The halfway point of the (traditional) work week is here. Congratulations. And congratulations to the following teams for winning yesterday: The Nationals (game 1of a doubleheader), the Braves (game 2 of a doubleheader), Red Sox (who are closing in on 50 games above .500), the MINNESOOOOOOODA TWIIIIIINS, the St Louis Cardinals, the BIG RED MACHINE, the Tampa Bay Rays (while Baltimore closes in on 50 games BELOW .500), the Rangers, the Yankees, Padres, Cubs, Pirates, Phillies, Dodgers, Angels and World Champion Houston Astros. Well done, guys.
I’d also say “well done” to the following people. But being born is hardly an accomplishment. It just happens to you. But they did something to make them famous, so there is that. Anyway, the birthday list for today is: “Dr Bob” Smith, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, genius physicist Paul Dirac, genius nuke scientist Ernest Lawrence, moviemaker Dino De Laurentiis, jump blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon, Soul musician Joe Tex, actor Dustin Hoffman, rocker Jay David, hockey player/politician Ken Dryden, sidekick Robin Quivers, guitarist Chris Foreman, tennis GOAT (arguably) Roger Federer, and a few other people. Jesus, what a lousy list.
Let’s see what happened on this date…
Ponce de Leon founded the first European settlement in Puerto Rico, Henry IV was excommunicated, Brigham Young was named head of the Mormon Church, Smith and Wesson patented the metal bullet cartridge, Corn Flakes were invented, Public Law 62-5 permanently set the number of Reps in the House at 435 and undermined the founders intent of a more representative democracy, Sgt York kills 20 Germans and captures 132 in one of the most badass moves in history, the 1st national march of the Ku Klux Klan (D-US) occurs in Washington with 200,000 people, Harry Truman signed the UN Charter, the Great Train Robbery took place, the Chicago White Sox played a game in shorts, and Pete Rose began a five month prison term for tax evasion. That was a little better, but still…meh.
OK, enough of that. On to…the links!
Barring some shenanigans with provisional ballots and absentee votes yet to be counted, The GOP will hang on to OH-12 with a slim victory in the special election. The same two people will immediately begin campaigning for the November election that will establish who sits in the seat for the next two years. The Dom achieved a victory of sorts yesterday when he got the Libertarian candidate, who has the same last name, removed from the ballot because of one signature on his petition being from an ineligible person.
Ha, you can scour the world, but sometimes what you’re looking for is right next door. Literally.
Ohmygod. I was shocked when I saw watt was up with this current event. (I went ahead and got the inevitable out of the way with that headline. You’re welcome.)
Mueller’s star witness for the prosecution in Paul Manafort’s trial has what some would call “credibility issues”. The defense should move to have the case thrown out with prejudice after yesterday’s shit show. Lol, classic.
Is this Arab Spring 2.0? If so, let’s hope the current admin doesn’t ignore the people in Iran risking their lives to be free. And no, I don’t want us militarily involved, but at least acknowledging their desire for freedom from a shitty regime would be better than the crickets from the WH the last time this happened.
American Airlines has had some problems as of late. And now they’re having to deal with stowaways.
Chicago police are reaping what they’ve sown. Meanwhile, the mayor wants hundreds more of them running around town. Because, you know, $50 million a year on average in police misconduct settlements with zero convictions in the past decade isn’t enough.
That story about the compound in New Mexico is getting stranger and more disturbing by the day.
And “woman shoots masturbating bicyclist trying to break into her home” is something I’d expect to hear out of Florida. ::shrugs::
Well that’s the links. Except for this bit of awesomeness that none of you will complain about if you’re decent human beings.
Here’s to every one of you having a great day today. I know I will.
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556 responses to “Wednesday Morning Links”
SUP GLIBS!
Do we still have a country with orangeman in charge?
We got rid of the English kings quite a while ago…
Jim Boeheim is my President.
CUSE IS IN THE HOUSE!
Got my Masters in EE there a long time ago.
*throws orange at AlexinCT*
Boeheim is the Hillary of NCAA basketball. How many great teams has he had that choked?
You wanna’ talk about choking coaches? P J Carlissimo, amiright?
I own a Latrell Sprewell action figure in a Golden State uniform (I won it, I didn’t buy it). The package clearly states
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD
????
Not gonna argue that with you man…
But that truth hurts.
Hey, the last coach we had that could win got canned for some minor league cheating and ever since we’ve been stuck with a parade of losers. At least you guys stuck with Boeheim when he got caught with his hand in a cookie jar.
We fired Clem because Russ Archambault felt mistreated and said Clem paid him cash.
I may be setting a low bar but I am happy that Boeheim never got accused of diddling kids or some shit like that. Having good teams blow a championship is easier to cope with than finding out you used your position of power to do nasty shit.
“Barring some shenanigans with provisional ballots and absentee votes yet to be counted”
I expect them to find a van full of missed votes, skewing 99% for the team blue candidate to settle this. BLUE WAVE!
Although the allegations of collusion between Donald Trump and Russia are not at issue in this trial, any significant blows to the government’s case are likely to be seized on by the president’s defenders, including conservative media, to support his contention that Mueller’s investigation is a “rigged witch-hunt”.
Yeah.
no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
But Mueller’s not on a fishing expedition.
They KNOW Trump was up to illegal shit, because they were up to their necks in illegal shit to steal the election for Hillary. What is that called again?
And they thought all the movie projectionists would be out of a job after the theaters bought automated tech.
Text on image: “I doubt he OR Mueller are smiling after his testimony yesterday. Jeez!”
Wait is that Paul Giamatti?
Only if he had lap band.
American Airlines has had some problems as of late. And now they’re having to deal with stowaways.
The interesting thing about these cases to me is that the mother usually gets charged with a crime. Paying thousands of dollars for a surgeon to induce you, dismember the fetus, pluck it out, and stick the parts with no resale value into a medical waste bag is your god-given right as a woman. Leaving the thing in a toilet is a heinous act of neglect.
That’s different, because shut up!
You don’t have a uterus so you don’t get to talk about it, shitlord.
Trans womenz now want your scalp for othering them!
Further proof that either Monty Python predicts the future, or we’ve gone past the Derp horizon:
Francis: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
Stan: I want to be one.
Reg: What?
Stan: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me ‘Loretta’.
Reg: What?
Stan: It’s my right as a man.
Judith: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
Stan: I want to have babies.
Reg: You want to have babies?
Stan: It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.
Reg: But… you can’t have babies!
Stan: Don’t you oppress me!
Reg: I’m not oppressing you, Stan! You haven’t got a womb! Where’s the foetus going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box?
I saw something the other day where Cleese had basically told everyone to fuck off. He was tired of their PC bullshit.
What frightens me is that that response is not what 95% of the people out there do when confronted with this insanity.
I think Gilliam started it. Also said that this fucked up climate would have prevented a group like MP from even existing.
He’s not wrong.
I ask people to look at any of the real funny comedy from the 80s or 90s that would today not result in these PC douches demanding blood. You think shows like “In Living Color” or comedians like Prior, Murphy, Kinison, Dangerfield, Dice Clay, or whatever wouldn’t be railroaded and destroyed?
Comedy – and common sense it seems as well – is dead because of the PC assholes.
Gilliam. Who is possibly higher profile since he is also a filmmaker. The left were predictably outraged.
So…women have no place talking about the draft? Oh no because women have husband’s and sons who get drafted, and are the biggest victims when said men die.
I need to find my feminist flowchart.
You need charts for this? I think the answer is anything that doesn’t give women what they want is oppression, and when women get what they want social justice has been served. There is a reason I am single…
Oh, you poor bastard. You’re WAAAAAY off. You gotta consider all kinds of other shit, which is why there’s a flowchart.
The penalties for insulting a poor, fat, mestizo (is that word acceptable?) lesbian in a wheelchair is nowhere near the same as that for insulting a white married woman with two kids who drives a 5-series Bimmer.
Oh yes. There’s a flowchart.
I divorced my ex and broke up with a slew of girlfriends because when I point out to them that they are no interested in ever having a discussion, but in making sure they get their way (the only discussions that keep coming back up are the ones where they didn’t get their way), they freak out and get angry (and then immediately go to the crying to guilt trip you). I am not playing that game anymore since I know it is rigged.
Above her in the hierarchy is the physically healthy MTF transperson.
No way in hell am I googling “feminist flowchart.”
You sick fuck.
I may not have a uterus but I sometimes identify as a cunt.
So you Identify as a Mike?
Ar you gonna page him Yusef?
A heinous act of neglect, it might be pointed out, that was not illegal for abortion providers to commit until relatively recently.
It’s just a growth or a parasite. Nobody would be complaining this loud if she sliced a wart off her finger and chucked it in the trash.
/Planned Parenthood
The Ohio results has people screeching the Green Party is being controlled by the Kremlin, and Russian Twitterbots ramped it up in the last few weeks.
I heard on the radio this morning that it’s a victory for the Dems because it was close.
Sounds like that blue wave shit I keep hearing about, to me.
Also, I’m sure none of this was going on: 670 ballots in a precinct with 276 voters, and other tales from Georgia’s primary
Purging voter rolls every 50 years is basically slavery and Nazism.
“the Green Party is being controlled by the Kremlin, and Russian Twitterbots”
That’s hilarious. They need to get some creativity going though. Maybe start blaming bigfoot and space aliens for a change.
STEVE SMITH and ZARDOZ are the obvious culprits.
American Airlines has had some problems as of late. And now they’re having to deal with stowaways.
*fiercely narrows gaze*
Did that fetus have a ticket? I think not!
Fetus had a ticket to die-i
Fetus had a ticket to die-yi-yi
Fetus had a ticket to die, and she don’t care!
*Prepares for collapse of Swiss’s eyes as he narrows the gaze too much*
It’s the gaze singularity!
::hangs head in shame::
Even when we lose, we win!
True, the race was too close to call early Wednesday morning, and the Republican, Troy Balderson, had a definite edge over the Democrat, Danny O’Connor, in the vote count. But even if O’Connor loses, Democrats will move on from this contest with formidable energy and every reason to believe that Donald Trump is vulnerable, that Republicans are spooked and that the Democratic Party is poised to pick up the 23 seats it needs to reclaim the House majority.
This should have been a Republican cakewalk. The district hadn’t been represented by a Democrat in more than three decades. The Republican incumbent, whose retirement is why the special election was necessary, won in 2016 by more than 35 points. In that same year’s presidential election, Trump won the district by 11.
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Since his surprising election and the start of an administration with a metabolism and madness like none other, each special election and batch of primaries have provided a bit more information on what Americans make of it, whether they’re willing to put up with it and where the country and its political parties are headed. Tuesday night was another set of clues.
That’s the narrative, I guess. People don’t vote for individual candidates. They vote for the Collective. It sounds like wishful thinking, to me.
You know the old saying, all politics is national.
If I recall correctly, this candidate went out of his way to avoid the usual prog nonsense, never said a word about Trump, stayed away from the people demanding ICE be abolished or that socialism become the new state sanctioned religion, and focused on the issues he felt would be important to his voters, and yet team blue feels compelled to claim this was almost a victory for them? Are they this stupid or are they playing 5D chess hoping to pretend this guy is your regular team blue candidate these days?
It’s not stupidity, it’s a narrative intended to discourage Republicans and fire up and motivate Democrats.
Yeah, that was the problem. He should have gone all in on the prog policies. Look how well it went for those who were annointed by Princess Prog
I also think that there is a better than 50/50 chance she loses the actual election this fall. Not to a republican, but to the machine pol she beat in the primary.
I would not bet against her losing it.
And none of that stuff matters after the elections. Once a Democrat is in office, they will be 100% controlled by the leftist Borg and will vote exactly as they are told. A vote for any Democrat is a vote for the far left and their free everything bullshit.
And that is the point I make. Pols being pols, they will pretend to be whatever they need to be to get elected, but team blue leadership always controls its members completely making the comparison with the Borg apt. And yes, the far left beliefs now own team blue and will keep getting more radical the longer orangeman keeps running circles around their enlightened and woke asses. Nothing pisses these people that have convinced themselves they were always the smartest people in the room (when they never were anything but stupid douches picking on retards from team red) off more than Trump showing them for the idiots they are.
I see them making the argument all of the time, that the socialists are only part of team blue. Sure, Pelosi and Schumer are moderates compared to the new breed, but they’re both in their 70s and look at the DNC. Their two tops guys are avowed communists and seemingly every new up and coming Democrat is a hardcore lefty, pushing hard for single payer healthcare, free college, and every other far left cause in the book. The fact that half the country is voting for this lunacy to replace the most prosperous country in history is just proof that our public education system has failed and the media have led a lot of people down a dangerous path.
Our Public Education system hasn’t failed. It has been deliberately coopted. It has succeeded beyond all hope in its goal of undermining personal accountability and respect for our institutions.
Long March through the Insitutions
I remember an interview with an old KGB guy that had worked on the Soviet program to infiltrate the Western education system with stooges in which he proclaimed his anger at Gorbachev for caving in in 1991. His main point was that less than a decade after the dissolution of the USSR, most Western education system schools at both the primary, secondary, and university level had so thoroughly been co-opted that the West would have willingly come along to adopt communism if pressured.
No Child Left Behind;
No Child Gets Ahead.
So, everyone crosses the finish line, at the same time, and with the same shit? yeah, that sounds totes realistic…
Sounds like a Libertarian Moment (TM).
I hear that the libertarian moment has been cancelled by Twitter.
Special elections are a different animal anyway. Hell, in this case, they’re going to repeat the election in three months.
Ohmygod. I was shocked when I saw watt was up with this current event.
That’s just reVOLTing
Please dont get people amped up for puns.
I expect Swiss to put up some resistance.
He seems to be running the “narrowed gaze” circuit today.
We’re going to overload his capacitor for this sort of nonsense.
Nah, he’s pretty grounded.
I feel bad for Swiss, but as Obama said, “Electrons have consequences.”
So get out and volt!
The Impedance introduced by these puns must be matched by an equal resistive network of high quality content or losses will result
Ohm my goodness.
It’s truly shocking.
Young Mr. Ohm never forgot the dying words of his uncle:
“With Great Power comes Great Resistance times Great Current Squared”
… Hobbit
*narrows gaze*
*narrows gauge*
*narrows phase*
Resistance is useless!
Impedance FTW!
More like sparkour , am I right? Also, Florida Man.
Call for a ban on people eating dog meat in the UK
I can’t help but wonder the demographic profile of the typical dog eater in the UK.
Actually, I am wondering that myself. I guess I am not really up on dog eating cultures.
I’m guessing not the stereotypical pale-skinned limey.
Arctic explorers excepted.
I don’t really understand these bans. Dogs aren’t people, so why can’t you eat them if they are humanely raised and slaughtered? That goes for horses too.
Was going to respond, then realized, Florida Man.
It’s a serious question. I love my dogs and if dog meat was legal I doubt I would eat it. However if I was desperately hunger, I would kill and eat a dog for survival and not think twice. Killing a human for food is unacceptable. I would morally agree with cannibalizing an already dead person in a survival situation.
Shit, there are people that eat people. Shit happens.
But people have a right to life. If you extend extra protection to dogs, why can’t Hindus demand protection for cows?
The meat lobby would oppose them?
Don’t you dare other the Sioux! MikeS will get all over your shit if you other his tribe.
No, my tribe is now the Fighting Hawks.
*sad trombone sound*
Maybe they got word Obama is planning a trip there?
I joke, but I would totally try dog meat if it was humanely raised and butchered. About the only thing I wouldn’t at least try is long pig, and mushrooms (don’t like the texture.)
SjWednesday: Gender Analysis in Disaster Recovery Planning Edition
If that’s TLDR, then the upshot is there is all this disaster recovery money floating around and the feminist hobbyhorse groups want a cut.
I like how their analysis doesn’t even consider opportunity costs and priorities. Its just “violence happened and we need to use recovery money for it “. Would that takw away food or clean water from other people?
They’re opportunist leeches like most of the other NGOs. Only they’re even more worthless.
Since Hurricane Maria, there has been an increase in sexual violence and harassment and a decrease in access to resources for survivors in Puerto Rico.
Huh, I didn’t know the United Nations sent peacekeepers to San Juan to oversee recovery efforts.
I recall reading that most of the disaster money and resources brought in by FEMA ended up disappearing into the pockets of the usual people running the kleptocracy that passes for Puerto Rico’s government. This is just a cry for more money these kleptocrats can steal.
The hurricane was a godsend for them. They had already robbed the place blind, the hurricane just assured them of a new influx of money.
And also provided a convenient excuse for the destroyed infrastructure that was already gone to shit before the hurricane ever hit.
emergency responses lack a gender analysis
I can’t fathom how gender could be relevant.
violence prevention plans
violence prevention plan
Fucking love Madness. What a great way to start the day!
hereAnother of my favorites!
That sax solo sounded alto familiar.
I’m not sure Swissy is gonna like the tenor of your comment…
I’ll make note of that.
But will Swissy just narrow his gaze? Or will it escalate into something physical?
Sax and violence is a real problem.
I’m laughing as I reed these comments.
This is not the place for you to trumpet your bass-less assertions.
I picked up their compilation album a couple of years ago. I was always a fan of this track.
And the band that probably inspired them.
Ha! I knew it would be that! Great choice!
*heads down youtube hole*
I’ll link this music track, because Christopher Walken
That’s a really cool video. (And a snappy tune)
Ska is for marching band dorks that aren’t cool enough to be Rush fans.
There, I said it.
Dr Cameron is the chair of the All-party Parliamentary Dog Advisory Welfare Group.
Oh.
Still not as insane as the EPA or a slew of other powerful government agencies.
What a DAWG.
I went ahead and got the inevitable out of the way with that headline.
And the result was electrifying.
Uffda! Frankenfood is going to kill us all. Or will THE U of M get a pass for creating a new GMO* apple?
Why the fuck does THE U of M even have a program like this? Do I even want to know what an audit would show? My kid is going to freak out though. He is a fiend when it comes to apples.
*Traditional methods of plant and animal breeding are just as much GMO as tinkering with genes directly. Just less efficient.
breeders David Bedford and Jim Luby attempted to breed an apple
Florida Men?
Nah, I thought Florida Men would have big cocks and could only breed watermelons. Maybe a cantaloupe if it was cold.
These types of programs are probably the least offensive to me of all the University research stuff. NDSU has similar, albeit smaller scale, research going on; breeding all sorts of plants (and animals) to be more productive (or even just survive) the Upper Midwest weather.
Golden Delicious is the best apple for just straight up eating. Granny Smith’s for pie. Red delicious for horses. Fuji for tuna salad.
Are you my dead grandma?
Braeburn FTW
Forgot about Braeburns. I haven’t seen one in years. They have this cultivar called Jazz that they sell at one of the stores around here that’s pretty good. Very crisp.
I’ll keep an eye out for that cultivar. IMO, Braeburn is the best all around eating apple; perfect size, very crisp, a tinge of tartness.
I prefer SweeTango.
And Liberty for pelting antifa shitbirds.
golden delicious is mealy overly sweet trash.
Honey Crisp, Pink Lady and similar crisp apples are the best eating apples
Your opinions are bad and you should feel bad. Any society that extols the virtues of its kindness isn’t (e.g., Minnesota Nice, Southern Hospitality). Any *land that extols the virtues of its farming capacity doesn’t have any (Greenland). Any apple with the word “Delicious” in the name isn’t.
Pink Lady and Honeycrisp for eating raw.
Lol, you guys are weird. Everybody knows the best apple is the one you drop in the trash can so you can pick up a Bartlett Pear.
Outside of their growing areas, Bartletts ripeness window seems to be measured in femtoseconds. They go from rock hard to black mush faster than we can eat them.
But! I use them to make some spiced-pear flavored granola that will put
hair on your chesttie-dye on your shirt.Years ago I read a story about how genetic modification on the Red Delicious made them practically inedible and not even fit for a pie.
I made the mistake of sending it to my mother whose very long return email began “I know! Those motherfuckers!” She didn’t actually say “motherfuckers,” but I got an earful about what bastards they were for ruining Red Delicious.
I don’t know what variety she uses now. I use Fuji and honeycrisp when I deign to make a pie.
I prefer Linux myself.
So, Variety is running a cover story about Trans actors in Hollywood.
Inside you’ll find this little opinion-nugget from the writer:
” A study by GLAAD last year found that of the 901 characters in scripted broadcast primetime shows, only 17 — that’s 1.9% — were transgender.
While that is still unacceptably low, it’s better than the zero transgender characters featured in the major studio movies released in 2017.”
So 2% of TV characters represent a demographic that makes up way less than one percent of the population….. and that’s unacceptably low?
I get that we are all supposed to be outraged that is being terribly discriminated against…. but can we stick to things that aren’t this blatantly counterfactual?
You are on the save wavelength as me cyto. Yesterday I brought up the fact that having 2 of 13 city council seats in Mpls being held by trans people is proof that the cis folks are being discriminated against.
But if you use TV and movies as your guide, every other person is gay. So I guess by that standard, there should be a shit ton more trans people.
Even worse, i tried to make a joke about the “outrage of the week” and put “insert group of the week” in angle brackets. So my last sentence really made a lot more sense when it had an object for that phrase.
But if you use TV and movies as your guide, every other person is gay.
Perhaps why Americans believe about 25% of the population is gay when it’s actually about 4%.
Until everyone believes that 30% of people are transgender, we have no justice.
And 60% of people are gay or bi.. The straights are a fucking minority and should stay in their place!..
/lesbian trapped in a man’s body
There hasn’t been a cultural situation in world history where representation in anything matches the racial distirbution, and that’s because individuals make individual choices
As someone who is extremely mechanically declined and scairt of most power tools, this story really creeps me out.
As the owner of a worm drive Skil Saw, all I can say is Fuck, You have no chance if it was an unexpected attack
Kind of an awkward tool though. You’d need two hands because the guard would snap down.
I’d probably recommend this for jobsite mayhem.
I was surprised to see that this blade for a quickie saw is still available. I thought OSHA banned them a few years ago. I won’t sell them.
Outside of a chainsaw, that’s my first choice.
Nice little setup with this.
My brother shot himself through the finger with one of those at a job we were working 2 weeks ago.
We bandaged it up with my shirt sleeve and some tape, finished the days work and went to the bar. Said it hurt like hell pulling the nail out.
Sawzall with a demolition blade.
Angle grinder with a demo blade. So much gyroscopic force on those things, and people decided, hey, we should make the handle a cylinder three times too big. They basically have a life of their own once you turn them on and make contact with your target material.
I’ve almost gone there a few times. Using a chain saw way up in a big black olive tree as my wife took off for the store comes to mind. I should have gone back down at that point, but being a dude….
Anyway, I didn’t kill myself, even though a few moves were pretty sketchy.
I have a pole-mounted chainsaw for that stuff. Not interested in starring in a Minnesota Man story in the DM.
Oh, I’ve managed some brilliant moves with the pole-saw too…. they only reach so high… so you get on a ladder…
Anyway, physics is not as predictable as you’d think. A branch that hinges and swings back can get a surprising amount of loft. It looked like some invisible giant broke off a branch and threw it at me….
China may have to resume U.S. soybean purchases in weeks
But now they have to pay big tariffs to themselves.
Oooh, that is going to chafe the ass of a lot of proggies locally. When the trade war was about to kick off, a lot of noise was made about the financial hit to local farmers (who for once got to be the good guys and not he Gaia destroying, Cargill/Monsanto loving shitlords) a soybean tariff was going to have.
Almost any rational person who analyzed the situation back then though pointed out that China needs food more than we need cheap goods (in the short term). So the fact that the farmers will end up with a windfall is going to urinate the local doomsayers off.
The downside is that a one time artificially high price for beans means that a bunch of dunderhead farmers will take out big loans to plant even more beans for next year. Then they will cry to Congress for relief when the loans come due while there is a glut of beans on the market driving down prices.
They’re not really dunderheads since past experience has shown them that they have every reason to believe the bailout will be provided.
Point taken.
I’m the dunderhead for not rubbing the farmers’ faces in the fact that they are the biggest welfare queens in the country when I am stuck in a rural road house listening to them bitch about the lazy city folks.
Typical lazy city folk; sitting around a bar eavesdropping on the local, hard working farmers’ conversations.
SMDH
F-dat. I’m there buying drinks for the deadbeats in hopes they will let me on their land so I can kill critters.
It is like having to listen to your wife’s prattling nonsense in the hopes you can have fun later.
Quid pro quo makes the world go ’round.
Well, it’s not like anyone with half a brain didn’t realize that China (or anyone else for that matter) has no chance of winning a trade war against the US. Their only hope was that the bitching from Trump’s opponents would get Trump to back down, but Trump is basically Honey Badger.
It;s pretty laughable that they went the route of trying to hold their breath longer than Trump to keep their lopsided trade advantages.
I am loving this stuff. Not only are they being exposed for the fools they are, all while their past dogmatic stances are highlighted as stupid and wrong (drilling for oil, lower taxes, economic policies, ect. ect.), as Trump does his thing and things go positive despite their doom saying, but when they double down on their stupid, they end up with even more egg on their faces.
SJWednesday: Alphabet Soup Edition
This article left the EPMD unaddressed, leading me to wonder why PDQ# aren’t getting on board with JJDIDTIEBUCKLE.
Did I hear EPMD?
https://vimeo.com/18039770
Erick and Parrish Makin’ Dollars, absolutely
I tried. I really tried. I’m not able to make any sense of that word salad.
Here’s what they need to do now
If editors had any sense of humor, they would have changed that to “Here’s what they need to do PDQ” (I would also accept ASAP)
Why no talk about the importance of IDDQD, IDKFA, or IDSPISPOPD?
(10 glib points (worth nothing) to whoever gets those)
E-I-E-I-OH!
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A
Damned kids.
This comment is 2L2Q.
IDBEHOLD what you did there
Iowans Dick Diddling Queer Dominicans
Indians Diddling Klansman and Fascist Asians
Iranians Diddling Spanish, Polynesian, Italian, and Slovakian People On Purple Davenports
>>none of you will complain about if you’re decent human beings.
::hangs head in shame::
Are you still a decent human being if you not only will not condone using government force to confiscate from the productive to buy votes from freeloaders but condemn that practice?
Transgender and gender non-conforming individuals are barely represented in accurate data collection, which alone indicates violence against their communities.
Maybe they are barely represented because they are an extremely rare species. But let’s design this “disaster relief” program around the needs (real or imagined) of a vanishingly small segment of the population.
I suppose if that’s violence, then they’re within their rights to respond with the same.
I noticed that sentence as well. The fact that when they get “accurate data collection” they barely get any TG folk represented means that there is violence against TG folk.
Or….. maybe your base assumptions are wrong?
Happy, Healthy Economy
Growth is only worth something if it makes people feel good.
The only cure is socialism. Then everyone will be happy, because the government tells them to be. Suicide rates, liver failure and drug overdoses will drop, because the government stop counting.
Envy of what others have is just evil.
“Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the king of Bhutan”
I’m supposed to believe that’s a Real name? FAKE NEWS!!!!
Everybody Wangchuck tonight.
Dammit!
::does a little dance for the tiny victories of life::
Like Phil does?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45xF1C76I88
“Everybody Wangchuck tonight…”
I wonder what the gross national happiness would have been in the former Soviet Union. Or what it is in North Korea or Cuba. If the scale goes to 100 it’s probably up around 195.
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
STEVE SMITH MAKE GROWTH FEEL GOOD
I’d be happier if they left me the fuck alone.
Karla Marx strikes again.
Ocasio-Cortez launched a broadside against the older Democratic establishment saying, “We don’t have a party that has been investing in their future,” noting that the average age of a congressional Democrat is 65. Ocasio-Cortez lamented that national dems are too busy “working on their own reelection” to make an “investment” in future party leadership. She said that national Democrats are stuck in “90’s politics.”
“They were campaigning most when we had more of an American middle class,” Ocasio-Cortez said, “This upper middle class is probably more moderate but that upper middle class does not exist anymore in America.”
Ocasio-Cortez blames de-regulation of Wall Street and rising income inequality for destroying the upper middle class.
The financial sector truly is an anarchco-capitalist wasteland. Also, it should be noted that nobody needs
23 choices of deodorantmore than one last name when children are starving in the streets.I think there will be a war between those who use She Guevara and those who use Karla Marx.
Team Karla.
I’m with She,
/Better ring to it, would look good on parody T shirt…
But She and Che are pronounced very differently, so it doesn’t really work. I’m on Team Karla.
She was a Butcher, Karla was a Leach, IIRC
Let’s ask the Guy that runs the People’s Cube, he would know
Hotsy Trotsky.
Stalina.
Josephina Stalina?
She has crazy-eyes, so idk if “Hotsy” the works.
I’d vote for your name if she were only hot. The eyes and the teeth scare the shit out of me.
Of course she isn’t a patch on one of our candidates for Lt. Gov, Erin Maye Quade. She is the deranged looking person in the background of her running mate’s tv ad. . (still pic here)
That looks like it will be a world of hurt after you stick it in her…
Looks more like Ugly Betty to me.
Hispanic Olive Oyl
Trotsky sounds too Eastern European. If it’s an ethnic sounding nickname, then it should sound Spanish.
No love for Pol Twat?
Adolf Clitler?
Mao Nodong?
Ho She Minge?
+1 Karla Marx – best one yet
Huzzah! That was my contribution.
Why Ames police say they can’t investigate this racist Wi-Fi address near Iowa State campus
Odds that the perpetrator is a lefty intent on producing “evidence” of racism on campus?
They started an important conversation.
What the fuck?
4chan would have triangulated that router after about 15 minutes.
I am calling bullshit. It’s a false flag. Also bullshit on the rampant racist hell these people live in…in their heads.
“Unfortunately, it’s not illegal to be a giant a–hole,” Ames police Cmdr. Geoff Huff said.
Yet
I identify as a giant A-hole. What would that mean for me?
Reeducation camp, baby!
Disclaimer – it’s not me. I don’t see it come up on nearby networks and live just a few blocks from Friley.
For once, I support the Ames PD.
Gooooooodbyyyyyyyyyeeeee VIETNAAAAAAAM!
I got back yesterday and had to immediately go to work, so I’m still a bit drained. Good to get hump day over with. I would love to write something about Vietnam proper, but something very disturbing happened during my hostel stay. Everyone ended up OK, but it was very jarring.
It’s a very personal account of one of the unseen evils of the WoD that most people never even think of. I’ll see if after I decompress I’ll be able to whip out a first draft tonight.
Good to be back! I was lurking the whole time–the other day someone was talking about how the English/Spanish colonies ended up so different. I think you guys nailed it, but Niall Ferguson has a really good take on it in his book Civilization (which I love). He contends that it was the property-owning democracy aspects of the northern colonies that set it up for longterm success. People had incentives to care for their land, while the Spanish were just pillaging as much as they could (which would ruin their economy, ironically, because of how much they flooded the gold supply in Europe, which arguably was a direct cause in the decline and fall of the Spanish Empire).
Looking forward to the pics
I’ll post the link again tonight when I get back to my computer but the thesis I previously linked here comparing missionary organizations and colonial nations and post-independence trends really nailed it.
“but something very disturbing happened during my hostel stay. Everyone ended up OK, but it was very jarring.”
You got pics?
STEVE SMITH’S Asian cousin, XI SMITH?
Wait, Xi Smith? I think I heard he sometimes hung out at a P. F. Chang’s in West Hartford Connecticut when he was vacationing in the US…
Pass ACA Amplifier build update:
The circuit boards have been stuffed and the output Mosfets mounted (these euphemisms!) : Picture 1
and wiring up the back panel. https://i.imgur.com/CQngf2ml.jpg
I hope to finish up tonight, set the bias, and then give the amp a listen.
Second linky no worky
https://i.imgur.com/CQngf2ml.jpg
I’ll be curious how you like it!
It’s got a mixed opinion by the “do you even science bro” crew that I generally hang with.
Amp Camp
I’m definitely not expecting “ultimate fidelity” – but it’s just something to keep busy with. Given my churn and burn of stereo gear, they will probably be sold off in a few months to make way for a DIY Aleph J amp.
It’s worth reading the educational idea behind the ACA amp before casting aspersions on it.
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/diyaudio-com-articles/214808-amp-camp-amp-1-a.html
I totally get that. The build is part of the fun.
Sadly my circumstances make me mostly headphone only. Small house don’t want to drive the family nuts or have the space for a proper speaker setup.
The new “chip amps” are a controversial, but I’d definitely give them a shot. For example Massdrop had this on sale for something like $80. Dual power supplies. Hard to even get the parts here for that kind of money. Just no use for it.
http://en.tpdz.net/products_detail/productId=36.html
Of course FTC RMS @ 8 ohms turns this into a bit of 30WPC.
I’ve built two Tripath (“Class T”) amps and found them rather enjoyable. I wasn’t too pleased with the Chinese built Dun Mei (really!) LM3886 chip amp I owned, but it looked as if it had been assembled in someone’s backyard using hotglue. I imagine there were some engineering deficiencies to be found but given the silly low price I wasn’t that surprised.
I have an old Adcom 545 in my system right now – perfectly cromulent – but it’s always fun to play with new gear.
Chinese HiFi is all over the map. Topping seems to be of good quality and use instrumented designs.
I’m actually expecting other Chinese firms to start making bootleg inferior versions of Topping.
Holy Crap!
That Tribune article about all the murders in Chicago had this little factiod:
In only 17% of murder cases in Chicago do police even identify a suspect.
What in the world? That doesn’t even mean they make an arrest or bring charges… just have a suspect.
No wonder they have so much killing. If you have better than an 80% chance of never even being a suspect, the deterrence of getting caught is greatly reduced. If you are all murdery and whatnot, you probably hang out with other folks who are all murdery and whatnot…. so you probably know a few murdery types who went all murdery and got away with it.
Poor mammals, we have all the ‘suspects’ well documented…on a our score board. Seriously the drone footage from that area on the weekends is a huge hit in the galaxy.
It’s just animals killing each other. Why should we bother?
/Chicago PD
I sense a market opportunity here. Hobo murder safaris. You bring in tourists who want to hunt the most dangerous game, or just have a taste for long pig. Set up urban safaris. With odds that low of even being a suspect, it’s a safe pastime for those who are bored with your average vacation. Hire some guys from Australia to really give it that special fel.
“Crimey! Look a’ the bones on tha’ fella. Look at how it cradles it’s bottle of mad dog. Oy, now aim carefully, mate. You don’t want tha’ little fella to suffer after ya shoot it.”
The revenue from tourism can go to fund lawsuits against the NRA for obviously being at fault.
That will work. After all, we learned in the afternoon links yesterday how appalling the culture of male privilege and toxic masculinity is among hoboes.
It’s Always Sunny did it already.
And JCVD in Hard Target.
They get caught, just not by the police. All of the locals know who does that shit but no one tells the cops.
So the problem is the communities themselves?
The problem is the war on drugs. It leads to nice respectable folk knowing that the police don’t care and don’t want to know about petty little crimes like murder. But try to go talk to them about it, and you might discover their doggy “alerted” on you.
I think that is one of the problems. The regular folks aren’t as incompetent as the cops. They have a suspect in a lot more than 17% of the cases. They also know that the cops aren’t going to bring justice, so the only way to avenge your buddy’s murder is to take care of it yourself. And on and on.
Almost all of this is going on in the inner city ghettos that the Democrats use for voting farms. No matter if a few of them knock each other off. A few votes lost won’t turn the place red any time soon. Basically no one cares, so nothing is done about it. And the only thing that can be done is to get those people to working instead of living their entire lives dependent on government benefits. And that’s not going to happen, because it’s the one thing that just might turn the place a little more red and the Democrats who have ruled these places for 50 years or more, aren’t having any of that stuff.
After all, one more dead body just means one more locked-down Dem voter.
Stop encouraging single motherhood. Yeah I don’t have much like for socons but I think they’re right about this.
Oh, no doubt. I have about as much scorn for socons as I do progs, but they are right about that.
Am I cynical for thinking that the Chicago PD might be responsible for a non-negligible number of those murders?
The Chicago PD only classes the deaths they cause as murder of they’re find out. I doubt a sizeable chunk of the recorded murders are theirs. The accidental deaths, suicides, and manslaughter cases though…
It is probably even worse than that. You think they get the right suspect more than half the time?
It probably breaks down to something like
83% no suspect
4.5% correct suspect identified, prosecuted, and convicted
0.5% correct suspect identified, prosecuted, but acquitted
4% correct suspect identified but not enough evidence to prosecute
4.5% incorrect suspect identified and prosecuted, and convicted
0.5% incorrect suspect identified, prosecuted, but acquitted
3% incorrect suspect identified but not enough evidence to prosecute
So if you are actually the guy who pulled the trigger you are probably only looking at less than a 5% chance of actually serving time for it.
Austin Petersen seems to have come in third in his primary election yesterday.
Dang.
Yeah. I hoped for better than an 8% vote. Austin didn’t advertise on the tube much (not that it makes a lot of difference).
In only 17% of murder cases in Chicago do police even identify a suspect.
That’s some mighty impressive police work.
90% of that 17% is the NRA.
Imagine if you were a detective tasked with solving all of the last 10 years of unsolved murders in Chicago or Baltimore. That would involve spending a lot of times in neighborhoods that you do not even want to drive through. Clearly not a glamorous job.
Get the Navy involved. NCIS and Mark Harmon can knock out that backlog in about 2 years.
There were 47 murders in Chicago last weekend. LAST WEEKEND!!!
When will Chicago finally get out from under the boot of the NRA and pass some meaningful gun control legislation??
and the Red Menace witch-hunt continues…
Rand Paul Is Trump’s Perfect Russia Stooge
The Senate’s resident wacko bird finds a new political family that shares his curious affinity for Moscow.
Or did we skin suit him too….
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!
They replaced him when he went to the hospital after the staged attack by the neighbor.
“Trump made a deal with the evil one, who magically altered the outcome of the 2016 election.”
Not buying that story means Rand is in league with the Evil One.
The Evil One? What does Tom Brady have to do with this?
This nonsense really has become insanity. It’s like attending a meeting of UFO abductees.
At least the abductees tell funny stories about the probing…
One out of Ten don’t seem to mind……
You don’t find Max Boot funny?
No, but Das Boot was hilarious!
Rand was already an alien to the entire Democratic Party, he has some principles.
That makes him an alien to the republican party as well.
when i want investigative journalism, i turn to Vanity Fair.
Condé Nast is just a big bucket of snakes.
Crap. Jerry Remy has fucking cancer again. They guy used to smoke a lot but damn, six times?
Fetus found on American Airlines plane at LaGuardia Airport
Do they even allow coat-hangars on airplanes? ///ThatWasInappropriate
NPR was pimping the “we didn’t lose that bad!” As a win.
It’s weird. I mean, we’re used to that argument on some regular libertarian sites. “we got a whole 4%! Muh libertarian moment!”
Just weird to see from a major party. Before the votes are even in. They reek of desperation.
When your ideas only work in make believe and you can only win in make believe, then it’s where you live, I suppose.
They’re still convinced that one man is responsible for their unpopularity. It’s a breathtaking display of retardation.
If you don’t vote Democrat, it’s only because you’re racist, sexist, or some ism or phobic something. It can’t be because you are seeing Democrats completely lose their minds and push communism, it can’t be that.
They believe that their ideas are so awesome that they should never lose, hence when they don’t win, it has to be because the people voting are the problem….
A NYT article these days will typically have something like this in the first paragraph:
“Even though socialism is overwhelmingly popular in America today…”
See, everyone wants socialism, we just can’t have it because Trump, the NRA, Koch brothers, something something…
“They believe that their ideas are so awesome that they should never lose,”
In all fairness, I think most libertarians are convinced of this for themselves as well.
AN-AR-KEY!
“They’re still convinced that one man is responsible for their unpopularity. ”
I wouldn’t say ‘one man’ exactly, but Obama sure did his best.
You can’t let the troops get depressed.
If you don’t spin this as a “win” the true believers are all going to go home and stay there. If they think there is no hope to defeat Trump-hitler, they will simply stay home this November.
Nope. You have to goad them into remaining energized and motivated.
I had several empty 1 gallon milk jugs ready to collect prog tears today, and I am feeling like the dozen I have are not gonna be enough…
How Hidden Bias Can Stop You Getting A Job
Today, there are few arguments that can be made against having a diverse, multicultural workforce. Women are as good as men, disabilities shouldn’t hold employees back and race has no impact on a person’s ability to perform a job.
Indeed, research has shown that diverse groups can be better at making decisions than homogenous ones. Management consulting firm McKinsey has even shown for example, that companies that rank high on gender, racial or ethnic diversity benefit from financial returns that are above national industry medians.
Despite this, minorities and members of underrepresented communities continue to be discriminated against when it comes to hiring.
But, in many cases, employers may not even be aware of how unintended biases influence who they hire. Here we look at where these biases can come from, how they creep into the hiring process and some strategies for fighting them.
We need to get those wrongthink laws on the books. Discrimination is only OK when it’s against WIPIPO, especially males, and sometime Asians. But otherwise, it’s bad.
I wonder if “diverse” companies do better (if this is a true fact) because they’re the ones that get awarded lucrative state and federal contracts.
I highly doubt that companies that hold regular diversity seminars actually improve productivity or morale.
They don’t. They sure try hard as hell to massage the data to make it look that way, but they don’t. When you hire people based on something as idiotic as a diversity quota, and your competitor just hires the best people, you are doomed. Maybe this is why these people are so hell bent on making this the law so their competitors are also handicapped.
I think it works out quite well for my clients, as far as IT goes, because a lot of good candidates are Indian and Asian. Their race or ethnicity has nothing to do with why they get hired, but those orgs can stick another diversity feather in their hat regardless. They still cannot get their fill of wiminz diversity hires in that regard, because not a lot of candidates are women, because guess why? They don’t apply as much for IT jobs as men do. So they still are able to sit around and piss and moan over not enough women in IT. They would be perfectly fine with actually forcing women to apply for jobs they do not want to do. regardless of outcome. It’s incredibly stupid, but that’s what the left do, in fact, stupid is not only what they do best, it’s all they do.
It is way easier in IT. A good IT shop is a straight meritocracy.
My department was always that way. I hired on two criteria. Be bright, and be motivated. And I’ll take motivated over bright. But you’d better be bright. Skills you can pick up on the job. But you ain’t getting any smarter.
So I had women, black guys, Asian ladies, Indian dudes, gay, straight, horny, asexual… it doesn’t matter. Just be excellent. The only people who had trouble in our “culture” were people who were not that bright. And by “not that bright” I mean “only a little above average”. Most of my team were 140 IQ and up. A couple were way up somewhere over 160. One lady I hired as an A+ tech who didn’t go to college was one of those. She grew up in a trailer park and the best her family hoped for was a job as a waiter.
I knew she was bright, so I pushed her to start learning network administration stuff. I had her set up an exchange server for a few days just to give her a little push …. “here’s a CD and a server. See if you can get the server up and properly configured”. She was my director of technology within 3 years.
That’s a meritocracy. Work your ass off and be bright and you rise to the top. Meanwhile, every now and again the top execs would bring in some degreed-up list of certifications to improve our department and run this project or that group. They never lasted long. Bullshit doesn’t float in that environment.
That’s why I’ve never understood this “IT has an anti-female bias”. I had a lead SQL admin who was a woman, a director of technology, our help desk manager, our reporting group manager and our best lead architect…. all women. If you are good, nobody is going to discriminate against you in IT. At least not for being a woman. Maybe for being old, but not female.
What I didn’t see was a huge stack of applications from top-flight women. I’m not sure women applicants were idiots in any greater percentage than men, but the total applicant pool of women is much lower in IT.
I did have one woman that I hired as a temp to help roll out a bunch of desktops who couldn’t make it until lunch. Apparently taking computers out of boxes and setting them up on desks was too hard. She went to lunch and never came back. I never had a dude flake out on me like that. It was a shame, because the next hire I made was the trailer park girl. She coulda had the inside track for that job… one that ended up paying six figures after she worked her way up. Opportunity knocked… and she decided to go to lunch and not come back. (not that she was ever going to excel like that… but the opportunity was there)
“It is way easier in IT. A good IT shop is a straight meritocracy.”
When I worked primarily for tech companies your claim was valid, but you must be lucky enough not to have had to work in a company where IT is just something they have to have to do business. Especially a very large, very woke, women dominated company like you get in the insurance industry (which is practically all that is really left in the People’s Republic of Connecticut when it comes to major employers). A company that has some 34K employees and an HR department with 3K people.
I have worked with plenty of people that sucked at what they did in IT, but get a pass because the company got to mark one or more check boxes on that list of special characteristics that make them woke. I have often also seen them promoted up to the level of their incompetence as people tried to get rid of them. Not picking on just women here. Incompetence is not gender neutral, but you see it predominantly with the special hires. In the mean time, I have also seen some awesome people get turned away for no good reason. I had this black kid that was absolutely awesome at coding that they wouldn’t even let interview because he lacked a college degree. The fact that he was self though and could run circles around many of the idiots with a degree we pay too much money for irked me to no end.
The so-called “diverse” companies included in these statistics are generally, established blue-chips that became wildly successful without diversity. Apparently, if you add a woman to the board of Exxon, they get credit for previous success.
I don’t see a problem there. You just do a little bit of history revision with a large dash of social justice and *POOF*, women get the credit they deserved all along.
“Today, there are few arguments that can be made against having a diverse, multicultural workforce. Women are as good as men, disabilities shouldn’t hold employees back and race has no impact on a person’s ability to perform a job.”
None of those things have anything to do with running a successful business and I am calling bullshit on their second claim. If I were running a business today I would avoid women like the plague. All it takes is one MeToo’er to poison everything.
And they would be proud of her doing so. The other people now unemployed because the business went belly up however get no sympathy.
I work with quite a few women who are pretty cool and I don’t worry about. But they all are either close to my age or they weren’t born and educated in the US. If I see any younger, American educated women, I just naturally avoid them like the plague. If they say ‘hi’, I would just say hi in passing and that’s it, no eye contact, no chatter, nothing, moving on.
Dipshit drinking beer on this train just spilled it all over some lady’s leg. Now he’s just sitting there with his feet in a puddle of beer. Suggestions?
Thread fail. Oops.
Don’t sit next to him.
Apologize, for a start.
Take your packet of kleenex out and start trying to mop it up. Then walk away.
I love these self-contradictory articles. Superficial characteristics have no impact, but groups with multiple superficial characteristics perform better.
If that were actually true, companies wouldn’t need to be forced to do “diversity” hires.
Today, there are few arguments that can be made against having a diverse, multicultural workforce.
And just who is making these arguments?
The problem is elevating having a diverse, multicultural workforce above having a competent effective workforce.
Women are as good as men
When they are at work, sure. One problem is, they aren’t at work as much because of maternity leave and the endless “oh, I have to leave early because my kids have __________”.
disabilities shouldn’t hold employees back
That’s heavily dependent on the job and the disability, wouldn’t you say? Someone with Tourette’s isn’t going to make a good salesman. A paraplegic isn’t going to be good at package delivery, a blind person is going to be a terrible proofreader, etc.
race has no impact on a person’s ability to perform a job.
This is the one piety that I don’t have a problem with.
Fire and Water in California
It used to be such a cool place.
It looked like a Volcanic Eruption Yesterday at dawn, ash falling, and I’m 40 miles North of the OC fires
“It used to be such a cool place.”
Yes it was. The California I prefer to remember was the 1970’s California.
You can’t go Back, and it wasn’t all Rainbows and Sunshine, if you could even see the Sun for all the Smog.
I Remember…
All I can remember from Simi Valley is beautiful weather with lots of sun. I’m sure progs have ruined it also, by now.
This can’t be pointed out often enough. It’s not sexy to focus on the things that they’re expected to do. They have to find new contentious avenues of expenditures to campaign on. They need something to differentiate themselves.
Assholes, every single one of them.
Somehow the subject of The Wonder Years came up today, and it was pointed out to me that a new show with the same format would depict the adolescence of a boy growing up in……1998. I’m not sure anything has ever made me feel so old as that.
Was grunge music still a thing in 1998? Or had it petered out by then?
Grunge was dead. Industrial shock rock and boy bands were dominating the radio.
Well there goes by tv show idea, with Nirvana etc as backdrop music.
::wipes away a tear and throws script into the fire::
Yeah, grunge mostly stopped being a thing by 1995-6. Nirvana was gone, Soundgarden broke up, Layne Staley had retreated into being a junkie hermit.
Dark times, between the end of grunge and the rise of streaming.
Yeah by 98 you were looking at post grunge bands like Linkin Park, Breaking Benjamin, Seether, 3 Doors Down, Shinedown, and of course everyone’s favorite, Nickleback.
So the soundtrack would primarily be white boy rap metal and boy bands
Same for Happy Days.
New Fonzie has a ponytail and wears flannel.
Same story with That 70s Show. Premiered in 1998 and was set in 1976. If the same show were made today it would be called That 90s Show and set in 1996.
Here’s another one for you. 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins was released in ’96. The same song today would be called 2001.
Yup. I remember watching Dazed and Confused as a high school senior in 1993. The setting seemed so old – hell, 1976 was the year I was born! Yet that was just a 17 year span, as opposed to the 25 years separating Dazed and Confused from today.
The funny thing is that something set in the early 2000s wouldn’t look all that different from today, aside from the technology. People didn’t dress all that much different, hairstyles weren’t all that much different, at least when compared to the Pacific Ocean-sized gulf between the ’70s and the ’90s.
You could never remake Dazed and Confused now.
Think of the protests for the “I love high school girls” line.
The change in nostalgia has been noticed. The best guess is that the internet broke the 20 year cycle of nostalgia and fashion.
Interesting– I hadn’t thought of that. It makes some sense, though. It’s the same effect that the printing press had on the English language.
On the other hand, the 20 year cycle was uncharacteristically short, when one considers the broader scope of history, so perhaps things are just returning to the norm after a brief outburst of activity. The 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s had radically different fashions, but the 1900s, 1910s, 1920s had much more similar fashions, similar to the 2000s, 2010s, and (I’d guess) 2020s.
Yeah, I’ve noticed that too. Even popular music has hardly changed in two decades. WTF?
Fucking Millenials.
No there has been some pretty big changes in pop music over the last 2 decades.
Go back to the late Aughts and you had to go to an explicitly heavy metal radio station to find a modern song that featured a guitar even the bulk of the “rock” pop music was based around Synths. Guitar based rock has made a big comeback since 2010. The other really big change is Country has crossed over into mainstream pop music to a far larger degree than it ever has in the past and we won’t even discuss what the marriage of country and rap is doing to music
But black metal + black spirituals = great.
You want to ponder an age gap…. ponder on this one…
Cleopatra is closer in time to the Space Shuttle than to the Great Pyramids.
Its an interesting game to play. I was born in 1962. When I graduated from high school, more time had elapsed from WWII to my birth, than from my birth to graduation.
Now, more time has elapsed from my birth, than from WWI to my birth.
One that seems unpossible to me as a child of the 80’s, is (as I’ve seen pointed out here before) The Berlin Wall has been down longer than it was up.
both of those are striking to me.
I grew up watching westerns and WWII movies. I was wondering why they don’t exist any more.
Then I realized that all of those westerns were only removed by 30 years or so from that being the norm.
And the WWII films were mostly within 15 or 20 years of WWII.
What does it all mean? Well, in 15 years our kids will be watching a major motion picture based on Fortnight. And probably a few about YouTubers.
Ditto. Uncle Ronny will always be what the platonic ideal of a president is, forever delivering the line “We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth” to “touch the face of God.’” (Our elementary school was visited by Christa McAuliffe, we had an entire year of science curricula around space, and had an assembly to watch the Challenger take off…)
Anyway, the Berlin Wall was Always There. The fact that its not, and hasn’t been for a long time is still hard to reconcile.
Cyto, westerns only make sense for the greatest generation. They went off to war when they were young and did unspeakable things to other human beings. Then they came back home and hand to build not just a family, but a whole society, with the same hands that they used to stab men or drown them in mud. (or in the case of one of my grandfathers, feed men Spam. Given the food-heritage of my Full Blooded Italian grandfather, that might have been worse)
Anyway, all good westerns are about hard-eyed killers who just broke the land and now the ladies, kids, and soft easterners are moving in. The hard-eyed kills still need to do some killing to make the land hospitable, but they’ll never be able to join the families that live there.
This is a direct expression of the anxiety of those men who remember killing Fritz one day then being the first person in their family to enroll in college the next.
…yeah, I feel really, really old now. Thanks a lot.
Just shut up already.
*cues up old episodes of Airwolf*
Did they have those A-team clips in that show too?
It definitely had the 80’s vibe
From 2011…
Huh. I was 12 in ’98.
That would be a terribly boring show.
HBO presents: “The Masturbation Chronicles”
*sigh* born too early to prostitute myself on webcam for money. All that wasted cranking.
IT’S THE RUSSIANS!
I’m of the mind that OH-12 probably isn’t good for the Republicans, barely winning a solid red district. Though so much is going to change in the next two months that it won’t matter anyways.
Though I’m probably in the minority here in wanting the Dems to take over at least the House in November. A Democratic House of Reps + President Trump = Absolute gridlock on an unprecedented scale, which would be the best we could hope for out of Congress.
I don’t want to hear what Alyssa Milano “immediately thinks” about anything other than “I hope that stain isn’t permanent.”
Because of our unwillingness to pass policy that protects our election integrity
If only we had voter ID laws all those fraudulent Russians who cast ballots for Trump would have been stopped.
No you don’t get it, we want the illegals from Central America to vote, but we can’t have any of this Russians hacking our voting machines from space.
Let me guess, the non-Russians are fans of growing the socialist nanny state and will vote for one party to get that, while the Russians because they exposed the Obama admin corruption and how criminal the whole Clinton campaign was are ebil?
The one thing the Dems could do to hurt Repubs in November would be to remind everyone that The R’s failed to deliver on their promise to repeal Obamacare but they cant very well do that, can they.
I think we are living through some of the most interesting politics ever. Watching Trump really is a hoot but I have noticed some very troubling things: People openly identifying as socialist, acceptance of violence against those you disagree with, open attacks on inalienable rights, particularly attacks on the first amendment.
The ACA is mostly a dead letter, especially with the the mandate gone, but especially with the HHS reversing Obama’s cynical gambit to force buyers into the exchanges by imposing needless limits on short-term insurance.
I agree. These are some interesting but also disturbing times. Another really big problem, caused by social media, is the complete lack of subtlety or discussion on a topic. There is no longer debate, just written, verbal, or physical attacks, not always against what a person says but often because of the person saying it.
Poor Alyssa. She’s one of those people I talk to every election that don’t get it at all when I point out that I only vote in a few races.
When I tell them that I only vote for candidates or issues that I can support and if there are none, I just leave the ballot blank. Utterly flummoxes some people. “But you have to vote for someone. Even if it is for the lesser of two evils.”
That is when I get to pompously point out that voting for the lesser of two evils means you are voting for evil and I won’t do that. (I get the attraction of being a moral grandstander. It is pretty fun to lecture people)
When in doubt vote Chtulu, the greater of two evils.
Or, just maybe, Alyssa, those people were casting principled votes because your preferred party doesn’t offer them what they want. Or are casting a strategic vote to preserve ballot access, again because your preferred party….
Shorter Alyssa: All your votes are belong to us.
“Though I’m probably in the minority here in wanting the Dems to take over at least the House in November. A Democratic House of Reps + President Trump = Absolute gridlock on an unprecedented scale, which would be the best we could hope for out of Congress.”
And make it impossible to make the personal tax cuts permanent and 24/7 of listening to the Dems crank out another ban guns, repeal the tax cuts, impeach Trump bullshit. No thanks.
We’ve got a few years on the tax cuts. And while they’re doing all that talking they won’t actually be doing anything substantive. I don’t give a shit what they say. Let them waste the next two years talking about impeachment. Please.
A Democratic House of Reps + President Trump =
A Constitutional crisis would be my bet. An unholy clusterfuck of bogus investigations, bullshit subpoenas, votes of contempt, blah blah, culminating in a vote to impeach on strict party lines for bullshit. Honestly, not in the country’s best interest, IMO.
Trump doesn’t control the Senate and won’t control it no matter what happens in November. Gridlock has been assured for the near future.
Uh….have you seen the Senate map?
The Republicans are picking up Senate seats. Whether they pick up enough to outvote the fucking RINOs who stand shoulder to shoulder to defend Obamacare is another question.
Assume that Trump fires Sessions and Rosenstein today. How many Republican Senators will vote to confirm their replacements nominated by Trump? How many will start talking about impeachment? In the Trump vs. Mueller conflict the President has about two or three senators on his side (Rand Paul, who else?). That’s what I mean by saying that Trump doesn’t control the Senate.
I agree with you. The Team Red loyalty doesn’t apply as much to Trump as entrenched pols.
Team red is almost as married to the deep state as team blue is. Don’t ever lose sight of that. After the let Obamacare linger around when it should have been put out of our misery, nobody should have any doubt about that.
I’m not talking about their loyalty to Trump, I’m talking about the ideology of the Senate. The Republican Senate caucus is composed of 48 votes against Obamacare, then Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, and John McCain. Those three cockholsters plus the Democrats mean Obamacare repeal is a no go. It’s the issue with the Senate: it’s supposed to be hard to pass bad legislation, but it’s equally hard to repeal it.
If the Republicans take 5 or 6 Senate seats and maintain control of the House, they will be in a position where guys like Rand Paul and Mike Lee are the ones sending bills to Trump’s desk.
Wait… you can see a future where Rand Paul and Mike Lee are able to get legislation through?
Where is your crystal ball? Because I want some of whatever it is smoking……
policy that protects our election integrity,
Somehow, I doubt she wants:
Photo ID for voting.
Strict purging of voter rolls.
Paper ballots.
Absentee ballots must be picked up in person.
One day to vote.
Strict chain of custody for ballots.
Felony prosecution for violations of election laws.
Because that’s what policy to insure election integrity looks like. Every departure from those standards decreases security and opens the door for fraud.
Uh… no…
To protect our elections you have to have an opportunity to vote. So no voter ID. And you need at least a couple of weeks to vote. And you should be able to vote from anywhere, at any time. And everyone should automatically be registered to vote if they use any social services. And we need to restrict groups of people trying to influence the elections… like corporations, PACS, stuff like that. those are rich people buying elections. And the people need to have a voice… so we need public financing of campaigns. Oh, and the people means working class people. So unions should get to campaign for their favored candidates. But there is a separation between church and state, so churches shouldn’t be able to participate in electioneering.
I think that pretty much covers it. Maybe we need quotas for the race and gender of candidates, but that can wait.
That you consider yourself a political activist, for starters.
The Nation, where here is no pretense of neutrality
Passing so-called “right-to-work” legislation has for decades been a central tenet of the agenda developed by the Koch brothers and their allies to tip the political balance toward Republicans in the battleground states. By using the power of government to undermine organized labor, these anti-union laws don’t just make it harder to organize and represent workers. They make it harder to mobilize grassroots support for progressive candidates who stand up to corporate power.
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The corporatists finally succeeded last year in getting Republican legislators and a newly elected Republican governor to approve a right-to-work law. But union activists gathered enough petition signatures to put the new law on hold until voters could weigh in on whether they wanted lower wages and fewer protections on the job.
The voters will do that on Tuesday, when Missourians are to decide the fate of Proposition A, a statewide referendum that will provide a vital measure of the ability of organized labor to defend worker rights. A “yes” vote will make Missouri a right-to-work state. A “no” vote will preserve the rights of workers to collectively bargain—and the full ability of unions to fight for fairness in the workplace and in society.
Without unions defending the worker, Amerikkka will turn into a dog eat dog hellscape of parasitic capitalism. Fairness will be nothing more than a dim, distant legend.
Without unions, 10 year old children would be working in the mines for 23 hours a day, for 10 cents an hour!
Which would, of course, be absurd. Why would I pay my orphan slaves 10 cents an hour? I’ve got a reputation to uphold.
If they ain’t workin’ 29 hours a day and paying you for permission to come to work…you’re gettin’ a raw deal.
Unions are so awesome that without the power to compel people to join them they cease to exist.
By attacking the anti-Trump Koch brothers, you are supporting Trump.
What does The Nation have to say about their support for Trump?
Grassroots = union dues
Gotcha
Good lord that is a super shit ton of dishonesty in so few words.
Looks like the unions won. Good luck attracting business, Missouri.
progressive candidates who stand up to corporate power.
Let me know when you find one of these.
Federal agency studies unauthorized bridge in North Dakota
5 bucks says they’ll take the option that maximizes the FYTW
I’m kind of shocked they didn’t just summarily tear the bridge down and fine him for building it.
Or order he tear it down and fine him for every day it remains.
Wickstrom said Bice has been cooperative in the process. Bice will pay for the environmental assessment and will also be charged back rent.
They’ve already pulled the wallet from his pocket.
Three letters is all that is needed to make me mad enough to see red: B L M
Racist.
“Bice said he believed he owned the property and that he obtained a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The bridge was constructed in 2013. The bureau didn’t learn about the bridge until July 2017.”
I managed a large rural property for a couple years. There’s a chance someone could have built a bridge somewhere on the property without my noticing. There’s no way in hell I would have missed it for four years.
Top. Men.
“We’re going to air this in public for a little bit to see how the wind blows. We don’t want another Malheur.”
holy crap that’s a nice bridge.
Choices, choices
My dad was a grocer, and the state food inspection guy cited him for not having a shiny, slick, easy to clean tile floor; so he installed one.
Then the state OSHA cited him for having a slick work surface.
Ah, the wonder of “make work” government agencies! This shit is not just great for the economy, but it allows the government agencies to prove they are adding value!
I saw a lot of that retardation in California when I’d go to look at some construction equipment:
Guy has a big Cat D8N…gets fined by CARB for idling it too long. Guy installs Huss Sytem…gets fined by OSHA for obstructed view of operator.
Thanks for the tip!
I hunt in that area and one of the bummers about the Little Mo river is that there aren’t enough bridges for a city guy like myself. If you find yourself on the wrong side of the river, you have to drive a fucking long way to find a bridge to get across.
My sons grew up way more citified than I do and always get annoyed that a river can be such an obstacle. They are used to being able to drive pretty much where they want to go.
I wonder who this rancher pissed off to have his bridge ratted out. I gay-ron-tee that every local within a 100 miles has been using that bridge.
he obtained a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The government gave him a permit. Case closed. Pretty sure the government has already authorized the bridge.
Oh, that was a different agency? Tough shit. You are agencies of the government. If one agency is all it takes to block something, one agency is all it takes to authorize something. If one division (or employee) of a company enters into a contract, its binding on the whole company.
More civil political discourse from a Democrat.
Facebook gives voice to the unhinged. Vox populi!
Florida men….
So Jim Acosta was right after all….oh, wait.
The specter if political violence is always descending on Democrats, but somehow lands on their enemies.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article215644840.html#navlink=SecList
Fun times in socialist paradise Venezuela.
” Total extinction” It’s the Socialist Way,
So it wouldn’t be at all inaccurate to say that socialists eat ass?
socialism is bad for the environment.
to quote South African rhino farmer John Hume:
“Western capitalism was built on the word “Incentive” and because it was so successful it was possible for us to develop hugely successful conservation projects. Even governments were supportive of these projects because the governments were able to collect taxes from a successful capitalist economy.”
“Give me one animal that’s gone extinct while farmers were breeding it and making money out of it. There’s not one.”
The Louisiana Alligator is a prime example. When I was a kid they were rare and only found in a few places. Because of the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries efforts and lobbying creating a financial incentive to raise them they are everywhere. So many in fact that it can be difficult to fish without them stealing the fish off of your line in some places.
are they crunchy? good with ketchup?
Not a big fan. The meat is too rich.
When I’ve had gator tail, it tasted pretty good but was a bit on the greasy side.
the Democratic legislature appropriated a mere $30 million of cap-and-trade revenues for fuel reductions on 60,000 acres of forest land.
It’ll probably cost that much just to fight the goddam environmentalists‘ lawsuits, before a single tree is even cut.
Last Surviving Crew Member Has ‘No Regrets’ About Bombing Hiroshima
War is a hell of thing.
some would say we should’ve scoured the whole island.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
Gotta give the guy credit; had he allowed regret to sink into his mind at all, he’d probably have mentally tortured himself or developed some kind of addiction.
Having the lives of 100k people on your conscience would be unbearable without some kind of mental construct to keep you sane …. unless you’re a sociopath like so many of our Top Men appear to be.
I don’t think many Americans who remember 1941 felt an ounce of regret. My late father-in-law who went through Marine bootcamp and infantry school in the spring of 1945 and would have been cannon fodder on a Japanese beach never felt anything except gratitude for those nukes.
Which is why I get royally pissed when people start making snap judgements about historical events using our twisted modern day values to argue about how evil/stupid things that happened a long time ago were. It’s the hallmark of small minds to judge old history when you dismiss context.
And with some of the archives that have been opened in recent years, it’s harder to make a case against Hiroshima & Nagasaki,
Imagine the mental problems a lot of Jarheads would have suffered from having to shoot women and children who were armed with bamboo spears.
It also baffles me why people get bent out of shape about the immorality of an atomic bomb, but not have a problem with the firebombing that was done to many more Japanese citizens.
Given my druthers, I think I would take being vaporized in an instant as opposed to being incinerated as I had time to see a wall of flames coming at me.
The Okinawa battle was truly horrific and was a preview of how awful a mainland invasion was going to be.
If we had done an invasion, the Soviets would have eventually joined in and we’d be talking about North and South Japan and the ongoing tension there to this day. After the demonstration of our nukes, MacArthur told them to piss-off when they insisted they join the occupation.
Had not thought of that. Another excellent reason, even a humanitarian reason, for nuking Japan into surrender. What would the death toll of Japanese have been at the hands of the Soviets, during the fight and during the occupation?
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/rise-fall-dockless-bike-sharing-dallas/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Web%20Social&utm_content=dallasbikes
“Dallas’s long dockless bike-share nightmare may be over”
The weirdest part is that Monthly’s tone implies that the problem was a lack of regulation!
No: the main problem was a VC-driven industry that thinks just because you attack the internet to a product or service that makes the product per se more desirable and valuable. As a pro-bike guy, I’m completely happy with this collapse (and had long predicted it) because someone invested their own money (good) and the market made its decision (good); business failed, now we know, the end….markets are good.
“attach” the internet
Where can you bike in Dallas? I can see it in more compact cities or smaller towns, but Dallas? You cant live in Dallas without a car.
Right: you can’t bike in Dallas to the extent it makes a business case.
The idea is probably to commute from Oak Cliff to downtown; that’s probably very viable for at least six people. Motivated folk have no problem scooting around Uptown and the Design District; the WestEnd and Deep Ellum less so…there are indeed lots of small streets in the inner city that can be exploited for some treks. Mostly, though, sooner or later, you end up on a street that’s really too busy or fast for bike traffic, and pedaling on the sidewalk is just wrong so many ways in my book.
For what it’s worth, in my day I routinely biked from Fort Worth all over Tarrant, Denton, Parker, and Dallas Counties…on quiet Sunday mornings. Las Colinas is pretty landscapes and fun hills, White Rock Lake is lovely, deer and turkeys north of Southlake, and the service roads around DFW are very smooth with broad shoulders that makes skipping back and forth between the city centers a breeze. At the right time, I can manage it all well without getting in anyone’s way…but that’s certainly not a logistics plan for normal folk most day trying to get to work.
I used to love biking but those days are behind me. I am old. I have arthritis.
The people that come up with these plans and city planners in general give people like me the finger. Fuck them, I am taking my car.
Las Colinas is pretty landscapes and fun hills, White Rock Lake is lovely, deer and turkeys north of Southlake
I don’t know how long it’s been since you’ve been in the area, but it seems like all the empty space in those areas has now been filled in. But some people must still bike the area, as I’ve seen a few of those rent-a-bikes pretty far out in the suburbs.
There are chunks of Dallas proper that I think could be OK to bike commute in. Hell, when I lived there I could have probably biked to work downtown. If I didn’t mind showing up to work a stinking, sweaty mess.
Lime Bikes just showed up in my home town. I hate the damn things. But I do see people using them, so maybe they’ll be around for a while.
At $1 per day for rental, I doubt it; there’s no way enough bikes live long enough to recoup their construction costs and share of the overhead at such a low price. I figure by winter, they’ll be gone, much like the gorillas brought in to control the snake problem.
A new grocery opened in my small town. Everything brand new. Two years later all of the carts are beat to shit. I dont even know how a person would damage a grocery cart. I can only imagine the damage bicycles are going to take. Repair and replacement costs alone are going to break them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZqaIuyvTHU
Squidbillies defense perimeter: gorilla-launched alligators leaves me crying every time it’s so funny
The homeless people in Hartford have loved these things. Watching them panhandle to then go ride these bikes for fun while drunk is awesome shit. Can’t wait for the first accident and the shitstorm that will bring…
That’s just proof markets don’t work.
If government had taken the project on, it never would have failed.
The pictures of mountains of discarded bikes – or lined up in rows of thousands – in China are surreal.
The docked bike program in NYC seems to be successful. It is also privately run, and not terribly cheap either. Not sure why they’re fiddling around with this dockless model.
When I see pictures of bikes wrapped around telephone poles or folded in half and tossed in the street, I suspect there’s a little “low-trust society” effect going on here too. This kind of program might work in a place like Denmark or Germany but here? No way.
St. Paul tried a totally free “yellow bike” program like they had in Europe back in the ’90s. They distributed donated bikes around the city that were bright yellow. They had to stop the program after a couple years because all the bikes had been stolen or destroyed.
Now we have the bikes that you checkout with a credit card and I do see people using them in the summer. I would love to see the numbers on the program. My guess is that the city funded the initial setup and the company is scraping a bit of money out of the program.
Citibike in NYC is completely private, with I suppose the exception of the granting space for the docks? And I haven’t heard much about numbers recently but the fact that it is expanding only very slowly (e.g. not in my neighborhood) suggests to me that it’s successful.
Meanwhile, the city has set up a huge new ferry system for I guess rich people who live on the waterfront and don’t work so they can afford to waste lots of time traveling – and priced it the same as a subway ride. Can you imagine what a money pit that is?
Tesla: this is bad.
Elon:”maybe I’ll buy all the stock and make Tesla private”
Tesla stock: up.
Rubes.
SEC: This is bad.
I imagine the only reason he hasn’t already been hauled in for a chat by the SEC is they are still in the “stunned disbelief” stage.
If he really has the cash, okay:
* might really punch the shorts in the nuts
* but makes puts really cheap for those of us who haven’t shorted YET
Not if the stock goes private at $420.
Look at how many funds are short TSLA. Anyone recall the Porsche attempt at taking over VW? Could be brilliant strategy. Could also result in massive lawsuits.
Peter Orszag thinks consumer driven healthcare is hooey
Health care costs too much for what we get in return. Is it more reasonable to hope that doctors will curb unnecessary spending, or consumers? I have long believed that while both are useful, our primary focus should be on influencing what doctors recommend.
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A fascinating new study suggests the limits of such consumerism in health care. Economists Michael Chernew of Harvard Medical School, Zack Cooper of Yale University, Eugene Larsen-Hallock of Columbia University and Fiona Scott Morton of Yale study the market for lower-limb magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. Such scans are often used to examine fractures, arthritis and other problems affecting the hip, knee, leg or foot.
MRI scans would appear to be an almost ideal setting for consumer shopping: their prices are high and vary substantially, the scan itself doesn’t vary much from provider to provider, and it can usually be scheduled in advance.
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And yet despite all these auspicious factors for the wonders of consumer shopping, the team found shockingly little of it. Under 15 percent of people went to the lowest-cost MRI provider within 30 minutes’ drive of their home, and on average patients passed a half-dozen lower-priced providers between their homes and where they got their scan. Total spending on the MRIs would be cut by more than a third if each patient chose the lowest-priced provider within the same drive time as where they actually went; as part of that total reduction, out-of-pocket spending would be cut by more than a quarter.
I’d like to know what alternate universe they conducted this study in, where price information is readily available, but it’s worth reading the article in full.
tl;dr- Doctor says, “Go here.” Patient goes where doctor tells him. This proves something.
If those MRI’s were covered by insurance there was absolutely zero incentive for the people to shop around.
Back in the HMO days, people went where the doc told them to because they had a financial incentive. Today. nobody knows what the hell they’ll be paying for anything or why.
This here.
Plus, there’s no price transparency really possible because the price (either overall or the consumer out-of-pocket) is different for every health plan. Within your plan, every MRI that is in-network costs exactly the same, and a hell of a lot less (to you) than any MRI that is not in-network.
The only way to get consumers to care about price is high-deductible plans.
No incentive? My wife needed a program of physical therapy. Co-pay was $40 no matter where she went, so she picked the one most convenient to our house. I would think most people would pick convenience if money wasn’t at stake.
Healthcare costs too much primarily because of government meddling. Anyone ever heard of a certificate of need? Why do we have those? Anyone ever hear of the FDA and why it now takes an avg of 10 years and billions of dollars to bring one new drug or device to market? Why is that?
Yes, healthcare is too expensive. The cure? More government. Healthcare will cost less when you can’t invent new things or actually get healthcare because it’s severely rationed. Makes total sense, if you’re a brainless moron.
I’ll just add this to it. This has already been done in other countries. And people have already figured out a way around it. You create private care and you get that instead. People who have the money, do that. The only people who suffer are the very ones they say single payer will help, the poor. So what you’ve done is take a situation where the poor cannot always get the care wealthier people can get and you make it to where they can’t get any care when they most need it. Then you say you fixed it. This is what the left do. Everything they touch, turns to shit and hurts the most the very people they say they will help.
The people that push this shit aren’t interested in helping anyone but themselves. In the end it is always about power. Once they get power consolidated they drop the act.
Some states prohibit this but in others medical tests are performed in clinics or labs that the doctor ordering them has ownership in. I dont think they are going to have much luck with their doctor approach.
Why wouldn’t doctors want to work for the government? Note how Obamacare create a huge industry of concierge doctors. Imagine what single payer would do. I’m sure the left would try to outlaw private care, but it won’t work. The more they push this shit, the more I think that eugenics are back, only now they call it single payer.
SEC: This is bad.
I was watching the Bloombergers for a while, this morning. Strangely enough, not a single person mentioned the potentially problematic nature of Musk’s statements.
Silly Brooks, rules are for the little people and Republicans.
That’s why I watch Fox Business – the Judge was going off on him.
Internet trolling Shaolin Master:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1027211440225243137
That is awesome.
I’m going to take a wild guess that that tweet is followed by a long list of tweets from lefties going apeshit.
Interesting, but have any congressional seats where Clinton won the majority flipped to the GOP in special elections? I think there are about 20 GOP seats where Clinton won the district in 2016 but the Republican congressional candidate managed to eke out a win. Trump endorsed candidates may have won 8 of 9 but his coattails are getting a lot shorter, especially in suburban districts.
I try not to read too much into special elections, no matter who wins.
Well that is terrifying. Ants form dangling ant chain to attack wasp nest.
Nature is brutal, contrary to people that got their views on nature from stupid Disney movies…
Completely agree with this. In (my extremely liberal) college, if I mentioned the fact that I hunted, anyone who was appalled by the idea got most of their nature education from Disney cartoons.
I mean, in recent history, yes, but before WIPIPO came along it was the garden of Eden in real life.
Like Bambi? Mom getting poached is pretty brutal.
I guess it would have been cooler if she had starved to death during the winter because with all the natural predators gone and hunting banned, the deer population was so large that the available food supply caused half to starve to death….
I actually said exactly this to someone that ones accused me of wanting to kill Bambi and his mom during a conservation meeting in my town. She was even more pissed off when I pointed out the high incidence of deer getting hit by cars was caused by the stupid fact she kept feeding them and had desensitized them from their natural behavior of avoiding people (and thus cars).
SQUIRRELZ!
Actually, when deer populations run in areas with harsh winters, you can get die-offs in the 90% range. During a harsh winter, the food runs out for everybody.
And in areas without harsh winters, deer overcrowding leads to epidemics. I watched the deer herd in north Texas drop by probably 2/3s over a two year period due to a bluetongue epidemic.
I guess it would have been cooler if she had starved to death during the winter because with all the natural predators gone and hunting banned, the deer population was so large that the available food supply caused half to starve to death….
I actually said exactly this to someone that ones accused me of wanting to kill Bambi and his mom during a conservation meeting in my town. She was even more pissed off when I pointed out the high incidence of deer getting hit by cars was caused by the stupid fact she kept feeding them and had desensitized them from their natural behavior of avoiding people (and thus cars).
hymenoptera: because killing your cousins is fun !
Did anyone notice how all of the NYTs breathless She Guevara puff pieces have actually produced real results? The far left candidates who were endorsed by She all lost last night, every one of them. This is bad news, for the GOP.
BLUE WAVE!
If you strike down Dem candidates, they will grow more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
It’s a blue wave!!
*tries to respond, can only manage gurgling sounds beneath the surface*
When she was on some camera with the Bern man himself, she said they’d make states go red.
I thought at the time she meant full commie.
Maybe I was wrong.
Well, they did take a step forward last night when all of She’s comrades lost their primary bids. There must be some sort of damage control going on from the party establishment. Damnit!
It’s only a matter of time before they do convince enough brainless twerps to vote in a slate of commies and reverse these agonizing years of peace and prosperity.
Toxic Masculine Shitlord Promotes White Supremacy Hall of Famer Jim Brown says he’d never kneel during anthem
Colin Kaepernick’s career must be spinning in its grave.
Jim did say he respected people’s free speech right to make the choice, but that he thought this was a stupid hill to die on as it basically produced the wrong response/result by attacking the nation in general. Of course, I think most of the people doing the kneeling are doing it to virtue signal and are neither bright enough to understand why they are doing it.
Jim Brown: American badass
All it’s doing is hurting the NFL, so basically making their own situation worse. The Democrats have already turned police reform into a race baiting circus. So they can kneel from now until hell freezes over and it will change nothing, outside of making the NFL less popular and profitable.
Kneeling during the anthem:
“I will show my defiance of and opposition to the status quo by assuming a submissive posture!”
What a pack of morons.
This is what I though when the whole stupid thing started. “Bending the knee” is submitting to someone.
Sad day when brain-damage victim Jim Brown is better at inductive reasoning than you are.
Muh narrative!
Whether it’s a fluke or a new normal, the U.S. economy has created over a million net new manufacturing jobs in the 2010s, which would be the first time we’ve created a million manufacturing jobs since the 1960s. There was growth every year except 2016. The industry might never power the national economy again the way it did a half century ago, but it may end up being a more stable source of employment than we recently thought.
And then if we look at which demographic groups are faring better in the job market than at any other time on record, those with less than a high school degree top the list. The unemployment rate for people over age 25 with less than a high school degree is 5.1 percent, the lowest on record going back to 1994. Perhaps more impressive, as economists point to the employment-population ratio still being below its highs of prior cycle peaks to argue there’s still more labor market slack, that is not the case for those with less than a high school degree. For that subset of workers, its employment-population ratio in July matched its record high set in 2007.
Huh. I guess Obama’s Economy is lifting all boats. Even the Deplorables’.
While the “which president to credit” trope is generally BS, this trend hits close to home: at the end of the day, I’m mostly a process guy, so this is my ox being gored.
My best guess (informed by years of sales forecasting based on various economic indicators) is that the up trend is an almost-peaked dead-cat-bounce: delayed demand uncoiling from the Great Recession. I’d watch new car sales: they’re stalling, damping back replacement volume is my guess; I think the upswing is over.
2007-2014 were terrible years, and the pent-up demand from then has fueled the recovery.
Other trends are interesting though: cars last longer, there is a slowing social interest in cars in the newer demographics.
I can’t guess what this means for other goods manufactured in the US. Chem and pharma are doing well.
I think guys like me will be in demand for a while, but, for what it’s worth, my value is that I put deplorables out of work: I make processes so simple and error-proof that thoughtful manual assembly is no longer required; what little assembly is left is either automated or so easy that I can explain it in two pictures to someone who doesn’t speak English. As I’ve written before, putting your kids through college by running nuts on studs ain’t been a good plan in these USofA since 196X.
Timber is through the roof right now because housing is up. The timber market is a little odd. A tree cut today lays in a yard for an average of a year and it might be one or two more years before lumber is in the customer’s hands. Timber buyers are speculators; buy today at X and bet the market in a couple of years will pay X+1.
*Another hint for anyone thinking of selling timber – Average time allotted for the buyer to remove timber is 6 months. Years ago it hit me – the trees aren’t going to run away, they get two more years growth, I am not in a hurry to cut, what the hell? I give the buyer two years to cut. Yes, I get a better price.
I left out: the high prices now are indicative that the lumber industry is optimistic about the long term health of the economy.
“running nuts on studs”
phrasing!
Peter Robinson brought up a trend he noticed among his college-age children and their friends: there’s a movement to forego car ownership and rely solely on rideshare services. I imagine it’s a trendy thing to say that quickly runs up against the inconvenience and expense, but if a big chunk of millennials decide to buck tradition, that could be a major blow to the industry.
I could see it working for college students in a traditional college town: most of the places you want to go are reasonably close by.
Yes and now: it’s a real thing to consider. I’m a car guy: helped design and build them for 15 years. But this movement, while based in millennial malaise, is still a valuable market experiment…which I welcome. Uber is an independent and great thing; so is rideshare; people in NYC don’t own cars…that fits their world and good for them.
There’s a sweet spot for everyone, and this is certainly true: borrowing money to keep up a stable of cars that are worth considerably more than half a family’s annual income is one of the stupidest consumer trends since the mood ring.
There’s nothing more happily libertarian to me than everyone getting where they’re going they’re on way on their own dime.
That is a trend that is going shit the bed and fall off on the floor as soon as these people’s close knit teen/young adult social groups break up (no more need for virtue signaling) and they have a wife, a mortgage and three kids to bring to school/doctor’s office/grocery store/swim class.
It’s called growing up.
I’ve seen it with a lot of my kids and their friends. Most of them are in no hurry to get their license and none of them are really into cars in any significant way. These days you are far more likely to see an anime posted on the walls of a teenage boys bedroom than a Porsche or Corvette poster.
Whether that means they will abandon car ownership for rideshares I don’t know but they definitely will not be seeing cars as anything more than commodities to get them from one place to another any longer.
I think this phenomenon is a direct result of the highly controlled life this generation has lived. Most of us that grew up long ago were oft left to our own devices, needing to find our own way around, and thus, a car became far more than just a symbol of freedom because it allowed you to basically actually be free to move. You needed a license to drive that thing though. I don’t want to speak for others, but despite having a loving family and never lacking for anything as a kid, I couldn’t wait to go out into the world on my own. I left at 17 to go to college and never looked back.
Today’s kids all were chauffeured to whatever event we parents scheduled for them, more often than not in cars where we provided them with entertainment (movies, music, whatever), and so many of these kids – especially once the interact with it and see how things really work and are surprised that the bullshit they were sold by the biased education system about stupid shit like self esteem and so on matter not a fucking bit – see a world out there that will not be very friendly to them, but is scary. Not only are they in no hurry to leave their parent’s home, but they figure they will just keep getting rides so they can play on their phones while getting to where ever. Why bother with a driver’s license in that case?
a million net new manufacturing jobs in the 2010s
I wonder what the breakdown is by year.
“Food insecurity” is such a bullshit term. Funny, an awful lot of these “food insecure” people I see aren’t hungry, they’re fat bastards.
Also, I rather love how half of her article is yammering on about the 1960s. Timely stuff.
Millions are hungry? I used to hear a plea for money on the radio frequently claim that one in eight Americans go hungry every day.
Bullshit. Don’t like being called fake news? Stop telling lies.
I always wondered where the kid who went to bed hungry last night (“didn’t know where his next meal is coming from”)
managed to get fed the next day?
I’m hungry right now. I don’t get lunch for another hour. I’m going hungry today!!
Oh, the horror. Legal or not, immigrants that come here to just suck at the government’s teat should be discouraged. Legal immigrants must provide proof they can financially support themselves and will not go on the dole, so making sure they are not lying and holding them accountable for breaking that promise, to me at least, makes sense. I know CNN and the left are pissed at this, because they see this as reliable team blue voters not being funneled into the system they want to take over, quicker.
Back in the ’90s I remember having to ask my parents to sign some document pledging that my immigrant wife wouldn’t go on the dole. Do they not do that anymore?
Yeah, it is utter fucking dystopia to use someone’s use of public dole money to decide if they should be allowed to become a citizen.
I had a non-immigrant work visa in the 1990s, had a job, and applied for a green card. Even with the job, I had to find someone to pledge to cover my ass if I was unemployed.
How is that possible? A Democrat was president then.
TOS has assured me that none of these people ever collect welfare.
Article a few days ago on the Mass. legislator who trolled the shit out of the Dems on “gender” had a throw-away line that Mass. spends $1.8 billion a year on welfare for immigrants.
The world is full of countries that make no apologies about their immigration policies. Over 45? You are going to have a hell of a time getting in countries with socialized medicine. Don’t have a job? Got a criminal record? You can fuck right off. Sneak over the border? You are going to prison.
How in hell the left can sell this load of crap in this country is a mystery to me.
Because they count on the support of envious people that want progtopia and their agents in what passes for the media to twist the story to appeal to emotion. I have heard that even after some dozen different surveys – some with rigged questions to produce results favorable to the left – all came back, and with huge majority margins, pointing out illegal immigration was not popular with the people, that these commies can’t let go of this. If you understand however that these cunts care little about the American people, what the American people might want, the economic impact of this on the people least likely to be able to absorb the impact of this influx of people that go on the dole, or even if what they are doing is just like they claim (to help poor people in duress), but that this is about bringing in millions of illegals that will end up on the dole and voting for democrats to speed up the socialist revolution, it all makes sense.
It seems pretty obvious to me that it is nothing more than an effort to import pinko votes and cheap labor. Anyone who buys the ‘bunch of doe-eyed orphans and widows just looking for a chance at the good life’ line…I have a bridge to sell you. Yeah, I am looking at you, TOS.
But, Emma Lazurus….
The Best Steakhouse in Every State
I dunno, the drinks are better at Durant’s and they make you feel like you’re on the cast of Goodfellas
There is zero chance that a Pappas X is the best of any sort of X in Texas.
I’d recommend Perry’s in Dallas: solid beef, flawless wine list, great fish for other appetites, and the best jazz bar that side of Chicago while you wait.
Murray’s is not objectionable choice for MN. I mean, I personally think Leaps Backyard Grill and Souse Vide is better, but maybe I’m bias. Also their hours suck.
It’s ok. I have a soft spot as it was the place my grandfather took my dad and mom to dinner to celebrate my dad graduating from college (the first in the family).
It was a big splurge for a tool & die guy.
But yeah, my grill is still my favorite Minne steak house.
If I’m in Minnaepolis for business we go to Murray’s – food is fine. The Big Steer in Altoona is a crap-hole. Gibson’s in Chicago – SOLID all the way around, but we generally go to Bavette’s b/c seafood appetizers are better.
I’m with Tundra – best steaks are at my house on the Otto.
“Ha, you can scour the world, but sometimes what you’re looking for is right next door. Literally.”
As long as you aren’t trying to borrow a cup of sugar.
Supposedly, Autocad adds a “student edition” watermark to plotted drawings to prevent free-riding. I haven’t tested it out yet, but since I’m drafting a set of plans between terms, I might have to find a workaround. Would it be terribly unethical to ask an architect friend of the family to convert the file under his license? The guy’s a bit of a straight-shooter, and I wouldn’t want to put him out.
To be clear, it’s his employer’s license. I doubt he’d have a problem with it personally.
Or you could ask if any Glibs have access to AutoCAD and would help you out.
*whistles a tune and looks innocent*
Nice try, Tulpa!
I may be in touch, then. I still have a lot of work before it’s ready for production.
Sure. Just let me know.
You could also check out DraftSight. It’s a free AutoCAD clone. Maybe opening in there are resaving would strip the watermark? Worth a shot.
I would be careful running a Student Edition file through a commercial licensed Auto CAD software. A group within my company had a major snafu with that. We received a file from a customer that was marked as student edition and copy pasted some of that stuff into our drawings. Then our drawings got marked as student edition, and it spread like the plague our vendor had to do some backdoor stuff to set it correct.
“EXCLUSIVE: Thank you Apple, Facebook and YouTube! Alex Jones claims 5.6 million people have subscribed to Infowars newsletter in 48 hours as he calls ‘bull***t’ on tech giants who have blocked the conspiracy theorist’s content
nfowars motor mouth Alex Jones has issued a ‘never surrender’ battle cry to his army of alt-right followers after a string of tech giants hammered him over his controversial views.
And underfire Jones – accused of spreading bile and hatred as America’s leading conspiracy theorist – says he isn’t taking the attack lying down.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com he launched an expletive laden rant claiming the Democratic Party staged the ‘desperate’ onslaught and says he’s a ‘sacrificial lamb’ who has been likened to Hitler for the purposes of a wider attack on free speech.
What’s more he claims the publicity surrounding the action taken by the likes of YouTube, Facebook and Apple – who have blocked his content and removed his channels – has gained him millions of subscribers – not lost him followers.
Jones claims 5.6million people have subscribed to the Infowars newsletter and free podcast in the past 48 hours.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6039753/Alex-Jones-says-5-6-million-people-subscribed-Infowars-Apple-ban.html
Jones is a performance artist. His whole show is just an act. Good lord. Who takes the guy seriously?
You Glibs, I think some of you should take up this challenge. We can even host the submitted articles here on our family friendly site!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/11-year-old-girl-shot-with-taser-for-shoplifting/ar-BBLEiPu?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
“Cincinnati Police have launched a review after one of its officers used a Taser against an 11-year-old girl accused of shoplifting from a grocery store.
The officer, who was working as an off-duty detail at the store, shot the child in the back after responding to reports that several female juveniles were allegedly stealing items from the Kennard Avenue Kroger .
According to a statement from the department, the officer fired the stun gun after the girl repeatedly ignored his commands to stop when she turned and walked away from him.”
That sounds very reasonable to me.
They should get the sign language guy from Mandela’s funeral. When I read pidgin it always makes me think of him.
It was funny to watch that. At the risk of coming across as an ass, I think it was a strange twist of faith that this happened to Mandela, whom IMO is a controversial entity.
“Follow di Pidgin rules of grammar and comma, full stop and punctuation.”
Is there are grammar guide I can follow, or should I just listen to a bunch of Jar Jar Binks?
“West Hollywood Council Passes Resolution to Remove President Trump’s Walk of Fame Star
The West Hollywood City Council has passed a resolution to remove President Donald Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star, according to the city’s mayor.
“West Hollywood City council unanimously passes resolution asking the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to remove the Donald Trump star on Hollywood Walk of Fame,” West Hollywood Mayor John Duran tweeted Monday night.
Trump’s star has taken beating after beating since the former reality TV personality got into politics. On July 25, a man wielding a pickaxe turned the star into rubble. He later turned himself in to police.”
time.com/5359561/donald-trump-hollywood-star-removed/
TW: autoplay
1. The walk of fame is not located in West Hollywood
2. The CoC already told them to pound sand, we’re not removing any star ever
Keep signaling, though.
Maybe West Hollywood has their own symbolic walk of fame that nobody knows about.
“We didn’t suspend Alex Jones or Infowars yesterday. We know that’s hard for many but the reason is simple: he hasn’t violated our rules. We’ll enforce if he does. And we’ll continue to promote a healthy conversational environment by ensuring tweets aren’t artificially amplified.”
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1026984242893357056
Sounds like somebody’s lawyer had a chat with him about being the defendant in thousands of defamation suits.
Give it a couple days. They’ll contrive an excuse to boot him.
The responses are….unbelievable.
You spelled unsurprising wrong.
^^^THIS^^^
The only way to get consumers to care about price is high-deductible plans.
I don’t disagree, but that won’t help without price transparency. Orszag does a halfhearted handwave about “apps” in that article, but I have to question his assertion that people would not shop around if they could do it effectively. That requires a significant behavioral change which can only happen over time. Saying, “Well they didn’t all become smarter shoppers overnight, so we should just scrap that idea” is not productive.
Also, doctors have cloaked themselves in an aura of priestly sagacity which needs to be debunked. That won’t be easy.
I don’t disagree, but that won’t help without price transparency.
Even then, there is no price differential (for you) within your benefits network, and typically a huge price differential between your network and everyone else.
The third-party payor system has thoroughly broken price signals in multiple ways.
I dont know enough about the subject to have any real confidence in my opinion but I can add: Lots of families back in the day were broken and lost everything when a family member got cancer or brain damage etc. Despite the attempt to spread those costs out that continued to happen right up to today.
How much of the cost of a hospital stay goes to administrative costs? How much of that is government responsible for? What are the other non-medicinal costs?
Some of that is because too many of them had no contingency for power of attorney, DNR’s, etc. The government likes it that way – if you don’t have a private party telling you these things the government isn’t going to make sure you know that stuff because it isn’t in their best interests to know that stuff. There’s no good reason why this stuff isn’t part of a required high school level “Family Law and Economics” which would teach things like setting up living trusts, medical power of attorney, etc. – other than the fact that government would rather take your money than teach you how to hang onto it.
Knowing that real life shit might counter the proggie woke indoctrination shit they feel more compelled to spend time on.
The third-party payor system has thoroughly broken price signals in multiple ways.
And how.