Lego is killing it this year.
‘”Jon Gruden is no longer head coach of the Raiders. There’s not much more I can say.”’
Friday Afternoon Links
About The Author
Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
Th Egg Nog is on the shelves now…
It’s too early.
It’ll soon be time to make another batch of knock-you-on-your-ass eggnog.
*insert: dbeagle’s….eggnog
Gah! dbleagle
Sounds like you’ve already partaken.
Winter comes earlier in North Dakota, doesn’t it?
A balmy 43 today. ?
“I could be at home drinking this monster egg nog my brother makes with lighter fluid..”
I am tempted to make this stuff. Refrigeration is for chumps.
The hell? I didn’t think Alton was pussy. Surely he means, PER SERVING
I didn’t think Alton was pussy.
Well, he is an uga alum.
Who you callin pussy?
https://twitter.com/altonbrown/status/144186320724566016
That’s awesome. I was always afraid he was just another leftist TV personality, but perhaps not! I’m glad to see that.
Atta boy Alton
Now THAT’S more like it….
He strikes me as an iconoclast as much as anything.
He’s into motorcycles & shootin’. A big watch nerd as well. I suspect he’d fit in OK here.
He felt his church did badly by him when we was having marital difficulties / divorcing. Even from afar, he clearly was pretty angry for a while. He’s has since mellowed.
He hated OMB and is also a huge vaxxer. Don’t know his position on making it mandatory however.
I have made it, and it’s spectacular. I think you kind of have to make it in September, but it’ll be nice & boozy by December if you make it now (I like mine more mellow)
IIRC, dbleagle makes it at Thanksgiving, so I followed suit. But yes, the longer you let it sit the more mellow it gets, for sure.
I noticed that Lowe’s is well stocked with gaudy Christmas crap already. When I was young I remember the day after Thanksgiving being the day Christmas prep started to rev up.
Well, get it off the shelf and into your belly, then!
It’s been on the shelf for a month here.
/nogghead
Yeah, here in flyover country, we had “halloween” egg nog a month ago. And now regular is on the shelves.
Where’s Switzy to extol the virtues of advocaat?
Unnecessary. Millions of old Dutch ladies have already beaten him to it.
I AM HERE! ADVOCAAT IS GLORIOUS – ALL WHO DISAGREE SHALL BE CLEANSED, WITH FIRE!!!
I could definitely use a proper Mass Effect game or movie.
I saw a headline that Gruden is also being erased from Madden 2022. ?
whaddup doh’
‘sup brah
I bet they’d have to erase Madden from his own games if they were privy to his old inside conversations.
I bet you’re right.
Madden and every other celebrity in any game.
It’s almost like humans aren’t all perfect woke angels.
Proggies get furious stiffies thinking of all the sinners they could condemn.
They’ could make a lot of money selling indulgences.
See “carbon credits.”
They aren’t interested in redemption, they’re all into that righteous stoning shit.
In the end, they all fall short of the glory of God. Everyone will eventually utter a word that offends Woke and then they will be cast down with no redemption.
Why belong to such a religion? I can’t wrap my head around that.
Why belong to such a religion? I can’t wrap my head around that.
Same reason people get into MLM scams and the like. They’re convinced that they’ll be the one who hits it big and gets pulled up out of their half-assed existence into something exciting and relevant.
Same reason people get into MLM scams and the like. They’re convinced that they’ll be the one who hits it big and gets pulled up out of their half-assed existence into something exciting and relevant.
Or play the start-up lotto…..
/looks around
/sneaks out the door
Like Al Sharpton and that Kendi guy?
They
couldwill make a lot of money selling indulgences.They
couldwilldo make a lot of money selling indulgences.The Cans are Tall! sup Tres!
HEY YUFUS!
Im about to go to bed.
12 minutes to tall tumblers. Except I still need to go fetch the ingredients that go into them. ?
It’s a block away — how hard can it be?
One block up and one looonnnng block west. So really, like three or four blocks.
There’s one closer but my vapes are in the other direction so I went that way.
*joins*
I was going to get some stuff done around the house this afternoon on my free day off, but I said fuck it and didn’t.
Both Daines and Gianforte called on the Biden administration to give answers about the vetting process being used for Afghan refugees resettling in Montana.
Prediction: Procedures were followed.
As a Packer fan, I really like Aaron Rodgers, but now I like him even more.
As a (former) 49ers/Vikings fan, I always wanted to not like him, but was never able to. Things like this are the reason. He seems like he’d be a hell of a cool guy to hang out with.
He’s way more likeable than that Fav-ruh, fo sho
Couldn’t say it better myself, Go Pack!
Meh. This is a plus for him, but he is still the LeBron of the NFL. Great player but way too much of a prima donna. When things go bad he never is to blame (and I’m not saying he is to blame, but he always seems to get way out in front of finger pointing).
1. Magic Majkowski
2. Favre
3. Lynn Dickie
4. Rodgers
That is my ranking of Packer QB’s that I remember the Vikes playing against.
Looks like I’ll be in the Bay Area (Redwood City) for a few days probably in December. Any Glibs in the area up for a meetup? Assuming such a thing is still allowed in the People’s Republik of Kalifornia?
The memes!
They are taking over!
LOL! and the meme is funny as well,
“It’s also more evidence that Uncharted the movie is separate from Uncharted the games, unless you’re willing to believe that Drake found himself in this exact same scenario twice in one life.”
While I think Tom Holland is a good choice for Nathan Drake based on his performance in the Spider Man films, I’m unsure about Mark Wahlberg as Sully and in any case they both look too young. The video game characters look about 10-20 years older than the actors, although I guess this could be a prequel of sorts.
Ok but the games were just playable movies. This is just video games for people too lazy to push a control stick around and do some light puzzles or cover-based shooting. You know, fucking losers.
Oh yay, another video game movie. Those are always great…
remaking Tomb Raider to the newer video games also.
Tomb Raider movies have been better than most video game movies. Not great, but watchable.
I’ve never had a problem with Marky Mark myself. He’s a solid performer — not brilliant, but has not disappointed in over 20 years, AFAICT. Bankable and reliable.
And his character’s name is “Sully,” which has shown up way too often in American cinema and which I always took as shorthand for “sullen.”
Somehow I have a soft spot for Resident Evil.
Do you prefer films based on board games?
How do you make a film about the Australians taking over the world?
Clue FTW
Oh, the Montana Blond jokes about that Afghani write themselves:
– Your honor I had no idea that I had to get consent from the ewe before shearing
– Your honor, we all know she wasn’t really stuck in that fence, she was just asking for it
– Your honor I had no idea that ewe was the Sheriff’s girlfriend
Derpetologist approved.
HEY IS DUNE ANY GOOD? LIKE, ANY OF IT?
I don’t know. I quit the book about a quarter of the way in.
Because it sucked.
Same. But the Dune memes are really really good. I might just stick to them.
I read the first book because it was the only one I had when taking a bus ride from Ft. Lauderdale back to Minnesoda in ’86.
I don’t know which was more painful, the detox/hangover from a week of Spring Break drinking or Dune. I just know that that was an epic amount of pain.
Y’all are crazy. Dune is great.
I know, right? These fuckin’ people are going on The List.
Dune is just a cheap knockoff of The Wheel of Time. Admit it.
Aes Sedai > Bene Gesserit
Aiel > Fremen
Rand ? Atreides (they both suck bad)
One Power > Spice
So Wheel is written two decades later, and Dune is the knockoff. You’re a funny guy.
Don’t feed his trolling. Next, he’ll be extolling authentic neopolitan pizza with pineapple
It is, but those first hundreds of pages were a long slog.
^^^^
I don’t get the Dune hate. Herbert (the elder, of course) was an amazing writer. I wish he had lived longer to write more BuSab stuff.
Yeah, I like Dune but he has several series I like much more.
My Dad was a submariner, and had a copy of The Dragon In the Sea, which I think would make an excellent psych thriller movie.
I always liked Whipping Star.
Whipping Star is great
Yup, perhaps my favorite.
About 2 weeks ago I started the book for the first time. Got a couple chapters in…. They kind of grabbed me, not too bad yet. Then I got distracted by a John Krakauer book and haven’t been back to Dune. But dammit, I really want to make it through, I feel that my nerd bona-fides are at stake if I haven’t read the books….
You can stop after the first one, from what I’ve heard. That’s what I did.
I didn’t. I wish I had. The. st. Alia of the Knives” excerpts in book one lured me in. I was betrayed.
Correct. Even the sequels by Herbert the elder were kinda meh. His son’s are even lesser.
The stories of the last two Dune novels are fun and less heavy than Dune Messiah, CoD, and God Emperor.
Same universe, but lighter prose. Miles Teg rocks the fucking house.
Good to know, I’ll cap it at the original then.
You. Are. Dead. To. Me.
Suderman is enthusiastic for it over at TOS. Take that FWIW.
I’m pretty sure this is because when they give the Rona to someone they also take it back soon thereafter
Nice.
I can’t figure out why the rez is getting hit so hard. The people there are known for their tip-top physical condition.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the spike is probably due to them going ricing during the day and then ending up in a small house/cabin drinking all night with the rest of the ricing crew. The timing of the spike sure lines up with ricing.
But I bet not one media outlet would ever suggest that the rez has superspreader events. Not when they still have stories about Sturgis to write.
What’s ricing?
Putting loud pipes and a spoiler on a Civic.
I had no idea there was a rez in my neighborhood.
Cultural Appropriation!
Shirase Sakuya Idolmaster Honda Civic EG itasha
Although I was hoping for an even better view…
The collection of wild rice.
Huge deal amongst the tribes. This year I started seeing tons of stories about “manoomin” which is the Ojibwe word for wild rice. I grew up next to the biggest rez in the state and never heard that word before. The natives all called in wild rice when I was growing up.
The word must have popped up on the journolist because it was everywhere this fall.
Learned two new things today that use the same word. Cool.
My people call it maize.
Maize
I’m guardedly OK with this decision to charge a cop with vehicular homicide after the cop killed a bystander during a high speed chase.
I say guardedly because we are still having issues because the cops have stopped enforcing laws. If the cops are going to get rung up on charges after any chase, that is one more thing they won’t do.
In this case it seems egregious enough to warrant charges.
I do want to note that if I get killed by a cop or govt jackass I want a giant picture like the one of the victim in this story to be used in all the stories about me. AND I want it hanging in a place of prominence at all the future Honey Harvests.
Respectful image of the victim
Am I a bad person because my first thought was “The dingo’s got my baby”?
No. How could you not think that?
Well when I looked at it, I thought “WA” was for Washington and then the correct take would be: “Antifa’s got my baby!”
This not at all the reason you’re a bad person.
Just because I don’t like carbonated beverages doesn’t mean I’m a bad person!
Yes, and you have lots of company.
Lindy Chmaberlain is a poster child for getting fucked over by a police state more interested in closing a case than in investigating the actual event.
It amazed me how Meryl Streep, having played Lindy in A Cry in the Dark, was so willing to join the witch hunt against Donald Trump.
Since Riven is our resident video game guru, I’m moving my response here, from the dedthred, to Gadfly about the Hitman Paris Opera House mission:
That freaking thing took me an hour and a half to set up dammit. But it was by far the most satisfying method. You could stand there in the theater and watch the target get shot, then waltz on out into the streets in plain view, with no one suspecting anything. Good times….
Agreed. That installment of the series had a lot of levels with very satisfying stealth options.
This man has Guts,
https://twitter.com/i/status/1451581224087134209
The first two replies are gold. Cena grovelling to China was nauseating.
I am very anti Islam, but I’m Waaay more anti Concentration camps, Fuck the CCP!
Damn, first Tibet now Xyghurs. I hope Silver is buying Prilosec by the case now. Fuck him.
I took the day off from work for a much needed break.
I watched Violet Evergarden: The MovieViolet Evergarden: The Movie
Count me in the 1%. I really loved the franchise and it’s a really interesting story about dealing with war, loss and PTSD. But the film was a disjointed mess that was supposed to conclude things.
So oddly, I recommend all the other works, but not this one. However, if you like all the other parts of the series you’ll likely watch this just to see how it ends. What a disappointment.
I saw that on Netflix and was considering watching, but have not watched any of the series.
I guess you recommend the series?
Absolutely. One of my top 10.
It’s easy to watch episodically. Each episode is essentially a complete story that helps Violet learn about love and how to live after the war.
Well, that is depressing. I am off duty and have no recommendations for palate cleansers. It’s my anniversary so I am going out from the Cave of R.J. for a bit. Hopefully you find better cinematic fare soon.
I’m in the minority. It’s got good audience and critical reception.
In my view that’s on the strength of the franchise and not this screenplay.
I don’t know if anybody mentioned it in the AM links since i didn’t read the whole thing, but Tom Hanks’ bosom buddy has died.
I thought Tom’s bosom buddy was an underage girl on Epstein Island?
Damn your nimble fingers. I was going to go with so much for the Bosom Buddies reunion.
RIP
I liked Newhart.
So, Covid it is, then.
Same thing I said to my wife “What did he die from?” me “cancer….so covid”.
Plot thickens..
https://deadline.com/2021/10/rust-movie-gun-internal-review-safety-issues-production-camera-crew-walkout-1234860497/
Which if the reports/rumors of the armorer walking off the job…all makes sense that corners were cut possibly.
Then it’s doubly on Baldwin, as both the person that was holding the weapon and a producer.
It’s up to the insurance companies to battle it out now, I guess.
Crap, if true, they make NASA look like amateurs at the normalization of abnormality.
Shitshow.
“Even before Rust went into production, a number of armorers turned down the gig citing concerns about the budget of the film and the sheer amount of firearms to be utilized, we hear.”
“I’ll take Things that never fucking happened for $2000, Alex.”
“You’ve found the Daily Double!”
So if staff walked out..I expect them to be dropping the juicy details on how shitty the production was being run.
Loud pops…like a primer driving a bullet into the barrel of a revolver?
New Dream Theater CD just showed up on my doorstep…
I recommend going to the bathroom before you start playing it.
hmmm, that went whoosh over my head…
I should go ahead and download it. I’m having the truck serviced tomorrow morning, and I’ll need something to do…
a person was just holding it in their hands and it went off.
Top notch police work. Good shoot.
Why am I seeing Biden/Harris ads in VA with no mention whatsoever of McAuliffe? Is McAuliffe in that much trouble that they can’t even mention his name now?
Will you be Zooming from the backwoods tonight?
Yesh
got a cold open planned
You do? Or are you asking if I do?
I may
Too dark to see him?
It’s the gov that dare not speak its name.
Yes… not that it will change the likely outcome, but yes.
McAwful wants to distance from what’s his name? What were we talking about? They should name Amtrak after me.
Your favorite doggie daycare featured the almighty malamute…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHRvvWX62oY
Adorable.
Plus, seems appropriate, especially if we have any Guided by Voices fans in the house.
You nailed it. Never heard this one. I have both a malamute and piles of GBV/Bob Pollard vinyl/discs from throughout the years.
Lucky Sucka. I’ve made it my goal to amass as large a GBV vinyl collection as I can get my hands on. Not a cheap hobby, but worth it nonetheless….
By the way, Gertrude the Weimaraner runs like the freaking wind, holy crap
I loved seeing Yoyo swimming on his own. I wish he had gotten in there with the big ball – maybe someday soon 🙂
I love Gilly and the hat game in the pool. Gilly used to be afraid of the water, but Uncle Luke’s hat was so tempting, he just started jumping in one day.
Did you see the video about Bobby? I felt so bad. But at least he still gets to come back to the farm. My heart broke for him, though.
Awww I hadn’t seen that yet, poor sweet Bobby. But, as you said, he gets to be at the farm, and for what it’s worth, if I was a pupper I think I’d be in absolute Heaven there….
West Virginia governor would welcome 3 Western Md. counties with ‘open arms’
Maybe tensions would subside if state boarders were adjusted.
If he’d take a few from SW PA, I’d be in as well. Washington, Greene, Somerset, Cambria, Bedford would all be good fits for WV. I’d even lobby for Beaver to be included. It makes perfect sense.
Hell yeah, that’s my kind of party. I’m in too.
I’m always down for a little Beaver
more Beaver
an homage to Beaver
and a straight cover
You forgot Fayette.
And the Fayette County Fair
I’d rather give Philly to NJ.
Bah, well didn’t get the tiki bar set up and definitely no pupu platter ready. Maybe tomorrow night…hockey is on so my attention will be elsewhere.
Make sure you have a dummy impaled on a tiki torch for your bar decorations.
Heh…would be a decent call back…
With a horse…..
https://twitter.com/BlueStarUnicorn/status/1451628002874298375
Waiting for the fact checkers on this one.
Would you, could you, with a horse?
Would you, could you, answer in Morse?
Neighbor update:
Haven’t had any contact with her for weeks. Not called, not set foot on her property, etc… Social worker called me and the wife this week. Interesting discussion. Turns out she did have a UTI and hallucinations. Wife relayed her side of the story. Social worker seemed receptive and that she wasn’t particularly confident in the friend who has taken up residence.
Found out through a mutual friend that neighbor was missing her cell phone and the pre-paid cell phone I had given her when I found out the vulture friend was taking her cell phone away from her in the hospital. She was using the vulture friend’s personal cell phone instead. Obviously, this limits who can make contact with the neighbor, including her doctors. Not shady at all.
Social worker indicated the neighbor was very fixated on her safe in the garage and couldn’t find the combination. She asked social worker to find out if we had it. I have a copy (photo on phone) simply because I had been asked to access the safe for her prior to all the crap happening. I had emptied the safe at the neighbor’s request and shown her exactly what was in it. The departed husband had been buying coins for decades and storing them without her knowledge. Let me repeat that, she had no idea what she had in the safe. It was approximately $750K in coins. Add that to the approximately $40K in cash that was squirreled away in the house in books and drawers that my wife found and gave to her.
So of course she’s worried about her safe that she can’t even physically access because it’s in a corner of the garage behind a bunch of hoarded crap. I’ll note that prior to the UTI hallucinations, I was arranging for a new security system for her and had offered to act as a straw buyer for an upgraded safe that would be more secure and actually hold all of her assets safely. I even offered to help her get some of her late husband’s extensive gun collection brokered through a local gun store for cash.
So today, I get a demand letter from an attorney to return the keys to her house, which we might have a copy around and even though we saw a locksmith changing her house locks when we drove by last week (she lives between us and the main road). She demanded the return of her garage door opener, which we don’t have. And she demanded the return of the combination to her safe, of which I have a photo on my phone, precisely because she loses stuff in her house. The demand letter stipulates we are to return it all to the attorney and not make contact with neighbor directly or through anyone acting on our behalf, even though we have not attempted to do so since we made it clear that the only way we could continue to help her was if we had some legal protection after she slandered us in the hospital while hallucinating, specifically a power of attorney and advanced medical directive that she was in process of granting us prior to her mental break so we could help her as her health deteriorated.
I have no doubt this is the vulture friend pushing it since our mutual acquaintance has indicated the neighbor is pretty drugged up, probably on a downer like trazodone, but I’m still pretty pissed. The vulture friend has trolled past my house on three occasions when it is out her way to do so. And now she’s putting an attorney on us. If I or my wife had desired to, we could have robbed the neighbor blind and she would never have known. We found and showed her the assets in her house that she didn’t know were there and couldn’t have found as they were inaccessible to her because of her physical condition.
Actually, I’m more than pissed, since I now have to deny having the garage door opener and the original copy of her safe combination.
We never took money from the woman even though she offered to pay for things. My wife spent untold hours helping her over the past decade and particularly over the last two years as her husband was dying. Took her to the doctor, took her to the bank, did her shopping, helped her clean up her hoarding situation, helped make certain her husband’s last days were as comfortable as could be and at home where he wanted to be, etc… Never asked for a damn thing and this is the thanks we got for it.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Thanks, needed to get that off my chest.
That’s all so infuriating.
You might want to consider getting an attorney’s advice, and to have them handle the transfer of the key and combo to her attorney. This sounds so damn fishy.
This. Once they lawyer up, you need to respond in kind. I’d also get any sort of local elder services groups/departments involved at this point. They’ve seen all this before, and they’ll know how to approach it. They may even have lawyers on referral who have dealt with this before.
^this.
This has the potential to spiral very badly for you. I strongly dislike lawyers (Glib company excepted), but now’s the time to hire your own pitbull to handle all communication with this. Who knows if her lawyer is even real… it could be one of the vulture’s friend running a scam. Then you may be sued for the value of the coins once the safe is wiped out.
My wife was sued once by a vindictive former employer alleging breach of contract (non-compete) by working for a competitor within an X mile radius. That bitch even went so far as to have my wife served by a uniformed deputy. Her new clinic was clearly outside the radius, but we still hired our own attorney to handle communications. Just knowing we had hired our own lawyer had them immediately back down.
It’s an actual lawyer.
The liquid assets are obviously the issue. I attempted to keep them secret on her behalf because of the security risk is poses to her, but well… fuck that now.
The social worker will be receiving a full accounting of what she has in that house, including all firearms. I want it on the record that I don’t have any of her stuff. Neighbor is just going to have to deal with it.
Lawyer lawyer lawyer. Stop interacting with any of them, as hard as it is to do. Not the social worker, not the neighbor, not the scumbag friend. Cut all of them off. If you think any of them need something, and it’s related to her, have your lawyer do it.
Especially do not contact the social worker with any of the person’s assets, or combinations, or any thing.
Argh, you’re probably right about the social worker. She is aware of the safe because the neighbor mentioned it to her. I told her that I do have a copy of the combination and why but not what was in it.
I’m just pissed and want some pain inflicted on somebody.
Specifically the neighbor asked the social worker to ask me about the combination, which I did not give because I did not have authority to do so.
I’m going to go drink now.
Don’t talk to her lawyer directly. Hire your own and let them handle it. It’ll cost you less in the end.
When this all went down originally and she slandered us, I consulted with an attorney then. Guess I’ll be calling him again.
We’re in the clear as far as I can tell, but she can still put us through the process if she so desires.
Sorry you are going through all this.
Definitely talk to that lawyer or some other lawyer.
Just talk to the lawyer. If anything went missing from her safe, and they know you had the combination, you’re fucked, potentially.
by “the lawyer” I mean *your* lawyer, of course.
That’s a foregone issue. She gave us the combination to the safe. I opened it and showed it all to her, there’s not really any denying that.
She would be hard pressed to prove what was in the safe though. There’s no records.
And I’ll note that she (meaning her friend) appears to have found the cheapest lawyer in town.
The demand letter wasn’t served by a deputy nor was it even sent certified mail. It’s rather remarkable that it arrived before the demand of return date, next Monday.
The paper it’s printed on is cheap as shit too and it looks like a bad photocopy.
Classy.
Speaking of, not being certified mail or officially served means they can’t even verify we received it and it’s not binding in a meaningful sense. It’s just a threat.
Second. Lawyer up and let them do the interactions.
Perhaps you have accumulated some character witnesses during all of these comings and goings with the neighbor to the doctor, bank, etc.
We do have some.
You are storing up treasure in Heaven, friend.
https://twitter.com/KayaJones/status/1451558248876756994
I don’t know where all this stupid dust came from
*clear throat, sniffles* Seems I took a drink of water wrong or some dust off the ceiling fan…uh…I like guns and trucks and mud.
Lets Go Brandon mic drop
https://twitter.com/beingrealmac/status/1451566770645610496
Jesus…its now…part of our lexicon just like that. Wonder if it will get the same treatment as a new word or phrase with a definition.
Wonder if it will get the same treatment as a new word or phrase with a definition.
Surely you jest.
Even if it does, it will include the words “far-right” or “alt-right”, you can mark it down.
https://www.ktnv.com/13-investigates/nevada-considers-tax-hike-to-replenish-unemployment-insurance-fund
We forced the situation now pay for it serfs!
Also…Nevada took…$39 billion? in COVID monies….so…fuck of.
Even fucked up in my own thread. I am all kinds of special today.
They’re chanting wrong…it’s supposed to be sing-songy
/pedant
It should…and you know we have hit our stride with the meme when we can be a bit pedant about it.
Md., Va. senators call on Metro to restore public confidence in transportation system
Hey, senators, you should offer pointers on how you restored public confidence in the government.
SCIENCE!
An elephant’s tusks are among its defining features — they help the animal lift heavy branches, topple trees, strip bark, fight, and dig holes for water and minerals.
But an increasing proportion of female elephants in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park have been born without these crucial tools, and scientists say it’s an evolutionary response to the brutal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks during the country’s 15-year civil war.
Elephant experts working in the park had begun to notice the phenomenon after the war ended in 1992. Field data and analysis of old video footage from the park found that the proportion of tuskless female elephants increased more than threefold between 1972 and the year 2000. It was a period during which the elephant population plummeted from roughly 2,000 to about 250 individuals, said Ryan Long, an associate professor of wildlife sciences at the University of Idaho
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Tusklessness does occur naturally — and only in females — even in the absence of poaching, but usually only in a small minority of elephants. In Gorongosa in the 1970s, 18.5% of female elephants didn’t have tusks, while three decades later 51% did.
“Evolution is simply a change in heritable characteristics within a population over successive generations, and based on the results of our study, the shift toward tusklessness among female elephants at Gorongosa fits this definition perfectly,” said Long, an author of the study.
Yup.
Our best.
Our brightest.
Sure, natural selection at work in 30 years in an animal that lives for 60+ years. Sounds legit.
Nah, it’s Global Warmening,
My family has a history of gout attacks. I hope my grandchildren are born with feet.
I wanted to put a “Let’s go Brandon” sticker on the gas pump after I put almost $70 worth of gas in the Suburban a while ago.
Spoiler alert: not a fill-up.
NC legislature again tries to reign in Cooper
Republican lawmakers on Wednesday approved yet another attempt to limit the governor’s emergency powers, but the legislation is headed to a near-certain veto from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.
House Bill 264 is the latest in a series of proposals backed by legislative leaders seeking to limit the emergency powers of the governor. It would require any emergency action lasting longer than a week to have the support of a majority of the 10-member Council of State, which is currently dominated by Republicans.
GOP lawmakers and critics of Cooper’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic have long chafed at his statewide emergency orders.
The legislation is similar to a bill that passed last summer, Senate Bill 105. It was promptly vetoed by Cooper, as were lawmakers’ other, less expansive attempts to limit gubernatorial emergency powers.
In Nephew absence, I will host zoom tonight. Starts at 8, yadda, yadda, yadda.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83160530046?pwd=bmtMT0FBOTQ1cWVENFVMRXZnTE9KZz09
The Glib Family tree is starting to take shape.
More of a 2 by 4 than a tree but what are you going to do.
Niece!
Dad?!
Fucking autocorrect
PA School Board Association drops National School Board Association.
The Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA) voted to leave the National School Boards Association (NSBA) saying the national association called parents domestic terrorists.
In a letter to its members, PSBA said the group vote unanimously to leave the national association due to a long list of issues with the group, the most recent of which was a controversial letter to President Biden.
“The most recent national controversy surrounding a letter to President Biden suggesting that some parents should be considered domestic terrorists was the final straw. This misguided approach has made our work and that of many school boards more difficult,” the letter stated.
Good.
Taking on water
Only the most partisan Democrats dispute the notion that Fauci has long since become a polarizing figure on the issue of COVID. The reason for that was on full display on October 17, when in an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News, Fauci once again presented himself as the embodiment of “science, data and hard facts,” and said those who disagree with or criticize him are “conspiracy theorists.”
“Those are people that don’t particularly care for me, and that’s understandable because what I do and I try very hard is to be guided by the truth,” he said. “And sometimes the truth becomes inconvenient for some people, so they react against me.”
Biden himself has also alienated skeptics with his dismissive tone. At a presidential town hall Thursday evening, he mocked people with concerns about vaccine safety or government mandates by joking, “I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID.”
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The disclosure that the NIH did indeed fund gain-of-function research further undermines Dr. Fauci’s standing to direct the U.S. response to the pandemic. His attitude had already infuriated a not-insignificant segment of the population. And even before the disclosure that his statements to Congress and to Senator Paul about the NIH’s role were inaccurate, Democratic strategists told Newsweek that Biden could do himself and the country some good by finding a less polarizing figure to oversee the closing chapters of the pandemic. “If you can take some of the political poison out [of COVID] in an election year, it’s a big win,” says Ryan Pougiales, Deputy Director of Politics at Third Way, a centrist Democratic think tank.
Man overboard!
Thats a hell of a way to put it all
“…a less polarizing figure to oversee the closing chapters of the pandemic.”
Fauci will be 130 years old when the closing chapters of the pandemic arrive.
President Donald Trump, who clearly disliked Dr. Fauci and disagreed with his guidance, could not have fired him without intense criticism and charges that he simply didn’t want to hear the truth about the virus, vaccines, masks or lockdowns. President Biden isn’t constrained by that concern. The new revelations about U.S. taxpayer support for the Wuhan lab research raise more questions about Fauci’s credibility and give Biden more freedom to move forward.
The Ministry of Truth has Joe’s back. Narratives will be curated. There is a place already prepared in the Memory Hole for Former Saint Foochy.
There’s also already a place prepared in the Memory Hole for Biden hisself.
“new revelations”
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More like “now we can talk about them revelations”.
Newly-authorized-for-release revelations
Y’all might be able to help me figure this out.
Long story short, my wife was talking with a mom at the park yesterday and everything was cool until the end when she said something to the effect of “I don’t want to be too forward or anything, but would you be interested in exchanging contact information and getting together to talk more?”
In context it was ambiguous as to whether she was talking about a playdate for the kids or talking about her e-commerce business that she was super vague about, so my wife asked “like for a play date?”
The girl said something like “yeah, that’s fine, too.”
The girl already had my wife’s number at that point, so we left and were just wondering to one another what the hell had just happened.
Anyway, wife got a call from the girl today and it seems like some sort of MLM scam and/or cult crap. Something about a 4 week training course that you can’t know anything about until you attend it. ?
Obviously, this is a “block number and run away” type of situation, but it’s tickling the back of my mind. I’ve seen this before, and I don’t remember the punchline. Was it a Dateline? Was it an article share here long ago? The familiar parts are a mom being approached at a park by another mom, the person being super vague about some e-commerce business, the conversation going well until it gets weird at the end, and the attempt at manipulating a friendly person into some sort of training program. Can anybody place that to a particular story or scam?
LuLaRoe?
Now I’m half tempted to see it through until she exposes which MLM she’s sucked into.
$100 bucks it was LuLaRoe
I was thinking swingers at first.
Evenin’ squire! I was hoping for a “does she like candid photography” end to the story, but maybe that’s not the way moms at the playground stories usually end. Oh well, nudge nudge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWCUi4FngI4
I thought it was Sean offering employment opportunities.
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I need more orphans working the hot pepper farm.
Orphans are in low supply. Unaccompanied minors are plentiful.
Your wife should have gotten on top of the other woman like Lily does at the dog park.
My baby may have done just that to her baby….
Lol
The new Democrat plan is awesome! Everybody gets a pony! Even the President!
Looks up…cries…you don’t pay attention to me!
There, there – I saw yours first.
I saw yours first so I knew CPRM’s was Fake News!
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/some-local-car-dealerships-on-high-alert-after-catalytic-converter-thefts/article_fb143230-3376-11ec-8d1e-177d12b88243.html
Thieves suck. Cat converter thieves really suck. ?
Sawzall and a flashlight, easy money,
Damn, you really put the screws to the thieves. I’d just call the cops if I caught them.
Picture the flashlight attached to the sawzall and used a la Naked Gun style
Hmm, a little duct tape and your done, frees up a hand for your beer, i like it!
I think you mean Top Secret
The punchline
Local Security Firms Offering Platinum Protection Plans
I wonder how long until we’ve seen an exhaustive list of puns for this story?
Lol, I just threw out an extended warranty advertisement that “pre-approved” me for the platinum protection plan.
Staying away from anything Vegas this weekend. It is EDC and plenty of young girls dressed as butterflies will be pulled over high as shit.
EDC was on my bucket list, then I got old, and Vegas drivers are maniacs, 90 mph all day long, no thanks,
More Baldwin savagery
All his smug-ass tweets from years ago are being turned back on him.
Yes it was an accident, and I truly feel for the lady who lost her life and her family.
With that out of the way, it couldn’t be happening to a more deserving asshole. I hope some Redditor with foresight archived every one of his tweets and hits him for a month straight with all his smarmy insults hurled at others.