We had some pineapple on our meatlovers pizza the other day… and it was not the worst.
Let’s argue about something contentious, shall we? What’s your standard? 10%, 15%, 20%? Depends on the service entirely?
This isn’t about the magpies who flock around my deck every morning for their breakfast, but it’s still pretty neat.
Thinking you might try to frame your twin for the perfect crime? Think again!
It was a different time, but this was pretty fascinating to me.
It’s wholesome all the way down here.
Local news that reads like national news. Some bonus local news, while I’m at it, too. (Btw, in case you forgot about Gianforte and the reporter…)
Let’s keep it light with the music, eh?
We had some pineapple on our meatlovers pizza the other day… and it was not the worst.
*faints*
Leave the Firsting to the pro’s next time.
Leave the correct usage of apostrophes to the professionals next time.
Find me a pro @ firsting, and Ill let xe/xer know.
You’re spare parts, bud.
Her name is Hailey, she charges $300/hr typically, but that service is extra.
A seconder like you shouldn’t even deign to consume the same oxygen as me.
Oxygen? Shouldn’t you only be breathing the First Element and exist in a pure H2 environment?
I was just as shocked as you are!
2. often aims to misbehave
She warned us, but I never thought it would go this far.
Heh-heh-heh. *taps fingers together menacingly*
This is almost as much fun as getting white women hooked on the reefer…
Man, you ARE evil!
This is pretty much my life’s ambition.
*nods*
That’s like you saying you had some broccoli on your pizza and it wasn’t the worst. Of course it was the worst! The only way it could have been worse is if you had both broccoli AND pineapple on your pizza at the same time!
Now, I like Broccoli and pineapple, just not on pizza.
Next you’ll say that white pizza isn’t real pizza…
No, I’d never say that. Most pizza in Brazil is white, so I’m used to it. Of course that IS racist, but I don’t care.
Yeah, but what Brazilians call pizza should be classified as a war crime.
Romeu e Julieta *shudders*
Greetings…Tulpa.
They have American, Italian, Portuguese, and their own style pizza.
Fuck off, Tulpa.
How can I be Tulsa if I’m actually DONDEERRRRROOOOOOOOO?
But seriously no, I’m a long time lurker, you and I spoke at TOS way back when. I married a woman I met when I lived down in Bahia. At the time we were just engaged and working through the all the documentation. I just got tired of lurking and decided to post. Thing have gotten too ridiculous lately and I want to make my voice heard.
Stroganoff belongs nowhere near a pizza.
All Pizzas Matter – APM
Not white pizzas, you racist!
Sounds like you’ve been watching Food Network where the “pizza is just a canvas for your flavor portrait” or whatnot…
I only watch Food Network and History channel to see what the space aliens are currently up to.
It’s aliens all the way down.
With COVID-19 cases steadily declining in Yellowstone County, Health Officer John Felton on Thursday rescinded all local public health orders, effective immediately.
The county must still follow the existing governor’s health order, enacted by former Gov. Steve Bullock in November, which currently limits restaurants, bars, breweries, distilleries and casinos to 50% capacity and require they close at 10 p.m., and applies a mask mandate to indoor public spaces and large outdoor gatherings to all of Montana’s 56 counties.
Gov. Greg Gianforte said on Tuesday he planned on rescinding the statewide mask mandate in the coming weeks and would revisit other measures that close bars and restaurants, and limits gatherings in the coming days.
“Some guidance and directives will be revised. Others will be removed entirely. Our goal is to make these new directives and guidance very clear,” Gianforte said Tuesday.
Felton said he did not plan on implementing a local mask mandate, should the state mandate be lifted, and would follow Gianforte’s policies for the time being “out of respect for Gov. Gianforte’s authority to manage the pandemic according to his policies.”
Domestic terrorism.
What’s your standard?
10% for poor service. 15% for mediocre. 20% for good.
20% default. Occasionally go higher or lower, depending on the
hawtnessservice. All amounts rounded for my convenience.Look at Mr. Moneybags. But I do typically round up to the next dollar.
Well, I eat out mostly at bars, burger or pizza joints. I get a bill for more than $40/head, all in, pretty rarely. Mostly when vacationing with Mrs. Dean.
#metoo
Yep that is where I start and then go from there.
This. I have been tipping heavier during the ‘vid. My checks have kept on coming, others are more on the margins. I am trending toward default 25% and up.
15-18% ish for average service. Good service, I’ll push it above 20%. Bad service, I’ll push it down near 10%.
Sales tax in my county is 9.25%. I usually double the sales tax and round up or down a little. So on average about 18.5%.
And during the lockdowns I’ve been more generous in order to help out the wait staff.
This.
50-100+% on the total bill including tax. Do that consistently and everywhere you frequent you’ll be treated like a king. Also, I used to cook in restaurants and have witnessed all of the shitty customer horror stories, so that factors in too. Cheap as hell with everything else.
Dude… I’d treat you like a king too!
0% for poor
10% for carryout
15% for delivery
20% for dine-in
I’ve spent the last nine months learning how to re-create all my favourite carry-out in my own kitchen. My orange beef, for example, is better than any I’ve had in a Chinese restaurant. Carry-out’s all but dead to me now.
For everything else, it’s normally GST (5%) x 3, unless I get spectacular service (which I haven’t had in years). I have modified my tipping to go higher during the Commie Cough.
20% on the after tax amount and I usually round up to next dollar. I find we get seated promptly and treated well at most of our regular places and they usually pour the wife a fuller glass of wine as well. You have to really fuck up to get me to 15%. I also almost never vary from the menu item other than the occasional “hold the mushrooms”. The wife on the other hand almost always alters her order.
So seldom go out with all the BS but I’m in the Dr’s neighborhood for the reasons others have said.
I, for one, welcome our Motown robot overlords!
And the Mojeaux Mormonbot Overlady.
That’s “Shitlady” to you, bub.
Yes ma’am!
Mormonbot got nuthin’ on Jewbot:
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I understood about 2% of that twins article.
“researchers in Iceland”
Full disclosure: Their test subjects, being Icelandic, are already genetic freaks to begin with, so…
CNN Gravely Reports On ‘First Violent Protest In Recent Memory’
Congress Upset As They’re The Only Criminals Allowed In The Capitol
How long before the Bee gets banished from social media?
Well, considering the President got banned.
And the Bee has addressed that issue as well:
Trump Circumvents Twitter Ban With Emergency Alert System
LOLOLOL
I’m trying to guess what the first thing our Dem overlords will do. I’m guessing restricting speech, because it will be much easier to do all the other stuff when you can get someone kicked off the internet or arrested if they dare to say anything against you.
Didn’t they already say gun control is their top priority?
I spent $400+ on extra boating accessories yesterday.
What you did there, I sees it I does.
https://www.guns.com/news/2021/01/07/and-here-come-the-anti-gun-bills-for-2021
Going by the summaries, I think HR 121, 130, and 167 are slam dunks for the Dems along with the possibility of a resurrection of the AWB.
HR 30 will probably get through, especially if there are lots of grifting opportunities.
HR 125 will probably get through.
HR 127 might be a bit too far.
I guess I gotta buy more stuff.
They don’t have to do anything about that. Big tech has them covered.
Twitter & Facebook is clearing house as we speak.
Big tech has too much power, but they also need to censor the people I don’t like.
They don’t have to restrict speech, TOK. Their lapdog social media companies can have the same net effect.
I see that. Any any objections would be met with a big yawn. So I guess gun control it is.
^^^ spot on Tonio
I still think they’re going to go after Fox News hosts like Tucker Carlson.
Watch them pass some law along the lines of “Lies Aren’t Free Speech”.
Fox can decide either to parrot every other news outlet, or be forced out of business by Biden-appointed “fact checkers”.
The case goes to the Supreme Court, where Roberts and Kavanaugh join the liberal wing to vote against Fox in time to make the rounds at DC cocktail parties that evening.
Since everyone is reporting the same news anyway, all the networks then join together to form a single source of news, which they title “Truth”.
The new name needs to have a more “sacred” feel to it, somethingthat commands Respect, maybe a title like “The Ministry of Truth.” That has a nice ring to it.
While going after fundamental rights is definitely on the docket, the first thing they will do is obviously raid the treasury. They’ve already promised more checks to the people, and you just know they are going to use the opportunity to feather their nests and pay off their buyers…I mean, donors.
We already have the answer. See: Merrick Garland as AG = GET THEM GUNZ!
That’s always the first duty of a new communist regime. ALWAYS. Prove me wrong.
I will not comply.
Standard tip for me us 20%. Really good service/experience gets 30%. Although my Covid standard tip has gone up to 30% because I feel bad for the restaurant workers.
I swear growing up that 15% was the standard, but everyone pretends it’s 20% now.
I spent too much time waiting table to undertip. Plus, I overtip when I’m alone to make up for the space I’m occupying. If I try a newly-opened restaurant/bar I’ll try and see if I can figure out what the planned PPA is for the place to see what my frequency of visiting can be.
Indie restaurant owners love the fuck out of me.
15% was absolutely the standard.
The one exception I make is at buffets. All you’re doing is bringing me drinks occasionally. I’m not tipping 15% for that.
Me too!
I remember when 10% was the standard. Soon, it will be sign over your weeks pay to them, Then your property deed.
I only eat at casino buffets, and usually comped. When I’m up, everybody gets a taste. When I’m down, I leave something, but not 15%
I distinctly remember *10%* being the standard. Granted, since driving pizza in college I try to be generous unless you really screw up — but what a bunch of entitled babies to think that 20% is now the default. Sheesh.
And I would have taken back the $5 for that waitress as well. What an idiot.
Yes 10% was the acceptable tip amount at one point in time.
I’m so old 10% used to be the standard….15% was for superior service.
Then I worked at a Ponderosa Steakhouse…I started tipping higher from then on.
Speaking of pineapple on pizza, I’d like to pimp my short piece of pineapple pizza erotica from the other day which I tapped out on a whim. I had to retire to my bunk after writing that. I don’t know how to link to a comment, but if anyone actually enjoyed that, I might be inspired to generate a forum thread.
I think it was worthy of a recurring guest-writer spot on H&H: Expanded Universe.
Discovery is going to be fun.
Dominion Voting Systems filed a lawsuit against pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell on Friday for defamation after she alleged in numerous reports and interviews the company was tied to election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Why would they do that? Do they think they just out-lawyer her and make it not worth it expense-wise?
It’s a SLAPP. The ol’ former anti-SLAPPers I’ve seen are giddy about it. Haven’t checked on Randazza.
Do they not understand they will be subject to discovery?
The idea is to generate sufficient legal expenses before it gets to that point that they back down.
Counter-complain and keep digging.
Who is the judge hearing the case?
Judge Sullivan? He needs something to do now, right?
Because she’s full of shit and they will win?
What, not this for a musical choice?
Yes
15% is the starting point. If all I get from wait-staff is the minimum that’s about where I stay. 20%+ for good & proper service.
I’m lazy so I just throw down some amount of bills that I’m sure is at least 20%. Plus my mom waited tables at Red Lobster to put herself through law school while taking care of my brother and I, so I have a bit of a soft spot there. I’d rather give too much and make up for the people who don’t tip or withhold tips for frivolous reasons.
The service would have to be exceptionally bad for me to deliberately calculate a low tip, and this has probably happened once or twice.
Good on ya!
“”Great food, but almost no interactions were made with any of the waitresses other than being given the food, as you had to reserve your table position online in advance, as well as place your order online once finally seated (due to COVID safety measures).
“The bill came out to be just about $30, and I tipped just a little above 15%, giving $5.”
That’s fine, since she barely did everything.
um, anything
It still saddens me that this is what Balko turned out to be
Radley Balko
@radleybalko
Dear God, this video. Seems pretty clear that if they’d come upon the right member of Congress, that member would be dead.
11:26 AM Jan 8, 2021
What an ass. If it was BLM, half the Dems in Congress would have come out to meet them.
“Seems pretty clear that my prejudices will be confirmed no matter what I see.”
Christ, what an asshole.
Yet the only body to hit the ground was a protestor (rioter, if you insist). Unarmed. Shot through a locked and barricaded door. I remember the Radley who would have been all over that. I miss that Radley.
I would love to read an article making the case that the worst thing that happened yesterday was the murder of a woman in the Capitol. Not some minor vandalism, not the disruption of official business for a few hours, but the actual, unjustified killing of a human being.
But she was a bad person, so it’s OK.
Seems pretty clear that’s Radley’s take on it.
Yep.
I should be past being surprised by this shit, but Balko’s reporting (back when he was worth a shit) is what opened my eyes to the reality of abusive, killer cops. There are a ton of cops in my extended family and I was raised in a very back-the-blue environment. It was a major evolution for me to accept that there are a ton of worthless cops out there, and many more “good cops” who do nothing about them. So it is immensely disappointing to me personally to see what a worthless leftist asskisser he became.
She was a Nazi, and so she deserved it. Nazi’s aren’t Humans./ No shit, a take i read on Twitter this morning from a blue-checkmarked person.
That reminds me, I should cycle my mags when I get home.
Is writing a newspaper story about a reddit post lower than writing one about a tweet?
Yes.
Honk honk.
In a long statement, Pelosi said she made the drastic call to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley as pressure mounts for Trump to step down or be removed from office via the 25th Amendment after the deadly US Capitol siege.
“This morning, I spoke to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike,” Pelosi (D-Calif.) wrote.
I bet that was a fun convo since he really doesn’t report to her. But she can now go on record as having DONE SOMETHING.
Yes, openly conspired as part of a military coup. And nothing else happened.
“This morning, I conspired (again) to subvert the established constitutional powers and undermine the legitimate civilian control of the military.”
I have a teammate who’s a never-Trumper, and this week on FB he came unglued and called for the 25th Amendment. Someone asked why, and he said Trump might start a war in the next week.
I like the guy too much to troll him, but I was very tempted to respond, “Why would he start a war? His last name isn’t Bush.” /mic drop
You should have!
Did she also mention preventing Trump from releasing all of the gorillas in our zoos or Trump branding the name Trump on the foreheads of all new born baby girls? Because those things are possible too.
She is afraid what he will declassify. That is the only thing that makes sense about this nonsense. *makes prayer hands and looks to the heavens* Please lord let me be right.
Killed by MAGA mob!
Brian Sicknick wanted to be a police officer “his entire life.”
The South River, New Jersey, native joined the New Jersey Air National Guard as a means to that end. He served in post-9/11 Operations Enduring Freedom and Desert Shield, and worked for the 108th Air Refueling Wing at New Jersey’s Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.
But, at just 42 years old, he was killed defending the country’s beacon of democracy when a pro-Trump mob tried to overtake the Capitol building on Wednesday.
“Brian is a hero and that is what we would like people to remember,” his older brother, Ken Sicknick, said in a statement to The Daily Beast, adding that the “direct causes” of his brother’s injuries were unknown and the family didn’t want his death to be made “a political issue.”
” defending the country’s beacon of democracy”
WTF? A high school girl would be too ashamed to write that for her school paper.
Didn’t he die of a heart attack? This is like when they kept trying to include the two state troopers who died in a helo crash during the Charlottesville business as “casualties”.
We must inflate the numbers to support the narrative, comrade.
The dome of delegation,the gallery of grandstanding, and the offices of outsourcing, where the nation’s lawmakers pawn off their responsibilities on the other two branches of government?
With the second part in mind, I’m not sure how the first part is not false or unsubstantiated. You don’t say someone “was killed” if they died of a pre-existing medical condition while some other event was going on.
JHTFC, the spinning the narrative to the noblesse oblige of the Pelosi staffer towards the deplorable…
Also, not all Trump supporters supported this action.
??? 42?
Served in Desert Shield? Which was in 1991? When he was 12 or 13?
Probably OIF/OEF.
My crusty ass was a 2LT when Desert Shield happened.
Yeah but what do you expect from reporters? To get things straight and facts right? The man lied about his age to fight for Democracy Bob!
I’m 44 and I was a freshman in high school went Desert Storm went down.
You too, eh? Congrats for being old, like me.
Desert Storm was in ’91. Desert Shield was the last bull shit.
I thought Desert Shield came first–it was the initial response to Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait, ostensibly intended to protect neighboring countries from further aggression. Then Desert Storm was the invasion and liberation of Kuwait and the invasion of Iraq.
A quick DDG says yes you are correct. I forgot the Shield part. It happened prior to my joining and getting the hell hole stationing of Key West FL. I misspoke. I do it often.
What was wrong with Key West?
Until she learns that’s exactly what the Daily Beast hires for.
There is a federal murder case opened for him.
Nary a peep about a murder case for Ashli.
We have some cheap tippers around here. 30% or go home.
But how much do you tip per song at a strip club?
I never pay for strippers.
‘Cause you’re a homo. Duh.
Can’t wait to see the tik tok videos on this
Squirrrrrrrrelllllllsss!!
Interesting question – that’s probably the only place I can think of where inflation hasn’t totally blown up the prices in the last 20+ years. Well, the drink prices yeah, but not the service fees…
Probably because the price of cocaine has come down in real dollars during the same time period.
Brochettaward is a big time tipper at the Dennies.
He likes being First to dinner, especially wen they open at 4:00.
What kind of shit hole do you live in where there isn’t a 24 hour Denny’s? Not my America.
By 4 months old, the fledgling ravens were already cognitively comparable to adult primates—especially with respect to problem solving abilities. The ravens understood quantities, grasped causation, and showed social learning on par with the formerly studied apes.
So…. smarter than the average Congresscritter.
snapping a bunch of cute photos of the fluffy stray cats gratefully sleeping away in their shelter.
Awwww
That’s setting the bar awfully low.
Fascinating.
One of at least six individuals from the state of Michigan arrested in Washington, D.C. this week in connection with protests over the 2020 election wasn’t in our nation’s capitol to back Donald Trump, but to “keep an eye” on Trump supporters, according to his father.
25-year old Logan Grimes was busted with a handgun, “high capacity” magazine, and “unregistered ammunition” on Wednesday afternoon about a 1 /2 miles from the Capitol, near the District’s Chinatown neighborhood. In an interview with the Detroit Free Press, Robert Grimes described his son as a “gun hobbyist” who’s always followed Michigan law, and blamed the president for his son’s arrest.
Hit the nail right on the head there – Donald Trump personally got your dipshit son arrested. IS THERE NO END TO THE MAN’S MENDACITY????
No danger of “toxic masculinity” with a person being responsible for their own actions there, I see…. We’d sicken the pioneers and frontiers-folk who actually built this country. Barf.
I can’t really blame him if that part of DC is anything like it used to be.
Seems pretty clear that if they’d come upon the right member of Congress, that member would be dead.
What’s really weird is I have not heard anything at all about Members of Congress being anything other than inconvenienced.
They was scared!!!
Nope, but people were mean to Mittens and Miss Lindsey.
It was an assault on America’s sacred temple of Democracy.
What’s really weird is I have not heard anything at all about Members of Congress being anything other than inconvenienced.
Yes, their entire day was actually super easy, barely an inconvenience.
I had to turn off NPR today due to some of the interviews of congress/staffers afraid for their life. It was pathetic.
Didn’t he die of a heart attack?
I have no idea. This morning there was something about a cop who had a stroke. Did that get memoryholed, too?
BACK THE BLUE GOSH DAMNIT!!!!
Yeah its time for the Democrats to put up their RESIST!!! and SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER!!!! signs and Support Our Wonderful President. It’s time for the Republicans to drag out their Gadsen Flags and and stop saying “Respect the President’s authority.”
Speaking of Gadsden……at DMV we have been inundated with people screaming that the Gadsden flag plates are INCITING TERRORISM AND MUST BE ELIMINATED!
If they were black more people would have died!/ Wistful bloodlust
At least they retracted “got hs head bashed in with a fire extinguisher” story from earlier.
Let’s argue about something contentious, shall we? What’s your standard? 10%, 15%, 20%? Depends on the service entirely?
He was entirely justified in taking back the tip. No one is owed a specific tip amount (or any at all), and if you act like an ass (as the waitress did) you don’t deserve anything.
Also, my tipping depends not only on the service but also on the price of the food I’m eating. I tip larger percentages for good service when the bill is smaller, and vice versa, as I don’t feel that a waiter deserves more just because the food is more expensive or deserves less just because it is cheaper.
Having been a waiter and a bartender, I have trouble tipping less than 20%. And yes, Not Adahn, 15% was the standard – but I’m still going 20% for reasonable service. Now, I *am* a bit less understanding of poor service, and so a drop to 15% isn’t unheard of – but the quality of the service isn’t dependent on the kitchen or the bar, and yes, I’m paying attention.
When I came to New York I was appalled at how bad the service was compared to what I was used to as front-of-the-house in Houston. I used to count how many firing offenses I’d see before I got to my table.
Damn…that is sad. Of course I still have such major disdain for waitstaff that has to shop the food…my first “real” job waiting tables, wearing shorts and bright pink shirts at a Mexican food joint on the Kemah waterfront, we were taught a system that let anyone deliver food to any table without a single question about who had what. Basic professionalism.
I used to count how many firing offenses I’d see before I got to my table.
I used to do something similar at grocery stores after I moved to New England.
I’m on a similar boat.
15% was standard forever.
Most of my tips are in the 30% range, but that’s because I tend to patronize only the places with excellent service. Half my meals are at my pizza shop, so it’s not a big bill anyway, but they see me drive past, park on the corner, and walk up to the shop and they come out on the sidewalk with my brand of beer before I get to my favorite table and sit down . . . and they keep them coming without being asked.
And now they’re limping along and all I can do it order takeout, and I still give ’em the full tip because why not. What’s money for if not loyally supporting the best crew in town. I need these guys next year and the year after that, so a certain amount of stretch is in order because I’ve got it.
What others do is none of my business.
Not to get all “according to their needs,” but I also do try to be cognizant of what the average table is in the place I’m going. If I’m taking up a 4 top, not only am I not eating 4 entrees, I’m not getting the accompanying drinks/appetizers/desserts/coffees. Sometimes I use that as an excuse to go nuts on my bar bill, but usually I’ll just have a tip that seems oddly high percentage-wise, but it right in line with what the waiter would be pocketing for the amount of time I was holding that table.
“according to their needs”
I’m not lecturing, for any lurker: Being decent is a personal agenda, and it sounds like most of us agree. Marx, on the other hand, wanted Top Men to decide for us who needed what and then take our money to fund those decisions: apples and oranges. Our deciding for ourselves who we want to patronize and how is the entire point: get rid of government, and then just go out and do what you think is right with your person, your money, your profession, your firm. No one knows better what to do with my property and person than I do.
I need these guys next year and the year after that, so a certain amount of stretch is in order because I’ve got it
Yup. We’ve been paying our dog walker/sitter her normal weekly pay all year even though I’ve been working from home and have rarely needed her for the dogs. But neither my wife nor I have missed a paycheck, and we both make good money and we wanted to keep her going because she’s good and we will need her when the covid bullshit is over.
Good on you, man. I try at my local to do the same.
English premiership rugby: Wasps 52 (7 tries)- Bath 44 (4 tries).
A try every 11 minutes
FUN!
Who the fuck is Trump going to declare war on? The only realistic scenario i can think of would be sending a Delta Seal Beret Ninja squad to Sacramento to nab Newsom, and then seal the California border.
It has nothing to do with logic or reality. it’s about throwing it out there so that what they do has some feel of urgency and need.
You mean the president doesn’t have instantaneous access to the nuclear launch codes while in his volcano bunker? Damn Hollywood always lyin to me.
That would be so MAGA.
Go on…
Trump has failed to declare war, because the war is information. And he rejected any type help on that he could have had. And instead he surrounded himself with useless swamp scum like Barr.
Well the next 4 years will be interesting. I never thought the ship would go down so quickly but here we are.
All this 25th Amendment talk is just to prep the public for the ouster of Biden. / lol
That would explain why Biden doesn’t seem to be completely comfortable with the idea.
Biden isn’t getting the 25th. They aren’t going to publicly force him out. Once they cut their deal with Doktor First Lady Biden, he’s gone.
I get pretty depressed thinking about the future. But I keep reminding myself, there are lots things that happened in the last few years that nobody saw coming. Granted, most were bad, but still, nobody predicted President Trump.
From a policy POV, my issue is we’re counting on the oldest POTUS ever, a guy who is most likely senile, and an 80 year old Speaker and another old fuck MAjority Leader who are supposedly going to be holding back the radicals on stuff like student loan bailouts, Green insanity, direct racial repearations, etc.
You know, that was the theory behind all the RINO traitors voting and supporting Biden: hes a moderate, come on man I’m not a socialist.
Oh, and quite frankly, call me crazy, but what exactly is stopping some of these Young Turks from whipping up a mob of their own? They’ve been doing it all year.
Something I read earlier that made me laugh because it’s true: Biden is the season 1 version of Junior Soprano, when he’s the figurehead boss.
yah – I don’t think populism, or whatever you want to call it, is dead. but it needs a better spokesman (or woman!) than Trump.
I mean the US is already is garbage financial territory, a sort of “if you tax everyone, then you kill the economy. But if you keep printing $$$ then you end up in uncharted (we’re already there!) territory).
When it comes to politics, votes count, sure but money counts for more. That’s why the Trumpy economics never got off the ground: because Trumps blue collar base has the enthusiasm and the willingness to vote, but they can’t fill campaign coffers. So its business as usual with immigration and trade because the people who do write the checks like cheap foreign labor and trade. Same thing on the Dem side, for now: their coffers are filled by Wall Street and Big Tech, who are perfectly happy to put all those icky gas and oil companies out of business, but have no interest in any kind of actual socialism stuff. But the other big funding source of Team Blue is the pubsec unions, and all the various ways the government launders cash to their supporters.
I wouldn’t be so sure on the Big Tech side of things. There are a LOT of True Believers ™ in the tech corps. Not that they’d actually want it if it happens, but they sure think they want it.
Yeah the Big Tech people have that very naive childlike view of things where economies are just like the code they write so you just need the write code writers and voila.
I think Tulsi is positioning herself to be that spokewoman.
I could get behind Tulsi. She’d probably slap me in the face though. /Benny Hill
I remember how pissed I was (to put it mildly) when they pushed through Obamacare. I expect I’m going to perpetually feel like that for the next 2 years at least.
Yeah… the “how the hell can they get away with this?” feeling I had then has been back for a month and will almost certainly keep building.
I expect the hits will just keep comin’.
Reposting from this morning because it should be known that Oliver Darcy and co. have negative self-awareness.
Now CNN’s @oliverdarcy is going after cable companies for carrying Fox News
I think we can assume Biden and Co will make an all out assault on independent contractors and do everything they can to unionize the entire labor force as quickly as possible.
2021 continues, with mostly peaceful protests in DC, and Zoom/Happy Hour/Tin foil origami. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern.
I’d be there, new TV and all, but the other overnights when Im not working were nothing but a sausage-fest. Or at the very least, sausage-FESTus.
Understood BH, Sup?
Tall Cans?
I got a new webcam, haven’t checked the audio, be Forewarned!
I will not be on tonight. Tomorrow night, if there is one, I can join.
Tin foil origami.
IT WAS A HAT!!
My Audio Research is finally back up and running – obligatory pic
and I’m also working on restoring a frankenstein-ed Eico ST70, converting it to use 6AR6s.
Linky no worky!
that’s life in the imgur world. Just wait a few years and it will be there.
https://i.imgur.com/zWFUWHc.jpg
I don’t get the joke, assuming this is a joke.
I don’t get the joke
Me neither.
Assuming it isn’t — there’s another reason I’m not technically a libertarian, apparently.
Apparently that person has just met Winston.
All libertarians are such incels that the resort to Odepesian fantasies?
Apparently libertarians are okay with incest now? Oh I get it, cause they say just legalize drugs and such. So it must also mean we don’t want laws or don’t find it morally objectionable (and detrimental to DNA) to boink your mother.
EF has a nice bum, better than when she was a teenager. But working out and womanhood has a lot to do with that.
Probably something along the lines of the mom being the only woman that libertarians talk to, or something like that.
““My mom just stopped wearing thongs recently”
So she’s commando now?
It’s called projection.
Tipping is 15% unless you are exceptional, then you can make some bank from me, Service is everything,
OTOH, takeout from my local Brewery? No….
My favorite is the tip jars for take-out now. Or food trucks. GTFO of here with that nonsense.
I’ll tip for take out BBQ – a couple singles.
Is BBQ named Stacy with an I?
My gf would murder me in my sleep.
You get off easy. Mine has explained in detail that half of mine is hers while staring at my crotch. Rusty tin-can lids don’t scare me.
But then you’d just regenerate and save the galaxy wearing a vegetable…
Careful not to get glitter on your hot link.
I’ll do that if I’m taking out from a restaurant that otherwise has (well, had) seating.
Not if it’s take-out by design.
I’ll do that if I’m taking out from a restaurant that otherwise has (well, had) seating.
When NH restaurants were limited to take-out only, I tipped like I would if I was sitting there eating.
The couple of times I got take-out after the Clown Prince allowed outdoor dining, I also tipped like I was sitting down.
I double the exorbitant sales tax and round up. That usually works out to 18-20%.
I can’t believe anyone didn’t side with that guy. The server never, ever questions a tip.
Moreover, I would never eat at that place again.
This is why I never will work in the food service industry.
Thinking you might try to frame your twin for the perfect crime? Think again!
That is cool. Identical twins don’t always have identical DNA. Learn something new every day.
20% of the before taxes check. Makes math easy.
I’m about fed up with this idea that people don’t have free will all of a sudden.
20% then round up to an even dollar.
I only pay cash.
^This man is a true libertarian because he knows that most restaurants operate at least partially in the gray economy. Starve Leviathan!
If they were exceptional, absolutely they get a cash tip with the hopes they pocket it.
I only pay cash.
Same, except sometimes on the road I’ll use a credit card.
Exactly – pay in credit, tip in cash. What I gift my server is between me and them, not the G.
“Why was ‘Elizabeth from Knoxville’ holding an ONION as she sobbed about being ‘maced’ for storming the Capitol?”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9126861/Woman-gave-interview-crying-saying-maced-holding-ONION.html
It was the fashion at the time?
Swiss? Can we get some opera applause here for the spud?
Ahem. And I hate fan requests. But just this once…
From Joe Biden’s Generation?
[golf clap] for the onion bit.
“Just twist up a fresh-cut onion in a hanky, Hon. And think about how much he left you.”
Minimum is nothing. If you’re surly, rude, or incompetent, I’m perfectly happy to stiff your ass.
Good service at a casual restaurant gets 20-30%. Really excellent service at a fine restaurant can exceed the bill.
Bartenders go by a somewhat different standard. First, I always always pay cash at the bar. I never run a tab, even if that means a special trip to the ATM. The tip on the first drink is whatever is left out of a twenty. After that, it’s two bucks a drink, unless I’m drinking some major production that’s gonna tie up the bar.
It’s been some years since I drank at a bar, but I did the same. Cash only and a 10 or 20 tip on the first drink. Usually got heavy pours the rest of the night and a round or two on the house.
Similar. I’m far from a big drinker, but I tip heavy on the first drink and a buck or two depending on the place thereafter.
I’m not a wine guy, but at an expensive place I’m not tipping based on the value of the wine either.
Only run a tab at the local watering hole where everybody knows my name; which is no where at this point in time.
“MAGA mob rioters smeared their own feces throughout the Capitol and ‘tracked brown footprints’ in several hallways during violent siege”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9126409/MAGA-mob-rioters-smeared-POO-Capitol.html
STEVE SMITH ONLY LEAVE FOOTPRINTS BEHIND. AND BROWN REMAINS OF HIKER ASS.
“That was when I was carrying you”
Are you a Brit sent here to fuck with us? they are the National Enquirer of websites, FFS Man, Demi is bad enough!
/Someone had to say it….
So no pictures of it? TMITE along with APAE
^
At the very least, they could reprint that poop swastika they used to prove that there were roaming gangs of nazi klansmen on college campuses.
I’m skeptical of the pipe bomb claim as well. Haven’t seen evidence, which should be easy to provide.
Are you sure it wasn’t Nancy have a bout of IBS?
*having a
Usually 20% unless the service was lousy. A bartender or waitstaff who goes beyond gets more, especially if they show consideration to my special needs kid.
“Xena star Lucy Lawless calls out Hercules actor Kevin Sorbo for his theory that Antifa rioters stormed the US Capitol”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9125367/Xena-star-Lucy-Lawless-calls-Hercules-star-Kevin-Sorbo-Antifa-theory.html
This just getting weird.
Well she does have a bigger dick than him.
How could an idea storm the US Capitol?
Foreign interference confirmed!
Lucy Lawless…still would.
Lucy Lawless
Had a crush on her when she was in Xena. *Looks her up* Still would.
I tip 2 dollars. Whatever that works out to be as a percentage of the total bill
/Snark
Servers showing up to leon’s house and hounding him.
Makes moving to Brazil even more attractive. People there only get tips with outstanding service, which means you usually get it. Try behaving like an entitled worker in the USA, you are not getting a tip, period. No one there expects it. Here, they expect it no matter what.
Crap like this is why this social media lynching crap should stop. Jerk should be sued into oblivion as an example for the next ten generations that some actions have too high of a price….
He was a “Suspected White Supremacist”. Like Tariq is a “Suspected Kiddie Diddler”
There are some who say their are rumor that Tariq likes to get those little johnnies sloppy, but I personally can not say whether it is true.
Let’s be honest. The only thing it takes to get you suspected of being a white supremacist these days, is being white. Being male just triples the odds.
I called someone on this recently. They kept making excuses for their own collectivism and bigotry, dodging accountability, and never answering me directly. She’s smarter than this, but she can’t resist enjoying the privilege of the protected class: she gets to accuse anyone else of bigotry just because how they were born, not the content of their character. She slinked away, but she’s knows I have her number, and she knows she’s being a garbage person.
We are fomenting and underwriting bigotry. The bigotries compound themselves and eat their own tails. A century from now, everyone will write: how could so many be so dumb in such a transparent, indefensible, and corrosive way?
A century from now, everyone will write: how could so many be so dumb in such a transparent, indefensible, and corrosive way?
Hopefully. But, like you say, “bigotries compound themselves”. We’d made tremendous progress in eliminating bigotry. But, once that can of worms is sufficiently opened, I don’t think it’s hard at all for the very form that we all agreed needed to go away makes a return. Once you say bigotry is okay, you’ve lost the intellectual argument to say another form is wrong. And, I believe, in the long run, logic does eventually win out. And the Gods of the Copybook Headings aren’t a merciful lot.
“We’d made tremendous progress in eliminating bigotry.”
That’s why we had to bring it back from the dead. The left’s only effective tactic is identity politics. Otherwise, people would have to focus on policy and they can’t defend theirs.
yes, and, conversely, the right’s best attack is to themselves minimize identity politics and just point to upward mobility: see here good Mr HardWork, a self-made man, who came from nothing and now owns his own business; he is our idol, our beliefs support and helped create him, we don’t care what color he is, and you can be the next success just like him if you join us
but I don’t notice that many Republicans are smart enough to focus on this kernel
Neh, the second you do that, it’s something else.
Black person? Uncle Tom
Asian? They don’t count
Hispanic? Ignored
Like I’ve been saying, it’s an information war.
Well, fuck. I was going to buy another 4Runner, but now Toyota can go fuck themselves.
Eh. I don’t think you should not buy a perfectly good car designed and built by people who had nothing to do with this because of some thing in HR that should be corrected. If anything, the person who made the decision to fire this guy based on the tweet should be fired, but at this point do we even know if he was actually fired or whether some woke intern was (wo)manning the social media accounts and just went ahead and declared it without checking with, you know, actual management.
Word. You could write to them an kindly suggest they investigate things before making decisions instead of relying on the word of loathsome, racist cuntes like Tariq Nasheed.
This shit has been self correct soon or there will be real violence unlike anything we’ve seen in a long time.
You can’t just take equal protection under the law and turn it into protection under the law depending on race or political views, without severe consequences. But that’s exactly what they’re trying to do.
I’m very much hoping he gets his job back, and that this is one more nail in the coffin of cancel culture. It goes beyond mere cancel culture, it’s straight up lying and putting people on blast just to destroy them.
Why would you want to go back to a company that is willing to fire you without even bothering to see what actually happened?
My thought as well.
Toyota is gonna be paying a nice sum.
Totally unrelated…but I remember this when it came out.
https://apnews.com/article/6f88d96871f3292f506e2679cf012597
Toy Yoda…Toyota…and the bimbos at Hooters fell for it.
Looks like some defamation with demonstrable monetary loss to me…
Yep. Some enterprising attorney is going to have a field day with that one.
I wonder if Nasheed has liability insurance that will cover it.
Some people can just do their fucking jobs. Others spend all their time telling you how much time it took not to do their job.
I don’t tip because society says I have to. I mean if they really serve a tip, really put forth the extra effort. But this tipping automatically shit, it’s for the birds.
What are your views on Madonna’s song, Like a Virgin?
20% rounded up to the nearest dollar on the total bill. The vast majority of our restaurant business is given to two relatively cheap Italian and Mexican restaurants, and I do 30% at these. The staff all know us and give great service. I’ve left no tip on a couple meals (other places) where service provided a negative experience. Another time, I left a couple 20s on the table ( something like a 150% tip) after my wife vomited in the booth. She managed to get most of it in her purse and on our toddler daughter and I got towels to clean it myself the best I could, but still felt bad someone had to deal with that.
How do you all tip on takeout, if at all? I usually give a few dollars but not a percentage.
I also tip delivery guys if it’s anything beyond package delivery. I replaced that pos Samsung fridge I’ve been complaining about a couple days ago. One of the two delivery guys actually started screaming at me and walked off the job with my old fridge in the mudroom when it wouldn’t fit through the back door. I had to tell him not to raise his voice and to calm down (my wife heard and was all set to release the GSDs). It was unreal. I told the other guy it looks like the freezer door hinge just needs to be removed and the fridge should slide out just fine. He politely took the hinge off, calmed the other guy down, and finished the job. I heavily tipped the polite guy and hope he kept it all to himself.
Ohhh, just saw the phrasing and no edit button. Have fun with that.
NEVER lose it in front of a customer, walk around the corner and scream, but never in front of the Bill payer,
CWAA
Hey Yusef! The brass compression fitting on my tube water line (clear aquarium type tubing) would not fit the threaded steel water line for the fridge. Is this the fitting I need to connect the clear tubing to the threaded steel water line?
https://www.lowes.com/pd/B-K-1-4-in-Compression-x-MIP-Adapter-Coupling-Fitting/1000505237
The tubing is connected to a copper pipe in the basement with a saddle valve. I’m thinking about replacing the whole thing with a sharkbite shutoff valve and new tubing, but just cutting off the end and replacing with a different adapter would be much easier.
err braided steel line… not threaded.
leave the Steel braid and use the adapter you found, it’s perfect for the job,
That’s exactly the fitting you need, leave a good 6″ or so of a copper tail, just in case, the plan will work, good researching,
Okay awesome, thank you.
Seriously I hope it was just trollin people on Twitter with this, but I doubt it.
Apparently they are searching for “Via Getty” based on AP photos watermarked with….Via Getty
https://nypost.com/2021/01/07/twitter-users-mistake-via-getty-for-name-of-capitol-rioter/
People are Morons, this is known,
Good illustration here:
https://twitter.com/B_Bolshevik100/status/1347382689414795265
This too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nAuUs-6gKs
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1347302588434284544
“Firey but mostly peaceful protest…”
Is anyone really shocked about this? Really?
Wittle Windsey Warmongerer
Lindsey thinks he’s going to get some more poor sheep farmers blown up by the Biden admin. And of course, he’s right.
Also, warmonger, if I do move to SC, you can bet I’ll help primary your ass. I would have done that 10 years ago.
15% It used to be 10% when I was a ute. Apparently the standard was raised to “keep up with inflation” as if a % would automatically adjust for inflation.
Delivery usually a few bucks.
Pizza delivery, in a blizzard. He got tipped very well.
I always tip delivery people well. Unless they start fucking up my orders.
15% to 20%, towards the heavier end as of late because of the fiscal strain restaurants have been under
I am in that range as well, but it tends to go up from there in direct proportion to how many drinks I have had.
Everyone talking about civil war.
But I don’t think many people have thought about this in the right way.
A violent civil war will not result in a quick victory, if it results in a victory at all. Most likely we all lose and wind up in a dictatorship.
There SHOULD be a civil war. But not the conventional sort. The civil war we should fight and can win, is information warfare. It has been fought against us, by the left, for a long time, and we have not engaged, at all. What we are currently dong, is all wrong. The media must do down. And they must go down hard.
There is always civil disobedience.
Then the media will just spin it as the worst thing in America since Pearl Harbor and terrorism when you’re on the wrong side of the narrative.
We’re already seen that. If you protest and you’re not a lefty, it’s terrorism. If you do the same and you’re on the left, it heroism.
There is no way to do anything to win outside of win the information war.
Done right, civil disobedience is in part an information war.
What is an act of civil disobedience for some is sedition and treason for others. We didn’t even have to leave our glib bubble this week to notice it.
Isn’t the first step towards victory, identifying the enemy?
TMITE
Wow, that really has a meaning? It does and where did I first hear it?
Now, what do we do? I think the goal is obvious, now that the enemy is identified.
And MLK and Ghandi were terrorists, communists, and worse. Of course it will be painted by those in power as treason. Doesn’t mean it can’t work.
Civil disobedience only really works if you have an opponent with a conscience. What I think could work is a program of malicious compliance. The law, the system, only really works because people cooperate with it voluntarily to the extent they put their own volition into it. They follow the rules in the big picture, even if they violate the details in execution. And they take their own initiative to make it work. Now, imagine if they didn’t. Actually, looking at labor history, you don’t even have to imagine. Historical transit strikes that were banned were executed by the union members following every letter of the regulations to excruciating detail. Turns out, following the rules makes what was normally a 20 minute bus ride take three hours. TOS got it’s panties in a wad earlier in the year because it seemed like police might have been playing a variant of this strategy in response to police brutality complaints (I’m discussing the tactic, not the cause for which it is employed). Now, imagine if there were a movement to impose that tactic across society with everything the Dems claim they want. Society would be on the brink of collapse.
Swiss or some of the other prior-service types might be able to verify this; in my Army days I remember that if a bunch of troops really wanted to ditch an obnoxious officer or NCO, the way they’d do it was to follow all of his orders, precisely, to the letter, and do nothing else.
Troops can get real stupid on you real fast if you piss them off. A similar tactic, I think, is in order in the political world.
Absolutely correct.
heheh… you said dong. heheheh
You are of course correct. There has been a bit of a push back in the form of memes and the like and I do think the memes are at least a marginally effective form of IW.
The question is how they will wage war on us.
We live in a permission society. We need permission to earn a living, travel, conduct financial transactions, engage online, drive a car, etc…
The government is going to implement cancel culture writ large and remove permissions for those who do not toe the line until they submit.
Yeah we joke about the camps and stuff but there won’t be any camps. We’ll all just be unable to work for any major corporations or government jobs, we’ll be flagged in the travel database, our credit scores will be tanked for wrongthink, we will pay an additional Energy Justice Tax on gas and a Racial Justice Fee on our retirement accounts, none of our kids will qualify for public college aid, and of course the big one will be being flagged in the Big Public Healthcare system as “Stick to the bottom of the priority list for a month before allowing progression to the top.”
“The civil war we should fight and can win, is information warfare.”
So InfoWars?
+1 Gay Frog
It would not be regional, buy rural/urban. Guess where your food comes from, leftists.
“Our food comes from Whole Foods. I’ve never seen any white trash in there. Check – Mate!”
/local Bay Area stereotype woman reacting to your post
“FACEBOOK has removed the #WalkAway Campaign and has BANNED ME and EVERY MEMBER of my team!!!
Over half a million people in #WalkAway with hundreds of thousands of testimonial videos and stories is GONE. Facebook has banned everything related to #WalkAway.”
https://twitter.com/BrandonStraka/status/1347592064322719744
Damn.
What’s the gay equivalent of keeping blacks on the plantation?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/conservative-walk-away-facebook-page-removed
https://getoutspoken.com/censorship/facebook-bans-walkaway-crushing-a-powerful-community-for-minority-voices
Keep them in the bath house?
The closet?
https://twitter.com/BrandonStraka/status/1347503274715451392
OFFS!!!
Look at the post I just made about winning. We can only win if we win the information war. And we absolutely can, the other side are idiots. But they can still win when no one else is trying.
Has anyone accused them of banning that group because Straka is gay? Of fucking course not, because they never get called out on their hypocrisy and so they feel no need to stop doing it.
I believe the accepted containment apparatus is a “closet.”
Go ahead and disenfranchise more and more of the country, dickheads. I am sure it will turn out well.
I wonder what will happen to BlueCollarLogic. I don’t watch a lot of his vids but I appreciate that his YT channel exists.
You have a web site.
#walkaway from Twitter, Facebook, et al. They are obviously your enemy.
I don’t know how safe that is either. Unless maybe you own your own servers.
Good point. We’ve already seen the left go after credit card companies to deny the rights of wrong thinkers. ISP’s are a logical addition.
When a supermodel gets it…
Given her family lineage I am sure she has heard stories about what this will end up looking like.
Huh, and she’s usually uberwoke
Damn, she has got it all!
Just know this is her concern “My concern is that this gives big tech the opportunity to shut down “leftist extremists” who are important political organizers.” Which is a valid concern, but I think if FB or the other socials guaranteed protections for her causes, she’d be on board 100%.
Multistate ranks states’ reopenings
Tops: South Dakota, Alaska, and Florida (all tied)
Bottoms: Washington, New Mexico, California
I wonder a bit about their methodology given they slightly rank PA higher than NH. PA slammed bars, restaurants, and gyms closed in December though that order was lifted last Monday.
I’ll have an opportunity to compare: returned from FL this week, flying to CA next week.
I think that only the CA “purple” counties are restricted severely. That’s basically anywhere with a big city.
Unfortunately, some of CA’s counties are huge in area. So if you are in a covid-free community in the mountains, you’re still under lockdown because of the crowded, poor, multigenerational family households in San Diego (who also have to do all the delivery driving).
Good luck. One little trick is to look for places that have a copy of the Recall Newsom petition; the restaurants that have the petition also are a bit lax on the enforcement of Covid decrees.
What kind of country are we in when you have to give tips like that for visiting another State? we are so Fucked….
Pimpin’ ain’t easy
Bottoms: Washington, New Mexico, California
Living in California I definitely feel like I’ve been forced to be a Bottom.
And the state doesn’t even have the goddamn common courtesy to give me a reach-around.
“Instagram just deleted my pictures from the capital that show that people were peacefully there and threatened to delete my account.”
https://twitter.com/DrKarlynB/status/1347596091135586306
Trumps account was suspended for calling for peace and calm. Not surprised. Mark Zuckerborg is assho. I wonder what these censorious fucks actually think they are going to accomplish though. There are alternatives. Though the problem with that is driving people into echo-chambers where ideas cannot be challenged and aired out.
It’s going to be parallel institutions from here on out which is both a good and a bad thing.
https://twitter.com/christina_bobb/status/1347596278583197698
The Capitol Police who opened the doors need to be interviewed under oath.
It’s a trap!
And, yes. Yes they do.
A small win for a Virginia state senator, a big win for everyone as this ruling establishes a precedent.
“1A rights not cancelled by pandemic.” -US District Court for the Easter District of Virginia
Great news. The Democrats desperately wanted to keep the VCDL out of the building before the upcoming session.
Yup. Come to think of it, I have been meaning to join VCDL. I should fund the entity that helps to protect my, um, fishing rod collection. Lots of rods/reels, string and lures…
Me, too. I consider this a pinky swear, RS.
Easter? so an All Catholic district?
From Hell’s Heart I Stab at Thee!!1!
Eastern District, dammit.
No way in hell am I turning on the news, and there’s little in the way of sportsball to attract my attention tonight.
But it’s The King’s birthday, so TCM is doing a Elvis moviethon. Currently watching Viva Las Vegas, next up is Spinout (and since I’m a track day driver — check out the new topic on the forums — the “plots” of both films have something to keep me perked up).
I feel like a harmless night of fun might just be in order. As are a couple of Dogfish Head Seaquenches.
Seaquench! i thought I was the only one!
Cheers!
BREAKING: Apple is currently threatening to ban Parler — the free speech alternative to Twitter — unless the service enacts draconian censorship policies demanded by left-wing Big Tech oligarchs, according to two sources familiar with Apple’s threats.
You think this will happen on other phones? Maybe I’ll make the switch.
It’ll absolutely happen on Android but it’s much easier to circumvent the official app store on an Android phone.
I can’t stand for google tracking me anymore. I switched to Apple and will deal with it.
Google Maps, while a fantastic utility, is an incredibly invasive piece of spyware.
I use Apple too, if I need something that doesn’t have an app allowed I just bookmark it and go to it via browser.
I’ve been researching it, apparently you can degoogle your android phone.
I’ve been saying this. Apple, Google, Twitter, and Facebook will soon rule all the internet and there will be no alternative.
The civil war IS information and if we do not focus on that, the left has won.
You know what a Sabot is?
I don’t really care for Parler, but I’ll figure out how the break my phone and install it anyway.
Do you care about this site? Because our days are numbered as well. Or anyone else who speaks out against the left.
How?
Use the web interface instead on DuckDuckGo
Switching to Android won’t matter because Google will follow suit.
Ah yes.
Gotta figure out how to break the phone and run my own software.
Yeah, it’s a website, duh. Never understood the need for “app” when a web page will do.
Because the app is faster and better.
*shrugs* I’ll take your word for it; I don’t use that site.
But the vast majority of apps like these (i.e. those that have a web interface) are just the same web interface with the browser chrome removed. With the latest HTML technologies, nobody wants to develop two different interfaces any more.
VPN, yo. They can’t tell where you’re going or what you’re doing. Other than that you’ve got an encrypted session with a server in Plan les Ouates, Geneva, CH.
It looks like they already made good on this. It’s completely down as of 15 minutes or so again.
This is Fucked up, and I hate Apple,
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1347660160806825984
Maybe but the bullshit is thick right now too. Then again, they already won’t allow a BitChute app for similar reasons.
Android allows the BitChute app…for now…
That’ll be gone soon, I guarantee, but clicking to a browser bookmark is simple enough.
“BREAKING: General Flynn Has Been Kicked Off Twitter”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/breaking-general-flynn-kicked-off-twitter/
If you click on the tweet announcing it, it says it doesn’t exist, so it can’t be retweeted.
I’m shocked.
“Breaking!, who fucking cares about Twitter” keep up the clickbait CP,
People care about Twitter because it’s the higgest disseminator of libertarian and conservative politics and political philosophy, far more than Facebook or Insta.
You may not think it’s important, but a whole lot of conservatives and libertarians do.
I think all Social media is irrelevant, think of it what you will,
It’s not irrelevant in the least bit. It is the arbiter and controller of the left’s pet narratives. It can ruin people’s lives.
So not irrelevant.
Agreed.
It’s extremely powerful. Trump probably just go elected 4 years ago because the media couldn’t censor what he was saying.
Which is why they’re changing the rules.
yup
Only of you participate, I understand why you must at times,
Cheers my Friend, stay low and thrive,
Not good…
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/intelligence-analysts-downplayed-election-interference-trump-inspector
I’m sure CNN will get right on that.
“You can’t stop the signal”
I lived without facebook for most of my life. I look forward to living without it again.
If you quit, congratulations. If you got banned, congratulations.
I am still on it. But I am close to walking away.
Facebook groups have been the primary means of delivering information for several of my hobbies. That’s not going to end.
So, at this point, I have unfollowed the majority of my friends and I mostly just see group posts. At some point, this won’t be enough to justify staying there.
I like my hobby groups too. I am seriously considering unfollowing/unfriending almost everyone.
It’s the same for me. I’m also in an old guy rock band that connects w/ people on FB.
Would be hard to leave.
I wonder if there’s a way to discipline myself to only use those groups. I don’t want them getting excess advertising dollars now so I’ve been browsing less.
I didn’t bother unfollowing anyone; I just deleted my account. Anyone wants me, they know how to reach me.
^^
So far, I’ve not even been inconvenienced.
https://youtu.be/gSbgxcCoOy8?t=85s
A lot of people at work like using something on FB for buying and selling stuff locally. They get some pretty sweet deals sometimes.
I use that too.
There’s quite a bit of usefulness to it.
Oh yeah! I use FB marketplace a lot to buy and sell.
I got rid of FB about 7 years ago after my batshit crazy ex-GF hacked into my account and trashed it. Didn’t miss it at all.
Well, this is one reason I’m about to throw in the author towel. I’m there basically to whore my books, but at what cost?
My siblings have gone batshit crazy as have a couple of my cousins. I don’tneed to keep up with them that badly.
I refuse to install the app or Messenger. They’re far too invasive. When I do use it, it’s thru a browser.
I use theapp on my iPad, but not my phone. And messenger is a battery hog.
I know in some ways i’m an optimist, but I think tech conglomerates may be overplaying their hands a bit.
I enjoy many things on social media but I absolutely could get rid of I need to.
The two types of phones are excellent right now, but nothing lasts forever. They are practically printing money right now but I wouldn’t push it.
I used to be rather, well, glib about the harmful effects of social media, but I was wrong.
My gripe with the culture that exists on Facebook is best exemplified by a quote that gets passed around in “picture of text” form, mostly by young women: “if you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best.” I just hate that quote. It basically says that your actions are beyond your own control; that it’s not your job to regulate your reactions but rather everyone else’s job to accommodate and work around them. What would you expect when people take in stuff like this every single day?
I don’t think there’s a word for this, but the whole culture of Facebook is very anti-Stoic – it encourages you to want more things, let your emotions rule you, and demand that the whole world change to match your attitude and expectations.
No wonder professor Johnathan Haidt blames social media for the skyrocketing rates of anxiety and depression among young girls today.
anti-Stoic, I like that.
I love that meme. It’s the biggest and brightest red flag ever to be waved.
Honey? Your best? It really isn’t very good.
It’s also extremely disturbing if you just flip the gender (like many things). There was a parody version circulating that was a picture of a woman with a black eye and the caption, “If you can’t handle him at his worst, you don’t deserve him at his best“.
My parents still don’t realize I don’t have FB. “Honey, I sent you a message on FB and you never responded”…”Mom, I don’t have FB, not sure who you sent that too”
A picture of my greyhound that I took last fall.
Also I had a job interview – more of a HR screening – yesterday for a consultant position. Money would be good, etc but I don’t know how my introverted personality would handle such a job. Ah well it would only be for a few years, provided Uncle Joe lets us privileged white folks work.
Any work is good right now, IMO, it may not last, so take the cash and hang on, it’s gonna get rough, again, IMO,
I’ve been reading a lot of sales books in preparation for a possible move into that career, and all the newer ones seem to say that it’s not about how much you can talk, it’s about how well you can listen and understand the perspective of the customer/client. I’ve never worked in any sales or consulting capacity whatsoever, but I found that encouraging since I’m quite introverted as well.
I’m pretty good and finding out what issues are and mapping out a solution.
It’s just hard to pretend to give a fuck!
Read this, trust me,
Let’s get real, or let’s not play, by Mahan Khalsa,
https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Get-Real-Not-Play/dp/1591842263/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2R12QNO2S3YG2&dchild=1&keywords=let%27s+get+real+or+let%27s+not+play&qid=1610149249&sprefix=let%27s+get+real%2Caps%2C213&sr=8-1
Being introverted may not make sales the best fit for you. Even the best extroverted sales person is going to be rejected a ton of times for every order. These continual rejections are tough on introverts. [Unless it is retail or fast food, where the customers come to you and you smile and take their order.]
Linky no worky.
Your picture link goes nowhere.
Best wishes on the interview!
THE COVID CULT AND PURITANISM
If the Irish don’t revolt over this they are well and truly fucked.
Good guy, Cullen’s done some fine work all through this thing. I’d say it’s sad how far Ireland’s gone into the shitter but I as a US citizen have zero room to criticize right now.
https://babylonbee.com/news/ignorant-republicans-riot-and-dont-even-get-a-free-big-screen-tv-out-of-it
“Account suspended”
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump
Again?
Schroedinger’s Twitter Account
He was just locked out for 12 hours on the condition he deleted two tweets, so his previous tweets were still there.
This is a permanent suspension, so now all his previous tweets are gone.
“Twitter permanently suspends Trump
Twitter permanently suspended President Trump’s account Friday after determining that his posts pose “the risk of further incitement of violence.”
The platform had previously handed the president a 12-hour suspension for posts made during Wednesday’s violent insurrection at the Capitol building.
“After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account,” the company wrote in a blog post.
Permanent suspension of Trump is a step further than other social media platforms have gone. Facebook announced Thursday that it would be suspending his access until at the least Biden’s inauguration with the potential for it being extended indefinitely further.
As supporters of the president stormed the Capitol, Trump used social media to continue spreading misinformation about the November election which he lost.
Twitter had previously taken down two of his posts Wednesday — a video urging his supporters who broke into the Capitol to retreat while simultaneously praising the mob and repeating false claims about voter fraud, and another tweet with a similar message.
Trump deleted those posts and was allowed to start tweeting again Thursday morning.
With that ability back he posted a video urging peace and calm, followed by two tweets striking a markedly different tone.
“The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!” the first post read.
“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th,” he said shortly after.
Twitter chose to act based on those last tweets.
“Due to the ongoing tensions in the United States, and an uptick in the global conversation in regards to the people who violently stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, these two Tweets must be read in the context of broader events in the country and the ways in which the President’s statements can be mobilized by different audiences, including to incite violence, as well as in the context of the pattern of behavior from this account in recent weeks,” Twitter explained.”
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/533439-twitter-permanently-suspends-trump
It’s rather hard to see what was so outrageous about those two tweets? “In context” they were encouraging violence????
Trump writing “What a beautiful sunrise this morning” would probably be interpreted by Twitter as code for “Activate Insurrection Plan-25”.
Even worse, they deleted his peace & love tweets.
Dorsey is going to decorate a lamp post. If he’s lucky. Dumb shit. Assholes trying to ramp up a no shit civil war and insurrection. God damn them all to hell.
Wednesday’s violent insurrection
Nope. That is not what insurrection means.
Due to the ongoing tensions in the United States
I can’t think of a better way to diffuse said tension than to censor the president supported by roughly half the voting population. . .
Jesus Christ that is truly Pravdaesque.
Not that it matters but didn’t a federal judge basically state that Trump’s feed is public property?
Yes.
Combine this with the above threat from Apple to ban Parlor. They are clamping down and I suspect its coordinated.
I suspect its coordinated
Knock me down with a feather.
A local mortuary is sending junk mail now. Hmm.
“You’re Dead Honey”
You old.
Die now, get 50% off your next death.
Great deal for Buddhists!
No loyalty rewards??
There’s people dying these days that have never died before.
Oh fun. Another threat from our HOA to tow our trailer away…
How many Divisions do they have? fuck them Obe, what are the really gonna do now?
Basically it comes down to who has enforcement of the street. We are not gated, so the city has enforcement. The HOA can fine us for violating their rules, but to tow away, as from what I understand from an attorney friend of ours, we could report as stolen. Who knows if that is true cause the attorney friend is a “stick it to the man” type of guy.
Good Luck, Fuckers….
I plan on going to the the next board meeting…and maybe even running just to fuck with em.
“The State and city have limited our income opportunities and now is the time that you feel you need to take away what business we can do?” Problem is, they are okay with it cause I was a dumbass moving to a nice area to raise my kids up in that is filled with stay-at-home spouses that have doctors and lawyers and such as their other halves.
First come fines, then levies on your property (which need to be cleared when you sell) or, when the amount gets high enough, small claims court and a sheriff sale.
We recently spotted a nice home, in a beautiful area, but it has an HOA and my only problem with it, is it has an HOA.
At first glance, you may think the HOA fee is worth it, because you cannot even get in there without passing through the gates of the main entrance, which are on the grounds of a gorgeous lake resort.
So my wife says ‘we’ll just build storage!’. And I said ‘Yeah, it’s the first thing I thought of. Problem is, we have to ask permission from the HOA to even do that.’. Please, mini Hitler, may I please build a storage building on my own property, which I own and pay for?
Ummm, NO.
^^
It’s getting hard to find a decent house of decent age in a neighborhood that isn’t HOA.
The proliferation of HOAs is one of the major data points informing my belief that a collapse into totalitarianism is inevitable.
Camazotz.
That is why we are praising the day when the two teens graduate. California is moving in heavy and even the ‘poorest’ of Californians that sold their houses can get into the ‘richest’ parts of Vegas.
Here is the interesting part. We have gated and non-gated communities in our HOA. The gated, the HOA is responsible for parking enforcement and has the ability to tow. The non-gated, they do not. They still can regulate the parking, but it results in fines and liens and all that if it gets that far. However, we have never been given notice for the past 2 years since owning the trailer until the HOA contracted out to a company for the wonderful price of $60/hour to perform parking enforcement.
This last notice wasn’t directly from the HOA, it was from the company contracted and paid to find violations.
We don’t feed the neighborhood cats but we make sure they have water all winter. https://photos.app.goo.gl/uYurhpt3JWMJpVyL9
Better than ‘We’re feeding on the neighborhood cats, Korean barQ is the best!’.
That cat looks like its eating just fine.
Yeah, none of our customers look hungry, but a couple will sit and drink for 15 minutes straight two or three times a night. I doubt they’re real healthy.
That’s very kind of you.
I just remembered that have almost zero presence online as my real self. It’s all my pen name or various monikers that can’t be connected.
I applaud my prescience. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get this through to my kids.
I have been lucky. My kids have online prescience on gaming apps like Steam and such and use Discord, but absent that, they shun the socials.
XY has had all his devices taken away because reasons. Social media has not been good for him.
I think XX is just too busy for anything but texting and possibly Insta.
All my self searches come back here, Yikes!
This handle? To here and when I was a conspiracy nut at ATS. Other than that, real name is a bass fisherman…so I am golden.
My real name is a Vicorian Martha Stewart and a councilwoman in Galveston. I’m good.
Twitter yeeted Trump for realz this time:
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
Michelle Obama demanded it and they complied.
Well, you know, if Meechelle demands you risk destroying your own business, what can you do?
Alternate headline:
Twitter commits suicide.
Only until Twitter, FB, and Google are given complete ownership of the internet. Though that might not happen until Monday.
If you like your free speech, you can keep it. /CCP Joe
Neh.
as of right now, you’re the only one who knows what ‘Neh’ means.’
Did you mean to say ‘Ni’? Are you challenging us to cut down the biggest tree in the forest with a Herring?
I read it as a Jewish old lady scoffing at someone telling her that her son was a putz.
Are you saying you don’t understand what a “no”-like word that begins with N might possibly mean?
No one else read Ender’s Game?
Blogs will be making a comeback as social media bans everyone it doesn’t like.
But then the ISPs will get involved.
They’re already talking about a new Patriot Act to fight home grown terrorists. Shouldn’t be hard to get all the tech companies and ISP’s to comply.
I jokingly talked about how all the senators and representatives are dusting off the folders of items they wanted in the first go of the Patriot Act but couldn’t get it in just yesterday….looks like it wasn’t a joke after all.
There are ways around that too.
I need to figure out how to get on the dark web.
If you have to ask….Tor
But you’d have to have someone knowledgeable on how to navigate.
I have Tor. It’s just a PITA to use regularly.
Do not use Tor without a VPN. Don’t even download it without a VPN. Then check the hash.
I keep it on a flash drive.
Mine is on an undisclosed raspberry pi somewhere, maybe with the boat that sunk the other day.
Do people actually go on the internet without at least one VPN tunnel? Really?
Friday Funbags sez: Good things cum for those who wait.
https://archive.li/JUhMl
Face diapers. Blech.
I’d wait to see more of 35.
Found this OLD book at a bookstore for a dollar… Looks to be Iowa Supreme Court cases from the 1850s. Someone had stuck what look like flower petals between the pages. It just blows my mind that someone could have put those there before the Civil War, and they’ve remained there until I leafed through it the other day and they fell out.
https://ibb.co/album/RkMk0X
Very Cool!
Wow.
Excellent find! Looks like my great grandma’s Bible from Sweden, dating to about that time.
When I was in high school I would write notes and leave them in the most random of books in my library. Wonder if any of them are there still.
That’s cool.
Your Achilles Heel.
So how long until companies start canning people for things like party affiliation or gun ownership? I keep my mouth shut about all of that but I’m sure they have ways of finding out.
Given what the soon to be former DOT Secretary wrote and what the FAA Administrator wrote to us yesterday, if they link me to here, I will be canned from my job, I am sure of it.
Wait, what was the gist?
“I am sending this message to you today with a very heavy heart. The violence in the U.S. Capitol yesterday was an attack on our sacred democracy, and it was reprehensible and unpardonable.”
Maybe just words, but I think they are more than willing to purge at this point.
That sounds like boilerplate, best keep your head low for a while though and see how this all shakes out.
The unpardonable part is what gets me. I have already been asked several times at work, in a federal building, what is your take on all this. “I am busy, I don’t have time for this right now” is my answer.
“unpardonable”
Akin to Judas and Cain
“I am busy, I don’t have time for this right now” is my answer.
The only answer for those of us who can’t up and leave the wokeness.
“The only answer for those of us who can’t up and leave the wokeness.”
I fear that will no longer be an acceptable answer.
My decision twenty years ago is looking awfully wise.
Yep. Some of those questions came over our MS Teams too…nope, not gonna do it. “Oh I didn’t see that..you know how teams acts up over the VPN.”
I think they’re already starting. I keep my mouth shut, and my silence has been remarked upon.
Silence=violence dude.
It looks like that’s where things are headed.
Secession really is looking like the best possible outcome, and I doubt the Left would accept that without major violence.
Secession relies on like-minded people being able to communicate.
The idea here is to cut off the communication of enemies of the left, to isolate them like an abusive husband isolates his wife.
Every time we go through these coordinated bannings and suspensions, it is really creepy.
Isolate, freeze it, all that jazz. Talks of freedom or dangerous ideas will once again be relegated to dark alleys and hushed words in taverns.
The various Yugoslavs managed without the interwebz just fine.
I will only hire gun owners
Oh there will be no tip, but on your deathbed you shall receive total consciousness.
Trump is a dictator, but he can’t even keep himself from being banned from his preferred communication platform.
And Biden is just sunshine and rainbows….
https://redstate.com/streiff/2021/01/08/joe-biden-compares-ted-cruz-and-josh-hawley-to-actual-nazis-n306682
Go figure. Hopefully it is just rhetoric, but I have a feeling many on the left said those same words about Trump…
We need an opposition that’s principled and strong.
More like you need a faux opposition that lies to its own voters and rolls over at every opportunity.
They should be flat beaten the next time they run.
Send the Dominion machines to Texas!
Goebbels and the “great lie”
That is literally the leftist playbook that plays out 24-7 these days.
Fuck, I hate this loathsome, lying cunte.
Doesn’t sound like deescalation does it?
https://twitter.com/benandjerrys/status/1347288065606344704
Everything is about race with these assholes.
Ben and Jerry’s should just change their logo to a hammer and sickle and be done with it.
Last I heard, an organization with “Black” right there in the name spent the summer burning, looting, assaulting, and killing, and virtually nothing was done by law enforcement.
Imagine if blacks had tried to occupy the Capitol with weapons. They would have surely been executed on the spot.
https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/12/32/66/19508614/4/628×471.jpg
But that was Sacramento. Totally different.
I approve of their weapon selection
Looks like discord dumped TheDonald server and all its members have been banned.
Do, how long before the purges go from virtual to physical?
Well it is Friday so I expect some dump from some agency about something. That way it is buried in the Sunday talking heads about the Attack on our Democracy!
Parler appears to be fucked. I’m stuck in an eternal Captcha loop.
I wonder if this is how the civil war begins?
It starts with a spark, mebbe?
Parler has actually not gone down because of Apple or Google yet.
It went down because Trump joined and a massive surge of interest brought it to its knees.
I am super pissed about this though. Just went through and canceled my Apple subscription and I’m switching my gmail to something else.
I’m looking at serious steps to de-Google my life. I’m willing to pay for an email. Just need something that will let me chat with my friends who still use Hangouts.
The phone is the tough one – does anyone know of a decent smartphone alternative that is not Apple? All I really want to do on my phone is text/call, browse the Internet, and play chess or freecell.
I figure I will have to leave my gmail up for awhile until I figure out how to change everything in my life, but they generate money from collecting my data. As we all use it less, they will collect more. Every little bit is a start.
they will collect less i mean.
It’s either Google or Apple for smooth running phones, I think there are a couple of Linux phones available but god knows how well those function.
Yeah this is a war I can fight. I’m not about to die in the trenches at the stage in my life but i’m actually capable of replacing the OS on my phone with another.
Even if I deem that too big a pain in the ass, I canceled my apple subscriptions just now. Money is still money and now I’m taking steps to use them less because they are evil.
If I was serious about de-eviling my life, I would have to throw out everything made in China. For starters.
Protonmail.
Are you positive?
/dadjoke
Freedom dies with thunderous applause.
I actually think Google and Apple demanding Parler change is them being pissed that they’re about to lose control.
They’re gonna lose more though if they follow through. Google gets a ton of data from people simply searching or using their free email client that can easily switch to another.Trump just needs to start making the suggestions
The more you tighten your grip, Google, the more internet traffic will slip through your fingers.
This is such bullshit. I haven’t gotten to this part of Roman history in Livy yet. Such spoilers. Don’t tell me who gets put on the proscription lists.
So, I know this has come up before, but I don’t have the energy to search for it.
Recommendations for:
VPNs
Secure email
etc
NordVPN (never use a freebie), ProtonMail
thanks
What are you planning on using a VPN for? VPN services are over sold as an anonymity tool, so I really don’t recommend them, unless you need to spoof your geolocation.
What are you planning on using a VPN for?
risk management
Risk management.
Why do you say they’re oversold as an anonymity tool, Leon?
When do you suppose they start leaning on VPNs, or will they just criminalize their use?
Wow, look at all these suspensions
https://twitter.com/TrumpsAlert
Conservatives will adamantly demand that half of those accounts be reinstated, settle for a tenth of them being reinstated and never realize that they’ve been played.
Conservatism is an endless series of hills, none of them worth dying on.
In 2060 the staunch right wing of the GOP will be trying to hold the line at 60% income tax and arguing fiercely that only high school aged children should have mandatory practical sex education classes.
I’m firmly against any more than 15 genders.
which one is out of the pool?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_chromosome_anomalies
I’ll be cold in the ground before I recognize yiffers as a legitimate gender.
Which is ridiculous, if a twelve-year-old is old enough to vote she’s old enough for hands-on sex education, Hitler.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1347704585582948352
(!) as a claim of election fraud on a link to a video about what really happened on 1/6
Election claims is their enabling act for anything.
Particularly disingenuous for the people who insist to this day that the 2016 election result was a complete fraud and Trump was never the legitimate president.
I are Dumb, Goodbye,
Come again?