Shakira and some dude dressed up like a condom
That was a fun game to watch. But man, did the 49ers ever shit the bed in the last 7 minutes. It was inexplicable. There were some quality commercials as well. All in all it was an enjoyable evening. Congrats to the Chiefs, from America…well, not all of America, but most of America.
In other sports, Djokovic had to grind out a five set championship match with Dominic Thiem to get his 17th major. I think he’ll catch Federer now. And in soccer, a dreadful Arsenal team drew with Burnley and Spuds thumped Man City 2-0 after the latter went a man down. The separation between Liverpool and Man City is the largest distance from 1 to 2 as there’s ever been in the EPL’s history. They may lock the title up in March now.
Not so pretty now.
Ferdinand Magellan was born on this day. He shares it with the first woman to get a medical degree in the US Elizabeth Blackwell, notorious gangster Pretty Boy Floyd, trampoline inventor George Nissen, rat pack member Joey Bishop, Minnesota Viking legend Fran Tarkenton, Miami’s Bob Griese, The Kinks’s Ray Davies, (my wife) Morgan Fairchild, and self-made billionaire (Theranos) Elizabeth Holmes.
And now…the links!
UC Berkeley gets a little unwoke. Can cancel culture cancel itself? How is this gonna work?
Get back in your PJs, whistleblower.
The impeachment trial is all over but the crying. And I expect there to be a metric shitload of that going on for the next 8 months. Or longer.
Shouldn’t these people be counted where they live? I always assumed they got counted in their parents’ home number. I know that’s how I plan on counting my daughter.
The UK might want to think about having terrorists serve their entire sentence. This is the second one they let out early that immediately got stabby. And from what I’ve seen, they knew he would get stabby, so they were actually following him around. And they even failed at that.
Accused rapist Harvey Weinstein and friend
Thank God these brave officers were able to stop this. I mean, if prisoners are gonna have contraband, there damn sure better be a corrections officer smuggling it in and profiting from it, right?
Note to Adam Schiff and company: This is how trials are supposed to work.
Now go have a wonderful day.
Last
Have to give an interview question about implementing a reverse sort via a heap or something, UCS? 😉
Well, we do have an interviewee coming in today to face the inquisition.
Fetch…. the comfy chair!
Only hire young non binary women to improve diversity
That would be in violation of the hiring process as outlined in Civil Service Law. We are forbidden to use such factors in making our determination.
You mean the Civil Service hates diversity? Strange.
Funnily enough, when they wrote those laws, it was “intended” to prevent discrimination against minorities. I can’t prove there was or was not such discrimination, but changing civil service law is not a vote-buying measure by which politicos can make hay, so it’s still in effect.
The American Historical Association recommended about 10 years ago that departments not use video links to interview candidates as it may lead to discrimination against women and minorities.
Last year they began to recommend that departments use video links to help them hire more women and minorities.
Yeah, it is time to take that guy we honored on Jan. 20th off the pedestal and into the dustbin of history.
To be fair, King Sebastian of Portugual probably didn’t do much to improve diversity.
The rapture is here?
Have to do it in August, then.
Rapture? Dammit, are we in an underwater city crawling with sploicers?
Told y’all to seize the fish….
Like anyone speaks latin!
Omnia latine sonat magis altum videtur.
Gloria tu insanis erit
If you ain’t first. . .
You still end up with the same stupid participation trophy.
Bring Back Meritocracy!
Shouldn’t these people be counted where they live? I always assumed they got counted in their parents’ home number. I know that’s how I plan on counting my daughter. – sounds like patriarchy to me.
No, Patrilocality.
Pretty soon the government is going to mandate that everyone return home to be counted for the census. It is, after all, traditional.
Dangnabbit… this is where my August comment was meant. Sigh.
The question on the census card should be “How many people, as of the day you are completing this form, consider this address to be their primary residence?’
They don’t seem to make anyone serve their entire sentence. They have to get triple life without parole plus sixty to avoid a prisoner getting out on a ‘life’ sentence.
“The University of California, Berkeley has apologized Thursday after a now-deleted Instagram post listed xenophobia as a common reaction to the spread of coronavirus. The images from the campus’ University Health Services explained how to “manage fears and anxiety” about the fast-spreading and highly contagious illness, which listed common reactions — including xenophobia — that people may have as more information unfolds.”
That’s because asian people don’t count. It would be totes different if this were a virus from Saudi Arabia.
Aren’t Arabs just white folks with big noses though?
I have yellow-fever, not
jungledesert-fever.Morning all.
Can’t say I watched or cared about the Superbowl — other than making the mistake of going out for a couple of things around noon and discovering that apparently no one in my small town actually plans ahead for their Superbowl parties — because the grocery store was like Black Friday at a Wal-Mart. Ugh.
Hopefully we won’t get Impeachment 2: Electric Bugaloo right away… but I fear we will.
As far as college students — yeah, I can see an argument for counting them as 75% there in the college towns from the “we want to do urban planning crowd”. Not that I really want that crowd to get the data they want anyway, but I can see it.
Carpe piscem!
College kids swing elections. The local U is bragging about a 43% turnout for election 2018. The rest of the population in the district was about 30%. Our self proclaimed libertarian GOP legislator lost by 27 votes.
So the super bowl thing is done. I have a question. Would it not make sense to have it on a Saturday, so that if people overindulge they need not go to work bearing the consequences?
Because it’s the responsibility of the people who overindulge to manage their own damn monday.
Heresy! Then those of us who don’t care about the day couldn’t look forward to / hope to coast a little on Monday as all the football crowd either suddenly has the flu or at least doesn’t want to do much besides talk about the game after coming in late!
Also there seems to be a parade on Wednesday. Do people generally get time off from work for these sort of things?
In ’87 we got let out of school early to see the Minnesota Twins world series victory parade. Not sure what they’d do if the Vikings won the Super Bowl, the question hasn’t come up yet.
School will be let out, yes.
This is because, in 2015, when the Royals won the World Series, all the students, teachers, and subs called in sick. They had no one to come to classes and no one coming to classes. They were pretty much forced to close.
This time, they know in advance what’s going to happen, so they just planned for it.
You have vacation time for a reason – take the day if you want to go and/or let your kids cut school. Recent Pats and Red Sox parades still drew big crowds, but nothing like 2001/2004, respectively, for obvious reasons.
Yeah, fuck community building and fuck cultural fellowship.
Are you suggesting that we can’t have a community with people voluntarily taking time off of work? Who gets to choose which things are worthy community-building events?
The business owners want to give people the day off, great. If they don’t, I don’t see why taking a vacation day to go to a parade for your local team is any different than taking a personal day for any other reason.
Some of us make sure we take the day after off of work.
Exactly! I’ve got to mail out a bunch of titles, go send a wire transfer and then I’m playing golf.
It should definitely be on Saturday (some crazy people think Monday should be a holiday).
(some people think every Monday should be a holiday)
My Church has 52 Saints and Miracles that result in an entire year of 3-day weekends (due to deep religious convictions). That and our flexibility on a lot of other issues are why you should really think about joining my Holy Sea.
The only thing we are strict about is tithing. Got to follow the rules on that.
I expect the church to tithe ten percent of its income to me.
Pimpn’ ain’t easy, but it’s necessary…
It would do wonders for the bar economy to move it to Saturday, but would hurt the tv ratings (and commercial incomes) due to said bar watching.
Would it not make sense to have it on a Saturday
Yes. But NFL is always on Sundays, whereas college football is on Saturdays.
And high school is always on Friday.
The NFL is also on Mondays and Thursdays, so Sunday games aren’t exactly sacred.
Grievance mongers are gonna grievance monger, but there’s no pissing on my parade today.
*does tomahawk chop*
I can’t help but think what the reaction would be if some sports team was nick named “Pioneers”, dressed old-timey and carried a pseudo axe.
“Minecraft LARPers”
Of if every March 17, people got stone cold wasted and culturally appropriated clothing, food, symbols, and speech patterns of the native peoples of an island nation that has been colonized by its larger, oppressive neighbor.
I prefer to call them The Kansas City Chieves.
It was good to hear the war chant in Miami.
Oh, and it was LOUD.
Everywhere Chiefs fans go, they take Arrowhead with them.
… and the home of the
braveCHIEFS!Heh. Love that.
“self-made billionaire (Theranos) Elizabeth Holmes”
I wonder what her net worth actually is now. Not in the billions, I’m sure, but probably still in the millions.
Of course, she should be in jail.
A fan of the women in jail genre I see… It was not her fault it was the Patriarchy what made her do it
When she puts back on the glove and snaps her finger, she’ll reset her balance sheets.
I think you missed it, but on a Saturday thread I said that the rest of the EPL is trying to make you look like a genius. Then Man City went and made things a wee bit tougher for you to be right.
My current breakdown of the EPL:
1
2-3
4
5-8
9
10-14
15-19
20
Everton is the 9, 2 pts behind the Euro fight group and 2 pts ahead of the “probably safe, but work to do” group.
They’re right in the thick of the Euro fight group IMO. That win Saturday sealed it. They would have rolled over and died 6 weeks ago. They’re playing harder now. Sure, they choked away two points a couple weeks ago, but they’ve since turned a corner re: perseverance.
They also played like crap for 45 minutes and should have been down more than 2.
But the rest of the Euro Fight Group (sans Spurs) is trying the best they can to make you look right. I will take it. I dont think 5th can happen, but 7th is very reasonable.
I would not be shocked if they finish 5th. Or 14th.
I keep telling you Chelsea is not alone in 4th. They played freaking Caballero this weekend because Kepa sucks. They play United and then Spurs in the next two games.
Who can catch them?
There is no one that can string together pts below them.
Spurs? I’m not hopeless just yet. Chelsea draw United, Spurs beat Villa and then Chelsea, they are in 4th.
FWIW: LFC’s “magic number” is now 18.
Note to Adam Schiff and company: This is how trials are supposed to work. – While I am sure plenty of abuse was going down, it seems that there probably were a bunch of actresses willingly doing stuff to further careers, and it is difficult to separate them.
I dunno. The charmed chick was naked in his hot tub. She wasn’t marched in there at gunpoint. She went there knowing there was going to be quid pro quo expected and she was willing to pay the price for it. Until her acting career stalled. Then it retroactively became rape.
Yeah, at least in a large chunk of these cases it is difficult to see who is using who. The women are clearly using their sexuality in the hopes that he will further their career. And he is clearly using his wealth and power as plumage to attract female companionship.
If he were offering a job in exchange for sex, shouldn’t that count as prostitution, rather than rape or sexual harassment?
And if they already have a job but feel that continued employment is threatened if they don’t have sex, that’s definitely quid pro quo sexual harassment.
I dunno…. they seem to have gone in eyes wide open hoping to get something in exchange for their efforts. I’m not sure what that is under the law, but if they had walked in offering him a diamond ring that had been in the family for 6 generations in exchange for a big role, that would be straight-up bribery… and a crime. Offering up the kitty-cat instead of some hardware or cash kinda seems like it is the same thing.
“And I expect there to be a metric shitload of that”
My mom updated her Facebook picture to an upside down flag.
Her house is sinking?
Well she also copy pastad this…
https://reflections.yale.edu/article/money-and-morals-after-crash/questionnaire
Honestly it makes no sense to me.
Well for Question 2 I’m pretty close to willing to be fillified and go full Pinochet if it rids us of the marxist infested claptrap and unearned guilt
I almost responded to each question with some ridiculous shit.
“I’d drink all the poison if it means McDonald’s CEO makes more money! Can’t wait to go again!”
1: If we’re going by California Rules, all of it. All of the poison, since nothing doesn’t cause cancer.
2: Full Pinochet.
3: I would gladly destroy all of the ivy league and most of the government buildings, even the good looking ones.
4: We can do withoute Seattle, Chicago, San Fransisco, Los Angeles, New York, the limitations on use of the Adirondaks, and other unnatural ‘parks’
5: Wendell Berry. He clearly never grew up.
The art one made me laugh for a while.
Good lord.
1) poison is determined by dose. I would cheerfully consume non-lethal doses of poisons; I do so daily.
2) none. Fucking for chastity is stupid.
3) none. A sacrifice is the giving up of a greater value for a lesser value.
4) none. If I don’t own it it’s none of my business. If I do, it’s none of yours.
5) none. See #3.
A sacrifice is the giving up of a greater value for a lesser value.
That is exactly backwards.
Lets use some examples:
1. Chess – a sacrifice in chess is giving up something of nominally greater value in order to get something of actual greater value. For example, sacrificing a pawn to gain position.
2. War – Someone sacrifices their life in battle in order to gain something they value more, such as freedom for their country.
3. Children – Parents sacrifice something they value so that their kids have a better life.
In all the case, it may not work out. Usually there is a time element involved, where you are giving up present value to gain future value, but there is an expectation of greater value.
Rand made the same mistake.
Doesn’t say whether the sacrifice was wise or foolish. A sacrifice can be either.
Disagree.
In all 3 cases you list, we see a lesser value exchanged for a greater.
The key being ‘exchange’ vs. ‘sacrifice.’ A sacrifice is distinguished from an exchange. On what other grounds may we draw the distinction?
They are all specific examples of things called sacrifices. The chess one is literally defined that way, that Rand with her Russian background blew a chess term was especially appalling.
I believe the key part of a sacrifice is that it is not a guaranteed exchange. In an exchange both parties know what they’re going to get and walk away with it (barring fraud). With a sacrifice, the person making the sacrifice doesn’t know for certain any good will come of it, but believes that it will.
I can accept the UCS distinction, that works for me.
I can as well, with the proviso that subjective value theory plays hob with these notions.
I would also suggest that many things called ‘sacrifices’ are called such to borrow the “respectability” [largely, if not exclusively, via religion] of the term. That is, they are, on my view, faux sacrifices.
I’m with robc here. The concept of sacrifice does not, cannot logically, and has never been understood to, involve giving up the greater in search of the lesser value. I don’t know where you get the idea that it has to involve a net loss. The whole idea is that you gain by the exchange whether you are talking about deferred gratification, a sacrifice in chess, or a sacrifice to propitiate the gods/God. You give up something of value to gain something greater.
Rand was taking her own perspective, which was that sacrificing to God was foolishness, and extrapolating the motivations of the people who made such sacrifices from her beliefs about the efficacy. You can’t do that, you have to evaluate motivations based on the knowledge and beliefs of the person motivated.
TL:DR It is cheating to redefine a term and then argue that the term refers to a bad thing instead of a good thing based on your redefinition.
or, Rand was not all that great at philosophy.
Basic economics: opportunity cost.
Also, the sacrifice fly is my spirit animal.
Well, I completely agree Rand was shit as a philosopher.
Honestly, I find the concept of ‘sacrifice’ to be pretty much hopelessly muddled. Some use the concept to cover ‘price,’ broadly speaking. I think a more useful distinction is between ex ante and ex post evaluation of an exchange. Ex ante, it’s hard to see how sacrifice would ever occur (given subjective value theory). Ex post, an exchange that results in a loss might be judged the sacrifice of the item(s) exchanged.
You give up something of value to gain something greater.
That’s my read. It helps to remember that value is always and everywhere subjective. The kinds of sacrifices that people usually refer to are sacrifices for an intangible/subjective purpose.
The acid test is, of course, sacrificing your life. Someone who does so obviously values something else more (the lives of others, duty, honor, their self-respect, etc.).
The fact that someone don’t hold the same values as they do doesn’t make it not a sacrifice.
1. How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.
Can’t tell if serious.
Marxists idiots are always serious when asking questions they believe set up the ability to demand camps for the non believers.
Undoubtedly serious, undoubtedly ignorant. There are no non-poisonous substances. This has been known for centuries, and resisted for at least that long.
Scotch, bacon, porkchops, beef, BBQ, Rye, sugar, cheese, butter…
Destruction.
The left is all about destruction and never about creation.
I write: I create.
I critique: I destroy.
My sister-in-law has the viewpoint that literary critique is its own form of creation, as the critic tears down something to make something new, which is his own thoughts on the subject.
In one sense she’s right, and I can accept that. It’s not like authors don’t use the materials that came before, e.g., tropes and storylines, as there are no original ones. Humans have limited themselves to about 7, likely because that’s the maximum number of “things” that can be chosen from before analysis paralysis kicks in.
But I can’t help but feel (yes, there’s that word, feel) that critique is merely trying to explain what’s wrong with it, which is destruction.
I don’t think critique is destruction. Not as a rule. Finding the weak spots can be done with an eye towards helping the creator improve.
There are some who relish destruction and criticize without any regard to merit or improvement.
I suppose if you want to stick with critique as destruction, It would be more akin to a tool. A saw might tear apart the joists of a house to try to bring it down – or it may cut out the rotten beam so that a strong one may be put in its place.
I think the direction of the criticism also matters. When criticism is aimed at stifling viewpoints the critic dislikes it is intensely destructive. When it is serving a creative purpose it is aimed at poor techniques and errors in the production of the work. For the past few decades most criticism has been aimed at viewpoints.
That’s the problem, though, isn’t it? Can you call trying to silence people because you have neither a cogent argument to make for your case nor a desire to defend the indefensible giving criticizing?
Depends on what flag. I could do that here and no one would notice.
Well, turning the Japanese flag upside down doesn’t really change much.
D’OUH – I thought “here” was referring to “on this site”…
Of course it does. It becomes the setting sun!
OK, I chuckled.
Last song the Animals sang…
The game play itself was good, but damn is it hard to watch that game. First Superbowl it did not really care about in a few years. I was glad to see the Cheifs win but was finding other things to do by the 2nd half. The game should be on Saturday or earlier in the day.
The overblown halftime show always kills the excitement. They should dump that shit and make it the HOF announcements. 12 minutes and back to the game, like the regular season.
^^^
Blame Fox for the half time show.
Normies don’t care about football. Normies care about pop music. The superbowl is a spectacle for normies. sadly.
I would pay money for a feed with (insert your favorite two announcers) that treated it like a normal game.
I think football is pretty damn normie. Perhaps you mean normettes?
A passing interest in football is normie. That’s why the half time show has attractive women wearing little clothing, non-threatening men in sweaters cracking bad jokes, and Joe Bucks Sonnerous Platitudes paired with surface-level insights from a brain-damaged former player who knows a hell of a lot about the game but never talks about anything of substance.
People like me sperging out about drive-starting-field-position and WHY THE FUCK IS SF REDUCING THE NUMBER OF DRIVES PER GAME DON”T THEY KNOW THAT INCREASES VARIANCE isn’t normie, and my demographic is wildly undeserved by what the Superbowl broadcast is presenting.
Tony Romo is the exception that proves your rule.
Yes. That is what makes me most nostalgic for the first few superbowls. It was just a championship game for people who like to watch football.
While the posts listing xenophobia as a reaction have been taken down, social media users say that deleting the problem does not erase the issue. Many are asking for a response from the school and a formal apology.
And money. This sort of wound can only be assuaged by financial reparations.
They want a response for why it was put up or why it was taken down. Help me out, my grievance studies is out of date.
They just want a response. You know like children yelling “look at me Dad”
Now go have a wonderful day.
Meh.
Thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7960745/Lily-Rose-Depp-wows-sheer-lace-jumpsuit-leaves-British-Vogue-x-Tiffany-BAFTA-bash.html
Thicc?
Let the conspiracy theories commence.
Some can blame the defense for allowing three touchdowns in the fourth quarter, while others can blame the offense for failing to score again after jumping out to a 20-10 lead in the third quarter.
Another easy scapegoat? The officials.
While the 49ers’ loss was due to a combination of several issues, there are at least three separate blown calls that could have thrown Super Bowl LIV the other way:
The offensive pass interference call on George Kittle at the end of the first half
With the game tied 10-10 late in the second quarter, quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo completed a deep pass to tight end George Kittle that appeared to set the 49ers up for a field goal attempt at the end of the half.
Unfortunately for the 49ers, offensive pass interference was called on the play. The call was questioned by many, since it appeared that Chiefs safety Daniel Sorensen was the one who initiated contact on the play, and it was only a small shove on Kittle’s part.
The 49ers were forced to take a knee and end the half instead, costing them three points that could have been big later in the game — but more on that later.
I have bigger issues with the play calling. After going down, they were moving the ball, then stalled when they started trying to go deep instead of continuing to pick up 5 yards at a time. They had all their time outs left, no need to go crazy.
It wasn’t even then. Why did they stop running sweeps and picking up 8yds a pop? The Chiefs never stopped those plays. The 49ers just stopped running them and decided to let Jimmy G win it with his arm.
This. The 49ers were billed as an unstoppable running team, but when it really mattered, they just stopped calling running plays. And the Chiefs seemed to know it and loaded up on the blitz. A screen-pass in 4th quarter would have won the game.
Don’t forget the time clock violation not called on Garoppolo on a failed 4th down gamble. Had it been called the would have moved the ball back and the 49ers would have had another crack at it. Strange one because I don’t think I’ve seen that blown too often – if at all.
I don’t think any of that would have had a bearing on jack shit. The Niners allowed three straight TD’s while up 20-10. They couldn’t over come simple blown calls.
As they discussed, at full speed it was a borderline call. Surprised it was missed, but apparently the officials give a touch of leeway on it, to make sure its clear delay.
Saw that but it was off by a full three seconds; something like that. More than enough time and he was ready to call it.
I think there was a human brain cramp on full display. I guess it happens.
The delay of game call gets missed all the time. And it is usually a function of how good/famous the QB is. Rogers gets away with it all the time.
and it was only a small shove on Kittle’s part.
So, pass interference.
Pass Interference? Isn’t that the job of the defense?
In this case it was on the offense.
They interfered with their own pass?
Are you trolling me? Yes he interfered with his own pass, he pushed off the defender to make the catch easier/prevent the defender from knocking it away.
And how is that an offense?
Don’t blame UCS. Wapner is on at the same time.
And no, I’m not trolling. I don’t know the rules to football, I’m just incredulous that would garner some form of penalty.
pushed off the defender – if the defender did not drop and roll on the field holding his head it should not count as an offense
This ain’t no sissy Euroball.
I like the “rules” we used in pick-up two hand touch. If the receiver couldn’t get adequate separation, the defender could whack away at his arms and hands all he wanted once the ball was thrown.
Personally, I liked the increased number of PI on the offense this year. Defenders can’t breath on a receiver without getting flagged, so it is only fair to call it on the offense when they push off to get separation.
The defender was in great position to make a play on that ball until Kittle pushed off, so yeah that was PI.
It wasn’t a clean play like the one the VIkes used to beat the Saints in OT.
Agreed.
Any mention of Shanahan’s terrible clock management at the end of the first half?
No. Like his flat-brim hat, it something everyone knows is very, very stupid but no one talks about.
The OPI wasn’t a blown call, he fully extended his arm to push off. The one that will give some credence to was the DPI in the end zone, looked like the DB was looking for the ball to me. Either way, can’t blame the calls for the loss.
I still want Shanahan to be asked why he declined a penalty in the first quarter that would have resulted in a 2nd and 12 instead of a 3rd and 2. You ALWAYS take that penalty. The Chiefs picked up the first down and went down the field and scored a TD on that drive.
I also want to know why Shanahan is incapable of shaping the bill on his baseball cap. Flat bills are not for middle-aged white dudes, for crying out loud.
I didn’t see any blown calls. That was legit offensive and defensive pass interference on the 49ers, and the touchdown was too close to call/reverse.
There was a missed offsides and a missed hit out of bounds on the same play. Followed shortly after by a missed helmet-to-helmet. And you can take your pick on the missed offensive holding calls, but there was a blatant one on the big pass to Hill.
But Shanahan’s play calling was probably the deciding factor. Mostert didn’t even get a carry until something like 9 minutes left in the first half. It was all very confusing.
28-3, now 20-10. You think Shanahan’s going to get the yips?
There’s always a ton of missed calls. I wasn’t paying close enough attention to catch those, but the calls I was focussing on were the ones that were actually made that could potentially change the game. All three broke in the Chief’s favor.
Of course, the last touchdown by the Chiefs pretty much made any missed or blown calls irrelevant to the outcome.
Offensive and defensive interference rules are designed to allow a passing game. The trick is to find a balance, which is admittedly a struggle. You want the receiver to have a “fair” chance at catching the ball, and the defender to have a “fair” chance of disrupting the play. Allowing the defender to just latch on to the receiver all the way down the field eliminates the former, and allowing the receiver to shove the defender away impairs the latter.
Now, I wouldn’t complain if they did away with the penalty for picks.
The refs are basically a random number generator. Best case scenario the fuck over both teams equally, but sometimes they get on a streak of fucking over one team more than another.
The NFL isn’t helping by promulgating literally-impossible-to enforce rules and refusing to actually train their staff consistantly (or even pay them as full-time employees!)
All of the missed calls I listed had the potential to change the game, and were very blatant. However, I still think the lion’s share of the blame belongs squarely on Shanahan’s shoulders.
It was that second push off with a fully extended arm right before the ball arrived that got him. I saw that and immediately knew it would be called.
Firstly, I don’t like the whole concept of pass interference.
The offense’s job is to make sure he’s not interfered with. WTF is it with him interfering with his own play?
The defense’s job is to interfere with the pass. THAT IS THEIR WHOLE JOB.
Without it, the defense would just tackle the receivers the second the ball was thrown.
Meh. The dead ball era was good to my particular team, but the game is more fun to watch with wide open passing.
I don’t know if you saw the tribute to Ronnie Lott they played in the pre-game show, but pretty much every single one of his hits on the video would have drawn a flag today.
But the school’s wellness page also included “xenophobia,” defined as “fears about interacting with those who might be from Asia and guilt about those feelings.”
Guess I don’t have it. I don’t feel guilty at all.
Love how parts of Destroyer always sounded like ‘All day and all of the night’.
Dealing with the real issues.
Democrat New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday in a speech at a Human Rights Campaign gala that he plans to rename a state park in Brooklyn after a trans activist.
The East River Park in Williamsburg will be renamed after the late LGBTQ activist Marsha P. Johnson, making it the first time the state has named a park after an LGBTQ person.
“New York State is the progressive capital of the nation, and while we are winning the legal battle for justice for the LGBTQ community, in many ways we are losing the broader war for equality,” Cuomo said Saturday at the Human Rights Campaign Greater New York Gala.
Cuomo added that Johnson was “an icon of the community.”
I see the problem.
And nobody will ever use that name for the park – I still cross the Tappan Zee bridge occasionally.
A silver lining of forced migration: Investment in education
Sascha O. Becker, Irena Grosfeld, Pauline Grosjean, Nico Voigtländer, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya 28 January 2020
Can the experience of being uprooted by force encourage people to invest in portable assets such as education? The idea has a long history but is a difficult hypothesis to test. This column combines data from historical censuses with newly collected survey data to show that Polish people with a family history of forced migration as a result of WWII are significantly more educated today than any comparison group. The results suggest a shift in preferences toward investment in human rather than physical capital, and imply that the benefits of providing schooling for forced migrants and their children may be even greater – and more persistent – than previously thought.
https://voxeu.org/article/silver-lining-forced-migration-investment-education
I was reading something about France in late 19th century and much of the widespread anti-Jewish sentiment was because their occupations depended on brain power and knowledge instead of, say, making cheese, herding goats, picking truffles, and shoeing horses.
Jewish occupation restrictions are usually the result of, not the cause of, antisemitism. In many jurisdictions, they were prevented from doing “honest work” like shit farming, ditch digging, etc, and were sequestered in dishonest professions like banking, craftwork, and scribing. These of courses tended to pay more if you were good at it, and thus the Jews were blamed for their outsized power in the economy.
I doubt it would have mattered. They did what they were allowed to do, and they were good at it. If they had been allowed to compete in other professions they would have been good at those, too, and resented for it.
Both the Joker and Nadal will pass Federer.
Well given the fines in Switzerland, Federer drives slower.
You deserve a backhand for that.
NEVER go more than 4km/hr over the posted speed limit!
When the Swiss were selecting what to keep from each of the cultural/linguistic groups that contribute to Switzerland they picked rule observance and work ethic from the Germans and didn’t have a pick left for “Drive as fast as is possible at all times”
That was not my observation when I lived there.
And I had to learn the Swiss response to zebra crossings too: They will stop after you commit to crossing. If you just stand on sidewalk, they will barrel on thru.
San Francisco: shit on the streets, and shit on the field.
I thought they would run the ball and eat up clock in the second half.
This guy…
Two students at St John’s College wrote to Andrew Parker, the principal bursar, this week requesting a meeting to discuss the protesters’ demands, which are that the college “declares a climate emergency and immediately divests from fossil fuels”. They say that the college, the richest in Oxford, has £8 million of its £551 million endowment fund invested in BP and Shell.
Professor Parker responded with a provocative offer. “I am not able to arrange any divestment at short notice,” he wrote. “But I can arrange for the gas central heating in college to be switched off with immediate effect. Please let me know if you support this proposal.”
He should have just turned off the heat and made an announcement university wide of their “divestment” from fossil fuel usage, pointing to the students requesting such a thing.
They want other people’s heat and hot water switched off – not their own.
Well of course not their own heat. That would be crazy.
Yeah, mature discussion. Sure.
They wouldn’t fucking know mature if it was a cougar hitting on them.
borderline dangerous to switch off the central heating
Fergus is a bit of a pussy.
I’m sure he’d be ok with burning some books to stay warm.
Yup. When I read this I said this guy finally made the point I have been making: all these woke cunts are fine asking for shit that never causes them to make any personal sacrifices but allows them to virtue signal. As soon as they need to sacrifice, the woke shit goes out the window.
Fucking idiot activists seem to be unable to grasp that shit.
I saw something clever on-line yesterday. “Ten million kids want to clean up the planet. Ten million parents want them to start with their rooms.”
That’s because those asshats know damn well they will not have to do any sort of heavy lifting to pay lip service to cleaning up the planet, while cleaning up their room is actual fucking work.
You give them too much credit for thinking.
No, in fact, they DON’T know because they a) never think it applies to them (whatever IT bad thing it is) and b) don’t think that far ahead. Ever. They are children in adult bodies.
Some clown (a philosopher) quit his teaching job at McGill because the university wouldn’t divest itself of investments with fossil fuels in them.
Of course, no one asked him to disrobe – since the clothes on his back is produced from FF – and go full St. Francis of Assisi.
I’m pretty sure he’s gonna continue to use all the items that make his life easier despite the fact they’re mostly made from….fossil fuels.
Everyone’s a faux-righteous shit head.
Win-win?
I mean, its McGill. I don’t think they are going to hire Thomas Sewell or the ghost of SC Lewis to replace him.
Go full Diogenes and see how the world ends up.
Oh, wait. That’s what they want OTHERS to do.
It looks like Emperor Palpatine, oops I mean George Soros, doesn’t much care for Mark Zuckerberg:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/opinion/soros-facebook-zuckerberg.html
“I repeat and reaffirm my accusation against Facebook under the leadership of Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg. They follow only one guiding principle: maximize profits irrespective of the consequences. One way or another, they should not be left in control of Facebook.”
Right. Executives who seek to maximize profits for shareholders should be removed.
His primary beef seems to be he won’t ban Trump. Also, I’m just going to assume that Soros has been working to maximize profits on his various endeavors for the past seventy years.
Exactly.
As a FB shareholder, I want the executives in charge to maximize profits. I would assume this would mean keeping the Troll in Chief around.
Of course, Soros just wants people he disagrees with to be deplatformed.
As opposed to Soros’ own guiding principle – “maximize profits by destroying western civilization.”
You will have to excuse me if I don’t feel inspired to take seriously the ramblings a person who has always followed the popular political sentiment of the day – beginning with the Hitler Youth (literally) and leading to the current progressive movement.
I’m not sure he had much of a choice with the HY stuff but he’s a bastard regardless.
He might not have had a choice, but he sure seems to have taken their lessons about being a totalitarian left wing asshole that promotes fascism to heart.
Maybe it’s just a coincidence that he seems to lean hard towards authoritarian, statist-collectivists then.
Power is the end, not the means.
THINK OF THE CHILDREN.
I just don’t get asshats that think they should be able to dictate what other people can or can’t watch. If you don’t like the sow – and I certainly didn’t care for it or bother, because I could not be bothered by the woke shit I expected it would be – don’t fucking watch it. But don’t fucking demand it be tailored to what you want if others are cool with it, douchebag.
To be fair, I’m one of those who thinks all that shit is shit.
But I don’t watch it and if people like it all the power to them.
Can’t stand this ‘we should be entitled to watch a family show’ garbage.
That’s how things get utterly ruined. Plus, you’ll never be able to please all these sops.
I didn’t watch it. I think all this entertainment crap is just a bunch of pampered uninspiring and not so talented assholes that have made a ton of money because people are stupid. But that doesn’t mean I demand they cancel this shit cause I think it is idiotic.
OK Boomer
If you don’t like the sow
Uffda, that’s a bit harsh Alex. I’m not a fan of either of them, but I don’t think that making porcine insults is appropriate. Especially given how well preserved they are for older gals.
Why not? Bitches are more inclined to put out when they are put in their proper place. I don’t want to see their show, but I wouldn’t mind tapping them a bit.
How’s that strategy working out for you?
Far better than expected with people I don’t want to really deal with…
He is one of the a-holes that would ban pr0n if given the opportunity.
Get that man a remote so he can change the channel.
Lots of channel changing going on when we watched.
Eh, I don’t want my kids watching it……but I never watch the shitty halftime show anyway, so they didn’t see it. Problemo solved.
We ran in to this dilemma. The 12 year old was at a church party. They turned the halftime show off.
The 10 year old was with a friend. They turned the halftime show off when J-Lo started grabbing her hoo-ha.
The 7 year old was with us. She was playing with her dolls in the corner, not watching. We watched the halftime show.
The show was fantastic for what is was – a latin themed vegas style show. If you don’t dig that, you ain’t gonna like that show. But they were amazing. Shakira danced with power and sexuality in a Latin style, played both electric guitar and drums and sang (ok, mostly lip-synched). J-Lo was less impressive, but it was still an amazing dance performance. And they are 43 and 50 respectively. That’s old enough to be a grandmother in both cases. (like legit, would have been a grandmother when I was a kid.)
Not a huge fan of J-Lo’s music, but Shakira’s music was pretty great, even if it isn’t in my style.
All in all, you really can’t ask for much more than that. I mean, if you are an R&B fan and they have Guns ‘n Roses and Metallica as the halftime show, it isn’t gonna be your thing either. But you should be able to tell that they are two great bands and discern if they gave a good show.
That being said, I thought J-Lo’s leather opening costume was a bit much. Too much crotch-grabbing, and the leotard underneath made it look like her underwear was sticking out the bottom of her costume. But, he, they can’t all be home runs.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7960053/Patrick-Mahomes-straddled-girlfriend-Brittany-Matthews-led-Kansas-City-Chiefs-victory.html
She looks twice his age.
“We fought for our right to paaaartyyy!”
Not surprising, with a reference like that she must have been born sometime in the late ‘60s/early ‘70s.
This proves the MRA and incels are wrong about rich and famous males getting all the hot females
Tough crowd, she looks like a 24 year old blonde girl to me. Not thicc though.
Yeah, she’s not bad looking…looks like a typical slightly better looking than average sorority girl.
I heard she can suck a football through a garden hose….
Really? He needs to put a ring on that finger then.
So he’s a race traitor like his daddy?
Awwww. He really is a hero if he’s not trading up already.
See Mrs Dan Marino.
Back in the day, he clearly could have done way better, but she was his HS girl.
High school sweethearts.
On the local commercials, she looks like a 24-year-old blonde girl.
A stripper moves past the audience on a conveyor belt at a Tokyo show, 1957
https://www.histomania.org/photo/5491/a_stripper_moves_past_the_audience_on_a_conveyor_belt_at_a_tokyo_show_1957
NSFW, obvs
The big money game starts today in Iowa. It’ll be fun to watch the score tonight.
Taxpayers lose?
With these people: always.
I can’t wait for brutally cold days, because those are the only days I see these people with their hands in their own pockets.
Are you even a music fan if you’ve never heard the 1957 classic My Pussy Belongs To Daddy
https://twitter.com/ScrtDrugAddict/status/1223190393807941633
Also NSFW
Actually I was just watching attractive women sing and dance. But I didn’t really get the Puerto Rican riverdancing.
Looks like projection-twitter had a field day.
FTA: “The authorities said these eight doctors and medical technicians were “misinforming” the public, that there was no SARS, that the information was obviously wrong, and that everyone in the city must remain calm. On the first day of 2020, Wuhan police said they had “taken legal measures” against the eight individuals who had “spread rumors.”
This is exactly what Elizabeth Warren proposed the other day.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/china-arrested-doctors-who-warned-about-coronavirus-outbreak-now-death-tolls-rising-stocks-are-plunging
If the Chinese government told me the sky is blue I’d have to go outside and check.
There’s a lot of china where this is not the case, and they’re not coughing because of Wuhan.
How would you be able to tell in China with all the smog?
Sure, Stacey.
Former erotic novelist Stacey Abrams is on a mission. Having never quite gotten over her defeat in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, she’s still dreaming big, claiming in an interview released on Friday that she has a “plan” to be president of the United States by 2040.
“Do you think the country will elect a woman president in the next 20 years?” asked FiveThirtyEight reporter Clare Malone.
“Yes, absolutely,” Abrams responded.
When Malone asked her if she thinks this country would elect a black woman, Abrams gave the same answer.
But then, Malone asked, “Do you think they’ll elect you?”
Abrams replied, “Yes, I do. That’s my plan. And I’m very pragmatic.”
Just keep calling everyone racist. I understand that works wonders.
I didn’t know she wrote sexy novels. That’s a plus in my book. Of course that’s her only plus in my book.
No,no,no,no If the author looks like that, you don’t want to know they wrote it, because the visage would haunt your readings and ruin the material.
Technically, SF is an “erotica author”.
Say wut? That is fucking scary shit he writes. Is there a genre of erotica where people try their hardest to not only be turned off, but to also barf thinking about the sex going on between the unholy beasts?
There is a genre of raped by a dinosaur porn. The world is a terrifyingly diverse place. Someone out there would spank it to SugarFree.
There’s a reason Gilmore had to leave.
WOA!
Did he “injure” himself choking that chicken?
I cannot comment for legal reasons.
Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt
Also available as an audiobook.
Bernie also has penned his share of erotica.
Defeat in the 2018 election? What defeat? She won, dammit!!!
If she runs, they’ll have elected her. I mean, if she wins, she won! And if she lost, she won anyways, the other side just cheated!
“Do you think the country will elect a woman president in the next 20 years?”
Yes, but it’s not going to be Stacey Abrams. I’d be surprised if she got elected in Georgia. Most people don’t like sore losers.
Noted white-supremacist, Burgess Owens.
Former Oakland Raiders Super Bowl champion safety Burgess Owens, who is running for Congress in Utah’s all-important fourth congressional district this year, has emerged as a cultural counterweight to the hatred that former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has spewed for the last few years. …
“We have a responsibility as we pass the torch down to the next generation, and there is an example of someone we all respect: Kobe,” Owens told Breitbart News. “There is a difference in Kobe’s approach to life, and maybe some other athletes who don’t quite get it. So let’s start with the fact that every generation of Americans are responsible for one major thing. If we come at it aggressively, and do it the right way, we’re successful and we’re looked at as successful. If we don’t, then we have a different legacy. That is, what do we leave our children in terms of hope for their future? In terms of being educated for their future? And the ability to drive and produce great things in their lifetime? Every generation up to this point has done a great job. My generation has dropped the ball. We have allowed the socialists and Marxists to get in our school systems and teach our kids a different way than we were brought up. Kaepernick is a good example. In today’s society, our greatest enemy is socialists and Marxists who lay in wait and attack our most vulnerable. In this case, you have kids going to school fresh-eyed and excited about life and looking forward to a great future, but they come out anti-American Marxists. We have to understand that’s what we’re up against as Americans, and we have to make sure our kids have a better future and more positive future with love for country, God, and family—and we have to start fighting against this evil of socialism and Marxism.”
Total Nazi.
A big part of why things are changing so rapidly—and for the better, Owens argues, away from the more destructive Kaepernick vision and toward his vision of strong families and a better society—is because of President Trump. Owens said Trump’s predecessor, now former President Barack Obama, was “complicit” in stoking divisions along racial lines and waging class warfare through the culture of which sports are a huge part in America, but that Trump has turned the tide in a big way—something that terrifies the left.
“We also have a chance to see a president, who for the first time in decades is willing to fight the bullies that are bad actors,” Owens said. “We’ve had presidents that have been soft, and appeasing, or in some cases they’ve been complicit. President Obama was complicit with what’s been going on, with the division that’s going on today. But now we have a president who says ‘you know what? I’m going to draw a red line. I love my country and the policies we put out should be American policies, not black policies or Hispanic policies or white policies. They’re American policies and everyone should succeed and we’re growing.’ More importantly, he’s showing through example what Americans should do when we’re attacked by bullies: We fight back. We don’t sit back. We fight back, and stand up for what we are. I love that, and that’s why the left is in so much of a panic mode. We have many African Americans leaving the plantation and that’s a good thing.”
So the over under on the black vote went from 95 percent to 92 percent?
A few points is all it takes in a close election. Yesterday Trump ran a commercial during the Superbowl (don’t know if was a national or local commercial) that consisted entirely of a black lady thanking him for commuting her life sentence for a nonviolent drug crime, plus his own assertion that he is great on criminal justice reform. He’s clearly going for voting blocks outside of the usual Republican coalition.
THAT”LL NEVER WORK holler Mitt Romney and his ilk.
Socialism is the future and no Uncle T is going to stop it. And anyway it is not bad socialism it is good socialism. It is Denmark if Denmark was socialist which it is and isn’t. It is in everything good and isn’t in everything bad. Right wing conspiracy to overthrow quality education for all children! Shilling for the billionaires.
I think I have everything covered.
You left out false consciouness and self hating.
We need philosophy because no one was ever radicalized into revolutionary politics from learning mechanical engineering. Technical skills will only make the system more efficient, but we always need at least the possibility of reimagining the system entirely.
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1223051877362700289
Engineers to build the helicopters, Marxists to ride in them.
When an ME builds a bomb, it might actually work.
The tragedy of elitist meritocracy
Meritocrats like Buttigieg changed not just corporate strategies but also corporate values. Particular industries, and still more individual companies, may be committed to distinctive, concrete goals and ideals. GM may aspire to build good cars; IBM, to make typewriters, computers, and other business machines; and AT&T, to improve communications. Executives who rose up through these companies, on the mid-century model, were embedded in their firms and embraced these values, so that they might even have come to view profits as a salutary side effect of running their businesses well. When management consulting untethered executives from particular industries or firms and tied them instead to management in general, it also led them to embrace the one thing common to all corporations: making money for shareholders. Executives raised on the new, untethered model of management aim exclusively and directly at profit: their education, their career arc, and their professional role conspire to isolate them from other workers and train them single-mindedly on the bottom line.
Buttigieg carries this worldview into his politics. Wendell Potter, at The Intercept, observes that “a lot” of Buttigieg’s campaign language about health care, including “specific words” is “straight out of the health-insurance industry’s playbook.” The influence of management consulting, moreover, goes far beyond language to the very rationale for Buttigieg’s candidacy. What he offers America is intellect and elite credentials—a combination that McKinsey has taught him and others like him to believe should more than compensate for an obvious deficit of directly relevant experience.
This is a dangerous belief. Technocratic management, no matter how brilliant, cannot unwind the structural inequalities that are dismantling the American middle class. To think that it can is to be insensible of the real harms that technocratic elites, at McKinsey and other management-consulting firms, have done to America. Such obliviousness may not be malevolent; but it is clueless.
And emphasizing private virtue or personal ethics—including the ethics that would have led Buttigieg to reject distasteful clients—only protects structural inequalities, by creating scapegoats to absorb moral scruples and redirect outrage away from systemic injustice. American democracy, the left believes, cannot be rejuvenated by persuading elites to deploy their excessive power somehow more benevolently. Instead, it requires breaking the stranglehold that elites have on our economics and politics, and reempowering everyone else.
A not completely undeserved attack on business consultants and their alleged “destruction of the middle class”. Culling hundreds, if not thousands, of fat, lazy middle managers in the pursuit of efficiency is mot really going to cause me insurmountable grief, but there is a certain tinge of self-interested piracy which ought not go unnoticed. And that “Process over Particulars” stuff won’t cut it with the people who seriously believe a lifelong career as a government functionary bestows some sort of ephemeral nobility on people.
This, though:
“American democracy, the left believes, cannot be rejuvenated by persuading elites to deploy their excessive power somehow more benevolently. Instead, it requires breaking the stranglehold that elites have on our economics and politics, and reempowering everyone else.”
is complete and utter bullshit. The leftists don’t want to see power devolve to the masses, they want to consolidate it for their own uses, in pursuit of their fever dreams of centralized control of the collective. I’ll take my chances with those McKinsey twerps.
Technocratic management – from where and why did this come about? I think a lot of it is not due to free market action, while some probably is. The rise of the technocratic managerial elite is linked to many things, some cause by rise of regulation, to big to fail ideology, tax policy, money printing et all. This certainly lead to lose some dynamism and to very large corps with shareholders mostly detached from the business.
Also many projects of the left are all about technocratic management by themselves.
De-profesionalization and the rise of the management class gave rise to technocratic (or scientific) management in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, initially in the US. Sometimes called “Taylorism” because one of the leaders of the movement was named Fred Taylor. It is best understood as a move from traditional ways of organizing industry (ie all guilde members do it this way) to a more evidence based way of organizing industry (ie a non-black smith comes in an observes how blacksmiths work, runs some A/B testing, and forces the company blacksmiths to all adopt the more efficient result).
The US economy was growing, and the rational size of corporations were growing very rapidly as logistics and telecom was improving. The economic realities of the day dictated that professional artisans working independently were less efficient than large numbers lower-skilled (but no low-skill), replaceable workers IF those workers were organized rationally. This impacted many, many parts of industry. From the innocuous (the size of a fireman’s shovel on railroads was standardized to the size that holds the amount of coal most firemen can efficiently shovel) to the earthshaking (engineering was changed from a professional group (like doctors are still) to an non-profession – IE there was no guilde).
Lots of people had their non-free-market-cartels and monopolies gored by this. Lots of people thought it smelled like socialism (and they weren’t bat-shit crazy, socialism it scientific management take to absurd lengths). But it made the economy much, much more powerful.
“traditional ways of organizing industry (ie all guilde members do it this way)….Lots of people had their non-free-market-cartels and monopolies gored by this. Lots of people thought it smelled like socialism ”
Certainly TOP. MEN. running things can’t possibly be socialism…
Yerp.
No, no, I’m very sorry. The correct answer is “To think otherwise is the pretense of knowledge.”
A Fatal Conceit.
Party like it’s 1979!
Hey! I happen to have had use for my typewriter within the last five years.
True, it’s because the form for work was a six layer NCR form, but still, the typewriter made a legible impression on all six layers.
Yeah, that’s the same reason I hung onto my Underwood typewriter for years prior to experiencing the joy of scanning, Adobe Acrobat Professional, and Corel Draw layers.
I’d scan in the forms, overlay the text in place, delete the form, and print it out on the actual form layers.
Soooo liberating.
I just got a ticking off at the “recycling centre” (dump) for attempting to dispose of a car dash in the hard plastics (I stripped off all the steel clips and screws). Car parts can only be disposed of by a “licensed vehicle dismantler” here in the UK, so in future I’ll make sure to chop up things like that into bitty unrecogniseable pieces, or cobble them together into what might pass for patio furniture. I’d already tossed the steel dash frame into the scrap metal but apparently the govt person hadn’t reconised that as being part of a car. She said I could toss the dash in this time but in future to play by the rules, which I guess means cutting it up, bagging it discretely, and tossing it in landfill instead of recycling?
Can’t you just throw it in the Thames?
There’ll be dash parts thrown over…. the white cliffs of Dover..
Don’t litter in Delaware!
/geographically challenged non-liberal stereotype
Or what, Corn Pop will beat you with a pool chain?
ALOL
My uncle took my grandfather, then in his late 80’s, to the local recycling depot with some old cans of paint. They told my grandfather that he wasn’t allowed to dispose so many at a time (he had something like 10, and the limit was something like 6), and that he’d have to bring the remainder back the next time. My uncle tells the person, “Listen: you might better take all of them now, or they’ll end up in the ditch between here and his house.”
They took them all.
My grandfather had, at least in part, inspired my libertarian leanings.
*has; turns 95 next week
Awesome. I did insist to her that it was a piece of furniture.
I can’t imagine that would work today, here. They’d call the police and say I was threatening fly tipping, which I imagine carries the same penalties as actually doing it.
My great-uncle was at the local recycling plant dropping off some stuff at 88 yrs old when some asshole backed over him in a forklift and killed him. Survived WWII as a tail gunner only to be taken out by an idiot at the dump.
I do like telling do-gooders that recycling kills.
Oh man, that’s horrible.
JFC. There is a reason that every municipality in America subsidizes trash collection.
I once disposed of power steering fluid and AT fluid in the oil disposal area at the dump. I am waiting to be arrested.
Well it’s just hydraulic oil, right? Close enough. I have a real bee in my bonnet about the refusal of “recycling centres” here to provide any facility to dump paint thinners. I absolutely do not just pour used thinners down the drain when I’m doing painting or cleaning something. That would be very irresponsible. The thinking of the top minds is that only properly licensed people would be handling such materials and so there’s no need to provide any way for the peons to safely dispose of such dangerous things – the problem with just taking people’s money and dictating to them what goods and services they need.
Oops. tag-closing fail.
That was my thought, but apparently it is reserved only for motor oil (which of course has a million different types).
My local auto store will take the used fluids free of charge.
take the used fluids free of charge.
Paging Q, Q to the white courtesy phone.
When it comes to used oil I follow the suggestion of the EPA overlords.
The same people responsible for turning a river Orange?
They even have an agent for it.
“recycling centre”
What’s a recycling center? I have trash that is burnable and trash that goes into opaque trash bags for the dump.
Newspeak for dump.
In most metros, there are different kinds of drop off locations for different kinds of waste. People are incredibly bad at sorting their waste if they aren’t physically and financially motivated to do so, and waste is like an egg. You can’t separate it once its mixed together. So most place have free “recycling” drop off points for paper and plastic, free or low-cost drop-off for stuff-that-is-recycled-but-we-aren’t-calling-it-that like low value scrap metal, and fee-based non-recycled stuff that goes into landfills like furniture, etc.
It has been demonstrated many times that if you keep the cost low enough, the rules clear enough, etc, people in metro areas will dispose of their bulk waste through formal channels, which is very important in metro areas.
#familyOfCivilAndEnvironmentalEngineers
Maybe that family can figure out how to communicate wtf goes in the compost bin at the food court. I’ve seen very smart people get absolutely befuddled when confronted with the three-trash-can problem at the food court.
Haven’t talked to them lately, but municipal compost is a fucking racket. Uses orders of magnitude more energy than it saves. Uses orders of magnitude more energy than loading the compost into trucks, driving an hour out into the country, and putting it into a sanitary landfull that will turn into a part or sky resort in 20 years.
I’m not sure but I think my municipal compost is privately owned but with some kind of exclusive license (I could be very, very wrong on that).
It’s great. The local nurseries and local “big box” store get their mulch from them, then double the price. The hardware store actually bags it.
My mom bought a bunch of bags from the Boy Scouts and then I said, “You know I have a truck, right? And black mulch is $35 a cubic yard.” “What’s a cubic yard [look like]?” “My pickup bed.” “Well, shit.”
And let me guess, everyone in the supply line is paid for their contribution, except you, who is forced by law to comply and possibly pay for the privilege, right?
Not sure I understand.
I go there, buy 2 scoops, go to my mom’s, and unload it. I’m getting a product at half the price I would get if I went locally. I am bypassing the middle man.
Yes, it is out of my way, but in my case, that’s not saying much.
Other end of the chain – being required to provide the material to be composted.
You have to pay to dump, too. Then they mulch it and sell it.
Right, and does the fee you pay to dump and then purchase the compost equal the expense of the supply line? Or is the supply line subsidized?
In any event, I’d take a look at the familial or business relationships between members of your local gov and that privately owned company with an exclusive license. The mob perfected this racket with trash collection in the northeast.
I really am not understanding what you guys are asking/saying.
I do not KNOW if the place has any ties to the government. I see a city sign on their fence but I can’t remember what it says.
I know that they charge for you to dump your yard waste. They mulch it and sell the mulch for a reasonable price.
IF there is no governmental involvement other than the normal regulations, I don’t see how any of this is bad or suspect or not-capitalism.
They provide a service/product. I value that service/product and I pay for it and it is not outrageous.
Except for a few years in Dallas, I have always had enough land to recycle my yard waste the way Allah intended – by tossing it over the fence. I can go down into the wash behind the Casa Dean and find my Christmas trees from the last two years. The ones before that have already rejoined the Circle of Life.
Moje, I get that having a place to dump your yard waste is a benefit to you that may be worth paying for, but I bet that there is some kind of municipal ordnance prohibiting any other way to dispose of it (other than composting on your land) – trash pickup won’t take it, can’t dump it anywhere else, that kind of thing. A monopolist for disposal can charge a fee that likely wouldn’t be chargable in any other circumstance.
Maybe not, though.
Okay, if that’s what everybody’s getting at, then I get the picture.
That is semi-sorta true for the municipality where I live (not KCMO). I don’t know what KCMO’s ordinances are.
Firstly, there is yard waste disposal available. You pay extra every month for a green can or however many you want, and you fill it with yard waste and put it out with the regular trash.
Also, twice a year there is the city-wide large-item pickup. You can put anything and everything out there EXCEPT building materials and hazardous waste, INCLUDING yard waste.
Me, I have woods behind my house and a bunch of terraces holding my yard up so my house doesn’t slide down into the woods (house had already been mudjacked before we moved in, which should have sent us fleeing in terror). So I DO have a place to dump it.
Then it doesn’t sound like municpal compost. Municipal compost is when the municipality (contracts with a company that sends out new third containers (to go with regular rubish and traditional recycling), says you must place your compostables in there, then sends you a bill for the privileged while paying the municipality for compostable material. Then a truck comes around once a week or whatever and picks it up from your curbside. And if you don’t comply, the municipality issues fines.
What you are doing is not municipal composting. Its composting composting.
See above. Yes, we have that. To me, that’s just a normal thing everybody does because they have to because government.
You pay extra every month for a green can or however many you want, and you fill it with yard waste and put it out with the regular trash.
Also, twice a year there is the city-wide large-item pickup. You can put anything and everything out there EXCEPT building materials and hazardous waste, INCLUDING yard waste.
So its restricted but not prohibited.
So I DO have a place to dump it.
You’d be surprised at how quickly it disappears. The only things that should last more than a year or two are bigger chunks of wood. I could probably find the trunks from my older Christmas trees if I really wanted to root around in Rattlesnake Country, but even that’s just a matter of a little more time.
No, you are still talking about yard waste. I’m talking about the new wave of municpal composting that’s been a think in Brittan for, I don’t know, a decade and has been seeping into the US. This is in addition to and different than yard wast pick up.
This is about coffee grounds and banana peels, not leaves and your old Xmas tree.
I’d like to burn it, but that is against city ordinances.
I missed that part.
There are no restrictions on that. If I were more conscientious (read: had more time), I would compost it myself in my terraces and throw some earthworms in it and use it for fertilizer.
Burning garbage and tossing the big stuff off an overpass is the folk-way of my people, but it is apparently not a done thing here in the city. (I live in an area where I wouldn’t even trust myself to burn the garbage regularly, since the houses are so close together.)
When I lived in West Texas, Christmas tree disposal was free – they had a vacant lot you could toss it into, and somebody (private, I’m sure) would pick it up, mulch it, and sell the mulch. I did that a couple years because the “good” spot for dumping them on my land was kind of a pain to haul a tree to.
Given the way you describe your set-up, I think its a stretch to call it “subsidized”. You are basically paying for convenience if you don’t want to use the restricted channels.
I do not consider myself an environmentalist or anything like that, but it really pains me to throw good(ish) cardboard packaging in the regular trash. I like the *idea* that it goes somewhere it can be chopped up and reused. Or burned. Landfills should be for things that aren’t compostible or reusable.
I also hate throwing compostible kitchen waste in the garbage, but again, I don’t have the time (or the energy) to compost it myself and actually use it.
I don’t mind plastic, but I wish there were a better way of disposing of it than dumping it in the ocean. This is only offset by my complete faith in Mother Nature to heal herself.
I think this is more of a thing about Yankee “use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without” than environmentalism. I’m not a packrat, but I have a hard time throwing things out that I could find a use for, except I don’t have time to use it.
For instance, I had 2 garbage bags full of jeans that were of no use to anyone so I couldn’t donate them. I was going to make a quilt out of them. Warm, useful, most every last scrap of fabric used.
Except…I’m moving and after cutting a bunch of pieces for it, that quilt is never going to get made. So…out it went. I clung to the hope that I would be able to salvage all that fabric…until I couldn’t lie to myself anymore.
I’m thinking the supply line is subsidized if you pay for providing the feedstock.
I have burnable and compostable and metal . Every year or 2 a ‘scrapper’ comes by and asks if he can look/take the scrap . He’s always welcome.
She said I could toss the dash in this time but in future to play by the rules, which I guess means cutting it up, bagging it discretely, and tossing it in landfill instead of recycling?
At least you’ll be helping out future archeologists. One man’s trash is a future man’s artifact. Although the theories on the significance of the ritual dismemberment of this object might get out of hand.
“Maybe some ritual purpose?”
/Time Team.
I love when drawings crash while opening. Happy Monday!
Happy Monday to you , rebel scum!
Open with “defer updates” enabled. Then allow updates after drawing opens correctly. If that works start taking parts off in reverse order they were added until the trouble maker has been identified.
Hey-oh! I have Monday off work. Looking forward to sleeping late. Aw, shit, I’m up at 6:20 AM.
6:20 am… I was on the road picking up breakfast on my way to work, but not yet at the office.
SB game was fantastic. Now we get to see what the reboot of XFL goes.
I give it 4 weeks before it’s cancelled and dissolved.
Not sure if this guy is to be believed on how serious Coronavirus is – but I am tired of bullshit news telling me that the flu is more dangerous. Yes lots of people die from the flu, because everyone gets the flu. The death rate for Coronavirus is many times higher than the flu – how much higher depends on how much you trust the Chinese government reports.
Is anyone worth listening to saying this though?
Worrying about a pandemic is like worrying about the weather. It’ll either happen or it won’t, no need to fuss about it until it does.
It looks like the death rate is around three percent or so. It’s not the flu but it’s not the Black Death either.
Some possibilities:
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The Democrats’ new online troll fighters make 2020 debut in Iowa
Among the new weapons in the Democrats’ online arsenal is a monitoring tool called “Trendolizer.” When stories from websites known to peddle misinformation mention candidates and begin getting shares on social media, Trendolizer detects it and an alert is sent to the relevant campaigns.
Misinformation = Truth about objective reality that statists do not approve of.
Sounds legit; we should stifle this whole free speech thing; kulaks and wreckers are slowing us down from enacting utopia as directed from the elites who will do our thinking.
For the children and all that rot.
“Misinformation = Truth about objective reality that statists do not approve of.”
Exactly this. They want to control the information the unwashed masses get, because those rubes simply won’t accept orders and direction from their betters.
“The guidance had been circulated among a group of Russians who were covertly running a vast network of social media accounts seeking to divide Democrats and push the candidacy of Donald Trump.”
Any website that publishes this fucking horseshit has absolutely no standing to condemn fake news. I don’t know if it’s gaslighting or just mental illness on their part but fuck CNN.
This was off course probably covered around here but looks… ehm… dubious
Find yourself a man who looks at you like Joe Biden looks at his granddaughter.
https://twitter.com/SophNar0747/status/1224293927941033984
at least he doesn’t use the tongue in public.
It all makes a sick sort of sense when you realize she’s Hunter’s daughter.
Get a life
Even as someone who spends most of her time thinking about climate change, it’s easy for me to forget about the looming danger of changes happening at the bottom of the earth. But Lewis Pugh, a British endurance swimmer and ocean advocate, doesn’t want anyone to forget about the melting glaciers of Antarctica, and to get our attention, he decided to go for a swim.
On January 23, Pugh, who’s 50, became the first person to swim in one of the supraglacial lakes of East Antarctica. These are lakes and rivers that form on the surface of thick glacial ice as it melts from above. A study of supraglacial lakes in Antarctica published last fall found more than 65,000 of them at the peak of the summer melt season in January 2017. Most of the lakes were spotted on the ice shelf, the part of the glacier that hangs over the ocean and is not grounded on the seafloor, making it more vulnerable to calving (i.e., falling off).
In nothing but a swim cap and a Speedo, Pugh dove into water that was just above 32 degrees F and swam for 10 minutes. As he navigated the channel, a chunk of ice cracked and sent an ominous “boom” through the water.
“I swam here today as we are in a climate emergency. We need immediate action from all nations to protect our planet,” Pugh told the BBC. The stunt was part of a larger campaign to create a marine protected area in East Antarctica.
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Antarctica’s glaciers are melting from above and below, like a Popsicle that you just can’t lick fast enough to keep under control.
Let’s toss Saint Greta in that “lake”.
Now he can go back when it’s winter there and do it again.
Let’s toss Saint Greta in that “lake”.
Sacrificing a virgin is the only way to satisfy the climate god.
Now the Antarctic is polluted. Thanks, asshole.
Many people seem to be missing from the office today. I suspect that they have Coronavirus…or BudLitevirus…
I reserved Monday off 2 weeks ago.
My work MOC says that the cure for the Corona virus is two wedges of lime….
I object to that, it was CBS that was being poured last night.
/working from home after sleeping through my alarms.
I am looking forward to the stepsons (one with potential fiancé in tow) visiting starting in the wee hours Tuesday morning.
Gonna take us all to Frost for some knock-your-socks-off gelato.
I try to go only a few times a year so as to avoid becoming a manatee (I lost 35 lbs since moving to California in April 2018).
Onto the next 35 lbs down, just not on hostess week!!!
I take it you’ve recovered from your tumble?
You were correct that I neglected to include SP in the Mythical Libertarian Mother list. Mea maxima culpa.
Just what Team Blue needs to win.
NBC News reported Sunday that Kerry was heard telling an unknown confidant on the phone at a Des Moines, Iowa, hotel about the steps he would need to take in order to enter the race, including stepping down from Bank of America’s board of directors.
Big-dollar donors loyal to Kerry would have to “raise a couple million” in order to get Kerry’s bid off the ground, he was reportedly heard saying, while adding that such donors were now facing “the reality of Bernie” and “the possibility of Bernie Sanders taking down the Democratic Party — down whole.”
However, Kerry’s plans to enter the primary are reportedly not definite, as he was also heard questioning the idea of entering the race at all, telling the caller that “maybe I’m f—ing deluding myself here” and later telling NBC News that he was “absolutely not” considering mounting a bid for president when asked about the call.
Straightfoward from here:
1. Brokered convention
2. Clinton/Kerry ticket
3. Trump wins 47 states
Huh, self-awareness in a potential presidential candidate. Maybe he wouldn’t be so bad after all.
I was floored to read this. Then again, upon further research to understand why this person was not into the woke shit, I found this, and that seems to make me understand the site a lot more.
We need to bring back flagpole sitting.
Show us how serious you are, attention-seekers.
Flagpole sitta you say?
Ever since Officer Fish (I forget his current rank) brought it up, I’ve been stuck in a loop of “how would these content creator monetization scemes video creators use work for a writer?” While I dropped an indiegogo campaign draft framework yesterday, I never addressed the recurring subscriber model. The thought would be something akin to serializing Kord the Younger’s adventures on a fixed schedule for subscribers. The structure would require each installment have something that resembled an individual plot that fit into the larger schema, or at least be somewhat worth visiting when it drops. What I don’t know is if I’d be able to put out the required content to supply the subscribers and the main books
The Jacket.
I believe in Second Amendment rights but I don’t have particularly strong feelings on the matter, especially compared to most libertarians. All of the things that Bloomberg suggests are either already basically the law or won’t have the effects supporters claim. As my Reason colleague Jacob Sullum has written, background checks will do nothing to stop mass shootings because “perpetrators of these attacks typically do not have disqualifying criminal or psychiatric records.” Beyond that, passing more and stricter laws generally don’t stop criminals, who don’t follow laws, from getting guns. Researchers funded by the federal government concluded that the assault weapons ban that was in effect from 1994 to 2004 had essentially no impact on gun violence and crime. Most important, Bloomberg simply ignores the massive declines in gun-related crimes and violence over the past 25 years. “There were 4.6 gun murders per 100,000 people in 2017, far below the 7.2 per 100,000 people recorded in 1974,” reports Pew. Between 1993 and 2015, “rates for crimes using guns dropped from 7.3 per 1,000 people to 1.1 per 1,000 people.”
What is and is not constitutional is based on your feels…
Fixed it.
Or not.
Thread the needle a little harder, Nick.
Gotta make sure you get invited back to Maher’s show.
Bloomburger’s going for the shrieking harpy of the Democrat base. to them, Stop and Frisk was sound policy.
My wife is getting a dose of what Social Media is really like. She dared express her disdain for the halftime show. Her grips? Obvious lip-syncing, J-Lo asshole shot and what she could only guess is a maxi-pad.
That was enough for her to be labeled a racist, misogynist, gender traitor and so on.
My wife asked me why they had strippers instead of a band.
I watched a show I had on the DVR.
I missed everything except the annual ritual murdering of the national anthem.
The rest of the time I was on the road.
And to think, I could have been watching J Lo’s butthole instead.
The anthem was actually good this year. None of the usual extraneous vocal frills, and she nailed it.
I don’t remember, do they bother to sing the last three verses at these games? If not, someone should do it to just confuse the crap out of the crowd.
It was…meh to the high end of okay.
I appreciated the way she was dressed, very cute outfit, somber and appropriate, but well tailored with the teensiest bit of bling.
“God Bless America,” tho. Ugh.
None of the usual extraneous vocal frills
Oh, there were some, but overall not bad at all. She at least managed to make a credible attempt at the high note.
Best one I have seen was at NASCAR last year or year before. A military guy (staff sergeant, maybe). Didn’t miss a note and sang it like he meant it; hell, it didn’t even sound like he needed the mike,
We did not watch the “show”.
But my wife says to me
“They put this crap (paraphrase) on for a show. Then go on to complain about sex trafficking and abuse of women and children.”
Watched it as I was back and forth through the living room. My impression: Shakira put on a better show. Stripper poles are a bad look for the Super Bowl. J Lo put on a decent show, but should have gone with less thong and more coverage in the crotchular and behindular regions. Show a little respect for the millions of people who are conservative on that front. Still, she got what she wanted, which was attention.
My recommendation: less half-time show spectacle. The usual length, with maybe the marching band from the NCAA champion on the field and maybe a dance routine by each of the cheerleading squads. Olde School. Would save a ton of money and wouldn’t impair their ratings one bit, is my guess, and that’s all that matters.
Congrats to Mo’, Trigger Hippie, and any other actual KC fans.
It was a good game and IMO, the teams were equally matched but in different skills. I was genuinely convinced the 49ers would win.
I was really, really glad to see Andy get his ring. I thought he was going to go down as arguably the greatest NFL coach to never get one. Hillarious that he won it with ok clock management while his opponent fucked up the clock twice.
Hillarious that he won it with ok clock management while his opponent fucked up the clock twice.
Truly, that is the greatest aspect to it. “Andy Reid mismanaged the clock” has been uttered so many times over the years…
Sorry to MikeS., who is a ’49ers fans (spits)
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Indeed, congrats to the Chiefs fans. It was an entertaining game although was a highly disappointing ending for us, but them is the breaks.
And yeah, Shakira put on a good halftime show, but the J Lo shit was over the top.
Nebraska with good ideas:
Sen. Erdman’s proposal: Get rid of property, income tax and replace sales tax with ‘consumption tax
won’t people just buy out of state?
Then just hit these people with tax evasion suits for not paying their use taxes, and take even more – win-win!
/Tax collector.
on small purchases, it probably won’t matter much. but on big purchases like a car you have to register with the state anyway so they’ll get their due.
VT needs some senators like these guys. 2nd oldest demo in the country but some of the highest property and income taxes too.
If you have a means to leave Nebraska you aren’t living there anyway.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs on a great game and a fantastic comeback under immense pressure. We are proud of you and the Great State of Missouri. You are true Champions!
I’m just glad the team from California lost.
Coward shouldn’t have deleted the one where he said “Kansas” first.
I used to travel to eastern Kansas for work regulatory – they are Chiefs fans too.
Well, now that St.Louis doesn’t have a team the eastern half is for grabs as well. No idea what the fandom was in between the Cardinals and the Rams.
Yeah, he should have changed it to “Missouri and Kansas” or better yet just left it out.
He originally tweeted “the Great State of Kansas.”
We’ve decided that ‘Missouri’ is a terible name for a state, and have given Missouri to Kansas.
It’ll be a cold day in hell before I recognize Missourah!
*I’ll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missouri.
I had a feeling the site I grabbed it from was wrong.
So, spelunking?
“My fellow Americans. I’m pleased to announce that I’ve signed legislation outlawing the Soviet Union. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
“Wait, they aren’t in Kansas anymore.”
If they wanted people to think that their city is not in Kansas, they shouldn’t have called it Kansas City.
Its the capital, right?
*squints*
Not sure if serious.
If so, no. Jefferson City, Missouri; Topeka, Kansas.
Now I know you can’t be serious. No one would name their city Topeka.
Better than East Bumfuck..
May I submit Bug Tussle and Punkin Center for your consideration.
Bonus, I have actually been to (well, driven through) both.
Toad Suck Ferry.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/5121+Fucking,+Austria/@48.0673376,12.8611669,18z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4775d4854dbcba19:0x802456ee60b72a17!8m2!3d48.0673299!4d12.8633177
To top it off, both Kansas and Missouri have a Kansas City, right across the river from each other too, since why not let’s have maximum confusion.
Heh. Right across State Line Road from each other.
Yup. KCKians got pissed off at Jeopardy because one of the questions was “A suburb of a bigger city with the same name in a different state” or something along those lines.
Yes, KCKians, you ARE a suburb of KCMO.
Oh, and, when I was a freshman at BYU I was trying to cash a check at the bookstore and the clerk wouldn’t take my ID because “There is no Kansas City in Missouri. That’s fake.”
It took several minutes of arguing and a manager to convince her that, yes, there is a Kansas City in Missouri.
Trump doesn’t know that Kansas City is (mostly) in Missouri and not Kansas, which obviously makes him unfit to be President.
I forget, was Missouri the 57th state, or was that Kansas?
The Redkins, Jets and Giants get the opposite.
Well! I didn’t see that tweet. I only saw the one that said Missouri.
Now, one of our players went to a press conference in a sweatshirt with Donald Trump and Kanye West. Pretty sure HE won’t be turning down a visit to the White House, if such an invitation is extended.
I thought it was pathetic when people trashed Obama for the 57 states gaffe and I think it’s equally pathetic to trash Trump over this.
Partisanship turns even nominally smart people into retards.
All true… But I do take extreme umbrage at the vastly differing news coverage of Republican gaffes vs. Democrat gaffes.
When a Republican says something incorrect, it goes in the “big book of evidence” that they’re a big stupid doodoohead and so are all their supporters.
When a Democrat does it, it’s just a simple, understandable, isolated case of misspeaking, and you’re a crazy conspiracy theorist if you make a big deal of it or posit that there’s any kind of pattern. See also: Obama calling the Falkland Islands the Maldives instead of Malvinas.
It’s not like the map includes a pic of a Missouri Mule.
Bernie will save us from kkkapitalism
Sen. Bernie Sanders has put nationalizing health insurance at the center of his presidential campaign, but his proposal to fight climate change also calls for a government takeover of a fundamental segment of the economy — electricity production.
Sanders has laid out a $16 trillion climate change plan that would transition U.S. electricity generation away from fossil fuels to renewable resources like wind, solar and hydropower by 2030. That’s far faster than any other Democratic candidate’s target and sets a pace that rivals like former Vice President Joe Biden say is unrealistic.
And like Sanders’ healthcare plan, the green energy push would muscle many of the country’s biggest companies out of the business.
A Sanders administration would pour funding into the four existing “power marketing administrations” that are overseen by the Energy Department, as well as the Tennessee Valley Authority and one newly created entity, to vastly expand their solar, wind and geothermal power production. Those organizations currently provide power from hydroelectric dams to 33 states, and would be able to sell the increased green energy to local utilities nationwide — creating a sort of “public option” that would compete with the coal, natural gas and nuclear plants owned by privately owned power generators.
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“This threat is beyond ideology — it’s a question of life and death,” said Sanders’ national policy director Josh Orton. “That’s why [Bernie’s] plan is not only the most comprehensive, but is truly the only plan that makes the investments necessary to prevent irreversible damage to the planet.”
Climate hysteria. Apocalypse porn. It’s what retards crave.
calls for a government takeover of a fundamental segment of the economy — electricity production
Power companies are already state monopolies.
Sanders has laid out a $16 trillion climate change plan that would
transition U.S. electricity generation away from fossil fuels to renewable resources like wind, solar and hydropower by 2030.tank the economy and bankrupt the government.tank the economy and bankrupt the government.
A small price to pay for avoiding the destruction of all life on the planet down to the microbial level within the next 10 years and 3 months (according to noted sciencer Ocasio-Cortez).
Once again, I will point out that any clean energy plan that doesn’t involve heavy use of nuclear power isn’t actually serious.
Commercial Fusion or GTFO.
^^^So much this. That is my standard retort to any environut. If you want to eliminate fossil fuels, you have two choices: 1) expansion of nuclear, 2) return to the Stone Age.
They won’t admit it, but many would prefer option 2.
Well, not for _them_ – they will have the important work of directing the efforts of the underclass and will, thus, need to go on with their normal energy consumption.
“They won’t admit it, but many would prefer option 2.”
They prefer it for everyone else. Not so much for themselves. They still want to fly around in private planes and have the carbon footprint of s small city.
Isn’t that the point of this commercial? That driving will be much more pleasant after the filthy commoners have been removed from the road?
I had no idea WTF that commercial was supposed to be saying. Yours is the best explanation I’ve heard – otherwise there’s no explanation as to why electric cars lead to a disappearance of traffic.
Between that and the Green Police ad last(?) year, you think Audi would stop trying to remind people about German authoritarianism.
While nuclear power should definitely be on the table, if one wanted to one could probably develop a legitimate clean energy plan from hydropower alone. The countries that get a small portion of their electricity from fossil fuels rely primarily on some mix of hydro and nuclear power. Any plan that places emphasis on wind or solar isn’t serious, though.
one could probably develop a legitimate clean energy plan from hydropower alone
I was surprised to learn yesterday (the BBC’s “Seven Worlds” series) that South America gets the majority (2/3s? maybe more? can’t recall exactly) of its electricity from hydropower.
It helps to have a massive mountain range the length of the entire continent. I am sure there are countries that hydropower couldn’t do much for because they are too flat/dry.
Interestingly, the entire country of Paraguay gets almost all of it’s power from a single dam that is not located anywhere near the Andes. The limiting factor is not really the flatness of the area, but rather the size of the rivers, and South America has a bunch of big ones.
Interesting indeed. I would have thought you needed a certain grade to support hydropower, but I’m not an engineer.
Dams create their own grade by raising the water level behind the dam.
That dam happens to be just a few miles down from the greatest waterfalls in the world, Iguazu Falls.
Funny how the beltway usual suspects have suddenly turned on Bernie and started subtly (or not so subtly) highlighting all the downsides of his policies, whereas for the previous year it was glowing coverage of his “revolutionary” ideas. It’s almost as if they wanted to exploit him to fire up the extra-chromosome wing of their base, but the genie got out of the bottle and now they are trying desperately to put it back in.
aka the GOP circa 2016.
And to think, I could have been watching J Lo’s butthole instead.
Definitely a worthwhile alternative to CNN.
Mammary Monday wants to offensively interfere with your passes.
archive.is/FQp9T
What an empty life that NBC reporter must lead.
Any name related to American Indians “commodifies” them and dehumanizes them? Bullshit.
How about Fighting Irish? How about Yankees? How about Demon Deacons? How about 49ers? I could go on.
Get a life you joyless church lady POS.
Meat packers hardest hit?
Why doesn’t anyone complain about the homophobia on display in Chicago. Bears and Cubs? Really? So wrong!
I thought Trump’s ad was interesting. Technically well done (pretty understated, which made a nice contrast with the rest of the ads), but devoting the whole ad to criminal justice reform was a very interesting choice. He obviously doesn’t think its going to cost him votes from his base, and the ad was essentially an announcement he is going after the Dems’ minority base. Forcing them to play defense on their base is, I think, a smart strategic decision. I’ll be surprised if he peels off many minority voters, but the Dems defending their grip on that bloc will be revealing and may pay off with more “moderate” whites voting Trump.
I don’t think it will turn anyone (I don’t think anyone’s mind’s going to be changed by anything this year), but it was a well done ad.
He’s also going to spend a significant amount of time on school choice during the SOTU address. It’s an extremely shrewd strategy. As I’ve said before, Dems are topped out with Blacks and dominate with Hispanics. They essentially have nowhere to go but down with those demos; it highlights the fragility of their base, and the stupidity of building a coalition based solely on identity. Trump can’t win with those demos, but he doesn’t have to. All he has to do is peel off 10% and he will crush them.
Yes, it’s a good move. I can only imagine Trump is gonna get more of the black and Hispanic vote this time around. Now the real question will be if he can make a substantial increase. If he does the Dems are screwed.
I was at a party with a bunch of Republican leaning voters. All of them liked the Trump ad, and were agreeing that drug crimes (use/possession) should never lead to a life sentence.
At least we are going to freeze before we burn.
Cold snaps so severe they could threaten food shortages and plummeting temperatures are a very real possibility over the next 30 years, an expert claims.
With the Sun entering a natural “hibernation period” or solar minimum in which it projects less heat at the Earth there could be frostier weather and heavy snow storms.
Scientist Valentina Zharkova, of Northumbria University, said average temperatures could drop by 1C in 2020 and last up to a year – while resulting in wet and cold summers.
And the minimum was the cause for Canada’s recent -50C, she claims.
wet and cold summers
Tucson says “bring it”.
ISTR this was always a more realistic threat than global warming – we’re overdue for an ice age.
This, too, will be “climate change” (true) and the solution will still be to blow up the world economies.
A colder climate is absolutely a bigger danger than a warmer one. I imagine they will try to spin such a cold spell into “climate change” but they are really going to stretch the credulity of the average bear by doing so.
Oh, it’d be climate change all right, just not anthropogenic.
I much preferred when it was Anthropogenic Global Warming – that had the virtue of being a reasonably well-defined problem statement (“the world is getting warmer and it’s caused by humans”).
Then “Anthropogenic” got quietly dropped, since there were creditable arguments that the GC was caused by something other than the A – “but you guys know what we mean when we just say Global Warming”.
Then “Global Warming” quietly morphed into “Climate Change”, which has the virtue of covering all outcomes.
Then they changed it to “Climate Crisis”, because never let a good crisis go to waste. Even if it’s a fake one.
I think that the overall climate, especially hot/cold, has to do more with the energy input to the system than anything else. The Sun is a (mildly) variable star. Likely the only way to make any meaningful predictions on the climate over decades would be to first forecast what the Sun is likely to do. The climatistas position that solar input is meaningless strikes this non-climatologist as utterly implausible.
ISTR this was always a more realistic threat than global warming – we’re overdue for an ice age.
Technically we are still in the ice age, and will be until those pesky polar ice caps melt (and we can finally return to the normal warm temperatures, like the dinosaurs enjoyed). What you’re thinking of is a glacial period, when an ice age gets hard core. We most definitely do not want that.
Thank you Mr. Science-Type Person, that is precisely what I was trying to recall.
I thought a change of 1C was enough to bake or freeze the whole planet.
yes, it perfectly explains why we all won’t be dead from climate chaos, a lack of net neutrality and tax cuts in 9 years. what the progs don’t know is that trump will get a third term and everyone will die from a combination of schadenfreud and TDS toxicity.
Too late. Brexit will have spread by then and exterminated life on Earth.
Any long term weather/climate forecasting is complete BS.
“Valentina Zharkova”
Russian collusion! !!!
Oh, that stupid beer ad for Organic Farmland, forgot about that until Rebel Scum’s post mentioned food shortages. Less food on more land, yay!
Good thing I already don’t like Michelob. I can continue not drinking it.
It’s just those brown people halfway around the world that would mostly suffer, and we get to stroke our virtue boners, so win-win!
On the one hand, people who actually face the threat of hunger are less likely to fall for that stupidity. On the other, the first world is rich enough it can always buy its way out of a shortfall, so they are probably still screwed (except the farmers, who will make bank).
Japan continues to be amazingly useless in its signage.
Japan firms limit customer contact, aiming to prevent spread of deadly coronavirus
The sign in the picture says – “ご米国の皆様へ” – (To all honorable) Americans… I’m sure the Americans at the park will have no problems reading that.
Is this the xenophobia we’ve been lectured about?
In Asia? No way… Not historically nor now.
The Dems are so screwed in the Presidential race this year. Neither Biden, Bernie, nor Warren can beat Trump.* The fact that these are their leading candidates, that the party is apparently trying to figure out how to install Bloomberg as their candidate (as if he could beat Trump), and that the rest of the field belly-flopped so badly, likely goes back to the way the Dems got hollowed out at the state and Congressional level during the Obama administration.
* Assuming no major events break against him over the next 9 months.
I’d agree. I couldn’t even goad my Trump hating buddy yesterday into a bet on the 2020 winner. He wanted no part of that action.
Ask him what odds he would need to put money on it. There’s bound to be something he would bet on. 20-1? Hell, I might take that action today (although the window would close before too much longer).
I don’t think I’d take Trump at 20-1 or even 10-1 as there is always that possibility of an unexpected event happening. I’d go 8-1 for sure at this point. I threw out 5-1 and he still wanted no part. I have a substantial bet with him already that Trump will make it to next November as our President and he knows he is losing that one.
They let the party get taken over by drooling morons. They can’t even tack to the center for the general now.
The Dems have been the masters of “message” for decades while the Repubs tore themselves apart and now it’s the exact opposite.
I just can’t see what they’ve done to win over any new voters; they seem to be just galvanizing their most extreme supporters. Here’s what they’ve rolled out so far:
– Taxpayer-funded reparations for slavery, and more recently for illegal immigrants
– Doubling down on the debunked Russia hoax (and this U-crane bullshit will probably implode in a similarly embarrassing fashion)
– Fumbling questions and making weakass arguments about how this “free healthcare” and “free college” will be funded and what greater effect these new taxes will have on the economy (e.g. Liz Warren just declaring that top economists are wrong with no further elaboration)
– A ridiculous amount of infighting
Yea, it does look pretty fucking bad for the Dems.
I’m at my in-laws place. There are 4 sisters, mother father, granny, myself, one sister’s husband and two toddlers in a two bedroom apartment with constant road noise outside.
pray for us all. wifey and her elder sister already had a fight, just 4 more days here. . .
That sounds absolutely hellish. I’d sleep in my car before I’d do that.
yeah, the whole point of the trip is to see family and attend the wedding. I might suggest we grab a hotel next time. flights alone to get here have put me on edge. everyone is actually really nice, but I think there’s 1 person per 100 sqft.
What crime did you commit to warrant this harsh punishment?
I think I have bad karma. one of the kids puked earlier today, hoping it was just the way the mom was feeding her. . .
Sweet Jesus
There’s got to be a Motel Hell somewhere nearby.
I saw that at the drive-in
Health Officials Quarantine Portland To Prevent Spread Of Communism
CNN Condemns D-Day Soldiers For Lack Of Diversity
Damn I love those guys.
The real scandal with D-Day is that the Allies did not do a (4 yr. long) environmental impact analysis of what bullets and bombs and fire and blood would do to the Normandy Dune Cricket and other endangered species.
Bloomburger’s 5’8″
Trump’s 6’3″
the post-debate handshake should be good for a lol.
Bloomburger’s 5’8″
Sure.
With lifts in his shoes.
Every inch counts.
SHE SAID IT WAS AVERAGE
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/07a9c496-9bd9-4284-8f9b-9dbdb9314e92
Dude needs to go with it.
See H Ross Perot.
3 inch lifts.
Bloomburger’s As surrounded by his armed guards 5’8″
Shut up and die like you’re supposed to peasant!
Re the Superbowl half-time show. I like JLo. I’ve liked her since her In Living Color days. I like her music. It’s got a nice beat and you can quick-walk to it.
However, she was trying too hard. Shakira is not a spring chicken, either, but she made it seem like the most natural thing in the world.
I don’t mind aging pop/rock stars as long as they stop trying to deny that they’re aging OR just get behind the mixer board or foster new talent. If you weren’t that attractive in the first place, aging is not going to help, nor is makeup after a certain point–but neither is surgery, especially because the neck can’t be done or faked. I’m looking at you, Madonna.
Madonna didn’t get the memo that there is a thriving online elder porn market. She should try tapping into that.
Germans… it’s always the Germans….
I, too, like JLo.
TW: Kotaku
Funimation Says Anime Interspecies Reviewers Goes Too Far, Stops Streaming It
I can’t figure out why Funi picked it up. It’s put out by a real studio with A list voice talent, but it’s full on hentai.
The download count on that series went up significantly on nyaa when Funi dropped it.
I just watched a trailer. Pretty sure I’m on a watchlist now.
The English subs also don’t nearly capture how racy the Japanese was either.