Thanks to SP for filling in for me yesterday. I had to get a chipped tooth fixed so I can escape immediate identification as Florida Man until after my unstable and dangerous behavior really takes off. In some new-to-me sports news it looks like the Astros are trying to avoid becoming one-hit-wonders. Or maybe aspiring to become one-hit-wonders. Insert your “traded for more good pitching” pun here.
Canadian hitchhiker
brutally dismembered in Philly. Nobody is surprised by this.
Good news. A little caress for your junk.
I would like to remind everyone that I no longer reside in Tallahassee.
For those of you wondering if you have a drinking problem — there’s a website for that! I’m just going to suggest that if the police or lack of funds are your regular ways of stopping, you might want to see about changing things. Or if you’re the chick in the picture.
Here’s a homeless guy singing a drinking song.
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Lord have mercy Mamacita, this is a great group.
https://archive.is/S5Hlk
2, 4, 5, 14 (in spite of the piercings), 18, 20, 23, 35, 41, 42, 43. Where did that puddle of drool come from?
25 wins it all, but 32 and 3 have such gorgeous bodies that I honestly don’t care what their faces look like.
Orgy, except:
#44 excluded because I don’t swing that way. #14 excluded for stupid piercing.
I think #3 and #5 should join me after the orgy for some quality time.
I’ve been strangely drawn to this one today. Not sure why. Maybe because phone case matches underwear. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bdx3sSjlzX4/
dat ass….
God help me, but I’m gonna go with 1. Wish me luck!
*sign of the cross*
Lotta goodness there, but if I had to pick just one, 35
You don’t have to pick just one. The Cult of the Orgy is all-welcoming.
Have mercy: I’m still in my bunk from this morning’s offerings.
9. 17 is photoshopped you can see on the left boundary of the waist.
I’ll take 10 and 12 and leave the rest for you guys
5 is Skadi the modern version Norse goddess of the hunt. Ohhh hell yeah.
“Meanwhile, in Russia”
2008 called- they want their meme back
https://xkcd.com/875/
I laughed.
Classics always come back in style, Just Say’n.
I was more so just playing off of the famous President Obama remark: “The 1980’s called and they want their foreign policy back”
I always appreciate a good Rick roll
My kingdom for a reset button
I actually Rick rolled the bridal party at my wedding when they were announced at the reception. Oh, the carefree aughts
Even better, do it during the wedding.
I was in the lab yesterday. One of the engineers was looking at the white board — it had a tinyurl list on the board. He asked what it was. I said it’s a tinyurl. Who knows what it goes to.
A couple of minutes later, I see him looking at Rick on one of the lab computers. I told him he had been rick-rolled. I just got a blank look in response.
Still, someone took the time to lay that joke out on a shared white board. Two thumbs up.
That is dedication to the art, right there.
Only one afternoon article today after tempting us with two articles the other day. That Koch check must have bounced
Wait for 1900.
This I just don’t understand. Must be some kind of joke that kills in Switzerland
I think he means 1900 hours tonight, which is like 8:00 PM regular people time.
Really? 24hrs in a day, 12 numerals on the clock. 1-12 normal 1-12 then 1300 is one pm.
It’s not rocket surgery: take 1900 minus 1200 = 700 or 7:00pm
It might be a return to the timezone arguments.
Of course, everyone knows Eastern is the One True Time.
Rilly. UCS is correct that I was converting Switzy’s 1900 CST to 8:00 PM EST.
I assumed this to be a Year 2K joke.
So, the NickG of websites?
That’s mean. You should apologize, sir
You do realize that the hitchhiker thing is like so 2015.
Meh, it came up in a feed and it gave me a chance to badmouth Philly.
As an unfortunate resident, you don’t really need a reason. Bad mouth away.
Apart from your sandwich, your town is terrible and the people suck.
Eh, I’m originally from Scranton. Philly isn’t that bad in comparison.
I had multiple cheesesteaks while I was in Philly last year and they were all terrible. Also, your whole town is terrible and the people suck.
Philly smells like cheeze whiz and garbage. Residents of Philly smell like cheeze whiz, garbage, and BO.
*note: I have never been to Philly.
You are correct. I live fairly close to Philly. I refuse to go there.
SandwichES. Cheese steak is good, but the roast pork + provolone + garlic broccoli raab sandwich is even better.
There was some Anthony Bourdain vehicle where he went to Philly. During one of the interviews with random folks on the street one guy said something like, “People from Philly are idiots. They think they’re some kind of culinary masterminds because they figured out how to put meat and cheese in a bun.”
Philly has Brauhaus Schmitz, Yards, and The Franklin Institute. It’s not all bad.
Hey, the sign said “San Francisco or Bust.” Philly thugs made a choice. Same thing is going to happen to the Falcons on Saturday.
They just haven’t found all the bodies of all the other dead and dismembered hitchhiking bot that had the misfortune to wander into Philly. When the machines start to take over, the one bastion of human survival will be Philly, we don’t aim to be overrun by an army of rust-buckets.
Imma say that the hitch-bot was an attempt to safely collect bigfoot DNA.
STEVE SMITH NO CARE FOR SEXBOT, NOT SCREAM BELIEVABLY.
The robot started its journey across the USA on 17 July in Salem, Massachusetts and visited Boston and New York City before being found dismembered on the streets of Philadelphia. A photo on Twitter showed hitchBOT lying in the dirt with its head missing and arms ripped off.
I’m surprised any one found it.
Too heavy to take to the recycling center?
Never. I saw a tiny little old Chinese lady lift a tossed out air-conditioner into her push cart. Bad-ass. Looked like a survivor of the Long March
People strip cars on public streets in broad daylight in certain parts of Philly. I’m certain they’d find a way to get the robot to the “recycling center” if they wanted to.
Programming it to travel through Philly was a hate-crime.
Simple misunderstanding…someone thought it was a snitching robot not a a hitchhiking robot.
So it beat Michelle Obama at space chess?
Surprised it made it that far, honestly. I’ll keepa look out for Canadian robot parts next time I’m in West Philly.
Hey, I live right across City Line Avenue from West Philly.
…so do I. One of us needs to get off the others lawn.
You guys trade punches and it’s a one way ticket to California.
Better than ending up in Jersey I suppose.
Truth.
No kidding. Small world, I’m in Bala.
And “GET OFF OF MY LAWN, You’uns!!”
Oh, you’re on the good side of city ave. I’m on the other side, wedged in the small part of Philly between Bala and Fairmount park.
Ahh okay. I guess I’ll volunteer to stay off of your lawn then.
That’s probably for the best, safety wise.
Pippa Bacca-bot?
The arresting officer was initially suspended and eventually fired by the department. In addition, the city offered a $500,000 settlement to Alex Wubbels which she has accepted. The settlement includes provisions that prevent any future litigation.
Well, it’s better than nothing but I think she should get more.
Problem being, it comes out of the tax cattle’s hide – not the police budget for overtime, etc.
True. Shame it won’t come from the cops.
That’s still tax cattle money, Swissy. If you raided their assets forfeiture funds they’d just steal more.
Only when we see that cop fired, unhireable, and his pension fund zeroed out will this shit stop.
At least the taxpayers were only fucked a little bit. Just the tip.
The tip is where all the sharp hooks and grappels are located though.
Okay, listen dude, you really need to get checked by a doctor. Get a full screen!
Hey, anyone remember that shooting thing that happened in Las Vegas? This guy is still talking about it. I’m not sure if he’s making any sense but everyone else has memory-holed it deep.
It seems that the left has been uncharacteristically silent about that, too. (Rustles tinfoil)
After hyperventilating about “conspiracy theories” for as long as I can remember, the U.S. ruling class suddenly realized that they can be useful.
The whole thing around this is so freaking weird. Definitely aliens.
Went to see the middlebury womens hockey team play last night.
Why aren’t there more people there? it was free. started just after dinner.
There might have been 40 people watching. The guys games get a little more, but not really. If I was a student, itd be a pretty easy place to be drunk and just hang out.
Any good fights?
No fights, but one lady was very aggressive with her hip.
Middlebury VT? What was the temp? -20?
When I was a college student in Maine, I tended to drink heavily (what else was there to do?) while not travelling far.
It’s finally above 0. I think last night it was in the 20’s.
Middlebury rebuilt their athletic… arena? it’s a huge complex now. Indoor.
“I don’t know but I’ve been told, Middlebury womens hockey…”
…almost lost that family friendly label with memories of jody calls.
Why aren’t there more people there?
Because Middlebury girls don’t look like this?
NSFWIYBIAA
As DEG is wont to say, Orgy.
Correct.
They didn’t skate like that…
are you suggesting they go the way of the lingerie football league?
Well, I suspect there would be more than 40 people there.
The chicks in the picture are from the US national team and the pic itself from ESPN’s bodies issue. IIRC there was great wailing and gnashing of teeth because grrrrl power doesn’t include tits.
Which shows how out of touch from reality the grrl power people are. Tits are part of what gives women power.
PREACH IT!
Hummunnahummunna…
Another mystery solved.
Off topic, but Norm MacDonald’s book “Based on a True Story” is excellent
Meanwhile in cryptocurrency:
CEO of porn cryptocurrency disappears with investor money
FAPCoin?
TitCoin
Q hardest hit.
It never got large enough for his tastes.
Could have augmented it at least!
They must feel deflated.
Filed under “Most Predictable News Ever”.
From the “see also” on that article: Financial Dominatrix has made $1m in cryptocurrency:
Whips and chains, or blockchains?
This financial dominatrix has earned well over $1 million in cryptocurrencies, as the virtual currency has become the talk of Wall Street.
The bitcoin bombshell, who goes by the name Theodora, uses financial domination on men who get sexual pleasure from paying her money and giving her gifts, according to MarketWatch. This entails receiving “tributes” and having full control over her client’s bank accounts, credit cards and spending budgets.
This entails receiving “tributes” and having full control over her client’s bank accounts, credit cards and spending budgets.
AFTF!
Dear Zordaz: how do I, a fairly normal looking middle age straight male, change careers,? I would like to use financial domination on women who get sexual pleasure from paying me money and giving me gifts.
*Zardoz, sorry
Cock-blockchain
Golf clap.
What a horrible disease, I hope it responds to antibiotics.
That’s what you get for a hole-in-one at a crowded public course.
Wrong hole!
Cointus interuptus.
A photo on Twitter showed hitchBOT lying in the dirt with its head missing and arms ripped off.
He should have let the wookie win.
This turned out to be the last comment on the previous thread so I’m reposting here: Davos might actually be worth reading about this year.
Did SugarFree write it?
He just posted it.
Continued from the previous thread.
Someone noticed that Curtis Yarvin appeared in the Google guest list and was slated to be escorted off the premises.
I’m laughing at Google for considering Moldbug a security threat. He has about as non-threatening a presence as anyone I’ve ever met.
Moldbug is highly likely to trigger a Googley snowflake.
Well yeah, that’s probably true.
JB and Q are at it again:
https://en.rocketnews24.com/2018/01/10/busty-cosplayer-makes-japanese-dreams-come-true-with-super-real-super-sonico-cosplay-%e3%80%90photos%e3%80%91/
Her tits look like an ass
Would. Would even more so if she dumped those demonic contacts.
I got a Piquant Post subscription for Christmas and I’m working through a batch of spices now. Basically you get some fresh ground spice blends each month and some recipes that use the spices. So far it’s been a pretty cool way to change up my usual kitchen staples. I made Bali BBQ pork the other night and I just made some bumbu bali paste for Indonesian Mie Goreng tonight. I’ve also got some Chicken Satay marinating in the fridge for tomorrow. IDK if any of y’all have tried anything like this but I’m a big fan already and its a cheap way to try out some new flavors.
Sigh. #1 NYT Bestseller for sure. Looks like The Hate U Give will finally be dethroned.
That…That looks…aboslutely. fucking. horrible.
Why?
4.49 stars out of 5.
Learned of its existence from a YA author who read the description and got so excited she started hyperventilating and considered calling her son while at school to tell him about it.
whut
She don’t feel noways tired?
Emmett Till. I’m sure that’ll be handled appropriately.
Proggy passion play.
Sounds… boring.
When the Soviets were allied with the Nazis, Dalton Trumbo wrote an isolationist book featuring the ghost of Andrew Jackson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Remarkable_Andrew
He also wrote the script for the movie version.
Trumbo was a worthless pinko hack. No wonder Hollywood lionizes him.
15/10 Book fo the YEARRRRRR
STEVE SMITH LIKE THAT FLORIDA MAN DELIVER PRESENT INTO WOODS AND SAVE STEVE SMITH TROUBLE OF UNWRAPPING.
DEBATE: Ben Shapiro & Blaire White
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbTwoLah2VY
Nelson laugh!
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gawker-kickstarter-fails_us_5a54cf6ee4b01e1a4b19beea
“It was an ambitious goal, but nearly 1,500 people were willing to pay money for a site that hasn’t published in over a year,” Del wrote in an email to HuffPost on Tuesday. “That’s impressive, and though we won’t be able to compete at auction, we hope one of the other benevolent parties interested in the site is able to win. There’s clearly demand.”
Progressives. They live in an alt-reality.
So 90k divided by 1500 is….$60.
Clearly the love is there.
Hopefully the 90K was then forwarded to Hulk.
I’d say I was “floored” by the amount of support for the site as well, but I guess my use of the word is different than the campaign organizers’ use of the word. 1,500 backers was 1,500 backers too many.
I’d been following it. The number of people who pledged a dollar just to tell Gawker how shitty they are was … refreshing.
My God Philadelphia.
One of the only airports to ever make me wistful for ATL.
Ha – Every time I go there I think “this is much better than the Newark / NY airports.”
Newark is the worst airport I’ve been to. Philly is a close competitor but is better than Newark. I’ll put Atlanta above Philly, and I don’t like Atlanta airport.
O. Hare.
I flew through LaGuardia last month–for the first time in my life. What a dump!
It’s a hallway next to a runway.
LaGuardia is the worst airport in the United States and it’s not particularly close.
LaGuardia is bad, but I rank Newark worse. The men’s rooms at LaGuardia weren’t trashed in the morning like at Newark.
Dulles. OMG, what a horrible place in a horrible location.
But at least Dulles has a 5 Guys in the United Terminal. LaGuardia is horrible in every way imaginable, and some that aren’t unless you have to go there. I have heard reliably from a friend, whose sister’s brother-in-law is a Jesuit priest that Dante used LaGuardia as a model for the 7th ring of hell.
God has nothing to do with Philadelphia.
Heh. Need this shirt.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1622733877818777&id=100002465405462
This is my current favorite shirt:
https://www.libertariancountry.com/collections/libertarian-t-shirts/products/dark-humor-is-like-food-stalin-t-shirt
I don’t get it.
*rolls eyes* Fucking Canadians.
I don’t get it.
Just declare it as a gift and it should make its way through customs this time.
“For those of you wondering if you have a drinking problem”
I have a stay in focus problem. I’ll sit and listen with interest for 22 seconds and then lint starts to look interesting.
You’re a literal puppet though, what else can be expected?
So you don’t work?
I’m in the middle of…wait…What?
Adderall is your friend.
That’s just how we roll around here. Harvey Weinstein attacked at Arizona restaurant He’s lucky he didn’t get shot.
Wasn’t he supposed to be going to Europe for counseling or some shit?
I think he ended up in Wickenburg, AZ (approx 50 miles northwest of the Phoenix area) for rehab or whatever. Showing up at Elements restaurant here in Phoenix doesn’t surprise me. If I recall, I think pics surfaced of him at a restaurant in Scottsdale just before he was headed out to Wickenburg in the first place.
Harvey was “very sweet” about declining the photo, the manager said,
Does Weinstein take a casting couch with him when he goes out for dinner?
All he wanted was a handy, don’t really need a couch for that.
Unless your name is Lieutenant Dan. Then you need a couch.
I think attacked might be a bit of a stretch.
It’s TMZ. Everything is a stretch.
Hahaha sober coach
So much for me even considering re-claiming my family place there.
TW: Brietbart
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/01/10/switzerland-rejects-citizenship-bids-residents-welfare/
¿Por qué no los dos?
https://pjmedia.com/video/tucker-main-threat-freedom-no-longer-big-government-big-corporations-like-google/
I’m sorry, I don’t speak foreign.
Until the state stops issuing corporate charters, taking their money in campaign donations, and enforcing regulatory capture which assists in maintaining market position, the argument can be made that big corporations and government are nearly synonymous.
^^^Wise man.
AKA: Corporatism or mercantilism.
Bingo.
AKA Cronyism.
Past history suggests the “we need big government to save us from big business” attitude has not worked. See Populists and Progressive’s desire for nationalizing certain industries. Also who are the bureaucrats that will be trying to save us from Google?
Also income tax and giving pay raises to bureaucrats were also supposed to save us from big business.
So, some of the reporting on Google’s progpaganda, err, “fact”checking, feature suggests that it’s falsely attributing claims to sites and then labeling them false. Is that legally actionable as libel?
Am I sitting on the jury?
Florida man update?
http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/01/09/tpd-man-ripped-urinal-restaurant-bathroom-wall-ran-away-naked-into-woods/1018894001/
“White people are not the only ones in trouble with social justice professors, as Asians are the latest demographic to be accused of racism — this time in the form of “colorblind racism.”
An Asian American Studies professor at the University of Illinois says that interactions between Asian American students and international Asian students carries the risk of reinforcing so-called “colorblind racism.” Soo Ah Kwon says that students reinforce that form of racism in their attempts to reach out to their international counterparts.
Discovering that international students self-segregate by nationality, professor Kwon says that efforts to integrate them into the local community reflect the pervasiveness of “normative whiteness” on campus.
“We problematize this schema not only because it places undue responsibility upon Asian American students but [because] it also renders the experiences of racial marginalization and discrimination invisible for international and domestic racial minority students,” writes Kwon.
Kwon says “colorblind racism” happens when people do not take race into account when confronting issues, which she argues is problematic because it ignores “structures of power that privileges whiteness and white supremacy.”
dailycaller.com/2018/01/09/professor-argues-asians-are-guilty-of-colorblind-racism/
I like how Race Ethnicity and Education is REE.
“Discovering that international students self-segregate by nationality”
How is this white peoples fault?
It must be. Everything is the fault of white people, ergo…
Because they invented racism. Duh.
The more I read from people like this, the more their language just kind of washes over me. I can’t even really understand what they’re trying to say. It’s just a jumbled bit of buzzwords. None of them even form sentences in my mind.
WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN?
It doesn’t matter. You’re not supposed to understand. And if you question it, you just reveal that you are one of the deplorables.
It means she doesn’t even understand postmodernism well enough to use brackets correctly.
Uh…I swear these yahoos were all about self segregating recently and calling them safe spaces.
I’m so confused.
Well that’s not helpful.
“We problematize this schema not only because it places undue responsibility upon Asian American students but [because] it also renders the experiences of racial marginalization and discrimination invisible for international and domestic racial minority students,” writes Kwon.”
I clubbed a baby seal just for using the word ‘problematize’ AND sent the carcass to Kwon.
“More than once gotten into situations while or after drinking that increased your chances of getting hurt (such as driving, swimming, using machinery, walking in a dangerous area, or having unsafe sex)?”
It’s that the whole point of drinking (especially the unsafe sex)?
“Given up or cut back on activities that were important or interesting to you, or gave you pleasure, in order to drink?”
Ummmm…. no category for if the important, interesting and pleasurable things are all drinking.
“Experienced craving—a strong need, or urge, to drink?”
This is directly correlated to how annoying the people around me are being. Take it up with them.
“Found that drinking—or being sick from drinking—often interfered with taking care of your home or family? Or caused job troubles? Or school problems?”
Don’t have a family, job or education. Problem solved.
Used to joke about that with my college buddies.
“What? Whaddaya mean, I can’t pick up drunk chicks? How the hell do people have sex sober? That’s gotta be awkward as hell!”
Canada: Liberal MP Chris Bittle labels anti-Islamic State protesters “white supremacists”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/01/canada-liberal-mp-chris-bittle-labels-anti-islamic-state-protesters-white-supremacists
***
An MP of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party slammed protests in his city directed against returning Islamic State fighters, calling the protestors “racists” and “white supremacists.”
Liberal Party MP for St. Catherines Chris Bittle took to Facebook earlier this week to condemn a protest against Islamic State fighters returning from the Middle East to Canada in front of his office.
For Mr Bittle, the four or so people who carried signs reading “Jail ISIS Fighters” were, in his words, “white supremacists”, using the issue of Islamic State fighters to “promote their hateful, racist views.”
Since making the post Bittle has received over two thousand comments, with many asking Mr Bittle to point out the protesters’ links to white supremacist movements or ideologies. While Bittle did link to an post allegedly made by a person who he claimed led the protest which contained anti-Muslim imagery, many were not satisfied.
When one user asked Bittle to “put Canadians first” and refuse entry for returning Islamic State fighters, Bittle said “returning fighters are Canadians who have not been charged with a crime”. He added that most returnees had come back to Canada under the previous conservative government.
***
When was the last time the “Liberal” party proposed something to do with improving liberty?
Does pot, immigrants and ass-sex count?
No.
Cytotoxic, RC Dean and Reason have a sad.
Shiny Pony is a cunt.
Never.
They’re SJW assholes.
Jean Chretien/Paul Martin spending and tax cuts in 90s.
The Liberals cut taxes? That seems unpossible. What forced their hand?
I thought I read the cuts were Clintonesque “cuts” where the debt still rises?
First they cut spending because they couldn’t borrow.
Shockingly, government revenue rebounded as economy improved (both locally and globally).
Then, they cut taxes because Paul Martin wasn’t a lefty and tax cuts are popular. Yes, even in Canada.
And if you google his name, you can find some excellent lefty hate for him, a decade+ after he left power.
Too bad he was a poopy PM.
Didn’t Martin rejoice at Turdeau Jr.’s deficit spending?
Can’t find anything quickly, can’t be arsed to search deeply, and probably, given that Martin is loyal Party man above all.
Will Canada accept immigrants from the Lord’s Resistance Army?
Probably already have.
Their anti-bullet techniques could save millions at DoD!
I wonder if MP Bittle wants people thrown from roofs in St Kitts. (St Kitts being local slang for St Catharines; I grew up near there)
Fuck this guy.
“Catherine Deneuve and other French women tell the world how their interiorized misogyny has lobotomized them to the point of no return”
https://twitter.com/AsiaArgento/status/950777950655401984
“Catherine Deneuve says men should be ‘free to hit on’ women”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/09/catherine-deneuve-men-should-be-free-hit-on-women-harvey-weinstein-scandal
She said men should be free to hit women??!?!? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH HER.
What a total rape apologist!
Yeah, I mean it’s not like she’s a real woman. Real women wear pussy hats in public, scream at the sky, and hate men. Oh, and they only vote for leftists, almost forgot the most important part.
Young Catherine.
Schwing!
WOOD
“Interiorized?” WTF?
Spawn 2 asked me to edit a paper for school. It included the phrase:
“…the people will always fight back against oppression, making it impossible for a government that represses the rights and freedoms of the individual to maintain true stability.”
I wish I shared her certainty, but I like that thinking for a 15 year old. I actually think she’s trolling her commie english teacher.
Tell her to scratch the ‘back against’ it’s redundant and wordy.
You must be very proud. Well done.
It’s early. We’ll see if she can navigate the Fire Swamp and the SJWOUS.
Tundra’s spawn for president!
“…the people will always fight back against oppression, making it impossible for a government that represses the rights and freedoms of the individual to maintain true stability.”
Meh, like you said, we wish. It appears that they’ll only do that when there’s no actual threat, just because their team lost.
*High-fives Tundra*
Nice work, man!
Trot out the holodeck jokes…
Holostream allows high quality wireless 3d video communications
Alas, not looking remotely Star Trek-impressive. Are we really so far from live communication with Oculus or some VR?
Well, it’s actually happening, it’s just that people use avatars instead of their own holograph like images. I’ve long been an advocate of actually being able to create yourself in a game and now VR, it’s just not happened yet. The tech can’t be that far off.
https://twitter.com/JustinRaimondo/status/951196443427061760
Haha…wait…what are you arguing about? Read the thread. This is balls to the wall ridiculous
I’ll take ‘Why libertarians are never taken seriously’ for $400, Alex.
God, Justin is such a bitchy old queen! And not even in the entertaining, biting ridicule of someone’s fashion sense while fanning himself with a folded-up copy of Playbill way.
Rothbard would be rolling in his grave if he knew that Raimondo was reflexively defending him against any slight, real or imagined, with the furious indignation of an Objectivist-cultist defending Ayn Rand.
I’ve been reading through the Google complaint that I think Tarran linked to in the last thread. All I can say about Exhibit B is wow, just wow. These people are completely unhinged. I mean utterly batfuck crazy cutoff from reality unhinged. It made me think of the French Revolution. I have no doubt that they would gladly try to line every Glib and their families up against a wall.
Fortunately for us, such an attempt would not go well for them. I found the rebellion section very humorous. One Google employee wrote after Trump won that he wants to join a rebellion but doesn’t know how to fight. Does anyone think the Rebellion could use IT help?
The Punch a Nazi section provided laughs too. Seeing these basket case women and neutered men rage about how they are going to punch Nazis, even going so far as to draw up a detailed diagram of how to throw a punch. I’d give even odds my 3 year old daugther could hold their own against these jackoffs, let alone 250lb Cletus the actual Nazi who spent the past 10 years pumping iron and throwing down to survive in prison.
https://i.imgur.com/BAkldaJ.gif
This is what happens.
Ouch.
A lack of grrrl power there, too.
Good old Moldylocks.
Never gets old.
Damn, son’s got a pretty good cross.
https://www.scribd.com/document/368692388/James-Damore-Lawsuit
Exhibit B starts on page 74
My response to all of these people would be:
“I am neither a Socialist nor a Democrat. I loathe Hillary Clinton and every plank of the Democrat Party platform. If that makes me a Nazi in your eyes, I’m *begging* you to meet me in the parking lot. Just go ahead and *try* to punch me you pencil-necked little pieces of shit.”
Starting a fight would be fun, but passively getting attacked and suing the shit out of Google for allowing and encouraging workplace violence would be a lot more rewarding. Punishment -and- profit.
My God is Google full of shit and shitheads.
It was bound to happen people were going to hit back.
Exhibit B is like DU.
Wow. That’s utterly despicable. I hope to God the end result here is that Google gets the absolute shit sued out of it. And/or, I hope this gets out into the public eye and folks start moving away from their products. There are plenty of good alternative to Gmail, there are decent alternatives to Google for search (I use DuckDuckGo and, believe it or not, Bing), and even Facebook and YouTube’s crackdowns have spawned Minds, which is a pretty good alternative, as is Vimeo.
“To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is barbarity.”
-Robespierre
I have no doubt that quite a few progs think libertarians are “oppressors of humanity.”
Wow. Google is worse than I thought.
I’m thinking it might be about time for the right to organize a general boycott of any company that advertises using Google. Not until they adopt some particular policy reforms, mind you, just to kill the company altogether.
When I interviewed there they boasted about hiring people only from the best universities. If this is what the best universities turn out, we are in serious trouble.
“Math professor: Merit-based classrooms are a ‘tool of whiteness’ that oppress minority students”
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/01/09/math-professor-merit-based-classrooms-are-a-tool-of-whiteness-that-oppress-minority-students
I really want to know how these people can insist that minorities and women are too dumb to understand math and yet they don’t get protested.
Democrats have been saying that minorities and women can’t fend for themselves for decades and getting away with it.
Can’t everyone just get a participation degree, I mean whether they actually participate or not, and a high paying guaranteed job even if they lack skills and won’t work? Equality now!
New York City sues 5 major oil companies, claiming they contributed to global warming
Good way to scare businesses from your shit hole state.
Should do wonders for state pension funds, too.
I’m perfectly content for NYC to be some great big city chock full of horrible people that pass stupid laws so long as all of it is self-contained, but when they start trying to affect the rest of the world then I think it’s time to evac the good ones and carpet bomb the sonofabitch.
random tidbits from the Google lawsuit document
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In fact, a large number of Googlers have set their corporate profile pictures to Antifa insignias, as seen in the image below.
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General examples of “not okay” etiquette around plural beings:
-Assumptions that we’re mentally damaged; actually we’re happier this way
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What a treasure trove of derp. Now I know how John Muir felt when he first laid eyes upon Yosemite.
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In fact, a large number of Googlers have set their corporate profile pictures to Antifa insignias, as seen in the image below.
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So, instead of successful tech employees, they would like to become street thugs and bums? Nice, go on.
The Treasure of the Derpierra Madre
Promise me you won’t bite off more than you can chew, bud.
I already took the plunge when I compiled the Derponomicon.
The plot thickens:
Records show psych prof who ‘diagnosed’ Trump lacks license
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10363
I remember some folks saying Joe the Plumber isn’t a plumber because he doesn’t have a license. I expect those people will be silent about this professor.
Still, you have to be a special kind of partisan rube to accept a mental diagnosis from someone who didn’t speak to the person directly.
It’s common sense 101. Something the left are supposed to possess in many pounds and kilograms.
Pounds are racist!
Logic is white male patriarchy.
Shiny
“Millennials are now thirstier than ever for adventures and new experiences, and we want to be right by their side,” Rafael Acevedo, Coca-Cola North America’s group director for Diet Coke, said in a statement. “We’re contemporizing the Diet Coke brand and portfolio with sleek packaging and new flavors that are appealing to new audiences.”
Whatever you say.
Trump is not gonna like this
You know what I miss? All the crystal colas. At least Zima is making a comeback.
Didn’t those taste like crap?
I recall Zima being a better version of the later imitator Smirnoff Ice and popular with the alcopop set. Also, the last time I had it was in Japan sometime in the early ‘aughts.
But the crystal colas, I mean…
My recollection was they tasted exactly the same, although I never engaged in a direct comparison.
That may have been the problem.
Syrupy.
Thank you! I actually have pretty fond memories of Crystal Pepsi, and I’m not really a soda guy.
My favorite soda in HS was Surge. They brought it back a few years ago, but now I’m pretty much allergic to caffeine, so I haven’t been able to have one.
Allergic to Caffiene!?! D:
In response to Campus Reform’s inquiry on the matter, Lee simply stated that “I need only one license,” though she has yet to elaborate on precisely which license that is, and, according to the state in which she resides, she allegedly has none.
She’s an excellent driver.
From an article in which NJR touts the virtues of govt run healthcare:
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I once spent three hours at the Boston DMV waiting in line, only to be told that my proof-of-address was inadequate: I had brought a letter sent to me from my bank, whereas only a bank statement would qualify. And I have been feeling particularly anti-bureaucracy lately, since I have spent the last months trying to work my way through the Postal Service’s elaborate requirements for how to send a magazine through the mail, as laid out in this 96-page guide. I got so frustrated with this that I actually hired someone to try to interpret the guide and fill out the paperwork for me. After two days of trying to figure it out he gave up and resigned from the job.
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https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/01/the-health-care-system-you-could-have
The movie Brazil was prescient.
I hate that on Blue Ray. I should pop it in and watch again. I can’t remember it too much, maybe I was drunk when I watched it.
have, damnit.
It was weird watching a movie that’s Centerpiece motif? was Ductwork, Glorious Duct Work!
I think you just triggered me back to the film, I do remember duct work…
You should have just said “no hablar ingles”. And somehow conveyed to them that you’re here illegally. Then they would have just given you what you wanted without any documentation or proof of anything.
Do you think he noticed the contradiction?
It is all the fault of Libertarian-Republican austerity.
Yes, but he will rationalize it away. Probably something about not-real-socialism and better TOP MEN.
Need more government spending.
Need smarter government spending.
Need higher taxes on The Rich.
Then, DMVtopia.
And private cars should be banned anyway.
You put the magazine in the envelope and mail it. Ask for Media Mail rates. What a dumbass.
Speaking of Trumbo any one seen Five Came Back?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Came_Back
Also there is a rich guy who tries to bribe the anarchist and is chosen to stay behind since he is worthless and all and is shot when he attacks the anarchist. Very subtle.
Lucille Ball is quite good in it.
VT: hippie heaven and known for its socially liberal stances passes “groundbreaking” (seriously, thats what the news is calling it) pot legalization.
You can now:
not buy it in stores
possess up to one ounce
grow a whole 2 plants per house.
the news people are talking about how VT’s will somehow be a model for other states and how impressive it is.
the governor is sad that this is the biggest story while vermonters have trouble paying property taxes.
he then didn’t recommend a lower rate or anything.
Remember, when VT was a country, they banned slavery.
they were on the forefront of civil unions.
here we are. where the republican in the house tried to add sales to the bill, but the dems blocked it. So we can still give money to drug dealers. and the state will get nothing in revenue from sales, just tickets for people who transport what two plants can produce to a friends house for curing.
2 plants? Is there now a way to tell if the seeds will produce a male of female plant? Because otherwise, 2 plants could produce nothing. Or is there 32 genders of weed now?
Also, not the governor’s fault that the deadbeat residents refuse to pay their fair share. Raising taxes even more is obviously the only solution, sigh, why won’t these people pay their fair share? We’ve even let them grow 2 whole pot plants. Ingrates!
the law also is worded that only one person per household can grow it.
So you can’t have your wife water them on wednesdays when you’re running late or something.
That totally makes sense, you just can’t understand it because you don’t have the brilliant mind required to work in government. *barf*
As far as I know, weed has been legal in DC for at least a year now and there’s no way to legally buy it. Which is sort of good in not having to pay any taxes, but it still would leave most people on the illegal side of the law since they obviously will not be able to grow their own in their 600 sq ft $3000 a month apartment.
well, they also put a part in that if you live in an apartment, your landlord can prohibit growing it.
which is ok with SLD and property rights, but that pretty much makes sure that post college kids will still buy black market.
I wonder if they can also prohibit you from having a gun, because shit like that wouldn’t surprise me. If they can deprive you of one legal right, why not another?
Yeah, I wonder if that’ll end in a court case.
I mean you can produce beer in an apartment.
I guess the person who was in this apartment before us was a home brewer. The lady we talked to when we were shown it, told me that he used one of the large walk in closets as his brewing space. Not with my wife, there’s never enough room for clothing, shoes, and purses.
Clones, good Sir Clones, that’s how it’s done nowadays
How do you experiment with different hybrids if you clone everything? Boring!
I feel bad for the Ohioans that use the ‘devil weed’ in any of its forms. The state legislature pulled a complete “bait & switch” in order to avoid risking a pesky amendment to the states constitution. So they threw out a “for medicinal purposes” bone to mollify everyone into complancency, and now the who process is mired down in bureaucracy. Gov. Kasich, during one of the debates, stoically said he believed marijuana served no medical purposes in response to the “national legalization” question. But he rushed to grab his signin’ pen and pass medicinal legislation for the state.
Politicians gonna politic.
Also on TCM I saw One Man’s Journey (1933) and its remake A Man to Remember (1938). And you thought modern remakes are ridiculous!
The remake was Written by Dalton Trumbo. He made some changes.
The remake has a framing device involving the doctor’s creditors, all evil capitalists, looking at his safety deposit box of the dead main character to get what is owed to them. It ends with the dead doctor leaving them a note telling them that he is giving his son some cash for his wedding and not to steal it. Very subtle.
Also the son’s wife is the doctor’s adopted(?) daughter. Um, Ok? The adopted(?) daughter character was created by the writers of the 1933 version and was not in the short story that served as the source material. In the 1933 movie she marries the banker’s son and despite her attempted suicide they stay married. The son marries another woman, played by Joel McCrae’s soon to be actual wife Frances Dee. Interesting change there Trumbo.
OK, it finally happened. Your prayers have been answered – someone moved to Canada because of Trump.
GODDAMMIT, we want real genuine US refugees! Send them back!
Halifax can keep them.
so, not really the “if trump wins we’re leaving!” motivation.
did they get jobs to sponsor this?
Only one way to find out…
Is it that simple to get in? It’s not like I can just up and go to the States because of Trudeau.
Walk across the border.
You’ll have plenty of Trudy-like types advocating for you to not be thrown back.
Trigger warning: If you are tired of reading my angst about a job change, skip this post.
I found out last night that the competitor company had already decided to “pop the question” of my joining them before we even went to the meeting at the West Coast where it indeed did happen. And it was all orchestrated by their engineer whom I already greatly admired. And the clumsy guy would never even work in the same town as I would, so no problem there.
It’s looking more like 50/50%, and it’s pretty much down to the money and considering the little things, the “ties that bind.”
The ties that bind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdhLhWLmeAE
Come out to the coast! We’ll get together! Have a few laughs!
That scene has flashed through my mind more than a few times lately.
I wish You good Fortune, it seems to have been a rather drawn out Process, I hope it works out for you!
The engineer told me last night that they’d been considering asking me to consider a move, but that the prevailing wisdom there was that I was “married” to my current employer. He said “That’s what happens when a bunch of men think they know what a woman wants. I figured it was crazy not to at least ask. For all the swaggering, turns out most men are just too fragile to handle rejection. We’re such delicate flowers, really :)”
“He said “That’s what happens when a bunch of men think they know what a woman wants.”
Maybe it’s just me, but that’s pretty damn creepy.
They’re engineers. You have to grade their social skills on a curve.
^^^—-This is true.
Once I had an inside sales rep for a big electronics vendor that I would meet with every couple of months bring along another sales guy for training. When he introduced us, he told the guy, “This is the one I was telling you about–the electrical engineer with a personality!”
I giggled.
Nah, this guy I’ve known for years. We’ve always been competitors the whole time, but we would always go out drinking and carousing and talking about history and shit every night. He is joking because he is ANYTHING but a delicate flower.
20-D chess, yo
I wouldn’t necessarily put it past him. He upped the charm offensive to eleventy over the past month, and it’s totally working on me.
If I take the job, I’m giving him my 10 year service anniversary pin from my current employer to him as a scalp.
I find it interesting because my wife is going through a similar thing. She already accepted another job and gave her notice. And now 2 days before her last day, management at her current job have asked if she would be willing to talk to them tomorrow. It’s never a sure thing, but obviously they don’t want her to leave and will offer her something tomorrow to stay, 1 day before her last day. I think her demands at this point will be too much, she’s pretty disappointed with them to say the least. Maybe if they would have talked to her right after she resigned.
Money is always important, but the little things, those are sometimes big things.
Anyway, good luck with your situation and keep us up to date.
Never ever ever stay with the current job after you’ve already announced you’re going to leave.
I’m not sure that’s a universal rule. I did it once and it went ok for a couple of years. But I think wifey has made up her mind at this point.
I will tell you something about women: If a woman announces to her man that she is considering divorce, or even “maybe we should consider divorce,” she has already damned well made her mind up. Counseling, “changing”, isn’t gonna do a thing at that point. It’s been brewing.
“But I think wifey has made up her mind at this point.”
Same thing with “I am considering taking another job.” You can try to offer more money or a better situation in some way, but once the words are out, they have been in her mind for MONTHS. AT LEAST.
I like to think of job negotiations and marriage as different sorts of things. One involves more reason and logic, hopefully. Or else you best get the hell out of that job, sooner than later.
They should be different things, but in my previous marriage the groom was a German engineer, so I might be biased. It was a business deal. The dude actually required me to submit weekly expense reports showing how much I’d spent in what category on what means (debit card, cash, credit card). This was not something he told me up front.
7 years of that shit was enough.
This Right here^
Yes. I never take counter-offers.
Thanks. The main manager (also a very solid dude) emailed me (at home, natch) on Monday that the job listing was open. It was clearly written by people who knew me well.
I took the day off today (watching and taking care of the very ill Mr ‘Splosives anyway) and polished up the ol’ resume and applied.
Now starts the waiting game. The new prospective employers have gone out of their way to make sure I know I can take as long as I want to make a decision and even set a timeline. They know I want to make sure the present employer is not left in the lurch by my sudden departure and that I will need to make preparations to make sure that doesn’t happen.
“Now starts the waiting game. The new prospective employers have gone out of their way to make sure I know I can take as long as I want to make a decision and even set a timeline.”
That part is good. You mentioned West Coast? Would you be relocating or did I read that right?
Will you have to move to West Coast. Cause, weather, but also…westcoasters….
(to be fair, I don’t even have the weather excuse)
Yeah, but the land is beautiful. The Mr has been househunting and chosen a dozen gorgeous ones that would be affordable. Not right on the coast, up in the southern mesas. The views are fantastic.
I already live in a blue state with high taxes, but it has shit weather. I already know I wouldn’t live here after retirement.
We aren’t all Bad, some I’m sure, are very nice, Very Classy
ISWYDT
Man, I have such fond memories of Simi Valley, CA. I was just a kid, but I was so disappointed when we left there. I’m sure it’s a damn leftist hell hole today, although I see online it’s one of CA’s most conservative cities. I think conservative in CA means more what it does in Europe than what it means here. I mean how conservative can you get in a communist country? And I’m not a conservative anyway, so why do I care? It’s a shame these leftists have ruined what was once such a beautiful state.
San Diego area has the advantage of having a strong military presence, which helps bring world travelers, conservatives, and libertarians into the mix.
Already found a nice gun range there too. I’d be northwest about 45 miles of San Diego.
Speaking of San Dog, etc. I should be heading to Coronado and Pt. Hueneme for a couple weeks next month for work – does anyone have any regular hangouts they recommend? I expect to have a rental car – but don’t plan on driving too much if I can walk (obviously I’d be driving from one base to the other during the weekend). I recall a few good places in the gaslight district, San Diego…..who knows though – I’m going to be there for classes – not sure how much free time I’ll have or whether I’ll just take it easy.
Pt. Hueneme is 20 minutes down the road from me. There is a decent bar in the Channel Islands harbor called the Rudder Room, but it’ll be on the far side of the harbor from you, so you’d want to drive.
I second the Rudder Room recommendation. When I live in the area my sailboat was moored at CI. The Rudder Room is decent and has some characters.
North County, it’s called
Simi has a slightly lower cost of living than other parts of LA. As a result, many of the blue collar folks live there. It may not be rural Oklahoma conservative, but it’s pretty conservative.
Hey, I represent that!
Good luck!
Thanks.
If it works out, it works out. If not, meh. But it certainly has brought all my issues with the current employer into sharp focus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prussian_Cur
The movie starred an actual German spy who tried to blow up the Welland Canal. And his boss was Franz Von Papen. The same guy who thought bringing Hitler to power was a good idea.
Yo Drake and Co. Thanks for the heads up about the Steakley Audiobooks the other day – just skimmed it. ‘Armor’ is definitely next on my list after I finish the “Live Free or Die” trilogy by Ringo (for my long drives). (I have a weird thing about only buying audio books of books I’ve *already* read/bought).
In return, I bestow this awesome thread on you. https://twitter.com/ThomasHCrown/status/951083243012534277
Definitely worth reading the entire thread – very solid!
Ooo… the Black Library open submissions window is open again.
Now I have to come up with an idea and a sales pitch for it…
Note – I have thusfar failed to get them to buy anything from the previous open submissions periods.
Have you considered “Dear Penthouse Letters….”?
I’m a writer.
I’m a warhammer fan.
Black library is the official publishing house for the warhammer IP.
Getting something published by Black Library would be a trifecta of winning, because that also means a traditional gatekeeper bought my work and I can put that shit on a resume.
No offense intended. Keep in mind, the recent Hat & Hair comics, I consider an elevated art form.
If you think I’m offended, you don’t know me very well.
The only part of UCS that gets offended is his taste buds.
That’s Our Tres! Second order? what’s that?
/ Audience laughter!!
Didn’t someone recently mention “eating sand and drinking air” ?
How much of what gets submitted is otherkin/gene-stealer fanfic?
Not being the submissions editor, I have no idea.
But there was some fish’s law about 80% of crap, or somesuch.
I’d want to read more Age of Strife stuff
Quoth the Editors.
I don’t think the randoms are permitted to play there.
Go for it, dude. I friggin love 40k fiction
As I alluded to, I wrote some before.
“Recognition” and “Emperor’s Markerlight” were written at the second Black Library Weekender.
Bookmarked. Thanks
I hope you enjoy them.
For those of you wondering if you have a drinking problem
Some years ago when I was teaching at a state university, I had a student who worked nights at the city morgue. One night, he called me at about 2am. “You gotta come down here and see this!”
“See what? It’s 2am!”
“Trust me, you gotta see this.”
So I dragged my ass out of bed and biked downtown. He greeted me at the door and led me downstairs to where the big drawers and cold temps were found. He opened one of the drawers with a big grin. There was the corpse of a woman with severe head trauma, obviously from a major fall down some stairs. She was wearing a T-shirt that said, “I don’t have a drinking problem. I drink, I fall down, no problem!”
I thanked him for thinking of me.
This is all I have to say about that.
Worth it!
In those days I presume it was a velocipede and the corpses were kept on literal ice.
Irony is a dish best served cold?
No, that’s Ice Cream
From the Nurse Wubbels story:
That’s great. But what about his supervising officer? The one who told him to arrest her, and then came down to the hospital to lecture them all about how they had a habit of interfering with “his law?” Fucking balls! He is the real dangerous one here! The cop who got fired is just a lackey minion.
Also, last I read the supervisor was close to getting his law degree from Columbia. The fucker should be disbarred before he even passes the bar exam. Why have almost none of the stories mentioned the real asshole in this story?
AAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!111!!!1!!11 *takes big drink of whisky*
From Nurse Wubbels also-
Someone that has a better grasp on LE/law than me (read: anyone) care to explain how she was “arrested”, but then let loose on the scene?
My take on that is that, once LE places you “under arrest” for whatever crime, the die has kinda been cast, and you cant magically become “unarrested”. That’s for prosecutors and the DA-types to determine once they review the specifics of your alleged ill-behavior. But you’re at least getting a ride to the PD Portrait Studio.
Hadn’t thought of that. Very good question.
From what I recall from the video (didnt watch it recently), that r̶a̶b̶i̶d̶,̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶t̶r̶o̶l̶-̶h̶u̶n̶g̶r̶y̶,̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶r̶t̶-̶d̶i̶c̶k̶e̶d̶,̶ ̶d̶o̶u̶c̶h̶e̶-̶b̶a̶g̶ member of LE actually charged her with obstruction, applied the bracelets, and stuck her in the car. I was always led to believe that, at that point, your immediate fate is sealed, and only some ilk of prosecutor can not pursue charges. It wasnt the cop’s decision to make at that point, even though he clearly realized he’d made a giant error once his boss called him.
Welcome aboard, TC. Or is it really Tulpa?
Anyway, IANAL, but my understanding of the procedure is:
You are taken into custody, ie you are not free to go.
[You are arrested sometime between the last step and the next couple of steps, which is all legalese because you are cuffed, locked, transported and detained anyway]
You are transported to a facility where you are detained, ie you are locked in a cage.
You get an arraignment (which may be by video conference) where you are “appear” before a self-important government employee who decides whether the charges brought against you (again, legalese) by other government employees are valid. You are then either released (ie, presumptively innocent), released on your own recognizance (ie, you is someone and/or the charges are bullshit), required to post bond (pay money to walk until trial), or held without bond (ie, presumptively guilty, or infamous, or whatever).
I’ll give it a shot: Officer Discretion. I would imagine every state has something codified which allows this. Just like, if you had a warrant for some traffic infraction you didn’t deal with in the allotted time frame, get pulled over, and the cop tells you to “take care of it”, without arresting you. The DA/Prosecutor deals with what is brought to them by the cops, so they don’t necessarily know about each and every call/incident being dealt with inside their jurisdiction. If an officer starts an arrest, they may have the leeway to change their mind, or, be over-ridden by a supervisor.
The key is usually the ability to charge someone down the road with an “At Large” warrant (or, whatever terminology a state uses). I would wager that, when they cut her loose, they did so because of the shit storm that had already been started (they knew, deep down, that they were fucking up, but, cops gonna cop), and also, they figured that they could just get a warrant for her arrest should they get the OK from the local prosecutor and find a friendly judge.
By and large, you are right that, if you are cuffed and stuffed, you gonna be put through due process (ahem). And, you pretty much aren’t going to be able to talk your way out of the arrest. However, situations like the nurse’s do happen. And, it’s not even necessarily over if you get to walk away.
Sadly, she didn’t really make out that well. Her lawyers were probably on a contingency, so 40% off the top plus expenses. Of the remainder, another 40% for federal and state taxes. So for her beatdown and humiliation, she cleared enough to get a nice SUV. The lawyers did better than she did.
I dont mean to drag this out, but since Ive managed to get at least 1 synapse to fire today, I wonder- why is a floor nurse the center of attention? Granted, were I in that situation, Id want her on my side. But she’s an RN. Where are the doctors, some administrators, or at least a lawyer screaming about pending litigation over the phone?
There seems to be (in the video) all sorts of people standing around, but this 1 RN is center stage?
And to carry-over the comment that someone made when this was news: every single one of those hospital “cops” that stood there like stooges should’ve been named in a suit, as well.
Yes, TC, she is the poster child for this. You never get the hero(ine) you want, but always the hero(ine) you need.
yusef, I just finished your HVAC article… what do you think of the duct sealing services where they blow something into your ducts to seal any leaks?
I’m certain my house has unsealed ducting, none of the ones I could reach were sealed when I bought the place.
I would say No, there is Some accumulated dust in the Duct work, and I think the “sealer” won’t stick due to said dust. And Depending on how ell your house is insulated, a bit of leakage can actually be a good thing, keeping pipes from freezing etc. if you want to buy some duct sealer for what you can get to , do it yourself.
Lokie duct “cleaning” Services, this one is a Scam IMO
Like Duct Cleaning services
So Duct Cleaning services don’t accomplish anything? We recently bought an older house and were thinking of going that route.
IF it’s Hard pipe, maybe, but the Rotary brushes that are used will Damage Flexible ductwork Quite easily, I call BS, because, FILTERS!
What kind of system do you have? Raven?
No clue, I can barely spell handyman. Probably doesn’t help but it’s metal, maybe 8″ on a side. The house is 70 years old and I assume that some of it was original but it looks like stuff in the mud room and basement may have been added later. Other than that I’m clueless: I can fix nothing and break anything.
That means Square duct, Find where your filters are and change them every 3 months, don’t Bother with Duct cleaning. If you have Bad allergies, you could possibly add an Electronic Air Cleaner,otherwise you’re good.
Excellent: thanks for the info.
Good news: we’ve found a good HVAC guy. Next time he’s here I’ll ask him what he thinks – he doesn’t do duct cleaning so I’m optimistic about an unbiased answer.
Protip: DO NOT hire Steve Steve Duct Cleaning and Mechanical, LLC.
Its the kind of sealant you dont need, or want.
I already got everything in the basement, i.e. everything I can reach without tearing walls/floors up (we have a central air system, with galvanized ducts).
The thing is, I’m afraid there are more than ‘small’ leaks, the joints between pieces of duct weren’t even taped or anything (which may mean the blown in sealer wouldn’t work anyway). I had some substantial gaps in the basement alone, which had a noticeable affect of the heating (hot basement, cold upstairs).
DAMN IT….I used the 1 synapse on the nurse story.
STEVE SMITH
Mayweather interview with Men’s Health:
“We’re asking a lot of men, in light of the #MeToo movement, how men can grow in 2018.
Mayweather: The who?
The #MeToo movement. Women speaking out about sexual assault.
Mayweather: When you say “me too” … When somebody is like, “I got a Rolls Royce, I be like ‘me too.’” When somebody say they got a private jet, I say, “Me too. I got two. Me too.”
This is a very different —
Mayweather: Well, I didn’t know! My Me Too movement from the beginning was whenever somebody said what they have I’m like, “me too.” Somebody say they got a billion dollars, I say, “I made a billion dollars, me too.”
Well, I never!
Send that man to Washington!
I (to my shame) still have a gmail account. Not for too much longer. I just typed this screed to everyone in my address book:
“Friends,
I am writing you to let you know that I am changing my email address to xxxx@protonmail.com . For all future correspondence, please send mail to this address. I must admit that I have been considering this for a long time given Google’s grievous track record on user privacy, spying and illegal collaboration with the US government. However, it is this that has finally pushed me over the edge.
Google is now in the midst of a lawsuit alleging employment discrimination. I have had the opportunity to peruse the complaint and find it despicable and horrifying. I invite you to read it all, but if you don’t have time, jump to Exhibit B on page 74.
https://www.scribd.com/document/368692388/James-Damore-Lawsuit
I feel no need to defend my outrage at such; Google’s employees speak for themselves. I am no hard line Republican, Trump-fan or Social Conservative; I consider myself a free-thinker and a rationalist. However, by not toeing their particular ideological line, I am almost certainly considered a “Nazi” and thus fair game for physical violence. Just as I would refuse to patronize an establishment that held such opinions about blacks, Jews, Hispanics or anyone else for that matter, I refuse to patronize Google. Without a doubt, these individuals have a right to free speech; just as I have a right to refuse to use their services. This is what free association (a value that has largely been lost) is all about.
“To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is barbarity”
-Robespierre
I find these weak-minded, provincial and hateful people to be self-styled French Revolutionaries hiding their bloodlust and craving for violence beneath flowery and disingenuous language extolling “equality”, “justice”, “diversity” and “community”. Odd how things ended up turning out for Robespierre in the end eh? I’m not a culture warrior, but I will not support such hate.
Therefore, as of February 10, I will be permanently deleting all my Google accounts. I would encourage you to think long and hard about supporting an organization with this scope and power, second only to the US Government itself, that tolerates ideas like these. There are many excellent alternatives to Google and I invite you to try them out.
Thank you for indulging me in this rant.
Sincerely and Love,
Q”
Is there a decent alternative to Drive, short of combining LibreOffice with DropBox or something? I guess I should also start looking at Linux based phones.
Nevermind, I’ll move this question to the repost.
That’s great, Q. I am equally appalled by Google’s Red Guard culture. My God, those people are batshit, emphasis on shit. And at the root of their extremist views is a clear lack of self-awareness. They undoubtedly and haughtily condemn religious certitude. Yet they crusade against all wrong think with medieval fervor.
I’m tempted to halt my use of Google products. Fuck their fucking bigotry and contemptible far-left poison.