There. I just saved you from googling “Sandy Cheeks”
James Marsden fans hardest hit.
“All of this sets a troubling precedent.”
Friday Afternoon Links
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Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
suh’ pimp-juice
The Germans will be all over this one.
Hoff’s daughter is kinda petite for my tastes, but solid “wood”.
No wonder the Hoff was so desperate to eat that cheeseburger. With her around he must get few opportunities.
Obligatory.
Was thinking more along the lines of this
https://youtu.be/ZTidn2dBYbY
I guess this is where I confess my adolescent crush on the Hoff.
Fun fact- K.I.T.T. stands for Knight Industries Two Thousand.
I dont know why I know that. I just do.
Knew that! LOL
It’s a stripped-down version of the Knight Industries Three Thousand, but it’s software-upgradeable.
You probably know the Knight Automated Roving Robot as well.
Eh, he was a good-looking fella back in the day. And I’ll admit, this was always good for a chuckle and some toe-tapping.
“All of this sets a troubling precedent.”
Thicc?
Family tradition
“What you’ve caused is a massive misallocation of resources, a massive infusion of cash into the stock market.”
But interest rates are so low we can’t afford NOT to spend like there’s no tomorrow.
To be fair, are we sure there will be a tomorrow? Because if there isn’t, we’d sure look stupid not spending like drunken ______* today
* Offensive reference to branch of military service deleted.
Triggered.
*pulls up chair, readily awaiting what is gonna be a hilarious thread of fill in the blank*
sailxr?
REMFs
Sardaukar
Marine Love Toys?
Praetorians?
Rand Lover
https://i.redd.it/yg5zaheq1g071.jpg
Deliberate, I hope. Ayn or Paul?
South African currency.
I was annoyed when the silver Krugerrands I bought turned out to be actually minted by south africa. I didn’t know they’d started making them in silver and figured someone had copied them in silver.
Now I have the guilt of having helped finance the Racist ANC government.
From way back before Mandela got sprung.
I’ll keep it brief, since I’m about to go out for a bike ride. No snow here, shorts and t-shirt weather.
SHOPPED UNMASKED at KROGER TODAY!!1!
Many other customers (20%), and a few employees, also unmasked. No Karens, not even a sour look that I could see.
That’s because the sour look was behind their masks!
I went out today. Office Depot, Target, and QuikTrip.
Leaving aside employees, I saw just one masked customer.
The lady who helped me at Office Depot had a mask on, but it was under her chin. She wasn’t even trying. Hallelujah.
Oh but then I saw a family (man, woman, about four kids ranging from toddler to tween), all of whom had masks on. Outside. They gave me a shocked look.
Now, Hobby Lobby the other day was entirely different, but I suspect that was because HL was very strict on its mask policy when there was one. Half the customers there were masked.
What did you guy, other than borax?
Buy, damnit.
Looked at office chairs because my 15-yo one is on its last wheels, but did not buy.
At Target I bought a girl-problem thing which, if I was really nasty, I’d tell you what it was.
At QuikTrip, I bought gas.
Would you like me to account for the rest of my day? Besides watching aliens shows?
Yes, I’m going to need receipts. You’re now on the terrorist watch list for buying too much borax. I mean no one buys that, except terrorists. You buy any pressure cookers with that?
What is this word “cook”, please?
What is this word “cook”, please?
To positively adjust the enthalpy of portions of the carcasses of organic lifeforms until palatable to the apex species of the third planet of the Sol system.
Yeah, I don’t do that.
“What is this word “cook”, please?”
It’s that word, like when you terrorists cook up that borax in your pressure cookers and blow up a bunch of people and then there’s the borax fallout that kills everyone else.
Dude, I’m way too lazy for that.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083FBN9BH?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details
Solid chair. Made in Korea, not China. Good lumbar support. Adjusts high enough to be comfortable for tall (6’+) people, if you need that.
“Buy, damnit.”
So are you in marketing or sales?
He’ss got a newfound Borax fetish.
Exactly what a borax terrorist would say.
QT was quick to drop their mask requirements. Even when they required it, they didn’t enforce it at the one by my house.
I noticed that too. When I was taking my kid to Cerner, the one in NKC didn’t care. I saw a few people there without masks (besides me).
Same here.
I didn’t see even one unmasked customer yesterday. The total number of customers I’ve seen without a mask in a grocery store in MA in the last 12 months has not changed: it is still 2.
On my trip to Charlotte, the only place I went into that was demanding about its mask policies was Love truckstops and Food Lion. A couple of gas stations had a sign that said “Masks would be nice”, but some didn’t even have masks. It was almost normal all the way there and all the way back.
Had a roofer come by tbis afternoon to our house in NorCal to give us a bid. He’d been vaccinated as we have, but insisted on wearing a double mask the entire time, all outdoors, including when he climbed alone on our roof.
Should we trust this contractor’s judgment in picking out shingles?
Most guys here with this kind of jobs didn’t wear masks outdoors even when most everyone else did.
I just had a metal roof put on, replacing asphalt shingles. Same guy I used last year, he showed up, measured the roof, we discussed the color, he gave me a time frame (had to order the steel). Called me a day or two later, it rained on Monday, the crew showed up on Tuesday, roof was done by 2 PM. He uses Ecuadoreans as opposed to Mexicans.
All my buildings are steel roofed now, 50 year guarantee. Price of steel was higher this year (or he jacked me) according to him. Price was as contracted, no surprises.
Oh, neither the contractor nor the workers had a mask
I wouldn’t.
Depends, Does he have a reputation as a good roofing contractor? Did you get references from people you trust? His score on the Covid Panic/Hoax matrix has as much to do with his roofing qualification as does his take on the deep dish pizza/casserole conundrum.
It’s what we yokels call a red flag.
?
His work might be great, but he just might be a nutter too.
Are you paying him to roof your house or to talk to your dog about jesus?
Since Im a contractor for Kroger, and I work nights, I can say that once 10 pm rolls around and the ‘day shift’ clears out, there’s not a mask worn by any of the employees. Been that way for months.
So, it’s y’all been killing everyone’s granny?
He has broad tastes. It is known.
Sigh… I’m still the only one on the night crew who goes maskless.
So far everyone seems ‘gruntled’. But Im waiting for a dis-gruntled union asshole to call the health dept (or HR) and tell.
But I think they know that everyone else, if forced to mask, would skin them alive behind baler #3.
Went to the orthopedist with my son.
Still Covid crazy in medical offices.
Masks all the time, even if vaccinated. Temperature checks on the way in. Furiously sanitizing everything anyone might have touched despite even the CDC admitting about a year ago that it wasn’t at all necessary or effective.
Same at my neurologist. I’ll go in maskless as I know they will tell me whatever I am wearing is no Bueno, and hand me “approved” one. I figure to make them work for it at least.
“Update: 5/19/21, 2:30 PM: Speaking to Kotaku, Siragusa further elaborated on the series of events leading up to the discovery that Twitch had demonetized her, as well as the extent to which it impacts her financially. In an email, she explained that prior to the removal, she had been making “over $1,000 a day” off ads due, in part, to booming business from the hot tub meta. Then it suddenly dropped to zero.”
She was making $365K a year sitting in a hot tub.
Nice work if you can get it.
*points to comment #3*
NSFW, most likely.
The $365K was just her ad revenue on Twitch. It’s not including her IG, OnlyFans, or anything else. It wouldn’t surprise me if she made over a million a year.
IG is not NSFW. Well, I guess it depends where you work, but they don’t allow nudity.
NTTAWWT. What the hell did she do, vote for Trump?
Advertisers want “brand safe” placements.
Confirms my suspicion that too many advertisers are trenchant morons. This woman’s stream is a freakin’ GOLD MINE.
She could start selling the hot tub water… I hear theres a weird fetish market for that.
Eeeewwww.
Hey I don’t take part in that market, just saying there’s people who do.
Are you telling me that LJW doesn’t stand for Loves Jacuzzi Water?
*hurk*
Look, it’s another one of those wacky libertarians talking. Everyone knows that inflation can’t happen here. The only thing that’s stopping us from printing and spending an unlimited amount of money is these wacko greedy libertarians. Otherwise, we’d all be eating cake all day and everyone would be everyone’s birthday every day.
Its like the minimum wage, really.
At what point does raising the minimum wage cause job loss? Would requiring employers to pay unskilled workers $50 reduce those jobs? How about $25? Etc.
At what point does printing money cause inflation? Would injecting $100 trillion into the economy cause inflation? How about $50 trillion? Etc.
All of our spending so far has never caused uncontrolled inflation, therefore no amount of spending will ever cause uncontrolled inflation.
Yeah, I’m ready for a $1000 minimum wage and 352 paid holidays a year. It’s only paper, you greedy libertarian nut jobs.
And this trillion dollar stuff is getting boring. What’s the next number just add like 100 zeroes on the end of that. Numbers are free, we just make those up! Math isn’t real anyway and it’s racist.
If you can’t afford to pay all your employees at least $1000/hour, your business plan sucks.
Exactly. And then when customers refuse to pay $3000 for your widgets, it’s because of their systemic racism.
$3000/widget? Sounds like the next stimulus bill needs some widget subsidies.
And a mere 90% of that should cover administrative cost.
Ah, I see you were eavesdropping back when I was trying to do an IPO through Lehman Brothers (now known as “The Bank of Evil”).
Seriously! A thousand dollars an hour is forty grand a week for a full time employee. That comes out to just over $2 million a year. Then once everyone is a multi-millionaire we can finally make all those rich bastards pay their fair share in taxes! Paradise awaits!
What’s the next number just add like 100 zeroes on the end of that
Google already did that.
The Philly Fed said the prices-paid component of its monthly manufacturing index rose 7.7 points to 76.8 in May, a big jump for the index and the highest level since March 1980.
And businesses are succeeded in passing along higher costs. The prices-received index rose 6.5 points to 41, the highest level since 1981.
What’s more, businesses have adopted an inflationary mentality, expecting to have the ability to keep raising prices.
The Philly Fed questionnaire asked firms to forecast where there own prices and costs would go. The median forecast was for an increase of 5.0 percent, a big jump from 3.0 percent when the question was last asked in February and more than twice the 2.3 percent price change over the past year.
Companies expect employee compensation costs to rise 4.0 percent over the next four quarters, an increase from 3.0 percent in the previous quarter.
“When asked about the rate of inflation for U.S. consumers over the next year, the firms’ median forecast was 4.0 percent, an increase from 3.0 percent in the previous quarter,” the Philly Fed said. “The firms’ median forecast for the long-run (10-year average) inflation rate was 3.0 percent, the same as in February.”
The survey’s business activity index fell to 31.5 in May from a nearly 50-year high of 50.2 in the prior month. Economists had forecast a milder decline to 45.
The Measure of on new orders fell 3.5 points to 32.5 in May. The shipments index fell 4.3 points to 25.3. The measure on the six-month business outlook fell 13.9 points to 52.7, the regional bank said.
The index of the number of employees fell 11.5 points to 19.3, likely reflective of the difficulty businesses have reported attracting workers.
Unfilled orders surged to 40.4 from 27.2 in the prior month, which could indicate supply-chain challenges.
More here: https://www.philadelphiafed.org/surveys-and-data/regional-economic-analysis/mbos-2021-05
3 %? Per month? Per week? Per day? One of those is right or soon will be
Glorious day in the backyard. Brush is being cleared. Burn pile is going. Hot dogs have been eaten. And glibbing during coffee, er water, breaks.
If SSD wants to trailer his new tractor over here, I can put it to work. There’s cold beer in the fridge for later. Or earlier depending on your personal level of comfort operating power equipment and ope with BAC > 0.
My new life goal. Now I need a go fund me for a hot tub.
Write it off as a business expense.
Why not both?
Obligatory.
That sounds more like a very unfortunate situation after too much Mexican food at the ski resort or something….
(Insert Teen aged Girl “Ewwwww” here).
Better than a hot tub steamer.
Especially in Cleveland.
I thought “streaming ” in the hot tub was frowned upon… you know, unsanitary and all.
Unless one has a UTI, urine is sterile.
Oh, and many parts of a pine tree are edible.
I called this earlier. Murphy was caught flat footed and needed a week so that he could claim progress before finally relenting.
N.J. to drop indoor mask rules, follow CDC guidance before Memorial Day weekend, Murphy to announce
What an absolute jackass.
So… you’re saying that anything that could go wrong in New Jersey, has?
Everything has already went wrong in Joisey, there’s no work left to do.
I’m sure the line about being barely dressed is true, since clothing probably won’t become popular there for about another 40,000 years.
Damnit, that does down a few lines. Where’s the edit fairy? Service has gone to hell around here.
Ya get what you pay for
Who knew?
There’s a country called Eswatini and it has more than 1 million inhabitants.
You might know it by it’s former name Swaziland.
And I bet it’s paradise and everything there is free, right?
Ain’t no doubt about it, they’ve been doubly blessed.
Swaziland. Do you even colonize, bro?
Do they have any cheap orphans for sale? The US orphan supply has become too pricey because of inflation.
They’re shipping them from the border as we speak.
How are their roads ? I need to find a place to retire.
Good enough to walk on.
Hmmm… I wouldn’t mind sipping an eswatini when I get home. Is it better with gin or vodka?
I could even do with a full Eswa.
Gin. The answer to that question is always gin.
It’s probably the answer to many other questions, too.
It’s a Friday, and some things continue such as the Zoom/Happy Hour/Third thing. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern, but will not be available tomorrow to host one, I’ll be out and about.
““I’ll be there faster than a bare-foot jackrabbit on a hot, greasy griddle, in the middle of August!””
She’s the only reason I’ve been a regular viewer of the show for more than 15 years (though I’ll admit a certain degree of pathos-driven affection for Plankton). I’ve always thought she was underutilized and while I haven’t read the article, I gotta figure she must finally have a new agent.
She looks disturbingly like one of my exes.
Speaking of people who spend like there’s no tomorrow
All of our spending so far has never caused uncontrolled inflation, therefore no amount of spending will ever cause uncontrolled inflation.
You’d be shocked how many economists I’ve met who think precisely along these lines. One of the more interesting discussions I’ve had was with regard to Volcker’s breaking of inflation in the late-70s-early-80s means that the Fed knows how to control inflation. I’ve pointed out to them, Volcker did the equivalent of dropping a small thermo-nuclear device on the economy to do that. He didn’t just twist some dial to cool down the economy. And I get the blank stare. Hell, I’ve even had one claim that Volcker beat all inflation forever.
Yeah, of course, this time it’s different.
Then let’s just spend it all right now. I mean fire those presses up. *Krugman heartily agrees, locks Winston’s mum in the back room*.
I wouldn’t be shocked, I’ve seen it too. Something about the velocity of money, blah blah blah. And they were probably right, as long as the increase wasn’t too big, and inflation was small enough for people to not really notice. But now they’re spending trillions at a time. Everything has a breaking point.
Completely unaccounted for is the ongoing but petering out tech “revolution”. A lot of the profligate spending and printing has been masked by exceptional economic conditions. Even the recessions have been narrow in sector and short in duration.
You can get away with a multitude of sins amidst a revolution in efficiency. However, the piper must eventually be paid.
I mean even “transitory” inflation is still harmful. That buying power is most likely lost permanently. And we’ve already had some o’ that.
“Elon Musk says the new Tesla Roadster with the SpaceX package that adds rocket thrusters will go 0 to 60 in 1.1 SECONDS”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9605797/Elon-Musk-says-new-Tesla-Roadster-0-60-1-1-SECONDS-new-SpaceX-package.html
totes street legal
How fast can it get to Mars?
I’m gonna call bullshit.
Warning. Real engineer. Real math
How The Tesla Roadster Rockets Work – 0-60 In One Second?!
TLDW – maybe.
I bet the battery bursts in to flames at about the same speed.
Best to do this in self-drive mode so you can plow into a truck at full acceleration.
A few weeks back, when a BMW plowed into a tunnel entrance pylon on I-94 at about 110 mph and exploded, killing the folks inside, I began to wonder, at what point will the families of those killed sue the car companies because, “given speed limits, car companies should have foreseen that building a car that has no legal reason to go 110 mph would kill people.”
“has no legal reason to go 110 mph would kill people”
You mean like getting some place faster?
No one needs more than 640K!
At least they finally built a good looking car.
I will be genuinely shocked if they put actual rocket engines on a car they sell to the public. This is Elon, Eloning.
“‘We’re back! And we like to hug’: Jen Psaki confirms the White House is returning to normal and is open to more ‘warm and fuzzy’ events”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9606015/Psaki-says-White-House-open-warm-fuzzy-events.html
The hair sniffing had to resume.
Fer chrissake. After their big to-do at the inauguration about mandatory N95s in the White House, nobody has worn a fucking mask (except for PR purposes) in the building.
I got my four miles on the steeper route today.
Yay.
?♂️?
Congrats!
I knew you could do it. What was your time?
Now, increase distance or shorten time. Wish I could join you.
Still 90 minutes.
Friday Funbags redhedz.
https://archive.is/ocJIL
Should we celebrate the Chinese successes in space?
Sure, but you’ll wanna celebrate again in an hour.
“Elon Musk says the new Tesla Roadster with the SpaceX package that adds rocket thrusters will go 0 to 60 in 1.1 SECONDS”
JATO?
That trick never works.
Hell, I’ve even had one claim that Volcker beat all inflation forever.
See, also: “War to end all wars”
A reasonable compromise I can support that should involve no taxpayer $.
https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/2021/05/20/why-wisconsin-senator-wants-rename-fort-bragg-confederate-general-military-base/5167335001/
The only reasonable compromise is to not compromise. You give them this and it’ll be renamed after Ernesto Guevara within 20 years.
This “compromise” means it’s still called “Fort Bragg” because it’s named after his cousin who was a Union General.
Most excellent.
They’ll still find a way to spend a bunch of money on it, though.
Got bored at work today (since I don’t log in to glibs). Read a few pieces at TOS for the hell of it. Good Lord Robby had a bad take here: https://reason.com/2021/05/20/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-denied-tenure-at-unc-chapel-hill/
Hysterically he got royally roasted in the comments.
She’s a shitty historian. No need to drag “politics” into it.
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1395824612810821632
woah
Smoking bad…
How the fuck is this retardism still going on?
They’re all fucking retarded
I hope everyone going along with this shit goes broke and then dies in a fire.
What’s the story, a planted nooses complete hoax or is it a misinterpretation of a rope on a construction site tied into a fucking knot?
After wasting tons of time and millions of dollars, the evidence will be inclusive and we have to stay vigilant about this ‘systemic racism’ and spend even more wasted time and trillions if necessary, regardless.
Ah well, at least Amazon can, and will, pass the expenditures on to their customers.
I’m not clicking on that. Do you have a regular link?
Link for those afraid of intertoobz
The first one was a random piece of rope. The second group was construction workers thinking how bullshit the response to the first one so did some actual ones to fuck with whoever. If the subs are still getting paid when the construction pauses, or rather the subs’ employees are getting paid, the subsequent ones are “I feel like fishing/hunting/drinking/fucking off today”.
“Experts say” “Research shows”
A GOP-led push to decrease financial support for the unemployed could cause millions of Americans to lose their jobless benefits, a new report finds.
In the wake of a disappointing April jobs report, which showed that a mere 266,000 new jobs were created, even with a record high 8.1 million job openings in the economy, 22 states — all with Republican governors — have announced plans to wind down supplemental $300 weekly unemployment benefit payments ahead of the program’s scheduled end in September.
An analysis released this week from Oxford Economics paints a grim picture about the results of those actions: A total of around 3.5 million workers will lose that supplemental funding. Since most of those states also plan to discontinue other pandemic-triggered expanded unemployment programs for gig workers and those who had exhausted regular state benefits, roughly 2.5 million would lose access to unemployment payments entirely. The impact would be on the order of $8 billion a month for the remaining duration of the benefit expansion.
Governors curtailing these programs before the scheduled Sept. 6 expiration date have said they are doing so because businesses in their states are struggling to find workers. Labor economists reject this line of thinking, disputing the idea that roughly $1,200 a month is enough inducement to keep people home in the face of ongoing health and caregiving hurdles.
That’s it, then. “Labor economists” reject this line of thinking. It is impossible to refute that.
disputing the idea that roughly $1,200 a month is enough inducement to keep people home in the face of ongoing health and caregiving hurdles.
Being that $1,200/month is close to minimum wage and is a supplement on top of regular unemployment, well, yeah, I can see someone making near minimum wage staying home for base + $1,200.
Twelve hundred per month and you get to mash ass and chill all day or get out of bed and make minimum wage but be required to bust your ass. Apparently the labor economists don’t understand incentives correctly.
Exactly what “ongoing health and caregiving hurdles”?
There is direct evidence from countless studies to dispute this.
If that doesn’t float your boat, I myself was on unemployment as a young man and deliberately delayed my reemployment until the checks ran out. Unemployment was less then. Therefore, unemployment indisputably encourages people to be unemployed by at least a magnitude of one.
Make it two. When I was unemployed for a couple months twenty years ago, I landed some on-call part-time work. I conveniently didn’t answer my phone sometimes because over a certain amount, it would reduce my unemployment benefits which were enough to cover my minimalist life back then and I didn’t feel like working that day. Never refused to work or accept an offer so was compliant with the letter of the benefits law.
Yup. I know lots of people with these stories.
The beauty of the preposterous claim that unemployment benefits don’t encourage unemployment is you don’t even need to know about economic or incentives.
Everyone who has never lived in an ivory tower probably knows first hand.
Damn. I wish the snow would stop.
“‘Out of control’: Organized crime drives S.F. shoplifting, closing 17 Walgreens in five years”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Out-of-control-Organized-crime-drives-S-F-16175755.php
That’s what happens when you legalize shoplifting.
?
Narrator: The vast majority of the latter are professional thieves, too.
Who among us, in our youth, didn’t cop a comic book off the spinner by the door.? Or a 60 inch smart TV when someone accidentally left a window open.?
I shoplifted candy and comic books when I was around 13. I didn’t even try to con my mom with the “we’re poor” excuse.
I shoplifted porn when it wasn’t legal for me to buy it.
If only this Japanese HS dance club knew the whole backstory to the Village People and YMCA.
https://youtu.be/GAj3EV1ikPM
I love the tepid, polite applause, as though some kid just hammered out Chopsticks on piano.
Pardon the presumption – Asking for a friend.
…and offering some songs in return.
…and just found out a mutual friend is going to try to organize a benefit for her, so we’re putting the band back together for the occasion!
SW OH Glibs, stay tuned for shameless promotion when the organizer has worked out the deets.
“Academy kicks off Transgender Working Group, hopes to achieve a smooth rollout of new @WhiteHouse and @DeptofDefense policy.”
https://twitter.com/AF_Academy/status/1395072007075733515
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/hfr4mySxRyeqSEv-s1FWpA.FKI25NLGG7t3ZnIbgWWLjJ
Getting ready for tomorrow.
AR took almost 30 minutes.
AK took 5 minutes. Is AK, will be fine. Prep time included changing optic batteries.
Don’t you just have to hose down an AK and it’s good to go again?
I douse mine with hot water from the tea kettle to rinse out corrosive primers. Close enough.
C’mon, man, no one needs an assault rifle, let alone two. Probably has a thing that goes up plus the magnifying glass on top.
“This looks pretty straightforward, right? But according to experts, the trick to getting the right answer is to ensure you solve the problem in the right order.
Mathematicians say the key to solving it is to read it as 8 + ((2 x 4) / 2).
Can you solve the problem?”
Mathematical expressions should use parentheses or Polish or Reverse-Polish notation or some such to remove ambiguity.
Don’t come in here throwing around your imperial whiteness. Bigot.
Math is racist.
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