I’m going to get the really bad one out of the way…
Just shy of her 16th birthday, Alana Thompson, a public high schooler, is saving to buy her first car, has dreams of being a neonatal nurse, and is trying to get straight A’s. She works after school and on weekends, and spends time going to the pool and the mall with her sister and niece.
But the work she’s doing isn’t typical. She works as a reality television star, and has been doing so since she was just a toddler. And she’d like people, including her peers at school who exclaimed “Oh, it’s Honey Boo Boo!” when she started there, to understand the name she’s known for is not her name: “My mama did not name me Honey Boo Boo. My name is Alana.”
Sixteen is a stark split in teenagerdom, one that comes with the potential for driver’s licenses, the end of high school finally in sight, and what feels like a line between your childhood and young adulthood. But for Alana, whose birthday is August 28, the ties between the past and present are tighter, and more documented, than most. Amid discourse on how we talk about teenage girls, particularly those who have a level of cultural presence and celebrity power that renders it too easy to think of them as icons or examples rather than human beings, is Alana.
Have you noticed they love the word “icon?” Let the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon wash over you and you will see the word everywhere, being defined down to meaninglessness.
Honey-Boo-Boo is not an icon of anything except maybe Metabolic Syndrome X.
VP Kamala Harris lays flowers at Sen. John McCain's memorial site, where his Navy aircraft was shot down in Hanoi, Vietnam, on the 3-year anniversary of his death.
? Evelyn Hockstein / AP pic.twitter.com/u1zZlmPONg
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 25, 2021
Biden’s Palin visits Palin’s Biden. Much presidential. So solemn. Wow.
Personal update: Last night, while throwing up, my obese cat clearly said the words HAL HOLBROOK.
These Witches Are Trying to Hex the Taliban
The digital coven is small, fewer than 50 members, but it’s earnestly working towards helping Afghans through a mixture of donations and spellwork. In the aftermath of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, a group of witches decided to gather online to fight against the group and help Afghans. Motherboard agreed to grant anonymity to several moderators in the group’s Discord because they feared targeted harassment campaigns.
It’s not just digital attacks the witches are worried about. A stickied post in a channel on the Discord acts as a kind of mission statement for the group. “As you are all aware, Afghanistan is in a very dire situation and many of us are preparing rituals and performing incantations to help alleviate the human suffering that is occuring there,” the post said. “The Taliban, as horribly as they’ve shown themselves to be, are very spiritually aware and they routinely take steps to dispel, ward off, and weaken magick. They have indications and rituals of their own which can at the very least neutralize us—at worst can cause damage to our spiritual selves.”
Their concerns against online harassment, at least, are warranted. The group initially formed on August 17 on the /r/BewitchTheTaliban subreddit. Within hours of the group starting, trolls and shitposters flooded the subreddit. A post from the user u/dumbest_bitch went viral. “Do NOT face Allah alone when Astral projecting,” the post began. “He is so fucking powerful. I’m not at a power level to do this alone. I barely escaped from my life and I’m spiritually injured to a great amount, but I think I’ll make it.”
People on Twitter and other social media platforms posted and reposted dumbest_bitch’s post, intimating that it was representative of naive magickal practitioners out of touch with reality. The moderators of /r/BetwitchTheTaliban banned dumbest_bitch and the poster apologized. “My post is not meant to be taken seriously. I’m not a witch. I have no involvement with any of it. I thought it was kind of obvious that it was a joke but I now realize that the original purpose of the sub was not satirical,” dumbest_bitch said on Reddit. “Anyways, I was really not expecting some obscure ass subreddit to get this much attention, let alone my post.”
I love upbeat pop songs about horrible things.
I went into the hexing the taliban subreddit and “hexed” some people. They got really mad. I loved it. I am wasting my life.
The hex subreddit is closed. I think it’s been replaced by a non-binary subreddit.
Is that a joke?Laugh:don’t laugh;
You get an FF.
That will improve my GPA!
“The hex subreddit is closed.”
Are you saying they 56’d it?
RU-1E6?
Ha! I think I used that (dec) as a story title.
How many of their mods were part of the “Hex Trump” subreddit?
“In short, Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is a frequency bias. You notice something new, at least it’s new to you. It could be a word, a breed of dog, a particular style of house, or just about anything. Suddenly, you’re aware of that thing all over the place.”
In the Erisian Archives is an old memo from Omar to Mal-2: “I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look.”
I thought it was a gang.
A terrorist hard-left gang in Germany in the 70s, yes. The phenomenon is named after them.
Huh. Didn’t realize that.
I prefer Brian Jonestown Massacre’s response song.
I can’t believe that the first time I watched Dig! in 2008 I thought that the Dandy Warhols were the good guys.
Ah yes, the twue fight between the two tweest cities on the left coast.
“Personal update: Last night, while throwing up, my obese cat clearly said the words HAL HOLBROOK.”
You or the cat was throwing up?
He was just throwing you some evening shade.
^Clearly not a cat owner.
My cat sounds like this
I never had a cat, but apparently I’m the person that cats that who hate everyone likes.
It was the cat. I’m really more of a spontaneous nosebleed guy.
“rusty pipes”
Will this meeting ever end?
/still at work might have gone to purgatory.
If it never ends, it’s that other place, not purgatory.
Albany?
Oh they’re wrapping up. I’ll get to
go homeget stuck in rush hour traffic soon.Good News!
Governess Kathy has determined that the reason the anti-sexual harassment training didn’t work on Andy is because he just clicked through the online training without bothering to let it soak in.
Therefore, all state workers must take that training in person from a live instructor! Won’t that be great?
“Show me where I’m not allowed to touch”
Sorry. I just want to get this right. So, I should NOT come up from behind and smack your ass, or grab your boobs? Is that correct? Can we go over that again?
I’m just thinking of Times up for the Gang from It’s Always Sunny.
I see the Check from Sexual Harassment, Inc. cleared.
She must have a cousin who runs those sorts of seminars.
And we taxpayers get raped up the ass to pay for it.
That’s part of the training.
It didn’t work on him because he was of the opinion that rules are for little people.
OFFS, seriously?
Can we have Andy back now? I am not liking what’s coming from the chick already.
#metoo
My meeting is finally over.
John McCain’s memorial site, where his Navy aircraft was shot down in Hanoi, Vietnam
Why is this a thing?
“I like people who didn’t get captured”
We didn’t deserve him.
Antifa VN hasn’t gotten around to tearing it down yet?
There are so many locations where John McCain had crashed a plane it’s hard to choose.
Cynical me suspects she just picked some random green spot.
While her Vietnamese counter-parts snicker beneath their masks
“We told her it was John McCain crash site, it was actually Ho Chi Minh birth site.”
The Tomb of Baby Ho Chi Minh
The left sure loved that asshole.
I don’t see the tail of an A-4 sticking out of the ground. Any wreckage left from the reverse-ace’s other crashes?
I bet it’s a celebration, not a memorial.
Seriously, what if Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katō went to Pearl Harbor to lay a wreath for IJN pilots shot down there?
Yep
https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/monument_details.php?SiteID=38&MemID=76
Tumor Appreciation Day!
Since it’s a Teen Vogue link, I’m assuming the article details Honey Boo Boo’s anal preparation ritual and favorite lube?
You have clearly learned not to click SugarFree’s links.
Like a woman at a public restroom, I have learned to hover.
Although there’s some stiff competition, I’m awarding NA the [golf clap] for the thread.
I feel sorry for her. Her parents are messed up and growing up on tv does not make for good mental health.
Yup. And someone hasn’t advised her that the best thing should could possibly do right now is become anonymous, instead of doing the opposite of that.
She’s a drama queen. Born or made, I don’t know, but she adores attention. No chance anyone could talk that girl into anonymity.
“As you are all aware, Afghanistan is in a very dire situation and many of us are preparing rituals and performing incantations to help alleviate the human suffering that is occuring there,” the post said. “The Taliban, as horribly as they’ve shown themselves to be, are very spiritually aware and they routinely take steps to dispel, ward off, and weaken magick. They have indications and rituals of their own which can at the very least neutralize us—at worst can cause damage to our spiritual selves.”
/backs out of room
Incantate in one hand, shit in the other, and see which hand fills up first.
I see you’re an initiate of Faeculum Mysterium.
Last night, while throwing up, my obese cat clearly said the words HAL HOLBROOK.
At least it wasn’t saying “Long Johnson…”
“Long Johnson”. Was that in the director’s cut of Blazing Saddles?
Inject this into my veins: Woke Fragility – The weak leading the weak
Good read, thanks.
Nice. Thanks for posting. Gives me some hope when im starting to really doubt the people in this country.
Don’t bother with the student debt, that will be forgiven. You might want to think about the mortgage and car loan, however. I’m not sure the money you earn while going to college will cover that.
I mean.. it’s an idea and I know it is crazy, but maybe…you know, put off your dream a bit, do some leg work for some grants/scholarships and save some money and then you know…don’t get a student loan?
Wait ’til she finds out what a used car goes for these days. Thanks, cash for clunkers.
What did Mama June do with all that sweet sweet TLC money?
Ate it
Ho Hos by the pallet.
Lessons from Georgia
Georgia (the ex-Soviet Republic, not the U.S. state) is now a remarkable success story.
Its economy is growing at 5% per year, and the country ranks ahead of the United States in economic freedom.
Yet, 20 years ago, Georgia was even more miserably poor than the rest of the former Soviet Union.
So, what can America and the rest of the world learn from Georgia’s progress?
A lot, says my executive producer Maxim Lott. He’s spent the past several months in Georgia and made a StosselTV video about it.
I must be misremembering. Didn’t they get reconquered over South Ossetia?
They effectively lost two provinces.
The Russians, best and kindest of neighbors, merely ripped that chunk off the country, leaving the rump to survive. Kind of a mini-Ukraine.
Dunno if those two provinces were full of former Russians “re-settled” there by Stalin, but if so, sounds like Georgia came out ahead.
There are very few Russians in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Apparently the locals there didn’t consider themselves sufficiently Georgian.
All they are asking for is some living space.
Military study of that country I did in the late ’90s…
Something like 85 ethnic enclaves with various languages and alphabets.
At that time Abkhazia was the most contentious of the enclaves.
South Ossetia is a off-spur of the Russian Chechen problem, so I think the Russians conquered that region for feeding the Chechen insurgency.
There’s plenty of hostility toward free markets among privileged Americans who’ve never heard Soviet propaganda.
erm…. beg to differ on the “never heard Soviet propaganda” part.
The video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88vXJzkvr8Y
The lesson – Don’t trust anyone from the American State Department.
“Sixteen is a stark split in teenagerdom, one that comes with the potential for driver’s licenses, the end of high school finally in sight, and what feels like a line between your childhood and young adulthood.”
I thought that line was moved to age 26.
No for girls its still 16 so we don’t feel bad when we give the male gaze.
Speaking of the male gaze, we had a batch of new grad nurses join us a couple weeks ago. Shame about the masks, but, hey, scrubs.
Went to my daughter’s freshman orientation thing the other night. They had a pep rally of sorts in the gym. We sat in the front row with the cheerleaders performing about 8 feet in front of us. I kept my head down because it was so awkward.
^^^ My wife goes into a giggle fit cause she knows what I am doing.
Good for you. At least you were still looking at them, right?
Patent Leather shoes?
Is this you?
Wake up, girls!
This is how you get Godzilla.
The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant said Wednesday it plans to build an undersea tunnel so that massive amounts of treated but still radioactive water can be released into the ocean about 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) away from the plant to avoid interference with local fishing.
The operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, said it hopes to start releasing the water in spring 2023. TEPCO says hundreds of storage tanks at the plant need to be removed to make room for facilities necessary for the plant’s decommissioning.
An official in charge of the water discharge project, Junichi Matsumoto, said TEPCO will construct the undersea tunnel by drilling through bedrock in the seabed near its No. 5 reactor, which survived the meltdowns at the plant, to minimize possible underground contamination or leakage of radioactive ground water into the tunnel.
Since the tunnel is being built to transport radioactive water, why do they care if radioactive ground water leaks into the tunnel? Wouldn’t that actually be a good thing?
From dedthred regarding rentals:
Rents are going up here, quite sharply, but there are also 4x as many rentals available as there were several months ago. Those are staying on Zillow upwards of 2-3 months before they are rented.
I’m not really sure what to make of it. High rent, but many properties, not renting for 2-3 months. I don’t know what that says.
If those numbers are accurate, a correction is coming.
Well, that’s what I keep thinking and that is not what I’m seeing…yet.
In my zip code and the neighboring one (to keep us in the high school XY is in), there are 31 properties of 3BR/2BA all $1500 and up to $2100. All houses/duplexes, no apartments. The $1500 properties (duplexes) were $1000-$1200 last year. This is a fairly small swath of land.
Once people latch onto a number, they can be irrational about letting it go. After the Big Dump of ’08, there were people who were still listing at pre-Dump prices for a couple of years.
If I owned rental property I would just eat the costs and turn down applicants and/or just not list it at this point. You ain’t gonna get the money for rent most likely so….eat the cost with no one living there (or a good friend watching it) or have some squaters live there and trash it with no consequence.
I’m hoping this plays in my favor when negotiating terms for the next lease period.
I think for people that demonstrate solid financials you have the upper hand. Landlords are salivating at having that income actually coming in from responsible persons.
We have a rental that’s vacant right now, and we’re not in any hurry to get a tenant in it. We don’t want to risk it until this eviction moratorium crap is resolved.
In similar news, we’re looking at maybe buying a small beach house as a rental, but I’m not sure now is the time. If there’s a correction, I sure don’t want to buy beforehand.
I’m so glad I dumped my previous house at a loss. I was going to rent it out. A guy that I had do repair work for me for the sale said he had couple Section 8 homes he rented. He said, don’t do it.
If I were to rent out a place now, it would be prepaid for six months minimum. You wouldn’t get many offers, but it’s worth a try. If I sell my house in this inflated market, I’d prepay six months.
That, we are prepared to do.
I’d do it if required. At a discount, of course.
My sister prepaid a full year of rent to get the place she moved into this summer.
Some states are providing rent payback to the landlords on behalf of tenants. Maybe that might play into the pricing. Might as well jack up the price.
I haven’t looked deeply into it, but I understand there are significant strings attached to landlords who accept that money.
There’s a house just down the street from me that is a rental. The previous tenants moved out a few months ago. My wife tells me the previous renters were paying $1600/month. The new tenant is paying $2200/month. It only had a for rent sign for about 2 weeks. This is for a house that is approximately 50 years old and probably 1500 square feet. I don’t know how people afford to rent at that rate.
We thought about it for our house. Rents for houses in the area are going for 2500+. 20 year old homes, ~1700sqft but schools rate high and its a cul-de-sac. We just don’t want to be stiffed when someone claims hardship.
I was paying close to that for a one bedroom 10 years ago. 700 sqft and spectacular view on the 19th floor. I shudder to think what it’s going for now.
In Hawaii in 2013, I was paying $1300 for about 500-600sf on the 20th floor about a mile from base. Worked fine for a short tour – used an air mattress for 18 mos. Great view too.
Saved a ton on BAH and COLA too.
Market failure. The properties need to be seized from the hoarders and redistributed to the people who need homes.
JFC Cuomo was terrible. NYS hardest hit.
https://apnews.com/article/andrew-cuomo-health-coronavirus-pandemic-7312b49695e726eda8d59848e82271c5
Not to say Cuomo wasn’t horrible, but I don’t trust any of the numbers. This is a case of rats scurrying to leave the sinking ship. Where were all these lowlifes while Cuomo was still in power?
“Transparency will be the hallmark of my administration.”
She stole my campaign slogan. I’m suing.
“We’ve investigated ourselves and found that we did nothing wrong.”
USCP’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) determined the officer’s conduct was lawful and within Department policy, which says an officer may use deadly force only when the officer reasonably believes that action is in the defense of human life, including the officer’s own life, or in the defense of any person in immediate danger of serious physical injury.
The officer in this case, who is not being identified for the officer’s safety, will not be facing internal discipline.
This officer and the officer’s family have been the subject of numerous credible and specific threats for actions that were taken as part of the job of all our officers: defending the Congress, Members, staff and the democratic process.
The actions of the officer in this case potentially saved Members and staff from serious injury and possible death from a large crowd of rioters who forced their way into the U.S. Capitol and to the House Chamber where Members and staff were steps away. USCP Officers had barricaded the Speaker’s Lobby with furniture before a rioter shattered the glass door. If the doors were breached, the rioters would have immediate access to the House Chambers. The officer’s actions were consistent with the officer’s training and USCP policies and procedures.
Sounds like that horse has left the barn. His name has been public for months.
If Ashli Babbit had been my sister, I would not be making a single threat.
^^^[Redacted]^^^
“Capitol cop who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on January 6 WILL reveal his identity for the first time during interview with NBC’s Lester Holt tomorrow night”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9926785/Capitol-cop-shot-Ashli-Babbitt-reveal-identity-interview-NBC-tomorrow-night.html
Let me guess:
“You are so brave to kill that horrible Trump supporter!”
This guy gets a hero’s tour, but Kyle Rittenhouse is still awaiting trial. What a fucked up society we are.
I have been simmering some black beans with some bacon lard, onions and roasted hatch chilis for quite a bit today and the pleasant aroma is driving me mad. That will be used alongside some smoked brisket chopped up, guacamole and crema tacos for later. I was hoping for fresh corn but alas, my garden was hammered with our 110+ days this year. Herbs and onions and non-producing tomato plants only survived.
OMG, that sounds delicious.
Wife has some black beans simmering in the crockpot, but the aroma is being overrun by the chicken stock I’m making. Smells so damn delicious in here!
Yeah day after shopping day I take advantage of WFH and break down my chickens and other meats and make whatever stocks/broths I need. The mushroom stock actually makes me the most hungry. – Shut it Tonio
Fromunda cheese?
VP Kamala Harris lays flowers at Sen. John McCain’s memorial site, where his Navy aircraft was shot down in Hanoi, Vietnam, on the 3-year anniversary of his death.
Wouldn’t a John McCain “memorial” in Vietnam pretty much be celebrating his capture and imprisonment as a war criminal?
Memorializing his work as a US Senator undermining the United States.
Well, what else are they going to tell you? That your first positive test was in error and you never actually had the ‘vid?
Yep..with some companies and states implementing the alternative of getting tested twice weekly, this is going to get really interesting on the false-positive/negative front.
Notice what is impossible to find?
The false positive/false negative rate for PCR tests.
They are safe and effective tests…what more do you need to know?
I prefer to use “failing” a PCR test, the same way an athlete fails a doping test, considering the ostracism that accompanies such a PCR test result.
You mean like the fact we’ve had pro players supposed get the ‘vid multiple times?
my infection was brief and mild because of the vaccination
Or because the tests are horseshit.
It’s not a memorial to John McCain, it’s a war memorial commemorating the shooting-down of a US Airman. The purpose of erecting it was not to honor him.
Nah. TMITE says it was to honor him. Besides, Kamala has a crack PR team to keep her from doing something so stupid as to honor an AMerican being shot down.
LEAVE KAYLEIGHBURROW ALONE!
LEAVE KAYLEIGHBURROW ALONE!
I thought I was the only one smitten with her/he/it/thing
I saw somewhere that the translation of the text on the memorial is:
Apparently, McCain himself once visited the memorial in a photo op perhaps intended as an olive branch offer to Vietnam.
It’s likely it was originally intended as a monument to the shoot-down, but over time its meaning may have evolved.
I don’t know how a monument to a plane being shot down in a foreign country can somehow convert to a memorial/celebration of the pilot.
“We shot down and captured one of the foreigners killing us” becomes “Yay, for this foreigner who was killing us”?
She truly is genuinely stupid.
My thoughts exactly. People don’t erect statues to people they believe illegally bombed their women and children (I’m not trying to claim that belief is right, only that it is their belief).
Don’tbe evil.Don’tuse 1984 as an instruction manual.https://zyppy.com/googlespeak/
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-public-health-doctor-says-ontario-vax-passport-coming-soon-as-ford-still-says-no/wcm/b5afbf06-13b4-46ae-8cc7-db345b347c13/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
What a shock…
Interesting to see how unions working at Delta react to this. Can fatties and smokers be far behind?
Unions probably signed off on it with some backroom deals, though this probably falls under management rights unless their healthcare was negotiated.
Even if its under management rights in their contract, the union can still call a strike if they want.
I know. General feeling around ATC, controllers and techs, the forced mandate that is yet to hit us in the field will be interesting. Controllers will do a sick-out when they don’t get what they want.
uh-oh, they better hope that Biden doesn’t need some shoring-up of his reputation and pulls a Reagan at that.
Malicious compliance is something they are very good at.
If I had been paying dues to a union who didn’t stop this bullshit, the first thing I’d do is stop paying those dues. That would be step 1 in clawing that money back.
I’d also decide that I had some extra fuckoff time coming my way. Sure, fine me $200, I’m going to show up a half hour late every day from now on.
I would but our ‘window’ to stop dues is in March…then again, if I am sacked for not getting the vax, they lose the money anyway.
I’ll have to make this a little vague…received an e-mail yesterday informing me that a group of students (undergrad I believe) in a health-related field and a professor in a field that’s not even close to medicine will be holding an event (with free food!) this week to present to explain the facts about vaccines. Now, do whatever you want but, given the make up of the presenting group, it’s regurgitating news articles about vaccines with which you already agree. I’m pretty sure no one in that group has the skill set to explain anything.
The last I heard, Delta has only two unions: Pilots and Controllers. The overwhelming majority are not unionized.
Many employers already do for tobacco use. I wouldn’t be surprised if Delta was one of them.
Uffda. Tundra gave up on Minnesoda too quickly.
The People want to convert a golf course into a sex forest!
Please tell me that’s satire.
They are just trying to steal the thunder from Burning Man
Everywhere it’s freaks and hairies, dykes and fairies…
Sisters? We’re close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2qpklxK478
Ya know, I’m starting the appeal of the Taliban.
Paglia called this a while ago. It all ends up with the barbarians taking over.
Nuke it from orbit.
I used to play that course, though. Nice place. No freaks back then.
“criminals and normies,” the manifesto states. “No single group will be in charge of the sex forest”
Yeah right, methinks the criminals will be in charge and quick.
“The Fighting Irish are fighting back after Notre Dame’s famed leprechaun mascot was voted one of the most ‘offensive’ in modern-day college sports.
The green-clad mascot, along with the school’s logo that includes a leprechaun in a fighting pose, was voted the fourth-most offensive mascot in the country, according to a survey conducted by Quality Logo Products Blog.
Officials from the university in South Bend, Indiana, which has won 13 college football championships, quickly fired back.
Pluck of the Irish: Notre Dame bites back after its leprechaun mascot is deemed one of the most ‘offensive’ in college sports
A survey by Quality Logo Products listed Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish leprechaun as the fourth-most offensive college football team mascot in the nation
After the results were shared, a representative from Notre Dame wrote a statement to defend its use of the leprechaun
The top three most offensive mascots were all considered culturally insensitive to Native Americans
Professional NFL and MLB teams have have also been under fire for using Native American monikers
By Alastair Talbot For Dailymail.Com
Published: 15:25 EDT, 25 August 2021 | Updated: 16:03 EDT, 25 August 2021
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The Fighting Irish are fighting back after Notre Dame’s famed leprechaun mascot was voted one of the most ‘offensive’ in modern-day college sports.
The green-clad mascot, along with the school’s logo that includes a leprechaun in a fighting pose, was voted the fourth-most offensive mascot in the country, according to a survey conducted by Quality Logo Products Blog.
Officials from the university in South Bend, Indiana, which has won 13 college football championships, quickly fired back.
‘Our symbols stand as celebratory representations of a genuine Irish heritage at Notre Dame,’ the school said. ‘A heritage that we regard with respect, loyalty and affection.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9926315/Notre-Dame-defends-Fighting-Irish-leprechaun-mascot-survey-offensive.html
Can I also through the Vikings and their historical inaccuracies of horns on helmets into the ring?
Sorry, about that.
Edit fairy, please help.
The problem is that the Irish no longer fight.
See Ireland right now…
/throws back a pint
“You take that back!”
https://brownstone.org/articles/plexiglass-nation/
I find this type of article rather fascinating. After decades of denying that America has any real cracks under the surface it turns it does and it results in changes you do not like.
Also it fascinating seeing people who worship change and call anyone who complains about social, cultural and technological changes as bigoted reactionaries discover that Western society has in fact changed in a very significant way but in a way they do not like and they complain about being treated as a bigoted reactionary for not liking those changes.
Actually there has been plenty of
fearmongeringstorytelling on the topic.“I know so many — whether it is artists, storytellers, journalists — who tell me they really want to write about [the climate crisis], they really want to make stories about this, report about this, make movies about it, make art about this, but that they don’t really have that support in order to do that,” Thunberg insisted.
The 18-year-old then went on to say that she believes “there’s a big lack of storytelling when it comes to the climate crisis, whether it is fictional or whether it is reflecting the reality as it looks like today.”
“I think if we would start writing about this, if we were making stories about this, I think there would be a demand on for that. We underestimate interest in the climate crisis,” Thunberg said.
Most of it is.
It’s a shame these people can’t get the attention of anyone — anyone! — in academia, entertainment, politics, corporate boardrooms, etc. A lone, stifled cry in the wilderness. Humanity will regret ignoring these noble soothsayers.
WTF? They shoehorn that shit into everything. Go to google news, and at any given moment there will be several articles that mention climate change, or are specifically about it.
Right?! Almost every Earth-based science fiction book I’ve read in the last forty years is set either during or after a klimate krisis.
Fallen Angels came out quite a while ago.
https://www.econlib.org/the-big-deal-about-masks/
It’s not just Jeff Tucker either…
“Suppose humanity could eliminate all disease by wearing bags over our heads forever”
Tie the bags tight enough and yes, all diseases from humans would be removed; or rather the disease that is humanity will be removed from the world.
You guys go ahead; I’ll catch up in about 10 minutes.
POL POT LIVES!
Remember Dr. Zelenko who saved many covid patients? He’s been chased off of all censored media outlets so now he says whatever he wants on Gab. I find myself reading his posts with an Eastern European / Yiddish accent.
“The NIH still recommends against prehospital care with Hcq and Azithromycin for covid-19.
I accuse the NIH of crimes against humanity, mass murder, academic fraud, and pandering to the pharmaceutical industry and the Blood lust of the liberal agenda and globalist psychopaths”
https://gab.com/ZZ611/posts/106813535357109679
He’s not wrong.
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2021/08/25/white-house-in-damage-control-mode-as-bidens-constant-lateness-becomes-a-big-problem-n432624
White House communications director Kate Bedingfield had the gawl (sic) to tell MSNBC that Biden “never shies away from taking questions.”
I am glad to see some outlets raising questions, but I think they are just throwing crumbs. I don’t buy into they are turning on him.
If they are turning it will be either because they have no more use for him and/or they want Kamala…
I don’t buy into they are turning on him.
The internal factional knife fights haven’t resolved, so they don’t know which faction will win. Without knowing who to suck up to, they don’t know who to turn on, either.
He’s always late because he keeps shitting his pants and they have to change him. They could just not feed him, but that would piss off Dr. Jilly.
Jack Posobiec keeps dropping rumors that a lot of these decisions: stay at Camp David, don’t budge on Aug 31, etc are coming from Jill. Of course, he is a rabble rouser.
I’m guessing the Golden Toilet is getting quite a workout recently.
Not chilling speech at all
As ever, Twitter confirms that my opinion of humanity cannot be too low. The consensus of replies seems to be “If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.”
Also, “these guys aren’t reporters” (presumably because they aren’t employed by “preferred” media outlets). Fuck your free speech, you aren’t licensed to speak.
Nice lynx, SF.
I’m gonna establish dominance the next time someone yawns. I’ll report back.
I really want to hate the DWs, but they can craft some fine songs. Thanks!
I went into my backyard this afternoon, and saw a pair potentially damaging insects.
I was forced to make a binary choice.
Great scene in Master and Commander.
Dad jokes never good out of style.
Should have put a hex on them.
https://reason.com/volokh/2021/08/24/our-new-article-on-vaccine-passports-as-a-constitutional-right/
I used to have a lot more respect for Volokh. Based on that clip, he takes it as read that the government has unlimited power to impose public health restrictions, and the only interesting question is whether the government is obligated to give exemptions to certain people. That’s basically the exact opposite of what Constitutional analysis should be.
I can’t make head or tails out of that quote. But yes, it reeks of that.
You’ll need it for everything except voting.
Reason’s penchant for technocracy shows its ass again.
The assumption here is that the government has the authority to restrict all of those things that the vaccinated are exempted from under his proposal.
Way to stand up for liberty there bud. Have fun sucking Fauci’s cock forever.
I just got the news. I officially have the Vid, I’ve felt like I’ve had a mild hangover on top of a bad hay fever day since Saturday and lost all sense of smell so I don’t think it’s a false positive. I hope my test results won’t be the case that throws us into the next wave of bullshit restrictions. Also, I got the jab so I’ll be fine, of course I’m also the epitome of youth and fitness so I was probably going to be fine anyway.
Farewell! We will miss you!
(Get better soon!)
But hope you feel better soon too!
If you’d only worn a mask 24/7 however…
GlibFit cures the ‘vid!. Srlsy, hope you’re feeling better soon.
That vax is the best.
Which one did you get?
Oh, yeah, BTW: Get well soon!
J and J, but then I went to a super-spreader event two weekends ago, thousands of unmasked closely packed people with no protocol for insuring attendees were vaxxed. I knew I shouldn’t have gone to West Virginia.
Got the vax.
Got the ‘vid.
Coincidence?
I thought you got da shot?
Also, I got the jab
And hope you are on the mend Hyp.
Can I have your Kinks albums once you’re gone?
They’re CD’s but sure, as long as you also take my Weezer collection.
Well, at least you won’t have to taste mustard pizza for a while.
Sorry. Get well soon!
Are you sure you’re not just being hyperbolic?
Better get that booster shot!
Feel better soon.
“I’m also the epitome of youth and fitness so I was probably going to be fine anyway.”
I can’t argue with that.
People still have a sense of humor. College Hunks – Hauling Junk, contact us at collegehunks.com
Contacting now to pick up my fridge.
I think it’s a franchise. We’ve used them here in NJ.
Yeah they are..I just enjoy a good turn or phrase so they will get my business…of course my wife is requesting they come when she is home…should I question that?
Work safe.
Gerard Sampler – Debbie Does Dallas performed by Ilya Sinyugin (70’s porn music) (bass cover)
Yeah, I’ve heard of them. I was actually thinking recently that I want someone to remove a bunch of junk. Old computers, AC’s, things like that which is not worth my time to do myself.
This better not be false advertising.
“Hey, would like to see my junk?”
*takes notes*
Junk Yard Dogs is another franchise. I used them because their price was better than College Hunks’.
My two-week bucket list Maho Bay planespotting cruise for my 50th bday next year got cancelled by the cruise line. Apparently they’re having positioning issues (phrasing?).
It will probably be Hawaii, possibly on a cruise, possibly flying out.
Hawaii might be a problem.
https://nypost.com/2021/08/25/hawaii-governor-tells-tourists-not-to-visit-amid-covid-surge/
This shit has to end, right?
Oh sure. A couple of weeks. Public health authorities are just making sure hospitals aren’t overwhelmed.
“Flatten
the curveeverything”No big deal, tourism isn’t a big industry there.
That sucks. Sorry to hear that it got cancelled!
Why so far in advance, though?
Why so far in advance, though?
Cause we need the people to hurt and suffer to do what we want.
I think their ships are scattered far and wide (Holland America sails all around the world, and the particular ship for our trip got stuck in Asia), and they can’t get them serviced and back on their scheduled routes in time? Not sure how these things work.
Probably insane protocols in place too, so turn around is nowhere near what it used to be.
Sometimes it is hard to line up a cruise ship, even in the widest of berths.
SEA SMITH LINE UP CRUISE SHIP. WIDE BERTH GOOD!
Hitler tries to contact Joe Biden on Afghanistan
*golf clap*
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/pennsylvania/wolf-asks-pa-legislature-for-law-mandating-masks-in-classrooms/article_984634b0-05d0-11ec-b519-c7b0e9aad54e.html
Hey Tom, get fucked.
The problem is no one is standing up and saying “HEY ASSHOLES…your kids can wear a diaper if they want”
By get fucked, you mean ASS-RAPED BY STEVE SMITH UNTIL RAPESQUATCH SPOOGE COMES OUT OF HIS EARS, right? RIGHT?
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/pennsylvania/articles/2021-08-25/pennsylvania-allows-opioid-emergency-declaration-to-lapse
Hey Tom, get fucked.
May he meet the fate of this wolf
In later versions, a
woodcutterwoodchipper comes to the rescue and cuts open the wolf. Little Red and her grandmother emerge unharmed. They fill the wolf’s body with stones, and when he tries to flee, the stones cause him to collapse and die.There, that’s better.
He can’t just issue imperial decrees like Murphy?
https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-health-coronavirus-pandemic-government-and-politics-f5ce447986a26cca310a6639de37b5ce
“Pennsylvania voters became the first in the nation to curb their governor’s emergency powers, approving constitutional amendments proposed by Republican lawmakers angry over Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s handling of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The vote on Tuesday’s statewide primary ballot came as Republican lawmakers across the country have sought to roll back the emergency powers governors wielded during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The constitutional amendments will give lawmakers much more power over disaster declarations, to apply whether the emergency is another pandemic or natural disaster.”
Hey Tom, get fucked.
Nice
The fact that it took legislative action to roll back executive moves is worrisome.
It took more than legislative action. That was tried and state supreme court nixed it because FYTW. It took an amendment to the state constitution to roll it back.
LOL. https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/ccsd-will-use-hospital-grade-disinfectant-system-in-schools/
I could have sworn this was debunked so using this is just a money grab.
https://www.physiciansweekly.com/cdc-risk-low-for-covid-19-surface-transmission/
Oh it was…”its for the children” has been replaced with “to be safe”
A bit of…didn’t read the article…apparently, it eradicates airborne also…
One trend I’ve noticed is a lot more pushing for anti-bacterial soaps, sprays, and the like. ‘member when this was a problem and creating anti-bacterial resistant strains of bacteria? I ‘member.
IIRC triclosan was banned on 2017 after having been in half the hand soaps on the market.
That shit’s banned in the Casa de Animal. We’re on a septic system. That stuff can mess up the culture in the tank.
Because the ‘vid is caused by a bacteria? Science!
SHHHHHHHH!
I think you’re going to have to explain the SCIENCE to him.
I haz a disappoint. Nobody corrected “bacteria” to “bacterium”. I blame Covid, also the disappearance of Latin from modern curricula.
I still wish Leeuwenhoek’s ‘Animacules’ had stuck.
https://www.wgal.com/article/massachusetts-widow-says-covid-19-vaccine-would-have-saved-husbands-life/37381482
“Cathleen also tested positive COVID-19 but recovered without any complications. She plans to get vaccinated next month.”
🙄
My hair has started to become a little bit wavy, so I asked my stylist what I should use to enhance & de-frizzify the wave. She recommended a product and I picked some up at the salon today. Now I’m reading the directions, and instead of “Directions”, it says “Hair Ceremony”. The first sentence of the
directionsHair Ceremony is “Take a deep breath and become centered.”And now I want to throw it through the window.
Heh.
Or become Meg Ryan
I’ll have what OBE’s having.
Will it help you put a hex on the Taliban?
Hee hee! I really hate the people that write copy for women’s skin and hair care products. Except the woman that names OPI nail colors. She’s funny. https://www.opi.com/nail-polish-colors#:~:text=OPI%20Nail%20Polish%20Shades%201%20Pink%20Nail%20Polish,2%20Green%20Nail%20Polish%203%20Black%20Nail%20Polish
I have linked this before…but her series was absolutely hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTVnAFA_u8M
Aaaannnddd, down the rabbit hole I go! Thanks, she’s awesome.
Right? I had never seen her before now, and I’m hooked. Thanks OBE.
The military night shift led to a lot of time on my hands. She was a treasure.
Sadly, looks like a lot of Current TV stuff has been eaten up by the algorithm. She has a slew from products to pop culture that absolutely makes me wish she would join our site.
Have fun! Get to the dufus husbands and laugh 😉
Another
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN27wC6pj_o
And…the about the hair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oydMNkQofw
If it was ten bucks or less, proceed.
More than ten? Keep reading.
I buy my shampoo, etc. in a salon, and I can guarandamntee you it cost a hell of a lot more than ten bucks.
I’ve never seen “Hair Ceremony” in lieu of directions, but most of the bottles/tubes have print so small I can’t read it anyway. In several different languages I don’t speak.
Sham poo.
It’s right there in the name.
Never use shampoo on my wigs, only use real poo! Only the best poo for my wigs!
You use Sham Wow instead, right?
He needs something to cover his head after putting poo in his wigs.
You know that if you have a cosmetology license in Ohio, you can go to the shops the salons purchase from and buy direct, right?
/looks over at the girlfriend
If only I knew someone who had such a thing.
/hides his over $10 bottles of beard wash and conditioner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpV25WWewsg
Hadn’t seen this one from last week, but “‘Incompetent’ and ‘cognitively impaired’ Joe Biden is now ‘racing for the exit door'”
I was at the Baseball Hall of Fame the other day. I’m sure you all will be thrilled to know that the mask that Dr. Fauci wore (intermittently) during the Washington Nationals game where he threw out the first pitch is on display in the museum.
Do they have the ball from Chocolate Jesus’ limp wristed throw?
Say what you will about GWB, but at least he threw a strike.
That’s just fucking pathetic.
If I were President I wouldn’t throw out the first pitch, I’d hit the first pitch. Out of the f-ing park.
Are there any Glibs in, or nearby, Copperas Cove, Texas?
There are a couple of Austin-area Glibs, IIRC. Probably the closest to Copperas Cove.
From the dead thread:
Does anyone know what the font is that’s used in the recipe card at the following link?:
http://lileks.com/institute/gallery/menucards/01seasonal/2.html
It’s the same font used in the 1975 Joy of Cooking. Love that font. Can’t seem to track it down.
It is pleasant to the eye isn’t it?
Yeah. It’s kinda pissing me off, ’cause I used to know it a long time ago, but can’t seem to track it down now. Looking through font samples online is making my eyes cross.
All i know is that it’s sans serif (duh), and I think “transitional.”
Another it matches…Columbia Serial Xbold
Fontspring says…Oregon LDO ExtraBold Regular is the closest…
Looks like a form of Hermann Zapf’s Optima.
Zapf’s other famous font is the serif font Palatino.
Yep, seconded on the Optima.
My high school German textbook was printed in that font.
It was all the rage in the 70s.
Unsere Freunde?
Oh, and it’s currently available on Amazon.
Wow, time warp.
Yup.
It’s the same textbook we used, and way out of date in terms of fashion.
I love how all the Amazon reviews mention it as a blast from the past.
Yeah, it was already out-of-date in 1981.
That’s IT!
Thanks, Ted’s. I take back all those nasty things I said about you. ?
I’m trying to bring back Optima. It’s a nice face.
I’ve been stuck in that site all afternoon; it’s beautiful. Honestly, I would eat most of those things.
https://www.lileks.com/institute/motel/
You are evil…my brother is an architect and just cause I didn’t follow that path…those are so awesome to look at.
I have an ashtray from The Gobbler. It was the only thing I could find on ebay after it was abandoned. I super wanted a piece for furniture, like one of the lilac tufted leather swivel bar stools
I think I stayed at that Holiday Inn Holidome in Wisconsin (either that or a different one) in 1984 when my family made a trip out to the mountain west. My sister and I had a blast at the pool, which had an adjacent hot tub and sauna. We’d cook ourselves in the sauna, then run and jump in the pool, freezing ourselves, then move to the hot tub, then repeat. Fun for kids
We stayed at a Holidome in the middle of a blizzard driving from MN to FL for Christmas in the 70’s. I wish I was old enough to remember more about it. It was pretty cool to swim and play mini golf in a snowstorm.
That bar is one of the most awesome bars ever. So sad I can’t go to it.
Canossa Bold
You effing geeks.
Don’t be jealous.
Fonts rock, d00d.
This is tripping my geek alarm and I am a guy that worked out (sort of) Einstein’s Field Equations for funsies.
Go on…
Any interest in a zoom? I will start one at 8pm Eastern. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84278856498?pwd=MW0xQVZpR2JmZ0U4UXZmVE5TdFFaUT09
Maybe after gym and dinner
I’ll try to stop by.
Karen Metal 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elqtk8mXMeE
Holy fuck if we actually experience hardship.
That’s extra special.
Andres Antunes is the best.
MY favorite, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw8pz6OhPPM
I can’t see anything wrong with what Jones is saying there…
Seems to be true more often than not.
OMG I could watch these all day.
WTF?
I’m actually feeling a bit for that woman because there is something seriously wrong with her.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/scientists-race-unlock-mysteries-covid-resistance-seen-small-number-people
It is a damn mystery…if you start from 2020
I still think his presidency was stolen
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/08/25/kanye-west-chicago-concert-will-not-require-vaccine-proof-or-negative-tests-for-fans/
Surprised Chicago is letting him do that.
They just let lollapalooza happen. They’d be racist not to let him have a show.
Tulip and l0b0t – unfortunately, either my internet sleuthing skills are terrible or it isn’t forever. Sarah Haskins has some on-point snark that I cannot find anymore on the tubes.
Festus and lobot, Mission accomplished! I did a Roast instead of Steak, but it’s melt in your mouth good, and I got some Victory sour ales,
Yes!
Happy birthday to me!
Happy Birthday!
Do you have Sour Monkey, and if others, which ones?
I got Sour Monkey, we have grear beer up here, but Victory is Boutique here, happy to have it,
Cheers!
If you like the barrel aged wheats, Uberon is supposed to be getting a bottle release soon.
Happy birthday, brother!
Thanks! 58 and still killing it!
That Kamala thing is some really nauseating theater.
A blast from my childhood. My heritage is partially Swedish–and evidently my grandfather had a thing for making a bit of fun of his heritage. I never met him, but my grandmother still had some of his old records, among which were a few of Yogi Yorgesson’s. Yorgesson was a comedic persona of Harry Edward Stewart, of Norwegian descent, making gentle fun of Scandinavian-American culture.
One of my favorites was The Bees and the Birds”
One of my favorites that is similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KakIacaDyCI
One of our dogs died. We watched over him at our house along with being a groom. Shit sucks. He was such a damn good dog. The last time he was here a couple of weeks ago we noticed he was limping and stiff. Pet owner took him in and he had some rapid advancement of cancer. Ugh…Zoom it is!
On of our client’s dogs that is
Aw, sorry to hear that.
OK, here we go, iot allowed to shop?Thr
Anitchrist has areisen,