Slowly but surely, we’re digging out of the latest snowpocalypse. Our street is now officially a Sheet Of Ice® and it’s fun watching the deer try to get traction when they play kamikaze with passing cars and trucks. The schools were closed for two days, which seems odd since they spent the past year and a half getting all of their courses virtual. Has Zoom suddenly stopped working?
Birthdays today include a guy who didn’t get his own musical; a guy who should have been a duPont; a guy who wasn’t a fan of the Gettysburg address; a guy who knew the difference between use and self-abuse; a guy who proved that there’s no damn difference between Republicans and Democrats; the greatest baseball player ever, and there is no rational counterargument; a big government liberal who somehow got a different reputation; a fun girl who loved puppies and children; a woman who knew her rights when she was pulled over by the cops; a guy who had a reputation for being imperious; Mr. Spock’s hairdresser; the greatest of all the drunk actors in Hollywood history; a guy who made weird hand signs for one of Steven Spielberg’s turkeys; a guy who only knew one beat; a great, great songwriter and performer whose cow cried; a guy who raised being a preachy and disconnected piece of shit to a new level; and a guy who tempts me badly to be a sneaky and cruel bastard.
And bastard that I am, here’s Links.
Gord is still doing God’s work.
The solution is obvious: no alcohol, more THC.
Remember, this is what the Left wants for your kids.
Now, Old Guy Music. Normally, when YouTube has disabled embedding, I just grab and image and link it so you can see what you’re going to get. But this morning I’m too lazy. So, it could be something terrific. Or it could be a Rickroll. Are you feeling… lucky?
I shoveled for 2 hours Friday morning after working a bit more than 10. And under that approx. 6″ of snow was the ice from the previous storm.
I understand.
Did you get no reprieve from work? I got two days off! (Well, except for the one-hour Zoom meeting Thursday…when I accidentally logged in under my Glib name before I frantically figured out how to change it.)
We sure didn’t. The schools being closed meant lots of kids needing caffeine and food.
Ch-ching?
Bow chicka bow bow?
Nope. Luckily, since I was off Wednesday night, I missed most of the ice that the snow just covered up. But I still slipped & slid all over our fair township.
My office was closed but since I work from home right now (thanks COVID), I still had to work.
An article critical of universal pre-k in Psychology Today? How the hell did that happen?
That article is horrifying.
And the Left will ignore and flog harder.
Morale will be improved! Really!!! Trust us. /proggies
The author is a pretty well known advocate for self directed learning and has a regular blog on Psychology Today.
Liz’s little bombshell doesn’t mean squat. She’s gonna hang on until Chuckie dies.
The snow here has been pretty great. Lots of loft, easy to move, great for romping. It stuck nicely to the sleet layer underneath it to make for good footing.
Just hook everyone up to their own valium drip as soon as they get on the plane. Problem solved.
Id be thrilled with the versed/fentanyl cocktail I received when I had my heat cath. Now that is some good stuff.
Then again, the IV morphine I got when I broke my hand made me understand why heroin is a thing.
Or just give me a bottle of anything…
I had eye surgery about a year ago and I think that’s what they gave me. It was a nice pleasant feeling for sure.
You’d think Fox would update that URL on the boy-in-a-well story.
It took Reuters four paragraphs to get to the trucker Nazis and racists.
Do better, Reuters.
“some participants waving Confederate or Nazi flags”
When they don’t give numbers…
It was like two people, I think their names were False and Flag.
The closest I’ve come to seeing a picture of a nazi flag in that protest was a pic on Twitter with someone pointing out that the off angle red and black flag was a city or provincial flag and not a nazi flag. I suspect that picture has been the source of the bullshit accusation from day one. They have yet to show any of the destruction and racism they are claiming in their articles.
I’ve seen Confederate flag guy, still haven’t seen any Nazi flags.
I suspect they’re as mythic as the broken windows.
“Some Ottawa residents, who have endured near-incessant honking, smashed windows and harassment for wearing masks themselves,”
Smashed windows? Why do I suspect I’m being lied to?
Funny how they’re willing to mostly look the other way for far worse behavior if the protests are for the benefit of certain groups. If I didn’t know better I’d think Reuters has an agenda.
Well it isn’t exactly only Reuters agenda.
so so funny….four stars: would read again
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I like that they used mostly peaceful but noisy. Someone has a sense of humor
Look, the entire point of sending those two people out with Nazi flags was so that every media outlet in the Western world could reference it and tie the protesters to Nazis. They aren’t going to just let that propaganda go to waste.
I remember where I was when I heard that the Bambino was gone. At a small county fair, another kid ran up to me and told me that the Babe was gone.
I can’t remember what I had for dinner last night though but I did shovel snow yesterday, I remember that. Fortunately not too much and not heavy.
Thanks, OM. I remember William Bendix playing the Babe in the movie, too.
Agree on him being the best player ever, unless you can name me a winning WS pitcher who also was an outstanding hitter.
ESPN just put out a piece a couple of days ago arguing that perhaps he’s ranked too high and Willie Mays should be higher.
https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/33166973
They’re idiots, but we knew that.
Slowly but surely, we’re digging out of the latest snowpocalypse. – goddamnit you people are hogging all the snow. Another day of 12C and sunny here
son of the celebrated Governor and brother of ex-Governor Philip La Follette of that State……..has turned into a confused anti-administration Nationalist……On the whole an ally of the Isolationists
I could fry walleye with a guy like that, dontchaknow
. Has Zoom suddenly stopped working? – zoom works as an excuse to keep schools closed. it loses its charm when schools are open.
also why does the spellchecker not flag ope as a misspell? it is not a word.
Ope was Ron Howard’s character on “Andy Griffith”. Duh.
Our Precious Essence.
Ammeter, Indicator, Wye-level-eye!
Sliderule Dynamo;
Tau Beta Pi!!
/old nerd
I have an old slide-rule programmed for emissions sampling and I was just messing with it to see if I could remember the input order.
Weird.
I also have my Dad’s Keuffel & Esser engineering slide rule. I think I can maybe add or subtract with it.
there is little more satisfying than using excellent, ancient tools, especially if they are marked for West Germany
*wishes I had picked up that Sig at a gun show ten years ago*
I’ve got an ancient “probability slide rule” which is circular and —thank goodness— not Chinese made so it’s still in really good shape.
Sometimes the freshly minted engineering yoots come to my office and get me to demonstrate how those ancient tools work.
It’s kinda cute.
Link to probability slide rule:
https://sliderules.lovett.com/toprules/special/specialdisplayarticle.cgi?match=2009Jul230353657942&text=Vintage%201960%27s%20Probability%20Slide%20Rule%20Rolatape%20%20&language=0
I have found it difficult to find a place that sells “new” slide rules.
I have a simple tool made of paper stock that I used to use all the time. Junction depth vs temp vs time for three different dopants in Si. You rotate a plastic wheel with a black line on it to along with two of your conditions then read off the third.
It’s simple and could be done in a simple program now, but most of the engineering world worked this way in the 20th century.
this one is pretty good and you might could get it free: https://unitedstates.xylemappliedwater.com/files/2012/07/system-syzer-wheel-th.jpg
I calculate pretty much everything in spreadsheets, but I always try to keep some sanity checks in my heads; my view is that reading and transposing from charts and tables is a needless source of error, the sort of mistake I’m much more likely to make than fat-fingering a keypunch. That said, I also insert a lot of conditional formatting that catches errors and notes maxima and minima (which mistakes tend to create)
Having experience really helps with a sanity check. I also like to calculate critical design parameters two different ways if possible. One is usually a simplistic estimate as a QC check.
I keep several standards in my head
5,000FPM in a six inch pipe ~ 1,000CFM
1 one inch pipe is 25 feet to the gallon
8% interest costs 20% over four years
a pound of steam ~ 900BTU
then you can quickly scale for comparison
I’m often converting units to think through something because I know the answer in, say, atmospheres, but the data are in bar, inH20, mmHg
and then there are simple facts that keep you going
H20 62.4PCF….quick check @60
steel 500PCF
and simple definitions
gallon = 231in^3
I’ve made a career of just understanding and helping people build things; most of what I do is summed up in a few simple ideas
Chemist’s version:
Gallon = 8.4 pounds of 1.0 sg
Mole of atoms or small molecules in solid or liquid = about two cupped handsful
I can’t remember anything else except some random pKas.
half my career was chemistry, but I don’t have any truly chemical benchmarks; it’s all formal to me, like valences, all values to be memorized or looked up
Chemistry was aha moments for me: you need two filters in series, the cheap course one you replace every week and, downstream, the fine one (not so fine it strips out needed solids) you replace once a month. Add as much as you can before the thickeners: once the cellulose blooms, horsepower requirements and time to disperse anything else will take 20X. A coating is only as good as the first scratch.
Some things seemed innate to me and I don’t know why I have to argue them: you don’t put ball valves on the end of lines where someone can make a big, fast mistake with a simple 90 degree flip of a handle. You design everything failsafe: when the power goes off, things stop right where they are, no gravity flow, few normally-open controls, no spring-opened….etc.
I always refer to ChemE as “Pipes and Pumps.”
From 10th grade I remember 4.184j/gdegC
But I can never remember which is Aogadro’s number and which is Avogadro’s constant. And I’m pretty sure they changed the fourth digit of it at some point in my lifetime.
I still have my dads mini slide rule from the Navy. Made in occupied Japan.
Remember, this is what the Left wants for your kids. – I mean everyone wants this as no one want to spend time with their own kids…
I think I made the confusion between just daycare and academic kindergarten
Sooo, if I wanted to write a piece about a relative and some history…and there were pics (some surprisingly HQ) – would it be simple enough to just blank the name tags if I’m feeling paranoid? Should still be detailed enough and not too intrusive…
That would make you a liar, LCDR.
There’s a special circle in hell reserved for the liars. It’s right below the circle reserved for the Jews.
Didn’t realise it was the Bambino’s geburtstag today. I watched The Sandlot last night. Good timing I guess. You just couldn’t make that movie nowadays. Not necessarily because of wokism (although there would be a large dose of it) but just because it captures a kind of innocent magic that no longer exists in the world, even for kids.
Actually you really couldn’t do the scene where Squints tricks Wendy Peffercorn into giving him mouth to mouth resuscitation. What a dirtbag. What a movie.
On MLB Network? We watched an episode of Ken Burns’s Baseball film series there Friday night – the “Ninth Inning.” Nice, but badly needs to be updated. Everyone knows Game 6 of the 2011 World Series was the best game ever.
I was only a few miles away but didnt’ go: didn’t spend my money that way when the kid was growing up.
Game 6 was awesome. Our hero Freese grew up a Cardinals fan in STL, but his stay with the team was oddly short. The unforgetting fans would routinely salute his first at bat of games when he visited on others’ rosters with a standing ovation.
I will miss the Cardinals: it’s really a hole that only old true baseball can fill. I will grieve the NL for years, I’m sure.
On Wokemaus+ because I got month sub just to catch up on/watch whatever was on there.
I also watched the ’30 for 30′ documentary on Orlando and Livan Hernandez (Brothers in Exile) which was actually pretty good. Although, it didn’t go into a huge amount of detail regarding the coordination with Joe Cubas especially in regards to El Duque’s eventual detection.
*defection
LC1789 – thanks for the info on the last thread.
This is the site I used yesterday: https://milconnect.dmdc.osd.mil/milconnect/
For “current” aka “live” vets – this site appears to let you completely download your record. I submitted my requests for my Army history – all docs – and got automated responses via PDF in less than 15 minutes. You need a DS login, but if you’re in the VA/DEERS already, chances are you may have created this account already.
Like I said…my Army copy is missing at least 3 awards that I have hard copies of…and duplicates of other reports. May follow up with them later on about that. The one award I’m having trouble tracking down is the one my Reserve unit gave me (without telling me) right as I was entering OCS.
Haven’t tried doing my Navy file via that site yet, but I’m hoping that admin at the NOSC can update a lot of it manually while I’m meeting with them next week – will need to draft a letter to the board, and probably include some copies with that too.
and yeah…with the exception of that one award, my DD214 is good – that’s what always drives me nuts. Squared my DD214 away every time I needed a new one (with what I knew at the time) and the other stuff keeps disappearing. Why should I need to upload another copy of my college transcript to get it recorded on my OSR if there’s already one attached to my digital OCS package? – good grief.
Thank you Fish! I know my record is missing a couple of awards, maybe I’ll take the time to update it. Don’t have a DS Logon, but looks like anyone enrolled in DEERS post 1982 can sign up on the VA side.
Totally petty but I do have the award form/orders. One thing one of the admin NCOs drilled in years ago was the I Love Me Wall framing certificate was nice, but the paperwork made the deal and hold onto that so you could get your jacket corrected.
No problem. After preliminarily checking my records, I see what I did.
I noticed that I should have received 3 medals. I didnt know who to contact, so I wrote the Chief of Naval Operations office. They referred me to Naval Personnel Command, who are the ones who corrected the error and updated my DD214 with a DD215 form. Also the National Personnel Records Center in St Louis MO had my service record. It might be a different address for US Army portion of your service.
I also remembered that some states (Georgia does) have veteran advocate agencies that assist with VA disability and other govt paperwork bureaucracies. They might be able to assist. It sounds like youre on the right track.
Good luck.
https://www.chewboom.com/2022/02/04/kfc-just-dropped-a-giant-chicken-sandwich-pillow/
I stopped at “the colonel’s real Mayo”
I believe that I have now received all the official documents relating to my 2021 tax life. Could break even, could owe $100k. No idea.
Wish me luck; I’m going in.
just run the estimation calculator on HR Block’s site first. I forgot to do it the way I normally do – got a little behind. Was a little paranoid on the drive in to the office.
Did get a nice refund though. Better than last year.
Good luck.
Good luck, Hayek,
I screwed up really bad last year, way over paid. Caught the error right away and sent in an amended, got my over payment back a couple months
later, then a few weeks ago got a check for X2 the over payment. I love the IRS. Plus got a reminder that they had paid me interest on the over payment.
I’ll need to be cautious this year so as not to get too much attention
“Protesters have shut down downtown Ottawa for the past eight days, with some participants waving Confederate or Nazi flags”
Such fair. So lack of bias.
Even Wikipedia slaps you on the wrist for weasel words like that.
Not if it’s from a “reliable source” they won’t.
A serious and very aggressive attempt to film, identify and reveal the false flaggers (or even a tiny minority of national socialists?) is forthcoming. Look at the success in exposing the Dem staffers who false flagged with confed flags in Charlottesville recently, or the efforts to expose Ray Epps. It’s a shame more hasn’t been done to expose the masked plants smashing windows at the Capitol on J6 while the real protestors tried to stop them and called them out.
Or all that leads to so much misery and to make yourself a target for anyone who might actually do it. The price of digging hard enough to expose all that crap is being ruined.
There is derp, and then there is DERP.
Oh no, it gets better…
Barf.
he’s sincere
he’s firmly in the majority
we are fucked
I… can’t even.
Buttle.. Tuttle.. whatever..
When you understand/read democracy and the will of the people to mean whatever the left wants, it all makes sense.
No comments section. Checks out.
I have a simple method for determining whether a supposed “conservative” follows the constitution or just wants to use the bureaucracy to do their bidding but not necessarily a Lefties bidding.
Discuss the 2nd Amendment and see their reaction when you point out the 2A specifically forbids exceptions to the Peoples right to keep and bear Arms. Background checks, machine gun bans, ammo restrictions, explosive restrictions, etc are all unconstitutional infringements on the peoples right to keep and bear Arms.
Even Scalia publicly said he wasnt against “restrictions” on Arms, like ex-felons being banned from possessing firearms.
When our govt cannot even follow basic instructions to limit govt, our govt is corrupt. They are either unable to understand English or they are lying and refuse to acknowledge the govt limitation. He Founders spelled out what Americans have to do in the Declaration Independence. Its advice on how to deal with tyranny.
How dare any state have politicians and people that subvert the democratic will of progressives!
Sometimes you have to wonder if the left isn’t really more interested in being a vocal opposition rather than actually governing. Sure, run a progressive in WV, and then wonder why you get you asses handed to you in the general election.
OMG please make this happen! I want to see Schumer squirming at the podium as he tries to triangulate between the commie and the centrists.
The tears would be delicious!
Progressives, even in red enclaves, feel no need to self-censor or tone shit down because they have the massive media establishment on their side. They become convinced that all their fringe progressive ideas are really mainstream because that’s what they are told on an endless loop from the major media outlets, late night talk shows and Hollywood. And progs love their mainstream mass media. It reinforces and spoon feeds them all their ideas.
Some types don’t feel a need to reconcile their ideas: cognitive dissonance never arises in them. I think this happens less often with conservatives because they tend to have inherited and lived with their ideas all their lives where as progressives are struggling to rewrite all of everything and making a lot of new mistakes along the way.
“U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said capitalism does not benefit most Americans and is ‘not a redeemable system'”
And how much money has she grifted in her time there?
see here, bub: she has a degree in economics
Fact Check: False.
I’m not saying, I’m just saying that yesterday two big ol’ B52 bombers were flying over North Las Vegas and the “interesting” lands beyond.
Not sure if they were meant to alarm the Russkies or not. Succeeded in depriving me a good night’s sleep.
Why do we borrow trouble? Sufficient unto today are its own troubles.
All that said, hose B52s look awesome when flying low. Wow.
a B17 flew over my golf round last summer
I’m an engine guy and heard SOMETHING REALLY LOAD AND DIFFERENT and looked to the horizon
I was transfixed for fully two minutes
It is a weird tingly mix of awe and fear.
When you see them doing “touch and goes” its buggers belief they can fly.
Other planes, at least aim “up” or above the horizon, these guys just sort of rise or fall.
today on weird ass youtube recommends
Hellzapoppin’ in full color | Colorized with DeOldify
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzc7vY9VTnk
Slutty Sunday’s got dangerous curves.
https://archive.md/JDZns
Also speaking of weird recommends sometimes the weirdest articles appear in my news feed and sometimes I click because I simply cannot understand what the headline could be about and I suspect this leads to getting more . One such headline was “Bengson & Shechtman from Wisconsin to Texas” which I simply had no idea what could be about and it turns out is some philosophy professors moving from one US university to another so why the fuck is that in my news feed.
You may not realize this, but philosophy professors are like the rockstars of academia here in the states. People cheer for them like they do their favorite college football team.
You joke, but I witnessed that when Stephen Hawking gave a lecture at the Woodlands Arena outside of Houston.
The article on pre-k is interesting, but utterly pointless. It fails to take into account that these programs aren’t for the benefit of children or even society. They are all about funneling more money into the pockets of teacher unions, letting the state sink their hooks into children at an even earlier age, and so people have free daycare for their younger children. It also sounds good, like you really care, when you are pitching universal pre-k. It’s another entitlement that your heartless conservative opponent dares to oppose.
This shit is about adults and special interest groups in particular. Not children.
I always found it ironic that I performed my best in high school when I started skipping classes for a period of a few months and would just show up and con my teachers into giving me the assignments which I then did on my own and turned in. But man did the school bureaucracy loath my arguments when they caught on to what I was doing. It wasn’t “fair” to the other kids (I don’t think the school counselor ever really thought this argument through), even if it worked better for me. And don’t you dare suggest that schools get paid per head in the classrooms!
They then forced me out of my school in my senior year to go take online classes. It was basically some remedial model. I had one class left I needed to complete – English 4. I completed it in 3 days because it was a joke and I was allowed to move at my own pace. The teacher was incredulous when I first approached her saying I had completed the course. It was supposed to take months.
So, I wonder if the writer of this article has ever taken the arguments they make about state run pre-k programs and applied it to state run education as a whole.
I often ask friends and acquaintances to try and name an industry other than education that operates pretty much exactly the same as it did 100 years ago. If the goal is education, schooling needs a major disruption. If the goal is creating docile tax cattle, the system we’ve got works just fine.
On the other hand, Montessori education is 100 years old and works fine.
Everyone remembers the names of Columbus’s 3 ships from Sophomore History, it was a fill in the blank question. I’ve never been asked that in a job interview, I wasted space in my memory bank all these years.
I’ve never asked that question when interviewing either. One time I’d like to ask “Betcha can’t name the 3 ships….”
As I mentioned above, the author is an advocate for self directed learning. He absolutely argues for free choice in education.
When the conservative movement contrived to pack the U.S. Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues, one of the goals was to create a powerful ally in its campaign to dismantle the federal regulatory system, which we all depend on every day to safeguard our families, communities, and environment. With its recent decision in the emergency vaccine-or-test case, the Court’s conservative supermajority gave its clearest signal yet that it will advance this campaign from the bench.
“Forgive them Father, for they know not…. Wait. That’s wrong. Smite them, Lord. Strike down the heretics and unbelievers and apostates who have turned their backs on your majesty. Those who seek to destroy your great works must be crushed under your heel, and ground into dust. Damn them, Father. Send them to suffer the endless torments of Hell. We beseech thee.”
I’m still chuckling at the assertion that SCOTUS is “packed with right-wing ideologues”.
To be fair, anything to the right of the Communists in America are “right-wing”.
45 and sunny yesterday in Ft Collins. Same for next week. The unburying is easy, nature does it for you
” nature does it for you” in May
Ocasio-Cortez also said that capitalism was flawed at its core, saying, ‘To me, capitalism at its core, what we’re talking about when we talk about that, is the absolute pursuit of profit at all human, environmental, and social cost.’
She said that under the economic system, a nation’s power is held by an elite and wealthy minority, calling out billionaires Charles Koch and David Koch, whose family is worth more than $100 billion and have a hold on the fuel and oil industries.
‘If it ultimately comes down to a billionaire or the Koch brothers or the Koch family having control over the vast majority or large plurality of our oil assets in the United States, if it’s a handful of very wealthy families having control over – you know, private families having control over means of production, that is essentially the capitalist system that we live in, she said.
‘It is a small group that is of privatized control over what we eat and how we fuel our society.’
The Koch Bros? There’s a blast from the past.
Somebody should tell her John D Rockefeller saved more whales than Greenpeace.
AoC really should try to get her money back from Boston University. They failed her utterly.
I’m always baffled at the “choose your own definition” crowd. “To me” capitalism is X. No, it has a definition that is completely independent of your conceptions and it has nothing to do with what you think it is. Boston University ought to be ashamed of itself.
One of the hard parts of becoming an adult is the realization that the world exists independently of your wants and doesn’t owe you anything. Unfortunately that lesson doesn’t seem to have gotten through some people’s heads.
PoMo 101: reality is subjective with no set definitions for anything.
You can see why it appeals so much to Commies.
Sure, but you’re supposed to use their definitions when participating in discourse. You don’t get to make up your own definition of racism or capitalism or whatever because reasons.
The complete absurdity of post modernism starts and ends with the fact that it’s a completely inoperable framework for human interaction.
No, if you are on the right or not on the left, you use the definitions and words have meaning.
If you are on the left, you say whatever you want and the good folks at Webster change the definition.
John D Rockefeller saved more whales than Greenpeace
absolutely, well played
But ours is a never-stopped wheel of enlightenment: repentance and progress; no step is pure or perfect, just as no past is perfectly evil. For example, the whales are back, but we hear about oil spills almost weekly. For me the only problem is that people drive a stake in their contemporary ground and assert standards that never were and never will be, as if slavery isn’t the norm for all of history, as if industrialism didn’t always have, literally, residues, as if the oppressed workers in the mills and factories didn’t have the choice to go back to farming, as if their home isn’t built on someone’s dispossessed, ancestral. Most folks are philosophically myopic and absolute, the very recipe for nonsense.
I’m so tired of these private corporations shoving food I don’t want down my throat!
and today in dog grooming videos a saint bernand newfoundland mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOEUpAG0KEE
‘For example, Elizabeth Warren has discussed workers being elected to the governing boards of companies…you can have markets where businesses and ways of producing, trading, selling goods are really controlled and not just controlled but giving more power to workers.
‘People get a fair shake. Union jobs, unionized workplaces, all of these are different steps and levels that we’re talking about in a more just economy,’ she said.
We should set wages, and work backwards from there. That’s how you build a successful business enterprise.
In summary: you don’t feel guilty about fucking your coworker, but you’re torn up because you gave your husband a sniffle and a cough?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17557568/affair-gave-covid-to-husband/
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HEY NOW! The only coworker I ever fucked, I fucked before I was his coworker, and we were single at the time. The fact that years later I became his boss at another company was a source of giggles to us and no more.
Hmm, since SP and I both work for the coffeeshop/café, I apparently am fucking a co-worker for the first time in my life. Whoa, shit just got more exciting!
I apparently am fucking a co-worker for the first time in my life – if it is not in the broom closet at work it does not count
Also did you officially join the ranks of the underemployed? People laugh about sociology majors flipping burgers but look where STEM gets you
I think it’s great to study science deeply; I have and walk in the world a certain way.
But most of the STEM graduates I know work with maybe 5% of their education and just do the same thing over and over. Few of them take on the challenge to learn a new system or industry or solve rapid departures from their rote wheelhouses. I can’t imagine sizing water pumps or drawing little plastic parts in 3D over and over for 40 years.
And then, because business is too important to be left to business majors, you find STEM grads siphoned off to all manner of “management” careers just because they can problem solve and orchestrate projects.
STEM majors are really the Übermensch.
ich denke “Übermenschen”
but I could be wrong
Holy Peter Principle Batman!
The important thing is that you are helping to end child unemployment.
They may realize you’re smart, they just don’t care.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/im-pretty-blonde-people-underestimate-26130090
I like the implication being that she’s really smart because she’s studying law.
She’d also look better if she didn’t put botox into her lips and didn’t have the fake tits.
The fake tits are okay, they’re at least proportional and perky. I agree about the lips – fucking hideous. What woman in her right mind undergoes a voluntary procedure to make herself look more like Mick Jagger?
As for her brains, well, here’s a rule of thumb my pop taught me:
– If you tell other people that you’re smart, you’re not smart.
– If other people tell you that you’re smart, you still might not be smart.
– If other people tell other people that you’re smart, you’re probably pretty smart.
I don’t get what is so hot about that looks mostly fake
Businesses exist for the sole purpose of handing out paychecks on Friday. That’s why they are called “employers”.
In this first-ever controlled study of public pre-K, the control group did best.
That right there confirms pretty much everything I ever suspected about those programs and the people who are so desperate to impose them.
VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is reportedly in advanced discussions to buy the startup behind Bored Ape Yacht Club.
The valuation?
Up to $5 billion.
https://twitter.com/MorningBrew/status/1489693995764629504
Great effort went into designing the program. Unlike in many other pre-K programs, the teachers would all have at least a bachelor’s degree plus early childhood certification and would be paid on a par with elementary school teachers and have the same benefits. The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) evaluated the curriculum early on and judged it to be among the best.
A textbook manifestation of “doomed to failure”.
There’s a real tendency in education circles to confuse possession of a degree or certification with the ability to do anything. It’s not confined to that field, but it seems to really be centered there.
Kindergarten was tough enough, with the sharing, too short of naps and having to behave.
Being 5 years old means wanting to explore
“Dwayne Johnson WITHDRAWS his support for ‘perfectly articulated’ anti-vaxxer Joe Rogan after N-word clips resurface and declares: ‘I am now educated to his complete narrative'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10482371/Dwayne-Johnson-withdraws-support-perfectly-articulated-Joe-Rogan-n-word-clips.html
“Spotify deletes 113 Joe Rogan podcast episodes as purge continues after host called his use of N-word in resurfaced clips ‘regretful and shameful’
JRE Missing, a website that automatically detects deleted episodes of Rogan’s podcast, has been tracking the changes.
Most of the pulled episodes were recorded before his recent COVID-19 controversy and involved far-right commentators – or outright conspiracy theorists – including Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Owen Benjamin and Canadian writer Gavin Miles McInnes.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10481401/Spotify-deletes-113-Joe-Rogan-episodes-purge-continues-host-apologized-use-N-word.html
Fuck Spotify. It’s also why it’s important to be able to download content.
the word educated is used very stupidly lately
http://www.odysee.com
They only have a couple episodes, and I don’t think you can download from there either.
youtube-dl works there; I’ve only ever used on linux, though.
OMG NOT THE ROCK!!1!
The walls are closing in, Joe.
TBH, he seems to bringing this on himself.
“TBH, he seems to bringing this on himself.”
Yup. The minute he even acknowledged the “controversy” let alone apologized for it, he exposed cracks in his armor that the Commies are rushing in to exploit.
NEVER APOLOGIZE.
This is why you don’t apologize.
Connor McGregor gave Rogan the exact template for what he should have said about this when Rogan interviewed him post fight. . “I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize….to absolutely fookin’ nobody. The double champ does what the fook he wants.”
Replace “double champ” with “world’s most popular podcaster” and that should have been the entirety of his response. The conflict would have worked in his favor after a couple weeks of petulant mewling by the usual crowd.
What the devil is “Bored Ape Yacht Club”?
Sounds like a fraternity softball team.
They sell NFT’s.
It is what all the cool kids are about old man
Sure, but you’re supposed to use their definitions when participating in discourse. You don’t get to make up your own definition of racism or capitalism or whatever because reasons.
The complete absurdity of post modernism starts and ends with the fact that it’s a completely inoperable framework for human interaction.
The Humpty Dumpty Academy of Art and Science.
GlibFit?
https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/01/body-builder-hones-physique-until-chest-is-twice-the-width-of-waist-16027232/
I often wonder what the ultimate goal is for people like this. Women like a reasonable amount of muscle, but not freakshow level; so if the motivation’s to get laid I wouldn’t think it’s particularly successful. If the motivation’s to be healthy, then I think it’s pretty obvious the guy is on juice which is kinda the opposite of healthy. I think it’s usually some combination of body dysmorphia coupled with a quasi-homoerotic approval seeking from other gym rats.
You clearly haven’t met Warty.
Figure competition. Since the 90’s, bodybuilding has swerved away from trying to replicate the physique of ancient Greek heros, and dived wholeheartedly into MOAR HYPERTROPHY!!!
And there is nothing ‘quasi-‘ about the homoeroticism.
I find it similar to women with freakshow boobs.
Straight men like boobs.
Q has a fetish for boobs and I don’t think he’s ever seen a pair of breasts he’d deem to be excessive.
Exactly. Big natural breasts are great, the big fake ones are freakish. The lip pumping thing is muy weird.
Suell gets it.
GFYS
They sell NFT’s.
Which tells me exactly nothing.
“NFT” is just another manifestation of P T Barnum’s famous aphorism, right?
I want an NFT of a tulip bulb.
** thunderous applause **
Ceci n’est pas un NFT.
So I saw the firs episode of Reacher on Amazon. While I never read any books I can confirm the actor is way taller and more muscular than Tom Cruise.
He seems to be a cross of Sherlock Holmes and Frank Castle.
The weirdest thing I’ve heard lately is the newsnebbish from the New Yorker Radio Hour gushing about how much he loves the books .
when I first read Frank Castle I though about the Castle tv show with Nathan Fillion and said neah but then I looked again and it makes sense
Stana Katic is one of the most underrated uberbabes.
was. she too old now.
“Despite soaring profits, Starbucks is raising prices AGAIN.
We can’t accept this level of corporate greed as the status quo. Tax the rich and make sure every single worker in America can join a union.”
https://twitter.com/PramilaJayapal/status/1489052771655499782
CWAA
How bourgeois.
Historically illiterate morons who have never worked in an union workplace and have no memories of when unions roamed the earth.
I want an NFT of a tulip bulb.
10,000 shares in the Beefsteak Mine.
I impulse bought some frozen meatballs on this mornings store run. I just read the ingredients. They are now in the trash.
Why, what was in them?
Horsemeat.
“Met” and “balls.”
Carby fillers.
I’m curious too cuz I like this one brand of frozen meatballs I forgot the name of.
Lots of flour lots of sugar. Garbage.
Processed meat foods #FTW!
I once purchased some inexpensive frozen burger patties. I threw them out upon finding that while, yes, they were “all beef” but managed to be so by including hearts and lungs. No organ meats for me, please & thank you.
Heart is ok, lung? Ya, big no.
I don’t mind organ meats.
I used to like these processed burgers when I was a teenager (think gas station burgers from the cooler. Years later, I saw the patties at Aldi’s, thought “this is a good price!” Then I ate one. It did naughty things to my intestines. Never again. Threw out 10 lbs’ worth.
When I was little, my dad and grandpa had cows for butchering (food investment). We got the tongue. My mom cooked it (I don’t know how). It was yummy. Chewy like chicken gizzards. Haven’t had it since.
Oh, do not like livers of any animal. Calling it paté fois gras does not make it better.
Friend of my dad’s went goose hunting and gave him a goose. I loved it but the rest of the family didn’t. I had goose sandwiches for lunch every day. I think it took me a week or so to eat that goose. Very dark meat.
There is not a Taqueria around here that does not have beef tongue. It’s good.
I knew better but bought them anyways.
They shouldn’t have sugar, but breadcrumbs are made from flour.
At Truckistan.
Sitrep!
Nothing but Nazis.
“We’re entering a post-individualist age. America needs a liberal collectivism to compete with the nativist collectivism of the right and the multicultural collectivism of the left.”
https://twitter.com/nytdavidbrooks/status/1489991596372381696
What?
You don’t have a random buzzword generator?
Brooks doesn’t pass the Turing Test.
Liberal collectivism = oxymoron
You’re free to be a part of the collective.
https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-hacker-internet-outage/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
But responsibility for North Korea’s ongoing internet outages doesn’t lie with US Cyber Command or any other state-sponsored hacking agency. In fact, it was the work of one American man in a T-shirt, pajama pants, and slippers, sitting in his living room night after night, watching Alien movies and eating spicy corn snacks—and periodically walking over to his home office to check on the progress of the programs he was running to disrupt the internet of an entire country.
awesome if true
WTF does North Korea use the internet for?
They have literally dozens of websites.
And of course, they use Oracle to control their food distribution programs.
“they use Oracle to control their food distribution programs”
????
If you are a member of the ruling class, porn.
If you are part of the peasant class, you don’t.
“A new @CDCMMWR study shows that people who reported always wearing masks or respirators in indoor public settings in California were less likely to test positive for #COVID19 compared with those who reported not wearing a face covering.”
https://twitter.com/CDCgov/status/1489675180242870278
Bullshit.
I seem to have forgotten my Roman Numerals.
Time to brush up so you can use them on your tax return.
Eh, possibly. But I doubt they control for other factors such as duration or drill down to differences in indoor locations. Or who chose to get tested.
Future headline “CDC finds people who lived as hermits in a cave with no other human interaction were less likely to acquire covid than those who hung out in hospital ER waiting rooms all day every day.”
Presumably, GoFundMe is chartered or otherwise regulated under banking statutes federally and by state. In light of their massive fuck-you to the donors and beneficiaries of the trucker fund (among others), when do we see them lose their permission slips?
When will the first shareholder suit be filed? I’m guessing first thing tomorrow morning.
Once again: he who controls the MILFs controls the World!
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2022/02/04/educational_elites_have_awakened_a_sleeping_tiger_815166.html
Not one picture of a milf. I am disappoint.
In all those shows about ‘Genius’ kids, like Doogie Hauser, MD and Smart Guy they talk about being able to test out of classes. I was never given that option. CPRM, MD, DDS, BS, HC NFL coulda been a thing, but I was never given that chance. I blame racism.
They did get the BS right.
NEVER APOLOGIZE.
“I’m sorry you’re all nothing but a pack of shrieking baboons.”
“And another thing- I should apologize to honest hard-working baboons everywhere for unfairly smearing them by comparing them to you.”
That Pre-K study story just makes makes me think the Pre-K kids caught on earlier as to what a farce the whole thing is. Public school isn’t about how smart you are, it’s about how well you follow orders. I don’t follow orders very well. (still did well in school because multiple choice tests are easy Pete, but I got in trouble a lot because I was over it all by the time I started)
Ben Dreyfuss
@bendreyfuss
In every state I’ve ever lived the “keep right” rule has been if you are going slower than the traffic, stay as far right as possible, but I didn’t realize there were states that actually say “no use of left lane ever unless passing”
https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/1490065700056023042
In Romania we have a lot of people who believe if you rive really fast and flash your lights everyone should get out of your way
When I’m doing 70mph in a 55mph zone and I get passed by someone on a two lane road with oncoming traffic, I just always assume they are a doctor late for a very important surgery.
It’s a rule some place but it’s virtually not enforced unless some grandma is causing a traffic jam. No one gets pulled over for just sort of hanging out there.
Yeah, a lot of people don’t realize that.
“No ones around, I don’t need to X, Y, or Z” and wonder why they just got t-boned by the car they didn’t see.
On the 4 lane (That’s what we call it here in bumfuck, it’s like a freeway, but there is cross traffic) some asshat pulled into the left lane in front of me from a crossroad and was only got up to about 55mph in a 65mph zone, so I jumped to the left lane to pass him, then moved back to right lane, as one should do. Around 10 miles later I needed to move over to the left lane to get off at my turn and that asshat was now hanging around in the left lane just behind my blindspot.
Not one picture of a milf. I am disappoint.
Speaking of MILFy goodness… At the gym yesterday, (FOX?) news had some video clips of Brittany Spears (I only know it were she because it said so at the bottom of the screen) cavorting on a beach somewhere in a little yellow bikini.
I’m not gonna lie. I’d stick my tongue in her belly button.
Sometimes I doubt the Glibertariat’s commitment to Sparkle Motion.
How often do you talk to Frank? Is he the one that told you to build the kiddy porn dungeon?
The Bro would put all of your children into camps, segregated from the rest of society until we could develop a true Final Solution to the problem of procreation.
Your children definitely shouldn’t be allowed in restaurants outside Chuckie Cheese, or movie theaters.
To bring some joy into the world. Monkey and magic trick
“Number of U.S. COVID deaths under Trump (with no vaccine, few treatments, and a more deadly variant):
396,837
Number of U.S. COVID deaths under Biden (with universally available vaccine, better treatments, and a less deadly variant):
528,379”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1490310766477688838
Number of Covid deaths under Hitler: 0. So?
Obviously Joe Rogan’s fault
Waiting for the hammer to fall
Russia has already assembled 70 percent of the forces it would need to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the latest government assessment said late Friday amid spiraling tensions in the region.
An invasion would likely cause significant casualties, killing or wounding up to 50,000 civilians within weeks, according to the official, who discussed the internal assessment on condition they not be identified.
Were President Vladimir Putin to decide on this course of action, capital Kyiv would likely be captured in the early days of the invasion, possibly within the first 48 hours, the official said describing the assessment.
We should first-strike Moscow. Show them we mean business.
The Russians should just claim they’re undocumented immigrants who wish to go to Ukraine. Europe and the US should be completely ok with that and chide Ukraine for trying to keep them out.
The way the Biden White House keeps talking about false flag attacks from Russia I’m worried the Dems are going to pull one, they always accuse their enemies of what they are doing themselves.
We should first-strike Moscow – should have done it in 1945
Is Georgie Patton your great grandpa?
Good morning, Old Man!
Sorry about all the snow.
From the Minneapolis article:
Hey, who was the one that proposed Breonna’s Law, again?
Sorry about all the snow. – did you cause it? otherwise why are you sorry?
Yes, I did cause it.
Superpowers are a bitch.
It was unclear how the government arrived at these estimates and NBC News has not seen supporting documents.
But my wife’s hairdresser’s boyfriend knows a guy who may or may not have deserted from the Polish army. He confirms this story in every detail.
Re Camilla, I’m still upset she hasn’t taken her rightful place as Colonel-in-Chief/co-Colonel-in-Chief of PWRR. Fuck Diana and her memory with a rusty pylon. Whiny ass narcissistic bitch who couldn’t do her job. The snowflake princess.
Yes!!! Diana was a self-centered stupid twat!! Glad I’m not the only one who thinks this.
How much happier it would have been had Charles just been allowed to marry her in 1980 to begin with. Maybe Prince William wouldn’t have gone bald at 28 y.o.