Well, back into the swing of Glib things… I am doing the Links while Brett fixes a fanboat motor, tears his shirt off and jumps up and down on a cop car or somesuch. Now, how do I do these things again? Let me see…
- Ah, right…first off find something interesting and sort of libertarian. Then hope someone reads said link (a free market defense of Amazon) and comments on it. HAHAHAHAHA…OK, maybe I have been off too long. Anyhoo, it is worth a read.
- Hmmmm. Maybe something that could lead to some Hat and Hair material (both written and animated)? Personally speaking, I wonder if China finally sees that there is no profit, anymore, in propping up N. Korea…especially since the PRC would really like a reduced US presence in the area. Strange that it took the Hat and the Hair to maybe get this rolling to at least some sort of reduction of forces. Maybe the Koreas would agree to what used to be called “Finlandization” – they get largely left alone by China, but serve as a useful small neighbor/market?
- Huh. French revolts/revolutions just ain’t what they used to be. Somehow I don’t see some future Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boubil and Jean-Marc Natel writing this one up as a musical. Or…how about Le Risible? We could get every wokester on Broadway to sign up as cast! Maybe I have found our libertarian version of The Producers?!
- The best revenge is living well. Or, making a #$%@ton of money despite being rejected by the British version of “Shark Tank”…dang, and after reading this, I want a bottle of “Sink the Bismarck!” … 41% abv beer, yikes. OK, mexican sharpshooter – over to you for review! [Good luck finding any…]
I think that did it. So on to the commentings and snarkings.
Comments
547 responses to “Return of the Swiss – Afternoon Links”
So, Does Switzy still get worked up when we go off-topic right away?
Some of actually responded to stuff he wrote.
Er, “some of us“, of course.
I just send the Swiss Army in…
Incredibly, that gun doubles as a ratchet set.
*narrows gaze, reluctantly applauds*
LOL!
I don’t see the tweezers, though.
That’s the special ‘T’ model, this guy has the basic model.
THAT’S HOW THEY GET YOU.
I’ll bet its got a corkscrew and something to cut cheese with.
Beans?
Swiss Army Gat
I hear they have been banned from London
Short barreled and railed but kept the pintle mount, bipod, and club foot? Swiss are weird.
That pic is fake. Real Swiss military wears striped suits and carries pikes.
Re: Amazon.
People calling for anti-trust action against Tech Giants are just as ignorant as the people calling for trade wars with China. Amazon dominates the market because it has a superior product and no other reason.
Amazon also provides a way for smaller retailers to sell online and reach a wider audience. So they are helping those brick and mortar, mom and pop businesses reach more customers. The horror!
^ This ^
I think a lot of people don’t realize that just because purchases are being made at Amazon doesn’t necessarily mean their being purchased from Amazon.
dammit. *they’re*
I’ve been looking for a copy of Closing of the American Mind every time I visit a used bookstore, because it’s the first title that pops into my head. Never found one. Finally decide to go on Amazon, found copies for under four bucks. But I decided to treat myself and sprang for “very good” condition. The premium for “very good” is cheaper than good plus shipping, and with Prime, shipping is free. FEDS SAVE USE FROM SO MUCH CONVENIENCE!
PRICES SO GOOD, I CAN’T AFFORD NOT TO SPEND VERY MUCH!
Repeat after me, the government hates low prices unless they are forcing them on the market.
The government, or more specifically the cretins that make up the government and are motivated by expanding their own power, hate progress that they cannot take credit for. Everything needs to either A) be a problem that the power hunger bureaucrats can save the masses from, or B) be a good that they can take credit for. Everything else must be destroyed.
“Brewed once”, Bummer
Yeah, I’d love to have tried that. BrewDog makes some killer beers.
41% beer? No thanks, I’ll stick to gin and scotch.
A few more proof and the alcohol might finally crowd out the flavor of the beer and render it drinkable.
Way to play your role…
Hoi Zäme!
Bitte auf Deutsch!
Ewig zäme
FirstSomewhere in the first dozen!
(PS read each link)
Look at you being honest and getting rewarded for it.
“Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.”
-Camille Paglia
http://archive.is/olrMQ
4, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 21, 29, 38, 39, 44, 46, 59, 65, 67, 74, 99, 100.
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/991106447114145792
Apparently, Q posts this stuff because he’s concerned for our health
Stress relief is masturbating around coworkers?
Obviously
So are they saying companies should provide rubout rooms? Will they have to be stocked with approved porn for both men and women?
Having had co-workers that ascribed to that theory, I can safely say that it does nothing good for interoffice relations.
My second reaction to 76 – “I know 80s nostalgia was big recently, but the swimsuits of that decade were not a good look.”
10,12,34,60
Funny I just got a chance to flip through this morning beauties and while I (unfortunately ) do not know her I know that beach. She’s either at Salisbury Beach in Mass or Hampton Beach in New Hampshire and the question is whether she is correct in eating ChristiesPizza or incorrect in eating Tripoli’s pizza
So #97 in this set, no clue if it is her but she looks like the tough girl friend from iCarly
That’s Jeanette McCurdy, the girl from iCarly.
I had trouble making it past #2. 22 needs to hit the treadmill.
My favorite part of the Paris link:
hijacking a planned peaceful May Day rally by labor unions.
Oh man, quelle suprise as if that hasn’t happened for the last 30 years now.
I was shocked! Shocked, I tell you. A French labor rally turns violent?!!
Which side surrendered first?
Neither, it was just a traditional Puegeot burning festival.
Burning Man: Paris?
Burning
Man:Paris?You know who else asked “Is Paris burning?”
René Clément?
Rick Salomon?
Dokken?
Reginherus?
I thought Citroens are the preferred brand for car fires.
And the cops made the decision to let the Black Blocs destroy private property. What exactly are they getting paid to do?
Amazon is not a dangerous monopoly, and it certainly should not be broken up.
Amazon is more like an aggregator, or an information clearinghouse, as far as I can tell. It’s not like Amazon makes all the stuff I order from it in their own factory.
Yes, but they’re BIG. And they have no competition, except for numerous other aggregators and retailers who operate their own internet storefronts!
And walmart wants to kill them.
Who does the self-respecting SJW root for in the case? Mutual destruction I suppose.
Right. Then all commerce can degenerate back to the small-town family-owned businesses. The ones run by bigots and racists (in their view, not mine).
I have no reason to believe Walmart is trying very hard to kill Amazon. If they were, their website wouldn’t be such shit for so long with no appreciable improvement in all the years competing with Amazon. Honestly, I don’t think they have to. They serve a much different function from Amazon.
I read somewhere (and I believe it) that the only business Walmart fears is Aldi’s.
Meanwhile in Poe’s Law:
LOL
And socialist cuba and socialist USSR and socialist china and socialist vietnam and socialist cambodia and socialist somalia and socialist germany and socialist everywherethatevertriedsocialism. Poverty, misery, single party government and mass graves are the hallmarks of state capitalism…er…socialism.
Weird how many super-smart socialists get tricked into supporting these countries and declaring them to be Real Socialism, then only later after the country collapses realize they’ve been fooled and it was State Capitalism the whole time.
It’s because capitalism’s evil and treachery know no bounds. Hence, mass executions. Otherwise capitalists will wiggle through and bring the whole country down.
Snark aside, it’s surreal how many socialists, when confronted with irrefutable evidence that socialism kills people by the millions will reply with
“capitalism kills even more people!”
Which is of course bullshit. But even if it weren’t, how is it moral to support a system that kills 10,000,000 people even when another system (allegedly) kills 10,000,001 people? You’re admitting that your preferred system murders millions!
But they meant well.
*gets sick*
The problem, it turns out, is that most humans don’t want to be slaves.
The solution, it turns out, is to murder those people.
???????
Utopia!
Would the original poster also.
^
Hilarious.
I see the rake you put there and yes I’m going to stomp on it!
I had one explain to me that if there’s any medium of exchange, then it’s still capitalism. Or something.
If it’s perfect – it’s socialism, otherwise it’s not.
They’ve got it all wrapped up with a bow on top.
Don’t worry,Socialist Party, once Venezuela collapses it will replace Somalia as the most prominent example of a poor caricature of a libertarian government.
*sneaks in from the office*
You could have gotten some of the End of History from BrewDog Columbus. There was an investment tier that allowed you a bottle of the first batch. I’ll be down there in August for the shareholder’s meeting, otherwise known as the Annual General Mayhem.
Of course, if you really want it, BrewDog has published a book (and PDF) of all of their recipes at a homebrew scale.
30 something year-old woman: Mom, why won’t any guys date me? I’m so sad
Mom: Honey, it may have to do with this nonsense screed that you posted to Twitter: https://twitter.com/ErynnBrook/status/991001567196151808
30 something year-old woman: I was just calling guys out on their toxic masculinity. Any guy who has a problem with that is the problem
Mom: Yeah, what you just said there literally makes no sense. There is no such thing as “toxic masculinity”. And let’s be frank, honey, your wacky ideas make men’s balls shrivel up and hide.
30 something year-old woman: Mom, you’re making me feel bad about myself
Mom: This is tough love, honey, and you need it. At this point the only way you’ll get married is if you become a lesbian.
Her ideas are toxic femininity.
Good grief, Martin Luther used fewer points to upend 1200 years of European sociopolitical development!
I bet that wouldn’t have happened if it was MARTINA Luther.
Neither Hagia Sophia nor Notre Dame have a door big enough!
An appropriately sized door for the list
But my CD’s from the first run before they removed “Cop Killer” from the album…
I still have the Cassette tape
/ Stares at Clouds
Evil Dick was your fave?
Warty has an evil dick.
It’s only evil if you use evilly.
Alright, Bacon is back!
I regret to inform you that I ate some of your relatives this morning. My condolences
Be my guest. So did I.
CANNIBAL!
You’re a class act, Bacon
DOOMCOCK is the very definition of Beyond Good and Evil.
Crazy eyes. She has them.
Sexy eyes
“11. Participating in the objectification of women”
Don’t worry sweetie, no one is objectifying you.
I was going to read that, but then I noticed how captivating the label on the back of this bag of Fritos is…..
I saw some of that shit-show.
This was her this morning:
Yep, men are definitely the problem here.
Who is this lunatic, and why are her unintelligible screeds in the news?
You know why this is in the news: because we live in incredibly stupid times.
Meh, as far as I can tell she’s some just internet rando whose bullshit went viral, I don’t think it’s “news”. Are you trying to deprive us of our two-minute hate? Why would you do that?
No deprivation, just framing. If she was somebody famous, it would be filed in the “idiot celebrities” bucket in my brain. Since she’s a rando, it gets filed in the circular basket.
Understandable.
PS: that’s toxic masculinity right there, you just made the list.
trshmnstr oozes toxic masculinity.
That’s not the only thing I ooze
I thought you were getting that suppurating cyst fixed?
One of her replies this morning, and I’m not willing to wade through the river of shit to find it again, was to someone who pointed out that a lot of these are things that people do, not just males.
The response: “You don’t have to be male to have toxic masculinity.”
So I guess the word masculinity in that expression is just … a synonym for toxic? Or something?
What I don’t get is why people respond/argue with her. It’s like arguing with the schizophrenic homeless drunk on the corner.
It’s sometimes fun to talk to the schizophrenic homeless drunk. That’s why people at TOS respond to Tony. Although, to be fair mainly only John responds to Tony. And then when Tony and John go at it it’s like watching two schizophrenic homeless drunks go at it. Bum fights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja8sZkqFo28
The fact that her number 1 complaint on “toxic masculinity” was men rating women by attractiveness (1-10) tells you all you need to know about the list.
“9. Offering advice before empathy.
In order to trust your advice people need to know that you know where they’re coming from. Skipping over their feelings makes them feel dismissed”
I’m sorry you feel that way. You should probably shut up now.
Better?
“My freedoms trump your feelings”
/conversation
I looked at that thread, and it seemed like a lot of words, and none of them were, “How do you like your sandwich served?”
“Witchy Cat Lady”
Really? Never woulda guessed.
Speaking of “tech monopolists”- I read some raving nonsense a while back about how Google should be broken up because they buy small startups and incorporate them into their platform because squelching competition, or something. This overlooks the reality of a multitude of startups which set out to hatch an idea with the specific intent of selling it to Google or some other large tech company.
I’d assume a whole large set of venture capital is put towards startups with similar expectations.
I seem to recall complaints about another company in the 90’s concerning this practice.
a traditional Puegeot burning festival.
The only thing they’re good for.
^^ Truth.
/former owner
You admit to that?
Hell yes! Bought it in high school for $250.00 Trade in at a dealership I was working at. 1979 504 diesel in great condition. It even had a sunroof! Drove it for more than a year.
Of course, then it blew up…
Amazon article is a fine piece of wrok, but it still engages in unnecessary bullshit.
(emphasis mine)
Yup, quote numbers with reference when they help your point, and use non-quantified weasel words with source: My Rectum when that helps your point.
Again, not to be a dick, but from the point of the competitor, what’s the difference? And if your reply is “fuck competitors, let them die” than say that rather than reframe a statement in a prettier form.
After reading that, the phrase “stop helping!” comes to mind.
“None of this is to say that…” blah blah blah
I remember being (essentially) forced into putting paragraphs like that into high school term papers. The teachers inevitably wanted first drafts handed in so they could provide “guidance”, and they would almost always insist paragraphs like that be put into the final drafts.
Amazon is running two businesses: selling its own stuff directly, and providing a on-line platform for others to sell their stuff.
For stuff it sells directly, Amazon could conceivably engage in predatory pricing, or monopolistic pricing, if it had sufficient share of the markets for what it sells directly. From an antitrust standpoint, the relevant market isn’t “online sales”, its the market “for that stuff”. Amazon’s share of online commerce is irrelevant, as is its share of online commerce for that stuff (I’m pretty sure; I suppose you could try to define two markets – online and not-online, but I think that would be a hard argument to win).
I don’t believe Amazon sets prices for stuff others sell on its platform, so it can’t engage in predatory or monopolistic pricing for that business line.
For the business line of providing a platform for other sellers, once again you need to define the market (protip: antitrust cases are won and lost mostly on the argument over “what’s the market”). Is it the market of providing on-line outlets for third parties? Is it the (larger) market of on-line sales as a whole? Possibly, the market for on-line sales of a particular product category?
In short, the current discussion of Amazon as a potential target for the FTC is hopelessly disconnected from the realities of anti-trust law. Which is eminently abusable, of course, but Amazon’s real risk isn’t that the FTC can come up with a good legal case against it; its that the FTC could go off the rails with sufficient political backing and try to bully Amazon into something.
I don’t believe Amazon sets prices for stuff others sell on its platform, so it can’t engage in predatory or monopolistic pricing for that
business linestuff.Amazon could engage in predatory pricing for its business line of providing on-line outlets for third parties. But predatory pricing isn’t just really good pricing that’s hard to match. The FTC’s public statement on predatory pricing is actually not terrible.
Just going hotel to hotel I have 4,464 miles of driving on my draft planned road trip. That’s ten tanks of gas.
How many units of amusement?
Unknown. I can’t quantify or qualify the amusement gained from visiting a previously unknown location beforehand.
I can, however, figure out how much I can afford to spend while I’m there based upon how much I need for gas, hotels and the such.
That doesn’t sound particularly relaxing.
It’s spread over three weeks.
How on earth are you gonna get that kind of mileage out of a Ferrari?
No ferrari would hold my luggage. Nor could I afford one.
No ferrari would hold my luggage.
That’s right. You need a Lambo.
Almost 30mpg? I expected worse somehow.
But not that one, this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_LM002
from the point of the competitor, what’s the difference?
They’re called “competitors” for a reason. Low prices and more choices benefit consumers. If you drive all your competitors out of the marketplace, and then raise prices, that’s predatory. If that’s Amazon’s real plan, it hasn’t worked (yet).
…that’s predatory
That’s opportunity 😉
Name a company that – without government subsidization of the plan – was successful in doing so.
Not sure if DeBeers had help, but I also don’t think they used low prices to drive their competition out of the market.
I think anything involving mining and Africa involves either government help, or enough men with guns that government is not involved….
It does, as sure as Kilimanjaro rises like an empress above the Serengeti.
Fond memory of a middle aged guy in a VW Passat pulling into a parking lot at 6:30am with that blasting on the radio. I just laughed at the whole thing. At the time I probably hadn’t heard that song in years.
DeBeers had help in that they were allowed to act like upstanding legitimate businesses in first world nations and an organized crime syndicate everywhere else/ The government in the countries where their crimes were committed were not strong enough to prosecute them and the countries who were strong enough to prosecute them willingly turned a blind eye to those crimes because it “wasn’t their problem”.
The minute America and European governments started holding companies accountable for crimes they committed overseas DeBeers ceased to be a Monopoly and had to deal with competition
Yep
That is not how I’d read “predatorily harm retail competitors.” If he thought the phrase was dumb, he should have said so, but he seems to be saying that, yes, there is such thing as “predatory harm” but Amazon is not engaging in it, merely regular harm.
Concentration means it is much harder for someone to start a new business that might, for example, try to take advantage of the cheap housing in Minneapolis. Why bother when you know that if you challenge Amazon, they will simply dump your product below cost and drive you out of business?
Wut?
I tried following the link to see the context, and “Wut?” is the best I can muster.
If anyone wants to tackle it (Derpy?), it’s from TheWeek.com, but here’s a preview of what you’re getting into
The State’s excessive “market power” over health care and education is, I presume, overlooked?
No no, you’ve got it wrong… According to Democrats, those industries are Completely Unregulated™, and that’s why they have all the problems that they do.
Cheap housing in Minneapolis? Not in the fucking city-proper! One of the reasons I’m leaving this place.
What area of PA are you moving to?
Welcome back, Switzy!
Relevant to the Nazi prom dress.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/how-a-pretty-prom-dress-helped-reveal-rot-in-the-american-soul/
Actually, what needs to happen is the cowed and cowardly masses need to start punching back. That’s how you deal with a bully.
Oh, that definition cited in the piece is just adorable:
Who exactly is the proper authority to grant permission and authorize these things? I have a Navajo friend, can he duly empower me to acceptably wear an Indian headdress and run around doing war whoops?
“Who exactly is the proper authority to grant permission and authorize these things?”
The local, morally superior, affluent, white Lefty scold; like DUH!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs7SlIq8s4Q
That’s why politicians love Community Leaders, who can speak for (and be bargained with to deliver bulk voting of) Colorful Ethnic Blocks. Much easier to meat couple guys (they’re almost always guys), make a deal, and have them sort Those Ethnics out.
Not unless he’s a Senator from Mass.
You’re white, you can never have permission
The article is written by David French. I fully agree with him. Yet the same David French wrote this just a couple of weeks ago:
Notice the environment where French lives. That kind of environment leads to the cultural appropriation bullshit. But he doesn’t realize it and cannot comprehend why Trump is President.
Wonder how long before the terminated manager, a woman, sues Starbucks for discriminatory firing? That is, if she can point to some policy manual or supervisory communication that advised her to ask non-customers to leave the premises and can find some male managers who did the same thing and were not fired.
Wonder how long before the terminated manager, a woman, sues Starbucks for discriminatory firing? That is, if she can point to some policy manual or supervisory communication that advised her to ask non-customers to leave the premises and can find some male managers who did the same thing and were not fired.
Speaking of Starbucks, this list of questions comes from an anonymous Starbucks employee commentiing on Steve Sailer’s blog:
“If this training day is going to consist of speeches and hectoring from “civil rights leaders of color” then it’s going to be a complete waste of time.
What the employees need is a clear explanation of the rules that they are supposed to follow and some specific examples and role-playing related to those rules.
What the hell are the rules and policies? For example: Is the rule that someone who comes into a store and asks to use the toilet should be refused? Or is it that white people should be refused and not black people? Or is there a patter that should be used to discourage use of the toilet, but if someone insists you let them use it? Should the homeless be allowed to use the toilet? Does it depend on their smell or visible level of filth? If they are in the toilet for a long time, what is the procedure? When should the police be called? In short, how the hell can I do my job properly and not end up out of work all of a sudden because I was following what I thought were the rules and it went viral on Twitter.
Other topics: How to react when black people are obviously testing and probing and trying to provoke you? What do you do when smart phone video is being taken? To what extent do you have to stand in front of a video camera and be humiliated for posterity in order to keep your minimum wage job? Will specific rules and policies be worked out and will the rules be availble in printed and signage form for distribution to customers? To what extent is my job at risk if I honestly try to enforce the rules laid down by Starbucks, but it ends up creating a viral controversy? If someone comes in and takes a table and doesn’t order anything, what should be done? Does it depend on how crowded it is or what time it is? How, specifically? Does it depend on the perceived race of the customer? Is there an amount of time beyond which they should not be allowed to stay? To what extent are the minimum wage staff expected to personally deal with the situation, and at what point is it O.K. to call the police without risk of being fired?
My feeling is that despite a month of preparation, the training day will simply be virtue signaling, a lot of verbiage that Starbucks doesn’t mind leaking out, and no addressing of the hard questions of how to deal with on-the-ground scenarios.”
That guy is gonna be so fired.
“In short, how the hell can I do my job properly and not end up out of work all of a sudden because I was following what I thought were the rules and it went viral on Twitter”
It’s not possible to have any solid answer to this because US employers are spineless in the face of the Twatter mob.
Sir or Madam –
You’re overqualified for working at Starbucks.
“white people staying as white as possible will help our nation totally unify and diversity will be our strength”
Do you know who else wanted to keep white people as white as possible?
Archibald Taft?
The anti-tanning “public safety” nannies?
Name a company that – without government subsidization of the plan – was successful in doing so.
“XYZ Consolidated Widgets” in Paul Krugman’s textbook.
Why does it burn them? A lot of those people are just at the right place and the right time and just fill in the blanks with embellishment to sell books.
I look at the bios of some of those sharks and have to wonder.
I read the article looking for why they would have been investment over some other guys selling beer and couldn’t come up with anything.
Remember, the Palestinians want peace, and it’s just those damn
GlobalistsJewsIsraelisZionists that get in the way.*EDIT FERRY CANNOT HELP, NO LINK WITHIN*
(((conspiracy))) stopped us from reading the freedom-loving link!
fuuuuuuuck.
Help me edit faerie!
Linky no worky. That’s how you say it in Hebrew, right?
Lo avodah halinkie.
Pig Hebrew is Treif
BTW, the new troll at TOS, this Arthur Kirkland fellow, makes Tony look sane and reasonable. What part of DU did they dig that shitheel up from?
Haven’t visited the site in over a year.
#MeToo
I guess some Volokh readers were curious about the rest of the site and got stuck.
Yeah, he’s a Volokh transplant.
I’m pretty confident that Tony is actually ENB’s husband. Now I feel sorry for Tony
She’s a quality thot.
Tony is a gay man from Oklahoma. Well, that’s what he told us a decade ago or so.
“Tony is a gay man from Oklahoma”
I don’t see how this disproves my accusation
He meant Oklahoma! The musical, not the state.
The sad thing about ENB is that she would be a high quality piece if she ate 4 Big Macs a day for a couple of months and got a brain transplant.
Are you offering to make her a sandwich?
We’ll do the brain transplant first, then she’ll be happy to make all of us sammiches.
Honestly, while I know he’s from Volokh, he really strikes me as a Tulpa character.
Of course, maybe Tulpa hangs out at multiple sites…
…brb, need to get more foil.
GFY Tulpa.
something something, would never leave the house, something.
i’ve tended to assume that “new trolls” are just the old trolls in drag.
Are you sure it isn’t another shriek sock? Last time I knew, he has three of them that have a website and argue with each other. The commentariat over there din’t go down hill, they went to hell. That’s what happens when you let Shikha Dalmia write articles on your site. I wonder if they can lure Amanda Marcotte away now?
it’s from TheWeek.com,
Eek. I got brain fever from reading The Week’s imbecilic “economic analysis” the other day, and I’m not going to risk a relapse.
The Week specializes in hiring the dumbest journo grads available. Keeps the payroll low.
US manufacturer offloads their gun-making branch, CBC finds a Smug Canadian angle, I despair that I don’t have a beer cooler at work.
And please tell me how is this legal vis-a-vis 2nd Amendment?
“And please tell me how is this legal vis-a-vis 2nd Amendment?”
As much as it galls me, I need to be consistent in that they can decide who they can sell what to. That said, they are already being sued.
Ought/is is the problem here. They ought to be able to, but are they As Things Currently Stand?
Selling guns: yes.
Baking Nazi cakes: no.
Just ask yourself: WWAPSD (what would a prog scold do)?
And please tell me how is this legal vis-a-vis 2nd Amendment?
The Civil rights act would be the avenue for challenging it
Bingo.
Which is why I disagree with the Civil Rights Act.
Scruffy Nerfherder Hates Black People!!!!!
I read that in Charlton Heston’s voice.
If the left is made to live up to their own standards on things they don’t like maybe they’ll see the folly of their ways. Until that happens things will not change.
You’re missing the secret, invisible ink part of the Constitution and Federal Register; “None of these rules apply to goodthinking Lefties”. Common mistake.
Making that part be visible still makes things better.
c.f. “Trump’s travel ban is unconstitutional, but would have been constitutional had Obama implemented it”.
What’s so unconstitutional about it? For example, bakeries don’t have to sell guns to anyone (except gays, of course.)
Age discrimination is illegal for public accommodations (including retail shops) under the Civil rights act of nineteen sixty whatever. The CRA is supposedly a fleshing out of the 14th Amendment privileges or immunities clause.
Say your white-hetero hate laws.
The “Shall not be infringed” bit.
That’s why I’m asking specifically about vis-a-vis 2nd Amendment. Much as “no, we will not print your goddamn pro-Jesus pamphlet if you’re under 21” would run afoul of 1st, and “I won’t print your goddamn pro-gay pamphlet if you’re under 21” would run afoul of…14th?
Theyre all 14th Amendment violations, and whether or not they are actually violations of the 14th under a faithful interpretation of said amendment is debatable
The Constitution and its Amendments restrain government action, not private action. Private companies are free to discriminate however they like under the constitution, but are limited by the various Civil Rights Acts and amendments to those.
Way to take a stand, boys.
I don’t see why you have to be 21 to buy a handgun, but 18 for long gun. It should be the same age for both, voting age.
“same age for both, voting age”
Which should be 35.
I don’t really care as long as it’s consistent. Also, you can’t be charged as an adult if you don’t have adult rights.
today I learned
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Abraham Lincoln’s patent relates to an invention to lift boats over shoals and obstructions in a river.[1] It is the only United States patent ever registered to a President of the United States.[2][3] Lincoln conceived the idea of inventing a mechanism that would lift a boat over shoals and obstructions when on two different occasions the boat on which he traveled got hung up on obstructions.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln%27s_patent
I wonder if anyone ever actually built and used his mechanism?
I took my silencer to the range this morning. First thoughts, “why are these regulated?” Still plenty loud with supersonic rounds. I’m waiting on a shipment of subsonic rounds to do a comparison. However I did notice my suppressed 300blk with Supersonic rounds was way quiter than my Sig 516 unsupressed.
OK. Should I spend my 700 bucks on a .300 BLK suppressor or an AK-47 (which I have never owned)?
I’d do the AK. I could see another AW ban, but NFA is already pretty strict, so it would be last to have the screws tightened.
AK is always the answer!
I was reading pre war AK recipes on barclayperkins today.
Well…it used to be. Now you can get ARs cheaper than AKs.
Also. I bought a Deadair Sandman Ti. The guy at the shop was a big fan. It’s my first so I can’t really give you an informed opinion, but it seems well made.
Do you have a threaded barrel or are you using the quick release on the flash suppressor?
Direct thread. I’m only suppressing my 300blk, so I wasn’t interested in quick connect. It is supposed to make it even quieter.
Cool thanks.
Find out just how loud it is with one of these.
$20? I’ll consider it. I don’t know what else I’d use it for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_copulatory_vocalization
Thank you Q. Always with the best advice.
“why are these regulated?”
Because they can.
I read the original intent was to stop poaching during the recession. Can’t have people feeding themselves.
Look here you Nazi racist shitlord, it’s common knowledge that if everyone had ready access to silencers, there would be carnage in the streets. With bullet noise reduced to a mere THWIP sound, you wouldn’t know a shot had been fired and thus unable to dodge it.
Yup. I’ve been snapping off rounds all over the city. The cops can’t stop me. Muh ha ha!
“French revolts/revolutions just ain’t what they used to be.”
far-left anarchists
That term has to be another class oxymoron. Far left is as pro-government as you can possibly get and anarchy means no government. What sort of retard does it take to try to reconcile those terms?
In my experience, people are puzzled by the term “anarcho-capitalist”. They usually turn their heads sideways and ask how such a thing is even possible. It makes perfect sense to me – you would just purchase services from other people in the market. I usually have to explain to them (with varying degrees of success) that no government does not mean that some mega-corporation is going to enslave everyone.
Left-anarchist ideologies are nonsense. They say there would be no corporations… So let’s say I live in anarcho-communist utopia, and I grow tomatoes in my backyard as food. Then I strike a deal with the neighbor kid where he waters them every day and gets 10% of the harvest in return. Then I strike a deal with someone else to pick aphids off the plants in exchange for another 10%. Then I give someone another percentage to fertilize the soil every season. Well basically, I have founded a profit-seeking enterprise with employees, wages, and profits – e.g., capitalism in action. So who in an anarcho-communist country would stop me from doing this?
So let’s say I live in anarcho-communist utopia, and I grow tomatoes in my backyard as food.
You’ve lost the plot right out of the gate. In an anarcho-communist utopia, you would be growing tomatoes in everyone’s backyard. You could never own a yard yourself. Or the tomatoes you had grown in the commons. They, like everything (and everyone), would belong to everyone.
Communism can only be sustained through force.
Communism without force is capitalism.
I’ve never heard that before, but I like it.
In fairness, capitalism can only be sustained through force as well, as how are you to stop someone stealing your stuff if you foreswear force? Force is the basis for all systems; the question, and the source of all political disagreement, is when is force justified and when is it unjustified?
You’ve both lost the plot. You’d already be dead for crimes against the people’s republic, either because you grew tomatoes, or didn’t grow tomatoes, or because the tomatoes you tried growing didn’t grow, or because you incidentally grew tomatoes you weren’t supposed to grow.
Well, he did say “utopia”. What you’re describing is the reality.
This is news to me
Those “warranty void if removed” stickers which you occasionally find on consumer electronics?
(most dubious example for me = on a factory-shipped ASUS PC)
They’re technically illegal, and have been for…. well, for a very long time. They stick them on anyway because they can.
In my case, the power supply for my factory-shipped PC was a noisy and low quality piece of shit. I called the supplier and said, “Hey i’ve got some very nice corsair PSU’s here, which do you recommend i replace it w/?” and they’re like “Sorry bud you just voided your warranty”. Even tho i hadn’t even done anything yet. Literally 1 month after i bought it.
I bitched at them that they were basically shooting themselves in the foot, because i’d be unlikely to ever buy their shit again if that’s how they treated customers. If i fried the motherboard trying to plug in bad memory or a different CPU, i can see them being like, “Bro, we told you not to”… but i was simply asking what component they recommended as a replacement.
Anyway, interesting that these things are technically illegal. as a libercapitalist type, my thinking is that the company should have whatever policy is in its best interests – but i suspect the outcome of this sort of FTC enforcement would be that many PC /electronics providers stop providing warranty guarantees *at all*, or rather just tailor them so narrowly that in effect, its 100% caveat emptor. not sure how i feel about it.
but i suspect the outcome of this sort of FTC enforcement would be that many PC /electronics providers stop providing warranty guarantees *at all*, or rather just tailor them so narrowly that in effect, its 100% caveat emptor. not sure how i feel about it.
I’d bet you’re right. Part of the reason for the warranty stickers is to minimize people gaming the system (how would they know if your fried motherboard is due to their error or yours?), so if that is impermissible the logical move would be to drop warranties altogether.
Do people even care about warranties? I’ve never really seen a company honor them. “It has a lifetime warranty!” *small print* as long as you never use the item.
“” I’ve never really seen a company honor them.””
the option many give is, “ship it back to us, give us 6 months to turn a RA# around”
they’ll “service” it, but they make the cost (time) so prohibitive that it would negate the value of the item completely.
I’ve had good experience with Seagate warranty (that I had to use it in the first place is why I switched to WD).
Also, I had to return a SteelSeries mouse to manufacturer because after six months left button switches started failing, and not only did they agree that the mouse was broken, they offered a credit for retail value ($150 IIRC), despite me providing the invoice that I got it on sale for $35. So I got a new mouse and a mechanical keyboard out of it.
OEM component suppliers are different, imo, than the branded-electronics companies that assemble machines from those same components.
its an argument in favor of “rolling your own” PC’s – because you get the benefit of every component supplier having their own separate warantys; whereas when you buy a pre-assembled box from a Dell/HP/type etc., you’re basically stuck dealing w/ the company rather than the parts-providers. and those companies dread having to support machines which are comprised of a dozen different potentially-failing components.
i normally build my own pc’s all the time anyway; i only ended up buying an off-the-shelf box because an employer offered to pay for one from a preferred vendor.
In my previous life doing tech support, Dell was pretty good – including sending tech reps on-site to do simple HD installs, and overnighting broken parts. HP was…ugh, less good. Apple was also really good, especially if I skipped the campus bookstore and went straight to Apple store.
But yeah, I prefer to get my PC from local guys who put it together from components I pick. Sadly, my favorite place to get them went bankrupt late last year, but a company from Calgary has supplanted them, so I know where to get one when it’s time to upgrade. Unless Apple makes a machine you can game on, then I can go back to Mac and *breaks down in tears of dashed dreams*
Quasi-on-topic (image text counts, right?)
One of the good things about moving here was being able to hear alpenhorns being played on Whiteface mountain. I’d heard them played on flat land and they are just low-grade wooden trumpets. But you put them on the mountaintop where they can play against their own echos and they become remarkable.
On Swissy Links, alpenhorns, halberds, chocolates, Romansh and gold are always on-topic, ja</em?
Also, Müesli.
…Hmmm. Not sure about that one. Rösti, fondue or raclette…sure.
I defer to your expertise.
Ri Co La?
How do you feel about the melting pot?
Of course!
“I have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns[..]they ‘trust me’, dumb fucks”
-Zucky Zuck
https://pjmedia.com/trending/zuckerberg-announces-facebook-dating-feature-at-developer-conference/
OK, this here? Proof that Zuckerberg is not a robot. Because Star Trek taught me, a paradox like this causes a robot to overload and burn out.
Also, that article (at least on my browser) had the world’s greatest “Load More” button. Click it and the bottom half of author’s signature goes from half-faded to fully visible. I wonder if they wrote the article that exact length precisely to achieve the effect.
Commietopia
In Venezuela, five years of severance pay now buys a coffee.
In a place which is nearly perfect for growing coffee.
State capitalism strikes again!
They voted for it.
The really saddest part is that they will vote for it again.
It’s true
Last time idiots won in Venezula was about a decade ago. Everything since was theater and massive fraud.
I mean, what, Russians voted for Communist Party until 1991? Chinese are still voting for Communists, so they agree?
Yes, this is true. The first time that Chavez won, he quickly ushered in his hard left policies, and you could pretty much count on it that was the last time in Venezuela a real vote would ever be held without a bloody revolution. That being said, they would quickly vote themselves back into the same situation.
And they way things are going here right now, I mean the left lost and they’re going all out to invalidate the election and stage a coup, I expect the next time a leftist like Obama gets elected, that will be the last real vote here, unless, like I said, a lot of people die.
FTA:
Hearing “13,000% annual inflation rate” doesn’t quite drive home the point like comparing a decrease in value from $45 to $0.20 in four months.
I’m glad I live in Capitalist Hell America, where even poor people can afford to drop $4 on a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
(personally, I’ll stick with the brew from my Moka pot)
This could either be an excellent parody, or an actual tweet by UK police
Poe’s law applies. UK cops routinely tweet out absurd shit.
Is that a croquet mallet?
LOL
It’s an assault mallet.
They need common sense mallet control.
Confiscated from the croquet hooligan squad. Green is their gang color. You should be there too see it when they go up against one of the soccer hooligan squads wearing blue, it’s hell.
Is that like the British version of the Baseball Furies?
And a replica/toy gun.
Is that a lifetime sentence in the UK? It could be here in the USA, if the cops spot you with that, or your cell phone.
It’s Legit.
https://twitter.com/mpsharrow/status/535444154680377344?lang=en
“Sweep this” Heh
This is parody, but not far off –
https://twitter.com/ToiletSeatBecky/status/991365724118667264
Best reply:
“some scouser bopped me woife’s son’s noggin wif a toy hammer once, he got sent to hospital where they decided he wouldn’t make it so they locked him up and withheld food. you’re doing god’s work lads. keep these killers off the street. god save the queen.”
Hmmm…what could have brought this on?
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/05/01/female-international-athletes-tested-natural-testosterone-levels/
Attention anyone that will be unfortunate to be near Philadelphia this Friday: we’re having a meetup! We’ll be at the Yard House in King of Prussia. I’ll be there around 8.
Any interest, email me at gwynapnaud @ gmail. 4 confirmed so far.
Yard House? I love their lamb burger. Wish I could go.
Now I know what I’m getting to eat.
Hmm, I wonder if I can convince Mrs Ras to drive up from Annapolis with me?
Damn, I’d like to come, but wife has to work this Saturday morning early.
Nice to see this is coming together, maybe I’ll be able to make the next one.
All of the political ads that I hear running right now in Columbus seem to be candidates aligning themselves with Trump or claiming their opponents are with Obama and Hillary and not with Trump.
They’re basically claiming that they are the true conservatives because they are with Trump.
So Verizon accidentally deleted my entire Cloud account photos & addresses, and sent me a robo-text that said, “oops, sorry, go to the app to set an account up with us!”
Sorry, Verizon, you are out of the Circle of Trust.
They don’t have backups?
https://m.popkey.co/34fe63/EGWlQ.gif
*rude directed cough*
Kindly turn your head when you cough.
Yea, I thought the that WAS THE WHOLE POINT OF THE CLOUD. They’re going to be in some big trouble if the NSA comes sniffiing around after my cloud data.
The NSA don’t care after they’ve scooped up all they want.
Your stuff is on a server in a big building in Utah.
Awesome. Let me add to it. Fuck off, NSA, you all talk like progs and you sound like fags.
* sigh *
A day when I feel like a failure: I graded a paper today wherein the student argued that Voltaire supported religion as the supreme power and the state should use its power to support religion. Thus, the French & American constitutions which did not require religious practice did not meet Voltaire’s beliefs.
This is all I know about Voltaire:
https://youtu.be/c7JcKKej0DI
Oops. That’s Volare.
Well, either you got a brilliant scholar, or someone’s gonna fail the paper.
If he actually managed to twist a persuasive argument to prove the thesis, I’d recommend him for grad school.
Jefferson was a huge fan of urban living and centralized absolutist government. Hobbes strongly believed in minarchy.
The Libertarian candidate for VP basically endorsed Hillary. Wait, that might be true.
Libertarian moment indeed.
Looks like Maduro’s getting more afraid of his own military, so he’s trying to buy them off.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article210233099.html
Now that’s better.
It’s sad, but if only Venezuelan leadership would stick to playing Junta!, the life of ordinary Venezuelan would be better.
Edit Fairy, I done goofed! Halp!
It’s been a good long while since I read Candide… but this does not sound like Voltaire.
Fail!
Adventures in Government Schooling
Fairfax County–George Washington’s hometown–today boasts one of the very wealthiest (and universally considered one of the very best) school districts in the United States. It even has an official production company producing video material for its curriculum.
Here we see Washington’s slaves engaging in a truly surreal debate regarding the replacement of the Articles of Confederation with the stronger Constitution, and the representation of proslavery states in the House of Representatives.
You can tell a lot about a man by how he treats his productivity software.
I scream at Alexa because she is property and she don’t always listen so good.
So well.
Swell.
+ me, Smith and Wesson
I don’t date women who write for Slate.
If you’d stop hanging out in their lobby it wouldn’t be a problem.
More toxic masculinity.
I actually got eye cancer reading that.
It is terminal and I will die soon.
Fuck you.
I found a cure:
https://www.pinterest.com/a7xshotz/thicc/
It cured me, and I wasn’t even sick!
Does that mean you get to be more honest now?
Yes.
I never liked your avatar.
*sobs uncontrollably*
Also I wrote you out of my will.
You’re a MONSTER!!
I can’t believe I’m saying this but….
The comments are good. Legit good.
Top Rated:
From an ostensible woman
I guess Slate still hasn’t become Salon, despite the editorial efforts?
Last I checked the sorts of people who appeared in its comments, Salon had developed what may be the best business model in online media, refashioning itself from a respected center-left outlet (in its very early days) into an Onion-type parody site marketed entirely at conservatives.
Pre-Trump Slate‘s comment section was one of the most fun I’ve seen, a lively mix of people interacting with passion but relative civility. Now Slate, hurting bad for revenue, has dropped the mask and marketed itself explicitly as a crucial weapon in the fight against Trump while begging for donations. Its comment section is a lot worse now–less diverse and many of the progs become much shriller. But every once in a while you get an article–seemingly at random; can’t really predict it well–that reminds you of the old days.
Most dramatic transformation of any comment section is Spiked!‘s, which has gone from normal to–rather inexplicably given the host publication–dominated by racists over the past two years. But Slate was a hard loss too.
“Alexa, get this bitch out of my life.”
New Stossel, Venezuelan Propaganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6W9MSFDBeg
Ah, Poor Man’s Anna Kasparian, from Russian propaganda network to Venezualan propaganda network. Could you not get a job with Young Turks?
With a name like Kasparian? I should think not.
Anna Kasparian works at the YT.
There was a lady journalist who looks kinda like low-rent version of Anna in Stossel’s video, who went to a supermarket FULL OF FOOD to prove shortages of food in Venezuela were an overblown nothing-burger.
One of the few interesting things they (obliquely) bring up is to piggyback on the ever-building trend of criticizing the foreign aid establishment as being self-serving and counterproductive. Poverty, Inc. was a big part of it–an excellent documentary produced by a free-market think tank, with exactly that perspective, that has attracted praise from across the ideological spectrum (including Michael Moore!). The only criticism has been from the aid-industrial complex, and even they know they have to be careful nowadays.
Nonetheless, there was much of the perspective that raised my eyebrows. And I wasn’t the only one–though nearly so, it would seem. Walter Block wrote a very interesting paper criticizing it from the libertarian perspective as nothing of the sort, despite what they may claim. There is a discussion of this matter–the only one, far as I know–on the Actual Anarchy podcast (though I have not listened to more than a few–rather promising–minutes).
I meant to write–Block utterly tore it a new one. You know how he is. The aid pimps should link to his paper instead of their mealy-mouthed shit.
A few years back one of the executives at the company I work for was convicted of bribing a federal official to win a contract. Since then everyone has had to endure annual compliance training which consists of seemingly endless interactive videos that are so bad they’re almost unwatchable. Since this is a punitive program, the training material is more than likely deliberately awful. The included quizzes are designed to make the viewer feel shamefully dumb, and the narrator speaks very slowly as to stretch the whole thing out to be as long as possible. Everyone from the CEO to the receptionist is required to complete the program. Today I watched a segment on workplace harassment which included a vignette where two employees were muttering angrily about a Muslim coworker that lobbied to get the break room converted into a prayer room. This was followed by questions asking the viewer to identify all the ways that employees’ conversation constituted doubleplusungoodbadthink. I’m about a third of the way through this nonsense. Somebody – anybody – please kill me.
Not quite as bad as what you just described, but I remember there being a government-mandated annual training video from a previous job that anyone smarter than a turnip could zip through and get all the questions correct in 10 minutes or less, but part of the regulation was that *you had to have one hour of training*, so if you spent less than a full hour completing it, IT DIDN’T COUNT.
Word quickly got around that you needed to start it, pause it for an hour while you did something else, and then finish it.
Back in 2016 when the FBI decided to give the first female president, oops presidential loser, a pass for multiple offenses of security law the entire DoD had to retake the annual DoD Cyber Awareness Training. I can’t even begin to compute the millions of dollars of wasted time. The comments around the office were everything you would expect from the military. It took maybe a day for a meme to start to circulate with a still from the training and the caption “Hillary Clinton you have failed your DoD Cyber Awareness challenge.”
We had sexual harassment e-training. Which is funny because our facility has only one female, and she is… how shall I put this… not someone who gets harassed. So I did what any thinking Glib would do- I turned down the sound and filled in my own dialog. Which I guarantee you was much better than the original. Our lone female overheard and laughed her ass off.
Love it.
(1) So the videos only keep track of whether they are played; they don’t quiz you on the basics of content? (2) How did this go down? Were you in your office talking over the video as you played it on your screen and she passed by your door? I need a clear mental picture for full lulz!
i can’t answer part 2, but as for quizzing on the content, it usually looks like this:
How should Jane have responded when John grabbed her boob in the copy room?
a) Laugh it off and give him a playful slap
b) Complain to her girlfriends
c) Report it to HR or her manager, but for God’s sake NOT to a lawyer
It’s a, right?
1. The quizzes are about at the level you’d expect. The answer always is, “talk to your manager or HR.”
2. Her office is right next to mine and I’m her manager. HR is 500 miles away. This is a woman for whom “fuck” is used as punctuation.
Is there any reasoning suggested for what the religious sensitivity training has to do with bribery?
I was wondering that myself. As far as I can tell, absolutely nothing. It honestly just seems like an attempt to use the opportunity to ram every progressive shibboleth in existence down everyone’s throats.
Hillary has made the Democratic world highly toxic for ’90s nostalgia of any kind. Remember how school reform was formerly a divisive issue among Democrats, gradually making its way in respectability from the center out, with technocratic “New Democrats” proud of putting “effective policy” and concern for equal opportunity ahead of any allegiance to teachers’ unions? Now it’s practically a #Resistance litmus test (not that the turn didn’t begin before Trump).
The latest casualty? That centrist enthusiasm for school uniforms you may remember. That has sure as fuck crested. Now any dress code at all is #Problematic. Foot in the door was when we realized they perpetuated the #GenderBinary against the nonconforming. Now we know they are an assault on Black Bodies. In addition to such racially coded infractions like “talking back,” which are biased in favor of white morality against the earthier and more verbally assertive cultures of the black diaspora, we see black students being cited for such normal and unavoidable behaviors as wearing a tube top in the classroom. They probably did not even stop to think whether the student’s family was too poor to afford a full shirt. (Yeah it’s Jezebel, but similar articles have hit every mainstream news source.)
Dress code enforcement is bullshit. Who thought making public school teachers the mutaween was ever a good idea?
I go back and forth mentally about the merits of school uniforms per se. I agree there should be none in public schools, to the extent that I have an opinion on what should be done in public schools.
Clothing is not optional.
Abd al-Malik?
“Hillary has made the Democratic world highly toxic ”
And they sure as fuck are not finished yet. And if you don’t believe me, just wait for a news update tomorrow.
That’s not that bad considering that black girls are probably somewhere in the ballpark of 1,268.541 times more likely to attend DC schools than white girls.
“When Obama left the White House in a helicopter that horrible day, I had the impression our true father was leaving & the nation was stuck with a stepfather who was going to rape us. Now I increasingly believe that the media is the mother who won’t stand up for us & defy him.”
https://twitter.com/page88/status/990995572730589186
I’d love to be able to judge, but I actually have the video on bookmark to watch when I’m feeling blue or stressed. So rarely in life can you watch TV and feel a joy that pure. Brexit referendum night was probably the king.
We debated running a small kinetic round through that bird for lulz but it seemed to lack subtlety
Your race would have been hailed as liberators!
We here for ratings, occasional mammal steaks, and a whole lot of smuggling.
Someone with this worldview is legitimately sick and needs professional help.
Yet another reason why Wired sucks and print media is dead.
Still got that blue checkmark for some reason …
“The reason I could never be a full-time sex worker has nothing to do with sex & everything to do w/my lack of customer service/emotional labor tolerance and my being easily overwhelmed by digital communication”
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/991431528692494336
IOW, it’s the after-sex sandwich expectation that rubs her the wrong way
“I could never be a prostitute because I am a bag of antlers and clients would get injured by my hazardous, pointy joints.”
We’ll have to see how HM weighs in on this issue. We now know he also appreciates the thinn, and there is a strong probability he has an antler fetish.
I don’t think being a full time sex worker and emotion works very well together. Ok, let me backup there, I don’t think being any kind of worker and emotion works too well together.
Whatever the fuck “emotional labor” is supposed to mean, my understanding is that it is indeed an enormous part of sex work. Being a man, you’d think that one of us who paid for sex would want nothing more than an automated RealDoll that got us solidly out of the Uncanny Valley. But nope–apparently that is not the case for the sorts of dudes who pay for sex, who are often extremely lonely in a very profound way. A large proportion of sessions even contain minimal sex and are actually sought out for the companionship.
Don’t tell Pie that.
Because he’ll be forced to start talking with his clients?
I was more thinking because he is our local whorenoisseur.
Pie needs to write a guide to Romanian whores.
Would read/bate to.
I’m going to go ahead and guess that that’s the unmarried segment of the client base.
I think you’d be surprised how many married men just want a woman to listen without judgment and contempt.
I’d say it’s like a higher ratio of married-unmarried. Being lonely in a relationship is far worse than just being lonely.
likely*
“The worst thing isn’t being alone – it’s being with people who make you feel alone”
– Robin Williams’ character in World’s Greatest Dad (great movie, by the way) and possibly taken from somewhere else
Perfectly good dad joke, shot to hell.
Was going to write a response about how being comfortably single has it’s perks but Tom covers it better than I could.
Also: does this imply that she’s a part time sex worker?
All women are.
/badfeminist
I like to imagine Bad Feminist as a 2030 dark comedy starring Lisa Lampanelli as a cynical, alcoholic con woman employed as a so-called “mall Dunham”–a future International Women’s Day tradition in which female-identifying persons dress as the historical cultural icon and invite little girls (preferably relatives) to sit on their laps and be told what they want.
That’s … exactly what I had in mind!
That’s what I took from it.
emotional labor tolerance
ENB is the skinny white version of Suey Park?
Makes sense.
Crazy ass police chase. It’s still going on in eastern CA, AFAIK. Last I heard it was in Bakersfield, but they don’t have media choppers out that way.
Bakersfield is Central Valley, so more up North than East
I always get Barstow & Bakersfield mixed up
One is Food, the other is Sand
You know who else went into a sandy place thinking it would be fruitful?
Paul Bremer?
*golf clap*
That’s a Winston’s Mom joke if I ever saw one but damn it, I’m too drunk to work it out.
Me at the Slabs?
Loved the article, Yusef.
Thanks Straffin
What weapons did you carry at the Slabs?
Hey YUFUS!
I didnt read the article, but I will. Miss a day and this place becomes a damn homework assignment.
@ Florida Man, just my Buck 870, i have a Big Blade, but I left it in the Trunk
I know Im late, but….
Ernie Els?
Mom! Mr. Stevenson’s off his Martinis!!!!
Sup Tres!
Dwight Yoakam hardest hit.
…I just opened up the manila envelope containing the test results for the renewal of my lead safe certification. 98%. I missed a perfect score by one question. If I would have aced it I would have received a $100 bonus from my employer. Motherfucker.
Tell him you’re cool with $98.
First!
Actually, how’s everyone? Been a while. At the bar. Just finished one of those little jobs that turns into The Never Ending Job.
Look at these hands. They look like good, strong hands…
It was crazy. I haven’t figured it out yet, but I probably ended up making +/- $17 per hr for 4 days. And then, at the very end, very last thing, hang the towel racks back up. Did you know that you can’t just walk into the hardware store and say “somebody spilled the bag I put all these parts into, and lost a bracket for the towel racks, do you have one?” Well, actually you can say it, but the answer will be “no”. Every possible thing that could go wrong, did.
I’m ready to share. This stuff is the best. Got hooked on the stuff a couple months ago and go through a jar of it every week. Boom time.
There is a noodle shop here called “Soupa Saiyan” that has Korean fire noodles. I ate them because I refuse to acknowledge that anything is too spicy for me to handle. You may say I had “Boom Time” the next day and wish to had an ice cream cone with which to wipe my anus.
Yessiree, Korean spicy is not to be taken lightly. The stuff I linked to isn’t that spicy at all. If you like garlic, but want it cut with something different, try it. Eggs, chicken, rice etc… this is the condiment for you.
Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll try it.
Do you mean wipe it with ice cream, or was your specification of the cone quite deliberate? If the latter–wafer, sugar, or waffle?
Unlike the mouth burn as it goes in, the butt pain is most definitely not a “good hurt.” But it’s one I’ll put up with for a good spicy meal, even though I’m quite sensitive both ends. Don’t really find those fire noodles appetizing, though–and I like Korean food and spicy noodles in general.
The fire noodles have a really good flavor, but with a lot of heat. They also have some really good ramen.
http://soupasaiyan.com/menu/
Also, I’ve read that if you eat chili everyday for two weeks you can desensitized your anus to spice. I have dedicated the time yet.
If you put chile peppers up your ass in only takes one week.
I’d be a fool not to do it.
#3 This one weird trick!
My coworker has Ghost Pepper extract; not even a sauce really, just oil of death. Last year, I put maybe half a teaspoon in one of those microwave soups at lunchtime. I was incapacitated for an hour and almost had to go home.
Half a teaspoon seems like an awfully large amount to experiment with adding to a single serving of any previously untasted substance described as an “extract,” let alone one whose overflavoring can have such serious consequences as “ghost pepper extract.”
I know a chick who didn’t even swallow, but that one drop turned her into a Harvard professor and then a US senator.
Uh, Hillary?
Wokahintas, do keep up.
I knew I was supposed to know it.
I was gonna go “Condoleeza”, but she was Stanford. And SoS.
Q knows what’s up. Dive in with both feet, fuck da consequences.
This is the only ghost pepper stuff I can find round here. Anyone around who has tried it and other ghost pepper stuff that can tell me how it stands? I don’t really find it all that hot, so I suspect I’m getting duped.
You poor man. Where do you live? I grew my own habaneros and was very satisfied. I’m sure you could grow Carolina reapers or ghost if you want the real McCoy .
I’ve grown habeneros. nice taste, ok spice. I tried to grow a ghost pepper plant, it grew one small berry sized pepper and then died.
Is every post here hate speech?
Every post at Glibs is not only hate speech, but an affront to the English language.
Well, we *are* all Nazis.
No wait a sec, I’m a towel, and You’re a Towel , and You, and You and You!!!!
Well I’m not Tulpa, I know that…or do I?
Precisely something Tulpa would say.
Or would He?
You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
Best part of it all: “That’s just my bullshit opinion.” Nice if everyone in entertainment without much actual familiarity with an issue added that at the end!
Sure; I’ll take credit for Korean peace. We all know they’d rather give the nobel to some random drunk cartoonist on the internet than Cheeto Jesus anyway.
Silly CPRM. Everyone knows they’re going to give another Nobel to Obama. I mean, Korean peace: Obama exists. Clearly he deserves credit.
It’s just his 40 acres and a mule. He deserved it, even though none of his ancestors were slaves. We can’t worry about genealogy, skin complexion makes things so much easier.
Whoa. Everyone’s ancestors were slaves. That was the de facto for most of human history. Also HM told me there are more slaves now than ever before.
My ancestors were never slaves, they were too lazy to be useful. But I meant of course black slaves in American chattle slavery.
Scots? I keed!
Germanics and poles/western russia. But lazy.
Huh. I’m a mutt, but the last name is Polish. From my understanding, the slavic serfs were absolutely the worst set’s to be, barely above slaves.
Russia enserfed in a completely different period than Western Europe. In Western Europe it was medieval, greatly weakening long before even the Black Death. (It was technically on the books past the Renaissance outside Britain, but not in practice; the idea that the French Revolution destroyed “feudal” institutions was just propaganda.) At that time of course Moscow was some primitive cow town, nothing even close to serfdom. Russian serfdom peaked in late modern times; they were not freed until the same time as slavery ended here.
For whatever family lore is worth, my dad’s said of the family were supposedly Russian Barons; until one son married a Lutheran and got disowned. So if true, even disowned I don’t think he would have suffered a terrible fate. But that is just family lore. The only bone fides with sourcing says they were circus folk. So probably liars and crooks all around.
It’s like that episode of Frasier! One of my favorites on a great little show.
My friend is from an exiled White Russian family who have long been Southern Baptists in practice but continue to be baptized Orthodox generation after generation in order to maintain their inheritance rights.
I think there was a black slave on his mom’s side way, way back in the day. So between that and his maternal grandfather, who was a swarthy Sicilian–and Sicilians were spawned by niggers; they have black blood pumping through their hearts; it’s a fact; if you don’t believe me, you can look it up–Obama is indeed mostly black.
I’m not denying any blackness, just that with ‘injustice done by Amerikkka’ against his ancestors scale; not many points.
Blood feuds. I mean on the one hand you want to even the score. On the other an eye for an eye leaves us all blind. I don’t know.
Oh, no, wasn’t suggesting you were; just making a silly remark.
Obama is black because that is his biological race; there doesn’t need to be anything more said about that. (Also just as much so, white for exactly the same reason.) On the other hand, there is such thing as black American culture, and while that takes many forms it is incontrovertible that there is such a thing as being marginal to any of them. And that is Obama, who was nearly unexposed to being culturally black in any way, shape, or form and had to learn how to be black Chicago, which is why he (despite having little or no religious faith himself) put up with the preposterous Pastor Wright.
Real Chicagoan Kanye West also grew up very upper-middle-class, and intensely and (as with everything else he does) without shame comes across that way, but is also culturally quite black. I think it’s been a very good thing for America to be exposed so unabashedly to this quite old and just as legitimately “black” sector of the culture.
I nominate Garry Trudeau. No one has done more to promote peace and intercultural understanding. He does his profession proud.
I went out and bought a Diet Coke after your commercial got me craving one, btw. Madison Avenue should hire you; few there are as creative anymore.
I’ll have a Coke then.
I was thinking it would be hilarious if you got peace in the Korean Peninsula and then a denuclearization of Iran. Then trump would go down in history as the president with the greatest foreign peace record. Ironic since he was supposed to start WW III.
My dankest fantasy is that the Nobel Committee will suddenly recover their lost integrity, then revoke Obama’s peace prize and give it to Trump.
I’ll say this for Obama, when they called him and said he won the peace prize he said “Why?” At least that was honest.
I think that was so ridiculous it surprised and embarrassed even him. He actually reacted to it relatively well. Asking him to reject it would have been a bit much, but he essentially explained frankly enough that he was aware that it wasn’t being given to him for anything he’d actually done.
Yup. Obama is, like us all, a flawed individual, and I disagree with him on almost everything, but he has a minimum of integrity necessary to be a two term President. (Notice I don’t say anything about She That Shall Not Be Named)
what if you lived Twenty thousand Feet under the Ocean, and you were Ruled by Morna the Goat Queen?
I’d ask regicidal maniac for a favor.
So what do we think about a .357 revolver for home defense? I’m staying in a big house alone for two weeks and that’s what I was left. Thing’s massive, feels like carrying a brick.
I think it is shiny. Unless it’s not.
I’m a fan of the GP100 in 357. The SP101 in 327 is also good. My personal setup is a PSA 300 blk with suppressor and holosun red dot. Prior it was an 870 12 gauge with night sites. Basically, anything other than holding your dick in your hand and waiting for the cops is ok.
I’ve read that the .357 is the best man-stopper among common self-defense rounds. Heavy gun is good, that means it has less recoil.
Weight is sign of reliability.
Great movie.
That’s my standard bedside gun, although I’ve been thinking about replacing it with a 9mm due to the low ceilings and narrow hallways in my upstairs. I’d rather not be permanently deaf for life.
(Thanks for regulating suppressors, ATF!)
Mine is an ice cold Beer, with Suppressor of Course
Don’t get me started. Minus a stamp plus 6 month wait, everything I own would be suppressed.
Just use a pillow, damn it.
Or a Towel..
We were so close then that damn (FBI informant? Burned CIA asset? DNC hatchetman?) asshole shot up Vegas.
Prior it was shooting up the Pub baseball team. Freaking commies.
Team Elephant: “Remember 9/11! Memory hole anything else!”
Team Donkey: “Remember Obama! Memory hole anything else!”
Team Porcupine: “Remember drugs! We’re woke!”
But do Teams Elephant and Donkey have fat go-go boys?
Also Bloomberg’s money machine got the opportunity it had been (as I’ve been theorizing) carefully waiting and planning for. The tide has turned; we are playing defense for the foreseeable future. Be grateful for whatever is preserved.
The highly organized response to Parkland I think makes this point irrefutable. They weakened their own case severely by embracing the Gun Control Muppet Babies so wholeheartedly, however. It would be hard to envision a worse group of spokesmen than them. Young, ignorant, vulgar, shrill and arrogant. Notice how they’ve fallen off the airwaves lately? I think the damage was (mostly) done though.
The Left has been smearing the NRA with the “omg profittzzzz” accusation for decades, but I think a lot of people are waking up to the fact that the anti-gun side also has a tremendous profit motive.
The NRA has no profit motive. It’s not an industry group, and the claim that it is sticks out as baldfaced and unchallenged even among all their lies. The National Shooting Sports Foundation is the industry lobby; and (as much as I love bitching about the NRA) thank fuck we do not have to count on them.
The NRA is an ordinary, membership dues funded national sports foundation that simply has learned to lobby well. That does not make them a 2A ideological group (boy does it ever not), but it does mean they are in the business of standing up for firearm users. The contrast between shooters and, say, smokers (or those who want to freely use other types of products like lightbulbs, plastic bags, various food products, financial products, etc.) cannot be more great. In those examples there is no consumer lobby to fight for us (consumers); we must rely on big businesses who happen to produce those items. And their interests are certainly not our own.
.357mag is hard to beat for stopping power in a pistol, but lots of pistols chamber +P rounds that render old notions obsolete. Remember that only rifles are really one-shot-stop rounds, typically an order of magnitude more muzzle energy than a pistol has, so it is very seldom that one round from a pistol is going to stop a threat. Also remember the rule of three for gunfights: typically three total rounds exchanged in three seconds at three yards; it’s controlled panic most of the time.
My EDC was a six inch S&W686. The story Suth’n tells is of a four inch. You will not do better out of the box for affordable power. There are 8shot revolvers in .327mag these days; you might read up on it. My EDC now is a G30 with I find to be an excellent compromise and value.
There’s a notion that shotguns are a better answer: load up on some intermediate pellet (6- or 4-shot?) in open choke on the shortest legal barrel so that you can mow down a guy across the room or down the hall, but maybe the missing pellets will be a lot slower and flatter before they rip into the nursery into a neighbor’s house.
Just thangs for your to read up on, not professional recommendations; YMMV.
My home defense plan is to stake out a position at the top of the stairs so that if I had to fire, it would be at a downward angle and would just go through the wall and into the dirt outside. However, there are low ceilings and narrow halls upstairs, so I probably wouldn’t want to fire a 12-gauge in such a small space.
“He was shot at a downward angle” another Boondock Saints clip I could link. I might want a Bagel with my coffee.
Love my GP100 in .357. It’s a bit heavier than my Sig so I don’t normally carry it but it is right next to the bed when needed. Mrs. Hobbit prefers her wheel-gun over an auto so she carries one, as well.
Email me, we can go shooting.
… Hobbit
I’m on a conference call with India right now and my US-based boss sounds completely hammered.
Ask for a raise.
I’m actually starting to get a bit embarrassed for her. It was funny at first, but now she’s getting kind of emotional sounding with overt slurring.
Ugh, I hate when a bitch gets sloppy. They hang all over you asking the same questions over and over, insisting they “ain’t drunk”.
–Deposition of William H. Cosby, Jr., Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Wait, Bill Cosby is a Jr? Did any of these women claim Bill Cosby Jr sexually assaulted them? If I were him I’d blame it all my dad.
Bill Cosby is a Jr. You might remember “created by Dr. William H. Cosby Jr., Ph.D.” on the credits for the show when they showed the shot of the brownstone. What he was not, of course, was a Ph.D.; and he should have been called out right there for the self-parodying, megalomaniacal delusion of thinking that your honorary doctorates are real.
You may be thinking of Ennis Cosby, who does not share the same name as Bill so if he was thinking of suggesting that the women had been raped by a ghost you may be out of luck. (They were, in fact, raped by Ghost Dad.)
Ah, I misread your comment. I get what you were saying now.
Our new director of HR “left the company” after getting bombed at a company function and hanging all over a few of the other execs.
Wait, you work for Hillary? Do dish.
Do I look like I have a death wish?
No, but i have it on good authority you have access to Red Headed Women, ….
https://imgur.com/a/Ad5FgiJ
https://imgur.com/a/wE36IQM
https://imgur.com/a/7HK7KJT
I can hear the mouth breathing just from the picture. “phphchcuu”
Ahhhhhhh… Wow, all three but this one 1st oh my…
I’m trying to figure out, if I feature Hillary in an episode, to I follow canon and show her as a manifestation of the Elder Gods; or do I go the way I’ve been trying to go by making the cartoon more accessible to the mainstream audience?
How about Crab People? then you could add Huma and Weiner Boy…
You’re not bound in the slightest. You make the canon; don’t be bound by any other. There are two different continuities here, just like there’s a Spider-Man for the funny pages, more than one live one for the comic books, at least one TV show one, at least one movie one, etc.
For whatever my thoughts are worth; I think Kim Jong Un likes the lifestyle he leads, but doesn’t really care for the politics and having to be in control of everyone. I think this whole thing ends smoothly giving him immunity and a nice pension on a grand estate. I actually think this would work with many dictators. But then no one would get ‘justice’ and the lives saved be damned.
You think we’ll actually see North Korea opened up successfully? I see, at least in the near term, best case scenario a thaw back to the days a few years back when the South was opening up factories in the North and so forth. I think that if you are indeed right, then the upshot is that the regime is no longer actually being held together by the desires of one strong leader–which means its dismantling cannot come about because of it. If what you say is true Un probably ultimately lacks the influence to dismantle the regime himself; other interests are at stake and probably already have entrenched power centers since the Dear Leader’s death. A power struggle in the North may be closer to the worse case scenarios than the best.
I just don’t know how the average Nork gets reintegrated into modern life and South Korean capitalism. They’re so brainwashed and destitute that it would be generations before they got back on equal footing.
Meh, generational change happens more quickly than we precieve on a large time scale. Only 28 years from the fall of the Berlin wall, no way Russia is giving up McDonalds, even if they still ‘vote’ for strongman Putin.
Beer, Porn and McDonalds one year tops
We just go Oprah on all the elites “You get a Chalet!” “You Get a Chalet””You Get a Chalet”!
Easy and effective, this is the answer, Hear Him!
If we see a full fledged denuclearization of NK in the next years I would be totally shocked. If I had to bet money, then I’d say the Norks are just stalling and hoping for another payout. There is a decently small chance that their Chinese keepers have had enough and want a more stable (authoritarian crony capitalism) system and less Uncle Sam. That, and they can’t exactly completely stop the inter tubes flow of sweet information about the rest of the world. Fat Boy knows his days are limited unless he can show some money.
I think this is where the ‘sin’ of selfishness comes in though. We let him keep living high on the hog, I don’t think he gives a shit about what happens around him.
I see China directing Kim to distract Trump, and others While they finish sealing off the South China Sea,
/Nobel Peace prize from Hell,
What do we need the the South China Sea for?
Shipping
Isn’t that what the merchant marines is for?
Also, if we can’t ship through the South China Sea, who does that hurt more? People who have to pay $5 more shipping and can live without it? Or a country whose entire growth system relies on selling to westerners? Trade solves this fairly quickly.
Wouldn’t it just be easier to freedom the shit out of the Norks?
If only Donald could hit the right button. Everytime he wants to nuke the Norks someone brings him a diet coke.
“You see, it’s real close, it’s either Coke, or nuke, Coke, or nuke…..
/Classy Nuke
I agree, He’s young and euro Educated, pampered and he got a better deal than Quadaffi, watch….
The best plan I’ve ever heard for world peace still goes back to one of HS teachers (who my older siblings flipped from liberal to conservative and I flipped to libertarian): Sell them washing machines! Then they need detergent, replacement parts and next they’ll want dryers. Then they’ll start thinking about their rights. The won’t want the government to come take their washing machines, then they’ll realize those same principals apply to their house, then themselves. Eventually, you have a free-ish market with some rights. That seems to be where we stalled with China, not because the plan wasn’t working, but because our government didn’t want the plan to work.
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How exactly did the USG prevent China from Democratizing?
I didn’t say anything about democratizing. I was talking about the pace at which the chicoms were expanding rights as the wealth of their populace grew. And how certain sectors of US control value the strength of the dollar over free trade and it’s results. Capitalism was bringing rights to the Chinese; then our government prioritized trade deals and politics over free trade.
I can’t find the article now; but it was circa 2006. A man in China was able to stop his home from being demolished for a government project. Fast forward to the Olympics, they are back to the same old shit. Because our government has valued their debt buying over the effects trade can have.
Not seeing the correlation that trade deals somehow made the Chicoms more tyrannical. How about the fact trade with China has gone up since Tiananmen Square?
When did the USG ever not do this, let alone with China?
And the same reformist Chicoms were the ones who signed the trade deals. And I think China dictatorship owes more to the Chicoms themselves than to trade deals.
I didn’t say we ever had a good policy. I was saying when we really didn’t have a policy, that was the most beneficial to the average chinese. Do try to keep up. Your playing naive can only by so much time, you can do better. Also, Your mom.
Am I missing something since you seem to be literally saying that trade deals have made China less free?
Also if there was actual free trade with China then the trade will still have to go through Chinese border crossing and ports. It would still depend on what the Chicoms who run those things and the companies involved think about things. And how the Chicoms would handle smuggling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washing_machine#Efficiency_and_standards
So, your citation is agreeing about government ruining trade. Ok.
No it seems people do allow the government to dictate their washing machines.
No, it shows those who have become complacent in their freedom freely give it away. That is an entirely different problem we must solve than those who yearn to breathe free striving for it.
Perhaps China has already become complacent? I have read some theories that Chinese rural people are the still the majority and apparently are much poorer so the urban elites aren’t hungering for Democracy…
Reminds me of how the government mandated thicker insulating walls on water heaters to save energy and Mother Gaia and stuff, so when the plumbers replaced mine, they had to tear up part of the floor to fit the new model down the basement stairs.
It’s almost like government regulations can have side-effects that create inconveniences for people (at the very least)…