I hadn’t seen this game until I came to Japan. It’s a common way to create a random result much like drawing straws.
It’s called “Amidakuji”. You pick one of the columns at the top and tumble downwards, turning when you get to an intersection. The more intersections the more difficult it becomes to quickly determine the location of the prize at the bottom.
Here’s a game I hadn’t seen until a few years ago. It’s a common way for assholes to manipulate simpletons.
The mind doesn’t work like Amidakuji, however. We have a choice at every intersection and how we react is up to us.
I had a choice. The train filled up and the seat next to me was still empty after every other one was filled. Why is no one sitting next to me? I had a choice. The Japanese people felt uncomfortable and didn’t want some unforeseen hassle as they commuted to work. Or, they are racists that judge humans based solely on skin color.
I had a choice. The cashier at 7-11 told me in English that my change was, “Uh, uh, six hundred and uh, uh, twenty, uh, five yen.” Why? I had a choice. Maybe the cashier had dealt with tourists that didn’t speak Japanese and figured he was being helpful. Or, the cashier had been studying English in order to expand his horizons, took the opportunity that arose when I walked in and bought my fifth of Beam. Or, he’s a racist that is intentionally othering me out of an extreme and ancient malice.
I had a choice. The izakaya had a tatami room and I was wriggling my long legs in pain as I sat on the floor. The waitress brought me an extra cushion. I had a choice. The waitress recognized my discomfort and gave me the cushion to make my dining experience more pleasant. Or, she latched onto the chance to expose foreigners as monkeys incapable of adapting to Japanese customs.
I had a choice. My wife married me. I had a choice. She found some shred of decency in my prickly character that she respected and decided to make a life with me. Or, she had been programmed through unconscious bias to see the white man as superior and perpetuated racism against her own POCs in as hideous a manner as possible.
There are vicious cycles, virtuous cycles and virtue signalling cycles. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, “The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.” I kept that quote in mind when I decided how to react in the situations mentioned above. Sure, maybe ten racists got away with being racist, but I didn’t slander one non racist. I like those odds. Bet I could’ve swept up some virtue signalling treasure if I had interpreted those situations in the worst light possible and plopped my poisonous thoughts on Twitter. I don’t want to get addicted to that any more than I want to get addicted to meth.
Final thought on this: You can’t make racism the worst possible evil in society and then allow people to throw around flimsy accusations of racism like confetti.
My daughter thinks I’m a racist because I think Black Lives Matter is a racist organization and I don’t want a fucking sign in my front yard.
I had a choice. I could have bit my tongue. But I didn’t.
I offered to compromise on “All Lives Matter” but apparently THAT is even worse.
I had a choice. I kept digging.
What about Unborn Black Lives Matter?
‘The impacts on our black communities are hard to fathom. According to the Guttmacher Institute, which generally supports abortion, in 2011 360,000 black babies were aborted. CDC statistics for 2011 show that 287,072 black deaths occurred from all other causes excluding abortion. By these numbers, abortion is the leading cause of death among blacks.’
https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2020/02/25/abortion-the-overlooked-tragedy-for-black-americans/
More black babies were aborted in NYC last year than born in NYC last year. But having a picture of Uncle Ben on your box of rice is problematic.
Tell her you’ll put up a sign that says “My White Daughter’s Life Doesn’t Matter”.
She’s only 3/4 white (1/4 black). She has seized upon the 1/4 part with gusto.
She’s adopted so there is also that going on.
Who’s teaching your daughter to seize upon the quadroon part?
“Support return policies for adoptions now!” sign instead?
You joke, but…..
Teach her now about the history of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. Does she even know who they were? Because I’m sure she didn’t learn that in school.
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1282321830771077125/photo/1
“You hear this phrase, ‘systemic racism’ [or] ‘systemic oppression.’ You hear it on our college campuses,” Mark Levin told Sowell in Sunday night’s episode of Fox News’ “Life Liberty & Levin.” You hear it from very wealthy and fabulously famous sports stars. What does that mean? And whatever it means, is it true?”
“It really has no meaning that can be specified and tested in the way that one tests hypotheses,” Sowell responded. “It does remind me of the propaganda tactics of Joseph Goebbels during the age of the Nazis, which he supposed to have said, ‘People will believe any lie if it is repeated long enough and loud enough.'”
“It’s one of many words that I don’t think even the people who use it have any clear idea what they’re saying,” Sowell explained. “Their purpose served is to have other people cave in.”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/thomas-sowell-says-systemic-racism-has-no-meaning-warns-2020-election-could-be-point-of-no-return
Is it just me or did anyone else read that in their voices?
‘straffinrun
The only person here with the humility to use all lowercase in their handle.’
‘pistoffnick on July 13, 2020 at 7:09 pm’
Does. Not. Compute.
I know. Can’t grok that.
straffinrun: The one with the hubris to believe that English grammar rules don’t apply to him.
/I just had to, straff
He’s not being humble, he’s claiming to be an improper noun.
I don’t even know what that is. Is it like Donkey Kong with worse graphics, and the outcome is always racism? Sounds like the future of gaming to me.
My only question is when the woketards no longer have anything left to destroy, do they sit down and cry like Alexander did?
when the woketards no longer have anything left to destroy
They’ll always have each other.
Yeah, but since none of them can build a damn thing there won’t be anything to destroy
Each. Other.
“Sure, maybe ten racists got away with being racist, but I didn’t slander one non racist. I like those odds.”
That’s why the “not being racist isn’t good enough, you have to be actively anti-racist” is just insidious horseshit.
Racism in its original meaning of a belief system that denies humanity, or the concommitant rights of humanity, to a group based on ethicity is evil. Even then it was not a unique evil, nor worse than many others. Envy for example has perpetrated every horror racism ever perpetrated. In its modern incarnation of noticing any distinction between groups or foible of a group racism is at worst silly and at best mere observation. Flimsy accusations of racism are an attempt to do exactly the same thing that the original meaning of racisim did, deny some person the basic respect and dignity due to a fellow human being.
True, although I’m saying the “silence is violence” crap is “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”. It’s the opposite of giving straffinrun a choice. It’s actively trying to take it away.
True enough. I was riffing off you not disagreeing. All attempts to define heretical beliefs as verbotten make me feel stifled and trigger my contrarian side. And in my lifetime any dispute with the mantra that “Racism is the ultimate evil, and racism is what we say it is” has been the primary dogma being enforced.
Look at George Floyd’s death. Can anyone say it was because he was black? One cop was white. The other three were asian, hispanic, and black. The wokest HR department couldn’t assemble a more racially diverse bunch of murderers.
What struck me when I watched the killing is how the murderer only saw GF as prop for him to display his power to the crowd that dared to criticize him. The prop’s color was of no importance to him. It was chilling to see how a freeze came over his face when he decided to keep kneeling to demonstrate his power over the plebes. He knew exactly what he was doing and why he was doing it.
The Count is correct. It was a racially diverse murder crew.
I had a choice. The cashier at 7-11 told me in English that my change was, “Uh, uh, six hundred and uh, uh, twenty, uh, five yen.” Why? I had a choice. Maybe the cashier had dealt with tourists that didn’t speak Japanese and figured he was being helpful. Or, the cashier had been studying English in order to expand his horizons, took the opportunity that arose when I walked in and bought my fifth of Beam. Or, he’s a racist that is intentionally othering me out of an extreme and ancient malice.
I had to deal with this when I was studying in Russia, but it was scammers trying to sell stuff to tourists.
Having had enough of this, I responded in German to the people harassing me in English. They responded by speaking English more slowly. LOL.
Of course, being white and having bought a cheap fur hat and wool coat in Russia, I’d get regular people on the buses asking me for directions in Russian. It was only when I opened my mouth that they realized I wasn’t a native speaker by any stretch of the imagination.
I remember trying to speak Spanish to my Chinese friends when my limited Chinese didn’t work. As if they knew Spanish.
I went up to Quebec with a girlfriend back in college. Somebody asked us something in French. She replied in Japanese and I replied in Sinhalese – he looked at us like we were insane.
Not as insane as it sounds on its face. The sounds in Spanish are closer than English is.
On my very first day in America I was asked for directions three times. By the third time I knew the local landscape well enough that I could even show them the directions.
Where are you from originally Griz?
I had a conversation with a hotel front desk. My half in Japanese his half in English.
People must have thought we were nuts. In this case I honestly believe he thought he was being helpful.
I have also read from long term residents simply say that to some Japanese a white person speaking the language doesn’t compute.
I don’t take it as particularly racist as it just simply doesn’t compute. But it pretty much meets the definition of racism as you are treating the person and making assumptions based on race.
Your mistake was picking German.
Germans speak English.
^
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Ahem. i
straffinrun’s bio: “The only person here with the humility to use all lowercase in their handle.”
Also, I believe leon mentioned his lower case status recently. There are many of us. We are hydra.
I thought you were tulpa.
‘We are hydra.’
‘Hail hydra. Safety through obedience. Strength in conformity. hydra is watching.’ [Uppercase H in original.]
He’s trolling. We went through that when he went with that bio. Straff has a prickly character
istics.I’m not sure how to express racism, is it something I have done (overtly) or something thing I haven’t done by omission?. Since I tend to ignore most people anyway I have to be guilty of racism.
You’re a tough act to follow, Straff, it’s way too complicated. More than TeD’S’ RuLes of gramar
“I’m not sure how to express racism, is it something I have done (overtly) or something thing I haven’t done by omission?. Since I tend to ignore most people anyway I have to be guilty of racism.”
now you’re catching on.
‘Racism used to mean harming or disparaging people based on race. The new standard is that white people are not allowed to disagree with or dislike any person of minority background, no matter how egregious or abhorrent his or her behavior. The only exception is that liberals are allowed to attack black conservatives mercilessly because, well, they’re not really black. It is also perfectly acceptable to disparage, condemn, and vilify all white people.’
July 15, 2018
The Racist Left
By E.W. Jackson
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/the_racist_left.html
“I’m not sure how to express racism”
LOL, sure, cracka, like you could even know how racist you are, I bet you didn’t even take the class.
He’s over 9000.
Twerking on cops:
https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1282204560035995648
Is that the sound of HM joining the local police department?
Those girls aren’t wearing masks. They may catch a cold or the CV, dressed like that. Book ’em, Danno
They suck at social distancing.
I disagree.
There is nothing wrong with my bio line.
It’s time to play Racism Plinko!!
He had a choice. He chose to be a racist. Remember kids, blacks can’t be racists.
And he was immediately fired as host of The Masked Singer!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
That website gave my phone cancer.
She found some shred of decency in my prickly character……
The woman is a masochist.
Thanks for the piece Straff.
Accidentally submitted it under projects not posts. Thanks to TPTB for digging it out. Off to work! Thx.
Have fun!
“…prickly character…”
straffinrun drives a BMW?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1tem1u/whats_the_difference_between_a_bmw_and_a_porcupine/
Cactus Dick?
You touch on a grand intellectual tradition. From Buddha in the east to the Epicureans in the west, many great thinkers have come to the conclusion that at the end of the day, how we react to something is fundamentally up to us. Though they usually specify that some self-cultivation is required to be truly free inside, but we can choose to get to know ourselves, and cultivate that freedom.
I think about this a lot when I see weaponized victimhood. It is a succinct rebuttal to it.
How did we move from how we feel about something is up to us/the individual, to “this is how you should feel about x”?
Here is a bear with nunchaku:
https://twitter.com/PetiteNicoco/status/1282709077509001218
It’s revenge for that bear fucker costume in Super Troopers.
*Lights the Q signal*
https://mobile.twitter.com/BKlara11
*throws lighter fluid on that signal*
https://mobile.twitter.com/AmateurBigtits
She had a choice. She chose to be an asshole.
She has been an asshole for as long as I can remember.
She is a unmitigated piece of shit. Earlier was her “shut up males and just listen and learn” during the Kavanaugh hearings.
I wrote to her office about a couple of issues after she was “selected” by the dems. Even her office staff have flat EEG profiles.
My husband (who grew up in Hawaii and whose family has been there for several generations) is a firm believer in the Brain Drain theory that the smartest leave the islands, so the population as a whole is getting dumber. Going by relatives who stayed versus relatives that left– I gotta admit there’s some trends there.
She’s a parrot – whatever the party line is at any given time she’ll recite it, but without any understanding at all.
Was she in an internment camp as a child? I ask because….well, party affiliation, and all.
“Fuck this.
We are losing this battle.
And all these assholes are talking about our kids going back to school?! NOPE.
We need a NATIONAL shut down NOW. Print cash. Give people UBI until we get this pandemic under control.”
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1282782883694825474
She thinks she is an economist now.
fine. national referendum. anybody who votes for it pays a 100% wealth tax to fund this shit.
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Great missy. I’m guessing while I continue to work from home Monday thru Friday 8-5 YOU are available to come and help keep my kiddos focused on this distance learning so that they don’t graduate HS with a 6th grade education? Let me know your office hours please!
am I allowed to hate everybody involved here?
I hate the idiot actress with economy wrecking ideas. I hate the other person who assumes the right to having her kids babysat by the state.
What good will cash do if nobody can leave their house? Who is gonna deliver food or medicine if nobody can leave their house?
I’m guess Alyssa wants exceptions to the national lock down that benefit her.
Excellent final thought, Straff.
Thank you, Straff. I needed to read this today.
To you and HE, ??
RIP Kelly Preston and her legendary rack.
A sad day for us all.
Anyone do a welfare check on Q?
This isn’t the dig it will sound like, so….I have to wonder what this does for John’s Scientology beliefs.
I dont know enough about their belief system to know if it should.
It’s been reported that the CoS teaches that diseases are thetan-related. The idea being that the higher OT level a scientologist is, the more they can will away diseases.
The fact that she died of breast cancer may end up as a talking point against him. I’m not trying to make that case here so much as I am wondering how this will get used.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ec0hChBXoAAeb08.jpg
OFFS!
I noticed this push in the news broadcast on the radio while driving today. TX, FL, AZ, and even CA are all going to die as everybody will soon have the vid but NY is doing GREAT! No deaths reported. The reporting system is a fraud. I don’t think any data reported now can be trusted. We have turned into China.
I want to punch the person that drew that.
You may get the chance.
Jesus Christ, it looks like outsider art. Did they get the guy who drew Empress Theresa to do this?
I made the mistake of tuning into Delta’s in-flight “live” TV when it was national news hour on the east coast.
I hadn’t realized just how shallow and sensational and TOTALLY one-sided the coverage was. NBC, CBS, FOX, ABC—all about how COVID is kIlling us and how bizarre it is that Trump hasn’t Locked down the world.
Then the second story was about the Redskins name change—one hundred percent lockstep on how it’s a welcome move and a long time coming. Then sports news was which athlete had covid (Westbrook).
Then how the “mural” of BLM by Trump tower was “vandalized” with red paint. Chortle. One man’s mural is another man’s vandalism.
I grew weary of the news and switched to TMZ. Covid news all over that too.
It was a glimpse into a parallel universe. I felt like I’d wandered out into a stage play where I’m the only one without a script.
Surreal. It might be time to go full off-grid.
You can go off the grid by doing your best to not consume news, commercials, whatever. Be blissfully ignorant.
I’ll say it again – better uninformed than misinformed.
Where did you hear that?
It just came to me one day.
I guess that I may have heard it somewhere, but damned if I can remember…
“It ain’t so much men’s ignorance that does the harm as their knowing so many things that ain’t so.”
-Mark Twain
It is possible to teach even the dullest man who not yet formed an opinion. – source uncertain
That’s Iron Law worthy. I will ask TPTB to add it to the Codex.
Counterpoint?
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9972-you-are-not-entitled-to-your-opinion-you-are-entitled
Once again, Harlan is wrong.
Nice
I have a hard time believing that racism is still a serious problem in the US when mere accusations of it are enough to get people fired and/or have their reputations ruined.
As for language problems, from time to time when I was in Tanzania, I’d say something in Swahili, but the person did not understand and say “anasemaje?” (what’s he saying?). Then a passerby would repeat in a louder voice exactly what I had said. It was like thatGarrett Morris sketch from SNL.
It was sometimes frustrating, sometimes amusing, and taught me that my real first language is mumbling.
“When in doubt, mumble.”
-James “Jim” Boren (10 December 1925 – 24 April 2010) an American who is best known as a humorist and writer on bureaucratese
When somebody doesn’t understand English just simply say it louder and slower.
And add terminal vowel sounds.
This is good stuff. Thanks, straffinrun.
Thx. Sure, I was preaching to the choir, but even the choir can get concealed carry.
This isn’t quite as epic as that 1991 Sizzler promo, but it’s close.
CRYSTAL PEPSI Employee Training Video (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJYsS82khTc
I’m pretty sure Youtube has constructed a neural net of my brain best on my video choices.
I could only make it three minutes in. Got to the black guy saying it wasent “colored” and had to go scream at the sky.
https://twitter.com/BethLynch2020/status/1282782087666438144
It’s not enough to be unintelligent. You have to be actively anti-intelligent.
Wouldn’t a Census Gang banger be more appropriate?
He wouldn’t stand out though.
Your gangbang is officially too vast if it requires a census. Permit denied.
Ironically, a great gb porn title.
Man, the liberals don’t know what’s coming for them. My gf is a pissed off Irish girl from Jersey City…they’re gonna lose…
“…a pissed off Irish girl…”
Go on!
So Biden only wins her state by 9 points instead of 15?
Corned Beef and Muff Cabbage
Great American Novel, or album?
Strippers/prostitutes.
I need to plan a vacation, but to where, what states are open? Hopefully someplace I can be at a crowded bar with live music! A few places I’m considering based on plane/hotel prices:
Gulf Shores, AL
Pensacola, FL
Omaha, NE
Sioux Falls, SD
Fargo, ND
I ❤️ Gulf Shores.
Dammit, Mo…..where the hell were you 25 years ago?
GS/Orange Beach is great by itself, and you are close to Pensacola, to boot. Then, not too far to Destin.
So, Gulf Shores, dammit.
25 years ago I was in Gulf Shores, sunning myself on the beach.
::sighs, pinches nose bridge::
What did I ever do to you, huh?
Apparently, absolutely nothing. 😉
Hey now….I gotta live here.
OMG. I can recommend AGAINST Fargo, ND. I spent 4 years there getting an engineering degree.
I’ve only been to Omaha for work (Kellogg’s plant). I guess the motel was nice enough.
A former coworker lives in Fargo and wants me to visit. Also, NE, SD, and ND seem to be fully open based on a cursory internet search. My coworker says life is normal is Fargo.
Normal in Fargo is not normal anywhere else. I mean, we used to drive to Canada for fun (the drinking age in Canada was 18).
When the sugar beet factory is running in Moorhead, both towns smell like burnt cookies.
I’ve been to Fargo. There’s not a lot there.
Ask Mike S about Fargo but he isn’t around too much anymore, Must have a real job these days.
South Dakota was great; we were at Mt Rushmore over the 4th. The Wisconsin Dells had a pretty active social scene when we visited in late June, and didn’t even have to mask up when we dined in. I’m not sure if I’d call West Yellowstone hopping, but there are campsites available and the park is about as uncrowded as it can get during prime season. You’re only competing with domestic travelers instead of international too. We’re headed to Lava Springs, Idaho next because it looked a lot freer than Wyoming.
Gotta say, getting out and away from lockdown bullshit has done tons for my mental health. I hope everyone gets the chance to escape to nature if they aren’t there already.
Indeed; getting away from lockdown had an enormous benefit to my mental health. I was in St Pete, FL a couple weeks ago. Had a few great nights out on the town before the County there locked bars down again. Beach, pools, social interaction; it was amazing!
We’ve been on the road since June 17th and are going to stretch it out as long as we can get away with. At least mid-August. I honestly dread going back to Virginia right now.
I have no idea what Gulf Shores, AL is, but maybe I’ll just go there,
Redneck riviera 🙂
So you’re saying I should consider it on my way home?
The Pinedale, Wyoming area is historic and beautiful. Bridger Lake is a treasure and the Museum of the Mountain Man is informative about that great era.
Go see some of the sights from the Oregon Trail. Just east (in a WY distance sense) is the parting of the ways for the OR and CA Trails. It is still out in the middle of nowhere- just like then. Slightly east is a old ghost town South Pass City. Keep heading east and see Independence Rock and climb to the top to see the immigrant names carved in it.
There are some neat Lewis and Clark sites along the ID/MT line area. Inside ID there are some nice wild hot springs a short hike from the car. Drive to the end of the road to see the River of No Return area. You are almost garun-fuckin-teed to see lots of Bighorns.
When Wyoming reopens we’ll be there. Until then, the goal is to stick with places pretending as much as possible that things are normal.
Huge ass rockslide has closed HW 95 south of Riggins ID.
Yes, LG–you should definitely consider it. The RR is fantastic.
We don’t actually have anything booked past the last week of July and vague promises to swing through Oklahoma. Trying to sell the hubby on a southerly return route now.
I set a book in Foley and Gulf Shores (not one I’m going to resurrect), because I loved the place so much.
Beautiful sentiment straffinrun, and a good way to go through life if you don’t want to spend all your time seething about life’s little injustices.
Thanks, LG. It must be exhausting having to mind read 24/7. It’s such a bad idea and a terrible way to get your calories.
I see it at work too. There’s an older female developer at my company that’s really hung up on female representation in tech. Pulled up some statistic about the number of women who’d been working as developers as long as she has, and it was something like 7% and she started on a self-pity streak about being a freak. And I piped in with, “no, you’re a trailblazer”. So much of enjoying life is about perspective.
Sounds like that means she has a golden opportunity given most tech firms want to hire females if they can. Rawls Veil of Ignorance is fun to throw back in their faces: would you like to enter 2020 as a white male engineer or a female engineer with the same qualifications?
Truth. It’s silly for her to be complaining anyway since she’s far from the only woman on our engineering team, and I’m pretty sure I’m older than her, too.
The cashier at 7-11 told me in English that my change was, “Uh, uh, six hundred and uh, uh, twenty, uh, five yen.”
Way to show off your your cheap ricker privilege.
Guess not many people remember Say Anything
https://mobile.twitter.com/AndoBaruka/status/1282239421069185026
My neighborhood always have a party at the end of August and we thought this year it would be cancelled. Some of the neighbors said fuck that and the activities will commence. As one of my neighbors pointed out, if they let thousands of people protest in Chicago, then why shouldn’t we be allowed to have our party?
Just call it a protest, Maybe a Beer, Liquor and Marrygawanna protest.
What was done was seen
I used to stumble home drunk af from the bar, and Id turn on my TV. I had DishNetwork and Id try to put on a music channel, but my numb thumbs would mess it up. On more that 1 occasion Id sit on my crappy futon, eating a cold sandwich Id bought hours before, and watch “chinese lessons in spanish”, transfixed in my inebriated state.
Anti-racist + white people are inherently racist – only white people,can be racist = anti-white.
Don’t kid yourself that wokism is anything other than anti-white racism.
Get a load of this Nazi.
?
you know what’s an anti-racist force? capitalism. people may start out as racists, but theres a constant force pushing toward letting the “other” participate because their dollar spends just as well as anybody else’s.
“… when I walked in and bought my fifth of Beam.”
Good man. Solid article.
http://archive.li/0KhjH/c8cafa500f8bbf612b351aabc1e2197147db6f24.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/KNC4W/ae5fc710a73753d6fd689c8fb016d1a76cc818c6.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/F1wTs/154a3b617543f366c18108f589064b07f95fb21c.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/EeVWq/81b648b9d0bd5e92bd515fa092c2508d44d0c82f.jpg
NSFW.
I’m assuming these are to honor Straffinrun-san.
“I’m sorry I got caught, not for sucking off the CCP”
Oh poor boy. Two weeks on the beach. And nothing else happened
A friendly reminder: If you are counting on a gun to de-crazy someone, it only works when fired into the crazy person.
I like the guy on the first motorcycle who came through. He took one look and quickly decided a U turn is his best move.
I seem to recall saying something like this.
Rhy how did things go today? Sorry in advance if you told everyone earlier and I missed it.
I’m lost………………
Well, this here is called the internet. Its home to crazy people and fraudsters.
Fuck off tulpa!
Man, this is a tough crowd…
I don’t get no respect.
https://youtu.be/MecU2keW54I
Easy Money is a best kept secret kind of movie.
/I’m the man
What would this guy say today?
https://youtu.be/IQPsKvG6WMI
Told ya so….?
I’m afraid you’re right.
So, could it be that the “fall” of the USSR was really just a false flag thing, and they’ve just been covert here, biding their time?
Did you run out of tinfoil?
We were warned. And, it’s not like everyone in the country is a fucking idiot. That leaves commies doing their insidious thing, faking the fall of the USSR and getting the NATO countries to let their guard down.
I fuckin’ hate commies.
Chicago politicians are either grifters or incompetent. And sometimes both.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BethLynch2020/status/1282782087666438144
Just for her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s05jcrJw0as
https://mobile.twitter.com/Bud_Doggin/status/1282867972466331648
Heh.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RealSaleemJuma/status/1282950068543221761
Just nuke it from orbit.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArtValley818/status/1282822459096367107
How’s that boycott working out for ya?
https://mobile.twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1282877725926187010
This is how we know everything is a lie. Fuck these commies.
Huh. That’s a shame. RIP, Grant “MythBuster” Imahara. (For the record, it was NOT the COVID.) I enjoyed the show – it was a bit of a Sunday evening ritual. I even liked the guys they found to replace the original pair, but they quickly sank without a trace.
I liked these guys too.
49? I thought he was younger than that.
Indeed. I never would have guessed.
Good morning, UCS.
I’m not sure if it counts as morning for me.
I lay down after work yesterday, got up around midnight after and unknown amount of sleep, tried to take a nap starting at 4:30am, failed to get any sleep before the alarm went off. Now my body’s saying it wants to go get some sleep.
Stupid internal clock.
If you could work out a schedule that allowed you to sleep through a lot of the hot part of the day – whether it was one long stretch or a couple of shorter ones – that might help a lot through the summer. (I gather that’s your goal?) But I don’t know whether you’d care to continue such a schedule through the winter, and the transition to another schedule is the hardest part.
I’d be okay with that, but what I need to avoid is falling asleep while I’m supposed to be working. My workday just started, and I can feel myself wanting to nod off.
Not sure if caffiene will correct that, but it’s all I’ve got on hand. Maybe some breakfast.
I love my morning coffee, but sometimes caffeine seems to have a delayed reaction for me. If I’m feeling sleepy in the afternoon at work, a Dr. Pepper doesn’t seem to do me any good when I need it, but then I’ll be lying awake the better part of the night.
I actually don’t have the caffiene tolerance for coffee. The last time I had a cup (one, singular) it felt like my heart was going to explode.
Yikes! Please don’t do that!
Know anyone who could use a couple of pounds of (Unopened) Black Rifle Coffee?
Does that coffee come with the girls?
No.
Here ya go. Start your day as pissed off as I did.
https://twitter.com/beinlibertarian/status/1282991514948444168
The link within that tweet led to a bit of a weird “checking your browser” page, so I noped right back out of it. But if the facts are as headlined, that certainly is rage-inducing.
…and good morning. Pretty early where you are, no? Mountain time?
Good morning as well. Ya it is early but I have been up for over an hour (like every day). Time for a shower and off to the grind.
Ya, it was a bit weird but I am pretty sure every website “checks your browser” hence why I get turn your ad blocker off popups. Short lesson from the article: Never ever consent to a search of your vehicle. That and some cops are first class dickheads.
Five years for weed? What is this, 1960?
It’s amazing how much you get accustomed to something.
I had these cheap-assed LED bulbs that are actually so heavy that they can’t hold their own weight and begin to separate near the base (just above the part that screws into the socket) I’ve been replacing them with Sylvania LEDs bulbs (Made in the USA [albeit using an unspecified quantity of ‘global’ components]). The new bulbs are physically much lighter, of comperable brightness, but have this marginally different color profile.
So I keep looking around my living room going “Why does this all look wrong?”, just because I’d grown accustomed to the color profile of the cheap-assed LEDs.
They always come in threes. This is more than “too local” but here goes. Last week was the lighting debacle at one site, this week it is “mold issues” in one of the washrooms and parking lot maintenance at the other. The lighting issue was dealt with. The “mold issue” is dust from the heating ducts (quickly dealt with with a duster) and the pavement one is not my responsibility. I told them that I’d take care of the pavement one but that I’d expect extra pay to fix someone else’s mistake. Parking lot maintenance does not fall under my purview. Fuck You! Pay Me! I swear, every six months I have to remind them about what I do and don’t do. What the fuck is wrong with people? They just want a problem to go away? It’s like saying a Rosary instead of checking your oil level once in awhile.
You tell ’em, Fes! Don’t let them take advantage of you!
And good morning!
‘Mornin! And thank you.
I was going to say at least you don’t have our weather, but it’s 69 out this morning. Been a while since it threatened to be cool.
Stick to your guns about what is or is not your responsibility. Your workplace doesn’t sound like the kind of place where taking on more responsibility gets bonuses and promotions, just more work.
Too true. I’m borderline paranoid about anything that adds to my workload. Give an inch and they take 1.6 Kilometres and all that. I’ve been at this for a long time. As noted above, they just want problems solved without any effort on their part. It gets tiring having this argument with management and my own supervisors over and over again. They’ll leave me alone for awhile and it will rear its ugly head again come Winter.
Glad to hear from Rhywun earlier! Hopefully on the mend and kitteh-shopping soon.
https://www.pix11.com/entertainment/grant-imahara-co-host-of-mythbusters-and-white-rabbit-project-dead-at-49
::glances a little ways up-thread, sighs, goes off to prepare for the workday:: ; )
DOH!
In my defense, I might still be a lil drunk.
Lucky! That’ll be me in about 4 hours when supervisor reads my texts.
Well this is exciting:
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/2021-ford-bronco-suv-revealed
Could be garbage… could be a win. Starting at $30k for a two door 4 cylinders, I’m going to remain skeptical.
Also, G’day all.
Are they trying to make it as ugly as possible?
I don’t think so. I don;t necessarily like it but could be a lot uglier.
STEVE SMITH HAVE PACKAGE FOR YOU!
My wife loves it, therefore it is most likely garbage. Expensive garbage at that.
Three hours of sleep to come in early and discovered that a necessary part is missing and a remote guy is having network issues. So total loss and the coordinator wants to try for tomorrow.
How do I politely say “fuck no, I’m going back to hotel room to sleep, I’m not driving back to my office for a part that isn’t likely to be there, and then drive back to do this again before the buttcrack of dawn tomorrow.”?
See above ^. “Fuck You! Pay Me!
It’s $5000 and of course shows it was shipped. Trying to avoid “fuck me, pay you”.
Understood. I’m a little het up right now (again).