IFLA: The Efficient Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of July 6

by | Jul 5, 2020 | Advice, IFLA | 173 comments

This week, I will be applying what I’ve learned in my Effective Corporate Communication class to the horoscope.

Alignments:

-None

Visitations:

-Cancer

  • Sun – Good
  • Mercury – Good

-Gemini

  • Venus – Good

-Aries

  • Mars – Bad

-Capricorn

  • Jupiter retrograde – Bad
  • Saturn retrograde – Bad
  • Moon – Bad

Cards week overall – Good

  • Cancer:  10 of Wands – Good
  • Leo: 3 of Coins reversed – Bad
  • Virgo:  8 of Swords – Bad
  • Libra: Strength – Good
  • Scorpio:  Queen of Wands – Good
  • Sagittarius: Page of Wands – Good
  • Capricorn:  Temperance reversed  – Bad
  • Aquarius:  Ace of Cups reversed – Bad
  • Pisces: The Lovers – Good
  • Aries:  9 of Swords – Bad
  • Taurus:  The Hermit – Bad
  • Gemini:  4 of Coins – Good

About The Author

Not Adahn

Not Adahn

Despite all my rage, I am still just an impeccably dressed rat.

173 Comments

  1. Gender Traitor

    I know brevity is the soul of wit, but gee whiz!

    (Or is it the devil’s playground? I can never keep that straight.)

    • Gender Traitor

      Also, 1st. HAH!!!

    • Count Potato

      That’s idle hands.

    • Grummun

      GT, I didn’t see your question on the previous post until now. Due east of CMH, not as far as Y City.

      • Gender Traitor

        Cool! Thanks! I had a college roommate from Gratiot. You said your trip yesterday was an hour south of you. That would be some purty country, but I reckon you’d have to keep your eyes on the road.

    • PieInTheSky

      To Be Faaaaair… stereotypical good and evil races are kinda meh from a storytelling point

    • Count Potato

      Because that will prevent cops from killing people?

    • mrfamous

      So is it now gonna be like the late period Tom and Jerry’s where they are friends?

      • Nephilium

        In fairness, I preferred the Earthdawn setting for fantasy. It had Dwarves as the predominant race, a slaving empire as the mortal bad guys, and existential evils as the real threat.

      • EvilSheldon

        Hell yes.

      • Nephilium

        For those who aren’t willing to even click on the wiki link, this was a fantasy world where magic was in everything. It flowed and ebbed, and when the magic levels got high enough, monsters (referred to as the Horrors) could pass through into this world. This happened every couple hundred years, and lasted long enough to wipe out all sentient life. An empire that had a slave economy found out that this was coming, and devised a way to build defenses. They then offered these defenses to any city that would sign up to become a part of the empire. The Horrors came, and several cities rebelled against the empire instead of joining them. About 20-30 years after that is when most games are set, there are still Horrors around, there’s dead villages to loot, and cities that never came out of hiding to explore.

      • C. Anacreon

        So is it now gonna be like the late period Tom and Jerry’s where they are friends?

        I’m thinking more like Itchy and Scratchy after the violence was removed, where all they did was sit on the porch in rocking chairs drinking lemonade.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Tolkien hardest hit.

      Idiots

      • westernsloper

        #OrcLivesMatter

      • Heroic Mulatto

        Well, D&D is pretty much a direct copy of Tolkien’s universe. And I agree that from a story-telling perspective making an entire sentient species ‘evil’ is kind of lazy. While I enjoy Tolkein’s works very much (and how could I not?), I agree that their extreme success has had too large of a limiting impact on how people envision the tropes of epic fantasy.

        That having been said, I also don’t buy into Moorcock’s ‘Epic Pooh’ thesis, which is just ‘SJW’ circa 1978. The genre of fantasy is large enough for formulaic tropes that borrow from a long tradition of adventure romance (including the trope of a stark Manichean good vs. evil conflict) and those stories that seek to deconstruct those tropes.

      • Nephilium

        The alignment system in D&D has always had issues with the lazy way of breaking it down into a law/chaos and good/evil matrix. Palladium RPG’s had a better way of describing alignments (even if they had their own issues with other items in the games).

        There was already people doing deconstruction of the always evil races back in the 80’s. You could point at Warcraft making the noble orc a mainstream thing.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        There was already people doing deconstruction of the always evil races back in the 80’s.

        I made that point in Glibs demi-god chat a week ago. It led to a campaign that we’re starting on Thursday.

        The media is making this as a novel thing because that’s what the media does, write shit about shit they know nothing about.

      • Mojeaux

        I don’t understand the matrix.

      • Mojeaux

        And when I say that, I mean, it seems to me that it just reveals the matrix’s creator’s biases, so it’s worthless.

      • Nephilium

        In AD&D there are nine alignments, based on alignment to Law (Lawful/Neutral/Chaos) and to morality (Good/Neutral/Evil). Take one of the first, and one of the second, you’ve got an alignment. There’s been a lot of deconstruction of both parts of the matrix in a lot of games already. In fairness, the publishers have long ago said that most people are Neutral neutral (or True Neutral). Not because they’re going to push neutrality (what kind of a monster would do that), but because they don’t have a strong enough tie to law/chaos/good/evil.

        In most modern games, the good/evil matrix is generally more along selfless/selfish (which has it’s own biases) and law/chaos is more respecting authority/fuck authority.

        Certain editions of the games went full bore that Order/Chaos were gods of things, and that’s why alignments were important and why certain classes could only be certain alignments. To me it was almost always just lazy storytelling.

        /starts contemplating writing up a deep dive on alignments and games and other systems.

      • Mojeaux

        I am particularly thinking of one I saw the other day that put computer nerds at Lawful Chaos and it had other “nerd” designations, which I can’t remember.

        Unless I am missing a deep in-joke, it seemed highly biased to me.

      • Nephilium

        If it said Lawful Chaotic, then there was at least another level of joke being done there. Perhaps going the moral panic from the 80’s route (DARK DUNGEONS). But there’s a whole series of memes breaking down lawful good to chaotic evil by some mundane thing (such as shopping carts at the grocery store).

      • Nephilium

        Mojeaux:

        I thought I knew you.

        Two Spaces 4 LYFE.

      • Mojeaux

        I had to stop doing that for professional reasons, but then I couldn’t, so I made a macro to take out the extra space, but I don’t really need it anymore. I’ve been assimilated.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        So Ted’S’ alignment is Chaotic Evil?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        We told you not to take the blue pill.

      • Mojeaux

        I took the red pill and still don’t get it.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        I took the blue pill, and it took 4 hours for me to stop getting it. I almost had to go to the hospital!

      • BakedPenguin

        Well, there’s a blue pill, and a red pill…

        Seriously though, it’s a 3 x 3 axis: Good, Neutral, and Evil. The second axis is Lawful, Neutral, and Chaotic. Most of the people here would be Chaotic Neutral or Chaotic Good.

        Most of the people here.

      • BakedPenguin

        And there are people who don’t refresh before posting: Chaotic Evil.

      • Mojeaux

        As I said, the way they are filled out seem to be highly biased to what the filler-outerer thinks of which group.

      • Nephilium

        Mojeaux: Very much so. Stories come from conflict, and having the whole pigeon holing thing reduces story potential. I would love to run a campaign with an ossified corrupt government and someone going Lawful Good, with the NAP as their guiding principle.

        Of course, you’ve also got Palladium’s take on alignment which has its own issues (go ahead, read the definition of an Anarchist there).

  2. PieInTheSky

    Cancer: 10 of Wands – Good

    is it possible for good things to happen in these trying times?

  3. Suthenboy

    Queen of wands huh? That sounds….interesting.

  4. Sean

    “10 of Wands – Good”

    And there was much rejoicing.

  5. Count Potato

    “Are all white people bad?

    No.

    Are all black people good?

    No.

    Knowing this reality- I stand on my decision to unite with good people, no matter the race, creed or ideology.

    Given the number of threats against this decision-

    I also decide to die on this hill.”

    https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1279493774679261185

    • RBS

      I love all the white people telling him how he should really think.

      • LJW

        Like this reply?

        “True.

        Also…

        Good black people have a far higher chance of being…
        – overlooked for a job
        – stopped (killed?!) by the police
        – profiled in public
        – legislated against
        – and more
        …than bad white people.

        More than one thing can be true, Terry.”

      • BakedPenguin

        President Camacho 2020! We could do worse!

        Way worse.

    • Chafed

      In this day and age, he is a brave man.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Are all black people good? What if you exclude OJ?

  6. Mojeaux

    “The Hermit – Bad”

    You say that like being a hermit is a bad thing.

    =========

    Carried over from last thread:

    Long ago I started putting together a list of libertarian artists who were not the usual go-tos. No Ayn Rand or Heinlein here. Also, I am interested in all arts disciplines, not just literature.

    • Nephilium

      Terry Pratchett never really spoke about politics, One of his greatest heroes is a cop (Vimes). He never really discussed his political beliefs (outside of his belief that he should be permitted to kill himself). His books also have a huge libertarian bend.

      If you’re looking for older ones, there’s Steve Ditko (comics).

      • Mojeaux

        I’m looking for little guys who get little attention and are currently working.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        Harald Baldr – video travelogue creator.

      • Mojeaux

        Done.

      • Incentives Matter

        Ah, yes. I’ve seen him do several vlogs with Bald and Bankrupt, who has become one of my guilty pleasures on YouTube.

      • Nephilium

        I blame you for me researching this, but I’ve learned that a ska-punk band that I’ve been enjoying recently has been called out as a “right-wing” libertarian.

        The Interrupters.

        If you want to rage, you can read the full complaint here:

        Since I’ve never really been into ska-punk, I didn’t expect to find myself writing about the new album from The Interrupters, except for the fact that their press materials trade on the band’s professed love of 2 Tone–something that is lazily regurgitated in reviews like this one in AP and this one in Rolling Stone (Australia). The reason this irks me is that The Interrupters’ sound is clearly derived from Rancid’s popular punk rock take on ska (which, of course, Tim Armstrong–who produced this album–pioneered with Operation Ivy back in the late 80s) and bears little resemblance to the music of the 2 Tone groups. But what I find really disturbing–and what’s compelling me to write this post–is how The Interrupters are draping themselves in 2 Tone’s mantle while advocating right-wing and libertarian viewpoints that are the polar opposite of those espoused by The Specials, The Selecter, The Beat, et al. You should know what you’re buying into before you decide to support this band. The music and the message matter–particularly in a genre of music that has a long history of decrying social and economic injustice.

      • Mojeaux

        Added. Thanks.

      • Tundra

        I like the avatar.

        Great record.

    • cyto

      A good number of libertarian works seem to be created by accident. I am often surprised when people who wrote stories or characters I identify with are progressive or conservatives.

      Joss Wheden brought this to my attention discussing Firefly. He said that he was a liberal Democrat but his stories kept ending up libertarian when he followed the character arc.

      Anything anti-authoritarian in bent is going to have a libertarian streak.

      • Don Escaped the Quality Department

        This is it, isn’t it. The more you think about scenarios and fairness, the more THE first principle asserts itself as obvious: I should be free; I should own myself. The artist sees it twice: he himself should be free to create . . . even unpleasant pieces . . . and his characters should be free: to act, to react, to solve a problem, to succeed, to be.

        Yesterday I heard some same notions in an old interview of Bono and I wondered: does he mean freedom like I mean? Or does he mean free to be taxed to prop up others and to underwrite bureaucracy? I don’t know him, but I’ve become a cynical bastard: I hear an American with freedom on his breath today and I immediately need to run home, county my spoons, and get a shower.

      • kbolino

        The goal of liberalism was to find the minimal set of mutually agreeable restrictions that allow the maximal amount of freedom equally for all. But this is a most difficult proposition for many to accept, because it means that while your own freedom is substantial and almost limitless, so is the freedom of others. Thus the goal of anti-liberalism of all stripes has been to reduce freedom and increase restriction, resurrecting legal privilege, wherever possible so as to maximize one’s own freedom and minimize the freedom of others. Combine this with democracy, or some semblance thereof, and you just have factions perpetually vying to take control of the state and claw back some of their freedom while punishing all those who did the same before.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        Thus the goal of anti-liberalism of all stripes has been to reduce freedom and increase restriction, resurrecting legal privilege, wherever possible so as to maximize one’s own freedom and minimize the freedom of others.

        And a prerequisite to this is an ethos of individualism. This is why the rise of collectivist thinking, and in particular, the attempt at some communitarian-libertarian fusion (e.g. ‘libertarianism in one country’), is so worrisome. A lover of freedom can find no compromise with those who would seek to bind someone unwillingly with the fetters of a nebulous and arbitrary ‘identity’ – be it race, nation, tribe, or family.

      • kbolino

        Good to see you, HM.

        Tribalism is the mind-killer. It replaces reason with emotion. But which comes first, the death of liberalism or the rise of tribalism?

      • cyto

        The Skeptics Guide to the Universe went down this road. They are infested with progressive. This week they discussed the difference between countries with individualist attitudes (us) and countries that value everyone… Collectively.

        This explains why the US and GOP controlled states in particular are the worst and all going to die of COVID.

        I have a hard time hearing Americans talking about individual liberties as a social evil.

    • Count Potato

      There are a bunch of libertarian youtubers.

      • Mojeaux

        Sure, but I’m not going to go look for them. I don’t have time. Before today I hadn’t updated it for 3 years.

  7. Cy

    “PieInTheSky on July 5, 2020 at 10:33 am
    So what % of glibs support abolishing the police?”

    I am for the abolishment of any government enforcer’s position that’s employment is not Directly tied to an elected official. I think we should have Sheriffs or Marshalls at a lot of different levels of government and a lot more of them. I believe any representative of government, elected or hired, should be armed if they choose, per the 2nd amendment.

    Anyone executing warrants, arrests, searches, etc., their employment should be at the discretion of an elected official who was elected to do those things.

    • Cy

      All of these federal alphabet, gun toting, entities should have federally elected marshals to oversee enforcement from state to district to national levels. This BS of the 3 branches of government creating their own little armies with little to no accountability needs to stop.

      • kbolino

        This BS of the 3 branches of government creating their own little armies

        Eh, if we cut down to the Sergeants-at-Arms of each house of Congress, one U.S. Marshal per judiciary district, one USSC agent for the President and one for the VP, plus a small number of deputies for each, it’d be a significant improvement over the 100+ federal law enforcement agencies and 100,000+ agents and other employees we have today.

    • PieInTheSky

      I would think all anarchists would abolish the police, off course.

      minarchist would first want a reduction in ciminalization of things, followed by probably a reduction in police force but not complete abolition.

      UCS would want a fully militarized police force under his direct command.

    • Suthenboy

      You have me beat on the bacon. I whipped up some tomato-basil soup and grilled cheese with a couple of slices of bacon here.
      It was still good..wife liked it.

    • Incentives Matter

      I’ll be right over.

  8. Sean

    25% got wands. Is someone shilling for Hitachi?

    • Annoyed Nomad

      Lol. I see what you did there.

    • Gdragon

      I assume that Queen of Wands has multiple camgirl accounts

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Sagittarius: Page of Wands – Good

    I’ll take it.

  10. Count Potato

    “f you don’t want a “left-wing cultural revolution,” or want to minimize the illiberal and deleterious aspects of such a revolution, I think it’s pretty clear you should want Biden as president for the next four years, not a re-elected Trump.”

    https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1279764288509444098

    CWAA

    • cyto

      Talk about putting your head in the sand.

    • Ted S.

      He’s saying we should embolden the revolutionaries.

    • Drake

      Nice country you got there, be a shame if more bad shit were to happen…

      • Suthenboy

        That’s what I got out of it.

        How about this…dont start a revolution and I wont blow your fucking head off Bill. That seems reasonable.

      • BakedPenguin

        Suthen, I read your comment on the previous post. This one’s for you.

        “He looked to me to be the very eyes of age.”

    • R C Dean

      If you don’t want a left wing cultural revolution, elect the guy who supports the front organizations for the left wing cultural revolution? Do I have that right?

  11. mikey

    Montana is one of those states with an “alarming spike” in new WuFlu cases. Second week in a row with a “record number”. I did a little research and of the 36 or so new cases last week 4 or 5 were 60 and older with a couple of those 70 or older. The rest were in age groups where the chance of dying from the pox is bascially zero. Deaths and hospitalizations flat.

    If Herself were president this would be reported as good news.

    • cyto

      The media has got to stop promoting these idiots.

      They blew a gasket when a few dozen people protested lockdowns by showing up outside the capital building and then going home without even leaving a mess.

      But they seek out and celebrate these people who are wrecking lives, whether it be by destroying a small business or by surrounding a car and threatening the occupants or by running onto the interstate to block traffic.

      The local authorities are complicit because they are not enforcing the law – selectively to avoid offending the far left. And people are dying as a direct result.

    • Drake

      They blocked the biggest highway on the West Coast with cars, then stood in the only place a car could go to avoid colliding with the vehicles. Evolution in action.

      NOW the police have decided highway protests might be a bad idea.

      • Nephilium

        So, can I get my arcology now?

      • Don Escaped the Quality Department

        BLM took over the new bridge here a few years ago. The chief of police walked out there and talked them down and everyone enjoyed a nice photo op and went home to warm suppers.

        The contemporary demonstrations have hinted at reprising that stunt often, but it doesn’t come to fruition: local yokels take to the ramps and form up and nothing happens but a little stand-off and god it’s late and it’s humid out here so enough protesting for one night. What is different are the troopers; one can’t help but speculate that the newly-minted governor has reached out to the mayors and made sure they understand that the interstates will remain open, and we can do this the easy way or the hard way, but it would look a lot better if Memphis could be seen to be cleaning up its own messes and not botching up one the nation’s most critical crossroads.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    “PieInTheSky on July 5, 2020 at 10:33 am
    So what % of glibs support abolishing the police?”

    I’m not in favor of abolishing them, per se. I am in favor of reducing the number of laws which they can use as an excuse to roust and harass the “civilian” population by about 97%. Also, expose them to individual legal liability for their actions.

    • Count Potato

      Like I posted in the last thread, how many of these “BLM” people are against the WOD?

      • cyto

        I was shocked that they were able to grasp that qualified immunity was one of the issues.

        That is a direct f the police issue, so it makes sense. But ending all victimless crime seems to be completely off the radar.

      • Gustave Lytton

        So does ending collective bargaining for police, and public employees generally.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    If Herself were president this would be reported as good news.

    If Herself were President, we’d be hearing “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” on a constant loop.

    • cyto

      If herself were president, the Soros, Obama and Clinton political machines would not be pushing and supporting these attacks on our society.

      • kbolino

        Why not? If Clinton were President, she’d still have to work with a partly or wholly Republican congress.

      • Drake

        But the deep state would be completely off the leash to do as they please both here and abroad. The looting would be taking place behind closed doors in places like the Ukraine and China.

    • Sean

      Think that is his goal?

      • Count Potato

        I have no idea, or if he can even get on the ballot.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    I haven’t even bothered to look. I assume our “alarming spike” is from 20 to 35, or some such thing.

    I got a call from a friend while I was in Indianapolis, and during the conversation, she started bitching about all the tourists bringing their cooties into Montana, and how we shouldn’t let them get away with it. I guess we should blow the bridge in Gardiner, to keep them from coming north out of the Park.

    This is a person would would unhesitatingly call Trump a racist thug for enforcing border controls.

    • Plinker762

      Did you say “we should build a wall”?

  15. AlmightyJB

    Virgo: 8 of Swords – Bad

    I will not comply

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Think that is his goal?

    Trump and Kanye are pals, aren’t they?

    • Cy

      Kanye is running for President this year, but he’s really running for President a few terms from now. His income is directly proportional to his ability to stay in the headlines. That being said, I truly believe he will eventually make a solid attempt at running for office.

      • cyto

        Dude is waaay too mentally ill for that game.

      • kbolino

        I don’t think that matters anymore.

      • Animal

        Evidence from the last couple of decades indicates that you can’t be too mentally ill for that game.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        I thought that was a prerequisite.

      • cyto

        And no, he is not running. You have to be on the ballot to do that. No way he could even put an organization together for 50 state ballot access at this point.

  17. Mojeaux

    @Agent Cooper, I found your site again (had it bookmarked). I wasn’t sure if you wanted to be identified by company/philosophy, so I didn’t put you on my list. If you want to be, let me know.

    • PieInTheSky

      is Uncivil aware he is on your list. He is, he keeps telling us, not a libertarian.

      • Mojeaux

        Any publicity is good publicity.

      • cyto

        That’s what they told me.

        I can confirm that getting naked, buttering myself up and sliding back and forth on the floor of the Waffle House was not good publicity.

      • Mojeaux

        You were not wearing a mask.

  18. Annoyed Nomad

    Off-topic, but I was late to the morning links thread…
    In an attempt to understand the relative current risk level of COVID, I looked up Flu season information in my state (Ohio). I found a chart on the Ohio Dept of Health website that shows the weekly hospitalizations of the most recent flu season as well as the average rate for the past 5 years:
    https://odh.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/odh/know-our-programs/seasonal-influenza/ohio-flu-activity/

    According to the 5-year average, during the peak of flu season (late Dec to late Mar), 400 to 800 people are hospitalized per week due to confirmed flu-associated illness. That translates to a daily average of 57 to 114 hospitalizations.

    When I go to the Ohio Health Dept’s COVID page to see current trends, the 21-day hospitalization average is 59/day and the last 24 hours is 27 hospitalizations. So, the current hospitalization rate is at the low end of peak flu season (and possibly heading lower). Why are we treating this as more serious than we treated peak flu season in the past?

    • Nephilium

      Because fuck you. That’s why.

      Lottery sales are open, because they’re essential. Lottery redemption is closed, because it’s non-essential. Video games, pinball, and bar games are banned because it’s dangerous. The video lottery sales machines are open because, essential.

      • Sean

        Yes. This is all staged by leftist governors and mayors, with the media trying to lay their actions on Trump. This is all designed to paint Trump in a bad light. Fucking over deplorables is just icing on the cake.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Why are we treating this as more serious than we treated peak flu season in the past?

    That’s just the sort of thing a white supremacist would ask.

    • Annoyed Nomad

      It’s a fair cop.

    • cyto

      Beat me to it!

      Now go forth and apologize for existing.

    • C. Anacreon

      What I’ve been waiting to see is some sort of evaluation of the data to show how many more people have died this year because of covid than would have died anyway, it would put everything in far better context. Sadly many of those who have passed were very sick and/or quite elderly already, if not for covid perhaps flu, pneumonia, sepsis etc. would have pushed them over the edge. Rather than hearing how Trump personally killed 132,000+ as the current refrain, some recognition that immortality would not result from the absence of covid would be helpful.

      • R C Dean

        You are looking for excess deaths data. It typically lags, by weeks or months.

        I think excess deaths are going to be in the 30 – 40K range. Most of the reported Vid deaths are either misattributed or is the Vid substituting for something else that would have killed them.

      • whiz

        Unfortunately there are excess deaths due to people avoiding treatment that people will claim are due to COVID (I mean actual COVID, not indirectly).

    • kbolino

      I don’t know what any of these words mean anymore.

      • Count Potato

        It is very confusing.

      • Drake

        Don’t forget the new and improved Black Panthers. They want to get in on the action.

        I wonder how the FBI would have reacted if an armed white supremacist militia marched around federal land?

      • Count Potato

        The NFAC are a bunch of anti-Semites.

      • Drake

        They don’t seem too fond of white Christians either.

    • cyto

      Like we all said. LARPing.

    • leon

      See! Even the boogaloo Bois think Trump is a white supremacist!

  20. westernsloper

    Gemini: 4 of Coins – Good

    What kind of coins we talking here?

    • leon

      Platinum.

      • Ted S.

        Not electrum?

      • leon

        I’ve never awarded an electrum piece as a DM

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Trillion dollar ones

  21. PieInTheSky

    Hachalu Hundessa: Ethiopia singer’s death unrest killed 166

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53298845

    I saw earlier on the twitters that Somalis are not really black or so some say. Are Ethiopians really black?

    • leon

      I would think so. Since that’s the region of Punt and I thought they were black in Egyptian histories.

    • Suthenboy

      Black. I dont know what that word means.

    • Nephilium

      I already had to have it for work. Now we’re told if we use the wrong conference call software on certain support calls, that’s a termable offense.

      There’s a reason I strongly pushed to get removed from the on-call rotation.

    • Suthenboy

      “China-Controlled ‘TikTok’ Is ‘Data Collection Service Thinly-Veiled As A Social Network’.”

      Wait…I thought teenagers on tik tok were spoiling Trump’s rallies?

    • Ted S.

      To be fair, I have no desire to download TikTok software either.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    From Potato’s Andy Ngo link:

    “Defund the universities, not the police.”

    Hard to argue with that.

    • Tres Cool

      “Follow me around…”

      -Gary Hart

    • Sean

      ???

  23. Suthenboy

    So the BP’s want Texas. BLM wants to abolish the police. Antifa wants….something.

    Who has time for this nonsense? Who joins some lunatic fringe group dyeing their hair purple and marching around in the street making ludicrous demands? Don’t these people have families? Jobs? Hobbies?
    I think these are empty, broken people with a whole range of personality disorders and not insignificant mental illnesses.

    • Mojeaux

      They’re being financially supported somehow.

    • Crusty Juggler

      “Who joins some lunatic fringe group dyeing their hair purple and marching around in the street making ludicrous demands?”

      The Sex Pistols?

    • Tres Cool

      Lunatic Fringe?

      Red Rider ?

      • Suthenboy

        Those guys were how old when they wrote “Lunatic fringe….you are not gonna win this time” ?

        Oh, to be young and optimistic again.

    • Animal

      I think these are empty, broken people with a whole range of personality disorders and not insignificant mental illnesses.

      I think you’re being far too generous. I think most of these people are of no more value than a dead dog.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I agree with your mental illness assessment. Unfortunately they’re being coddled which is the last thing we or they need. Giving in is the easy thing to do because it makes them happy and they leave you alone but it’s not the right thing to do, that’s for sure.

  24. Crusty Juggler

    The more you read about the Ghislaine/Epstein stuff the more conspiratorial it becomes. It’s like the JFK assassination!

    The Maxwell sisters created Magellan! They were deep in Silicon Valley!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Considering Flynn’s lived experience I’m not going to hold it against him too much if he buys into conspiracy theories a little bit.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      BLM marchers would last about five minutes in Iran. As bad as they are there’s one thing they definitely ain’t and that’s commies.

    • Suthenboy

      Nice tits.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Sadly many of those who have passed were very sick and/or quite elderly already, if not for covid perhaps flu, pneumonia, sepsis etc. would have pushed them over the edge.

    Like John Glenn’s widow, whose life was tragically cut short at 100?

  26. Gdragon

    I just searched “divisive”. Anyone want to guess what every single result in the “news” tab was a story about?

    That’s totally just a coincidence I’m sure. 😉