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Nukes/Cokes, Love it! White bags? check!
Does the Nuke button go “That was easy!” like the Staples button?
Thank God Staples is one brick and mortar still thriving in the current climate, or else Trump would have to replace them with Amazon buttons!
They recycled the ‘reset’ button.
Wasn’t that itself recycled from a hotel hot tub or something? As ridiculous as this sounds, I vaguely remember this being reported as fact. (I tried my absolute best to largely ignore the political class throughout those years.)
Awesome show, by the way. I’m really looking forward to more of these.
This is the only reference I could find:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/a-laugh-out-loud-moment-at-trumps-bizzaro-press-conference/article/2615097
Bloomberg has some early tea on Wayfair, the Internet Sales Tax case, yet another one of my unhealthy obsessions. For a long time everyone had been saying that Kennedy indicated in his last opinion on such matters that he wanted to overturn the ban, and his former clerk Gorsuch had used similarly strong language in a lower judgment where he (nonetheless) applied the SCOTUS precedent. And Thomas apparently has always opposed Negative Interstate Commerce.
So who has our back? Alito and Sotomayor, apparently. No further details at this time, nor any actual accounts of anything Kennedy or Gorsuch (and, in theory, Thomas, assuming it was anything at all) may have actually said today. I’m still not too optimistic. Keep an eyeball out as more news rolls in!
This just in! A much better–and a bit more decidedly optimistic–piece by our nation’s paper of record. A possible claim–though including no further information–that Gorsuch actually make unfriendly noises today. No further info on the rest–though again, Thomas’s silence is to be expected and I think a total disbelief in Negative Commerce should seal the deal. (Addendum to previous comment–Bloomberg quoted Ginsburg making unfriendly comments too, meaning if the speculations on the “conservatives” hold true, we must win every other justice.) But backing up its own tone, the Times thinks we have Kagan and Roberts! Bravo, you magnificent bastards! Now we will have more money in our pockets for the Obamacare premiums.
Does it all come down to Breyer? The suspense is killing me!
This further just in! Through the magic of googling “Breyer,” a local piece, better still than the Times one, pretty much reaffirming (in more explicit terms) everything just said. Gorsuch, Thomas, Kennedy projected through past writings; Ginsburg likely to join; Roberts, Kagan, Sotomayor sounding skeptical; Breyer sounding enigmatic. Ooh, what a nail-biter! (Then again, I think I may have heard somewhere that tone at orals is a poor predictor of votes. So maybe there’s that.)
And we’ll only have to wait until June for the ruling!
If I were on the court – “A sales tax on goods traded between states is a restraint on interstate commerce, and thus sits beyond the powers of states and local authorities. There are, however, free to tax the sale of goods which never leave the state from production to consumption.”
IMO that is the correct reading, and anything else leads to absurd consequences. But it’s too “negative” for those who fancy themselves to have a tighter reading. For them states can do whatever the fuck they want in that respect, and if Congress wants to overrule and reign them in they can pass whatever statute they feel like.
Still pessimistic but rather pleasantly shocked, given the very proggy nature of the states’ pro-tax rhetoric, that the “liberal” judges have managed to resist (except the “liberal originalist” Ginsburg) that line. They aren’t normally known for being very principled but they do seem to have brought it today! I thought when the “conservative originalists” took the pro-tax side it was game over.
So what? States are going to get the revenue they want anyway. If sales tax revenues drop, income and corporate tax rates go up. All that happens is the tax burden gets shifted to a different group of theft victims.
I live in Washington State and thank goodness that Amazon collects sales taxes here, because if they didn’t, it would support the continuous efforts of our proggies to inflict an income tax on us.
“The world needs his wisdom!”
I think the most unsettling thing of all to contemplate is how the Hair got from one end of the desk to the other.
He must have some kind of… what… flagellum under there? Think about it and get back to me
“flagellum”
Kinky.
I believe Sugarfree has written that he drags himself (and other things) around with wispy tendrils.
Yes. Notice the tendrils retract under him as he realeases himself from Donalds head.
Oh and, nice job CPRM.
Seconded. Excellent work by both writer and director. Maybe if you get enough views you can use the money to open up a whole orphan-run studio and produce a full-length Warty Hugeman.
thanks
Knowing canon is very, very sexy to the ladies.
And… you made me shoot coffee out of my nose.
Such a skill will definitely help you out with the ladies.
+Achievement Unlocked – “Expresso Love Machine”
I believe Sugarfree drags himself (and other things) around with his pseudo-pod.
The tendrils are for eating, and gratification.
Oh never mind, we were talking about the Hair.
OT
God is punishing sinful koalas, and mankind, if you consider Australians to be human, is trying to interfere.
Koalas have a brain that has evolutionarily atrophied to a tiny portion of their skulls–as well as being shockingly unsophisticated in structure–bobbing around in a vast sea of fluid. This is why they make such irresponsible choices.
Koalas are the only animal in history ever known to exhibit anything remotely like this phenomenon, and they have it to an extreme. They are an abomination and must go. It’s time for Nature to take its course.
The article brought up another reason “interesting” fact about Koalas:
Young koalas in the pouch also get it from eating their mom’s pap, a “very nutrient-dense fecal matter” that joeys eat after breastfeeding but before they start on eucalyptus leaves, she says.
So what they’re saying is Koalas have a very inefficient digestive tract.
Yeah, eating a sort of pre-shit is pretty common among ruminants. I think some rabbits do it. You eat your food once to get a quick burst of energy from your rather calorie-inefficient diet, then when you have time to sit down for a full meal you eat it again.
“So what you’re saying is, we should organize our society along the lines of the koalas.”
–Chlamydia-Addled Cathy Newman
Not pandas too? They’re evolutionarily stupid if memory serves.
What’s stupid about carnivores eating nothing but bamboo?
They are the only stupid kind of bear, because the only completely herbivorous one (and eating an especially calorie-poor and easy to find food at that, enabling the evolutionary adaption (the brain is very very greedy). All other bears besides polar are actually from more than half to overwhelmingly herbivorous omnivores, but life is much more active and intellectually challenging for them as they go about it. Nonetheless even the panda hasn’t had this rather bizarre phenomenon befall it.
I love how the article says the population is declining due to habitat loss – as if the population all having chlamydia has nothing to do with it.
I told PB to leave the koalas alone. Fucker never listens.
OT: Piglet said he wanted to make this an election issue…
http://freebeacon.com/issues/poll-voters-say-gun-views-important-candidates-views-trump-gap-republicans-democrats-tightens/
Dems may live to regret beatifying the gun control Muppet Babies.
At some point the grabbers/center-left, who are much smarter than their adversaries but with their bougie-bubble blindness as their perpetual kryptonite, are going to wise up and muzzle him and Curly and make Cam Kasky the face of the operation, which they should have done in the first place. Don’t know really anything about the kid, but he’s made friends in the aftermath (they did not know each other before) with Kyle Kashuv–who has made it rather obvious (though with a surprising amount of class and subtlety for an Israeli) that he has no respect for Hogg whatsoever.
But….we’re their adversaries, too!
From context Diego is probably using “smarter” to mean “smarter (better) at marketing”, which is undeniably true.
Young Master Hogg will cease to be useful but he will remain an idiot.
The Hat as Speaker of the House? Can’t be worse than the last few.
Amash said that Boehner, while incompetent, was a far better speaker than Ryan. And this is said on behalf of a dude who screamed at his Palestinian ass in front of everyone and called him a terrorist. So perhaps Ryan should have stayed in the gym and realized that unhealthier personal habits make for better speakers. Hat for Speaker indeed!
(I wonder how long it will take for the House Majority to elect a Speaker from outside its membership. Probably a bad thing for the republic, but there’s never been a better factor than that to predict that something will indeed happen!)
I could agree that Ryan was worse than someone Amash called an incompetent, but that does not make incompetence a good thing.
Boehner wouldn’t have been able to get that shitty budget passed. Smells like that would have been a win.
Ryan has been a very effective Speaker, once you understand that his role was to stop Trump’s agenda. He burned Trump’s honeymoon period to ashes without bringing a single bill that actually implemented what Trump campaigned on. His caucus has also declined to exercise their power to force answers out of the Deep State, and has come out in favor of the farcical Mueller witch hunt. He has been successful, I believe, at what he set out to do – marginalize Trump as much as he could. If that meant he had to give the Dems pretty much everything they wanted in a budget bill, and make sure that ObamaCare stays on the books, well, the swamp gets what the swamp wants.
Good riddance, I say. Its a shame he will now live a life of luxury as an ex-Speaker.
They should give them villas on the Mediterranean if they agree to flee without a fight!
Trumpism isn’t an ideology; how could anti-Trumpism be one? Why would anyone’s political agenda be “stop Trump”?
That was great, CPRM!
thanks
O.T.: Parody account or ???
https://twitter.com/aedison/status/986086295901495297
From the bio:
Well, all I can do regarding the sexts by a trans woman is to channel the spirit of Forrest Gump’s mom.
Shades of Chelsea Manning
Anyone who’s ever jerked off to erotic fanart of Rowan Atkinson as a genderswapped elf, it’s your lucky day!
Alright, fine. Our lucky day.
I vote ???
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/transgender-woman-avery-edison-moved-to-women-s-jail-after-outcry-online-1.2532392
Trump is President of Canada too?
This has to be fake news. I’ve heard that Canada’s immigration policy is totes woke and would never allow for something like overstaying a student visa to become an issue.
The most unintentionally funny (or not) thing I’ll read today.
Getting in trouble in Canada marks one of the few occasions when a young man wishes God had given him smaller genitals.
Can’t be sure but I think it’s real.
bravo
Answering the question absolutely no one is asking, Comey says I’m not running for office”
maybe his clone will with that gofundme money.
In what universe would anyone think Comey was a viable candidate for anything above dog catcher?
Democrats hate him for sabotaging Hillary
Republicans hate him for the Trump Russia debacle and allowing Hillary to get off Scott free
Libertarians hate him for being a statist
Greens hate him for being part of the police state establishment
He’s literally got to be one of the most hated men in America right now
You forgot about the political amnesia of Democrats. Once Comey started acting against Trump, they forgot that they wanted to lynch him a month before.
Good job. Esp. the hair’s attempt at tweeting.
That’s how I felt trying to come up with the fake tweets.
OT: I miss Firearms Friday.
Your aim will improve with practice.
Unless he’s shooting blanks
Shh! Don’t tell him.
#MeToo
Can we combine it with Thicc Thursday? Or Hairy Fat-Muscle Monday or whatever it was Jesse did?
Those posts were so helpful in the months leading up to my purchase of pistols last December.
Sucks to be her
Last I heard she was still alive, and everyone on the plane was lucky it didn’t hit the other engine instead.
Those rigid scientists on myth busters said this couldn’t happen.
I am reasonably certain that on at least some of those episodes they were intentionally bending the result for propaganda purposes. especially the ones dealing with law enforcement
Did they test a freestnading person not on-balance to begin with? The plane was in flight, it was possible she was moving around the cabin, plus the report was “partially drawn out” if she fell over towards the window, it would certainly look like she was being sucked out of the plane to her and the other passengers.
That’s one link I ain’t sending to LSD.
+ Oddjob
Oddjob died in the vault dumbass. Goldfinger died in the plane.
No, I think Goldfinger died outside the plane.
No way. The small window caused that fat man internal injuries that he succumbed to right before exiting the plane. Impossible to know, no need to argue it further.
OK, I’m old.
it’s okay they were both fat.
CPRM, superb work as usual. Looking forward to the feature length film.
‘I was a teacher for 17 years, but I couldn’t read or write’ I know it’s early but this has to be up for article of the year.
I can’t stop laughing. This is too good to be true.
This sounds like more work than, well, learning to read.
“”I hated the classroom. It was a hostile environment and I had to find a way to survive.””
So he became a teacher.
Had to be New Mexico. Just had to be.
His granddaughter: Would.
Wow, that is hilarious, infuriating and sad all at the same time. His granddaughter is smokin’ hot
Government IT At its finest
Yes, even a planned outage on Tax Day sounds painfully stupid and I call bullshit on that.
So does that mean we don’t have to pay taxes until the year 10,000?
Why do you hate civilization?
Because paradox strategy games are better.
Because the computer is a cheating mutha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic
Now it’s been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew, now man’s reign is through
But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight
So very far away, maybe it’s only yesterday
Sadly, no. You owe whether or not they are able to collect. And they will come after you.
Allegedly, even in the event of a nuclear war.
http://readynutrition.com/resources/what-the-irs-plans-to-do-in-case-of-a-nuclear-war-will-leave-you-in-stitches_02052017/
Of course you’ll have to pay taxes after a nuclear war, didn’t you know cockroaches can survive nuclear war.
*shoots IRS agent and wears his skin* A settlement needs my help!!
The Hat for Speaker? Absolutely!
In fact, The Hat vs Minority Leader USA Hat would be as good as Trump/Biden debates (please, please let this happen).
WTFSRSLY?
Dick’s Sporting Goods announced on Monday it will destroy all of the unsold firearms it pulled off store shelves in February after the deadly Parkland school shooting.
The sports retailer decided to destroy the assault-style rifles instead of returning them to the manufacturer, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette reported. On Feb. 28, 2018, the Pittsburgh-based company announced it would immediately stop selling assault-style rifles and ban the sale of all guns to anyone under 21. It was not immediately clear how many firearms will be destroyed.
“We are in the process of destroying all firearms and accessories that are no longer for sale as a result of our February 28th policy change,” a spokesperson from Dick’s Sporting Goods told the media outlet. “We are destroying the firearms in accordance with federal guidelines and regulations.”
I believe this only applies to teh dreaded “assaulty rifulz” and not their entire firearms inventory, but still- what the everloving fuck is wrong with these people?
They hate their shareholders?
Like I have been saying annoyingly over and over, if they felt they absolutely needed to pull this bizarre stunt, it makes absolutely no sense for them to have retained Field & Stream. I can’t even.
Their stock price is responding appropriately.
Cool link bro
I typed that in by hand I’ll have you know.
If you pull up their stock price for the past year to today you can see why they made this move. It’s a Hail Mary please try something attempt.
I’ve never understood why sporting goods brick and mortars have been doing so poorly. I can see why they’ve lost a shit ton of business, because they can never compete with the price and selection online and that’s extremely important in that sector.
But I’d have thought it had plenty going for it. A lot of gear you want to handle or try on in person. A lot of gear is heavy and expensive to ship. Also there’s some “emergency” needs. And (though this hardly applies to any Dick’s I’ve seen) knowledgeable staff would be a valuable service. Basically Dick’s is a stupid, overpriced mall store but I’m a bit more surprised that something a bit more useful like Sports Authority (especially some of the larger, suburban style ones) couldn’t cut it.
The last thing I bought at a physical sporting good store was an air rifle. It counted as an ’emergency purpose’ because it allowed me to execute a mouse that failed to die when caught in a trap. Before that was a real rifle. Before that another rifle. Shit the only thing I buy at these places are rifles, because I can’t get them shipped to my door. (Except the air rifle, but I needed that sooner rather than later)
Relatively few people buy weapons at chain stores, no? That’s why Bass Pro Shops (no more Wal-Mart or Dick’s) being the only one left with an “unreformed” policy is no big deal.
Also you sadistic bastard, why did you make the poor mousie wait for you to drive to the store and buy an air rifle? Just put it in a plastic bag to contain the mess and smash its little head. (Or run it over with your car if you must.)
The end that was free to move was the one with teeth, and it thrashed a lot when I got close. I didn’t want to risk getting bitten or accidentally setting it free. It was under less stress trapped and alone than with the giant human nearby.
That’s why God invented boots.
I also got an air rifle out of the deal.
It’s the “try it and leave” contingent that’s killing them. You can go try something out in person and have it delivered to your doorstep in 2 days for 20% less.
My wife worked at a running store, and they were having huge issues with that. They ended up charging “sizing fees” to have an employee fit somebody with shoes, and then they’d remove the fee if the person bought a pair of shoes.
Damn that’s cold. Though I agree I still don’t know what the endgame of the apparel sector in particular is. You can’t for example order two or more sizes or colors (of clothes or anything else) by mail on a regular basis and send one back, using your house as a mail-order showroom. That–though many customers don’t know it–is considered by most mail-order companies to be abusing them, and they will ban you for it.
But how is their bump stock price responding?
It’s a bit scattershot.
They should be giving those firearms to needy inner city kids who can’t afford to buy their own. Why is Dick’s so damn racist?
Priority should go to middle-aged black women who are raising their grandkids.
There’s always someone worse off. Growing up, whenever I would whine about emptying my whole magazine, my ma would always say, “You know there are child soldiers in Africa right now who don’t even have straps. Just machetes.”
Hmm, I’m in the market for a new kettlebell… I guess I’ll be buying it from somewhere else.
What a bunch of dicks.
I’ve noticed that the journalists’ style guides have been appended to replace the term “assault” with “assault-style” in recent months. If this trend continues, I’m hopeful we’ll see both terms eventually supplanted by “scary looking”.
Is that even legal?
Is this like the Corporate SJW version of self-flagellation?
What that idiot at Dick’s should have done, at the very least, would be to sell off that inventory (at msrp) to one of Bloomberg’s proxies, who could then have filmed themselves making illegal modifications, and running over the pile with a steamroller.
And hopefully shooting themselves by accident in the process.
Dick’s should pull the ultimate troll and replace the former assault weapon section with racks and racks of clear backpacks.
Netflix has released a new Lost In Space show. I’m something of a Netflix addict and I love science fiction revivals. Plus the new Robot design looked cool. But god damn is this a terrible show.
I only made it through 2 episodes and a few minutes into the 3rd one. The show is getting mixed reviews. But I’ll get back to both of those in a minute.
The premise of this version of LiS is that a SMOD has finally hit the earth and is making things uninhabitable. So colony ships have been built and people have to apply to be put on them so “the best and brightest” can go forth to Alpha Centauri. Each family unit gets its on smaller Jupiter craft. There is, of course, corruption in the selection process as we learn in Episode 2. The Robinson family consists of Dad, Mom, Daughter 1 from mom’s previous interracial marriage (woke as shit, yo), Daughter 2, and Son 1. We learn about the corruption of the process when Will, the son, flunks the test but gets to go anyway cause of Mom paying a bribe. Based on his utter uselessness I can see why he was not selected. Anywho…the ship is on its way to AC when it gets attacked. The families flee to their Jupiter ships while a robot or robots rampage through the mothership. It is during this that “Dr. Smith” and West meet up and try to escape as well. The Jupiter ships go through a wormhole and crash onto a habitable goldilocks planet.
The ship lands in a shallow pond/lake. and settles a few meters below the surface. Mom broke her leg in the crash because of shitty design and poor decisions on their party. (In an emergency launch they strap in around a table and play Go Fish, instead of strapping in on crash couches or some sensible emergency configuration. And who the hell has a craft that’s going to land on an alien planet designed so that there are large, heavy storage containers simply sitting on the ground without so much as a bungy cord to keep them in place? ) Anyway, mom is now a temporary cripple and they can’t get off the glacier and they are running out of power. So the daughter dives into the water to get a power cell and bring it up. Only, the water goes from completely liquid to frozen in 30 seconds and she’s trapped in the ice. This was the first of many, many, many science mistakes that culminated in the beginning of the 3rd episode when they can’t get the ship to take off because the engine air intake is clogged from the dust storm of the 2nd episode. Think about that a minute. A spacecraft with an engine that requires an air intake to function…
That’s where I decided not to bother. This show was making me stupider for having watched it. I went back to old Twilight Zone and Cheers episodes. Worse, I started reading reviews and a couple of things stood out. The first was that even the mixed reviews praised it for how much It Fucking Loves Science and how ‘smart’ it was. Second, the idiot reviews missed the entire SMOD plot device and instead blamed it on global warmening and pollution. Which tells me how dumb TV reviewers are.
TL;DR Version:
1. Woke as fuck with a token AF-AM kid as part of the Robinson Family, and a genderswapped Dr. Smith
2. The science is missing from the science fiction.
3. The fiction isn’t all that good either.
4. TV Critics are even dumber than I thought.
An airbreathing first stage would actually make sense for take-off as it allows for a lighter craft and lower fuel load. Though I doubt that’s the tech you’d have on a multi-use sraft of the type described.
Pretty much all movie/tv landing vehicles seem to have unlimited thrust with no visible fuel storage. Everyone ignores it just because. So it is totally weird to bring a detail like air-intake into a story line.
That’s because the limitations of reality hamper the story being told.
In this case, yeah, it’s just sloppy storytelling unless they explained what the intakes were actually for (possibly to someone unfamiliar with the craft)
Nope. And we know the intake isn’t critical because the ship is under way in the vacuum of space prior to the crash. And they worked while completely submerged in water the previous episode. It’s just bad writing/not thinking things through.
The limitations of reality are a better story than the story being told.
In this instance.
As others start questioning the science in shows, I start questioning the economics.
That’s because the limitations of reality hamper the story being told.
A long time ago, I saw an interview with Walt Disney. He was explaining why cartoons “work”. The phrase he used was “plausibly impossible”. You know it can’t happen, but yeah you can imagine Bugs floating in the air saying he never studied no law.
Science fiction has a similar thing going. You can ignore something that can’t happen right up until you can’t ignore it anymore. Then the story is completely broken.
Yup. You can suspend your disbelief, but only so far, and then your suspenders that are holding the whole thing up snaps, and your pants fall around your ankles. The air filter as critical part for a ship that could travel in space and underwater was it for me.
That’s another thing. It’s a roomy space craft. And the supply selection for colonists is…somewhat lacking. A quick review of a half-dozen Heinlein juveniles would have given them a better setup.
I didn’t hate it. But it wasn’t good.
Also gun politics are discussed.
I didn’t get that far, I don’t think.
They have a 3-d printer and they aren’t allowed to print a gun. The wife doesn’t want a dangerous weapon around even though the husband is a soldier and they are currently bunking with an alien robot whose intentions and motivations are completely unknown not to mention the fact they are on a strange planet with “apex-predators”.
“Honey, I love you, but that is just plain stupid” *prints gun*
I came to the conclusion, that much like Battlestar Galactica, this future set of humans deserves to go extinct and it is time to root for the killer robots.
What was so stupid about new BSG? I saw the miniseries and liked it but heard it fell apart and got the ending spoiled and after hearing it am glad I didn’t sit through it. You could put that ending on the finest Heinlein ever written and I’d call the whole thing crap. I cannot abide.
Other than that though I remember nothing about the plot details I read. What was so stupid exactly?
The humans did not behave like there were the last couple thousand humans in existence facing an existential threat from the Cylons. I don’t remember the exact snapping point for me, but there were any number of decisions where Adama and the other leadership went with what leftist pacifists would suggest instead of what was the smart decision given the situation. They were essentially too squeamish to fight the way the needed to fight.
How topical…
I am really coming to despise that trend in TV shows.
How long has Law and Order been on the air again?
L&O is verboten at my house.
Watch Legion instead. It’s a trippy wild ride.
have you tried the expanse?
Also watching that, excellent show.
Legion is awesome
Aubrey Plaza
A truly exotic woman
god yes
Aubrey Plaza is Exhibit A of why I don’t want to know the politics of entertainers. She’s hot, her work is good, and she’s damn funny. I don’t make time for talk shows but I saw her on Leno a few years back and she killed it. I like her better than many actresses I think are hotter. Is it likely she’s a woke lefty? Yes. But I’d prefer not to know for sure.
See “Theron, Charlize” for her America-is-super-racist takes.
The original is a bit corny and 2-dimensional, but why does everything have to be edgy and dramatic these days? I’d think that people being stranded on a foreboding planet in a short-range spacecraft would be compelling enough if well written. Cloak and dagger not necessary.
Only a bit corny?
Gotta love Irwin Allen’s audacity, though.
So Dr. Smith’s pedophilia is less creepy this time?
Well Dr. Smith is Parker Posey so yes.
Lena Dunham unavailable?
gross, that would be more disturbing than the original.
I was going to suggest that the new Doctoress Smith had better be butch as fuck if it is supposed to be an improvement on the old one. But Lena will always do. The Giant Bag of Pudding community (to use Camille Paglia’s term) can always use more representation.
” This was the first of many, many, many science mistakes ”
What part of Science FICTION do you not understand?
Ah yes, the last resort of people defending indefensibly bad writing.
Honestly the dumbest part is the fact that the larger ship that they are embarking on went through a black hole and into another galaxy(they were heading to alpha centauri) and this enormous problem is never addressed in any way. The smod event also is never really expounded on and based on the following episodes there is actually no reason for the pilgrimage other than build a better earth with the right type of people.
the coolest part is the three-d printer.
I too have watched the first two episode, I liked ’em – good production, decent action, and acting, some humor- I’ll watch the rest. This is why I like being stupid, I never worry about the science in a science fiction show or novel, also I don’t pick up on the woke/political sub-themes. I just pop some popcorn, grab a sixer of Strohs, and enjoy the action. I also enjoyed that Bright movie that lots of people shat on, I’m easily entertained apparently.
I had no expectations of Bright making sense. The concept of Will Smith hanging out with ogres and elves in South Central just sounded funny.
I thoroughly enjoyed Bright. I thought it was terrific. It had some issues, but it was a urban fantasy (which I give leeway to). And I don’t think Bright was actually all that woke, which is why so many critics hated it.
And I agree the action sequences were good, the acting is good, the people are pretty, the sets and FX are great. Blame it on a lifetime of hard SF reading and a technical bent on my part. In some ways, I think it is a failing on my part.
I too enjoyed that movie.
This is why I like being stupid, I never worry about the science in a science fiction show or novel, also I don’t pick up on the woke/political sub-themes.
My ability to suspend disbelief is pretty robust. Stuff like the engine wouldn’t bother me; probably not even the insta-freeze ice. The spacecraft without crash couches or secured cargo might have done it.
Bone-stupid people (or character decisions) are what pop me out of suspension. The idiocy with the 3D gun probably would have done it. My ass is so chapped these days with woke crap that the artificially diverse family might have done it, too.
The spacecraft without crash couches or secured cargo might have done it.
You could start with a photo of the interior of a modern Biz Jet and come up with a decent interior for a future space craft.
But what the fuck — Let’s start with a kitchen with a rolling island as the starting point for our set.
The insta-freeze ice made no sense to me. I thought they were at least going to hand wave some made up alien planet thing.
They were just showing how cool their characters were.
That Alien Covenant piece of shit did for me. Every last character in the film including the robot was a fucking idiot. I was mad halfway through the movie because I could see how it was going to end in stupidity.
I’ve had it off and on in the background as I’ve worked and I’ve enjoyed it.
I assumed that it would be nonsense. It involves interstellar space travel.
Plenty of exciting moments though.
Somehow I missed the SMOD setup. I thought they were colonizing for unknown reasons.
At one point they do try to shoehorn in this topical gun control shit and it falls very hysterically flat. In the same episode, the main dude kills multiple aliens with a knife. I shit you not.
There is honor when killing an enemy that is close enough you can feel his breathe on your face. Guns not so much.
Better to be a live jackel than a dead lion. Better still to be a live lion though – Lazarus Long
If he had said after killing a bunch of aliens with a knife, I would have some respect for the writers.
As I imagine a English longbow man at the battle of Crecy saying. Fuck honor.
*V for Victory*
You’re using the fingers in the wrong direction for the V. Or then again maybe not.
http://renoutfitters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2fingersalute.jpg
That’s not the part of the archers’ arms that hypertrophy,
My response
Sir Isaac Newton would like a word with whoever made that.
I’ll still be the guy with the gun.
goldilocks planet.
Nice.
Can’t claim credit for it, but yeah, it is a good phrase.
Does that mean it’s populated by bears?
Is that why is an application for SpaceX with Jessie?
Curse you phone.
I said was Is that why Jesse had an application to SpaceX?
Even better news for him: Water bears are the only animal known to be able to survive in space!
Bad Science:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-bad-is-the-governments-science-1523915765
For a 2015 article in Science, independent researchers tried to replicate 100 prominent psychology studies and succeeded with only 39% of them.
Further from the spotlight is a lot of equally flawed research that is often more consequential. In 2012 the biotechnology firm Amgen tried to reproduce 53 “landmark” studies in hematology and oncology. The company could only replicate six. Are doctors basing serious decisions about medical treatment on the rest? Consider the financial costs, too. A 2015 study estimated that American researchers spend $28 billion a year on irreproducible preclinical research.
A deeper issue is that the irreproducibility crisis has remained largely invisible to the general public and policy makers. That’s a problem given how often the government relies on supposed scientific findings to inform its decisions. Every year the U.S. adds more laws and regulations that could be based on nothing more than statistical manipulations.
I was thinking about this problem, and my draft idea was thus – In order to be acceptable as “peer review” the peer must recreate the experiment, and both sets of results get published together or not at all.
If it’s good enough for foreign policy, it’s good enough for domestic policy.
As soon as you get away from physical sciences and into things involving humans, things go to shit because it’s pretty hard to do controls. I dabbled in sensory science and that was a bit better, but still nothing like physics.
Yeah but 56% of articles about the inaccuracy of science are totally inaccurate according to an article I read about the accuracy of articles about the accuracy of science.
Consider the financial costs, too. A 2015 study estimated that American researchers spend $28 billion a year on irreproducible preclinical research.
Stimulus!
Why do you hate lab rats?
That is one of those statements that is not as meaningful as the writer thinks it is.
You have no way of knowing if your research will produce useful or repeatable results until after you complete it and then several others spend time and money rerunning the experiment to reproduce your results. Spending money on research that can’t be reproduced is in no way problematic, it is actually a necessary requirement for science.
Where the problem comes in is when the bad science results are accepted as true and billions are spent on things that don’t work or aren’t needed based on that science
I’ve been watching “Troy: Fall of a City”…. it’s pretty good… truer to the original epics than most productions (right down to Agamemnon having to sacrifice his own teenage daughter)… Having Achilles be black kind of annoyed me at first because it’s just obvious diversity bullshit, but whatever. However, near the end of one episode, Achilles and Patroclus (who is also black) start making out in the sand on the beach after wrestling, then they proceed to double team Briseis.
That’s where I started to really get annoyed. Because Achilles’ alpha maleness (dare I say, his toxic masculinity) and his initial refusal to give up Briseis to Agamemnon is a key point of the whole goddamn story. He and the Myrmidons refuse to fight once Agamemnon takes Briseis. In this story, they make Briseis seem like just some unimportant third party who is probably just getting in he way of Achilles’ and Patroclus’ gay relationship anyway.
What’s hilarious in all of it is that in their push for Black Zeus and Black Achilles, they completely left out Ethiopian King Memnon, AND HIS ENTIRE FUCKING ETHIOPIAN ARMY, who were present at the Trojan War.
I…I don’t even know where to respond. I really detest the modern academic insistence that any historical reference to two men loving one another or being close has to be about homosexuality. It’s a bit of an attack on masculinity and the kind of brotherhood and camaraderie that can develop between men.
Dude. The Iliad was all about realizing Helen was a big waste of time and having the gay sex.
Were all these actors hot? Isn’t that the important part? It’s not even real history!
Personally I think every historical film should have as much hardcore history nerdery as possible, and throw in as much gratuitous sex as possible. Make Elizabeth I a smoking hot firecrotch holding forth on armaments minutiae as her perky-titted chambermaids casually undress her–amidst scrupulously accurate furnishings, of course. Did it actually happen like that? Probably not. But it’s one of the most benign and easily mentally bracketed historical inaccuracies, and I haven’t seen a feature drama without plenty of those!
I feel what you’re saying in general but I think this is not the field to fight that battle on. We need our historical drams to be full of history geekservice, gruesome violence, and sweaty hot people getting sexy. I am an American male damn it!
Spartacus Blood and Sand then? I mean, I’m down with that. And I generally agree with you.
OT: these are the people they tell me should be in charge of my healthcare and all major life decisions…
try again.
e-Filed in February. Mailed the check today.
WTF is “modernized e-file”? I just use the fillable forms. Is that what it is? I didn’t have any problems. Then again, I didn’t file today.
I used turbo tax back in February.
My policy is to run the numbers as soon as I get my documents, and if they have to give me money back, file as soon as possible so the interest-free loan to the government stops.
Eh, I’d file on New Year’s but I pull a small temp check from the city each year and they never have the docs ready.
A lot of places never have my forms for me until late January. Amazon is particularly lax.
Same here, UnCiv. Our tax filings are rather . . . complex due to Mrs. Dean’s business and our tax shelter, but TurboTax handles them just fine. There is one rather exotic form that we have to file that TurboTax can’t get right, but it doesn’t matter since it has to be signed by a third party anyway, and they complete it. I just kludge their numbers into TurboTax and swap out the forms when we file. Which we have to do by mail because of the third-party form.
Incredibly, even though I filed both federal and state by mail, I got refunds from both withing 2 – 3 weeks.
DINK with mortgage ==> TurboTax
How have I only now noticed the food stains on the Donald’s clothing?
they weren’t there in the first episode or glibstarter. but they have been on most of the stills i’ve done for the site.
Good episode, CPRM. Keep up the good work.
And a shoutout to Sug for being cool with your using his characters. #classy
My regular web-browsing computer is prohibited from accessing YouTube (and Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, most Google sites, etc.) so this is the first time I watched your H&H animations. Scarily plausible. Bravo!