These are the best Saturday evening links you will read all week.
Here’s hoping the week-end is serving you all well.
Links!
I am officially done with Corona virus.
If they truly want them lifelike, I would say feature, not a bug.
Bug, not a feature.
There is no confirmation that she used the words, “tippy tops” during her speech.
A little Tull for tonight.
Yippee! They’re discharging me in about son hour.
Wahoo!
Also thanks for the well wishes all!
From the tippy top of heart to the bottom.
I wish your bottom well.
At the bottom. https://youtu.be/llbdafTnzBk
Gratz! Glad you’re doing better, keep that trend going
Hopefully with at least just a mildly tarnished bill of health, if not a clean one.
More tests next week, sone adjustments to meds, and I think I’ll be good to go, if more limited in some respects.
Good deal. Glad to hear they think they found the cause. When I was a kid in the hospital, one of the most terrifying parts was the doctors not knowing what was wrong with me.
Yay!
Now you take care, get better.
Excellent! Now go forth and be healthy!
Do they have a safe backstop?
Good news!
Good!
Good deal. Hope things continue to improve.
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Glad to hear. ?
Good to hear that they survived you. JK, I can’t think of anything more happy than the hospital telling you you can leave.
Can confirm.
Frrrreeeedom!
That is great news Hayek. Make sure to abuse your freedom from the hospital, but take of yourself.
Excuse me while I play the world’s smallest violin for the studios not getting those sweet, sweet China bucks due to quarantine requirements.
Yeah. 0 fucks given.
*Insert usual Winston comment about China*
No, Winston, their vaginae are not “sideways” but vertical like the rest of the world.
Virginia Madsen or Sandra Oh?
Ms. Oh has not aged well at all.
Which Killing Eve-Star Wars Connection is better? Waller-Bridge playing the SJW droid who Lando wants to fuck(?) in Solo or Jodie Comer playing Rey’s Mom in Rise of Skywalker?
She was never attractive.
The vulvae on the other hand…
Don’t give away the secret!
I thought this was the ancient Chinese secret.
“Excuse me while I play the world’s smallest violin for the studios not getting those sweet, sweet China bucks due to quarantine requirements.”
They could do a Pooh Bear special?
I’m liking the STL Battlehawks.
I’m skating away….
I actually like that song.
You were supposed to thank me.
Sorry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XcKBmdfpWs
Skate away
Skating
I think that brings the grand total of good songs you’ve linked to up to 2 or maybe 3.
You forgot the word “million”.
“McTedS’es Music Shoppe, million’s and million’s linked.”
Obligatory
Any credible counts from South Carolina primary yet? Polls close in a little under an hour.
DOOM!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw_cdqQHGA8
Trump beat Weld.
I forgot about him. How has Weld been doing?
He has 1 delegate
He’s going to win that brokered Convention this time.
A sympathy-delegate, likely.
Iowa Republicans apparently go with straight percentages (assumption based on the numbers) so Trump got 39 and Weld got 1
Corn Pop was appointed as the first black horse face pony soldier?
Listen, Fat; if you keep spouting that malarkey I’ll challenge you to a push-up contest.
Look fat, it’s ‘Look, fat’ not listen.
huh.
Firing range was packed today. Lot of AR-15’s being fired. My wee little Sig sounded like a pop gun next to the big boys.
Fired at a clothing dummy that I picked up cheap from a local store selling their old fixtures for just a couple of dollars. After I finished with it, the old dude that I was in the firing lane next to me used it for his Mossberg shotgun. That dummy will never be the same.
Yeah, the pressure differential between those cartridges is pretty insane. When I sighted in my 5.56 last week, the first shot set off an avalanche of snow off of the shed roof.
There is someone at Steel Challenge that runs a .40, you can absolutely hear/feel the difference.
How did the new buffer spring work out? Timing ok?
Works great. My problem is getting a quick/comfortable sight picture with that flat-topped geometry. I understand why people run optics.
It’s still faster than with a pistol, but it feels like I’m fighting the damn thing the entire time. The 10/22 was so much more pleasant with putting the sight plane above the shoulder.
I should probably see if someone makes AR15 stocks with similar geometry.
I have an old A2 so opposite problem when using optics.
The whole parallax issue concerns me for multigun competitions. I could put risers and such on the PCC, but then it’s only zeroed for very specific ranges. For Steel challenge, this isn’t so bad, but if the 2×4 is using USPSA targets where the A zone is only 1″ high on the head, then I’ve got to be doing some sort of BDC in my head, and that is never appening.
“AR-15” and “big boys” are terms I’m not accustomed to seeing in the same sentence.
Depends if you’re talking bore or report.
These things are relative, true. I’m used to the bore/report/recoil of a .338 Win Mag, and I tend to think of it as a medium-bore rifle. Which it is, in the grand scheme of things.
I was sighting in a rifle next to a kid (like sub-teenager kid) who was doing the same with his fresh-from-under-the-Christmas tree .45-70. I know it’s a black powder cartridge but still, every time he let one off I thought “that’s it?”
My .45-70 Guide Gun is one of the older ones with all the ports. Sounds like a tank cannon.
Granted my hearing is pretty much shot, but I never thought the AR-15 was particularly loud. Maybe a short-barrel version might be, mine is the standard 20″.
All of the ranges where I zero in rifles have some sort of overhead rain protection, and the 100+ yard ranges are almost fully enclosed so as to prevent you from overshooting and hitting a house on the other side of the berm.
5.56 out of a 16″ barrel is pretty freaking loud. Though not nearly as lout as .270
My 7″ AR pistol definately makes some noise. The muzzle brake doesn’t help either.
Modern .45-70 with modern (or handloaded ammo) is a fucking beast. The only thing I’ve ever shot that hurt more was a .458 Win Mag.
Animal: I’m plinking away with a Sig Sauer P225.
Mrs. A had one of those for a while, she really liked it. Unfortunately it was stolen, and two years later when we got it back, it looked as though the drug dealer it was recovered from had been storing it under a cinder block in the back yard.
That drug dealer is a waterheaded retard.
“My wee little Sig sounded like a pop gun next to the big boys.”
Don’t worry, after the new [fill in name] democrat president takes office and takes their weapons of war, you’ll be feeling all powerful again.
What’s not to love about gun-grabbers? They all, most certainly, have our best interests at heart.
That’s a good Tull song.
The computer science professor, therefore, warns robots that are not programmed correctly risk overstepping the boundaries of human consent.
Speaking at a Raspberry Dream Labs event, he told Daily Star Online: “It makes sense for us to debate what should be the boundaries for consent given by humans to robots.
I guess that could happen but in the meantime could you just go fuck yourself?
Anne Arundel County Police said semen was found inside syringes tested after a man was arrested for allegedly poking a woman with a syringe in Churchton grocery store.
WTF?
While the non-binding resolution doesn’t dive into specifics or outline costs, one study suggested the type of investment needed to achieve the goals — including $36 trillion for universal healthcare — would be pegged at $93 trillion in the first 10 years.
“Why this is so controversial?” Ocasio-Cortez said at the end of her 20-minute speech, urging her colleagues to join the fight.
People with functioning brains think you answered your own question.
Nathaniel Hendren, 30, pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action for killing off-duty officer Katlyn Alix, 24, in January 2019. The pair had been playing a Russian Roulette-style game with a handgun in his apartment in Carondelet, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Looking at the pictures, I wonder if it was really a lover’s quarrel that lead to the shooting and not a game of Russian Roulette.
I’m surprised they didn’t call it an officer-involved shooting and say that the officer’s gun discharged.
Shouldn’t you have gone with Aqualung or Thick as a Brick?
And give you the satisfaction? Hell no.
I’m only trying to help. I thought you were creating a shtick for yourself.
If I was going to do that, you would get Puddles the clown every week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trmwynNg9xU
Raise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bfPwtUTP4k
I love his smoosh-ups.
I also really love this Alestorm one, just because of the Scottish pirate-metal rennie music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2R0avXWgTM
Not Adahn:
Alestorm is awesome. If you like going down that route, check out Flatfoot 56, the Tossers, the Bollox, and the Real McKenzies if you’re looking for more variety. Another one to check out is Korpiklaani, for more folk metal.
I’ll second the recommendation of The Tossers.
DEG: Got the chance to see the Tossers last year the weekend before St. Patrick’s day. A good time was had by several. This year it looks like it’s just going to be a local Pogue’s cover band. The Prodigals used to come here for a free show every year, but they may be getting too big for that now.
I haven’t seen The Tossers.
The Prodigals song sounds good.
St. Patrick’s Day being on a Tuesday this year, given how crowded the only decent Irish bar in the area gets, and other reasons I won’t go into here, I will probably not go out for St. Patrick’s Day.
DEG:
The Prodigals used to do a free show in Cleveland on St. Patrick’s Day around noon. Then they would head down to Dublin, OH to finish their day.
One year we questioned if they would all make it to Dublin upright.
Heh.
*Shudders*
Don’t think I’ve forgotten about you.
A friend knows Ian Anderson and arranged for us to meet him backstage after a Tull concert last summer. Really nice guy though very touch-phobic, no shaking hands or arms around him for selfies. He did do elbow bumps for people trying to shake his hand.
Oh man. I just saw the Donald’s speech in which he remarked on the Dem field and then referred specifically to Elizabeth’s takedown of Bloomie.
He is vicious and hilarious. Childish, but hilarious.
Video here, but there an annoying “election 2020” first. Worth it.
Cool link, Hayek’s Plosives!
Fine!! Hang on../
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-mocks-bloombergs-height-by-crouching-behind-podium-at-cpac.amp
LOL!
Types of headaches:
https://imgur.com/a/CIytMID
lol
Another type of headache
I don’t get it.
You see, there’s a concept of something being so annyoing that it physically hurts. This plays off of that concept by asserting that something very annoying (Mike Bloomberg commercials) causes a whole head headache, which is especially bad because of the cognitive bias of something more widespread being perceived as more intense.
I thought I’d be safe in California since it’s obviously going to vote D in the presidential general election, but I hadn’t reckoned on the Dem primary.
Bloomberg ads everywhere you look!! It’s agonizing. During sporting events, sitcoms, news, dramas…non stop. Sometimes the same ad in every commercial break in a hour.
Whole brain headache.
My son trolls better than that. Pretty sure Hyp got it. ?
I dunno what you’re talking about.
I have decided to say the straight man part failed because it’s the internet and you can’t read tone and body language.
Also it might have failed because I really don’t get it. Yes I joke about not even owning a TV so I don’t see all the ads, but I really don’t get being upset to the point of having headache because of ads you don’t like. Maybe its a just a thing one does to signal their positions, if so I’m out of the loop, don’t like something don’t watch it. Seems simple enough to me.
You know what Chinese water torture is?
Or the torture of a toddler incessantly banging a sippy cup on a tabletop in the middle of a crowded diner while her mother chatters with her friends and doesn’t hear the banging at all?
It’s like that.
Look, I was stuck in the back of a car once on a sixteen hour road trip, the guys in the front, and thus in control of the tape deck were (still are for that matter) stoner hippies. They played Bob Marley’s greatest hits, that’s it, Bob Marley’s greatest hits over and over and over again. Sixteen hours of Bob Marley’s greatest hits, forget for a moment that every Bob Marley song songs exactly like every other Bob Marley song, just imagine hearing the same nine/ten songs even if they were different over and over again for sixteen hours. And yet I managed to survive and never had a headache and didn’t even bitch too much. After a while you just block it out. Bloomberg ads you can turn off, you are not even trapped in the back of hippy’s car.
It’s a joke. Just a stupid little joke.
Hyperbole, if you will.
Ok, I’m gonna poke the bear a bit. What i don’t get is why you consistently write “I Don’t get it” to something you know you won’t understand because you don’t watch TV. I’ve never seen half the movies that get quoted around here, but I don’t also constantly say “I don’t get it”. If the joke means nothing to you then move along.
I don’t get it.
I’ll admit that that got a snicker out of me.
That was pure luck timing wise, I was actually responding to Mojo. To answer your question honestly, and to be quite blunt, I respond with ‘I don’t get it’ to jokes that I think are either very obvious or juvenile or (and this is usually the case) one sided politically. Am I being an Ass? sure. Yes I do ‘get it’ but I like to pretend that us g/libertarians are a bit above the Talk radio ‘Block insane Yomamma’ jokes, so I take a cheap snipe occasionally at what I considered facile/partisan humor.
Dude, what?
?
I took that joke not as referring to the content of his ads, but the number of them. Nothing partisan about it.
Yes.
Your head becomes engorged?
I think it means the whole cranium begins countdown to explosion
Well, Bloomberg is a boner.
We actually had “boner” as a spelling word in grade school in the late 60s, with the meaning being “mistake”. When the teacher said the word out loud for us to write the correct spelling during a quiz, she gave the textbook’s preferred example of use in a sentence: “I pulled a real boner in math class today”. Predictable response from the class. Can remember it like yesterday though, can’t imagine why..
Well into the 80’s that meaning was still acknowledged. See: Mike Seaver’s friend “Boner” on Growing Pains.
fun fact: the word quarantine comes from the Italian word for forty, quaranta. In medieval times, the crews of ships which came from overseas and docked in Italy had to stay on board for 40 days so as to not spread disease. It was a measure implemented after the Black Death.
Now let’s all party like it’s 1399
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaRNvJLKP1E
I know. We can launch corpses at each other with trebuchets. It’ll be a gay old time.
As long as you don’t weigh the same as a duck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
You know, its remarkable how much those peasants look like my neighbors.
That movie is the real life version of Infinite Jest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest
Added to reading list. Thanks.
BUT *I* HAVEN’T EVEN READ IT!
Still working on my collection of Sherlock Holmes stories.
There’s one that has Mormon villains. Mind, blown.
A Study in Scarlet. I think it’s time for me to re-read the Holmes canon. It’s been a few years.
So, Derpy. I published (didn’t write except one story) a collection of pulp fiction of Mormon scifi/horror stories because of the way Mormons were used as the villain in late 1800s early 1900s fiction, which of course, includes Sherlock Holmes. See Monsters & Mormons.
There’s one that has Mormon villains. Mind, blown. Sherlock Holmes meets Hayduke?
That would be the first one, I believe.
With apologies to [[[Them]]] the Mormon’s early history particularly after the arrival in Utah was at times less than perfectly savory.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
In all seriousness, though, [[[we]]] need to own our history, all of the weird, all of the unsavory, and let our freak flag fly instead of incessantly trying to curry the favor of evangelical Christians.
Oh, I wasn’t talking about the odd rites or polygamy. That is just ordinary doctrinal differences. I was talking about the more or less totalitarian theocracy under Brigham Young. By all means own the oddness, that stuff is cool, but I think your Church was wise to apologize for things like Mountain Meadow. That showed integrity.
incessantly trying to curry the favor of evangelical Christians.
Yep, this is a pointless plan because evangelicals will always see Mormons as other. To be fair, mainline denominations are similarly wary.
Setting aside all of the cultural issues, it’s difficult/impossible from an orthodox point of view to accept a group as Christian if they don’t at least agree with the first 4 ecumenical councils.
trshmnstr:
As a former Catholic who’s been yelled at by a Jack Chick following Evangelical, yeah. Ignore them, hell, if they think Catholics are the devil’s spawn, I can’t imagine what they think of LDS or JW.
Trashy is right. By the definitions of both Catholicism and the Protestant denominations Mormons are factually not Christians. It isn’t a misunderstanding you can clear up, so just do your thing and don’t worry about what they think.
*Not apologetics
BY had to get a gazillion people out of the US ASAP and a head-in-clouds visionary/conman/whatever who’d just been assassinated had the wherewithal to do it, even if he’d still been alive.
BY was the leader they needed for the time for their circumstances.
THEN the US army chased them OUT of the US and would not quit harrying them even though they were NOT in the US.
I won’t address the MMM, because I honestly don’t know enough about it to discuss it intelligently.
It honestly makes me mad that Mormons just don’t get how much protestants (especially evangelicals) despise Mormons. And it enrages me that our leadership is constantly scraping and bowing and begging the Southern Baptist Convention, “Please like me, please please please, here, we’ll change some of our talking points.”
SBC: You aren’t Christians, fuck off and die. Preferably in a lake of fire.
Mormons: *confused* There is no burning lake of fire…
SBC: Mmm hmm. Scram, squirt.
Yeah an example of Mormon blindness on that point is when Mormons talk about ‘saving’ the BSA. From the fundamentalist protestant point of view that was Satanic forces corrupting an institution. To pretty much everyone outside either faith the two groups are obviously allies. So much so that when a leftist talks about the Christian right he almost certainly means the Fundies and the Mormons, and maybe the devout Catholics.
I’m in this odd position of seeing the similarities and sympathizing with both, but also SMDH about certain beliefs. I’ll tell you it sometimes is hard not do spit takes when a person who sounds perfectly rational and intelligent pops out with Young Earth Creationism.
I believe in Creator Deities. Now, HOW they made it or WHEN they made it, we do not profess to know nor do we care.
What I really think, though, is that the Big Bang Theory was caused by somebody trying to go back in time to kill Hitler and ran into a paradox.
Jarflax: I’m always entertained when I see people throw Catholics into the young Earth creationist side.
Well since i threw down my gauntlet to the Fundamentalists let me add the other two as well. 🙂 My problem with Catholics is much the same as Luther and Calvin’s was initially. The hierarchy isn’t biblical, nor is it in keeping with the rest of the Judeo Christian canon, and Francis is an eloquent demonstration of the obvious issue with it. Chrisianity is based firmly in the concept of free will and individual faith intercession and a hierarchy are anathema to that. My issue with Mormons is the whole Joseph Smith origin story.
*sage nod*
Surprised this hasn’t been linked yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9U-f-vtXkQ
Jarflax: I’m a former Catholic. Raised in the Church and went through 13 years of schooling with them (SMM, and NDCL). Dropped being a Catholic my Freshman year of High School, which led to some entertaining conversations at the High School.
Ok, now I am adding the atheists. Y’all have the stupidest religion of all. It is based on faith as much as any creed, and instead of dealing with moral questions that have shaped all of human experience it ends up punting on them and frequently dismissing them as meaningless. And btw evidence showing the physical mechanisms of creation is not a refutation of a creator, nor is it even evidence against a creator. Arguing that is like arguing that because you found Leonardo’s brush obviously the brush painted the Mona Lisa not Leonardo.
The fool says in his heart there is no god. The wise man says it with his mouth.
https://www.godchecker.com/
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Hmm, yes, makes perfect sense…
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
OK, I’m listening. Now’s your chance.
food for thought: either there’s an uncreated god or an uncreated universe
Which one do you think is more likely and why?
I think you are misunderstanding me. It is the unbelievably arogant certainty I find ridiculous, not the possibility of a creatorless universe, and the logic game of claiming the burden is on the theist because he is proposing the unusual idea is dishonest to its core because as you just acknowledged, either possibility is at odds with human experience.
OK
The multiplicity of gods and explanations always seemed to me the strongest evidence it was all lies.
Even if I knew nothing about science, what reason is there to believe any religion? They all make the same claims and offer up the same flimsy excuses. Every argument for religion A can with minor adjustments be turned into an argument for religion B.
Believers call the atheists arrogant, but what could be more arrogant than presuming to know the mind of god through a book?
I certainy cannot speak for all religious people, or really any of them, but I’d say that making an entirely fabricated point and acting as though you had scored is pretty damn arrogant. I have never met any religious person or or read a religious writing that claimed to know the mind of God, their general theme is that we cannot know the mind of God.
Jarflax, as someone as someone who is not religious, but believes in the good of religion and in God. Yes, God is both the known and unknown. If the everything is random, it’s pretty odd that so much of science follows such strict laws, almost like it was…designed.
Enough people have quoted from the Bible and the Koran, etc, to convince me that they view it as an authority.
Why do they do that?
There could be a god, but I would be very surprised if it in any way resembles the god of any religion.
I’m not sure I fully understand this dichotomy. Either there is a Supreme Being, but no written information for humans to pass along information about this Being, or this being doesn’t exist?
Why does the written word totally exclude the existence of God?
Also, not every religion makes the same claim. They may address very fundamental issues, but they seem to diverge quite a bit, most of the time.
Derpy, the fact that Christians regard the Bible as an authority or Moslems regard the Koran does not mean they claim to know the mind of God. It isn’t even related to that claim. Yes, they believe that the Bible is the word of God, and that God intends them to follow it, that is not even a little bit the same as claiming they know what God is thinking, what his plan is, or really anything except “This book is the instructions given to us by this being that is beyond our understanding.”
Look, I went through my angry at religion period too but that sure doesn’t inspire me to regard atheism as a serious set of beliefs. When you get serious about thinking about this stuff, but cannot accept any religion I think you almost necessarily end up agnostic. I have ended up in a place akin to that in which I think Nietzche ended up. Skeptical about God, but seeing the void that the death of God leaves in Humanity and knowing what is most likely to fill that void.
Possibly religion is all manipulative nonsense, but it is not the sole form of manipulative nonsense and the atheist forms showed themselves far worse in the Twentieth Century.
There could be a god, but I would be very surprised if it in any way resembles the god of any religion.
Guy who criticizes all religions for coming to conclusions about the nature of God unironically comes to sweeping conclusions about the nature of God in the next comment.
The reason gay marriage is a political issue in the US is because most Americans believe the Bible and the Bible says gay sex is wrong. Well, it says it a bit more strongly than that, but I digress.
So people take it seriously.
It’s weird. I have mostly traditional, conventional beliefs. But my reasons for them are different than most people.
All of my moral beliefs stem from the idea that I don’t want to suffer. Well, if I don’t want to suffer and other people are like me, then they don’t want to suffer either. So how can we act so as to minimize suffering?
See? No need for holy books or prophets. Just empathy and common sense. Why is that so hard?
See? No need for holy books or prophets. Just empathy and common sense. Why is that so hard?
Because your idiot neighbor is suffering from their own financial idiocy and it reduces overall suffering to redistribute some of your money to them.
Congrats comrade, your ethic just stumbled into the rationale for communism.
Didn’t that Cheez Whiz guy say something about giving all your money to the poor?
Oh, here it is:
Mark 10:17-31
17 As Jesus was starting out on his way to Jerusalem, a man came running up to him, knelt down, and asked, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
18 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked. “Only God is truly good. 19 But to answer your question, you know the commandments: ‘You must not murder. You must not commit adultery. You must not steal. You must not testify falsely. You must not cheat anyone. Honor your father and mother.’[a]”
20 “Teacher,” the man replied, “I’ve obeyed all these commandments since I was young.”
21 Looking at the man, Jesus felt genuine love for him. “There is still one thing you haven’t done,” he told him. “Go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
22 At this the man’s face fell, and he went away sad, for he had many possessions.
23 Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God!” 24 This amazed them. But Jesus said again, “Dear children, it is very hard[b] to enter the Kingdom of God. 25 In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!”
Was Jesus a communist? It was certainly an easy sell for them to make.
Wait–is this about politics? In that sphere, sure; simplicity is great. Then again, life isn’t just politics, unless you’re a prog, amirite??
I get that, for a philosophy of interacting with others, you find that to be sufficient. I know that I don’t, as it doesn’t necessarily cover bigger/deeper/more nuanced situations and issues. Not that I’m trying to convert you to my way of thinking, so much as I’m contending with some of the sentiments here.
Didn’t that Cheez Whiz guy say something about giving all your money to the poor?
I guess your ethic doesn’t have much to say about being a massive asshole. I’m out.
See? No need for holy books or prophets. Just empathy and common sense. Why is that so hard?
Not to be too flippant here, but may I suggest that anytime you find yourself dismissing the search for Truth that has occupied the wisest among us for at least as long as we have had the ability to pass on their thoughts, and likely much longer with “empathy and common sense. Why is that so hard?” you are:
1. displaying the arrogance I called out earlier
2. at a point where you should question your certainty.
Fella, it was joke; the kind that get posted here all the time.
Just because I disagree with you on this or that doesn’t mean I don’t like you or respect you.
1 Peter 3:15 says that Christians should give a reason for the hope that they have. If you can’t handle a knucklehead like me, what chance do you have of convincing anyone else?
And, I don’t want to get sucked into the Derpy/trsh vortex, but, Jesus was addressing one man, and doing so based on his ‘personal’ question. As in, “What must I do?”
This is borne out by the fact that at no point in Jesus’ ministry did he ever predicate salvation for people (in general) with a giving away of material wealth. The camel/needle eye reference wasn’t about wealth–in fact, it’s something more the opposite of it.
The ‘eye of the needle’ line is in fact a mistranslation of sorts. It is a reference to city gates that were shorter than camels and the camels would have to walk on their knees (something they can do) to pass through. So it’s more about prostration before God than about wealth.
Let us suppose that for some reason, humanity never developed religion.
Would the morals of those people differ much from ours? Why or why not?
Since part of my meta point is that atheists do in fact have a religion, I find your hypothetical very similar to one that goes “suppose human beings had never developed language, what would their communication look like?”
The word religion comes from a Latin word that means restraint.
There’s so much truth in that.
Plato wrote about what would happen if a guy got magic ring that made him invisible. Plato said that the guy would have no restraint.
As for the language question, while there have been language deprivation experiments, there has never been a society without language.
Like money and language, religion is a useful fiction.
“The function of magic is to ritualize man’s optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.”
-Bronislaw Malinowski
I can’t find the quote, but the gist is there is no society without a belief in myth/magic.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/slavery-american-genocide-racism/
Going to need more reparations programs.
Isn’t it interesting that the crimes of slavery 200 years ago get more attention than the crimes of communism 100 years ago? Why, it’s almost as though all the people teaching history are communist sympathizers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgEli5zAi0U
No need to worry. Iphones will defeat them, somehow.
That article was beyond incoherent.
Anyway, my ex is an enrolled member of a tribe and whenever she was little and complaining about something stupid, her mom would yell at ‘Your great grandma had something to cry about! You dont!”
Just what do you think a gaming license, exemption from indoor smoking laws, and exemption from state tobacco taxes are?
Apropos of nothing: I really like God Friended Me.
Apropos of everything: ‘Splosives! So glad you’re getting out of the klink! Keep us updated.
Thanks, Mojo!
At the classifier today, there was a guy wearing a “thin blue line” flag T-shirt, and a guy wearing a “lp.org” hat.
And yet, not only did they not shoot each other, they cooperated in the spirit of brotherhood of those who like to make things go BANG!
Yes, the libertarian hat guy was more than halfway to looking like a crazy hobo, and the copsucker t-shirt guy was snaggletoothed.
The most polite men I’ve ever met were all at gun ranges. I suspect that is not a coincidence.
Something something armed society something something polite society
The only person I have seen sporting any L party swag was a Gary Johnson bumper sticker on the most beat up Ford Bronco I have ever seen. Dude driving it looked like a homeless old hippie.
I am not homeless!
Does this “home” of yours require periodic oil changes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrsHGK4LT74
Well, you have the look down.
When I went to the Saratoga County Fair, the LP had a table. The guy running it was heartbreakingly pathetic. Like the three-legged puppy missing an ear at the pound.
At least they had a table? :shrug:
The Democrats did not. Apparently they decided there were no new voters to be gained in the county fair crowd.
This August, I passed through my home town on the way back from my epic 8,000 mile road trip. I went to the county fair and the teams had their booths in a building next to the 4H animals, which I felt was fitting. Anyway, the contrast was stark. Team Red had a debt clock and pocket constitutions. Team Blue had headshots of all their candidates and looked like the Bright and Shiny people from Bubble Boy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9gioK-eDvE
Interesting. The R’s had candidate glamour shots, while the LP had pocket constitutions.
There were no D’s, though I think there was a Working People’s Party table.
Thus proving they couldn’t read?
[incapacitating laughter]
/raises pint glass
You’re doing it wrong.
What in the ever loving fuck? Talk about issues.
The kid had a slight fever last night. 38C. She was fine this morning, but I’m still making the wife take her to the clinic. I’m not going near those death factories. (And I gotta go to the office)
Did you give her the good news that she doesn’t have to go to school today?
For anyone in the Vegas area, I’ll be out there in April for Viva Las Vegas in April. Rooms for next year (at the Orleans) go on sale the first week of April this year, and will sell out in a couple of hours.
Bloomberg wants to ban Silicone Saturday.
http://archive.li/JvFd3
Bloomy limits their consumption to 16oz.
Too many breast implants.
He did call it Silicone Saturday, not “As God Made Them Saturday”.
SAD!
I’ll guess just have to go hang out at r/BustyNaturals (NSFW) over on reddit.
CNN already calling it for Joe
That he’s senile?
It’s sort of funny in that it doesn’t mean jackshit for Corn Pop. Bernie has huge poll leads already in CA and TX. And Trump would stomp the shit out of any democrat in SC. Even if Corn Pop could win all the swing states, Bernie winning both CA and TX is insurmountable for any dem candidate. But the dem establishment will not let Sanders win, no matter what. So it’s all down to whose turn it is, again. I think Biden and Hiawatha are the ticket. I’ve never stopped thinking that.
I don’t think they are going to block Bernie this time. I am seeing more and more “Who says Bernie can’t win?” commentary. I’d go so far as to bet on it. If Bernie goes into the convention in the lead he comes out the nominee.
I was very entertained that this popped up in my news feed.
“I don’t think they are going to block Bernie this time.”
I think you underestimate them. Also, their math sucks, Trump will destroy Bernie in as close to a landslide as is possible in this day and time (no matter who they nominate, they win CA and NY).
Biden does have the best chance, but he won’t come as close as Hillary did to winning.
I think they’d better go with Stock Market Crash / Pandemic 2020! Because it’s their only hope.
Biden has no chance. I will bet $20 that if Bernie has the most delegates entering the convention he gets the nomination with no stipulatons, and I will bet $500 Biden is not the nominee (on that one I’d want some third party holding money 🙂 )
Presented without comment: Bernie Sanders is asked about Cuba in 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz4qeDR0O9c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jethro_Tull_(band)
Man, so old.
Dude, they play flute. That hasn’t been viable since the ’70s.
No one plays the jug anymore, and that makes me sad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM
Now I need to watch Anchorman again.
The don’t play flute, Ian Anderson plays flute! Don’t talk shit about Ian Anderson!
The Teacher
He’s got another solo album in progress, and tours fairly frequently. Martin Barre is touring a very respectable “cover” band.
[sigh. and you kids get off my lawn!]
He’s the flute player from the best Heavy Metal Band of 1989
Quality lynx, Spud. As Jethro Tull, love them or hate them, I don’t either.
I was thinking about this since someone posted it earlier, but this is bullshit. The first project should have been Tupac, for all of us.
Worst thing you’ve ever linked. I got that Bloomberg headache now.
I agree. We all could have the chance to experience Hit ‘Em Up in person one final time, but they wasted it on that selfish bitch.
7 year old girls die all the time. Tupac went into hiding in Serbia only once.
I only know Tupac because he faked his own death.
This? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rn7YZWtZEo
Who is Peter Molyneaux, chopped liver?
I loved Populous.
WARE MUH ACORN
And then you played the rest of Lionhead’s games?
Black & White and The Movies were great too!
Maybe for those of you who have normal names (it’s number 4, quickest link I could find).
Black and White was awesome…once you finally finished the ridiculously long u skippable tutorial. God I hated that. It’s why I only played through once.
I got bored when it turned into micro-management. I liked zooming in and out of the world, though.
Peter Molyneux ran Bullfrog. And NOTHING ELSE.
But this next game will let you build a world starting with a random collection of proteins in a random soup. Then from their you can build up your entire civilization over the course of millions of years!
Vox on Sanders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PjNlBV-_s8
Featuring Sad Beard and copious vocal fry!
“Featuring Sad Beard and copious vocal fry!”
OFFS, I am not clicking that!
Holy shit the Hulk is a Bernie Bro.
Well, his wresslin career is over and he may not have saved his pennies, so…
Needs to get on the good side after using a bad word.
CTE IS A BITCH BROTHER!!!
Wait a minute, I read that as Hulk Hogan…please disregard.
HOLY MACKEREL! I’ve never seen a picture of Sad Beard before; What an apt moniker.
Holy mackerel! She’s eating whole mackerel!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdpj-5ugy4I
He sounds like the infomercial guys on tv here. Always ends with a curt, down inflection. “You get the futon, cover and down pillow for… ¥2990”
ah, so desu…
Are there any commercials like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiAaEPcnlOg
Only CC Lemon (lemon drink) uses The Simpson’s. They aren’t popular here. 🙁
More heroic stories.
https://hotair.com/archives/taylormillard/2020/02/29/tx-da-69-possibly-innocent-people-got-prison-due-crooked-cop/
The comments are awful. Although it is Hot Air, so….
Not unrelated, Chief Acevado is a total joke and I still can’t believe Houston was dumb enough to take him from Austin.
Oh! Silly me. Here I thought you were supposed to be putting your life on the line for my family.
Guessing Goines isn’t into deontology.
/throwback
Bloomberg is all about the chocolate: Confirmed
Jerk Mayors stick together
I smell Obama ties.
Anyone ever played Black Desert Online? It’s free right now. At least it was.
Curvy Asian women in battle lingerie. What’s not to like? If I were a 10 year old boy, I’d bolt my door and they’d have to call the swat team to get me out and make me go to school again.
The game is eye candy if you have a high end system and monitor. It’s a little weird, like South Koreans made it or something.
It’s no Eve Online
I’d make a hefty wager that it’s prettier. It’s the best looking game I’ve every played and I’ve pretty much played all of them. The game is seriously visually stunning.
10?
Some people are late bloomers. No shame in that.
Pedo logic is still logic.
It’s no Dorf Fortress.
No, but I’ve read about it.
Who in the hell is voting for Steyer and why? Did he just pay people to go vote for him?
Green cronies?
Morons and mental defectives who are easily swayed by a deluge of ads.
LOL. I keep reading that as “Mormons and mental defectives”
I was raised Mormon in WV and am now non-religious. I like to say I went from Latter-day Saint to Latter-day Ain’t.
“I was raised Mormon in WV ”
I would say that’s weird if I didn’t know Brazilian Buddhists.
I was raised by Southern Baptist fundies. If that won’t cure yer ass of religion, nothing will.
Reading the Bible is a less traumatic alternative.
WV – home of the snake handlers of Jolo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl_8r7WG3g4
Mark 16:18
They will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.
You don’t have to tell me much about WV, Derp, my dad was born there and I lived in KY and visited WV and my parents visited our relatives there frequently when I was a kid.
I get the entire Appalachia thing, because I lived it.
If I told some of the stories of the forced church experience I had as a kid in Southern Baptist churches and their radical cousins, like Pentacostal, almost no one here would believe me, I’m sure. In fact, I think I have told some of those stories here or on TOS and almost no one believed me.
Oh, I 100% would believe it. Be cool to see a post on it.
“You don’t have to tell me much about WV, Derp”
Fair enough, friend.
There’s mini-golf course near Farimont where all the obstacles are made out of old mining equipment: big ventilation fans and such. Coal Country Miniature Golf is the name I think.
That’s probably my favorite place in the state.
Fun fact: there was an old miniseries called Amerika about a Soviet conquest of the US.
Wiki sez:
“Alaska is described as never having been pacified, requiring continued engagement by Soviet troops, and there are pockets of armed resistance in the Rocky Mountains and in West Virginia.”
Sounds about right.
“Oh, I 100% would believe it. Be cool to see a post on it.”
Holy Rollers? Speaking in tongues? That shit is real. I mean not in the sense it is not fake, but it is real in that some people actually believe it and the people doing it are good at faking it, or they are in some sort of self induced abnormal mental state.
Seriously, if you’ve never seen it, it’s hard to actually believe it.
For me, as a kid, the first time we went to a ‘reunion’ at one of our radical Pentacostal brother churches, I was already scared before we got there. I heard about the ‘Holy Rollers’ and speaking in tongues, but I had never witnessed it. It was bad enough that as a little kid, I had fire and brimstone preachers telling us we were going to burn in hell forever, but that didn’t even prepare me.
When we got there, yeah, they would all jump up and behave like people on LSD trips, only scarier. One guy, who looked in particular insane, jumped up, he was sitting right in front of me, jumped up, said a bunch of unintelligible non-sense and then went running right out the front door, screaming like a mad man. After a few minutes, I was already terrified, he came running back in, ran right up to me, got in my face and said ‘This one has the devil in him!’. The guy looked insane, I thought he was going to kill me.
I have to tell you, I do not remember ever being that terrified in my entire life.
““You don’t have to tell me much about WV, Derp”
Fair enough, friend.”
Apparently, I can’t escape too far. I can drive into the state right now, Harpers Ferry, in maybe an hour.
Religious ecstasy.
It’s also at those big traveling sales rah-rah-rahs with celebrity gurus.
If I told some of the stories of the forced church experience I had as a kid in Southern Baptist churches and their radical cousins, like Pentacostal, almost no one here would believe me, I’m sure.
I might. I had Seventh-Day Adventist relatives.
I’m surprised that as a Mormon in WV, you weren’t labeled as a Satan worshipper by the local church goers.
When you’re an oddball in as many ways as I am, religion doesn’t make much of a difference.
Amazingly, living on the east side of Cleveland (near a JW hall and Kirtland), my childhood home never got bothered much by the door to door knockers. I thank my protestant mother (who had to convert to marry my Catholic father) for that.
Jehovah Witnesses. They used to come around a lot when I live in Indiana and knock on the door.
One day, I was outside doing landscaping. I had a 24 acre plot and the house was about 500 ft back off the road on my private drive. It was very, very quiet. I mean no one ever came back there without me seeing them and my closest neighbor was about a quarter mile away.
So, I’m working beside the garage with a flower bed and someone right beside me says … Seriously, I don’t know what he said, I had a spade in my hand and was turning around and about one second from inbedding it into his skull when I saw this elderly guy in black. My heart must have been doing 150 bpm.
I have no idea how he snuck up on me like that, or why.
Need to get closer to Wayne and Holmes county for that kinda stuff.
My mom’s story was that when either group came to the door, knocked, and asked to talk about religion, her response was, “Sure. As long as we talk about mine.”
That’s what I do.
“Hey, I have a Book of Mormon. I’ll read yours if you read mine.”
“Oh, no. No, that’s okay. Thanks for your time.”
“People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.”
-Dave Barry
Mojeaux: One of the more entertaining experiences of my life was when my and a (devout) Catholic friend of mine walked out of an Irish pub and got hit up by the Jack Chick Evangelicals. They weren’t expecting two drunks walking out of a pub to have more theological knowledge then they did. By the end of the conversation, I had one of them referring to me as Reverend.
I used to get into Bible bashing with people because back then it was fun like Internet flame wars on Usenet used to be fun, but then I got old and tired.
Once, a man and his daughter (maybe 10-ish?) were standing right outside the grocery store door handing out tracts. I wouldn’t have cared except they were about half in the way of a single person going in and out, never mind if they were two or three people together trying to get in the door and they would not move. They knew they were holding people up. That was the intent.
I waved them off going in because I was with a friend and we were busy talking. Coming out, though…
The girl was the one giving out the tracts and talking to people all under the watchful eye of her loving father. *rolling eyes*
She stepped in front of me and asked me if I wanted one and I’m like, no thanks, but I was glaring at the dad who was letting the girl do all the heavy lifting, and trying to get around her. She got insistent, but very hesitantly insistent. Then I got it. The dad was pressuring her to do this thing.
Okay, kid, game on.
Her: Trying to push the tract into my hand.
Me: Not touching it. “Hey, you know what? I’ll read yours if you read mine.”
Her: *surprised* “Um…what’s yours?”
Me: Glaring at dad again. “A Book of Mormon.”
Her: *gasp* “Oh no! Mormons are trash.”
Me: Glaring at dad, waiting for him to defend his kid. “Is that right? Maybe I think yours is trash.”
Her: “No! Mine’s not!”
Me: “Do people who have never heard of Jesus and therefore can’t be saved go to hell?”
Her: “Yes.”
Me: Still looking at dad. “Your god sucks. Good job, dad, hiding behind your daughter’s skirts because you’re too much of a pussy to talk to an adult who doesn’t buy your bullshit.”
We walk away.
Mojeaux: My devout Catholic friend and I met back in High School, and have had great fun arguing religion in bars through our early 20’s.
His dancing skills.
Lol.
LOL I didn’t notice my volume was turned all the way up from the last stupid video one of you posted so when I clicked on this it made my cat, who was passed out on my desk, jump in the air and launch herself to the floor.
⬅
❗
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sksksksk
Hmm… eggplant turtle drinks blonde?
I think I need another drink to make sense of that.
Which one of you did this?
Greta Thunberg responds to sexually explicit graphic featuring Alberta oil company logo
https://twitter.com/i/events/1233790623229997056
OMWC, obviously.
I think JB was asking which of you took up the offer to bugger the poor retard.
Great…
“UPDATE: Alberta RCMP say decal that appears to depict Greta Thunberg “does not meet the elements of child pornography nor… a non-consensual act that would be a direct threat to the person.” RCMP do not believe it constitutes a criminal offense.”
She was asking for it.
No shit. While it’s certainly in bad taste, I don’t see how anyone can claim it depicts rape.
How did we get to the point where a cartoon gets investigated and inspires dozens of articles? Is everyone today a giant pussy?
Yes.
Really?
/points at Tijuana Bibles.
Yes? Especially when it serves the media’s agenda?
Also modern tech didn’t turn out the way you hoped?
Sure it did; there are always downsides.
She was not only asking for it, I heard she made ten grand.
Is there actually a picture of said graphic so we can judge for ourselves?
Pretty tame really.
https://preview.redd.it/jvzu1zzinkj41.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=853eabfccc46b164de5f131f6bb6ca93c80a5fb0
Saw “Trump 2020” and “MAGA” graffiti on a boxcar by the rail yard today. Interesting.
How many Jews were in it?
LOL!!!!
None, it was stuffed full of Latinx to be sent to the camps because “Literally Hitler.”
That is comedy gold!
I saw a Trump 2020 billboard off of I-84 near the CT/MA line.
Sitting at sandwich place the other day. Three people sitting next to me at the table.
Middle aged white woman: “So it looks like its gonna be Bernie vs Trump.”
Old White Dude “*grunts* I ain’t voting for a commie.”
Woman: “Well hes not a communist.”
Dude: “Yeah he is. I ain’t voting for him.”
African Guy (not African American, African) “Yes you cannot vote for communists, they are very bad when they are in charge.”
Woman: “Well, but Orange Man Bad”
Dude “Orange Man Bad, but commie worse. Same as it was last time. I’m not voting for Trump, I’m voting against Sanders.”
African “Yes, the communist is the worse of the two choices. ”
Sandwich Shop African Guy for Congress please.
Ain’t I Right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XxYwWg7F8I
A little White Rye to start off the night.
I’m currently sipping on a Irish Whiskey that I picked up for a Bourbon/Irish Whiskey tasting a couple weeks back. For the price point, and what it is, it was a hit. If you don’t like sweet whiskeys, it’s definitely not one to go for.
I’m going to switch to beer after this. I might even pace myself so that I can hang out with the Night Shift folks.
https://apnews.com/2aeccf2e45dc8a0b955ceba9531efbe0
So is mini-mike actually going to be on the ballots on Tuesday? It’s going to be interesting to see what happens after that. If people start dropping, who will pick up their voters.
I did an analysis yesterday, but the short of the story is: The rumors of Bidens Electoral Demise are overstated. He will probably do fairly well on Super Tuesday, as will Sanders. Bloomberg should also get quite a few delegates too. Warren, Klondikebar and Buttigieg are finished after Super Tuesday. They will each need to get ~75% or more of the remaining delegates in order to win it, and so right now they are just racking up delegates that they could possibly parlay a VP or cabinet slot with.
The Race will come down to Bernie and Biden, and possibly Bloomberg. My thoughts are that Bloomberg knows he can’t win (he also would need ~70% of the remaining delegates in order to take it.) and may just be there to ensure that Biden can’t win outright.
Bernie will need around 57% of the remaining delegates to win, and that won’t happen if he looses to many states to Biden.
In Short, My narrative is this: Bernie is not as popular as it seems. He has capitalized on a split establishment who refuses to get behind their “strongest” candidate, to win states with 30-40% of the vote. Once the race get’s paired down, he most likely will not continue to win as much. If Biden is able to consolidate the establishment he may have a chance to win, but that depends on 1). the other establishment candidates dropping out immediately after Super Tuesday, and 2)Bloomberg not being successful in taking any more delegates. Failing that, Biden would need the support of the candidates who have dropped out and their delegates who would be freed from the pledge to vote for the candidates no longer running.
** All of this is contingent on Nate Silver’s projections being fairly close to what will happen on Super Tuesday
I think I mentioned it yesterday, but it also depends on how many people get to 15% in California, 15% being the threshold to win delegates.
I would think Bernie has a decent shot at Liz’s supporters along with some of the others.
The math doesn’t pan out with Liz’s supporters. She isn’t liked enough to push him over.
Biden/Warren. It was decided a long time ago.
I mean not by voters, by the dem establishment.
I wouldn’t write off mini-Mike. Ya he is an old white gazzilionare but see HM’s link above. Those people are dug in deep DNC insiders. If they are backing Mike I got ten bucks Obama is backing him.
*stops and frisks westernsloper*
*Knees Sean in the common peroneal*
Tha taint nice!
finally finished BBQing the Burgers, and some Pan Fried person challenged me, so I opened up my Terrain boxes, built a base, and I’m going to do something with existing materials, I have ideas..
It’s a Blowout!
Not Biden, my daughters diaper.
LOL!!!!!! Been there!
What about Biden’s diaper?
Met some friends for an extended lunch today. My first time at a place that specializes in Brazilian food.
Got to experience –
Feijoada Completa – Black Bean Stew with Fresh and Dried Beef, Salted and Fresh Pork, Bacon, Sausage and Ribs, served with Collard greens, Rice, Sliced orange and Farofa. The pork parts included all kinds of interesting bits. One of my Brazilian companions pointed out the pig’s ear.
Also the Caipirinha there will knock on your ass. Great time and good food.
http://www.viabrasilrestaurant.com/
We’ve got a local place (does 3 locations count as a chain) that does Arepas, and they’re amazing. Plus all of their locations now have liquor licenses (back in the day, it was BYOB).
I passed on Golf today, 72 holes in the last 2 days, I needed a break. Walk the dog and then 8 loads of laundry, all finished and hung up, Yay for me! Shopped for meat, and started to get my shit together, it feels good,
/36 holes tomorrow
You know who else did 72 holes in 2 days?
Kim Jong Il?
Wilt Chamberlain?
Winston’s mom?
nononono, Holes, not Hoes, Pardon the Confusion,
Free fun +legal beer! yippee!
Headline seen on FiveThirtyEight:
White voters in South Carolina still matter.
I can’t find the article now but i’ll keep digging.
Dems top wish list:
1. Wypipo go away.
2. Stock Market Crash.
3. Pandemic.
/we know what’s best for you
Nathaniel Rakich
8:36 PM
Yeah, Steyer has spent $26.8 million on California TV. He’ll probably want to try to get something out of that investment.
Holee fuk….
Corporations aren’t PEOPLE!
Get money out of politics!
Except for Union money. That’s pure as Holy Water.
I’m hoping for maximum chaos and entertainment out of the primary. I hope we go to a brokered convention with Sanders having plurality, Biden in second and Bloomberg in a distant third. Bloomberg would give a large donation to the dnc and all the superdelegates back him to ensure that Bloomberg wins the Democratic primary.
Yeah, that would be fun. All those sjw tears, and then we get them again in November. I’m getting wood just thinking about it.
I really need a haircut. I keep letting it go, which is way out of character for me. At this point I’m thinking of waiting until people start commenting. I think it’s been about 2 and a half months.
I once went ten years without a haircut.
Having met you, I’m having a hard time picturing that.
I went to Catholic school and have always hated getting my hair cut.
Once I was in college and away from jobs where I needed to keep my hair short, I stopped getting hair cuts.
It also saved on a little bit of money. Pony tail holders from Wal-Mart were cheaper than hair cuts.
When I decided I had enough of a pony tail, I went into a Supercuts one weekend. I told the woman I was tired of a pony tail and wanted it cut off.
She asked if I wanted to donate to Locks of Love. I told her sure.
She thought she could get two donations out of me, but my pony tail wasn’t quite long enough.
That Monday at work, I got all sorts of comments and funny looks.
The first was when a coworker walked past my cubicle, looked in, and said, “Hey, (DEG’s REAL NAME HERE) will be pissed if he sees you sitting at his desk.”
I glared at him and said, “What’s wrong with you? I’ve had short hair longer than I’ve had long hair.”
He did a double take, realized it was me and some new guy, and said, “I just could never picture you with short hair.”
Me as well. I went from 21 to 35 without a hair cut.
I had a coworker – against all character (and stereotype – he was an Asian dude) – show up bald one day. We became close friends.
Another coworker showed up bald after six months in India and took me like a week to figure out why that happened.
/searches ddg
Was it because a relative recently passed away?
I read something somewhere that made me think it might be a lice issue. I didn’t ask 🙂
And then you declared war on the Union?
Clippers, it makes things easy.
Well I wish AOC would make up her mind. Does she want people to take her GND resolution seriously or not?
Last time they voted on it, she freaked out that people would take it seriously enough to vote.
Calling us out on not putting our money where our mouth is is a political stunt!!!
Because most Americans don’t want to be impoverished? Just a thought.
https://mises.org/wire/american-socialism-isnt-marxism%E2%80%94-its-still-problem
Ha Ha hahahahahaha
Is that honestly her account?
If so, I also doubt her bartending credentials.
Ocasio-Cortez kicked off the exchange by criticizing President Donald Trump’s decision to name Vice President Mike Pence as the head of the Coronavirus task force, saying that he did not believe in science.
Oh gosh i want to punch people when they say that someone critical of the consensus “Doesn’t believe in science”. Shut up motherfucker, you don’t understand science.
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/science-fair/steps-of-the-scientific-method
Most people first encounter this when they are in 3rd-5th grade.
If the bartender cant make me a side-car or old-fashioned w/o consulting a book? NOT a bartender.
I would judge that based on the amount of fruit placed in either.
Lolol
You know who else wont shut-up about getting a ‘superior’ at the state science fair? My asshole older brother.
I served my country. I played high school football. Four touchdowns in one game.
I dont even need to look….+1 Al Bundy
Fun fact- a co-worker from NE Ohio met Ed O’Neill in a Akron bar once. I hear he mixes well with blue-collar folk, and had quite a bawdy mouth.
Also very personable
“Peaked in high school.”
/looks in mirror
>never peaked at all<
So how can you confirm the g spot?
/ditto
Nate Silver
8:51 PM
It’s sort of amazing, when watching Biden speak, to remember that he’s never won a presidential primary contest before.
It’s also sort of amazing, when hearing him speak now, that he can win a primary contest in 2020.
Miles To Go Before I Sleep should keep me up for the night shift.
Woohoo!!!
I have more coffee-infused beers if I need them.
I also have a lot of housework to do.
Both should keep me up.
Oh…umm…well, don’t let me yuck your yum.
Wait…
I totally killed my keto with beer last night.
Shitty light beer….the swill I drink is 4.5% ABV, yet 3.5g-carb/12 ounce
I try to stay carb deficient all day just so I can knock back 10 or so in the evening
I’ve been doing really well otherwise but there ain’t no such thing as light beer in these parts so I reckon I put away about 40-45g.
My laptop was 9 years old so I finally got a new one to do my taxes this year. Fucker was in Microsoft 10 S mode and wouldn’t let me install TurboTax. Finally got that fixed, TurboTax downloaded and installed and updated. Now I’m enjoying a well earned martini.
What’s Microsoft 10 S?
Microsoft 10 Shit?
It’s a slimmed down version intended for tablets. You can only install apps available from the Windows store. Similar to a Chrome Book type operating system if I understand it correctly.
Yes, I only use my home laptop for taxes and writing. So I found a cheap touchscreen.
If I want to do regression analysis or anything like that I have good, powerful, computers at work (servers, etc) and the software I need. I’m not computer illiterate, it shouldn’t have been so hard to get rid of S mode. Search!
Stupid autocorrect. Search w/o Aargh!
Ok, martini affecting typing. W/o should be s/b.
/mixes Tulip a drink
You realize there’s more then a couple computer geeks here, right?
I didn’t know you could get rid of it. That’s good to know.
Online instructions say go here and click get button. Of course, there’s no get button. Took a while to reinstall the store to finally have a get button. My frustration level is actually pretty high and I was close to throwing the new computer across the room.
I have Linux Mint as a base system with Windows 10 in a VirtualBox VM for taxes.
I made the Windows 10 disk kinda small. Windows constantly bitches about “not enough room to install updates”.
I’m fine with that as I understand some of those updates do shitty things like turn Cortana on.
In still getting rid of Cortana. Also, you have to make privacy settings in multiple places. Microsoft apparently doesn’t understand NO!
Oldest and girlfriend travelled to East Coast…no virus. Youngest travelled to West Coast…no virus.
My oldest is digging some Boston culture but inly cause his GF is a history buff.
My wife and I? Drinking and singing…happy Saturday Glibs!
Youtube comment gold: This is the best version of this song i can find, but that’s uh… that’s an interesting channel name you got there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClZn9DZ93N0
Thanks for putting me on yet another list Derp.
[Nelson laugh]
My precinct:
Biden 308
Buttguy 149
Sanders 119
Warren 56
Steyer 46
Klobuchar 45
Gabbard 26*
Bennet 2
* I guess my vote got counted
huzzah! I would like to know if the other 25 were typically Dems, Reps, or Indies.
I ended up in a concealed carry convo with the guy behind me in line. I am pretty sure my precinct leans GOP.
I thought Bennet dropped out?
He has, but those 2 votes showed up anyway.
I guess 2 people didnt read the obscure sign on the wall.
I wish he would drop out of the Senate.
Maybe his mom and dad live there.
You should try and find the other 25 and have a party. Invite Tulsi.
I actually saw a Tulsi sign in the yard today.
Any of you nerds round here ever try nootropics? I mean, not the fake shit on Amazon, but the real ones like Aniracetam and Modafinil?
I mean, have you at least made your orphans take it?
I have not but I’ve been hanging around r/nootropics and some of my libertarianish friends on Twitter microdose. I also used to follow the bulletproof blog on biohacking.
My biohack is the ECA stack, but I would like to see what I could do with modafinil-ish.
I can’t even tell if you two are speaking English or not.
+authentic frontier gibberish
I’d translate but I know of two versions. One is just vitamins + exagerated beliefs about vitamins and is probably harmless and likely mildly beneficial. The other starts to sound like a cult and is probably leading to some serious risks and harms, but people who have induced a manic state tend to perceive themselves as smarter, and we’ve decided as a society that passing around speed like candy makes sense so…
I’m not seeing the problem.
The way to kill the war on drugs is to name sugar a drug.
Seriously.
Take Aniracetam from a quality source. Seriously maybe the most amazing shit I have ever taken. Listen to music after taking it, amaze fucking ballz shit, lol, and it’s legal!
Well, fork over the quality source.
Nootropics Depot.
Since you are writing, you should be interested. The enhancement to total creativity and pure cognitive energy. It’s real. I take high quality piracetam every day with coffee, just because of my job and it definitely gives you an edge.
Modafinil, well, that’s something else.
Aniracetam, for pure entertainment purposes, fucking gold, for creativity, jury is out, but I will continue this research…
I THINK I have a source for Modafinil, but that contact was about a year ago and those places disappear and reappear like mattress stores.
I haven’t actually looked into anything but Modafinil, so I may take a lookie-loo at the tams.
You could try Adrafinil. I haven’t tried it and I won’t post sources here for Modafinil because it’s apparently not legal in USA without prescription, which is incredibly stupid. But you can get Adrafinil at the same source I just spoke about.
It works well but it can wreck your stomach in the short term and your liver in the long term. It’s nice occasionally though.
I’m out, then. I already can’t take aspirin or ibuprofen.
*mutter mutter mutter* Stupid ulcer *kicks sand*
Yeah, if you have an ulcer I’d steer clear of the adraninil. Modafinil and armodafinil don’t have that effect if you can get them.
OMG you weren’t kidding! There really is a Nootropics Depot! LOL
Correct on the Modafinil rx requirement.
Those guys are legit. You can be sure anything you buy from them will be legit and it will arrive as expected.
I take Levetriacetam for temporal lobe epilepsy. There is debate as to whether it’s a nootropic in itself, but no doubt about its epilepsy effectiveness.
It is also processed through the kidneys, so problem for those of you who have liver issues.
I seriously doubt you can get it without a script though.
Aniracetan and piracetam didn’t do shit for me, phenylpiracetam is pretty nice and speedy though. Modafinil was just awesome the few times I’ve tried with all the benefits of speed and none of the drawbacks. Be careful with the nootropics though, some of them, phenibut for example, are pretty addictive and should be taken in moderation if at all.
Yeah, everyone is, contrary to collectivist belief, individuals. That’s why studies cannot persist consistent results.
I’m still doing research on me, but I’m also interested in the long term neuro protective and enhancement properties of the substances. Still, I tell you, Aniracetam had about a 10 minute wait obvious effect on me first time I took it. And I still get the same effect weeks later. Don’t take it every day.
Is aniracetam sweet? One of the racetams has a sweet taste and I used to put it in my coffee in the morning. It was a nice combination but the phenylpiracetam is the only one that had an easily recognizable and immediate effect on me. It works great for the day after a sleepless night (I have insomnia pretty bad).
I don’t know. I use capsules, never tried a powder. I thought about putting piracetam in my coffee, but haven’t tried it yet. But it seems to be greatly enhanced by coffee. Also, I always take Alpha GPC with it, so far.
The only time I had bad insomnia was when I was drinking alcohol too often and then it was really bad. Which is the biggest reason I stopped drinking so much.
Racetams don’t seem to have any effect for me on sleep, yet.
I sleep like shit and have for years. When I was going through my keepsakes, I was reading my 20yo journals and even then I was bitching about not being able to sleep well. Meanwhile, during the day and a boring job…church nod all damned day long.
However, I’m looking at these prices and have decided it is a WANT and not a NEED, and right now Mr. Mojeaux and I are doing some soul-searching about the difference between WANT and NEED.
I haven’t microdosed before because of the expense and I guess I’ll keep not microdosing until I can afford to.l
A lot of people seem to sleep badly. And I think it’s a complex problem. What have you tried, so far?
Also, I don’t believe in the modern 8 hours of straight sleep. It’s bullshit.
Now that I’m sleeping better, I usually sleep 4-5 hours and then wake up to pee. Then I might sleep another hour or two. I’ve been just getting up every morning at 7:30am and I’m up and I make coffee and take my nootropics (piracetam this week, noopept next week). It’s really the best part of my day. I just want to know how to extend this into all day.
I just down Tylenol PM and sit in my recliner and watch “oddly satisfying” videos until I almost fall asleep, then I go to bed.
I pretty much stick to booze these days.
Back in grad school it was piracetam, choline, DHEA, and a bunch of other shit.
I believe I have made my best pot of chili yet. No beans.
Recipe? I have a chili contest at work Monday and am still working on a recipe for a ‘bowl of red’s – no beans or tomatoes. I’m open to any suggestions you have.
Not sure how you make chili without tomatoes but I did 1 lb ground chuck and three bratwurst patties on the charcoal grill with mesquite, chopped about a 1/2 lb of ham in the food processor with about a third of an andouille sausage and then browned in a pan, added to a big pack of white mushrooms I browned, two onions (caramelized), two green peppers, garlic, chili powder, cumin, and mexican oregano, big can crushed toms, small can diced green chilis, 1C beef stock (Minors aus jus base). Crocked it for a few hours and then to warm. Added more chili powder and SnP after it sat for awhile. The ham makes it.
I could see where ham would make it. Nice tip. That sounds lovely.
Sounds really good, but traditional ‘bowl of red’ is Chuck roast only.
I know not this “Red” or his chili you speak of. Sounds like stew.
Kashmiri Rogan Josh for Instant Pot
1 Pinch of asafoetida powder
2 TBSP olive oil
2 sticks cinnamon
6 whole cloves
6 black cardamom pods
6 green cardamom pods
3 lb lamb or beef chuck cut into 1-1/2 inch cubes
25 oz sour cream (or yogurt if you prefer high carb to high fat)
1 tsp Kosher salt
1/4 cup Kashmiri chili powder (or 3 TBSP paprika + 1 TBSP cayenne)
1 TBSP amchur powder (mango powder)
1 TBSP fennel seeds, ground (in spice grinder or mortar & pestle)
1/4 tsp garam masala
Heat oil in Instant Pot on saute. Add asafoetida and stir quickly with wooden paddle. Add cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and stir 30-60 seconds until fragrant. Add meat and stir well. Add powdered fennel, amchur, salt, and chili powder. Blend in 25 oz of sour cream; use your wooden paddle or spoon to ensure nothing is stuck to the bottom. Add a splash of water if needed to unstick from the bottom. Turn off saute.
Lock lid on Instant Pot. Set for 40 minutes high pressure. Reward yourself with a cocktail while the magic happens. When pressure cycle is done, let sit for 5 minutes before a manual pressure release. Open lid and stir. Put back on saute and cook down liquid to desired consistency.
Add garam masala and serve over rice. (rice optional)
Recipe can be doubled for 6 qt pot.
If you are missing one or more of the ingredients, don’t sweat it. Skip it or toss something else in. I’m reheating some right now.
“Kashmiri Rogan Josh for Instant Pot”
This person is a charlatan. I tried that and when I smoked it, it dindunuthin. I’m calling 911!
Sounds good. That’s a long cook for an Instant Pot.
Well, I start with chuck, so it needs the time.
TBH, if I’m lazy I just dump it all in and seal the lid. No sauté steps.
Yeah, I stopped doing that when I make stews. I’m always lazy.
no, Browning is important to flavor
I don’t notice a difference, TBH.
“Tastes like beef. OK!”
Ground beef or cubed?
Chuck roast cubed
The Democrats can run their elections however they want i guess, but the fact that such a behavior (where a ballot is sent in with a political operative) is terrifying. Why congress doesn’t refuse to seat any representative from Califonia is beyond me.
The fine print on the state ballot instructions for mailing in make it clear that you should only turn it over to a trusted agent (spouse, neighbor) but it would be super easy for a canvasser to persuade an idiot (most of the population) to hand it over.
They can draw straws for all I care. It’s CA.
I voted mostly for the CD 50 vacancy, and on the 3 ballot measures involving taxes and property developments.
But I enjoyed voting for The Donald too, just because I enjoy the entertainment a continued Trump presidency will bring.
Yeah, it’s not like there’s much choice anyways:)
Paper or plastic straws to draw?
So does Warren drop out and endorse Bernie now?
No one is dropping out until Wednesday at this point. Why would they?
Steger dropped out
Who?
The Dancing Queen from upthread.
Wasn’t that his best finish? Weird.
Is she smart enough to withhold her endorsement?
She’s gunning for VP.
Tom Steyer out
Tom Steyer ended his presidential campaign on Saturday night after the billionaire businessman failed to gain traction in a large field of Democratic candidates.
Steyer exited the race after he failed to claim victory in South Carolina, a state he invested heavily in, hoping it would turn around his sputtering run.
“I said if I didn’t see a path to winning that I’d suspend my campaign,” he said. “And honestly, I can’t see a path where I can win the presidency.”
Everybody else could not see it months ago.
alol
Better late than never and no more of his stupid ads thank God.
I *almost* feel bad for the consultants who were making bank of his hubris.
You hope. But since the guy spent like 50 Mill on ads just to advertise “impeach Trump” last year, I don’t think we’ve seen the last of him burning his money on the front lawn with smarmy ads.
To whom do his votes go?
Me
Votes???
I’m just glad that he was separated from more of his money.
https://gfycat.com/merrycornycod
NSFW.
https://i.imgur.com/XLKJ8G2.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/4bBxD/af139727e9a718f61ac1a5eea2d8451df52c7e93.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/IIVa3/df82e9b3decceef79aa07b2e919f7c903ee09ed4.jpg
NSFW.
She looks like she needs some help.
Watching the 1973 Soviet version of Robinson Crusoe. I’m pretty sure Friday is played by the Indian chick from The Good Place.
She got second? What a smart girl she is!
https://twitter.com/cabot_phillips/status/1233435646699634696
http://archive.li/dH2rv/07232359c57393b82117cc0895f0bed727383953.jpg
Heh
Probably true.
14 pages to remake the entire country, that AOC must be pretty
smart.2nd place in her HS science fair!
It is so simple. All of us idiots have been focused on all the old ways of thinking. This is why we only need smart young people to come fix everything for us.
I mean, the entire constitution fit on like one page until the amendments started adding up; and now we have thousands of pages of laws. So this is like constitution 2.0! Better! Smarter! Greener!
The den primary is so bad, I may end up voting for Trump instead of whoever the libertarian party puts up.
Welcome to the lolz side.
Voting for Trump is hip, transgressive, counter-cultural.
/In 2016 Trump got 9% in my precinct
29% in mine. ?
9%? I figured it would have been lower.
There are only so many percentage points to go lower. Even in the precinct in Cambridge where Elizabeth Warren lives Trump got 4%. Obviously my precinct is not as tony as hers.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primary-forecast/?ex_cid=rrpromo
After tonights Results FiveThirtyEight drops both Bernie and Bidens chances. Now has Contested Convention at 60%
I said a while back Trump will lose the election. I wasn’t expecting two things. 1. Sanders would do this well 2. A contested convention. If Sanders wins or it goes to a contested convention, then I’ll take back what I said. Regardless I think we are fucked down the road thanks to the younger generations.
Hillary wont allow it. She paid him off once with a house so he would drop out, just like Obama gave her a sweet SoS gig to not rock his boat.
Then DNC has already picked their champion.
Hill…Hillar…Hillary…Hillary Hilary Hillary, Hilary! (set to the jaws theme)
michelle my belle
Thx for the earworm ?
Yuengling Lager for my next beer.
Now playing
“When I beat Cornpop with that chain, I knew then and there that someday I’d President of the Senate! I just fired my shotgun at his head and said, “You ain’t no Nelson Mandela motherfucker!” And that’s how I met Susan B. Anthony. She was working at the Starbucks and I had just tomato flap nine sevens when I smelled the toast. Seven cars grabbed a tongue when I flopped that topple. Thank him South california for deriving on my doughnuts!”
That truly gives me a thirst for liquids.
If only it was a terrible thirst there might be joke there…
Is there any other kind (of thirst)??
Of course there is, but they all depend on genre.
You succeed in making Quid Pro Joe almost coherent.
Hating everyone in the story, Volume 4,352,638,602,653
Yep.
The only winning move is not to play.
The swing dances I go to make it a point to say you can turn anyone down that asks you to dance.
I wonder if they’ll change that once a snowflake from A Correct Group complains.
Motta wrote on Feb. 15, Today reported. “There have been similar situations in the past where some students have felt uncomfortable with others,..”
He seems nice.
There is no ‘share’ option to be found on invidio, so not sure if this link will work, but I had this burger for lunch. The cheese patty was a big ‘meh’ but the sauce was good.
I was able to have 3 very diluted drinks with my Jameson before my stomach started acting up, so I switched over to beer. Means I got lots of Jameson left over for future sips I guess.
That commercial only inspires me to continue not visiting Hardee’s Jr.
I thought that cheese patty might taste like a fried cheese curd. It did not. I was celebrating my first paycheck at WE WATCH U, so thought I’d try something new. Wasn’t worth it.
Congratulations on the first paycheck!
And, that a lackluster meal was bought with it made me wince just a tad.
Meh, I had the money so I took the risk. That’s what money is for. Sure is better than bologna sammiches.
Point taken.
Xenu’s comin’
Thanks.
Shoulda went to Culvers.
Also, congrats on collecting the gainful part of gainfully employed!
I had Culvers last weekend. Like I said, now that I had the money I could try something else. (at Culvers I get the ‘snack’ meal for $6, this was a $9 meal)
You shoulda went and got $9 worth of their cheese curds. That’s how you celebrate!
?
Also; I’m not trying to rain on your parade, I just really like cheese curds and assume you do to. ?
Yes, hence why I was hopeful it would taste like a burger with cheese curds on it, which it did not.
And, don’t worry, I know how to react when someone rains on my parade.
I’m glad you could get out and treat yourself! Take the win.
?????
That looks tasty, but I miss the old Carl’s Jr commercials.
Well, that is interesting.
I picked up a 40k terminator model today from the “Space Marine Heroes” line. When I out it together, It looked pretty darn big. I’ve gotten out one of my older termie models, and the new one is significantly taller. One detail I noticed was that they tweaked the position of the arms so that the head is above the line of the shoulders. It isn’t obvious until the old termie model is held side by side with the new one.
That is rather odd. Did they decide that SM now have longer necks? Or, that their armo(u)r didn’t quite work as originally designed?
In the original model, the shoulders would have to be attached to the marine’s ears to put the armor on.
Oh, I ‘member…
NERD! *Sits and waits on shipping notifications for 13″ articulated Optimus Prime from China*
My set of reusable nylon shopping bags arrived today, just in time for tomorrow. How exciting is that.
Went grocery shopping today, and was asked “Paper or plastic” for the first time in a while. I was actually shocked briefly. Both Safeway and Walmart now have extra thick “reusable” plastic bags. They’re much stiffer than the old ones which might be a good thing except they don’t pack well.
So I went shopping today – the day before plastic goes away forever and the earth is healed. I didn’t see any evidence of the paper bags that are supposed to replace plastic starting tomorrow. I forgot to buy popcorn.
Yeah, my mom tried saving money by shopping at Aldi, where you have to buy the reusable bags or not use bags. But every time she went she forgot to bring the bags. So she ended up with so many Aldi bags she was using them as laundry baskets.
I read somewhere the average reusable bag of the sort I purchased from Amazon gets used 14 times and done – mostly for that reason. I.e. not even enough to recoup the cost of purchasing them.
I intend to do better, because there is no fucking way I’m paying 5 cents per paper bag.
Yeah. 4 years ago when I started doing the shopping for my aunt she was all “I have reusable bags in the trunk, if you use them you get 5 cents off” I never remembered them. Not worth it. Like driving 20 miles to save 2 cents a gallon on gas.
We got our paper grocery bags in at the supermercado a few days ago. Those things are HEAVY when bundled in cases on pallets. The whole situation really, really bothers me.
Wood fibers are generally pretty dense and heavy.
Do they have handles? Because the propaganda sheets the government puts out shows these cute little bags with handles. Oh, and the 5 cents goes to… the government. I guess shops can go fuck themselves and eat the cost.
Oh really? The 5 cents here is essentially a payoff to the businesses here. I guess it’s not surprising that governments would decide to keep it for themselves at some point.
This is why I refuse to play that game. It’s just another fucking tax. Fuck you.
This fee will not apply to any customers using SNAP or WIC.
Gonna take my sister’s kids out for the day Sunday and hopefully meet up with my brother and his kids, keep reminding myself that life is fun and I need money to do fun things. Haven’t gotten into the rhythm of full time work again yet and spend the whole week just working, yapping here and working again. And one of things I was looking for in a new job was a stable schedule and them swapping my shift so soon was kind of disheartening.
The structure of a full time job is like a workout program. It is painful at first but you get used to it, and when you haven’t had it for a while you get unused to it lol. My own schedule is too flexible and I get into some bad habits because of that which make it tough when things do get busy again.
Like I said, it’s the flipping the schedule before I even got used to it that doesn’t portend well. I have problems with insomnia when my schedule changes too much. I still do video work and the cartoon on the side, and need time to do those, besides trying to fit in human interaction between work and I’d like to get back into lifting, but that requires a regimented schedule.
I am ashamed.
I never knew Michael McDonald sang backup on “Peg.”
Gilmore’d.
Barry Manilow wrote the State Farm jingle.
I think I knew that! I like Barry Manilow.
Bernie Sanders praises some aspects of Castro’s communist utopia, though saying overall it wasn’t so good.
CNN commenter doubles down, saying Sanders wasn’t wrong.
The New Yorker finds the socialist-leaning daughter of Cuban refugees to write an article in which, among other things, she claims that the Soviet Union and Cuba weren’t really socialist because they were “exploitive”. Then she fucking adds the Orwell quote from Animal Farm about War is Peace etc. as evidence of them not being socialistic societies because real socialists are only good and don’t do bad things.
Lost. Their. Fucking. Minds.
And Florida.