I need to pay closer attention to my boss’s flight times. Everyone else’s flight was gone by 3:00. Me, I have an 8:00 exit. Time to get airport drunk. Woohoo! Home at midnight. Its a glamorous life. As usual during travel, I have been in meetings all damn day so please excuse any repeats.
I have this 4 Billion year old fossil rock. I feel like there’s a paleontologist’s divorce behind all this. “Oh, yeah! That rock is worth more than everything else I have, and I sure don’t want to lose it to my ex.”
I see Florida Man’s cousin Tennessee Man now has gators to wrassle with along with meth, opioids, and alcohol.
I’m going with there are only assholes in this story.
Oh. And That was a home run. Clown call, bro.
No music today, sorry.
Comments
382 responses to “Thursday Afternoon Airport Links”
Wurst!
Well, you’re certainly a banger.
I bet he was a real brat as a kid.
Should this go any furter?
To be frank, no.
Don’t knack it until you’ve tried it.
I’m worried that if we do, there will be blood.
We have to keep going, this is the links!
Stop being such brats!
Thinking up new puns can be a real chorizo.
you know what? I freely use those expectant mother/moms with kids/EV charging parking spots at the grocery store without a single qualm. Fuck ’em. I side with the cops on this one.
I like parking right next to the EV spot with my 96 Suburban.
I miss my 92 F150 who’s motto was “you can require me to have a muffler, but you can’t make me not have rust holes up stream from it.
I still have my 1994. In about 90 miles, it will finally hit 69,000 miles. It’s pretty rusty, but it runs like new.
I park in them with my kids…..who are 8 and 10 and require no special effort to get into the store. Hey, I’m a “parent with children”!
My truck has a battery & an alternator. That counts as a EV, right?
My 4-door wrangler does too, and a big one! So sure!
And a starter motor too!
My diesel has two batteries! It’s twice as EV!
I know this blog-type thingy which might interest you.
‘glibertarians’ I don’t know if I trust that site. How do we know it’s not fake?
The cops were so butthurt they just had to turn that silliness into a story. Give me a break.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEzhxP-pdos
10 minutes in and only 4 comments. Is everyone working?
No, but I *am* in Barcelona with the spousal unit right now. Beats working, that’s for damn sure.
Fuck off, Tulpa.
I was buying groceries and fuel.
I made some pretzel rolls into sandwiches. 😀
Those pretzel rolls looked delicious in that pic you posted.
Thank you.
They are delicious.
I was in a meeting. Pretty sure that doesn’t count as working.
I’m working. For reals.
No, we are off writing the great American/Canadian/Romanian novel after that last post inspired us to get off our duff.
Justin shakily clambered to his feet. He walked to the bathroom, stopping for a moment to reglue his eyebrow as he passed a mirror. As he washed the mingled seminal fluids from his slack body he heard Nicolas stir from his sated doze. “Love, don’t get up. I just need to pop out and give an interview about that awful orange wrecker down in Washington. I’ll be back for another go. Take your pill now so your ready for me”
The shadowy form looked up from Maduro’s neck at the call; then returned to it’s meal as it heard the shower start.
Take it from there
No music?
We’ll see about that
Rockin. Rockin and Rollin.
Asshole story – Every time a squad car flips on its lights to blast through an intersection, and every time a squad car blocks two other cars while the cop runs in to piss or grab a cup of coffee, the police as an institution lose out on the benefit of the doubt that they should be cultivating in case they do need to park like an ass because of some time-sensitive issue. And I know the police-as-insular-asshole thing is worse where I live than some other places, but I see too much of that bull shit to extend the benefit of the doubt any more.
Brett’s flight home tonight…
Or another one
Thot Thursday to the rescue!
http://archive.is/D1I4g
We’ll be going with 22 and 23 today. There is also something slightly provocative about the way 10 is posed.
Some good genes on 14
21 gets my vote
That ball was gone, no matter what.
What? No. I freely admit I’m biased, but watch the video – if his glove doesn’t get closed, the ball is landing right in it. Maybe he drops it, maybe it pops back out, but you can’t claim that it was gone “no matter what”.
I hate Joe West, but that was a good call.
Again, Sox fan, but I think so too – call the fan interference, go to the replay, can’t tell either way, so “stands”.
It’s an imperfect system.
Perhaps. but the rule says that once it’s over the wall, it can’t be interference.
Actually, there’s some ambiguity in the wording in 6.01(e) about where the playing field ends, when you’re talking about the zone between the outside and the inside of a fence — in which zone the interference appeared to happen.
I would say the umpire made a reasonable judgment call about the meaning of that wording — that is, he wasn’t clearly wrong about the wording. So the call should stand. Though MLB ought to clarify that wording so there’s no future ambiguity.
http://mlb.mlb.com/documents/0/8/0/268272080/2018_Official_Baseball_Rules.pdf
That sort of rules lawyering is against the spirit of the game.
Toss out the entire ‘spectator interference’ rule, and accept that it didn’t go in the glove.
Frickin playoff game. Can’t the home fans exercise enough restraint to not interfere? Another big no-no is leaning over and touching a fair ball headed for the corner; runner on first might score but will be kept at third if some yo-yo touches the ball.
Sadly, any more than one beer in an airport or on a plane, and I get a splitting headache. So, no airport-drunk for me.
I prefer to hydrate with champagne.
Look at Mr. Moneybags over here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYle0IgleoA
Witches plan to hex Brett Kavanaugh using effigies, coffin nails, graveyard dirt and more
A Brooklyn, New York bookstore is planning an event for people angered by the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court: A public hex…
The ritual has sold out of tickets and attracted the interest of thousands. It’s intended to “to make Kavanaugh suffer,” Bracciale told Newsweek.
After the hex, a second ritual will be held, according to the listing: “The Rites of the Scorned One.” It will “validate, affirm, uphold and support those of us who have been wronged and who refuse to be silent any longer.”…
Bracciale told Newsweek that those in attendance will be “basically Antifa witches … There are a lot of angry people who are righteously filled with rage that are going to take back our country.” …
Nice people.
Apparently they forgot the maxim that whatever you send out, it comes back three times to you.
That is just one of the many things Wiccans invented from whole cloth.
Oh, good.
*gets out voodoo doll*
Well, since they’re not actually sending out anything but stupidity, that seems about right.
Well then, that’s going to be a vicious feedback loop.
Maybe they’ll fuck up part of the incantation and turn themselves into newts.
Maybe it will work, and we’ll be burning witches next week.
They’ll just get better.
Newt Gingrich? That would be terrible.
Meh. It’s better than actually trying to hurt someone. It’s basically just a group therapy session with herbs and chanting.
^^ This right here. This sort of thing should be encouraged, along with plaintively wailing at the sky. No one gets hurt, utter silliness confirmed.
I don’t imagine they will look like this.
So question for discussion (since we decided we need more discussion). With the NAP, would these people be acting Amorally? In the sense that if you believe to be causing harm to someone (regardless if that person believes so, or if in reality you aren’t at all), are you acting amorally?
I think it’s obvious that if someone is casting Hexes on you and you don’t believe in such stuff, you don’t have any right to “Self Defense” sense you don’t believe there is any credible threat. But i do think that it is wrong to try to do harm against someone even if they don’t believe such a thing is harmful to them.
No, because beliefs aren’t actions.
You don’t think it’s a judge of character? If they truly believe that they’re doing harm to someone else, would you hand them an actual weapon and put them in the same room with that person?
I don’t think they believe their own bullshit, but still.
I’d think they are nuts, sure, but they haven’t performed any “action”.
Yes, calling this a violation of NAP is getting close to agreeing that “words are violence.”
Didn’t say it was a violation of the NAP. Just that if they believe it, it makes them immoral actors. The limits of the NAP do not define morality.
This is my point of contention. They may hold immoral beliefs, (avoiding for the moment the argument if we can call beliefs moral or immoral) but in what way have they “acted”?
They took actions to implement their beliefs with the intent of harming someone. Just because their actions are futile, doesn’t mean they aren’t actions.
Poor choice of words on my part.
I’m going to have to ponder it for a minute to see if I can come up with a better one.
From my perspective, they’re treading the line between action/inaction. They’re not causing harm, but they may believe they are doing so and doing so intentionally.
What actions have they taken other than mumbling some mumbo-jumbo? Even if we take speech act theory into account, there needs to be a “mode of achievement” for speech to be an illocutionary act. As SF rightly points out, this skirts too close to “words are violence” for my taste.
What actions have they taken other than mumbling some mumbo-jumbo?
Not arguing that this is close to “words are violence”, but I think its interesting to think about whether taking action/speaking words that you believe will harm someone, with the intent of harming them, is immoral. I think there is an element of intent to morality, after all, but I also think it can get complicated in a hurry.
To stick with words, is it immoral for me to attempt to commit fraud by telling lies, even if I ultimately fail?
Yes, but I don’t believe it is a violation of the NAP. It should be noted that I do not believe the NAP to be the end all and be all of morality either. It is a moral axiom, but not the only one.
I guess i should clarify. I don’t think this is a violation of the NAP because their target isn’t being agressed against. But i still find it amoral to be plotting something that you sincerely believe will harm someone else
An interesting question, getting at whether bad intent alone, or bad intent plus futile action, is enough to be immoral.
Come on, casting a spell is at least a minor action.
And it’s as much a NAP violation as shooting someone (at safe distance) with blanks when you think your firearm is loaded with live rounds, which is…I have no fucking idea, NAP discussion always starts simple and breaks down into masturbation over semantics of the term “aggression”.
(1) You shoot at someone and miss. Aggression? Immoral?
I would say yes to both.
(2) You shoot at someone with blanks that you knew were blanks, because you two have a running joke about it. Aggression? Immoral?
I would say no to both. Its the middle cases that are interesting and harder to answer.
(3) You shoot at someone with blanks, but you thought you had live ammo. Aggression? Immoral?
I think this is probably the analogue to our witches, assuming they believe what they say (and I think they do).
(4) You shoot at someone with blanks that you knew were blanks, intending to scare or intimidate them. Aggression? Immoral?
I’m not comfortable basing the NAP on intentions. The only way we can judge an action empirically is through its consequences.
What about shooting at someone and missing? The consequence is that nobody was hurt, so its not a violation of the NAP?
Some spells are bonus actions. But this seems more like a ritual. I think the reason why is because libertarians (myself included) don’t want to recognize that aggression (like all human interactions) is subjective. If you cast a spell on me (as several people have done to me in the past) IDGAF, because i don’t think it will do me any harm. But if you point a Gun at me, i feel threatened.
I’ll bite the bullet on that, but only half way through. Yes, shooting at someone and missing would be a violation of the NAP. However, the difference is that a gun has the potential to cause harm. A spell does not, because magic(k) isn’t real*. I argue that it would be an example of the existential fallacy to apply an axiom like the NAP for a magic spell when engaging in moral reasoning as the NAP is meaningless when discussing mythical actions and beings.
*Except for the Edit Fairy.
I think i agree with you HM. It’s not a violation of the NAP as the target doesn’t believe he is being aggressed against, nor can they show any harm. Also agree that the NAP is not the end all be all of morality. I do think that to some extent “Casting a Spell” on someone with the intent to harm them, no matter how useless it is, does trip some principle of morality since they believe they are harming someone.
But they are taking actions. Would your answer change if they were trying to shoot him with ammunition someone had deprimed?
Yes, they’re either consciously full of shit or immoral aggressors. Either way, nothing they’re doing is illegal.
Regardless of the actual effect, their intent, as stated, is to make Brett Kav suffer.
Oh i agree, I don’t think what they are doing is illegal, but that is only because society recognizes what they are doing as harmless. If someone were to point an (unknown to them) unloaded weapon at someone and pull the trigger, we are talking about attempted murder.
Only if you believe it to be loaded and admit as much.
Though merely pointing a weapon at someone counts as assault in New York.
But wha happens if in fact their hex works?
What if Kavanaugh ends up with a limp dick or his mouth sewn shut?
Yes, it would be immoral, if one believed in the efficacy of hexes, as it would be an attempt at aggressive harm. While it is proper for the law to consider the actual efficacy of the attempt (no harm possible, no foul possible), morality also considers intent. As for self-defense, I believe it is permissible to respond in kind: words for words, violence for violence, and in this case hex for hex.
They should really change their names to “News”weak and McPaper.
Look Who’s LARPing Now
A group of Catholics and exorcists has responded to the bookstore’s hex plans with plans of their own to “pray and fast, not just for the protection of Kavanaugh, but for those who wish him harm.”
According to the National Catholic Register, a manager at a Catholic apostolate was “inspired” to pray and fast the Rosary for three days straight to “grant spiritual protection” for Kavanaugh and that God have “mercy” on those involved in hexing him and others.
I like a little LARPing.
I was positive you were going to link elsewhere
Ha. I almost went there!
Are those the outtakes from Role Models?
The clip predates the movie by quite a bit – I strongly suspect the writers saw it.
It’ll be like going to ComiCon!
Except none of the Larpers will look like this
Why did my link not work?
Try again
Is it LARPing? I’m not a Schismatic, but I thought the spells, witches and demons are real things that exist in the world in Catholic theology.
Obviously these people are so incompetent they couldn’t sell their soul to Devil at his trashed-at-Georgia lowest, so prayer seems like bothering God for no good reason.
Yeah, Catholics may be more of a cosplay kinda thing?
The Rites of the Scorned One.” It will “validate, affirm, uphold and support those of us who have been wronged and who refuse to be silent any longer.”…
Why would they want to hex Kavanaugh and then bless him afterwards?
Don’t they realize they’re hexing one of their own? The Kavanaugh confirmation was a witch hunt.
Zing!
It’s better than rioting.
Aww. I wanted to go looting.
*puts down crowbar*
Boo ho! What was going to be a great catch ended up a great call. Please don’t tell me you would disagree with the call if the teams were reversed.
“I don’t want to hear Houston moan and groan! They’ve been outplayed!”
As a Boston fan, the Sox pitching is terrifying. I have no idea how they keep getting through games.
I _do_ sort of want a montage of fan reactions to Benintendi’s final catch.
(also, this is great – the Sox radio broadcaster fell out of his chair during that play).
Yes – they have me on a steady diet of Rolaids.
I’ve been going with vodka. Rolaids would probably be a better choice in the long run.
Man Bites Dog:
Former FBI agent sentenced to 4 years in jail for leaking to reporter
I want to believe…
Hillary Clinton was way more qualified for that term than him… Once again the sexisim in our society takes it away from a woman when it is her turn!
Witches v. Exorcists!! Dungeon and Dragons mission? New horror movie?
Of course not…
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/witches-hex-supreme-court-justice-brett-kavanaugh-exorcists/story?id=58585740
:Rubs eyes, Blinks:
While this is entertaining, I won’t be satisfied until we see a return of Elijah on Mount Carmel level theatrics.
There’s still time.
This guy gets it.
^^ so who’s gonna take one for the team?
That doesn’t explain the cities where the minorities control all aspects of the government, yet they still don’t trust cops. Baltimore is the prime example.
I’m not saying cops should be trusted, I’m just poking a hole in his logic.
I didn’t refresh but came away with the same thought.
No, I still think his point is still valid. Part of what he’s saying is that rural communities are small enough that you most likely know the person pulling you over, or if not, you know his dad, uncle, cousin, etc.. Sure, the Baltimore sheriff may be elected, but I doubt the majority of the communities in which cops run rampant have high voter turnout. Much less any candidate actually canvassing for votes among them.
Fair enough, but by the same token, anyone who’s ever dealt with a small town Florida sheriff knows that they are not to be trifled with, regardless of your color. They’re gods among mortals. Perhaps the commentator’s neighborhood is better.
Of course, corruption can happen anywhere. Rural does not equal poor, though. Like HM says below, it likely happens more in poorer areas.
Do most gods waddle out of their car hoping today isn’t the day they get a heart attack from carrying around the extra 100 pounds?
Look, the advantage of being polytheistic is that you can have some keel over and things just keep going as always.
My great aunt was married to the son of the sheriff of the county where the family lived. Pretty much the only law enforcement there at the time. Corn was the major crop on the farm at the time. This was during prohibition. You figure the rest of it out.
Really good bourbon, I’m guessing.
He is still fundamentally right in that the problem is unaccountable men/women/whatever with guns.
He is wrong that it is merely a problem of voting the wrong person out of office.
The unaccountable men-with-guns are enabled by corrupt local politics married with public unions.
Agreed. It’s an issue of accountability.
Sheriffs are certainly not exempt from that rule. I’ve known plenty that were untouchable.
That was fantastic.
Question. But what happens when the minorities DO achieve power and still do nothing for their constituents? I’m thinking, say, all these (D) run places with (sometimes) black Mayors like in Detroit or Balty-More or Chee-ca-go, or wherever. Isn’t that institutional power?
I’d say that its more about socioeconomic class than race anyway.
Again, the ATF and BLM aren’t poking their heads around Ted Turner’s ranch.
^^This to the This power.
I agree his overall point is valid. He conveyed it very well.
Of course they’re not. They’re bullies. Bullies prey on the weak and those who can’t hit back.
I’d like to add, in a similar vain, small business is not naturally aligned with corporations. In fact, they’re often at odds. Corporations often work in concern with the government (ie cronyism) to serve their interests. Small business has no such power and generally get squeezed out.
Add to that the government relations people that companies hire often don’t have that company’s best interests at the top of their list in practice. They bounce from government agency to trade group to legislative aide to corporate positions and back. They’re just as much interested in continuing the system that makes their job and next opportunity exist.
Yeah. I find that Socioeconomics explains way more than race. Unfortunately they do seem to be correlated in some areas, which is why the more obvious (race) get’s the brunt of the blame.
“I’d say that its more about socioeconomic class than race anyway.”
Yep.
@ Rufus
Just because they’re black doesn’t mean they’re of the same “people”. Mayor Pugh in Baltimore is a black woman, yes. But she is from Norristown PA. She went to the same high school Will Smith did. She’s a member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She owned a PR firm and a TV station.
She’s black, but she’s not up from the struggle. Just like Hillary might have called Arkansas home for years, but she was never really in touch with the actual people of Arkansas.
She defended that guy that was (inappropriately) touching the people of Arkansas, so close enough.
You had a real nice defense of individualism going there until you decided there are certain types who are actual Arkansans.
Good point.
Or Obama for that matter?
Yeah I’d say when we talk about black American culture, there’s a lot of facets to it. There’s different regions, different socioeconomic classes (the black middle class absolutely exists, they just haven’t put it on TV since the Cosby Show.) all kinds of different stuff.
I would argue that “raised overseas and attending elite private schools” doesn’t really count, but that’s a controversial opinion for some.
Thomas Sowell and Snoop Dogg are both black Americans. I submit that there is no such thing as black American culture
I can’t see how that was NOT a HR.
Bad call.
But the Red Sox are the better team. Man are they good. Better than that 2004 team I say.
Dodgers v Red Sox would be a cracker of a series.
Better than that 2004 team I say.
Offense, maybe. Pitching, not so much.
I’m fairly certain Craig Kimbrel’s arm fell off a few weeks ago and he’s been using a cadaver arm since then.
Kimbrel is shaky for real.
Add Price to the ‘shaky’ list – I’ve mentally chalked up tonight – Price vs. Verlander – as a L. I’d love Price to prove me wrong.
And we’re going to find out Sale needs a new kidney or something.
I think Cora is conceding tonight’s game unless the bats really get to Verlander. Then back to Boston and a fresh (hopefully) Sale.
He shouldn’t concede. Don’t ever give your opponent hope. Ever.
I’d be surprised he’d think that.
Houston is way too good to assume that and can make you pay.
I was really hoping he would bring in Price.
I’m a Red Sox guy – both these teams are really great. I think Mad Dog is right, both these teams are really great but the Astros underestimated Boston because they beat them last year.
Both teams just keep coming at you with tough at bats.
All these teams because they go deep in the count and work the pitchers constantly fouling off pitches make for loooong games. In addition to the pitching changes of course.
I think last night two hours in and they were still in the 3rd inning!
I went to bed at 1:15 am. Not my usual lifestyle.
The Astros went 0-4 after MLB prohibited them from letting their lackeys into the photog bays of the opposing teams’ dugouts.
Coincidence?
MLB needs a new rule: Anyone sitting in the front row of a game is required to keep their arms at their sides and allow a baseball traveling at 100 MPH to bounce off their bodies.
NO.
They need a new rule – Thunderdome style – player gets too close to the wall and the fans can fuck with you as well as the ball.
Before everyone became a moron and MLB changed the rules, that was part of the home field advantage. Pop-ups and fly-balls near the stands – fans would get out of the way for the home team and aggressively go for the ball when the opposition is trying to catch it.
I can’t see how that was NOT a HR.
Because the ball didn’t actually go over the wall?
It did go over the wall.
The question is was there interference and quite frankly it doesn’t look like there was.
Mookie is one helluva an outfielder gliding and galloping making great plays but he missed the ball if you look at it carefully.
Bah. Who cares?
It did go over the wall.
Fair enough. It didn’t land there, though.
If the outfielder had caught it when it was over the wall, it wouldn’t have been a home run, it would have been an out even though the ball was over the wall. And to my eye, it looked like it was going to land in his glove.
If there hadn’t been an outfielder there and the fans had botched the catch and the ball falls back on the field, what would the ruling be? I really don’t know.
Only Cowboy Joe West would know!
I can understand why Astros fans are annoyed by it because it was a 2 run blast….and they ended up losing by….2 runs.
It’s okay. They get Price to knock around tonight. Lol.
Look around second 25 – you can argue about interference or not, but the ball lands right in Betts’ glove if it’s not closed by the fan’s hand.
He didn’t miss the ball. The ball actually struck his glove, which was closed because of the fans’ hands that had hit it.
I could swear I saw that glove closing BEFORE it was touched by the hand.
I think ‘instinctually’ he thought he caught it before he did.
Just my perception.
Look at it from his perspective and let me know. Curious.
He runs with it closed and opened it as he was leaping.
If the fan touches his glove after it left the field of play and was pass the wall it’s not fan interference and is a home run.
According to MLB rules.
Gonna put it here, too, ‘cuz I’m pissed! The rules (ok, as quoted by Wikipedia, but I’ve seen it other places today too) say that once it’s over the wall, it’s fair game. Spectator interference is absolutely the wrong call.
Look at the picture I linked and tell me for sure.
From that angle, can’t tell. Tried to find better images, but couldn’t – at least nothing with an angle (at the right moment). Hence I’m going with it was over the wall! /Astros fan
Like I said – if it was the other way around I would have been pissed and you would swear it was the best call ever.
Bracciale told Newsweek that those in attendance will be “basically Antifa witches … There are a lot of angry people who are righteously filled with rage that are going to take back our country.” …
Just as long as they keep their clothes on.
Maybe Trump can get styxhexenhammer666 to cast a counterspell.
“take back out country”. I thought that phrase was problematic.
“take back our country” that is.
I want Kav to hire someone from a superhero movie, like one of the X-Men characters, to protect him from the witches’ spell. It would be hilarious to watch them scream that the X-Men aren’t real.
I picture a group orgy where everyone is buck naked, but still wearing their masks.
^^This, except they aren’t the kind of people you want to see naked.
Change we can believe in.
https://twitter.com/danieltosh/status/1050027615673675778
Tosh is the comedian we deserve.
Definitely not the comedian we want. That was funny though.
Finally, a voice of reason.
That’s going to get banned for voter suppression.
Pelosi Tells Parkland Kids Gun Control Will Be Top Dem Priority After Midterms
During a round table discussion moderated by Representative Ted Deutch (D., Fla.), Pelosi credited the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas students’ activism with ensuring that gun control legislation will emerge as the Democrats’ top priority if they overturn the Republican congressional majority in November.
“I admire you so much,” Pelosi said, according to the Miami Herald. “You have the purpose, the generosity of spirit. You have the marchers — you have people who will go out there to make a difference — and you just have a relentless, persistent, dissatisfied approach.”
Yes. Keep running on gun control and pandering to the little ‘tards from Parkland. I am sure that will work out for you.
15 minutes is up.
I love it.
“OK, we are seeing the polls moving against us, especially with Republican voters. How can we reverse this trend? What’s the one thing we can do that will make Republican voters stay home, and maybe bring some of them, and some undecideds, over to us?”
“I got it, boss! Gun control!”
The soap opera continues
President Trump intervened in a big federal building project to help protect business for his hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, a group of House Democrats alleged on Thursday.
Trump wants to demolish and rebuild the FBI’s headquarters, the Democrats say, to preserve the site’s government ownership and deny any potential competitors to the Trump International Hotel at the Old Post Office Pavilion up the street.
The Democrats called that an abuse of power and a violation of the regulations that are supposed to protect such arrangements from political influence.
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“As previously testified by GSA and the FBI, the leadership team at the FBI made the decision to keep its headquarters at the current Pennsylvania Avenue location,” Dixon said.
She continued: “A number of emails referenced in today’s congressional letter are taken out of context and refer to the project’s funding approach, not the location decision. Suggestions that those emails indicate presidential involvement in the location decision are inaccurate.”
Trump bad.
4d chess. He will get the demolition part done then stall out on the rebuild. FBI’s temporary HQ is in an abandoned minuteman silo outside Minot until they stop #resisting
Fuck it, I’m going OT right away because my meeting resumes in ten minutes, and you people need some Quality Canadian Content (paid for by Canadian taxpayer):
Why making the rich Canadians richer may not be the best business strategy
(yes, headline changed, it’s still the old one on the home page)
Not mentioned: Percentage of govt. spending covered by those three programs.
HENRY FORD PAID WORKERS SO THEY COULD BUY HIS CARS! REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
If you were to look at the primary historical records you would find he paid his workers more to lower turnover rates.
Also most people who bought Fords were not working for Ford. Henry Ford made the cars so cheap even people who didn’t work at Ford could buy them.
Critics argued the tax cuts were little more than a way of transferring money from government coffers to wealthy, stock-owning Americans.
Huh.
Not exactly news.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/10/the-democrats-leftward-march.php
Miami not playing that.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/10/18/dem-strategy-florida-embrace-fidel-castro-hugo-chavez/
I’m buying this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JFNK8B2/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1&customId=B0752XJZ61
NPC outrage.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/16/what-is-the-npc-meme-liberals-rage-at-cartoons-mocking-their-scripted-thoughts/
How the hell could you live in Miami for any length of time and still be tone-deaf enough to not realize that a Fidel admirer will be unhelpful at a campaign event???
OT Physics Question. I fucking love science so I read articles like this one.
https://dailygalaxy.com/2018/10/the-loophole-the-discovery-that-could-have-predicted-why-the-universe-exists/
INAP, but in reading about physics stuff, it seems there is a huge interest in finding a unified theory. There are several theories, like the Standard Model, String Theory, etc. Maybe someone here is able to answer my question… Is it possible that there are multiple theories that are simultaneously correct, that there are various sets of “laws” acting upon matter all at the same time? …and while the mathematics of each of the theories are mutually exclusive, their combined presence is not?
I don’t think the equations vary, but the universal “constants” do over space and time.
In other words, I’m willing to bet that the cosmological constant is not constant.
Yeah, I’ve wondered about that, too. Like right now in this tiny little moment of our existence, the constants are pretty constant, but over vast amounts of time…? I doubt it.
Well, that Depends……..
The Standard Model and General Relativity are basically what you’re talking about here. They both have validity through experimental testing, however they do appear to be mutually exclusive and each has its domain over particular physical forces. The incompatibilities between them are a question of scale; scale the Standard Model to macro-gravitational problems and it doesn’t work so well. Similarly, General Relativity can’t explain physics on tiny scales. Unifying these two is the primary problem in theoretical physics.
As to your question: anything’s possible. I happen to think that none of the current theories encapsulate the capital T Truth of reality; they are all Ptolemaic descriptions of the world. They are good at predicting events but are a lousy description of the underlying forces at work. I have nothing to back that up other than MUH FEELZ so YMMV. Physicists are also obsessed, to a somewhat unhealthy degree IMO, with elegance. One simple, unifying set of equations that perfectly describe the Universe is the only valid solution. Maybe that’s the way things really are. Maybe it’s far more complicated than anything the primate mind can conceive of at all. Who knows? I will say one thing: two coexisting, mutually exclusive mathematical theories seems unlikely, but like I said, anything’s possible.
*reads twice, goes back to tits*
So two mutually exclusive yet co-existing entities.
More two sets of incomplete attempts to explain the universe, which satisfactorily predict events in realms that are on vastly different scales. Physicists all want to be the final Newton, so they all hold tenaciously to the idea that we are close to understanding what is going on, but I suspect that we are still figuratively discussing the 4 elements. Truth exists. Humans may or may not be capable of learning it.
+1,000,000 strings and branes
“Ptolemaic descriptions of the world.”
That’s an interesting way to put it. I think we forget that when heliocentrisim was first being developed, it’s predictive capacity was worse (because Copernicus(?) assumed circular orbits) than the Ptolemaic models
Exactly. Even though it was built on faulty premises and bore no resemblance to the actual system, it was pretty damn good at predicting the motion of the planets. I believe (MUH FEELZ) that current physical theory (especially the Standard Model, which seems just as ludicrously overcomplicated as the Ptolemaic solar system) is in the same situation.
It’s interesting because you think “What if a better theory was out there, but didn’t get further research because it wasn’t immediately as predictive.” In AI this is an issue where different iterations of a non-deterministic algorithm may reach different local Maxima/Minima. If you only focused on one starting seed, you might get a less able prediction/AI, but from the point of view of the mathematics it’s optimized.
Thanks for the insight. I’m wondering why coexisting mutually exclusive theories seems unlikely. That’s the impression I get, but what is inelegant about that?
I think it’s a question of what domain said theory operates. If they’re mutually exclusive, they obviously can’t operate on the same system in the same way at the same time. So how do you determine which one to use in a given scenario? Are there grey areas? That’s kind of the problem right now with SM and GR; the point at which you have to abandon one and use the other is not strictly defined. There is weasely talk about “macro” and “micro” systems, but AFAIK there is no bright cutoff point. If there were, people might not be so driven to “unify” them since they’d already be unified by that one rule.
This gets me closer to what I’m trying to say. I’m suggesting that there is no cutoff, no “given scenario” in which one system acts alone, while the others don’t. I’m thinking that more than one set of “laws” is acting upon the universe at the same time. Maybe a reason one system breaks down in a given scenario is because we’re only applying one theory at a time. Maybe if the existing theories were tweaked to allow for this, they could work all the time…?
This isn’t my area, but a good model works all the time everywhere (although there’s a ton of Newtonian myopic baked into the very language I just used!). The expressions, especially the exponents, are in charge and just make it seem like some terms aren’t in play (as an engineer on Earth, I’m happy to announce that most of them are not in play most of the time, but you wouldn’t want me calibrating your GPS satellite grid). Jupiter is pulling on me right now…..massively, but that R^(-2) part of the calculation over 600M km pretty much makes it as negligible in anything I’ll ever calculate, but that doesn’t mean that I’m suggesting that you can around Callisto without plugging those details into the flight calculations of your Xwing fighter.
X-Wing? I was hoping for something with a little more prestige and cargo space. Perhaps with the firepower to enact exterminatus if I so chose to press the big red button.
@UCS
You caught me trying to fit in with the cool kids. I’m with Suthen: things fairly well peaked for me with the M14; since then, it seems, I get most things wrong.
Cool? Naw, I just prefer my starships to be spacebourne cathedral-cities that get to point B by literally flying through hell.
If there are competing theories, what determines which ones affect a given situation? I assume you mean that different theories would imply different results in a given experiment? I suppose that the theory which applies in a given situation could be “chosen” probabilistically (in a similar way that quantum mechanics determines what happens to a particle), but that would play hell with repeatability of results. And the Standard Model is definitely consistent (if not complete).
The article also says that no lab experiments have contradicted the Standard Model, but those that indicate neutrino mass surely do (although that might depend on your definition of what all the Standard Model entails).
That’s the thing, each theory would affect everything in every situation. Just like 2 forces can act on an object at the same time, 2 or more sets of laws would act on the universe at the same time.
What you are describing is just two forces acting on the same object, unless there is some chance that one acts in one case and another in a different case (as I see it).
Right, but with each force following a difference set of physical laws.
Furthermore, the article takes a pretty gutsy stance by saying a physical theory has to “predict *why* the universe exists” (emphasis mine). Why indicates a motive, which is, IMO, by nature an anthropomorphization. Physics can describe the “how”, but never the “why” IMO.
Agreed.
I caution against couching the question as “why?”
I much much prefer “how” because “why” sounds like you’re explaining the SkyDaddy’s motives, which ramps up the spiritual people and confuses children (or maybe I have that reversed). All science can do is test data against models and update the models so that they fit the data as well as possible; that doesn’t sound like what most people want by way of an answer when they ask “why?”
My high school chemistry teacher, a solid guy and serious Christian, had a similar reservation for truth: “The Truth is that Jesus died for your sins…etc. But we’re here today to talk about hypotheses, theories, and laws, so, turn in your textbook to……..”
– or what Q said –
I’ve got to cut down on my editing lag
I feel like I got very little done at work today. Though I did manage to run out and get my car washed and buy some lottery tickets.
Oh well, Almost time to start drinking.
I got nothing done at work today – I called in sick.
So when you win, all expense paid glib bash in Vegas?
With hookers & blow!
More Pelosi
“We have to have total clarity about what we do when it comes to everything — a woman’s right to choose, gay marriage…whether it’s about immigration, whether it’s about gun safety, whether it’s about climate…” Pelosi said. “I think that we owe the American people to be there for them, for their financial security, respecting the dignity and worth of every person in our country, and if there’s some collateral damage for some others who do not share our view, well, so be it, but it shouldn’t be our original purpose.”
Do you know who else?
Ya gotta break some eggs. Whadaya gonna do?
https://cdn.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Rotten.jpg
Lenin
I love the way she moves from respecting the dignity and worth of every person in our country to shrugging off the damage done to people who don’t share her views in the same sentence.
those deplorables who disagree don’t really count as persons, so it all works out.
Doesn’t that highlighted part directly contradict what she was saying earlier in the sentence?
Forget it, Stinky, it’s Pelosi-town.
1. “a woman’s right to choose” What she and others like her really mean is that they want other folks to pay for their abortions. I generally don’t care about folks getting abortions but do it on your own dime.
2. gay marriage – No one’s preventing anyone from getting married especially with the Supreme Court making it legal. Fighting the old but won battles of yesterday to rile up the supporters. Sad.
3. immigration- Folks don’t care about foreign folks coming into the country. What they do care about is when they break the law to do so. If you (Pelosi) don’t like the way our immigration system functions, then why in the fuck didn’t you do squat about when you were Majority Leader in the House? Fuck off, you don’t care a damn thing about immigrants. You just want the votes and the ability to create conflict.
4. if there’s some collateral damage for some others who do not share our view, well, so be it- Hahaha, telling those who don’t share your views to fuck off and take it in the ass is a great electoral strategy.
1. Don’t forget publically funded birth control and tampons!
2. She needs to get out in front of this and start advocating for government sanctioned polygamy.
3. Exactly. Want open borders? Convince enough people to vote for representatives running explicitly on that platform, then change the law. But you won’t because you know it’s a hugely unpopular position. Instead, you just keep the shitty current system in place that’s bad for natives and immigrants alike.
4. Unfortunately, as evidenced by most inner cities and the entire state of California, it does seem to be a pretty effective electoral strategy 🙁 .
It occurs to me that Planned Parenthood less about the right to “choose” and more about laundering tax dollars into campaign contributions for Democrats.
You forgot about buying Lambos for the board members.
Eh…I think you’re being overly charitable on this one.
Well, if they’re tourists spending tourist monies…
Yeah. Because if they didn’t care, why would they care about granting amnesty and opening the borders? both would fix the problem of “breaking the law to do so”
This country has gone several times through the cycles of high and low immigration. A relatively high share of immigrants prompts calls for reducing immigration. When immigration restrictions are implemented, the share of immigrants declines. A generation or two later the restrictions are lifted. We’re in the part of the cycle now when the number of foreigners in the country is perceived to be high. It’s not surprising that people talk about immigration restrictions.
Has Kyrsten Sinema ever given a public talk where she didn’t disparage either Arizona or the people who live there?
Even if I supported her policy positions, I think I’d be reluctant to vote for someone who so obviously disdains? detests? the people she is supposed to represent.
Isn’t the a big part of the Dems’ platform? Disdain for the deplorables?
How many people voted for Mr. I’mgonnafuckyoutodeath?
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kerry-picket/2008/11/02/obama-energy-prices-will-skyrocket-under-my-cap-and-trade-plan
I’m not sure why youtube put this in my recommended list, but here it is anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFBTdToRmw
I now have ear-cancer.
It’s because you touch yourself at night after clicking on HM links.
The Russians are trying to influence our elections again.
I need to figure out how to train my dog to dance like that.
That woman was a solid ‘wood’ from the front. Then I saw her ass was like a cookie-sheet.
Nyet!
That was tame by Little Big standards.
Also, I’m not too proud to say that the dwarf woman has a nice ass.
There is a fair amount of junk in that trunk.
HM sometimes you are my favorite glib because you challenge our knee jerk reactions to things with a rigorous academic discipline that hearkens back to a better time in intellectual pursuits; other times I really really hate you for the things that end up in my brain after clicking your links. This is the latter
Oh come on. There are a handful of simple survival rules. Don’t read SugarFree Posts, Don’t follow HM links and what ever you do, don’t-
…tug on Superman’s cape?
Spit into a fan?
Allow me to make it up to you.
Your just about to seal those boxes with poison capsules opened by radioactive decay inside aren’t you?
I maintain that this was your greatest link.
They used that song for a Samsung ad not long after you linked that video and the ad made me think of that video every time. This was not a bad thing.
I have not peaked yet.
Peak HM has not been reached, you’re saying?
Fine – ‘greatest link to date’.
I realized I linked to some rando’s copy – the real link has over 101 million hits. My faith in humanity is restored.
What’s with the cheap tile on the walls?
You’re saying low-rent LA dance studios cut corners?
HM may link, but only God could make that ass.
The music in that one wasn’t as bad as Scruffy’s link. And some cool imagery – I thought the bullets & grenades Madonna was kinda neat.
Well now I know how they ended up in my recommended list. I obviously click on too many of the links here.
Gee, I only get things like this.
Maybe it’s because I don’t follow links here.
I follow links here but I get things like this
Genetics are interesting. How does Eire produce both those women and those ‘men’?
Is this some sort of practical joke?
*sets ablaze the Nephilium, JB, Akira, and the general Ohio Signal *
(in case you didnt hear, and it may be of some benefit)
Hmm rare bourbon vs going to Columbus? I think I’ll buy rare whiskey across the river instead
Or just go to Whiskey River
Thanks for the heads up! That’s 20 minutes from my house. I don’t know how I hadn’t already heard of that.
I’ll head there Saturday.
Evan, you had a translation question in the morning links. I’m happy to help.
Selections from the last Glibertarians Google Hangout.
Hacking my web cam again huh? Perv.
I’m drinking Rhinegeist Cheetah Lager; what beverage inspired that?
Rhinegeist is decent beer. We have it everywhere in CBus.
As with most good things found in Franklin County, it comes from Cincinnati!
The Confederate flag makes the video.
I assume his handle is General Lee.
I….uh…I got nuthin.
President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court stop a novel and sweeping lawsuit pressed by children and teenagers seeking to force the federal government to take steps against climate change.
Thursday’s emergency filing aims to head off a trial that’s set to start Oct. 29 in federal court in Oregon. It’s the administration’s second attempt to have the nation’s highest court intervene in the case.
Although the Supreme Court rejected the first request in July as premature, the justices hinted at skepticism about the lawsuit, saying its breadth was “striking.” Since that order was issued, the Senate has confirmed Justice Brett Kavanaugh to succeed the retired Justice Anthony Kennedy.
The group of mostly teenagers says U.S. government policies have exacerbated global warming in violation of their constitutional rights and those of future generations. They want the government to put in place a plan to phase out carbon emissions and stabilize the Earth’s climate. A federal judge in Eugene, Oregon, on Monday said the case could proceed to trial, though she dismissed Trump as a defendant.
The Trump team inherited the case from the Obama administration, which had similarly tried to have it thrown out.
From Bloomberg; that’s the thing in its entirety.
“Mindbogglingly stupid” is a sufficiently good reason to dismiss, in my view.
Next up, a fraud lawsuit against Santa Claus.
Dismissed with prejudice, and a contempt order to the lawyers recomending they be disbarred for wasting the court’s time.
Curb stomp the parents using their kids as puppets and the “adults” participating in this farce. Especially the jackass purporting to represent future generations.
I’d like to join the lawsuit as representing all other Americans, then move to dismiss the lawsuit.
As someone else pointed out (not that it’s any surprise in Baja Washington), but the federal court judge is a connected Democrat. Can you say bullshit conflict of interest?
Next up, a fraud lawsuit against Santa Claus.
You are going to run into a problem discussed here
Every once in a while a government actor does something that gives you hope they are human.
How about one regarding deficit spending and looting the SS trust fund?
I HAVE A GOD DAMN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO HAVE THE ENTIRE WORLD MAINTAIN WHATEVER TEMPERATURE I WANT IT TO BE!!!!
Who’s ponying up my climate-change rebate if
ugh
Krakatoa goes off again ?Who’s ponying up my climate-change rebate if
ugh
* gives up *
This seems like a violation of the first amendment by demanding that the state establish warmism as the national faith.
* golf clap *
Whur muh em tags dun gonn?
Which em tags, friend-o?
Quick perusal of headlines at google news: ebay is suing Amazon for poaching merchants. That sounds about as likely to succeed as that climate suit.
“That other cab stole my fare!”
Are they suing in Cali? Cause Ebay’s in Cali and Amazon’s in WA, so they may get a sympathetic ear.
eBay hamstrung their merchants with severely restricting shipping/handling fees (as in, to the point of losing money) and feedback ratings (i.e., merchants not allowed to give negative feedback on a customer or expect eBay’s backup on customers’ bad feedback). I use eBay to declutter, but I am very careful about it.
Thanks for the heads up, i may start up a little shop soon,
I stopped using it when they only gave me my money via Paypal, which then took Another 10% and locked it for weeks.
I’ve been with both eBay and Paypal for 20 years. I have had very few problems with either, but my eBay use dropped off sharply when they restricted s/h fees a merchant could charge.
How does that differ – their policies you mention – with Amazon?
I don’t know. I’m not a merchant with Amazon.
WELL FIND OUT!
/takes another swig of JP Wiser’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuScm9FZPmQ
Enacting my labor, shitlord?
/raises glass. Slaps orphan.
You are going to run into a problem discussed here
Awesome.
Tull,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldXdnZtTWp8
Gordon liked this a minute ago; not perfectly fair, but pretty funny
How to Tell Nazis from AnitFa
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1052650459163439104
That is funny
My wife is watching Chicago PD.
Yeah-k.
As if.
What should the odds be in an MMA match between John Kelly and John Bolton?
I’ve got Kelly winning 2:1.
I have Kelly 50:1.
Depends. Which M stands for mustache?
Sad clowns.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/10/18/venezuelans-come-regret-socialist-revolution/
Another example of 反面教師. Bet we don’t learn.
On the other hand, a teacher?
Canada- most polite criminals ever .
“What a dump.”
“I kinda feel sorry for the slob”
BTW. Useful stuff in your writing article. Thx.
You’re welcome, and thank you.
I too enjoyed it. However, given my short attention span, I soon found myself captivated by the pretzel rolls.
Both nicely done.
And you people think we’re ‘boring’.
You don’t run a tunnel drilling company?
Who’s playing the part of Gilmore in tonight’s presentation?
you guys are great, but he brings something unique
Gilmore’s milkshake brings the boys to the yard.
I guess he’s been busy.
Special parking:
https://imgflip.com/i/2fhncm
A Webber grill modified into a baby buggy. Fun Halloween stunt.
I don’t use those spots… too embarassed.
<a href="http://
” title=”TW: animal husbandry” target=”_blank” >Tennessee Man, part deux
Wut?
Your guess is as good as mine.
Do like me, and just click the blue things.
HEY YUFUS!
Sup Tres!
Howdy UCS!
UCS, I bought a Warhammer Figure to paint, Dude looks cool!
Which one?
turns out: it doesn’t matter
who knew
This one, I’m going to branch out a bit, he looks cool for starters,
https://www.ebay.com/itm/163302858411
Ah, termies. Are you going with a canonical color schem, or one of your own?
My own on this one, i think, any ideas?
Do what makes you happy. I know some people love making sure the details are canon-perfect, while others want to come up with their own schema (which is fully in keeping with the canon too given the number of undescribed chapters)
He needs a better nickname than “Beto.”
It’s Beta, in more ways than one. He’s also going to come in second in the race, so we can forget about him later.
of course
I don’t do digital thangs for a living: I’m learning on your clock
homeboy’s zubaz ill af….I need me some of those
Cock fighting — you’re doing it wrong.
Liz Of The Fauxhicans
The response to the mockery is annoying. “You’re making fun of pants on fire and telephone poles! How dare you!”
The soundtrack of my life.
Awesome.
Mothers school French President Macron for suggesting no educated woman really wants seven kids
He said: “I always say: ‘Please present me the lady who decided, being perfectly educated, to have seven, eight, nine children’.”
“School” used like that in a headline from the AP.
Fuck. https://www.google.co.jp/amp/s/amp.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2169231/mothers-school-french-president-macron-suggesting-no-educated
My grandmother has seven kids, I could ask her. But knowing her, I’m pretty sure she was very happy with her family even before they all moved out.
I don’t know how much formal indoctrination she had. Must not have been much because a few years back we threw her and my grandfather a fiftieth anniversary party.
AP should interview her and tell her that some of her children shouldn’t exist.
Then she needs to tweet a photo with “Take THAT, Macron!”
I’m being a bit unfair to AP. They seem to be criticizing Macron for this.
I suppose so. I just marvel at folks who feel like they accomplished something monumental by tweeting a damning refutation to… anything.
@Rhywun
oh yea? fuck with me!
How’d they get a photo of me?!
I think the SSG (Slate Style Guide) indicates “own” is preferable.
Just the headline has got me laughing more than it should…
Fallout 76 Gets Criticized By SJWs For Allowing Gamers To Use Nukes
They ruined Battlefield now they’re going for Fallout.
The article ends with:
I just find it funny that someone would think complaining about nukes in Fallout would have any effect.
gotta say always online multiplayer fallout ruins itself
Yeah, that was strikes 1-4. ‘Local events’ was strike 5. ‘no mods at launch’ was 6. ‘no private servers at launch’ was 7. Bethesda launcher instead of steam was 8.
Oh, and “realtime vats/pipboy usage” was 9. They struck out the whole darn inning.
I heard there’s even a card game called “War”. So problematic.
“ICBMs are not fun”. (sic)
They were in Rise of Nations, fun times……
neither are arrows to the knee
Imminent Evening Theme Posting Horizon………..now
I got you covered……..
hey Yusef!
thanks, but we both know this thread will just die on the vine soon
contemplating one’s own mortality :/
Watch and wait…
dead dead 7…..see ya on the other side
a twitter I’m pretty sure HM follows