves the Browns, as there has never been a more reliable distributor of suffering in modern sports history.
Getting back to the standard swing of things, let get on with the links…
This is the first story about Springfield that hit my news feed that wasn’t about what the campaigns were saying about the city.
I know Tonio usually deals with space stuff, but I can deal with idiotic stuff, right?
Maybe we need one of our vampire Daytonians to head up and do some on the ground reporting?
The return of funemployment!
Who’s interested in a growth investment opportunity?.
It’s like people don’t know the basics of a portion up front, and the rest after confirmation.
The drink for this week will reflect last (and potentially this) Sunday’s game. At least they got rid of the cocktail Keurig abomination at the stadium. Of course, the one mixed drink I did order (Cleveland Mule – Vodka, Ginger Beer, Cranberry juice) I watched the bartender mess up (instead of ginger beer, they used margarita mix, but the girlfriend got a collectable glass).
Suffering Bastard
- 2 part bourbon (1 ounce)
- 2 part London dry gin (1 ounce)
- 1 part lime juice (0.5 ounce)
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
- Ginger beer (to top)
Fill a shaker with ice, and put everything but the ginger beer in. Shake until chilled, strain into a Collins glass filled with fresh ice, and garnish with a mint sprig (if you wish, you can also add in a pellet of dry ice).
You probably know the music to this one, but not sure if you’ll know the lyrics.
Maybe they can learn to cod… oh.
The Whispers – Rock Steady
no, this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTxfXUhKub0
I had forgotten about that Whispers song. It’s amazing how much of it I remember.
I went to see Bad Co in concert in college.
Do Rock Steady
I wasn’t into boy bands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69lcRB1qco8
Freddy getting ready, rock steady
When Johnny strikes up the band
Also one of the best songs by the Queen of Soul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WckPlSjv410
I followed a link from The Register earlier today to some ranty place called Layoff.com (or something like that)… and the running gag appears to be “Learn to journalism” given the IT layoffs going on.
I was going to say just that…
Well, it looks like a good thing I’m building up a quality series of work, right? 🙂
We’re laying of a few thousand on Monday, so yay.
You know, if they sifted the detritus from these companies and found the people not hired for diversity points who were good at their jobs and could make the games customers wanted, you could create some really profitable game studios without the dead weight.
Rather sardonic to have an olive branch as the symbol of the “Palestinians.”
16 million cans? Is that a lot? Coca-cola sells 1.9 billion cans every day.
Enough to buy someone a really nice villa.
I thought the article was satire. Who even knows anymore?
“Gaza Cola – Made with Fresh Jew Squeezin’s!”
We can spin up the grav generators using our perpetual motion machine reactors.
Or, in 50 years — commercially viable fusion.
To be fair to the article — it did get to the real reasons (eventually)… but man, does it seem click-baity for anyone who would take more than 1.5 seconds to realize why not….
In the spirit of the Critical Drinker… I think this about sums up my reaction to that….
The firewall is blocking the drinker. This is nuts.
Not the Drinker proper — my best attempt to find a reaction clip he often uses that felt apt. NSFW (language) so that’s probably why the firewall doesn’t like it, sorry.
Ah, that makes more sense.
Maybe they can learn to cod… oh.
The world needs ditchdiggers, too.
Now more than ever.
The World Need Ditch Diggers, Too
We’re all gonna be digging our own ditch.
If they make us make our own bullets too we’re really in for it.
Coca-cola sells 1.9 billion cans every day.
Thank you for enacting my labor. That was my first question.
So, on average 1 out of 3 people in the world buy a Coke every day? I don’t know any of them.
Yes you do; some of us are right here 😁
Trust me on this, no one wants to know how many cans I go through in a day lol.
An american buying a super gulp counts for 4 cans multiple times each day. We carry the world on our backs.
It is all just cans and butts around this place today…. Thought that was Wednesday!
Coke is only slightly less offensive than Dr. Pepper, aka carbonated bbq sauce.
I respect you and your opinions, Mojeaux… but don’t go ragging on my Dr. Pepper!
Heresy!
https://tenor.com/view/that-would-be-an-ecumenical-matter-father-ted-father-jack-ecumenical-irish-gif-15581044
This. Cola in general is gross.
For those of us who cannot abide coffee in any form whatsoever, and want a cold beverage, Diet Coke is almost a sacrament.
I don’t generally drink soda of any sort, but if I do, it will be cola.
An Ice cold fountain cola is the Best. Hangover. Cure. Ever.
I can’t think of any way to spin this.
Whoa… that’s heavy…
There are certain songs, books, or movies that stick in your head because of when they happened. My wife and I saw that movie while we were on a recruiting trip to Phoenix. It was a few weeks before graduation, and I was interviewing for the job I was eventually offered. First job out of college.
Right up there with the Affordable Care Act allowing us all to be artists and baristas or something…. Yay? I think my prior reaction still holds.
Jesus… that article is a dumpster fire of stupid.
zOMG cOrPoRaTe gReEd!!1!
Among the links at the bottom of the Ars Technica piece was this amusing one.
Barring Pie, of course — Europe seems damned determined to make me say “Fuck ’em”. At least they’re not investing in Egyptian or Mesoamerican real estate, I suppose…. no one needs a pyramid scheme.
I can understand normal people being bitten by encrypting ransomware — but businesses should be doing WORM backups with enough history that they can restore from before the ransomware (yeah yeah… ransomware will just get smarter and lurk for 9 months or something, I guess… but that’s a lot of time to find it first, plus if you’re backing up to multiple geos and keeping the data/documents clear I would think they’d stay unencrypted… but I don’t do that IT stuff for a living, so what do I know? Just puzzles me how folks get bitten by this crap… )
Of course — I’ve never understood why in the holy hell HTML email (and IMs and every other way people pass links and embedded scripting around like candy these days) on any system you care about makes sense. “I’ll give people an easy way to make me run remote code on a server I know nothing about! What could possibly go wrong?” Shrug.
Write once, debug everywhere. It’s the future, man!
In my opinion and experience, most of the younger IT people don’t even consider security as something to even be worried about.
I find a lot of backup schemes are WORN (write once, read never).
“We have backups.”
“Yes, but have you ever tested restoring from those backups?”
Of course they tested the backups. Every day they look and see that little message that says:
“Backup jobs failed”
“Why would we need to when the production systems are still up and we can’t afford the downtime?”
Way back in ancient history, I did daily, weekly, and monthly back up of the proprietary real-time systems we used to build simulators.
I did restore from tape on a number of occasions. Tape was unreliable, which is why we backed up daily.
The most common reason for restoring from tape . . . . “uh, is there an undelete key?”.
Nah. The program exits so I assume it succeeded.
Free spirit
Former President Donald Trump said Friday that he doesn’t control far-right agitator Laura Loomer, whom he described as a “free spirit” and “supporter.”
“Laura’s been a supporter of mine, just like a lot of people are supporters, and she’s been a supporter of mine. She speaks very positively of the campaign. I’m not sure why you asked that question, but Laura is a supporter. I don’t control Laura. Laura has to say what she wants. She’s a free spirit,” Trump said at a news conference in Southern California in response to a question from CNN’s Kristen Holmes about his allies expressing concern about their close relationship in recent days.
Conscientious objector from Trump’s robot army? Ridiculous. Everybody knows Trump mind-controls the MAGA throngs.
Projection, I guess — the Collective can’t imagine someone stepping out of sync with The Message from the higher ups….
The party of the Free Thinkers of the ’60s, ladies and germs!
According to the Free Press she tweeted some pretty racist things about Kamala, like the White House will smell like curry and it will turn into a call center or something. Pretty dumb considering Vivek has such a big role in the campaign.
So you still think drugs are cool?
(Mutters to self, goes off to find broom)
Legitimate LOL… hope the kitteh had a good trip.
Last year, she posted a video on social media claiming that the attack on the World Trade Center towers was an “inside job,” an illogical but pervasive conspiracy theory that continues to haunt the families of victims and survivors. She twice ran for Congress in her home state of Florida, including once to represent Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, almost exclusively campaigning on her allegiance to the former president. She lost both races.
The former president has long embraced conspiracy theories and has regularly aligned himself with those who peddle in them, especially if they support him. He entered the political arena as one of the leading purveyors of myths about President Barack Obama’s birthplace. And after he lost the 2020 election, Trump surrounded himself with people who claimed with questionable or debunked evidence they could prove he won.
They’ll ride this horse until there’s nothing left but teeth and hooves.
Does the nag cross the finish line in first place? That’s all they care about, not lies or exaggeration or slander or (chuckle) “fair play.”
forever
I learned about that today on Taibbi and Kern’s weekly show. That is unbelievable.
BTW, you get 30 minutes of that episode for free and it’s well worth the time to see how everything did change after 9/11.
https://www.racket.news/p/america-this-week-september-13-2024
I told many people that America died that day and nothing would be free again.
It has run through my mind more than once that if I ever somehow had time travel, rather than the cliche Baby Hitler fight… getting Logan airport security to actually do their damned jobs would be an unbelievable gift to humanity.
Well, that and convincing TR not to run Bull Moose so the non-Wilson vote wasn’t split… holding off the Progressive Era and keeping the US out of WW1 would be interesting as well.
But yeah — War on Wrongthink is great for the IC and the MIC… I do think we’re stuck with it until our spending finally catches up with us. Hopefully Musk at least will get the hell away from the crap show in time.
In response to another reporter’s question, Trump downplayed how Loomer traveled with him on his plane to the Philadelphia debate along with close advisers and family members.
“A lot of people do. It’s a very big plane,” Trump said.
Poor Trump. He apparently doesn’t even understand shunning the unclean.
Hi Neph!
Happy Friday the 13th!
I hate drinking at stadiums/arenas. My inner Scotsman is triggered by the pricing and stingy pours. Every game is better from my sofa.
Sorry about your Browns. Vikings looked pretty decent against the Giants but it will be interesting to see what happens against a real team.
I never drink at concerts or sporting events for that reason, plus I’d rather not miss half the event waiting in line to let that beer pass through.
It’s the atmosphere more than the drinks. There’s a local we walk up to for away games (last year they still had their $6 game day specials).
The boos for Watson started in the second quarter. Last half of the game, a cheer went up in the stadium when Watson was slow to get up after a sack. The cheering stopped when he stood up.
Brutal. Maybe he can be traded to Miami. It looks like they need a new one, too.
One of the clauses in the contract is a no trade clause, so Watson would need to approve any trade. There’s a reason I (and most fans) are hoping that the latest accusation allows us to sever the contract and kick Watson to the curb.
That’s why tailgating was invented.
No true Scotsman would go anywhere with out a pocket flask.
I’m reliably informed Tatiana will provide some Toilet Duck on request.
Flasks? Pikers:
However, Dawg Pound members could still find a way to sneak in a banned item or two.
One example is a keg of beer brought into the stadium inside a home-made dog house.
So much this.
I’ve had fun at games but… it’s not something I would do regularly.
Went to see Elton John and Billy Joel in Ames, Iowa with my brother back in 1993 or something. The girls behind us spilled beer in my hair. I damn near turned around and puked on them.
I LOVE going to games—if I’m up to the walk and the climb to the seats close to God. Games are best viewed from my recliner.
While my eventual goal is to get seats down in the Dawg Pound, the picture from the front is from my current seats. Not upper level, in the club seats. Only thing that’s difficult to tell is kicks to those goalposts.
The girlfriend did stay out in the seats to watch tOSU marching band play during half time.
Went to see Elton John and Billy Joel in Ames, Iowa with my brother back in 1993
OMG, I was there, too! And no, it was not Mrs. Whiz who spilled the beer.
WHIO 7 has some crack reporters, indeed:
“Dorsainvil loves philosophy and theology, it’s what him to study theology.”
Also, “The photo of the guy carrying the dead goose wasn’t taken in Springfield, it was taken in Columbus, dummy.” probably isn’t going to be a winning argument in the migration debate.
I’m sure their fact checkers will take a gander at the issues.
Never gonna stop those fucking geese from migrating.
It was only earlier this summer when I learned that Canada geese that don’t migrate south for the winter are known in the Midwest as “sky carp,” since they’re (a) really common and (b) incredibly annoying.
For some twisted reason known only to me, I thought about making a T-shirt for the Glibs featuring our favorite avian friends. Turns out that doing the shirt in four-color is rather expensive. Drat.
Stylized black and white would look great !
I love the shirt
Well…that makes it fake news then. – every
fact checkergood thinker out thereTwo days before Tuesday’s presidential debate, Loomer said that if Vice President Kamala Harris, who is half Indian, wins in the 2024 election, “the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center.”
Don’t you people know a joke when you hear one?
Good thing nobody told her Harris is black.
*yeah yeah yeah stupid tasteless joke from icky person
So that was it. In poor taste, and it might turn some people off, but still a mountain out of a mole hill.
I thought it was funny, but then I like dead baby jokes so of course.
I shall reiterate from last night’s thread:
Today is my and my husband’s 22nd wedding anniversary. We got married on Friday the 13th on purpose.
Congrats! He keeps winning all the things and he has you, so not an unlucky day for him. We got married the day before Valentine’s day, but it was Saturday the 13th.
Awesome. Congrats and nice work!
Congrats! That seems like a source of private amusement (well, as long as his name isn’t Freddy… I don’t think I’d push my luck in that scenario).
And apologies to 4×20… but married in 2002 — that seems like just yesterday. Now I feel old. Hope that doesn’t mean I’ll have to deal with a doomsday device to break a midlife crisis….
Jason.
Freddie was a different murderer.
I sit corrected. Stupid mistake… what a nightmare.
Congrats!
I remember you saying this before….some years ago. I dont remember how many. How long have you been around us miscreants?
Well, lessee … I mostly lurked on HnR, although I spoke a couple of times and did not get a warm welcome, by any means, so I stopped. Then I was bored one day, went back, noticed it was mostly spam and Tony and John, and the wall o’ text guy happened to say something about the Glibbening. So I came here. That was early 2018. I established myself here a little more circumspectly, met OMWC, then disappeared to write Cods & Cuntes and y’all got worried and thought I died. So sweet. So, 6-1/2 years.
Weird… I seem to recall some Mass readings where Jesus said something a trifle different there, Francis….
If they’re trying to get a schism between traditionalists and the Church of Buddy Christ (until they drop “Church” like the Anglicans supposedly want to), I can’t think of what they’d do differently.
Back in the 70s and 80s when I was in private Southern Baptist school, they either hinted, implied, or outright said that the pope was the antichrist. Or maybe that was my church. I don’t remember.
Anyway, I never bought that because damn, that’s a heavy accusation on someone who teaches Christ, even if they don’t have the complete gospel.
But this guy… I’m starting to believe it.
Nope, just another communist. Those fuckers sure do play the long game.
That’s kinda like Queers for Palestine, isn’t it?
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6
Not seeing a lot of wiggle room there, CommiePope.
I mean, you can’t go wrong with Sleestaks.
Yeeeeah….I am gonna have to pass on that.
Egghead rumination
Plenty of evidence suggests that in elections, endorsements do matter. Psychologically, endorsements serve as information shortcuts, which help voters make decisions more easily by relying on the perceived credibility and values of the endorser rather than conducting in-depth research on policies or candidates themselves. And while the most coveted endorsements typically come from political figures, an ever-growing distrust in political institutions means endorsements from other public figures — like celebrities or influencers — could be more consequential than ever before.
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For her part, Swift has one of the largest audiences in the world, and her political endorsement could move the needle by drawing in those who may not otherwise be following politics, or what Yanna Krupnikov and John Barry Ryan of the University of Michigan characterize as the deliberately uninvolved. Her endorsement has the potential to particularly galvanize younger Americans, a bloc with historically low voter turnout, to register and show up to vote.
Taylor Swift will push Harris over the goal ling. It could happen.
The Cheneys endorsed that Kamala sock puppet thing. That is all I need to know.
Well, she probably influences more votes than TOS which is always accused of causing Trump to lose in 2020 because a few of their numnutz writers “strategically” voted for Biden.
Oops- premature submittance.
Or, those “deliberately uninvolved” fans might just say STFU and sing.
That Haitians are eating household pets is the least surprising and least culturally disgusting thing they will be up to. Of course the media had to spotlight the 1 in 10M loons that got caught eating a cat putting special emphasis on ‘NOT FROM HAITI’.
Nice try boys.
So…space station with stationary center and outer rim that rotates. See….problem solved.
Vampires…so they are not all just in DC. Good to know.
Again, nice try boys. The Haitians are eating any critter they can catch. Denying it just makes one look like an ignoramus or a liar, or both.
Just wait…there will be a thousand other things like this from all the shitholes around the world.
Bubble pops. They have a tendency to do that.
I cant say what I think about the colas. Amazing how the Europeans talk out of one side of their mouth about the Nazi’s but jump on the first Nazi train that comes along, seemingly unaware. Or maybe they aren’t, I dunno.
This is why blackmail and extortion always leads to murder.
The countertop ice maker my husband won has arrived. There are various accoutrement like Yeti wine thermos.
Sadly, it is not a nugget ice maker as I had been told. It is a bullet ice maker.
No hospital ice for me.
Now if it made ice bullets …
Nah, forget it dude. Jessica Fletcher would be all over your ass.
Although it’s hard to measure their direct effects, experts say endorsements like Swift’s can be consequential by reaching new or less politically engaged voters and helping create a sense of social responsibility among them. “Among the people who are not deeply political, who would generally turn off the news and put on some music, musicians and celebrities can be effective public opinion leaders,” said Jessica Feezell, an associate professor of political science at University of New Mexico who studies music and politics. “If Taylor Swift … is signaling that it’s good to be registered to vote, and it’s good to be engaged in politics, and maybe that it’s good to vote for Harris over Trump, I would expect that to matter for people who are new voters or politically ambivalent.”
Fuck off.
I would expect that to matter for people who are new voters or politically ambivalent.
Those people shouldnt be encouraged to vote
The laid off Sony devs can just learn to mine.
Bingo
‘Twas ever thus, that industry.
It’s Friday the 13th, so you might as well stay inside and avoid trouble
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
I thought you said ‘stay out of trouble’.
Oh, I get it now.
Southern Living had a feature on my new town
https://www.southernliving.com/franklin-nc-8709919
Lovely. I really enjoyed hiking out there. The Scottish place looks cool, too.
Those people shouldnt be encouraged to vote
But muh social responsibilities!
https://nypost.com/2024/09/13/business/boars-head-to-close-plant-tied-to-listeria-deaths-stop-liverwurst-sales/
Wow
Damn.
The food industry needs a reboot.
Crazy. BH is like the creme of the crop around here.
I have reached Deadwood, South Dakota.
The hotel is doing its darnest to make believe it’s not a Holiday Inn. So much so that my first assumption was “My GPS took me to the wrong spot – AGAIN!”
But the tiny subtitle on the sign (which had no Holiday Inn green on it) was “A Holiday Inn Resort”, and the front desk had my reservations… A front desk I could only reach from the parking garage by passing through the Casino and taking an elevator to the third floor. From there, I had to take a different elevator to reach my room, whose balcony has a nice view of the roof. There is no direct access to the garage from the hotel you have to schlepp your luggage through the casino.
After the Reno Atlantis, I developed a severe dislike of Casinos, and had I realized this was one as well… well, I made my reservations back in March, so I wouldn’t have known better then.
I’ve stayed there. It’s weird. I hate casinos too.
For a socialist with vocal fry, this chick is generating some decent stuff.
Their willingness to go against the blob is interesting to me.
excellent
“Here is a list of things I think are good and I’ll attribute them to some abstract group of people who may or may not share them”
insert eye-roll emoji.
Is it just me or is this the most subdued election year ever? Granted I’ve been avoiding all the media shit like the plague, but I always do that, Still I’m not seeing yard signs or hearing people bitch and moan down at the bar about the latest stupid thing this guy or that gal said, maybe it’s early days but it just doesn’t seem like everyone give as much of a shit as they used to. (which they shouldn’t, so this is a good thing if I’m right in my assessment)
During my in-person conversation with Raven Nation, one of the topics that came up was armchair historians like myself versus academic historians. It the back to mind when my most recent audiobook started. The topic of the book is supposed to be ancient humanity. It’s one of the “Great Courses” audiobooks which are styled after university lectures. (some are very good)
During the introduction, the very young-sounding presenter (both in voice and in mannerisms) mentioned that her PhD topic was using radioisotope measurements to prove that… Ancient Elk were sesonally migratory. You know, the ancestors of the modern, sesonally migratory ungulates who are anatomically all but indistinguishable, those Ancient Elk. My reaction was incredulity that such subject matter was Doctoral material in this day and age. (For my PhD, I shall show that water is in fact wet). This primed me to nitpick the actual course material, and I noticed two subtle but telling things. 1: She would make declarations about theories saying “but that has been debunked” without introducing an iota of evidence against said theory, and move on as though her word were enough. 2: She ignored obvious methodological issues with some of her examples that rendered the conclusions useless. Two dates based on strata of rock without any way of verifying that either statum was associated with the bone to be dated means neither of those dates can be treated as accurate for the fossil. It appears that the initial collection was not recorded to the level of accuracy needed to verify the strata the bone came out of. But no, she says it’s 1.5 Million years old, so we can draw conclusions from that date.
Oh, and then there was the trigger warning at the start of the course. There are going to be depictionsl of skeletal human remains. Then there was the statement that this was okay for study paleoathropology, except when it’s indiginous remains. Da fuq? What makes it not okay to show them, and how do you define them? No, she’s got political brain rot which prevents her from engaging with verious theories of human evolution which do not fit the established dogma, meaning she won’t even talk about facts in support or refutal of those ideas, since engaging with the ideas is anathema to her.
I pretty much spent my drive arguing with the audiobook over these things.