BakedPenguin is a graduate of some school or another, smells like a homeless person, and has the friendly demeanor of a rabid wolverine.
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Scruffy Nerfherder
on September 20, 2020 at 6:09 pm
Portland is fine, yes.
blackjack
on September 20, 2020 at 6:12 pm
Wierd? Yes. Fine? Not so much.
Count Potato
on September 20, 2020 at 6:18 pm
I like Seattle, but I’d think she would look better with her natural hair color.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 8:32 pm
I’m down for any of the local correspondents.
Gender Traitor
on September 20, 2020 at 6:11 pm
IT’S BACK!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!
“…other fiery friendliness.” Nice!
Speaking of locusts, I’ve been hearing them a lot, but I haven’t heard boo about them causing crop damage. Is that really a thing this year? Seems appropriate that this would be a bad year for them. Next plague, please.
Count Potato
on September 20, 2020 at 6:19 pm
I read about Africa, didn’t know about China.
Suthenboy
on September 20, 2020 at 6:20 pm
The US gets them also.
blackjack
on September 20, 2020 at 6:25 pm
I’ve been in Laughlin during locust swarms. They black out the street lights and cause bikes to crash from the slippery bug guts. It’s pretty dramatic.
Count Potato
on September 20, 2020 at 6:32 pm
Laughlin, Nevada? I figured it would be too desert. Although they can travel great distances.
blackjack
on September 20, 2020 at 6:34 pm
Yup. Lotta them there in…I think ’08 or ’09.
TARDis
on September 20, 2020 at 6:36 pm
Obama saved the country then, right?
Count Potato
on September 20, 2020 at 6:31 pm
Everywhere gets them, but as far as know we aren’t having a problem with them now.
BakedPenguin
on September 20, 2020 at 6:21 pm
China has had huge crop failures due to flooding & locusts this year. I don’t know if there have been any problems with them in the Western Hemisphere.
But yeah, 2020 seems like it should be the year of the locust.
westernsloper
on September 20, 2020 at 6:28 pm
I think that is unfair to the locusts. They are the least that has happened.
Thanks, everyone. This one wasn’t too bad, although the newly revisited newsroom took some work, along with the Dem burning flag cell and the Chinese People’s Conference cells had a lot of layers. A lot of the others were layer + word bubble.
Plinker762
on September 20, 2020 at 8:29 pm
So it’s like an onion?
But Enough About My Weird Culinary Fantasies
on September 20, 2020 at 6:32 pm
China declared crop failures throughout the Yangtze Basin, what, 6, 7 weeks ago?
That’s around 50% of the country’s crops. Assume 1.6 billion people, approximately able to feed themselves (give or take a few tens of millions) during a normal crop year. China’s looking at approx. 800 million people not being able to eat enough to keep body and soul together unless they go on a massive food shopping spree and paying top dollar to do so. There are only two outcomes of this for the rest of us, and neither of them are all that great: rising prices, and/or food shortages world-wide.
We took half-a-grand’s worth of non-perishable food to our cousins in the interior of B.C. a couple of weeks ago. Didn’t even take their money. We’re worried for them, and for us.
China declared crop failures throughout the Yangtze Basin, what, 6, 7 weeks ago?
And they may have been just Yangtze-ing your chain.
But Enough About My Weird Culinary Fantasies
on September 20, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Doubt it. The CCP leadership loathes admitting stuff like that — threatens the perception amongst the unwashed peasants that they have the Mandate of Heaven. And the Mandate of Heaven is everything.
Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto
on September 20, 2020 at 7:33 pm
They’re going to need more than just wonton of food.
BakedPenguin
on September 20, 2020 at 7:04 pm
Yeah, they knew there was a huge swarm coming out of SE Asia. They’re hard to defend against using typical pesticides, apparently. There are a couple of videos about massive duck & chicken “armies” used to defend crops.
My worst one is Jack, a 115lb catahoula cur. His head is about 3′ high and his elbows are sharp. He is a giant teddy bear and thrives on attention and affection and so wants to be a little lap dog. Poor guy.
You reminded me, almost forgot to tell about the scene on the side of the road as we were headed into Lassen Volcanic National Park yesterday. There was traffic slowing and being diverted alongside the road; we initially thought it was an accident or stall. But as we pulled by we saw the obstruction was a huge black bear, apparently dead, spread eagle on its belly just off the pavement. But it may not have been dead, because as we drove further we saw a ranger walking, heading its way, carrying a shotgun. Yikes.
blackjack
on September 20, 2020 at 7:06 pm
HAH! I used to go up to Lake Almanor all the time, back in the early eighties. Once, I fell asleep in the back seat at sea level and my ear sealed against the naugahyde seat. I woke up at a few thousand feet and the pressure difference killed my hearing. Hearing’s still less than half the other ear. Later, that same weekend, we crashed a 1965 Bonneville into a deer. Good times!
It was the jets and Miami. If you’re not blowing those 2 teams out then your not even going to the playoffs.
The Gunslinger
on September 20, 2020 at 7:42 pm
He looks like an NFL quarterback for short spurts and then goes back to looking like a Mitch Trubisky. We need to figure out how to make those spurts longer.
Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto
on September 20, 2020 at 7:53 pm
That’s what my wife says too.
Count Potato
on September 20, 2020 at 8:02 pm
Hey now!
ElspethFlashman
on September 20, 2020 at 6:49 pm
Hey Glibs.
Hey, I am checking in because I can’t stand all the hand-wringing over RBG. It’s sickening. Virtual signaling to the extreme. I wanted a bit of grounding and other points of view aside from the lefty – why can’t we change rules when it suits us – echo chamber.
Thank you for providing that.
What is new in Humunus-Flashman land (you may ask)? We have a new doggy, a retired racing greyhound. She is super sweet and has opened up the eyes of our other doggy to asking for affection 🙂 so everyone is feeling more doggy – love.
Our kiddo, heir to the Wasteland, graduated in the pandemic.
I am still getting dudes (and sometimes gals) divorced (which has had a huge increase since the pandemic).
LH is still master of the wasteland, IS -land, and synth-land.
Good to see you back. I’m glad I was on a mostly internet and news free trip (still on the trip, but got the internet working) when RGB died, I didn’t even know until yesterday and the only views I’ve seen or heard on it from glibs.
Most of the news sources I listen to are non-US, and pretty much every one of them had it as the top story. ÖRF (Austria) even called her legendary.
[retching]
Surly Knott
on September 20, 2020 at 6:56 pm
I’m so glad to see you back!
Suthenboy
on September 20, 2020 at 6:57 pm
Good to see you back Elspeth. So much has happened since I had the pleasure of seeing your handle posting I don’t know where to start. Plagues and hurricanes and political insanity…and of course various commenters having personal events.
We haven’t had any bad articles, lots of good ones and some really great ones. I hope to see you and yours back more often.
Suthenboy
on September 20, 2020 at 7:03 pm
Specifically on RGB: She created this situation when she refused to retire and be replaced with an Obama appointee and Ol’ Harry changed the rules to ram through their picks. Que the world’s smallest violin.
Trump has the constitutional power to replace her and he is going to do just that. The left just has to suck it up.
As for their threats, they are too stupid to know what they are talking about. I promise that they will get their belly full of that very quickly.
juris imprudent
on September 20, 2020 at 7:07 pm
Posted on FB “I wonder if the Democrats are reconsidering the evils of the filibuster about now?”
That and quoting Schumer from early 2016 (while everyone they are all quoting McConnell).
Suthenboy
on September 20, 2020 at 7:18 pm
The left thinks they want the rule of law destroyed so they can rule by decree but they are too stupid to see that in that world they wont be the ones decreeing despite it being right in front of their noses.
It may not be perfect but there are very good reasons for separation of powers, checks, balances etc. built into our system.
The old white slaveowners that designed it knew what they were talking about. They saw with their own eyes what lesser systems devised and run by evil men are like. They didnt just make that stuff up out of thin air.
What puzzles me is how they can desire a system like ones we have seen over and over oppress people and collapse. It is the worst kind of idiocy.
Lady Z
on September 20, 2020 at 7:28 pm
Idiotic, yes, but also myopic and designed to provide instant gratification with no consideration of the consequences – not only to others but to themselves. So basically the behavior of a two year old.
Cokehead Mitch said ” You will regret this, and you may regret it much sooner than you think!” That was 2013 when Harry Reid invoked the nuclear option.
He has the constitutional power to nominate her replacement, the senate has the power to ‘advise and consent’ if there are a few RINO senators sorry about your luck Donny. Flow chart thingy
Come on in, make yourself comfy, have a nice hot cuppa something hot – no pumpkin spice, but chai, if you’re so inclined. Please stick around a while! Glibs is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble (with apologies to the psalmist[s.])
Sean
on September 20, 2020 at 7:12 pm
Yay! Welcome back. ?
westernsloper
on September 20, 2020 at 7:16 pm
Welcome Back!
Tulip
on September 20, 2020 at 7:18 pm
Retired racing greyhounds are the best. So sweet! Enjoy your new dog!
Suthenboy
on September 20, 2020 at 7:24 pm
Ah…I failed to mention wife and I recently rescued a whippet which is essentially a smaller racing greyhound. It has been….interesting. They have a very different personality and a propensity to ‘talk’ and does he ever talk.
Old Man With Candy
on September 20, 2020 at 7:43 pm
ELSPETH!!!!!!!!!
Please pass along my best high voltage shock to the spouse.
DEG
on September 20, 2020 at 7:50 pm
Welcome back!
Tejicano
on September 20, 2020 at 7:55 pm
Welcome back! Good hearing from you about your peeps. Hope to hear from you and your hubby more often.
Sensei
on September 20, 2020 at 7:58 pm
OT – Any idea where this guy is from? I want to say the north, but I could be dead wrong.
For anybody else – this is the second part of the “the most overbuild set of stairs” videos that I posted last week,
And to the cis-hets males here, are you that picky? Seriously? I’ll head to any of those shitholes for one of them Newsies.
Suthenboy
on September 20, 2020 at 7:32 pm
I dated all of those girls and more. In fact, every woman I see reminds me of one I have dated. Most of them had personalities like dead fish or they were completely nuts. I changed my standards to moderately attractive to attractive, sane, honest and most of all – smarter than I am. I was married within a year and have had the best 25 years of my life.
Yeah, I am very picky but I doubt any of those girls meet my standards.
Sean
on September 20, 2020 at 7:39 pm
A smidge of crazy leads to better sex. Just saying completely sane might not be the best choice.
Suthenboy
on September 20, 2020 at 7:48 pm
One day, years and years down the road you will see the error in that line of thinking.
Rhywun
on September 20, 2020 at 7:52 pm
Everyone learns that lesson eventually.
Sean
on September 20, 2020 at 8:03 pm
Oh, the one I caught going through my wallet? Waaay more than smidge.
blackjack
on September 20, 2020 at 8:10 pm
One of life’s funner lessons to learn, Imma say.
Sean
on September 20, 2020 at 8:01 pm
Nah.
Just a smidge. She admits it.
No regrets here.
We’re solid.
juris imprudent
on September 20, 2020 at 7:03 pm
Damn, busy, fun and productive weekend.
So someone had a recipe for Tuscan country style pork ribs I wanted to do – done in a crockpot; couldn’t find it here, so google’d up some ideas and had them for dinner tonight with baked sweet potatoes and salad. The ribs were tasty (more like shredded pork as they fell off the bones), but what was mind-blowing was the sauce I ended up with (and fortunately quite a bit of it).
We’re going to head up to New England week after next for fall foliage, camping, with our dogs. Anyone up for quarantine violation in VT, NH or Maine? Any suggestions?
Rhywun
on September 20, 2020 at 7:45 pm
I made nice chicken schnitzels and some spätzle that was a bit of a fail which is pretty impressive given how fucking easy it should be. I did fish out a good serving’s worth but there was a giant mass of cooked flour and egg left in the pot. 🙁
DEG
on September 20, 2020 at 7:49 pm
Send me an e-mail. SP and the other Powers That Be have mine and can give it to you. I have a small mailing list of folks from H&R and glibs in New England. We can set something up.
For campgrounds, Roger’s hosts PorcFest. It’s kinda cold nowadays up in northern NH.
The Late P Brooks
on September 20, 2020 at 7:14 pm
Glad you touched base, Elspeth. Good to hear you guys are well.
Lady Z
on September 20, 2020 at 7:21 pm
Good stuff Penguin. Every girl and woman needs to keep a can of Insta Poo on hand in case of a Biden encounter.
TARDis
on September 20, 2020 at 7:24 pm
Can I have a can too, in case I have to listen to Hillary, AOC, Nancy, or Kamala?
Lady Z
on September 20, 2020 at 7:36 pm
Only one can?
DEG
on September 20, 2020 at 7:51 pm
I think of a bottle of something alcoholic to kill the pain might be better in that case.
The Late P Brooks
on September 20, 2020 at 7:25 pm
When we’re the sanest and most reasonable people on the internet…
The Late P Brooks
on September 20, 2020 at 7:26 pm
Every girl and woman needs to keep a can of Insta Poo on hand in case of a Biden encounter.
You might need it to get through an intersection, some day.
Sean
on September 20, 2020 at 7:30 pm
I prefer to carry a 9mm. Or two.
Yusef drives a Kia
on September 20, 2020 at 7:29 pm
When poo is illegal only poo people will have poo, just say’n
hayeksplosives
on September 20, 2020 at 7:33 pm
Some people have to be full of poo just to keep from being transparent.
#translivesmatter
But Enough About My Weird Culinary Fantasies
on September 20, 2020 at 8:06 pm
Some people have to be full of poo just to keep from being transparent.
Totally stealing this.
hayeksplosives
on September 20, 2020 at 7:32 pm
Baked penguins are the chillest of penguindom.
Nicely done. I think I’ll go peacefully assault someone now.
The Late P Brooks
on September 20, 2020 at 7:33 pm
“they pledged allegiance to an upside-down, burning flag”
What a great Sunday!
As others have noted, BP kicks down with the return of SNP and copious NewsBabes, Elspeth comes by for a hello and update, Honey Harvest happened up in the Northland… a damn fine day in Glibland!
Now, someone please track down Trigger Hippie in meatspace and let us know he’s doing okay, and all will be well.
I gotta get some work and writing done, but health and good vibes to everyone. I have some fiction slotted in for Tuesday (after AM links) and I’ll probably be UA until then.
Cheers, my friends.
Old Man With Candy
on September 20, 2020 at 7:45 pm
We now have another excuse for you to come down. SP and I have been experimenting with some molecular cuisine stuff, beginning with reverse spherified drinks.
And the new 202 makes it a lot easier than it was…
Now I can’t unsee it. My wife just pointed out that cocain Mitch looks like her late mother.
Sean
on September 20, 2020 at 7:41 pm
Well, that’s certainly unfortunate.
Rhywun
on September 20, 2020 at 7:49 pm
LOL?
hayeksplosives
on September 20, 2020 at 7:40 pm
I had to take a football break so I could crawl in bed with my heating pad. It’s wonderfully warm outside but freezing inside. So we are paying a ton in electricity in order to make the place uncomfortably cold for one of the occupants.
I get that I can wear more layers and blankets, but it’s cumbersome and not warm enough for my face and hands.
Same here, but the one who wants it insanely cold is carrying my child, so I can’t complain too much before she starts saying things like “you sis this to me” and “you can sleep on the couch until the baby comes”
You have a wife who likes the room cold to sleep and you complain? Every relationship I have been in has involved me sweltering and getting yeled at if I open a window or turn up the ac!
I don’t mind cold to sleep* (as long as it warms back up before my alarm goes off), but I don’t like having to wear a sweatshirt in my home office on a 105 degree day because 72 was too warm for her. That said, shutting the vents in my office preserved the marital peace.
*the weird super-cold temperature plus super-hot covers thing is something I could live without. What’s wrong with stripping the bed down to just a sheet and turning the thermostat up a couple degrees?
CPRM
on September 20, 2020 at 10:07 pm
I keep saying, we need to go back to the mid-1900s rich person ideal, husband and wife with separate sleeping chambers. Lets add back that tension and intrigue.
Cancelled
on September 20, 2020 at 10:09 pm
Because a heavy blanket provides a secure nesting feeling and is necessary for sleep, a light sheet feels like sleeping exposed to the world. I am fully in your wife’s camp here!
While I’d love to play around with “Full Self Driving” the best thing I ever did was save the $5k at the time. It won’t be ready in the lifetime of the car. I can add it now if I’d like for only $8k.
But Enough About My Weird Culinary Fantasies
on September 20, 2020 at 8:09 pm
I’m not even sure how this option’s legal in Canada, since all ten provinces have made it strictly illegal to take both hands off the steering wheel at one time. And yet, I keep seeing Teslas on the road . . .
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 8:54 pm
The same way you can sell a gun even when murder is illegal?
Grosspatzer
on September 20, 2020 at 7:52 pm
Nice one, BP. Mighty fine newsreaders there, although I can’t recall seeing the one from NYC. Must be on Telemundo.
commodious spittoon
on September 20, 2020 at 7:57 pm
The Continuing Adventures of Secret Nazi President
And Not Adahn the stars and planets call this bad luck? The week’s off to a great start.
Grummun
on September 20, 2020 at 8:30 pm
SNP is the bestest.
Derpetologist
on September 20, 2020 at 8:32 pm
It’s hard for me to pinpoint the dumbest part of this monstrosity, so I supposed I’ll quote the part where NJR quotes Frederik deBeoer. Here, deBoer describes education in a socialist utopia:
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The high school you enter is radically transformed from what it is today. The standards and requirements that are today a huge part of high school life are dramatically relaxed; aside from a few basic requirements in the major academic fields, you are largely free to choose your own curriculum. If you don’t want to take algebra II or chemistry, you don’t have to take them. Instead, you can pursue independent studies with teachers, or you can take advantage of expanded vocational and technical programs. Meanwhile, the current status of high school as a cauldron of intense and emotionally draining competition is gone. You do not have to look at your peers as competitors first. You do not get up every morning asking yourself how you will get ahead in the college admissions rat race. Because academic performance is no longer a means to secure a life at a particular income bracket, there is no class rank, no statewide standardized tests, no SAT. When you finish your high school career you judge it based not on how well you’ve prepared yourself for meritocratic existence but based on your experiences, your friendships, and your learning for your own sake.
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By the way, deBoer’s day job is a college administrator whose job it is to [drum roll] measure how well students are learning!
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I’m the Academic Assessment Manager at Brooklyn College in the City University of New York system, where I work with faculty and administrators to more effectively measure student learning at the college. I conduct research in assessment, writing pedagogy, and applied linguistics. I also write frequently on higher education policy.
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Hey dummy – you wouldn’t have a job if your preferred system came to be!
If there are no tests or grades, then how do we decide who gets to be a surgeon or an astronaut? Education without grades and tests would be like the Olympics without medals or even tryouts.
back to NJR for more fantasy ramblings
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I must say, though, that I don’t think people who react with horror at his proposal to let 12-year-olds drop out are actually just showing fealty to a cult. I think they have a very real concern, which is that for someone who talks about what could happen “within our lifetimes,” he has not noticed that any “12-year-old dropouts” we can conceive of happening reasonably imminently would probably be very bad, since it would just shuffle the “not cut out for college” ones into their Amazon warehouse jobs. Notice that the 12-year-old dropouts above seem to live in the hypothetical socialist utopia, not in the 2020 United States. Theirs is a world where you can do anything, and you don’t have to be like anybody else, and if you want to spend your life building kites and flying them, that’s fine, because housing is free and so are food and healthcare, and kite-making materials are free for the grabbing down at the communal supplies warehouse. If you want to go back to school later, you can, because we have lifelong free classes on every subject accessible to all, and there’s no stigma to leaving school for a few years, so “dropping out” doesn’t mean what it does in our society. But we must be careful here: this is good if we do all of this. In the socialist dreamland to which we march ever forward, 12-year-old dropouts might not really present a problem (except for the problem of not teaching people critical things they need to know in order to participate in democracy and understand what is going on around them).
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Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 8:59 pm
Oh. My. God.
Who is going to stock the fixing ‘ supply warehouse’ while everyone else is off flying kites, you douche.
Plinker762
on September 20, 2020 at 9:04 pm
Replicators, because it is all fantasy
Derpetologist
on September 20, 2020 at 9:04 pm
Look, fat – in socialist utopia, everyone’s a grasshopper and the summer lasts all year
another appalling portion; from his summary of deBoer’s book
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If intrinsic ability is real and powerful it means our current system cannot serve a majority of those within it; half of everyone will always be below average on educational metrics.
What’s more, intrinsic ability undermines the very case for meritocracy itself: if we cannot determine our own position on the academic ladder, the moral argument that you get what you deserve falls away; no one can choose their genetic makeup.
Instead of attempting to achieve equality of outcomes with bad school reform ideas, we should recognize that differences in intrinsic human abilities, of all kinds, makes the notion of just deserts in a capitalist economy absurd.
We should thus replace the capitalist system, either through reform or revolution, with one that fights to ensure equality of outcomes through cash transfer and the distribution of power to the people.
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[anguished Zoidberg groan]
If everyone gets the same reward no matter how productive they are, what incentive is there to work hard? Of course, I would not expect a college bureaucrat like deBoer to ever ponder such things. It’s not like he gets paid more if his school’s graduation rate or GPA improves.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 9:12 pm
It’s like he doesn’t even understand that everyone had different strengths. Sure, half of people will be below average on any one metric, but everyone (outside of the disabled, and even that isn’t an absolute barrier) is likely to be above average in *something*. At least capitalism had a response (work hard and you can do well) rather than professing literal utopias.
juris imprudent
on September 20, 2020 at 9:13 pm
half of everyone will always be below average on educational metrics
Well I can certainly see why he doesn’t want anyone else to have a better math education.
Freddie, have you ever considered moving to Lake Wobegon?
Cancelled
on September 20, 2020 at 9:12 pm
All of that is true except in one core class. Marxist Leninist Dialectics. Your grades in that class will determine everything about your future, and the exciting part is that they keep all your papers and regrade them every few years when leadership changes and previous dogma becomes heresy. The grading scale runs from bullet to the brain up through nomenklatura, and at either end of that spectrum you get all the food you need. In the middle you get to lose weight.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 9:21 pm
Heh. At least we will all be equal then!
/commies
Glad you kept your avatar, what’s with the handle?
Cancelled
on September 20, 2020 at 9:24 pm
I made some joke, and then riffed on it that I was goingto be cancelled so I changed the name for the joke post and never bothered to change it back. And I kind of like it.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 9:29 pm
That’s kind of what I surmised, or assumed, I guess. But you know what they say about assuming. I like the handle, glad I can tell its you from the avatar to avoid an unnecessary ‘fuck off ‘. (Cause you already know that 😉 )
Derpetologist
on September 20, 2020 at 9:32 pm
I’m barely halfway though and it keeps getting worse:
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Let me tell you when we will have shown something about “fixed limits” on an aspiring engineer’s capacity to do the work: it will be when we have let that person take decades of completely free classes on engineering, taught by every conceivable pedagogical method, and we have no complicating factors in their lives that might make school harder (like having to survive under capitalism, or dealing with trauma, death, and divorce). When we have given students a boundlessly kind, supportive engineering program, that lasts as long as they need and is structured around them with as many of society’s resources as possible put toward its perfection, rather than a brutal one that tells them that 1/3 of their classmates are incapable, then maybe we will know their “natural capacity” for engineering. We will also have to have verified that this program isn’t misogynistic and that we have tried to fix elements that might cause certain students to be more likely to not want to participate.
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So until we have utopia, nobody flunks?
At my engineering school many moons ago, there were 40 of us at the beginning of sophomore year and 13 of us graduated 3 years later.
Reminds me: how about a Profile in Toxic Masculinity about Isambard Kingdom Brunel?
Derpetologist
on September 20, 2020 at 9:34 pm
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. I tell you what, how about this: when we have built an entire society around teaching Arthur Goldfarb of Altoona, PA to be the engineer he aspires to be, when literally every person’s every task is in some way in service of that goal, when every technological innovation is designed under a “help Arthur be an engineer” mandate, when Arthur tries his absolute best for 24 years but still can’t master the material, then let’s conclude that it was just not in Arthur’s genes. Except, of course, we won’t even be able to do it then. Because Arthur likely failed due to the pressure.
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[head desk]
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 9:40 pm
“rather than a brutal one that tells them that 1/3 of their classmates are incapable, then maybe we will know their “natural capacity” for engineering”
Yeah,it is at least 1/2, though, I think your professors had the ratio approximately correct, maybe apply a factor of safety to be sure.
I’m reminded of a story my dad told me about a non-trad electrical engineering student he knew. The guy worked his motherloving ass off to do well in signals and systems. He was at every office hours. He did every homework. He did extra work on the side. Still, he couldn’t hack it. The math was over his head, and there was no reasonable amount of time that would fix the issue. He washed out of engineering school, and my dad lost touch with him.
That’s not an uncommon story, although the lengths this guy went to avoid washing out were extreme. I couldn’t even count how many people I sat next to in various engineering classes who ended up graduating with a business or liberal arts degree. It’s not easy. However, it’s not supposed to be. When you fuck up at engineering, bad things happen. At the low end of the badness spectrum, you slam a multi million dollar space probe into Mars because you forgot to convert units. At the high end, you slam a few 737s full of passengers into the side of a hill because you were too busy focused on Eco to bother with properly testing your software.
The diligence and determination of my dad’s classmate was commendable, but there’s no way in hell i’d ever hop on an airplane he designed. You can’t do everything once you set your mind to it, despite the self-help hucksters’ chants. Recognizing your limits is part of being an adult.
Derpetologist
on September 20, 2020 at 10:02 pm
I was tutoring a middle-aged guy for an the pilot’s license test. One of the questions is about balancing load. Something like, if there is 200 pounds 10 ft aft of the center of gravity, how many pounds can you put 5 ft forward?
It’s a one step algebra problem or perhaps two if you want to complicate it. So I showed the guy how to set up the equation. Let x be the unknown weight, the aft moment must equal the forward moment, etc.
So when I’m done, he says: is there an easier way to do it?
I was thinking that if a guy can’t figure this out, how is he going to make a flight plan and do all the other math? Learning things the hard way can be fatal in aviation.
Sensei
on September 20, 2020 at 10:07 pm
I went to a university with a very well respected engineering school.
I’d say fully 50% of my classmates in my finance program were washed out engineers. I’d imagine the business operations program got a fair share as well.
(OTH – I double majored in finance and marketing. I don’t recall a single former engineering student in any of the higher level marketing classes.)
Derpetologist
on September 20, 2020 at 9:47 pm
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Having a philosophy of equal opportunity does not actually result in real equal opportunity, as we see in the case of women and minority students who are systematically drummed out of STEM by subtly (or unsubtly) bigoted professors.
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Yes, Nathan. Systematically drummed out. We used to keep a bunch of pitchforks in a closet to chase away any non white males who dared set foot on the engineering campus.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 8:32 pm
You’re the man BP. I’ll never get over trumps swastika eyes. Keep up the awesome work, thanks.
Festus' Mustache
on September 21, 2020 at 5:35 am
^^^ This! He’s a really sweet guy to talk to in real time as well (no homo).
Just saw a couple links about that via twitter – technically appeared to be felony manslaughter and a few other charges. The city got the Feds to charge him (or special investigator???) because the DA found it as self defense.
Stinky Wizzleteats
on September 20, 2020 at 8:58 pm
Here’s the video of the incident, it’s hard to see what’s going on but it looks like he’s backing away from several people before shots are fired. What the hell is it with people assaulting other people who have firearms visible?
This is my first hearing of this, hard to tell from the video, but the narrator gives a good idea of what is going on.
Agree with you, maybe time to go long on wood chippers.
Plinker762
on September 20, 2020 at 9:06 pm
What the hell is up with people assaulting others, armed or unarmed?
blackjack
on September 20, 2020 at 9:03 pm
WHA? Dude was attacked by numerous people, after trying to defend his dad. The guy who got shot had him in a chokehold, after knowing he was armed and had previously been attacked. Looked like a good shoot to me. There was never any reason to jump him, in the first place, nevermind pushing his dad to the ground. Some thug does that to me and…
straffinrun
on September 20, 2020 at 9:05 pm
He was looking at a prosecution and having his name tarnished forever with “white supremacist”. Everybody has their breaking point. Lack said it right, “Poor guy.”
blackjack
on September 20, 2020 at 9:12 pm
Fucked up assed world we seem to be creating here!
Stinky Wizzleteats
on September 20, 2020 at 9:06 pm
It’s the criminalization of self-defense. Sure, you aren’t dead but you’ll be bankrupt from defending yourself or in prison. It was a bullshit political prosecution that was undertaken for obvious reasons.
Plinker762
on September 20, 2020 at 9:10 pm
The government is more afraid of the average person realizing they need to provide their own security. Criminals and rioters pose no threat to the government types and in fact they provide further proof for the “need” for govt.
Attorneys representing Gardner held a news conference in Omaha on Sunday saying he killed himself. They maintained Gardner shot 22-year-old James Scurlock on May 30 in “a clear case of self defense” and that he fled Nebraska sometime before the indictment because he feared for his safety.
Stinky Wizzleteats
on September 20, 2020 at 9:17 pm
Again, thanks to everyone with kind words. I’ll try to keep it up fairly regularly – and if I can stay off booze, I might even succeed.
Also, hi Elspeth! I hope everything is great with you and the Ayatollah of the wasteland.
Derpetologist
on September 20, 2020 at 8:51 pm
The first 2 days of going dry are the hardest. The next hurdle is making it through a weekend. After that, it gets easy because you’ve built up momentum.
My mood has improved, I sleep better, and have more energy. I’m looking forward to keep that up for at least another 2 weeks.
CPRM
on September 20, 2020 at 8:53 pm
Once a month is enough to keep em happy, and paying. Not that I would know anything about doing as little as possible to keep the little people happy.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 9:07 pm
After a certain age, the lure of excessive drinking is significantly lessened.
I’m already dumb enough, tired enough and coarse enough to be happy.
Doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy a beer or six from time to time but the days of downing a case from noon to sunrise are gone, for me.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 9:46 pm
Heh, I guess it says something about me that 6 beers in one sitting isn’t excessive, whatever, you got a warrant?
Derpetologist
on September 20, 2020 at 10:32 pm
I have killed many a 6 pack in a single night. A few 12 packs too.
my never-ending 6 packs
domestic cans
Coal Miner’s Daughter oatmeal stout
Old Chub scotch ale
Alaska Amber
Shiner Bock
California Creamin’
Shotgun Betty hefeweizen
domestic bottles
Moose Drool brown ale
Anchor Steam lager
Founders porter
The Poet oatmeal stout
Allagash White
Sarnac Black Forest black lager
import
Baltika porter
Marston’s oyster stout
Skull Splitter scotch ale
Hobgoblin ale
Piraat ale
Paulaner Doppelbock
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 10:48 pm
Why aren’t scotch ales more mainstream?
Fixing delicious.
straffinrun
on September 20, 2020 at 8:55 pm
Good installment of SNP. Gratuitous use of hotties fully appreciated.
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Literally meaning “Hibiscus egg”, this dish is prepared with beaten eggs and most often minced ham. It may be made with various vegetables such as bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, sliced cabbage, spring onions, mushrooms, and water chestnuts.[5] When meat is used as an ingredient, a choice of roast pork, shrimp, chicken, beef, or lobster may be offered.
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Sounds like an omelette.
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In Chinese Indonesian cuisine, it is known as fu yung hai, sometimes spelled pu yung hai. The omelette is usually made from the mixture of vegetables such as carrots, bean sprouts, and cabbages, mixed with meats such as crab meat, shrimp, or minced chicken. The dish is served in sweet and sour sauce with peas.
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It is an omelette!
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French, earlier amelette (alteration of alumette ), variant of alumelle, from lemele ‘knife blade’, from Latin lamella (see lamella). The association with ‘knife blade’ is probably because of the thin flat shape of an omelet.
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Ah, lamella, that’s where the term laminar flow comes from, because the fluid moves in discrete layers like pushing over a deck of cards.
It’s hard to figure out what he actually meant to say.
Cancelled
on September 20, 2020 at 9:25 pm
That’s what he said.
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 9:25 pm
Interesting coincidence that the secret Nazi should make an appearance tonight. I was just listening to the Ben Shapiro show, with Matt Yglesias as a guest. Their conversation started me thinking about just how skewed our world views can become. Suddenly in 2016 Trump became a Nazi dictator racist who spoke in dog whistles. Now, he had never even been rumored to be a racist or a nazi or a dictator at any point prior. But suddenly upon running for office his Nazi dictator tendencies were obvious to 1/3 of the country.
So I’m listening to Yglesias talking, and he keeps saying things that are to him obvious, uncontestable, foundational facts of the universe. Things like “we have people from conservative leaning areas travelling to far away cities with their guns to take control”.
Now, I’m fairly sure he was talking about Rittenhouse. So in his world, Rittenhouse was a far right guy who travelled to a far away city in order to take over the streets from leftists. It was a power move.
He says this as a toss off comment about “things that are happening in our country”. There were several other “foundational facts” that he mentioned which I had a problem with, (like saying that Republicans in congress passed a law to rename french fries in response to 9/11) but let’s stick with this one thing.
The way he mentioned it, it was obvious that he thought that this was something uncontroversial and indisputable.
Obviously, there are some serious holes in his knowledge.
But what it pointed out to me was just how strong our will to build our own reality is. Confirmation bias is so extremely powerful that we are completely blind to this process in ourselves. In this case, it was particularly striking because Yglesias was discussing his new book, which calls for civil dialog on areas of political disagreement, and acknowledgement that our priorities and opinions are not all the same. So he was discussing how people on the far right “make up conspiracies” to protect their invented reality…. and this is one of the gems that he drops, completely unaware.
So here we have a political reporter and pundit who has written on the topic, but does not know that Rittenhouse worked in Kenosha, that he lived a half hour away in a suburb which is across state lines (which allowed the left to build a narrative about people traveling from out of state), that he was not there to “take over the streets” in a power move, but was invited by an immigrant minority business owner who had seen two of his three properties burned out by Antifa over the preceding days and was not being protected by the police. He not only was unaware of these facts, he deeply believed that he was well familiar with all of the facts, that all of those facts are fairly universally well known and are uncontroversially believed.
In an effort to do an interview rather than a debate, Shapiro never corrected him on any of his glaring misstatements of fact. But it leads us to an impasse.
We are in a world where reality simply does not exist for many people.
The question is… how many?
It is a universal psychological impulse. Confirmation bias is extremely powerful and extremely hard to detect. It is one of the reasons that the scientific method was invented – to root out our unconscious biases. These biases are so difficult to detect that renowned psychologists who were investigating paranormal phenomena 4 and 5 decades ago were unable to design properly blinded experiments. And they were unable to design experiments that were impervious to intentional deception. It took a magician coming to their lab and demonstrating the weakness of their experimental design to remove the scales from their eyes.
So if our biases are so strong that they survive in that environment, what hope do we have in a society where the press wants to manipulate everything we see – you know, to protect us from “fake news”.
We don’t even have any data on how much censoring is being done by Google, Facebook and Twitter. We do see some specific incidents, and we do know that those incidents all lean one direction.
But what to do?
And what about us? This is a universal phenomenon. So how are we being guilty of this? I can see nutty Trump supporters repeating stupid memes, or making wild claims from time to time… and I tend to give them more of a pass than I do some BLM supporter who wants to do away with racist cultural tools of colonialism and oppression like logic, the nuclear family and the scientific method.
But what of the bias that I am not seeing? I think of myself as being a mostly rational being. I do not see myself as being swayed by emotional arguments. I don’t see my own irrational confirmation bias.
So where does our confirmation bias live? What are our worst sins? Surely we have some whoppers – maybe not as bad as your typical Vox employee, but they have to be there, us being human and all.
What say you? Where are our biggest blind spots? Where do we bend reality to conform to our wishes?
straffinrun
on September 20, 2020 at 9:31 pm
Didn’t some people travel to Portland from Oregon’s hinterlands as a show of opposition to antifa?
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 9:41 pm
There was good reporting on that over at Reason.
Apparently that’s a thing they do over there. A bunch of these groups you’ve never heard of are basically frat boys fighting against the anarchists in Portland and Washington. It goes back 25 years, so it is a long history.
But even in that case, they did not under any plausible definition of the term “attempt to take over the streets with guns”. They drove through town with flags and used pepper spray and paintballs to defend their vehicles and persons from attack. It was larping trucks against larping antifa dweebs.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 9:47 pm
Maybe this is some confirming bias.
I hope they weren’t dumb enough not to have guns too.
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 10:44 pm
That event was where the guy was gunned down by a crazy Antifa supporter. You know, the execution style shooting where a mob yelled “we got another one right here” and called people to come get him… then a nut with a handgun walks up and shoots him execution style … all caught on video.
Surely you saw how that video was played endlessly on CNN? Surely you remember how CNN pointed out the politically motivated violence against people simply for expressing support for a political candidate?
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 10:46 pm
No doubt there is media bias.
Iknow very smart, kind, helpful people who believe Antifa is nonviolent. . .
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 11:00 pm
Also, all violence,looting and arson is the work of white supremacist infiltrators. Have heard this from no less than 2 people who are probably smarter than me.
Their mere presence in downtown Portland, which belong to antifa and leftists, is unconscionable. Violent force is acceptable to confront such an infraction.
Deification of markets. Markets quite often suck and do things that are irrational, unproductive, or downright immoral. Markets are only as good as the people participating in them.
“They deserve it” syndrome. Whenever somebody gets steamrolled by life, there must be some character flaw, because hard work and diligent frugality always ends up in success.
Sensei
on September 20, 2020 at 9:39 pm
+ 1 on markets. They suck, but I’m not aware of a better general alternative.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 9:35 pm
Great comment, glad you turned it around, because I would have if you didn’t. :p
Generally, we assume things would be better without government interference when there isn’t always evidence for that claim. Specific instances are most likely to be related to that.
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 9:46 pm
You and overlord make points directly related to one universally held libertarian bias.
People suck.
They really do.
People will generally do the right thing in a one-on-one, humanized situation. But given the opportunity or when collected in groups, they suck. They summed it up well in “men in black” when Tommy Lee Jones says ” A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.”
I suspect that politics primarily moves on that second insight.
straffinrun
on September 20, 2020 at 9:51 pm
People don’t suck. You’re right about the stupidity that comes from the mob, though. Controlling the instincts of the mob is always the biggest challenge of any political system especially because some systems rely on the mob for power.
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 10:38 pm
That’s what I mean by “people”. In groups… detached from “the other”.
It could be writ small like not letting that guy on the highway get over in heavy traffic (he’s an other), or as big as a nation going along with “the final solution”. It can be a mob in front of the courthouse in Portland, or it can be a bunch of suburban moms in the Charlotte area panicking about ritual sexual abuse at the local daycare.
Groups reinforce themselves. Groupthink is a thing. A group set off on the wrong path can continue on it’s own momentum for quite a long and dangerous way.
Just look at what BLM has been able to do (with a little help). They took an absolute fabrication (hands up, don’t shoot) and used group identity to create a false belief that “Other” people are out to kill them.
There are a lot of people out there looking to use the mob for power right now. I just don’t see any charismatic leaders who can ride that mob to power.
straffinrun
on September 20, 2020 at 10:49 pm
The individual needs others to bounce their interpretations of reality off of or they come to insane conclusions. The mob bounces it’s insane conclusions off of the individual and forces compliance. I don’t know how to stop the latter from working on most people. My only guess is making “ends justifying the means” a completely unacceptable tactic and using force against it.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 11:03 pm
When my cohort e’re saying that intolerance of isn’t an issue I should have known we were in the wrong track. I just didn’t realize how widespread that view would become.
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 10:05 pm
I like that you were anticipating the 4 fingers pointing back at myself.
For me that is the distinction between sentience and intelligence, to make an exaggerated analogy. That particular penchant is what I love about South Park. They always skewer their own Ox as well as everyone else’s.
That self-reflection is what is sorely missing in today’s political landscape. Watching Chris Cuomo fellate his brother on national TV over his handling of the pandemic, for instance. That level of hubris should be untenable in a healthy society. But we all avoid any sort of self reflection with such passion, that sort of sickening distortion of reality is not only tolerated, there’s a large segment of society out there celebrating it.
I think I’m hard wired to look inward first, but I have made it a fundamental building block of my world view as well. I also tend to be something of a Pollyanna, which is weird for someone who spends so much time being cynical. But my first impression of others is always charitable. I have adapted that into a philosophy that Steven Novella put into words for me… “Always take the most favorable version of the other person’s position”
Most people tend to do the opposite of that, impugning motives that they imagine others having. It makes the world a worse place, and it weakens your own arguments because you end up arguing against straw men you construct in your head. By taking the best possible version of the other person’s position, you hone your own thoughts. And you ensure that you treat everyone with a level of respect.
It is a pretty good philosophy.
I wish that we all could understand the world in a way similar to the South Park episode on Mormons, which is one of my favorite things of all time. It spends the entire episode destroying mormons and getting you all whipped up about your own superiority.. only to utterly and completely obliterate that position in the last moment. Unfortunately, the world is filled with Cartman clones instead.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 10:23 pm
Ha!
Re:Chris Cuomo, he can’t really be related to the governor. No way I’d let my brother off easy payback time asshole!
Neither ‘ side’is particularly introspective or curious/generous about the other sides motives right now, which is what makes everything so dangerous.
Tangentially, you sound like my brother.
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 10:30 pm
You are related to someone that smart and insightful? That’s impressive!
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 10:43 pm
XD
Don’t get too excited, he’s also a total fuxk up. Though he’s doing better lately.
In some circles, the acronym “DFL” is used to comment code. It means “Drunk; fix later.”
It always made me snicker internally that the Minnesota Democrat party is officially the Democrat-Farmer-Labor party, or DFL for short.
“Drunk; fix later.” Street violence and arson; fix later once we have power.
I don’t think they have really thought through how they are going to put the mob violence genie back in the bottle.
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 10:10 pm
There has been a meme making the rounds about how Hitler used withdrawing police, inflammatory rhetoric and his brownshirts attacking people and property to turn a republic into a dictatorship.
I don’t see how people can miss the parallels.
They are looking to end the first amendment, the second amendment, pack the court and the senate, eliminate the electoral college, amnesty their way to an extra 30 million (D) voters…
I don’t think they see it as a genie that needs putting back. At least not with any urgency.
dbleagle
on September 20, 2020 at 9:32 pm
Hey SP. Check your email for a message I sent last night.
Damn you NFL. I want to quit you but here I am watching games anyway. It is handy that I can watch a game before sailing an SNF comes on while the sun is still well above the horizon.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 9:44 pm
I just check the scores after the game on Google. I’ve lived long enough to know we will disappoint.
The chicks around here really like to wear *team*leggings to wegmans. Some hotties out there shopping for the game tho. Damn.
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 10:14 pm
Ok… that fired off a random neuron….
Around here there is something that is generally “only seen at walmart”. It is a unitard outfit… a thin body stocking like yoga pants, except it is one piece for the entire body. Around here I have exclusively seen them worn at Walmart by larger black women, usually with overlarge false eyelashes, large wigs, etc. The seem extremely inappropriate for wearing in public.
Is this a thing anywhere else? Does it cross racial lines elsewhere?
What is that thing called? And would you (or your wife) wear one of those things in public?
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 10:18 pm
I think I’ve seen similar.
A unitard? Don’t think there’s a better word for it.
My wife probably would because she has no sense of propriety. :/
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 10:27 pm
Outstanding! Nice to have a woman who is comfortable in her own skin.
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 10:28 pm
That said, that outfit is an abomination. I’ve never seen anyone who could really pull it off wearing it, and even if they could pull it off… still… just no.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 10:41 pm
That is certainly a benefit, which shouldn’t be overlooked. She looks the same with or without makeup on. Very down to earth.
And yes, a unitard is an abomination unless you’re doing gymnastics.
hayeksplosives
on September 20, 2020 at 10:50 pm
I confess I watched too
It did seem like they were doing less pandering. I’m sure the NFL is watching it’s polling data.
straffinrun
on September 20, 2020 at 9:42 pm
I don’t get it. Where the fuck is mother fucking fuckity fucking joke? I want muh humor back!
America best film talent can do almost as good of a job as high schoolers, good job?!
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 9:51 pm
Lol, so much cringe. Losers.
straffinrun
on September 20, 2020 at 9:53 pm
I used to get the jokes of comedians with differing political bents than me, but this kind of stuff is incomprehensible and really bugs me for some reason.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 9:58 pm
I have enjoyed a few episodes of the daily show, before they got that south African guy.
Jimmy’s problem is he peaked when he was googling girls on trampolines, the cunt.
CPRM
on September 20, 2020 at 10:03 pm
But it’s racist to do blackface, unless you’re making fun of Charles Barkley, because he leans ever so slightly to the right, and is there fore Hitler, I think i got my science right there.
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 10:26 pm
It was Carl Malone. Who bought himself an 18 wheeler when he made it in the league.. because he’s from the country in Louisiana and he likes big trucks. So your point stands.
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 10:24 pm
I first noticed this as a trend in political humor about 30 years ago. I went to an Atlanta comedy club with my sister and her date… she had just been to a pro-choice march in DC, (recent college grad at the time) and as such skewed pretty liberal in her politics.
The headliner comes on.. and she literally just goes “How about that George Bush!?! Can you believe that guy??? And what about Newt Gingrich? Newt? Are you kidding me? Newt?” She gets crickets from the audience. Pretty quickly she realizes that her shtick is dying hard. Finally she tells us “I guess I should have known that the south would be full of rednecks who vote republican. They can’t understand political humor like the crowd we were playing to in New York last week”
I was cringing…. I would have walked out, but I was worried about what was going through my sister’s head. As the lights came up and my wife and I gathered our things.. my sister goes “Holy crap, that was terrible!”
And all was well with the world.
But that comedienne… She firmly believed that just going “what about those republicans?” and smirking was a joke. I suppose she sort of predicted the Rachel Maddow phenomenon a decade or so early.
If you can’t poke fun at your own team, you are not going to be funny.
Chris Rock was excellent at that. He could skewer white america because he was also able to skewer black america. Dave Chappelle, same thing.
That’s why the Babylon Bee is funny and the Daily Show is not. The Bee started out poking fun at christians and church culture. They poke their own. That allows them to see real humor and not just “those guys are soooo stupid!”
straffinrun
on September 20, 2020 at 10:30 pm
The joke needs to have some kind of twist. If the setup is exactly what you think the punchline is going to be, it isn’t a joke. It’s a lecture.
That part perked my ears up a bit and then I realized that it wasn’t going to be a joke at Her expense.
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 10:56 pm
That’s kind of right down main street of what I’m talking about with “self awareness”.
Why would any black person put up with a party that has candidates that do stuff like that?
Biden with “you ain’t black”, Put Ya’ll back in chains and his most recent ridiculousness, playing “Despicito” on his phone to pretend to be down with the Latinos.
CPRM
on September 20, 2020 at 10:39 pm
A joke, by definition, is the reversal of expectations in a humorous way. Something too few comedians understand.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 10:44 pm
Yeah I’ve only lately heard that definition, but completely state. Maybe I’m just slow but i couldn’t have told you 5 years ago why something is funny.
CPRM
on September 20, 2020 at 10:56 pm
Humor has been my creative outlet for years, the only thing I wanted from my great aunt’s estate was here Laurel and Hardy figurines, because that was when I started learning about comedy.
I keep imagining this Hollywood circle jerk including something along the lines of:
“Tonight, we award the Best People of Color, as Determined by White People. Join me, please, in a standing ovation for tonight’s nominees, for simply existing?”
CPRM
on September 20, 2020 at 9:44 pm
Straff, after I leave Minnesota, I’m going to spend a couple days closer to you stomping ground, down by La Crosse.
I was very excited when I stopped in Wausau on my way north (I mean Wausau is west of me, but I headed that way to go north because FTW), they had Red Dog, which has not been on my local shelves for near 3 months. So I bought all 3 cases that were there. I’m having a grand old time.
straffinrun
on September 20, 2020 at 9:48 pm
Ought to keep you stocked til Wednesday, eh?
CPRM
on September 20, 2020 at 9:51 pm
Hopefully.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 9:49 pm
Glad youre getting out bro.
CPRM
on September 20, 2020 at 9:56 pm
Much more relaxing than the weeks I was laid off due to the panicdemic, since I know my PTO will come come through on my next check, not months later like the unemployment.
PudPaisley
on September 20, 2020 at 10:54 pm
CPRM, let me know if you want to get together one night, since I live in La Crosse. How long are you going to be in the area?
CPRM
on September 20, 2020 at 11:05 pm
I’ll be getting there tomorrow afternoon and staying Monday and Tuesday night. I’m gonna be not quite in La Crosse, Perrot State Park.
PudPaisley
on September 20, 2020 at 11:25 pm
Okay. I have your email from the Honey Harvest list. If I think I might have some time Tuesday evening, I’ll send you an email and see if you want to get together. I’m taking a three day weedend, so have a short week to get a lot of things done. I can always drive up to Trempealeau to meet you. The Trempealeau Hotel is a good place for a drink or some food.
CPRM
on September 20, 2020 at 11:34 pm
I’ll keep a lookout, But I’ll warn you, I’ve had trouble with the WIFI hotpsot I’m using, and couldn’t get into my e-mail using it when I was using it Friday and Saturday. So don’t be offended if I don’t respond.
PudPaisley
on September 20, 2020 at 11:38 pm
10-4. It’s kind of a long shot I’ll have time to meet, but I’ll do my best to get done early-ish on Tuesday.
Mars should be coming up soon in the East(?), but won’t be easily visible until 11ish.
I’ve been observing Jupiter and Saturn for the last month through my new telescope, and it’s pretty nice to have them so close together.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 10:11 pm
It’s 11 here and it’s in the east?
My phone really fixing hates me. East isn’t a word really?
Ownbestenemy
on September 20, 2020 at 10:13 pm
At the horizon right now. Sky Map app is your friend.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 10:28 pm
Did I mention they my phone hates me?
Another app is the kart thing it can handle. 😀
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 10:31 pm
Last* I’ve been doing so well countering its sabotage up until now.
Ownbestenemy
on September 20, 2020 at 10:40 pm
I get it.
Ownbestenemy
on September 20, 2020 at 10:12 pm
Arecyou able to pick up Pluto inbetween them? I wish i had a telescope and not a shopping center across the street. Jupiter is a beautiful site to the naked eye
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 10:12 pm
Good advice, 5 logs added. Feeling much warmer. .. beer is incidental.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 10:15 pm
Maybe I was seeing Saturn then. Used to be Jupiter in the East in the early mornings. ffs, this thing still doesn’t believe east is a word.
straffinrun
on September 20, 2020 at 10:01 pm
Good job on all your hard work, boys. You deserve a treat.
Digby I told Tundra I might not come back to Honey Harvest next year because I was planning to take my days off if you come up, then he said ‘Yeah, I’ve seen you guys are close.’ I think he may be onto us! We must hide this love that cannot be spoken!
On another note, I bought more food than I needed for this trip because until a week ago my little brother said he was coming along. I’ve only managed to eat one meal a day so far and Mrs. Fourscore insisted on giving me a couple containers of left overs, Fourscore insisted I take some peppers and honey, I may get home with more food than I started with.
J. Frank Parnell
on September 20, 2020 at 10:34 pm
Weekly family Zoom meeting update:
My relatives – who all fucking love science and generally intolerant of anti-vaxxers – are not going to take Trump’s vaccine, because Trump is a big fan of Putin and Putin’s M.O. is to poison people.
Derpetologist
on September 20, 2020 at 10:36 pm
Friends are god’s way of apologizing for your shitty relatives.
Those are some grade school jokes. But good on them for displaying that their comedy only works when they have sycophants being told to laugh and applause.
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 11:02 pm
Nice comeback in the comments….
“Looks like a Biden rally!”
hayeksplosives
on September 20, 2020 at 10:59 pm
They just report the opposite, dont they? Implying that nobody goes to MAGA rallies, when in reality it’s Biden who can’t draw a crowd.
Just like when the Simpsons did a bit on election fraud, they showed the machines rigged to change votes from Obama to McCain. Cuz we all know how those GOPers get caught all the time doing vote fraud. Uh-huh.
Ownbestenemy
on September 20, 2020 at 11:03 pm
Because they think millions still hang on their words as celebrities. Some still do and they get enough clicks and ad revenue to believe they are still relevant.
That tweet above just proves the left cant meme.
hayeksplosives
on September 20, 2020 at 11:19 pm
What an oddly distorted view “celebrities” must have of the real world.
They grossly overestimate the importance of their words on any social or political matters.
Case in point: that Z list actress Meghan Markle has returned to live in the US where she wants to be an influencer. ~snort~
She issued a statement about RBG and what an inspiration she was to Meghan. Sure.
She’s been pretty obviously leftie in her statements, and rumors are that she might enter politics. Good thing she left Britain; royals aren’t supposed to be openly political.
Ownbestenemy
on September 20, 2020 at 11:33 pm
I saw the actor that played Captain Winters in Band of Brothers at LAX once and I said to myself “hey thats the guy who played Captain Winters” and then I got into a cab.
The whorship people have towards “celebrities” is sick
Hyperion
on September 20, 2020 at 10:54 pm
Pecky!
hayeksplosives
on September 20, 2020 at 10:59 pm
Wha?
Derpetologist
on September 20, 2020 at 10:59 pm
Why is it that I learn these things from Fox News?
***
Black Voices For Trump board member Paris Dennard said Sunday that President Trump is well within his right to name a successor to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and that the New York City native was confirmed by the Senate in a shorter time than there is from now until the 2020 elections.
Dennard, a former George W. Bush White House staffer, told “America’s News HQ” that there have been 29 instances of a Supreme Court vacancy occurring during an election year, and that Ginsburg was confirmed in fewer than the 44 days until November 3.
***
hayeksplosives
on September 20, 2020 at 11:02 pm
All good points, and all lost on deaf ears. Voters think in tweets and reposted memes.
Only a racist would have said such a thing. Someone go find a white, female 22 year old humanities major from Swathmore college, dressed all in black to scream in his face about systemic racism.
CPRM
on September 20, 2020 at 11:13 pm
And all accounts of the Garland nomination fail to mention Obama wasn’t even running, as he’d limited out. So no matter what, he would be imposing his pick on his predecessor.
hayeksplosives
on September 20, 2020 at 11:09 pm
One of my Facebook friends us straining my attempts to be apolitical on Facebook. She posted a rant about being angry that poor old Ginsburg was forced to work until her dying breath to keep the US from turning into a totalitarian nightmare. Says that she’s angry that she will lose control over her own body. Then for emphasis “Angry. And scared.”
—facepalm—
Trump should push a nominee quickly because the reality of Whomever he picks will be less scary than whatever demon the undecided voters imagine Trump would pick “if he were re-elected.”
straffinrun
on September 20, 2020 at 11:12 pm
RGB could’ve retired when team blue had the white house and congress. She was 80 at the time, but clinging to power was more important than helping out her team.
Ownbestenemy
on September 20, 2020 at 11:15 pm
Even the major networks at the time floated that. Whatever, she didn’t and she died. I havenno problem with the politics that the Senate played in ’16 and I have no problem with them now. As lomg as its all Constitutional.
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 11:13 pm
Ginsburg was reliable to the D wing of the court… but I don’t know if I would call her a friend of liberty. Seems she liked her some state power when she agreed with the political objectives.
Urthona
on September 20, 2020 at 11:14 pm
This is a massive boon for Republicans. Even if they lose the election now, they’ll get one more non-far-left justice in place.
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 11:17 pm
He really needs a replacement sworn in before the election.
And get ready for the riotous reason why (pun intended).
Team D has made it clear that there will be court battles if Trump wins. So with Roberts being entirely likely to side with the D block, he needs that justice to avoid any 4-4 splits.
Think they are worried about RvW now? Wait until an RBG replacement gets to vote on Biden’s 43,000 late mail in ballots in Ohio.
CPRM
on September 20, 2020 at 11:17 pm
If only the poor gal had joined a union, then RGB would have retired with full bennies before she ever got a sniff at the chair.
straffinrun
on September 20, 2020 at 11:10 pm
Looks like the left is hell bent on making you choose between a gulag state or an ethno state. Thank gawd you still have Free Will.
cyto
on September 20, 2020 at 11:14 pm
Neal Peart died. He may have taken Freewill with him.
SBS has decided to stop airing South Park after broadcasting the controversial cartoon for the last 23 years, TV Blackbox reports.
The public broadcaster now wants to focus on original content on SBS Viceland rather than licensing the American adult animated sitcom.
When the series began in 1997, commercial networks Seven, Nine and 10 rejected the edgy program but SBS made the bold decision to air it.
That is the entire ‘article’, fucksake. It’s less informative than a fucking tweet,
Ownbestenemy
on September 20, 2020 at 11:30 pm
Given their drastic crackdowns, cant have satire or a show making fun of them now can you? People might get an idea that its all a damn cruel joke
CPRM
on September 20, 2020 at 11:40 pm
I mean, I don’t even know where SBS is from that article.
grrizzly
on September 20, 2020 at 11:52 pm
Australia is more complicated than this. I watch Aussie-rules football because Port Adelaide plays at home with 20k spectators, none of them wearing masks. The club is based in Adelaide, South Australia. Half of the teams in the same league are from the state of Victoria, the one turned into gulag. These teams have temporarily relocated to other states in the country, like NSW or Queensland. It’s an eerie experience of contradiction that the Aussie commentators never address.
Chafed
on September 20, 2020 at 11:56 pm
State censorship or some other reason?
grrizzly
on September 21, 2020 at 12:09 am
The broadcast is done by networks like Seven that rejected South Park decades ago: they were never that edgy. I can vouch for the entirety of their broadcast: because of the time zone difference I fast forward thru all the talk, I watch it recorded. But I did catch a human interest story when the children of a team from Victoria but not Melbourne, Geelong Cats, were able to travel to see their dads. Victoria outside of Melbourne was always less brutalized. That might explain it. But it had a whiff of North Korea, too.
grrizzly
on September 21, 2020 at 12:10 am
Cannot vouch.
Lackadaisical
on September 20, 2020 at 11:24 pm
Finally got a proper bed of coals. Nice and toasty, but it’s time for bed. Good night all.
I really enjoyed learning that “things like this happen” because we don’t fully fund schools and we have not taken funds from the police to invest in our children.
Yes–just imagine the damage the proles would do if they actually kept the money they make. I mean, they go around shooting each other, so, can’t trust them to spend money as they see fit.
Only government can save us! (No, not them–the other part of government.)
hayeksplosives
on September 20, 2020 at 11:48 pm
All these gang bangers and wannabes get guns and think that will give them superpowers.
They didn’t grow up on a farm with an older relative teaching gun safety and shooting technique. Probably don’t even know how to clean a gun.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the NRA went into inner cities offering free gun safety courses and range time to disadvantaged minorities? The left’a heads would explode.
Oh well. At least this way we have better odds of survival in a firefight against the left wing mobs if they come.
To be fair, this would also happen with 00 buckshot. Or, slugs.
Or, .50 BMG.
/just sayin…
Chafed
on September 20, 2020 at 11:54 pm
That is grade A derp.
hayeksplosives
on September 21, 2020 at 12:07 am
That’s some fine reporting there, Lou.
Franklin D. Roosevelt made attempts to pack the court back in 1937 when the Republican president wanted to pass his New Deal laws and needed more conservative justices in the court to vote in favor of them.
Depending on the page, I would think the author may write some things on Wiki!
Ownbestenemy
on September 21, 2020 at 12:20 am
Its one thing for the people to make political threats its another for actual politicians to make them
Brochettaward
on September 21, 2020 at 12:26 am
Posted to my Derpbook today:
“Women, if you have a credit card in your own name and your own credit history, if you have leased an apartment or bought property in your name, if you have consented to your own medical treatment, if you played a sport in school, you can thank Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”
This is going to be history taught 50 years from now. That in the before 1993 times that women couldn’t have their own line of credit or get medical treatment without a male present. It’s not just a retarded meme.
RBG has a genuine, honest-to-God cult of personality.
And, yes–I see it, in a lesser form, with DJT. I do think, though, that it’s more reactionary than what goes on with RBG.
Brochettaward
on September 21, 2020 at 12:37 am
My main point goes beyond RBG to the broader way history is rewritten. The left likes to say they are on the right side of history. They’re going to be sure of that and I have to question a lot of the general history that was taught to me in public schools.
A hearty “DIAF” to people who use that term seriously.
hayeksplosives
on September 21, 2020 at 12:46 am
I never noticed it until Obama, and he used it plenty. It’s pretty much the same as saying “Cone on, become a Patriots fan so you can identify with the winning team, not with those losers you root for because they’re your team.”
I”always stand for your principles. Even if it means standing alone. Actually, standing alone would be like super embarrassing, so just stand over there with the crowd that is winning.”
salted earth
on September 21, 2020 at 1:02 am
When combined, Brochettaward’s and Digby’s avatars make an interesting scary movie.
I bought a Time magazine year in review issue for 2001 when it came out because I had an inkling even then that contemporary reporting and opinions would be vastly different from the way it would be told later.
I should dig that up and give it a read…
hayeksplosives
on September 21, 2020 at 12:38 am
My jaw is on the floor. Do the under thirty crowd really believe she was she was a suffragette at the turn of the 20th century?
Old is old to many of those worshipers. Probably can’t tell that she wasn’t around for the signing of the DoI.
Ownbestenemy
on September 21, 2020 at 12:39 am
So my mom…who had all that in ’84 is because of The RGB? Fuck all them and their revisionist bullshit.
hayeksplosives
on September 21, 2020 at 12:48 am
They are emboldened every time they push the envelope a little and get away with it.
Ownbestenemy
on September 21, 2020 at 1:43 am
This is similar when my brother tried to make an assertion about healthcare being important when he and I were born.
I called him out on his bullsheet after I confirmed with my mother anf father that insurance was only “life or limb” at the time and that my mom paid off the doc in payments of 20/month for 2 months.
Its that type of reimaging how life was prior to when ever they decide to make it so that pisses me off.
I have a strong feeling that what they are implying is that, w/o her, the SC would have overturned every “advancement” made for women in legislation. Because male Nazgul only want to enslave women, and are to be feared and have war waged against them.
Thus, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Plinker762
on September 21, 2020 at 12:54 am
They would have been put back into chains
hayeksplosives
on September 21, 2020 at 12:56 am
I thought women go in binders and blacks go in chains?
Better ask Uncle Joe.
Plinker762
on September 21, 2020 at 1:04 am
I have a feeling it’s all a jumble in his mind.
hayeksplosives
on September 21, 2020 at 12:51 am
So now we have Founding Mother Ruth Bader Ginsburg to go along with Republican President FDR trying yo pack the Court with conservative justices to pass the New Desl.
What in the everloving fuck do they teach in journalism now?
Eh, can’t expect the Limeys to get our stuff correct…the embarrassment of one of your kids kicking your ass–twice–can be problematic.
hayeksplosives
on September 21, 2020 at 1:07 am
😀
Plinker762
on September 21, 2020 at 1:12 am
My life experience must be different than a lot of others. My mother was born in the mid 20’s. Grew up on the east coast and went to college in Denver. Hiked and camped all over the Rockies and was a photographer for the National Geographic. Doing all of this while she was single in the late 40s and 50s. After my parents were married, my dad worked and my mom took care of the family finances.
Brochettaward
on September 21, 2020 at 1:18 am
A lot of shit that was just cultural gets passed off as systematic discrimination. It’s less that there were legal roadblocks for many things as much as it wasn’t common. Sort of like how women don’t go into STEM fields on average and the left pretends its because of patriarchy.
But their dishonesty makes me question a whole ton of shit…
straffinrun
on September 21, 2020 at 1:02 am
Just rolled my ankle. Haven’t done that in years. Ice time.
My wrist is in solidarity with your ankle. We might have to trade notes later on, since this seems kinda kinky.
straffinrun
on September 21, 2020 at 1:12 am
Remember when you looked down and there were only one set of footprints in the sand? That’s when Hayek and Digby were carrying me. Wait… you get the point.
Homophobia implies judgement. I don’t discriminate. I’m just an umpire calling things as I see’em. Whether you are the top or the bottom in this crazy tipsy topsy world is just as irrelevant. I just call a gay a gay and a strike a strike.
straffinrun
on September 21, 2020 at 1:24 am
You see a lot of gay stuff in your life?
Brochettaward
on September 21, 2020 at 1:33 am
Everything is either gay or not gay. And then things in the middle between being gay or not gay.
hayeksplosives
on September 21, 2020 at 1:03 am
In the topic of Joe Biden’s level of mental competency:
When he says 100 million Americans have died of covid and that 200million will have died before it’s done, is it that he is truly awful at reading a teleprompter, or does he believe those numbers?
I’d like to sit across the table from him in a neutral setting and ask basic questions. How far is the earth from the moon? What’s the population of the US? Of the world? Is the distance from LA to New York more or less than 10000 miles?
hayeksplosives
on September 21, 2020 at 1:06 am
True or false: Ukraine shares a border with Germany.
How many US representatives are there?
H hi ow many people die per day in the US of any cause?
straffinrun
on September 21, 2020 at 1:16 am
I’m beginning to think he meant to say Planned Parenthood.
Ownbestenemy
on September 21, 2020 at 1:23 am
Its either an elaborate game or the man is losing his faculties. Of the two, as a human being, I hope its the former.
If its the later, then his campaign is feeding him this BS and sending him out in the world. His wife seems to not care which leads me to believe its a rope a dope
Behold how many people who support the party of antifa/riots/unfettered abortion wish to pontificate on just how unprincipled, immoral, and all-around bad Trump & GOP voters are. ???
She does get raked over the coals by plenty of sane people. But, just feast you eyes on the bios of the people applauding her and/or saying they’ve done the same. Plus, damn those leftist broads are uhhh-gly!
hayeksplosives
on September 21, 2020 at 4:20 am
Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
I still don’t know how Pelosi wasn’t struck dead the instant she said that “Abortion is a sacrament.” The Almighty must be saving up his smiting for the Apocalypse.
Festus' Mustache
on September 21, 2020 at 6:39 am
She is nominally a Catholic. How the fuck does she square that circle?
Grosspatzer
on September 21, 2020 at 6:46 am
Paul Lynde knows!
hayeksplosives
on September 21, 2020 at 4:22 am
Well, night owls, I have to get up early so off I go back to bed. Sweet dreams.
It was insomnia. I’ve only gotten about 1200 words written since I asked you the beta read question.
Semi-related, I was wondering how much of the world-building with regards to Skrael society and biology was visible in the story, or could be inferred.
Gender Traitor
on September 21, 2020 at 5:41 am
I don’t recall it seeming inadequate. I’ll go back and reread that bit, since I’ve been doing some other reading since, and I’ll get back to you – probably this evening.
Something something if this was a Dem pres the media would be shitting their Fruit of the Looms in epic fashion.
Gender Traitor
on September 21, 2020 at 5:49 am
They’re showing remarkable restraint to hide their disappointment that the stuff didn’t get through.
Festus' Mustache
on September 21, 2020 at 6:06 am
Elspeth and LadyZ are back, BP gifted us with SNP, my Horoscope wasn’t terrible and the cute girl at the beer store was in a great mood and did a little dance while I was making my purchase last night. Maybe this week is going to be okay.
Are we sure they’re back for good, or is it just a brief visit?
Gender Traitor
on September 21, 2020 at 6:11 am
Mornin’, Fes. I hope your week continues to be pleasant.
Festus' Mustache
on September 21, 2020 at 6:16 am
You too, Red! So much to do before Winter hits.
Festus' Mustache
on September 21, 2020 at 6:14 am
Hey, any MLW showing up at any time for however long counts a plus on my ledger. We are a sausage fest for the most part and need the opinions of the fairer sex for some balance. Plus they are cool people, even if they have front holes 🙂
Festus' Mustache
on September 21, 2020 at 6:24 am
Oh yeah, got to burn up my data last night before it rolled into a new month. Much Vulfpeck and Bluegrass was listened to and maybe a little bopping was enjoyed.. Don’t worry, the warehouse has no windows…
straffinrun
on September 21, 2020 at 6:40 am
Glad you’re doing well. I’m sitting here with my foot all bandaged up and wondering if I broke a bone it.
Festus' Mustache
on September 21, 2020 at 6:44 am
Gah. Getting older and more prone to injury truly bites. I fell down hard two weeks ago and my arm still looks like Neph’s bum.
No x-ray? When I wondered if I’d broken my foot it cost me all of $66 (all out of pocket but pre-obamacare)
What does it run in Japan for a foot x-ray?
Festus' Mustache
on September 21, 2020 at 6:52 am
*sniffs* X-rays are free in Canada. Of course you might need to wait a week or two to see a specialist to determine if it is indeed a break and see to your treatment going forward. Crutches are not free and if you want anything better than a plaster cast that costs extra too. It’s free I tells ya, totally free!
straffinrun
on September 21, 2020 at 6:52 am
It’s a Holiday today and tomorrow so I see what’s up Wednesday. It’ll cost about ten bucks*
*massive insurance payments not included.
Tulip
on September 21, 2020 at 6:58 am
Really? Even on Christmas Day I’ve been able to get an X-Ray for a possible broken bone. (It wasn’t)
Tundra
on September 21, 2020 at 6:26 am
Good morning, peeps!
BP, this was brilliant! I’m really happy to have SNP back. The Minneapolis chick is indeed fine.
Portland is fine, yes.
Wierd? Yes. Fine? Not so much.
I like Seattle, but I’d think she would look better with her natural hair color.
I’m down for any of the local correspondents.
IT’S BACK!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!
“…other fiery friendliness.” Nice!
Speaking of locusts, I’ve been hearing them a lot, but I haven’t heard boo about them causing crop damage. Is that really a thing this year? Seems appropriate that this would be a bad year for them. Next plague, please.
I read about Africa, didn’t know about China.
The US gets them also.
I’ve been in Laughlin during locust swarms. They black out the street lights and cause bikes to crash from the slippery bug guts. It’s pretty dramatic.
Laughlin, Nevada? I figured it would be too desert. Although they can travel great distances.
Yup. Lotta them there in…I think ’08 or ’09.
Obama saved the country then, right?
Everywhere gets them, but as far as know we aren’t having a problem with them now.
China has had huge crop failures due to flooding & locusts this year. I don’t know if there have been any problems with them in the Western Hemisphere.
But yeah, 2020 seems like it should be the year of the locust.
I think that is unfair to the locusts. They are the least that has happened.
Thanks for the SNP. Always a good read!
+1
Seconded! Always enjoy these. And they look like they take a lot of work to put together. Thanks!
+3
+4
+88
Oopsie–secret Nazi admirer spotted!
Thanks, everyone. This one wasn’t too bad, although the newly revisited newsroom took some work, along with the Dem burning flag cell and the Chinese People’s Conference cells had a lot of layers. A lot of the others were layer + word bubble.
So it’s like an onion?
China declared crop failures throughout the Yangtze Basin, what, 6, 7 weeks ago?
That’s around 50% of the country’s crops. Assume 1.6 billion people, approximately able to feed themselves (give or take a few tens of millions) during a normal crop year. China’s looking at approx. 800 million people not being able to eat enough to keep body and soul together unless they go on a massive food shopping spree and paying top dollar to do so. There are only two outcomes of this for the rest of us, and neither of them are all that great: rising prices, and/or food shortages world-wide.
We took half-a-grand’s worth of non-perishable food to our cousins in the interior of B.C. a couple of weeks ago. Didn’t even take their money. We’re worried for them, and for us.
China declared crop failures throughout the Yangtze Basin, what, 6, 7 weeks ago?
And they may have been just Yangtze-ing your chain.
Doubt it. The CCP leadership loathes admitting stuff like that — threatens the perception amongst the unwashed peasants that they have the Mandate of Heaven. And the Mandate of Heaven is everything.
They’re going to need more than just wonton of food.
Yeah, they knew there was a huge swarm coming out of SE Asia. They’re hard to defend against using typical pesticides, apparently. There are a couple of videos about massive duck & chicken “armies” used to defend crops.
Pretty certain China imports a crap ton of food from the US, Aus, etc in a “good” year.
It’s a cicada year in the East, FWIW.
Those things are weird. They look like they time traveled from 500 million years ago.
Yayy!
I need to start watching more news about Portland.
Just re-read “Lord of the Flies” it’s about the same.
I don’t recall reading about red fish net dresses and that ass in Lord of the Flies.
I think I’ve isolated the part of Portland you’re interested in.
No. You really don’t.
Also, Adam Schiff is proof lizard people are real.
“Insta-poo”
Heh.
I like SNP.
This thread is great:
https://twitter.com/MattsIdeaShop/status/1307353147191357441
~Bought plenty of single ply toilet paper, time to hunker down.
I’ve been saving all my corn cobs. Old school rocks.
Old Sears catalogs hanging inside the outhouse!
You have to read to the end.
Aww, Babe is insisting that she is a lap dog.
She needs to lose weight.
My worst one is Jack, a 115lb catahoula cur. His head is about 3′ high and his elbows are sharp. He is a giant teddy bear and thrives on attention and affection and so wants to be a little lap dog. Poor guy.
You reminded me, almost forgot to tell about the scene on the side of the road as we were headed into Lassen Volcanic National Park yesterday. There was traffic slowing and being diverted alongside the road; we initially thought it was an accident or stall. But as we pulled by we saw the obstruction was a huge black bear, apparently dead, spread eagle on its belly just off the pavement. But it may not have been dead, because as we drove further we saw a ranger walking, heading its way, carrying a shotgun. Yikes.
HAH! I used to go up to Lake Almanor all the time, back in the early eighties. Once, I fell asleep in the back seat at sea level and my ear sealed against the naugahyde seat. I woke up at a few thousand feet and the pressure difference killed my hearing. Hearing’s still less than half the other ear. Later, that same weekend, we crashed a 1965 Bonneville into a deer. Good times!
The Chiefs dun fucked up this game but good.
Meanwhile, in a great example of 2020 being a bizarre year, my Chicago Bears are 2-0, and Trubisky is looking like a legitimate NFL quarterback.
This is why God made pre-season.
Yeah, but look whom they’ve beaten
Bills, too. WTF?
It was the jets and Miami. If you’re not blowing those 2 teams out then your not even going to the playoffs.
He looks like an NFL quarterback for short spurts and then goes back to looking like a Mitch Trubisky. We need to figure out how to make those spurts longer.
That’s what my wife says too.
Hey now!
Hey Glibs.
Hey, I am checking in because I can’t stand all the hand-wringing over RBG. It’s sickening. Virtual signaling to the extreme. I wanted a bit of grounding and other points of view aside from the lefty – why can’t we change rules when it suits us – echo chamber.
Thank you for providing that.
What is new in Humunus-Flashman land (you may ask)? We have a new doggy, a retired racing greyhound. She is super sweet and has opened up the eyes of our other doggy to asking for affection 🙂 so everyone is feeling more doggy – love.
Our kiddo, heir to the Wasteland, graduated in the pandemic.
I am still getting dudes (and sometimes gals) divorced (which has had a huge increase since the pandemic).
LH is still master of the wasteland, IS -land, and synth-land.
Theeeeeee end.
Welcome back. It’s nice to see you again.
+1
Yes, this! I hope you stick around.
Welcome back. It’s good to hear from you.
Agreed, welcome back!
Good to see you back. I’m glad I was on a mostly internet and news free trip (still on the trip, but got the internet working) when RGB died, I didn’t even know until yesterday and the only views I’ve seen or heard on it from glibs.
Most of the news sources I listen to are non-US, and pretty much every one of them had it as the top story. ÖRF (Austria) even called her legendary.
[retching]
I’m so glad to see you back!
Good to see you back Elspeth. So much has happened since I had the pleasure of seeing your handle posting I don’t know where to start. Plagues and hurricanes and political insanity…and of course various commenters having personal events.
We haven’t had any bad articles, lots of good ones and some really great ones. I hope to see you and yours back more often.
Specifically on RGB: She created this situation when she refused to retire and be replaced with an Obama appointee and Ol’ Harry changed the rules to ram through their picks. Que the world’s smallest violin.
Trump has the constitutional power to replace her and he is going to do just that. The left just has to suck it up.
As for their threats, they are too stupid to know what they are talking about. I promise that they will get their belly full of that very quickly.
Posted on FB “I wonder if the Democrats are reconsidering the evils of the filibuster about now?”
That and quoting Schumer from early 2016 (while everyone they are all quoting McConnell).
The left thinks they want the rule of law destroyed so they can rule by decree but they are too stupid to see that in that world they wont be the ones decreeing despite it being right in front of their noses.
It may not be perfect but there are very good reasons for separation of powers, checks, balances etc. built into our system.
The old white slaveowners that designed it knew what they were talking about. They saw with their own eyes what lesser systems devised and run by evil men are like. They didnt just make that stuff up out of thin air.
What puzzles me is how they can desire a system like ones we have seen over and over oppress people and collapse. It is the worst kind of idiocy.
Idiotic, yes, but also myopic and designed to provide instant gratification with no consideration of the consequences – not only to others but to themselves. So basically the behavior of a two year old.
.
QFFT
Roperites.
Cokehead Mitch said ” You will regret this, and you may regret it much sooner than you think!” That was 2013 when Harry Reid invoked the nuclear option.
He has the constitutional power to nominate her replacement, the senate has the power to ‘advise and consent’ if there are a few RINO senators sorry about your luck Donny. Flow chart thingy
*Pats The Hyperbole gently on the back*
It’s gonna be ok.
It may not be perfect but there are very good reasons for separation of powers, checks, balances etc. built into our system.
…and don’t touch me.
Greetings, Elspeth. I’d give you a virtual hug, but I’m sure you’d probably get the L’il ‘Rona from it. Here, have a virtual air kiss: MWAH!
Relevant
Thank you for that 🙂
Good to see you. Give LH our best.
SNP and EF (with update on LH & the wasteland), plus JB a day or so ago? Best Sunday in a long time.
Plus it was Honey Harvest Sunday!
It was one hell of rager, right! 😉
❤️❤️❤️
Come on in, make yourself comfy, have a nice hot cuppa something hot – no pumpkin spice, but chai, if you’re so inclined. Please stick around a while! Glibs is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble (with apologies to the psalmist[s.])
Yay! Welcome back. ?
Welcome Back!
Retired racing greyhounds are the best. So sweet! Enjoy your new dog!
Ah…I failed to mention wife and I recently rescued a whippet which is essentially a smaller racing greyhound. It has been….interesting. They have a very different personality and a propensity to ‘talk’ and does he ever talk.
ELSPETH!!!!!!!!!
Please pass along my best high voltage shock to the spouse.
Welcome back!
Welcome back! Good hearing from you about your peeps. Hope to hear from you and your hubby more often.
OT – Any idea where this guy is from? I want to say the north, but I could be dead wrong.
For anybody else – this is the second part of the “the most overbuild set of stairs” videos that I posted last week,
【大工仕事】直階段を地松で作る(完成編)【解説付き】
Very happy to hear from you!
Wassup, Kiddo?! Say Hi to LH for me.
Yay! Two of my favorite Glibs from the before times! So glad to see you back!
Thanks to all Glibs for the well- wishing and welcomes!! It brought a tear to my eyes, to be honest.
New SNP! Thanks BP.
I think the scaling of Winnie the Pooh is all wrong. Shouldn’t he be about 3′ tall? I like it very much.
Leave it to the Brit to be Pooh-dantic about the Pooh proportions.
Of course!
But he’s so adorable!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EiWBIsaXgAkicOa.jpg
OFFS!
Some people hide their mental illness well.
Other people wear theirs on their sleeve.
Some let it get under their skin.
Nah, that dude is just very serious about his reproductive rights.
Seriously?
Was she like Dennis Hopper in Waterworld? I mean, why is she floating above speed boats?
The gut and man boobs check out.
And the redneck tan.
Why would anyone have a tattoo of Larry King?
That was fun, BP!
And to the cis-hets males here, are you that picky? Seriously? I’ll head to any of those shitholes for one of them Newsies.
I dated all of those girls and more. In fact, every woman I see reminds me of one I have dated. Most of them had personalities like dead fish or they were completely nuts. I changed my standards to moderately attractive to attractive, sane, honest and most of all – smarter than I am. I was married within a year and have had the best 25 years of my life.
Yeah, I am very picky but I doubt any of those girls meet my standards.
A smidge of crazy leads to better sex. Just saying completely sane might not be the best choice.
One day, years and years down the road you will see the error in that line of thinking.
Everyone learns that lesson eventually.
Oh, the one I caught going through my wallet? Waaay more than smidge.
One of life’s funner lessons to learn, Imma say.
Nah.
Just a smidge. She admits it.
No regrets here.
We’re solid.
Damn, busy, fun and productive weekend.
So someone had a recipe for Tuscan country style pork ribs I wanted to do – done in a crockpot; couldn’t find it here, so google’d up some ideas and had them for dinner tonight with baked sweet potatoes and salad. The ribs were tasty (more like shredded pork as they fell off the bones), but what was mind-blowing was the sauce I ended up with (and fortunately quite a bit of it).
We’re going to head up to New England week after next for fall foliage, camping, with our dogs. Anyone up for quarantine violation in VT, NH or Maine? Any suggestions?
I made nice chicken schnitzels and some spätzle that was a bit of a fail which is pretty impressive given how fucking easy it should be. I did fish out a good serving’s worth but there was a giant mass of cooked flour and egg left in the pot. 🙁
Send me an e-mail. SP and the other Powers That Be have mine and can give it to you. I have a small mailing list of folks from H&R and glibs in New England. We can set something up.
For campgrounds, Roger’s hosts PorcFest. It’s kinda cold nowadays up in northern NH.
Glad you touched base, Elspeth. Good to hear you guys are well.
Good stuff Penguin. Every girl and woman needs to keep a can of Insta Poo on hand in case of a Biden encounter.
Can I have a can too, in case I have to listen to Hillary, AOC, Nancy, or Kamala?
Only one can?
I think of a bottle of something alcoholic to kill the pain might be better in that case.
When we’re the sanest and most reasonable people on the internet…
Every girl and woman needs to keep a can of Insta Poo on hand in case of a Biden encounter.
You might need it to get through an intersection, some day.
I prefer to carry a 9mm. Or two.
When poo is illegal only poo people will have poo, just say’n
Some people have to be full of poo just to keep from being transparent.
#translivesmatter
Some people have to be full of poo just to keep from being transparent.
Totally stealing this.
Baked penguins are the chillest of penguindom.
Nicely done. I think I’ll go peacefully assault someone now.
“they pledged allegiance to an upside-down, burning flag”
Nice.
What a great Sunday!
As others have noted, BP kicks down with the return of SNP and copious NewsBabes, Elspeth comes by for a hello and update, Honey Harvest happened up in the Northland… a damn fine day in Glibland!
Now, someone please track down Trigger Hippie in meatspace and let us know he’s doing okay, and all will be well.
I gotta get some work and writing done, but health and good vibes to everyone. I have some fiction slotted in for Tuesday (after AM links) and I’ll probably be UA until then.
Cheers, my friends.
We now have another excuse for you to come down. SP and I have been experimenting with some molecular cuisine stuff, beginning with reverse spherified drinks.
And the new 202 makes it a lot easier than it was…
I only have a general idea of where Trigger Hippie lives or I would have been down there by now.
TH, hang in there, bud. Please.
The new Top Gear UK is not even a smidge of its former glory. Shit, bring back LeBlanc. These new wankers are shite.
LeBlanc worked surprisingly well.
I don’t hate the new crew, but they don’t excite me either.
Fortunately Chris Evans only lasted a season.
“Fortunately Chris Evans only lasted a season.”
One season too much.
Yep. Guy was a dick.
I’ve been watching season two of The Grand Tour, forgot how much I liked Top gear.
I just rewatch the old ones. I’m not a car guy I just loved listening to Clarkson Hammond and May interact.
We figured as much
Now I can’t unsee it. My wife just pointed out that cocain Mitch looks like her late mother.
Well, that’s certainly unfortunate.
LOL?
I had to take a football break so I could crawl in bed with my heating pad. It’s wonderfully warm outside but freezing inside. So we are paying a ton in electricity in order to make the place uncomfortably cold for one of the occupants.
I get that I can wear more layers and blankets, but it’s cumbersome and not warm enough for my face and hands.
/first world problems
Same here, but the one who wants it insanely cold is carrying my child, so I can’t complain too much before she starts saying things like “you sis this to me” and “you can sleep on the couch until the baby comes”
did*
Porn hub gone to your head man.
You are most wise.
You have a wife who likes the room cold to sleep and you complain? Every relationship I have been in has involved me sweltering and getting yeled at if I open a window or turn up the ac!
I like it cold. Very cold. Lots of blankets.
I don’t mind cold to sleep* (as long as it warms back up before my alarm goes off), but I don’t like having to wear a sweatshirt in my home office on a 105 degree day because 72 was too warm for her. That said, shutting the vents in my office preserved the marital peace.
*the weird super-cold temperature plus super-hot covers thing is something I could live without. What’s wrong with stripping the bed down to just a sheet and turning the thermostat up a couple degrees?
I keep saying, we need to go back to the mid-1900s rich person ideal, husband and wife with separate sleeping chambers. Lets add back that tension and intrigue.
Because a heavy blanket provides a secure nesting feeling and is necessary for sleep, a light sheet feels like sleeping exposed to the world. I am fully in your wife’s camp here!
“you sis this to me”
One of them surrogate situations, then.
Did you leave the San Diego area?
No, still here.
There is actually some blue sky outside. I guess last night’s and today’s wind cleared out some of the smoke.
Hey BP.
Glad to see SNP back. Missing RDA though.
Jeesh, taling in Glib achronyms
RDA?? Don’t recognize that TLA.
Random Drunken A**hole
We don’t have enough of those already?
I keed, I keed. Sorta.
Zenu’s coming.
How do you know that Tesla is trying to make it Q2 numbers?
Tesla reintroduces ‘Enhanced Autopilot’ – offering cheaper alternative to ‘Full Self-Driving’
Act now! Expires 9/30/2020. Supplies are limited!
While I’d love to play around with “Full Self Driving” the best thing I ever did was save the $5k at the time. It won’t be ready in the lifetime of the car. I can add it now if I’d like for only $8k.
I’m not even sure how this option’s legal in Canada, since all ten provinces have made it strictly illegal to take both hands off the steering wheel at one time. And yet, I keep seeing Teslas on the road . . .
The same way you can sell a gun even when murder is illegal?
Nice one, BP. Mighty fine newsreaders there, although I can’t recall seeing the one from NYC. Must be on Telemundo.
The Continuing Adventures of Secret Nazi President
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Not Adahnthe stars and planets call this bad luck? The week’s off to a great start.SNP is the bestest.
It’s hard for me to pinpoint the dumbest part of this monstrosity, so I supposed I’ll quote the part where NJR quotes Frederik deBeoer. Here, deBoer describes education in a socialist utopia:
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The high school you enter is radically transformed from what it is today. The standards and requirements that are today a huge part of high school life are dramatically relaxed; aside from a few basic requirements in the major academic fields, you are largely free to choose your own curriculum. If you don’t want to take algebra II or chemistry, you don’t have to take them. Instead, you can pursue independent studies with teachers, or you can take advantage of expanded vocational and technical programs. Meanwhile, the current status of high school as a cauldron of intense and emotionally draining competition is gone. You do not have to look at your peers as competitors first. You do not get up every morning asking yourself how you will get ahead in the college admissions rat race. Because academic performance is no longer a means to secure a life at a particular income bracket, there is no class rank, no statewide standardized tests, no SAT. When you finish your high school career you judge it based not on how well you’ve prepared yourself for meritocratic existence but based on your experiences, your friendships, and your learning for your own sake.
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By the way, deBoer’s day job is a college administrator whose job it is to [drum roll] measure how well students are learning!
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I’m the Academic Assessment Manager at Brooklyn College in the City University of New York system, where I work with faculty and administrators to more effectively measure student learning at the college. I conduct research in assessment, writing pedagogy, and applied linguistics. I also write frequently on higher education policy.
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Hey dummy – you wouldn’t have a job if your preferred system came to be!
If there are no tests or grades, then how do we decide who gets to be a surgeon or an astronaut? Education without grades and tests would be like the Olympics without medals or even tryouts.
back to NJR for more fantasy ramblings
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I must say, though, that I don’t think people who react with horror at his proposal to let 12-year-olds drop out are actually just showing fealty to a cult. I think they have a very real concern, which is that for someone who talks about what could happen “within our lifetimes,” he has not noticed that any “12-year-old dropouts” we can conceive of happening reasonably imminently would probably be very bad, since it would just shuffle the “not cut out for college” ones into their Amazon warehouse jobs. Notice that the 12-year-old dropouts above seem to live in the hypothetical socialist utopia, not in the 2020 United States. Theirs is a world where you can do anything, and you don’t have to be like anybody else, and if you want to spend your life building kites and flying them, that’s fine, because housing is free and so are food and healthcare, and kite-making materials are free for the grabbing down at the communal supplies warehouse. If you want to go back to school later, you can, because we have lifelong free classes on every subject accessible to all, and there’s no stigma to leaving school for a few years, so “dropping out” doesn’t mean what it does in our society. But we must be careful here: this is good if we do all of this. In the socialist dreamland to which we march ever forward, 12-year-old dropouts might not really present a problem (except for the problem of not teaching people critical things they need to know in order to participate in democracy and understand what is going on around them).
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Oh. My. God.
Who is going to stock the fixing ‘ supply warehouse’ while everyone else is off flying kites, you douche.
Replicators, because it is all fantasy
Look, fat – in socialist utopia, everyone’s a grasshopper and the summer lasts all year
another appalling portion; from his summary of deBoer’s book
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If intrinsic ability is real and powerful it means our current system cannot serve a majority of those within it; half of everyone will always be below average on educational metrics.
What’s more, intrinsic ability undermines the very case for meritocracy itself: if we cannot determine our own position on the academic ladder, the moral argument that you get what you deserve falls away; no one can choose their genetic makeup.
Instead of attempting to achieve equality of outcomes with bad school reform ideas, we should recognize that differences in intrinsic human abilities, of all kinds, makes the notion of just deserts in a capitalist economy absurd.
We should thus replace the capitalist system, either through reform or revolution, with one that fights to ensure equality of outcomes through cash transfer and the distribution of power to the people.
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[anguished Zoidberg groan]
If everyone gets the same reward no matter how productive they are, what incentive is there to work hard? Of course, I would not expect a college bureaucrat like deBoer to ever ponder such things. It’s not like he gets paid more if his school’s graduation rate or GPA improves.
It’s like he doesn’t even understand that everyone had different strengths. Sure, half of people will be below average on any one metric, but everyone (outside of the disabled, and even that isn’t an absolute barrier) is likely to be above average in *something*. At least capitalism had a response (work hard and you can do well) rather than professing literal utopias.
half of everyone will always be below average on educational metrics
Well I can certainly see why he doesn’t want anyone else to have a better math education.
Freddie, have you ever considered moving to Lake Wobegon?
All of that is true except in one core class. Marxist Leninist Dialectics. Your grades in that class will determine everything about your future, and the exciting part is that they keep all your papers and regrade them every few years when leadership changes and previous dogma becomes heresy. The grading scale runs from bullet to the brain up through nomenklatura, and at either end of that spectrum you get all the food you need. In the middle you get to lose weight.
Heh. At least we will all be equal then!
/commies
Glad you kept your avatar, what’s with the handle?
I made some joke, and then riffed on it that I was goingto be cancelled so I changed the name for the joke post and never bothered to change it back. And I kind of like it.
That’s kind of what I surmised, or assumed, I guess. But you know what they say about assuming. I like the handle, glad I can tell its you from the avatar to avoid an unnecessary ‘fuck off ‘. (Cause you already know that 😉 )
I’m barely halfway though and it keeps getting worse:
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Let me tell you when we will have shown something about “fixed limits” on an aspiring engineer’s capacity to do the work: it will be when we have let that person take decades of completely free classes on engineering, taught by every conceivable pedagogical method, and we have no complicating factors in their lives that might make school harder (like having to survive under capitalism, or dealing with trauma, death, and divorce). When we have given students a boundlessly kind, supportive engineering program, that lasts as long as they need and is structured around them with as many of society’s resources as possible put toward its perfection, rather than a brutal one that tells them that 1/3 of their classmates are incapable, then maybe we will know their “natural capacity” for engineering. We will also have to have verified that this program isn’t misogynistic and that we have tried to fix elements that might cause certain students to be more likely to not want to participate.
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So until we have utopia, nobody flunks?
At my engineering school many moons ago, there were 40 of us at the beginning of sophomore year and 13 of us graduated 3 years later.
Reminds me: how about a Profile in Toxic Masculinity about Isambard Kingdom Brunel?
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. I tell you what, how about this: when we have built an entire society around teaching Arthur Goldfarb of Altoona, PA to be the engineer he aspires to be, when literally every person’s every task is in some way in service of that goal, when every technological innovation is designed under a “help Arthur be an engineer” mandate, when Arthur tries his absolute best for 24 years but still can’t master the material, then let’s conclude that it was just not in Arthur’s genes. Except, of course, we won’t even be able to do it then. Because Arthur likely failed due to the pressure.
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[head desk]
“rather than a brutal one that tells them that 1/3 of their classmates are incapable, then maybe we will know their “natural capacity” for engineering”
Yeah,it is at least 1/2, though, I think your professors had the ratio approximately correct, maybe apply a factor of safety to be sure.
I’m reminded of a story my dad told me about a non-trad electrical engineering student he knew. The guy worked his motherloving ass off to do well in signals and systems. He was at every office hours. He did every homework. He did extra work on the side. Still, he couldn’t hack it. The math was over his head, and there was no reasonable amount of time that would fix the issue. He washed out of engineering school, and my dad lost touch with him.
That’s not an uncommon story, although the lengths this guy went to avoid washing out were extreme. I couldn’t even count how many people I sat next to in various engineering classes who ended up graduating with a business or liberal arts degree. It’s not easy. However, it’s not supposed to be. When you fuck up at engineering, bad things happen. At the low end of the badness spectrum, you slam a multi million dollar space probe into Mars because you forgot to convert units. At the high end, you slam a few 737s full of passengers into the side of a hill because you were too busy focused on Eco to bother with properly testing your software.
The diligence and determination of my dad’s classmate was commendable, but there’s no way in hell i’d ever hop on an airplane he designed. You can’t do everything once you set your mind to it, despite the self-help hucksters’ chants. Recognizing your limits is part of being an adult.
I was tutoring a middle-aged guy for an the pilot’s license test. One of the questions is about balancing load. Something like, if there is 200 pounds 10 ft aft of the center of gravity, how many pounds can you put 5 ft forward?
It’s a one step algebra problem or perhaps two if you want to complicate it. So I showed the guy how to set up the equation. Let x be the unknown weight, the aft moment must equal the forward moment, etc.
So when I’m done, he says: is there an easier way to do it?
I was thinking that if a guy can’t figure this out, how is he going to make a flight plan and do all the other math? Learning things the hard way can be fatal in aviation.
I went to a university with a very well respected engineering school.
I’d say fully 50% of my classmates in my finance program were washed out engineers. I’d imagine the business operations program got a fair share as well.
(OTH – I double majored in finance and marketing. I don’t recall a single former engineering student in any of the higher level marketing classes.)
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Having a philosophy of equal opportunity does not actually result in real equal opportunity, as we see in the case of women and minority students who are systematically drummed out of STEM by subtly (or unsubtly) bigoted professors.
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Yes, Nathan. Systematically drummed out. We used to keep a bunch of pitchforks in a closet to chase away any non white males who dared set foot on the engineering campus.
You’re the man BP. I’ll never get over trumps swastika eyes. Keep up the awesome work, thanks.
^^^ This! He’s a really sweet guy to talk to in real time as well (no homo).
Global warming is looking like less of a suspect.
https://nypost.com/2020/09/20/six-accused-of-starting-oregon-blazes-amid-wildfire-season/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
BUT! Wood wasn’t flammable until Global Warming! Gotcha!
Instead, some of the blazes were attributed to petty beef
Why not the good stuff?
Where’s Clara Peller when we need her?!
Oh, right…
I haven’t had much to say on this ‘Cuties’ freakout, but I just wanted to say those freaking out probably would have hated Welcome to the Dollhouse..
The Omaha bar owner who was charged with murder after shooting BLM supporter who assaulted him committed suicide:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/20/report-omaha-bar-owner-who-fatally-shot-protester-indicted-commits-suicide/
Just saw a couple links about that via twitter – technically appeared to be felony manslaughter and a few other charges. The city got the Feds to charge him (or special investigator???) because the DA found it as self defense.
Here’s the video of the incident, it’s hard to see what’s going on but it looks like he’s backing away from several people before shots are fired. What the hell is it with people assaulting other people who have firearms visible?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=emb_logo&time_continue=13&v=GSTqH9-1WFw
Poor guy. Wish he hadn’t committed suicide.
Totally fucked up. Clear self defense case.
This is my first hearing of this, hard to tell from the video, but the narrator gives a good idea of what is going on.
Agree with you, maybe time to go long on wood chippers.
What the hell is up with people assaulting others, armed or unarmed?
WHA? Dude was attacked by numerous people, after trying to defend his dad. The guy who got shot had him in a chokehold, after knowing he was armed and had previously been attacked. Looked like a good shoot to me. There was never any reason to jump him, in the first place, nevermind pushing his dad to the ground. Some thug does that to me and…
He was looking at a prosecution and having his name tarnished forever with “white supremacist”. Everybody has their breaking point. Lack said it right, “Poor guy.”
Fucked up assed world we seem to be creating here!
It’s the criminalization of self-defense. Sure, you aren’t dead but you’ll be bankrupt from defending yourself or in prison. It was a bullshit political prosecution that was undertaken for obvious reasons.
The government is more afraid of the average person realizing they need to provide their own security. Criminals and rioters pose no threat to the government types and in fact they provide further proof for the “need” for govt.
Mutual of Omaha, am I right?
Where is it that he committed suicide? Police are declining to comment further than he was found dead, because it’s an active criminal investigation.
https://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/2020/09/bar-owner-indicted-in-killing-of-nebraska-protester-found-dead-in-oregon.html
Half way down the page :
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/breaking-omaha-bar-owner-charged-killing-rioter-attacked-business-committed-suicide/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons
Local news’s take: https://www.3newsnow.com/news/local-news/jake-gardner-found-dead-in-oregon
It’s his attorneys saying it was suicide.
I heard his attorneys say it was suicide.
Again, thanks to everyone with kind words. I’ll try to keep it up fairly regularly – and if I can stay off booze, I might even succeed.
Also, hi Elspeth! I hope everything is great with you and the Ayatollah of the wasteland.
The first 2 days of going dry are the hardest. The next hurdle is making it through a weekend. After that, it gets easy because you’ve built up momentum.
My mood has improved, I sleep better, and have more energy. I’m looking forward to keep that up for at least another 2 weeks.
Once a month is enough to keep em happy, and paying. Not that I would know anything about doing as little as possible to keep the little people happy.
After a certain age, the lure of excessive drinking is significantly lessened.
I’m already dumb enough, tired enough and coarse enough to be happy.
Doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy a beer or six from time to time but the days of downing a case from noon to sunrise are gone, for me.
Heh, I guess it says something about me that 6 beers in one sitting isn’t excessive, whatever, you got a warrant?
I have killed many a 6 pack in a single night. A few 12 packs too.
my never-ending 6 packs
domestic cans
Coal Miner’s Daughter oatmeal stout
Old Chub scotch ale
Alaska Amber
Shiner Bock
California Creamin’
Shotgun Betty hefeweizen
domestic bottles
Moose Drool brown ale
Anchor Steam lager
Founders porter
The Poet oatmeal stout
Allagash White
Sarnac Black Forest black lager
import
Baltika porter
Marston’s oyster stout
Skull Splitter scotch ale
Hobgoblin ale
Piraat ale
Paulaner Doppelbock
Why aren’t scotch ales more mainstream?
Fixing delicious.
Good installment of SNP. Gratuitous use of hotties fully appreciated.
Egg foo young was a success! And it’s not something I usually order at a restaurant.
You know who else liked <a href="https://i.imgflip.com/4fovdz.jpg"Egg Foo Young
Bah.
https://i.imgflip.com/4fovdz.jpg
That’s disturbing.
Hong Kong Phooey Opening and Closing Credits and Theme Song
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Literally meaning “Hibiscus egg”, this dish is prepared with beaten eggs and most often minced ham. It may be made with various vegetables such as bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, sliced cabbage, spring onions, mushrooms, and water chestnuts.[5] When meat is used as an ingredient, a choice of roast pork, shrimp, chicken, beef, or lobster may be offered.
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Sounds like an omelette.
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In Chinese Indonesian cuisine, it is known as fu yung hai, sometimes spelled pu yung hai. The omelette is usually made from the mixture of vegetables such as carrots, bean sprouts, and cabbages, mixed with meats such as crab meat, shrimp, or minced chicken. The dish is served in sweet and sour sauce with peas.
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It is an omelette!
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French, earlier amelette (alteration of alumette ), variant of alumelle, from lemele ‘knife blade’, from Latin lamella (see lamella). The association with ‘knife blade’ is probably because of the thin flat shape of an omelet.
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Ah, lamella, that’s where the term laminar flow comes from, because the fluid moves in discrete layers like pushing over a deck of cards.
More like fried crustless quiche.
Goes well with Creme of Sum Yung Gai, I’ve been told.
Well, it was nice knowing you all.
https://youtu.be/8XwgixmCU34
It’s hard to figure out what he actually meant to say.
That’s what he said.
Interesting coincidence that the secret Nazi should make an appearance tonight. I was just listening to the Ben Shapiro show, with Matt Yglesias as a guest. Their conversation started me thinking about just how skewed our world views can become. Suddenly in 2016 Trump became a Nazi dictator racist who spoke in dog whistles. Now, he had never even been rumored to be a racist or a nazi or a dictator at any point prior. But suddenly upon running for office his Nazi dictator tendencies were obvious to 1/3 of the country.
So I’m listening to Yglesias talking, and he keeps saying things that are to him obvious, uncontestable, foundational facts of the universe. Things like “we have people from conservative leaning areas travelling to far away cities with their guns to take control”.
Now, I’m fairly sure he was talking about Rittenhouse. So in his world, Rittenhouse was a far right guy who travelled to a far away city in order to take over the streets from leftists. It was a power move.
He says this as a toss off comment about “things that are happening in our country”. There were several other “foundational facts” that he mentioned which I had a problem with, (like saying that Republicans in congress passed a law to rename french fries in response to 9/11) but let’s stick with this one thing.
The way he mentioned it, it was obvious that he thought that this was something uncontroversial and indisputable.
Obviously, there are some serious holes in his knowledge.
But what it pointed out to me was just how strong our will to build our own reality is. Confirmation bias is so extremely powerful that we are completely blind to this process in ourselves. In this case, it was particularly striking because Yglesias was discussing his new book, which calls for civil dialog on areas of political disagreement, and acknowledgement that our priorities and opinions are not all the same. So he was discussing how people on the far right “make up conspiracies” to protect their invented reality…. and this is one of the gems that he drops, completely unaware.
So here we have a political reporter and pundit who has written on the topic, but does not know that Rittenhouse worked in Kenosha, that he lived a half hour away in a suburb which is across state lines (which allowed the left to build a narrative about people traveling from out of state), that he was not there to “take over the streets” in a power move, but was invited by an immigrant minority business owner who had seen two of his three properties burned out by Antifa over the preceding days and was not being protected by the police. He not only was unaware of these facts, he deeply believed that he was well familiar with all of the facts, that all of those facts are fairly universally well known and are uncontroversially believed.
In an effort to do an interview rather than a debate, Shapiro never corrected him on any of his glaring misstatements of fact. But it leads us to an impasse.
We are in a world where reality simply does not exist for many people.
The question is… how many?
It is a universal psychological impulse. Confirmation bias is extremely powerful and extremely hard to detect. It is one of the reasons that the scientific method was invented – to root out our unconscious biases. These biases are so difficult to detect that renowned psychologists who were investigating paranormal phenomena 4 and 5 decades ago were unable to design properly blinded experiments. And they were unable to design experiments that were impervious to intentional deception. It took a magician coming to their lab and demonstrating the weakness of their experimental design to remove the scales from their eyes.
So if our biases are so strong that they survive in that environment, what hope do we have in a society where the press wants to manipulate everything we see – you know, to protect us from “fake news”.
We don’t even have any data on how much censoring is being done by Google, Facebook and Twitter. We do see some specific incidents, and we do know that those incidents all lean one direction.
But what to do?
And what about us? This is a universal phenomenon. So how are we being guilty of this? I can see nutty Trump supporters repeating stupid memes, or making wild claims from time to time… and I tend to give them more of a pass than I do some BLM supporter who wants to do away with racist cultural tools of colonialism and oppression like logic, the nuclear family and the scientific method.
But what of the bias that I am not seeing? I think of myself as being a mostly rational being. I do not see myself as being swayed by emotional arguments. I don’t see my own irrational confirmation bias.
So where does our confirmation bias live? What are our worst sins? Surely we have some whoppers – maybe not as bad as your typical Vox employee, but they have to be there, us being human and all.
What say you? Where are our biggest blind spots? Where do we bend reality to conform to our wishes?
Didn’t some people travel to Portland from Oregon’s hinterlands as a show of opposition to antifa?
There was good reporting on that over at Reason.
Apparently that’s a thing they do over there. A bunch of these groups you’ve never heard of are basically frat boys fighting against the anarchists in Portland and Washington. It goes back 25 years, so it is a long history.
But even in that case, they did not under any plausible definition of the term “attempt to take over the streets with guns”. They drove through town with flags and used pepper spray and paintballs to defend their vehicles and persons from attack. It was larping trucks against larping antifa dweebs.
Maybe this is some confirming bias.
I hope they weren’t dumb enough not to have guns too.
That event was where the guy was gunned down by a crazy Antifa supporter. You know, the execution style shooting where a mob yelled “we got another one right here” and called people to come get him… then a nut with a handgun walks up and shoots him execution style … all caught on video.
Surely you saw how that video was played endlessly on CNN? Surely you remember how CNN pointed out the politically motivated violence against people simply for expressing support for a political candidate?
No doubt there is media bias.
Iknow very smart, kind, helpful people who believe Antifa is nonviolent. . .
Also, all violence,looting and arson is the work of white supremacist infiltrators. Have heard this from no less than 2 people who are probably smarter than me.
Were ducked.
Their mere presence in downtown Portland, which belong to antifa and leftists, is unconscionable. Violent force is acceptable to confront such an infraction.
Where are our biggest blind spots?
Deification of markets. Markets quite often suck and do things that are irrational, unproductive, or downright immoral. Markets are only as good as the people participating in them.
“They deserve it” syndrome. Whenever somebody gets steamrolled by life, there must be some character flaw, because hard work and diligent frugality always ends up in success.
+ 1 on markets. They suck, but I’m not aware of a better general alternative.
Great comment, glad you turned it around, because I would have if you didn’t. :p
Generally, we assume things would be better without government interference when there isn’t always evidence for that claim. Specific instances are most likely to be related to that.
You and overlord make points directly related to one universally held libertarian bias.
People suck.
They really do.
People will generally do the right thing in a one-on-one, humanized situation. But given the opportunity or when collected in groups, they suck. They summed it up well in “men in black” when Tommy Lee Jones says ” A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.”
I suspect that politics primarily moves on that second insight.
People don’t suck. You’re right about the stupidity that comes from the mob, though. Controlling the instincts of the mob is always the biggest challenge of any political system especially because some systems rely on the mob for power.
That’s what I mean by “people”. In groups… detached from “the other”.
It could be writ small like not letting that guy on the highway get over in heavy traffic (he’s an other), or as big as a nation going along with “the final solution”. It can be a mob in front of the courthouse in Portland, or it can be a bunch of suburban moms in the Charlotte area panicking about ritual sexual abuse at the local daycare.
Groups reinforce themselves. Groupthink is a thing. A group set off on the wrong path can continue on it’s own momentum for quite a long and dangerous way.
Just look at what BLM has been able to do (with a little help). They took an absolute fabrication (hands up, don’t shoot) and used group identity to create a false belief that “Other” people are out to kill them.
There are a lot of people out there looking to use the mob for power right now. I just don’t see any charismatic leaders who can ride that mob to power.
The individual needs others to bounce their interpretations of reality off of or they come to insane conclusions. The mob bounces it’s insane conclusions off of the individual and forces compliance. I don’t know how to stop the latter from working on most people. My only guess is making “ends justifying the means” a completely unacceptable tactic and using force against it.
When my cohort e’re saying that intolerance of isn’t an issue I should have known we were in the wrong track. I just didn’t realize how widespread that view would become.
I like that you were anticipating the 4 fingers pointing back at myself.
For me that is the distinction between sentience and intelligence, to make an exaggerated analogy. That particular penchant is what I love about South Park. They always skewer their own Ox as well as everyone else’s.
That self-reflection is what is sorely missing in today’s political landscape. Watching Chris Cuomo fellate his brother on national TV over his handling of the pandemic, for instance. That level of hubris should be untenable in a healthy society. But we all avoid any sort of self reflection with such passion, that sort of sickening distortion of reality is not only tolerated, there’s a large segment of society out there celebrating it.
I think I’m hard wired to look inward first, but I have made it a fundamental building block of my world view as well. I also tend to be something of a Pollyanna, which is weird for someone who spends so much time being cynical. But my first impression of others is always charitable. I have adapted that into a philosophy that Steven Novella put into words for me… “Always take the most favorable version of the other person’s position”
Most people tend to do the opposite of that, impugning motives that they imagine others having. It makes the world a worse place, and it weakens your own arguments because you end up arguing against straw men you construct in your head. By taking the best possible version of the other person’s position, you hone your own thoughts. And you ensure that you treat everyone with a level of respect.
It is a pretty good philosophy.
I wish that we all could understand the world in a way similar to the South Park episode on Mormons, which is one of my favorite things of all time. It spends the entire episode destroying mormons and getting you all whipped up about your own superiority.. only to utterly and completely obliterate that position in the last moment. Unfortunately, the world is filled with Cartman clones instead.
Ha!
Re:Chris Cuomo, he can’t really be related to the governor. No way I’d let my brother off easy payback time asshole!
Neither ‘ side’is particularly introspective or curious/generous about the other sides motives right now, which is what makes everything so dangerous.
Tangentially, you sound like my brother.
You are related to someone that smart and insightful? That’s impressive!
XD
Don’t get too excited, he’s also a total fuxk up. Though he’s doing better lately.
This is another standalone worthy post, cyto.
In some circles, the acronym “DFL” is used to comment code. It means “Drunk; fix later.”
It always made me snicker internally that the Minnesota Democrat party is officially the Democrat-Farmer-Labor party, or DFL for short.
“Drunk; fix later.” Street violence and arson; fix later once we have power.
I don’t think they have really thought through how they are going to put the mob violence genie back in the bottle.
There has been a meme making the rounds about how Hitler used withdrawing police, inflammatory rhetoric and his brownshirts attacking people and property to turn a republic into a dictatorship.
I don’t see how people can miss the parallels.
They are looking to end the first amendment, the second amendment, pack the court and the senate, eliminate the electoral college, amnesty their way to an extra 30 million (D) voters…
I don’t think they see it as a genie that needs putting back. At least not with any urgency.
Hey SP. Check your email for a message I sent last night.
Damn you NFL. I want to quit you but here I am watching games anyway. It is handy that I can watch a game before sailing an SNF comes on while the sun is still well above the horizon.
I just check the scores after the game on Google. I’ve lived long enough to know we will disappoint.
The chicks around here really like to wear *team*leggings to wegmans. Some hotties out there shopping for the game tho. Damn.
Ok… that fired off a random neuron….
Around here there is something that is generally “only seen at walmart”. It is a unitard outfit… a thin body stocking like yoga pants, except it is one piece for the entire body. Around here I have exclusively seen them worn at Walmart by larger black women, usually with overlarge false eyelashes, large wigs, etc. The seem extremely inappropriate for wearing in public.
Is this a thing anywhere else? Does it cross racial lines elsewhere?
What is that thing called? And would you (or your wife) wear one of those things in public?
I think I’ve seen similar.
A unitard? Don’t think there’s a better word for it.
My wife probably would because she has no sense of propriety. :/
Outstanding! Nice to have a woman who is comfortable in her own skin.
That said, that outfit is an abomination. I’ve never seen anyone who could really pull it off wearing it, and even if they could pull it off… still… just no.
That is certainly a benefit, which shouldn’t be overlooked. She looks the same with or without makeup on. Very down to earth.
And yes, a unitard is an abomination unless you’re doing gymnastics.
I confess I watched too
It did seem like they were doing less pandering. I’m sure the NFL is watching it’s polling data.
I don’t get it. Where the fuck is mother fucking fuckity fucking joke? I want muh humor back!
https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel/status/1307863823999627264
America best film talent can do almost as good of a job as high schoolers, good job?!
Lol, so much cringe. Losers.
I used to get the jokes of comedians with differing political bents than me, but this kind of stuff is incomprehensible and really bugs me for some reason.
I have enjoyed a few episodes of the daily show, before they got that south African guy.
Jimmy’s problem is he peaked when he was googling girls on trampolines, the cunt.
But it’s racist to do blackface, unless you’re making fun of Charles Barkley, because he leans ever so slightly to the right, and is there fore Hitler, I think i got my science right there.
It was Carl Malone. Who bought himself an 18 wheeler when he made it in the league.. because he’s from the country in Louisiana and he likes big trucks. So your point stands.
I first noticed this as a trend in political humor about 30 years ago. I went to an Atlanta comedy club with my sister and her date… she had just been to a pro-choice march in DC, (recent college grad at the time) and as such skewed pretty liberal in her politics.
The headliner comes on.. and she literally just goes “How about that George Bush!?! Can you believe that guy??? And what about Newt Gingrich? Newt? Are you kidding me? Newt?” She gets crickets from the audience. Pretty quickly she realizes that her shtick is dying hard. Finally she tells us “I guess I should have known that the south would be full of rednecks who vote republican. They can’t understand political humor like the crowd we were playing to in New York last week”
I was cringing…. I would have walked out, but I was worried about what was going through my sister’s head. As the lights came up and my wife and I gathered our things.. my sister goes “Holy crap, that was terrible!”
And all was well with the world.
But that comedienne… She firmly believed that just going “what about those republicans?” and smirking was a joke. I suppose she sort of predicted the Rachel Maddow phenomenon a decade or so early.
If you can’t poke fun at your own team, you are not going to be funny.
Chris Rock was excellent at that. He could skewer white america because he was also able to skewer black america. Dave Chappelle, same thing.
That’s why the Babylon Bee is funny and the Daily Show is not. The Bee started out poking fun at christians and church culture. They poke their own. That allows them to see real humor and not just “those guys are soooo stupid!”
The joke needs to have some kind of twist. If the setup is exactly what you think the punchline is going to be, it isn’t a joke. It’s a lecture.
And on cue, we get another example.
https://twitter.com/KarluskaP/status/1307862447341015041
‘Hot sauce in your purse black’ I wonder if that was snuck in by a a clever person, or they are just too dumb to remember.
That part perked my ears up a bit and then I realized that it wasn’t going to be a joke at Her expense.
That’s kind of right down main street of what I’m talking about with “self awareness”.
Why would any black person put up with a party that has candidates that do stuff like that?
Biden with “you ain’t black”, Put Ya’ll back in chains and his most recent ridiculousness, playing “Despicito” on his phone to pretend to be down with the Latinos.
A joke, by definition, is the reversal of expectations in a humorous way. Something too few comedians understand.
Yeah I’ve only lately heard that definition, but completely state. Maybe I’m just slow but i couldn’t have told you 5 years ago why something is funny.
Humor has been my creative outlet for years, the only thing I wanted from my great aunt’s estate was here Laurel and Hardy figurines, because that was when I started learning about comedy.
Did she have a handshake too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuHKWzWtBzM
You got to see Doug Allen?!
Republicans are so stupid.
This South Park skit is fitting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGl1CCprCeU
Missed it by that much
Doublefarts!
Whoopie stole her act!
So you’re saying we’re been ducked for a long time now?
Ducked in the East. Your phone should be able to translate.
The ducking is on purpose because I’m trying to improve my swearing.
Nothing like a 2 year @ old screaming duck.
Flap jacks and son of a biscuit! Been there…now I just call my kids ehat they are.
Forking ice holes! Cork sucking bastages!
“now I just call my kids ehat they are.”
Rofl.
I keep imagining this Hollywood circle jerk including something along the lines of:
“Tonight, we award the Best People of Color, as Determined by White People. Join me, please, in a standing ovation for tonight’s nominees, for simply existing?”
Straff, after I leave Minnesota, I’m going to spend a couple days closer to you stomping ground, down by La Crosse.
I was very excited when I stopped in Wausau on my way north (I mean Wausau is west of me, but I headed that way to go north because FTW), they had Red Dog, which has not been on my local shelves for near 3 months. So I bought all 3 cases that were there. I’m having a grand old time.
Ought to keep you stocked til Wednesday, eh?
Hopefully.
Glad youre getting out bro.
Much more relaxing than the weeks I was laid off due to the panicdemic, since I know my PTO will come come through on my next check, not months later like the unemployment.
CPRM, let me know if you want to get together one night, since I live in La Crosse. How long are you going to be in the area?
I’ll be getting there tomorrow afternoon and staying Monday and Tuesday night. I’m gonna be not quite in La Crosse, Perrot State Park.
Okay. I have your email from the Honey Harvest list. If I think I might have some time Tuesday evening, I’ll send you an email and see if you want to get together. I’m taking a three day weedend, so have a short week to get a lot of things done. I can always drive up to Trempealeau to meet you. The Trempealeau Hotel is a good place for a drink or some food.
I’ll keep a lookout, But I’ll warn you, I’ve had trouble with the WIFI hotpsot I’m using, and couldn’t get into my e-mail using it when I was using it Friday and Saturday. So don’t be offended if I don’t respond.
10-4. It’s kind of a long shot I’ll have time to meet, but I’ll do my best to get done early-ish on Tuesday.
10-4 Pigpen.
Admit it, C–this is your motto!
::sobs, runs away::
I’m honest with all my
bottom bitchesfriends.Uh-oh, Pud…sounds like you oughta be busy Tuesday.
I’m at a critical juncture, should I put more wood on the fire and grab another beer or hit the hay?
Also, for all astrologers, what am I seeing inn the sky? Jupiter and mars?
Our surveillance cameras only look in your window, not at the sky.
Yes to another log on fire and another beer.
To whats in the sky Jupiter and Saturn in the Southern sky
Mars should be coming up soon in the East(?), but won’t be easily visible until 11ish.
I’ve been observing Jupiter and Saturn for the last month through my new telescope, and it’s pretty nice to have them so close together.
It’s 11 here and it’s in the east?
My phone really fixing hates me. East isn’t a word really?
At the horizon right now. Sky Map app is your friend.
Did I mention they my phone hates me?
Another app is the kart thing it can handle. 😀
Last* I’ve been doing so well countering its sabotage up until now.
I get it.
Arecyou able to pick up Pluto inbetween them? I wish i had a telescope and not a shopping center across the street. Jupiter is a beautiful site to the naked eye
Good advice, 5 logs added. Feeling much warmer. .. beer is incidental.
Maybe I was seeing Saturn then. Used to be Jupiter in the East in the early mornings. ffs, this thing still doesn’t believe east is a word.
Good job on all your hard work, boys. You deserve a treat.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EiYw8STWkAgKK_o?format=jpg&name=medium
I know it’s Sunday night, but a NSFW (Not Safe for Wife) would be appreciated. 😉
Your wife doesn’t appreciate Asian Art? Is she some kind of racist?
^Trash took the bullet for your freedoms. Consider that your NSFW.
Dem tittays.
Vapor wave album art?
The Vapors? Or this the wrong turning Japanese? 😉
It’s never wrong!
https://youtu.be/C0X3CLJVMJU
Hot.
ah, dolphins – the clowns of the sea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE2NPmqZ9nM
Digby I told Tundra I might not come back to Honey Harvest next year because I was planning to take my days off if you come up, then he said ‘Yeah, I’ve seen you guys are close.’ I think he may be onto us! We must hide this love that cannot be spoken!
On another note, I bought more food than I needed for this trip because until a week ago my little brother said he was coming along. I’ve only managed to eat one meal a day so far and Mrs. Fourscore insisted on giving me a couple containers of left overs, Fourscore insisted I take some peppers and honey, I may get home with more food than I started with.
Bastard! Always one step ahead….
Also, are you telling me about the food? I mean…I guess you can freeze it. Or, give it to a stray–a dog, or homeless person; your choice.
I was just musing about the food. Usually I eat twice a day, but with this abundance of food I can’t even manage that. Yet I’m fat. I blame Trump.
Qui-et….You know Tundra is listening!
Weekly family Zoom meeting update:
My relatives – who all fucking love science and generally intolerant of anti-vaxxers – are not going to take Trump’s vaccine, because Trump is a big fan of Putin and Putin’s M.O. is to poison people.
Friends are god’s way of apologizing for your shitty relatives.
That’s profound shit right there, Derpy.
I was just about to QFT that.
I forget which famous writer I stole/paraphrased that from.
That explains a lot.
Trumps secret plans are finally paying off.
Making pizzas tonight for dinner and asked the kid what she wants for toppings. Yes, she answered with that one word.
Mayo?
Daylight come and me wanna go home.
She wants bananas?
Me say mayo!
Get a pineapple, put tomato sauce and shredded cheese on it, serve.
Glib lol,
Agree we a lots of love bunch
hmph, I’m supposedly a pro
Two fails, will try again later 🙁
I enjoy the infinite loop.
Pineapple seal
This comment from Burn Notice wedged in my head:
“ Hey,sister, don’t be throwing explosives at me just because you can’t handle the cold hard truth!”
—-Sam Axe to Fiona
This is fine.
https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1307833483574697984
Those are some grade school jokes. But good on them for displaying that their comedy only works when they have sycophants being told to laugh and applause.
Nice comeback in the comments….
“Looks like a Biden rally!”
They just report the opposite, dont they? Implying that nobody goes to MAGA rallies, when in reality it’s Biden who can’t draw a crowd.
Just like when the Simpsons did a bit on election fraud, they showed the machines rigged to change votes from Obama to McCain. Cuz we all know how those GOPers get caught all the time doing vote fraud. Uh-huh.
Because they think millions still hang on their words as celebrities. Some still do and they get enough clicks and ad revenue to believe they are still relevant.
That tweet above just proves the left cant meme.
What an oddly distorted view “celebrities” must have of the real world.
They grossly overestimate the importance of their words on any social or political matters.
Case in point: that Z list actress Meghan Markle has returned to live in the US where she wants to be an influencer. ~snort~
She issued a statement about RBG and what an inspiration she was to Meghan. Sure.
She’s been pretty obviously leftie in her statements, and rumors are that she might enter politics. Good thing she left Britain; royals aren’t supposed to be openly political.
I saw the actor that played Captain Winters in Band of Brothers at LAX once and I said to myself “hey thats the guy who played Captain Winters” and then I got into a cab.
The whorship people have towards “celebrities” is sick
Pecky!
Wha?
Why is it that I learn these things from Fox News?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/black-voices-for-trump-board-member-ginsburg-was-confirmed-in-fewer-days-than-trump-has-until-election
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Black Voices For Trump board member Paris Dennard said Sunday that President Trump is well within his right to name a successor to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and that the New York City native was confirmed by the Senate in a shorter time than there is from now until the 2020 elections.
Dennard, a former George W. Bush White House staffer, told “America’s News HQ” that there have been 29 instances of a Supreme Court vacancy occurring during an election year, and that Ginsburg was confirmed in fewer than the 44 days until November 3.
***
All good points, and all lost on deaf ears. Voters think in tweets and reposted memes.
Reasoned arguments get ignored or shouted down.
QUIET, YOU!
And, after that, Caveman Hookers!
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How weird–I watched it twice, including using the link…well, here’s the jist of it: https://tv.yarn.co/yarn-clip/faa13e30-0bfe-48a6-b064-d6d09510a584
I do love that one.
Only a racist would have said such a thing. Someone go find a white, female 22 year old humanities major from Swathmore college, dressed all in black to scream in his face about systemic racism.
And all accounts of the Garland nomination fail to mention Obama wasn’t even running, as he’d limited out. So no matter what, he would be imposing his pick on his predecessor.
One of my Facebook friends us straining my attempts to be apolitical on Facebook. She posted a rant about being angry that poor old Ginsburg was forced to work until her dying breath to keep the US from turning into a totalitarian nightmare. Says that she’s angry that she will lose control over her own body. Then for emphasis “Angry. And scared.”
—facepalm—
Trump should push a nominee quickly because the reality of Whomever he picks will be less scary than whatever demon the undecided voters imagine Trump would pick “if he were re-elected.”
RGB could’ve retired when team blue had the white house and congress. She was 80 at the time, but clinging to power was more important than helping out her team.
Even the major networks at the time floated that. Whatever, she didn’t and she died. I havenno problem with the politics that the Senate played in ’16 and I have no problem with them now. As lomg as its all Constitutional.
Ginsburg was reliable to the D wing of the court… but I don’t know if I would call her a friend of liberty. Seems she liked her some state power when she agreed with the political objectives.
This is a massive boon for Republicans. Even if they lose the election now, they’ll get one more non-far-left justice in place.
He really needs a replacement sworn in before the election.
And get ready for the riotous reason why (pun intended).
Team D has made it clear that there will be court battles if Trump wins. So with Roberts being entirely likely to side with the D block, he needs that justice to avoid any 4-4 splits.
Think they are worried about RvW now? Wait until an RBG replacement gets to vote on Biden’s 43,000 late mail in ballots in Ohio.
If only the poor gal had joined a union, then RGB would have retired with full bennies before she ever got a sniff at the chair.
Looks like the left is hell bent on making you choose between a gulag state or an ethno state. Thank gawd you still have Free Will.
Neal Peart died. He may have taken Freewill with him.
Maybe some of us what an ethno-gulag–ever thought of that?!?
Also, I don’t get what the problem is: Wealth shouldn’t be hoarded just for your kids.*
*I am totally OK with the shit-heel getting some in his cell.
I mean, does it matter that he was a vet?
To some, sure. As far as the news is concerned, it’s a way of selling an already horrid story. Gotta have an angle.
Well, that means he can get us Special K, or do you mean the other kind of vet?
Not at all. What happened was despicable.
It’s the “perfect” example of scum and villainy, caught on surveillance.
Me thinks that Matt and Trey didn’t pull punches with the hour long special since our Down Under friends have dropped the show.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8741869/amp/SBS-stops-airing-South-Park-Australia-23-years.html
That is the entire ‘article’, fucksake. It’s less informative than a fucking tweet,
Given their drastic crackdowns, cant have satire or a show making fun of them now can you? People might get an idea that its all a damn cruel joke
I mean, I don’t even know where SBS is from that article.
Australia is more complicated than this. I watch Aussie-rules football because Port Adelaide plays at home with 20k spectators, none of them wearing masks. The club is based in Adelaide, South Australia. Half of the teams in the same league are from the state of Victoria, the one turned into gulag. These teams have temporarily relocated to other states in the country, like NSW or Queensland. It’s an eerie experience of contradiction that the Aussie commentators never address.
State censorship or some other reason?
The broadcast is done by networks like Seven that rejected South Park decades ago: they were never that edgy. I can vouch for the entirety of their broadcast: because of the time zone difference I fast forward thru all the talk, I watch it recorded. But I did catch a human interest story when the children of a team from Victoria but not Melbourne, Geelong Cats, were able to travel to see their dads. Victoria outside of Melbourne was always less brutalized. That might explain it. But it had a whiff of North Korea, too.
Cannot vouch.
Finally got a proper bed of coals. Nice and toasty, but it’s time for bed. Good night all.
In case you’re wondering what sort of party attracts a large number of teenagers and young adults who just happen to show up at a back-yard party packing handguns, it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.
C’mon–after that, I had to post it.
I really enjoyed learning that “things like this happen” because we don’t fully fund schools and we have not taken funds from the police to invest in our children.
Hooo-boy! That was impressive.
Yes–just imagine the damage the proles would do if they actually kept the money they make. I mean, they go around shooting each other, so, can’t trust them to spend money as they see fit.
Only government can save us! (No, not them–the other part of government.)
All these gang bangers and wannabes get guns and think that will give them superpowers.
They didn’t grow up on a farm with an older relative teaching gun safety and shooting technique. Probably don’t even know how to clean a gun.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the NRA went into inner cities offering free gun safety courses and range time to disadvantaged minorities? The left’a heads would explode.
Oh well. At least this way we have better odds of survival in a firefight against the left wing mobs if they come.
To be fair, this would also happen with 00 buckshot. Or, slugs.
Or, .50 BMG.
/just sayin…
That is grade A derp.
That’s some fine reporting there, Lou.
From the Daily Fail.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8753581/Democrats-threaten-pack-Supreme-Court-Trumps-nomination-goes-through.html
Boy, they earned that name.
They could have at least read the Wikipedia page.
Depending on the page, I would think the author may write some things on Wiki!
Its one thing for the people to make political threats its another for actual politicians to make them
Posted to my Derpbook today:
“Women, if you have a credit card in your own name and your own credit history, if you have leased an apartment or bought property in your name, if you have consented to your own medical treatment, if you played a sport in school, you can thank Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”
This is going to be history taught 50 years from now. That in the before 1993 times that women couldn’t have their own line of credit or get medical treatment without a male present. It’s not just a retarded meme.
RBG has a genuine, honest-to-God cult of personality.
And, yes–I see it, in a lesser form, with DJT. I do think, though, that it’s more reactionary than what goes on with RBG.
My main point goes beyond RBG to the broader way history is rewritten. The left likes to say they are on the right side of history. They’re going to be sure of that and I have to question a lot of the general history that was taught to me in public schools.
A hearty “DIAF” to people who use that term seriously.
I never noticed it until Obama, and he used it plenty. It’s pretty much the same as saying “Cone on, become a Patriots fan so you can identify with the winning team, not with those losers you root for because they’re your team.”
I”always stand for your principles. Even if it means standing alone. Actually, standing alone would be like super embarrassing, so just stand over there with the crowd that is winning.”
When combined, Brochettaward’s and Digby’s avatars make an interesting scary movie.
I….w-…..huh. She’s not wrong.
I bought a Time magazine year in review issue for 2001 when it came out because I had an inkling even then that contemporary reporting and opinions would be vastly different from the way it would be told later.
I should dig that up and give it a read…
My jaw is on the floor. Do the under thirty crowd really believe she was she was a suffragette at the turn of the 20th century?
Old is old to many of those worshipers. Probably can’t tell that she wasn’t around for the signing of the DoI.
So my mom…who had all that in ’84 is because of The RGB? Fuck all them and their revisionist bullshit.
They are emboldened every time they push the envelope a little and get away with it.
This is similar when my brother tried to make an assertion about healthcare being important when he and I were born.
I called him out on his bullsheet after I confirmed with my mother anf father that insurance was only “life or limb” at the time and that my mom paid off the doc in payments of 20/month for 2 months.
Its that type of reimaging how life was prior to when ever they decide to make it so that pisses me off.
I have a strong feeling that what they are implying is that, w/o her, the SC would have overturned every “advancement” made for women in legislation. Because male Nazgul only want to enslave women, and are to be feared and have war waged against them.
Thus, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
They would have been put back into chains
I thought women go in binders and blacks go in chains?
Better ask Uncle Joe.
I have a feeling it’s all a jumble in his mind.
So now we have Founding Mother Ruth Bader Ginsburg to go along with Republican President FDR trying yo pack the Court with conservative justices to pass the New Desl.
What in the everloving fuck do they teach in journalism now?
Eh, can’t expect the Limeys to get our stuff correct…the embarrassment of one of your kids kicking your ass–twice–can be problematic.
😀
My life experience must be different than a lot of others. My mother was born in the mid 20’s. Grew up on the east coast and went to college in Denver. Hiked and camped all over the Rockies and was a photographer for the National Geographic. Doing all of this while she was single in the late 40s and 50s. After my parents were married, my dad worked and my mom took care of the family finances.
A lot of shit that was just cultural gets passed off as systematic discrimination. It’s less that there were legal roadblocks for many things as much as it wasn’t common. Sort of like how women don’t go into STEM fields on average and the left pretends its because of patriarchy.
But their dishonesty makes me question a whole ton of shit…
Just rolled my ankle. Haven’t done that in years. Ice time.
Yikes! You know the drill. Get well soon.
My wrist is in solidarity with your ankle. We might have to trade notes later on, since this seems kinda kinky.
Remember when you looked down and there were only one set of footprints in the sand? That’s when Hayek and Digby were carrying me. Wait… you get the point.
OK, Hayeks–which side are you getting? Oooh–I know! A palanquin!
Well, we’re talking about women, chains & binders above.
You have to take it easy with all that gay sex. We care about your health here, straffinrun.
C’mon, Man. Your ankle grabbing dig fits Digby’s wrist better. Do I have to show you how to be a proper homophobe?
Whoa, man! Why you gotta throw me under the bus like that??
Frog and Scorpion story. You got me to the other side.
Oh, that’s how it is, eh?
For you.
Homophobia implies judgement. I don’t discriminate. I’m just an umpire calling things as I see’em. Whether you are the top or the bottom in this crazy tipsy topsy world is just as irrelevant. I just call a gay a gay and a strike a strike.
You see a lot of gay stuff in your life?
Everything is either gay or not gay. And then things in the middle between being gay or not gay.
In the topic of Joe Biden’s level of mental competency:
When he says 100 million Americans have died of covid and that 200million will have died before it’s done, is it that he is truly awful at reading a teleprompter, or does he believe those numbers?
I’d like to sit across the table from him in a neutral setting and ask basic questions. How far is the earth from the moon? What’s the population of the US? Of the world? Is the distance from LA to New York more or less than 10000 miles?
True or false: Ukraine shares a border with Germany.
How many US representatives are there?
H hi ow many people die per day in the US of any cause?
I’m beginning to think he meant to say Planned Parenthood.
Its either an elaborate game or the man is losing his faculties. Of the two, as a human being, I hope its the former.
If its the later, then his campaign is feeding him this BS and sending him out in the world. His wife seems to not care which leads me to believe its a rope a dope
Either way, not exactly leadership material.
For any late-nighters needing a good laugh: https://twitter.com/BevanneTX/status/1307397684005867525
Behold how many people who support the party of antifa/riots/unfettered abortion wish to pontificate on just how unprincipled, immoral, and all-around bad Trump & GOP voters are. ???
She does get raked over the coals by plenty of sane people. But, just feast you eyes on the bios of the people applauding her and/or saying they’ve done the same. Plus, damn those leftist broads are uhhh-gly!
Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
I still don’t know how Pelosi wasn’t struck dead the instant she said that “Abortion is a sacrament.” The Almighty must be saving up his smiting for the Apocalypse.
She is nominally a Catholic. How the fuck does she square that circle?
Paul Lynde knows!
Well, night owls, I have to get up early so off I go back to bed. Sweet dreams.
“Night, ma’am. ?
https://www.gearpatrol.com/cars/a615004/these-5-cars-receive-the-most-speeding-tickets/
I gotta slow down.
I don’t see Dodge Challenger listed, so the list must be crap. ?
On 2nd thought–considering how may LE people drive them, I guess I can see why it’s not listed.
#ProfessionalCourtesy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mfI1S0PKJR8
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nWK0kqjPSVI
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*sigh*
Morning, Glibs.
I love working on less than five hours of sleep.
/sarc
go to bed earlier.
There isn’t a whole lot of correllation between that and how much I manage to sleep.
drink more?
Morning, UCS. And afternoon, Pie.
What kept you up so late, U? I hope it was inspiration, not insomnia.
It was insomnia. I’ve only gotten about 1200 words written since I asked you the beta read question.
Semi-related, I was wondering how much of the world-building with regards to Skrael society and biology was visible in the story, or could be inferred.
I don’t recall it seeming inadequate. I’ll go back and reread that bit, since I’ve been doing some other reading since, and I’ll get back to you – probably this evening.
Okay, thank you.
My pleasure. I just found my way back to the point where they reach Skrael Town, so I’ll start rereading from there.
If only you had a work friend with an Adderall prescription.
I’m just over 15 minutes in, and, whoa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJt_afGN3IQ
An hour twelve and change? Not this morning, I’m afraid.
Good morning, Diggy.
“Suspect who allegedly sent envelope containing ricin to White House arrested”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ricin-white-house-envelope-arrested/#app
Something something if this was a Dem pres the media would be shitting their Fruit of the Looms in epic fashion.
They’re showing remarkable restraint to hide their disappointment that the stuff didn’t get through.
Elspeth and LadyZ are back, BP gifted us with SNP, my Horoscope wasn’t terrible and the cute girl at the beer store was in a great mood and did a little dance while I was making my purchase last night. Maybe this week is going to be okay.
Mornin’ Nightwalkers!
Are we sure they’re back for good, or is it just a brief visit?
Mornin’, Fes. I hope your week continues to be pleasant.
You too, Red! So much to do before Winter hits.
Hey, any MLW showing up at any time for however long counts a plus on my ledger. We are a sausage fest for the most part and need the opinions of the fairer sex for some balance. Plus they are cool people, even if they have front holes 🙂
Oh yeah, got to burn up my data last night before it rolled into a new month. Much Vulfpeck and Bluegrass was listened to and maybe a little bopping was enjoyed.. Don’t worry, the warehouse has no windows…
Glad you’re doing well. I’m sitting here with my foot all bandaged up and wondering if I broke a bone it.
Gah. Getting older and more prone to injury truly bites. I fell down hard two weeks ago and my arm still looks like Neph’s bum.
No x-ray? When I wondered if I’d broken my foot it cost me all of $66 (all out of pocket but pre-obamacare)
What does it run in Japan for a foot x-ray?
*sniffs* X-rays are free in Canada. Of course you might need to wait a week or two to see a specialist to determine if it is indeed a break and see to your treatment going forward. Crutches are not free and if you want anything better than a plaster cast that costs extra too. It’s free I tells ya, totally free!
It’s a Holiday today and tomorrow so I see what’s up Wednesday. It’ll cost about ten bucks*
*massive insurance payments not included.
Really? Even on Christmas Day I’ve been able to get an X-Ray for a possible broken bone. (It wasn’t)
Good morning, peeps!
BP, this was brilliant! I’m really happy to have SNP back. The Minneapolis chick is indeed fine.
She was my choice also. Mornin’ Friend.
Wait, what?
That’s not social distancing.