AUTHOR’S NOTE: The original submission was a bit perishable: the following was submitted before the now-past week 8 NCAAF games. Updates at the bottom were added after those week 8 games.
What never changes is the popularity of broken thinking and getting away with broken thinking. Indeed, a couple of guys are kings at getting away with being wrong . . . publicly . . . . repeatedly: Jim Cramer and Bill Kristol. I imagine most Glibs noticed Scott Horton’s dissection of Kristol recently allthewhile (doG help me, I was crying laughing as) Kristol berated Horton for, AND I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP, not learning the lessons of history.
Cramer is another one who denies fundamentals: oh that’s old thinking, this is a new market, the old rules don’t apply any more . . . essentially fanning the flames of a run on tulip bulbs, and then he issues some tiny mea culpa after each towering correction shows the sham that his sermons had been all along.
While we’re at it, I was sure in these pages that everyone who ever wanted to vote Trump had done so in 2016, but 2020 showed me that there were another 11 millions who wanted a bite at that particular apple. This from a guy who somehow washes a pen with his underwear at least once a year and can’t find his spectacles because they’re on the top of his head.
But back to tulip mania: ’tis everywhere. It’s the very human condition. In the marginal US oil field, lift costs as low as $30 per barrel can be found; in Saudi Arabia the incremental barrel costs less than $3 to produce, and yet for some reason folks are paying $80 for good old WTI these days. I believe in markets, but that market, like Cramer, is insane; I don’t know when The Barrel returns to $40, but I’ll be here for you when it does.
Tops amongst broken thinking vectors is the over-reaction. In love, politics, and football, the recent weighs too heavily: we’re burned, and we’re mad. The other speculative over-reaction is the wild hare: hoping to profit by piling on a long shot before the band wagon loads up. Which is a long way of saying Bama ain’t fifth and Coastal Carolina ain’t anything. Michael Wilbon just announced Bama should rank ten. Now I’m the furthest animal from a Bama fan, but there are not four teams that are better than them just because they lost at Kyle Field last week. (Sidebar: I’m the furthest animal from an A&M fan although I’ve certainly stood for an entire couple of games there).
Anyway, the easiest thing in the world is to point out the excesses of over-reaction, so, again, I answer again the question of
Who’s the most over-rated?!11?1!?
- San Diego State
- Coastal Carolina
- Brigham Young
- Michigan State
- Southern Methodist
- Kentucky
- Oregon
- Wake Forest
- Arkansas
- Cincinnati
- Mississippi
- Iowa
- Oklahoma State
That was easy. Oh, and Most Under-rated: Florida.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: okay, that was the old. Now we can come to the new
Week in Review
- Brigham Young: lost and fell over six spots and out of the AP25
- Kentucky: lost and fell four spots
- Arkansas: lost and fell over eight spots and out of the AP25
- Iowa: lost and fell ten spots
Okay, those heads are on the wall. So who are the new
Most Over-rated!!!!
- UT San Antonio
- San Diego State
- Coastal Carolina
- Southern Methodist
- Michigan State
- Wake Forest
- Oregon
- Purdue
- Mississippi
- North Carolina State
- Cincinnati
- Oklahoma State
What the the Fuck did you just say?
It’s not off topic if you have no idea what is the topic
I not are good so at thunking now, Cow,
Do you know what the frequency is?
He was just pretending that colleges and universities are still relevant. It’s pretty commonplace at this point.
Not to be confused with Don escape [mostly] from the Tablesaw.
(Sorry PBB! I know it’s too soon, but this has been inside for days and I could resist. Hope you are doing better!)
*escaped
Don Escaped Another Tedious Handle Change
*chortle*
*snigger*
I’ll give you Florida for being entertaining, but not under-rated.
The Oracle of Delphi told my friend that I was the most rational man in town. Getting drunk in parking lots works for agoraphobics.
I never saw the picture before, Don.
I remember a bit over a year or so ago, I’d discussed locations that I was considering moving to. And I’d gotten the impression that you at least had connections to Low Country. Oddly enough, I have a neighbor named Don. Who was originally from Texas. I was going to ask.
My wife grew up in Savannah.
I raised a Texan but ain’t one. My bad attitude about Texas is its fine ideals and its abysmal reality: I live in the theoretical Texas in my mind, but the meat me is in a much freer place.
Purdue
Wait, we made the top 25? Doesnt sound right with us having losses to Notre Lame and Meeenieeesoooddaaa.
…who lost to Bowling Green, fer cryin’ out loud.
I just find it odd to see my alma mater in the rotation every week – I even caught a few games that weren’t ESPN+ only. Buffalo is not a college football town.
Purdue is a
footballbasketballbaseballwomen’s basketballvolleyballswimming and diving school.Hey. Joe Namath called from the recently deceased thread to let you know you can get big discounts on Medicare prescriptions.
On the bright side, no more commercials of Alex Trebek promoting the “life lock” from Colonial Penn.
Oh, lord.
*weak chuckle*
Ouch.
Jimmy Walker shouted Joe down. Dy-no-mite!
5th place and rising, baby!
https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/icehockey-men/d1/uschocom
*Oh youse guys are talking ’bout fuball*
Whateveah, play on.
Auburn probably belongs on the overrated list, and im still not sold on aTm. Oklahoma will drop 2 games by the end of the season. Out of Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State, I bet one will finish the year in the 22-27 range, one will be in the 15-20 range, and one will be top 5. I’m not sure which is which yet.
Michigan is undefeated but I don’t think they are good. I think Ohio State is going to hang 70 points on us.
Off topic, sorry, Don. What facet of your idea of libertarianism would you jettison in order to win (whatever that means to you)? I’m not talking about making temporary alliances because that is just strategizing. I’m asking about what liberty would you take away from a peaceful person if it meant you win? TBH, I can think of some in some circumstances, but I also recognize it’s wrong.
Travel. It’s the most likely one to fuck up any libertopia that happened to be created, and it’s an effective way to enforce exile as a punishment for commie rabblerousers.
If you have actual private property rights, I don’t see how that would violate libertarian principles. In today’s system I see how it would appear unlibertarian, though.
Interstate travel via car, that’s how they fuck us, gas or papers, whatever, they want us stuck in our “zone”
The being fat and having a beard part. It’s too iconic.
Me: ‘son, she isn’t your girlfriend and you with this girl in the garage playing guitar might be a problem’
Son: ‘I’m good dad’
Damn I wish I were young again.
Hidden cam and live stream, please.
I’ll kick in 5 bucks.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2109975
fTA:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported cases of myocarditis and pericarditis in the United States after coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccination.1 In recently published reports, diagnosis of myocarditis was made with the use of noninvasive imaging and routine laboratory testing.2-5 Here, we report two cases of histologically confirmed myocarditis after Covid-19 mRNA vaccination.
Never ever heard of myocarditis for any of my teens or myself of my nieces and nephews until Covid. But then again, I’ve never voted for Nixon
OK Pauline,
OTOH, wierd shit for young men to have as a by product, no fucking Bueno!
All I know is that Mizzou is garage this season.
CoMo: the nicest town to receive me as a fan of the visiting team
Working in the workshop, sipping a beer, annoyed with a huge housefly.
Sip the beer, big chunk in mouth.
Guess I don’t have to worry about that fly anymore.
New beer.
Ugh! I hate when that happens,
Extra protein?
There’s worse ways to get it. Or better depending on ones…proclivities.
Tastes like chicken.
Since I dip tobacco, let me tell ya about the times Ive (drunkenly) picked up the wrong can and took a swallow…
Oh man. I did that too many times back in the day. I finally figured out a “flag” for myself. Spit cans I put the tab pointing straight up.
My uncle chewed for many years. He used used peanut butter jars to avoid that problem.
Ugh, I hate it when that happens.
I once made some savory beef pastry thingies and whipped up a yogurt-based herb dipping sauce for them. I ate every single one with gusto, then when wiping up the last of the sauce with the last pastry, realized there’s a fucking fly in there. At least I didn’t ingest it, but my enjoyment of the meal was ruined by the knowledge that that little fucker was marinating in the yogurt the whole damn time.
Those things are the filthiest little wretches in the whole insect kingdom. That thing could have been crawling around on a pile of dog shit before it came in and landed in my food.
Wait… are y’all talking about foozball?
College football is a worse joke than the NFL. At least in the NFL, they have defense.
I actually subscribed to Krystal’s magazine,before I had a computer, from the very beginning. I may still have some copies of it around, though I’ve forgotten the name. may have kept Vol 1 as a collectible. I subscribed to Reason, Liberty and Jacob Hornblower’s mag. There wasn’t a lot of libertarian stuff available. Now I’m just a Glib and get all the news that’s unfit to print.
I also watched Kramer on CNBC? before Fox business was around. I remember the switching advice and followed some of his recommendations, on paper, and never saw that recommendation again as the stock declined. How he has managed to hang on I’ll never know.
What is this ‘magazine’ thing you speak of?
I was thinking, what is Krystal? some drug magazine from the 70’s, then,
Ohh, Kristol
My mama said, a magazine is something you roll up to swat the flies.
Yeah, really, I thought we had moved on to belts?
The Weekly Standard? I remember flipping through some issues a few times. I couldn’t stomach it.
I now subscribe to National Review. There are some writers I skip right past (waives at Ramesh Ponnuru) but many I like or they at least make me think.
Coming soon? Nahh,
https://notthebee.com/article/check-out-this-video-megathread-on-chinas-forced-vaccinations-quarantine-prison-camps-and-people-climbing-over-barbed-wire-to-escape-the-dystopia
Fucking commies,
That is a myth. There are no dystopias and China is an example of an equitable society we need to emulate. You don’t even know what communism is.
” Mister we we could a man, like Pol Pot, again,”
I mean, yeah, the New Soviet man is so last week, let’s get some killin fields going on.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_United_States_support_for_the_Khmer_Rouge
Allegations is a bit weak and the denials are more transparent than Kleenex.
I was out in the shop tonight and realized I hadn’t shared pictures of our new shop cats. I was mowing this summer and found them huddled under a tree. I stopped to look and they started mewing and coming towards me. I left them and went up to the house for a while to see if momma would show up, but she didn’t. The semi-feral momma cats in our yard have been good cats and this wouldn’t have been their first litter, so the assumption was a coyote bested her. They were so small they had trouble walking in fresh mown grass. My animal loving SIL estimated they were 2 or 3 weeks old.
They are now getting pretty big. Well, 3 of the 4 are. We lost one to some unknown illness or birth defect about 3-4 weeks after taking them in. Here’s a cuddle puddle from a a few weeks ago.
Awww, I love kittahs! Congrats!
That’s very cool, Kittahs!
It’s amazing how strong instinct is. These cats haven’t had an adult cat to teach them anything, but they keep themselves clean, took to a little box immediately, and hunt grasshoppers like the little bloodthirsty monsters they are.
They’ve earned a soft spot in my heart for behavior like this.
And this.
Look at this softie. Those kittahs got him right where they want him.
I’m allergic, and I’ve been the one insisting they cannot be barn cats. So, they will be shop cats. Plenty or room, and never colder than 50 degrees. And no coyotes hunting them. Way better than their parents had it.
So yeah…they got me. Especially Chip; when you reach down to pet him, he’ll “grab” your hand with both paws, which means “pick me up and cuddle me”. And I do it. SMDH
Aww
So cute! Kittens are just so cute and sweet; then they turn into Oscar (assholes).
You mean cats. They turn into cats. But they are sort of like the Glibertarians of the animal world.
Yes, but Oscar takes it to a whole new level. Just ask KK.
Awwwww…
So cute!
You’re a lucky guy, MikeS. I’m sure you will be blessed with a few more in the weeks to come.
Wild turkeys are an invasive species here.
Cute overload.
They are adorable. Enjoy them.
Awww.
I wish I wasn’t allergic.
1. Get shop to keep cats in
2. Find orphaned cats
3. Profit!
You are going to get YouTube rich.
Adorbs.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/america-isnt-running-everything-just-205900297.html
America isn’t running out of everything just because of a supply-chain crisis. America is running out of everything because Americans are buying so much stuff.
But most products that shoppers want to buy this holiday season don’t face a true shortage of one of their fundamental components. They instead have transportation problems somewhere along the long path from Asia to the US.
Apparently, modern journalism believes that transportation problems is different that supply chain problems.
I feel so relieved.
That might be the stupidest thing I read all year.
Journalism is a dumping ground for bootlicking, law school reject propagandists.
I always tell people to keep in mind that journalists are usually not trained in anything at all other than journalism. Sure, some of them may have had a career prior to that and now specialize in science reporting or crime reporting or something similar… But most of them came straight from the journalism program at a big-name university. They take a lot of classes about language and rhetoric, but those in no way guarantee that they are getting the details right when they talk about, say, the technical details of firearms (which they get comically wrong every goddamn time they open their mouths about it).
So many people these days chant “listen to the experts”, then tune in to cable news and get all of their information secondhand from a non-expert.
Let’s check to see if she can fog a mirror.
Im off to work, kids.
Leave a light on for me.
se’lah
Don’t tell me what to do!
Oh, and Most Under-rated: Florida.
I’m pretty sure that if they keep working hard and taking things one day at a time, by Halloween the Gators will be the best four-loss team in the nation. Top five, anyway.
https://thumbs2.redgifs.com/BouncyPlasticBoubou-mobile.mp4
NSFW.
https://thumbs2.redgifs.com/SlowLightQueenalexandrasbirdwing-mobile.mp4
https://thumbs2.redgifs.com/SeagreenSourAnteater-mobile.mp4
NSFW.
https://archive.md/4MK5J/ce71cb64415e5fc94db3c89acac018ce36659355.jpg
NSFW.
All from dedthred.
You really are living your best life Q.
Close, but not big enough, if we are going big,
Crissake, man, don’t be greedy.
Right?! Jeebus.
My Disc buddy makes THC infused Cheesecakes, wonderful and tasty,
Angelas Peach Weed cake, yummy!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/X5J7sYjkWdZaoHyLA
The poor Lady broke her hand on a tree playing, so I’m going to help her get some orders out tomorrow , the kid needs to run her business, i’m glad to help.
Damn. looks tasty!
How you know we have moved into the Soviet model, part 73:
Have you seen the propaganda on the shortages and supply chain problems? It started with a couple of CNN operatives saying that shortages were a sign that the economy is booming… But now it has spread to all of the party propaganda outlets. Business insider has a long piece about how we need to get used to shortages and they are not supply problems, they are demand problems. We should get used to having less. WaPo said the same thing, as did other outlets.
There is no supply chain problem, except for maybe computer chips, demand is just way too high…. So stop expecting the transportation department to do anything. Transportation is fine. Experts say that running the ports longer will have very little effect.
Meanwhile, my buddy who works in the produce industry says trucking costs 3x what it did 6 months ago… And truckers are working less, because they can work 1\3 as much and still earn the same money, exacerbating the problem.
I also hear that California regulations exclude 75% of current trucks on the road, meaning that trucks are in artificially short supply because they are operating on only a quarter of the fleet. Bonus regulation, the lines for the ports in Cali are so long that the truck drivers have to take a mandatory 12 hour break as soon as they get loaded, further eating into capacity.
This situation is making it look a lot like the Gulf States (Mexico not Persian) may declare de facto independence and start running a parallel economy outside FedRegs. Things might actually start coming apart at the seams.
America is running out of everything because Americans are buying so much stuff.
above
This is clearly party propaganda. Nobody said any such thing. Then the administration started catching heat… Then every outlet starts singing n this ludicrous tune.
One of the right wing talk show guys had the Canadian pastor who had a compelled speech order on him. Dude is from former Soviet Union. Said this is exactly what it was like, show trials, forced confessions, forced public statements praising the state…
Dude has court order to not travel and to read a statement saying masks work, social distancing works, vaccines are safe and effective, etc., every time he speaks publicly.
But remember…. Trump is a fascist dictator…
They have never worked in manufacturing. They don’t know anyone who works in manufacturing.
They are functionally retarded.
You said it better.
Where does food come from? the grocery
replaced by
Where do cellphones come from? Amazon
I work in manufacturing, both as my day job and as a side hustle. At the day job we make products for a global construction equipment company. Demand for their product hasn’t changed a bit in the last 2 years.
What has changed is supply (the entire gamut from computer chips to raw steel) and labor (from starting wage assembly to skilled welders and machinists to engineers) and transportation (trucking started getting hard to schedule and more expensive months ago).
Anyone saying different is a goddamn fool who doesn’t know what they are talking about.
Sure but you’re not as smart as Business Insider. I mean the guy who wrote the article has a journalism degree.
I think it’s bitterly funny. Trust in the press is way down. This story contradicts most people’s experience. I think they are going to trust their lying eyes over the press.
“We don’t have insufficient supply to meet demand, we have too much demand for our supply!”
I have started to plan my baby shower for The First That Will Change Everything. I haven’t set a firm date yet, but I am putting together a guest list and thinking about setting up an online registry where people can send me their gifts.
I’m starting to worry about you. This sounds like a hysterical pregnancy.
Maybe… it’s flatulence?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iX7Yt0D4NEg
Do not get a diaper genie. Seems cool…. Terrible idea. Use a normal can with liner and take out trash daily. Much, much better.
Glider rockers are great for nursing mothers and dads holding babies. They are also universally made like crap. I spent a fortune to buy a “high quality” one. It survived 3 babies, but it was falling apart before baby 3. Find a hand me down or a decent used one for cheap. Also, microfiber upholstery is your friend.
Spend extra for the hospital version breast pump. Also..used if you can get away with it. You buy new plastic parts.
There is no such thing as too many of the first couple of diaper sizes or too many baby wipes.
Butt paste. Must have. Also, look up the recipe for the extreme cure… I think it was Butt Paste, preparation H and triple antibiotic.
Don’t waste money on the fancy bassinet. Pack and play with high tray is perfect. Keep beside bed for first month or so so that wife can grab baby and feed it and toss it back without getting up. Practical, not pretty.
If you can do it, biting their nails is better than clippers.
Get good swaddling blankets. Swaddling is your friend. Get good lessons at the hospital. Also, snag a couple of the hospital blankets if you can. They are better quality and larger than most of the ones you buy. They stay swaddled better. This will help your sanity.
I don’t know how it works where you are, but at our hospital, they refill this baby cart in your room every day and give a baby back with sample formula, diapers etc. Every time they filled ours, I emptied it and took it to the car. Every little bit helps, especially that first week or two.
Easiest way to bathe the baby… Take it in the shower with you. Warm water, not hot. put a hand towel around baby to aid with friction and hold against your body. Wash with Johnson’s baby shampoo from head to toe. Baby is more comfortable and feels safe against daddy’s body, rinsing is much easier, and no mess. After first kid, never used plastic tub again.
I started to give son-in-law #3 advice on his new baby (GD3) but then I realized he had had as many kids as me.
Good advice there, though, cyto. I did the biting of fingernails and baby in the shower.
I learned Founders has a barrel aged series. I just tried Underground Mountain Brown. It’s an Imperial Brown Ale brewed with coffee beans. If you like that sort of thing it’s great.
I like it. Will the party be in person, or via Zoom or some such? If it’s in person, when I receive your invite will airfare be included with it?
Will there be strippers?
hmmm…supposed to be a response to Brochettaward.
I figured you Gilmored it.
An inadvertent Gilmore.
I don’t know. Do not put stress on me while The First gestates.
So, reasoning from a price change is always a mistake. It could be because demand increased (the official story), or it could be because of a decrease in supply. But the way they are pushing increase in demand, I know that’s not it.
Tulip, will you bake me something for The First That Will Change Everything? Something with peanut butter.
Cookies, cake, pie? What, and when?
Peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips.
You really are pregnant.
I’ll show them on zoom. When is the great firsting due?
Maybe if he ever gets an actual first we’ll find out. I’m starting to think he’s not serious about it.
Also, oatmeal raisin or those oatmeal-chocolate-peanut-butter refrigerator cookies would be way better.
Congratulations!
I’m sure somebody will make you a golden shower for it.
I’m watching a baking show, and the very good bakers have fallen cakes. Makes me feel better.
I didn’t realize how truly awful cable TV had gotten until flipping on the tv in the hotel.
Wow. Are people getting dumber? With the Soviet supply chain, the propaganda from the MSM, the Covid mania wrecking the economy, the emboldened bureaucracy overreaching into our lives, it really does seem like the country is going downhill.
For my TV needs, I’ll stick to selective streaming.
Don’t forget – a lot of people have stopped watching broadcast/cable TV entirely.
And people you wouldn’t think of. It’s almost expected of millennials, but I know more and more Gen Xers and even Boomers who have cut the cord.
I’m very close. I just need to find an alternate ISP.
Might have to move first.
I found I realy don’t need a Giant TV/Cable anymore, Everything I want is online, it’s refreshing,
Yes! (Maybe)
I happened to see about an hour of broadcast TV a month ago, after not having seen any since about February 2020. I was floored at how stupid the advertising seems. People need to be deprogrammed from watching this garbage.
Tried that.
Netflix has new episodes of the sci fi series Another Life it has Starbuck from the new Galactica, so I gave it a shot.
Premise has a crew of an interstellar craft headed off to make first contact. Conflict comes from interpersonal dynamics, among other things.
They have a Trans-ish? Genderqueer? Medical officer. Poly amorous and bisexual trio MMF. Gay married dude. Sexless nerd who decides he is going to make out with trans or gender queer medical guy for some reason…. Pretty much the entire cast is gay/bi/trans/something…. Not sure any are cis/hetero/straight.
Yet “representation” seems to be centered only on gender and sexuality. A couple of Latinos in the mix, but not much in the way of melanin. And pretty much the only strong and brave people are the women, men are either weak or evil.
But that isn’t why it sucks….
It sucks because the science is stupid, and the characters turn on a dime without external motivation or explanation… Conflict arises by fiat, gets resolved the same way…. Example, crew member mutineers and then comes at captain with a knife, clearly with intent to kill, captain front kicks to defend herself, knocking big strong guy into machinery that kills him… Crew asks what happened and even asks if it was self defense… She refuses to explain and leaves the impression that she murdered him in cold blood. This, of course, causes dissention and conflict… And there was no reason given for herchoice.
You and The Critical Drinker would get along famously.
Now go Away!
Actually, we would.
I love a good alt character. But if every character is some alt for no reason at all… And even the straight, white, computer nerd character is gay….. And the glam genderqueert guy goes for the straight white nerd who is overweight and dumpy simply because he tried to kiss him…. Then I get pulled out of the story and annoyed.
The entire story seemed to be written exactly to piss off the internet nerd reviewer types. Everything bad about new sci-fi and fantasy and comic hero movies all rolled into one.
“the Senator grabs a gun and a bunch of soldiers to storm the artifact….. Why? Don’t know!!!”
“Ships computer says if they do a thing, the ship will be destroyed…. But the crew islike, ‘nah, It’ll be fine!'”
It was like they took all of the tropes that those guys complain about and wrote them into a single series.
That Sir is Space Opera in all it’s glory! and a sad, overused trope,
/hmmmm
It sounds like the story is secondary to the writer’s politics. That is never good.
I like Katie Sackhoff and a few of the other actors but the writing is crap. The crew seems like they were chosen for reasons other than their skill set. The writers have no clue on why the military is the way it is. The mutiny — by the whole crew — was dumb. I mean mutiny the first time the new leader makes a decision? They have no idea whether she was wrong.
You just realized that now?
You missed the Wonder Woman marathon over the weekend?
It was glorious. /Decades channel
I missed that, but I am sure it was fantastic. That show was must see TV for my house and I am sure that it is an epic cringe today.
I remember the first time I watched Superfriends as an adult. It was the best we had…. And so, so, so very terrible.
Some stuff holds up…. But 6 million dollar man, biopic woman…. Most of my favorites…. Not so much.
Speaking of broken thinking that gets rewarded.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/10/19/max-boot-says-bidens-bold-and-gutsy-vaccine-mandates-are-paying-off-despite-gop-sabotage/
I am seriously considering quitting Facebook permanently.
The company itself is evil. And I find it easy to believe that it can contribute to unhappiness depending on what’s on my feed, which Facebook alters frequently.
I regret that I ever signed up for it.
https://qz.com/1776702/thinking-about-quitting-facebook-heres-what-its-like/
I quit Facebook in 2013. I haven’t missed it one bit.
I was my Dog for a few months,
Leave! it’s a hive of scum and villainy!
It’s an addiction, and it can be overcome. Walk away and do not go back.
Like here? I’m stuck, This is my home, and I love it,
^This X1000^
I quit right before the 2020 election, so just about a year ago. I had a little separation anxiety for the first couple weeks, but now I don’t miss it at all. I was starting to dislike some people I have been friends with for years because of their political posts. After a while all the negative posts and adds far outweighed the positive posts, so I usually felt worse or angrier after visiting the site.
I also stopped reading, listening, and watching any mainstream media outlet about 10 months ago. The few little snippets I get here and there, or reading a link on this site, makes me realize how far gone the mainstream press is in this country. It’s really exaggerated after you step away for a while. Overall stress levels are definitely down compared to last year.
*** I did make a “burner” Facebook account a couple months ago that I only use for checking on local music shows and occasionally the marketplace. It’s the only place to find out where local bands are playing. I check it about once a week for a couple minutes, and that’s it. No friends on the site, and I won’t accept any if someone somehow finds me.
I quit last January. Don’t miss it, with the occasional exception of Facebook Marketplace, which has crowded out other sites like Kijiji and Craigslist in my local area. They’re still active, but they don’t have the depth and breadth they once had.
I keep an account so that any family or old friends can find me, but never spend time on it. I do get emails from the site, trying to entice me, but nothing is missed about it. Oh, and marketplace sucks anyway.
Zwak gets it. I do the same thing.
Yeah, I just set one up for that purpose. So far have invited my wife and my gun-totin’ cousin from Georgia. Also used for Chess.com.
I’ve been on once in 18 months. I’m considering dumping it. Don’t miss it.
I was only seriously there til 2016/2017 when I stopped looking at it, because the Trump hysteria in my work/RL feed was just ridiculous. I had to go back in last year because someone was trying to hack my password and my god, it became even more unusable trash.
But I keep it just so I have a presence and occasionally old friends still contact me through it, since we’ve moved a couple times in the last few years and people lose addresses.
I’d just like to add to the chorus of “do it”.
I’ve heard countless people say that they dropped it and started having better social interactions, focusing on work better, redirecting time to new hobbies, relieving anxiety issues, and generally living a more peaceful life. I’ve never heard a single person say “I quit Facebook, but my life got much worse. I’m so glad I signed up again!”
I never signed up for it. The woman I was dating 15 years ago or so was an avid FB’er. When her best selling point was “it lets you stay in contact with people from your past”, I responded “those people arent in my life for a reason and I have no designs on inviting them back”.
Also, quite a few of my married and or relationshiped friends have gotten themselves into hot water with FB connects from “their past”.
No way, no how, no ma’am.
That’s it. Racism is over.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/10/19/racism-public-health-crisis-new-york/
the city’s Racial Justice Commission, a branch of government that maintains “racial inequity and discrimination are baked into our institutions and society.”
“Baked into (something)” is one of the laziest and most boring expressions ever created.
It’s from a NYC agency. Laziness is to be expected.
Why are Lefties always complaining about horrible “systemic” discrimination problems in cities that they control virtually unopposed?
Because non-lefty cities are all cishetero white people. The whole point of this exercise is that there are not “enough” of each victim group controlling the levers of power, until there are, it’s “system racism”. Or something.
P1: Government is allowed to violate civil liberties for a designated Public Health Crisis.
P2: Everything is a Public Health Crisis.
C: Therefore, government is always allowed to ignore your civil liberties.
See Canada, right now.
So I guess this is “news” because NYC jumping on the bandwagon means now they’re totally going to solve… something.
It means they are late to the grifting party. DeBlasio can’t even get that right.
Hide your wives.
https://mobile.twitter.com/80snewsscreens/status/1447391489563181058/photo/1
And your daughters.
https://mobile.twitter.com/80snewsscreens/status/1448976052479565826/photo/1
Keep your sons away, too.
https://mobile.twitter.com/80snewsscreens/status/1448638805683081217/photo/1
Power problems at the plant! Which means I excused myself early, and my usual 0630-ish TallCans™ is occurring @ 0330h.
suh’ fam ?
whats goody yo
Waiting for the next pathogen crisis? They’re laying the groundwork.
Scientists think tuberculosis can spread in aerosols, upending understanding of disease: Report
Why, Ill just be damned: VALIDATE Network’s TB vaccine work receives $1.5 million funding boost.
Since when did we think TB was not spread in aerosols?
Any of you heard of Freedom Travel Alliance?
https://www.freedomtravelalliance.com/
They’re trying to create a.network of hotels, private air carriers, etc that will not violate anyone’s rights.
I hope it gets enough subscribers to get going… I subscribed to their email newsletter but I haven’t “joined” yet.
So they took a lesson from the cattle alliance guys ? Or the other way around ?
Will check out, thanks.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/san-franciscos-n-closed-not-checking-vax-passports/
Fascists don’t like hamburgers.
Wow. I like the cut of their jib.
San Francisco’s only In-N-Out burger location in Fisherman’s Wharf was closed by the SF Department of Public Health last Thursday because employees refused to check vaccine passports.
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“San Francisco requires people to prove they are fully vaccinated against Covid in order to go to restaurants, gyms, theaters, bars, clubs and other indoor establishments.
“After closing our restaurant, local regulators informed us that our restaurant Associates must actively intervene by demanding proof of vaccination and photo identification from every Customer, then act as enforcement personnel by barring entry for any Customers without the proper documentation,” read a statement from In-N-Out’s Chief Legal and Business Officer Arnie Wensinger.
“As a Company, In-N-Out Burger strongly believes in the highest form of customer service and to us that means serving all Customers who visit us and making all Customers feel welcome. We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government,” he continued.
If they were in SW Ohio, I would gladly subscribe to that newsletter.
Shitting and shooting up in the streets? A-OK. Not checking a vax passport? Bring down the hammer.
https://www.phillyvoice.com/pennsylvania-woman-kidney-transplant-covid-vaccine-refusal-geisinger/
Evil.
“Health systems are increasingly weighing policies and priorities for high-risk organ recipients”
I really hope all those people making that decision have multiple organ (hah!) failure, and die a painful, crippling, death. Better yet, get cancer and due to restrictions on opiates, are only provided excedrin for pain relief. Or Bayer aspirin.
Mornin’ Sean.
*waves*
Apparently the Nuremberg trials were just prettied up victor’s justice and meant nothing. It’s just wrong on so many levels.
It was obvious months ago that this is where this was headed.
The only prediction I can’t make is which one of these scenarios will win out:
– They will deny health care to the unclean
– They will jab you without your permission before providing your health care
Mix your booster shots! Collect them all!
Let’s go Brandon.
Just like Pokemon or MTG cards.
How bad is the propaganda machine?
You heard that Biden totally fixed the porta, right? He said so….
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/la-ports-a-ghost-town-much-of-the-weekend-despite-bidens-goal-to-move-cargo
Port of San Francisco was closed over the weekend. Union contracts. Teamsters get time and a half for weekends, and ports are obligate Teamsters union shops.
Think a different candidate from 2020 might have handled this differently?? Think the press might have covered it differently if teams were switched?
But no, we get a raft of stories saying the ports are not part of the problem, and we should just get used to it and buy less stuff.
Remember when that guy saying they were trying to destroy the country sounded insane?
Compare with business insider, known to be at the front of stories pushed from the DNC, CIA and FBI in the past… Stories that turned out to be “misinformation”…
https://www.businessinsider.com/america-isnt-running-out-of-everything-supply-chain-2021-10?amp
“America isn’t running out of everything just because of a supply-chain crisis. America is running out of everything because Americans are buying so much stuff.”
Cherry pick your starting and end points and it looks like there has been a big increase in demand….
As if demand never increased 10% after declining 30% in history. As if measuring goods sold in inflating dollars would give a valid comparison of volume.
It is almost like they are part of some scheme to deceive and manipulate….
Well, a ribeye at my Kroger a couple months ago may have been $7.99/lb. Maybe $6.99 if they were burning-off July 4th stock.
Now its $9.99/lb. And I doubt it’s cause everyone in this area has decided to hoard beef. Well, other than me of course.
Wow. There might be a market for Ribeye arbitrage… Ribeye is more like $15-20 per pound here. I wonder how hard it is to sell steak out of the back of a truck…..
Its pre-packed, not choice.
Buy them all! Ribeyes at my shop are $23.99 per lb.
I should have mentioned ribeye steaks, not a whole ribeye.
But that store does have whole briskey for $3.49/lb
See also- my overloaded freezer
As Tres implies, never mind the skyrocketing prices along with the seemingly random occasional bare shelf at the grocery store or Walmart. With a healthy supply chain the supply would quickly adjust to demand but that isn’t happening. It’s gaslighting plain and simple and it might take people a while to figure it out but they will.
I am waiting for them to come out extolling the virtues of their new five year plan to fix it….
From the obverse- there’s a labor shortage. As long as McD’s and BK offer $1K or more sign-on bonuses to new employees (and $17/hr), workers are going to hear a lot of Lundburg.
“Mmmm, yeah. We’re going to need you to come in on Saturday….ok?”
We are at $21 per hour… And the closest McD’s has closed the dining room from time to time for lack of staff.
That is one way to end the debate over a $15 minimum wage.
And to put an end to the dollar menu.
I found the first article at Real Clear Politics. Business Insider was pushed to me in my New page tab on chrome/google. You know, the search page that used to be simple, with no ads, no clutter, no distractions… The one that promised simple, untainted search results from a company with the motto “don’t be evil”?
Yeah.. Those guys are pushing the narrative at me, at everyone. Big headline saying there is no supply chain problem. Gotta create that impression.
BusinessInsider has been absolute garbage for as long as I can remember.
And yet both major search companies prominently feature the same article from the relatively obscure publication on their main search page. Weird, huh?
It’s for the same underlying reason as YouTube tries to ram certain garbage down your throat if you watch political content there. The algorithms, which actually do a good job if you’re looking for info on cars or anything innocuous really, aren’t really algorithms and the search results aren’t neutral when it comes to social or political content. Couple that with the large tech companies being staffed with people who are in political lockstep and this is what you get.
Hey
nerdssmart people, it’s been to long since high school geometry,Is it possible to find D or angles a & b if you only know sides A, B, and C?
Yes. You can draw a line E To connect the corners at a and b and solve for E, then use E and C to solve for D.
Thanks I knew that if I posted it the answer would be embarrassingly simple, I blame lack of sleep and no coffee yet.
Or that you just suck at trig. Or finding Claussen’s pickles.
Duh, soon as I stop looking at it I figure it out, I am a maroon.
My initial gut said no.
Then I noticed that two of the angles are given. They are 90 degrees.
Now it is more interesting. The other two must add up to 180. So now changing angle a or b will change the length of B, C or A.
So draw an internal triangle… The hypotenuse goes from a to b.
Now, this must be the square root of A squared plus B squared. It also must be the square root of C squared plus D squared.
So… square root of A squared plus B squared equals square root of C squared plus D squared.
The only unknown in that equation is D.
The rest is simple math.
What are you making?
Yesterday was okay. I didn’t lose my job over being such a smart-ass. Parent company seems to have excluded me from their email chains(!), my daily hangover was manageable and the sites that I work for are not going vax, yet… There was a notice on the employee board printed in the teeniest font possible about how everyone should self-diagnose before work. Pretty fine sailing! The fishing is hot but most of them are shakers. Winter is coming, I’ll eat that. Mornin’ All!
I, for one, am glad you are not out on the street.
Thanks, UCS! I pissed of the big-wigs enough that I became a mere cog in the machine. Works for me.
I suspect that the latest idiocy will never end, though. Much like the yearly fight over the mineralized toilet bowls, it is my boulder to shoulder. They are assho and I am in Hades.
Oh well. I was looking forward to chatting with you while you pushed a shopping cart full of empty beer cans down Broadway. But this sounds better.
Sounds like a tourist trap.
Good morning, Glibboys & Glibbroads! I took this photo yesterday morning, but I’d be willing to bet we’re about to have another one of these where I am.
Nice!
Thank you! Good morning, Fes! What you said about the fishing above, that’s good, right? (Don’t know the lingo.)
Shakers are the ones that are too small to keep so ya grab the hook and shake them back into the drink. Lean times are coming.
Its not very foggy this morning.
Low-lying fog?
Just over the lake visible from the lodge.
It’s pretty but, RUN!
::scurries back to bed, hides under covers::
Splendiferous! And a good morning to you!
Nice.
It’s that time of year again – the weather changes and the outdoor mice try to become indoor mice but find themselves caught in a bunch of traps.
I think I’ve found their point of entry from the outdoors. I’m going to fill it up with foam and see of anything burrows through the foam before filling it with foam and steel wool.
Flex seal & barbed wire.
Maybe tiny machine gun nests.
I don’t have tiny NFA tax stamps for those.
Why not do foam and steel wool now?
The biggest reason?
I’m waiting on delivery.
Business insider and the Washington Post assure me that you need to just get used to having less.
You meaning us of course, not them.
Florida story….
Rats try to get in from outside. Big ones. One ate a hole in my screen for the back patio. The panel is big. The fix is relatively expensive and a pain in the ass.
Fix it.
Put out poison.
Kill rats.
6 months later…. Another one does it. Bastard!
Didn’t fix it. Just put out poison.
Rats ate poison. Then quit eating poison. Dead rats. Note to self, don’t forget to refill bait stations. (also expensive proposition).
Baby iguana comes in through hole. Wife freaks.
Bastard is hard to catch. Dog finally helps chase it out the door.
Two weeks later….
Letting dog out… He chases a bunch of iguanas who have taken up residence on the deck. A big 4 footer runs in wild panic…. Right through the slowly closing screen door.
Son. Of. A. Bitch.
Tried to herd him out through the door with boy. Boy suddenly is afraid of lizards. I mean… It is pretty damned big and really prehistoric looking… But boy has been catching lizards since he was 3. But jumping around like he is scared is making the girls laugh… So he is all in on that act and little help. We do manage to flush him from hiding and toward the door. Door is wide open. I am squatting like a basketball defender and waving my arms yelling “haaaaa! Yaaaa!!! Haaaaa!!!!” To corral him out the door.
The wife is helpfully taking a video of her overweight husband acting ridiculously and laughing hysterically. And the dumb thing runs right past the open door, right past my leg and under the TV stand.
Son. Of. A. Bitch.
Luckily, he is way too big to fit. So I grab his tail as the wife and kids scream and squeal. He is surprisingly difficult to pull out. That bastard is crazy strong. But I manage to extract him and grab the neck with my other hand… As the wife hates rates to the video audience, I take him out back and yeet the thing over the railing and out into the canal. The kids squeal in delight at the comedy… And the wife continues her fun at my expense on video.
This is the Florida life.
Luckily, I don’t have iguanas in New York.
Also, I’m very glad I never had rats. Mice are bad enough.
Probably better to have iguanas than Cuomos.
I’m sure I can find some place with neither.
Potay-to, potah-to.
Potato, potatoe.
Yeah, I lived through the late 80’s and early 90’s….
+1 Dan Quayle
Antirattist!
I’d just upgrade my snap traps and poison. I don’t share my house with uninvited guests.
This story needs moar meth.
Worse… I was not properly masked.
The wife narrarates. Not hate rates. Thanks for fixing that, Mr computer, but narrarates makes more sense.
Hate rates works!
That is a GREAT story!
^^^ Heheh
I may have to relinquish my redneck card. A real red neck woulda dressed that bad boy and had iguana for dinner.
I did not consider it.
Effing things are gross.
Plus, you are supposed to have a permit to kill the things. You can’t just shoot them or lop the head off with a machete. You have to follow some procedure.
Makes me nuts. They are non-native, but you cannot kill on sight. Neighbor has more initiative than I do. Uses glue traps and lets them die in the glue to get around the restrictions. also, because I told him to quit shooting with the CO2 pellet gun. Dude put 5 dings in my minivan, and broke 3 windows. Learn to shoot and mind your backdrop.
Also… A pellet won’t even break the skin on the big one. Those things are crazy tough.
22 short and get that neighbor to a shooting range.
Lol.
*crosses Florida off list of potential retirement destinations*
Reptiles are cool, but I don’t want them in my house.
*side eyes stupid aquatic turtle*
Reptiles make great pets. Boy has bearded dragon. Boy is irresponsible and often forgets food, water and cleaning cage.
Lizard is fine. Can go days without water and not bat an eye. Probably weeks without food if need be. Idiot proof pet.
Regarding some earlier topics. I left Facebook in 2016 or 17 as the TDS was just too much for me; it was a wise decision. Cord cutting… DO IT! A Plex server and piracy are all you need. I now have over 6000 films and a little over 1000 tv series on a series of external hard drives (a few times per year Best Buy has very good sales on them) that Plex will stream to any device with a signal, anywhere in the world. I haven’t watched CATV or OTA broadcasts in over a decade. I DO have a shortwave receiver and worldwide radio is still going strong, allowing me to get news from BBC World, Deutsche Welle, CBC, etc.. Their news is often just as retarded as the news in the US but different enough that (IMO) a clearer picture may be extrapolated by listening to them all.
Yeah, Face-stalk is poison. I left it shortly after my 30-year high school reunion for obvious reasons and that was before the whole world went nuts. I can’t imagine what sort of lists I would’ve been added to in 2016.
Fact check: false. Trump has never done laundry in his entire life and currently does not have a washer or dryer in his domicile. His clothes get taken out by a service.
In stock notification received for 10mm jhp.
Do i buy over priced ammo or wait?
Why not both?
Looking at resumes for an open supervisor position (same as mine) in my area. Man, some of them are just hot garbage. Many of the rest just don’t have the experience needed. 🙁
What part of the country are you in? Should I send my resume?
Shitlanta. I thought you were IT or something administrative.
I am in IT, but I’m just at the point where I’ve nudged into management. So I do both technical and supervisory work alongside architecting and project work.
I don’t have circuit board expertise 🙁
I don’t have circuit board expertise
It is critical to us. I have two fellow supes, we are down one. The one that is junior to me took over for very experienced guy that retired. He is struggling a bit with his subordinates because of his electronics skills.
They might have “people skills”? Sounds like most of you techies could use someone around with that sort of talent.
We need someone with board-level electronics skills and at about 5 years experience supervising technical peeps. They need to know more than I know at this point, because I’ve forgotten more than I remember. It’s a low bar.
https://www.nj.com/somerset/2021/10/former-nj-judge-reprimanded-for-sexual-comment-made-from-the-bench.html
“During the end of a discussion about a defendant’s bail, the defendant asked the judge for clarification about money, saying, “Do I owe you anything or?”
“Not that you can do in front of all these people, no,” Rodriguez replied.”
Sounds like hizzoner has been lurking here
That’s a classy guy right there, deserving of authority and respect.