Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely amazing day it always is.
Documents suggest Biden let Teachers’ Union Shape CDC School Reopening Policy.
Corporate media forced to retract false claims about Giuliani.
Lubbock, TX outlaws abortion, largest city in the US to do so and 24th city in Texas to do so.
Venezuelan government increased monthly minimum wage by 289%.
Incumbent Democrats in jeopardy after CA loses House seat “threatening to end the careers of veteran Reps. Alan Lowenthal, Grace Napolitano, Lucille Roybal-Allard, and Maxine Waters, who range in age from 79 to 84“.
TX and FL reporting fewer new COVID cases per capita than key blue states with mask mandates.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Did anyone doubt the policy was driven by teachers unions, not science?
You see, the CDC knew the teachers union cared about science first and foremost, so letting them write the reopening policy was just more efficient. It’s simple science.
Science teachers, bro. Sheesh.
Back when I worked for Total/Elf, we did an annual thing wherein we brought some public school science teachers in for a week and went into concepts and how to demonstrate them.
It ended any confidence I had in teachers,
I prefer the term “government schools”.
My freshman science teacher pronounced osteoporosis as “osteoporiasis”. Bless his heart for mentioning the topic, I suppose. Later teachers were better.
The better teachers, in and out of formal schooling, I have had were the ones that had a, ‘learning by teaching’ attitude. Being very open about the fact that they did not know it all and having the character to accept new information from students made for a better learning environment for me. Smug dumbasses had a considerably smaller effect on me.
Same here. A teacher who’s open like that encourages students to discover new things by embracing the idea that there’s so much for everyone to discover. The other kind smothers anything new, along with student enthusiasm.
Yep. I think that my learning potential in mathematics was retarded (and thus in a variety of STEM fields) by the latter type of instruction.
Not all teachers are alike. Especially in the STEM area. I had some teachers that really lived by the scientific principle and the fact that practical implementations were where people learning picked up stuff. But some of them were absolute morons and didn’t even understand the scientific principle themselves. I pitied the kids that didn’t realize the teacher was holding them back then…
The Biology/Anatomy teacher I had in high school, back in the eighties, was actually pretty good. My Chem teacher not so much. But, one weird thing about my HS was that it was pretty much the only one in a small college town, so in every class, you had at least one kid who would pipe up that their parent had a PhD in the subject and the teacher was wrong.
My senior year of HS, I took Chem 2 from a former chemist. He was semi-retired and got his teaching cert (he thought it was stupid that he had to get it to teach HS chemistry). He was good because he was teaching out of passion, not money.
Same for me Calculus teacher. She had married well (her husband owned a horse that ran on Derby day, not in the derby, but still a big deal, and not a cheap hobby), so taught because she loved doing it.
So, I had a biology teacher who clearly adored his subject and wanted you to adore it too. He was so earnest. I really liked him.
But he was an awful teacher.
After my dad retired from the university and fully recovered from his heart surgery, he taught for a bit at a CC as an adjunct. I am not sure what exactly he taught, but a doctorate in genetics goes a long way.
I went to Catholic school. There were very few people with education degrees among the faculty. Most of them had degrees, some of them advanced degrees, in the fields they taught.
The few that didn’t have a degree in the field they taught? You could tell they barely knew what they were talking about.
+1 Gym teacher teaching ‘Earth Science’ x 1 Ag teacher teaching ‘American History’= public school
If you are talking about children, it was never driven by science.
Is this a trick question?
Teacher unions dictate public health policy while health officials dictate economic policy. Da fuk are we doing?
We are learning how great civilizations collapse because lazy, greedy, and stupid people end up in charge?
If only they were lazy – these people are industrious little beavers and we are the forest.
I think they are only industrious when it comes to machinations to keep and grow their power, and then, only in their effort to create the hereditary system this new credentialed aristocracy wants to secure their power for themselves and their offspring (whom surpasses them in their stupidity). Their industriousness here is by necessity, because they suck so bad at doing the real work that anybody paying attention would want them fired.
Stupid and Industrious?
Kurt Von Hammerstein-Equord had something for this…
“One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent — he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.”
At least Caligula could throw one hell of a party.
And Imperial Rome didn’t even have cocaine.
Because of course that makes sense.
That kinda implies that the teachers’ union reinforces structural racism themselves.
Nice own goal, guys.
I still doubt Biden had anything to do with it, or is even aware it is happening.
Here’s the thing though.
I’m not gonna defend the CDC or anything, but they were at least recommending that teachers go back as early as last summer.
The CDC wasn’t really being controlled by teachers unions very long. Teachers unions were simply ignoring what the CDC said themselves.
Go back and look at the notes if you don’t believe me.
KNEEL BEFORE SCIENCE!
I think I would rather deal with Zod.
Say what you will about Zod, under his administration there would be no mask mandates or social distancing. He’d just let everyone figure it out.
Zod’s main goal is tight abs. Everybody hold on a 5 count before Zod.
Wrong Zod. Terence Stamp #FTW
I wonder if they tried to get him to voice “Body by Zod”.
“It is unclear when the ordinance will go into effect, and it will not be enforced by the government. Execution of the ordinance relies almost entirely on private citizens filing lawsuits against violators. The legal challenges could ultimately force the United States Supreme Court to hear a case on the issue.”
So pretty much just a boon for lawyers?
Hey no amendment is absolute, but emanations and penumbras are ironclad.
Funny how an enumerated right like the second amendment is subject to all kinds of restrictions and bans, but abortion, somehow magically arising out of emanations and penumbras is completely untouchable and absolute.
Well-regulated abortions, being necessary for the…
…population reduction of undesirables, the right of the people to abort pregnancies, shall not be infringed.
Three generations of imbeciles…
Morning glibs! Morning banjos!
Morning, Leon.
According to my model, it’s somebody else’s fault.
Wait, you are a politician or a democrat voter?
This is the sort of modeling I can support. Where’s your grant application?
“Democrat-held congressional districts in and around Los Angeles County are most endangered, party insiders say, threatening to end the careers of veteran Reps. Alan Lowenthal, Grace Napolitano, Lucille Roybal-Allard, and Maxine Waters, who range in age from 79 to 84. California’s 15-member Citizens Redistricting Commission, divided equally among Democrats, Republicans, and independents, is prohibited from drawing maps that benefit or disadvantage any particular politician. But redistricting observers believe such an outcome is likely.”
They should just base it on geography across the entire country. Many congressional districts are absurdly complicated shapes.
Someone said Shummer said that NY would get rid of AOC’s district…
I doubt it, there are still a few red districts that need to be gotten rid of first
Yeah, the idea is preposterous. She may be a deranged lunatic and an embarrassment to the Machine, but she’s still a Democrat.
Yeah, I’d guess they’ll try to get rid of Rep. Stefanik up in the North Country.
A (((dude?))) Yup, he’s toast.
The idea that Auntie Maxine will be inconvenienced is absurd.
There’s a loooong list of Lowenthal’s waiting to fill the seat. They’re all awful.
They should just base it on geography across the entire country.
I get your point. The problem is that the genie has been let out of the bottle. No side can have any confidence whatsoever that the other won’t resume gerrymandering once they take over. So, the logical conclusion is, if it’s going to be gerrymandered, it might as well be gerrymandered in your favor. Add to that, the fact that the courts have regularly mandated minority-majority districts, and the problem is baked in.
It gets to something I’ve brought up a few times. Our system doesn’t fall into totalitarianism or anarchy because we’ve observed a few unwritten “meta-rules”, places we won’t go for momentary advantage. It’s sort of an iterative prisoner’s dilemma. If both sides have cooperated across multiple iterations of the game, one side can “win” one game at the other’s expense. But, only at the expense of making all payoffs permanently lower for all future games. And getting both parties back to a cooperate strategy is damn-near impossible.
How that is constitutional is a complete mystery to me. But yes, it guarantees that gerrymandering will never go away.
Not only that, but that polarization will increase since there is no way to win a primary as a moderate when you have gerrymandered the districts to be uncompetitive.
It isn’t. And is a prime example of how the left really doesn’t care about the constitution, but realizes that much of the USA does and so the have to tiptoe around it.
Yep. I have toyed with the idea of creating an algorithm that divides up districts based on county/highway/river/street basis in ArcGIS.
Or they can just do rectangles like counties in Iowa.
From the Mississippi to the Rockies, its rectangles all the way down.
KU supreme court mandates a minimum number of counties can be split.
That still allows games though, but less of them. For example, Warren County has to be split, so 10 years ago it got split into 4 different districts (state house). Size-wise, it should be 2.
You just know it is going to be Devin Nunes who gets the chop. And that Citizens Redistricting Committee is anything but equal. I lived through that BS in CA and it was a joke then, and it’s a joke now.
“Reps. Alan Lowenthal, Grace Napolitano, Lucille Roybal-Allard, and Maxine Waters, ”
If only they all could lose
“The teachers’ unions had long opposed a rapid reopening of schools, even when science said there was no significant risk.”
Does writing like this bother anyone else as much as me? Talking about science like it’s an entity.
The science had said that it’s ok to write like that
It’s a fucking leftist cultish way of using something they are completely vapid about as a weapon to beat the cultists into submission.
Science! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V83JR2IoI8k
Is this about the people that claim biology is not science because it is evil and points out sex/gender is determined by X and Y chromosomes, and that there really are only 2 serious combinations that nature allows with a few hermaphrodites out there?
Anthropomorphized ‘rona vs. anthropomorphized science. Hard to tell which is more annoying.
It’s the new schoolyard game “SCIENCE SAYS”
In a sane world where people aren’t amid a religious fervor involving SIUNSS, it’s a convenient shorthand. Now it’s a virtue signal for the cult of the beaker.
As an agnostic, sometimes atheist, I am coming to believe that the cultural movement away from religion might have been a mistake. As much as I find the insights of Hitchens and Dawkins interesting, I think that they underestimated the significance of religion as a societal force. I may sound a bit smug here, but some people need a higher power and most religions have a doctrine that is at the very least directed at building community and generally pro-social behavior. It is not my bag, but I get it.
Very much this.
I’m not religious, but I have a high level of respect for what religion has done for communities since forever.
Of course bad things also happen due to religion, but in the aggregate it’s a force for good.
Yes, religions that have weathered the enlightenment and incorporated it into their doctrine tend to have a positive impact and at least aspire to do good.
The thing is when people talk about the atrocities of religion they tend to forget that everything was pretty terrible when these things took place. While being a Jew in Spain during the Inquisition (when nobody expects it) would have been pretty awful, there was a host of secular terribleness going on as well.
I think that they underestimated the significance of religion as a societal force.
Yes, it seems people in general have an innate need for religion. If you take away the God stuff, they merely find something else to replace it, and devote their religious fervor to whatever the substitute is, whether it be wokeism, scientism, or some other thing. And the politicians and corporatists have become quite good at exploiting this tendency, and why they can’t be reasoned away from obviously-absurd beliefs regarding these things. This would probably be a good subject for an article, but I’m too lazy to write it, and anyway I’m sure somebody has already written on this before.
aka Romans 1:18-32
Technology changes, but people never do.
“Science tells us the third time’s the charm. But this time, science failed us. See, science don’t know.“
You know what this place needs? More sluts!!!!
Everything all right at home, TNT?
Eddie, off the rails again?
Shaka, when the walls fell.
“Caitlyn Jenner, the Olympic gold medalist and transgender woman, firmly opposes allowing biological males who identify as females to compete in girls’ school sports.”
Well, she knows more about both subjects than anyone in politics.
And not afraid to say how unfair it is to biological women.
[golf clap]
Cult vs cult
Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was widely derided Sunday for telling a fellow GOP lawmaker he was “clueless about what Republican voters think and feel, which is #AmericaFirst and loyalty to Trump.”
Greene mocked Illinois GOP congressman Adam Kinzinger and supporters of Texas 6th District congressional candidate Michael Wood after another Republican candidate backed by former President Donald Trump, Susan Wright, defeated him and several others in a special election Saturday.
Greene gloated that the anti-Trump Wood, despite backing from Kinzinger and his Country First PAC, placed ninth in the contest. Wright placed first and now faces a runoff election. But it was Greene’s “loyalty to Trump” comment that set off critics, who shared a range of anti-dictator memes and “cult” accusations.
Trump or no trump, apparently the voters in Texas aren’t that interested in Kinzinger’s “Democrat house pet” model of Republicanism.
At this point, I am inclined to put their thumb in the eye of the establishment, their relative sanity is secondary to me.
*inclined to support
-1 proofreading
Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) is the AOC of the right. Fucking crazy, lives rent free in the heads of their opponents, and is weirdly sexualized by their fans.
I think she is wrong about Trump, but she nails it about the idea of America First and what Republican voters want.
Hard to say. Trump is the embodiment of America First (for better or worse). A lot of people don’t make a distinction, unfortunately, between personalities and positions.
Point.
We don’t needs real comments and thoughts, how about moar sluts!!! Tittieees!!!! Am I right Count Potato? This place needs more porn.
You’re a good dude, for the most part. What the hell is going on with you?
Some of us fail to live up to his lofty expectations and it puts his panties in a twist, that’s all.
There is plenty of Pron out there if you need it. You ok?
Scientist-
I only recently became aware of the Speeduino standalone ecu and open source engine management world. Are you familiar with it?
I’ve heard of it, but have never actually seen one.
How weird. I just had the YT algorithm show me that too. I might order one for the Merkur, just to test it out.
“Criticism of the beef industry this past week was thrust to the forefront of the U.S. political stage when the cooking brand Epicurious announced that it would no longer publish new beef-based recipes as part of “an effort to encourage more sustainable cooking.”
The Washington Post, meanwhile, claimed recently that “science says beef should be on the chopping block” due to beef’s “significant role in greenhouse gas emissions.” And the Atlantic deemed beef the “main, mooing offender” driving livestock greenhouse gas emissions, with writer Annie Lowrey declaring that “trading your rib eyes and cheesesteaks for lentils and tofu is one of the best things you can do as a consumer for the environment.””
https://justthenews.com/nation/science/beef-takes-beating-environmentalists-research-suggests-cows-can-actually-climate
Because animal husbandry is this new thing?
Go for it. Drive down the cost of ribeyes for the rest of us.
Still waiting for someone to prove that the gradual warming since the Little Ice Age is actually due to human activity and not just another event in a long line of cooling and warming cycles.
I’ve read that NASA and the Royal Astronomical Society have taken the latter position, or at least individuals within them have.
^^^this
There is absolutely no evidence of this but almost everyone takes it as Gospel.
Even if you accept the temperature data, much of which is forged, there is no reason to think Man had anything to do with it.
Well, besides hubris.
Even worse. If you accept the premise that mankind’s industrialization is the engine of climate change – then worldwide you’d have no climate change until the latter half of the 20th century. Industrialization in the 18th and early 19th century was a ridiculously small fraction of human civilization. But the average AGW/ClimateChange believer thinks the world back then looked a lot like it does now.
“There is absolutely no evidence of this but almost everyone takes it as Gospel.”
You can say the same for the Gospels.
I watched an interesting video about ‘climate change’ a few days ago. The speaker was an AGW proponent but he presented a great cost-benefit analysis of the impact of the measures to stop warming vs. the cost of adapting to it. I will see if I can find it.
Ugh. Google and YouTube keep serving up videos that talk about how wind farms and various other ‘sustainable’ technologies are the bestest. I suppose I shouldn’t be suprised.
P.S. If it isn’t economically viable, it is not sustainable.
Words straight from a Dominion Power employee about wind energy.
“It takes 60 years to pay for those windmills and they last for 22. And it costs almost twice as much to take them down as it does to put them up because of restrictions on disposal. Without the federal subsidies and incentives, nobody would put these up.”
Cuomo just completed the total shutdown of a nuke plant that supplied a quarter of NYC’s power, to be replaced by windmills that haven’t been built yet* and I think a couple NatGas facilities that may or may not be up and running (nobody talks about this stuff in the news) and may or may not provide enough juice to prevent rolling blackouts this summer.
*And won’t be built.
Over the weekend, the weather reports said “gusty winds. Expect blackouts.”
WTF is wrong with these people?
Cali: We have jacked up our energy economy more than anyone in history!
NY: Hold my beer.
That’s why you avoid Google and YouTube at all costs. There’s alt-tech out there without agendas.
Throw in PayPal, Patreon, Instagram, and Reddit while you’re at it….
I really hate Paypal’s tendency to expel businesses it doesn’t like, but I’ve been with them for, oh, 20 years and they’ve been good to me.
What I really hate is that previously, Paypal didn’t send out 1099s on gross receipts. After all they don’t know what’s revenue and what’s personal. But the government’s decided it needs to so in 2022 it will start sending out 1099s on anything over $600. Etsy and SquareUp already did that.
Bjorn Lomborg?
He certainly fits the description.
I never did read his book but always heard good things.
I never read his book either. Saw him years ago on Penn and Teller’s Bullshit and have watched some of his stuff since, he’s appeared on Stossel’s youtube show as well.
I read this book 18 years ago. It made a big impression on me. I had to reevaluate my attitude toward the received narrative.
Can’t believe what he has gone on to do after winning Wimbledon.
That was a lom time ago.
Teacher unions dictate public health policy while health officials dictate economic policy. Da fuk are we doing?
Those who can; do. Those who can’t; go to work for the government.
“Hillary Clinton warns Biden he should expect ‘huge consequences’ for his decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan: Taliban steps up attacks across the nation as US hands over base”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9535993/Hillary-Clinton-warns-huge-consequences-Bidens-decision-pull-troops-Afghanistan.html
CWAA
That is a death threat isn’t it?
Biden didn’t commit suicide/have a fatal stroke/fall down the stairs/etc.
Not yet.
Slits in the house!!! Quality content!!!!
Overserved, sir?
Not safe anywhere.
Why does this happen every couple of months? Some random commenter just goes off the rails. Does it have something to do with Lunar Cycles?
Cocaine is a helluva drug?
Pollenbrain, happens every year.
You know, yer awful nishe. But it’s hot in here! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7dGmM3TktRE
Do you prefer the people who have been off the rails for so long we’ve been unable to tell if they were ever on them? I mean, daily reposts of some idiotic thing some shithead said on twitter or slate or jezebel, or keeping us all on the edge of our seats about what sort of shit they might find in their kitchen cupboards to make for lunch, or constantly repeating jokes that stopped being funny over a year ago. And not once or twice. But every damn day. I’ll take topnotchtoledo over that any time. At least he’s bring something new to the table.
That’s fair. You do enjoy shitting on other people here.
Then skim or stay away. Attendance is not mandatory, thank dog.
Fuck that. He went after Bob, whom I consider a friend. He can say whatever he cares to but he can’t just lash out at the rest of us without push-back.
I think you missed the sarcasm and double meaning dripping off MS’s comment.
Damn, it’s almost like this place is full of… people.
And people, it has come to my attention, suck.
“Do you prefer the people who have been off the rails for so long we’ve been unable to tell if they were ever on them?”
Don’t subtweet me
“Principal of Florida school is facing criminal charges after spanking a six-year-old girl with a paddle in front of her mom as punishment for damaging a computer”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9535683/Principal-Florida-school-spanks-six-year-old-pupil-paddle.html
No one noticed that she had a paddle in the first place?
Paddling the school canoe? That’s a paddling.
Ih did I cross a line? You dont like everyone posting the most horrific shit they can find online? Maybe you shouldn’t have assholes post it every single day and act like it is ok
Thank you!
…really?
Psst. *sarcasm*
Based on his 7:50, it seems sincere to me.
I agree with the complaint. If that’s actually eddie though, the joke’s on me.
The complaint has been around since time immemorial. Q and Potato have been posting girlie links since shortly after the site started. Weird timing to bitch about them. Especially with a forum and other tools available to avoid them.
I’ve never seen Potato post a girlie link. He does link to Demi Rose, however.
I think the joke is on you…
As your attorney I advise two aspirin, 8 ounces water, and bed, in that order.
Aspirin is the preferred prescription for butthurt. It’s got ass right there in the name.
If it weren’t for these pirin tablets I don’t know if I could go on…
Someone may be having a stroke.
Sources familiar with the situation say he’s an Eddie sockpuppet.
I could see that being the case.
You know who REALLY enjoys “fisting” ?
Sockpuppets.
I was gonna say “Eddie’s mom”, but I didn’t want him to have a stroke.
Not until I can get somewhere with some privacy.
Well if COVID wouldn’t kill those CA Dem Congress-critters I doubt being out of office will.
Only one way to find out.
I’ve heard of it, but have never actually seen one.
Youtube served up a bunch of videos. It looks really interesting.
“The pandemic provided the perfect opportunity for the Amazon Prime elite. It allowed people to feel virtuous for staying home. Watching Netflix was noble. Being anti-social was virtuous. Ordering DoorDash was saving the world. The pandemic ending takes away that easy virtue.
And people like being able to shame others. Catching people unmasked at the beach, spreading their photos, and talking about how bad that is — well that was a satisfying hobby for many this year. This group doesn’t want to go back to offices. They don’t seem to care if synagogue and church come back. That’s fine — they prefer to live mediated by screens, and they can live that life. But don’t let them force it on you.”
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/believe-science-get-vaccinated-then
I don’t want to go back to the office now either – not when it’s basically a prison.
She is saying that if people are vaccinated then they can go back to normal.
I’m just saying my reason for not wanting to go back to the office is different from those types.
OK
It would suck if you had to sit behind a desk with a mask all day.
My wife doesn’t want to go back either. Not for fear or laziness or whatever.
Society, including our places of employment, all told us we needed to change the way we lived our lives.
Some of us found that change to be very helpful to how life outside work functions, and life in general has been made much easier, while productivity hasn’t gone down.
It’s amazing how much more can be done when one isn’t beholden to sit in a particular chair for 8 hours a day, while still completing all the work you’d do while sitting in the chair.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/reaching-herd-immunity-is-unlikely-in-the-u-s-experts-now-believe/
But still get the pokey, because reasons.
Reaching herd mentality sure was easy enough.
*thunderous applause*
I see the propaganda arm is ramping up the excuses to keep the panic and state of emergency permanent, so the government can keep using it as an excuse for increasing power, control, and grifting.
Your daily dose of tune was very gratifying! Thanks Banjos and Mornin’!
I doubt it, there are still a few red districts that need to be gotten rid of first
They’re a lot more interested in cutting those right wing wrongthinkers upstate out of the loop than tossing AOC overboard.
Good morning, folks.
Mornin’ Tundra!
Mawnin’!
Hope you saw my YT link from previous, F. No response required.
Replay if you please. Festus has been drinking again.
Voici: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=owa6uXHG6Bw
Thanks again, Miss O’Grady! I love you just a little more.
Je t’aime aussi, mon frère.
Et Merci beaucoup!
I keep threatening to make my wife watch that movie.
I need to make good on that threat. Most under-appreciated sports movie of all time?
Great movie.
I did 2 hours of OT (preparing invoice now)
Im behind the curve, but I’m drinking as fast as I can
Whaddup, Canuckian ?
Got gutted, work-wise on Friday but I’ll prevail. Fuck-em if they can’t take a joke!
I love open source, in theory. In practice, it often means you’re both the customer and the developer.
My biggest frustration with open source is maybe 1 project in 1000 attracts a volunteer that is willing and capable of writing decent documentation.
I’d really be impressed if Jenner came out and said the olympics have outlived their usefulness.
I’d be more impressed if he introduced “Abeula” to the public.
When were the Olympics ever useful? They’ve been a net drain since the ancient Greeks.
Laurel wreaths weren’t that expensive. Plus, no expensive uniforms!
They have always been useful for political regimes, and for grifter jerkoffs who like to go to fancy cocktail parties and mingle with young athletes.
Q: Know the difference between a Greek and a suppository ?
A: nothing
Baseball birthdays are topped by two HoF pitchers, Red Ruffing and Eppa Rixey. Next is Davey Lopes and George Gore. No one else interesting pops out, even at the bottom of the list.
If Count Potato can post this stupid shit every single day and Yusef can beg for money and threaten to kill himself why not let me post this horrific shit? You are ok with them posting completely asinine shit here you go:
Eddie, you used to write interesting articles about the history of grand jury abuse. It’s sad to see what’s become of you.
Not clicking. I’ve gone from snark to genuine concern.
Don’t you have a baby to look after?
Start a forum topic if you need help with something.
If you need help just ask for it, no need to carry on like a fucking mental patient posting idiotic shit.
I’ve always liked you and don’t know what to say. Stop while you’re behind?
https://youtu.be/PLOPygVcaVE
Horror story
Syringa trees rise out of the Kalahari sand in the wild expanse of Kavango East, as the humid heat warns of afternoon showers. It’s easy to imagine this place has looked the same for a hundred years.
Except, that is, for the road. Recently widened, graded and ramrod straight, new roads like this mean change is coming.
Carved out of the trees and surrounded by a chain-link fence, that change comes as a shock: a giant oil rig towers above these flat lands, dwarfing the trees.
In this northeastern corner of Namibia, on the borders of Angola and Botswana, a Canadian oil company called ReconAfrica has secured the rights to explore what it believes could be the next — and perhaps even the last — giant onshore oil find.
The oilfield that ReconAfrica wants to harness is immense. The firm has leased more than 13,000 square miles, or some 30,000 square kilometers, of land in Namibia and neighboring Botswana.
The find — potentially containing 12 billion barrels of oil — could be worth billions of dollars. And some experts believe the oil reserves here could be even bigger.
“We know we have discovered a new sedimentary basin. It’s up to 35,000 feet deep and it’s a large and very expansive basin,” says Craig Steinke, the co-founder of ReconAfrica.
——-
Opponents are using a familiar argument against oil exploration. They believe a major find could devastate regional ecosystems.
And they have a powerful tool in the fight against hydrocarbons: In the face of the climate crisis, and in a region uniquely vulnerable to rising temperatures, should oil be exploited at all?
Drill for oil? That stuff sucks. We’d rather see you starve.
Blah bla blah we’re all gonna die.
Many in the West seem to think the third world is one giant international park/animal preserve with no regard or care for the people who live there.
Stay poor so I can enjoy the wild, pristine scenery.
Fuck you, I got mine!
Like those who wanted to visit Cuba to see real authentic Communism (but not REAL communism) before it got ruined by the lifting of the US embargo.
Heh. I had a friend visit Cuba a few years ago and they gushed over how clean, quaint, and quiet it was. I pointed out that they only saw what the Cuban government allows them to see for their tourism cash and most of the people live in abject poverty with little or no hope of a better life unless they float to Florida.
They didn’t want to hear that shit.
One of the reasons I went to China back about 33 years ago was because they had just started allowing tourists to enter on individual visas with no tour group and no minders. I got to see a lot of the way it really was – some of the little villages we passed through looked like they had changed little over a hundred years or more. One small reason why I wanted to see it was to see first hand if everything I had heard about communist countries was true or if there was a lot of western/American hubris blended into what I had heard. Yeah, it was pretty grim in a lot of places outside the larger cities.
Hell, you didn’t even have to leave the cities. I remember people leaving in three-sided concrete “houses” on the side of busy roads. II think I saw someone on a bicycle who had gotten run over every other day. It didn’t appear to bother anyone at all, just a humdrum clean-up.
Life is cheap there.
Oh, the cities were certainly bad enough. But riding a bus which stopped in a long string of villages, each of which were little more than a cluster of tin-roofed mud huts in the middle of a jumble of rice paddies, really showed how far behind the average Chinese was.
Yeah, we call them Homeless here on the west coast.
Supporters of marxism still refuse to admit that it killed north of 120 million people and held close to 3 billion in virtual prisonhood (without the shower scenes) in the last century, and complain when someone makes fun of them for pointing out this is real marxism, and it won’t matter who is in charge, cause the end result is the fucking same…
so I can enjoy the wild, pristine scenery.
It isn’t even scenery they will ever see themselves to enjoy it. It’s worse. It is the IDEA that it exists in that state that pleases them. They really don’t even give a fuck if they don’t see it – as long the use [read “exploitation”] is denied to others.
“But my nature shows! Think of poor David Attenborough’s career!”
NAYCHUR and SCIENZ!
The same people that were for eugenics/population control in the early 1900s had to rebrand their message and founded all these climate orgs after the Nazis made eugenics uncool.
“One thing I find a bit weird is that discussion of how the herd immunity math might play out in the US often brushes past the role that natural immunity (from having had COVID) plays. Experts estimate that ~1/3 of the US population has had COVID at some point.
You can’t just add up the ~33% who had COVID and the ~45% who’ve been vaccinated because there is some overlap between those groups. But survey data etc. suggests less overlap than you’d think since unvaccinated people tend to have been taking fewer precautions against COVID.”
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1389195665654300672
I still don’t get why people who had covid would be vaccinated?
Natural immunity to COVID is stronger and more resistant to variants than vaccine-induced immunity. Period.
If we had any sense whatsoever, we would not only be requiring an antigen test before vaccination, but also restricting it to the most vulnerable groups.
If we had any sense whatsoever
We all know that’s a non-starter.
Yep, therein lies the problem plus it’s been politicized.
No shit – what country do you think you live in Scruffy?
A guy can dream, can’t he?
The fact that my wife and I have been infected is one of the reasons that I am holding off on getting vaccinated. As I understand it, this is a relatively new type of vaccine so the long-term impacts are not yet known.
If you’ve been infected, there is zero reason to get vaccinated. You would be taking on unknown risks from an experimental treatment.
And it absolutely is experimental and long-term effects are completely unknown.
^Yeah, this..actually getting Covid is the ultimate vax.
I’ve been trying to figure out what the deal is with the antibody tests. The initial reports were that they could only detect Covid infection within the past few months. Now I’m hearing they can detect up to a year prior, but that still excludes a large proportion of the population who had Covid in late 2019/early 2020.
I’d think developing an accurate and widely available antibody test would be much simpler than a vaccine. But it’s almost like development in this area has been shut down.
*adjusts tin foil hat* Couldn’t be because an effective antibody test would exclude a large, potentially majority, of the population from having any reason to get the vaccine with annual boosters?
My guess is that they’re concerned about people thinking they had covid actually having had something else and just assuming (incorrectly in many cases) that they have antibodies. So another case of fibbing to you “for your own good.”
The lack of long term data is the biggest reason I’m not getting the shot, closely followed by the fact that all the wrong people keep telling me it’s the best thing ever making me suspicious.
^^^this.
Well, that and my general aversion to taking experimental drugs to combat a rare disease that won’t even really bother me much if I were to catch it.
If I’m going to take experimental drugs, I’m going to get paid for it.
In one breath it goes from “you can’t just add these things up!” to “since unvaccinated people tend to…”
I still don’t get why people who had covid would be vaccinated?
Because they are members of the Covid Cult.
I have a relative that had Covid. This relative got vaccinated. In Ohio. Because PA was, at the time, still restricting who could get vaccinated.
…my employer likes to cut loose on the weekends…he’s not answering the phone. I’m going to be a little pissed if he’s too sloshed to get out of bed and get the job lined up. TH needs his money, honey.
Hooray! I get to work! A late start but I’ll take it.
https://twitter.com/PissOffTrumpz/status/1388981677100355586
LOLOLOL
Noice! LOL.
Fuck you. That page + my beer buzz + Twitter sidebar had me click on George Takei. And I read some of his tweets.
I need WAY more beer.
oh my!
Then skim or stay away. Attendance is not mandatory, thank dog.
This.
There are a few people I have put on terminal ignore. If there are people who prefer to ignore me… that’s okay, too.
Exactly.
Are there certain people here I don’t exactly adore? You betcha. Do I think I cause more than a few people to roll their eyes and scroll past when they see my barely educated stoner comments? I’d bet next week’s paycheck on it.
What we don’t do, however, is go out of our way to be overtly hostile about what others post here. It’s unnecessary and unproductive.
The links provided are more than enough to raise the ol’ blood pressure, why add strife amongst ourselves to the pile?
I like everyone here; some topics I don’t relate to.
This is going to turn into The Breakfast Club soon. Evidently Andrew McCarthy has a memoir out now.
(er, speaking of Brat Pack, not that particular movie )
I must admit the Brat Pack was a hair before my time. I think I was five or so when The Breakfast Club was released. I take it they didn’t mesh well in the long run.
Molly Ringwald was foremost in most of teen Tres’s self-abuse sessions.
#Rawrr
I think it holds up pretty well, but I might be too biased.
John Hughes had great taste in music, ah tell yew whut.
+ Thompson Twins
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E32c92PJDGA
Groups of egocentric asshole actors not getting along as they age?
Whoever heard of such a thing!
It might actually be kind of interesting if you like tales of cocaine and drunkenness. They all seem to have fallen into that to some extent or the other.
My son just told me that the parties at UNC School of the Arts are overflowing with coke. It must be the actor’s drug of choice.
It’s not the hip new thing anymore but it’ll always be a fun drug as long as it doesn’t get its claws into you.
I don’t know how people stand numbed noses. Would feel too much like dentistry to me.
“Would feel too much like dentistry to me.”
I think you have dentistry and rhinoplasty mixed-up. Try less coke.
I defer to your knowledge, Tres. “You are the man, the dude in the chair, whilst I am merely here.” 😉
I’m fairly square: sorry to disappoint you.
I found out my cousin (son of aunt and uncle whose memorial I just attended) OD’d on heroin or coke, not sure, but I believe it was heroin. Took 2 shots of Narcan to get him back. Now half his brain doesn’t function right and he’s become kind of an automaton who has to be guided through life. He can hold a job if it’s rote work/manual labor, but he can’t live on his own. His sister is going to take him home with her and care for him.
It would have been a kindness to let him stay dead.
Woof, Mo.
If it was Narcan, it was heroin.
Sounds like he had an hypoxic event – respiration suppressed (typical of opioid overdose), lack of oxygen.
Sorry to hear it, Mo.
Yeah, it’s a waste. He’s a really sweet guy. I am just sad. I don’t know if I’m more sad that he did it to himself or sad at the entire situation (if that difference makes sense at all).
Sorry Mojeaux.
Yeah, sorry, too. My nephew is in the same boat. He’s still not done. He got his dilaudid drip taken away at the hospital because he had someone sneak him in some pot. Permanent disfigurement apparently isn’t enough to get him to consider dialing it back.
It is a hell of a drug.
That wears off every 20 minutes?
Again, I defer.
I do coke, so I can work longer, and make more, so I can do more coke….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSPT27XyY1U
Telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pzSWNEBdsVg
The Kinks>The Beatles
that’s a low bar
Why isn’t this lovely song better known in the States? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N_MqfF0WBsU
^This.
Though I have to admit I miss the OGs that don’t like hanging around with hoi polloi.
WeThey abide…and watch.Retired to Glyu-Vho, have they?
PSA: this is exactly why I built the mute button into Eyepiece.
I’m against muting people myself. I’ve never used it on any forum or internet thing.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if the person annoying you is actually a mute, and you hover the mouse over the mute feature ?
At the risk of drugs falling out my ass and getting a narrow eyed cat but – I really am feigning for some THICCCCCC.
*mute button*
😉
Going sleepy-bye, Friends. Blow out the candles and douse the lamps for me would you please? Have a good-un!
Never we are like Motel 6, we will leave the light on for the meth addicts.
Who else is gonna rob the pepsi machine ?
Nighty-night, rab-bit.
Keep the shiny side up, fellow night creature. Im off to-day/night, and I just did beerventory. I only have 45 Milwaukee’s Beast Diet to last me the next 30 hours or so.
I think I can make it happen.
However the thought did cross my mind to have an -ex stop by with a bottle of Crown, and a box of Plan B.
Huh. Apparently Cindy McCain has a new gig telling the never-Trumpers what they want to hear. How nice for her.
It’s a popular gig these days.
When you grow an increasing share of a shrinking market.
Kind of a saturated market, innit?
My impression is that neither John nor Cindy McCain were ever particularly Republican. Only as a matter of political convenience in that when McCain was first pursuing office, he wasn’t going to have much luck as a Democrat.
I honor Mr. McCain’s service to this country. Honestly, I do. But, let’s be quite blunt. From the moment he returned from Vietnam, he was a political officer. His post-POW career was as one of the Pentagon’s fixers with Congress. He divorced his first wife (while she was in the hospital) and married an heiress and promptly moved into politics. His post-POW career is repulsive, devoid of any principle beyond the aggrandizement of John McCain and the establishment which he clung to. At this point, I can’t for the life of me think of any reason to give one whit about anything Cindy McCain has to say about much of anything.
When McCain married Cindy, he married into the Arizona GOP and into money. If it was anything other than cynical, it sure didn’t appear that way.
His pre-POW career wasn’t much better, and if it wasn’t for his last name, he would have been cashiered long before Vietnam.
I dishonor him for crashing so many planes.
They really don’t even give a fuck if they don’t see it – as long the use [read “exploitation”] is denied to others.
The Dog in the Manger was an instructional manual.
In other news- I would superglue the bloody caps lock button (which I am constantly hitting in error) on this keyboard, but I’d undoubtedly lock it in the ‘on” position.
If you’ve got a fifty per cent chance of being right, that means you have a seventy five per cent chance of being wrong.
The old military 50-50-90 rule: “If you have a 50/50 chance at getting something right, 90% of the time you’ll be wrong.”
Caps Lock never made any sense anyway. Shift Lock for mechanical typewriters, sure, but not just capital letters.
If we’re going ot keep it, it should be a toggle switch, not a key.
It’s standard operating procedure whenever I get a new computer or OS to map caps lock to control.
Happy Monday, Glibs.
We lost a dear friend to cancer over the weekend. She fought it off for 6 years but it finally took her. She was a kind soul but also a bad ass roller girl. Thankfully we were all able to talk to her one last time Friday. It’s sobering when people close to you, your own age, are starting to go.
Sorry, TOK.
Sorry to hear that.
And yeah, getting old sucks.
My condolences, K.
Cancer is a motherfucker. Mama Tres passed from it.
You have my genuine sympathy and empathy.
My condolences.
Dang…sorry to hear that.
Hearts out to you TOK
My condolences, TOK.
Sorry 🙁
Sorry to hear that.
and
Fuck Cancer.
Sorry
Sorry Kev.
Oh, my condolences. Yes, it’s weird when people your age (early 50s for me) start dying.
I’m surprised they didn’t just go straight to 3-star general.
https://news.yahoo.com/yevgeny-vindman-fired-trump-white-123900783.html
Thats a lot of consonants.
I like how they claim he was fired for “raising concerns” and not for violating protocol and lying about the phone call.
And this is how they get people to lie and risk their careers to target political opponents, they know they will get rewarded down the road.
And the dangerous politicization of the military continues.
I don’t hold out much hope, but it would be great if Trump got to fire him… again.
While I do not know the particulars of the case, outside of his establishment fellating congressional testimony, that guy was the very definition of a chicken-shit officer
One that probably if were suddenly thrust into the field, would be wondering which of his soldiers under his command would let him know just how much confidence they have of him.
That guy will never end up in the field. Barring something very unfortunate for him and anyone under his command, he will happily bounce around from the Pentagon and various three-letter agency positions holding make-work positions for the rest of his career.
Caitlyn Jenner didn’t win shit at the Olympics. Find me one contemporary report saying she did.
STOP DEADSPORTING HER.
Modern pentathalon? Speed skiing? Greco-Roman wrestling?
“You’ll float down here in the deadsports, Addy.”
Hey, you leave the Modern Pentathlon alone! That event is cool as hell.
Not saying it wasn’t cool, just that it’s not an Olympic event anymore.
If I had enough money to host the Olympics, I’d do it just to fuck with the events. I’d add IPSC. And pugel stick boxing. And lion taming.
And lion taming.
Bizarre as Jenner and zer(?) family are, and whatever you think of trans people, it is the same person and it was a great accomplishment. “Caitlyn” is about as much the same person as anybody else is the same person they were 40 years ago.
If you look at xer Wikipedia article, it’s all there but carefully written to avoid the pronoun-game. “Jenner did this, Jenner did that.”
Make a wish
During his campaign, Biden’s climate agenda included the goal of creating 10 million new jobs in clean energy industries, and now the American Jobs Plan aims to help enable that. The new jobs are built into Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan. Along with a focus on climate-smart technology, the plan calls for a $16 billion investment to plug countless defunct oil and gas wells and reclaim abandoned coal, hardrock, and uranium mines. The Biden administration says that program alone will put hundreds of thousands of people to work in union jobs.
The plan also set a 2035 deadline for every US state to generate all electricity from energy sources that don’t produce carbon emissions linked to climate change. This transition alone would trigger a massive spending boom in both wind and solar power, at least doubling the pace of investment that is now underway. This shift could also result in a huge jobs boom, potentially dispersing opportunities for energy-related jobs to states across the country. Specifically, in his speech to Congress, Biden said the American Jobs Plan will “put engineers and construction workers to work building more energy-efficient buildings and homes.”
Who doesn’t want millions of new union jobs at the unicorn-fart-bottling-plant?
I need to get in to bottling unicorn farts. I’ve been watching, and apparently the best way is to promote the idea that I’ll be able to provide electricity to the entire state of California. Then I’ll get a few billion in subsidies. Then power generation will be “lower than anticipated,” and I’ll just need a few billion more to address that. After several cycles of funding, we’ll blame all the short falls on Big Oil, close the doors permanently, and move to Fiji.
…need a General Counsel?
Unicorns are more dangerous than most people think
Indeed
See? Democrats LOVE workers! (unless they’re workers who would rather take home their earnings rather than give it to an organization that will donate most of it to the Democrat Party).
Tee Hee. Both on the story and the journalisming.
https://gizmodo.com/one-third-of-basecamp-employees-have-reportedly-quit-fo-1846801378
Nobody more offended at a lack of judgmental arrogance than a journalist. Imagine that.
Sorry, political browbeating of fellow employees and reporting pushback to HR as problematic behavior probably isn’t in the job description. Now get back to work.
I would say that the ‘mass exodus’ is probably a net good for the company. The people that left were probably net drains on productivity. It reminds me of that sports website (Deadspin?) that, under new ownership, had the temerity to direct their writers to write about sports and stop injecting leftist horse crap into their coverage. The people that left were not a positive influence on the company culture and were a financial drain on the company.
I would say that the mass exodus was probably the objective.
It makes perfect sense to me. Drive out the problem makers and replace them with productive employees who have been driven out by those same people.
Basecamp was started by DHH, who doesn’t give a shit about that sort of nonsense.
Much like Coinbase, I suspect Basecamp will get a bunch of new inquiries about open positions. They have exactly zero positions listed right now, so “clearing out the deadwood” at the cost of just 6 months salary per person sounds exactly right.
That guy is a Danish Tony Stark. Talk about a life well lived.
*brushes up Rails skills*
TBH, with all the new buzzworthy shit coming out every week I’m kind of surprised Rails is still a thing that people do.
It’s in decline, along with other full-stack frameworks, for sure but there’s still plenty out there.
Including the thing I wrote in Rails 1.0.
I just spent a couple weeks getting from Rails 4.x to 5.0. I’ll cycle back in a few weeks and get it to 6.x.
I don’t think I’d start a new project in Rails, though.
Too bad. I liked it when I played around with it ages ago. I hate most of the new hotness.
Fortunately, I don’t touch any of it for a living.
They might not realize it yet, but that company just saved themselves from woke suffocation. They will get new employees and better ones.
The comments are enlightening about how the true believers think.
“They weren’t talking Trump or Biden, so they aren’t talking politics. They were addressing racism in the company, this isn’t politics.”
Full on ignoring the fact that the definition of racism has been highly politicized.
It’s gizmodo. It’s been a shitrag for so long, that only the true believers are left.
Tech industry journalism is so bad that it eclipses the average “scientific” magazine in its lousiness.
Yep, I dove in knowing I was getting pure woke leftist echo chamber. There’s a reason I didn’t major in derpetology
They abide…and watch.
*draws curtains*
*gyrates hips*
*starts to remove articles of clothing*
If they are watching, I’m damn well gonna put on a show!
The stir came out of left field on Tuesday, when co-founder and CEO Jason Fried announced a ban on “societal and political discussions” within the company Basecamp account.
Out of left field; no one saw it coming.
“Whaddaya mean, you’re not paying us to sit around and bitch about white supremacy and capitalism?”
LOGIC!
As millions of Americans call for further stimulus checks and a growing number of lawmakers urge President Biden to support more direct payments, billionaires’ pandemic profits alone could easily fund two more direct payments to all Americans with change left to spare.
Congress has thus far approved three rounds of direct stimulus checks since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the first for $1,200 being approved in March 2020 followed by a second payment of $600 in December. Under President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, which was passed and signed in March, most Americans received another $1,400 payment. Now more than 2 million Americans have signed a Change.org petition calling for recurring monthly stimulus checks of $2,000 as dozens of lawmakers have urged Biden to support a similar proposal.
Meanwhile, data from Forbes—which tracks the net worths of the wealthy—finds that America’s 722 billionaires saw their wealth grow by 35 percent between January of last year and April 28 of this year. Their collective net worths have increased from $3.4 trillion to $4.6 trillion today—a dramatic rise of some $1.2 trillion.
Considering the total U.S. population is estimated to be about 328 million people, that would mean billionaires’ pandemic profits could easily fund two more checks of $1,400 for every single American with a significant amount of money left to spare. In fact, if the $1.2 trillion were equally divided among all Americans, that would be enough for every single American to receive three payments of a little more than $1,200 or one single payment of just over $3,600.
You can’t argue with that.
Fork it over, Scrooge McDuck, and you won’t get hurt (much).
Mmmm… No, Peg.
STOP SENDING OUT PAYMENTS.
JFC.
They’re killing the job market.
Jobs? Who needs those?
I can almost wish a Chinese labor camp experience upon the assholes spouting off about UBI!
I wonder if the administration wants to point to all these unfilled want ads as signs of an expanding economy?
I mean, that would be stupid even for politicians. But still…
Well, it’s not like said billionaires, many of whom I’m no fan of BTW, aren’t providing a desired service or goods. Why the fuck should they be obligated to just hand over money to people?
Because you implicitly signed the ‘social contract’ upon birth. Pay no mind that the government is in no way holding up their part of the contract.
Lysander Spooner: I didn’t sign shit.
I need to get in to bottling unicorn farts. I’ve been watching, and apparently the best way is to promote the idea that I’ll be able to provide electricity to the entire state of California.
Don’t forget to tell them unicorn farts are a more effective fire suppressant then halon. No more forest fires!
I’ll let you know where to send the check.
How have I not been banned yet? I feel like Yusef on a hot Monday morning
I tried.
Would you like a screen cap of how the Mute button works in Monocle? I’m just about to hit it.
We need a “manic phase” detection algorithm.
You know, if someone’s at work and they accidentally click on this they can get in a lot of trouble.
To be fair, that’s true of a lot of links around here, sexual or not.
+1 boss asking why I was looking at that ‘terrorist shit’
This site alone would get me the stink-eye from a whole lotta coworkers.
That comment was about the site itself, Trashy’s first Civil War Boogaloo article to be precise.
*affixes “terrorist shit” badge of honor*
“Because I like terrorizing people, silly!”
You’re far too boring to bother with banning.
Well how about a cat butt for lack of appropriate NSFW warnings. Glad I only use cellphone data.
How have I not been banned yet?
The soft bigotry of low expectations?
Things I don’t understand:
I was at the wholesale club, and they had black beans for $2.99/6. $0.50 a can.
I got home, and noticed it said “Packed in Portugal.”
Someone paid to ship a can of beans across the Atlantic, sell it for $0.50, and still make a profit? Buh?
Add to that: Cut down tree. Put tree on boat to China. Chinese mill tree into lumber, which is put on boat to US. Profit?
They lose money on every can, but make it up in volume!
It’s because capitalism completely rules dude. And I’m not joking.
^^^ Truth ^^^
Maybe the Portuguese canning industry is heavily subsidized, might be a big voting block over there, I dunno.
Fiji Water says hello.
Gawd, I know someone who buys that. Tasty, yes, but I hear it merely props up a dictatorship.
The secrets of Portuguese master canners cannot be revealed. For superior canning of legumes, you must send your product to Portugal, where, shrouded in secrecy, the ancient art of boiling beans and sealing them in steel cans is practised by bean-canning artisans who’s craft dates back to 16th century Sofala whence it was appropriated from Wakandan craftspersons by the Portuguese Armada.
Ancient Portuguese secret, huh?
You’re soaking in it.
Dammit, crossed the streams.
And that’s how you wind up soaking in it.
+1 I, Pencil
‘I do it to make a profit.’
‘But how can you make a profit? You lose two cents an egg.’
‘But I make a profit of three and a quarter cents an egg by selling them for four and a quarter cents an egg to the people in Malta I buy them from for seven cents an egg. Of course, I don’t make the profit. The syndicate makes the profit. And everybody has a share.’
Yusefs Saturday
Hot bigay sexual male naked movies I always think it’s funny
Keep spamming and you might just disappear.
I dunno its like a ball of yarn and we are all kittens Swissy
True…
Been awhile since we had an unhinged trolling.
Count potato
I wonder if the administration wants to point to all these unfilled want ads as signs of an expanding economy?
As I recall, there is, or used to be, a “want ad index” as an indicator of economic strength.
“Lookit all them Help Wanted signs in the shop windows! The economy’s really firing on all cylinders now!”
If you dont want pieces of shit clogging up the post and making you sick with asinine links then maybe you should limit the assholes who do it.
A true show of maturity on your part. I’m totes impressed with your adulting.
Someone looking to get banned and then go to another site to let them know he was just trying to fix things and the Neanderthals kicked him out.
Bahn Mi!
I didn’t need to be reminded of that incident…
And now I want a sandwich.
Damnit I just ate now I want Quoc Bao…
Bless hiz harrt.
Which is interesting because he is advocating an oppressive censorship regime to be put into place here. What ever.
Griefing is like Herpes, and about as attractive.
I’m confused. This is all like a Francesca Fiore film.
I’ve read a detailed background of the freakout over the ESL thing with soccer and I’ve come to the conclusion that English soccer fans are nuts.
It’s turning into a case of “I have everybody involved.”
The owners are greedy assholes who don’t give a shit about the game or the fans. ✔
The fans are ignorant yobs who think they deserve a say in how the business they don’t own is run. ✔
The media are going apeshit like it’s Insurrection Two, Hooligan Boogaloo. ✔
About the only ones coming out of this unscathed are the players, which is saying something.
“hate”, even.
Man U fans blowing up NFL analyst Jay Glazer’s Twitter, yelling at him to “sell the team” is just fantastic.
All the brains of Millwall fans with none of the charm.
heh, true
Millwall Bootboys 1977
Panorama did a really good episode about the English representation at the 2006 World Cup in Germany – https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x26z4te
It’s hilarious when other people link to this pathetic horseshit, let’s share this
You’re trying too hard, dude.
Seriously, enough already.
If you don’t like what someone posts or their links, you don’t have to click on them, but you’re just spamming the board now.
Seriously? Furrys? If you can’t find some albino midget lesbians to post, then don’t even bother! Sheesh!
And left-handed! She should be left-handed all right.
Well, it’s not like said billionaires, many of whom I’m no fan of BTW, aren’t providing a desired service or goods. Why the fuck should they be obligated to just hand over money to people?
I think the wealth redistributionists want evil billionaire investors to disgorge their completely undeserved paper gains from the stock market, for the greater good of society and the less fortunate.
I think there is some disconnect here when it comes to taking money from one entity and giving it to another.
Biden has already spent like $40,000 per American this year and wants to spend way more. Why hasn’t (relative) poverty been eliminated for at least this year?
It’s important to pay attention to whether the money really winds up.
It is better to be coerced to support things than to engage in consensual commerce. It is a foundational principle of modern leftism.
Peter, Paul: who’s the difference?
Mary?
Ooooh, nice.
? ?
It’s a ‘man in the middle’ attack.
Someone looking to get banned and then go to another site to let them know he was just trying to fix things and the Neanderthals kicked him out.
It an EXTREMELY familiar vibe, doesn’t it?
Am I free to gambol?
Are you free to gambol?
Really, are any of us free to gambol?
NOOOO! You will call the wrath of he who shall not be named!
Hey, sometimes you gotta strut right up to the edge of the Abyss and take a whiz into it…
OMG I laughed till I choked. Stealing.
Sometimes the Abyss whizzes back.
Probably on the person that walks up to the abyss just after ES has done his thing and left.
Great. The Abyss has a water sports fetish.
So, do we avoid? Or do we…escalate?
has
Well! That was an exciting ride at ye olde Glibbes.
Mornin’, Banjos, all. My kid’s graduating this month and I’ve got plenty of work, so I’mma get to it.
Hey Mo! Congrats!
Thanks. I feel like I worked as hard as she did, poor kid. She hates school and it was sheer torture for her. It was painful to watch and feel helpless. She wrote on her car something like “it’s over, let the healing begin”.
At least she didn’t peak in high school, thank heavens for small favors.
At least she didn’t peak in high school, thank heavens for small favors.
Indeed. I know a few people who did. It’s very sad, albeit largely self-inflicted.
Aw.
Sorry to hear about scholastic troubles.
In retrospect I didn’t like school as much as I thought I did; don’t know if you feel the same.
I feel exactly the same. I was getting ready to apply to law school and my bestie at the time said, “But you hate school.” I still have occasional I-shoulda-been-a-lawyer meltdowns.
My problem was opposite of my daughter’s. I was good at school. I took all the hard stuff, aced it without much effort, went to college and totally bombed because I didn’t know how to organize myself or study. I also wasn’t prepared for how fast the material got thrown at you. I was in classes with people who’d read the first assignment before the first class. WTF? How did they even know?
But there were fun classes that I loved. I took calligraphy and martial arts and costume history and suchlike. And now I’m going back to school again for fun stuff. At least I know how it works now.
Glib homeschool curriculum! Forum!
Your transcript sounds like mine but probably with a better GPA.
I graduated from college in 10 years and with 170 credit hours and $5,500 in student loan debt. I was working full time the last half of that 10 years.
Ahem: will set up forum topic by day’s end.
“Grade, evaluate, and rank me!”
“Degrade, subjugate, and spank me!”
PON, you’re terrible. 😉
At least if she’s in touch with her dissatisfaction. I feel as if college was sold to our generation as marriage and children were to our parents’: “It’s just what ya do.”
Yes! That’s a blessing.
Oy, wish I’d had the courage to drop out or at least take a break. Gap year!
College discounts are nice, though.
Hey, good morning Mojeaux. I’m rarely around to post on the links (either working too early or too late). I hope your work is productive and pleasant. I’m off today and looking forward to not doing much of anything.
Have a good chill!
What did I miss? Was it exciting? I miss all the good stuff.
See comment 61 and search that moniker today and yesterday.
Congratulations to your kid!
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. – Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata” (c) 1927
I can’t believe I haven’t been banned.
Bless your feeble atrophied heart.
“I remember my first drink, too.”
If you’d like to be banned you could easily do it yourself. Just saying.
No, no, he(?) wants to be banned so he can flounce off and loudly complain about “they _say_ they’re pro-liberty but look at what they did!”
Which is ironic, given the underlying complaint is “there’s not enough censorship here”.
And people tell me that cognitive dissonance really is a thing.
He melted down once before – came back full of apologies.
It’s been all of, what, 3 weeks back?
I think you are correct.
When you guys respond to it, I can’t ignore it so easily.
*thinks about minimal technical requirements for nuke mode muting, where the entire thread goes away when started by a nuked commenter*
Reasonable worked like that. I haven’t dug into the commenting structure, but can’t you just select ‘comment’ and all children?
Yeah, it’s not hard to do, but I only have a phone to do it while at work. I was trying to figure out whether I could code it up on the phone or not.
Coding on a phone? How masochistic are you?
I’ve done it before when small changes needed to be made. Not pleasant, but not impossible.
Sorry trsh, I’ll consider myself chastened.
That’s one reason I don’t mute anybody.
Keep it up, it will happen,
/Bye!
You’re doing just great.
I like the cat in the gif on the main page.
Labor Minister Eduardo Pinate said the minimum salary would increase from 1.8 million bolivars to 7 million bolivars as of this month.
The government keeps increasing the minimum salary like that, and pretty soon they’ll be talking real money! What could possibly go wrong?
California’s 15-member Citizens Redistricting Commission, divided equally among Democrats, Republicans, and independents, is prohibited from drawing maps that benefit or disadvantage any particular politician.
Add another one to the list of biggest lies.
Well if there is anything that I have learned in the last 5 years or so; its that government functionaries can be trusted to be completely impartial and apolitical.
Just the last five?
Well, the last bit of time definitely confirmed my position.
CA-51 says hello you lying sons-of-bitches.
Nice! Just enough of San Diego to completely negate the Imperial Valley.
It does however allow the rest of San Diego county, CD50, to be red for some balance.
PA’s state legislative districts will be redrawn by a five man commission – 2 Dems and 2 Repubs plus an “independent” acceptable to the other four.
No one was acceptable, so the PA Supremes will choose (and they are balanced 5-2 Dem.)
Nice! Just enough of San Diego to completely negate the Imperial Valley.
I suspect that is what will be done in New York; they’ll find a way to sprinkle upstate conservatives into reliably blue districts.
It worked for Maryland.
And the PA Supremes (5-2 Dem) will be sure to redraw the districts to GOP loses 2 seats and the Dems gain one.
I am lurking and trying to catch up but I have to ask, what’s with topnnotchtoledo? Is that a Tony sock?
If you can’t laugh, you’re gonna cry. He’s crying.
No. Tony was just willfully ignorant and obtuse, not unhinged.
You are correct. I would have used ‘mendacious’, that was Tony’s shtick.
I prefer Agile’s kind of unhinged. He had no malice.
*sniffle* I miss AC.
Our psychedelic James Joyce.
I am certain Agile was a heavy drug user. He just disappeared one day and I dont have a good feeling about that.
Yes, that was clear to me.
Early postings in the day were clear. They got more muddled as the day went on. Once evening came, you really had to read slowly and carefully for it to make sense (which it did, to me). His metaphors and similes got more complex as the day wore on.
From Ohio. Get on the case, Buckeyes!
You can eat once you find the Dufresnes! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UUNvFVQYClY
Yah, he did seem… troubled.
TO’G, I think someone (Tres?) said AG was from Yellow Springs, not far from Dayton. Would explain a lot, as YS is a Buckeye Berkeley.
(Oops! Meant AC.)
His hallucinogenic aided stream of consciousness poetry made for an interesting read, to be sure.
He was around for a while, suddenly ragequit after bad-mouthing some comment he didn’t like, apologetically returned about 3 weeks ago and suddenly got frothy again about how this site doesn’t censor posters enough.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There’s definitely links I don’t click, including that chubby chick and most of Q’s Chive links (I do click through for the redheads, though).
There’s definitely subthreads I scroll past.
Its almost like this is an a la carte thing.
You mean you have agency and can choose what to read or click through? That’s just crazy-talk.
Wait, You nerds aren’t forced to read everything I post? That’s some Bullshit right there.
*Nukes Hype*
Nobody can force you to read anything either.
I can’t help it, if I see a printed word my mind automatically reads it. I tried to stop reading once, it’s impossible.
Hey buddy? Stop posting that!
Heh, that’s a running private joke with me. I can’t explain it to my family because it would have a long Glibs backstory, but I find it funny.
To be fair, and this is the nugget of truth that TNT is exposing in the shittiest of ways, community standards are upheld, even here. There are more than a few people, myself included, who find the incessant tits links varying levels of offensive, or at least declasse.
The only differences between TNT’s spamming (I’m presuming the content based on the urls posted) and the daily tits is the frequency at which its being posted and the presence of penises.
I channeled my distaste for those kinds of posts into the mute button. I channeled my distaste for TNT’s schtick into the nuke button. Now I’m happy as a clam.
Are clams really that happy?
Only at high tide
A geoduck clam appears to be quite pleased.
Only here would such an item be found OBJ…
Horrible, horrible freedom
Nuke mode muting has been activated. If you want the feature, just click this link to update your version, and it works just like the mute button. Only difference is that all child comments replying to the nuked user disappear.
Regular mute (where it hides the contents of posts from muted users) is still there, too.
I’m not pushing this as a new version yet since it could still have some bugs (it was copy pasta of the mute button, so I doubt it)
Sorry, post editing removed the fact that this is an update to Eyepiece. Not monocle.
*promptly nukes trashy*
Awesome work.
Im embarrassed how quickly I found a bug after hitting submit on this comment. It was almost immediate.
If clicking next unread takes you to a random not-new comment. That’s because the new comment was nuked. I’ll fix it later.
Im embarrassed how quickly I found a bug after hitting submit on this comment. It was almost immediate.
The coding version of slumbrewing it.
I’m currently submitting a pull-request to correct the PR I just submitted, so I feel your pain.
I look at this place like a bar and Toby Keiths song fits our description.
Where’s my red Solo cup?
Mason jars 🙂 but a solo cup will do just fine.
I didn’t buy any when I was at the store.
Sorry.
“Red Solo Cup” is just “Herod’s Song” in a cowboy hat
If you’re the Christ
The great Jesus Christ
Proceed to party!
Well I was thinking more “I love this bar” as the representative song…
Hey don’t look at me I didn’t bring it up 😉
Tony was just willfully ignorant and obtuse, not unhinged.
Tony’s brand of porn was “MASSIVE government thrusts itself mercilessly into private relationship”.
I wonder if ACORN is stilll paying him to troll.
Nah, he is probably with Antifa these days.
I look at this place like a bar and Toby Keiths song fits our description.
I’d say it’s more like Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down
Where bikers stare at cowboys who are laughing at the hippies
First true honky-tonk I ever went in was near Sheppard Air Force base. It might as well have been from a movie and the needle scratched over the record when I walked in. City boy and military and the one-eyed gruff sitting at the bar along with a few patrons all glared at me in the threshold.
After I closed that place down, I made some good friends.
Let’s try that again
I had a brief hike in the woods this morning to check on a corner post I recently installed and lugged this with me: https://ruger.com/products/mini14RanchRifle/specSheets/5805.html
In spite of it being the same weight the balance made it more difficult to carry.
I am going back to this as my woods gun: https://www.winchesterguns.com/products/rifles/model-94/current.html (scroll down to the plain carbine)