Why, hey there, Glibbys. I’m back for Morning Links! Without any further ado…
Notable Births
Lots of really amazing people were born today!
Ferdinando I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1609.
Emily Bronte, 1818.
Henry Ford, 1863.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1947.
Jürgen Klinsmann (who is largely considered the reason the USMNT didn’t qualify for the World Cup). 1964
WebDom! 1980-something
Notable Deaths
Maria Theresa of Spain, 1683.
William Penn, 1718.
Thomas Gray, 1771.
Otto von Bismarck, 1898.
Bảo Đại, 1997.
Notable Events
WebDom was born.
[Ed. note: SP started going gray. Causation or correlation? You decide.]
Linky link link links
Google “accidentally” leaked photos of their new phone which will finally have wireless charging.
Boz Scaggs lost all the lyrics he wrote.
The Tour de France is over, and has been won by a Brit.
And speaking of dying (which is what would happen to me in any sort of athletic endurance event), what would you want your last meal to be? I think I’d want a burrito smothered with Christmas from Harry’s Roadhouse in Santa Fe, posole, and a big basket of sopapillas. Brits seem to want a holiday roast dinner.
I have a fascination with collective nouns, especially lately as a murder of crows has taken up residence in my backyard. Many of the collective nouns are amusing, especially the “mutation of thrush” which sounds like an extra bad STD.
“As far as knowledge goes I’ve come a long way.” ~ Jurgen Klinsmann
Do you have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset? This is something I’ve been fascinated with since I first learned of the concept. I believe a growth mindset is very much a requirement for success as those with a growth mindset see knowledge and intellect a something that can be increased, as opposed to static.
“Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.” ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Today may be a Monday, but as it’s my birthday, and as my last year kind of sucked, I am celebrating with some booze! For the last couple days I’ve been sipping on a bottle of Basil Hayden’s, which was brought to my attention by SugarFree. There are some great looking cocktail recipes using this bourbon, but I can’t bring myself to mix it. As far as beer goes, my husband and I have been enjoying Suspended Particle Double IPA.
Beer and soda prices for some varieties are set to increase in Chicago due to the aluminum tariffs
For your amusement, enjoy an audio of LBJ ordering six pairs of pants in 1964.
Today’s tune is a chilled out remix of Shiki no Uta from Samurai Champloo.
Have a great birthday!
All Hail July 30th. Cheers!
Seconded!
Have a great birthday, but just the right amount of great. To much fun can land one in trouble
Happy Birthday! Here’s my favorite birthday song – Drunken Sin by Satan…
Happy B-day!
Basil Hayden is an excellent choice.
And Hokey Smokes! Google says Meijer’s has the 8 yr on sale for $19.99. That is outstanding!
I’m going to say “Happy B-day WD” first. Then I’m going to complain about you drinking anything but a large bottle of malt beverage. In fact someone with your moniker should have two large bottles strapped to her hands for the night. The “WD40 Challenge” is what it would be called and it would be great.
Don’t fuck up a great pun just to drink decent booze.
Happy birthday WD! Leos represent!
Thank youuuu!
WD40. Love it.
Wouldn’t have known of Basil Hayden’s without SF!
Enjoy whatever over-hopped beers you want to!
Happy Birthday!
Cake! They all want cake!
The cake is a lie!
Oh no, high carbs!
And Happy Birthday!
Thank you!
I want cake.
And root beer floats.
PIE >>> CAKE
Come at me, bros.
Happy birthday!! ???
Thanks!
We need emojis in our comment areas more often. Love it.
Happy Birthday, WebDom! May the next year be a happier one!
^^^This^^^
Seconded.
Ditto
Thank you! I certainly hope so!
46. A BUNCH OF WORMS
Guess they got a little bored.
It really should, in a just Universe, be “a diet of worms.”
Whoa. That’s the name for our parliament. Oh, nevermind, it still works.
What should a group of Glibertarians be called?
A schism of libertarians.
An Uber of Menche.
A Gaze of Glibs
A restraining order of glibertarians.
A woodchipperful.
A restraining order of glibertarians.
Winner!
A Pedant of Glibs.
Fuck off, slaver! Don’t collectivize us!
It is pretty rich of you libertarian hypocrites to scream about slavery while having no less than 6 monocle polishing orphans in your basement.
It’s not slavery. It’s called being charitable.
A troop of Tulpas
Nice. How about, a Hernia of Hihns.
A BUNCH OF BULLIES
a contumaciousness
A Lot of Woodchippers
For the dog lovers in the group:
An Arrogance of Papillons
An Asylum of Pomeranians
a clod of Boxers
A Disobedience of Dachshunds.
A Stable of Bitches.
Shouldn’t that be an unstable of bitches?
A Gregariousness of Retrievers!
Do you have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset?
I’m a firm believer that unless you’re experiencing clinically relevant symptoms, your mindset really doesn’t mean shit. The world will grind on just the same whether you think you’re fulfilling your cosmic purpose on the path to greater enlightenment and success or you’re just killing time until you can’t stand up anymore.
It’s self help, plain and simple. It’s a way to get people to stop focusing on the fact that they’re unimportant and miniscule in the grand scheme of things, and to focus on what they can do, which is change their mentality.
I hate self help culture. It’s right up there with I fucking love science culture as the most pernicious and prog-infested culture out there.
Science denier.
Don’t get me wrong, people with a “growth mindset” are probably happier, so power to them. I just doubt how much it really makes any difference in anything but their self perception.
Happy people usually are more productive and better neighbors. However, I agree that most of this self help crap is snake oil. You ain’t finding the meaning of life by reading a tome from some psychologist or businessman.
Business books are the worst.
Self-help goes without saying.
Well said Pat.
The best mindset is to basically just do your thing, and do it as well as you can or want, and just live life every day it is given to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqc_EhmL8-E
Do whatcha gonna do…
The Mindset book is useful to parents of small children, at least. My eldest’s default is more “fixed” — since he was 2 if something he tried didn’t work the way he wanted it to, he’d get upset with it and scream and bite toys. Learning ways to guide him into a more productive “growth” mindset where he is taught to stay calm and work the problem will help me help him be less of a whiny dick when he grows up.
Sometimes having a vocabulary is useful for defining a problem and attempting a solution.
I haven’t read the book, but I agree about the vocabulary. I think the same holds true for stuff like the MBTI and stuff like that. It can act as a useful catalyst for analysis and as a shorthand for describing groups of traits in a broad sense. The only time it becomes problematic is if it’s taken too seriously or too literally.
Speaking purely from my own perspective, I think my growth mindset is what makes it possible for me to be motivated to keep growing because I know that we — humans — are insignificant in the great scheme of things. If I wasn’t innately programed towards improving myself, I would never try new things because what’s the fucking point when I am nothing but a speck?
The point, however, is that while I am a speck, I have to live with myself. If nothing else, my growth mindset is what made it possible for me to stop being such a cunt.
My nerd-dom is showing but I think of it more like an MMORPG.
Your character has certain stats when you create the character, and there is a cap on how much each of your stats can improve based on your class, but through questing you can improve them (to a certain extent). An elf mage will never be as strong as a human warrior who will never be as smart as an elf mage. But they can all aspire to be the best they can be.
And yes, the self-help industry is full of scam artists.
Nazis, racists, bigots: Extremism on US ballot in 2018
#BlueWave
Don’t mention the socialists infesting the Democrat slate….
Socialism is no longer a dirty word in the US – and that’s scary for some – you scared WTF? huh?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/29/socialism-no-longer-dirty-word-us-scary-for-some#comments
The comments are worth scrolling to
Too bad more people weren’t scared of it in Russia in the 1910s, or in Germany in the 1930s.
Speaking of racists on the ballot….
Keith Ellison is out making thoughtful nuanced statements on Medicare for all.
Amen! Sucks to elect a bunch of people who have been talking tough on health care legislation for years only to have them absolutely cave when they win control of all branches of govt.
They’ve found new lives because of the complete and utter lunacy of the most prominent up-and-coming figures in the Democratic party, and because of the dominance of PC culture over the past decade. Trump isn’t a cause, he’s a symptom.
It’s my understanding that at least one of those candidates was pretty aggressively fought against by the GOP establishment to try and keep him from getting the (R) after his name on the ballot. They got bitch slapped by the state court and he gets to run as one anyways.
Not really sure how that all works.
That’s strange. I would’ve assumed that if the R’s didn’t nominate him he wouldn’t get to run as one.
The district is gerrymandered to specifically elect a white Democrat (and one from the Lipinski family specifically). The IL Republican party declined to spend money running someone in a pointless election. So the Nazi (sensing an opportunity) went through the process of getting the signatures to run essentially unopposed in the primary. The GOP has since done everything they could to stop him (without blowing a ton of money), and of course the Democratic party has been more than happy to pretend like this guy is the actual preferred candidate for the GOP.
Their current tactic is to say that unless they explicitly endorse Lipinski then they are therefore endorsing the Nazi.
It is of course 50% the GOP’s own fault. The rules that restrict ballot access so severely (done in cooperation with the Democrats) are exactly why they haven’t been able to stop this guy. Gotta love the stench of two party politics.
EUGENE DEBS DID NOTHING WRONG!
Suspended Particle Double IPA.
There’s a Stokes’ Law joke in there somewhere.
Happy Birthday to my favorite daughter!
Not going to lie, I only bought it for the name. But it turned out to be delicious.
Thank you!
Doomsday cult of personality
“Ruth Bader Ginsburg” was trending on Twitter Sunday night, and liberals across the Internet panicked.
“My heart stopped for a moment,” tweeted writer Wajahat Ali.
Dedicated RBG fans feared the worst. They refused to look up the news. They prayed. They offered their kidneys.
“I was on my way to the hospital to donate all my organs,” wrote another fan. “Please be alive, please be alive, please be alive …,” tweeted another.
Then, came a collective exhale. Her admirers soon realized that Ginsburg is very much alive, and that the news was that she does not plan on stepping down anytime soon. She said so during a speaking appearance Sunday following a performance in New York of “The Originalist,” a play about the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
It’s fascinating how the I Fucking Love Democracy Party apparently has neither understanding of, nor faith in, the institutions of their greatly beloved Leviathan. Rule of Man trumps Rule of Law.
“I’ll be on the Court 5 more years” really is Tempting the Fates.
Hit by a bus 18 days later.
If only.
–insert pregnancy joke here—
Sure thing, Tony.
What? Surely you mean 2 years.
Yes, the hidden message is that she expects to have to survive until 2024 when she can retire and let the new President pick her successor.
Well they won’t bounce McCain out of the Senate even though he’s definitely not mentally fit for office so who knows?
“I’ll be on the Court 5 more years” really is Tempting the Fates.
Even more so considering the context that she was speaking after a play about Antonin Scalia, who died in office.
She’s 85. I’m a ways down the trail
myself and don’t know many who’ve made it that far.
And she seems confident that she’ll see 90 with margin. I wouldn’t put money on it,
I mean, I know she keeps active and so forth, but where we are as a civilization in terms of medical technology the years past 80 seem to be largely determined by a combo of genetics and how you’ve been living for the previous fifty years. And she looks like she’s put a lot of mileage on.
An uncle of mine at 82 drove halfway across the country, picking up a couple relatives along the way. Had a freaking solid, informative conversation with him when he go to my dad’s place. Clear as a bell – like he was in his 50’s.
He was dead in 2 years from cancer.
Can’t wait ’til she kicks it.
/just kidding.
The world will grind on just the same whether you think you’re fulfilling your cosmic purpose on the path to greater enlightenment and success or you’re just killing time until you can’t stand up anymore.
The days just keep on coming.
And they will keep doing so long after we are all ashes and dust…
Eventually the Earth will be tidally locked to the sun, and the days will stop.
The Tour de France is over, and has been won by a Brit. – just like London cyclists, the Tour is not diverse enough
*looks at map*
Hey that cheater probably toured france before.
That tariff article was a heady mix of Trump blaming (correct – IF these tariffs have been actually put into effect rather than “announced” – which the article manages to avoid telling us) blaming all price rises on tariffs whilst hiding the fact that 80% of the culprit is shipping costs, declining market share… and that only two large outfits are doing this at the moment.
I am so old I remember when the Chicago Tribune had some actual business reporting.
I am so old I remember when the Chicago Tribune had some actual business reporting.
During the ’70s and ’80s when Chicago school economics was in vogue there was probably a proximity effect.
Yeah, there was definitely a spillover from Chicago school economics to the media in those days. Even WKRP had helicopter rides.
“The turkeys are hitting the ground like wet bags of cement”
“As God as my witness, I though commies could fly.”
How about that ruling our SCOTUS did just a few months back that these internets sellers must collect taxes? I bet that is going to be an onerous thing for many a small business and for every consumer out there.
“that 80% of the culprit is shipping costs”
Beat me to it. I ship literally hundreds of loads of aluminum and steel around the Chicago area to various food and beverage manufacturers. There is one particular lane we run from south Chicago to a food manufacturer (not telling you who… don’t want fellow transport Glibs to backdoor me), who then uses the material to make tin cans for their food. We used to run this particular lane for $600 about 15 times per week. Since December (even before ELDs), we’re averaging $840 on this lane. A 40% increase, for the transportation of just one of their production inputs (I’m sure their ingredients have seen a similar spike, if not worse).
This has way more effect than tariffs.
Also, I’m not sure exactly what grades of steel or aluminum these tariffs are supposed to be imposed upon, but one of my golf buddies runs two barge terminals in different cities, and he’s busy as shit right now, and his biggest customers are Canadian and Chinese.
Yes. My shipping costs have gone crazy over the last 90 days. The owner of my metal fab was bitching the other day about how the tariffs are being blamed for everything and justifying price increases all over the place.
Either of you interested in speculating about the real reason?
My guess goes back to a Glib article a couple months back: Truck driving is such a bureaucratic pain in the ass (Thank You Obama) that old timers are getting out of it and they can’t find enough young ‘uns who are willing to put up with the bullshit and can pass the drug tests.
Possibly, I think a lot of it is that companies have been loathe to raise prices in a shitty economy. Things are rocking, so now is the time. Tariffs are a convenient scapegoat.
These are the factors driving high rates:
1. There was a shortage to begin with, but no one noticed because the economy sucked.
2. Many drivers who were close to retirement went ahead and walked away when ELDs hit, which made the driver shortage even worse.
3. The hours of service rules – fully enforced now thanks to ELDs – do not allow drivers any discretion on how to maximize driving time/mileage in any given day, so drivers are covering fewer miles. I have drivers who used to run from the Twin Cities down to Laredo and back each week like clockwork. Leave Monday morning. Back Friday afternoon. No issues. Home every weekend (which some of their driver’s contracts stipulated that they would be home every weekend when they signed on). Can’t do it anymore. Got a driver that is just south of Dallas at 8 PM and wants to get on the other side of the city before he shuts it down for the night so he doesn’t wake up and have to sit in Dallas traffic? Tough shit. ELD says he has to shut it down. Drivers have no discretion.
4. Booming economy. This may actually be the biggest factor.
If Trump wants to keep inflation in check, he can call on Congress to have hours of service rules relaxed to allow drivers more discretion. You don’t even need to get rid of ELDs. Just allow drivers to more flexibility to decide what is best to maximize their mileage in any given day.
Extremism and bigotry, even outright white supremacy and anti-Semitism, have found new lives in 21st century US politics and the era of President Donald Trump, beyond just the toxic rhetoric of a few little-known cranks.
“There’s a wolf out there. I just know it. You can’t see him, but I know he’s there.”
What anti-Semitism? Where? How? When?
Of all the charges against Trump, this is the looniest.
They must have meant she Guevara. Its nice that they are balanced like that.
The guy who finally acknowledged Jerusalem as the capitol, and brought in his Jooish son-in-law as a senior advisor is an anti-Semite, according to the same people who insist that the guy who sold a bunch of weapons to Ukrainia is a secret Russian stooge.
If you are not a marxist and in love with marxism, you are a racist, misogynist, anti-semitic, gay-hating, Gaia raping, science denying, capitalist vampire!
And you probably like thick crust pizza, smooth peanut butter, shitty craft beers, and are PTO circumcision
The left really has no business leveling accusations of antisemitism at anyone.
It’s mostly projection with these people…
Citations needed, Sparky.
Anti-Semitism: He keeps hos friends close and his enemies even closer including his son in law, his daughter, and his grandkid.
Happy Birthday to you
You belong in a zoo
You smell like a monkey
And look like one too
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Happy birthday!
The ’80s produced a lot of good things!
I forgot about that song. Thanks.
No love for 2Chainz ?
Happy BIRFday, WD.
(lyrics NSFW, unless you happen to work for Def Jam)
That song ain’t one of them.
Thank you!!!
Great video!
Beer and soda prices for some varieties are set to increase in Chicago due to the aluminum tariffs – maybe a good tariff will get the US to spell Aluminium correctly
You and your Latin spelling.
From Wikipedia:
In 1812, Davy chose aluminum, thus producing the modern name.
So, we’re right once again! MURICA!!!
I’m her favorite and I have the postcard to prove it. Only the Happy Birthday from me will mean anything to her!
Happy Birthday, WD!
I see you freshened up with a little Eau de Desperate this morning.
I’ve gone to dinner with SP and WD, and they are both lovely and charming ladies. We ate and drank for hours. SP had bone-in pork chop the size of man’s shoe; WD various vegan delights; a plate of local cheeses with house-made pickled vegetables; I had the house-ground lamb merguez for an entree. We sampled four rare bourbons, the ladies had cocktails and I enjoyed an excellent Against The Grain 35K Stout.
And, again, I have written proof that I am their favorite.
Whatever you say, big guy
Did you bring the Hat and the Hair with you to dinner?
It’s quicker than running to the bathroom & purging.
Yes! Everything he says is true!
Sad.
lol Thank you!!
We’re going to need a bigger credit card:
Sanders’ ‘Medicare for All’ Would Cost $32.6 Trillion Over 10 Years: Study
“significant savings”
Especially when the bureaucrats start denying services to the enemies of the cause!
Well how much money is spent on private insurance?
Probably a good amount. In fairness, you would have to take that into account. Although I suspect it’s less than 3.2T/year.
No this would supposedly lower total health care spending and so in theory the taxes could be absorbed. Basically it would just be redirecting all of the money the states, companies, and individuals currently spend on insurance premiums, copays, and other health care expenses to the Federal Government who would then dictate reimbursement rates and coverage to the medical providers.
The problem is the assumption that the Federal Government could successfully set reimbursment rates and control costs without creating even more bureaucracy than there is in health care today and driving the bulk of health care providers out of business (or at least into refusing to work with Medicare patients)
Basically what you would get is a bifurcated health care system, the government one with a collection of public and charity owned hospitals giving at best VA levels of health care and more likely 3rd world levels of care and then private clinics that do not accept medicare or insurance and it is cash only where you get essentially the best care in the world.
And then of course the next step would be the government making it illegal to not accept medicare, followed quickly by a requirement that all doctors must have a certain percentage of all their patients be medicare patients and so on till those quality clinics are driven offshore or overseas and there are no quality doctors or health facilities left in the US
Healtchare costs in 2016 were $3.3 trillion. $10,348 per person. $25,581 per working person.
Saw Chris Hayes tweet : ” the best answer to “how will you pay for your agenda?” Is “we’re a rich country we’ll figure it out””
Something something other people’s money.
Someone should make Chris Hayes read this beauty. No matter how rich your country, big government will end that sooner than later.
It’s bad enough they are treating Atlas Shrugged as an instruction manual; now they are just straight up quoting the villains.
No biggie, we can just stamp a 32.6 trillion dollar coin to pay for it.
And? Point? It’s a RIGHT!
deliver significant savings on administration
Because the government is really good at that…
BWA-HA-Ha…ha…sob.
This is like when people spend $750 on shoes that normally cost $850 and say they saved $100.
Oh, I don’t know about that. I saw a really nice suit at Saks that was marked down to $800 from the original price of $1,400. The material was fantastic. Does that mean that if I bought it, I’d be saving $600? Hard to say, but I sure was tempted.
That’s like, $200 worth of chicken for free.
Well, I’ve dropped a few benjies on Allen Edmonds that were on sale. Sure, the shoes cost me like a hundred or more dollars less than they would at full price, but that just means I spent $200 I didn’t need to spend as opposed to $350. That’s kind of a weakness of mine, to be honest.
Allen Edmonds are sweet and will last for years and years with proper care. There’s price and then there’s value…
I guarantee it would be orders of magnitude above that.
My dad worked at the IOG for HHS and their own estimates for Medicare fraud was 60 billion a year.
So let’s do a little math and make it available to everyone. Fraud would be what 1trillion a year?
“the Vermont independent”
Hahahaha. Yeah, sure.
Make Our Farmers Great Again
Close to 75 bucks with tax and shipping. Wonder if someone would scream “Racist!” and try to take it.
But I don’t wannnna go back to plowing fields.
“MOFGA” doesn’t roll of the tongue the way screaming “MAGA” does.
‘MuttaFukin Great Again’ is what I read, so maybe?
Stupid terrible farmers. So not great right now. Need to be better. Sad!
Giving that Shiki no Uta a listen and enjoying it. What keeps me away from most Japanese singers, especially the female ones, is how they sing through their noses. That’s a nice song and it’s well sung.
This is the original. A little more funk.
In a twist of fate, em>The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
NSA has yet to fix security holes that helped Snowden leaks
Top. Men.
The flaws were not reported through proper channels and will not be addressed until the correct documentation has been filled out.
So, these are the people we were told we need to rearrange the work world to suit. Seriously, kids, I don’t care if you want to live the life of a carefree bohemian. But, don’t expect shit when you hit your forties and realize that your life experience living in a yurt in Kathmandu really doesn’t qualify you for six figures.
Trust-fund babies
i only picked up on that b/c that’s what my dad did for my kids and my nieces. 50% at 25, the other 50% at 30. that’s a great mechanism probably for most people who are ready to start a family and settle into a house in their mid-20s. the ungrateful bitch in that article, not so much.
Lol, my wife’s sister and husband (millennial, of course) are on that track. They’re both quitting their jobs next year and traveling for a year and a half.
I, on the other hand, will work my ass off until I have a decent nest egg and then “retire” at 40 or 45 into a job that pays less and sucks less.
It’s not even the decision itself I object to. It’s what I know is coming down the road. A few years on these kids are going to decide, “Whoops! I really do need to make money to get by in the world.” and they’re going to expect the whole world to accommodate them. They’re going to think it’s “like totally unfair” that Chip the guy from the second tier school who stayed in his job and worked his way up the greasy pole is making more than them. And why should they only be eligible for entry level jobs?!
Dude, all of that world experience will totally qualify them for international hedge fund manager.
Don’t laugh, I have seen a few of these snowflakes claim they could to the work of people with 30 years plus of experience and knowledge, and when asked based on what qualification, claim they already got that in the 3 months they have worked….
Yup, diehard bernie-istas. Had an incident with them the last time they decided to flake on their jobs where there was essentially a glorified tips jar at their going away party (went on a trip to Europe last time) as if they were going through hard times.
I’m doing a different thing than these people, but this is the shit that absolutely terrifies me.
I know very well how to teach and how to navigate multiple different cultures and tricks on how to get shit done over here. I have no idea how to be an adult in the US. It is a very unpleasant feeling.
Granted I pay my own way and have a meager savings, but I’m under no pretense of how difficult it will be for me to prove my worth if/when I move back to the States.
*takes a loooong chug of soju….sighs….slams glass down*
Well, you’d be competing against twenty-somethings who think slumming it around the world for a year is the same as spending time developing skills and experience in an occupation, so…
I know very well how to teach and how to navigate multiple different cultures and tricks on how to get shit done over here. I have no idea how to be an adult in the US. It is a very unpleasant feeling.
Get a job at an American school that has a lot of foreign students, then order all the stuff you need to buy online. Problem solved. 😛
Evan, my guess is that you’ll do just fine. The first reason I say that is the fact that you’re actually concerned about being able to get by as an adult. You’ve given the matter serious consideration and you seem to be focusing on how your experience can actually add value. Also, from the sound of it, you’re actually working over there, and not on a permanent or semi-permanent vacation.
I wouldn’t take a few anecdotes as an indicator of a major trend. A lot of millennials would kill for the jobs these retards are quitting. I doubt the positions are going unfilled.
That having been said, quality of life is subjective and a lot of high pressure careers aren’t right for everybody. When I was in school I had delusions that I’d join a consultancy for a few years then do an MBA. Turns out 70+ hour weeks with 50%+ travel working as a glorified sales drone except with worse quotas was… not the right fit for my personality.
See my response to trshmnstr. If these kids want to go “quality of life” more power to them. I just know they’re not going to be able to figure out why it is that they’re not entitled to the perks the guys busting their asses 70 hours a week get to enjoy.
That’s why we need government to make things “fair”.
That is social justice in a nutshell: government should hold down those that would cross the finish line with more – especially those that do good because they are inclined to work harder or avoid bad instant gratification decisions – so it is all fair. Social justice is about envy of what others can get that you don’t. The expectation is that regardless of circumstance (especially related to work and effort), anyone with more did something wrong.
Quality of life is a legit concern, but it entails stuff like being able to retire eventually, being able to help your kids with tuition if you decide to do that, being able to sustain periods of unemployment or financial emergencies because you have substantial savings. Making sure you have enough time to spend with your family isn’t the same thing as being able to take multiple two-week vacations every year. To me, financial security represents a high quality of life more so than having a lot of vacation time.
I understand the impulse behind these people’s actions. I don’t want to work one more second than I have to. Id rather be doing one of a thousand things than working. Perhaps my mentality would change if I were doing something that I loved and got to control my own schedule, but until I get there, I’m going to be counting down the days until I’m financially prepared to work on my own terms instead of on the highest bidder’s terms.
My knee-jerk disdain for these millennials is because of their piss poor planning. You earn the right to work on your own terms only after you have secured your future. Scraping up enough money to go on vacation for 6 months isnt enough.
Shoot, right now I’d rather be at home playing video games until I decide whether to open the day with beer or a Greyhound. I am not an ambitious person; I want enough money to not have to choose between things, and the only way I can get anywhere even remotely close to that is by working, and specifically by trying to get increasingly higher-paying jobs. If I were to be paid to do things I loved, I’d have to find some way to make “gentleman of leisure” be a salaried gig. Failing that, it’s the grind for me. So part of my bitterness at people who have that attitude is that not only would I like to have that option myself, but I know they’ll start to cry for help when the utterly predictable consequences of their failure to prepare for the future bites them in the ass.
I’m in the same boat – I don’t have the personality to handle my job but I do it anyways to keep the $$ rolling in, and to keep the family fed and insured. It’s been a battle of bad nerves.
Come the time that my parents have gone to the Big Fish Fry in the Sky, I will retire on the (modest) inheritance I will receive. I won’t be living rich but I will be living comfortable. I can easily get through the day with a good book, a movie, and my record collection. If it means shrinking my spending and vacation destinations, then so be it.
*nods at Bill in solidarity*
The days of leisure would be so much closer if we weren’t paying for others’ shortsightedness at gunpoint.
My father told me 20 years ago that his will reads: “Being of sound mind and body, I spent it all”.
25 year old Leap would be astonished to hear this, but if I didn’t have a job I’d go insane. Part of it is the protestant work ethic (even though I was raised Catholic…). Part of it is that I found a job that I love, where I have autonomy, where I don’t have a real boss per se. Part of it is that I kick ass at what I do.
But part of it is… I just need to grind a little bit sometimes. I never, ever, ever take a week off. The longest I can go without working is like 4 days. And even then I will probably end up doing some hobby activity that looks and sounds a lot like work. I’ve had a few weeks free of kids, and while I did spend a lot of time playing video games and reading, I also designed and built two prototypes and planned a class for a local non-profit where I’ll be teaching how to make one of the things I’m prototyping.
Leap, I wish I were like you. I spend my work days looking forward to lunch, and then looking forward to driving home at 3pm, and then looking forward to 6pm when I am “off the clock”. On Sunday, I wish it was still Saturday, and on Monday I wish it was Friday. I’m not trying to paint a woe is me picture, just stating my unfiltered thoughts. If it weren’t for the fact that I’m really good at a very high paying job and the fact that I’m still more than $400k in the hole (house included), it wouldn’t be worth it. As it is, it’s a necessary evil for a few years until my family is in a position where I can be more choosy about what I do every day.
I’ve been in trsh’s situation, and kinda in Leap’s. For me, it comes down to the job itself. I’ve had jobs where I was basically punching the clock for a paycheck, and I have a job now that I just enjoy doing.
Where I’m different than Leap is that I find it pretty easy to not be productive in any sense when I’m not at work. I’m with trsh on the part where, when I am sufficiently financially independent, I ain’t gonna go to the office every day. Current projections put that at around four years from now. If the economy keeps MAGAing, could be less.
I’m in the Dean camp – I like my job, and it pays well; sometimes, when I’m on a roll, I’ll work deep into the night on something of my own volition.
But I also have no problem amusing myself with non-work; before I started this job I was at a job I hated at $HUGE_COMMERCIAL_BANK. Once I realized I could still do COBRA even if I quit, I did just that. It was early June and I figured I’d take a week or two off, but then I’d get bored and find something else (there were and are a lot of job opportunities for me).
Smash cut to mid-October and me thinking I really should start looking for a job. I had no problem “doing nothing” for a few months.
I have no fear of retirement.
For trashy
@Lord H: I’m much the same way. There are a few places I’d like to travel, but they’re all at most a long road trip away from me. Mostly, I enjoy having neat stuff. If I won the lottery, I’d buy a nice house in the country, a nice truck, and an RV. I’d spend most of my time doing what I do when I’m off and don’t have chores to do: rotate hobbies for a few months at a time, meet friends for happy hours, and cruise around to interesting places and see what there is to be seen.
Someone else make food for me while I eat it. Good deal if you can get it.
Burned out? At 25?
Fucken weak man.
I’d like to quit Sarah Solomon’s job IYKWIM.
Actually, the sunglasses do wonders for her face.
When sex isn’t right
“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.”
“the aim of which is gratification of your boyfriend at your expense.”
That can be consensual
It’s “exploitative” not “exploitive”. And being a 17 year old retard is not necessarily the same thing as being exploited.
New English, like New Math
I don’t necessarily have a problem with this. But, I’d like to know the author’s response if the boyfriend then left the girl for someone more sexually compatible. I mean, sure, she has every right to decide what sort of sex life she wants to have. But, it strikes me as a little…exploitive…to insist that he remain in a relationship that doesn’t meet his needs.
That’s different, because a male’s highest purpose is to meet the needs of womyn, shitlord!!!
Unfortunately, that does seem to be the unspoken assumption of so many of these sob sister columns.
I was just about to say essentially the same thing.
Sure she doesn’t need to satisfy him and he probably is a manipulative asshole who is just using her naivety but at the end of the day he has just as much right to demand that his sexual needs be met as she does and if she isn’t willing to do that and isn’t willing to open the relationship so others can do for him what she won’t then he absolutely should leave her for someone more compatible
24 year old male, dating a 17 year old bisexual girl with a gf and wants to have his gf bring her gf? I mean, he’s on the edge of being a creep because of the age, but she’s obviously decided she’s mature enough to handle it. Sounds like any other 24 year old male with a normal sex drive to me.
I’m not sure she’s bisexual. Women often use girlfriends as a description for non-sexual friendships.
24 / 2 + 7 = 19. She’s under the creepy-cutoff.
^only relevant if you care what other people think
I thought it was half your age, minus seven years. /OMWC
The age thing raises a lot of questions about the maturity levels and characters of the people involved. Also, are we talking “girlfriend” or “friend who is a girl”? Or is this a Seinfeld bit where he really wants to get with the friend and figures any way this goes it’s a win?
Can we go back to eating Tide pods?
The Boiling Water Challenge is a trending thing.
WTF
Why go back? This is more enjoyable.
Maybe do it with a Tide Pod in his mouth?
While being doused with boiling water.
I’m looking forward to the Drinking Liquid Mercury Challenge thinning the herd a bit.
The 1st time I worked in W. Colorado, I noticed nearly every pickup had substantial tube brush bumpers. Being the idiot I am, I asked a guy “what is it with people out here and those bumpers?”
He said, “You’re from Ohio, right?” I answered, “I am.” He said, “I bet you have lots of people hitting deer there. Try an elk sometime.”
“Ahhh.”
Thread Fail!
Save me!
You say this like ghost riding the whip was never a thing.
THANK YOU!
Last Meal response: Fried bluegills, hush puppies, grits, and slaw.
Taco Hell Triple Burrito Supreme. You’re gonna clean up when I’m gone.
Always thinking about others Straff… 🙂
sounds a bit rednecky to me to be honest.
Sounds that way ’cause it is.
Bluegill is tasty. No idea WTF grits are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM0DXaRZL1Y
Grits. Polenta. Ground corn. You boil the shit out of it, then mix in bacon grease and butter. For maximum effect, top with shrimp and sausage.
You’re missing Crystal hot sauce.
This is also where I’m supposed to point out that “grits” is itself singular, so your last sentence should actually end with “…grits is.” Yes, seriously.
Shit. I always thought Flo was asking me to kiss her tits in some weird dialect.
Shit, grits may be the greatest po pepo food there is.
I my found a bag of year-old stone ground grits I ordered from down south (can’t find any good grits up here in the great white north) and I’ve been eatin on them for the last week.
Which one of you sick fucks is this guy?
SugarFree?
Day-um!
Simple joke, made me larf out lowd.
Nice
Man, someone is on his game this morning. Well done!
Accidents at Amazon: workers left to suffer after warehouse injuries
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/30/accidents-at-amazon-workers-left-to-suffer-after-warehouse-injuries
Guardian investigation reveals numerous cases of Amazon workers being treated in ways that leave them homeless, unable to work or bereft of income after workplace accidents
Government should fix that. Its not like government has any workers who the drop after breaking them, or a population of former employees who are high risk for homelessness.
Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason
Besides this not being not quite true, it is somehow worse than when they willingly gave the Obama 2012 campaign the data on all of their users?
Yes cause obama was good and trump was evil.
This is precisely the logic these fucks live by…
Everything that hinders my agenda is evil.
It was a sunny day in Chicago…
Nice start. Did Snoopy write that?
Bulwer-Lytton.
Facebook didn’t intend for any of this to happen. It just wanted to connect people.
LOL, I wish I were that ignorant.
Look at all these nice things Facebook gives us for free! This must be what real socialism is like! Everyone interconnected for the benefit of mankind!
What? What the fuck do you mean they’re monetizing all of my personal information to sell advertising?! This is just, like, some fucking business or something man!
I decided to foreign influence the next US elections. I will use subliminal messages in my comments to get the glibs to vote social justice candidates.
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
“get the glibs to vote social justice candidates.”
You’re doing it wrong, to be an evil election hacker you have to push republican candidates.
no challenge given you are all closet republicans
Closet Nazis.
Which is redundant.
You should see where I hide my Wehrmacht.
In your aermal?
The latest plan from the Vermont independent would require historic tax increases as government replaces what employers and consumers now pay for health care, according to the analysis being released Monday by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia.
If the government pays for it, it’s free.
Oh-oh-oh it’s magic!
Sign at a bar I used to semi-irregularly go to: “Babies drink from bottles.”
babies also drink from boobies.
Correct.
I’m like 80% that way, but really like mint juleps. And will sometimes pick a whisky sour if cocktails are the thing.
I have a mint julep every Derby Day to remind myself not to drink another for the next year.
Hallelujah, brother.
I will sometimes have four or five to really set that lesson in.
We have a yard full of mint and usually keep simple syrup on hand for mixing, and I’ll hit a julep if I’m feeling high falutin. It’s one of the few cocktails I’ll use a good bourbon in.
I will highly recommend a rye smash if you want a change from the juleps.
Oooh, that looks good. Lemon juice can be rough on the ol’ heartburn from time to time, but I’m willing to risk it.
‘Trapped in Hell’: Family Accused of Keeping Autistic Woman in Cage, Making Her Eat Mom’s Ashes
The psychological and physical abuse did not stop there: Members of the family allegedly made the woman lick soiled underwear, eat dog feces, and “simulate sexual acts with a jalapeño pepper,” according to court records filed Monday.
Once, Terry Knope and Jody Lambert “filled a bucket with urine and feces from the family’s septic tank and threw the human waste at D.P., who, covered from head to toe with the urine and feces, began screaming while Jody laughed,” according to the bill of information that charged Bridget Lambert, one of Raylaine’s daughters, with forced labor conspiracy. (Lambert faces up to five years in prison if convicted.)
Lambert allegedly hit the woman so hard with a board that blood dripped from her head to the floor. A family member “used glue” to mend the woman’s wound, the court records state.
Probably already posted, but wow.
Pure Evil. They should be in solitary for life
So… these kinds of people are high on my list for death penalty. If you treat your own kin this way, how can you be safe to the rest of society /Hot Take.
*rtfa*
Just off the lot of them. Jesus.
Buried under the fucking prison, Dude.
As a father of an autistic son… RAGE
And this is the kind of thing that makes me paranoid for his future, I won’t always be around to protect him.
My brother too, luckily my mom wants me to look out for him when she is no longer able to.
Update on my daughter: we started ABA therapy in March, 2 days per week, her formerly 1 word vocabulary (“go”) is now over a dozen, including five colors:
yellow, purple, boo, geen, and yed.
She has somehow (I think from Netflix) picked up the word “opposite”. She doesn’t really know what it means, but she loves saying it.
Give me a few years and I may submit an article on ABA therapy. But I will lead with one thing, the words on the wall of her “school” should be engraving on the Department of Education (you know, just before we blow it up and get rid of the agency): “If they won’t learn the way we teach, we will teach the way they learn.”
That’s awesome Rob. She’ll have more words than you can count before you know it. My son (who also has autism) was able to learn a lot of early language (colors, shapes, numbers) by watching videos on YouTube. Things like Super Simple Songs. You may want to go those a shot too.
Things like Super Simple Songs
Those videos are a godsend. However, I had “Alice the camel has one hump” stuck in my head this morning.
Same here.
To. The. Boats.
That is all.
The surest sign of a person’s character is how they treat those unable to defend or care for themselves. Especially when there is nothing in it for them. Someone willign to something this horrible to their own should really be locked away from society.
I can think of a few appropriate punishments for these people. Most of them involve power tools.
Against capital punishment, but I have no problem with tying these people to posts, taking a hatchet to them, and seeing whether they bleed out before scavengers get to them. They should suffer, but most importantly, they should fear.
Jeremy Hunt makes ‘terrible’ gaffe about his wife in China
British foreign secretary refers to his Chinese wife as Japanese during debut visit to Beijing
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/30/jeremy-hunt-makes-terrible-gaffe-about-his-wife-in-china
He wanted Japanese but had to settle …
I don’t make that mistake. I never want to eat her out an hour later.
*Love to the wife, though. I’m sure the feeling is mutual.
I actually tried to find the cultural differences between a Chinese or Japanese woman when doing the wild thing, and found both make the same noises.
“Ewwwww!”?
More like Ehhhhh… Ehhhhh…
“The sound of the asian woman will be played by the piccolo” /quote from my brother who had an apartment next to a Japanese woman who had her BF over a lot.
No. Are you ready? It goes something like this. “Eeyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaada” Don’t you guys anime? I don’t and I know that.
“Not true what they say about white guys.”
I more often than not get told that they had no idea that could come in that big a size in white…
She wasn’t talking about your feet.
Nope, my third leg…
Ahh, the vestigial one.
straff, bad news, you were id’d on that last flight you took
Did he wear his “Make Manchukuo Great Again” hat as well?
oh wow. yeah, that’s not so much a gaffe as a giant fuckup.
China and Japan have been traditional rivals for centuries. Although relations have improved somewhat recently, they remain touchy due to issues such as Japan’s bloody occupation of parts of China in the 1930s and 40s.
“touchy”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA
/wheeeeeze
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Well how much money is spent on private insurance?
I have seen Krugabe, among others, make that claim.
“Instead of giving a bunch of money to a private insuror, who will just funnel it off to the shareholders and executives, you’ll give the money to the government, where it will be spent wisely and with far greater efficiency.”
You can thank us later. Mpls woke mayor is going to fix the global warming with this one simple trick.
The trick is going vegan.
I know we have some vegan’s amongst us, so I will not heap as much scorn on this article as it needs. But let me quote a “are you sure this really happened?” story:
If every American ate one more meatless meal per week, the impact would be equivalent to taking more than half-a-million cars off U.S. roads.
First, Really? Second, why would you want to do that?
The cars. It’s always the cars with these idiots.
Fuck off, joyless slavers.
Cars are the ultimate symbol of freedom. These people want controlled mass transit so they can then demand people show papers as they move around. Kind of like the way that all the Eastern block nations and the USSR did things back in the day. All that makes it easier to identify the wreckers and kulaks.
Cars are the ultimate symbol of freedom.
Yes. I’ve been noodling a submission on this. I can’t think of another innovation that did as much for the individual.
And they’re fucking cool.
The Stapler?
I would have accepted the Gun, Milton.
I am okay with the gun fetishizers, oddly enough.
I am as anti-anti-car as the next libertarian, but the car-freedom fetishizers are almost as bad as Rand’s cigarette fetish. Almost.
A proposed mod for your car, Tundra
You can only imagine how jelly, Leap and I would have been yesterday if you had cruised by in your Spitfire while guzzling kombucha. The only thing that could have beaten that is if your windshield wipers were also modded to spread artisinal mayo on toast.
That’s gay. Mine would shoot Scotch.
If your plan of action contains this phrase, it sucks. Unless your ready to get out the guards and guns it won’t happen.
It could be true. Maybe the dipshit who ate the Boca burger is as retarded as the waiter who can’t discern “if possible” from “impossible” and thought compressed vegetable patties have discernible degrees of doneness.
Who asks if medium-rare is possible?
Yeah, I know, some places won’t serve a burger that way, but that still seems like a silly way to ask.
I’ve worked at mall restaurants that wouldn’t do rare because a.) people don’t know what that means, and b.) the grill guys were incompetent, but medium rare is pretty standard. And I guess it’s not uncommon for chains to not do rare burgers, which you shouldn’t eat anyway unless the meat is steak-quality to begin with. Still, mid-rare is bog-standard.
Also, if you can’t tell whether it’s a beef burger or a veggie burger, you’ve never eaten a decent hamburger.
As an ex-vegan, I can certainly tell the difference between faux meat and the real thing.
And the TVP in that meatless patty is going to tear him up like the artillery in the Verdun battle.
Boca is just horrible, I can’t eat that shit. But the latest generation of faux burgers (e.g., Beyond Burger, Impossible Burger) is a whole new ball game. No TVP, and at least according to SP (who carnivores when we go out to eat), the resemblance is eerie.
I asked Spud to grab a Beyond and render his opinion.
How much does the beyond burger cost?
Not cheap. $5 for two decent size patties.
What are the macros on that? Yes I could probably google but…
I couldn’t even tell you what a macro is. Goes great with Grenache, that part I know about.
Here’s site. If you scroll down a little, they give nutritional comparison. The one macro they don’t provide is carbs. Short version is, it’s comparable to beef, except there’s no cholesterol.
Yikes. I would give it a try and switch completely if it is as good a product as the internet (+OWMC +SP) say it is, but not when I can still get ground beef for much less.
SP tells me that premium burgers are in that price range, and the cheaper ones are shitty. Again, I have no knowledge of this, the last time I ate meat, JFK was still banging White House secretaries.
A big, big part of the price of meat-alternatives is the issue of scale. If there was a market for alternative meats as large as there is for meat-meats, the price would be a lot lower. Hell, a lot of the price in meat-meat is in logistics, not in the hoof, anyway.
A pound of decent 80% lean chuck is in the $5 or less range around me. That’s like four moderate burgers, or two serious burgers.
Boca is terrible, and the wife always forgets and picks those up. Morningstar is my jam, believe it or not, and I say this as someone who has a package of five pork chops I bought for myself alone sitting next to a package of Garden Veggie burgers.
I can believe it. I liked Gardenburgers but they changed the recipe along the way and it’s a shell of it’s former self, as the company itself was.
Boca products have a weird flavor which is consistent across their entire line. Our everyday burger is the Morningstar Griller Classic, but I have no illusion that this resembles meat. Nor do I really care, my only standard is, “Do I like the taste?”
If the cost of the Beyond drop to Morningstar level, and they manage to get past their scale-up issues so availability isn’t so uncertain, we’ll switch entirely.
What throws me about Boca is the texture. It looks and tastes like a factory-produce pasteburger, no matter which kind you get. Generally speaking, the only times I really dislike vegetarian foods are when they attempt to mimic meat. And not like when people grill a portobello mushroom and put it on a bun, I mean like when they put soy protein in a vat and toss in a bunch of dye and flavoring and crap to try to make it taste like beef. Back in the day I worked at a cafe where we used to do a veggie burger that was pretty good–leaned heavily on olives and mushrooms, with I think chickpeas to give it some heft and bind stuff together–specifically because it was a bunch of vegetables in a patty, not a poor attempt at beef.
This. I’ve no problem with vegetarian dishes, you don’t need to try and fool me. Grilled portobello sandwiches with pesto and goat cheese are awesome – you don’t have to fool me into thinking it’s some kind of burger.
It has been noted that nobody tries to make meat taste like vegetables…
Beyond Burger is good and one of the few faux burgers you can legitimately grill over an open flame.
Bullshit, meatless meat doesn’t taste like meat. The texture’s not right either.
Fun fact. There has yet to be a cyclist born in England to win a GT.
Thomas is Welsh. Wiggins was born in Belgium and Froome in Kenya.
/takes heave of asthma pump.
Fake news inquiry calls for social media levy to defend democracy
Not just no, but fuck no
I’m beginning to wonder if that second atomic bomb couldn’t have been better spent elsewhere.
After WWII Patton wanted to join arms with the defeated Wehrmacht and march on the Soviets. I’m starting to think he had the right idea, just the wrong country.
I can see it now:
-Lower tax rates lead to economic growth. Fake news, ban it.
-High debt levels can lead to economic instability. Fake news, ban it.
-Pakistani immigrants can get a little rapey with underage working class girls. Fake news, ban it.
The possibilities are almost endless.
And then they will turn on the people that support this crap.
This is an intellectual black plague we’re witnessing.
Beyond the Orwellian nightmare England is becoming, if that initiative works as well as all other government initiatives how long until more power and more money is needed to fuck over people even more?
I love how they think they’re ‘defending’ democracy.
They’re destroying it.
Also, I notice Muslims get a lot of protection and get mentioned a lot whenever this obscenity happens. I don’t seem to recall them being worried about anti-semitism – which dwarfs anything faced by Muslims. I truly loathe this equivocation of the two.
“Digital literacy should be the fourth pillar of education, alongside reading, writing and maths,”
So your students will be technically illiterate in addition to regularly illiterate?
The thing that really threatens the “integrity of our democratic institutions” is, obviously, the EU. This is ‘loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes’ stuff. But we’re supposed to forget everything between Maastricht and the referendum, apparently.
The parliamentary committee is made up of the same sort of people who, on your side of the Atlantic, want to overturn an election result and abolish the Electoral College because they don’t like the outcomes they produced. The ‘solutions’ they propose to the massively exaggerated issues they’ve identified would be the real hammer blow to democracy.
What these idiots never deign to do is give any evidence that the “lies” they bleat about had any impact on anyone. If you think using the gross figure for the UK’s contribution led to people changing their vote, you ought to have to provide some evidence that seeing the net figure would have led a significant number of leave voters to say “what a bargain, let’s stay in”. They never can though: it’s post hoc ergo propter hoc all the way.
As a fat, pregnant woman, I refuse to panic about my baby’s health
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/30/fat-pregnant-woman-i-refuse-panic-baby-health
“Women who allow themselves to be overweight when pregnant are criminal and are putting their lives and the life of their baby to be put in danger due to serious health complications when in labour,” said Orsmond, who now lives in Dublin.
By the same logic, old people are an undue strain on the healthcare system for allowing themselves to become old. Never mind all those old people who eat well, exercise and live happily regardless of their age. Lock these criminals up!
Those two things are totally the same.
Socialized medicine is the miserable little conduit by which every fucking thing you do as an individual becomes a collective concern. Even if it was financially viable, fuck that shit right in the ear.
Yeah but to be fair very overweight pregnant women can lead to a assortment of issues for the kids. Each with low probability but overall it is bad. The comparison between being fat and getting old is what amused me. In fact old people engaged in healthy behavior – old people who eat well, exercise – are quite the opposite of people engaged in unhealthy behavior
That goes without saying. And the fat acceptance bullshit is proof that there’s no such thing as peak retard. But if Linda the Holstein wants to risk it on her own dime, pay ya money and take ya chances. It’s your life and your kid, it’s not certainly “criminal” to make stupid choices.
CONTROL!
DO WHAT WE TELL YOU!
Pictured: Warty and OMWC in younger, more carefree days
OMWC was buff back in the day
Buff me enough and I shine.
Looks like a converted Sloopy, if you ask me.
If every American ate one more meatless meal per week, the impact would be equivalent to taking more than half-a-million cars off U.S. roads.
Yup. And, if society spent more on art and less on blowing things up, the benevolent space men who sit just outside our view, observing us, will come down and give us the secret of limitless happiness and plenty.
Or maybe they’ll just eat us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZnOsbD0wUw
Why do you hate The Waltons?
Does Poppa Bush know they’re both NOT REAL?
I was expecting this.
Some good news on the qualified immunity front. TLDR: Cops denied qualified immunity by the appellate court due to no exigent circumstances preventing them from doing basic research first.
That’s good news.
Keep in mind someone paid to have this printed on a sticker to put in random places on Metro
https://ibb.co/hCrc3o
That’s a weird “lost dog” poster.
Adhesive back paper sheets are pretty easy to get. Don’t even have to pay for specialty printing.
I can’t see it.
IMGBB keeps blanking the page.
‘Let your right brain run the show’
By Cal Garrison a.k.a. Mother of the Skye
This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Sagittarius Moon. The fact that the Sun entered Leo on July 22, is something we could talk about, but between Mercury turning retrograde, the upcoming ‘Day Out of Time’, and the Heliacal Rising of Sirius, all happening this week, we’ve got bigger fish to fry.
http://mountaintimes.info/your-right-brain/
The horoscope published on this site did not advise me to use my right brain and I wasted precious time not using it. I want my money back.
That is because the left-brain/right-brain nonsense is debunked pseudo-pscientific piffle.
So I noticed there is a strange slowdown in morning linx comments. When they come at 3 a lot of comments. These slow down at around 4 and then start again after 5. Weird. I am thinking maybe some people wake up, comment,then commute to work, and comment again at work. Or maybe I am imagining things
I put my kid to bed at ten. Gives me an hour of snark.
The commute is probably the thing. You can see the same thing happening, a drop off and a pickup, in the evening links starting around 1700 on the east coast and picking back ip around an hour or so later.
Hey even Tulpa needs to rest his fingers once in a while.
The formatting is so nice it seemed a shame to sully it.
Re the Minneapolis Mayor and his vegan restaurant dish, cited above: if one is going to make up strawmen to bolster an argument at least make it believable. Such as: “A White House source tells us that between early morning tweets, President Trump reads Hayek, Rand, Friedman, and von Mises, jotting notes and ignoring his naked wife lying next to him in bed.”
Rand Paul or RAND Corporation?
Ayn Rand (and she, too, apparently liked laying naked next to younger partners.)
his naked wife lying next to him in bed
Here’s the part I find so unbelievable.
The Black Panthers still in prison After 46 years, will they ever be set free?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/30/black-panthers-prison-interviews-african-american-activism
Will the people he murdered ever come back to life? No?
Then fuck him.
Mobs of kangaroos take to streets of Australia’s capital over food shortages
Since I messed this up and put it in the wrong place up-thread…
The 1st time I worked in W. Colorado, I noticed nearly every pickup had substantial tube brush bumpers. Being the idiot I am, I asked a guy “what is it with people out here and those bumpers?”
He said, “You’re from Ohio, right?” I answered, “I am.” He said, “I bet you have lots of people hitting deer there. Try an elk sometime.”
“Ahhh.”
Driving in Australia at night? They’ll roo the day.
u wot m8
Are these real Kangaroos or slang for some people that are hopped up but hungry?
Many larger cars in country areas have “roo bars” on the front of the vehicle,
After whacking a deer with the FJ Cruiser, the bumper needed replacing and I decided to upgrade to the heaviest duty bumper I could find. It turned out to be an ARB from Australia. I couldn’t figure out why the Aussies were making such massive bumpers (I think the front weighs well over 300 pounds, maybe 400, and it bolts directly to the frame – the “crush zone” is your car, not mine). Then I saw them referred to as roo bars in one of the forums and the light went on.
“sport ovals”?
that’s a footy reference, isn’t it?
Good luck with that
Just four years after Harley-Davidson unveiled the Livewire concept to the world, they’ve staked their claim as the first major manufacturer to bring a finished road going production bike to the world. As well as the finished production bike due out next year, there will also be an expanded range of lower powered bikes to act a stepping-stone into the brand.
“We’re going big into electric with a family of products that’s going to range is size, power and price point,” says Michelle Kumbier, COO at Harley-Davidson. “They’re going to be easy to ride, ‘twist and go’ and be less intimidating for new customers.
Loud pipes save lives.
I could be wrong. But, I don’t see this as a winning strategy for them. I just don’t get the impression that your average Harley-Davidson buy settled on them because he couldn’t get a Vespa.
They should have created a completely separate subsidiary with its own brand name. They’re just going to damage their existing branding this way.
I think their branding is already in big trouble. Young’ns aren’t going for two wheels like they used to, especially not Harleys.
You can make a pretty awesome electric motorcycle, but I think the Harley ridership likes something that can go touring, and range, as ever, is the Achilles heel of electric vehicles. I doubt many current/prospective Harley owners will go electric, but maybe as an extension into a new market?
But, yeah, should have branded it different. Darley-Havidson, maybe.
Eh. They kinda tried that with Buell and it failed miserably. The branding I mean.
It isn’t that the guy settled on a Harley cause he couldn’t get a Vespa. It’s the guy bought a Honda because there was no comparable Harley to even look at. Part of the issue isn’t the current core customer base. or rather it is. Every guy over 40 who wants a Harley has one. Their core customers are saturated, and younger customers who are new to riding aren’t / weren’t buying HD bikes. So they seem to be trying to get into the entry-level 250-600cc market for people who want a commuter bike dominated by the Japanese bikes, and to a lesser extend the euro stuff. It started about 3 years ago with the Harley Street 500 and 750 (I think those were the displacements. Something like that. Either way, smaller and lighter than the 883, and water cooled). I believe those have sold well for them to the 20somethings and early 30somethings. If they can get them early, they have a better chance of building that brand loyalty, so that when the kid steps up to a real motorcycle he goes to HD first instead of ignoring ’em.
At least, that’s my understanding of their strategy, and I think that’s a decent approach to the issue of their core market being saturated and ageing out. (I’m a motorcycle ecumentalist, but currently have a sporster 1200)
“less intimidating”
until you realize it’s not a torque curve so much as a sheer torque wall.
Dogs seem to be part of the patriarchy according to some Feminist studies paper now under investigation.
My bet is this author made all this shit up, including her PhD, but she feels this is the truth, so stop othering her.
$5 says she owns about 20 cats.
It never occurred to any of the commenters on that article that the paper was a joke, in the manner of Sokal.
To be fair, how do you tell the earnest gibberish from the hoax gibberish?
Sokal was absolute proof that you can’t.
It’s an outrage! She’s made a mockery of earnest feminist research!
ART IS FUCKING IMPORTANT YOU MOUTH BREATHERS!
During red lights in Mexico City, a bunch of dancers go out into the street to dance for the people stopped at a traffic light. The reporting was murky on who exactly was paying for this, but one of the dancers sure has the right attitude for someone who is a half step up on the guy with a squeegee.
I’ve got no complaints about that as long as it isn’t government dollars. In fact, I encourage it.
Dave Barry linked that earlier with the comment, “In Miami this would end very badly”
Stripper light poles?
This is what happens when you let engineers design things. They hear “red light district” and six months later this is what you get.
Ladies that [REDACTED] and will [REDACTED] and make you want to [REDACTED] with your [REDACTED].
http://archive.is/Woku9
Lots of THICC here, 23 will do nicely.
If 16 said [REDACTED] I would immediately [REDACTED]. I’d [REDACTED] her and [REDACTED] her [REDACTED]. But then she’d probably say [REDACTED]. Which would make me [REDACTED].
Damn, stuck on #1.
You magnificent bastard!
*wipes away a single tear*
you truly are out here doing god’s work. never change
I think the Free State movement should consider Ghana.
Happy Birthday Web Dominatrix!
In all fairness, she could most likely take her teeth out .
Well okay then
Bizzaro world OMWC?
Put your teeth up on the windowsill.
Thank you for killing the bad taste of the Altered Images link.
Hey….I offered up 2Chainz as a palate cleanser.
I mean, Christie Brinkley is 64, and is still a total smokeshow. Catherine Deneuve is in her 70s, and she’s still damned attractive. Granted, they’re probably exceptions that prove the rule, but still.
Happy Birthday, WebDom
File under This stuff is harder than it looks
Walmart’s associate delivery pilot program in the leafy, middle-class suburb of East Brunswick, New Jersey, started with store managers pitching employees an unusual new way to boost pay. Those who passed background checks could moonlight as drivers for the Walmart.com delivery service, they said.
Some staffers, who did not wish to be named fearing retribution for speaking to the media, told Reuters they balked at having to use their own cars and personal insurance policies for a program that would benefit Walmart.
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Fourteen of the sixteen Walmart employees told Reuters that they were put off by the program’s poor compensation. And all of them expressed concern over who would be responsible if they got into an accident or if merchandise was lost.
Reuters on Walmart’s floundering attempts to do last mile delivery.
I like that business about employees who don’t like being paid to do stuff that “benefits their employer”. That’s what a job is, you dolts. Quibble about the rate of payment all you want, but unless they’re threatening to shoot you if you don’t drop packages off on the way home from work, STFU about “exploitation of teh workers”.
Maybe they should ask Fred Smith how to run a package delivery service. Or maybe the could just get FedEx to drop that stuff off.
goddammit
If P Brooks replies to his own post, can anyone hear it in the forest?
The end is near PB replied to something!
*runs around screaming*
/Costanza run out of room knocking down old ladies.
We need a leader!
Apparently.
There oughta be a law.
Oh, wait, there is . . . .
Would you want WalMart employees showing up at your house with either: food your going to eat, toothpaste you will brush with, tampons your wife will stick in her?
They show up with a single unwrapped tampon… in their mouth?
I wouldn’t put it past them.
Seems a stupid way to go at the problem to me. Walmart has a massive chain of distribution centers, they should buy trucks and hire drivers to run it out of those facilities instead. This is just fucking around with the idea instead of committing.
There was a parallel story in NZ a couple of weeks back. Basically, the post office was hiring contract drivers to deliver some mail and requiring them to pay for repainting their delivery vans, the uniforms and a few other things. The drivers were also not allowed to deliver for any other company while under contract. Now, it’s fair to question whether all those terms are just or not, but they’re all freely entered into.
After going through a lot of the details, the Radio NZ interviewer, a guy name John Campbell (who is even smarmier and more condescending that most American journalists), through out his punch-line question to the post office supervisor he was interviewing, “Let’s be honest, this is a master-servant relationship isn’t it?”
Or you could just use a service like SHIPT, my wife’s latest fascination.
In all fairness, she could most likely take her teeth out .
Guess what. If you can’t outcompete a woman three times your age, you’re definitely doing it wrong.
The end is near PB replied to something!
Oh, nice. The edit fairy moves my comment, but she won’t close my link tag.
You seem to be implying that the edit fairy exists for the commentariat’s benefit.
KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCH!!!!!!
Schlichter is definitely a clown with a huge warboner, but I usually find his stuff pretty funny. This is no exception.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/07/30/millennial-socialism-stupid-evil-or-both-n2504950
Can’t get past those teeth…
She looks like she’s about to bite that guy’s thumb right off.
I larfed. Schlichter is an entertaining bomb-thrower.
BTW, how is “democratic socialism” different from plain old “socialism”, anyway?
More pretending about voting.
I think it’s something like the difference between “global warming” and “climate change”. The old brand name was losing credibility.
Plus, it allows them a new angle on their typical spin: “The reason __________________ failed is because it wasn’t democratic socialism.”
The authoritarian you vote for will never hurt you.
Historically, DS emerged post-WWII and was created as a hybrid between market capitalism (which a lot of Euro-planners thought was incompatible with equality) and Stalinism/central planning – which was then dominating eastern Europe.
A lot of DS had drunk the Keynesian Kool-aid that unregulated capitalism had caused the Great Depression and ultimately given Europe Hitler.
a hybrid between market capitalism (which a lot of Euro-planners thought was incompatible with equality) and Stalinism/central planning
OK, then what’s the difference between democratic socialism and fascism? Because I thought fascism was the flavor of socialism that included some room for private ownership and capitalism.
https://www.dsausa.org/what_is_democratic_socialism
Democratic socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically—to meet public needs, not to make profits for a few. To achieve a more just society, many structures of our government and economy must be radically transformed through greater economic and social democracy so that ordinary Americans can participate in the many decisions that affect our lives.
You didn’t build that, we won’t let you run it, you can’t keep what you didn’t make.
I think that’s a good way of challenging DS.
I suspect that most DS would respond along the lines of race/genocide, etc. That is to say, fascism is seen by most to be identical to Nazism and almost everyone in the world is completely oblivious of the economic aspect of fascism/Nazism.
“So, wasn’t Mussolini pretty much a democratic socialist?”
I think the real difference is the overt nationalism of fascism. Although its hard to see how you could radically transform a country so that there was vastly more national control of everything without being pretty nationalism.
Now, if they want to go more international socialism, with international bodies sticking their nose in, its hard to see the “democratic” part for unelected international bodies making decisions.
Publicly demanding an answer to that exact question from a Bernista junior associate during a debate almost prevented me from receiving my big law offer. Still worth it.
Is that woman capable of looking normal? How do you take so much pretty and mold it into something so repulsive? Just because you’re a braying jackass Democrat doesn’t mean you have to look the part.
No, that’s exactly what it means
Gulag Barbie is a clown,
Add another one to the list.
Ouch.
But they always assume that once the revolution comes, they will be the ones running things, clothed in government authority and making all the economic decisions that individuals and their companies make today.
And that assumption invariably proves unfounded, at least in the long run. Once the actual socialist leadership comes to the realization that things aren’t going to start coming from the sky, control over things invariably passes, to the engineers, the managers and the technicians, the guys who can actually get things done. The difference is, it isn’t like your nerdy engineer neighbor, or your overzealous, incessantly chipper manager at work. No, that’s not the way socialism works. You don’t have a choice in a socialist society. Don’t like your boss? Tough shit. He’s the guy the government put in charge. And your ass better get with the program. Or else. So, the kinds of engineers, managers and technicians that wind up in charge are precisely the kind of engineers, managers and technicians that don’t really mind wielding that kind of power. Do you think #metoo would go down under socialism? The women complaining would simply get reassigned to janitorial duty. Somewhere in suburban Oshkosh. Want to kneel during the national anthem to protest for Black Lives Matter? Well, I hope you enjoy your new job as a construction laborer in Tempe.
Once the actual socialist leadership comes to the realization that things aren’t going to start coming from the sky, control over things invariably passes, to the engineers, the managers and the technicians, the guys who can actually get things done.
*Looks at Venezuela*
You sure about that?
Fair enough. But, I’d suggest that’s precisely the exception that proves the point. It fell completely apart bordering on almost immediately when they failed to do that.
I think it may be more a question of what the apparat actually wants done the most. I suggest it isn’t so much “keeping the economy humming along” as it is “staying in power and amassing wealth”. And they appoint people who will get that done.
“what the apparat actually wants done the most”
Also a good point: in eastern Europe c. 1945-1953, Stalin decided that building a massive war machine was the priority. Thus, all the e. European economies were subjugated to that goal.
goddammit
goddammit?
dagummit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rosGkTHUcE
A man we passed just tried to stare me down
And when I looked at you
You looked at the ground
I don’t know who he is but I think that you do
Dad-gum-it! Who is he, and what is he to you?
dagnabit
Perhaps the most all-purpose comment.
Looking for sophisticated market analysis? Thinkprogress has you covered.
On Thursday, Facebook suffered the biggest stock sell-off in U.S. history, $119 billion in one day — a sign investors no longer have faith in the company’s story or brand.
This sell-off came just a week after CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained to the media that he would not take down web sites with information known to be false, including Holocaust denial.
That kind of baffling blunder suggests a corporation and CEO that has lost its way entirely, that simply has no idea what its brand is.
“This is pent-up anger, and the markets exploded at Facebook,” marketing professor Scott Galloway, author of a book on the tech giant, told Yahoo. “It’s deeper than a one-day sell-off. It’s like when your husband screams at you for leaving the garage door open. It’s not about the garage door. It’s about something else.”
Why won’t that dummy censor hate speech? Why won’t he silence the people we don’t want to listen to?
Thinkprogress wouldn’t understand the concept of overvalued in any case.
Yes. The reason Facebook shit its pants is that it’s not SJW enough. Keep going this route suckers.
I’ve said it over and over; these tech giants are not invincible. We’re seeing it happen with Facebook in real time.
And here I thought the sell-off was because they reported weak earnings and growth prospects. Do any market players really think Facebook is worth more if it censors more and narrows its market?
Hope you have a fun day of bondage WebDom!
She’s tied up at work all day.
Not an expert on this, but wouldn’t she be doing it wrong then?
Correct. She would have someone else all tied up at work.
In my defense, I don’t truck at all with these perverse fixations. I like my sex like my ice cream, vanilla and for procreation only.
Thank you!
I spend my days beating up websites. In reality there is very little bondage in my life.
Happy Birthday, WebDom!
Thank you!
listened to Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson on youtube. these two come off as intelligent which worries me because they both take the position that innovation (i assume robotics and AI) will displace so many and income inequality will become so bad that wealth redistribution will be inevitable to stave off revolution.
anyone else a little disturbed by their agreement on this subject?
Never heard Peterson push that distribution shit, and frankly it comes as a surprise to me considering how anti-socialism and pro capitalism the guy is.
yes, it also surprised the shit out of me.
The thing is to some extent he is not wrong. Even if Automation does not replace a majority of jobs it is the kind of jobs it will replace that matters.
In less than 20 years we will be looking at a world where the only jobs available to anyone with an IQ below 85 will be a small number of minimum wage retail positions. That is not to say there will not be jobs which they could do but those with the below 85 IQ’s would be barely capable of performing them and they would be competing against those with IQ’s significantly higher
Basically 16% of the population has an IQ of 85 or below.
What do you do when you have fully 1/6th of your able bodied population who are basically unemployable or to the extent they are employable it is not at jobs which are capable of surviving off of?
I think a lot of the UBI advocates and automation luddites oversell the idea that there won’t be any jobs but there will absolutely be people for whom there are no economically viable jobs and so it is a problem that needs to be solved somehow.
“What do you do when you have fully 1/6th of your able bodied population who are basically unemployable or to the extent they are employable it is not at jobs which are capable of surviving off of?”
Yeah, the problem I have with this is that we have a lot larger percentage of the population already relying on someone else being productive so they can slack. A lot of those working hard are in that 16% low IQ rating, while quite a large number of mediocre to high IQ people quite capable of working are shining a seat. I don’t buy this low IQ people hardest hit shit.
The problem these people are outlining about automation is one that has been self inflicted. The morons demanding people doing minimum wage jobs (these jobs are minimum wage because they require no specialized skills or training and thus have a substantially large pool of bodies that can do them) be paid far above what their work is worth, is what has made automation happen. Why would I pay someone $15 or $20 an hour for a job I can grab a homeless guy living under some overpass and subsiding on giving passer by’s handjobs to do that job just fine? I suspect that the people pushing for these stupid increases knew full well it would result in exactly the problem we now are being told can only be solved with more marxist shit.
Call me when we start losing the very complex and highly skilled jobs to automation. That is what will cripple our economic system because then these politicians (which hopefully will all be robots) will have to figure out how to tax the other robots to pay all the human freeloaders.
People – including very, very smart people – have been predicting the end of work for generations. JMK predicted that his grandkids will work 15 hour work weeks in order to generate enough wealth to live like a king in JMK’s day.
And they are always, always wrong. You know why? Because the most powerful force in the world isn’t compound interest. Its human avarice. You could work 15 hours a week and be as wealthy as a king in JMK’s day. And you know what we’d call you? Poor? Our standard of living is so high that a normie today has wealth that a king a few generations ago couldn’t imagine. And our grand-kids are going to grow up so wealthy that they’ll spend their days on toys we can’t even imagine. And they’ll want more, too.
We will always strive toward more, and we will always want our grand-kids to have more than we have. As long as that desire is there, there will be work.
From the No Kidding files:
Report: Marines lead all services in binge drinking, sex partners
Though raw-dogging seems to be popular across the branches.
Well, there’s a shocker.
This is only because of Navy’s “Don’t ask /Don’t tell”
they don’t even count all the gay orgies and glue-sniffing
Marines get laid more often?
Chicks dig testosterone fueled alpha males, Who knew.
re: Beer and Soda companies raising prices
this is a super-boring observation, but one i’ll make anyway
all the major brewers + soda companies hedge their commodity exposure 12-24 months out
what this means is that they’ve ALWAYS paid higher-than-market prices for commodities under the assurance that they will not be affected by any short-term unexpected increases in price
iow, no change in the spot price of oil or aluminum during a single fiscal year should have ANY effect at all on company earnings, or would require system-wide price increase in order to maintain planned profit-target. if there is some radical change in price…
(and I would argue that price increases driven by tariffs in 2018 have so far been minor compared to price increases 2015-2017 that have been market-driven)… then they would build new forward-looking pricing assumptions in at the beginning of their next planning phase.
unless of course, they just wanted to be opportunistic, and make statements about those plans ‘right when prices change’ just for the sake of jawboning.
my point: is that with steady rising prices 2015-2017, most of these companies had built in ‘rising prices’ as part of their pricing model already. nothing that happened jan2018 to now should have had any effect at all on that. Claiming so is…. well, sort of illiterate about how the basics of this stuff works. aka “business journalism”.
this is of course all completely aside from the fact that only ~10% or so of ‘soda company’ products is sold in aluminum cans anyway. they’re far more exposed to oil-prices (which drive PET prices), which, incidentally, follow the same basic pattern as ALU which means ‘there have been no unforeseen shocks to the cost-structure anywhere’ as far as i can tell.
unless i’m missing something.
fixed
fwiw, these same issues are LESS true for smaller companies. iow, its not the Budweisers or Coca Colas of the world who are affected significantly by cost-changes. Its the little guys who don’t do 24-month cost-hedging. Which gives an immediate competitive advantage to the big guys.
Meaning, all smaller competitors would have pressure to raise prices, while larger ones would not. strategically – most large companies would resist price changes while competitors do so, in hopes of growing market share.
in short – this idea of “Big Corporations Whining About 10% change in Input Costs” … often doesn’t make a lot of sense when you actually know the context and details about how these specific markets work. Input costs change 10-20% annually regardless; these are volatile areas and companies have strategies for managing those costs which have been developed over decades. This “OMG we wuz blindsided by short term move in input cost” posturing doesn’t really pass the sniff test.
no change in the spot price of oil or aluminum during a single fiscal year should have ANY effect at all on company earnings, or would require system-wide price increase in order to maintain planned profit-target.
Typical hedging strategy would be to have contracts on enough oil, aluminum, etc. to hedge against big price moves. Futures contracts are practically never actually delivered on (that is, you buy a contract for 100 tons of aluminum, but you never actually take physical delivery of that aluminum). The contract is there to increase in value as the price goes up, to offset what your purchasing department will actually pay for what you take delivery of. You’re basically using investment returns to help pay for supplies.
If you are fully and perfectly hedged, then your hedge should offset any increases in supply costs (as well as any decreases in supply costs). However, I don’t think most people who hedge go for perfect hedging; they really are looking for something less to soften the blow of cost increases.
The rising costs justification for price increases could be valid if they are only partially hedged. Or it could be disingenuous, because the line item for supplies has gone up, but is partially – totally offset by the earnings on the futures contracts (which they don’t mention/net out when they do their price increase).
Just because.
I’m 83.6% sure you’ll like it.
There’s only one thing left for Aussie man to do. Unleash the only predator that can take the threat down.
Also, kangaroo fighting a goat. Narrated by a Russian guy.