Howdy, y’all. Nothing has happened since the last time we checked in except that my eldest son has the diving part of soccer down pat. Also, he and the best athlete in his group (team?) had a decent shoulder-to-shoulder fair charge for a ball. The problem is, they were on the same team. Its still a work in progress, but he’s not coordinated enough to catch a baseball, so this is intro to team sports 101. The coaches out there are saints. Saints. Oh, but I picked up a sixer of Cigar City Oktoberfest. I’ll let y’all know in the comments if it is any good.
Links? I thought about running a couple of Sloopy’s since he’s been running my regularly the morning after. I assume if he’s awake he’s drunk after the way OSU quit when Purdue started running the ball in the 4th quarter, so I’m going to cut him some slack this week.
Trump gets another Supreme Court pi… what? She retired during W’s administration? Never mind. More seriously, I don’t wish that on anyone, even Supreme Court justices who completely bludgeoned the law of the land to keep educational affirmative action alive.
Most innumerate article ever? “We sold over 300M lottery tickets for this draw, there are 302M possible combinations. 75% of the possible combinations have been picked”. I’ll need A Leap at the Wheel’s help on this, but that sounds not fantastically out of statistical bounds.
OMG! Gorsuch is going let Trump count black bodies as 3/5 of a person in the next census! Just kidding. They blocked a deposition of a Federal official in a case about whether or not it is or should be legal to ask whether or not a respondant is a US citizen in the 2020 census. So they ask your age, ethnicity, race, and income, but they can’t ask citizenship status? T/W Slate. Holy cow, there are so many stolen bases it looks like a late-80s baseball game.
Also from the “That sonofabitch Trump” files: EPA cheers 2.7% decrease in US GHG emissions. Algore has a sad.
I always wanted a pair of glasses that would display the date as a HUD. SMDH. Maybe it can also display my heart rate and a bunch of other shit I don’t need for 99.9% of my day. Outside of professional use, smart glasses are a solution in search of a problem, and even inside professional settings, Its probably most useful for truck drivers.
I dunno, I’m going Motown today.
Lotto Madness!
Go ahead and just….HIT IT !
For some reason, I always think this is a Spoon song when it comes on the radio.
Nice slo-mo knockers tho
You convinced me to click.
“She left the court to care for her husband, John, after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.”
It’s contagious?
Actually, that is a possibility. The connection between various pathogens and conditions like Alzheimer’s , breast cancer, RA, etc is not 100% clear.
Not sure if it’s contagious. But, there is a somewhat interesting fact about Alzheimer’s – it’s one of the fastest growing diseases out there. That sounds like terrible news, until you figure out the reason. It’s because a lot more people are living to the age where Alzheimer’s shows up.
Id imagine that better diagnoses and screening techniques have a hand in that, too
Isn’t the same true for colon cancer? I thought I read once that if you live long enough, there’s a very good chance you’ll die from, or with, colon cancer.
I heard the same only about prostate cancer.
Guess its just cancer all the way down.
I probably mixed up the two.
It’s prostate cancer for men. I don’t recall the ages, but basically every elderly man has prostate cancer. For most, it is very slow so it’s not worth treating since other things will kill you long before it becomes problematic. But if you lived to be 140, it would kill you even if everything else was functioning.
Some type of cancer. You live long enough and you don’t die of injury, parasites, starvation or disease and something’s going to kill you. That something is cancer.
I thought Parkinson’s was the hard limit.
You can say the same about many types of cancer.
The glasses should immediately connect to the viewed person’s twitter/instagram feed. For your own safety.
As obnoxious as I find the census… isn’t finding out how many citizens we have kind of the point?
Fuck that. If they care so much they can go around counting bodies.
Citizens, no. The constitution (XIV amendment) says the census is to count the “whole number of “persons” in each state. Nothing about sex, genders, how much is your house worth, what are the kids’ names, do you have a toilet, or where were your parents born. For several decades, libertarians had a “Say No to the Census” effort.
I remember when Slate was somewhat reasonable by left-slanted webzine standards. That was a long time ago now.
Yup, it used to be interesting to read to see what the other side was thinking. Now I’m afraid to read anything left of Mises.org and the glibsters.
Echo Chamber!
Even if we do send out scouts into those intellectual wastelands to measure fresh depths of derp.
I was slightly worried my supply of derp was going to get cut off when Derpetologist left to do real world stuff, but Scruffy has more than made up for it, fuck him very much.
“So they ask your age, ethnicity, race, and income, but they can’t ask citizenship status?”
I can see age and income, but isn’t asking citizenship necessary? Isn’t that how they breed congresscritters?
Actually, I think congresscritters are proportioned based on residents, not citizens.
That was the issue in Evenwel v. Abbot, and I think that is generally correct.
Fun Fact: A friend from law school argued that case in the SCOTUS (and lost) and is now one of the lawyers on the Harvard admissions case.
So California will be significantly over-represented in Congress.
Not if we cut it off.
/Lex Luthor solution
“Otisberg?”
“It’s a little bitty place.”
“Otisberg!?”
“Miss Tesmacher, she has her own place.”
“Otisberg!”
“I’ll wipe it off.”
True, but I bet the founders would object if somebody tried to make the case that it should apply to an invading army.
Lobsterbacks need representation too!
I am waiting on smart contacts. No one needs to know that I am filming them.
*nods in agreement*
It’s really none of their god damn business what I do with video files of them in the privacy of my own home.
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_T4YKiyCRo
Getting upskirt videos is a lot harder to pass off, though.
Ain’t that the truth
Contacts on a shoe would be almost impossible to notice.
WTF is going on in Minnesota?
https://pjmedia.com/davidsteinberg/official-school-records-support-claims-that-rep-ilhan-omar-d-mn-married-her-brother/
Sheesh what is it? The Alabama of the Midwest?
Maybe the dad is just cheap, and didn’t want to pay for 2 weddings.
Game of Thrones fans take it too far sometimes.
(yes, I know, but it’s a superior title to “A Song of Ice and Fire”)
Maybe they’re European royalty.
$100 says this never even makes it on network news or CNN.
Pointing out massive immigration and loan fraud would just be just racist against women muslims of color.
Good grief, she’s a triple play, you don’t think anyone’s going to allow the slightest negative word to be said about her? She could kill a busload full of kindergartners and it might come up on the Sean Hannity show, but nothing beyond that.
Probably too late to influence the election even if it did make big news, haven’t most voters already voted via absentee ballot already?
“…haven’t most voters already voted via absentee ballot already?”
Just the dead ones.
Uffda. I’ve been linking to that story for some time. That guy from PJ Media really did a good job of finding more info from the St. Paul school.
Yeah, she married her brother on paper to get some sort of visa or student loan for him. It is stunning that she is able to keep up the stone walling and not have one reporter from the MSM push on this.
But don’t worry, the AP reporters are on the case! The story pretty much accepts anything that Ilhan says without question.
smart glasses are a solution in search of a problem
But they are so cool.
I could see using AR for LARPing.
Shooting LARPers with a semi-automatic sounds like a good idea, but you could run into legal issues.
/I’m not sure what you said there.
Lol. Augmented Reality for Live Action Role Playing.
Where do you draw the line between that and VR video games?
The padded LARPer sword can break your $1000 AR glasses
“he’s drunk after the way OSU quit when Purdue started running the ball in the 4th“
Your Future Reptilian Overlords are also still drunk and revealing in his pain
To unrepentantly steal from RobC,
I think Purdue just scored again.
/Boilermaker reveling in the win
That one kickoff in the 4th quarter where the OSU guy had to dive out of the end-zone to prevent a safety was the quitting play I’ve ever seen in D-I football. That guy was already on the bus in his head.
Yes it was nice to see they had them on the ropes then called STEVE SMITH off the bench to ‘finish’ them
“We sold over 300M lottery tickets for this draw, there are 302M possible combinations. 75% of the possible combinations have been picked”.
If each ticket was selected truly randomly, there would be about a 1/e chance that the winning combination hadn’t been picked:
If there are n combinations, one ticket has a (n-1)/n probability of losing. (n/(n-1))^n approaches e as n approached infinity, so ((n-1)/n)^n would approach 1/e.
1/e is about 3/8.
Some are duplicate numbers.
New math problem:
How many are likely to be duplicate numbers?
*flashback to probability class*
I did the math on tickets sold wrong. To get a $600M bump, you need to sell 600M tickets (lottery pays approximately 50% of the take — for reference the numbers guys back in gangland days used to pay $2 of every $3 they collected). So if about 75% of the possible number have been played, all of them have been played twice and most have them have been played 3 times.
I think that’s still wrong…to get a $600 million bump you would need to sell 600 million tickets assuming the 50% rake EXCEPT it’s not the present value growing by $600 million, it’s the total payout if you take it over 30 years. But the present value of the prize is only about 57% of the announced jackpot (not including taxes). With the announced jackpot at $1.6 billion, that means roughly a $24 million payout in year one (payments increase at a compounded 5% for the subsequent 29 years) and what looks to be a discount rate of about 3.35%.
So, I think the fact that last drawing’s present value grew from 570 million to 913 million means about 343 million tickets were sold this week. The “sold over 300M tickets” from the article would seem reasonable.
This doesn’t factor in that some of the money is also set aside to “seed” future jackpots, which is why every drawing following a drawing that had a winner starts at a $40 million announced jackpot, even if they didn’t sell 57% of 40 million tickets.
Considering that you can manually choose your own numbers, I have no idea.
But there are many players who consistently play the same numbers – birthdays, etc. Apparently there is also avoidance of the number thirteen and preference for the number seven. So that becomes more of a polling thing than a pure math thing.
Since people like birthdays as numbers and most peoples’ lucky number is under 15, there’s a lot more duplication than a total random draw would produce.
That’s why I said truly random.
If there’s a 1/e chance that the winning combination wasn’t picked, then it suggests that 1-1/e of the combinations should have been picked, which is rather less than 75%.
One of my first programming jobs, I worked with a super smart Haitian guy who spent his spare time building a lottery picker. He told me that he had thrown out all the obviously impossible combinations like “1-2-3-4-5-6”. We talked about it for 3 hours and he still couldn’t understand why that combination was just as likely as a non-sequential set for the next draw. “But it never gets drawn”. Yeah, buddy, so did 200M combinations of non-sequential numbers. It was a great illustration of the fallacy of randomness.
^This^
Try as you might the universe is always going to outsmart you. Also, despite impossible odds someone always ends up winning the lottery.
It takes the combined might of almost the entire lower and middle classes of the United States to make one person wealthy. One evul rich person can make many people wealthy.
I cant remember the name of the town but I remember reading about some small town doctor in the south that talked nearly everyone in town into buying stock in this start-up company named Coca-Cola. I want to say that was back in the ’20s? I cant remember for certain. Now they have a statue of that Doc in the town square and every family there are millionaires.
Suthen that was Quincy, FL. Or one just like Quincy. Giant houses in the middle of town all out of place with the rest of the surrounding counties.
So this Dr talked em all into being cocaine dealers?
Persuasive fella.
Once they got a taste of ownership they couldn’t stop.
I still don’t understand how e works. Why is this magical number here? I kind of remember the derivation but its just weird.
I can’t do clear mathematical notation here, but:
2/1 ^ 1 = 2
3/2 ^ 2 = 2.25
4/3 ^ 3 = 2.370…
and so on; the series keeps going up* asymptotically toward 2.7182818… (which is e) but never hits it.
My high school calculus teacher’s other job was running a liquor store that sold lotto tickets, which is how I figured this out 30 years ago. 🙂
*Technically, I was showing ((n+1)/n)^n here. In my previous comment I mentioned (n/(n-1))^n, which would approach e from above.
e^x = Lim (as n goes to infinity) (1 + (x/n))^n, so for x = -1, 1/e = Lim (1-(1/n))^n = Lim ((n-1)/n)^n, which is Ted’s formula for the odds of no winners. But if m tickets are sold, we get Lim((n-1)/n)^m, which approaches e^(-m/n). For 600M tickets, that’s about 14% of the time (a winner 86% of the time). As Ted said, that assumes random picks, and a lot of people tend to pick birthdays, etc., which means more smaller numbers are chosen.
That’s more in line with what I would naturally expect. That the actual numbers picked were less than a random distribution, but I’ve learned something from all of you today. Also, Ted had bad information from me when he approximated his answer.
I think this is important to reiterate. Ted was far off on his approximation.
When California first started the quick pick for the lottery, I was working at a Harley shop. One day a guy pulls in with a motorhome and like five bikes being ridden by his friends. He had a “no start” on his personal bike. I check it out and it’s got no spark. It was a beautiful custom by a big name bike builder of the time. It had a license plate that read “qikpix” in some weird code. Anyway, the ignition needed a 5 ohm coil and they had put a three ohm coil on it and burned out the module. I explained the problem and recommended a new module AND a new coil, so he would’nt burn the new module out six months later. He gathered his whole flock around and had a huge 30 minute pow-wow about whether he should replace both. Finally he agreed and I fixed the bike for him. He was massively paranoid that I was scamming him out of 50 bucks for the coil. Guy’s riding around with five of his closest friends, buying them all bikes and supplying a chase motorhome, after winning millions, and he thinks I’m gonna scam him out of 50 bucks. I didn’t even make any money off the parts I sold there. Fuggin hilarious! Made me question the value of winning the lottery just a bit..
It doesn’t alter the innate cognitive capacity.
No, but I imagine it led to an avalanche of scam artists trying to get a bit of the pie, hence the paranoia.
Well, if you didn’t give away so much crap, and didn’t advertize that you won, you’d reduce the amount of scammers to closer to normal.
Can’t really argue with that.
That may be, but the relevant limit here is not ((n-1)/n)^n, but rather ((x-1)/x)^n as n -> inf,
where x is 302M. lim x^n as n->inf = 0 for all 0 <= x < 1.
You also switched (n-1)/n with n/(n-1), not that that's relevant to the actual probability.
They have a procedure for splitting jackpots. It isn’t hard.
And this one is probably gonna get split.
They want you all back in chains. They’re using all of those policy changes. We’ll let you know as soon as we can figure out what policies are actually racist. Starting with counting citizens as citizens.
“EPA cheers decline in U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions under Trump administration”
They’re not cheering anything because they didn’t get to fuck up the economy.
So I’m not free to gambol?
It’s too late! We’re all going to run out of oil by 1990 and starve to death by 2000!
Really? I thought it was the other way around. We’ll all starve and then run out of oil.
Doom! DOOOOOOOOOOOM!
I had to eat my neighbor just yesterday.
I used his rendered body fat for fuel to get to work today.
I set this story to my prog friend who had asked me to prove Trump had done one good thing, and when I said the economy, he said “the economy! is that all you care about? what about global warming! Trump is burning coal and accelerating climate change!”
We’ll see how he responds. Most likely, he’ll say this was from a loser newspaper so it’s probably fake. “How come it’s not on NBC, CNN or the New York Times?”
I’ll post his response, if he even responds.
My prog friend replied:
“Read between the lies”.
I don’t even know what that’s supposed to mean? Did he think it was supposed to be witty? It fails to convey anything and just makes me want to punch him.
*rolls eyes through back of skull*
Does anyone else question the ability to measure green house gas emissions accurately? And then we also have to trust the data provided by the likes of the Chinese on the matter?
Jebus. That is like ‘dog whistle’ level stupidity.
He asked for one good thing, then you provided one and he got all incensed.
A heads up display in a motorcycle or car helmet would be fairly handy.
Then you could watch porn while you race.
mobile.youporn.com
Titty Tuesday *squeeeezes* into your life.
http://archive.is/Y1gmH
A few repeats here, but all good stuff. Cleavage is a gift from Heaven.
I read that as “Tiny Tuesday” and was worried someone hacked your account.
Says hi to Q
yaaaaaaass…..
I always think that it would be uncomfortable to have breasts like that, then I remember the ability to enslave 50% of the human population and wish I had some big ol’ knockers.
A comment on #23, I see someone found one of the few attractive female mammals at that school
The source of libertarian angst I’m sure for many:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article220487840.html
I hope he snubs the Suns.
Tickets to a Suns game?
Worst. Birthday. Ever.
When I was a kid my Mom gave us two options. We could either have a big birthday party and invite all of our friends but we would receive no presents from her or she would give us whatever we wanted (within reason of course) for our birthday and a small dinner with the family. I always chose the latter. Didn’t want to deal with my peers on the weekend and also, my Mom generally got us some cool ass presents.
It would be interesting for an enterprising young reporter to make some calls to other families to find out why zero out of 32 kids invited didn’t come.
I’m guessing that there are issues with the mother-whose-husband-works-in-Alaska that has raised eyebrows among the other catty, gossipy moms in town.
Anyone care to hazard a guess why no other mom from his entire class would allow their kid to go to his party?
I’m betting it’s because they weren’t actually invited and this was a social media setup from the beginning.
*dingdingding*
I’m guessing it’s because the kid has a single mom that is unbelievably hot at flirts with all the other dads.
You’re halfway there.
The kid flirts with all the hot dads?
For money.
As always with the half-assed reporting habits of your species one easily discovered data point was not found: pics of the mom.
She’s sleeping around?
Why would his parents publicize that? And those kids who didn’t show up have some awful parents.
Maybe it was all a set-up, a gofundme scam.
This cynicism suspiciously sounds like it would come out of the mouth of someone who didn’t have stupid kids come to his party.
EH?
Hmmm?
My birthdays were always over at my grandparent’s house. And I preferred being the only kid there. More attention for me.
You, your grandparents and your “friend” Paul who would antagonize you, right?
Friends are for the weak.
I thought you said “analyze.”
Anal-ize.
No he said … “anal-IZE”
His friend would analize him
If his parents wanted to set-up a gofundme scam shouldn’t the kid be saying something about how he has inside information about Russian collusion and the government is trying to silence him or something? Or he could say he slept with the president and then mock the president’s genitalia, like an adult.
Pretending like kids didn’t show up to your party is low
Like saying you have cancer but don’t?
There are always a few parents who either rsvp and no show or don’t rsvp at all and no show but 32? SOunds like a scam to me. Anyway, fuck everyone involved, except that poor kid who either has no friends or his mom is a cunt.
It can be both. Poor bastard.
I laughed, but that idea hadn’t crossed my mind. Poor kid.
“Our son is really embarrassed. We’re going to make him more embarrassed by putting his picture and story in the newspaper”.
Gotta admit, him sitting alone next to pizza is pretty effective.
I’m gonna use it one day if I ever need to pull at the emotional strings.
*looks around kitchen, looks down at plate*
Hey!
Exactly. If you said you invited 10 kids and no one showed, maybe I might buy that, but 32??? That’s absurd.
I still think UCS was onto something when he guessed that she put the wrong date on the invitations.
Anyway, fuck everyone involved, except that poor kid who either has no friends or his mom is a cunt.
I’m guessing the latter. I remember a few times growing up being sent to some strange kids’ parties because my mom had been told by their mom that no one was coming, and that was just too sad for my mom to let happen. If this kid’s mom can’t muster up a few sympathy guests, especially for a six-year-old, I’m guessing something is wrong with the mom’s social skills.
I’m looking to pick up a cheap AWD vehicle for winter mountain driving and I’m looking at the Honda HR-V right now. I know it’s slower than an asian grandma driving a minivan, but it looks cheap, reliable, and has pretty good cargo capacity for a tiny little shitbox.
Any of y’all have any experience with these? Want to recommend something else in the shitbox price range?
Thanks.
Used Forester, as a bonus it makes it easier to pick up WNBA players.
I’m almost certainly going used no matter what and the used Foresters are quite a bit more than the HR-V. The Crosstrek is on my radar though.
There is a reason for that.
The HR-V, Mazda CX-3 and Crosstrek are all pretty much the same size. Foresters are quite a bit bigger.
My wife looked at all of them (new) earlier in the year.
What did y’all go with?
Infiniti QX30 – which is really a Mercedes GLA. Ended up paying a little more than a top-of-line Crosstrek and less than the equivalent Outback.
Subaru. It’s always Subaru.
Or spend a little more and get a 4WD pickup. Shovel the snow from the driveway into the bed in the winter, have a truck in the summer.
My brother has done very well up the hill from Denver and Boulder in a 4WD Tacoma. Jut gotta keep the rear wheels down like you say.
I believe I have made several persuasive arguments for buying a Subaru.
Along with several persuasive arguments for voting for Cthulthu?
Some traditions go back eons.
Vote for Cthulthu.
Why vote for the lesser of two evils.
Vote for Cthulthu.
He’ll eat you first.
That’s very sexist.
I know the Subarus used to have a huge longevity problem as in the drive train fucking implodes at 100k miles. Is that no longer the case?
Mine is closing in on 120k, and the drive train is going OK as far as I can tell.
The final piece of the puzzle.
hahahahahaha.
I was just making a joke about my running Halloween features, but the comments actually do spend quite a bit of time arguing the merits and demerits of Subaru ownership…
https://glibertarians.com/2018/10/subaru-horror-theatre-vol-1-memory-lane/
https://glibertarians.com/2018/10/subaru-horror-theatre-vol-2-the-road-less-traveled/
https://glibertarians.com/2018/10/subaru-horror-theatre-vol-3-forever-young-take-the-subaru/
Benefit: Consuming the soul of your grandchildren to become younger
Con: Evil car that haunts you after you take it to the dump
135K miles on our 09 Forester. Of course, it’s a manual, not an automatic.
Subaru
Repeating from last Wed’s horror thread. Subaru. Ugly, boring, dependable.
Our ’09 Forrester will plow through any blizzard we get here in Iowa. We don’t get huge snow falls, but we do have wind which means we do have drifts.
My sister recently bought a Suburu and loves it. I was looking at the Ascent which is their largest SUV and has close to 9″ of ground clearance. I like the larger Toyota Sequoia better but I’m not sure I like it 20k better. Not really ready to buy yet anyways. Getting ready to make my last car payment.
Not overly ugly for a Suburu.
https://www.subaru.com/vehicles/ascent/index.html
My WRX/STI isn’t that boring.
Yes it is, you’ve just become inured to it.
I need to find a track to take it to and see how much of the speedometer is bullshit.
If my GPS is accurate, my spedometer shows 2mph higher than actual.
I’d rather it be higher than lower if I can’t get accurate.
No, I mean the speedometer goes up to 180, but I can’t test that on the roads around here.
Oh. Well, that’s different.
I suppose it says something when my first thought is the accuracy of the instrument rather than excess meter capacity.
This one is right on, at least compared against the various radar displays around town.
All my BMWs’ speedometers read higher than actual speed.
NO SUBARU.
Get a used 95-01 Cherokee automatic with as low miles as you can find. I bought one 7 years ago that had 96K at the time, now it’s up to 157K and I have never done anything beyond routine maintenance.
Much more fun and they last forever. I have a buddy who works at a 4×4 customization shop and he says he routinely sees Cherokees from that year range with 300K+ miles.
Get a beige one and kill off what little is left of your social life.
Jesus. That sounds risky. Also a cursory search shows me the lowest mileage nearby is 195k….
Don’t buy anything made by
JeepChrysler unless you also buy a mechanic.One who specializes in rebuilding transmissions
Pick up with 33’s, son!
Buy as much Toyota as you can afford. Go back as many years as you need to.
I’m lifting my 2010 Taco next weekend.
I’m a big Toyota fan but even used Tacomas are too much and the late model Rav4 is easily the least inspiring suv on the market.
My wife has the 2012 RAV4 with V6 and 4×4. It’s pretty fun to drive. No factory five MK4, but fun.
Yeah they stopped making the V6 4×4 in like 2013 I think. All the newer ones are pathetic.
I have a 2007 Jeep 4-door Wrangler. It’s a beast. That fucker crawls through the woods, over logs, through mud pits etc. It is practically invincible.
It’s got 200K on it and I have never had any problems with it. It gets amazingly good gas mileage. I dont know how to recommend it because the quality, capability of the Wranglers varies wildly with year of manufacture.
I dont worry about inclement weather or road conditions. As long as I have that under me I have complete confidence.
In any case I will be driving that thing until the wheels fall off of it or off of me.
That’s the thing with Jeeps. You either get a Wednesday car or a lemon.
And good used ones are usually too fucking expensive.
Jeeps are tough but I’ve heard that the ride is not as smooth as a lot of SUVs. Not a huge deal unless your on the road a lot.
No opinion but budget for good snow tires. Over many years of winter driving it’s the most important part of the equation.
Supposedly that doesn’t matter as much where we are and most people I talk to don’t bother with snow tires unless they don’t have an AWD.
Obviously up there on the surface of the moon where you live, the situation is likely pretty different
https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqO6opL6d3gIViIjICh3pdg6CEAQYAiABEgIMt_D_BwE&tireMake=Yokohama&tireModel=Geolandar+A%2FT-S&partnum=26HR7GEOATS&GCID=C13674x012-tire&KEYWORD=tires.jsp_Yokohama_Geolandar_A%2FT-S_Tire&code=yes&src=17540115&ci_sku=26HR7GEOATS&ci_sku=26HR7GEOATS&ci_src=17588969&s_kwcid=AL!3756!3!72322431853!!!g!138924011773!&ef_id=WUrUSAAAAHNsHRpO:20181023211714:s
This is what I have on my Forester and my Xterra. They are awesome in snow and rain. And they are remarkably quiet on the highway.
I run Michelin Premier LTX on my Tahoe. They’ve been great tires on snowy/icy roads so far.
Ice.
Most new car tires are flat out shit on ice. Good mileage = terrible stopping on ice. Even with AWD.
I’ve got a ten year old saab 9-7x and it’s pretty nice. I call it the “saabrolet” because it’s got the trail blazer chassis/drivetrain. 290 hp straight six with bigger brakes and sway bars, awd, traction control, plush assed interior and air ride out back with an onboard compressor and hose to inflate the tires. Sticks like glue in rain and handles nice all the time. I paid around 4k with 80k miles.
I really like my Honda Pilot. I’m able to take everywhere around the farm.
The guy who delivers my hay can’t make it up the hill in his F-350 towing a trailer with 150 bales. The Pilot’s able to pull the truck and trailer just enough to get it up the hill.
Depends whats near you. I got a used hyundai accent for ~10k with 10k miles on it. Total cost to own is something like $0.15 per mile counting gas and insurance, assuming it makes it to 100k miles (at 85K now).
Also, snow tires and AWD are for pussies, live a little.
Someone should do one of Pelosi’s speech farts and Hilary’s slapstick physical comedy together.
DO I HAVE TO THINK FOR EVERYONE?!
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?!
Not anymore, I quit my job
*waves winning lotto ticket around*
Today, my work is sucking my soul.
Artist’s representation
I loved that movie.
You hang around here and you still have a soul?
I keep it shielded in a lead box when I’m here.
Put your soul into a box, put the box into a car, drive the car around the world
Until you get heard
/World Party
I was on vacation last week and got kicked in the teeth Monday at work. Hopefully today will go more smoothly.
Where’d you go? Orlando?
Partly yes. Halloween horror nights at universal. I also went to Georgia for the sunbelt expo.
My stepson was supposed to go to that but at the last minute a problem with his children came up. I was disappointed. He and his wife would have had a blast.
The Expo or HHN?
Just got back from Biketoberfest in Daytona. Florida is great. I can’t wait to go back.
Glad you enjoyed your visit. Bikefest is one of those things that’s close by but I’ve never done.
“At least 30 people were injured when a large portion of a floor at a party near Clemson University’s campus collapsed, dropping people into the basement early Sunday morning.
Witnesses said the party at the event space of an apartment complex was just getting started when the floor collapsed.
“Everybody was jumping, next thing you know, I’m jumping, I had my hands in the air and I can feel myself falling. Then I wake up, because I blacked out, and there [were] girls everywhere with blood all over their face,” Leroy Pearson told CBS affiliate WSPA-TV.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/clemson-university-party-floor-collapses-30-injured-today-2018-10-21/
I’ve already heard talk that there should have been a sign that said “Don’t let 300 people jump up and down simultaneously on this floor.”
Related
I was thinking of this.
No doubt that this was playing .
“girls everywhere with blood all over their face”
Rolling Stone is on the case.
Grab its motherfucking floor.
I was thinking more along the lines of a Hat and Hair story.
But was she waving them like she just didn’t care?
Apparently it wasn’t just the ceiling which couldn’t hold us
I’m looking at the Honda HR-V right now.
Is that the one that looks like a new iteration of the Element? I know somebody who has one (Element) and she seems to like it. Much more utilitarian than the CRV, which is a big plus in my book.
Oldies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Uht69h8Is
This is the best my earldom has to offer
Apparently the HRV is not what I was thinking of.
You can get vaccinated for that now.
I can see this ad having the opposite result:
https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1054510160692109312
Oh man, if I worked for Heitkamp or O’Rourke I’d have to admit that the race is pretty much over and this ad is just meant to get my candidate a sweet progressive lobbying job after the race.
This is real bad
Yeah, no way this helps either of them.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go start spreading this around North Dakota. Won’t take long.
Oh boy! I wonder what is coming next?
She probably says that South Dakota is so much better than North Dakota. She’s literally a monster
Made it through exactly 3.7 seconds of that.
Longer than me – once I hear that harpy shrieking on the elevator, that’s it.
The imagery they show that is supposed to be motivating is of things that most people find ridiculous. The images they show that are supposed to make people upset, like just Kavanaugh’s face, don’t. At least not for the reasons that the person who made the ad thinks they will.
So, yea, it will have the opposite result for anyone who isn’t a frothing at the mouth fucking progressive.
“Hackneyed” was the very first word that came to my mind while watching that.
Also, fucking CCR? Seriously? This is a smug Boomer’s ultimate late stage nocturnal emission.
Re-covered by Fogerty and the Foo Fighters, so it’s totes hip
The Foo Fighters are like 50 years old now! Their debut album is 23 years old.
gawd damn I’m getting old
I was halfway through before realizing the ad was intended to be supporting the Dems.
I tweeted back that this looks like a false flag operation.
It’s gonna explode in their faces.
“I’ve been so depressed lately. This video is giving me life! We have some absolutely amazing candidates, activists and voters! This gives me so much hope.”
KYS.
so…. Are you telling me a republican didn’t make that?
You can get vaccinated for that now.
Unfortunately, I am not at risk.
Curses!
Is there any reason that a citizen’s gender or sex or whatever needs to be legally defined, within the context of the Constitution? I mean, if you’re a citizen, gender/sex should never matter. Unless there’s something I’m missing…
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/civil-rights-groups-call-prospect-creating-narrow-definition/story?id=58675663
Let me explain. It’s illegal for the government to discriminate with respect to sex and race. And in order to make sure that they don’t discriminate, they collect that information they aren’t supposed to use, and deny services to people who refuse to provide that information, and pay close attention to it. They need to make it a factor in their decisions to ensure that they look like they are ignoring it.
I’m guessing the actual legislation will look something like what you just said.
Except harder to follow.
i keep seeing the argument that sex itself (as opposed to gender) isn’t binary. The case that the advocates of this argument bring up is that of intersex babies where there are genetic combinations beyond XX and XY. Now, I’m concede that I’m not a scientist or a doctor and can’t say with certainty. But, aren’t those cases simply birth defects? I know it’s considered mean and cruel and nasty to suggest that nature has rendered someone in any way defective. But, my understanding is that, in those cases, the particular offspring can’t reproduce without technological intervention. That pretty much sounds like the definition of a birth defect.
Sooo…. how about the govt. just gets out of the business of sex/gender and only deals with citizens? I still really don’t see what it matters to the govt.
Well, you’d have to make a lot of changes to existing laws and regulations to make that happen.
Not opposed to it, in principle. Of course, as Brochettaward points out, that implies a lot of changes to the existing rules. And my impression is that a lot of the people pushing this issue wouldn’t be too crazy about the implied consequences (female draft, an end to sex and gender discrimination suits, etc.).
Ok, that makes sense. I just couldn’t think of any laws that involved gender. Thanks.
How can you give special consideration to woman owned businesses if you do not have a legal concept of women?
In otherwords they want the government to keep the gender concepts so they can continue to give special handouts to the disenfranchised womxn but also make it so the the poor trannies don’t lose out on the sweet sweet bennies
Negroni- Toyota 4runners and highlanders are quite popular around here. No idea what you’d have to pay for one.
I’m part of an online forum for GX owners. There are a shitload of them in Colorado. Some cool mods too. Lifts, winches, overlanding gear…
Those are bit big and pricey. My dad drives a highlander and loves it. That thing is a tank.
My 1997 4Runner has over 260K miles without a hiccup…. even after my wife’s cousin ran it into the back of a parked trailer at a decent speed. My 2006 4runner has about 140K and is just getting started. They do retain their value, so used ones will cost you for sure.
160k on my 2008 4runner, going strong and never needed anything but routine maintenance.
We’ve got almost 200k on our 4runner, but I don’t recommend it
as anything other than a work truck, like an engineer visiting off-road sites. It’s bulky, awkward, drives like a dumptruck, and uncomfortable; I’m infinitely more comfy in my C1500HD 2WD, which can’t hold a candle to the Toyota as a lunar rover, though.
AWD in something that’s comfy and steers is the answer for snow. Trucks are just stupid on-road in snow if you don’t need the towing or toting capacity (this from a guy who drives nothing but trucks). AWD manages traction to all four wheels constantly in a way that most others systems just can’t; it will solve a lot of little handling/steering problems before you ever know you have them. I like Subaru and Volvo, and I hear the MDX is solid.
Ice is another matter: there is no good answer, but there are some very bad answers: my big honking truck in 4WD!!! As seen in ditches everywhere. Any mechanism that locks one tire’s drive to another’s (even the differential in traditional 2WD), leads to drag which increases risk of one tire’s breaking loose. Once, I drove 500 miles from Fort Worth to Memphis in a Passat with meaty Michelins (my brand for all situations) on mostly ice and did okay: 27 hours; the overpasses in Dallas were the worst of it.
Get the snow tires, the type without studs (studded tires are verboten in some states and tear up the tarmac on a dry day).
Blizzaks ftw.
“The Hippie-Capitalist CEO Who Wants to Win a Nobel Prize With Sober Raves”
https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/4339xd/the-hippie-capitalist-ceo-who-wants-to-win-a-nobel-prize-with-sober-raves
I’m trying to imagine a worse headline, but nothing is happening.
More horrific than anything I’ve ever managed to come up with.
That may be the worst human being since Hitler.
Lol. That Hilary cut out. Yes, because who else screams ‘spirituality’ than a stupid witch-cunt, right?
Quacks.
Jesus Christ, it’s like an amalgam of the things I hate the most – raves, shitty dance music, hippies, and Hillary.
I fucking hate the smell of patchouli.
#metoo
“Get your patchouli stink outta my store!”
Was that the last good movie Cusack made? I’d say yes.
Was that after Grosse Pointe Blank?
Looked it up and yes, it was. High Fidelity was 2000, GPB was 1997.
Identity 2003
Ice Harvest 2005
The Raven 2012
I haven’t been around the last few days, but I’m sure that The Caravan has been discussed. Isn’t it kind of obvious that Trump made some over the top comments, and the media in their typical rush to outrage are spending one of the crucial final weeks before the elections covering a story that most people agree with Trump on? People aren’t going to care about his MS-13 and AL QEADA comments. They’re going to see 10,000 people wandering slowly up Mexico to break the law and think this is insanity.
The pictures sure look like an invading army in column march.
I’ve already seen some “Stop reporting on this, you’re helping Trump!” pivoting.
Posted this accidentally on a dead thread..
Jeffrey Tucker looks at the deplatforming and is unworried:
Eventually, Facebook will curate itself to a tiny community that is free from trolls where everyone lives in fear of the cattbutt… Hey!
I think we can trust Dan Rather.
https://youtu.be/U0hTrnaa8aE
This is weird coming from Tucker considering that he was attacked by the woke brand of libertarianism for praising Jordan Peterson. To the point where he actually had to write a follow-up article defending the fact that he can enjoy anyone that he likes.
Does Tucker honestly believe that liking or disliking Jordan Peterson is somehow a legitimate reason to ban someone from an online platform, because it will eventually extend to that.
Just because someone behaves like a fascist on his own property doesn’t make him any less of a fascist
No. What Jeffrey Tuckere is saying is that all Facebook and Twitter can do with their bans is make themselves less valuable. They are no different than a member of the KKK who refuses to do business with black people. Facebook can insist that only people with white skin get to use their platform. It will make their platform less useful, especially in comparison to something like Minds that is happy to do business with whites and blacks.
The person who discriminates unreasonably always bears and economic cost that is not borne by the person who refuses to do so. That’s why they needed Jim Crow laws – to protect the racists from losing business to people who didn’t give a shit.
Man, I’m not good at reading.
Yes, assume spherical Internet over the timespan of about a century and he’s 100% correct.
Only, how’s Minds doing for advertising? How about Bitchute? Which corporations want to be branded as “gives money to Nazis?”
Don’t blaspheme and you’ll do fine. So vast majority of userbase will not be kicked off the platform. And that’s all they want – remove as many points of intersection between normies and Bad Thinkers. For all the hate Twitter gets, “The Left” would be in a stronger position today without it. In all honesty, Adpocalypse must have put fear of God in all the major online services – the amount of money lost from shedding users is nothing compared to your ad partners telling you “well, we think what with all the Nazis, you are besmirching our good name, so crack down or we pull. Oh and while we have you over the barrel, we are renegotiating the terms.”
Trust me, I want to be wrong, but I have put $50 on Alex Jones not recovering half his YouTube audience on a new platform and I’m feeling pretty confident about winning that one.
Aren’t the folks branding corporations as “gives money to Nazis” a small and increasingly irrelevant minority? I know moneyed interests are scared shitless of them, but I’d think on a longer time horizon they’d eventually stop kowtowing to them.
Who cares if they are a minority? Since they are the same class of people who have many important positions in various corporations, their voices carry more weight. As a side benefit, how many of the major business are in the same conglomerate as various old-school media groups? Why wouldn’t the order come from the to to squeeze the people wrecking the competitors?
Shit, why would Paypal and Square take down Freestartr? They weren’t losing money on it, since they just take a cut of transaction. But, it was Kickstarter For Nazis, so, go fucking build your own payment system.
Oh people will suffer.
It won’t be pretty. Just as black people started migrating up north* to evade Jim Crow, we will have to migrate to new platforms, many of which have yet to be created.
The good news is that the underserved markets and resources created by the deplatforming actually makes it easier for those new platforms to nucleate from an un-implemented idea to a going concern.
*I know, the bastards should have stayed in the south and fixed it rather than bringing their dysfunction to the north! No Alabamian has a right to move to Indiana because borders mean something!
That analogy is horrible. The North already existed, was the richer part of the country and migrating blacks were incorporated into the existing economic and social body.
If you want a better analogy, try Puritan colonization. Except that was still done through chartered companies in mother country, and…well, Roanoke was a thing.
I think some of the old folk still around might quibble with you about that.
I think some of the old folk still around might quibble with you about that.
Sigh…I knew that was coming and yet walked right into it. And since I complained about analogy, I can’t complain about missing steps in my disputing it.
Croatoan nods.
Enh… any new platforms that get created will eventually get shamed into doing the same thing as FB and Twitter. Unless they’re run by McAfee or someone else who doesn’t give a fuck.
Aw, man. Is this real life?
https://twitter.com/BruceBartlett/status/1054788112193331200
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Key differences between Donald Trump and Adolph Hitler–Hitler served honorably in the military, Trump didn’t; Hitler was faithful to his wife, Trump cheated on all his wives; Hitler wrote a book, Trump’s were all ghostwritten.
Key differences, huh?
One of them was a vegetarian who loved his pets, the other was a monster.
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Anyone who really thinks a comparison between Trump and Hitler is absurd should watch “Triumph of the Will” and then watch one of Trump’s MAGA rallies. His rallies are easy to find. Fox runs them uncut.”
Also, did Obama write his fiction?
One little problem fatso-fucko: HITLER KILLED OVER SIX MILLION JEWS, RETARDS, GAYS AND GYPSYS.
Asshole.
“Retards, Gays and Gypsys” is my favorite Cher song.
Triumph of the Will, eh Brucie?
“Retards.” Yep, there’s your sensitive liberal for you.
Trump murder-suicided his wife and they were only married for 40 hours. Also fairly certain he cheated on Eva Braun repeatedly in the time before that. F-.
That was the part that bothered me most too.
Trump didn’t write a book that you can read unattributed passages to and watch all the little progs nod their heads in agreement.
^This^
I dunno, I’m sure you can find some China pieces in there they would have not only nodded to but applauded even with author known pre-2015.
Of course, these days, China Is Awesome as far as progs are concerned. No matter how many Interpol chiefs they disappear.
Relevant
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/world/asia/china-muslim-camps-xinjiang-uighurs.amp.html
Then he doubles down saying that immigrants are going to be Trump’s Jews. Un-fucking-believable.
Q, I’m looking forward to your Halloween costume girly pics.
I’m making a list and checking it twice.
That’s why they are so desperate to get into this country.
These contrasts are fun. How many more can we come up with? Hitler hated the Russians; Trump is in love with one. Hitler loved the mountain air; Trump is a Florida seashore kind of guy. Hitler loved fine art; Trump has never set foot in an art museum. Hitler wore fashionable riding boots; Trump wears bloodsucking banker wing tips; Hitler loved classical architecture; Trump loves modernistic crap decorated like a brothel.
I confess that I like wingtips and the Trump building in Chicago. But Classical architecture *is* demonstrably better.
To be fair, Hitler was to classical architecture as Trump was to baroque.
“The Schwerbelastungskörper was built in order to determine whether the unconsolidated Berlin ground could support the weight of the planned triumphal arch.”
That might be the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. Aren’t Germans supposed to be good at engineering? Terzaghi sounds German, right?
Look, even engineers need good baseline data. So they did a scale test – using 1:1 scale.
Hey, it turned out, yes, ground is unable to support this building. So either an experiment that either had to be done to prove to some numbnuts that calculations are correct or an experiment in the “well, we’re not sure what the scaling is like here, let’s just get some actual data” category. In either case, legit engineering.
It may technically be ‘legit engineering’, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t dumb as all shit. There are several easier and cheaper methods available, even in 1933 or whatever to figure that out. Unless you posit case 2, in which case, refer to my first sentence.
But if m tickets are sold, we get……….
There needs to be an Annual Glib Rendezvous where could we meet and have
a/ 18 hole golf tournament
b/ tactical pistol tournament
c/ poker tournament
d/ brewing / tasting contest
e/ bikini judging contest
It should be held in a state that has no income tax.
You can do four of those things in Florida. I’m not sure how big your poker games has to get before a raid.
Florida, where the air is more water than air, Florida? No thanks.
Pass the word to your fellow New Yorkers.
Snowbirds don’t listen to me.
If I could make them listen to me, New York wouldn’t keep electing the morons we do.
There’s no way I’m putting on a bikini for you guys.
This would beat the hell out of the Modern Pentathlon.
It turns out that sentient articles of clothing are having a much wider impact on world history than we realize. Mark Steyn has found a piece of the puzzle.
A big piece.
A very big piece.
Consider this revelation:
Suddenly this nobody shot to power:
…
…
It’s not an organism on the tie. It’s the tie itself!
Sounds like Kill La Kill.
Dear God, I was going to make the same comment… If you understand all the meta references it’s hysterical.
The title is a huge play on words. These words are all pronounced exactly the same – homophones are why kanji are so important to writing Japanese.
切る – to cut
着る – to wear (clothing)
キル “kill” in katakana from the English
斬る – to kill (a human)
Only with zero sexiness.
Mako Mankanshoku’s voice actor, Aya Suzaki, is cute as a button and has a great sense of humor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U425-F3QFo
Canadians who brag about the fucking Charter are retards.
They should be embarrassed given the standard set by the U.S. Constitution. But nope. We think we came up with something just as dandy if not better!
This county sometimes is so insular and myopic it makes me wonder.
/reports Rufus to Human Rights Tribunal for not posting a translation in joual
Don’t get me going on that.
So… like the Hat and hair?
Not long ago we had the discussion about olive oil and its contribution to virility in the aging male. Plus it tastes good. But I’ve heard a lot of stuff you can buy isn’t the real thing. How do you know you’re not getting the fake stuff?
Pharmaceuticals are better.
http://www.realfoodforlife.com/the-complete-list-of-authentic-extra-virgein-olive-oils-and-how-to-buy/
Is there a picture of olives on the bottle?
Very easily.
The issue is more where they claim, say, it’s Italian olive oil but it’s mixed with Tunisian and Turkish. That kind of thing. It’s a problem but you can work around it. Outright fraud where it’s not olive is rare.
Just go to a place you know and trust. Look for D.O.P. designation (it’s a little like wine).
I just go to to a guy I know. He imports from a private producer.
https://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/shopping-storing/more-shopping-storing/olive-oil-buying-checklist
“If an oil is labeled “product of Italy,” that signifies only that the oil was packed and shipped in Italy. The olives could have been grown, harvested, and pressed in, say, Tunisia, Greece, or Spain. To find out where an oil really comes from, look at the estate name.”
Pretty much in a different way what I was saying.
And? Is there some magical quality of Italian olives that makes them different from the Spanish?
Not the point of what they’re saying.
If it says ‘From Italy’ but the olives are from elsewhere it’s misleading labeling.
It’s the same problem in Spain.
It used to be the same problem in wine too by the way. They would ‘play” with the grape varieties and claim something they weren’t. That’s why France organized itself like it did and Italy soon followed.
It’s also oil being sold as “extra virgin” that is no such thing.
Drink more pineapple juice.
Keep the wife happy!
Ever the optimist.
“You may think you’re woke, but you’ll never be Trump-made-me-realize-Hitler-wasn’t-all-that-bad woke.”>
Hitler’s book fucking sucked. Dull, rambling, and disorganized. I’ve never heard those complaints about Trump’s books. Also, I’m pretty sure ghostwriting is almost universal in the category of “dumbass books that politicians write”.
Also, since when do Leftists give such great accords to serving in the military?
When it suits their purposes. It’s no different from insisting on eating their cake and having it too.
Update on the Cigar City Oktoberfest. Its a Marzen. Its fine. For some reason the first six-pack of the season are delicious, pretty much regardless of brand, and then they all just taste the same. Stupid German brewing laws.
I bought my wife the Yeungling Octoberfest. I’ll sneak one tonight and report back tomorrow.
That’s exactly how I feel about Märzenbier. Every year the first one I taste is incredible and gets me all excited for fall beer and after the second one I shrug my shoulders and go back to drinking pale ales.
Aaaaand Fox just reports (they actually sent a reporter) that 80% of the so called migrants are males under 35 y/o.
That is more or less what I see in the photos.
Also, expect them to complete a thousand mile trek on foot just before the election.
Military age….
Reminds you of the ‘migrant crisis’ in Europe.
https://www.autoblog.com/2018/10/22/nhtsa-shuts-down-unlawful-autonomous-school-bus/
Not sure if y’all have seen this. This might make John as happy as an hour on a park bench with a feeding model.
The real world is not a sic-fi novel. Electric cars are the dumbest idea I know of.
Exactly! Flying cars are what the people really want!
No shit. I want to be able to fly to my brother’s house in Texas in an hour and a half, shoot clays all day and sleep in my own bed that night. The redneck riviera in three. I could be home with a couple of gallons of scallops and have supper cooked before dark.
How about a self-flying car?
https://futurism.com/flying-taxi-new-zealand
That is almost exactly what I had in mind.
I don’t have a problem with it, but it seems cruel to torture the kids with a top speed of 8 mph. A bicycle would be faster.
Test vehicle permits are very restrictive. I’ll bet there was some foul-up between developers, distributors, and fleet: the approval was doubtless by parties with no appreciation of NHTSA.
In driving test vehicles from Daytona to Big Bend to Baker’s Grade to Bemidji, half the road time is paperwork each time you hit a new state….it’s tricky stuff. Also, FL has some of the dumbest and most restrictive school bus standards: pass there and you’re good to go nationwide.
” Faith Goldy Finished Third In The Toronto Mayoral Election And Says This Is Just The Beginning
Over 25,000 Torontonians voted for her.”
https://www.narcity.com/ca/on/toronto/news/faith-goldy-finished-third-in-the-toronto-mayoral-election-and-says-this-is-just-the-beginning
Huh, that’s more Toronto Nazis than I expected. Especially since A True Nazi would never ever vote for a woman.
Would.
Even if it does count as sticking it in crazy.
Stupid class action lawsuit….
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/class-action-lawsuit-accuses-electric-scooter-companies-of-gross-negligence-due-to-injuries
…prompts stupid response from scooter company:
“We believe that the climate crisis and our car dependency demand a transportation mode shift, and clean energy vehicles like e-scooters are already replacing millions of short car trips…”
I’ve gotta hand it to the Urgent Care employee quoted in the story, though:
“The more scooters that are out there, the more gravity attacks we will have.”
Gravity attacks. I love it. I am stealing that.
Clean energy vehicles that run on coal. That require the consumption of ten times the energy it takes to move an equivalent gasoline vehicles the same distance. Nice.
Gravity Attacks! is a legit good title for a book or a movie.
Sequel to Mars Attacks!…?
Mars Attacks! is a pretty good title, but it’s self-explanatory. Gravity Attacks! promises not only action, but mystery as well.
The sequel to Mars Attacks! was Dinosaurs Attack! anyway.
Only real OGs know what I’m talking about.
Untrue. I know what you’re talking about. So it can’t be “only”.
Maybe you’re a real OG?
I hate those fucking things.
I had to stay overnight Downtown last month and it was like a neckbeard invasion force traveling on pre-adolescent personnel carriers.
The last time I was in Denver I was staying at a hotel downtown, about 10 blocks from my office. One morning as I walking along the 16th street mall I saw a beardo riding a unicycle and juggling some dumb thing or other. Do this day I’m surprised he wasn’t wearing a t-shirt that said “LOOK AT ME!”
Ha. That’s about right. Those things are tearing around everywhere, in and out of traffic, on the sidewalks, etc. I do find it interesting that society becomes increasingly, and absurdly, safety-obsessed, and then a couple of companies dump piles of quick-moving scooters in the middle of Drunk City USA.
We were at the U of MN last week and they were everywhere. The young lady giving the tour was downright nasty in her disdain for the scooters and anyone who rides them.
I noticed that kids would just leave them anywhere. I assume there is some way to control who rides them?
It doesn’t matter if you believe in gravity. It will find you.
I did not know this because I have not spent time around donkeys. We had one mule when I was a kid. Cows, horses, goats, hogs, chickens, ducks, geese, yes but no donkeys.
Apparently it is not unknown for donkeys to sing. Did anyone else know this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg7ftpjhJ08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JynsbB-OInA
Not ours (4 donkeys). They just bray like jackasses.
I think it’s a call to prayer.
Sing? that was only one note!
/takes out match
/lights pilot
/steps back and turns burner to 11
/ignites Q SIGNAL
So many euphemisms you could play off of.
I think I’d go with these:
https://img.fciencias.com/uploads/2015/08/two-blue-footed-boobies.jpg
“Headless, the body rose to its feet.” – Prince of the North Tower, Part 24.
Alternatively, “Hillary: A case study”
Well, the Narrator is fighting a troll.
https://archive.is/cLU3b/3f0a419c118a1924a7330d9f20529164b59dc0f4
https://archive.is/cLU3b/c93dd114dbeb6ffafc1eaf9e5189104cbc0f646f
https://archive.is/cLU3b/2679e214ad17ecf4eb47efc394dd228402cf5016
https://archive.is/cLU3b/d29340c345d1c5e3b4cbe4f5c7814a601311b44d
https://archive.is/cLU3b/ecdb233b90e21b1a123400e57d7ae8149f4f4089
This one, right here.
Her armpit stretch marks make me uneasy for some reason.
“Thats not where you get linea negra!”
Every time I look at these girls I cant help but think there is a lot of…work…done. They all look too much alike.
Future hackysack champions.
Not that anyone cares, but I could see a case for the argument that since responding to the census is required by law, a question about citizenship status could put Les Undocumented at risk of self-incrimination in violation of the 5th.
I could see that if the question is a multiple choice sort of deal. If it is a simple “are you a US citizen, yes or no?” question, I think the 5th amendment issues go away.
I mean, lawful permanant residents can answer “No” without fear, so the data point is not saying anything about whether they are here illegally.
But isn’t census supposed to be anonymous? And if you are taking money under the table, doesn’t the household income question present the same issue?
I mean, if you lie, who is to know?
But, PZ, These poor
illegal aliensundocumented immigrantsdreamers never lie to the government!Baby Jesus.
But he’s just a baby, he’ll forget it in like 30 seconds.
Not in the U.S., at least.
Good question, and I agree, it would…so let’s get rid of the the census except for counting people.
Ding, ding ding, we have a winner!
If they want to put more questions on, just amend the constitution like God intended.
From the US census site:
I mean, I guess census taker could call ICE on you if you answer “three citizens in household” but you look brown…except, why would they not do that even if citizenship question is skipped?
So waht you’re saying is, HM is going to get deported?
Yes, but because he will post one link too many.
It’s not as if the US government can protect any of your other information.
Agreed. Aside from counting people for the purposes of congress who I am, what I have and what I do is none of their damned business.
Yeah, well, until you abolish draft and modern warfare, states would like to know number of men in each age category.
And until you abolish Medicare and Social Security, likewise for population breakdown by age.
Medicare and the rest of War on Poverty require breakdown by income (a poor proxy for wealth but easier for most people to produce a ballpark in on the spot).
And when you achieve Individualist Colorblind Melting Pot Utopia, race/religion/sex questions stay.
Those are all noble goals, I’m just saying, there’s solid reasons why they are there and by solid I mean “people who decide want them”.
This. So much this.
Facebook is surprisingly quiet around here.
Odd, since a NAZI plane just crashed on the freeway.
https://abc7.com/small-plane-crashes-on-101-freeway-in-agoura-hills/4543306/
Were any Spitfires sighted in the area?
Wow. In the first photos I saw of that the plane was intact and only lightly on fire. In yours it’s just about gone. I didn’t even know Los Doyers had a pilot’s license.
Being an illegal, he doesn’t.
I guess that explains why he couldn’t tell the difference between the 101 and the Camarillo airport runway.
Maybe they cant understand the banter ?
“Fire officials said the pilot, who appeared to be the only person on board, was not injured. Fire officials said no other vehicles were involved in the crash.”
Wow.
No kidding. Nice of the media nerds tell us what plane it was.
“It’s okay to let your transgender kid transition — even if they might change their mind in the future”
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/22/18009020/transgender-children-teens-transition-detransition-puberty-blocking-medication
TW: Vox
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1054860192230207488
There is no such thing as a “Transgender kid” Mutilating children like this is abuse and cannot be tolerated.
Even the hormone “treatments” are abuse at that age when they cause lifelong damage to physical development.
Considering that the majority of these kids either grow out of it or they grow up to be homosexual and not transgender, I’d have to agree.
Meh, If it’s their kids they can do what they want with them. No skin off my nose.
Abuse and neglect are the times when “It’s their kid” doesn’t fly.
It’s a tightrope we’re walking on here. Fall off to one side and parents are allowed to sell their 8 year olds into prostitution. Fall off the other and the government is taking your kids for letting them walk to the bus stop.
I wish there was a bright line there, but common sense is an oxymoron.
Call me strange, but I don’t see “Permanantly sterilizing your child through deliberate chemical exposure or surgical mutiliation” as being in the gray area.
I hear you, but I’m with Unciv on this one. Minors aren’t granted the same rights as adults because as a culture we recognize that they haven’t developed the mental or emotional sophistication required to make decisions that have significant lifelong consequences. Facilitating a decision like this for a child because it’s “their body and their choice” or because you want to demonstrate your respect for the transgender community is like handing the keys to a drunk and blowing into his car breathalyzer because you don’t want to infringe on his right to self-determination.
I agree. I think this type of stuff is textbook abuse. However, I see a direct path from this to circumcision to any number of other mundane familial choices.
We’re granting rights now? I thought they were inalienable.
One of the replies in the Twitter thread got it right, more or less: “Lovingly and kindly accepting people with some gender ambiguity is good. Evangelizing gender/sexual ambiguity to kids is stupid&threatens the health of the gene pool.” I don’t know about threatening the health of the gene pool, but I feel pretty certain that elective medical procedures that alter a developing child’s body in an attempt to superficially match a different gender are a horrible, horrible idea. What people do as adults is their business, and I know transgender adults who are much happier in their own skin as the gender of their choice. That’s not the kind of decision a minor can make responsibly, and allowing a child to make that sort of a choice in the name of social justice is nothing short of cruelty.
This is all going to come back to bite them in the ass in the next 20 years when these kids are like wtf did you do to me
Yes and Yes.
To me this is just another example of short-term pain and fear getting in the way of better, long-term decisions: it is hoped to avoid a particularly weird and rare version of growing up, a strange program in any case, so ardently that an even more bizarre, grotesque, and quite possibly painful path is chosen.
Almost all the flaky prog “solutions” are more painful in the long term. Whoever implied earlier that delaying gratification was core to success was spot on; the corollary is that all the happier short-cuts actually are worse that the pain they wish to avoid.
There is an odd cluster of FTM and male-presenting women at my workplace. Well over 0.2% of the population. I don’t know if this area is a hub for that sort of thing or not.
Well, there’s 0 where I am, so you’ve got the lot for the whole region.
LOL. I will let Q know that a little hair and fat redistribution is no big deal.
Another good sign that the writer is crazy:
Poor motherfucker thinks that truth and reality are not the same thing.
Citations needed. That Harvard link further down is cock blocked.
From one of their supporting sources:
“Transgender children reported depression and self-worth that did not differ from their matched-control or sibling peers (p = .311), and they reported marginally higher anxiety (p = .076). Compared with national averages, transgender children showed typical rates of depression (p = .290) and marginally higher rates of anxiety (p = .096). Parents similarly reported that their transgender children experienced more anxiety than children in the control groups (p = .002) and rated their transgender children as having equivalent levels of depression (p = .728).”
Uh, isn’t saying a p-value of .311 or .290 not exactly the same as getting a real conclusion? They have a good chance of being wrong there.
It’s not exactly a lifestyle that should be encouraged for the sake of a child’s long term mental health:
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFSP-Williams-Suicide-Report-Final.pdf
P values tell you whether you can reject the null hypothesis; what you prove (disprove) depends entirely on how the null hypothesis is constructed.
“Transgender children reported depression and self-worth that did not differ from their matched-control or sibling peers (p = .311).
I think what they’re saying here is that the null hypothesis = tranx kids depression is that same as the control group is rejected.
Forgive my not digging into this; I just don’t care. But my first sentence is very valuable even if I blew my every inference after it.
I don’t care because freedom has nothing to do with statistics; if 99% of guns can be proven to cause murders, that has nothing to do with my right to have one.
I’d be genuinely embarrassed to report a P value like that as though it means something.
Then again, we’ve established that these people have no shame.
“The reality could not be further from the truth.” – crazy dumbfuck
“Once a person is demoralized you cannot fix them. You are stuck with them.” – Yuri Bezmenov
This is all going to come back to bite them in the ass in the next 20 years when these kids are like wtf did you do to me you f’ng psycho assholes.
This is how you get “they/them” on their FB profiles.
“Left Wing Mobs: An Explainer”
https://twitter.com/i/moments/1051467831852830721
Left wing moobs. *Posts gif of Shirtless Schumer*
*projectile vomits*
*mixes ammonia & bleach*
Goddammit. I cant sit here. My dogs are farting the place up so bad the paint is peeling. What the hell? I just let them out.
Fart back at them.
Yeah sure, blame the dogs.