And I bet after this weekend’s fun, you’re too scared to click on any links I put up. Well, you sometimes have to have faith.
Oh noes, let’s keep the Scare Machine working.
“Last night I told my wife I would take a bullet for the kids,” said Robert Parish, a teacher at an elementary school just miles from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, where a former student killed 17 people, including three staff members who found themselves in the line of fire. Since the attack last week, said Mr. Parish, “I think about it all the time.”
Curious if Mr. Parish spends just as much time thinking about lightning strikes, too. I’m guessing probability and statistics weren’t part of the Education curriculum.
Preliminary analyses of the new map showed congressional races in the state being much more competitive for Democrats.
This is my shocked face.
In another shocker, Amazon has invented a technology that monitors fucking-off time and can be used to improve their efficiency. To be fair, I’d never consent to wearing this shit, but the key word here is “consent.” Of course, the socialists are birthing a bovine.
As a company, Amazon is simply too powerful and must be dismantled. Under capitalism, the scientific and technological advancements made are being used to squeeze every last ounce of profit out of workers. We must liberate the productive forces of society from the capitalists in order to benefit the many, instead of continuing on the current trend of the vast majority being driven into the abyss of slave-like low-wage labor.
“Slave.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. And really, this is much creepier– creepy enough that I think it’s the future for the Glibertarians’ staff.
“I tried.” And you managed to re-invigorate a faded career. Well played.
Young horny New Zealanders, take hope!
Music from the Dinosaur Tour. I had a sentimental frisson- not only was I a big Cream fan as a youngster, this was the first song I ever learned to play on the guitar. It is a bit weird to see Jack Bruce playing that particular bass- was he channeling McCartney?
Appeal to emotion is all the left has when it comes to their desire to disarm the deplorables.
The Chief! I would have loved it if old double zero was my teacher. I bet that is a very well behaved class.
Speaking about appeal to emotions. The other day I had a conversation with a bunch of progs that basically accused the country of not being able to do the right thing because of the evil NRA and all the money they spend on “misinformation” (meaning not pushing the left’s argument that plebes should be disarmed). I pointed out that the NRA is outspent by proggie liars, and they all but lost their fucking minds. See the NRA is an evil entity so that makes what they are doing not just wrong, but treasonous and deadly. The left wanting to make sure the plebes can’t fight back however, is so that America can be a much safer place for the children. Especially the ones that would not like the proggie agenda, which then can more easily be dealt with as they won’t be able to fight back.
I have just gotten to the point where I dont bother arguing with them. I just start with NO, YOU CANT HAVE MY GUNS. There, we had a discussion. I hope you found it as productive as I did.
Sometimes I wish I could just go there Suthen, but I always end up trying to actually have a debate with people that will never be reached by facts or logic.
I remember running into this face first one time in discussing different tax options, and the person went, “The math sounds right, but it doesn’t feel right.”
Haha! They literally said feels > reals. I love it.
Suthen may have the right tactic. Start the debate with, ‘NO, YOU CAN’T HAVE MY GUNS’, then you start debating the issue, which is violent criminal actions.
If you don’t start at that point, you are just playing defense (and not trying to fix the actual issue).
I make it a point to say I will never give up my second amendment rights because I don’t want to live in the banana republic the left has been pushing us towards for the last 10 or so years. I also call them out when it is obvious that their agenda is a piecemeal abolishment of the second amendment. I also never forget that they are not arguing in good faith. My whole engagement is in the hopes that these people get shamed by facts and logic countering their appeals of emotion, but I am starting to think they are just shameless bastards.
I tend to think that’s the right approach if you’re going to have a debate at all. My opening position is that the US Constitution protects my natural right to self defense using whatever means I choose, provided those means don’t infringe on the rights of others. In fact, the Constitution doesn’t give me that right, it prevents the government from taking that right away from me. So I don’t have to prove to you that I should be able to own a gun, you have to prove to me why I should let you keep me from owning a gun. And if your final argument is, “I don’t care about your rights and I’m going to use the power of the state to force your compliance,” understand that the reason the Framers mention a right to bear arms so early in the Bill of Rights is to defend against just such an outlook, and my ultimate and final response is, “molon labe.”
I maker it a point to also point out that these laws only serve to deny law abiding citizens of their constitutional rights. Criminals and people hell bent on doing evil will not be deterred. When you point this out you will usually get the reaction that confirms the intent isn’t really to protect anyone but to disarm the plebes.
I pointed out to a colleague that some of the mass shooters got their guns legally, and some got their guns illegally. The first group demonstrates that laws won’t prevent mass shooters from getting guns, and amazingly, so does the second group. Unless they have a new proposal I haven’t heard about, its pointless to attack mass shooting with gun control laws.
If they were to persist and say we don’t have “real” gun control because of all the “loopholes”, I think I’d invite them to close every loophole and outlaw gun ownership. And we’re back to “How many dead cops are you willing to see to confiscate every gun in the country?”
If they were to continue persisting and ask me if I would resist gun confiscation, I would tell them I regard armed resistance to tyranny as the duty of every free person.
The problem with the gun control argument is that the people who are most fervent about arguing for “gun control” see allowing anyone to own any guns whatsoever under the most restrictive terms as a compromise with their preferred position, which would be no private ownership and mass confiscation. That’s why they propose shit like mag limits that don’t make sense, barrel length requirements that change by an inch or two, stuff like that. It’s not that they think that’s going to have any impact on gun violence, it’s that they see it as a step towards a full ban. Arguing that gun regulations don’t prevent mass shootings is, to them, missing the point. They want a full ban, period, and whether or not that impacts mass shootings is tangential to the point.
Yup, the end goal for these people isn’t to allow others to own firearms, but to make sure only approved agents of the state do…
It depends on the person. You’ll never convince the true believers. But the majority of people who support gun control are moderates.
I always try to argue in good faith even if the person is a diehard “progressive” who is totally closed to any contrary arguments. The biggest reason for doing this is for any “fence sitters” who may be around; they are going to be more persuaded by a person who is calm, reasonable, and has a rational rebuttal for every anti-gun talking point.
Even if there’s nobody else around, I still take this approach out of a faint hope that I might change their mind, or at the very least, temporarily rob them of the pleasure of living in an ideological bubble. The reason I say this is because someone I know who has been a huge supporter of nationalized healthcare recently made some statements of a different nature:
“I wish dentistry was a little less regulated; I should be able to get my teeth cleaned by one of those hygienists without having to pay for an appointment with the highly-paid dentist.”
“I heard an interesting podcast about how restrictions on the supply of doctors and nurses plays a big role in the high cost of healthcare.”
He’s certainly no libertarian yet, but these are milestones. He would have dismissed these as phony Republican talking points a few years ago. He reads a lot of different news and opinion sites, so I can’t really claim all the credit, but I can’t help but think maybe I pushed him in that direction by spending all those hours arguing for the merits of a free market healthcare system.
There are really only two choices when dealing with people on a subject as emotionally charged as gun rights. 1) No, you can’t have my guns. 2) Go for the details and find a chink in their armor. People don’t change their minds over one discussion with Super Duper Logic man. They dig in. Just undermine a few of their support beams and the whole thing crashes down some day.
Straffinruns, at this point these people have no support beams left in their house of cards. But it is hard for them to let go of their emotional attachment to what the narrative tells them they should believe. As Nephilium points out above, I should know better and just treat them like kids, but I just seem to always want to win arguments on the merits. I don’t understand how people remain wedded to the proggie ideology when the mountain of facts and the real world constantly contradict and destroy the crap these morons believe in. And yet, they persevere in their stupidity.
I’m not saying number 2 is going to work. I’m saying that it’s the only one that has a chance if we want to avoid violence. Probably too late for that, but it’s worth a try. Adding emotional appeal to an argument feels like a cheap trick to most of us, but we shouldn’t think that way.
The deliberate misrepresentation on NRA funding bothers me quite a bit. The progs lie through their teeth trying to make the NRA seems like some single, evil corporate entity instead of being the collective voice of millions of gun owners.
I actually had someone once tell me that I was being duped by the NRA into not just giving them my money, but preventing progress. I was baffled. When I pointed out it was my choice to be a member and I did so specifically because I saw people like him wanting to take away my right to defend myself – especially from the form of government they want (marxist all powerful nanny state) – this tool had the audacity to tell me that I was just close minded and stuck on a reality he dismissed. At that point I asked him if that universe he lived in still had laws of nature and physics that were immutable, or if proggie wishful thinking also overrode them and went my own way.
The viewpoint of your prog sums up why I think the division between those who desire communism and those who don’t is only going to get worse. I don’t know what the outcome is going to be, but short of the feds devolving power back to the states and letting certain states break into multiple states, I don’t think it will end well.
Chris Russo went off calling members ‘whackos in the NRA’.
They’re unhinged.
They seem to think if they compassion harder, they have the right to demonize law-abiding people. I’m Canadians and even I know about the culture of the NRA, its membership, its lobbying efforts etc. It’s nothing compared to other special interest groups. So how is it that someone like Russo can be so flippantly stupid that way?
And screaming at someone who dared tried to reason with him saying, ‘wait until it happens to your kids’ is a cheap, emotional trick. It’s also presumptuous. It assumes people who own guns never lost loved ones and presumes that a gun supporter would sudden;y flip to the gun-control side.
They really have a unenlightened view on this subject. Worse, they’re rhetoric on mental illness troubles me greatly. It’s filled with potential for evilness.
Exactly on all points. Not a word about the funding from Soros bankrolling all of the prog pet causes. The mental illness is bait that I hope the GOP doesn’t grab. The result will not end well.
I’m in a reading group with a couple of people that are all thoughtful, informed, and interested in tackling ideas more than ideology. I’m also the only one on ‘the right,’ to the extent that I am. Its been illuminating seeing where they deviate from standard leftist group think (they are in favor of land-use reform, especially the one who used to live in San Fan, they are all on board with separating the idea of governance vs the government/state, they all oppose occupational licensing for low-income jobs), and where they have absolute ideological blind spots despite their openness to new information.
Anyway, we were discussing a paper that attempts to measure the relative influence of different constituency groups on policy outcomes, specifically industry vs well-to-do individuals vs not-well-to-do-individuals. Industry, as anyone who reads Public Choice Theory might expect, is very influential. One of the other people jumped to the NRA. “AHA, this is like how the NRA drives gun policy. They are backed by the gun industry, and there’s no “not-gun” industry.”
It was a reasonable point, except for one obvious problem. The NRA isn’t funded by the gun industry. The NSSF is, and they have approximately zero influence. The NRA is all member funded.
But these other folks, intelligent, curious, well read folks, had bough the NRA = Gun Industry story, hook, line, and sinker.
there’s no “not-gun” industry.”
Don’t tell that to the Brady Campaign or the Joyce Foundation.
Just because there’s no product being sold by the anti-gun side doesn’t mean they’re completely devoid of any profit motive. These are multi-million dollar organizations, and all those administrators and paper pushers don’t want to have to go get real jobs.
Yeah, industry doesn’t just mean a building full of machines. There is absolutely an advocacy industry and when you consider that advocacy basically means generating money to buy political support it’s an industry that is swimming in money.
The good thing is that every time there is highly publicized mass shooting, more people look into the facts, and more gun control loses supporters.
That sounds … optimistic.
I rather think it is more contact with someone who owns a gun, and they don’t live up to the increasingly shrill hyperbole/stereotypes.
Yeah, I think that’s true to an extent. There are people who are just always going to be against the idea of gun ownership–my wife, ironically, is one of these people–but there are also a lot of people who meet gun owners, or even better, find out that people they know own guns, see that they don’t have horns, or a third eye, and aren’t Yosemite Sam, and it starts becoming more normal for them.
I’m curious if he’s asked about unlocked doors at school.
Bo Greene, 56, a calculus and statistics teacher in Bar Harbor, Me., said the planning for dangerous situations had increased and grown more specific in the last year, even in her quiet school district. All of it feels jarring after decades in education, she added.
Yes, that is what she teaches.
Those who can’t, teach.
Lightning strikes in Florida more than anywhere else in the country!
TW: Vox
To protect the Second Amendment, conservatives are dumping on the Fourth and Fifth
To be fair given how rare school shootings are many proposed solutions are overkill.
permitting teachers and others to carry concealed weapons in schools. – this thing is not like the others
And the facts show America is not as unique or bad as the gun grabbers want you to believe this issue is.
Anders Breivik really skewed that for Norway, I’m guessing.
Maybe, but the number of shootings was higher than the U.S. number also, not just the number of deaths.
Or maybe have police officers already in school actually doing something instead of dicking around.
Where the fuck was the cop in FL? I don’t recall reading any explanation why he didn’t engage?
He was on a donut run?
I’m still wondering about this. Initial reports around here said that the school had two SROs. We haven’t heard a single word about what they were doing while all this was going on. Just saturation coverage about how we should let a bunch of teenagers tell us what is wrong and how to fix it.
Saying that we should arm teachers and/or school security is advocating for a police state?
Wanting people to be able to defend themselves, especially against an abusive state, makes us a police state!
/proggie logic off
This guy has much better ideas and has already started implementing them.
Grady Judd is a low-functioning moron, but it appears he has accidentally stumbled onto something.
Lets say that this is such an obvious solution that even a low-functioning moron could stumble on it.
And, the Feds could pitch in and help the locals if this issue needs “visibility”.
Can we just send an armed drone after Wayne Allen Root?
My school had these. Well not metal detectors at the entrance, but we did enjoy surprise lockdowns where a team of cops and security guards would randomly shutdown a classroom and search every student and bag with metal detectors.
I’m willing to bet almost every school in Chicago has metal detectors at the entrances. I’m sure these schools are extremely safe for the students with no violence occurring whatsoever due to the kabuki theater of big state protection.
My high school parking lot was filled with pick-up trucks and nearly every one of them had at least one long gun on a rack in the back window. Mine did. We never had a shooting.
I have been thinking about that lately. When I was growing up everyone I knew hunted and shot guns. Every house had guns in it. People didn’t talk about shooting other people. People didn’t think about it. If you brought the subject up people were horrified that you would even think such a thing.
The first time I met people not like that was on a visit to England. When people found out I was an American they would usually ask me if I owned guns. As soon as the subject would come up most of them started asking if that was a good gun to shoot people. What the fuck? As soon as the subject comes up that’s the first thing you think of? Why would you even think that? Who does that?
Good points. I think it shows the successful campaign by progs to turn the perception of a firearm from a useful but potentially dangerous tool, similar to a chainsaw or other power tool, to some sort of evil talisman.
I blame it on the gangsta movement..
The first time I encountered the “who you gonna shoot with that” attitude was when dealing with fans of that genre.
This isn’t the first time you’ve mentioned that, and it’s gotten me thinking. Growing up, my grandfather, who himself wasn’t especially interested in guns, owned a few shotguns that had been in the family and a .38 that he kept loaded in his bedside table. My father was both an avid hunter and a gun collector, and owned a rotating stock of something in the neighborhood of 100 guns, from two-shot .22 derringers to Desert Eagles to .308 deer rifles to tactical shotguns. Neither of them dwelt on the idea of using any of those guns to shoot people. Obviously it was just kind of understood that breaking into our house was going to be a risky proposition for reasons that were readily apparent, but guns were both tools and works of art as well as weapons, and we always just thought of them as the first two before we considered them as the latter.
Nowadays, I own several guns, but the only one I own that’s primarily for home defense is a Glock 19, and while I certainly own guns that are more than adequate for shooting someone I tend to think of guns as beautiful, potentially dangerous machines, not so much magic murder sticks. Like I’m putting together an AR-15 and have plans for an AR-10, but the primary purposes in my mind are to a.) make something that looks good, and b.) make something that’s going to be fun to shoot at the range. Of course I would be able to shoot someone with either of them, but that’s kind of incidental to me.
The people that want to take these away from you firmly believe (or at least say that is so) that you own these because you fantasize of gunning down others…
Projection again.
If it could be defined as a mental illness, and we tied voting to mental health, we might get somewhere.
But voting doesn’t kill peopluz! (discussion from yesterday’s AM thread).
Well, there’s that, and there’s also the argument that just because I’m not going to shoot up a school doesn’t mean that guns aren’t too dangerous to be privately owned. These are the people who think that stuff like having to keep a gun locked away at a firing range is perfectly acceptable because that way if anyone goes crazy and starts shooting people they’ll just shoot other gun owners (who deserve it for engaging in dangerous behavior) and this will make it so difficult for criminals to obtain guns that they’ll just give up. These are often the same people who make arguments like, “Well, you don’t think your next door neighbor should own a tank, right? Some things are just too dangerous to risk falling into the wrong hands.”
Tanks are perfectly legal.
I point that out, too, which then gets us to nuclear weapons. Once we’re talking about individual ownership of nuclear weapons I know the “argument” has pretty much turned into a garbage fire. Then you can start saying things like, “Well, technically, cannons are in a category of devices regulated by the ATF, so you have to pay a fee and get a permit, but you can definitely own one…” or, my favorite, “Shit, if my neighbor can afford to own a nuke he’s probably living on a plot of land large enough to no longer qualify as my ‘neighbor’. And besides, is he any less trustworthy than the people who currently own nuclear weapons?”
I was working in Japan in the late ’90s and there was some sort of shooting here in the US. I had been working in the office for several months and had sort of convinced my Japanese coworkers that I wasn’t a crazy violent American. So when the shooting happened they all asked me why Americans were so crazy about guns – with the subtext being that since I wasn’t a crazy violent lunatic, I must agree with them that guns were nuts.
That is when I started telling them how many I owned (I don’t own any pistols, but have multiple shotguns and rifles). They were totally shocked and asked what I did with all of them. When I got to the .22 rifles, I told them that I used them to shoot squirrels and rabbits. I think telling them it was to shoot school kids would have been better. Turns out that squirrels are pretty beloved in Japan. Saying you have a squirrel gun would be like a Korean bragging in the US about his dog gun.
Filthy bushy tailed rat lovers…
Well, every time I come home to a steaming turd on the living room floor I do briefly consider the idea of a dog gun…
Dude it isn’t funny to even joke about killing the bitch.
Based on the smell of what comes out of my one dog I wonder if it wouldn’t be a mercy for him. Christ almighty, the most dangerous thing about pit bulls is the smell. It’s like they’re machines that turn anything they can swallow into caustic stench.
We can make the kids safe so the shooter just can’t walk into the school anytime he pleases.
I don’t know what offends me more – that you ASSUME it will be a male who shoots up a school, or whether you ASSUME that this person would identify as a male.
OT: The need to point out this is kind of dispiriting.
Helicopter money is capitalism, you dummy.
I stand corrected then Scruffy…
Under capitalism, the scientific and technological advancements made are being used to squeeze every last ounce of profit out of workers. – unlike socialist paradise where they are focused on sending kulaks to the gulag.
We must liberate the productive forces of society from the capitalists in order to benefit the many, instead of continuing on the current trend of the vast majority being driven into the abyss of slave-like low-wage labor. – yes people are poorer than ever in capitalist countries.
It strikes me that what Amazon is doing is exactly what true socialists would do, except under the auspices of government where you have no choice in whether to participate.
Good news on the home front. My son has injured his knee playing soccer a few weeks ago. Unable to straighten it so we were almost sure it was a meniscus tear. MRI revealed no structural damage, but fluid and stress damage (but no fracture) to tibia and growth plate. He was really down as he’s a freshman and has already caught the eyes of some coaches, so now he’s thrilled to be back after a few more weeks rest and dad is happy that I don’t have to shell out for surgery on the high deductible plan.
Good for him knee injuries suck. And also good that unlike your American football youths play, he is playing a man’s sport.
And doing it wrong. You’re supposed to flop on the field and pretend to be injured. Actually getting injured is failing at being a Euroweenie.
And also good that unlike your American football youths play, he is playing a
man’sbeta cuck soyboy’s sportFTFY.
Any “sport” wherein 1/4 of the games end in a draw, and ~10% of them end in a 0-0 draw, cannot rightly call itself a sport.
Good.
Injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) “are a significant public health issue” that put youngsters at risk for developing future health problems, said Dr. Louise Shaw of the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Victoria, Australia, coauthor of an infographic published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
I mean good news!
I tore both my ACLs.
NO MORE SPORTS!
Shut down Title IX for the kidz!
I tore up both of my knees, one of them quite bad, playing football in high school. In retrospect, wasn’t worth it. Glad you son doesn’t have to go through that.
Edit – It wasn’t worth it to me because I didn’t really want to play in the first place, I did it because of social pressure. If I loved football, I could have rehabed and gotten back in about a year, but I didn’t love playing in the first place.
That was me for jujitsu when I was in my mid-20s, but I actually did really love doing it. Unfortunately, I didn’t have insurance at the time and my employment prospects were not great, so I didn’t want to get back into it and risk another expensive injury for what was essentially just a hobby.
“Birthing a bovine.” I’m stealing that one.
Are we back on the cattle-rearing thread from the Vegan Vitamin article?
Young horny New Zealanders, take hope! – that is microagression.
The reason for Fergie’s decline is obviously breaking up with her NoDak husband, Josh Duhamel.
I always thought Josh married down. Fergie is gross.
How Russian trolls’ support of third parties could have cost Hillary Clinton the election
We don’t have anything beyond anecdotal evidence
We don’t have anything
Or, you know, both candidates were so revolting that people went looking for someone better (relatively speaking, obviously)
That was me – I didn’t vote. I wanted Trump to win over Hillary but couldn’t pull the lever for him. Hell I would have taken the Dark Prince of Evil over Hillary.
But the idea that I was influenced via Facebook, which I purposefully stayed clear of during the election season, is uh, preposterous.
I dunno. All those cat videos really caused an urge to kill. I was able to suppress it.
Funny, when I watch cat videos, I just get a craving for Chinese take-out.
I have the same problem with dog shows…
Chicken Meow vs. chicken Woof-woof…
I held my nose and voted for Johnson, but I sure as hell was much more against a Hillary presidency than a Trump one.
That was me. I freely admit that Johnson at that point was a protest vote for me, despite my being registered LP. In MD, though, voting for anyone not a Democrat in national elections is mostly a protests vote anyway, since the state is reliably blue.
Similar. I got myself into a “minor” car wreck my first time in New Zealand, which was the June before the election. (Waiting outside in the rain for about an hour waiting for the cops to arrive is such fun!) While they were doing their investigation, one of the cops noticed I was an American and asked me, “Are you voting Clinton or Trump?” I told him straight up, “I’d sooner vote for Lord Sauron.”
(Neither of the cops got the joke, BTW. So, not all Kiwis are in on the LOTR. Your pointless PSA for the day!)
Is this another article about how Libertarians are somehow simultaneously marginalized and powerless AND the determiners of all important elections?
To me, the most revolting aspect of stories like this is the blind faith assumption that the two party system is the preferred system. I think I could be happy with a Jill Stein presidency as long as she won as a third party candidate.
Why? A shitty third party candidate doesn’t sound like it solves anything. Stein would gladly dump the federal budget into crony renewable energies.
Right. Let’s just stick with shitty two-party candidates. That’s worked out so well.
My (hyperbolic) point was that the two party system needs to be blown up.
She’s a flaky, nutty left-wing socialist.
No thanks.
I’d rather have a muppet.
Muppo-Americans aren’t a big voting bloc here, sorry.
We’re lower than Gypsies.
You cannot defeat my inferiority, interloper.
The preferred nomenclature is feltatarian, you anglocentric colonial shitlord.
Trashy/Rufus 2020!!!
Rufus is a Canukistani, he’s not eligable to be VP.
As opposed to…which? of the latest Democrat frontrunners?
Two party system is “preferred,” its the natural equilibrium in geographically bounded winner-take-all elections.
Want a third party? Advocate for proportional government like in a parliamentary system. Live in the US? Pick your poison with one of the parties, or withdraw support.
My solution is to have None of the Above on all ballots. If NOTA wins, the office stays vacant.
Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to?
…and the candidates are executed forthwith.
Didn’t the Hillary campaign spend $1.2 Billion?
That was all spent on the “underhanded tricks and voter fraud” fund. Sadly, their voter fraud operatives did not want to risk going to flyover country.
Jim Rome on the Fergie National Anthem. Good stuff.
Records are meant to be broken.
“Last night I told my wife I would take a bullet for the kids”
How brave of you! Because I know if I was in a school with a bunch of kids and there was a shooter attacking, I’d totally line the kids up to form a human shield around myself. Sacrificing yourself for children is totally unexpected in society.
Especially if there are any British children handy.
Kasich: If We Banned AR-15s, Would You REALLY Feel Your Second Amendment Rights Were Eroded?
Why yes, Mr. Kasich, I would most certainly feel (and think…) my Second Amendment rights were eroded by banning a firearm that has been available since the 60s and, in doing so, violating the very premise of the Second Amendment. Rights are not subject to technological advancement.
Personally, no
You don’t count.
Yes he does. All the way to ten!
I can only count to four.
Better than Q he can only count to two
Well zinged
Pie lives matter!
But less than American ones.
“Nonetheless, the section of the legislation that dealt with assault weapons was the most aggressive federal intervention that America has seen on guns since 1968. Clinton used his presidential muscle for an important issue. The federal assault-weapons ban was proof that strong leadership, combined with grass roots pressure, can offer a counter-weight to the power of the NRA. President Clinton’s strong support for these two measures was pivotal to success on Capitol Hill.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/gun-control-is-not-impossible/553703/
They did that already. And it didn’t do any good.
A boar hog has more useful tits than the assault weapons ban. I cant believe they are talking about that.
In the Wall Street Journal, the libertarian author James Bovard, sounded the alarms by writing that, “The main effect of banning assault weapons is to give government an excuse to arrest or imprison millions of Americans while doing little to nothing to reduce crime.”
I note that the author doesn’t do anything to address this criticism.
Winter Olympics 2018: What is the banned drug Meldonium and how can it enhance performance in curling?
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Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitzky is alleged to have tested positive for Meldonium, having won Winter Olympic bronze in the mixed doubles in Pyeongchan
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/winter-olympics/winter-olympics-2018-pyeongchang-meldonium-curling-alexander-krushelnitzky-what-is-it-a8218151.html
One of the few doping cases in curling. Although the Russians scream sabotage.
Have you ever seen a Russian strung out on Vibranium?
“Meldonium”????
Ummm that’s a catalyst found in anti-mater warheads and like super banned by the Intergalactic Council. What the hell have you mammals been getting into?
You have warheads designed for killing mothers?!
You monsters!
Well I definitely have a special warhead for your mom…
She’d probably kill you. But if you will risk that…
How does that work? His mom is frigid and you are cold blooded. That seems like a recipe for the most lethargic pr0n video ever.
Does this pr0n have elevator music going in the background?
Ya admittedly reptile pr0n can be underwhelming
We saw the ah, stature, of most of the male curlers and wondered why the hell he’d need to dope. I’m surprised the rules don’t require you to have a beer in hand at all times during the competition.
Now that would make me watch this shit..
Seconded.
Yes yes a good ole craft brew challenge on ice
I have no idea why but for some unknown reason curling is really big on Marylands Eastern Shore.
As in we actually have curling rinks and curling leagues and shit, and yep like you would expect with such a sport the curlers are a bunch of beer drinking old dudes
*shakes head in wonder at shorebillies*
A new test can identify libertarians
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/autism-children-blood-test-urine-warwick-university-science-health-news-latest-a8216511.html
Where sex trafficking and toxic masculinity collide
Culture is the hidden driver of sexual exploitation — in the United States and around the world.
All serious analyses showed legal prostitution is better on all counts for sex worked and customers than illegal.
“What I saw among my university friends is that sex became just another service,” – so?
But is machismo — or in the United States, “toxic masculinity” — linked to the horror of sex trafficking? – well if it is toxic it must be
“You have here a culture that teaches men they’re entitled to what they want. It’s also a culture where commercial sex is legal and accepted,” – those two things are not the same
“In a culture like that, it is easy for sex trafficking to thrive.” – unlike cultures where commercial sex is illegal. no trafficking going on there no sir.
It’s not like there aren’t 500 million people who could tell you what Spanish words mean.
The “toxic” is silent.
Straffinrun, next time you are near Fussa hit me up. Mustang dot 314 at protonmail dot com.
The rest of you, just spam that shit I guess unless you’re also in Japan and want to meet up.
Right on. Can you make it to Tachikawa? You guys out in the sticks give me the Willies.
Ha, yes, that’s easy. We go to a place that serves fist-sized gyoza in Tachikawa pretty regularly.
It’s like you two are speaking a different language. Weirdos.
I’m sure when I pronounce stuff I sound like an inbred moron but I usually get the food I want anyways.
That’s my experience when travelling too.
/has never left the Anglosphere.
Stay where you are and you may leave soon.
I’ll shoot you an email later.
Sweet. I’m near Chiyoda this week but will be back Friday evening.
STEVE SMITH SERVE FIST SIZED GYOZA.
AND WHEN SAY GYOZA MEAN SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY
SP – as personal opinion, the drop shadow on the navigation widget is distracting.
Too spicy?
Naw when it was there, my eye was drawn away from the comments and to the navigation. I didn’t think this was the desired result of design tweaks.
Also, it’s gone away, so it could have been a wordpress glitch.
Must be a browser thing, as I don’t see it on mobile.
It went away, so I’m not sure if it was put in place by human action, or something behaving oddly.
Nope, not me.
Must have been a glitch then. Sorry to have bothered you.
“In another shocker, Amazon has invented a technology that monitors fucking-off time and can be used to improve their efficiency.”
As a worker at an Amazon warehouse, I can say this is sadly much needed tech. There are way too many workers that stand around chatting all day and just work enough to pass the minimum amount of work needed. Maybe tech like this will result in these lazy bums either actually working while at work or getting fired.
Ironic since when I fuck-off at work I come here or visit Amazon.
I have done a shit ton of work in the IoT space for fast food joints. It is amazing how much fucking off goes on at those places.
Any time we replaced a manual process with sensors (recording cooler temps for example), it was amazing at the delta between what the employees said was going on and what the reality was.
The shitty workers would always bitch about being spied on. Then you would have to point out that all you did was report on whether they were doing the job that they had been paid to do. If they didn’t want to do the job, just quit and give up the paycheck.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer seems to be Merkles successor leading the CDU in Germany.
What would a right wind politician support? Let us see
Political positions
When the Mayor of Hamburg Olaf Scholz submitted a motion for a mandatory women’s quota for supervisory boards to the Bundesrat in 2012, Kramp-Karrenbauer joined the state governments controlled by the Social Democrats and voted in favor of the draft legislation; in doing so, she supported an initiative opposed by Chancellor Angela Merkel and state governments controlled by the CDU.[7]
Amid her party’s campaign for the 2013 federal elections, Kramp-Karrenbauer suggested Germany return to a top income tax rate above 50 percent, setting off a fierce debate within her party. In her view, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s predecessor Gerhard Schröder had gone too far by reducing the top rate to 42 percent from 53 percent in the 1990s.[8] In May 2014, she was among leading members of Merkel’s CDU who called for reductions to offset the fiscal drag – the automatic increases in the tax take that occur as inflation and income growth push wage-earners into higher tax brackets.[9]
Sounds a bit extreme to me…
I assume she’s a childless spinster who hates the German people?
nope
Kramp-Karrenbauer is married to a mining engineer and has three children.[12] An avid reader and self-described AC/DC fan
Andy Serkis says sex scene rules would be ‘censorship’
I’m not so worried about actors suddenly becoming self-conscious. I’d settle for self-aware at this point, right Jennifer Lawrence?
California doesn’t even let the millennials millennial properly. WeWork turns off the taps in California.
Lol. The whole thing is horrifying. This open space nightmares look cool at first, but in practice they are the worst. We are currently in such a situation and I am in the process of finding us traditional space with fucking doors!
I have trouble thinking when people are talking around me. An open plan would be a nightmare. These small cubes are bad enough as I can hear conversations six rows over.
You mean you don’t like hearing everyone’s conversations when you’re trying to work on something complicated? Who would have thought?
I spend a lot of time with headphones on… and for really important projects, I’ll spend some time working from home since I can concentrate better without all the talk / office politics.
Bingo. It’s a really stylish place with sort-of doors, but since it is open on top, they are really just echo-y cubicles.
I, too, work at home a lot – which of course leads me to the thought of why m I paying rent for a place I don’t use?!?
We’re moving to a place without doors or cubes. It’s going to be 2×12 blocks of desks with a 2 foot divider between the 2 rows. We’re all on the phone enough that this is gonna be a disaster. Hopefully the CEO rescinds the extreme limits on working from home.
Code sweatshop?
I’ve had multiple dreams where my job turns into something like the NASA control center: everyone crammed together working on VAX terminals.
Right now I have a huge desk. And a window seat. It’s not bad – just an outdated 90s style with tall Herman-Miller gray cloth office walls, P-desks, and tons of storage that I don’t use.
SV tech company trying to save real estate costs across the US sites. I’d have hated working in those conditions when I was a sw engineer, but it’s worse as a lawyer. Basically, we’re going to be living in the conference rooms because we talk all day about confidential stuff that other attorneys aren’t necessarily privy to. At least they didn’t go with their original plan of daily first come first served seating arrangements.
If you ever hear the words “open plan call center”. Run. Run as fast as you can.
I work in an office that moved from traditional office space (money makers in private offices, support staff in chest-high cubicles that encourage the support staff to be responsive to drop-in conversations from the money makers, which is their job) to a partially open office space.
For collaborative jobs, the open office space makes a lot of sense. The ability to have a team working on the same task with a very low barrier to communication can be really useful. For the other, I don’t know, 95% of office workers, its a pain in the ass.
At least that’s my experience, from my private office off to the side…
I have noticed a pattern. It may be a generalization, but hear me out. There is a category of “Professional Manager” who did not work their way up in the business, and is not innovative enough to start their own business, so they have a habit of following trends and fads, calling them “Best practices” and trying to make a square peg fit their company’s round hole. Rather than understand and acknowledge the needs of their own business’ workflow, they try to implement ideas suited to an entirely different type of operation. They then set the metrics at “completion of implementation” rather than “improved performance” to claim success. Mostly because they don’t know enough to be able to grasp what is being performed and thus what an improvement looks like.
Eh, simpler answer is “real estate prices in cities are high, more jobs concentrating in cities, business adapts by discovering a change that dramatically reduces footprint per capita.”
I’m not just talking about the adoption of open plan offices. I’ve seen managers adopt “lean” processes by making the development lifecycle more complex and convoluted.
I’ve had it go both ways. Sometimes it’s a legit improvement that takes time to adjust to. Sometimes it’s change for the sake of the employability of a useless manager. We did a switch to agile that sucked for about 3 months before the automated processes caught up with us. After that, it cut our non-dev workload by 80%. I really hated having to leave that job.
except open floor plans do not allow you to cram in more workers per square foot. The area I am in currently is roughly 30 x 50 feet. with 4 adjoining “huddle rooms” each of which is 8×8. With the layout we have there is room for 24 people. In the same space we could fit 24 standard 4×6 Cubes and because people could then “meet” in their cubes and no one would need to isolate themselves in a huddle room to be on a conference call or get focused work time in we could easily get away with just a single 16 x 8 meeting room.
Same number of people either way but you are saving about 120 sq ft
“highlighting how innovative businesses create new legal questions faster than regulators can keep up.”
Maybe we should… Fuck it, I’m tired of this shit. People want to be fucking slaves and grass fed sheep of some bureaucrat.
That looks fucking awful. Like trying to work at a nicely decorated bus station.
Innovative businesses only create ‘new legal questions’ because the ‘old regulations’ existed in the first place.
i think the person who wrote this sentence will fail to translate this into “this is a perfect example of how existing regulation discourages innovation by raising litigation and regulatory costs and risk”, or other obvious take-aways.
Instead, they think, “sigh. clearly we need to invest more into our regulatory infrastructure”
Andrew McCabe Altered Peter Strzok’s 302 Notes on General Flynn interview – Then Destroyed Evidence
Rumors keep circulating that Flynn will be changing his plea. No way would the government case stand up.
If true, there’s going to be hell to pay. And maybe we’ll see the end of the no recordings were at the FBI. Maybe.
‘And maybe we’ll see the end of the no recordings were at the FBI. ‘
I’m surprised that it has lasted this long. How could FBI notes not have been challenged before.
It definitely falls under the FYTW clause.
Seriously. I see it going down like this:
Judge: now jurors you are supposed to treat everyones testimony equally.
Juror: question, your honor, why do we take notes by this FBI agent as evidence?
Judge: get out of my court room, determining what should be evidence is not your job.
That would seriously get me kicked from a jury pool. I’d ask if the case is based on officer testimony, why I should trust their recollection more than real evidence?
It did get me kicked off a jury pool once, because I was asked a question about testimony.
I’ve heard this, but I’m gonna wait for better sources than Mike Cernovich and Gateway Pundit.
You know, like Weekly World News or something.
I’m waiting for the actual facts from the discovery process. Mueller seems very keen to avoid that scenario.
The only reason Flynn agreed to a plea in the first place is because Mueller threatened to go after his son if he didn’t.
Yep
Anyone think Mueller and his people will be held accountable for this sort of behavior?
No, because that is typical procedure for prosecutors, and few people give a shit.
Seems at least one judge is bucking the trend:
“A federal judge has issued an updated standing order in the case of U.S. v. Flynn, suggesting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team may have withheld exculpatory evidence in prosecuting former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, United States district judge for the District of Columbia, on Friday issued what is called the “Brady rule,” which requires the prosecution to turn over “any exculpatory evidence” to the defendant in a criminal case, meaning Mueller must provide Flynn with all information that is favorable to his defense.”
Here is hoping this whole thing implodes and we end up with a new group going after Obama and Clinton for the real criminal activity.
Apparently omega 3 supplements can be good for your gut
http://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2017/09/26/gutjnl-2017-314968
I take cod liver oil every day. It’s a tried and true anti-flu treatment. It also makes my coat shiney.
Who’s a good boy?
The far-right sharing fake news — or conservatives sharing conservative journalism?
When you go fishing with dynamite…
At least some people are realizing that this is just legacy media fighting new media. It’s all about the competition.
It is a bit weird to see Jack Bruce playing that particular bass- was he channeling McCartney?
Jack’s is a Gibson EB-1. Cool guitar that is probably more than 60 years old.
If you guys are really going to move to one of those trendy co-working spaces, may I suggest the Boch IoT Connectory?
If you buy space there, you can also use the 1871 space. I also know that the Bosch guys are very desperate for signups. I can hook you up.
Ah yes, the ‘incubator’. Where ideas and enthusiasm got to die.
There I was, imagining a thoughtspace and worklandscape that was decorated with Hieronymous Bosch tryptichs and other grotteschi.
I was disappoint.
If it makes you feel better, working at Bosch was a lot like being stuck in one of those depictions of hell that you referenced.
Parkland students show why 16-year-olds should be able to vote
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/19/opinions/parkland-shooting-voting-age-opinion-douglas/index.htm
Basically these students support what I support so all 16 year old should vote. I can imagine the meme campaigns then. The Free Kekistan party may have a shot.
Yeah, let’s let ignorant and uninformed teenagers set national policy. Because things aren’t quite bad enough yet.
Isn’t this an admission that their policies are childish?
They own nothing, they make nothing, they eat and consume on everyone else’s dime. What’s not to like?
Wokie (the David Burge of the left, IMO) said it well
Yet those very same people will screech that 18 year-olds aren’t mature enough to own a firearm, or rent a car, or buy their own health insurance, or drink a friggin beer.
I’m surprised their brains don’t explode from the cognitive dissonance (then again, maybe they have)
“…We must liberate the productive forces of society from the capitalists in order to benefit the many, instead of continuing on the current trend of the vast majority being driven into the abyss of slave-like low-wage labor.”
lol.
what happened to that program to exchange western socialists with hard working north koreans? Send one there get one back.
Kim Wide-Un didn’t want to give up his hardworking pre-broken thralls for whiny, entitled westerners.
I’m sure there’s some exchange rate that will work. 10 for 1. If nothing else, there’s good eating on Western commies.
Was listening to a Kevin Gutzman (Phd History prof) interview today. He brings up a point that I hadn’t even thought about concerning immigration policy. It wasn’t the incompatability of the welfare state and open borders. He pointed out that, as a white guy with a white family, he didn’t want to import people from ,say, Guatemala that would be receiving advantages via affirmative action and other quotas with no end in sight over his own kids. It’s a big fricken mess. With affirmative action and diversity hiring practices, you’d think that minorities would want to limit immigration in order to up their own children’s chances. But nope.
Anyone else see this:
“An administration siccing the surveillance state on the opposition party’s presidential candidate based on dubious reports compiled by the favored presidential candidate’s campaign ranks as a terribly reckless strategy risking the future freedom of its architects for their future power, no?
“Not if you think you will win the election and no one will ever find out,” an animated Joseph diGenova tells The American Spectator. “That’s why they did it. They thought she would win and no one would ever find out.”
Alas, Hillary Clinton did not, as so many expected, win the presidency. So, the incoming administration, investigated by dubious means, got to see what the Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and various Justice Department officials believed it would never see.”
Basically we have had the left’s apparatus hard at work for over a year now trying to confound the facts and protect the corrupt.
And that’s why the arrogant idiots didn’t bother to cover their tracks, they thought it wouldn’t matter because Herself was going to win.
Matador screams in pain as 1,000-lb bull gores him in the REAR leaving 15cm wound
STEVE SMITH SUE.
I’d scream too.
Bullfighting is supposed to be a sporting contest, right? Got no problem with the bull being victorious.
Yeah, I always cheer for the bull.
Even when it’s a Dyke?
What about the cuck?
ESTEBAN SMITH ALWAYS GORE IN REAR.
It’s raining like crazy today – and it’s 59 degrees – which means the snow is melting like the Wicked Witch of the West. Ah Michigan… and tomorrow the high drops to 38 with a low of 27 because why not?
“bitchpudding6669 !
bitchpudding6669 !
1 hour ago
I didn’t know Fergie spoke whale”
It really puts into perspective how really manginess awards are. ‘Eight time Grammy winner’ who can’t even sing an anthem. That performance was what get people called out for being a terrible lounge act but hey….they know how to shake that ass.
I understand one moment doesn’t over ride the body of work but Lord me. You would think a singer would be able to, you know…sing.
Autotune, eh?
I have discovered this twitter account and am fascinated and slightly disturbed
https://twitter.com/TrashyTatts
The LOL Nazi one is pretty original.
I’m wondering if that isn’t a cover-up. It looks all the same age, so probably not unless they re-inked the swastika to get it to match.
You know who else used a lot of ink to make swastikas…
Buddhists?
The “Momma Tried” one is perfect. Quite profound or idiotic. Can’t be sure which he was going for.
Good lord.
This made me laugh, though:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWV9PANWkAAk41A.jpg:large
Einsteins
Looks like most of those tattoos show that the recipient/providers were not too bright?
Oy vey!
I’m quite fond of this wind-up compass:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWHmag1W0AAxX7b.jpg:large
I love bad tattoos
Which of you is this monocle wearing inkster?
Put a warning on something like that. Some of us are at work.
San Francisco, progressive utopia
Quick survey of the Glibertariat. How many of you have seen a used needle on the street in the last month? I don’t remember ever seeing one in the street in my life.
In the last month? No. It was previous neighborhoods where that sort of litter was more common.
That’s what I’d think. A neighborhood would be littered with them or there wouldn’t be any at all.
Hmm, I mean there’s no way to prove they were “used” I just figured the needle fairy left them out…
In in New Orleans at the moment. I’m sure I could find one if I tried.
I found a diabetes tester on a trail near us. The trail also happens to go right past an assisted living complex, so I assumed it just dropped out of someones bag/pocket.
Be on the lookout for a wild Wilford Brimley.
DIABEETUS
+4 fists and elbows
Went out to dinner in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, saw needles.
That was 2-3 months ago though. Ya know, before we were all killed by the Net Neutrality repeal, the GOP Tax Bill and I forget what the other thing was that was the apocalypse du jour.
I haven’t been in that kind of neighborhood in probably 15 years, at least. But I can recall seeing them back in the day.
The city should form work crews from people in shelters and people not working and organize them, pay them a very small stipend, and make them clean that shit up.
I think if we did this for welfare recipients, it would be a huge incentive to get a regular job.
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I really don’t think it’s fair to judge a city by some random 14-mile stretch of street
I’ve been through alleys in Richmond that were strewn with garbage. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out there were needles in there, but I wasn’t going to go poking around to find them.
We must liberate the productive forces of society from the capitalists in order to benefit the many, instead of continuing on the current trend of the vast majority being driven into the abyss of slave-like low-wage labor.
Strangely, none of the people who say stuff like this offer up an alternative enterprise structure which is actually capable of sustaining itself.
I keep coming back and asking myself why the UAW didn’t buy GM out of bankruptcy in the Great Recession and turn it into a shining beacon of democratic socialism.
That would require work! Unions exist to avoid work.
Other people’s money, always.
Late P Brooks, the real one I don’t understand is why the UAW didn’t bother rescuing Saturn. AFAIK, it was a joint operation co-owned by Toyota (less than 10%), GM, and the UAW.
Venezuela-backed cryptocurrency? Seems legit.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/02/venezuela-petro-cryptocurrency-180219065112440.html
Since yesterday my son had the day off of school, my wife thought it would be a good time to test drive some cars.
She absolutely loved the Ford Focus ST – torque steer ‘n’ all. 6-speed manual ftw.
Was not a fan of the Fiat 500 pop with an automatic. Wanted to drive an Abarath with a manual but none in stock.
The first car I tried to learn to drive in was a manual trasmission. The problem was it had a dodgy starter motor and a very unforgiving clutch. (Stalling when going from first to second was almost a given with that car, and getting the engine started again would be a crapshoot).
From time to time I think I want to learn to drive a manual, but it would have to be a more forgiving clutch than that Honda. What models are good for a beginner to look for (It would likely be a rental) to try to pick up that skill?
You can rent cars with a manual transmission? I don’t think that was true since the 70s!
I learned how to drive stick because I had to – my dad gave me one of his old highway business cars with 200k miles on it. I got the keys and no lessons from him. Luckily my girlfriend at the time learned how to drive manual on an old Chevy Citation.
Newer Honda manuals – Civic / Accord are supposed to be good. I always liked the stick shift in my BMW and Minis, also a Nissan truck and the Altima I used to own. I can’t speak for anything modern since the stickshift is becoming an endangered species.
It may take extra effort to find, but I’m sure you can rent any type of vehicle that isn’t unique.
I think it depends on the car. I drive a recent (2016) Subaru with a manual transmission, and it is both forgiving and has reasonable shift points. My dad’s got a Honda from the same time, and while it’s forgiving, you get the impression whoever designed it never tried it on the highway.
Last time I had to travel for business the boss arranged a car but the rental company (Budget) claimed to have ran out of compacts with auto trans.
The CS person said all we have are minivans. Then the CS person said “oh, if one of you can drive stick we have manual transmission cars too”
I DD a manual so naturally I volunteered to do all the driving.
I expected a barebones crap boring car but much to my surprise it was a turbocharged Ford Fiesta ST
Best time I ever spent with a rental.
I had a VW Rabbit GTI (1984?) that had the worst 1st to 2nd shift change _ever_. That is, if you could even get into first (bushings were too tight!) So I learned to take off in 2nd all the time in that car.
…The car I learned on was a 1980 Citation, it was unforgiving, but good to learn on, as I thought I could drive anything after that. Then I went on to an Omni Horizon, then a Honda Civic wagon (1980), then the VW. Then an 80s Ford Ranger.
“…These workers are the reason for Amazon’s wealth, not the supposed genius of CEO Jeff Bezos.”
It’s like a toy in every cereal box. You can rely on them making at least one specious and envious claim.
They can never answer one thing: Do they have a job to begin with without the capitalist or entrepreneur?
As for the rest, well, I do sympathize. They write as if workers don’t abuse their privileges; worse, that they’re entitled to some ‘stretching’ of the rules. If Amazon wants to improve efficiency that way they must have calculated workers are not doing what they can. In any event, again, no one is forced to work at Amazon which weakens the calls to break it up still further. Personally, as good as my employees are, I catch them doing all sorts of things they’re not supposed to all the time. They think I don’t see but I do.
And then I mention it. I love to see their shocked faces. I always tell them, I’m the Alan Parsons Project. I’m the eye in the sky. Of course, this is where the millennials stare at me like I’m crazy. Who? Wha? Huh?
Anyway. Left-wingers are never about building and consent. They’re first instincts is to tax and destroy.
no one is forced to work at Amazon
They’ll argue against that.
I’ll be honest, I might be accused if fiddling with my phone to much (I browse here and I answer texts from the wife fairly immediately) but I believe my work speaks for itself.
In moderation it’s acceptable. You have to pick your battles. If it becomes a habit or pattern, then it’s a problem.
And it pisses other workers who follow the rules off. That shit kills morale and allows unnecessary cynicism to set in.
Be reasonable, consistent and fair is my motto.
Then why don’t the workers just walk out and start their own international Internet retail company? It’s funny how communists always insist that CEOs and managers are just fat, lazy parasites who do contribute nothing whatsoever and just siphon off the profits generated by the workers, but you don’t see any cases of successful businesses that were started by workers who got tired of being “oppressed”.
Duhh, because they don’t own the means of production like Amazon does… wait a sec…
Untrue, you see it a number of times in game development studios. A team that got shafted by management would break off, form a new company and put out new product based upon the skills they contributed before. Some do better than others.
You don’t see warehouse schleppers forming global logistics chains with ecommerce frontends very often.
Not just game development. Lots of successful IT or software companies are started by people who cashed out of one of the giants and used the money and their knowledge to start a new company.
But those companies still have a manager and a CEO, correct?
The person from that original quote seems to be saying that in a perfect world, rank-and-file workers would somehow depose the upper management and run the company as some sort of commune.
Yeah, the person from the original quote is a moron. I was simply pointing out that some industries do lend themselves to successfull budding of new companies by the ‘rank and file’.
At least this story has a new take. The Japanese put the hit on Al Franken!!!
The article claims that the Japanese were behind some “fake news” sites and a twitter bot army that ran Franken out of office. To me, it sounds more like an enterprising developer figured out how to spike traffic to his site and generate some ad revenue.
“But it’s harder to use these tactics when you can’t rely on either lies OR hate to do it.”
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.
Nice point. Good thing each party has both in spades.
We should steer into the skid on this. “I’m with you on this. FB has destroyed democracy. Let’s regulate the hell out of it.”
Newsweek should check their facts.
What is the point of having a fake follower?
That’s a lot of Tulpas
What about all the people who wanted to vote for Trump and visited all the Russian troll pages because they liked what they read, and wanted to feel they were part of a group that shared their feelings?
Wait now…Ever since Al Gore invented the internet, I’ve been told that the left is far more adept with technology and that they are always first/best at utilizing it to help win elections.
I did receive news late last week that the job I was eyeing up has been offered to me. The position will require us to move, although still in-state.
Do we have any Maryland Eastern Shore Glibs? I’ve lived in the state my entire life but always west of Baltimore. I’ve only ever been out that way as I am passing through to go to Ocean City.
Just the chickens posing as internet commenters.
Mini-golf fan then?
And awful taffy.
My dad lives in that area. Depending on what you need to know I could pass on the questions.
Really just along the lines of what is a good place to settle into with young kids. The position will allow a lot of working from home (lack of office space in headquarters) so I can live pretty much anywhere southeast of Cambridge (including Delaware).
From his experience, the schools in the whole region are shit, so much so that he went with homeschooling for my (much younger) half-sibling. I don’t know if this extends to private schools (or if there are any in the area).
My wife plans on homeschooling, although I would still prefer to live in a “good” school district in case we ever needed to make a change, plus they will still need friends.
When losing fat, you sometimes don’t lose any weight for several days and then suddenly drop a pound or 2. Why is weight loss so non-linear?
Fat loss can be accompanied with temporary water retention, masking the weight loss. So while weight loss may occur somewhat stepwise, ‘underneath’ the fat loss rate is quite linear.
https://bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/of-whooshes-and-squishy-fat.html/
There’s also the fact that your weight fluctuates a pound or two throughout the day because of eating and defecation, so day-to-day measurements are meaningless. You have to weigh yourself every day – ideally at the same exact time – and look at the long-term trend over several weeks.
I work with a lot of women who are constantly trying some diet or another, and I always hear them saying “I lost one pound from yesterday! At this rate I’ll fit into that swimsuit in no time!” and the next day, “Oh my god, I gained two pounds overnight!! How did this happen?!“
Uffda. Even the Minnesoda GOP seems to have problems calling taxes what they really are.
MPR has a story about how the nefarious GOP (who has the majority in the legislature) won’t go along with a common sense proposal by the DFL gov. for a penny per pill tax to fight opioid abuse.
Sadly, here is the pushback from the GOP:
I don’t think that Gazelka’s definition of “give” is the same as mine.
Also if that number is true, every man, woman and child is paying $50/year in taxes for medicine. And the DFL wants to raise that number. I’m sure that the DFL will also then decry high health care costs too.
They give, sure it’s under duress, but that doesn’t change the fact that they gave. /Everyone
Speaking of which, KDW had a good fit of pique in a mostly unrelated column on Monday.
Something I’ve never figured out: Why is it DFL in Minnesota instead of just the good ol’ Democratic Party?
Because the Democrats merged with the good old commie Farmer-Labor party in 1944.
In the early 20th century the Farmer-Labor was one of the many crazy populist/socialist parties that were all the rage in the midwest.
We’ve had some luck fighting hospital taxes, assessments, fees, whatever by calling them “sick taxes”.
“Whycome you wanna make sick people pay more just because they’re sick.”*
*Note: message intentionally dumbed down to reach the intended audience of lawmakers.
Teachers are human shields?
Right. As if that’s not a instinctual behaviour to protect for humans. Please.
In any event, I thought in the Age of Trump the racial climate dictates that Muslim and black kids be used as human shields.
“There’s an intruder in the school! Quick, line ’em up!”
I’m upset with Canada’s curling squads at the Olympics. Brad Gushue would be wiping the ice with these teams. This is where I advocate for full contact curling.
They should try doping
I just love that the Russians, originally banned for doping and then let in as “Olympic Athletes Who Just Happen To Be From Russia” (after, I am sure, the appropriate palms were greased) just go busted for doping at the Olympics.
So, exactly what percentage of beer swilling Glibs live in one of these cities?
I live in one of ’em.
I’m a little floored that Salt Lake City isn’t on that list.
Yep
I live in one…well, not one, #2 actually.
Not a fan of Strangeways, though. Triple Crossing is pretty good. I like the breweries out west (Devil’s Backbone, Blue Mountain) and north (Center of the Universe) better.
This is one of the Russian bot Facebook pages that Mueller is so proud of exposing.
Shit. I looked at it.
MUST VOTE TRUMP. MUST VOTE TRUMP. MUST VOTE TRUMP.
OK, I’m convinced.
I’m confused, it doesn’t look like there’s any noteworthy activity on the page, unless it was all deleted.
OBSTRUCTION!!!!
I don’t really understand how any of this stuff amounts to crimes.
I took probability and statistics in school…probably only learned 50%.
Same as me man.. Which 50% did you get? Maybe if we get together we can claim to have 110%?
Ok I think I can help…send me 75% of your money.
I have a lot of it in that Venezuelan crypto-currency mentioned above. If you give me your ban account info I will transfer it to you…
My Google news feed thinks I’m interested in supervolcanoes. Do I keep getting stories like this one.
https://www.disclose.tv/there-is-a-humongous-admonition-worldwide-that-the-yellowstone-supervolcano-could-erupt-tomorrow-324360
I think it’s by the Russians, based on the grammar.
COLLUSION BETWEEN ROOSKIES AND GAIA
A few days ago we had sideboob and we had a request for underboob.
http://archive.is/YvVmf
Ask and ye shall receive!
Wow, and a lot of these women pass the “pencil test” too!
#14
Ans #17 should be disqualified for a footwear violation.
YAYYYYYY
9 all the way
#8 brings some welcome chocolate (or at least cinnamon) to the vanilla shake.
#12 should be cast as MJ in the next Spiderman movie (Deadpool tattoo and everything)
And I’ll take #23 as my consulting fee.
Can you imagine you survive the usual airport rigmarole and end up dealing with this sort of shit?
“Please buckle your seatbelt. We may be in for some
turbuflatulance. “Damn, I pack Gas X or Beano when flying, just because the altitude changes sometimes screw with my stomach.
Share the joy man… This other dude certainly did..
This astronomical clock took 5 years to be made & shows 400 year perpetual calendar, equation of time, sidereal time, Sun/Moon rise and set, Moon’s phase and age, tides, solar/lunar eclipses, planisphere, tellurium, and full-featured orrery to Saturn moons
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/965505789979963392
Looks like a bitch to dust. SWMBO would not be pleased.
I would guess it’s under glass.
It’s funny how if I tell people that Russia sowed discord in America with an army of online trolls I’ll be labeled as an arbiter of truth, but if I tell people Russia sowed discord in America through academic institutions to peddle their ideology I’m labeled a conspiracy theorist.
In one case you are supporting the cause against evul Trump-Putin and are helping the cause, while the other one undermines and challenges the only way humanity will reach social justice you bastage!
Oh goody.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/02/did_the_progressive_broward_county_solution_cost_17_student_lives.html
I’m sure we’ll see this covered in the broadcast media, because it’s important AF.
::starts choking with bitter, ironic laughter::
what was that law of headlines?
And of course the solution to this is going to be to go too far the other way (arresting more kids for things they shouldn’t be arrested for), then there’ll be backlash to that, then…
Well, it does prove that more white kids should be arrested.
Thing is, with a name like “Cruz”, the actual shooter would have counted as a “minority” arrest, so . . . .
The Zimmerman case taught us of the unique threat posed by white Latinos.
The PA Supreme Court is elected, so I guess that makes them somewhat accountable, but it also makes them self interested political actors no different from elected state legislators.
It’s funny how all the editorials in favor of redistricting in PA made the point that the Phila. suburban counties should each have one rep rather than being
split into several other districts to help Republicans win. But the final map shows that overwhelmingly Democrat Phila. County is split into five congressional districts, four of which are appended to purplish suburban counties, making it far easier for the Democrats to win those seats. Because only four states send more Republicans to Congress, the predicted losses in Penna. go a long way to tipping the 2019 House back to the Democrats. There’s probably no way to ensure the drawing of “fair districts.”
Exactly. I live in MontCo, very close to the City line, and went from a deep blue district (Old Pa-2) to what will probably be a light, but comfortable, blue district (new PA-4).
Atlantic’s wall o’ text.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/munich-conference-trump-mcmaster-mccain-elite/553697/?utm_source=twb
TL;DR – National security elites/central planners are shitty at doing what they’re supposed to be doing (NO DUH).
Get lefty publications like the Atlantic to start admitting the same thing about the UN and we’d really be getting somewhere.
Get righty publications to admit the same about the military while you’re at it.
From time to time I think I want to learn to drive a manual, but it would have to be a more forgiving clutch than that Honda. What models are good for a beginner to look for (It would likely be a rental) to try to pick up that skill?
Seriously- the best thing would probably be a pickup with a manual. Good bottom end torque, strong clutch, comparatively low gearing. Find a parking lot or some place similar; leave your foot off the gas, and just practice letting the clutch pedal out slowly and work on getting a feel for where the clutch starts to engage. Then work from there.
good advice. When I was trying to teach a 17yo how to drive stick, he kept treating the clutch like an off-on button. There was a lot of stalling.
And even with a small 1.6L engine I can ever so gently lift the clutch and get the car to idle forward without touching the gas. Driving a manual takes some finesse but once I got the hang of it, I can drive them more smoothly than a lot of automatics I’ve owned. Plus it gives a higher amount of control.
I like ’em for the amount of driver engagement. It keeps me busy thinking instead of letting my concentration wander. A car with an automatic feels like a golf cart to me.
Actually, learning to engage the clutch without using the gas is how I taught my kid. Like you said, once you get the feel for it, it’s easy.
My dad’s Vue is the worst clutch I’ve ever experienced. He and my mom have tried to teach me that one so many times, and I’ve failed miserably. Then a buddy got a Golf GTI, which has a good clutch, and I’m able to easily handle it.
I taught my wife to drive a stick in a 69 Camaro. Went to an empty parking lot. Told her to keep her foot off the gas. Told to release the clutch until she heard the engine start to slow down, then put the clutch back in. Repeated this four or five times. Then I had her release the clutch and get the car rolling without using the gas pedal. Repeated this about 10 times in the parking lot. That was really the only lesson she needed.
kinnath, I’ve tried that with the Vue. The problem with the Vue’s clutch is that the pedal’s sweet spot is only about 5 degrees from it’s rest position, and only is in an arc of only 5 degrees. I just can’t do that while actually driving. My Friend’s Golf, on the other hand, has a sweet spot of about 25 degrees, and it’s much closer to the floor.
Then the Vue is fucked. In every car that I have owned with a stick, the clutch engages just off the floor. Some higher, some lower, but generally right off the floor. That would include my first car, said 69 Camaro; several Subarus; a late-80s shitting Ford Mustang; and my 06 350Z. My personal preference is the clutch engages as close to the floor as possible.
Late P Brooks, the real one I don’t understand is why the UAW didn’t bother rescuing Saturn. AFAIK, it was a joint operation co-owned by Toyota (less than 10%), GM, and the UAW.
The joint venture was NUMMI, in California, which is now the Tesla plant, I think. Saturn was in Tennessee.
But you’re right about Saturn. GM actually tried to do something different and interesting, and the UAW fought tooth and nail to get it pulled back into the GM corporate structure and labor contract. At one point, Roger Penske was trying to put a deal together to buy Saturn, but it fell apart, most likely because GM management and Obama’s team knew Penske would be successful.
My theory at the time was that a Penske-owned Saturn would outsell Chevrolet in ten years. I still think that would have happened.
I think it would have. I look at the number of older Saturns still on the road as compared to older Chevrolets, and the Saturns far outnumber the others.
Lots of my car nerd friends have them and swear by them. Simple and reliable is a good thing.
My uncle drove nothing but Saturns during their existence and he too swore by them. Was very sad at their demise.
Many years ago I bought my wife a ’94 Saturn SL that burned oil like it was free – eventually leaving a Spyhunter cloud during heavy acceleration. The replacement engine, out of a crashed SL1, still burned oil but not at such a high rate.
Shoot, I knew a co worker at a location I used to work at that had an 08 hybrid Vue, and he and his wife did most of their maintenance. What he couldn’t handle, they had a person his wife worked with who was a Tanker, and he’d handle it.
My dad’s Vue is at 140K and still ticking. Might make it to 200K if he doesn’t want to get rid of it (although I might take it if he doesn’t get a good deal on trade in, and I can learn to drive it).
Just find a Little Blu Kia, Clutch like butter, 5 speed, you sit about 4 inches off the Road, That’s fun!
Welcome to Comrat, Moldova’s relic Soviet city – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2018/feb/20/comrat-moldova-relic-soviet-city-pictures-gagauzia-union-russia
Had some wine from Comrat once. Not fantastic but quite drinkable.
A wealthy Japanese man at the centre of a “baby factory” scandal in Thailand has won sole parental rights to 13 children he fathered through Thai surrogate mothers.
Mitsutoki Shigeta, 28, reportedly wanted a large number of children so they could inherit his fortune in the future. The court ruling on Tuesday means he will now make preparations to take them to live in Japan, according to his lawyer.
Some campaigners have raised concerns over the case, suggesting it was “way outside the norm for cross-border surrogacy” and highlighted the need for strong regulation.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/20/japanese-man-custody-13-surrogate-children-thai-court
To my NoDak and Minnasoda friends-
It has been bitterly cold for the past few days, here, and I have decided to send it on to you.
You’re welcome.
Aw, thanks, Brooks.
Balmy -1F on the way to work today. That’s more like it.
I always wonder: how powerful is “too” powerful? What benchmark has Amazon crossed that necessitates them being “dismantled”, and what gives the government the right to dismantle a private business anyway?
Amazon is not really powerful; they’re just extremely popular for having almost every consumer product in one convenient place. It would be quite easy to avoid using Amazon if you wanted to. All of those products are available in other online shops or from brick-and-mortar stores.
They squeeze suppliers!!!
They’re a monopoly!!!!
https://twitter.com/robjective/status/964680123885613056
A VP at Facebook is getting attacked for pointing out that the media’s narrative of a nefarious Russian plot including Facebook ads makes no sense.
This is the ‘measured’ response from hacks in the media: https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/965086562378764289
“Why Is Finland Able to Fend Off Putin’s Information War?”
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/01/why-is-finland-able-to-fend-off-putins-information-war/
Because they’re alcoholic loners who don’t give a shit?
“The majority of the Russian ad spend happened AFTER the election. We shared that fact, but very few outlets have covered it because it doesn’t align with the main media narrative of Tump and the election.”
No argument there.
Maybe this just gives the legacy media cover to ignore these stories and push the narrative.
Damn the torpedoes, they’re just Russian bots accounts. All thinking people agree with me. Full speed ahead!
“A Facebook Executive Apologizes To His Company—And To Robert Mueller”
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-executive-rob-goldman-apologizes-to-company-and-robert-mueller/
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/965671005699039232
Why Alyssa? You used to be so lovable 🙁
“You used to be so lovable”
Where have you been for the past few years? She’s a mentally handicapped imbecile
Pretty girl is dumb as a brick, film at 11.
Still probably would, sadly.
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/965572225746300930
The FBI is a ‘first responder’? Since when? This is why kids should not involve themselves in adult conversations and why adults should no better than to repeat the views of children as if it is authoritative.
The FBI is a ‘first responder’? Since when?
I find they are frequently first responders to press conferences after a big arrest. Does that count?
Well in Garland, TX, the were kinda zero-th.
Breaking News: Teenagers Are Stupid
In other news, some old people aren’t that bright either:
“ONE LESS: Scott Pappalardo owned his AR-15 rifle for more than 30 years. He even has a Second Amendment tattoo on his arm. This weekend, he destroyed his gun “to make sure this weapon will be ever be able to take a life.””
https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/965711747419115522
Well, good, somebody that stupid probably is better off not having a gun. Because apparently he thinks it could one day just jump up and start shooting people of its own volition. Or maybe he is telling us he doesn’t actually trust himself not to do so.
Fudd mindset. Listen to the monologue. Thinks it’s cool to take plinking (he’s right). There’s almost no 2A context apart from the totally (and demonstrably) false claim that he supports it.
Not another one of these famewhore assclowns
Now I need to bleach my eyes.
“Parents Lose Custody Of Child For Refusing To Support Transgenderism
The 17-year-old biologically female child identifies as a boy and claims she has suicidal thoughts over her parents’ lack of support for her transgenderism (they won’t, for example, call her by her new chosen male name). The parents were fighting for custody of their daughter back from the state in an effort to stop potential transgender hormone treatment.
An attorney representing the parents, whose names have not been disclosed because of privacy concerns, argued that the girl was not “even close to being able to make such a life-altering decision at this time.” Representatives of the girl argued that a “medical team” claimed that the treatment was a matter of life and death.
Hamilton County Judge Sylvia Sieve Hendon granted custody to the girl’s maternal grandparents, who are open to transgender hormone therapy. The teenager has been living with them since 2016.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/27309/parents-lose-custody-child-refusing-support-amanda-prestigiacomo
The future is bleak. We are only a couple years away from a Charlie Gard, the government knows what medical treatment is best for your child, situation occurring in the US. The Europeanization of America continues
Charlie Gard was an infant. This individual is practically old enough to be called a woman/man. I think there’s a big difference between 17 weeks old and 17 years old. That having been said, at 17 the courts should just grant emancipation.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWZzfqdVAAEokX2.jpg
Correlation is not causation, but still interesting.
Per capita gun ownership is > 1 in only one of those countries…
The Swiss have gotta step up their game.
Their narrow gazes cause criminals to hang their heads in shame…
I came seeing that per capita gun ownership in the US is over 100%.
Conservative estimates have it at near (or over) 200%.
An actually interesting piece of journalism from Buzzfeed on Missouri’s execution drug supplier and the lengths the state goes through to keep them anonymous
When someone from the state is taking an envelope full of cash to buy execution drugs from an anonymous supplier… something’s weird.
(Personal disclosure: Fuck the death penalty. Don’t nearly trust the state enough to do it. And fuck lethal injection, because all that does is make it look clean to outside viewers. If we’re going to have the death penalty, bring back the guillotine. Or firing squad.)
(actually, scratch the firing squad. Could you imagine cops trying to do that? You’d have three dead witnesses and two injured cops along with the person being executed)
I’m not a supporter of the death penalty, but the national effort to interfere in the affairs of individual states is more disturbing to me. There is a reason why the state has to keep the name of its suppliers anonymous, because a bunch of people from Massachusetts and California will use pressure to try and bankrupt the company unless they stop engaging in doing business with MO and its death penalty process.
Here’s a thought experiment: would you be as upset with this if it were the State of California that needed to buy abortion inducing pills from an anonymous supplier, because otherwise people from MO would be harassing the company and trying to bankrupt them unless they stopped doing business with California and its abortion process? Obviously, this isn’t a fair comparison, because abortion pills are constitutionally protected (oddly enough), but an electorate choosing to maintain the death penalty is apparently beyond the pale
I don’t like it when government tries this hard to be non-transparent. I’m already (obviously) incredibly skeptical anyways, and when they actively try to hide something, well…
They are hiding the source that they procure the drug from, because activists try to bankrupt them. This is the same amount of secrecy as is involved in the secret ballot. I’m really not seeing what is egregious here other than you don’t want the death penalty. Well, I don’t want the death penalty and I don’t want outside activists subverting the will of an electorate in another state
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/business/banks-gun-sales.html?mtrref=t.co&gwh=CA136F08C245EBAD1BCE0B9DCB4B658A&gwt=pay
Lo and behold, the same method that outsiders are using to interfere in another state’s ability to conduct its own affairs with regards to the death penalty is being floated as a way to undermine the Second Amendment.
I agree. I’m against the death penalty. But there are less complicated ways to execute people. And doctors should not be executioners.
Tell that to the NHS.
Doctors MUST be executioners. The Supreme Court won’t allow hangings or firing squads anymore (the rationale behind the firing squads is perplexing in my opinion)
That sounds like a very bad ruling.
Cruel and unusual punishment. The Court found that older methods of execution were cruel and unusual. I think you can make that case for hanging, but, again, I don’t get the firing squad argument
But they weren’t unusual, they were very usual, and thus did not violate the prohibition. Now if it were “Cruel OR Unusual”, that would be a different matter.
/snark
The Supreme Court won’t allow hangings or firing squads anymore
This is not true. There is no ban on hangings, and the only decision on firing squads was that an individual sentenced to death could not compel the state, against its laws, to use that method.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/965925563683786752
Overseas tyrants would marvel at how willing propagandists our media has become. This is the kind slavish behavior that not even self-respecting state-run media engages in
Yes, the overseas tyrants are far more used to US media being willing propagandists on their behalf (like…oh, Glenn Greenwald) than so obviously for US government (or in this case, bureaucracy against the government).
The second sentence is a hyperbole – at least for now. But they are on their way there…
Yes, Glenn Greenwald is totally a propagandist for foreign tyrants by pointing out that the media is fully in support of war. I also like to pretend like the build-up to the Iraq War didn’t happen exactly like the build-up to war with Russia is occurring
No, he’s a total propagandist for foreign tyrants by whitewashing, ignoring and outright lying about their actions.
His criticism of US media is fair, just like Chomsky’s was during the Cold War. But it’s because game knows game, not because some of some commitment to liberty or natural rights. His site’s reporting on Venezuela (although maybe not now, last I saw article on the topic was couple years ago) or Brazil (they are still holding out for Lula and Dalma vs moneied and foreign conspiracy) is straight out propaganda for some of the worst scum.
I don’t think there’s any buildup to Russia war. All the “collusion” shit is strictly about Trump -if they get him, it gets dropped in 48 hours. Kinda like how Roy Moore was the worst man in America until he lost the election, and then stopped existing. Nor is Putin a trigger-happy retard. Keep in mind Turkey shot down a Russian plane, a Turkish policeman killed their ambassador and net result was… some sanctions followed by quiet rapprochement.
So, Greenwald is a propagandist, because his site isn’t harsh enough against tyrants?
And Russia collusion has nothing to do with war with Russia or more interventionism in Syria? Makes sense, it’s not like we see a steady drum beat of media personalities and Democratic politicians insisting that this president hasn’t done enough to counter Russia (whatever the hell that means). I mean I just made-up this Newsweek story:
https://twitter.com/notjessewalker/status/965783607242616833
And I have such a creative imagination that I just invented this guy out of thin air:
https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/965389028378910720
That’s insane, I’m shaking in my boots, bots online vs, Jihadis with Planes, hmm…..
“just like Chomsky’s was during the Cold War”
Also, it’s funny how you think Chomsky’s criticism of the media’s support for continued war during the Cold War (when the Soviet Union was a very real threat) is legitimate, but Greenwald’s criticism of the media for supporting war when Russia is a very real non-threat is not the same.
“Chomsky is a propagandist for tyrants, because he isn’t critical enough of Soviet atrocities”
actually makes more sense than your position:
“Greenwald is a propagandist because….well, what about Venezuela and shit. Sure the media is pushing us into a war in Syria, but what has he said about Venezuela?”
We must liberate the productive forces of society from the capitalists
So intent on reliving but not relearning the lessons of the past.
“But the same people on the left who declare that children are fully capable decision-makers suddenly balk when it comes to gun ownership. Now, leftist lawmakers state that the legal age for gun purchases should be raised to 21. They proclaim that “children” are disadvantaged if they are removed from their parents’ health-insurance plans before turning 26. They suggest that the criminal-justice system should treat young adults with greater leeway than it treats more mature adults, because brain development doesn’t truly complete until 25.
So, which is it? Are children assets to be protected, or are they just adults in tiny people’s bodies? Are they sexual beings, or are they innocents? Are they rational actors, or are they still emotionally developing?
The answer seems to be relatively simple: Children and teenagers are not fully rational actors. They’re not capable of exercising supreme responsibilities. And we shouldn’t be treating innocence as a political asset used to push the agenda of more sophisticated players.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/students-anti-gun-views/
The answer seems to be relatively simple: Children and teenagers are not fully rational actors. They’re not capable of exercising supreme responsibilities.
This is only part of the picture. There are nefarious cultural influences keeping tennagers, specifically, from being fully rational actors. Yes, teenagers are always going to be rash, impatient, and shortsighted. However, they’re not incapable of acting like adults at 14, 15, or 16. The near universal incapability of teens in the US is an issue with media, parenting and the education system.
Are the people who want 16 year olds to vote also ok with a drinking age of 16, a smoking age of 16, and legalized drugs for 16 and over? Also, welfare payments for ages 16 and up? Because 16 year olds will figure out they can vote themselves those things.
When a middle-aged man can fuck someone’s 16-year-old daughter without going to prison, then she gets to vote.
16 is the age of concent in most states of the Union.
Many of those state have restriction limiting the sexual partner to being a peer. In other words, the state won’t throw the 19-year-old boyfriend in prison. Being 49 and fucking a 16 year old will get you in prison in lots of places.
Very eloquently put..
Liberate. You keep using that word.
Office Space comes to mind. Where Peter Gibbons says he has 8 bosses. In the commie scenario, it would be “I have 300 million bosses, Bob.”
From that WeWork article:
Whether that’s a $20 billion business, however, is a matter of contention. Companies specializing in shared office space have come before. As The Wall Street Journal noted this fall, the office-leasing company IWG manages five times the square footage but has about one-eighth the market value. Even Adam Neumann, a co-founder of WeWork and its CEO, admits that his company is overvalued, if you’re looking merely at desks leased or rents collected. “No one is investing in a co-working company worth $20 billion. That doesn’t exist,” he told Forbes in 2017. “Our valuation and size today are much more based on our energy and spirituality than it is on a multiple of revenue.”
“I’ll have extra froth on my caramel latte, please.”
Would it be insider trading to put in a sell order after an admission by the CEO that they’re not worth what they’re valued at?
It’s information that is publicly available. Awfully hard to pursue an insider trading prosecution when 300 million people have the knowledge.
Not sure if rhetorical, but no. If you knew the CEO and he told you that privately, then it’s a different story.
It was not meant as a serious question.
I’m a securities lawyer. That kind of question is bait. I couldn’t resist.
I don’t suppose that includes understanding of how to avoid punitive death taxes? I’m still not sure of a plausible way for a family in my books to keep their reign on billions in assets without it being taxed to oblivion when the eldest generation croaks.
It does not. We’ve got probate lawyers for that.
My job is to navigate the labyrinthine rules of the SEC. The IRS is beyond me.
Damn.
If you knew the CEO and he told you that privately, then it’s a different story.
Only because the SEC has . . . expansive ideas about what constitutes insider trading. It should consist only of the use of non-public information by someone who has a pre-existing duty not to disclose or trade on that information to profit from the information.
I’ve made the argument before that insider trading laws shouldn’t exist at all on the downside, and that it actually helps the market and investors if the stock drops before the announcement of “bad news”. But I agree with you regardless.
I see the argument for not having insider trading laws, but I think that there is a fiduciary duty on a limited class of insiders not to profit from non-public information. Fiduciary duties run to shareholders (but not the public at large), and insider trading can be at the expense of shareholders.
Allowing insider buying before the release of good news and the resulting big runup in stock price creates incentives to delay the release of information to the detriment of exisitng shareholders (who may sell, or not buy, while the release of info is being delayed).
Allowing insider selling before the release of bad news and the resulting big drop in stock price creates the same incentive to delay the release of the information. I don’t think the buyers during the delay would have a claim unless they were already shareholders, but shareholders who don’t sell during the delay and are stuck with the loss in value could have a claim.
Any purchase or sale by someone with a fiduciary duty (officers and directors) is going to trigger a mandatory Form 4 filing no more than two business days from the purchase or sale, so you’re not really going to be able to hide the fact that “something” is out there.
There’s also an obligation to disclose material information that would reasonably be expected to affect the value of securities or influence investors’ decisions under both Nasdaq and NYSE listing rules. Both of those follow the regulation FD requirements, which require “simultaneous” public disclosure (in the event of an intentional disclosure) or “prompt” public disclosure (in the event of a non-intentional disclosure). So if they try to delay they have issues with both the SEC, who’s going to start an investigation, and the listing agencies, which can take steps to delist them.
If you’re going to start really trading on that kind of information, you’ll get found out quick.
Seems like a good time to revisit this.
“I don’t understand.” lol
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Squawk talking about his piece suggesting that “socially responsible” banks could deny credit for gun sales (apparently, Paypal, Google, and other payment services don’t accept payments for guns?).
Yes, trying to get a modern payment processor to process gun-related purchases is quite difficult. Lots of send-a-check-wait-for-it-to-clear rigamarole on top of FFL paperwork.
How do they know its for guns?
For one off purchases, they usually don’t. But if you are a merchant that wants a merchant account, and they ask you what you do, and you say “I sell artisinal pussyhats” and they ask your buisness name and it “Big Clive’s Guns-O-Rama” they might be able to figure it out. So retailers can use their systems.
“I sell outdoor equipment. My company name is Clive’s Sports.”
And when 30% of your incoming transactions come from Gun Broker…
You point out that the site also carries non-firearms products, and that cancelling your merchant account is inappropriate.
Lemme know how that works out for you.
Going on the offensive is really the only option.
Yes, I mentioned this above. This is the same strategy that the Left has employed to stop medical companies from providing death penalty drugs to states that still do executions. I am opposed to the death penalty, but even I saw the bad precedent that was being set. This bullshit will expand soon, too.
It’s just like when Indiana passed a state-level RFRA (the exact same type of RFRA that president Obama voted for when he was a representative in Illinois), which was modeled after the federal RFRA, and the Left used business pressure to make them water down their statute. This is only the beginning. Don’t get too attached to free speech, because that’s already on the chopping block
People will come up with ways around it. Marijuana industry here doesn’t have access to all kinds of financial resources since it’s still technically illegal. Where there is significant profit to be made, there will be a way.
Yes, but why should someone’s livelihood be threatened because it upsets the sensibilities of rich whites?
Because they’re better than you, dontchaknow.
Actual Minnesoda Nice!
Wow.
That is fantastic.
I’m glad the victim wasn’t an attractive gal with large breasts. In our new crazy #MeToo environment, how many of those guys would have been accused of toxic masculinity?
In outstate Minnesota? Zero.
Wow.
Although maybe that town should invest in an AED?
Odds that a background check reveals this guy bought his AR a few days ago and has been an active anti-2A crusader.
LOL response
Ha! That’s gold!
I too want to make sure that no evil assault weapon ever takes a child’s life. That’s why I’m buying as many assault weapons as my budget will allow. I’m making sure that they’re used safely and legally, one weapon at a time.
He’s a felon.
He created an SBR the moment the first cut was completed. He then rendered the SBR inoperative a few seconds after. Whether the ATF would consider that it’s still an SBR is debatable, but he’s still a felon unless he got his paperwork from the ATF first.
Fuckin’ fudds. They’ll never ‘get’ this until their 700’s are designated ‘sniper rifles’.
Whoa! Nope. He comes back to the chair with a functioning SBR.
Call the FBI. We need action!
Didn’t the NY “SAFE” Act already criminalize a lot of pump-action and lever-action firearms?
Yep.
Probably. I know a lot of the NY members of my close-to-the-border club have all sorts of complications to deal with, but I always thought the worst was the additional constraints mandated by Westchester County.
I keep wanting one little piece of federal legislation – “When there is a conflict between federal state and/or local laws, rules and regulations, the law, rule or regulation which imposes upon the citizen the least restrictive constraint applies.”
The constraint in Westchester County is more an issue of “do you like to suck cock?”, because the judges who sign petitions for purchase are almost exclusively opposed to firearm ownership.
I heard rumors of a legal challenge to “may issue”, and I’m wondering if this was real, and what the name of the case was so I could look it up.
“May Issue” strikes me as blatantly in violation of the constitution by tying the exercise of a right to the whim of an official.
“Shall issue” is not ideal either, but would still be an improvement.
Constitutional carry is the one true carry rule.
There’s a case on the docket for early March, according to an NY attorney I know who’s a club member. He puts the odds of it passing at about 30%, but he’s a dour, pessimistic kinda guy, so the chances may be higher.
His understanding is that the case will be largely argued on the basis of Heller, although the secondary objective is to attack the requirement that serial numbers of firearms should be recorded as addenda to the permit.
Constitutional carry is the ideal, but I’ll take “shall issue”.
I would as well, Bill. I’m not opposed to incremental improvements in the name of a perfect solution.
That’s interesting about the serial number requirement, because under Maryland law it’s perfectly legal to manufacture a firearm without a serial number provided it would otherwise be legal to purchase and provided that you don’t transfer ownership without adding and recording a serial number. I don’t know NY law, but I could conceivably get a carry permit (well, technically; in MD it’s very difficult to get a CCW permit) and make a concealable pistol using an 80% lower.
I’m not sure what NY would do about a homemade weapon. As it stands, in NY, you have to purchase the firearm and have it stored at the seller’s location or another FFL until the county (in the case of Westchester) issues a release coinciding with the addition of the serial number to your records. They do this in CT too, but it’s done via a form known as a DPS-3-C, but there’s no review by a judge, so the process is somewhat invisible.
In NY, you have to suck dick or grease palms to have the paperwork completed with any urgency, so it helps if you know cops with some ‘pull’ who can nudge the judge’s chambers. It’s all designed to be grit in the bearings so people can’t be bothered to buy that gun they wanted to add to their collection.
Yeah, I smell a rat.
old people and their waning cognitive abilities AMIRITE
Adam Neumann was himself a struggling entrepreneur (he owned a company that sold baby clothes) in recession-era New York when he and a couple of friends rented out space in a Brooklyn building to make some additional income. Demand proved stronger than expected. In 2010, Neumann, who was raised in part on a kibbutz in Israel, and Miguel McKelvey, who grew up with five mothers in an Oregon collective and studied architecture in college, leased a few thousand square feet in SoHo and opened the first WeWork: a shared space where enterprising creatives could work and play.
*outright, prolonged laughter*
Basically, a performance art theater and adult day care for trust funders who feel the need to have a “business address”.
I’d short it.
“Miguel McKelvey, who grew up with five mothers in an Oregon collective”
No comment.
Everyone in the office seems depressed today. Except the two people who recently went skiing. HHHmmmm….
We got our first good powdering of the season last night. I was up for most of it, fucking insomnia. But I bet Sandia is a lot of fun today.
Or… not. I guess the other side of the mountain didn’t get much of it.
The problem with the Vue’s clutch is that the pedal’s sweet spot is only about 5 degrees from it’s rest position, and only is in an arc of only 5 degrees.
Sounds like an adjustment is called for.
Trust me, I’ve argued that, but my mom and dad don’t mind it, so it’s not been done, and unless he ends up giving me the car, I won’t touch it.
rather surreal staged/coached interview with a Florida student where the kid keeps tripping over his canned responses..
https://twitter.com/ChristiChat/status/965728968300167168
creepy.
Why should anyone give two shits what a teenager thinks? Especially, if they are too emotionally involved in the topic of which they are discussing.
are you discounting the public policy expertise of hyper-hormonal teens heavily invested in whatever vexing issue du jour??
Exactly. I have nothing but sympathy for these kids but there’s nothing about them that makes me think their input on matters of policy is worth a tinker’s damn. I was a teenager once. I remember how stupid I was, and I knew a lot of people who were even stupider.
Think about how this looks to the next nutjob school shooter: “You mean I get to murder a bunch of people I hate, and they’ll get loads of classmates to talk about me on national television?”
When they pulled that shit after the Sandy Hook shooting I had a hard time buying something that looked like a conspiracy theory. That is until the evidence was overwhelming. Now it doesnt look so crazy.
Gun grabbers lie. They lie, lie, lie. I have never heard an honest word from any of them.
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Squawk talking about his piece suggesting that “socially responsible” banks could deny credit for gun sales (apparently, Paypal, Google, and other payment services don’t accept payments for guns?).
Wasn’t there some sort of attempt by the Obama administration to deprive deplorable businesses of banking services and credit? I can’t remember the details off the top of my head.
It was called Operation Chokepoint.
It was officially ended only a few months ago.
Another cheer for the Trump administration, all their faults notwithstanding.
Accidental Libertarian President strikes again!
MWAHAHAHAHAH!
I think the only solution is to neuter boys shortly after birth, like they do in dog shelters. We can keep a few sequestered away in locked pornography rooms where they jack off into cups to ensure the continuation of the species.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/02/19/boys-broken-another-mass-shooting-renews-debate-toxic-masculinity/351125002/
Also, Micheal Ian Black is a faggy beta cuck lulz.
Fluoridated water is the cause of toxic masculinity. It’s a plot by feminist (((banksters))) to remove the male population. That’s the real purpose of the FEMA camps, which are run out of pizza shops. *adjusts retainer to better hear the secret NSA signal*
Loner male psychos giving you problems? Best bet is to isolate and antagonize them with headlines blaming “toxic masculinity.”
You know, if I didn’t know better, I’d think media types are avidly hoping to inspire copycat killers.
I created more mass shootings with this one weird trick!
Well, they ARE driven by ratings…
From comments, LOL:
“More girls become literal crack whores than boys commit murders. Clearly the girls in this country are way more screwed up. Must be the toxic femininity.”
You know, just because most criminals are black people doesn’t mean that most black people are criminals. The overwhelming majority of black people have no criminal record and never will.
So I don’t see how it’s rational to make mass shootings a “masculinity” problem. Divide the number of mass shootings by the total male population above the age of 15 (that’s the youngest mass shooter I’ve ever heard of, so we’ll use that as a benchmark). I’m no mathematician, but I bet that number would have a lot of fucking zeroes in it.
“So I don’t see how it’s rational to make mass shootings a “masculinity” problem”
It’s a twofer; they get to continue ejaculating on dead kids for gun control, while simultaneously trashing men and traditional concepts of manhood. Throw in a tree and a fat guy and you’ve got proggy Christmas.
Rural county sheriffs are probably the most trustworthy LEOs (I know it’s a tallest midget thing, but I can’t see any other cop saying stuff like this).
https://www.postindependent.com/news/garfield-county-sheriff-lou-vallario-shares-thoughts-on-gun-control/
Well, they’re the most likely people to be interacting on a daily basis with deplorables.
Probably because they are elected, and therefore held accountable to an extent more than other LEOs.
I wondered how people can stand living 45 minutes to an hour from work, but I’m beginning to appreciate the idea of life outside the city.
Back in those halcyon days when I had a job, I was a 90 minute commute from work and still wasn’t in ‘rural America’.
An hour in three directions would put me pretty solidly in cow country.
I live on a wooded acre in a neighborhood surrounded by horse farms. One neighbor makes moonshine in the garage. On the weekends, you can hear semi-auto target practice at one of the nearby farms. Nobody bothers one another, but you would never feel uncomfortable ringing the neighbor’s doorbell and asking a favor. The most common discussion topic with the neighbors is the chicken sized pileated woodpecker that flits from house to house to eat suet.
The 45 minute commute sucks, but the community is 10x better than I’ve ever experienced in a postage stamp subdivision or an apartment complex. A little bit of space between houses does a ton of good. Our little patch of rural life is a 5 mile diameter cutout from suburbia. 10 minutes in any direction and you’re right back in postage stamp subdivisions and townhouses.
“For some reason our government has decided that although we carry guns in banks for security and malls for security and now even churches for security, we are not allowed to carry guns in schools for security,” Vallario said. “It’s time to provide security in our schools. Nobody likes the idea of hardening our schools, but that’s the only way we are going to defeat people that want to come in and harm innocent victims.”
^this idea of hardening our softest targets really really resonates with me. anyone else? it drives me nuts to think about it. Day 1: insane person shoots up a school –> Day 2: allow teachers and parents to arm themselves on school property.
whenever i read an acquaintance refer to the NRA as terrorists for blocking gun control, my kneejerk has been to point out that the NRA’s membership includes 5 million Americans followed by noting that if the NEA didn’t lobby for GFZs, then a lot of these kids would probably still be alive so “WHO’S THE GODDAMN TERRORIST NOW??” (just without the all-caps and spicy language)
Israel proves the NRA’s arguments
Some people figured this out 40 years ago.
that certainly plays to my bias. i’d like to see some citations for his claims. primary sources FTW!
Live anime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqkmI3ZdJ8c
*Hovers . . . . hovers . . . . doesn’t click.*
Sorry, still have PTSD from the, how did OMWC put it, oh yeah, “fun” this weekend.
Back in the days of unmitigated “toxic masculinity” boys were expected to internalize their angst, and look forward, to a better future. Now, they’re encouraged to let it all out, and to lash out at the cruel world which oppresses them. Instant gratification is the new expectation.
Maybe what we need is a return to the bad old days model of masculine stoicism and restrained (if not patient) suffering.
I think at least part of the blame rests on the fact that government schools are set up entirely for girls and the boys are just scolded and told to be more like the girls. Boys are just defective girls in this worldview.
Boys and girls learn differently and are mentally stimulated by different things. I take the standard libertarian view that schools should be private and parents should choose whichever one works best for their child. But I do think that the best schools would be mostly gender segregated. Not completely; there’s no reason kids can’t have recess, lunch, and a few classes together just so they learn to interact with the opposite sex.
The idea that the two sexes are exactly the same (except when females are superior) is very harmful.
This. Also get rid of strict age segregation. Kids need to learn to interact with others that aren’t their own age.
This. 1 room neighborhood schools for grades 1-5 might be the way to go.
Trsh, you just had a little one not too long ago right? Are you planning on homeschooling?
Tom Woods had a guest recently who argued that the whole idea of adolescence (as an oddball in-between stage between childhood and adulthood) is completely wrong. He said that historically, kids would turn about 13 and start working. They would be primarily around other adults, not other teenagers, and they consequently became mature and responsible a lot quicker. That’s probably why (((they))) consider the transition from boyhood to manhood as 13 years of age.
2-Chili, my favorite writer from TOS.
https://reason.com/archives/2018/02/20/after-the-gun-ban
Yup, he’s always been one of the best writers there, and it seems he’s back from his… hiatus? semi-retirement? Whatever it was, the magazine needs him back. Stossel can only carry so much.
Speaking of TOS. Alabama DAs and Sheriffs beg state: Don’t take our forfeiture revenue! It’s so nakedly, transparently self-interested, it’s a wonder anyone–aw, fuck. Who am I kidding? Nobody gives a shit until they’re the one at the other end of the gun getting patted down for plunder. Till then, anyone victimized by asset forfeiture is just some crackhead who deserves to have his beater auctioned off by the city.
Mine to.
He ought to turn that article into another fiction book.
I rather enjoyed high desert barbecue.
after the ammo ban..
Gun sales surged again, now for bolt- and lever-action rifles chambered in rounds traditionally used in semiautomatic rifles, and revolvers that similarly accepted traditionally semiautomatic calibers. It escaped nobody’s notice that ammunition purchased for a legal weapon could also be used in guns that never made it to the registration lists.
nobody’s laughing at ARs chambered in 300blk anymore, are they? ARE THEY? they still are, arne’t they. dammit.
i haven’t confirmed but my money is on Taurus having a revolver chambered in 9MM. the home of The Judge and a revolver chambered in .380acp has got to have one in 9MM.
I have a 300 BLK AR and I *love* it. Haters can eat a rock.
Why would you want a revolver in a rimless cartridge? Rimless is for autoloaders to improve feed, rimmed is for revolvers to make it easier to just drop them in the cylinder.
b/c in Tuccille’s piece, you’re only allowed to purchase ammo for weapons registered in your name and semi-auto have been banned. hence the part about demand increasing for bolt-action rifles and revolvers in semi-auto caliber.
I have a blackhawk with three different cylinders: 45 acp, 45 long colt and 45 winchester magnum.
Why? A while back I expressed interest in a Ruger No.1 in 25-06.
“Why in hell do you want that? You have a 25-06 and you have a pile of number ones.”
“I answered back “Why do you want a winchester 94 in 219 zipper?”
He just grumbled and went back to drinking coffee.
just because changing cartidges of the same caliber only requires changing out one almost solid block of metal…
what other No. 1 calibers do you have? i check my local gunbroker for No. 1s a few times a month. some pop up but not for long. 25-06 was on there several months ago. they’ve all (7mm-08, .375HH, et al) been in the $8-900 range usually including rings and some ammo.
Keep in mind that gun grabbers wear their ignorance of guns like a badge of honor. That ignorance is why they wont win. They cant successfully craft legislation banning that thing that goes up. If you cant identify problems you damned sure cant solve them.
That is a great article. If Reason would just clone 2chilly about ten times I might make my way back over there on occasion.
Looked at the comments. I see Hihn is as crazy as ever.
He keeps regurgitating Holmes’ “fire in a crowded theater” bullshit that has been obsolete since Brandenburg was decided 49 years ago.
Reason should give him a column.
It might keep him out of comments, he may be forced to write something different instead of copy-pasting same thing twenty times, and he’d be a better, more interesting writer than Dalmia or Richman.
*snickers*
BTW, is “Rev. Arthur Kirkland” a new troll, or an old troll in new clothes?
He has been shoveling shit in the Volokh comment section for like a decade. Migrated to Reason Proper when Volokh moved to Reason.
I am seeing a large number of foreigners weighing in on the gun debate. Of course the vast majority are calling for us to ban guns. What is it with lefties and their desire to impose their will on everyone, everywhere? Why should I give one tiny diddledy fuck what some housewife in Durham, England or a car mechanic in Hamburg thinks about my rights? Why do they think I would?
Let’s weigh in on their government’s suicidal refugee policies for good measure.
They also thought that Obama was pretty hot shit, which tells us all we need to know about them.
The up-side will be the news item describing how that woman’s 9 year old daughter was abducted on a shopping trip to Middlesborough and how she dissuaded the assailants off with a bag of skittles and some scathing criticism.
Everyone watches American shows and movies, and listens to American movies. Combined with every news organization having a correspondent in the US, this gives the rest of the world a completely ludicrous idea that they are well informed and knowledgeable about the US. And, because they know Americans are brainwashed, incurious and subeducated, and their country on the brink of ruin, they have to – HAVE TO – intervene.
I’m not casting any stones here – let me tell you, my first trip to Indianapolis was quite a shock (wait, they’re more bilingual than Vancouver? and everyone is more polite here?)
Europeans’ (and to less of an extent, other regions) unearned sense of innate superiority in the world is both pathetic and laughable.
I don’t know why any American cares at all what any foreigner has to say about American self-governance. “Oh no, the Euros think we’re backwards!!!!” I’ll rush right to my fainting couch. How will I ever show my face on the slopes of Gstaad again???
The Euros are spoiled children. They keep begging for someone else to support them, protect them, save them. It isn’t ending well at all for them.
Yeh, as they wag their fingers not tending to their own mess threatening to blow up in their faces, they will not only ask the Americans to step in but chastise them into doing so as their ‘duty’.
Not impressed with Europe when it comes to their musings about the United States.
And quite frankly, Canada for that matter.
when i want a foreigners opinion, i’ll appropriate it along with their gold and land.
Stop being Communists might be a good start…
http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_31673773/cu-boulder-grapples-plummeting-support-higher-education-among
The bubble is probably more important. It’s one thing to be around annoying communists, it’s another to become an indentured servant for the privilege.
Lol. They spew a lot of words about how “CU is not a liberal indoctrination factory.”, but then this story is featured on the page:
http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_31661994
You cant make it up.
We are an injured people, but injury does not diminish our strength.
Glad to hear it. Sounds like you are just fine, then, and don’t need any special programs, protections, subsidies or privileges. Duly noted.
Wait, does academia want “conservatives” or not? If you spend all your time trying to get rid of them, why is it a problem that they don’t like you or want you? I mean, if you worry about not being able to re-educate them, you want them before they start identifying as “conservative” anyway.
Is the whole ivory tower Tsundere?
They want softened up children ripe for Marxist indoctrination. Theyre used to being a monopolistic institution that gets its way because “a college degree is important”. They don’t yet know how to respond to the growing populist sentiment that college isn’t worth the cost ( both financially and ideologically)
This is what I wonder too. They’ve expended so much effort turning Higher Ed into the vanguard of the revolution, why are they worrying about the fact that the subhuman deplorables have lost faith in them?
Because if the subhuman deplorable don’t keep going into hock to send their children to the indoctrination camps, the carefully cultivated vanguard dries up and blows away. Plus they lose their cushy tenured posts.
I imagine a number of administrators, like those in the article, still see it as a business with certain metrics to be met. I don’t know how many of them realize that they’ve whelped a monster that seeks ever-greater approbation for progressive extremism and will broach fewer and fewer conservative incursions. And then you have useful idiots like this guy:
See, when Christina Hoff Sommers or Charles Murray are shouted down or rushed by lunatics, they had it coming because they’re inciteful. And when outside agitators show up to blackbloc protests, that’s just anecdotal nonsense and nothing to be worried about. And the fact that colleges aren’t having to charge lefty student groups six-figure security fees to invite speakers tells you absolutely nothing about the completely lopsided nature of the violence being perpetrated. No, it’s all just a big put-on by these aggrieved conservative nobodies who are giving us a bad name.
B/C most of the subhuman deplorables actually pay tuition.
They don’t want conservatives themselves, they want the tuition money that comes from conservatives.
There–stop. Stop right there. It would be one thing if beliefs were “respected,” whatever that means, and however you define “belief.” But the question of respect, or lack of it, is far gone by the wayside: now conservatives are subject to violent assault or administrative discipline or social censure simply for having the bad graces to even voice an opinion or defend their positions. There’s your problem, Sharkey: I could care less whether or not you respect my beliefs, as long as you engage with them the way I will yours. See, I don’t mind a little mockery at my expense for my more outlandish opinions, just as I will ridicule your Marxist pablum when I see fit. But I’m not going to be swinging a bike lock or referring you to a campus tribunal over them. I’m not going to grab a bunch of my buddies to mob you outside class. That’s your problem, Sharkey: you people have turned your progressive students into Maoist zealots, a bleating mafia of culture warriors. They make taking your institutions seriously all but impossible.
^^^So fucking much this.
With the left it always comes down to the fist. It is what they have always done and will continue.
I’m copy pasting this.
FWIW Sue Sharkey is an elected regent of CU and the board of regents are elected using congressional district lines plus 2 at large in regular partisan elections. Her district is the entire Eastern Plains minus any major population centers. She’s not a prog, but the board doesn’t have unlimited power over the University. Mainly how funding which generally means new construction spending and some department budgeting. They can’t set policy and do not have direct say in hiring/firing decisions.
I finally figgered it out. That crappy music link is what’s slowing mt browser down.
Amidst the hysteria, a voice of reason:
Wife: the news people said there have been 18 school shootings already in 2018, that seems really high.
Me: yeah, that’s not right… I bet they’re counting almost everything.
Wife: like what?
Me: I read a story the other day about a resource officer who was playing with some elementary school kids and one of them slipped their finger into the holster and accidently pulled the trigger.
Wife: And that counts as a school shooting?
Me: probably. A gun was shot at a school, thus its a school shooting.
Wife: but that’s completely different than a kid shooting up the place!
Me: do you think the news media cares about that distinction?
Wife: fuck them all.
They’re shameless propagandists who will do *anything* to try and achieve their preferred result.
Your wife is a keeper.
Her evolution from conservative-leaning apolitical to reflexively libertarian has been quite an achievement.
“So, what, you’re going to say it’s okay that there’s *only* been five mass shootings in under two months?”
Saw this pop up on FB. I don’t respond to political bait anymore, but it got me thinking… what’s the best way to reply without falling into the kafkatrap? My best idea was something like, “Of course not, so why lie about it?”
“Effective solutions can be achieved only when the true scope and conditions of the problem are known and accounted for. By lying about the scope of the problem, it’s clear that the people hocking this statistic don’t really want to talk about effective solutions. Thus there’s no point including their input in the discussion. “
Great response!
I got into this very argument last Friday. The guy I was arguing with was obviously not going to argue in good faith so I did not engage him other than to call out the BS of the “18 in 18” stat.
in the list of “dishonest rhetorical moves'” this is a popular one.
1 – make wildly exaggerated claim about terrible thing
2 – other person disputes obvious exaggeration
3 – accuse person of downplaying how terrible thing is
e.g.
1 – “there’s an epidemic of gun violence! mass shootings have skyrocketed in the last few years!”
2 – “no there is no epidemic of gun violence. gun homicide has declined steadily for 3 decades. even ‘mass’ shootings’ stats you cite have little to do with claim, as the ‘mass’ part is based on people wounded, not killed. there has been slight growth in the number of incidents where more than 4 are killed, but the overall deaths are still way down.’;
3 – “oh, so spree killings aren’t anything to worry about then! YOU’RE LITERALLY DOWNPLAYING MASS MURDER”
It’s like some twisted Motte and Bailey exercise, except it’s just Bailies all the way down. “Oh, you thought that was irrational? JUST WAIT TILL YOU HEAR THIS, ASSHOLE.”
The science is SETTLED.
Sorry, the article specifies “moderate”, I don’t think that applies to any of you here.
“Moderate” means not killing the bottle in one night, yeah?
If that’s the barometer you’re gonna use to measure moderate, I may have a problem…
Blackout drunk is just another term for efficient sleep.
Well the extremes are no booxe and month-long benders. ‘moderate’ will be skewed high by the absolute floor on consumption rates.
I’m pretty skewed when I hit the absolute floor, to be sure.
We’ll just roll you on your side and throw a rug over you.
Don’t worry. If you drink to much you can offset it by smoking cigarettes. Two negatives make a positive, right?
Ahem, it actually says “modest” not moderate. Completely different animal. Since I don’t brag on how much more beer and whiskey I can drink, I am gonna live forever!!
601!
I guess there just isnt much to do during the long winters in Canada.