The middle of this week I got home from work close to 9 PM, ate dinner, and demolished about half a bag of cookies. That’s not like me. I ate lunch. I was hungry, but not overly hungry, when I was finally able to each dinner. I love sweets but I don’t eat them often and usually have a modest amount when I do. So, what was going on? Oh yeah, stress eating.
Stress, the hormones it unleashes, and the effects of high-fat, sugary “comfort foods” push people toward overeating. In the short term, stress can shut down appetite. The nervous system sends messages to the adrenal glands to pump out the hormone epinephrine (also known as adrenaline). Epinephrine helps trigger the body’s fight-or-flight response, a revved-up physiological state that temporarily puts eating on hold.
But if stress persists, it’s a different story. The adrenal glands release another hormone called cortisol, and cortisol increases appetite and may also ramp up motivation in general, including the motivation to eat. Once a stressful episode is over, cortisol levels should fall, but if the stress doesn’t go away (or if a person’s stress response gets stuck in the “on” position) cortisol may stay elevated.
Stress also seems to affect food preferences. Numerous studies have shown that physical or emotional distress increases the intake of food high in fat, sugar, or both. High cortisol levels, in combination with high insulin levels, may be responsible. Other research suggests that ghrelin, a “hunger hormone,” may have a role.
Ghrelin has direct effects on hunger and therefore the ability for people to lose weight and maintain weight loss. As ghrelin levels rise so do hunger and cravings for mostly carbohydrates. When you start to think about food or catch yourself grabbing a food you know you really don’t need, it is likely the result of ghrelin.
Once ingested, fat- and sugar-filled foods seem to have a feedback effect that dampens stress related responses and emotions. These foods really are “comfort” foods in that they seem to counteract stress — and this may contribute to people’s stress-induced craving for those foods. Thank goodness. I thought I was going all Homer Simpson. It turns out I was just using food as medicine.
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Last week’s off-topic rant was well received (at least by Tonio) so here is another dose. I loathe the CDC.
You know what we haven’t heard in far too long? This week’s music.
Can confirm. “Food is the most abused anxiety drug. Exercise is the most underutilized antidepressant.”
I have never seen any antidepressant effects from exercise. Usually I have to berate myself into finishing, or even get started.
Walking hills or canyons for me, but only because of the views.
I hate exercising, but I love having exercised.
https://www.amazon.com/Bulletproof-Chocolate-Protein-Vanilla-12-pack/dp/B089RCFM1V
These bars are just ok to my tastebuds. There’s other ones I like better.
Texture was ok. Price ain’t bad.
7 grams of protein but how many cals?
A glass of milk is 7-8 grams of protein too.
160
I stress eat a bit too much, but have been better about it as I’ve gotten older.
Last week I deadlifted 185 lbs for three sets of six reps. I haven’t done that since before the disc herniation acted up three years ago.
Sweet. That’s pretty much where I am with deadlifts. I could lift moar, but my form starts to fall apart at that weight/reps.
At work on slow days, I seem most likely to succumb to the snacks from the nearby break room because I’m bored. Might that be considered a sort of stress?
We only have vending machines in the break room, so no snacking for this cheapskate.
What’s a break room?
My guess is boredom or plain old temptation. But it’s only a guess.
Sweet, salty, or both?
I try to remind myself that I know what Snickers and Reese’s taste like, and they aren’t great. I have a weakness for new things though.
I mostly avoid candy (mostly). Lately I’ve been enjoying an ice cream bar after lunch (145 cals) but that’s just bonus calories that I don’t need.
Reese’s aren’t great??? Are you running a fever or something??
More seriously, in the morning, if I’m out of low-carb Greek yogurt or it isn’t enough to hold me until the Atkins shake is properly half-frozen, I’m tempted by the packets of instant oatmeal (sweetened & flavored, of course.) In the afternoon, this is my weakness.
Justin’s or Trader Joe’s are much smoother. Guess I shouldn’t enable given the topic.
These are good: https://hip2keto.com/product-reviews/high-key-mini-cookies/
Yogurt:
Chobani does a zero sugar line: https://www.chobani.com/zero-sugar/
Ratio yogurts are quite filling with the extra protein: https://www.ratiofood.com/
I’ll add shredded coconut to either one. I’m kinda excited, I found the key lime Chobani this weekend.
*I eat the keto friendly ratio stuff…not the “super” protein versions.
I boredom eat. Big time. The best way I’ve found to handle it is to accept that it’s going to happen and have fresh fruits and vegetables on hand to eat rather than junk carbs and refined sugar.
For me, staying proactive also helps. Eating an apple at 10am means I dont mindlessly crave food again until lunch. Eating another apple at 2pm gets me to dinner.
Eat more meat. You won’t be hungry.
“Eat more meat. You won’t be hungry.” -Winston’s Mom
Eating is easy (and fun)
Exercise is hard (and not fun)
Achieving a difficult task is gratifying, even if the pride is only in one’s self.
There are several glibs now competing daily on the brain teasers, competitively but also trying to improve their own scores. Exercise is the same, run a little farther, faster, lift a little more weight, etc. The problem is no one else notices. We need positive feedback and reinforcement.
“My goodness, UCS, you look like you’ve ____________” A big smile goes a long ways.
I’m doing some exercises but the eating is too many cals shoved in and it shows. Need to do more of one, less of the other.
My Glibfit is trying to feel like a human bean again.
Are you currently a Lima bean?
Mung bean sounds about right.
Please keep your fingers crossed. Just did a video call w/my dad, who is in Charlotte looking at an RV on my behalf. He said it was “really nice”. The layout and interior are perfect for my needs.
He’s negotiating right now.
Gulp.
??
So, it has a mural of the city of Nice on the wall?
Hope it all works out for you
Still no callback…this is like waiting for a jury verdict. Does a long time mean good or bad news?
Yes.
oooh, good luck!
Fingers crossed for Kampered Kristen.
The phony covid scare did a lot more damage than we realize. Friends drifted away, we began to isolate, now it’s hard to get back into enjoying the camaraderie of other people, even taking a walk with a friend has been made more difficult, psychologically.
Yesterday I met another of our fellow glibs (and wife) in real life, for the first time. It was great to sit for an hour or so, drink coffee and learn about each other’s lives and family. Too bad most of us live so far apart, or aybe it’s a good thing.
If I get my RV, I will be at HH!
When is it this year? I haven’t scheduled any vacations this year, so I might be able to make it.
Sep 18th, 3rd Sunday in Sep.
Thank you. I’ll see if I can get that time off.
Great, because the glib and missus I met yesterday said they were going to come this year, too.
We can hook you up with water and power.
Pick up me & GT. Ill prevent you from going full “Thelma & Louise”.
Then again, it may be more “Lucy & Ethel”.
It’s got plenty of bed space, but not much crapper space
Im sure he has plenty of room.
We thoroughly enjoyed the time and look forward to more.
Here’s the wood stove we bought from Fourscore. It fit right in place in less than a half hour including removing the old one.
https://imgur.com/a/XKQktXw
Not a good pic…
I loathe the CDC.
Deletes rest of comment.
Look, they provide a service. Who else is going to protect Pfizer’s profits?
Preach it! God bless the free market of government funded drug companies fucking people up with there “free” drugs!!!!!
Was there ever a time the CDC was not a political organ?
With the benefit of hindsight, I don’t know.
Work?
C’mon man, he bottle feeds! Anyway, those cabninet positions are not about work, they’re political favors. How do y’all expect the machine to run if you don’t grease it?
“A brewing storm threatens to make matters worse next week as AccuWeather meteorologists “say it could result in a five-day stretch of threatening severe weather as well as a robust snowstorm that could produce dangerous blizzard conditions,”
Well, that’s never, ever, even once, happened before. But, as long as they can blame weather, and its already been spread around by TMITE.
I was doing decently on low-carb for about 18 months, then around Christmas a year back Jugsy came home with these fuckers.
I baked them, and was like a junkie fresh out of rehab. I think in about an hour I demolished the whole pack and about 1/2 gallon of milk.
Oh I could smash that. Damn. I have been good other than alcohol. There might be a term for that.
I stuck with <50g-carb/day for a reason. The shitty beer I drink is 3.5g-carb/can. I can stay carb deficient all day and easily have 10 and some bacon.
The past week I have been less than 10g carbs a day. (until last night when I had that bottle of Big Bad Baptist) I have felt weird. A good weird. Things smell different. Eating nothing but meat as an elimination diet makes you realize what is going on when you eat other things. Humans are not designed to eat shit. We are mostly sold shit.
My sister said “we’re the only species that drinks the milk of another animal, what do you have to say about that?” “That’s because we’re the only species that bakes cookies.” – George Wallace
See, Mrs. Dean and I are careful not to sabotage each other. Hell, we have a sit-down before she brings home brownie mix. Cookies never show up, and we get a small cake maybe three times a year, for events/occasions.
Our Iron Law of healthy eating: If its not in the house, we won’t eat it. So don’t bring stuff home that you know better. We practically never eat out, which helps.
Y’all need moar nut butters in your diets.
Trader Joe’s does a great unsweetened sunflower seed and Barney’s does a great almond butter.
Heh. “nut butter”
Dormant pruning of the apple trees is now done. Several weeks late because of all the shitty weather this spring.
From the earlier thread, but probably pertinent here:
Low Carb Jambalaya
I made that a week ago and it rocks. No roux, so the carbs are low. The zucchini cooks down and thickens the liquid. I used bacon grease instead of the butter and olive oil. Some have suggested that okra can be added to great effect.
I also used red, yellow, orange, and green bell peppers instead of just green, as the recipe calls for. Adds color and flavor.
sounds great sans the veges.
I don’t eat shrimp.
Love ’em. Ill have your portion.
So close and yet so far.
I. Own. An. RV.
Holy shit
https://www.rvtrader.com/listing/2011-Jayco-GREYHAWK-31SS-5020519419
BEAUTIFUL!!!! YAHOOOOOOO!!!!
Where’s the Mural of Nice I was promised?
Congrats, KK.
Excellent!?
Congrats!
Yay! Go, Dad!
Congratulations
Nice!
Looks great! Let us know when you’re coming to the Great Land.
If the RV is rockin’…..
Sweet. A literal dream come true. I look forward to many missives from the road.
Another Frabjous Day! ?
Huzzah! Kampered Kristen is happening!
Heh.
lol. Awesome handle
Thats a Texas-size 10-4
“This here’s “Double K on the Highway” ”
Im going to bed.
An Onan generator??
They’re better because you don’t need anyone else to help you crank it up.
*thunderous applause*
I mean, that’s pretty much my sex life anyways, so it’s fitting
I tried hard to resist making a comment about how it looks like there’s plenty of room for action in the back end.
Congratulations! I’m very excited for you.
Congratulations!
Fuck yes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBN86y30Ufc
Rick Wakeman or Steve Howe?
Anyone do pyrography?
I’d like one sign to go over the door that says “Tenement on Wheels”, and another for the toilet with an outline of Randy Quaid saying “Shitter’s Full”
My wife started doing it a few months back. She’s taken to it and does pretty well, I think.
I may contact you in the near future….
10-4
Excellent!
Now you just need a monkey
https://youtu.be/Rcozed_BJWM
That’s fantastic! Are you going to fly in to pick it up and drive it back?
My dad will pick it up and park it…somewhere. Near his house, though. I will register it at his address under my name. When I’m ready to hit the road, I’ll just drive my car down, hitch it up, and go!
I was talking to a friend yesterday who has a big RV–he says there is a small and dwindling list of cars that are safe to tow four down…I imagine you’ve already done your homework but in case you haven’t, make sure you have one that won’t come apart when towed. Some can’t even be towed on two wheels safely.
He’s a big fan of pre-2015 Honda CRVs. 2015 and later don’t work though.
I have a 2010 Versa hatch. It’s a hardy little thing, but I’ll check on it!
Apparently there’s an RV-ing web site that maintains a list of good cars for towing. I can ask him for a link–but you can probably find it in a search.
A link would be very helpful if you can get it!
Interesting, what breaks?
It’s different in various vehicles. Apparently in front- and all-wheel drive systems, the transmission doesn’t fully disengage and can be damaged. Also, it depends on which side of the transmission drives the transmission lubrication pump. If it’s on the input side, you’re hosed. On the output side, the wheels can back drive the lube system.
Manual transmissions are the best, supposedly. And Jeeps are apparently made for towing; you disengage the transmission and the FWD transfer case and you’re good to go, according to him.
He said even with the CR-V, you need to keep the ignition key in the “on” position (engine not running) and then every 8 hours you have to start the engine, shift through all the gears in turn, and then return it to neutral–evidently that is an official Honda instruction from the manual.
He told a story of a guy he knew who had the transmission slip into low drive and it overdrove the engine–ran up to 9000 rpm and disintegrated along the highway. He didn’t know it happened until he got to his destination…
Head out on the highway
Lookin’ for adventure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igvP806798U
Spiffy!
Laissez les bon temps roulez.
Here comes KK!
Congrats, Young Lady
Huzzah!
Congratulations! It does indeed look to be in great condition.
Fuck yeah.
Nice, KK!
Excellent!
Cooooooooooooool.
Get that ride pimped out for full-on wireless/satellite networking and then go SEE AMERICA!
Very cool! I love RV/trailers (and boats) and small space design
Great choice. Now, strap a moped to the rear bumper and you are good to go.
That V10 is a great motor, but it gets really shitty gas mileage. Keep it below 65 and it’s not horrible. Above that and you’re quickly down to single digit MPG.
https://www.chewboom.com/2022/04/10/beyond-meat-introduces-new-beyond-meat-jerky/
Lame.
Poison.
C’mon man, I’m sure you will enjoy your Tofurkey Chews.
I stress First sometimes, but that’s OK because Firsting is good for me and for those around me.
Do you like motorcycles? I do.
Me too.
Yes, yes, I do like motorcycles
https://www.ironbutt.org/
Time to do something about SUVs.
I’m hoping there is a high correlation between gun ownership and driving gas guzzlers.
A lot of replies along theses lines:
In order to engender a systemic aversion to fucking with other people’s property, I suggest laying in wait for these assholes with a bunch of friends, then beating them into the hospital. Have a late-night poker game/D&D session going for an alibi.
And somehow this sort of thing is allowed to stay up on Twitter.
Tundra I am sorry for Minnesota not showing up in the first period
I thought it was 1-1 after two before Denver pulled away.
Tied now.
5-3 Wild.
How do y’all just post all day, don’t none of ya work?
Not on Sundays.
I’m working on keeping my couch from floating away.
Lol.
I’ve got the Masters on the TV, the WIld game on the tablet and I’m laptopping with You People.
Lazy.
I’ve taken three naps and I feel a fourth one coming on.
I’m jealous.
I’ve been working all day. Now I have to pay bills and do some other bookwork. Full-time job and part-time small business can be a bit much, sometimes.
I’m stoked for when the small business takes over. Glad you are kicking ass!
Me too. My big (only) customer tells me he could keep me full time busy if I were to take the plunge. So far I like my day job and the security it provides. Barring some unforeseen changes, I think around my 57th bday is when I ‘m going to start thinking more seriously about going full time small business owner. So, seven years. We’ll see…
I wouldn’t put a date on it. You’ll know.
Getting it going while you have a steady income was exactly the right move.
For me, it happened when I couldn’t afford to keep my day job because I was making substantially less.
It’s not much better as a full-time small business owner. I did drawings for aluminum castings Saturday and today is control panel drawings.
Yeah, if I were to go full-time with my thing, I have no doubt I’d need to work 7 days a week.
What’s your business? Engineering, or CAD work, or something along those lines?
Yes, lol. I design electrical, hydraulic and mechanical systems for ropeways (primarily ski lifts) and have a small fab shop for building most of the parts I design. I used to do all of the in-house machine work but recently hired a guy to help me with that. I also do most of electrical panel fabrication but I’ve been training some part-time help for that too.
Very cool! If you’ve said that before I missed it, or forgot. That’s great that things are going well enough to hire.
I have two full time jobs, including my Firsting, and no one ever hears me complain. And I’m doing it while pregnant. No one around here even asks how I’m doing. You selfish cunts.
We don’t have to ask because you tell us all the time. It’s like you’re the first person to ever be pregnant.
Yeah, you’re like the vegan at a house party, Bro.
So, how you doin’?
YOU DON’T EVEN CARE
You’re damn right we don’t care.
I am overly emotional right now in my current state. But every Firster is used to the loneliness. The persecution. The jealousy.
The Jews like to think that they have suffered. My people give, give, and give, and the world takes and takes and takes. You are a taker, Ted S.
Yeah, you give, give, give us a headache.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlI3NiuZQ58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUADs-CK7vI
FFS
Fucking site ate my response. To summarize:
1. Great topic. The Standard American Diet is a disaster. A massive calorie feedback loop with no satiety. Quit eating shit, motherfuckers.
2. Plague week. Didn’t lift or do anything until the end of the week. Mama and I rarely get sick, so this was curious.
3. Ready to get back in the saddle.
Have a great week, Glibfitters!
Well, it finally happened. The micro red dot on my CZ Shadow 2 crapped out today at the range.
I’m finding that the MRDs, when mounted to the slide, are good for about 10,000 rounds before they die. Something to keep in mind if you don’t keep a backup piece.
Frustratingly still haven’t managed to get back to the gym since I switched back to dayshift (lots of hrs makeup for appts, etc) – and won’t be on eves again till Aug.
Should get some cardio this week in SD, and then next week, hopefully I can try and restart some routines (4 weeks to next fitness assessment).
Also, after listening to a few more folks on Carolla, gonna try and work to limit my eating window a little more – be more consistent for 8 hrs, 2 meals or so.
Actually managed a few days this past week on only 1 meal/day – but a lot comes down to schedule/routine/etc.
I still have urges for chewy sweets particularly, but I’m getting better at limiting intake/portion size. And often if I give myself a few more min after eating, my stomach catches up with my appetite.
DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©
#76
Men’s Division
Champ(s)
l0b0t 19
SDF-7 21
Grummun 22
JG43 22
kinnath 22
rhywun 22
cyto 23
Ted S. 23
grrizzly 23
The Hyperbole 24
MikeS 24
trshmnstr the terrible 24
Tundra 24
Ghostpatzer 27
Sean 28
Translucent Chum 28
Raven Nation 30
Chump(s)
Grumbletarian 119
Women’s Division
Champ(s)
No entries. And they wonder why they only make 70¢ to the $
Will l0b0t be the first glib to three-peat? Grumbletarian chumps it up with his first reported failure.
?
I didn’t even bother to report, I buggered it up so badly today.
I blame my SU not being home to send me subtle waves of love, acceptance and healing through the house.
It’s a free country and what not, but I should point out that one needs to report at least five times/week (DQR week runs from Sat-Fri) to be eligible for “player of the week” and perchance win the respect and admiration of your fellow Glib quordler’s.
Look at this guy creating all these rules and guidelines and telling the rest of us to follow him.
I’m going to dub you the Quordle Fascist.
I created QDR so I set the rules, I may disagree with IP but as long as it’s the law of the land I’ll use it to my advantage.
Ding!
It’s amazing how quickly I forget every five-letter-word I ever learned after I don’t do these games for a few days.
My husband and I are both overweight. We’ve done the strict Adkins diet in the past, with some success. Even though we aren’t formally doing it anymore, we still are “carb conscious” and manage to limit cabs somewhat. This has paid off big-time for him, so much so that his A1c is 4.5 (has been for a few years) so he no longer takes Metformin.
One of our bad eating habits is that we celebrate by eating. Birthday? Let’s go out for dinner! (In fact, we are doing that very thing tonight, even though my birthday isn’t until tomorrow.) Promotion? Let’s go out for dinner! Beautiful day? Let’s grill! And so on.
Not sure how that particular habit formed, but we definitely have a celebrate-with-food cycle going on.
I’m not sure that’s a particular “habit” so much as a cross-cultural custom engendered by hundreds of thousands of years of want and privation.
We’re just no longer in the “want and privation” part of the civilizational path.
Politicians are trying to bring it back.
I don’t necessarily think that that is a bad thing.
We’re not strangers to that line of thought. As our kids have grown a visit is often at a restaurant. We celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, and other special occasions with food. Eating out doesn’t have to mean “the 75 oz monster steak at the Big Texan” either. Eat a nice meal out with dietary guidelines in mind and it can be enjoyable. At worst let it count as a “cheat day”. You’re allowed some rewards, aren’t you?
Eating is a social activity that bonds people, so it’s not really about the food. It’s about the bonding.
Which completely does not explain why I eat a half box of mint chocolate chip ice cream at 11:30 at night.
(In fact, we are doing that very thing tonight, even though my birthday isn’t until tomorrow.)
Happy Birthday!
I don’t think celebrating with food is a bad thing as long as it you haven’t watered down “celebrating” such that it is a constant thing.
Oh….
Happy. Happy birthday
On your special day!
Happy. Happy birthday
Is what I’m here to say!
Happy, happy birthday
May all your dreams come true!
Happy, happy birthday!
From all of us to you!
Happy Birthday in advance.
Thanks, y’all!
I had the surf and turf: filet mignon and lobster tail; dessert was bread pudding (chef is Cajun).
Yum!
Nice!
Happy Birthday, girlie!
Ok, time for the brain trust to chime in. This is important…
I watched “Peacemaker” on HBO Max. It was weird. But that isn’t what the brain trust is assembling for.
It had muddled messages of woke and anti-woke themes. It got preachy and heavy handed with a far left view of middle America, then subverted the messaging by giving the woke message a bitch slap every now and again. But that isn’t what the brain trust is here for.
No, at the end there is a nice preachy far left moment, and in it there is a single phrase that we need to noodle out. Our progressive voice of reason calls peacemakers view of freedom “libertarian-fascist”
Now, if you are a libertarian. Fascist is kinda the polar opposite. It is like calling someone skinny-fat or tall-short.
But it is not a Gunn created idea. At least since Trump got elected and they started tossing around the alt-tight label. The far left has decided that fascist and libertarian are the same thing, or at least related closely.
What in the ever loving Hades is that? Where does that come from? How do you get there? I just don’t get it. Outside of writers at reason, most of the libertarians I know are indeed conservative libertarian…. But even as such they tend to wind up far to the left of progressive democrats on most social issues.
Is it just that they have no idea what fascist and libertarian mean?
Is it because they don’t understand how many of their authoritarian positions are actually fascist?
There were a ton of moments in that series that ripped me out of the goofy fun universe they created, but that one was the most grating, not because it was the worst (not even close), but because it was so incredibly stupid.
College kids have been calling anything they disagree with “fascist” for decades. It has no real meaning to the left anymore, and therefore to the sort of people who grow up to write for HBO.
Is it just that they have no idea what fascist and libertarian mean?
Got it in one.
I didn’t watch that show, but the linking of libertarianism and fascism goes back way further and I just chalk it up to the moronic tendency of the left to link everything they don’t like to fascism.
Time and time again as a guy who argued with people on the internet I ran into lefties who viewed it as fascist for libertarians to restrain the government from acting in a way that they wanted. That’s not my summary of the argument, but the actual point they would make. In their twisted worldview, it was fascism to force small government onto people even if the end result meant that people were given more freedom (a word they would have disagreed with, because freedom to them is the freedom from want – not the ability to make unrestrained choices). You can try to wrap your head around the derp if you’d like.
Yeah… I see this stuff too. But James Gunn is pretty freaking smart. And he has made hundreds of millions. Surely he has more than a passing knowledge of socialism. Fascism and libertarianism. He is a writer and director. It isn’t like he is a dipshit actor who just looks good and pretends to be somebody else.
I really am kinda despondent about the state of my fellow man. If you cannot tell the difference between the *most* authoritarian philosophy and the second least authoritarian philosophy….. I mean, how can you figure out which end of the stock to pull on in the morning??
Oh, and on “didn’t watch the show”…. I actually recommend it despite some glaring flaws.
John Cena is just pitch perfect with his earnest goofiness.
So it is a lot of fun. By and large.
Unless you are of the religious right and are offended by things poking fun at the right and the church, it can be pretty funny.
And sock. You pull on your socks.
I mean, Gunn isn’t writing to impress you. He works in an industry that does not allow for political dissent. He gets his accolades from people who are fully on board with sophomoric, one-sided take downs of their political opponents. He’s a propagandist who happens to be more entertaining than most.
People, especially smart people, are also capable of convincing themselves of anything. So Gunn may not even be self-aware no matter how smart or clever (I think mildly clever is really the best term to describe a guy who produces relatively shallow popcorn entertainment) he seems. What’s that asshole who made The Wire’s name again? He’s never cast a ballot for a R in his life, is profoundly proud of that fact, and would probably gladly call you a libertarian fascist, too. It’s like he’s never even seen his own TV show.
David Simon
never cast a ballot for a R in his life, is profoundly proud of that fact
Meh, I’ve cast one ballot for an R and I’m profoundly embarrassed by that fact.
Did you also write a show about how your hometown was ruined by the corruption of cynical, machine party Democrats? And then proceed to spend years defending their honor and helping them get elected in said hometown?
If your bitch is that he’s a Democrat I’m with you, but your bitch seemed to be that he’s not a Republican, fuck Republicans.
Sounds about right
Either it’s stupidity, or it’s intentional, or it’s the aversion to recognizing what they’re promoting _is_ fascism and they’re the baddies.
Reminds me of a local blogger who used to be pretty decent. He labeled himself a “libertarian-leaning conservative”, and I think that was a pretty accurate assessment. Well, after one of the worst cases of TDS I’ve witnessed, along with a no-shit near death experience with COVID, he’s completely gone. And yet he says that he hasn’t changed, EVERYONE else around him changed…but I digress.
He made the same argument when there was legislation in the North Dakota legislature to ban cities from enacting mask mandates. He argued that “small government” would be letting those cities make up their own minds about mask mandates. If you were in favor of stopping them, you were advocating for “big government” intervention. The most eyerolling part of it all was when he was handed multiple studies showing mask mandates didn’t work, he announced he wasn’t going to discuss whether mask mandates worked anymore because that was a waste of time.
TDS + COVID really destroyed some people’s cognitive abilities. It’s sad to watch.
One of my favorite people to argue with was a full on commie. Like, the guy spent time in Syria working with Marxist Kurds and shit. A true believer. My favorite end point in every argument was pointing out that my world view could accommodate people like him, but people like me were put to the wall in his ideal society. Marxists are perfectly free to engage in free association and establish whatever types of communities they want, they just can’t use force on others to make them go along. He felt as long as democracy was involved, anything was justified and that things like property rights were inherently violent because they were backed up with the threat of force.
It was incredibly easy to get him to defend the honor of the Soviets.
A ban on lower levels of government using force to make people wear masks is obviously not big government. But to some people, if it has the magic rubber stamp of democracy…A conservative, especially a libertarian leaning one, should comprehend that simple fact. Then I look at the shit Reason and some “libertarians” are pumping out and I guess it’s not so obvious.
I have one of those in my life! She has a PhD in a “studies” department that has to do with black people, oppression and Africa.
The problem is, she is stupid.
Now, being stupid isn’t a sin. A lot of good people are stupid. But being confident that you are the smartest person in the world and certain that you are right about all things when you are stupid kinda makes you insufferable.
The best summation of what arguing with her is like came in a discussion about white supremacy and racism in America. She says that more than 5,000 black people are lynched in America every year. And that back in the 50s and earlier it was more than 50,000.
Remember. PhD in this stuff.
(,I happened to know the answer because of a childhood book ordered from the schoolstic catalog… The Book Of Lists. In it was the fact that the year with the most lynching in the 20th century was 1901, with 105 lynchings. Those are total, not just black folk. )
Being off by theo and a half orders of magnitude makes you impossible to argue with. And she literally went to the mat on that one.
She remains the only person I have seen say overtly racist things in person in this century.
So let me know when you are having a cocktail party… I’ll send her over to be the entertainment…
I loved those books.
I think I know why my head is full of so much useless trivia.
I am such a trivia nerd that one year for my birthday my sister bought me a book the size of a phone book called something like, “The Mammoth Book of Trivia”. I think that I can quote it chapter and verse.
Obligatory
+1 ACLU lawsuit to force masks on everyone else
Because many people are politically illiterate and calling someone a dirty word like libertarian-fascist is so easy. There are few libertarians to complain and many fascists would take it as a compliment .
“I am far more liberal than you and far more conservative than you. I believe you can take drugs without penalty but you take full responsibility for your actions”
I really enjoy doing that one. I have held court over beers several times playing “I am far more liberal than you progressives and far more conservative than you conservatives.”
The new woke kinda broke it though. Progressives are now wrapped up in so many conflicting ideas that they are more conservative than themselves all the time. So no great trick there.
Being in favor of sex workers having full legal protection and full legal status is being a sex trafficker today. And being in favor of women’s rights and women’s empowerment through sports in college is now regressive. As is believing that being a woman is a a thing… Sorry Rowling, but you are cancelled for being a fascist. Claiming that trans women are any different than cis-het women in any way at all
Drugs cannot be legal. They have to be decriminalized, but only when licensed by the state. Corny capitalism is a progressive thing. Huh?
You just can’t even parody these folks.
I’ve been wondering for quite a while what the leftist definition of “fascist” is. From what I’ve gathered it is something like, “someone who disagrees with me”.
For me, the best test that the FedGov is fascist is the CAFE law. How in the everloving hell did the morons in DC get to decide what MPG the cars that people drive? Free people vote with their checkbooks. Volkswagen hit a note with MPG conscious people by offering a cheap alternative back in the 50’s-60’s. Shortly after, the Japanese flooded the market with MPG-friendly cars in the Energy Crisis days of the 70’s. If you want to save gas bucks today then there is a plethora of vehicles available, due entirely to people’s wants and desires, not because of some BigBro dictate. That choice is going to disappear by diktat rather than free market opinion.
It’s just like with masks – you can’t “allow” people to make the wrong choice. There are bad people who will be bad so you must force them to comply by mandating everything. And no, not one of them gets that it’s authoritarian, at minimum, and if directed at certain groups fascist, even by their own definition (which is basically just ‘authoritarian with racism’.)
And that, to answer the question, is why “fascism” gets lumped in with “libertarians” – they’re both ‘right-wing’ racists so squishing them together is Extra Super Bad.
In fairness, I suspect a bit of revenge motive if Gunn actually wrote it himself, since he was unpersoned/canceled there for awhile. If he felt unfairly targeted (esp if he thought he was RW friendly) it might come out as ‘you fuckers think you’re “libertarian” but you’re really just fascist assholes).
He is the writer on the series. And he takes both sides in a confusing way.
I can’t really tell where he is preaching from… Which at least makes it interesting.
SPOILERS
He makes the whole thing about global warming and pollution and save the planet at the end. He has the bad guys (alien body snatchers) say they are interfering in our world because we are making the same mistake they made in ruining their plant. The bad guy makes a huge speech about how Peacemaker should join them and save the world….. At which point Peacemaker kills them all.
So is Gunn killing the woke mob? Or is Gunn making fun of the far right who are the idiots who would kill the people trying to save them.
yes
Maybe stop trying to figure out what Gunn is preaching and enjoy the show? Looking for motives on the part of the writers is halfway to the same mentality as the cancel mobs. “He portrayed a black guy wrong, he must be racist! iLynch him!”
Problem is, you can ignore that message all you want, it has an impact. When the vast majority of pop culture is spreading woke leftism, don’t be surprised when you end up with a society that is dominated by woke leftists.
I do my best to avoid consuming that shit, personally. I’m certainly not going to pay them for the honor of telling me that they think I’m a piece of garbage.
It is out of control, but in this particular case if you can’t figure out what “message” the writer is trying to portray I’d call that progress against woke BS because it’s usually pretty up front.
To clarify, if you can’t figure out what POLITICAL message the writer is trying to portray.
I was napping with The Simpsons on today and when I woke up there was one on that was obvious anti-fracking propaganda. Like, not even subtle.
And then I remembered why I don’t watch The Simpsons any more. It’s not even mostly the stupid politics, it’s the insulting way they present them.
Gunn works in an industry where one has to be woke. Gunn has been caught in apostasy by said woke mob before.
My guess would be that he is trying to keep his job, while getting some digs in. Makes for a better story, but makes for a better paycheck too.
Remember that “don’t look up” movie? It cut both ways too. Methinks Woke is slipping.
How quickly it went from “masks will save you” to “if you don’t wear a mask you will kill me”. Individual choice gets thrown out at the first opportunity.
The left is nothing if not communitarian. Which is the root of all this discussion; if you deny the collective, you are the fascist.
Stupid, but there you go.
The character said it. And it was totally in character for her to say it.
Doesn’t mean the writer believes it.
They don’t have any idea what they’re talking about. They’re like children repeating words they just learned. It takes tremendous effort to break out of any a frame of reference and think about what you’re thinking and most people don’t do it.
But, I’ll pretend they are having actual thoughts and take a stab at it:
Progressives cannot imagine something without government involvement.
Fascism marries corporate and government power.
Libertarians want to deregulate and allow corporations to, you know, conduct business and other evil corporatey stuff.
Since progressives cannot imagine something without government involvement, they see the deregulation of corporations, link that with government involvement, and get to fascism.
Therefore, libertarians are fascist because you can’t have deregulated corporations without government involvement. Hence, libertarian-fascist.
Meh, I think it’s just a (fairly lazy) association piece of thinking. Conservatives want limited government. Libertarians want even more limited government. Therefore libertarians are further to “the right” than conservatives. Hmm, who else is further to the right? Oh yeah, fascists. Therefore libertarians = fascists.
In Bosch Season 6, there was a brief moment when the initial murder victim was described as libertarian. When his business partner was asked to describe “how libertarian” the dead guy was, he responded, “somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan.” Now, that’s a dumb line for a bunch of reasons, but it points out that a lot of people just see libertarians existing somewhere to the right of conservatives (in the same way that many see socialists to the left of progressives).
In reality, political philosophy is pretty complicated but it’s easier if we can reduce it to a single continuum.
I binge eat when I get lazy and stop cooking for myself, and then I do it several days in a row. Stress presents itself in different ways and we cope in different ways (I’m all ears for new ways to cope because healthy eating and working out isn’t doing it for me anymore).
My family is getting ready to go to Yellowstone and do a bunch of hiking in two months, so we are all taking it and giving ourselves “challenges” to get ready for it. Still not sure what to do for mine other than “wake up early and do more harder things.”
Here is my half baked answer: get some perspective. I have been/am now in the same boat. I have had to carve out some time to examine the source of my stress. I then spent more time examining how much of it is a real problem and how much was me fixating on it. When I got the contours of what was real, I then put together a plan to address it. When I implemented the first part of the plan it was a huge relief. My problem wasn’t solved but I felt the change of making some progress. There is still some stress but it is more manageable.
Second time through Only Murders In The Building.
Whichever one of you freaks who recommended it: thank you.
Selena Gomez is gonna be working 30 years from now. She’s tremendous.
I believe it was Hayeksplosives who first recommended it.
I thought Selena was the weakest of the three actors. Maybe I just don’t like her flat manner of speaking.
I’ll agree, it was a good show.
At first I thought so too. The longer it went on the more I liked her deadpan and how smart she was.
Doesn’t matter. I don’t feel that my time has been wasted. That’s a win.
I still haven’t seen the last episode, but I have an idea…
And you are right, it took a while to warm to Gomez.
Im off to work kids.
Leave a light on for me.
Go get ’em. Have a great night!
Damn Tundra. I have never seen a team fall apart that way cause of a bad call. Maybe in my youth but not professionals. Good call not to pull Fluery
It wasn’t just the call. The Wild came out like little bitches. I told my wife that they would win. She thinks I’m a great hockey mind, but I really didn’t have a moment of worry.
Best Wild team I’ve ever seen.
And yes, you need to let Flower finish.
I finish as soon as I start. That is the magic of Firsting.
How’s your side-to-side movement?
Want me to get you a tryout?
I played hockey as a child. I was kicked out of a game because I would always start before the ref dropped the puck. I was punished for being First. I swore off all sports from that day forward.
I could be a HOF hockey player, I’m sure. But I was born for bigger things.
You’re talking about sex, aren’t you?
Good luck with that Bernie,
https://mobile.twitter.com/wretchardthecat/status/1513117947208015873
Brochetta says When the vast majority of pop culture is spreading woke leftism, don’t be surprised when you end up with a society that is dominated by woke leftists.”
So, how did pop culture get infested with wokeism? And what can libertarians do, if anything, to reverse it? John Locke and some other folks inspired the Founding Fathers (or at least a majority of them) to create the most free society on earth. Whatever passed for “pop culture” in the day supported the ideas in the Declaration. Why did it change? Why do we tolerate having a supreme court justice that doesn’t believe in natural rights in a country that was founded on natural rights?
In terms of what we can do, I’m highly supportive of people voting with their dollars. These companies are alienating half the population or more by interjecting their politics and they need to feel the sting. It pains me when I see people on here argue that this somehow makes you the same as the leftists. I’m not looking for all pop culture to reinforce my political views. I’m simply not going to support woke propaganda or shit that bastardizes source material and established brands.
I think we’re finally starting to see the sane normies and political right in this country fight back when it comes to their kids’ education. We need more of that with regards to everything. There is a real silent majority in this country that is fed up with wokeism. It’s black, white, Hispanic and just about every other color.
Make the commies go back into the closet, I say. Or make their political bullshit a niche for the people who actually enjoy it and leave the rest of us the fuck alone.
The culture wars are real and sadly important. Politics flows downhill from culture.
I think Disney is going to be a test case. They are doing a great job of antagonizing their fans. Let’s see how many close their wallets.
This right here. I’ve said before, as repulsive as the culture wars are, you really can’t opt out of them and expect a positive outcome.
To quote Bertolt Brecht, “Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!”
Progressives have managed to punch massively above their actual weight in numbers. Even here in prog-frigging-topia I would say that they don’t even make up a quarter of the population, and of course far fewer in most of the US. There are many reasons for this that would be far too long to get into, but they have managed to get their ideas mainstreamed in this country and certainly education, the media and Hollywood steadily injecting their mores into the culture has gotten lots of people to either accept some of their premises or to just go along because they think that is what everyone else (that matters) thinks. It is reaching a head now, and there is finally some serious cultural pushback. I agree with the Bro that one of the ways to fight back is to not spend your money on their products. Making true alternatives to their bullshit is another,
“Progressives have managed to punch massively above their actual weight in numbers.”
This is what really confuses me – how do the Progressives manage? They’re certainly no smarter than any other political faction, they have impressive levels of ideological infighting, and their ideas would repulse a rabid skunk*. How do they manage to throw their weight around like they do?
* – Figure of speech – skunks are actually quite friendly.
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NSFW.
GlibFit.
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You are correct, sir!
So now a bunch of women I went to high school with lost all their hair from an autoimmune disease….?? They all have one thing in common.. take a wild guess.
My sister lost all her beautiful red hair to C19 but it came back thicker and redder than ever. the odd part is it’s super curly, she always had straight hair.
just my 2c.
The Vax™ causes female hair loss?
They all identify as males with male pattern baldness?
None of their husbands slapped Chris Rock?
Well, it finally happened. I absent mindedly took my dog’s anti-seizure medication instead of my vitamin.
*moves dog’s estrogen pills to other counter in kitchen*
I’ve just booked flights to England and Denmark in late May-early June. That was my bet that the US transit face mask mandate would be lifted this month. And a related bet that the British Airways and United would drop their internal mask mandates at the same time. SAS already doesn’t require masks. If the US transit face mask mandate doesn’t expire this month (I still have an extra month) with all the institutional support behind dropping it, then I have serious doubts it expires ever.
Good luck. I give better odds that Air Koryo will start scheduled service to LAX.
My money is on never expiring.
*not a good gambler*
My money is on another extension while the administration haplessly “thinks about it”.
I’m sorry to see that my post acknowledging and thanking you lot for my birthday wishes was devoured by word press.
So, again, thank you all for your well wishes. Let’s hope and pray for a maximum number of us here again for the next trip round the sun.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday HE!
For you HE,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33dtXbVRwcQ
Happy Birthday!!
Happy Birthday!
I won a GB auction last night!
*credit card sobbing in the corner*
Well, what did you buy?
A super sweet Sig. Reverse two tone.
Air raid siren?
“Air raid siren?”
It’s early, I don’t get it.
P220 model.
Well, it was the police siren that alternated between two tones, sorry.
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That wooshed right over my head.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=scmvAg_S97k
Let’s kick this shit off.
Not a fan of his vocals, but I like the music.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/04/10/philadelphia-indoor-mask-mandate-reinstated-covid-cases-easter/
Will they? Won’t they?
You know they want to, but (some) people are unlikely to comply at this point.
Just keeping everyone
on their toesscared shitless.https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/local-officials-continue-to-warn-about-deadly-batch-of-drugs-in-reading-area/article_a07d87ac-b91a-11ec-9f93-a77c10a0bfef.html
Be careful out there, your drugs could contain drugs.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=noLPhZvcBpw
Rock on.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/bennifer-is-officially-engaged-again/ar-AAW0JxL
Mornin’ Glibbies! Happiest of birthdays to Hayek and a thunderous round of applause for our kibbled one who has finally joined the peace train! That’s fantastic news! Just discovered the big summer trip that the non-fucked kids are going on this summer. The Bowron Lakes circuit. I can’t join them. I can’t sit a canoe for hours on end and do portages, anymore. That makes me a sad panda…
This is what I will never see and it’s right next door. https://youtu.be/0gA10KajHj4 Fuck.
Moar https://youtu.be/lm4B4FZGNPI I’ve been looking at it on maps for thirty-five years.
Good morning, Fes, Sean, TARDy, and U!
Sorta on-topic: Tried my first experiment with making impromptu chicken salad last night. Used some leftover pulled chicken – no barbecue sauce, of course, but some sort of seasoning. Added a bunch of non-mayo light salad dressing (house brand version of Miracle Whip) and some chopped up celery. Not remarkable, but not the worst thing I’ve ever had. Not the ideal texture or flavoring for what I prefer. I’ll keep trying. I’m about to give up on frozen Atkins meals for lunches because the selection at my grocery continues to suck.
Finely chopped onions and even gherkins are your friends.
Morning, GT.
I’m not sure when I last made chicken salad. Possibly never, since I rarely have leftover chicken.
I hate arriving at the office and thinking “I wish I called out today”. Problem is, my outgoing supervisor oversold my grasp of what was going on at his job level, and they’re expecting me to be able to seamlessly step in.
Next time, I think I’ll start with one of the small cans of chicken in the pantry, but the pulled chicken needed to be eaten.
Sorry about your work situation. I hope you have someone you feel comfortable enough with to ask the necessary questions.
Despite being packed in water, canned chicken tends to be on the dry side… somehow. At least as far as how it tastes. So if I were to use it in making chicken salad, I’d want to figure out a way to dry off the water that isn’t going to be absorbed into the chicken (and thus would dilute the dressing) and make sure there was ample dressing.
I notice you didn’t mention any salt, pepper, or other seasonings. Are those assumed, or did you not include them?
Because there was already some seasoning in the pulled chicken, I didn’t add any. Just wanted to see what it tasted like with what was already in there. With canned chicken, I’d definitely need to put in more flavor. Any ideas?
My go-to with these mayo salads is what I think of as Deviled Egg seasoning – salt, pepper, paprika, mustard, and sometimes vinegar.
I missed out on the trans-mountain hike last year. Guess I’m stuck sitting in the shadows from here on out. I used to be an athlete.
Time to get out the fishing gear, Fes, standing on the dock counts. I used to enjoy wearing chest waders and walk the shore line, caught a lot of nice bass in the evenings. I can probably still do that but I’ll bribe some other old guy to sit in the boat with me. We can BS each other.
Good Morning crew….
First off KK: I hope the vehicle brings all the joy you could want with your nomad lifestyle.
Hayek: Congrats on surviving another year with us. Your wit is appreciated.
Another busy weekend. Digging, planting, shearing, building… Either its killing me, or its what i wanted, not sure which. Thank gods of chemistry for creating chemicals that allowed me to sleep. Lets see what stupid shit work comes up with this week.
Good morning, ‘bodru!
What are you planting? Are you growing a garden or something extensive enough to qualify as a crop?
I am planting veggies for eating.
I have planted millet for the chickens.
I have planted field corn for the sheep. (store bought dry corn, feed store wanted 3$/oz “seed corn”)
I will plant a box full of pumpkin seeds that we harvested and accumulated last fall. Internet tells me that this will cause all sorts of chaos. This will be for the sheep.
And i have 4 fruit trees that i have to replace (deer damage)
Wow! Do you have a full-time job on top of all this?
Also, I didn’t know sheep ate pumpkins.
They make Jack-O-Lantern helmets out of them.
He definitely should be wearing one.
Thank goodness for WFH. Only way i could keep up with this.
NO stupid meetings yet.
Sheep have loved the pumpkins. I have been told that they are “natural” deowrmers.
The gourd, leaf, or stalk?
The gourd, i guess i can try to see if they eat the leafs and stalks, never thought about it.
Looking at more peas, some Prescott Melon, and Spinach this am. Also a raised bed of salad greens.
Some leek that are ready to be transplanted to another raised bed.
garlic.
This AM.
We were really into it until the kids moved away. Just boxes now. We had three large garden plots but now we can’t give away what we could grow and the freezers are full. It was fun and a lot of work while it lasted. Good skills to acquire.
Several reasons to try it.
Your future any clearer Fest?
Nope.
I’m actually enjoying work because I’ll be shed of this job soon. What’s next? Who knows.
I didn’t realize you also had a job; taking care of the crops and critters seems like a full time gig to me. Wow.
Spring has been very busy.
And it is two jobs, I work from sunup to sunset. Thank goodness for sunset.
Mornin’!
Belated happy birthday to ‘splosives, may there be many more!
And congrats to KK on the RV! look out, America, here she comes!
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Vishnu H. Koresh, what a night.
suh’ fam
whats goody
Since I had all night to think about KK’s purchase I decided she needs some motherfuckin’ theme music.
I believe I encountered peak derp over the weekend.
I take a daily two-mile walk around the neighborhood. There’s an old German lady who walks three annoying wiener dogs, we usually exchange pleasantries and go our separate ways. Saturday afternoon I see her standing in her front yard and as I approach she says, “Haff you been my new friend?” “Where”, I say. “Over there”. And there, under a tree, is a deer eating it of a dish. “You feed this deer?” “Ja, it is very difficult for them. There are too many people, they Haff nowhere to live.” It’s very uncomfortable to hear that there are to many people in a thick Geman accent. Not to mention that my town might have the largest per capital deer population in the nation.
Good morning, Fes, Sean, TARDy, UCS, Robo and ‘Patzer.
Snow again last night but only an inch. It’ll go away today. Slowly the snow is receding.
I’m getting the bee equipment cleaned up, in the garage. A little cool but with some tunes on the box life is good, the days roll by one after the next. Bees show up in about another month but they may need some sweaters to start the season.
I’ll get some tomato seeds in the dirt, speaking of which, I have some cabbage seeds in the little peat pots with store bought starting soil. When I lift the cover off and smell that fresh, humid dirt I think I’ve died and gone to heaven. What a great memory for an old farm boy.
Days are longer, sun, when it’s out is brighter. Everything is looking up. Thanks to all the glibs and especially those that keep on keeping on.
Morning.
Know anyone who knits bee sweaters?
| Chafed on April 10, 2022 at 11:16 pm
| Well, it finally happened. I absent mindedly took my dog’s anti-seizure medication instead of my vitamin.
Cute story- once on my way out the door to work I accidentally took my Pyrennes’s special thunderstorm sedative, thinking it was the antibiotic prescribed for my sinus infection.
Acepromazine is a hell of a drug.