So lets see, Sweden survive, Belgium does their job, and England are trying to give away what should be a win — oh wait, Harry Kane wanted it. Nice header. That’s what I’ve got today. Its feeling like summer in Florida, so I can’t tell if I was sweating or I was just a convenient spot for condensation. That’s all I got.
Florida people doing Florida things. Man goes to separated wife’s place to dispute an air conditioner, gets shot in the nuts, his brother chokes the wife out. Lovely.
DC wins the psychopathy award. Places with high density of stock brokers come in 2-5.
This is complete and utter shit. James Hansen declares all his 1988 Global Warming predictions have come true. This is wrong.
Trump orders a Space Force. Obviously we need at least a Yamato and Rodger Young in the fleet.
Monster Magnet, why no love for Florida?
Someone’s been playing with tannerite, and not in the fun way.
I should have loved to see this live.
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So it’s hot as balls in Florida?
Going to be in Orlando this week. Forecast high 93/93/93 Tuesday-Thursday with feels like temps in the mid 100s. I may die at Disney.
Having to go to Disney makes lots of people wish they were dead.
You live in the state. You know the rules. February-May 15, The weekend after labor day ’til the 2nd week of December. All other times — avoid!
We went to DIsney World last January and we very nearly froze. W were stupidly not prepared for the 40s at night.
I am going down there Thursday night. My son is attending a prospect football camp in Melbourne on Friday.
I’ve tried to explain how hot it will be, he doesn’t believe.
107 in Palm Desert tomorrow. But I’ll be drunk in a pool. So…. 90ish.
That kind of heat never bothered me in Twentynine Palms. So dry it feels like a 78 degree day in the east.
Palm Desert is about 2000′ lower, and loaded with golf courses and landscaping. It makes things quite a bit more humid than the “real desert”.
93 is hot?
Sure is.
No, but 98 Degrees is REALLY hot.
This was next up. Jennifer Paige is still hot. Totally wood.
Natalie Imbruglia don’t look too bad these days either.
I enjoyed her in the first Johnny English.
This is why I didn’t mind moving away from Florida at all.
So who is the blonde in the white dress behind the Inspector General?
CT, CA, NJ, NY – what do those shitholes have in common?
Is it low taxes?
Sane local and state governments.
Great on gun rights.
Obstructionist Republicans.
NYC. (Except Commiefornia, but they’re a whole different level of stupid)
shittiness?
I would never live there.
Too easy.
I’ve lived in CA and NJ (as well as MA). Never again.
“What are four states who have never been in my kitchen”
/Cliff Klaven
Hitler?
IJ gon’ make history at SCOTUS.
I’m in the “Merry Band”, but I gave extry for this coup.
Too bad the Court can’t use the case to find the War on Drugs unconstitutional.
The IJ’s tactic of finding the most incredibly sympathetic victim of the most heartless government boot-on-the-neck rule strikes again. The left has been doing it for decades, and team R’s failure to emulate it is just reason #15689744 for why they are the stupid team. Box-building monks, hairbraiding black woman, and now opiod-recovering loser.
IJ is still batting 1.000 at SCOTUS, right?
Susan Kelo lost her case.
Susette.
Remember how much Joe hated them? Good times.
We could have the Space Force test fire at that sawed off little slaver.
For what it’s worth, IJ is on Amazon Smile. Easy money.
They are my Smile beneficiary, but I hardly ever use Smile, so I just decided to do a monthly donation.
Space Force? I’m joining Rico’s Roughnecks. Are the co-ed showers still going to be a thing?
Nope – but you’ll get an armored combat suit with nuclear cruise missiles.
Yes, but everyone has to take a turn as the bottom.
Shouldn’t Florida be higher on the psychopath list with all those Florida Man stories?
The Florida definition of Sykopath is a lot different than other states.
While he scores psychopathically high on the “poor impulse control” scale, Florida Man lacks the ability to plan ahead and delay gratification that lets real psychopaths wreak so much havoc.
Florida psychopaths don’t live long enough to wreak the havoc of their dreams, due to high incidences of “Hold my beer. Watch this!”
So, Columbus is Dead from all the Warmening? Who could have known…..
WE DIDN’T LISTEN!!!!!!!!
This is complete and utter shit. James Hansen declares all his 1988 Global Warming predictions have come true. This is wrong.
Is it Blast from the Malthusian Past week? (It’s from March, actually, but AoS linked it recently.)
No mention of Julian Simon, oddly enough.
And usually I’m the one to comment on links being repeated. 😉
The growth of reposted links is inevitable, outstripping all other comments, unless radical action is taken.
If this stuff isn’t true , how do you explain the heat in Florida right now?
QED
How do you explain 75 in SoCal on June 18th?
I notice that the article didn’t bother to list his actual specific predictions…
He presented three separate scenarios, A, B, and C. A being the worst case scenario of little to no emission cuts, B being moderate cuts, and C of elimination of fossil fuels.
The results were such that we proceeded along the A path for emissions but warming followed the B predictions.
As usual, Hansen is full of shit and a skilled elider.
Obviously we need at least a Yamato and Rodger Young in the fleet.
And somebody to attack those hero’s mailboxes?
“We are already among the worst abusers of Human Rights on this earth. And we are inches away from being investigated by the Hague for our newly formed Fascist ways. All ths in the 510 days of his twisted regime.”
https://twitter.com/perlmutations/status/1008719180026109953
This is what happens when you put a brain in a square container.
What’s North Korea? Chopped liver?
Map of dictatorships.
https://planetrulers.com/current-dictators/
More proof that this was Ron’s best role.
I wouldn’t completely disagree with that, what with the various unnecessary wars and the high prison population and whatnot. It isn’t unique to Trump though.
This is what happens when you put a brain in a square container.
Wait a minute, this doesn’t have anything to with being a marine…
But this reply —
SpaceRacer423
Replying to @perlmutations
Ron may be the dumbest asshole in Hollywood.
That’s kinda impressive.
Perl mutations?
($l=join(“”,))=~s/.*\n/index($`,$&)>=$[||print$&/ge;
Ah. Ron “Iron Cross” Perlman. Seems like he’d be fun at parties.
Remember last week when I said my PT cleared me to do weighted squats and deadlifts. So saturday I ran out and tested my 1RM on both, and then did squats again today. My legs hate me today and I hate everything. Just FYI.
The more you punish them, the less they’ll hate you. Or get some HGH.
Oh yeah, I plan to work through the doms. They just come back after you take a break, and I haven’t done squats or deadlifts in (lets see… counts of fingers… carry the one…) ever. I’m late in my fourth decade on this earth, and I’ve never done either of these before.
Get yourself a really good foam roller and use it a lot.
That’s what Tundra calls his sexbot.
Nope. I call her Loretta.
Buy she prefers Lotti? Watch out for that one!
I’m sorry, I got it backwards, that’s what Loretta calls Tundra.
It’s never too late to start lifting. Kudos to you for having the chutzpah to work through the doms.
Your legs must be libertarian if they hate everything.
What’s the purpose of testing your 1RM? Next time you come back from a layoff, use sets of 5 and increase the weight until they start to get difficult. Then start there on your next trip to the gym.
Starting 531. Needed a submaxial program while rehabbing knees. PT doesn’t want me on a linear program.
Don’t do 531 yet. Start light and do a linear program, then do 531 in a couple months. Punch your PT in his vag. Listen to Monster Magnet.
Just give you PT the above referral from Doctor Warty.
Why?
Because you’re an infant and you’ll get better faster by training accordingly.
I heard on Coast to Coast AM we already have one, and they inspected that weirdly shaped asteroid and it turned out to be an alien spaceship.
Xenu comin’!
RINGO SPACE SUITS!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Vienna
Retard fight!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5857531/Youre-helping-Trump-saying-F-Trump-Rob-Reiner-lashes-Robert-Niro.html
Preach it Meathead! When I see early seasons “All in the Family” episodes, I find myself agreeing with Archie way more than I used to.
So it’s not just me.
Kinda freaked me out when I saw an early episode for the first time in years.
Freaked out Norman Lear, too – he wrote Archie to be the bad guy and was quite distressed when audiences identified with him.
Space Force? Too bad Roger Moore is dead…
Shut your lying whore mouth!
But we still have Maude Adam’s.
Hell yeah Space Force!
I call bullshit.
Montana seemed about right… at 42.*
*Of course the last best place is also the answer to everything.
Somehow WY is tied for 4th, you haven’t been driving them down there have you?
I blame Jackson.
It really is a hole.
I’m not surprised they’re lying about the climate predictions. It’s actually right in line with how progs think these days. They’d claim England is under water as predicted if they could but even for them that’s a bridge too far…for now.
Up is down, right is left now. Didn’t Ellison say Wallace was a Republican? It’s no biggie if some random dude at a Waffle House says it but this is a high ranking Democrat FFS.
Just say it, feel it and believe it and it’s true/truth.
Biggest liars, Gun grabbers or climate scammers?
I cant decide, both have a 100% record of being wrong.
Gun grabbers.
But they’re exactly the same people for the most part, so it’s a wash
improvised explosive fescue
But can you play 36 holes on it that afternoon, then take it home and get stoned to the bejesus bells that night?
I read that as “improvised explosive feces”
That’s the morning after an authentic dish of lamb vindaloo.
Brett left out amateur man in Florida attempts to increase his standing towards official FloridaMan® status.
Another mass shooting in Malmö
Obviously they got the guns from Indiana.
Another? There were others?
Business has been so good, our supplier of metal suitcases with custom foam inserts can’t keep up.
I am guessing the shooter’s last name is not Svensson.
Not terrorism, just gang violence…..in Sweden. Nothing to be alarmed at.
https://www.thelocal.se/20180619/malmo-shooting-dead-injured
Trump orders a Space Force.
I’m so glad we’re gonna have another Fed money pit. Hopefully it will have a decided lack of oversight so we can really ramp the spending.
Fuck.
Isn’t he just splitting some the Air Force’s responsibilities into a different branch?
Nope.
Bend over, America!
There are going to be some pissed off Air Force Generals.
And?
No skin off my back. Just sayin’ that those guys like their special programs, missile defense, cyber-ops, space defense, etc…
Space Force Admirals, bitch.
“He’s sending all the black people to die in space camps!” — the media
Well, since each branch now has some form of ‘Space Ops’, maybe this will consolidate those functions with BMDO (Ballistic Missile Defense).
BMDO has been a sort of quiet 6th branch money hole for years.
Obligatory
Christ.
If you want a new service, you have to give up one. Which will it be, AF or USMC?
They’ll never kill off the Marine Corps. Our PR is too damned good.
Coast Guard
This really is a STUPID idea.
Long term there will never be a need for a seperate Air and Space force because once we have actual manned space combat assets it will not be long before air forces become largely obsolete. I could see separating them a’la the Navy and Marines but if you pull the space forces out of the Air Force then you may as well stick the Air Force back into the Army
This is Trump. It will change in 2 weeks.
I’m for eliminating the Air Force.
Behind the Coast Guard and ahead of PHS in militaryness.
So it’s hot as balls in Florida?
I did a fairly brief work stint with a race team in Stuart, Florida long ago. In August. It was so fucking hot and humid and miserable, when we got to the track in Atlanta, it seemed downright pleasant.
A lot of need for plumbing supplies at those tracks, eh?
Hey guys, remember when Democrats were in favor of Federal agents separating children from their families?
The Internet does!
Oh man, vintage Tom Friedman.
Great goodness, what an asshole.
Wow. And he didn’t even channel it through a Chinese cab driver in North Africa that time.
This picture is out of date. A Federal Agent with his finger off the trigger is practically unheard of.
Adding that to my “Trump is basically BJClinton term 3” file.
I ‘member.
Seriously. That picture is fucked up.
Was it necessary to go in with guns like that? Is that the protocol?
The protocol is fytw
New here?
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/06/17/trumps-america-does-not-care/
More enjoyable version
Or maybe, just maybe, the Europeans played the part of George and treated the USA like they were Lennie?
I read the article. I can’t disagree that’s what the bargain is. But since when do arrangements like this last forever? Shit, he’s a historian. Just look at the European political balance of power game between 1648 and 1914!
So my question is: And?
In the Canadian context, nationalists in the post-war era always warned that while the arrangement was good if not necessary, it behooved Canada to still maintain its military and develop trade with other countries because ‘you never know.’
Now we know.
That’s why people are nervous. So Americans *should* be somewhat sympathetic to why its allies are reacting the way they are to the extent if you think Kagan (who is a neocon I believe) is right.
To expand on the ‘and’?
America doesn’t owe anyone anything. The problem is they *chose* to lead the West and made all these deals and built the economies of the West according to those ideals Kagan is talking about. So the question is….and it seems like Kagan is pushing for this….does America have to continue because it’s the defecto Rome in the post-war era or is it free to just cut off ties and let its allies twist in the wind?
Sorry, but this is a ridiculous analysis. The “liberal world order” was a function of a common threat – expansionist communism embodied by the Soviet Union. It’s collapse in the 1990s should have entailed a reassessment of that arrangement. Instead, it was preserved virtually unchanged for little more than maintaining the structural and institutional status quo, as if that were some sort of value in and of itself. If Trump’s biggest geopolitical sin is the reassessment of a geopolitical order that had become woefully outdated and, perhaps, even itself a danger to global order (Libya interventions after a negotiated de-nuclearization, Syria interventions, breaking of power-sharing agreements), it’s not exactly something that is going to keep me up at night.
But I guess he’d counter with: We did reassess and chose to continue.
And Trump chose otherwise. As you suggest, it’s a little dubious for him to complain now if they simply chose to continue with the old state of affairs for their own reasons.
Motor-Ball!
http://www.messynessychic.com/2018/06/15/forget-the-world-cup-lets-play-motor-ball/
Construction jobs are taking a hit in productivity this week as half the Mexican workforce is drunk.
I want to talk about automation. One of the big justifications for UBI is that automation will cause massive unemployment and only the big management types will still have jobs so we need to hand out lots of free shit to prevent a communist/populist/luddite/etc. revolution. How realistic are these assumptions?
Given that pretty much everyone who wants to work has a job (statistically, not actually) in America, and unemployment is actually lower than it was when automation first started in the late 18th century, it is difficult to see this happening. Mostly shit will get cheaper, and work will get safer if historical trends continue.
Let’s wait for the massive unemployment first.
I doubt it will ever arrive, other than through government policy.
Look at all the unemployed buggy whip makers.
The country is overrun with unemployed young women who used to work in the typing pool.
A typing pool would be awesome, though.
This is as close as I could get.
How about this?
Depends on if you’ve ever been in what we call the ‘Real World’. Every technological advance resulted in epic pants-shitting and calls for Big Daddy Gov to do something.
Despite that, the world keeps spinning, workers adjust and progress is made.
True but on the other hand every technological advance has resulted in people claiming how modern tech will end social and political strife.
So both sides are wrong.
automation will cause massive unemployment
No it won’t. Old jobs will be automated out of existence. New jobs will be created because of the automation (design, manufacturing, and support of the automation as well as jobs that were not cost effective before become cost effective now). Employment will go up.
There will be people that lose jobs and don’t recover. Make an argument for welfare if you want, but don’t think you need to deal with some significant percentage of the population.
In case you thought the connection between automation and Ubi was something I made up: https://medium.com/@f20170739/automation-and-ubi-for-benefit-or-affliction-66310ee5a878
Didn’t some other country just try the UBI? We should check on them and see how that is working out.
Finland I think?
Finland. And they canceled it
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/riders-of-the-purple-wage_philip-jos-farmer/484793/?mkwid=sIB9PtBiX%7cdm&pcrid=70112865792&pkw=&pmt=&plc=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-OvTz6De2wIVE_5kCh2cvAtZEAQYAyABEgJ1wPD_BwE#isbn=0812519051&idiq=1565045
I would say that these people can go back into “service”…
That was the old standard… unless I have robots to answer my every whim… why shouldn’t your (very low value labor) be cleaning my floors. or cutting my grass?
There are sci-fi stories where the upper classes specifically employ people rather than robots to show their status… there is always work to do…
The assumption that robots will put us out of work is based on not knowing anything about robots, or work, or us.
Something that futurist types who predict AI putting millions of people on the dole never seem to answer – who are the customers who generate the massive profits for these future tech gazillionaires who make the machines? If everyone is going to be impoverished, who is the market? Who’s spending the money that will go into these guys’ pockets?
Chefs.
Yeah, in Megacity One (Judge Dredd), it’s something like 98% unemployment, but people still have cash to spend on various trash – presumably UBI/dole – since it’s a UK title, but never really explained.
Hey assholes! Don’t think AGW is real?! The name of this fucking bug isn’t even accurate any more!!!!!11!!
Davey Tree Expert Co.
It says Expert right in their name, so you know they can’t be wrong.
Just look at the Emerald Ash-bore! The earth has warmed so much they don’t even live in emeralds anymore!
Emerald City
Or maybe it has something to do with increased monoculture of pines.
Maybe a lot.
I wish someone would say that plants and animals move their range north or south depending on the climate.
There I said it.
Democratic Minnesota Senate candidate Richard Painter just released this campaign ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QFPdGiD8EE
^ I’m with this guy.
That pepper spray idiot was in Minnesoda? I missed that part. Nice.
Nope. Colorado.
Holy hell. Just watched it. If I were you guys I’d see if you can trade idiots. This Painter guy is something else.
I was almost expecting a repeat link to that. 😉
Ha…someone beat me to it!
Is this guy for real?
Oh, yeah. He used to a “Republican”, too.
That looks like a skit from SNL.
I thought so as well
*insert random jab at SNL*
+1 Bill Hader
That guy looks like he’s actively having a stroke in that commercial.
i’m guessing post-stroke with the face droop.
First the guy who pepper sprays himself and now this.
FUCKEN LAUGHING MY GUT* OFF.
*If I had one.
We know how to put out a fire.
hahahahahahaha
I hope this guy does a series of commercials. It’s comedy gold, Jerry!
I’m disappointed he didn’t handle the dousing himself. But, way to come back from a stoke, dude!
For the love of God, ACT Gary!
Definitely a Spottswood resemblance, yeah
Holy fuck
WTF was that?
A dumpster fire on top of a dumpster fire.
He sounds like R Lee Ermey doing Slingblade.
It’s like a Ted Knight Sketch where he parodies a political candidate.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d9/ef/52/d9ef529321355bbfb6fb37316f02120f–golf-course-reviews-golf-pictures.jpg
You’ll get nothing and like it!!
The only way that dumpster fire ad could have been improved upon was if he turned around and pissed it out.
Are Minnesotans gonna put up with that Southern accent? He’s like Larry, Darryl, and Darryl on Newhart
I call BS on a proper stroke, or even a TIA. I think Bell’s Palsy.
Doesnt make him less insane, however.
That’s extra special.
Dick Painter. LOL
When are you gonna blow the game?
When are you gonna blow the screen?
When will you tell them that the crap doesn’t last
And you found a way to make your own dreams
The crap doesn’t last and you found a way to make yourself scream
“MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA — The Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc. has apologized to Quilliam and its founder Maajid Nawaz for wrongly naming them in its controversial Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists. In a public statement, the SPLC’s president, Richard Cohen, explained that “Mr. Nawaz and Quilliam have made valuable and important contributions to public discourse, including by promoting pluralism and condemning both anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamist extremism.” Watch Mr. Cohen’s complete statement at https://www.splcenter.org/20161025/journalists-manual-field-guide-anti-muslim-extremists.
The SPLC also agreed to pay a $3.375 million settlement, which Quilliam and Nawaz intend to use to fund work fighting anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamist extremism. “With the help of everyone who contributed to our litigation fund, we were able to fight back against the Regressive Left and show them that moderate Muslims will not be silenced,” said Nawaz. “We will continue to combat extremists by defying Muslim stereotypes, calling out fundamentalism in our own communities, and speaking out against anti-Muslim hate.””
https://www.quilliaminternational.com/southern-poverty-law-center-inc-admits-it-was-wrong/
$3.375 million is a parking ticket to the SPLC.
First fist fight of the summer. 6 year old vs 10 year old. 6 year old was winning when I broke it up.
I hope you remind the 10-year-old of this at every opportunity. Ask him if he needs you to reinstall a child seat in the car.
Put a sippy-cup at his place at dinner.
Announce that the 6-year-old is getting too big for his clothes, and maybe it’s time he gave them as hand-me-downs to the 10-year-old.
nice.
it amazes me how quickly kids shrug that shit off.. which makes me think children are born sociopaths until we raise (ruin) them otherwise.
If my 10-year-old was left to his own devices, he would have already invaded Poland by now.
Put this one in the sociopath column… I went fishing with my 9-year-old boy yesterday. He didn’t want to fish at all, but was real keen on using the stick to club the fish in the head once caught.
Also known as Completely Normal Little Boy Behavior.
My younger one is also the instigator and last to quit. If the big one ever remembers that he’s stronger, its going to go hard for the instigator.
i have 2 brothers, both 2 years apart.
we all have visible scars, usually on the face/head, from some fraternal conflicts of our teens. some worse than others. (the worst was really just an accident: i nearly knocked my younger brother’s eyeball out with a golf club. he had jabbed it at my gut, and i grabbed it and punched back while holding the shaft and the iron head knifed right into the weak spot where the cheekbones meet the eye.) I have a scar on my forehead where he tackled me in a hotel room, and my head met the corner of a desk and gave me a concussion/skull fracture. I knocked 2 of my older brother’s front teeth out, which was sort of a big deal, since he had braces and it was an expensive mess. then he had a motorcycle accident and ripped them all out in a dramatic faceplant on a curb. i saw him come around the corner with a string of teeth hanging out of his face on wires, and i puked.
childhood was fun.
My brother was 2 yrs younger, but he was always big for his age, so we were almost the exact same size most of our developing years.
The fights were epic.
And quiet.
We knew we’d get our asses spanked if we got caught, so it was normal for us to try to quietly kill one another. My dad tells the story about catching us one morning, he said it sounded like we were fucking each other.
Sounded like?
The fightin’ comes first.
And the winner comes last?
My older brother was (is) a huge pussy. I sent him to the ER when I was 9 and he was 11. Head to the corner of the dresser.
When my little brother was a sophomore in high school and my older brother was a senior in college, it was a fair fight.
My brothers are 7 and 8 years younger than me. I had to be very restrained. I still out class them by 100 lbs, but it’s mostly fat now.
That would be an interesting tie bit if you weight 150 lbs.
tid
anime tiddies
My brother is 6 years older, and my sister 4 years older.
We all fought constantly, or so it seems. Until I turned, I don’t know, 12 or 13 and was bigger than my sister. I think I still owe her a kick or two to the face. My brother deserves a noogie or ten thousand and his pocket change stolen.
This may have played a part in me becoming libertarian. That and shitty school administrators.
Cheers lads!
“CHANGE THE LAWS!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1008708634396721153
and the responses from the people who think Trump is acting like a dictator is “Use a pen and a phone!” Amazing. I couldn’t drink myself into such a stooper.
I’ve tried, dying comes first it seems.
*delves into thread*
God, Twitter is a damn cesspool.
A lot of, um, intellectual prowess in that thread…
Of course, while a bombastic blowhard, Trump is right. Congress needs to change the laws. Until then the president is required to enforce the current laws.
BeeBea5 managed to demonstrate prog disingenous in the space of two tweets.
I wonder if she’s single.
Asking for Los Doyers.
I am looking forward to Reason’s “Arbitrary Enforcement of Laws Are Bad Unless I Agree With It” articles.
A major reason so many people lose their minds when their candidate doesn’t win is that they believe (or hope) that the President has dictatorial powers. It seems like they don’t teach the separation of powers and checks and balances in school anymore.
Trump orders a Space Force.
The threats are real.
Sepmer Fi . R. Lee Ermey
https://102tube.net/video/YlyNiXPA47M
Space Above and Beyond Boot Camp scene
“Puerto Rico Officials Investigated for Corruption During Hurricane Relief
Corruption in Puerto Rico may have been the cause of U.S. relief supplies not reaching those in need following Hurricane Maria in September 2017.
The administration of San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz (D), who made headlines for her criticisms of President Donald Trump’s handling of the relief efforts, is now being investigated for alleged corruption.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/puerto-rico-officials-investigated-for-corruption-during-hurricane-relief_2560097.html
I am in shock at this possibility…
Also isn’t this good according to Jeff Tucker and Jonathan Raich?
Karma is a bitch. I hope she gets nailed to the wall.
https://media.giphy.com/media/n4GnKL68ol0ty/giphy.gif
I know people who went there for official reasons after the hurricanes.
He had absolutely no surprise that this sort of thing happened (see the story about them finding piles of supplies in a warehouse at the peak of the disaster response). I will recount his story:
As disaster response personnel they were being escorted by police to the various locations. The cops would take several hours drinking coffee and having lunch, in between visits to ensure they got maximum overtime hours in. He said he could have finished everything in half the time if not for the cops dragging their feet.
I was in the Virgin Islands, and people were a bit more serious about things, if still corrupt and difficult to work with. Normal people were vary gracious, but you have to realize you’re dealing with government types over there.
Little discussed in the media:
After the 2016 elections, both the Democrat party and prestige media-outlets turned the “constantly harping about climate change” volume down significantly.
I don’t have any ready-proof of this, but am confident if you ran a search of headlines including the term from ~2011-now, you’d see a buildup into 2016, then a rapid dropoff between 2016 and now.
i think even any simple headline-count would be insufficient to capture the change, as many stories still run – albeit in the ‘science’ sections, or in backs of papers, or as secondary issues within other stories.
There has also in that same period of time been a concurrent rise in stories highlighting “Racism”, the ‘alt-right’, “nazis” etc.
You may start to see the outlines of what the point is here.
the short of it is that in early 2017, the DNC got together and had a pow-wow about why they got clobbered (and have continually been clobbered in local elections); part of the problem had been that they were basically using polls of very-loyal-democrat voters and asking, “what are your most important issues”? and the answer was often “Climate Change” as #1. Consistently, grannies and college kids both had very similar worries about Global Warming.
however, not all groups answered that way. One in particular ranked it particularly low. the one that didnt’? Also didn’t show up to vote in 2016. ‘Didn’t show up’ in very large numbers.
if you’ve been wondering why it feels like the media is constantly ginning up some contrived “Race Crisis in America”…. well, i’d suggest its not entirely coincidental.
I had 5 friends ask to “donate to a cause” on Father’s Day on Facebook, all some variation of stopping family separation at the border. I suspect that it will be a passing fad (as soon as the polling is in).
It’s almost like they’re not very good at using children as human shields (I know, other that teachers’ unions).
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=16&date=all&geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F0cs9q
A great big spike in November, 2016, then a big drop-off…
yeah, i don’t think Google term-search would capture what i’m talking about, since that’s driven by user-base searches and an aggregate of everything on the intertubes at any given time.
i’m thinking more “lexis nexis search of NYT, WaPo,Tribune,LATimes” + “# of mins devoted to subject on NBC/ABC/CBS” etc. each month. You could get the data at a research library with appropriate DBs, but its not something i have access to from office.
Good point; I suspect you’re right, though I don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc. has apologized to Quilliam and its founder Maajid Nawaz for wrongly naming them in its controversial Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists.
To a group of people who probably think anyone who didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton is anti-American, calling those guys anti-Muslim extremists seems completely reasonable.
“Joy Reid Attacked Clinton Admin For Not Wanting To Deport Immigrant Children
In a satire spinoff of Dr. Seuss, Reid attacked former Attorney General Janet Reno for her not wanting to take Elian Gonzalez away from family in Florida and return him to Cuba.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/31951/joy-reid-mocked-us-gov-not-wanting-rip-immigrant-ryan-saavedra
“Green eggs and Jan
She would not like him with a mouse, she would not take him from a house.”
https://www.salon.com/2000/04/21/renopoem/
MSNBC. Making Jerry Springer seem high brow.
Earth is noticeably hotter
Well, it IS summer in the northern hemisphere.
WEL ACKSUALLY, summer starts in 3 days.
It’s gonna be a long week.
Screw that. Its been summer here since February.
Noticed by whom? Thermometers dont seem to notice.
After the 2016 elections, both the Democrat party and prestige media-outlets turned the “constantly harping about climate change” volume down significantly.
I don’t have any ready-proof of this, but am confident if you ran a search of headlines including the term from ~2011-now, you’d see a buildup into 2016, then a rapid dropoff between 2016 and now.
i think even any simple headline-count would be insufficient to capture the change, as many stories still run – albeit in the ‘science’ sections, or in backs of papers, or as secondary issues within other stories.
I wonder how much of that is a shift from “climate change” to ad hominems aimed at Trump and Pruitt and their willful vandalism of the Ascended One’s legacy.
Yes, there is still much butt hurt after dumping the Paris agreement.
I think its just a re-ordering of the meta-narratives
before, the meta-narrative gave “Climate Change” a certain prominence as the key issue of our era. Now, i think its barely #3, even in the stories in which it might appear. Those stories, as you rightly note, are probably more about “Fascism” and “growing isolationism” and “collapsing liberal order”
whether the planet is actually increasing in temperature is suddenly sort of trivial background noise. before, it would be featured in speeches by candidates on a regular basis. I’d be surprised if you even hear it mentioned in most of the ads leading into November.
Which bodes poorly for Tom Steyer; or, at least “NextGen Climate Action” might get a re-brand.
basically, i think the establishment left learned that “actually poor people” they usually rely on to be democrat voters are really not all that fucking concerned about the temperature of the planet, and would rather not be lectured to about it. So they’ve decided the new meta-themes are ‘racism and oppression’, basically. Because those things , at least in the minds of the DNC types, are expected to resonate better.
I have my doubts that they do, tbh. I think the thing which Dems know is the #1 real appeal to poor people? Is “Jobs” and opportunity. But that territory is somewhat compromised, because it would require acknowledging that economic conditions have improved far faster in last 2 years.
Leader of the new Space Force.
https://youtu.be/347M0hcgjcw
Please, more like this.
How about a female commander?
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/fe/f1/3c/fef13ca031c74c0b2aa74693710b2bc3–norse-mythology-norse-goddess.jpg
Winnah!
Cyber would.
You totally forgot about Krankor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQUMJNXrW6U
“Jaqueline Mary bragged on Facebook that she left her menstrual cup on Donald Trump’s Hollywood star….”
http://www.americanafmindy.com/disgusting-feminist-leaves-menstrual-blood-on-sidewalk-thinks-it-makes-her-woke/
Classy.
Who is she?
Some pig.
She literally looks porcine.
Apparently, a dude magnet. Her cuppeth overfloweth with men. Allegedy.
“Why Sweden’s feminists are completely insane”
https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/06/why-swedens-feminists-are-completely-insane/
I can think of two reasons without reading the article.
Explain to me how most of the comments are negative and the comments criticizing her have the most thumbs up but it has a 3.5k likes to 20 dislikes ratio?
It’s YouTube, stupid commenters are the norm
ROOSKEES.
I stand corrected. She was criticizing feminists. I just watched the video. So the ratio makes sense. NEVER ASSUME!
In other migrant news – Merkel update:
BERLIN—German Chancellor Angela Merkel secured a two-week reprieve in her confrontation with her coalition partner, averting at least for now a collapse of her government over migrants.
Ms. Merkel clashed with longstanding ally Horst Seehofer, interior minister and chairman of the Bavarian sister party to her conservative bloc, last week after he threatened to go ahead with a plan she vetoed to start turning back some migrants at the German border.
Related
After days of tense talks, Mr. Seehofer said on Monday he would suspend implementation of the measure, giving Ms. Merkel time to negotiate an equivalent agreement with neighboring countries.
But in a clear sign that the conflict had been postponed rather than defused, Ms. Merkel said any decision made by Mr. Seehofer without her agreement—even in two weeks—would constitute a challenge to her authority.
No decision to turn back migrants at the border could be taken unilaterally, without consultation with the neighboring country or at another country’s expense, she said.
“It’s in Germany’s interest to control immigration in good partnership with our European neighbors,” she told a press conference in Berlin. “Turning people back in an uncoordinated manner… could end up calling into question European integration.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/merkel-gets-ultimatum-on-immigration-challenge-1529324605?mod=hp_lead_pos6
This is when it becomes apparent that it’s all about EU control and not the welfare of a nation’s citizens.
When you work from a starting point that the concept of a nation-state is no longer legitimate, then it all makes sense. I used to be a lot more of an open borders guy until I saw what effect it had on Europe when it was actually put into practice. As it stands, Europe is either going to have another war, or its timeline for economic collapse got moved way up.
You mean when the state imported people, encouraged them to act lawlessly, sabotaged people’s attempts to defend themselves, sabotaged people’s attempts to communicate about new threats emerging from the imported population?
Yes, that is clearly a problem caused by free migration and not governments treating their cattle like shit.
Interesting that you acknowledged that there are immigrants who do bad things and there are anti-immigration types with legitimate concerns which is something that Cytotoxic and Reason would never acknowledge.
I’ve always acknowledged it. I steered clear of immigration debates at TOS mainly because most of the participants were batshit crazy – either every mooooslim wanted to slit your daughters’ throats after impregnating her while simultaneously pouring sugar in our gas tanks (John) or every immigrant was a libertarian who would work hard, cause no problems and eschew theri problematic customs (cytotoxic).
Immigration brings out the stupid in people.
“either every mooooslim wanted to slit your daughters’ throats after impregnating her while simultaneously pouring sugar in our gas tanks (John)”
Needz moar snarky “religion of peace” comments and “halfwit!”
Isn’t that a bit counterproductive?
That was something that really annoys me about Reason. Seems they got their marching orders that immigration and free trade are good so any of the actual flaws in the non-libertarian ways these were implemented should be ignored lest nativism and protectionism rise. Also since Trump is critical of these then he must be attacked very ferociously for it. Hence Doherty calling him the “quintessential anti-libertarian”.
And add in their rather Fukuyamaish views of the 1990s and how NAFTA and modern immigration laws are too be forever unchallenged then we have a very unpleasant brew.
“Isn’t that a bit counterproductive?”
They’re not sending their best?
It’s an implementation issue. A borderless world has always struck me as a bit utopian, but workable IMO once other libertarian milestones are achieved (no more welfare state, absolute right to property and self-defense etc.). However, practically, what we see in Europe is what would actually happen if national borders were dissolved right now.
A big issue is how the Western Elites never really figured out how to deal with Islam in any way. Until Khomeini the idea that Islam could be a potent political force was regarded as absurd but now it is. And we can see how this inability to deal with Islam is causing lots of problems in foreign policy and immigration policy.
For example HG Wells thought that shutting down Mecca and all the Mosques and setting up a World Government in Basra would be done with pretty much no Muslim resistance back in the 1930s.
They know how to deal with it…
They don’t *want* to.
Some of it is a reaction to the Nazis (we won’t impose cultural values by force against people from ‘inferior’ cultures because that’s what Nazis did). Some of it is because they are using them to create a potent permanent underclass that can carry elections.
But, as the ruthless suppression of any hint of nativism in Germany, France and England shows, they do know how to deal with them. The only explanation is that they don’t want to.
“A big issue is how the Western Elites never really figured out how to deal with Islam in any way.”
Generally true. A big problem is that western elites think of Islam singular rather than all its variations.
I just finished reading “Three Empires on the Nile” which is about how the British gradually got embroiled in the Sudan. One of their biggest problems was trying to fit all Muslims into one box.
Another thing that most pro-immigration libertarians would never say…
“But, as the ruthless suppression of any hint of nativism in Germany, France and England shows, they do know how to deal with them. The only explanation is that they don’t want to”
Which is why when they do decide to act, watch out.
Passive aggressiveness unleashed is an ugly thing.
No offense, but that’s as silly as pointing to early 2000’s Somalia, when it was ruled by theocratic warlords, as an example of Libertopia. As far as I know, Europe is still composed of nation-states that claim monopolies over the use of force in their various jurisdictions while ceding some of their power to a supra-national federation.
The old adage of “you can’t have a nation without borders” is true, and Europe still has a shitload of nations.
Europe: One too many countries for a small land mass.
I mean, Andorra? COME. ON!
I’ll restate to jive with Tarran’s good point; they could solve the problem, they just have no motivation to do so. Their desire to import these people stems from 1. lingering guilt over nativism-driven 20th century atrocities, 2. hamfisted attempt to solve their demographic problems and save the welfare state or 3. as Tarran said, creation of a permanent underclass to manipulate electorally (seems to clash with 2. but these *are* Eurocrats, not rocket scientists). None of it is remotely related to support of freedom of movement for peaceful people looking to contribute economically.
I wouldn’t mind Andorra if it were more like San Marino.
Italy could always go back to its natural state of being multiple city states.
I don’t think it’s even as complicated as that, Q. I just think the calculus was “refoulement” is a war crime. A crime in the eyes of an international legal system led by countries who never thought they would be in the situations applicable to the laws they wrote. I mean, it’s all well and good on the floor of the UN General Assembly to demand that some sub-Saharan African state accept a flood of displaced people from the eternally civil war and coup d’etat ridden shithole next door, but never in a million years did the denizens of NGO-landia thought that these laws would be applied to countries where white people live.
Europe: One too many countries for a small land mass.
Germany: Nuh uh! Way too many countries for a small land mass.
Let’s not forget the role of culture as well. If you ask your average German what do you call someone whose great-grandparents moved to Düsseldorf from Ankara in the early 70’s, he would answer, “a Turk.”. If you asked your average American what do you call someone after they take their oath of naturalization, he would answer “an American.”
This point cannot be overstated.
^^^Very true.
Well put!
Not if the practitioners of identity politics have their way. They seem set on turning us into Yugoslavia.
And if you asked a German or anyone else be it French, Italian, Dutch etc. in the 12th century what they were they’d answer ‘Christian’.
It is not an either or. Economic collapse will not prevent war.
As opposed to letting them in….in an uncoordinated manner.
Is it just me or is stupid like The Blob? It seems to be more and more prevalent and growing exponentially.
I think it’s just more visible due to the internet.
The more the proggys lose, the louder and more shrill their stupidity becomes.
That seems to be it. I thought there has to be some limit but they just keep getting crazier and more mendacious.
Nah, you’re just settling into the second “I know everything ” phase of life. The first hits late teen early twenties, the second somewhere around sixty-ish. Now the second isn’t quite as clueless as the first and is somewhat defensible (life experience and whatnot) but it still suffers from the same conceit.
When other planets send their people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re mutilating cows. They’re leaving crop circles. They’re anal probists. And some, I assume, are good people. So we’re going to build a dyson sphere. A big beautiful sphere. And we are going to make the aliens pay for it.
To be fair, at least a few of those abductees enjoy the anal probes.
(slaps tentacles together in gesture of approval)
Florida: where the air ejaculates on you all summer long; not that these ladies would mind.
http://archive.is/PN6u3
#3 because there’s something about big tits in overalls.
BTW: #12 would have won going away if not for those ridiculous lip injections.
You notice the lips but not the face that is literally made of “butter”?
Fine, I’ll just have to find someone else for the MFM threesome!
9, 27, 34, 37.
Ah, to come in from work and see #15 there: “Hi, Honey, how was your day? Looks like you could use a cold drink and a hot massage.”
The new space fore will need a motto.
Way back when the newly-formed AF Space Command had a contest to choose their motto.
The clear, unofficial winner among the troops was “We Work in a Vacuum.”
Who knows what the official motto is.
Best unofficial AF MAJCOM motto: “A suck for SAC is a blow for freedom”
In Space, no one can hear us spend money.
^^Winner.
Vacuums suck?
For Warty,
If Slayer and George Michael had mated.
You claim they didn’t?
Another selfless hero.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44523536
Bexar county is in the process of turning into yet another cesspool. I can see they’re right on schedule.
One thing I find interesting about Star Wars and lady Ghostbusters is how Hollywood is weaponizing youtube commenters for their own gain. You know to virtue signal about how progressive they are since altright manbaby bigots hate them as to being cynical corporate moneygrabs. And to try to tar their critics with the same brush and hope for easy ride from critics and a good Rotten Tomatoes score since you don’t want to be on the same side as the Deplorables. Also to absolve themselves when the film bombs since they are too progressive for AmeriKKKa.
I mean this is nothing new in principle since controversy has always been a selling point as is the Banned in Boston effect. That being said in the old days the most interaction Hollywood would get with its fans would be from fan mail. I’m sure some mail was really nasty. There must have been some people who wrote letters to Warner Bros. complaining that Bette Davis was too ugly, that James Cagney was Irish and that Edward G, Robinson was Jewish for example. But would they pay attention to it? I don’t know.
But, that only really works when anybody gives a shit what they think. It’s increasingly becoming apparent that that reserve fo goodwill and credibility has dwindled quite a bit in the last few years. You can only really virtue signal if people respect the virtue you’re trying to signal.
You know, random thought here, I was watching parts of ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ and it occurred to me the character played by Hanks lost his soul mate and then within a couple of years found another spurred on by a spunky 13 year-old playing Cupid who makes it happen?
Shit, people can’t even find ONE! What makes this shithead special?
I would have killed her off too as a sign from God. ‘Just be happy I gave you two! Most people aren’t so lucky!’
/adds cold water to Jell-O stirring.
What you don’t see is following the “happily ever after” ending, she finds out he’s addicted to porn, drugs him with Halcion in his cereal, then cuts off his dick and slits his throat from ear to ear.
What happens to Jonah?
Oh, I know. His aunt fucks him!
Sounds like an OMWC documentary.
A Brit on Facederp made fun of me for using the word “soccer” – a word the fucking British made up.
You should have used the correct term, Metric Football?
“The word “soccer” is an example of the Oxford “-er”, a class of slang words coined in and around Oxford University beginning in the late 19th century. It is derived from the term “association football,” analogous to the word “rugger” which refers to rugby. The first recorded usages of “soccer” date from 1890s England.”
It seems the Brits hate the word “soccer” since they, falsely, think it is an Americanism and that in the past it was used by the British Upper Classes.
Tell him to fuck off.
I believe they say sod off or bugger off.
“Sod off, cunter,” is the correct terminology.
Give ’em a Glasgow kiss and be done with it. Who the fuck needs words?
Two people separated by a common language.
In other words, a marriage.
You’re only saying that because you think I’m fat!
Yes. This is what makes ‘Fuck off’ so much more satisfying.
I suppose Barry Trotz did what he set out to do and doesn’t need to do any more, but damn.
It’s time for payday, KK. He would have stayed if the check was big enough. A lot of teams will pay big money for the guy that got Ovi to play defense!
Maybe he’ll wind up in Vegas!
Maybe, but I’d suspect an underachiever like Edmonton.
Also gender swapped Remakes and sequels are nothing new but they seem to be more controversial despite the fact that in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s such a film was a far more blatant commentary on contemporary gender roles and masculinity than such a film is today.
I couldn’t give a shit one way or the other, just make a decent movie that entertains me. Stupid political statements are not entertaining.
One thing I find fascinating about the whole “liberal world order” stuff is how the neocons and Democrats have reunited since the McCarthy/McGovern disruption during ‘Nam. The neocons are disgruntled cold war liberals after all. See Star Trek TOS as example of the left idealizing this Cold War Liberalism. And the left’s foreign policy articles their traditional talking points to attack US foreign policy like Iraq, Pinochet, the Contras and the Shah have vanished. All because Trump said “Can’t we get along with Russia?”.
I, for one, will always thank Trump for shanking Atlanticism in the shower.
That’s the kind of misdirection I’ve come to expect from you Bilderbergers.
I pretty much have to agree. I think you could make a non-trivial case for Atlanticism during the Cold War era. It was an attempt to look at a world where there was aggressive, expansionist, communism. But, the world really doesn’t look like that now. You’re looking at a world with multiple camps and competing interests. And, if you ask supporters what the point of NATO is today, you either get a bunch of gobbledy-gook, spook stories about Russia, or an open admission that they want to see America tied down.
Can robots give hand jobs? Or even blow jobs? If I’m a hooker, these are things that would keep me up at night.
Are we not doing phrasing?
Don’t worry Rufus, there’s some things even robots won’t do.
So Marie Dressler was right?
It doesn’t matter. This was all addressed in 1987, in the movie Cherry 2000. The answer is a hot Melanie Griffith.
Question for all:
Has anyone heard of (or done) one of these “Escape Room” games, parties, event type things?
A client who has his fingers in a few franchises recently pitched this thing to me as something he’s investing in. I didn’t know WTF he was talking about and he was like, “Dude this is bigger than Dippin’ Dots” (actually he didn’t say that; i did, but it was my joke for “franchise ideas that get overhyped then fail”)
he suggested it was popular. I have my skepticism. but i have found a handful of people operating “rooms” in the US to host them, and its popular in Europe (or seems to be).
Anyone know what the fuck i’m talking about? example.
they are all over. even
bowling green has one.
its probably 2 years too late to invest.
Or you can hunt for Steve Smith here.
http://www.ravenwoodcastle.com/event/the-bigfoot-files-sept-7th-8th
LOOKING FOR MR. STEVEB’AR
I’ve never heard of it. But it looks more like an expensive hobby than a sustainable business.
Our last job was building an Escape Room. Second in a city of ~3/4 mil. I wouldn’t have thought one would make much money, but there you go.
I had a chance to try it out with a group of guinea pigs but declined. My brother and SIL went and enjoyed it.
I stand corrected, it’s the fourth in the city.
Does that mean it’s not easily re-configurable? If so, their clientele has to be completely new customers 99% of the time. Once you figure it out, what’s the point in going back?
They might be able to move clues around, but the sets are built in place and pretty ornate. I should have asked their installers.
If it were my franchise I’d have sets built to a standardish room size, then trade ’em between locations every however many months made sense.
These places typically have at least 3 different rooms.
Yep. This one had six.
The stench of lacquer by the time we were finishing up was overpowering.
I’ve found ~2 companies that actually design and then sell their “room plans/game designs” to local builders.
someone’s making money on this idea, i’m just trying to figure out who is the best person in the food-chain.
there’s a company in the UK which is trying to be a major franchisee.
https://investors.escapehunt.com
they only came to US last year. My client is wondering whether to partner w/ some operator like this, or do his own independent biz…. he’s looking at me like i’m supposed to have valuable insight
(because i was a research-guy, i’m supposed to be able to look at something and go, “That’s great” or “that’s shit”in 5 seconds)
We did it recently and it was a fucking blast. Not an escape room, but a puzzle room. Really well done and challenging.
Web site
We ended up doing the Harry Potter themed one because there were so many kids in the group. We solved it, but it was plenty difficult.
I’d absolutely go again.
Oh! It’s like live action Infocomm games! Looks fun, but I don’t know about investment opportunity.
^^^ I like that description.
The client has a bunch of retail properties. pizza shops, dry cleaners. he’s sort of agnostic about what goes in commercial-real estate properties, just that they generate revenue growth.
i was sort of “this is dumb” initially
but in the time since this conversation started, i’ve gathered that the # of people operating these rooms went from like 300-room, 150 operators in 2015, to about 1300 operators, 3000+ rooms in 2018
–
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-weird-new-world-of-escape-room-businesses-2015-07-20
https://usaescaperooms.com
and the same-unit revenue growth has been v. good. even if its the sort of thing where you tap out the local market within a few years. (i assume you just reconfigure your rooms to something new), it looks like you can recover your investment in 12-18months or so.
i’ve found a half dozen franchisers, but some look like retards, and 3-4 seem legit. seems it started in Asia. The biggest chains originated in Thailand, Malaysia, respectively. Its relatively new in the US.
We have two, yes two, escape rooms in 110,000 person ManchVegas, NH.
Wait, you live in Manchvegas? I was out that way a few weeks ago, damn.
Indeed, I do. What brought you up my way, if I may ask?
Got a buddy from college who just got hitched, up in Portsmouth. It’s a beautiful little piece of country out there.
“great for corporate team building exercises”
also, for LSD-users seeking new challenges.
I have heard of them in Columbus and Cleveland, and have secondhand anecdotal reports that they were “Fun” but no first-hand experience.
Good investments are low overhead. That doesnt look low overhead. It looks expensive to build.
So the business model is to lock complete strangers in a small room together and see if they can devise a way to get out.
It works for Billy.
yes. something like that. some of the “games” seem to have some automation involved (things that turn lights/trigger audio/give rewards, etc)
i don’t really know.
It reminds me of a very novel “Amusement park” i went to in Niagara Falls in like 1988 or so. it was build inside of what seem to have once been a shopping mall, but instead of ‘stores’, there were either ‘games’ or “rides’ or…. things like this. One was a maze built into the service areas around + behind 2 floors of the storefronts. It was entirely blacked out (i mean walls floors covered with black velvet. ZERO light.) and you were supposed to grope your way from “room” to “room” where there would be puzzles to let you go to next stage. In some of the darkened areas, there were employees who would purposely scare the shit out of you by separating members from your group, or whispering shit in your ears. I punched one and they got all Canadian-mad at me. “Hey now not cool bud”. I remember it being one of the odder sort of Amusement-activities i’d ever come across. Also, even @ like 13, i was like, “This shit is a lawsuit waiting to happen”.
“This shit is a lawsuit waiting to happen.”
A guy tried to sell me on a kid’s party house. It had swing ropes, trampolines, ladders, a large bouncy house, padded floors and jungle gym stuff. Two seconds after walking in the door and seeing that he had my answer.
Is it bigger than the Pet Rock craze?
My daughter went to one for a birthday party. Fun apparently.
I don’t play games.
“I don’t play games.”
Rufus dont play that
Fucken right.
/kicks Trouble game board out of daughter’s hands.
There are a bunch in Orlando. I love doing escape rooms.
Then I guess I’ve been living under a rock or something.
I know there’s at least one in Green Bay, it’s next to the comic shop I go to. Never saw anybody there yet.
My Ex-brother-in-law had a few, one here, one in Cleveland at a minimum, he was making bank.
There are a bunch in LA. I’ve not done one myself, but friends and co-workers have. Seems to be more of a party / team-building /special occasion thing, than, say, a restaurant that you want return customers. I would think they’re pretty akin to kid party places, business-wise, in that market saturation would eventually be a problem, but as long as costs aren’t too high and you get some word-of-mouth/advertising to get new business, it’d do well.
I can fuck my way out of pretty much any room, but nobody seems to want to invest in that.
Did someone say Monster Magnet?
Yeah, I already posted.
Huh, well. I’ll be damned. Figured you woulda gone for “Space Lord” or something.
*kicks rock*
Yeah, I usually give Space Lord the bar jukebox love.
No love for Angel Boris? (NSFW)
One burger, well done, hold the spit. In Australia, special orders do upset us.
That’s not mayo.
Hand cranked artisinal mayo
Lucky that wasn’t Curtis LeMay. He would’ve carpet bombed the place.
“Killing Japanese didn’t bother me very much at that time… I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.”
The miracle ain’t how well the bear skateboards, but that it skateboards at all….while mauling the handler.
The children have to learn about nature sometime.
Nothing makes people more aware that animals are animals, than animals behaving like animals..
It always surprises me when people act as if a domesticated/trained animal can’t have an animal date.
Animals are just fuzzy little people in most people’s minds.
Timmy this is not how you have sex.
Bears are….bears. They are temperamental as hell. You never know what they are going to do in the next ten seconds. In the blink of an eye they go from calm to angry.
I saw one of these ‘trained’ bears kill a man once. It tore his throat out in two seconds. Two handlers hit it with pepper spray but it was too late. The poor bastard never realized what had happened. He got up and tried to run away but he only made it about ten steps.
No one who was there could figure out why the bear attacked.
It’s a damned bear. Keep your distance.
“animal turned on its trainer when it was beaten with a stick”
https://youtu.be/8_4bLNM0axE
I thought it was going to be “When Animals Attack Magicians”, but that one doesn’t seem to be on Youtube.
Speaking of, anyone heard from Jesse?
When I was about 10 a neighborhood girl my age was attacked by a bear in Yosemite. Her father was trying to get a picture her feeding a bear. To get the best shot he kept telling to not let the bear have the treat just yet. Bear finally got pissed and took the treat and half her face.
Unbelievable: human capacity for stupidity is boundless.
That’s awful.
Officials find gruesome proof six little girls were suicide bombers whose attack killed 31 in Nigeria
““It was later realised the suicide attacks were carried out by six underage girls whose decapitated heads were found at the scene by rescue teams. They were between seven and 10 years, from their looks.”
OMWC hardest hit.
Jesus… Words fail me.
What’s the latest word on the Osaka quake? This afternoon the English language press had 4 dead and 300 injured.
Seems not as bad as it could’ve been. Aftershocks all night. None in Kanto.
Glad you and the family are nowhere near it. My friend in Amagasaki said she felt them.
I mean, Chicken Alfredo is pretty tasty.
Why am I not in the least bit surprised at his photo. Those guys all have a certain look and he has it in spades.
For those who wondered about how insanely popular soccer is in the rest of the world:
Final minutes of Iceland/Argentina game have 60 rating and 99.6 share in Iceland
That is, 60% of all TVs in total were tuned to the game, and 99.6% of those TVs that were on were tuned to the game.
Iceland has more than 100 televisions?
Iceland has more than 1 channel?
There are over 50 American cities more populous than the country of Iceland.
/looks down at tourism guide.
Hey! There’s no Ice here!
In case anyone wants to read like a 20 page article on Transgender Kids and the various issues involved
(I MEAN WHO WOULDNT)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/
its Jesse Singal, who is basically “prog, but not the crazy SJW kind”. He’s gotten in twitter-trouble in recent past for writing about this topic in ways that the crazy SJW types disapproved of. I think they also disapproved of this, despite it being 5x as long as it likely should be because he has to repeatedly say, “IM NOT AGAINST TRANS PEOPLE” in various ways. I’ve only gotten halfway through it. Its … good, its worth reading. but it does have a lot of probably-unecessary pandering that will turn some people off.
Is anyone really against trannys? The vast majority of them, genuine ones, dont really harm or bother anyone. What I find offensive are the radical SJW types deliberate attempts to assault the family and propriety in general. As far as people suffering from gender dysphoria I have nothing but sympathy. I only know one. His life is a train wreck. His judgement about other people is even worse than that of himself. He is stunningly naive and gullible and grifters can see him coming a mile away.
This. It’d be like being anti-schizophrenics. What would that even mean unless people were trying to advocate for schizophrenia to be considered normal?
Well, as the story gets into, that’s part of the problem: not ‘opposition’ (but there is some of that in SoCon circles) to transition, but that the politics around the entire topic is so ridiculously overheated by the batshit left, that it becomes nearly impossible to talk about the subject without violating some of their sacred cows.
he spends a lot of time examining “Detransitioners”, for instance – people who went thru hormone treatment and surgery at young age, and then decided after the fact that they were in fact ‘their original gender’ after all.
what i dislike about his tiptoing around the topic is how, in effort not to offend the activists, he doesn’t bother citing data that would help clarify things.
e.g. the rate of persistence for people who pursue treatment is very low. many people go to therapists and never complete hormone cycles… and even more go through the hormone treatment, then bail before surgery… then, of the ones that get reassignment-surgery? there’s a large number (various studies have put it between 20-30%) that regret having done so, and some who actually pursue “reversing” surgery.
even talking about these things drives the SJW people into a froth. they insist that those people were never REAL trans to begin with, so shouldn’t be discussed in the context of real ones.
**semi interesting data he does mention (not sure why):
the de-transitioners are far more often ‘female to male’
which is weird, because the vast majority of the people who seek transition are MTF. women looking to become dudes are the minority overall, but the bulk of the ones who quickly change their minds
(dudes who become women also de-transition, but it seems to take a lot longer. there’s also a weird thing about late middle aged dudes – like Jenner – who transition, while i think its almost entirely unknown for older women to do so)
basically – persistent gender dysphoria seems to be a predominantly male phenomenon. of the women who become dudes, few really seem to ever pull it off for very long.
There is much more scientific evidence supporting female brains in male bodies, than male brains in female bodies. This makes sense, in part, because biological men are much likely to have eccentric brains than women. The majority of schizophrenics, super geniuses, serial killers, etc. are men.
Also, androphilic FTM are so extremely rare, very little is known about them. I can’t even think of one besides Buck Angel.
Whereas I don’t want to sound like I’m being over-critical of FTM, I do find the whole pregnant man thing perplexing. As getting pregnant and giving birth seems like very feminine behavior.
There are plenty of socons, muslims, radical feminists, etc. who are against them. The vast majority of Jews, gays, Mexicans, white people, etc. dont really harm or bother anyone either, but that doesn’t mean they never face any prejudice or bigotry.
You want to be a tranny? Be a tranny. I feel sorry for you. But don’t demand that I approve, or endorse your decision.
20 pages is about 19.99 pages too long on this subject at this point. Hard pass.
I despise UPS, Sorry Lacky………………
/til Tuesday
I haven’t read it yet. Which is why I didn’t post the link.
The anti-SJW’s are saying he’s going to get dogpiled for it, but who knows?
Anyway, the problem with almost every article about transgender anything is that the word is hardly well-defined. “Transsexual” wasn’t the best term. So that has largely been discarded for “transgender”. But it’s too much of a umbrella term.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvCXK_54-io
I knew one guy who wanted to be called Jennifer. He was married. This was way back before this was the craze de jour around 2005. His other friends went along with it, but it always seemed to me to be a phase. He’s still married to the same woman and has 3 kids. He no longer wants to be called Jennifer as far as I know.
Last week, I had a brief exchange with Negroni on history reading lists, specifically for pre-Revolutionary America. At least one other commenter expressed interest in having me post the list here. Please note, as far as I know, none of the historians I list are libertarians.
• Taylor, American Colonies (2002): widely considered the best single volume history of early America currently available.
• Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: the First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (2000)
• Richter, Facing East From Indian Country (2003)
• Calloway, New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (1991)
• Axtell, The Invasion Within: the Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America (1986)
• Anderson, The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War (2006)
• Kidd, The Great Awakening (2009)
• Winiarksi, Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (2017)
• Hall, Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England (1990)
• Crosby, Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (1973)
• Bonomi, Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America (1988): a little dated but one of the few surveys of religion in all the colonies.
• Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (1992): this goes up to 1865
• Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (1988)
• White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (1991)
• Brooks, Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (2002)
• Usner, Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: the Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783 (1992)
• Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World (1998)
• McConville, The King’s Three Faces: the Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776 (2007)
• And for one on the revolution, I would probably go with Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause (1982)
Fantastic reading list – thanks Raven Nation!
Will you be grading us?
You’re all winners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Km5OKZlp0
Yes, thank you Raven Nation! More books to add to the to-read pile.
“If you won’t carry with one in the chamber, you shouldn’t carry at all”
Agree /Disagree/Thoughts?
Personally, I carry empty chamber. Much more likely to have some freak accident on the shitter that leads to a negligent discharge than end up in a situation where racking the slide is the difference between life and death.
Depends on the gun. This is why I personally prefer a hammer fired, rather than striker fired auto. I feel much safer with the hammer down if there is one in the chamber vice on a striker fired gun (although I’m not sure that’s true).
I hope that ‘down’ means the half-cock position.
In an auto I carry one in the chamber, cocked and locked in a holster that blocks the hammer. My second carry is a J-frame revolver. I usually keep them in the console in the car or on the night table by the bed. I dont carry that often anymore.
*A guy I went to high school with shot himself dead when he set a pistol down on the bed he was sitting on. He stood up causing the bed to move and the pistol fell on the floor between his feet. It discharged and the bullet went straight up his ass. The coroner said he was dead before he hit the floor and ruled it ‘accidental suicide’.
Looking at the accident/suicide* rate for people who have guns, I’m inclined to agree with you.
*Not sure how much of this is old guys with terminal cancer
If it’s on my person, there’s one in the chamber. The only gun in a position to use that doesn’t have one in the pipe is the one in the dashboard cubby. The way it sits, it would be pointing at the head of people in the car ahead of me. If I fuck up and rear end somebody, I don’t want to accidentally put a .40 in the back of their head as well.
Interesting. I learned on revolvers but carry a striker fired. I’ve recently been thinking about switching to a DA/SA. I like the idea of a gun that may be taken out of battery without pulling the trigger.
I’m not sure there is a right answer except carry a goddamn gun all the time.
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Oh hell yeah.
3,4,and 5 for the win.
Is Far Cry 5 worth it?
It’s not bad. Maybe get it when it goes on sale. It’s a typical Ubisoft open-world game; they removed some of the tedious stuff like radio towers, changed the crafting mechanics, made it play more like Wildlands, but it’s still the same Far Cry they’ve been milking since they hit on a winning formula with FC3.
I’ll keep an eye out for it used.
I’ve heard it went retarded on “let’s take away control from you so you can’t interrupt our movie with your stupid game”, but instead of it happening when you hit a story checkpoint, it happens when you do X amount of activities. Literally, you get punished for open worlding in an open world game.
First annual Glibertarians international trip destination announced!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit,_Tamanrasset
“It is known for the Battle of Tit which took place in May 1902”
Huh, I figured the struggle between lefty and righty has been both widespread and ongoing for all of recorded mammal history
Ones always Bigger than the other, you might say,
My Battle of Tit always revolves around where to look.
https://i.imgur.com/Uk7Fg6k.jpg
Well Done!
Originally: The Battle of Squeeze Tits.
FU WordPress and your unannounced routine logout.
just push a button, or have an Orphan do it, you Cretin!
BrettL come to San Diego and I’ll go see Monster Magnet with you.
I got one of these for those times I feel like having a smoke (drinking etc.). Gives you quite the nicotine rush.
Ugh. https://www.pmi.com/smoke-free-products/iqos-our-tobacco-heating-system
Nice looking product and a good idea. I smoke a small amount of hand rolled tobacco mixed with bud in the evenings. Lately I have been vaping oil more and just having a couple smokes per week. This is the best one I’ve found so far.
https://selectoil.com/
Question for vape folks, is there any resource that compares hit/taste/potency to actual brands of cigs for vape stuff?