Can we get more libertarian that this?
So apparently, I was in Glibs Gulch last weekend. All I remember is a remarkable tribute to the memory of SP, and a great deal of fun with friends I’ve only chatted online with. Oh, and I apparently bought a house there. Whether you could make it or not, SP would have been honored by the outpouring of love and support. And in the words of Nephilium, “only in this group, would people break into someones house to clean up”.
Anyways, SP would not want us to not keep the trains running on time, so here are some links!
Look at all those people democracying.
I hope I have the Plague on my bingo card for 2023.
I’m not surprised at all. There is nothing better than being out in nature.
Not if you’re looking at a slice of chorizo.
Uhh, there’s music in here somewhere. I’ll be in my bunk.
I have Saturday and Sunday and most of Monday to myself. This is glorious. Work starts Thursday morning. Hotel in Marion Wed night to avoid the commute.
Oh, dear. Here we go. And I may have fallen in love. Oh dear.
Hey, EfE! Could you clarify something TOK were trying to recall recently? If you don’t mind saying, where in IN is your family?
And I’m not sure I dare ask about this falling-in-love thing… 😉
Hey! Right now I’m staying in Carmel, IN.
The love thing is bizarre, clean, and beautiful. It’s very odd and mesmerizing.
Oh-oh
Was expecting this one.
(I hasten to add that many of my earliest musical memories are from when my oldest sister listened to the local Top 40 station nonstop waiting for Bobby Sherman’s latest to come around in the rotation. In other words, I’m not quite THAT old.)
And on the other end of that…
This sounds good.
Better advice.
Different advice
The Tubes were unique.
The polio vax isn’t one of those that some celeb has accused of giving her an ugly baby, is it?
Remember those heady days when we took the polio vaccine four times, and still got polio?
No, not really.
That’s the joke!!!
That’s the joke.
There’s a reason the US switched to IPV years ago. Hint: it’s not because IPV is a more effective vaccine.
Dogs gonna dog, dog.
They’re so horrified by people having sex that they record it.
Connected consulting firms look forward to another record year!
The structures were a silly workaround for the stupid plague closures. You don’t need more than tables and chairs for outdoor dining, you maroon.
NO! THE DEAD, STERILE HAND OF GOVERNMENT MUST BE INVOLVED IN EVERY ASPECT OF YOUR WORTHLESS, MEANINGLESS EXISTENCE, PEON!!!
For once, I’m on the resident grouch’s side.
Only thing worse than a Carly Simon song is a Joni Mitchell song, I get that they sing well but the damn things just never seem to go anywhere, ‘Dah dah dah dah dah dah dah… daaaah dah dah dah’ over and over and over again, have these people never heard of a bridge.
BY BRIDGE MEAN….
A section in a song that contrast with the rest of the composition to give the listener a break from the otherwise monotonous droning of the sorta pretty-ish* songstress who mistakes vacuous self pity as insight.
*I mean they aint uggos but they aint Emmylou Harris either.
Figured it out. This is Dan Ackroyd.
I can watch that video with the volume off and be just fine.
Hey – with your new avatar, shouldn’t you now be Beanalicious?
You sound jelly.
Ooh, yum! They’re mung my favorite kinds of beans!
Well shit. That’s supposed to be a potato.
He does look like what happens after too many beans.
Boy, howdy!
Favorite Carly. I don’t even necessarily think about ketchup when I hear it. So it doesn’t have a bridge. Neither does the “The Star-Spangled Banner” or “America the Beautiful.” Ya gonna criticize them for that? Huh??
The Star-Spangled Banner would’ve been better with a bridge. Or even an intermission.
It would be even better if 95% of the people who sing it public, didn’t.
The Star Spangled Banner tune was best when it was known as “To Anacreon in Heaven”.
Please, please let it be so.
I doubt it will ever happen anywhere but by god it should.
Re: the earlier Wim Hof discussion, Adam Carolla has talked about it a LOT on his show and interviewed people on it too. I think he has a cold tub installed – and then does dips in the pool in the winter.
In California?
That’s what we call “dips in the pool in the summer.”
Sounds like 40 degrees or so sometimes. But I think he prefers the cold tub.
and, according to new research, there are many more critical connections between humans and nature than one might think.
Where would we be without academics and their researches?
Lost in the woods, I reckon.
Abortions would be permitted in cases of rape and incest, before 10-weeks post-fertilization; to protect the life and physical health of the mother; and if a fetus is diagnosed with a lethal anomaly. Victims of rape and incest would not be required to sign a notarized affidavit attesting to an attack, as had once been proposed.
Indiana may soon be the capitol of unsolved rape cases.
So the new “Bullet Train” flick with Brad Pitt is pretty fun. Light, “brainless” entertainment – same director as Dead Pool. Very much in the vein of Smoking Aces and flicks like that. Some fun, colorful characters though.
Of course…our presentation was kinda dicked up. Apparently even in the theater they actually “stream” from a server? So there were no trailers up front, and then about 10 minutes from the end, it seemed to start buffering – dropped to about 75% and all the audio was stuttering ridiculously. Went on a for a while then someone talked to them about resetting it a bit – of course that was supposed to be 10 minutes – they kicked it back about 30 minutes…so I just left. I’ll probably get it on Blu Ray though.
Got a few more fun BRs to watch in the next few weeks – after I finish the James Bond Prime marathon.
You had to pay for seat in a theater to get that kind of service eh?
Got a free ticket to use for any future screening of anything. It was only $10 and across the parking lot from the tavern I like to eat at (a movie is better than trying to drive home immediately after 2 or 3 beers).
‘Dogs gonna dog, dog.’
And we thought NWA was crass for taking girls to the holiday inn.
https://youtu.be/GLXT5kgelDw
NSFW…
The paper is believed to be the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive framework for understanding and quantifying the complex ways in which people and nature are connected. And its findings could have significant real-world implications, said Lam Thi Mai Huynh, the paper’s lead author and a doctoral candidate at the University of Tokyo.
Good grief.
Be afraid.
We need more equity and a better distribution system.
“The whole point of doing this exercise is to understand the connection,” he added. “We give names to phenomena.”
That’s it.
One XXX-rated scene caught on video by a horrified Greenwich Village resident heading out to work on a recent morning shows a man and woman in a Cornelia Street dining hut getting down and dirty.
Not so horrified that she forgot whip out the ol’ cell phone and record it for posterity.
Seems HM has a tortoise. Who knew.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1553652506223337472
I will be hosting the Saturday Night GlibZoom / Happy Hour / Deep Dish Hawaiian Pizza Party at 20:00 Eastern.
With all the other China/Pelosi reactions in the media and here…the ADV China guys coverage is a nice alternative perspective too (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxuwGBFHetY&t=3150s) . Laowhy86/Matt was also featured on Jordan Harbinger’s show a few weeks ago. Since he’s pretty libertarian, I have been encouraging Tom Woods and other guys to to interview these folks for some realistic perspectives based on folks who’ve lived there and are fluent in the language and social media, etc.
So we went here the other day: https://ltanimalpark.com/home/
It’s a zoo. Many of the animals you can feed. Some you can pet.
There are ducks, chickens, swans, and geese roaming the park freely.
Yes, hate birds gambling amongst the crowds. I imagine this would give Swiss some PTSD.
Photo dump: https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/t4W1uTcCSrCSGa36Jp_uPQ.XtVA9HyEpi9xoGNSJllLN4
I don’t even know what this dude is: https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/Ob4-1V0CQRqe-QwBC7oTxw.np6pxz3n2lvToW619tWHEF
Clearly a wild turduckhen.
Yeah, my first thought was turkeyduck.
I’d . . . eat one of those, actually.
Toulouse goose. Excellent Christmas dinner, and a pretty tranquil disposition — for a hatebird, of course.
Thank you.
Craps?
😛
*sigh*
Gamboling. I did not see any geese throwing dice.
🙂
I’ve got four big ribeyes to grill tomorrow. 5.3 lbs. 👍
What’s everyone else gonna eat? And how many firearms do you have guarding ’em?
I stopped counting a while back.
Ribeyes or firearms?
The pew pew pews, of course.
Holy moly! Nice! I grilled up 2+ lbs of ground beef today (ON SALE!) for next weeks lunches and have a small ribeye and garlic shrimps’s ready for cooking when I feel like I am ready for dinner.
Just FYI: The 28oz, Tomahawk Ribeye at Ruth’s Chris is $137. Sides are extra.
I had the filet and lobster tail for about half that. Outrageously good steak.
Couple of NY strips hit the grill smothered by sauteed portobello mushrooms and a big green salad on the side.
Tomato tart tonight. The only good thing about summer.
Aye, it’s caprese season
I need to try that sometime. Salads and BLT’s are my main ‘mater delivery vehicle. And sliced with salt.
Simple and delicious. Just get good mozzarella.
Smoked gouda, butter, salami, and French bread.
I’ve been thinking it was Sunday a lot today.
I think I need to pour another drink; well, when I finish this one.
*hoists another*
Cheers.
Prost!
Nostrovya.
G’suffa!
https://youtu.be/mWAMa06GtMY
Your daily dose of Sanford and son.
The good thing about flying into Cincy airport, you dont have to set foot in Ohio.
TIL learned that alcohol can’t be purchased in a self serve lane of a grocery in California. Not even with a checker override.
Horrible. Inhuman.
Several stores here have blanket policies of no alcohol purchases in self service checkouts, but they have signs up for it. The grocery stores start blinking for assistance once you swipe beer/wine through the checkout here in Ohio.
That’s what I’m used to. There was a sign I saw afterwards. Looked like a standard “15 items or some other nonsense” so didn’t pay any attention to it.
We can purchase alcohol in a self serve lane here in NH as long as an employee presses some buttons stating the employee “checked” our ID.
Oh…
And only beer and wine because the state monopolizes liquor sales. LIVE FREE OR DIE!!!!
And then only as long as it is not between 1 AM and 6 AM. LIVE FREE OR DIE!!!!!
My response was rejected.
TL;DR: NY sucks too.
The polio thing is interesting. The revisionist history of polio proposes that it was primarily a disease of compromised immune systems and leaky guts that allowed infectious agents to pass the intestinal wall near the lower spine (where they are closest). This was a result of regular exposure to heavy metals and large amounts of pesticides.
I wonder if compromised immune systems from the vax are leading to the same outcomes. It’s pure supposition, but an interesting hypothesis given what we know and the timing.
In the ’40s many of the polio victims were young. I’m not sure how much pesticides were being used, though Black Flag insect spray was in every rural home and barn and widely used to kill skeeters. Urban kids, probably not so much exposure.
As I anecdotally recall polio seemed to be more prevalent in the summer. I could be wrong.
I’ve seen the “DDT caused polio” hypothesis.
I don’t buy it as polio existed before DDT was in widespread use.
I saw an essay which made sense to me: There is more than one cause of polio-like symptoms.
I read a near-conspiracy book on Polio called the Moth in the Iron Lung.
My immediate reaction was “No way.”
But now I trust no one.
And the way the medical field has been completely skin-suited by the Left, there is very good reason not to trust them again.
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Can we get more libertarian that this?
I see no marijuana or Mexicans or ass sex.
All I remember is a remarkable tribute to the memory of SP, and a great deal of fun with friends I’ve only chatted online with. Oh, and I apparently bought a house there. Whether you could make it or not, SP would have been honored by the outpouring of love and support. And in the words of Nephilium, “only in this group, would people break into someones house to clean up”.
I remember more than that except for the “break into someone’s house to clean up”. I guess I left too early. Maybe I should have stayed to go to that bar?
Even if approved by voters, the county’s secession from California, whether to become its own state or to become a part of a neighboring state, is extremely unlikely. The move would need to be approved by state legislators, Congress, the Senate and, eventually, the president.
Fuck them. Just leave California.
Empty restaurant sheds — derided by critics as havens for the homeless, makeshift toilets and rat traps — are now providing a place for raunchy al fresco quickies.
A new game – San Francisco or New York City?
On the deadthread, GT mentioned Hermannhof. I picked up some great wine from there, and elsewhere in the Hermann area, on my FreedomFest 2021 road trip. For eats, I recommend The Hermann Wurst Haus.
Heard about that on Saturday from Neph, so it apparently happened Friday evening. (They started the party without us! 🙁)
Filling out a resume for potentially a really good job and would appreciate advice from the Glibertariat:
The position is an on-location job, but I think it possibly could be done as hybrid. Do I include a cover letter explaining this upfront, or do I wait and bring it up in the first conversation I have with them? I live 90 miles away, so I assume one of their first questions (assuming I make the short list) will be if I plan to relocate or drive back and forth.
I would bring it up in person.
That gives you a better chance to showcase your talents without them dismissing you before getting the chance.
Yeah, I agree with this.
Hiring managers can be very capricious about which resumes to toss and which ones to consider seriously.
I refused to interview someone based on their having a man bun.
I’d wait for the interview. For all they know, you are ready to relocate nearer them. Once you’re far enough into the interview to know what the job is really all about, and have explained how your skills are a great match, you can then bring up partial WFH and explain, in your view, why it would work.
Get the job, then negotiate.
Our negotiations on terms happen after we decide whether you are a good fit. If you start negotiating before the offer phase, we tend to toss the application.
I wasn’t viewing the WFH as terms to negotiate. And the NoDak Nice in me didn’t want to waste people’s time if they view any WFH as a non-starter.
I’ve never applied for a job where there was any negotiating of terms to be done. It was always just, “Do you want the job? If so, here’s the terms you will accept.” I’ve slowly developed a skillset where I suddenly realize that I’d be in the short list of applicants for many positions in my field and I’m not always sure how to handle it. So I come here to get straightened out by you fine folks. 🙂
The more skilled and specialized the role, the more terms you can negotiate for.
If there’s a stack of alternative hires, you’ve got no leverage. If there’s only a handful of people even worth interviewing, there’s incentive to see whether the request is workable.
Supply and demand.
You are your own best advocate.
I’ve negotiated myself into very nice company cars before (of my choosing).
Thanks all for the great advice. Part of me was saying that, but the louder, NoDak Nice part was saying I should tell them my intentions up front. Hopefully we get far enough to talk seriously about it, and hopefully they seriously consider it.
Give them an exact list of your requirements before you turn in the application.
Right now the most in-demand worker skill set is showing up to work on the appointed time and completing the assigned task time. If you can do more than button pressing CNC work and can demonstrate an old school work ethic I think any employer right now would be very flexible. I know I’m willing to negotiate with any potential employees who can show a good track record or are proven after some probationary period.
Just in case, the first part is not serious, the second is.
When I’ve interviewed, all I was looking for is “can I stand listening to this person for hours at a time”. To be fair, it was consultants so they are already expected to have some sort of skills or to be trainable.
Sadly, I was not part of the process with the consultant I spend the most time with lately.
Are people on the zoom? I don’t really want to put on pants and a shirt…
Just go Toobin’!!
Too many in the zoom might enjoy that, so I guess I’ll join in some clothing… Sigh.
I think I triggered Tonio. Guess he didn’t want to talk to me with my clothes on.
Or more likely everyone went to bed already.
It is way too damn hot to put any clothing on tonight.
Join us on the school then. 😉
Zoom. Fucking auto correct is trying to take me out.
No, you don’t want to see that.
I left the zoom, so go for it. 😀
Are all libertarians ancient, or just the ones here?
Do people get more libertarian with age, or are we dying out?
If you weren’t raised by liberty-minded parents, maybe it comes to you with life experience, IF you can refrain from being blinded by your habitual youthful (which has tended, at least in recent generations, to be proggie) idealism.
One significant experience that influenced me: My credit union employer discovered a teller had stolen checks for a member’s account (either lifted when delivered from the printer or generated as “starter” checks) and deposited them in ATMs around town (and thus on camera, at least at some of them.) We, of course, fired her and had enough evidence to press charges.
She filed for unemployment, and some brain-addled bureaucrat approved her initial application despite our description of the circumstances of her dismissal. Brain-addled Bureaucrat rationalized, “Well, you never specifically told this teller that she shouldn’t do this specific thing.” (We, of course, appealed the initial approval, and the teller failed to appear for the appeal hearing, so we prevailed.)
Incident helped make a libertarian out of me.
That you had to appeal is so infuriating. So much of what libertarians ask for is (should be) merely common sense. That it is so hard for so many to grasp is so frustrating.
I’ve always just wanted to be left alone and had no real desire to control others. I leaned more Republican in my early years but from my observations as I grew up, I don’t trust any party. In fact my feeling now are that an individual shouldn’t trust any organizations. I do trust individuals, but a group can change leadership and any old agreements can be eventually discarded. Kind of rambling but I became more libertarian as I aged. I know others that have not.
I was raised prog – not by family, but by schooling and environment. Was never very faithful to it – for which I thank my sensible mom. Recovered fully with experience.
I had older parents and grew up in Northern NH in the late 70s and early 80s. I was exposed to very little prog. stuff but had a lot of classes discussing the Revolutionary War period. Maybe being surrounded by Live Free or Die license plates? lol Somewhat random musing: I don’t think I will ever forget my mom’s story about giving some hippies a ride, only to have them steal the eggs from her groceries. Kind of soured me early on hippies.
I grew up in the “inner city” in the same time period. The propaganda was there but from what I’ve heard it’s gotten much worse. By today’s standards I was a free-range kid.
Yeah, my cousins that grew up in the Boston or DC areas had a much different experience than me.
Maybe that’s the answer.
Schools have gone more prog, and kids aren’t nearly the rebellious types they’re made out to be, on average.
I was always anti-collectivist
Becoming a libertarian was a result of many things, notably listening to the long-departed radio host David Brudnoy talk about the Amirault case
Today in great reset.
On the bright side, the war on fertilizer will have immediate, detrimental results that will likely lead to immediate political backlash.
They seem to have forgotten that boiling the frog slowly works better.
Too bad Biden fleeing the country wouldn’t solve anything here.
They don’t care. They have infiltrated everywhere.
They have, and this particular effort is designed to bankrupt farmers so that large politically connected firms with access to central bankers can buy up the land.
The only way this probably ends is through revolt and bloodshed.
Ultimate goal of the few for the many.
Mornin peeps.
Good morning, Scruffy, rhy, Ted’S, Lack, and Sean! (and any lurkers!) Another beautiful morning here at Tranquility Base – sunny, whereas yesterday was cloudy and occasionally rainy. Of course, this means I’ll have no more excuses (other than the heat, which doesn’t exempt me entirely) not to weed-whack at least around the raised garden beds. 😕
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Back to light iced mocha latte here – I’d eschewed the “latte” part for the summer, but when I did a last-minute grocery commando raid last night (just half an hour before they closed at midnight) the latte-less cold-brewed coffee was significantly more expensive, and the light latte was on sale.
Mornin’.
Get your morning rage on
https://mobile.twitter.com/rotor_motor13b/status/1555903993037086723
Not gonna listen. Let me know when we get to the revenge phase.
Listened for the first thirty seconds or so. I can’t bear to listen to the whole thing. The pharmacist will parrot the party line that it’s “not a side effect,” right?
I don’t know, looks like the quality of life for at least one guy in that article is pretty decent