Come on, people. Act like you’ve been there bef…oh right. Carry on.
Cleveland Browns fans unite! You’ve actually won a game for the first time in 635 days. That’s not nearly as bad as this. But damn, it was a long time. Congratulations to you. Winners on the diamond yesterday were: Oakland (who put up 21 runs!), Boston (who clinched their division!), New York (NL), Toronto (yay Canada!), Chicago (AL), Cincinnati (go big red machine), Detroit (your city is still a shithole), and Atlanta (closing in on a division as well).
There were no surprises in the Europa League games yesterday that I can think of. Although I’m mildly surprised at how quickly Stephen Gerard (YNWA) has gotten the hang of running things at Ibrox. They’ll challenge for their league next year.
Well, what are you going to do about it, Glibby?
Today’s birthdays include: First emperor of the Ming Dynasty Hongwu, American flag designer Francis Hopkinson, brilliant writer H.G. Wells, one of the greatest animators ever Chuck Jones, American media mogul John Kluge, another cartoonist Jay Ward, musician David Cohen, actor Larry Hagman, comedian Henry Gibson, NASCAR owner Richard Childress, great writer but asshole person Stephen King, one of the five greatest comedic actors of all time Bill Murray, drummer Phil Taylor, filmmaker Ehan Coen, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, black hockey pioneer Grant Fuhr, drummer Tyler Stewart, actress Ricki Lake, actor Luke Wilson, singer Liam Gallagher and crooked politician Samantha Power.
Its also the day on which the following happened: King Richard I was captured, Nathan Hale was arrested, Charles Tiffany founded his first jewelry store, the flashbulb was patented, Franco named Generalissimo by the fascists, “The Hobbit” was published, Perry Mason premiered, so did Adam-12, Monday Night Football premiered (and oddly enough the Browns beat the Jets that night), Belize became independent, Sandra Day O’Conner was sworn in as the first female SC justice, and the final home game in Yankee Stadium was played.
There was a lot more to today historically than yesterday. Anyway, on to…the links!
Shove it up your ass! Literally.
I’m all for being a do-it-yourselfer. But this is ridiculous. Some of the stuff was pretty cool though. Enjoy the read, sciencey types.
Yeah, but was it at least a licensed daycare? I’ll assume it was since there was no mention one way or the other (like there was a couple days ago when an unlicensed daycare worker did something bad. Either way: Christ, what an asshole.
Apparently we’re reaching the point where people who lob what appear to be completely unsupported allegations against others and are asked to testify about them can do so under their own set of strict rules. Rules that effectively neuter the opposing side from defending themselves properly or the people requesting the hearing from asking uncomfortable questions. What a time to be alive!
Yeah, but at least they’re tackling the tough issues like people wearing fur and using plastic straws. In addition to the shitty air, they have to tackle a relative army of hobos and the worst housing bubble outside of Manhattan. Good luck to the Glibs stuck in that place. You’ll need it as the downward spiral continues.
Surfing is now the official sport of California.
Speaking of stupid: Here is a list of some new laws California just passed and were signed by Governor Jerry Brown. Why? Because people want the state to make these decisions for them, that’s why.
The prosecution has rested in the Jason Van Dyke trial. Now comes the endless stream of cops saying what a great job he did and that he should probably get a raise. Or something like that. Then comes the verdict…and the inevitable riots when he walks.
Was that wrong? Was I not supposed to do that? Make your judgments of the woman in the comments. I have a feeling I know what they’ll mostly be.
I’m torn on a song today. So I’ll give everybody something.
This is for people who were looking for the Beatles in the 90s.
And this is for the Canadians.
Go have a good day and a great weekend. And in case you’re shopping for a teddy bear or another stuffed animal, I’ve got you covered.
Woah – Beatles of the 90s, eh?
Not my words.
I just want to make sure I’m not crazy since the first two videos point to the same link.
You’re crazy.
Or at least it looks that way now.
*narrows gaze*
*NOTE* Staff doesn’t escape this!
I’m not crazy
institutionalized
You’re the one who’s crazy
institutionalized
You’re driving me crazy
institutionalized
ALL I WANTED WAS A PEPSI, AND SHE WOULDN’T GIVE IT TO ME!
You’re on drugs!
No, mom. I’m not on drugs! I was just thinking!
What are you trying to say, that I’M crazy? When I went to YOUR schools? When I went to YOUR churches? When I went to YOUR institutional learning facilities? So how can you say I’m crazy?!?!
I think you just laid out our case for us, sir.
*stamps ‘Mad as a Hatter’ on the permanant record*
First music link was the best music link. No others are needed.
A non-rectal encoscope has other utility. But there are some things where you want an expert opinion.
The liability alone in marketing this would be astounding. A perforation is pretty much the biggest risk in a colonoscopy. This would increase that risk immeasurably.
Happened to a perfectly healthy colleague. She ended up spending five weeks in the hospital.
There are endoscopes for looking inside other parts of the body.
I think the word you want is “borescope”.
Yeah, sure, that’s it…
*walks away suspiciously*
What would be boring about looking at those other parts of the body? You a homo or something?
“Japanese medic Akira Horiuchi, 57, was among the winners last week of the tongue-in-cheek prize”
If that’s the way he does a colonscopy, I wouldn’t consider that a prize.
…WOAH
Teacher… probably.
*NOTE* EDITING, NOT ME BEING CRAZY!!!
Next time I’ll edit it before posting. I wanted to make everybody happy by posting as fast as possible. Mistake.
Not a mistake – an opportunity for fun! Always get Teh Lynx up quickly!!
My version of a catchphrase is at least one glaring error every morning. I’ve learned to embrace it.
SLOOPY: No, no, sweet Commenter! Stay here! I will send help as soon as I have accomplished a daring and heroic correction in my own particular… (sigh)
COMMENTER: Idiom, sir?
SLOOPY: Idiom!
::Walks away while banging two halves of a coconut together::
Wood!
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1680&bih=925&ei=ewylW4LUOsiusAXLmJc4&q=Amanda+Lenea+Pardue&oq=Amanda+Lenea+Pardue&gs_l=img.12…974.974..2482…0.0..1.183.183.0j1……2….1j2..gws-wiz-img…..0.Et17A1OGF18#imgrc=K4mN216WEWDopM:
Ooops! I meant this:
https://wdef.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Amanda-Leanea-Pardue-150×150.jpg
Camel toe shot or it didn’t happen, right Q?
^^^
This right here.
GenderStar Wars put on hold by Disney.They paid $4 Billion for a series so they could destroy it. Lukas has to be laughing his ass off.
Especially since after all the abuse heaped upon him for the prequels, the fanboys are lamenting his absense.
Relevant
Pretty good review. I watched it on a flight and was stunned at how bad it was – and how it destroyed the series.
Kathleen Kennedy is exhibit #1 why women should be in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant, making sammiches
Solo was my favorite of the new ones. Feel free to @ me.
I was having some difficulties paying attention to Oracle’s poorly composed training videos, so I acquired some mid-range noise-cancelling headphones. The effect is downright creepy. Despite feeling the breeze, I keep thinking my fan is off, and consequently keep glancing over at it. And then there’s the keyboard, which I can slightly hear, but that is just even more “off” than the silent fan. Yet for some reason, it doesn’t completely shut out the annoying voice of the person six cubes over who doesn’t shut up. My fan is literally in arm’s reach, but is evidently a constant enough frequency for the system to get rid of, but the distance voices get right through. Guess which is more distracting when I’m trying to watch extra-dull training videos?
Having Glibertarians open in another window doesn’t help me focus either…
noise-cancelling works on technical-noise, not every sound you, personally, are bothered by, aka the colloquial “noise”.
I’m assuming Pearl Vision and/or Lenscrafters lobbied for that.
So, you blame Luxottica.
Or the state licensing board. It costs $425 a pop for the licenses. Making someone get a different one for each location will let the state hire at least two people to sweep up bum shit ok San Francisco streets.
What if I want to be a fully licensed Gigolo in Training?
I never knew he was a white supremacist.
*Rises to begin prolonged and thunderous ovation*
At the exact moment I saw this, Panama came on my Spotify.
Weird, huh?
I worked for the org that tests the optos for certification (NBEO). At the time 13 states mandated their own exams in addition to the national, cali’s was the biggest test booklet, and required additional registration and fees directly through their office.
So it’s probably two additional state exams now.
A look into the mentality of public school teachers unions: Guns in Schools Harm Community with ‘Fending for Themselves’ Mentality
Yea, we wouldn’t want people taking responsibility for themselves.
Describing the AFT’s “position in terms of school safety,” Weingarten said her organization is working on “ensuring” that guns are not in schools.
“Schools need to be safe and welcoming communities. The worst thing you do is you actually introduce more guns in schools. We need to actually make sure that kids feel like schools are safe sanctuaries, but it’s the same kind of mentality that says people should be fending for themselves as opposed to schools being communal institutions and organizations,” she said.
Feelz > Realz. The fact that making any particular place “gun free” merely leaves its inhabitants sitting ducks for slaughter when someone dares to violate a sign and brings in a gun anyway, know full well that no one else is prepared for armed defense does not cross her mind. Listen closely, children. The thing about “gun-free zones” is that they are not.
Then there are more bits like the following:
“There’s been the kind of policy that creates, in some ways, winners and losers and you see it in terms of school choice and charter schools and vouchers and things like that,” Weingarten said during a recent conference call organized by The Jewish Democratic Council of America on education policy in the Trump administration.
In competition, some win and some lose, and we are all better off as a result. And choice is apparently only good when applied to killing third-trimester babies in the womb at taxpayer expense.
Note to teachers union: go fuck yourselves.
“You cant harden the schools! You will take our martyrs away and we need them for the cause!”
Fuck these people. They are evil.
I expect nothing less from the far-leftist that lorded over NYC schools for so long.
“Beyonce’s former drummer accuses the singer of ‘WITCHCRAFT’, ‘tapping her phone’ – and even claims she murdered her KITTEN”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6191281/Beyonce-accused-extreme-witchcraft-dark-magic-female-drummer-seeking-restraining-order.html
Since women never lie, this mean Beyonce is a witch who murders kittens.
I find this claim credible.
She’s definitely not getting on the Supreme Court now.
BELIEVE HER
Did you get my Email the other day?
I don’t check that account often, give me a minute.
Responded to you
Got it. Thanks. I’ve got something for you, definitely. I’ll email you the list. Waiting on pics.
Scruffy is a cleaner?
Wetwork specialist
(unzips)
His title changed to “Solutions Engineer” in lieu of a pay raise.
If you like it, you should put a robe on it.
And if Trump nominates Taylor Swift over Beyonce for that seat, Kanye’s friendship with him is definitely over.
..and taps phones!
If you don’t agree you are a bully who does not respect the victim’s pain.
I mean in this case we have photos and videos that she has been near Beyonce.
So…she weighs the same as a duck?
Having observed the picture of Beyonce’s drummer, I’d murder her pussy too.
But I’d give her someone else’s name.
Because cray-cray.
Lemmy!
Let’s add a little Old Guy Music to the mix.
Best YouTube comment ever:
“Dramatic footage of a fatal shooting of a man that stemmed from a heated argument with his father-and-son neighbors over where to dump a mattress has emerged.
A West Texas man was shot and killed on September 1 and a father and son have been arrested on murder charges over what a police chief calls a neighborhood dispute about trash.
Police responded to calls about shots fired around 10.15 a.m. and located the victim, 37-year-old Aaron Howard, who died at a hospital.
John Miller, 67, and 31-year-old Michael Miller were arrested on murder charges over the death of Howard.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6191483/Father-son-caught-camera-gunning-killing-neighbor-row-trash.html
Why is no one wearing a shirt?
So you can get a good look at those West Texas titties
Hawt!
They’ve got video of them murdering somebody over a mattress in a dumpster, yet they let them go on $25K bond?
Did you watch the video?
I did, it’s assholes all around.
The memes were flying fast and furious yesterday
neighborhood dispute about trash.
UnCivil lives in TX? (or am I thinking of the wrong person here who said they were having a neighbor trash problem?)
My neighbors only dump their crap on my margin when I’m not around.
Did you ever solve the case of the terrible trash tampering?
I regained effective control of my trash can, washed it out and took it out of their reach.
They then overloaded a non-standard can with their rancid trash and left it on a different corner of my property curbside. Being in something not city-issued, the city left it when they collected the cans. Some thursday (trash day is monday), it vanished, can and all.
Since then, nothing except the dog walkers not picking up their pets’ leavings.
My god. Before you get into that heated a conflict over something petty, can’t people just sleep on it and have a civil conversation the following day?
That was one of the most unavoidable killings I think I have ever seen.
WTF is up with the wife? Why didn’t she tell her husband to back off? Last time I was ready to punch someone, she literally jumped on my back as I started stomping across the street to give the miscreant the beating he so richly deserved.
Sounds like a misdemeanor assault to me. Oh wait, this isn’t Kentucky and the victim isn’t a Republican senator.
Will a grand jury bill them?
I’m not sure they will. Dad had a right to be in the alley if it’s a public way, and he’s not advancing or threatening. We don’t see what the escalation was, and the surviving shooters outnumber the surviving wife. My bet: a west Texas grand jury will hear the “you’re dead” several times and just won’t be bothered; I wouldn’t blame them.
There’s a 14 foot rule of thought when you’re attacked on foot: you’ve barely got time to respond (draw and fire). Let someone inside that perimeter before escalation and you’re in for a messy situation.
What will be interesting is wife’s testimony as to how the draw-down came to be: who invited whom into the alley and how the confrontation arose. If it gets to trial, juries have one rule (that has nothing to do with the law): get the jerk. If she paints a picture they corroborate about an initial verbal confrontation where after guns are retrieved and the confrontation continues, Pops and Sonny are in trouble because they’re the jerks.
Conclusion of readers in the UK: America is a violent hellscape where fat lunatics shoot at each other 24/7. I shant be going there.
I just wanted to thank you for posting the Cows video earlier this week. They remind me quite a bit of Captain Beefheart. Thanks again.
Forget it Count, it’s Texas.
From what I’m gathering, but it hasn’t been explicitly stated by any of the news organizations, although this article comes closest, Howard threw a mattress in Miller’s dumpster, Miller took it out and threw it back onto Howard’s property. Howard then threw it back in Miller’s dumpster and while Miller was returning it to Howard’s property, this was the result. If that is in fact the case, I’ve got to side with the Miller’s on this. Another article I read stated that just as Box was stepping in between the parties, Howard threw his bat towards the Millers. Bat to a knife fight.
Bat to a gun fight…
“You call THAT a knife?! Now, THIS, is a knife!”
“That’s a spoon, sir.”
TW: Autostart video
Reality Check: Phillips Ad Finds Bigfoot Looking For Rep. Paulsen
NOT REAL STEVE SMITH. REAL STEVE SMITH RAPE CONGRESSMAN. TV CREW. OTHER CONGRESSMAN. ENTIRE TOWN HALL.
MOST OTHER CONGRESSMEN, LEAVE PELOSI ALONE. SOME PLACES EVEN STEVE SMITH AFRAID TO GO
Ford “would be prepared to testify next week” if the senators offer her “terms that are fair and which ensure her safety.”
How would she be unsafe in a senate committee meeting?
Testifying Monday, however, “is not possible and the Committee’s insistence that it occur then is arbitrary in any event,” Ford’s lawyers wrote.
It is not arbitrary. Neither is your insistence that it occur later. Political game is political
I say Team Red set the date at Monday as they have already conceded too much to this farce. She either shows or does not and they hold the vote anyway. Of course Team Red doesn’t have the balls or the will to stand up for themselves, despite the fact that ramming the nominee through is exactly the thing Team Blue would do to them.
How would she be unsafe in a senate committee meeting?
Based on the nutjobs that the Democrats gave passes to during the initial hearings, they may have a point.
But the lefty nutjobs only attack Republicans.
Kavanaugh? more like Kavan-NAW, amirite?
There’s a typically stupid Robby article on TOS that pretends that both teams have acted equally badly on this issue. The problem is, the people on Team Blue who’ve disgraced themselves are actual Senators and senior figures, not bloggers.
“How would she be unsafe in a senate committee meeting?”
Well, Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer. So there is that.
“Safe” means free from being assailed by uncomfortable questions.
Sorry to go OT so early, this just pisses me off so much
Drugmakers’ Free Services Spur Government Scrutiny
https://www.wsj.com/articles/drugmakers-free-services-spur-government-scrutiny-1537531201
Making it a easier or affordable to navigate the draconian labyrinth of shit forced upon patients in modern healthcare is now illegal. If the government overreach here isn’t shut down hard in court, it could mean the demise of the entire Biologics industry, which is responsible for some the greatest advances in medicine and still holds incredible potential.
Liberals: Your drugs are too expensive and complicated to use, you hate poor people and are literally killing them.
Drugmaker: Okay okay. We’ll cut the patient copay to just $5 and offer free training on how to administer to save patients from having to go the doctor.
Liberals: You evil fucks are unfairly marketing your drugs to poor people by trying to induce sales with discounts.
That’s cause the real agenda is collectivist government control of all things…
This is terrible, awful behavior that the state shouldn’t tolerate, not unlike plugging an expired meter for a stranger when a meter maid is coming.
“Amy Chua, 55, author of the 2011 controversial parenting book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, publicly supported Trump’s Supreme Court pick as a ‘mentor to women’ in July. Now, former students are coming forward to The Guardian and Huffington Post, saying Chua would advise female students on how to look and to dress ‘outgoing’ for their interview with Kavanaugh in the hopes of working for him as a law clerk.
Former students, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, told the Guardian Chua’s husband Professor Jed Rubenfeld, also provided unsettling advice to law hopefuls.
‘He told me, ”You should know that Judge Kavanaugh hires women with a certain look,” one woman said. ‘He did not say what the look was and I did not ask.’
A student said it’s possible the couple were giving suggestions based off of observations of Kavanaugh and not direct orders.
‘I have no reason to believe he was saying, ”Send me the pretty ones”, but rather that he was reporting back and saying, ”I really like so and so,” and the way he described them led them to form certain conclusions,’ the woman said.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6191847/Female-Yale-students-interviewing-Brett-Kavanaugh-told-no-accident-clerks-look-like-models.html
“A certain look” is vague enough so that “Composed and professional” is also a valid interpretation.
“outgoing” as opposed to an introverted shut-in was how i took that full story.
i’m near certain a self-described tiger mom lawyer is on the list of “people you don’t publicly shit talk” but maybe i’m crazy.
Maybe it was “Don’t dress like a slut”
Or, no nose rings, dyed hair and no pussy hats. So what you said, I guess.
Damn. So nobody at the Reason DC office has a chance?
“I gotta feeling about you. You’re hired!”
+1 tingle up the leg
Saddle up, partner!
hires women with a certain look
Like a professional look?
So not only has Chua and her husband denied ever saying this stuff, thier own daughter is/was one of his clerks.
I would be surprised if the advice was anything other than – pencil skirt to below the knee, matching jacket, 2 inch heels, white blouse, hair down or in pony tail, no jewelry other than wedding ring, minimal but well applied makeup. Because that’s what every fucking newly minted female JD is advised to be wearing when interviewing.
NO! IT WAS JUST LIKE THIS!
NO! It was more THIS!
So you are saying Q is an Anglican priest?
The epic rise and fall of the name Heather
we’ll be reading this same story in ten years about Ella, Emma, Maya and all the other names that end in the -ah sound.
Heathers? What is your damage?
Did that writer have a brain tumor for breakfast?
Kind of like my name – rare before WWII, then popular through the ’80s, pretty much dead by the 2000s.
If you’re a native Argentinian or Brazilian, imma bet your name is Adolf.
Hah! No no no, nothing of the sort! It’s Adolfo.
Actually, it’s Gregory. No one names their baby that anymore. That Baby Name Wizard is actually kind of fun to check out. There are a bunch of names I remember being very common when I was a kid in the ’80s that are mostly dead now – Amy (there were about 15 Amys in my grade in elementary school), Jeff, Brian, Megan, Lauren, Scott, Eric, Jessica, Troy.
I enjoyed Todd Haley on Hard Knocks busting Carl Hassib on his name.
Not that many Carls these days.
Honestly, you’re the only Chipwooder I know.
Hah! This is so dated now, but I’ve used it for so long I’ve just hung on to it. I was “radar” at TOS before the whole l’affaire woodchipper.
I don’t remember that name.
a)it wasa fairly long time ago now b)I didn’t comment as much back then.
Because he was under the radar.
I’ve been EAP for over a decade now. I was going to change it right after the ’08 election, but the commentariat said to keep it as in a few years it would be kind of retro. Much like Chipwooder. I wonder how many people know the story behind that name. The law suit was several years ago. By the way, windows spellchecker gives just one suggestion: Echinoderm.
My son’s name (Jasper) is currently skyrocketing.
According to this site it has gone from 158/million when he was born to 1,300/million now.
I remember how excited he was as a kid when we camped next to a family with another kid named Jasper back in the early 2000’s.
Mine’s pretty timeless, but seemingly rare in the wild. I was the only Elizabeth I knew till I was 16 or so.
FWIW, one of my cats is named Elizabeth.
Cats are awesome.
All the murderous instincts of a panther in a package the size of a bread loaf.
And owls are cats with wings.
But…but muh Hedwig.
Hedwig #FTW!
That homie was only 2nd to Sirius Black for being my favorite character in all those books.
My first kiss/serious crush was with a girl named Elizabeth (actually she went by Beth).
My cat goes by Betty.
I have an Elizabeth friend whose icky asshole ex calls her Betsy to poke at her.
So do other mammals with tiger claws…
Is that you, Peter Criss?
Mine too. One of the nice things about being a Ted.
Fitness model who has over 2 million followers and is known as Miss Iron Bum branded a ‘beast’, ‘alien’ and ‘demon’ over her sculpted snaps
That’s a lot of squats
Would not.
Perfect example of how something can be good in moderation and then turn disastrous when abused.
Isn’t that the tag line for the comment section here?
Yipes!
Just in time for Halloween
“That’s a lot of squats”
You misspelled “steroids”.
I believe there are some surgical enhancements in the lower regions.
STEVE SMITH SAY…. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
“branded a ‘beast’, ‘alien’ and ‘demon’”
She does appear rather alien like, but not her body, it’s the face. Is that a robot?
It’s morning and I’m back to work after staying up late to post in my watch post. Sitting here doing a bunch of administrative work listening to YouTube.
This just popped up on my playlist – nothing but the best 1980s J-Pop!
I read the watch post this morning, so I didn’t bother commenting, but I loved it. Just in case you wanted to know.
I almost considered taking a watchmaking apprenticeship and pursuing it as a career… until I found out how much it pays.
Thanks. Yes, you don’t get much at all.
However, when the mechanical watch craze peaked the major watch houses ran short watchmakers. Working in metro NYC for the big houses you could get an 8 hour a day job paying around $75k.
So like making around $35k elsewhere in the US…
Yeah, that’s about in line with what I was seeing. Because of the aforementioned shortage a few of the luxury brands were offering training at the time with a job guarantee at the end, but starting pay was sub-30k in my area. For the amount of skill and training involved, it seems like you should make more than a burger flipper
It’s not a job I’d advise a young person to consider. But if you love it you can make a living at it.
I’d expect restoration work to continue to have demand, but that’s not guaranteed either. It’s getting more and more expensive to get vintage watches repaired as many watchmakers have retired.
OTH, Rolex and the top houses (Patek, VC, et al) will service vintage as well as current. But you will most certainly pay for it.
That seems crazy, given a)how expensive a lot of watches are b)the very high level of skill it much take,
much=must
I also didn’t get to the watch post till this morning and also loved it and also needed to chime in about so you write more.
Mariya Takeuchi 竹内 まりや Plastic Love
Wrong damn button!
I don’t know about her music, but she makes a helluva mini excavator
I get that joke.
Literally means “bamboo house”.
I forget the exact date, but similar to Europe Japan forced people to take “last names”. So instead the guy making horseshoes being named “Smith” many Japanese last names seem to be named for locations. For example, I have a friend named Morishima. Which is written as a “wooded island”.
Does Miyagi mean something? When I was in Okinawa it always cracked me up that Miyagi is a fairly common name there.
Fukudotswi
Depends on how it is written. Same pronunciation different characters.
One reading is shrine + wood or tree.
So the family that lives in wooded area by the shrine, for example.
Could it be the chick that gave me wood?
“yeah, and a train isn’t an ‘iron rooster’ either, but that’s what they call it…”
*laugh breaks in*, in chinese: “It’s a colorful language.”
I’m torn on a song today.
///MeToo
Sometimes the random links title card photos (dude on bike) are as disturbing as anything from the minds of Sug or Heroic.
My technique is to get here before Sloop adds them.
I do my best.
I know what they’ll mostly be.
She’s hawt.
Uffda Fargo. Kick this nanny to the curb.
Local busy body wants city to create a database to track the place that last served DUI arrestees. That way they can be hassled extra hard.
The gem of the story though is this modification to another recent law that made over serving a crime:
I liked the part about how they eliminated the need for an icky witness. Cop’s word should be all us proles need.
TW: Autostart vid
Most people have pre-sex ‘rituals’
Wouldn’t “most” be greater than 4 out of 10?
Taking a shower before getting down and dirty in the bedroom, teeth brushing, a bit of mouthwash
I don’t see the issue, most people are not into hobo sex.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/hobosexual-studies/
Hobophobes
That’s not a ritual. That means you care about your partner and/or would like to repeat this some time in the future.
Personally I like to set the mood with a nice bottle of wine, dispose of the chloroform and flex cuffs, and work on my alibi.
I don’t see pleading on that list.
What about warming up hand lotion? That is my “friend’s” ritual.
Great, now I have a visual if Jimbo in a dark room, furiously pumping at his Neutrogena, watching Joey, Chandler and Ross play Foosball while pretending to be poor in a gigantic NYC condo.
Thread winner.
I NEVER PRETEND I AM POOR IN A GIGANTIC NYC CONDO!
The rest of it is spot on though.
One of the endearing qualities of Seinfeld was that he lived in a dump.
Immediately comes to mind.
/Mrs trshmnstr watches friends on repeat
STEVE SMITH AVOID ROUTINE…KEEP THINGS NEW!
SOMETIME STEVE LIKE LONG CHASE THRU WOODS TO GET JUICES FLOWING.
SOMETIMES STEVE SMITH STRETCH SELF FIRST BEFORE STRETCH HIKERS
Taking a shower…teeth brushing, a bit of mouthwash
That’s just being polite.
And a lot to do in the early morning…according to an old friend…
Facebook stops sending staff to help political campaigns
All the same, they went ahead and put a quarter of their staff on the job anyway.
Everyone seems to have forgotten that Facebook gave Obama their entire database of voters in 2012, back when “micro-targeting” was all cool and not just for Russians.
All of you yesterday who were celebrating that guy in Maryland who shot cops that invaded his house because they got the address wrong and won’t be prosecuted?
Prepare yourself for the other shoe dropping.
Very similar story in Mpls in 2008. The cops who fucked up all got medals for bravery under fire.
Be like giving the guys who shot Pat Tillman the bronze star.
Let’s not forget that the FBI isn’t all about political spying and shit like that. They also have a proud tradition of fucking up kidnapping cases.
It is irritating that despite what our lying eyes are telling us, too many people still think the FBI is an elite law enforcement organization.
Question for non-Minnesodans here. Is the Jacob Wetterling case a big deal? Have you heard of it? I think it is a huge deal for anyone who was around at the time it happened.
Also: “Mighty nice police work Lou”
The episode of Reno 911! where the FBI took over the investigation of the kidnapping of the lieutenant governor’s brother (who turned out to just be having a bender at one of the local casinos) was probably the most accurate portrayal of the FBI ever put to tape.
I keep telling everyone that Reno 911 was the most real reality show ever, and they all laugh at me. Except for when I said that during voir dire.
Jacob Wetterling case is a big deal, at least in terms of remembering hearing a LOT about it.
First of all, sorry for not discussing the links at top, or anyone else’s posts. Maybe this is my problem.
I’ve noticed that commenters like HM, The Hyperbole, Don Escaped Texas, and others seem to have cool heads most of the time. They’re very rational in a way that one (well, I) would expect libertarians stereotypically to be.
I’m not. I’m a raging empath, and probably have some serious anger problems that I’m not proud of. My political views are consequent of that disposition at least as much as, and probably much more than, the reverse (i.e. cool, rational mind informing my views). ……. Law enforcement abuse of authority and lack of accountability, the simultaneously self-righteous and eminently amoral+immoral ‘justice’ system (with the hubris to label itself as having anything to do with justice, which is to say—to my mind—Truth), mass media and politicians lying while having the fucking gumption to accuse others of airing falsehoods and swaying minds thereby (i.e. committing the sins that they actually do, while pretending they don’t do it): These are the things that galvanize the political-me, and they do so because they make me angry.
Leap has referenced Kling’s “Three Languages of Politics,” and I definitely fall along the “oppressed–oppressor” (‘leftist’) axis more than the other two; it’s just that I see the oppressed as, far more often than not, the proverbial individual, not groups, especially not identity groups.
OK, OK, here’s the point: I’m emotional, not so much rational. I hate politics, it makes me unhappy, but I know these (what I see as) injustices are happening, and I can’t figure out how just to ignore it. Libertarians tend to be identified and to self-identify as highly rational, and it makes sense. I admire logical consistency more than inconsistency (even when I abhor one’s premises), so I admire libertarians, especially on here. But I’m not like that. I’m an ‘emotionalist.’
I’m relatively young among this cohort, and I’m not optimistic about the future of politics, discourse, liberal values, the mental health of the average individual, constitutionalism (or some set of liberal values delineated and as-consistently-as-possible applied and broadly respected)… or, basically, the defense of the (even/esp. disreputable) individual vis-à-vis the mob. These dissolutions from all directions (right-wing, left-wing, whatever (though tbh I don’t see the vectors as nearly equal in weight, but maybe that’s more irrationality in the form of, say, confirmation bias)), from almost everywhere, and each such source reinforcing each other.
And that depresses me.
Idk how you guys do it. I wish I were as aloof as articles vilifying libertarians claim libertarians to be. I know it’s not an accurate assessment of the average libertarian, and that you guys really Give a Shit, but you do by-and-large seem to be pretty chill, rational, and able to compartmentalize. How do you do it?
Thanks,
Ken Schultz / Tulpa
(Apologies to all the publication-editors on here.)
PS Gonna go to sleep now. BBL. ILU.
..This is not my personal blog. Where does that information superhighway go to?
With age comes
wisdomjaded and blunted emotions. I liken it to the poker players on the Titanic. We know the ship is slowly going down, but running around with our arms flailing about isn’t going to change the fact. So all we can do is comment on the small little culture war, realize its insignificance in the grand scheme of life, and move on.Your life is not made up of politics, nor will you obtain joy from engaging in it unless you are a sociopath.
Recognize that all of the bullshit on the media and in DC is beyond your control and seek a normal life outside of it.
It’s still OK to rant on the internet (yell at clouds), but keep it contained to that.
Recognize that all of the bullshit on the media and in DC is beyond your control and seek a normal life outside of it.
Sadly that’s getting ever more difficult to do as the tentacles of DC sprawl down into ever more mundane aspects of our lives. But at the end of the day you can either start a 1 man revolution about itm(ask Tim McVeigh about how well that works out) or make the most of what you can.
Some of us use booze. Some smoke dope.
Choose one.
Why not both? I like to mix in moderation since they complement each other so well.
Some of us huff modeling glue. To each his own.
Is that you, Steve McCroskey?
Some of us are just dead inside.
You said something nice about me yesterday.
Using logic, that proves you are mentally deficient and shouldn’t be listened to.
Unless you’re trapped in an elevator with him, Amirite?
I just said you made me laugh. That might just be a terrrrrrible thing 🙂
But how do you feel about pineapple as a pizza topping?
The vilification of libertarians as heartless Rand-worshipping robots is a convenient talking-point for our opponents who deal in emotions over process and promised outcomes vs expanded liberty. It also helps our opponents that we see personal obligation (morality) as separate from societal obligation (burdens of citizenship).
We compartmentalize, or make light of tragedy, so we don’t go crazy, kid. Now get off my lawn.
Abominable. Esp. since it always joins with ham, and I’m a soyboy (also abominable).
OK, but do you even have a lawn?
Yes. I mowed on the diagonal yesterday. Looks spiffy.
“cool heads”
I’m an asshole and pretty sure of myself; the good news is that I delete half the stuff I tap out before hitting Send.
What you might have noticed is a balanced hatred for teams Red and Blue. Team Red is full of socons like all my retarded cousins and neighbors, so I don’t have the Trump-hugging inclination that a hatred of Hillary has instilled in some; I don’t have a preferred flavor of statism. In the hills they remember “there’s enough sin to go around”
and it all depends on “whose ox is being gored.” I’m a nuts and bolts kind of guy who doesn’t understand all the salesmanship, posturing, and gamesmanship: just state your principles, act accordingly, and let the chips (elections) fall where they may.
The one thing I will say about experience is that it allows one to recognize that most arguments don’t present all sides of an issue. After you’ve waded through enough jobs/positions, elections, Asian adventures, HOA meetings, and little league games, your statistics, psychology, and economics reading coalesce to alert you that most folk simply don’t know what they’re talking about; the louder the protest, the less they know, it seems. My discomfiture is now rooted in the American obsession with public suffrage; after what I have seen, the last thing I want is for others to get a vote about anything that affects me whatsoever, so I’ve grown more hopeless than you can probably imagine. I merely hate most everyone equally…that is my balance.
So the secret is to delete before sending Send, not after. *scribbles notes*
Really, though, thanks for the response.
I have never regretted deleting a comment, especially if I wrote it in the heat of the moment.
“I’ve noticed that commenters like HM, The Hyperbole, Don Escaped Texas, and others seem to have cool heads most of the time. They’re very rational in a way that one (well, I) would expect libertarians stereotypically to be.”
Stop brown nosing, Tulpa, it’s unbecoming even for a Tulpa.
Besides, he clearly hasn’t pushed the right buttons.
lol, I’m not brown-nosing, I’ve like gotten heated after reading some of their arguments, and then several beats later realized, Oh, they’re totally mostly right. I just deeply respect people who can stay that level-headed, or level-headed enough still to seem level-headed after having hit Send 😉
I still admire the people on here who get heated and esp who can still pitch a great argument, and I’m still not brown-nosing. Fuck you, fuck all of you Tulpae.
On the short roster of emotions I express, anger is one of them. the primary symptom seen online is that I get more obstinate and dig in my heels on whatever position I had taken.
Speaking solely for myself, I humbly offer the following observations.
1. I have a hair-trigger temper, and a bad one. I also empathize easily and often with others. While both of those qualities have been useful to me in my life, I’ve found that they rarely help when it comes to solving problems. Certainly the former much, much less than the latter. Emotions work great for dealing with emotional issues, but most political issues (and most personal issues, really) are ultimately material in nature, and that means they’re best solved with logic and rational consideration. That’s not to say that the soft skills don’t come into play, it’s just that you can’t fully understand political issues without understanding the physical, material aspects. That’s why “feel good” legislation doesn’t work; everyone wants a pony, and you can certainly understand that everyone wants a pony, but it’s not physically possible to give everyone a pony no matter how badly you want to or how much you feel they deserve them.
2. You mellow with age. I’m a much calmer, much more reasonable (drink!) person at 40 with a wife and a kid than I was at, say, 20, living with a bunch of dudes in a flophouse drinking my way through community college and trying to fall in love with every chick I saw.
3. When the plane’s on fire and plummeting towards the ocean, you may as well have another drink. What I mean is that, frankly, from a classical liberal/libertarian/ancap whatever perspective, shit’s pretty grim and the future is uncertain. I doubt that any of us in our lifetime will see a government in the US that represents what we’d consider ideal. Likely, things will, considered over time, gently slide towards a stronger central government, increased regulation of individual liberties, and generally something more like your typical western European country than what our grandparents knew. It’s important to do what you can to change things for the better, but it’s more important to live your life and make the best of it that you can. I’d like to think the two things aren’t mutually exclusive, but to the extent they are, to coin a phrase, “choose life”.
4. Life’s too short to make enemies where you don’t need to, and most people are actually pretty decent. Everybody’s different, and Internet forums lend themselves to poor phrasing, lack of visual cues to interpret meaning, stuff like that, so it’s important to try to assume the best intentions of others. Also, you’re going to fuck up and be a dick, or someone’s going to think you’re acting like a dick when you don’t mean to, so it’s important to bear that in mind as well.
It is interesting how much the mellowing of age resembles being too tired to fight.
Well, I like to think of it as learning where to apply force judiciously so as to get the most bang for your buck. There’s a reason that the stereotype of a master of the internal martial arts is a serene old fogey; he got that way knowing how to fend off young bucks with too much energy and not enough sense.
It also looks like learning that fighting when you shouldn’t makes one a maniac, which is bad for you even if you win.
My dad didn’t see a hill he didn’t want to die on.
He died on a tiny hill in his back yard at 51 of a heart attack.
“feel good legislation”
The part I can’t get anyone to agree is that freedom feels good: it provides the most possible ponies. If we could vote our way to a pony in every pot, I’d do it, but ponies don’t grow on trees; you can’t vote your way to pony trees if they did.
Walter Mischel recently died, he of the Standford delayed gratification marshmallow test. I think the regulation urge is the sort of instant gratification that defective thinking defaults to: eat the marshmallow now instead of delay/invest. I’m the sort that gets hot and bothered looking forward to having two marshmallows and a pony some day by putting up with a slow, boring, un-controlling philosophy, but we’re a minority.
That’s a tough lesson to learn if it doesn’t come naturally to you. I know I still struggle with it even after having seen the benefits of delayed gratification. But I agree entirely with you. Whatever outcome you’re looking for, in the long run and generally in the short run freedom is the best vehicle to obtain it. It’s not sexy, and it requires a bit of faith and a bit of humility, but the free market remains the most efficient mechanism for the distribution of resources limited by scarcity to date. Nothing beats it.
Thank you NB.
Woodworking.
wink, wink, nudge, nudge…
Work the bevel, amirite?
‘Woodworking for Dummies’ actually exists!!
1) Grow the fuck up. You can be an adult in charge of your own emotions, you can work to be that way, or you can be a child wallowing in your own emotions. If you can’t be the first, you need to pick between the second two. Picking will get you half way there. Resources that will help with the second half might include: Thinking Fast and Slow, Jordan Peterson’s Book, reading about Stoicism, getting Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Mindfulness meditation. Either develop a plan to learn how to get better at this, or accept your lot in life as a child.
2) Learn some history. You think you see injustice all around you. What we have now is the most just, most free society ever planed on earth. You want to see injustice and unrest? Go read about the Long, Hot Summer. Go read about the Troubles, the British Civil War, the Munster Rebellion, the Indian Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the Bloodlands in the 30’s and the 40’s, Haidron’s oppresion of Britiania, Romes repeated attempts to stomp out monotheism, or the Spanish silver mines in South America. Get some perspective. You sound like you came of age in the 90’s or later. If you can’t look at the last 20 or 30 years and thank god every day for how good we have it, your calibration of how bad it can get is way, way off.
3) Develop an identity outside of politics. I’m a father, a husband, a volunteer for a handful of charitable organizations, a [insert profession here], a shitty knife maker, a worse woodworker, a compulsive game player, a compulsive
readeraudiobook listener, and a political junky. You know what it does to my core identity when politics gets bad and ugly? Fucking nothing.This.
Learn how to act like you don’t give a shit. Fake it till you make it.
All my anguish about politics went away when 3 things happened:
1) I came across a passage in my biblical studies that basically said “why are you worrying about the actions of non-believers, leave that to Me.” It rocked my freaking world.
2) I conceded that the battle over constitutionalism was lost 50 years before I was born.
3) I stopped abiding the petty voyeurism that is the news media these days. My only connection to the news is this site and the occasional visit to drudge.
“2) I conceded that the battle over constitutionalism was lost 50 years before I was born.”
I generally feel like this.
“2) Learn some history.”
But this is also true.
I see (gladly) open constitutional carry often now. That didn’t happen in a vacuum. With the collapse of tangible newspapers and partisan ownership of social media, it suddenly occurs to me that, if I continue to pick the correct state in which to live, gun ownership is in some ways easier to practice than speech.
“He wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feel.” Townes VanZandt
I don’t recommend this, and I always conceal, but I just can’t help being elated to see a fellow citizen strap on his birthright.
I do not believe that constitutionalism has lost. Some ground, maybe, but not the war.
Hi. I can’t sleep.
I appreciate the tough-love (or even just tough) disposition, I know I need it to some degree (maybe a large degree), but I’d like to clarify(?) some things—but also I don’t mean to sound like I’m making excuses or anything. Perhaps I am, but I don’t mean to. Just wanted to follow up.
I’m not totally ignorant. I’ve read Thinking, Fast and Slow (in fact, it’s changed the way I think, or thinking about how I think). I even wrote a boring intro to what prompted this obnoxious navel-gazing post, and it directly invoked that book. I’ve followed Jordan Peterson, I’ve read (though obviously not deeply and fully enough, not for a long and meditative time) Marcus Aurelius and some. I’ve had CBT .. maybe not by direction volition, but I’m familiar with it. Although I’m incontrovertibly there, I absolutely do not accept remaining a ‘child.’ That’s partly whence this bullshit navel-gazing post comes from, I promise. I’m not happy with where and who I am. I realize I can have read these tomes and still not have really, actually have absorbed them, and need to read them again. And again. And I will. I’m mentioning this not to act like I’m better or more knowing than I am—I know I’m not anything—I just want you to know that I’ve been trying, and will keep trying. I’m just seeking wisdom from every corner I might glean some from, and I know you guys have a lot.
I’m not totally ignorant of history either, although I am really, mostly, fundamentally (beyond the surface), but if I may just say this, and maybe/certainly it’s more navel-gazing garbage, but if I may: in my lowest states I’ve been told by loved ones that many, really most, people have had and have it far worse than me, and this is not revelatory to me, even if I don’t fully appreciate the extents. The thing is that it’s always troubled me immensely that this IS the case. It doesn’t make me feel better, it makes me feel far worse. It breaks and hurts me. I get angrier (and obviously it’s feckless anger) learning about these injustices. I know I’m fortunate to live when I do and where I do. It breaks me to know that life is this way, almost fundamentally, for everyone, everywhere, in every time. I don’t know what to do but crumble. I don’t know what to do!! I’m an idiot and don’t know what to do.
I don’t identify with politics at all. That’s the thing. I feel alone. People who identify with something related to politics—like friends with their political party group brunches, they have that and it’s good for them. I know probably what you’re saying is I need to BE something and ACT with something outside of myself, but I don’t know where to find it? Maybe in something related to religion. But even there I feel alone, probably because I’m not that smart. “Feel” alone, I know, fuck me, it’s all in my head, I’m a narcissist. How do I get out of myself? I’ve read all of The Last Psychiatrist. I know I’m a narcissist, even though / especially because I hate myself. But there’s no ‘out.’ There’s no assist there. I’m not clever enough to know what to do.
This is where just violence comes in, huh
And I see how tl;dr that is, and I apologize for my self-indulgence
*It breaks me to know that life is THAT way
i.e. for others, not me. Eugh, imprecision.
Then it sounds like you already are working in the right direction.
There’s no end goal here. There’s only the struggle to be better tomorrow than you are today. Everything else is a trite cliche. Keep looking for ways to turn yourself into the person you want to be, and work at it forever. I assume you are a man? Men are made to struggle. Most art, all major religions, all major philosophies, they are about the masculine struggle to be the man they want to be. Its pervasive because its not something you can ever finish doing, and even the best men fail at it. Often.
Do you have a wife or a serious girl-friend? Do you have kids? Men are made to struggle, but not pointlessly. Heroes struggle, including against themselves, for something. See every old western, where the hero’s struggle is really about how to be a killer while turning the west over to the women folk and kids. When I’m at my worst, I need my wife to tell me she appreciates me struggling for our family.
All of this – all of this – is hard. But its better than the alternative. Never growing up. Never struggling. Never examining your life. Calling the masculine social role “socially constructed,” assuming that means arbitrary, and trying to change it, that way leads to a 100% guaranteed unfulfilled and shitty life. Its how you get horrors like this.
Sounds like you are overthinking things, so the best solution may be to stop thinking about these things that bother you. The easiest way to do so, in my opinion, is to find something to distract your thoughts (entertainment, hobbies, organizational involvement, taking care of someone/something else).
The fact of the matter is that the world is not the way people want it to be. It never has been, and it never will be. For some reason humans, seemingly alone among all the creatures, have an abiding discontent with the way things are and are always imagining something else, calling it better, and striving for it, usually futilely. And as soon as some goal actually is achieved another takes its place, and the discontent remains. On the plus side, this abiding restlessness is what has spurred humans to make such incredible technological and philosophical strides, so it’s not all bad.
“3) Develop an identity outside of politics. I’m a father, a husband, a volunteer for a handful of charitable organizations, a [insert profession here], a shitty knife maker, a worse woodworker, a compulsive game player, a compulsive reader audiobook listener, and a political junky. You know what it does to my core identity when politics gets bad and ugly? Fucking nothing.”
I wish I could get my girlfriend to take this advice.
Soyboy, if it makes you feel better, if I’m guessing correctly I’m part of your cohort too. What keeps me confident, chill, and rational is that I’ve had family who have undergone the pain and suffering of over-reaching government and subsequently fled that to a country that let them grow and not just survive, but THRIVE. If those old farts in my family could get through shit like actual shooting civil wars, torture, you-name-it, I sure as hell can get through the petty BS that is today’s politics.
Side note, but as a fellow young feller, feel free to hmu. According to empirical science I’m about 60% asshole, but chill.
Its perspective, in my case. You see enough “OMG, its the end of the world” or “Most important election/issue EVAR” or whatever, and after awhile you realize “No, its not”. Even if the good guys lose on this one, not much is going to change, really, in my personal life. Of course, it helps to have a solid, stable personal life. While you are waiting for life experience to pile up, read some history. Not only is a good history book quite entertaining/engaging, it will give you a health perspective.
My boss is a partisan Democrat, fully in the bubble. I think she’s wrong about damn near everything political, and I’m sure she has an inkling that we are not on the same page for nearly anything political. I don’t bring politics up at the workplace at all, because I know its not going to make a damn bit of difference if I do, and I suspect when others do it makes little to no difference anyway.
My advice: organize your life to immunize it from the day to day swirl of politics and palace intrigue as much as possible.
Cody Wilson reportedly trying to rent an apartment in Taiwan, per local media
After skipping his flight back to the US in the wake of accusations of sexual assault against a minor, Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson attempted to rent an apartment in Taipei this week, according to United Daily News (Chinese, Google Translate), a Chinese-language media outlet based in Taiwan.
Guess Cody will brushing up on his Chinese!
God knows, I find nothing more tedious than learning kanji despite how useful and important they are to mastering Japanese.
There’s quite a little expat community of whistleblower and civil liberty types wanted by Uncle Sam living abroad these days.
How do you do it?
I endeavor to persevere.
Someday I might declare war on the Union.
///HePersisted
I’m sure it was an honest mistake.
A case has been reopened after investigating agency admits it forgot to turn over an audio recording of an encounter where a sheriff’s deputy killed a guy.
The result would have been the same with or without the evidence anyhow.
In divisive Brazilian election, even Nazis are up for debate
It wasn’t real socialism because they added a layer of technocracy between the government and the means of production. Duh.
The Nazi economic policy was 100% socialist.
Hell, a lot of the modern Nazi crowd (Richard Spencer types) call for socialist-type economies (for white people only, of course).
I think that’s a fair statement, although it wasn’t Marxist. For all the hairsplitting the DSA crowd likes to do, they often conveniently forget that there are forms of socialism that are not Marxism.
Yeah. Socialism predates Marxism
What is the distinguishing factor?
Marxism brings in the idea of class oppression as a historical dynamic that produces socialism and ultimately communism. It’s based on the idea of the Hegelian dialectic. The engine behind the historical processes that Marx believed would result in a proletarian revolution that would eliminate capitalism and produce a worldwide worker’s collective is the conflict between labor and capital.
Socialism is just the idea that the state should control the economy. It doesn’t even need to be that the state directly owns industry, so long as the state is able to control it through regulation, as was the case in the Nazi model. The big difference is that socialism doesn’t imply any kind of explanatory process for history nor does it offer any predictive model for the future, where Marxism does.
Right. National Socialism didn’t really give a shit about class, although they liked to drone on about the nobility of the German peasantry and workers. Instead of appealing to class, they appealed to race, the völk. Instead of “workers of the world, unite!” it was “Germans of the world, unite!”
Yeah, that’s a good point. When you look at Nazi propaganda with the frauleins gathering wheat in the field or whatever the emphasis is clearly that hard work is an essential part of the German nature, not that workers themselves were inherently Germanic. You’d never see a Slav portrayed next to a blonde-haired, blue-eyed German farmer in the same light.
Bingo – it was an essential component of their political philosophy that true Germans were by nature industrious, hardworking people who would gladly sacrifice petty personal desires for the betterment of the völk. It was the principle behind the Himmler quote that I can’t remember exactly but was something like “We must be decent, kind, and charitable towards our own race, but no one else.”
There also was an actual egalitarian streak within Nazi policies. For example – the officer corps of the German (and Prussian before that) army was historically dominated by the nobility, the classic Prussian Junker class. These were not always titled, but were men of means who were at least part of the landed gentry. The SS, on the other hand, did away with that. Their officers were mostly of middle class or working class origins, and many of them were enlisted before becoming officers, something that didn’t happen in the army. Rank distinctions were same in the SS as the army but the enlisted men were not considerd to be of a lower class in the SS – men spoke to their officers much more informally than in the army. They were all SS men together, first and foremost. The Strength Through Joy program was designed to provide subsidized leisure and travel opportunities for the working and middle classes that most of them couldn’t afford previously. They operated cruise ships (no, seriously) and resorts, and they had no separate classes of accomodations. No one received a special level of luxury.
I’ve been banging this drum for years, thanks for writing all that up so I don’t have to (and said better than I would have)
Chip, I want to argue the part about the lack of ‘Mustang’* officers in the Wehrmact. Based mostly on my recollection from Heinz Guderian’s autobiography regarding a requirement of service at lower levels, but I can’t find the citation, and I could be misremembering the post-war Bundswehr policy in its place. Do you have any specific references more accurate than my memory of a book I read a decade or more ago?
*forgive the US nomaclature usage for a first enlisted/NCO then commissioned officer.
UCS, no, I don’t have a specific reference for that, and if I’m proven wrong then I tip my cap. I stopped reading about the Third Reich at least a decade ago because I felt that it was seriously wrecking my emotional well being – there’s only so much darkness and evil you can read about before you’re chronically depressed – but before that I read voraciously on the subject. WWII in general was my obsession, and Nazi Germany a particular interest because it was so hard to fathom a civilized western European nation descending to such an appalling level of barbarism so recently to my own time.
Anyway, from what I can remember from my reading, it’s not that mustangs were forbidden or anything. It was possible, just historically highly unusual in a German army that was very stratified by social class. Young men went to officer cadet school to get their commissions, and as far as I know there was no requirement for prior service.
Similarly, it wasn’t impossible for officers of low social standing to advance through the ranks. It had been at one point, but this was already starting to change at the outset of WWI, and the war accelerated the process quite a bit. Even so, the upper ranks of the army were still largely composed of the old Junker class.
Well, in general (no pun intended), “Panzer Leader” is rather fascinating, and is about armored warfare rather than the dark side of the time. Guderian was just an army officer who worked on developing mobile warfare tactics.
Yes, I see the difference between reading strictly about the military vs everything else about the regime.
One of the anecdotes that stuck with me for whatever reason was a statement regarding a particular battle in North Africa where he didn’t remember anything about the event except firing a submachinegun at the british vehicles as they raced through his HQ. (evidently they’d already broken through the front lines at that point, as he was a general during that stage of the war).
The Nazi economic policy was 100% socialist.
This.
a lot of the modern Nazi crowd (Richard Spencer types) call for socialist-type economies (for white people only
I didn’t know this until relatively recently. That is when I determined that when Pro-Fa and white-nationalists duel it is merely various types of socialists fighting each other. Leftist on leftist violence, iow.
It’s brown-shirts vs. red-shirts.
It is usually the people that have near insignificant aspects of dogma that fight the hardest about it. Sunni vs. Shia Islam, Marxism vs. Fascism, and so on. You hate the other guy even though there isn’t much difference between the shit you believe in. South Park had that awesome episode when Cartman traveled to the future for his PS4, XBox, or whatever console game he couldn’t wait on to find people fighting over stupid shit.
Just a few like central economic planning, price and wage control, strict gun control, “free” nationalized healthcare”, free childcare and public
indoctrinationeducation for all children…We really should be playing the ‘you know who else’ game with people that support those things in the US. The answer is always some mass murdering despot.
No dictatorship on Earth preserved the right of its citizens to bear arms. The first thing to go is the means of self-defense.
WaPo are the Nazis.
“Political scientists today assume that the Nazis mainly added the word to gain the support of working class voters who had previously supported left-wing parties.”
What the hell is this sentence? Political science is hardly a real thing anyway, but assumptions would be irrelevant in any case.
It’s true that the Nazis were magpies in terms of ideas, though that doesn’t at all mean that they were lying about following them. I forget who it was – maybe Grossman – who claimed that Hitler himself was more like the rank and file Nazi party member, all passion and violence; the intellectualisation came from lower down. Nazism almost seems to have been formed by the political climate of the 20s and 30s – as such it inevitably picks up the statism of the era. Contrast this with Marxism, which was a pre-existing academic idea (despite Marx and Engels’ frequent deceit) that people like Lenin had to adapt to the circumstances of the time.
Leftists getting all upset about this issue is pretty rich, given that they’ve been smearing anyone right of centre as a Nazi for so long. The truth is that while Nazism was probably not that similar to paper-Marxism, it has a lot more in common with Marxism-as-it-actually-exists than it does to free-market capitalism. Autarky, interference with private companies, mass propaganda and workerism are hallmarks of the statist left that the Nazis shared.
– Adolf Hitler
Collectivism’s main “feature” is the fact that it believes government MUST pick the winners and losers to remove some kind of injustice currently plaguing the existing system, and this shit always breaks down to a two class/tier society with the powerful having everything and the mob having to be happy with the only thing government can truly deliver: collective misery.
Nothing pisses me more than hearing marxist douchebags pretending fascist are somehow capitalists. Fucking people that want government to pick winners & losers, are always socialists.
Apparently these political scientists can’t be bothered to read the actual rhetoric of Nazis when trying to figure out what they thought. Some of the prominent Nazi leaders, such as Rohm and Goering, were so stridently anti-capitalist that one gets the impression they viewed “capitalist” as synonymous with “Jew” and that their hatred for each was equally magnified by their hatred of the other.
I went to an art exhibition a few weeks ago based on artwork produced immediately after WW1. Lots of the German pieces – painted by socialists -showed fat war profiteers and impoverished veterans. All you really needed was a hooked nose here and a gold star there to make the paintings look like Nazi propaganda.
Yet another piece of journalism in a major publication that relies on facebook posts and other internet detritus for its central assertions.
I do a great Oasis impression. “You wanna hear my Oasis impression?”. “Uh, OK.” *Leans into to within a centimeter of their ear and at top of my lungs* “TODAY IS GONNA BE THE DAY”.
Can’t believe no one has kicked my ass for that yet.
Ford said in a letter through her lawyers on Tuesday evening she wanted an FBI investigation into the matter before she appeared before the Senate committee tasked with reviewing Kavanuagh’s nomination.
I think the collusion between Ms Ford and members of the government to derail the nomination and confirmation process deserves serious scrutiny, but I doubt that what they mean.
Just supeona her.
That’s like raping her all over again.
Even if the previous rape was all in her head and totally bullshit she made up?
Team Red doesn’t have the balls. And the bad thing is that it is pretty obvious that Team Blue is using this baseless accusation as a stall tactic.
When they demand a “full investigation” before hearing any testimony, you know it is simply a stall tactic. There is nothing to investigate. She outlined a scenario in which there are only three people that could possibly offer any insight. 2 have already denied any knowledge of such an event ever occurring. The third sent a letter but now says they need to investigate before she’ll testify.
Why is anyone treating the “investigate” request seriously?
Feinstein actually sent the letter to the FBI to investigate – while redacting all names except Kavanaugh. Obviously she did not intend this as a serious exercise. “Here’s a note from an anonymous person that says there was an ‘attack’ 35 years ago (give or take) somewhere that may or may not have risen to the level of a criminal act, but definitely was not a federal crime. Please dedicate all resources necessary to get to the bottom of this!”
Now she needs more time. And an investigation. And a guarantee that she will be safe.
What could she need an extra few days for? To remember harder? Or maybe to coach up a couple of willing accomplices?
And why investigate first? Don’t you usually get the victim’s statement down as quickly as possible? Could it be that they want to make sure that they don’t say anything that contradicts some evidence that might eventually surface?
Nobody is acting in good faith here.
Investigation Opens:
Fact provided by Accuser –
Investigating facts.
Divide by zero error
Investigation Closed.
Dub Side of the Moon – heard this at a record store and was amused.
That’s pretty awful.
Their Great Gig in the Sky take was rather trippy.
“Woman on vacation reportedly finds dead tortoise in her vagina”
https://nypost.com/2018/09/20/woman-on-vacation-reportedly-finds-dead-tortoise-in-her-vagina/
A turtle head doesn’t poke out the front hole.
You know who else….
Of fuck it, I got nuthin’ for that.
If you are so drunk that you did not know there was a *turtle* in your *hoo-ha*…..
….. yooooo just might be a redneck.
/foxworthy
Someone definitely didn’t understand that the phrase “smooth as a turtle shell down there” wasn’t supposed to be taken literally.
What a pussy.
Walmart turns to VR and Oculus Go for associates’ training
Seems like a lot of expense and trouble just to teach your employees how to understaff the store, ignore customers, mismanage inventory, and make sure there are never more than 2 checkout lines open at any given time.
My wife’s favorite was the ‘how can I help?’ on the back of the vests. So you could see it as they walked away from you.
I don’t know what it is, there are some retail establishments where I get a serious “I don’t belong here” vibe. I got it in Publix, Target and even Hannaford but it’s always strongest in WalMart.
If you don’t want to wait in line at check out, use the self-checkout.
I have no problem with stores offering that as an option to people willing to do the store’s job for them, but I don’t want that to be the only option. *glares at Kroger at six AM*
A beautifully scored video of a man having a very, very bad day. The good news is that all the other skydivers who laughed at him for packing two reserve chutes are eating crow.
Chute appropriately named “EuroProtect”.
straff – are you a Jitterin Jinn fan?
https://youtu.be/kVNv4eiy-NE
Turned that off within 3 seconds. Impressive work, Sensei. You’ve beaten an HM link.
It’s a gift!
You’ve beaten an HM link.
Is she singing about cummies?
I didn’t realize it was possible to sing at high of a pitch for a sustained period.
If that chute don’t open wide
I’ve got another by my side
If that chute don’t open round
I’ll be the first one on the ground
Did you jump out of airplanes for a living during your service?
No, but that was a very popular cadence.
I was a leg at Ft Bragg.
We had lots of good cadences.
C-130 rolling down the strip,
64 dummies gonna make a little trip
stand up, hook up, stumble cross the floor,
slip in the puke and fall out the door.
If the wind don’t open his main,
sock-headed dummy gonna go insane,
if his reserve fails to open wide,
he’ll splatter wide cross the country side!
A coworker was one of the divers in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p6hqMnsLFY
So what became of the pilot of the trailing aircraft? As far as I can tell he was the guy responsible for the accident.
Yeah, that was a righteous fuck up.
Dunno. He survived. I’ve only jumped once in my life, but I believe the pilot is required to wear a parachute when flying other skydivers up.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is example # 1 for why you always wear a helmet and have an AAD.
Yikes!
Those reserves were really small….. I wonder if it isn’t designed to always use 2 parachutes?
Also, I like the way he very calmly and coolly threw his reserve directly down, instead of out to the side.
Also, he never cut away. Under a normal parachute, you’d cut away in a line-over or twist like that. Don’t want your reserve tangling up into your main.
Speaking of stupid: Here is a list of some new laws California just passed and were signed by Governor Jerry Brown. Why? Because people want the state to make these decisions for them, that’s why.
Best part of that article:
As a symbolic measure, that perfectly symbolizes the government’s capacity for incompetence.
End of the longest losing streak in history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z09v_cWpKA
You know who else ended a long losing streak…
Sarwark?
Cobra Commander during the first have of that first 6 part series?
Susan Lucci?
R Budd Dwyer?
Prairie View A&M?
The Columbia Lions?
How do you get the piss and shit off toilet paper to recycle it?
Just wipe backward, duh.
Puppets have tongues, too.
Orphans
Or in your case, all the labor you’ll ever need comes to you every day and their parents PAY you for the privilege.
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1042938425165459456
This shit is getting ridiculous.
Just tell them to fuck off and hold the vote. They’ve turned this into a midterm campaign issue.
The only response now is “That’s now how any of this works, mate. Thanks for playing. Goodbye.”
What the fuck???? In what courtroom in the entire fucking world is the defense expected to present BEFORE the accusation??? What kind of happy horseshit is this?
If the Republicans cave to this nonsense, they’re even more pathetic and useless than I already thought.
I mean, I get that this isn’t a trial, but still.
“Getting”?
Brett Kavanaugh’s Yale Frat Raided Female Students’ Rooms, Paraded Bras and Underwear on Campus
Kavanaugh was also a member of an all-male Yale “secret society” for seniors called Truth and Courage, which was referred to by some students as “Tit and Clit” reports the Yale Daily News.
I’m shocked that that kind of behavior occurred on campus. Next you’re going to tell me there was underage drinking. (faints)
Panty raids are totally old-school ivy league.
Sooo, perfectly normal behavior at a college in the 1980s? OH MUH GAWDS!
Not only that. They are going after him for the broadest of broad guilt by association.
Kavanaugh Accuser’s Lawyer Has A Totally Different Standard For Democrat Sex Offenders
In other words, she’s simply a party hit
manpersonLulz.
The governor of the state (and thus her ultimate boss) sticking his dick in a woman’s face while state troopers guard the room? No big deal.
A drunken teenager clumsily groping a girl for a minute before she flees the room? Major, lifelong trauma.
This just in: Everyone’s a hypocrite when it comes to politics.
I don’t know about that. I read a lot of people who thought the allegations against Roy Moore was disqualifying, but think that the accusations against Kavanaugh are completely unsubstantiated. I really don’t understand how anyone can take the Kavanaugh accusations on “faith alone”.
#Metoo has become a Stalinist purge in how arbitrary and disproportionate it is in who gets smeared. We should also drop the act of pretending like a press that has peddled unsubstantiated rumors against Kavanaugh, but has remained largely silent about allegations against Ellison (which involve calls to 9-1-1 and doctor reports) should really be trusted anymore.
The “both sides” mantra has never rung more hollow than right now
This one is worse than any hit job I’ve seen to date because it’s built intentionally on a lack of evidence. At least they used to give us bogus evidence.
That’s a part of the new paradigm. In his otherwise cringeworthy screed yesterday, Soave mentioned the new phrase “Trauma-informed”. Investigations should be “trauma-informed”, meaning that we are sensitive to the effects of trauma. So missing details are consistent with a traumatic experience. Significant embellishments of the story are consistent with trauma. Waiting many years to come forward is consistent with trauma. Frequently changing the story is consistent with trauma…
You get it… they take the unfalsifiable claim and add on the power-booster of “anything that contradicts the story is actually further proof that the trauma is real”.
There was a time, even a couple of years ago when I could say both parties were equally as reprehensible. Sorry, but the democrats have raised their level of awfulness to a level where it is no longer possible to make that claim.
Basically, what is going on here is the left’s continued effort to see how far they can push it. And by IT, I mean pushing the USA from a justice based system to a social justice based system. A system not based on justice for all and such concepts as innocent until proven guilty, but instead a system built on justice by identity. IOW, vagina = innocent, have to be believed, makes up own rules for justice as we go. White male = guilty until proven not guilty and any determination of not guilty indicates privilege, sexism, and racism. So guilty. The rules may change as we decide.
The interesting twist to that is the massive levels of projection going on.
The left actually feels “under attack” by evil partisan republicans who will do or say anything. Because Trump is a Nazi racist and misogynist who grabs pussies. And Russia.
If you read their version of Glibertarians, they are aghast at just how low the republicans have sunk.
They have no awareness of the tiny size of the Alt-Right. They have no awareness of the violence being perpetrated by the left…. only the one alt-right idiot who ran over a protester. There could never be a leftist who would shoot at Republican politicians. Progressives are never rude in public, and would never call for the harassment and even assault of republicans. No, it is the left who are not safe. Because the right is filled with violent sociopaths who hate women and minorities.
Projection, Projection, Projection…..
Lawyers get a break: they’re paid to make the best case out of whatever ammo they’ve got. Advocacy is not based on principles other than one: everyone deserves the best advocacy they can afford.
The rest of us should be consistent, no matter what Emerson wrote.
mais biensûr
“Google employees reportedly discussed ways they could adjust the company’s search function to “show users how to contribute to pro-immigration organizations and contact lawmakers and government agencies” days after the administration enacted its travel ban”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-google-staff-discussed-adjusting-search-function-in-wake-of-travel-ban
That can’t be true. After all, they just released a statement last week saying:
Last day of my current job today, starting Monday I’ll be making the switch from engineering to sales. Got a lot of nerves about the new role… but if the Browns can win a football game surely I can do this.
Is it selling the product you worked on? Because the salespeople I like to work with know when to say “That is not a current capacity of this product, but what you can do is…” as opposed to people who have alwyas been sales and make false promises.
Similar but not identical products, right now I design high speed manufacturing machinery and I will be moving into a sales roll that is basically one step back in the supply chain. So I’ll be selling the stuff we are used to buying, but I know not to make promises I can’t keep or pretend to know things I don’t. In my experience a lot of the time when people ask you questions, they already know the answer. They just want to see what you’ll say. Not knowing makes you look stupid, making something up makes you look worse.
Am I an oddball for asking questions I don’t know the answer to?
I absolutely prefer to hear “I don’t know, let me get my engineer on the line” over some made-up platitude designed to get me to a yes.
I’ve dealt with plenty of those guys over the years. They don’t get the sale, more often than not. I will say that I have asked to have a better sales rep assigned a couple of times when I was pretty sure that they had the product I wanted. Having a sales rep you can’t trust is a deal killer if you are going to have an ongoing relationship.
Good luck.
if the Browns can win a football game surely I can do this.
As long as you don’t go on a weekend bender and call yourself Johnny Salesman, you should be fine.
Good luck though. I can’t stand sales. I take any rejection personally. I’m always impressed by people who can do it.
As long as you don’t go on a weekend bender and call yourself Johnny Salesman, you should be fine.
Then he’d have to go work in Canada.
Don’t let us down.
Cleveland continues to be an inspiration to us all
Don’t let us down.
You’re selling engineering?
You’ll be fine.
They are cliches, but 100% true. Ask lots of questions. Understand what your customer wants. Don’t be afraid to tell them no. Be proud of your pricing.
Good luck!
Thanks! I appreciate the advice I remember you saying you’ve been in sales for a long time. Might have to pick your brain a little as things come up if you don’t mind.
Of course. Minnetundra at gee mail.
In order to pick Tundra’s brains, you have to go through his nose to get to to them. Be sure to bring a kleenex.
You also must be a trap prostitute. Last I heard, those were Tundra’s true weakness.
Like you aren’t exactly the same.
I’ll click on a HuffPose link, now and then, but People Magazine? You go too far.
NO questions from lawyers, only Qs from Committee members, #Kavanaugh cannot be in the room, Kavanaugh must testify FIRST – more to come …
Will Kavanaugh be expected to arrive at the Capitol in an open donkey cart, after being pelted with rotting vegetables along the way, and then testify while wearing a dunce cap?
I think the problem here is that no one apparently reads Kafka anymore
They read Kafka, and Orwell. Unfortunately they have read them as being in the How to/DIY genre not the cautionary tale genre.
I was thinking something similar today. There aren’t any good dystopian novels or movies coming out recently because they’d seem too plausible.
“The Trial warns us of the dangers of not trusting judges” – Hillary Clinton, probably
OK. Yesterday you were all talking about spam you get. I have to chime in.
In my case, one of my favorite/most embarrassing company send me a pseudo spam. The company was Xero shoes. They make minimalist footwear. I bought a DIY hurache kit from them years ago and since then several sandals and other casual shoes. It is about as close to bare foot as you can get. (Going bare foot has improved my lower back pain by about a million percent). Love the products, cringe in shame every time the owner pops up. He’s a good hearted crazy nut.
At one point he was on Shark Tank and turned them down. The spam yesterday was a conglomeration of Xero shoes and links to other Shark Tank products. Got they are stupid.
Shoe lights? For $50/pair?!?!
Al Bundy pitched shoe lights on one episode and it was rightly mocked for being stupid.
Lol. I got that same email. Laughed my ass off at the products.
Great shoes, though.
Did I know you were a fellow Xero shoes guy? I don’t think so, but my memory is bad so maybe you did tell me.
Love those shoes. Love, love, love them.
I have a pair of the Terraflex and a pair of the Genesis sandals. The hiking shoes are ridiculously comfy and tough. I also run in Merrill trail shoes.
Guessing “No”. From the article: “There is no record for any business at that site online.”
How the hell do parents choose to leave their kids there then?
Did they know the person beforehand? Was it operating under ground?
Weird.
I bet more the half the business done in that Chinatown is under the table.
Dude Robe? You have permission to shoot me if you ever see me wearing one. People in snuggies look down at idiots in dude robes.
Also bonus points for having This abomination of a web page How bout a bit of professionalism. You are chaging $75 for a stupid robe after all.
What is there to differentiate that from a… non-dude robe?
about $50 higher on the pricetag?
I want one in white with “grand dragon” embroidered on it. Will PayPal accept that?
Come on. That’s something your wife buys for Christmas “for you” but really for her. Like when I bought some high quality cotton undershirts on a whim and they somehow went straight from the drawer to the clothes hamper without me wearing them. When confronted about this, my wife wasn’t even ashamed. She said “oh, I’ll buy you some more.” Which led to a long conversation about why didn’t she just buy herself some, but that wouldn’t work because it wasn’t the same if they weren’t in my drawer and mine. Apparently this is not an unusual — logic is the wrong word here — line of thought?
Extreme Sandbox actually seems like a bit of fun and they have two locations in Minnesoda.
My main gripe is that it seems pretty pricey.
My father in law invited everyone to that place for his 60th birthday. It was a blast.
I’m so mechanically declined, I’d be terrified, I’d break the hole in the ground, or mess up the hill of dirt.
Very OT: Pennsylvania sprint car driver Greg Hodnett died last night in a crash during a race. Why do I bring it up? Because just like any shooting, there are immediately people standing on the corpse yelling that the track should be closed and the people involved didn’t do enough. What is it about tragic death that makes people want to grandstand?
He was a great driver and only in his 40’s. A class act and talent. Hope his family can ignore the people who want to use his death as a way to bash others.
/too local
/mini-rant off
That sucks.
Auto crashes always bring those people out.
Group B could have survived if they kept the fans out of the damn road.
Sorry to read that. Nothing wrong with learning from something like this to make the sport safer. But as you mentioned this is just grandstanding. Not a lot of analysis of what happened if he just died last night.
Jordan Peele will host CBS All Access’ ‘Twilight Zone’ reboot
Serializing Get Out into a series-length social justice lecture ought to hold up great to, say, The Obsolete Man, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Miniature, or Time Enough At Last from the original.
Fuck every exec who has ever tried to reboot The Twilight Zone.
Given the decline in smoking, I doubt anyone can deliver the proper Rod Serling voice anymore either.
I mean, it’s not like the original ever shied away from politics or modern “social justice lectures”.
Rod Serling’s ending to “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”.
The 80s reboot wasn’t terrible. I’ll give this one a chance, though I don’t expect much from it.
I mean, it’s not like the original ever shied away from politics or modern “social justice lectures”.
Meh, I think it’d be fair to say that the themes of the morality tales in the original were a bit more universalist than what we’re likely to encounter today. Even in the mid ’60s “don’t be a racist”, “authoritarianism is bad”, “don’t bully ugly people” and “don’t buy into mass hysteria” were fairly uncontroversial themes. I will eat my undies if they make something like The Encounter.
I agree they’re likely to be more heavy handed, but the themes were certainly there in the original (and in a lot of Rod Serling’s other work as well).
I thought the themes in the original were more about mortality than morality. More along the lines of “be careful what you wish for.”
I didn’t think Get Out was SJW. I thought it was funny and parodied rich white liberals fairly well.
Yeah, I enjoyed it and I’m allergic to SJW shit in film and television.
I resisted seeing it because it seemed to be typical SJW, but you’re right, it wasn’t and it was a good movie.
It was a well executed film along the lines of the Wicker Man. Worse things have won Best Movie (e.g. Braveheart). The woke idiots declaring it to be massively important and thought-provoking are just idiots.
Get Out
Interesting concept for a horror film that was ruined with “every white person is racist” bs.
You must have watched a different movie.
I will also probably not being paying $100 for Cozigo . I’d just use the same ratty blanket we used for all our kids to stop the sun form shining on them in the stroller.
Considering Ford’s absurd demands, how has no one noted that in Kafka’s book “The Trial” the man on trial is called “K”?
Looking forward to Kafka being posthumously labeled an “alt-right” author. (((They))) are the trickiest of Nazis
All I know of Kafka is that he insisted his work never be published – and was betrayed after his death.
He insisted that all of his remaining unfinished work not be published after his death. “The Trial” is one of his unfinished works. But, we published several short stories in his lifetime and was a somewhat successful writer in his lifetime.
I started reading Kafka because on the liner notes to the album “We’re Only In It for the Money” by The Mothers, Zappa implores the listener to read “The Penal Colony” by Kafka before listening to the album.
I always listen to Frank Zappa. He’s never steered me wrong.
I’m not a huge fan of Zappa’s music, but I am a big fan of Zappa the man.
“The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.”
I’m sure you’ve seen this before, but I’m linking it for anyone who hasn’t. It’s the kind of thing that truly makes you want to jump up in wild applause in your living room.
If Zappa were alive today, he would be complaining about Twitter bans and Google messing with its algorithms.
As a refresher, the PMRC wanted the government to regulate music albums. The government demurred after the music industry voluntarily took it upon themselves to start labeling “offensive albums”.
Literally, the exact same thing happened with big internet companies and the people who were once upset about the PMRC are largely supportive of Twitter bans and Google messing with algorithms.
Conservatives, in the traditional sense, are still in charge of culture today. They just call themselves progressives and banter on about Social Justice instead of Jesus today.
Also, Zappa was a musical genius. “We’re Only In It For the Money” is probably the most critical indictment and defense of hippie culture than anything that has ever been written or spoken about that point in time.
It’s undeniably genius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoVpJDZPvms
Reading through his entry on wikipedia, I came across this gem:
Fuckin’ a, Frank.
It would be better if it truly were random.
Go over their heads. Appeal to the mob.
In short, Ford can use the hearing to put the senators, who have behaved shabbily, on defense.
Ford has another option: Hold a news conference with her own experts and make the case directly to the American people. She can sit down for an interview with a respected TV journalist. She can say whatever she wants, make certain that experts are heard and even recount the much more extensive investigative efforts undertaken when Hill stepped forward. To make her case to the American people and convince them that she is sincere, honest and credible, Ford doesn’t need the Senate.
What the fuck is that even supposed to mean? Supreme Court justices are not (yet) selected by phone vote.
You can be charged with perjury if you lie in front of the Senate. I mean, it’s not very likely, because look what happened to Mr. “We’re not spying on Americans!”, but you can be charged with perjury.
You’ll get rewarded for it if you lie before the people on television (provided you say what they want to hear).
The reason I believe Bill Clinton and Trump’s accusers but don’t believe Ms. Ford is contemporaneous evidence. Plenty of it in those cases, none of it here.
It means we are a nation of effeminate soy boy men and not laws
Is Rubin advocating for this? That may be a step too far for even her neocon allies.
I keep hearing about this idea of an “investigation”. What exactly will be investigated when the accusation is 36 years old, there’s no time or place, no corroborating evidence of any kind other than a mention to a marriage counselor (that didn’t name Kavanaugh) in 2012, and two other named individuals who have both strongly denied it? Is the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate going to drag Kavanaugh into a back room and beat him with a rubber hose to see if he cracks?
Ford doesn’t need the Senate.
So the Senate should proceed with the vote and let the harping harpy harp.
You need to catch up to American politics. “America’s got Supreme Court Justices” will be the next hot show on TV, where the next Justice will be chosen by viewer tabulation.
“This “Sexy” Handmaid’s Tale Costume Has Been Removed After Backlash
Thankfully, it’s been taken down.
Halloween is still a month and a half away, and already the first problematic costume of the season has reared its head online. This time by way of Yandy’s “Sexy Handmaid’s Tale” character. Thankfully, after some swift backlash online, it was removed from the company’s website within a few hours.
The costume is inspired by the Brave Red Maiden look worn on Handmaiden’s Tale, but instead of the full head-to-toe coverage that’s required in the show’s dystopian universe, designers made a few significant (and problematic) changes. The costume features a short red dress with fishnet stockings, a floor-length cape and the white bonnet worn by the women on the show. Clearly, it doesn’t evoke quite the same sentiments as the outfit in its original form”
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/sexy-handmaids-tale-costume-removed
“Website removes sexy ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ costume after Twitter uproar
Retail site Yandy.com on Thursday removed a sexy handmaid costume, inspired by The Handmaid’s Tale, following outcry on social media.
The Halloween costume, which referred to both the dystopian Margaret Atwood novel and Hulu series, was depicted as a bright red mini dress and cape with high heels. BuzzFeed News reported on the costume earlier Thursday, chronicling the Twitter responses that ranged from confusion to disgust.”
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/sexy-handmaids-tale-costume-removed/
“Yandy always has stood, and will continue to stand, at the forefront of encouraging our customers to “Own Your Sexy”. We support our customers being comfortable in their skin, regardless of who they are or what they choose to wear. Our corporate ideology is rooted in female empowerment, and gender empowerment overall.
Over the last few hours, it has become obvious that our “Yandy Brave Red Maiden Costume” is being seen as a symbol of women’s oppression, rather than an expression of women’s empowerment. This is unfortunate, as it was not our intention on any level. Our initial inspiration to create the piece was through witnessing its use in recent months as a powerful protest image.
Given the sincere, heartfelt response, supported by numerous personal stories we’ve received, we are removing the costume from our site.”
https://www.yandy.com/Yandy-Brave-Red-Maiden-Costume.php
Oppression/empowerment. I’m reminded of these tandem scenes from Spinal Tap…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrMWRKSNLcs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEXn7KB8TQs
Margaret Atwood actually had a good response when someone asked her to “have it taken down”
Who exactly would wear it, and on what occasions?
Sexy women who don’t walk around with broom handles shoved up their asses? On Halloween?
Kinksters. There are fairly large number of submissive women who are feminists that would look like HMs picture from the other day if forced to wear that outfit to a party. It’d make for a great costume in a variety of bondage scenes / performances.
“submissive women who are feminists”
*confused dog stare*
(unless you mean lesbians)
My impression is that there are quite a lot of fetishes that said kinksters really wouldn’t want in real life. Racial abuse fetish, for example.
The Venn diagram of feminists who are also sexually submissive is, in my experience, very nearly a single circle (I exaggerate but there’s a really large number). There are lots of women in the kink scene who are different varieties of feminist in their politics, that when it comes to sex are seriously turned on by consensual humiliation, bimbo-ification, “misogyny play”, consensual non-consent (AKA rape play), objectification, etc. etc. etc.
I know a dozen women who are pussy-hat wearing intersectional feminists that if I told them I wanted to dress them in that outfit, tie them up and suspend them, then do other things to them would fight over the opportunity. Esp. if it were on stage. Some of them because they’d find it hot. Some because they’d find it subversive and fitting with their politics. And some because of both.
It is enough of a stereotype, that one of the women I play with goes by the nickname Stereo for that reason.
I found it to be so unslutty that it was an insult to even call it a Halloween costume. Whoever designed it had a bizarre leg fetish.
Because no one designs for leggy flat-chested models?
Greg Hodnett died last night in a crash during a race.
Shit. That sucks.
Twilight Zone reboot- David Hogg as the kid who disappears everybody to the corn field.
Or Children of the Corn.
Malaki!
Well done!
Geez, that would be terrifying.
Happen to catch any other sports scores?
Shh! Watching it now – just before the first siren.
*quietly walks away*
I just assumed Twilight Zone reboot would have every episode be about rapey men and the brave women who accuse them.
There was an episode where everyone had to be careful around a kid lest they be silenced or worse because all the kid had to do was think about how to hurt someone and it happened.
Anyway, I know that sounds jumbled but I’m sure fans of TZ know which one I’m talking about.
Sounds like Hogg too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Good_Life_(The_Twilight_Zone)
It does sound like him.
I don’t know. Unless they redo them, mine was from the 80s. The one linked by JB is from 1961.
You’re probably thinking of the movie in the 80’s. That story was rebooted in the movie.
https://youtu.be/S5A85NDveGs
Isn’t that the same one Brooks was talking about? The kid who could read minds?
With his latest tweets It’s really getting hard to know if Trump is just is a once in a generation idiot/savant type troll or the just greatest Andy Kaufman esq troll to ever live. In either case not knowing which has to lend credibility to the latter.
My guess is the former. Dude’s an idiot, but somehow some of the idiotic things he does end up working.
It’s just so mister magoo level it’s amazing.
I’m always reminded of Zaphod Beeblebrox.
Which tweets are you talking about? Anything especially outrageous?
He asked for the accuser to produce the police report. Seems like a reasonable request that everyone involved should be asking.
“Political scientists today assume that the Nazis mainly added the word to gain the support of working class voters who had previously supported left-wing parties.”
And I assume the DSA has incorporated the term “Democratic” in order to dupe a bunch of ahistorical morons into believing their prime goal is not the establishment of a single party stranglehold on the government in order to control not just the levers of government power, but the entire economy. After all democracy means everybody gets exactly what they want, right?
Why assume? This was a hundred years ago and less. You can just read what actual Nazis wrote. It’s socialism, plain and simple.
It’s just what the name on the box says – it’s National Socialism. They had a family fight against the International Socialists.
Argh! That’s what makes me angry about the pathetic denials modern socialists offer. The current brand of socialism is one of several that were competing with each other through the 19th and 20th centuries. If the National Socialists tacked “socialist” on to attract socialists, it’s because they were competing with other brands of socialism. Why would actual socialists join the Nazi party if it were just capitalism that was calling itself socialism?! That doesn’t even make sense!
You’re harshing our narrative! /the left
“gain the support of working class voters who had previously supported left-wing parties.”
Effectively tricking them into supporting yet another left wing party, who, you know, gave themselves a left wing party name?
There is some truth in the argument that Hitler pulled the Nazis away from their socialist roots a little bit in the early part of his rule. He recognized that he needed the industrialists on his side to build his military machine. That was opposed by Rohm and was one reason for getting rid of Rohm. I agree that the Nazis were essentially socialist, but there was some variance there.
Well, yeah, the Strasser brothers were purged because they REALLY took the socialism seriously and were scaring the money men the Party needed to take power. There was still plenty of Nazism that remained socialist afterwards.
Well that was the flavor the Nazis offered; it squares the circle of state control and private ownership. Sure, private individuals can own companies, so long as they apply for the right to do so through the proper channels, pay the appropriate fees, sell goods to authorized buyers at authorized prices, and buy inputs from authorized sellers at authorized prices. But sure, the profits, less taxes and fees, belong to private owners.
Is the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate going to drag Kavanaugh into a back room and beat him with a rubber hose to see if he cracks?
Never underestimate the persuasive power of a few judiciously applied bamboo slivers.
“Kirsten Gillibrand: “Who is not asking the FBI to investigate these claims? The White House. Judge Kavanaugh has not asked to have the FBI to review these claims. Is that the reaction of an innocent person? It is not.” (via CBS)”
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1042835866924863490
Christ, what an asshole.
As a New York voter, I have repeatedly demanded her retirement.
For some reason, it has never been acted upon. I blame downstate.
Just send a letter to the NYT accusing her of raping you years ago. That should get the ball rolling.
Ed Whelan’s much-hyped proof of Kavanaugh’s innocence: we’re steamrolling the wrong guy. It’s this other guy we shouldn’t steamroll.
He took down the original thread, probably wisely.
It was a baseless accusation against some unsuspecting man. If it meant it as a meta parody of what the news media has done than it would be genius, but instead it was just a piss poor attempt to push back against smears with another smear. Absolutely stupid.
Saw that last night what he did is fucking despicable and should follow him around the rest of his career.
And, as Ford’s lawyer ably demonstrated, it was entirely frivolous and only served to bolster Ford’s claim: all she had to do was insist that, no, it was Kavanaugh.
I mean, if the goal had ever been justice (something already spoiled, having waited nearly four decades to crack that egg), then there might be value in suggesting she has the wrong man. But she has the right man: it’s the man whose nomination she and her Dem handlers are attempting to derail.
And finally, why are supposed victims given a pass for letting someone they characterize as a violent predator continue violently predating for years if not decades? Either you didn’t believe then that it was anything more than a drunken fumble, or you didn’t care whether other women would be assaulted.
I know, I know: it’s about politics, not justice. Ignoring or abetting men like Weinstein for decades is fine because that’s just the politics of Hollywood, and you have your own career to worry about. And when the politics shift and it becomes fashionable to play the victim, well, that’s as good a way as any to bolster your moribund career, right?
Yeah, I couldn’t believe that bullshit. “Hey, I can prove this spurious accusation is wrong by making a different spurious accusation!” Whelan had been described as a top legal mind within Beltway Republicanism and a cautious sober guy, and this is what he decided is a good idea? As if anyone needed more evidence that pretty much anyone embedded in DC isn’t worth a pot of piss in the first place….
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1042965270917210113
Nate Silver is here to remind everyone that wild accusations should only work in one direction. He wants to include his own smear.
Prediction: He won’t apologize for this and “reporters” won’t call him out on a spurious accusation
He wasn’t making an accusation. Merely JAQing off. There’s a subtle difference, though it’s just as idiotic.
My view: He botched the presentation by actually naming names.
He could have done much of the same work by leaving out the freaking guy’s name and other names that could lead to a doxxing. It would have been, basically, an account that both (a) was consistent with Ford’s story but (b) showed her identification of Kavanaugh to be highly questionable. His identification of a house and party that was consistent with her story was quite good work, IMO. His explanation of why it was highly unlikely that Kavanaugh would have gone to a party there, but students from another school might have, was pretty decent.
It was the last step of showing pictures and names that wrecked it. He could have said “I’m not going to descend to her level and smear somebody based on a 35 year old incident that can’t be validated or refuted at this point, so I’m not going to name names. I don’t like anonymous sourcing, but in this instance I ask you to accept it, and my sources tell me there was a student that people at the time remarked was practically Kavanaugh’s twin, and he is more likely to have gone to this party than Kavanaugh.” Something like that.
“That’s Not How Evidence Works”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/brett-kavanaugh-allegations-jennifer-rubin-analysis-backwards/
Remind me again how Jennifer Rubin is a conservative.
She self identifies as one, despite not holding any of the principles or positions typically found among the population set.
In the true sense of the word, Rubin is far more conservative than anyone at National Review. In Hayek’s definition of conservative (and what that word has traditionally meant before Buckley co-opted the term) as an entrenched set of ideas that is heavily reliant on defending institutions and clinging to the status quo. Rubin may be the most conservative writer today, outside of Reason
She works for the Washington Post. Rubin is a conservative the same way Dave Weigel was a libertarian.
https://www.bustle.com/p/sexy-handmaids-tale-costumes-just-hit-the-internet-this-is-your-reminder-to-please-dont-11975813
Would.
Cleveland Browns fans unite!
I was expecting the Browns to lose. Once again, they let me down. So sad.
I felt pretty good about it. I had them and the points, plus Jets under 17.5.
Is that the reaction of an innocent person? It is not.
“Why is he on trail, if he isn’t guilty?”
In other news, China is in Europe
“Racist and white supremacist ideas have become more visible among the Chinese Canadian right.”
https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/gyngex/how-anti-immigrant-rhetoric-crept-into-chinese-canadian-politics
What, did they have the gall to apply to Harvard?
This is a dilemma that open border activists don’t like to acknowledge: the fiercest opponents to illegal immigration are….legal immigrants. It makes complete sense to anyone who ever grew-up in a largely immigrant community or has ever had an in-depth conversation with an immigrant.
The short version is “I went through the proper channels, why should that be devauled and given away to line-jumping criminals?”
My two British ex-pat friends feel very much this way.
That is the same argument that taxi medallion owners make about uber.
The big difference being that the legal immigrants aren’t (necessarily) rent seeking.
Not necessarily. A legal immigrant from a shithole country might actually want to stay away from the people he intentionally emigrated from.
There’s actually a far better argument to be made that illegal immigrants rent-seek. I’m not sure what level of 32 dimensional chess one is playing to conclude that legal immigrants are rent-seeking. That’s a new one
Well, it’s partly that, and partly the Harvard-admissions type stuff. For some strange reason they’re indignant at being discriminated against for being successful.
Very true. Some of the most outspoken I’ve known growing up who were against illegal immigration where, ZING, my parents and grandparents who were legal immigrants.
Gee imagine that. A population that fled from commies isn’t on board with maple commies either.
Anyone surprised by this isn’t paying attention.
https://twitter.com/mnrothbard/status/1042848836706885632
At least there is no pineapple.
Peeps?
I hope that’s not tomato sauce.
My comment is awaiting moderation? Is this pizza/pineapple censorship?
That’s it. Let the day drinking commence. I’m aiming a gin and tonic straight at the brain cells storing that image.
I once again ask, will someone please take Trump’s twitter away from him? Pretty please?
Dude’s his own worst enemy.
The guy likes to step on his own dick.
That might be difficult, given Stormy’s description of it.
I’m going to go throw up now.
As much as I find his tweeting utterly stupid, I see it as the stupid simple green laser light that draws the cat “MSM” every fuggin time. I’m okay with everyone being absolutely stupid and childish.
I asked up-thread. Are there any specific tweets you’re referring to?
Trump asked for the accuser to produce the police report she must have made decades ago. Seems like a reasonable request that every person involved should be making. Especially since it appears the GOPe may be preparing to grab their ankles.
I very much enjoyed that tweet. You can’t ask for politicians to call out bullshit from one side of your mouth and chastise them for doing it out the other side of your mouth.
That’s what I suspected. Say what you want about Trump but he understands American people better than the ruling class does.
And that right there is one of many reasons why I drink.
She didn’t go to the police nor did she go to the principal’s office.
“”With the ‘Top Gun’ slogan ringing in my head, I slowly reached for her breast,” Black Spartacus wrote of that night. “After having my hand pushed away once, I reached my ‘mark.'” The point of his column was how that moment, and his work on the issue after, had changed him — and his views on women, consent and assault — forever. “It was a wake-up call,” he wrote in his Stanford column. “I am Spartacus!”
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/21/politics/cory-booker-brett-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-allegations/index.html
Kenny Loggins’ Danger Zone? he was listening to Danger Zone?? oh that is some classic shit right there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyAn3fSs8_A
I wasn’t around for Anita Hill but this kavanaugh borking has to be the lowest thing I’ve ever seen in politics in my lifetime. It’s a total unfalsifiable claim. Say everything Ford says is true, what kind of person would willingly come forward with this type of allegation knowing it can neither be proved or disproved and will hang above this guy (and his accuser) who has an impeccable record of character otherwise for ever going forward. I could maybe see it if it was rape or murder or something like that, but it was a drunken make out that one party wasn’t into and didn’t go further than groping. I just can’t get past it. You aren’t going to drag your family through hell just because. There has to be other motivations at work here. I don’t have daughters and am not a women so maybe I just am incapable of steel manning this.
From the people I’ve heard quarterbacking on how to get rid of Kavanaugh and all this otehr shiz, I’m just getting to a point where I don’t care and I feel shitty for feeling that way.
I care, and I hate that I grow more despondent with the precedents that are evolving.
I am hoping and praying I’m living in a tiny bubble of people who care.
I still care deep down inside, but to be quite honest I think you expressed how I feel a lot more eloquently and correctly. I’m a bit if not very inebriated at the moment so please forgive my uber glibness.
I understand. It’s fatiguing.
Mom asked my sister how she’d been holding up with the new baby. “It’s fatiguing,” she responded, pronouncing it like you would if you’d never realized fatigue–>fatiguing. “Fatty-goo-ing.”
I don’t believe that, even if it actually happen (which I don’t think it did anyway), this incident was the source of some kind of devasting lifelong trauma. Sorry, I simply don’t. It’s bullshit. I said this in another thread the other day – back in the day I got my ass kicked a few times by older and or bigger boys. Like, really beaten to a pulp. Serious physical pain, and humiliating since there’s no hiding black eyes and busted lips, yet I don’t cry and wail about it all these years later. I don’t tote it around like my own personal cross to bear.
This is far dumber than Anita Hill.
Hard to say. The fact that both accusers essentially did nothing while their target held OTHER public offices means they’re both just willing (and probably paid) dupes of the DNC.
“what kind of person would willingly come forward with this type of allegation knowing it can neither be proved or disproved and will hang above this guy ”
A proggie socialist. It’s the only tool in their toolbox.
Yeah, she’s just one of those people who actually thinks wrecking a man’s reputation and career because of political differences is a good thing, a virtuous thing to do.
“HuffPo Survey Finds Smaller Percentage Of Women Than Men Find Accusations Against Kavanaugh ‘Credible’
Using the interactive features to filter results by gender, one finds the startling statistic. When asked: “Do you think that the allegation of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh generally is or is not credible?” 28% of men said it was credible, while 25% of women said the same.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/36107/huffpo-survey-finds-smaller-percentage-women-men-ashe-schow
I love Ashe Schow, but putting stock in a HuffPo survey is just silly. Or at least it is according to these goat entrails.
This survey has not looked into my circles cause damn, it would be about 100% of women and maybe 50-60% of men.
You run in some sad circles.
One of many reasons why I’ve been breaking from them the last couple of months, good sir.
swap out credible for significant and i would not be surprised in the least.
My wife to me, last night (she doesn’t follow national news much): So what’s this thing about Kavanaugh? He raped a woman?
Me: No, he’s accused of aggresively groping a girl when he was in high school, trying to pull her clothes off.
Wife: What girl hasn’t that happened to at least once, at least back when we were kids? The fuck is this bitch crying about? You slap them and get the fuck away from them and tell them that your brother is going to beat the shit out of them. Not hard.
I knew I married her for a reason.
I guess if she were to be questioned about why she didn’t, that would make her cry and the mean old GOP men would be accused of blaming the victim. I wonder how many men could remain employed today if “he touched a girl’s boobs back in high school” was a criteria for employment?
re: Socialism and National Socialism
Here’s a very long Jonah Goldberg piece on the provenance of corporatism, socialism, and “social-ism,” the more generic anti-capitalist search for social solidarity. (He adapted it from pages of Suicide of the West, hence the length.)
Say what you want about the tenants of National Socialism, but at least hey had an ethos.
Even the ones behind on the rent?
Especially the ones behind on the rent.
They had a solution for that…
The biggest difference between them and our socialists today – the Nazis, SA, and Italian Fascists had brass balls. They weren’t soy-boys and fought for keeps in the streets. Antifa is a very half-assed pale copy of the originals.
Just a bunch of disappointing Weimar Republic LARP sessions. SMDH
The SA was largely comprised of Great War veterans. Yeah, I’d say they were probably pretty tough characters.
So were the Communists they fought in the streets, hence the vicious nature of the era.
Mussolini and most of his Fascist Blackshirts were also WWI Vets.
IIRC, anarcho-syndicalists occupied the Berlin Police headquarters for several weeks before being expelled by flame-thrower wielding Freikorps. The US isn’t there yet.
Try to imagine actual private armies, with uniforms and everything, engaging in firefights in the street. Not a bunch of trustafarians shitheels in black hoodies swinging bike locks and baseball bats, but actual combat veterans with rifles. It’s so surreal.
Scribbles in his notepad:
See about selling naming rights.
“DQ Flameburger Flamethrower”
“DeWalt Squad Automatic Weapon”
Replace CBRN with the old ABC acronym, see about getting Sesame Workshop on board.
The hilarious thing is that Antifa seem to want to pretend that Nazism was successful because people didn’t confront it physically. In fact they drew plenty of middle class support because they themselves seemed to be confronting socialist violence.
Right. Seeing postwar interviews of the “How did such a civilized country support these monsters?” variety, you hear from normal folk about how they were shocked by communist violence.
It’s a pretty important point. The fascists and the Nazis had their roots in socialist thought. The claim that it was somehow all just window dressing ignores the fact that the early proponents of these ideologies regularly cited non-Marxian socialist thinkers. Moreover, it wasn’t really until the Cold War that anyone claimed for a moment otherwise. Pushing the claim that these ideologies were “late stage capitalism” was an active project of the Soviet Union, one that proved remarkably successful.
Even Orwell isn’t above this – in the Lion and the Unicorn he asserts that Nazism represents capitalism’s nemesis, but also is capitalism as geared for war. A better example of capitalism as geared for war would be Britain in WW1, but Orwell doesn’t seem to get that.
“The Guardian Hit Piece on Political YouTubers (Alternative Influence Network)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTltHrjWL1E
okay, that was really funny to have “Some Black Guy” in the middle of the influence chart.
From the right-to-repair desk:
The fight for our right to repair the stuff we own has suffered a huge setback.
As anyone who repairs electronics knows, keeping a device in working order often means fixing both its hardware and software. But a big California farmers’ lobbying group just blithely signed away farmers’ right to access or modify the source code of any farm equipment software. As an organization representing 2.5 million California agriculture jobs, the California Farm Bureau gave up the right to purchase repair parts without going through a dealer. Farmers can’t change engine settings, can’t retrofit old equipment with new features, and can’t modify their tractors to meet new environmental standards on their own. Worse, the lobbyists are calling it a victory.
Why wouldn’t you want to be an indentured servant to John Deere?
Anybody with more electrical knowledge than I have? (which is probably everyone) :
So this morning while making breakfast, some appliances (the microwave, oven, refrigerator, and even the toaster oven) all went out as if we’d had a power failure. But the lights stayed on. These are all against one wall. I flipped all the breakers, in case one popped – nope. Flipped the main off for 30 seconds and then back on, still the same. THe A/C still works, the lights everyhere else, only those appliances turned off and won’t come back on.
What do I do? Get an electrician, is the house’s wiring just screwed?
I assume the kitchen lighting and appliances are on different circuits?
I’d guess GFI outlet tripped, but the oven has to be on its own circuit… wait, maybe – gas or electric?
It also can’t all be the same outlet so… I dunno. If it’s multiple GFI outlets that tripped at the same time, something is quite wrong and you should call a pro.
Sounds like something that sound be investigated. I couldn’t figure out what went wrong with my microwave because it cut out. Turned out there was a different outlet with a GFI that tripped and shut down the entire loop.
As intended…
The oven is gas, but the clock and thermostat are electric.
Modern houses have 2 circuits per room, and no, Fridges don’t get their own circuit, it sounds like a breaker has had too much load for too many years, they will overheat and fail. you will need to move some appliances to different circuits to balance the load on the breakers,
It’s good you checked the thermostat.
It could be the Wicker bill……
I’d guess GFI outlet tripped, but the oven has to be on its own circuit
You’d think so. After moving in, I found the previous owner had piggy-backed a 15 amp wall outlet off the electric stove.
Lol, tell another one. My oven is plugged into an outlet on the same circuit as a GFI outlet next to the sink. I know this because I bumped the switch on that and killed the clock on the range.
What should be and what is are two very different things. Especially if your house is 104 years old and has been remodelled a few times.
That’s my house, 2 Refers Blown up in the last 5 years
I’ve got an electric stove, which ISTR has a 30 amp circuit to itself. If it’s gas the oven would just be plugged in for the light/clock/(ignition?), so sharing it with a wall outlet wouldn’t freak me out.
This place was built in 1893 (I think) and (badly) converted to a pair of condos a few decades ago. I’m all too familiar with the difference between “should” and “is”.
The 2-inches-over-12-foot drop in the floor is my favorite part. It’s stable, but jacking the floor back up would break every wall in both units, so we live with it.
Having a wheeled office chair is fun, as you’ll just spontaneously roll towards the center of the house, if you don’t have a good carpet under the wheels.
Sigh… our place was built in 2011 and we are the 1st tenants; we suffer many of the same issues. Our smoke/CO detector, despite clearly saying that it must not be installed within 36” of a kitchen door, is 19” away from the kitchen door so it alarms if we use the deep-fryer or the self-clean setting on the oven.
I broke down and got a Nest detector to deal with he one too close to the kitchen. It pre-alerts so you can silence it before it goes off and freaks the dog out.
It would be shitty work but there is a possibility of multiple GFIC outlets on one circuit.
Also at my house, some of my GFIC lead to an outlet in the garage that could trip.
the First GFCI in a circuit enables every plug downstream to work as a GFCI, adding them is redundant and worthless.
I agree yusef… just saying builders do weird shit
. . . adding them is redundant and worthless.
Nope.
The first GFCI outlet along a branch circuit provides protection to the rest of the circuit if that feature of the GFCI plug is taken advantage of. If not, none of the duplex plugs further along the branch are protected.
I found an excellent reason to install GFCI plugs all along a single branch circuit — the house we bought a few years ago, for reasons that mystify me, has a single branch circuit that snakes through the interior of the house and energizes duplex plugs in both bathrooms, and then travels outside and energizes three different exterior duplex plugs as well as a couple of exterior lights. And I’d have to demolish several walls and ceilings to try to make this less insane. The branch itself had a GFCI breaker protecting it.
Why does this matter? Well, GFCI breakers/plugs look for leakage currents in excess of (approx.) 6ma, and if they “see” such a leakage, they trip. Most modern appliances have very low but not zero leakage, and when several rechargeable toothbrushes and a rechargeable razor were plugged into the interior bathroom plugs, the leakage across the branch approached 5ma.
Then my wife plugged our electric lawnmower into one of the exterior plugs.
!!! }TRIP{ !!! The leakage went above 6ma. Same thing happened with the electric weedwhacker. Nothing we could do, short of unplugging every other thing plugged into the interior bathroom plugs, could stop this behaviour. Since we found this to be a Royal Pain In The Ass, I yanked the GFCI breaker and replaced it with a regular one, and then put GFCI plugs on each of the plug locations on the branch (not cheap, but I got a contractor pack of GFCI plugs, so not too bad). No single GFCI now sees a leakage more than about 2ma, and the annoying tripping behaviour has stopped.
One of those weird things you run into from time-to-time when dealing with electricity.
I don’t often wish people sequentially have a visit from STEVE SMITH immediately followed by an all expenses paid trip to Warty’s dungeon, but this is one of those rare times. Whoever wired that up is pure evil.
Sorry to tell you this, but you have a ghost.
And not the Patrick Swayze kind.
Hard to say. Better record yourself doing some pottery.
Failed breaker, call an Electrician, it’s time to put a meter on things
Seconded. The electrician will be able to pinpoint the issue in about 5 minutes. Either its the breaker or its a gfci that tripped. I’ve replaced a breaker before, but I wouldn’t recommend you do it based on your professed lack of experience.
In my 50y/o house, we have all sorts of electrical issues. Copper wires nutted to aluminum with no mitigation, circuits that are undervolting for no apparent reason, evidence of surges and shorts (a few fucked up outlets we had to replace).
When opening up the bathroom ceiling to install an exhaust fan, I found multiple wires had been spliced together with electrical tape hidden behind the drywall.
“Either its the breaker or its a gfci that tripped.”
Or a connection went bad.
“Copper wires nutted to aluminum”
If you have aluminum wiring, replace it ASAP.
Also besides being a fire hazard, it could also explain the voltage differences.
I’ve been replacing any bimetal junctions I find with the special purple connectors that are meant for Al/Cu junctions. That supposedly takes care of the worst of the danger (sparking due to expansion and contraction issues). Tearing all the aluminum out would require moving out of the house. It’s damn near 50/50 and I’ve found it in some of the least likely places.
Ok. THanks everybody. IT’s always weirdly reassuring to know it’s not something I’m just being dumb about. 😉
(hopefully. Until the dude comes and flips something I didn’t even know exists, and suddenly it’s all FINE.)
Do you have GFIs? Are any of them tripped?
If the Gliberati want to help pay for this place by selling stuff, I’ve got just the item. Tell me this thing wouldn’t be invaluable for most of the posters here.
What fool doesn’t have their machine set up to do an automatic purge?
Please. I have a thermite cartridge wired into my BIOS. If I don’t log on to my computer every 24 hours, it will burn a hole through my hard disk and take all my centaur porn with it.
Oh shit, you like centaurs too?
That’s my kink!
Also
*quickly hides his anime monster girl collection*
I see we are true comrades after all.
relevant
What if that only half destroys stuff and when they sift through the remains, they think you are into simple horse fucking?
What kind of person has to delete their browser history nowadays? That’s what incognito mode is for. Backwards savages.
*laughs, then looks over shoulder and nervously clicks the settings section*
Everyone slips up now and again. Just last night, my wife snidely mentioned “those bikini girls you like”. Fuckin’ Q and his titty links, man.
“They’re not girls, hon. They’re just objects.”
And chipwooder was never heard from again
“Its not like I want a relationship with a smoking hottie. I just want some sexy-time, you know? Some meaningless sex. Nothing for you to worry about.”
“I’ve had sexy before, honey, and I don’t want that. I want you!”
– almost verbatim what a guy said to my sister once
Disagree; make them suffer it like a fart in an elevator. Make them read out your top sites during the eulogy, publish your google searches in lieu of an obituary, preserve your browser intact as a memorial to your unsettling kinks and fixations.
This is the correct approach.
That’s what the Rest Assured Disposal Service is for.
Oh boy, booze kicking in extra strong right now, but all that aside, I just wanna say thank you all for being awesome and I’ve loved checking you all out since the site started. i’m working on articles and hope to comment on more articles once I stop being drunk/hungover. Have a nice Friday and TGIF to all of you.
Good grief. Twenty minutes later and still no “Shut up, Tulpa”. This place is getting soft.
Well, there is a new article up. But you mean eighty minutes.
Stupid other time zones…
I could maybe see it if it was rape or murder or something like that, but it was a drunken make out that one party wasn’t into and didn’t go further than groping. I just can’t get past it.
Seriously. It’s not like he bashed her brains in with a golf club, afterward.
Or drove her into the water and swam off and left her to die
Or gang-groped her in a restaurant with one of his buddies.
only those appliances turned off and won’t come back on.
As multiple people have already suggested, it sounds like a rogue GFI. A friend told me a similar story. They couldn’t find the culprit, until they pulled the refrigerator out and found it back there.
Button pushed. Problem solved.
Sorry, but this is just too precious not to share.
If Kavanaugh is confirmed, the first order of business for the new Democrat-majority Congress should be to impeach him.
To be sure, the impeachment of a Supreme Court justice is a rare thing in our democracy. The last member of the Supreme Court to face a credible threat of impeachment was Associate Justice Abe Fortas, whom President Lyndon Johnson had nominated to replace Earl Warren as chief justice. Credible allegations of financial misconduct involving a lifetime paid consultancy with the Wolfson Foundation were made against Justice Fortas — Wolfson was facing federal criminal charges that could easily have found their way to the Supreme Court.
Under withering bipartisan criticism, Justice Fortas withdrew his nomination, and ultimately resigned from the Supreme Court. Had he not resigned, however, there’s a good chance he would have been impeached. (strong>The only justice to be impeached was Samuel Chase, who was accused in 1804 of allowing his partisan views to affect his decisions, but the effort to oust him failed in the Senate.)
The idea of a Supreme Court justice who *doesn’t* allow his partisan views to affect his rulings is so quaint. That’s the absolute last thing anybody on either team wants.
So, perjury is a perfect reason to impeach a judge…but not a president.
I was going to OT the new post, but whatever. I should be doing something productive, anyway.