I really hate work-dodgers. It just annoys the shit out of me to see someone who is basically absent, late, or useless. The only thing more annoying than that is when a work-dodger decides that they need some piece of information from me RIGHT NOW when I’m working 10+ hour days and several hours on the weekend. I’m pretty ruthless about “is this going to get me to deadline?” (Which, this is not, but its kind of a sanity restorer in the mid-afternoon, so I will claim if there’s blowback) So I’m annoyed when a person misses a meeting due to a personal day and then tries to impose on me for the notes with our mutual boss in copy. The first draft of my answer said, “should have brought yourself to the meeting if you want to know what happened”, but PTO is rightly sacred. It’s your time (and also your responsibility to make sure your work gets taken care of). My final answer said, “I don’t have time to type up a summary for you, talk to this other person who attended and sent a summary email.”
Anyhow, enough about my work life, you want links.
Mr. Lizard, your skinsuit department is getting careless. Not only did they did they do a bad job with the skin, but they also made a careless mistake falsifying this Florida candidate’s educational record.
This disaster of an article posits Americans own less stuff because of media digitization and ride-sharing, takes winding detour into a confused “if American kids don’t have stuff, how will they learn to respect property rights”, and brings it all to a close with an incoherent cry for stronger Right to Repair protections. Its like this person has been listening to people much smarter have conversations and brought out this pastiche of misconceptions.
Nebraska does to convicted murderer what celebrities pay good money to do to themselves. And, I’m just spitballing here, but it seems like there’s an underserved market in either a fentanyl rapid test, or a 3rd party who certifies drugs as fentanyl free and enforces their brand integrity by any means necessary.
Texas Man passes Florida Man citizenship test, will probably find himself a guest of the State.
“Whaddya mean I don’t support your system? I go to court when I have to.”
With how rainy the morning was, I didn’t expect to see my mystery birds today. But, it stopped raining, and I spotted them on my way back to my car. Lo and behold one of the bastards had white markings, but was otherwise identical to the rest. Where was this guy before I spent so much effort to identify them?
They’re American Goldfinches.
Will you be able to sleep tonight?
Well, the answer has been confirmed, so I have no lingering questions from the birds.
Good. Now I can relax and have a beer instead of spending the whole evening trying to help you identify one of the most common birds in North America.
They do sometimes hide those white wing bars. But apparently yours are more bashful than the ones in my yard.
I never used to see them before I moved to the Albany area.
I didn’t expect them to be rare – they show up more often than the Red-tailed Hawk that helps with the tree rat problem.
Just razin’ ya.
Get a nyjer thistle feeder. Look for the one that has the perches above the food hole. Goldfinches are one of the very few birds that will hang upside down to eat from it. They’re fun to watch.
Here’s one
“nyjer”
RACIST!!!!!
That took longer than I thought. Thank you for restoring my faith in Glibs.
I only see goldfinches after heavy rains. I think wherever they normally live gets flooded out.
Goldfinch
Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinch?
No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die.
Sixty years ago goldfinches were the Minnesota state bird, ’til they gave kids the right to vote. School kids choose the loon. Now its the common loon, easy to identify in the Capitol Building. Lots of ’em there
Now hit my mother-f’in the……
Oh, bother.
I get those at my feeder everyday. In the winter, it’s not uncommon to get a dozen or so at a time. Cool little buggers.
MEGADETH RULES!
This is a known fact.
Megadeth > Metallica
Fight me!
Dave Mustaine wrote most of Metallica’s best songs. Once they ran out of Mustaine songs to record, their output started declining rapidly in quality.
I’m sorry are you suggesting that albums 2-3 were primarily Mustaine’s work? I’ve never heard that particular theory. Now if you said Cliff Burton was the heart of Metallica and the 4th album was basically leftovers that covered, okay. But MoP is clearly the peak of Metallica, although I’m open to anyone who says they basically put out an improved version of the same album 3 times on RTL through AJFA.
Kill Em All and Ride the Lightning are their two best albums. Master of Puppets is close, but the first two have the edge IMO.
The Mechanix sucks and The Four Horsemen is awesome. This is my proof that Mustaine was holding Metallica back.
Yup.
Ride the Lightning is their best work.
I ain’t buying drugs without the UL stamp of approval.
ULbricht?
Did he sell woodchippers?
Is it just me or does Melissa Howard look like a tranny porn star?
Facelift
She had her mouth pulled back and cheeks lifted. Gives her the Jack Nicholson Joker look.
Half-pint is half-plastic? Pa would be sad.
Go On…
Who was, studying retail. I didn’t even know you could do that. For what purpose does one study this? To get a job at Target?
FSU has a whole program. Fashion buyer, retail design (usually fashion or accessories), retail manager, eventually retail owner.
Virginia Tek has something similar, sports merchandising or some such bullshit. It’s a fake major they created for football players.
They could at least throw “supply chain” in there to make it sound impressive.
Naaaa, that would make truck drivers and others who specialize in supply chains sound smart. Can’t have that.
There are retail programs all over – four years culminating with a fashion show where the clothing is made from candy bar wrappers. Of course, I’m old, today they be made exclusively from Non-GMO Project Verified products.
I had no idea. My failed college pursuit started with Biology and ended with English. How’s that for a run? I dropped out of a degree in my native language. I should have gone retail.
Could have put those Zagnut wrappers to good use.
Somehow I missed that comment. Mr. Lizard could teach a course in re tail.
*steely narrow reptilian gaze*
It never grows back the same…jerk
A former tranny pornstar.
Trying to mainstream.
Listen you shotlords.
Even though she posted a pic of her holding a fake diploma ” she never meant to deceive or mislead anyone”.
So.
All is forgiven. Nothing to see here. She will never deceive or mislead voters after she is in office and any of you who say she might are misogynist. Or racist. Or something.
A lack of tits is reason enough for seppuku.
http://archive.is/JdlBS
Fif. Teen.
There’s a pile of good stuff in there.
Looks like #6 is at work.
Lots of pierced nipples in this bunch. Hmmm.
Whaddya mean I don’t support your system?
Support The System
Crap, I forgot to close my em tag. The link is mine, not part of the quote. But you could probably figure that out.
“I don’t have time to type up a summary for you, talk to this other person who attended and sent a summary email.”
You misspelled “Fuck off slaver, do your own work.”
The truly disheartening aspect of writing a truly corporate email where you carefully and politely document what an utter moron the recipient is (while cc’ing a gallery of appreciative readers) is that the target so often doesn’t even have an inkling that they are being mocked.
Pearls before swine.
If there’s a new way, I’ll be the first in line
The only time I ever had Fentanyl was when the anesthesiologist tore my trachea while extubating me after my appendectomy. I woke up coughing massive blood and lemme tell you, I can see why people get hooked on that stuff. That is some good shit. Waking up to hemoptysis should be a rather alarming thing but the Fentanyl made me not care/think it was kind of funny.
tore my trachea while extubating me
That is a pretty good euphemism.
intubating would have been the word I made up for this.
Intubating is a real word (and process).
It’s also one of my favorite euphemisms. “Intubater? I hardly knew her.”
To tear his trachea while pulling out, he must have been in deep.
You people lead fascinating lives.
Easy to do when they don’t work. Right?
That’s one experience I recommend you avoid. Especially the aspiration pneumonia that follows and lays you up for two weeks, the 4 weeks of Levaquin that sets the stage for a C. diff infection a couple of months later and the 3 months of Vancomycin to get rid of it.
Gotta deflate the cuff first, amirite?
It just annoys the shit out of me to see someone who is basically absent, late, or useless.
“If I’m supposed to do my job and his job, too, why don’t you just fire him and pay me what you’re paying him, on top of what you’re paying me right now?”
Brett L., shorter version. “Don’t any of you work?”
Not after the end of the workday.
The world has gone well and truly crazy.
https://twitter.com/jaredgaut/status/1029170712450228225
Refusal to censor suppresses conversation. I can’t even…
Just stop reading twitter. You won’t have to can’t even nearly as often.
Or even just block Alex Jones’ twitter feed. You can be on Twitter and not read Jones.
“You won’t have to can’t even nearly as often”
This is why G-d invented Cialis.
Dueling Bath-tubs?
I have never understood that ad campaign. Shouldn’t they be in the same tub?
Or is the fact that they’re holding hands from their own isolated tubs a metaphor for the fleeting connection formed through sexual intercourse that, once complete, leaves one isolated again in his own ocean of nihilistic meaninglessness?
Where’s that fentanyl…
You put a lot of thought into that.
You could get a masters degree in philosophy with that kind of bullshit
Twitter is not part of my info diet. I only read what’s posted here.
It has no impact on my life.
I’ve some to the measured conclusion that people who have little icons or emojis or whatever in their twits are fucking idiots who should be ignored.
?
lol.
If I ever see an emoji which expresses a feeling or idea better than I can with real words in any of the languages I have learned – only at that point will I argue against your point here. I don’t see that happening.
You see, unless we silence opposing viewpoints, there are those who will be afraid to speak up. And we all know fear is a form of violence. Therefore, the act of failing to suppress opposing viewpoints is equivalent to committing violence against a fearful group, which makes members of that group victims, with all the privileges that brings.
I suspect you could make decent money by fleshing that out to a series of articles and shoveling in more SJW terminology.
What if I’m fearful of bringing up rightist viewpoints? Do I get victim privileges then?
^^^^ RUSSIAN BOT!!!! ^^^^
Are you a PhD candidate in Critical Theory Studies?
I’m working on my Masters in Unmitigated Bullshit. I feel that I’m making really good progress.
I think you’re on your way to tenure. Congrats!
Reminds me of the Sarah Jeong thing:
She can’t be racist because she’s not in a position of power. How do you know she’s not in a position of power? Because she can tweet things that would get other people fired, and keep her job.
if social media’s censorship and bias causes Congress to reform Section 230 of the CDA, then i’m going to be really pissed at every single social media platform and the leftists that fucked themselves. sure, it will be ironic and pump me full of enough schadenfreude to last until i’m old, but it will still be bad overall for the internet.
Thanks for posting the section immunizing platforms from defamation. As written, I don’t think Facebook or Twitter have actually removed themselves from its protections (as I had hoped). The key sections:
I think Twitter and Facebook easily qualify as providing an “interactive computer service.” As such, they have license to selectively block any “objectionable” content without losing their immunity. It would take an amendment to the statute.
Now, CNN’s campaign to bar InfoWars from internet platforms (and yes, CNN has been behind that) sure looks to me like a conspiracy in restraint of trade, seeing as InfoWars is a competitor of CNN.
yeah, I know if I were infowars/AJ I’d be looking at a lawsuit against CNN. That shit sure looks actionable.
As such, they have license to selectively block any “objectionable” content without losing their immunity.
Except, I don’t think too many Courts (okay except the 9th Circuit) are going to go along with the notion that objectionable means “anything that doesn’t agree with the hive mind”. Moreover, I think the whole selectively part makes the argument untenable. If you accept content that is equally ” obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing” from some sources, it’s hard to contend the material is inherently objectionable.
I think the selective application of standards might go to “good faith”. “Objectionable” is pretty vague and open-ended, especially since the statute seems to have a subjective standard (“the provider or user considers”). They can actually say “our users find Republicans objectionable, so we block anything supportive of Republicans” and have a decent argument that they are within the statute.
I was also amused by this:
obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy,
You would have thought “obscene, lewd, lascivious” would have covered the waterfront.
“Profane” seems like a better choice.
the dumbest responses:
1. Enrica
@enr1ca
18h18 hours ago
Replying to @jaredgaut
The amount of trolls and harassment on this platform is making me want to quit. And I probably will. This is not a safe place.
2. grey
@silverbluegrey
17h17 hours ago
Replying to @jaredgaut
Yes, I strongly agree with you. In an environment overrun by bad faith actors, one of the most overlooked victims of unfettered free speech is free speech itself.
one of the most overlooked victims of unfettered free speech is free speech itself?
i am speechless.
“one of the most overlooked victims of unfettered free speech is free speech itself”
The pretzel-logic and mental gymnastics required to reach this conclusion are mind-boggling. Orwell was an absolute prophet.
Civility, maybe. But Free speech?
Destroy the village to save it. Dubya saving capitalism. This type of thinking has been around forever.
Obama saving America from a depression.
I just assume that because they don’t teach civics, nobody gets the basics of the difference between liberty and license. Liberty is the right to express your objectionable or even outright socially unacceptable views. License is telling slanderous lies about someone to injure their reputation and life. These people would like to move the line between them, but since they don’t have a clear principle, they can’t even use the framework.
Except the blue checks are going to leave Friday. (Right.) (Sure.) (Uh huh.)
#DeactiDay
Let the exodus begin.
We should be so lucky.
A few months ago, a bunch of activists on FetLife which is sort of kinky Facebook decided they were going to show all the pickme girls and shitlords how badly we needed them and their content. They organized a ‘slut strike’ where they and all their followers deactivated for a week to show us.
It. was. glorious. The site was actively a better place and everyone was hoping they’d stay away.
I imagine it would be the same on Twitter.
I bet none of the people behind that could describe Alex Jones’ views.
The feeling that we are making the tough, right call by remaining neutral is wrong.
Some plaintiff’s attorney should send Jared a personal thank you note for providing Exhibit A for including Twitter in his lawsuit against a user for establishing that the company is part of the content production. And CC Twitter’s CEO.
Christ, what an asshole.
Reading that Tyler Cowan column, I think that whole “Millennials totally don’t care about cars” bit is really overplayed. While they’re single and living in downtown areas, sure, but once they get married, have kids, and live in the burbs, they aren’t going to want to drag a diaper bag, stroller, car seat, and baby around from Uber to Uber. And they are still doing those things, just not as young as generations before them.
I like Cowan’s stuff once in awhile, but that column has a strong “old man yells at cloud” vibe.
Some of what he writes is compelling. Much of it is not.
“The nation was based on the notion that property ownership gives individuals a stake in the system. ”
Then we gave every schmuck voting rights whether he/she/it actually owned any property. So owning property no longer provided any advantage. In fact owning property now makes you a shitlord, while NOT owning property makes you a victim and thus vaults you to the third-highest caste in the nation, behind “political elite” and “government employee”.
I did not realize that was Tyler Cowan. I don’t usually agree with everything he says, but I’ve never thought he was bad at expressing his thoughts. I don’t know whether he is writing down to Bloomberg’s level or the editors chopped it up, but I thought that was written by some thirty year old J-school pundit.
You know owning a car for it’s utilitarian purposes is not the same as caring about cars.
People own washing machines, refrigerators, and Ovens, for the most part they don’t care about them. So long as they work and fulfill their utilitarian purpose they disappear into the background of ones life never to be thought of again until they break.
The Auto industry however was different from all of those other big ticket commodities because it successfully sold cars as a lifestyle choice and what car you drove said something about you. Right through the mid 1990’s you could walk into any American Teenage boy’s bedroom and there was a 50% or better chance that there would be one or more pictures of cars on the walls. If there was one then it was highly likely that you’d see at least a half a dozen posters of cars on his wall. The car was part of who he was, it was an extension of his psyche. Not anymore Sure there are still some kids in love with cars but it ain’t 50%, maybe 10% actually give a damn about cars. A good example, yesterday my 3 teenage kids were unable to recognize that a 56 Corvette was a Corvette. I was never much of a car guy and at that age every single boy I knew whether they were big into cars or not could tell you what year any given classic car they encountered was made to within +/- 2 years.
Cars as a part of your identity or as anything more than a utilitarian commodity are going away whether you like it or not and yeah a huge part of that is the Auto Industries idiotic decision to make car repair all but impossible for the home entheusiast.
The exception to the rule. Watch the whole thing, you won’t be disappointed, I promise.
Is there anything Zappa didn’t predict?
We named out race team after that album. Roto-Plooker Racing. Unfortunately, putting marital aids all over the car would ruin our aerodynamics.
Those things are neat.
Cars have virtually the same parts in them they’ve always had. There may be more complexity and tighter packaging now, but an alternator is still an alternator and a water pump is still a water pump.
You practically have to lift the cab to replace the battery in a modern diesel truck.
I have a modern diesel truck and both batteries are right there under the hood like you’d expect.
You don’t have a 2008 Ford then.
Man I screwed up when I bought those.
I have a 2012 F350 and my neighbor has a 2006 F350. Both trucks have both batteries under the hood.
You are a serious party pooper, you know that?
Of course, I’m being dramatic about the vehicles. I’ve just spent tens of thousands of dollars over the years repairing the lousy emission systems and even dealing with damage that the mechanic shops caused when trying to replace the radiators or something other godforsaken part on those rolling pieces of shit. Besides being unreliable and expensive, they’re just too damn tight to work on properly.
/rant off
They are pretty damn tight. I used to have a ’72 Dodge truck that you could sit on the inner wheel well and work on the engine. This was convenient because that engine needed to be worked on very regularly. There is barely enough room to stash a sandwich under the hood of my truck today. Working on anything generally requires moving 4 other things out of the way. Fortunately, so far, nothing much has gone wrong with it.
My neighbor spent the weekend replacing his radiator. Many tools were thrown when he discovered the after-market rad didn’t fit for shit.
Because they almost all look alike now, and they all look like cars middle-age folk would drive. A Corvette will turn my son’s head, but that’s only because when we went to the factory in Kentucky, he got to “birth” one (drive it 6 feet off the line).
My kids aren’t into brand names for anything else. Neither are their friends. It makes shopping for clothes a lot cheaper and a lot less dramatic. On the other hand, I choose to buy expensive tennis shoes for them, and expensive shoes for me because the brands I buy have proven their worth.
Buy once, cry once.
I think Tyler Cowen must have fallen off his bicycle a few times and landed on his head.
Maybe it’s the water at the Niskanen Center.
I can’t even remember the econ website/blog he used to run. It wasn’t on my radar very long.
Marginal Revolution
“Mr. Lizard, your skinsuit department is getting careless. Not only did they did they do a bad job with the skin”
Meh, looks pretty good to me. And ya we got sloppy on that one. She was a rushed addition at the end of the budget cycle for sake of ensuring that we spend all of the allocated credits. I think you mammals understand
. Lo and behold one of the bastards had white markings, but was otherwise identical to the rest. Where was this guy before I spent so much effort to identify them?
They’re American Goldfinches.
That’s “Gaslighters”, to you.
In today’s medical ethics news:
A couple who genetically engineered their baby to be a bone-marrow donor for one of their other five children have prompted renewed debate about designer offspring.
Olivia, 39, and Andrew Densley, 49, from Melbourne, spent A$100,000 (£57,000) on successive IVF treatments before obtaining the perfect embryo to save their fifth child Fletcher, aged four, who suffers from the potentially deadly illness Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/baby-of-olivia-and-andrew-densley-from-melbourne-engineered-to-save-brother-fletcher-from-fatal-illness-wiskott-aldrich-syndrome-n6kcg0jpr
Well at least that kid has a purpose in life.
They should just let their kid die, like in the UK.
Saw that movie. It didn’t end well.
“Hay child Number Six, you only exist to donate to child number five. There were multiple number sixes before you, but they got aborted for not being viable donors.”
Now clean up your room or we’ll get a child who can.
More like not implanted, but I realize some extreme anti-abortion types see a blastocyst as a human being.
Sort of like the plot to “Never Let Me Go”. A bit.
Kazuo Ishiguro is one of my favorite authors.
re: Nebraska – Given the number of screw-ups, I’d been wondering why states with the death penalty haven’t gone to fentanyl or a xanax / fentanyl cocktail. If they’re going to have this punishment, it can at least be straightforward.
Nitrogen asphyxiation.
Basically the prison bureaucrats try to give them as rough an ending as possible while staying just outside of what the courts consider cruel and unusual punishment.
I have no sympathy for murderers and rapists, but it’s not the state’s place to torture inmates. And there is the issue of actual innocence.
Firing squad.
Yep.
We’re killing people. Let’s not pretend that it’s a medical procedure.
You misspelled “Fuck off slaver, do your own work.”
Come on, man. Tow the lion. It’s the twentifirst century. The correct phrasing is, enact your own labor.
Just because it’s always going to be funny
Now that is funny.
“Explain.”
LOL
“Tow the lion.”
Euphemism.
Oh please let this happen. Oh please oh please oh please.
Known as the Wing Ding, the dinner has attracted Democrats eyeing the White House for decades.
At least they got the name right.
“But this guy is a moron. He’s an egomaniac. Nobody wants to work with him. I don’t want to be compared to that.”
Projection?
Wing Ding?
https://youtu.be/bU9k1XvLPfc
I have the same rule with music videos that I have with books: If I start them, I finish them. You’re a bastard.
Thanks goodness I don’t live by such a stringent moral code. I bailed 22 seconds in.
But he’s still a bastard.
I used to have that rule with books but I realized I was just committing self harm. Can’t remember which book did it for me now.
TBH, I have a stack of books that I will “finish” someday. My rule doesn’t preclude starting another book before I’m done with the first one.
And since there’s bitching, here’s a Mandopop cover of the song
https://youtu.be/8jk6fPT89eU
I saw several people suggest a Kamala Harris-Avenatti ticket for the Dems.
Apparently they want Trump to win 538 electoral votes.
The spokeswoman confirmed that Howard was a student of the school between 1990 and 1994, studying retail, but did not graduate.
You can get a degree in “retail”?
If you can get a degree in marxism studies, retail is probably a step up in terms of employability.
Looking for stocking-stuffers for Christmas?
Fctry, a Brooklyn-based product design company, is selling the figures; the first shipment will go out in October. The miniature version of the Jewish jurist costs $20 and sports her signature white collar, wire-rimmed glasses and hardwood gavel.
The company says Ginsburg, a progressive icon on the Supreme Court, is a fan of the project.
“I will just mention that Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself has one that we gave her,” marketing coordinator Zoe Cronin told AM NewYork. “She said she would put it on her mantelpiece, so we’re really excited about that.”
Fctry is donating $1 for each Kickstarter donor to She’s The First, an organization that supports girls hoping to be the first in their family to graduate from high school.
Ginsburg joins a roster of action figures of liberal icons sold by Fctry that includes Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren. A Kamala Harris figure will be available soon as well.
*Swoons*
If the Kamala action figure doesn’t suppress evidence and suck Willie Brown’s cock, I’m going to be disappointed.
*standing ovation*
Fctry? I hate them already.
Their discrimination against Cis-Vowels offends me. They only hired Trans-Vowels and Consonants.
Why does UCS hate the Welsh?
Aside from the sound of gargling gravel and phlegm that they call a ‘language’?
Y ask Y
That would be the most woke trans-vowel company EVAH!
The only problem would be the alt-right knuckle draggers thinking it was some sort of men’s rights company.
In fairness, it’s really hard to get a normal domain name these days.
Fast forward a few months. About a dozen are sold, and the poor sales are blamed on racism/sexism. The end.
You forgot grants/loans from the local business development fund.
For the Roberts doll, all you have to do it stick his head on a Stretch Armstrong.
“She said she would put it on her mantelpiece”
What kind of nutbag egomaniac puts an action figure of herself on her mantel?
It’s memorabilia. No different from keeping your soccer trophy or spelling bee ribbon.
Or an ear from your first kill?
I prefer spines, but if ears are your thing, go for it.
I would If I had my own action figure… and a mantel.
Who knows, but as soon as I can afford a 3D printer I am printing my own action figure of myself. Or my penis. Either of which will go on the dash of my car like a hula girl which is the best place to display either an action figure or a plastic penis.
I must insert this song here
Not even a euphemism.
I saw this news story yesterday and thought of you – unicorn float rescue:
https://mashable.com/2018/08/13/chisago-county-sheriff-rescues-stranded-unicorn-float/#wqOkdk5XZqql
See this is the problem today. Where was the man in that situation that could have hopped off and powered through the weeds. No cops needed. It is like nobody swam in a a pond before. And thanks for the thought. My kingdom to float a lake on a unicorn float with women in distress.
Uh, that last part may have came out wrong.
You can get customized bobbleheads right now! It occurs to me that it’s a huge tragedy that we don’t have SugarFree bobbleheads in the Glibs store.
https://cloneawilly.com/
NSFW.
Apropos
They have glow in the dark. Nice.
girls hoping to be the first in their family to graduate from high school.
Where the fuck are these girls?
West Virginia?
There is a high school in West Virginia?
They’re building it now!
Planned Parenthood?
In high school one of my social studies teachers had an action figure of Bill Clinton that played audio clips of his greatest hits (“It depends on what the meaning of the word is…is”, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”, etc.). IMO, a gag gift action figure of a politician is the only acceptable action figure of a politician.
The Ocasio-Cortez doll has the pull string in the wrong place.
Good god, I just know someone in my family is going to give those as a Christmas gift, and I’ll have to sit there while everyone oohs and aahs over it (like they did when someone unwrapped that stupid-ass book “Dark Money: The Billionaires Behind the Radical Right” or something)
I really hate work-dodgers. It just annoys the shit out of me to see someone who is basically absent, late, or useless.
Damn it, I just went through this with our intern over the past 15 minutes.
He wants me to submit a project he’s been working on into our company’s medieval approval system on his behalf since he doesn’t have access. I fucking hate this system more than the guys in Office Space hated their printer. If one of the 10 approvers has the tiniest problem, the whole document has start over at the beginning. None of the approvers ever agree with one another either.
He gave me an unformatted word document of gibberish. I provided the required template and told him to convert his crap into the template-approved format and I will submit for him. This is a major favor as it will take me hours of my time to navigate this process even with a properly formatted document.
5 minutes later, I get the same shit back along with a note that the template doesn’t apply to his work because of made-up reasons.
/end rant
“Listen, Kid, it doesn’t matter if it applies. This is the process if you want anything to ever possibly happen. Do it, or forget about it. Welcome to Bureaucracy.”
Something along those lines was included in my response.
A couple weeks ago, a business partner sent a mass email to several bosses complaining about the delay in a project I was working on (after one week). My boss immediately jumped in and said SSD finished this in two days. It will take months for your company and our’s to approve this as is standard. Who gave you a one week timeline? It’s like the guy doesn’t even Bureaucracy.
Welcome to Bureaucracy.
Yes and no. Honestly, everyone’s work is super special and doesn’t fit into that neat little box we all like to pretend everyone else’s work fits into. You know what? You approximate. A lot of times, there’s reasons it has to get standardized. Is it going to capture all the super glory of your proposal? Probably not. But, it is going to give the people who have to make decisions certain pieces of useful information that I’m pretty sure the intern hasn’t stopped and considered might be important with regard to the company’s goals.
This is easy. There are 10 approvers. Since you get to submit it, there are 11 approvers. Let him know approver #1 just rejected it.
Yep!
Print it out, walk to his desk, and drop the pile of gibberish on paper into the waste basket. Not the recycle bin, the waste basket. Don’t say a word, just look him dead in the eye while you do it. That’ll learn him.
One of the rare drawback to telecommuting. It’s tempting to call in favor from a onsite colleague and have them do it.
Three excellent responses above.
Oh no, I sent it back to him and let him know not conforming is not an option.
His time is up in a week, and I’m just hoping he won’t realize I’m the one who’ll get stuck with this shit if he plays the clock out.
Dude? You are taking orders from an intern?
Not sure if that is horrible, or pure genius. In a week or so you can blame everything bad on the orders that the intern gave you.
No, the intern doesn’t have access to our internal system. My boss sure as hell isn’t going to do it so it falls on me.
RC Dean in the previous thread mentioned cigars.
I’ve become an adherent of that vice over the last 6-9 months. It is pretty dang relaxin’. I don’t know shit about cigars other than I like maduros. I don’t have a favorite yet beyond that. I had a friend give me a few and have smoke 2-3 a month sine then. I’m thinking about setting my home office up so I can smoke in there, but not sure you can really clean out the odor.
You like Nicolás Maduros? What kind of monster are you?
“Want to lose half your body weight, have running battles over gasoline on the highway like some sort of Mad Max remake, and probably get shot by police in a riot? Smoke Maduros.”
I never smoked cigarettes, but used to enjoy an occasional cigar. Unfortunately, I can’t indulge anymore.
My favorites were Montecristos.
I used to smoke cigars, but they got to bothering my allergies and asthma too much. Arturo Fuente was my favorite.
I actually started out with cigars when I was 15, then graduated to cigarettes.
I quit all forms of smoking at age 22. Several years later, I decided to enjoy an occasional cigar (since the risk of re-addiction was gone) but the taste was just too horrible. I couldn’t stand the acrid taste in my mouth, and the smoke gave me a headache. Oh well.
June through September, I probably smoke 4-5 cigars a week. It’s a warm weather, outdoor activity for me. Hence my summer avatar.
“one of the most overlooked victims of unfettered free speech is free speech itself”
Listen, troll- you can’t just say what you want and not expect to be censored. That’s not how free speech works.
5 minutes later, I get the same shit back along with a note that the template doesn’t apply to his work because of made-up reasons.
“Then I won’t help you, because you’re a useless idiot. Have a nice day.”
GayJay has filed to run for US Senate from New Mexico.
I just thought y’all would like to know that.
You thought wrong! 😉
He was a pretty good governor. Then he went crazy.
He’s not crazy.
Listen to the episode of Tom Woods’ podcast where he interviewed Judd Weiss. Gary Johnson used his presidential campaign to raise money which he intended to use to pay off a debt he owed to the Federal Election Commission.
People blame his poor showing on his crazy behavior. Nobody looks at where the money he raised got spent. If he had run a crisp campaign, then suddenly people would be paying attention to that stuff. They’d look at his ad buys to scrutinize what was effective and what wasn’t. And suddenly a lot of people would have to confront his financial misconduct.
By looking like a stoner loser, he gets everyone to give him a pass.
That’s… actually kind of brilliant. I wish I would have thought of a con like that.
I listened to the ep and got angry but now that you explain it again….
Weld/Johnson ticket was literally the Byalistock/Bloom ticket! HOLY FUCKING SHIT! The Best Timeline!
You know who else governed effectively before he went crazy?
King Solomon?
Ah-nahld?
King George III?
The LP – giving actual liberty lovers a bad rep since forever.
I went looking for the Niskanen Center response, but while doing so I found this gem.
There is no reason why we can’t have safe highways and a clean environment. The solution is obvious: Get rid of CAFE standards and replace them with a carbon tax of equivalent rigor. That would give us less pollution, fewer miles driven, and a selection of safe vehicles driven by economic realities and consumer choice rather than by bureaucratic whim.
The Niskaneninnies sure do love them some taxes.
The obvious solution is to ban everybody who works for the government from using cars.
I’d have more respect for them if they would just argue for quadrupling the existing gas tax.
I am actually embarrassed I voted for that guy and I want my donation money back. Chalk it up to being young and dumb.
I got a notice to renew my LP membership in the mail. I’m not sure how they tracked me overseas but I’ve already told them once to stop contacting me as I won’t donate until they get rid of guys like Sarwark and fix their shit. Since that won’t happen, I now spend that donation money on my Gun Owners of America membership.
Sarwark has his claws in deep. Good luck getting him out of there.
If he really wanted to be Senator, he would’ve run as an R in 2014. That he’s running as an L in 2018 makes me think he’s not serious about it.
I bitched and moaned that he should have run for the open Senate seat instead of running for Prez.
Good luck to him.
GayJay is lost to me. No sad at all.
Let’s see.
1. Let’s Samantha Bee make you look stupid. I mean this is nearly against the law of physics.
2. Get Bill Weld for your running mate and think that you’re winning.
Ok, that’s pretty much enough.
impose on me for the notes with our mutual boss in copy
Uffda. If the jerk cc’ed your boss on the first email, you are justified in killing them. If it was the second or later emails that he started cc’ing the boss, you can only horse whip them.
On the other hand, one of the sweeter things in life is when some knucklehead sends out a whiny email about you missing the cover sheet on the TPS reports and cc’s all the managers on it and you get to hit REPLY ALL and include his original email to you where he demands (in all caps) that you remove the cover sheet. That rocks.
It’s Auntie Maxine’s b-day and she wants to party like it’s 1998.
“Congresswoman, your birthday is on Wednesday,” substitute host Jonathan Capehart told Waters, “so pre-Happy Birthday. But on Wednesday, if you could be granted one birthday wish, what would that be?”
“I guess now my biggest birthday wish would be that we’re able to get a leader of this country who represents us,” Waters responded.
“Who has the respect of all of our allies all over the world. Someone who has an appreciation for the Constitution,” the progressive continued.
“Someone that does not lie every morning when they get up with these tweets. Someone who not only respects women, but all of the people, and instead of dividing us, would take leadership to bring us all together,” the woman who called for mobs to confront Trump officials and tell them they’re not welcome, said.
“This is the greatest country in the world,” Waters declared, who earlier in the interview said her side are the real patriots.
“But he’s undermining our democracy,” she continued, “he is making us ashamed of him, and he is being destructive to this democracy.
“This is a man who’s criticizing NFL players because they’re not doing what he thinks they should do in saluting the flag in the way that he wants them to,” Waters said.
“He doesn’t even know the words to the Star Spangled Banner,” she declared, disgusted.
Um, ok…
So today Maxine thinks this is the greatest country in the world? She obviously missed the Michelle Obama memo.
Not to mention that the Star Spangle Banner was written by a white guy who probably said something racist once and who’s grandson was a confederate.
She should. You can be a US Senator for like 3 centuries, while being a retard? It’s like winning the lottery x10.
For years I suggested on football boards that we shouldn’t sing the national anthem before sporting events, and was roundly criticized for it.
People start using the anthem to protest Trump, and the same people praise it and act like they were out in front all along.
At least most events now there seems to be a five minute gap between the end of the anthem and the start of the game. Makes anthem avoidance a bit easier.
Old black Water, keep on rollin’
Mississippi moon, won’t you keep on shinin’ on me?
Old black Water, keep on rollin’
Mississippi moon, won’t you keep on shinin’ on me?
Old black Water, keep on rollin’
Mississippi moon, won’t you keep on shinin’ on me?
My toddler years just flashed before my eyes.
You hate work dodgers. I hate the LA Dodgers.
Penn Jillette: Trump said ‘racially insensitive things’ during ‘Apprentice’ tapings
Inappropriate threading. I will resign.
“He would ask one cast member if he’d rather have sex with this woman or that woman”
How is that “racially insensitive”?
Shut up shitlord!
Nobody said it was, Jillette makes two statements one saying he heard racially insensitive thinks and one explaining the unease he felt in the room” He admits in the linked article that he is an unreliable narrator and that he will get specifics wrong.
I like Penn’s podcast. It has been hard for to take for a while now because he dislikes Trump so badly. I get that his personal knowledge of Trump and who he is is much better than mine. But he never takes a step back and thinks “Even as bad as Trump is, what about Hillary? Is she possibly even worse?”
Trump has been Trump for a long time. I would assume Penn was aware of Trump and met Trump prior to appearing on The Apprentice…
Gotta love cats
(should be safe for work)
Damn Feline Vandals!
The Vandals were anything but pussies.
Those Ape Drapes are for real men.
I hate my office. Flushed the toliet and a big ass cockroach climbs up on the seat as the water rises. Which means it was way to close to my bare ass. Goddamit, is it Friday yet?
We had 3+ inch cockroaches at the women’s prison (they were technically “German water bugs”, but they look and act exactly like cockroaches. Same difference.)
One time, I heard a scream from one of the offices that sounded like a girl. I ran down the hall to see what was going on, and it turns out the scream was from a male social worker who had opened his drawer and seen an almost 4″ cockroach just chillin’ on top of his files. I took some of the files out, which caused the thing to crawl down into the bottom of the drawer. I removed the rest of the files and chased the fucker around with a napkin in my hand until I caught it and crushed it.
Sweden experiences cultural enrichment
Up to 80 vehicles were badly damaged by gangs of black-clad youths, beginning at about 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT).
Most of the damage took place in the western city of Gothenburg, but incidents were also reported in cities up to 100km (60 miles) away.
Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said: “It looks like very coordinated, almost like a military operation.”
The masked young people broke car windows before pouring flammable liquids inside, Swedish media said. They were also seen throwing stones at police officers.
Despite the damage to property, there have been no reports of any injuries.
Police said they had identified some young people who were in the area at the time and spoken to their parents – but officers could not say which, if any, were involved in the fires.
Speaking to Swedish Radio, Prime Minister Lofven addressed the attackers, simply asking: “What the hell are you doing?”
There is no clear motive for the widespread destruction, but the arson echoes the damage done during riots in Stockholm over several nights in May 2013.
It couldn’t have anything to do with the tons of military aged males you’ve been importing.
Importing from culturally backwards places, I should add.
“Up to 80 vehicles were badly damaged by gangs of black-clad youths”
Antifa?
Yeah, that sounds more like Antifa than the Amish.
It’s Trump’s fault!
Those damned Lutherans and their rioting!
No no, that can’t possibly be right. Obama assured me that they’re nothing but widows and orphans.
Suck it proggies! We’re #1!!!!
When we get into the homeless encampments of druggies and other fun people we do it up right. Instead of using white shit lords like SF or other proggie centers, we use Native Americans! How is that for being woke?
Don’t you fuckers ever try to pretend we are some sort of rube in flyover country.
Part of me wonders when some enterprising soul is going to get a flare gun and go ’round Portland launching flares into the middle of homeless tends. Nearly every green space that isn’t private property is covered in garbage, plastic, ‘tents’ and the like while it reeks of shit and piss. I see dozens of little camps on my commute each morning and it is infuriating. Turn the dogs and hoses on them instead of enabling this crap.
Worse are the churches out the burbs who start programs to feed the leeches and then coax them to ride the damn choo-choo out to our neighborhoods where they promptly try to find places to setup shop and begin pillaging and thieving.
Say No To Bums.
Question for the Hawaiian Glibs.
When we visit, one of the things we see all the time are lots of natives living in tents on the beach. We have been told that the beach is public and it is legal to camp there. Most of the folks are pretty sketchy, but I’ve never seen wide spread trash, needles, shit, etc.
What is your secret? How do you get your bums to at least act a bit like a human?
Maybe they have a higher hippy homeless to crazy/druggy homeless ratio than elsewhere. The hippies at least don’t completely trash the place. They just want to be free, man.
Hawaii has several species of homeless. We have the usual druggie/bum types near and in Honolulu and some other smaller cities. These homeless share the same pathologies as your standard mainland homeless. In fact just last night a 36 y.o. homeless woman started a 42 foot sailboat on fire and sunk it in Waikiki. (The owner was no rocket scientist either, see below on him.) These homeless are concentrated on Oahu, Big Island and to a lessor extent Maui. The government makes it easy for these types since “we owe” them the resources to live here and they have no problems with demanding those stolen resources. This population is rife with thieves, violent or not. Business owners are stuck between the ocean and the mountains with these types. By law owners are responsible for sidewalks, but trying to keep these people off the sidewalk is cruel. This group is really negatively impacting tourism with their drug use on the sidewalks of Waikiki etc. and their aggressive panhandling.
The second type are the get back to nature, patchouli, hippy types. They predominate further outside the city and on Kauai. If you like this lifestyle Hawaii is an easy place for it. We never get too hot or cold, the ocean still has fish and the fruit is everywhere with something ripening year round. Some of them do make arts and crafts, with a small subset pretty incredible artists. Besides olfactory assault in a store these types rarely commit property crime or assault. They also never learned that the “reggae look” does not fit pale blondes of either sex. As Douglas Adams summed up, “Mostly harmless.”
The third type are the “native Hawaiian” subset. They often make more elaborate camps on the outskirts of the islands. Many times these people were failed by their families to instill the discipline to learn in school and so no possess few employable skills. Real mixed group here. Some are among the most racist people it has been my misfortune to meet, others are just lost in society with no real method to earn enough to support themselves or a family.
The water out here support two smaller almost homeless subsets. One lives on near derelict boats because it is cheap. If those boats actually went into the open ocean most would sink within an hour. (see fire above) The second are largely Micronesian crew members who live on the commercial fishing vessels and can’t legally come ashore. They do sneak ashore and range from those terrified of getting in trouble and losing their ability to support their families, to those on the other side looking for a fight with an arrest, and free deportation home.
The biggest issues with homeless here is that it is : A) very easy to be homeless in the tropics; and B) An ultra-violet government mindset that everybody “owes” support to the homeless to live here, combined with the ability to tax at will to support their fevered dreams.
Here’s a thought to add a little salt to your wounds. The revealed preference of the local decision-making class is those homeless hoards to you. You just pay taxes and live a responsible life. They give the world evidence that the decision-makers are enlightened.
Well sure. They’ll always prefer someone that they can easily make dependent on their largesse. Responsible, self-sufficient people might develop crazy ideas like how unnecessary the decision-making class is.
This is one way to deal with the bums.
https://www.westword.com/news/denver-triple-homicide-by-commuter-rail-station-are-riders-nervous-10648069
I’m surprised no teen have thrown water balloons or eggs.
Just today I had to roust a bum just to get in the front door of my building. It’s flagrant, like setting up cardboard walls in doorways. Or camping in the parking strips. And there’s less police presence than ever.
“This is a public health emergency,” James Cross, founder of Natives Against Heroin (NAH), said as he handed out clean needles and water at the site on a recent afternoon.
Wut?
“I keep saying, you gotta ‘slow your roll,’ ” Yanez said, meaning they should pace their drug intake. “If people don’t control themselves, then we’re going to get bumped [evicted], and no one here wants to get bumped.”
Appealing to Heroin junkies to find the golden mean. Yanez is no Aristotle.
despite stepped-up efforts by campers to keep the area clean
Riiiiiight…..
MikeS (or any other NoDaks here).
Are you guys going to legalize the devil weed?
I scooped you yesterday.
And…maybe. I can see this going either way. It depends how many scary lies the drug warriors can get repeated on TV. The pro campaign is literally grassroots. They have a whopping $8,00 in their war chest. They are asking for $4.20 donations from people. If anyone wants to chip in:
Can you spare $4.20, bro?
*$8,000*
As a Minnesodan, I hope you pass this. Why? Because I think we could do away with our income tax by fining all the kids from Moorhead State and Concordia who drive back across the Red river with illicit pot.
They’ve already said that if that happens, whores are going to be paid in weed, I mean whore’s babies will be sold for weed, all of that I think.
So Rastatutes? Can confirm.
Would that make it religious prostitution?
…And thus legal as a sacrament?
Wonder how much this study cost us?
I’m looking forward to to the next phase where the IRS sends our “friendly reminders” to taxpayers and they track levels of tax avoidance.
Maybe it decreased because the dead person no longer needed them.
We’re going to need a lot of money to study that possibility.
I hope everyone of those fuckers pushing this opioid “crisis” gets chronic painful conditions without adequate pain management. Like a rusty chainsaw shoved up their backside.
This. God….This please
I’m sorry, senator, but that legislation you voted for to keep opioids out of the hands of abusers prevents me from giving you anything stronger than aspirin for your compound spinal fractures. Do you mind if I set this camera down right here to record your suffering? It will finally help me sleep at night.
I think they’ve already reached that point with statutes regarding “structuring” of assets to avoid mandatory reporting regulations.
The government set a limit, you stayed below the limit, and you’re still in trouble? What’s next, getting a ticket because you were doing 24 mph in a 25 mph zone in order to avoid getting pulled over?
They already do that. Driving under the limit is suspicious. They may not ticket you for it, but they’ll use it as a pretext to pull you over and harass you until they find something they can ticket/arrest you for.
That’s true.
My lawyer mother told me that looking at a cop car can be considered a furtive action and grounds for a traffic stop.
“an incoherent cry for stronger Right to Repair protections”
I don’t know, i’m sort of a fan of those things.
Its an issue w/ more-complex items, and the fact that so many things include ‘software’ that you have to modify to get better use out of tech
for instance, jailbreaking an old Iphone to get it to run new software? Would help obsolete devices find new purpose and utility.
I had this cool portable recorder (*actually still have it, never use it) which started life as an “IRiver MP3 player”, but which, because of Rockbox software? could be hacked and turned into a handy 24/bit 2-track recording device. I bought some decent stereo lavialier mics, and used it to record band rehersals (and later, interviews i did w/ people on phone, and other sorts of things)
That said, i think “right to repair” sometimes is used as claims to increase manufacturer liability …which i object to. If someone hacks their ECU in their car, and it bursts into flame and kills themselves, i think the company should be able to say, “Not our fault” and make it a shut case. I think too often, lawyers use these sorts of freedoms as a means to simply create great lawsuit potential.
“I really hate work-dodgers. It just annoys the shit out of me to see someone who is basically absent, late, or useless.”
You’ll never be able to manage a group of software engineers. Useless? No. Absent? Not without reason. Late, yeah, shirt tail out, yep Prima Donna attitude?, Yup. Gone 2 hours at lunch, yep, hard to control these guys? Yup. The whole deal.
I honestly don’t get people that show up late for work. You’re going to go anyways, why make it a giant pain in the ass every day? Leave 10 minutes earlier.
Unless you’re making widgets, I don’t get the issue with showing up late. I mean if you’re talking I said I’ll be there at 7am and it’s 12:30pm, then who the fuck cares as long as the work gets done? OK, if we have an important meeting, or we’re all meeting up online to roll out a new project at 8pm, I will never be late. Otherwise, fuck it. Life happens, sometimes I show up at 8:30am instead of 7am. No one cares. For me, if I show up at 7am, I typically leave at 3pm. If it’s 8:30 when I show up, I’m typically there until 4:30pm. But typically doesn’t happen that often. My job means you might work 7.5 hours, or it could be 15. You never know, you just roll with it. Some people are not OK with that, but none of my clients care as long as the work gets done. I had one interview about 12 years ago where a potential employee told me very seriously, I had this one guy, showed up 20 minutes late, shirt tail out!’. I had a hard time not laughing. I cannot work for that guy. Project based work is not widget making. Otherwise, I need to clock out never fucking day at exactly the minute I need to, or pay me overtime. I’ve worked 30+ hour weekends to get projects out on time. Never complained, ever.
I had to explain to a CIO (who should never have been a CIO) that if he wanted to take away the ability to work from home from our developers, that he better be prepared to hire more people with less skills. Good developers with 10+ years experience were not going to put up with that 9-5 in the office every day shit. The unemployment rate for those developers is <2%. They do not have to put up with this kind of nonsense if they do not want to, unless they suck.
Currently, I don’t know any devs who do not work from home at least part of the time. Like you say, all of the good ones do. It’s just a perk you can get, if you’re good.
Depends on the work, as you say. I’m going into the studio this morning at nine and if I show up late that means 10 other people are going to be sitting on their asses waiting for me. I’ll take the train and then have a cup of coffee at a coffee shop near the studio so that I’m just a five minute walk away. I’ve known the boss for over ten years and he knows I always do that, but that doesn’t stop him from calling me at ten minutes to nine. Nervous little fucker.
” that means 10 other people are going to be sitting on their asses waiting for me”
Like you said, depends on the work. I don’t work with anyone who will ever sit around waiting for anyone else, unless it’s for like I was saying, a meeting, or team release effort. Being self motivated and able to work on your own is a mandatory skill for the job. I work on my own probably 80-90% of the time.
Culture is different here. You don’t come in late. Even two minutes. They’ll hand out pieces of paper at the station called chienshomeisho if the train is late so that you have something to show your boss. A line of 100 people waiting for a piece of paper explaining why they’re late. Japan. SMDH.
Completely different of course. I worked with a guy, friend of mine, CFO of the company, who worked for several years in Japan. The stuff he would tell me was interesting, but completely alien for anything I’ve known, to an extent I wasn’t sure if he was bullshitting me. He was working for a financial company there and apparently, they all worked at desks in rows, lined up one behind the other like rows of classroom desks, all facing the same direction. They were not allowed to talk to each other while working and there was a supervisor who would walk up these aisles, always coming from behind them, all day. Sounded crazy to me.
*puts down chienshomeisho for future souvenir list*
Perhaps unsurprising, the Germans do the same thing according to wiki.
Yeah, that does sound like Japanese office environment.
With dark suit & white shirt.
Believe it or not, NYC Transit has this too. But I’ve only experienced it once or twice when there was a real fuck-up – I’m talking more than “five minutes late”.
Crosses Japan off the list of countries I would ever work in. I would never put up with that shit.
Rhywun, keep in mind that if it’s not totes bullshit, I keep hearing that people in Japan actually work themselves to death of commuit suicide to prevent doing so. I just don’t know, I have never been around Japanese much and have never been there. I’ve always had Asian friends and co-workers and still do, but besides one, who is Chinese and was born there, they are all Korean.
By the time you get off that morning commute train, that cramped office doesn’t look so bad.
I have been fortunate in my career to have traveled extensively. Every continent except Antarctica. Had to have the extra page thing done to my passport, then had it replaced. The one thing that was constant was that every time I visited someplace, I understood it better, whether culture, language, lifestyles, whatever. It was a great perk of being a scientist and entrepreneur. And it gave me a great insight into the commonalities of humanity, whether in China, Chile, South Africa, Moldova, Italy, or India.
Except Japan. It was entirely alien, and the more I visited there (maybe 40 times), the less I understood it.
https://www.therisingwasabi.com/salaryman-too-overworked-to-realize-he-died-3-days-ago/
It’s not the cramping the would bother me, it’s the treating me like I’m five years old.
I meet foreigners here all the time that will go on and on about explaining Japanese culture to me. “I’ve been here 9 months and blah, blah, blah”. Eventually they’ll ask me how long I’ve been here. “You could’ve asked that first and saved us some time.”
@straffinrun I don’t know if you’ve done this before, but I’d really like to read an article on your daily routine and some things about living in Japan as a (I assume) quasi-immigrant. How you got there, why, etc.
“@straffinrun I don’t know if you’ve done this before, but I’d really like to read an article on your daily routine”
No one can write an entire article about Japanese whore houses.
Mojeaux, the short version: I like most Japanese people and don’t like many Americans or Europeans. It’s the arrogance and self importance they/we have. Japanese and Thais are my favorite people as a result. Humble.
I’d like it if he tried!
“Mojeaux, the short version: I like most Japanese people and don’t like many Americans or Europeans. It’s the arrogance and self importance they/we have. Japanese and Thais are my favorite people as a result. Humble.”
To be honest with you, I’ve warned all of my foreign national friends about what total dicks Americans can be. You know, it’s not like I’m lyin.
Also, MJ, I did write a couple already. https://glibertarians.com/2017/09/honoring-the-dead/?highlight=Honoring%20#
That was lovely. Thank you.
I don’t get people who treat disciplinary points like vacation time. “Oh, I can call in three more times before I get fired – I’m calling in tomorrow and going shopping!”
I had a co-worker who boasted to us multiple times that she was planning to call off just because she didn’t feel like coming to work. Then, when she had used up all her short notice and call-ins on spontaneous days off, she asked me to cover her shift so she could go to a funeral. I had no problem at all declining because she had burned up all her other options just because she didn’t feel like coming to work.
And we worked second shift, so she went to the funeral anyway; she just had to go home, change, and come straight to work afterwards. I heard later that she was ranting to everyone else about my refusal to cover her shift and saying “how are people raised these days??”
“made a careless mistake falsifying this Florida candidate’s educational record.”
Only one pertinent question. Is she democrat or republican? Democrat? No problem, she’s fine. Republican? She’s not only out, but can never run again.
Hey, Juvenile Bluster, I don’t know if you’re still around but I saw yesterday that you mentioned not being able to access this site through your VPN, and I was wondering if you’ve updated lately. I had the same issue with PIA a couple months back, but it seemed to resolve itself after I installed the latest version (V81).
“This disaster of an article posits Americans own less stuff because of media digitization and ride-sharing”
Oh, geez, what did I do with that cassette recorder/player, VHS, and slide rule , now? /LOA – Luddites of America
No duh.
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2018/08/antifa-is-future-of-democrats.html?spref=tw
Antifa and the commies who say they’re liberals. Antifa says ‘liberals get the bullet too’. Figure it out, they can’t.
I’m pretty lenient when it comes to law and order issues but I have to admit this seems reckless:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-14/new-mexico-judge-releases-jihadi-terrorist-camp-suspects-despite-pleas-sheriff-fbi
New Mexico terrorist training camp ringleaders granted bond. At least they will have to wear ankle bracelets, which is nice.
They checked all the right boxes? I actually figured the would be held, and after an activist judge in Hawaii or DC would order them returned to their commune utopia. I guess it happened sooner than I thought.
It’s nuts.
I get it now. I just learned the judge is totes woke Democrat from SanFran.
A former public defender from San Francisco. Go figure.
Oops, little late. *bows in respect*
I got nuthin’
One of my favorite phrases is “a lack of planning on your part doesn’t constitute an emergency on my part”
Also, “an ounce of pretension is worth a pound of manure”
One of my favorite phrases is “a lack of planning on your part doesn’t constitute an emergency on my part”
+1 Please plan ahead!
And talk to those who will be implementing your change before you try to schedule things.
So, I’ve been hearing that the Amish are on the loose again, burning cars in Sweden and running down people in assault truck in London. I think the MSM have said the motive can never be known, the only thing that seems to be known is that they are white Amish from Eastern Europe.
Better get an AntiAmi group started to confront those bastards.
These Amish are worse than what we’ve seen. They have assault tractors you know. Think of automatic woodchippers on wheels. Scary stuff, man.
They’re just on their rumspringa.
Wait so we are not believing all women anymore?
Who is Florida State University to deny her her lived experience, if the identifies as an FSU graduate then damnit we have to agree she is an FSU graduate!
Miami University, yo. Which I believe is the superior Ohio version.
Said to a website full of readers who spend half the workday reading and commenting on the articles
And also Rufus.
I neglect my family not my job in order to post.
*applause*
I work to live. Not live to work. Time with my grandkids is way more important than maximising some fucking baby Boomer’s quarterly earnings statement.
I accept donations at a non profit and so I see all this crap. All this useless crap that people worked to buy to just give away.
Fuck that noise . 15 pairs of shoes and all fucking fake plant and other useless home decor. And purses. 15% of the GDP is women and all the purses they buy and shitcan. Men seem to keep thier shit. Today I got 5 pairs of never fucking worn once pair of. shoes from from a stay at home mom. Sorry bit I think the poor guy slaving away for the aquisition of useless consumer goods is a chump.
Your mileage may vary.
I was making a joke.
I’m a shirker! Not a work-dodger. Alternatively, speak for yourself, Tulpa.
Must be Tulpa. Read the articles?
Hah! Nice try. No one actually reads the links.
I had the day off due to boss lady scheduling me to work the next seven straight and this way they don’t have to pay overtime, so there. Unlike the rest of these lowlifes I don’t have a chance to comment here when I actually have to work. I do super important top secret work that if not done would lead to the down fall of society unlike all of these people.
Anyone ever do one of these? Seems like a cool idea for car camping or the beach (except I hate the beach)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM-S06DoTYw
No, I’ve never seen that until now, but pretty awesome. I wish I would have known about it, I would have already tried it.
Cool, but I don’t wanna bring a chainsaw camping. Make it before leaving, I suppose.
Yeah, pre-cutting would be good, even weeks in advance to season the interior.
Didn’t see to the end. How long is it functional as a stove and could you leave the kettle on it without worrying about it collapsing?
No. I’ve used them before, they’re a novelty more than a practical solution.
And there’s the second flaw to my plan. Fuck me, nevermind.
Ha!
He said it burned fully for 2 hours. It probably would have been longer if he hadn’t made so many cuts.
Ah, the flaw in my statement below, aged wood. I definitely would need to do some preplanning.
I wonder how things would turn out if I encased that in a fifty gallon metal drum, installed some hooks near the top of the drum, placed a grill on it, and smoked some ribs. Add a flue and a thermometer and see if the temperature stays consistent for an extended period of time. It might just work. Hmm…
This is what I use: https://www.facebook.com/smokerbarrels/
I find it difficult to maintain a stable, low temperature, but it works well enough for me.
my instinct suggests to me that wouldn’t work well at all except in most-ideal possible circumstances, w/ very dry conditions and perfect log
big flat surfaces don’t burn well. even tho he’s creating a lot of internal edges in there, he’s having to jam lots of twigs and synthetic firestarter, and even then its taking ~hours to even start burning. throw in the slightest dampness, no breeze feeding air to it, and you have big heavy object smouldering for hours w/o ever really turning into proper “fire”.
which i guess is fine if all you want it for is heating up a pot of water. but i can think of far more convenient ways to get that done.
As Scruffy said, it’s a novelty. We’ll go camping next month and I may give a mini version of it a try just for the kids to enjoy.
Burning stuff is always fun for the whole family
So thats how they hacked the election.
Are there several primaries tonight, or did I just dream that?
OK, I *know* some of you make your own beef/venison jerky. Just recently with the talks of getting older and having memories of dad & grandpa, one memory that I have was my dad returning from hunting deer and him making some really good venison jerky. Unfortunately, he’s gone and so was his recipe. So I’d love to hear some your favorite recipes for doing jerky. Smoked or even just oven dried, I’m game! (pun intended)
PS, thank you all for your kind words regarding my situation of my brother dying from cancer. I was with him to the end – He passed peacefully early this morning.
I am so sorry. It was good that you were with him.
Condolences. That sucks.
My deepest sympathies on the loss of your brother.
I am only a jerk, I do not make jerky.
What an awesome brother you are. May he be in the loving arms of Jesus.
What an awesome brother you are. May he be in the loving arms of Jesus.
I don’t have a recipe for venison jerky, but I’ve run across two varieties: thin strips, and ground into kind of a thin sausage. Which kind did your father make?
Sorry to hear about your brother. I hope he was in a good hospice program – they can make a world of difference.
He did strips of venison. But nothing super thin like the kind you buy. It was definitely meaty and tasty though.
Eldest sibling is nearing 60. Six of us in total and we’re all still here. It’s one of my biggest fears to lose one of them. Sorry for your loss.
No words about your brother but sorry. That sucks. I trust peace will find you in that loss.
As to jerky, I have tried some pre-packaged things but like to try my own experiments. The last one was an adobo marinated batch that could have used more heat for my taste. My next will be a candied jalapeno sort of arrangement. I have a dehydrator so it makes it easy. I have had some jerky from an AU friend that he got from his butcher that claimed all jerky needs is salt and smoke and anything else was sacrilege. It was good stuff.
Sorry 🙁
my condolences
God bless you, man. All the best to you and your family on a sad day.
WOKE!
RACIST, SEXIST… NOT WOKE! HANK JOHNSON FOR SPEAKER OR GTFO!
Winning them over from what? Not voting, I guess?
Winning the future? Sounds woke to me.
OH NOES WE ARE DOOMED!
Wait, we make electronics? WE’RE DOOMED!
LOL
One of the reasons Lucent Technologies went bust (they sold out to Alcatel before an actual bankruptcy) was because they loaned money to Turkey to buy their cell tower equipment.
So Turkey isn’t in the habit of paying for US electronics anyway.
Fascists to my left, “fascists” to my right.