My apologies for brevity, I’m moving kinda slow this morning. Much alcohol, much superb food, much stimulating conversation with hyper-intelligent people, much late-night, not much sleep. The Wonder Dog was thrilled because she got pizza. She is less thrilled about the imminent drive back home today, trapped in the back seat for seven hours.
Today’s birthdays include foundational chef Auguste Escoffier, less-talented-brother Peter Hitchens, poorly-groomed Persian midget Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, and Clinton bagman Sandy Berger.
Enough about me, now let’s switch the subject to the news of the day.
I guess one way to tamp down all the conspiracy talk about a nutjob who made pretend bombs for mailing is to have another nutjob shoot up a shul. And of course, the bodies were still bleeding when the usual suspects started politicizing it. Trump suggests armed guards. I suggest armed citizens. So does this guy, but he’s fighting a useless battle, given European sentiments about Jews, Muslims, and self-reliance in general.
The effects of global warming killed more Jews yesterday than the Pittsburgh guy. At least I assume that global warming is being blamed.
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was killed in a plane crash. They’re making him an extra-wide tombstone to fit the name.
Shithead former president blasts shithead current president for being a shithead. It’s shitheads all the way down.
Weird shit shows up on beaches. I blame Trump.
We’ve made jokes about these things, but Beer It Forward can have devastating international repercussions.
The EU is so much more progressive and caring than we are. Yet again. Silly people, you should know better, keep your insults restricted the the Jew blood libels. At least their hands aren’t tied by some crappy old piece of parchment penned by a lot of old dead white guys like a hundred years ago or something.
Every time I start thinking well of Rand Paul, he manages to do or say something that forces me to remember that he’s first and foremost a politician, with things like consistent principles (like free trade) secondary to the same tired posturing of the rest of his cohorts.
Old Guy Music today is old, but not obscure. For whatever reason, this song was stuck in my head yesterday. So here’s my attempt to stick it in YOUR head today.
Oh man, I thought those pouches were going to turn out to be scrotums. “Phew!”
I was thinking of the same joke.
Not sure why that made the news. They are pretty common on NC beaches
– NC resident
Wait, sunday? Why am I at work.
Oh… right… for work.
RE: Rand Paul.
I don’t actually have a problem with this. Our cozy relationship with them has been a source of consternation to me for a long time (before 9/11); they’re scarcely better than Iran when it comes to the funding terror and sowing discord around the world. Yes, they buy a lot of weapons from us. I don’t see why they should be entitled to it though. The Khashoggi thing is a smokescreen, I think we should quit selling them weapons regardless of that.
US Defense Contractors will squash this though so it’ll be business as usual anyway.
I also agree. I see restriction arms sales as consistent with his Middle East policies. These policies will some times interfere with other policies like free trade.
Agreed on all counts.
Thirded (?)
I understand the “real politic” history of the US relations with Saudi Arabia. But, 15 of the 19 sleezebag 9/11 bombers came from the Kingdom, and they’ve been funding radical Wahhabism for decades. They’re still beheading political and religious prisoners in public, and then there’s Yemen. Fuck these tyrants.
They have money, a company has stuff to sell, it’s not the government’s business to get in the way.
Our government’s “relationship” with them is a separate matter.
^This^
No sooner had that idiot Justin declared himself a ‘male feminist’ (ie male bimbo – mimbo), his government struck a deal to sell arms to noted feminist nation Saudi Arabia.
Haven’t you seen all the thinkpieces about Islam being a feminist religion? Besides, Sadui women are protected from the Male Gaze, and have their own segregated spaces where men are not permitted.
I think Paul’s main issue with them is how they school their children.
Sunday Funday for shapely beauties.
http://archive.is/EtHhj
1 and done… damn.
Scrolling down nicely and then…#23 Gah. Bunny boiler.
Yikes. Yeah, without a doubt.
Thankfully she didn’t scare me away, because 33 is the winner
1, 19, 20
Yeah, 1 is all I need.
It is definitely shitheads all the way down.
Not exactly the most stable foundation.
I do like the idea of using them as rebar when building new DC buildings.
A politician can always be trusted, to be a politician. Reaching across the aisle is a meeting 1/2 way between 2 bad ideas.
“Reaching across the aisle is a meeting 1/2 way between 2 bad ideas.”
How does 15% royalties on the t-shirt sound?
I’ll get to work on the bumper stickers.
The ECHR ruled Austrian courts had “carefully balanced her right to freedom of expression with the right of others to have their religious feelings protected.”
“balanced”. Lol.
The proper balance is thusly: “Fuck your feelings.”
The EU ‘balance’ is: “Shut up, dhimmi.”
This
Wo wo wo feelings.
“We have free speech. Now, here is a list of things you are allowed to say.”
I dont think they have a good grasp of language.
“You are free to repeat the party line, comrade.”
Speaking of birthdays: Assuming she doesn’t die in the next 24 hours, silent-era child star Baby Peggy turns 100 tomorrow. TCM is spending Silent Sunday Nights with her movies, and I strongly recommend the documentary Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room at midnight tonight (ET, the real time zone). She was basically washed up at 7 through no fault of her own, although she was able to find happiness later in life. I can also recommend Captain January at 2:30 am.
Has there been any motives and or personal profiles for the Pitt shooter made to date. They had the Florida fire cracker’s life story 20min after he was identified.
It’s all Trump’s fault. Get with the program.
I’m starting to wonder if he was purely anti-Semite or a pro-Palestinian/anti-Zionist lefty… The latter would explain the lack of forthcoming details.
It’s because he was against Trump.
That would do it. No way to fit the narrative.
Even the high alcohol taxes of Iceland were no match for the US demand for beer!
Seriously, what is NATO doing that operation for in the first place? Russia? They just won’t let the cold war die.
Gotta get all that sweet government lucre.
From what I remember of my own time in Uncle Sam’s colors during the last years of the Cold War, at that time Iceland had strategic value for two reasons: Keflavik air base, which was built to stage B-52s out of on deep strike missions into the Soviet Union; and it was a hub in the G-I-UK SOSUS line for detecting and interdicting Soviet subs running for the open Atlantic.
These days, I’m not sure, but I suspect the SOSUS line is still operating and plenty of people probably would like to know what the Russians are up to with what’s left of their submarine fleet.
I think Admiral Ramius is planning to defect….
When WWIII inevitably arrives… I mean we know it will arrive soon because TRUMP! It should be fought in a beer drinking contest. I’ll volunteer. Even the Germans should quiver in fear.
We were just several months early.
LOSER
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/738604/Boob-job-surprise-boyfriend-girlfriend-break-up-relationship-plastic-surgery
I think he was looking for a way out and took the excuse.
Note, she keeps saying “I”, never “We”, as in it doesn’t sound like she ever got his input on any of those things.
This
My reflex is that this story is completely made up. All photos are clipart and the story sounds right out of a Dr. Phil episode.
Hey, you gotta crank out another edition every day, you have to put something in there.
The story may be lazy filler, but I don’t think it’s outright faked.
/dealt with too much stupid ‘drama’.
“I thought you were this strong, confident, kick-arse woman who was comfortable in her own skin and unapologetic about who she is.
“The fact that you needed to surgically alter your body in order to feel acceptable to the world – who, by the way, couldn’t give a s*** what you look like – tells me you’re not the woman I thought you were and I wish I could but I just don’t think I can get past that.”
Uh-huh.
My ex-wife got a boob job. They felt wierd. So I had these nice new set of tits to titty fuck and was so eager for Mr. Happy to break them in, but she had this aversion to me coming on them and body fluids in general.
I thought you were gone tulpa.
Don’t be silly, Tulpa, Tulpa never leaves.
Who are you calling tulpas, tulpas.
She does not sound like fun.
Christ, what an asshole!
Stock images? GTFO
This being 2018, before I clicked that link I wasn’t sure if it was the girlfriend or the boyfriend who got fake boobs installed.
If you didn’t already realize the WaPo was a worthless piece of toilet paper, read this.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/georgetown-prep-kavanaugh-confirmation-media-circus-damage/
“We were garishly described as an institution that “celebrated heavy drinking,” “a troubled, morally questionable symbol of a snobby elite [where] alcohol was an integral part of the school’s identity,” and a place where “disregard or mistreatment of women [was] widely accepted.” A “debauched . . . scene of cloistered young men.” And those are just a few such insults from the more than 60 articles that appeared about Prep in the Washington Post alone.”
Wow.
Yeah. And then this:
Christ, what a bunch of assholes.
I was thinking about the caravan and if Trump really wants it stopped.
Since the people organizing are involved in an obvious conspiracy to commit multiple illegal acts, the could be brought up on RICO charges. Start by charging everyone wearing a yellow vest and organizing the thing. If we could get a few of them in federal court, hopefully they would flip on their bosses.
Or just have the CIA ask the cartels to kill everyone wearing a vest.
“…the caravan and if Trump really wants it stopped.”
He already sent a hurricane to drown them all. What do you want?
“The nation is closed, folks! Moose out front should have told ya.”
It’ too late. I was in NOVA yesterday and looks like the caravan has already arrived.
The feds haven’t arrested and charged any of the numerous state and local government officials and employees with immigration related charges either. It’s all jawboning.
RICO would only apply if it could be proven that the organizers were doing this for financial gain. I’m guessing the NGOs are non-profits.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Watching the Dodgers/Red Sox final innings. It is amazing how a manager takes out a pitcher who is loose & dominating through almost 7 innings, Rich Hill of Dodgers, and brings in nervous reliever(s) who get shellacked. 4 run lead gone. Managers do it all the time, big mistake!
And they fall for the trap in the responses again.
Being a patient cheapskate pays off. Origin (shudder) has a big sale on so I snagged a double pack of deluxe editions for $19.99 – Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2. Now my Sunday is about to be wasted.
I have both of those from Origin Access account. Have never played Battlefield 1, but not a big fan of multiplayer shooters. It’s getting impossible these days to find anything I want. Was looking forward to RDR2 until found out it’s not coming out on PC. Then was looking forward to Fallout 76 beta, but then it looks like there’s no single player, at least not in beta.
ever. But bethesda keeps up the pretense that solo play on a private server might pretend to be so… eventually.
It won’t. The number of compromises and multiplayer focused elements will just keep nagging you that the devs hate the players.
No idea what they are doing. They already have Elder Scrolls online. Well, I’m out then. I can probably play AC Odyssey for another 200 hours.
Still more than I would have paid for either.
Prepares to utter snarky drollery about Citadel/Games Workshop getting all your loot, looks at shelves/in closets/in boxes under bed, in attic, in garage all full of wee little dudes going back to Rogue Trader days, remembers some old saw about glass houses, raises a glass to UnCivil and shouts WAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!.
I am working on diversifying my hobbies.
Just last night I ordered a blade blank, some corby bolts and some fake ivory scales.
Thread
Who did what to gab?
Get a blog, please.
TLDR: PayPal cut off Gab because the Pitt shooter used the service.
Then PayPal should have shut themselves down given how many bad people used their service.
I want to know if he paid taxes, so we can shut down the IRS.
Lets start a petition on this..
I don’t know the site. Could it be in any way construed with ‘right wing’? Because if that’s so, then we already know why they were singled out.
My understanding of Gab is that they don’t police speech on their site, which means Nazi.
TOS could be next then. I mean except for the fact that no one other than we Glibs and a few deranged trolls know who they are.
My understanding is that there is quite a bit of selection bias there. Because they don’t police speech at all, the most likely people to use it are those who cannot use other platforms that do. While there’s shit from both sides, since it’s known that Twitter is more lenient to lefties, its user base is more right leaning in general and some more extreme right leaning shitheads. So yes, this was almost assuredly political in some way.
If places like Gab didn’t exist, then people wouldn’t be able to express their bad ideas and so they wouldn’t have bad ideas./what progs think
+1 Orwell
Slatestarcodex had a good article about that someone posted last night. Short version is that if you create a platform where you commit to free speech, you’re going to wind up with a hell of a lot of objectionable speech. If your competition is biased on one side, then even reasonable people on the other side are going to wind up in the Nazi-riddled shithole simply because they’ve been chased out of the mainstream channels.
On the one hand, these are private companies and I believe they pretty much should be able to do what they want.
On the other hand, they seem to interpret their terms of service so that only one side of the political divide gets banned. They seem to be capricious and arbitrary in their enforcement of the terms of service. There is also a lot of actions that happen against a particular site/person all at the same time from multiple companies. I wonder if their is any civil or legal ramifications to what they are doing — or do they have too much money to be affected.
I was prepared for the birthdays to be a setup for a joke with the punchline “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, Her Lover”.
Great movie
North Carolina residents taking a stroll along one of the state’s many beaches may have noticed black, plastic-looking “pouches” on the shore.
These odd-looking objects — known by some as “mermaid’s purses” or “devil’s pocketbooks,” according to The News & Observer — may look like plastic, but officials with the Cape Hatteras National Seashore clarified Monday they aren’t at all.
Those aren’t new, they’ve been washing up on North Carolina beaches for a long time. Derangement is getting worse and the Sun will continue to rise in the East.
Those are a really common sight on Chesapeake beaches, too. There’s a ton of skate in the bay as you get down towards the ocean. You see them on the Atlantic coast up our way, too.
The local news site Vísir reports that the brewery Ölgerð Egils Skallagrímssonar, which makes the popular Gull, had to send out emergency supplies to the bars. According to the sources of Vísir, the soldiers preferred local beers over imports and were very willing to sample different microbrews as well as the more popular standard lagers.
Prediction: Baby boom in Iceland in nine months.
Iceland’s unique DNA corrupted forever.
First this sort of thing promotes cisheteropatriarchical rape culture.
Second is not don’t be a fool wrap your tool part of the training soldiers get?
No on the latter.
The Marines might knock up a few of the local ladies, but the Navy guys won’t. They are always sticking it the wrong hole. The non-baby hole. Just like they do at sea.
Hate to break it to you Jimbo, that wasn’t a lady.
On the plus side, the kid does look like Pan, so he could get a desk job somewhere.
A politician can always be trusted, to be a politician. Reaching across the aisle is a meeting 1/2 way between 2 bad ideas.
Whenever I hear the phrase “bipartisan consensus” my ass starts to hurt.
The word bipartisan should come with a complimentary supply of KY Jelly
All of the ‘bi-partisan’ bullshit during the Clinton and Bush admins almost killed off anything left of the Constitution. I for one, welcome our new partisan overlords.
Stupid earthquake woke me up last night. There ought to be a law against this sort of thing.
King Canute will get right on that once he’s done with the oceans.
Trump should at least schedule them for during daylight hours.
Right after the Mexican hurricane drowns most of the caravan, that’s when the earthquake finishes the job. /evil orange genius
I remember the last time an earthquake woke me up. I thought I was dreaming at first. Then when I realized I was awake. I thought it was my fat cat walking on the bed. So I’m saying ‘get off the bed’ and waving my arm around trying to find her so that I could push her off the bed. That’s when I realized the entire bed was moving horizontally from side to side. Jumped out of bed and out the patio doors. Cat right behind me, looking all freaked out and fur standing up. New Madrid fault shifting.
The lamp rattling woke me up in the preliminary phase so I was awake when the peak shaking was going on
There should be a law against mixing wine and beer…
Needz moar government mandated labeling.
“Warning, this label contains labels known to the State of California to cause apathy”
Whats the ratio? Red wine with dark beer and white with pale beer I assume?
Racist!
Light beer (Bud Light Platinum, fight me…), then switched to cheap chardonnay. Es no bueno the next morning.
Oh you speak of the myth that if you dring various things it is worse? Never understood why people think that
It’s proven science!
I’ve tried to debunk that so many times, but nobody seems to believe me.
Same thing with the notion that different kinds of alcohol get you different kinds of drunk, e.g. “tequila makes me angry“.
Tattoo this on some place you will see it often – “Life is too short to drink bad booze”
It’s not the mixing but the shit ingredients. Cheap beer and cheaper wine – that’s your problem.
Agree
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6325617/Demi-Rose-flashes-famous-curves-sexy-sheer-catsuit.html
I thought this demi phase passed?
/overrated
I think the term in Arkansas is “built like a brick shithouse”
It’s okay, Potato. She’s still a #would in my book fwiw.
I’m upset with the photographer. No shots from behind, or even the side? Fuck that guy.
More reasons to hate Public Enemy Number One: his asymmetrical responses to the junk mailer vs the largest mass political assassination attempt in American history.
Whatever happens, it’s Trump’s fault.
Stop Trying to Understand What Trump Says and Look at What His Followers Do
Are they really going to paint the guy with a document history of distaste for Trump as a Trump-loving antisemite? Fuck, I have had enough of peoples dishonesty.
1. Trump says media is enemy of American people.
2. Media says Trump is wrong.
3. Media doubles down in proving Trump right.
I had enough of CNN right around the time of the Arab Spring interlaced with global warming commercials every 5 minutes. Turned off, forever.
Ditto. I don’t watch cable news anymore. This means I miss out on some “news”, but I find that my overall quality of life is unaffected.
TW vietie signaling ahead:
Why the fuck do people watch television in the first place? Play GTA 5 as Lester and be your own protagonist.
There’s good tv, but there’s a whole hell of a lot of bad tv, too. But you’ve pretty much nailed why I’m a 40 year old man who plays video games all the time. I’ve always been an avid reader, but most TV bores the hell out of me. I’d rather be actively engaged even if I’m sitting on my ass.
Wife watched 99% of the TV in our house. Only to watch her Brazilian news and novelas. I think there will be a few more hours of AC Odyssey going on today, as much as that game sometimes pisses me off. Going to need some beer, obviously.
Something is wrong with my ‘s’ key. I keep getting D instead of S. Best pull if off and see what’s up…
How is Odyssey? I’ve got a massive backlog of games I’m working through–shit, I still haven’t finished Origins–but I’m intrigued. Black Friday’s comin’ up after all.
The Future Mr. Pi’s (sidenote: it’s official, there’s a ring, and she said yes :D) mother lives with us and watches TV all day. Salvadoran but same percentage of novellas.
For the other 1% she records Let’s Make A Deal and watches it every evening after dinner. I think she has a thing for Wayne Brady. *stares off into distance, ponders a moment, shakes head* Whatever.
Congrats Pi.
“How is Odyssey? ”
It’s a different game. I like it. But I think what makes it strange is that Ubisoft suddenly decided, apparently, that they are going to turn AC into an action RPG. Which is great for me, I love action RPGs. But they don’t really have much experience at that. Thus you get hate from both AC fans and RPG fans. Here’s my observation.
The map is absolutely gigantic. I see 200 hours of game play. Even people who have tried to rush the story and main quest to finish, are putting in 90 hours.
The game will kill your poor hardware. Even with a i7, 32G of system RAM, and a 1080ti, I can barely run it decently at 50-60 FPS with graphics maxed. I would much prefer 80+ FPS so ranged shots would be much easier.
The best graphics in gaming history. Makes TW3 look like pixel graphics.
The game is oddly balanced, so things like the following will happen. I was looking at available quests and found one that was level 14. I thought, I’ll knock this one out. It’s not a good idea to take a quest higher than your level because enemies at your own level seem overpowered. So I did that and then out pops 2 guys who are level 99 and wreck me in 2 hits. WTF?
#metoo
#youtoo get off my lawn.
Yup, haven’t missed watching cable news at all in the last few years. It’s been very relieving. I get enough histrionics and drama from the friends back home talking about said news anyways.
What I don’t get is why these “news” stations think that they need to pay big $$$ for a talking head. Does anyone really watch these stations because of a particular host? Has over paying ever really turned a big profit for these stations? Couric? Now Megyn Kelly?
The one thing I like about the BBC channels is that they call the talking heads presenters. Which is far more accurate than trying to call them journalists.
Ah so we’re going with the old, “find the small number of crazies in a group and paint them as the norm for that group” strategy. Somehow I don’t think claiming the guy who shot up a softball game as a typical lefty will be in the news cycle anytime soon.
But of course, that was just an act of spontaneous rage. He could have just as well shot up the Democratic soft ball team.
Since he shot Republicans, his rage was practically justified. I mean, he only killed a couple of Capitol Police nobodies right?
Like I’ve said before, the guy just happened to decide to start shooting and strange enough, all the people he was shooting at happened to be GOP congressmen. Totally random!
I heard he didn’t even make the decision, but the evil, fully-semi-automatic assault weapon took control of his mind and started shooting.
WTF? A “public safety exception” to Miranda?
TICKING TIME BOMB!!!!!!11
They should get rid of Miranda and just make pigs personally liable for violating someone’s rights. Get rid of the pigs dejure unlimited immunity
The speeches were among Obama’s sharpest and most direct takedowns of Trump’s presidency
They are more like fantasy from a raging narcissist with a messiah complex.
Whether or not you agree with deplatforming Gab, it is a concern that this was not a government action, represented by our elected officials, but a pure, corporate power play.
Kkkorporashunz are evul.
Why are Philly/Jacksonville playing? Another London game?
More importantly, why is philly not winning?
Why would Phaildelphia win?
Because Jacksonville?
Injuries, Superbowl hangover, not playing to their potential…who knows? All I know is I’ve got my money on the Jags, who I suspect aren’t as bad as they seem.
Jacksonville’s DEF has given up the 2nd fewest yards/game and the 8th fewest points/game. They’re legit.
Now there’s some pontificating douchebag from the ADL lecturing me, via Meet the Press.
A huge rise in antisemitism which correlates precisely to the Rise of Trump.
Isn’t it proggies that are all up on the “free Palestine” anti-Israel train? If anyone is antisemitic, it’s them.
There is definitely an anti-Semitic streak on the Left. There’s the anti-Israel camp as well as some pretty disgusting rhetoric from the black nationalist wing. Hell, I’ve long said that if you take a Hitler speech and swap out “Jews” with “the rich”, it’s basically a Bernie Sanders speech.
PS: As someone whose mother is 1 percent Jewish according to a DNA test, I found this topic highly triggering.
They can’t possibly be claiming that.
Don’t you remember all the extra hate crimes where jews were being threatened?
Sure one of them was done by a teen in Israel,and the other a crazy journalist, but it was totes cause of trump. narrative!
Rufus, you’re assuming reality sometimes intercedes with their claims and/or their thoughts on politics.
Utter bullshit. The left have been spouting anti Jewish shit for as long as I can remember. I’ve never heard any of that from the right. Lying liars lie.
Ask him what the climate for Jews is like in Europe lately and how all the new arrivals feel about Jews. Ask him also which NGOs and quangos supported those new arrivals. Ask him further about Trump’s relationship with those NGOs and quangos.
Calling Trump anti-Semitic is SO FUCKING STUPID it boggles the mind. These are people who hate Trump with such ferocity they will literally believe he’s to blame for everything bad that happens in the country.
They’ve completely lost any sort of planning when it comes to lying. They just lie without any thought of how it’s going to sound to the public or how they’re going to justify it. Trump has them completely deranged.
Well we’re at the point where the people they’re targeting with their lies accept anything uncritically and with out question. Why would they bother to even try to make their lies believable.
Now I have to agree with these buttheads.
“BREAKING: @joyent which is the hosting provider of @getongab has just banned Gab from using their hosting service. This comes after it emerged the terrorist in Pittsburgh had a Gab account, but he also had a facebook account. No action has been taken against facebook.”
https://twitter.com/PeterSweden7/status/1056372914885455873
“The FCC never pulled the licenses of the networks that talked America into endless wars. Their hosting providers never dumped them. This is just about eliminating competition.”
https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1056371754136887296
I just created an account with them.
It’s times like these in which libertarian boda fides are put to the test. As much as I may not like it, it’s Paypal et. al.’s right to dump Gab. HOWEVER, the lack of consistency punishing other platforms is annoying.
I wonder if there is some legal/contractual liability for selective enforcement, though I imagine it could be tough to show that the heightened enforcement was intentional.
The funny thing is who is joylent? Now I know to never use them as a host. I get that this has happened to Gab before, so they had to go with an obscure provider, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard of them. They seem to be trying to hit above their weight.
At the risk of incurring the wrath of the other football (real football not handegg) fans here, I love my gunners right now. Terrible start but they just keep coming from behind and winning. Two stunning and dramatic goals and going for 12 wins in a row in all comps.
That is a team I have literally no opinion of. I like Tottenham, I loathe Chelsea. Arsenal? Meh.
Ok, Straffinrun and I agreed to both make a monster cake inspired by https://m.imgur.com/MNLq3Lu. So here’s an album of my results. I ran out of frosting. https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipMwvksySDwvcSU4KJN8i1hVGU0UifGQDz1qfYZ3
Let’s see if that works.
The cake is Martha Stewart’s pumpkin layer cake with cream cheese frosting.
For me it does not work.
How about this https://photos.app.goo.gl/P28NiHsnugVCrxuWA
That works but it consist of nude photography
I really hope you’re kidding.
Made you look
Made me look
Also the cream is orange. In the original it was purple
Inspired, not a duplicate.
That is delightfully hilarious!
That looks really great, Tulip. Fun!
Blocked from work 🙁
Wow. Google photos is blocked? They really have it screwed down tight.
Your monsters are much better than the original, looks great.
Yay! Now I can share photos here! Well, off to steam clean my kitchen. Powdered sugar gets everywhere.
Very nice!
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very Cool!
These Americans fled the country to escape their giant student debt.
He’ll be wishing for a Walmart soon.
I think I see the problem.
I really though comparative literature would open all sorts of door in the job market
It used to, but then all the big comparative literature corporations outsourced everything to China.
“Philosophy” as a major is for people who are not going to do anything productive. If you’re not already rich, you’ll be poor.
The whole “I couldn’t get a job in my field” didn’t convince you to, you know, maybe study skills you can market instead?
He thought he would become, eventually, a tenured professor. ‘Cause everyone knows that market is totally unsaturated.
You mean studying Philosophy didn’t teach him how to think?
With a master’s degree, so he doesn’t even understand the basics of academia.
My brother in law got a philosophy degree. And then worked as a phlebotomist. When people would ask him why he was doing that, he’d blandly respond, “The year I graduated, US Philosophy Corporation wasn’t hiring.”
I may have been a bit harsh. Some people do learn and acquire a useful trade when they trip over reality.
my brother in law also is in the drawing blood business,
You’re angling for a Romanian joke, aren’t you?
Lawyer?
My kid’s initial post-high-school goal is phlebotomy.
It’s a good plan. Decent money and plenty of opportunity to expand/advance in the medical profession.
She wanted to go into medicine, but does not have the discipline for medical or nursing school. But I was desperate to give her something to work TOWARD, not just randomly stumble through high school. I don’t know where I came up with phlebotomy, but it rang the bell and she’s totally on board.
She is taking a biomed science class her high school offers. Generally, she is doing MUCH better than she did last year.
Then I talked to a student vampire and found out it was even easier to get into than I assumed.
I know a guy who transitioned from phlebotomist to doing sales for the company doing the blood tests and he makes giant piles of money.
I don’t know if she has the temperament for sales, but the student vampire whose brain I picked said there were plenty of places upward to go from phlebotomy.
he said his difficultly finding a college-level job
Define ‘college-level’. I’d wager this person studied something that did not provide marketable knowledge and skills.
Philosophy and Comparative Literature.
I was led to believe that those were the paths to get large stacks of money, as well as people of your preferred gender throwing themselves at you.
The college-industrial complex has done an frighteningly good job of convincing people that:
– A college degree is always a good investment, no matter what it is for
– If you don’t find a good job with your college degree, you need to do some more college.
I saw this article yesterday, I don’t know why we are supposed to feel bad for these layabouts who stole money from their creditors, and eventually poor families who couldn’t afford to send their kids to college.
I do believe U.S. student-loan debt is a major problem. It is clear that college tuition, like health insurance, increases every year much faster than inflation. Like health insurance, our student-loan system is inherently broken. It might have something to do with the feds.
“Chad Haag considered living in a cave to escape his student debt. He had a friend doing it.”
Pffft, bullshit.
“Hey Chad, how’s it going?”
“Not great, man, got all this debt, I need a place to crash. Can I use your couch.”
“Umm… err… I’m sorry, dude, I’m living in a cave because of all the debt I’ve got. No couch.”
“Bummer.”
Interesting nonsense reformulation of a cliche…
Is it a tree than which nothing greater can be conceived?
Republicans are stoking hatred and fear among their base, unlike Democrats.
And in unrelated news, we are in the middle of a Nazi takeover of the country, aided by a hostel foreigner power, and by the way it’s completely justifiable to punch Nazis in the face.
But see that’s not “stoking hatred and fear” because it’s all true!
It still baffles and somewhat angers me that they (leftists) say such things with a straight face.
“Well, We’re doing it, so they must be too, it’s just that they’re hiding it better!”
Projection is a disease among them.
For no raisin, Riot.
They know their Alinsky.
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You mean studying Philosophy didn’t teach him how to think?
“I think, therefor I deserve a guaranteed income.”
If a man studies philosophy and nobody is there to hire him, does he really exist?
Romanians buy old second hand cars from the west and modify them. This is the machine gun equivalent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-idw-MCOXA
@Pi Guy
CONGRATULATIONS!
Thank you!
Dave Edmunds
“The Trump era has definitely emboldened some people on the right to be more openly anti-Semitic, but it’s not because Trump himself is anti-Semitic. It’s because Trump embodies the “never apologize for anything” attitude and the idea that “they’ll call you anti-Semitic anyway.””
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1056320397438791680
“Last week there was silence from all these thinkers on the radical left about Farrakhan calling us termites. Now all of them come out to accuse Trump. If you didn’t unequivocally condemned Farrakhan, Sarsour and Mallory, don’t you dare accuse others of this tragedy.”
https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1056368871274373126
Why did I read the comments.
“The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.”
American political discourse in a nutshell
Why should I change when they’re the ones who suck?
Huh, from that thread I’m getting that they’re going to push the criticism of Soros is anti Semitic angle. They just can’t help themselves can they?
Good thing Soros never did anything that could be considered anti-Semetic.
Some isn’t, but you have to admit that a healthy percentage does overegg the pudding.
You and your pudding
Yup. This shooter could have been a white supremacist, or pro-palistine guy, or something else (I haven’t been following it). But the fact is Trump is neither. But that doesn’t stop the left from calling you one. So why bother trying to appease them if even a guy who isn’t a white supremacist gets called one.
Remember that time the media called everyone who wanted to NOT bomb Syria a bunch of white supremacists, cause they didn’t want to go to war too.
So not bombing brown people makes you a white spremacist.
This guy is an intellectual giant.
“Don’t use the fact he didn’t like Trump as a reason to excuse Trump. He didn’t like Trump not because he didn’t like Trump’s policies but because Trump had too many Jews around him. Trump still incited him with the caravan bs.”
his difficultly finding a college-level job
That makes no sense; there’s a Starbucks on practically every corner.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1056394547637485574
“So that’s the guy on the five-dollar bill?”
Donald, last night, “Before going any further I want to address the horrible shooting that took place earlier today. The hearts of all Americans are filled with grief following the monstrous killing of Jewish Americans at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This evil anti-Semitic attack is an assault on all of us. It’s an assault on humanity. It will require all of us working together to extract the hateful poison of anti-Semitism from our world. This was an anti-Semitic attack at its worst. The scourge of anti-Semitism cannot be ignored, cannot be tolerated and cannot be allowed to continue. We can’t allow it to continue. It must be confronted and condemned everywhere it rears its very ugly head. We must stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters to defeat anti-Semitism and vanquish the forces of hate. That’s what it is.
Through the centuries the Jews have endured terrible persecution. And you know that. We’ve all read it. We’ve studied it. They’ve gone through a lot. And those seeking their destruction — we will seek their destruction.”
He wants to kill all the Muslims!
Only the ones who want to wipe out the Jews…
Oh.
Don’t read the responses.
You’re not the boss of me.
*reads responses*
OK, OK, you were right.
Those are great. I love the crazies that claim the parties “switched positions”. Their lips are red from all the coolaid.
I’m confused – was that before or after Democrat hero FDR put Japanese people in concentration camps?
Brew day 2 is starting, just getting ready to mash in.
Because it is Sunday morning, some Sunday Morning Stout.
That’s a big boozy beast to start your day with.
I’m sipping it. I’ve been up for a few hours already. I’ve had a big breakfast, some tea with honey and lemon (but no water of life). It’s time for a beer.
Rehydration now, first beer after the hot break in the brew kettle (classic rule that I’ve held to for a long time). The mild has a long mash time, so I’ve got almost two hours before I crack the first one.
https://twitter.com/bmblb83/status/1056359951998820355
WTF?
Base Commander Jack D Ripper is that you?
Wait, y’all don’t do that? I thought everybody did that.
I enjoy the process of jizzing on something, then keeping it around.
Yeah, but I eventually divorced her.
I hate myself for clicking on that.
With Halloween coming up, dust off the display, clear the pr0n cookies, and gather the kids around for Will Vinton’s Claymation Comedy of Horrors .
Its as much a requirement here at the Chez Tres Palatial 2X-wide as Christmas Story is in December.
…oh, you mean browser cookies.
I thought you’d taken up erotic baking for a moment.
Im committed to that low-carb keto-esque lifestyle. Ive only had 1 slice of bread since Aug. 15th.
Wow!
*takes another bite of breakfast pizza*
You poor bastard.
*leaves cyanide capsule for Tres*
Yeah….your pretzel-rolls were nearly my un-doing.
You need to pick up low carb baking.
https://smile.amazon.com/photos/share/ah6S8b5iq4LRHkVTY5GkUPMRj8ANXxWNqxlxBCyqYJa
Pulled pork and cheese breakfast biscuit. Very keto.
Ive messed with the faux pizza crust and breadsticks made from cauliflower. Im a big fan of the fake mashed potatoes which, while not tasting like potatoes, are a really great way to eat cauliflower.
The biscuit above was made with almond flour & golden flaxseed. Comes out crispy and delicious.
I’ve tried some of those caulk faux mashed potatos, very bland. Needed lots of butter and seasoning to perk them up.
butter, cream, and piles of garlic
Try Scotch eggs for a great keto breakfast – a carb-free amazing dish that is essentially an egg cooked inside a ball of sausage. My keto-ing sister turned me on to these. Don’t include the breadcrumbs listed in most online recipes.
My wife makes those biscuits. Very keto, very delicious.
But is the capsule gluten-free?
Surprise
There are numerous such examples, but there is one unifying theme: Fragmentation of resources and information-sharing has never stopped a violent act, whether it be crime or terrorism. At some point, it makes sense to create a single resource, agency or capability to solve a very large problem.
That point, that time, is today. As much as I love my law enforcement brothers and sisters, the problem of mining social media for indicators and warnings of potential acts of violence or terrorism has exceeded the capacity of state and local law enforcement to monitor, manage and respond. Just as it took John Dillinger to help reform the laws on interstate crimes like bank robbery, the arrest of Robert Bowers should help the American public to reform and rethink how we handle social media.
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Artificial intelligence has the promise of sorting through mountains of data points to find that blinking red light, that needle, buried in a sea of other blinking lights. Machine learning can increase the speed and precision of the human decision-making loop. Yet, none of these technologies and approaches can work if done in a fragmented, uncoordinated way.
The deliberate application of technology can be used to help solve a very big problem, but it will have to be at the federal level. The concept of national fusion centers has some promise, but there are only 70 of them to cover 50 states, 3,200 counties and 19,000 cities.
When you go looking for a needle in a haystack, it’s a waste of time to make the haystack smaller. You need a bigger magnet. The government needs to come up with that bigger magnet.
Federal snooping needs to be expanded and consolidated, because that will make
us saferfederal agencies more important and powerful.Fuck that guy.
Seriously this response makes me more mad than any bad faith blame by leftists.
Is this your first experience with LAW ‘N ORDER?
A federal agency that monitors political speech… What could possibly go wrong??
Although I gotta say, it would be funny if their “hate speech algorithm” dredged up a bunch of Lefties spewing talk about violence (as they are wont to do). But I’m sure the manual reviewers would just toss it out as non-pertinent.
Hey Pie, you still around? I picked up a bottle of Ardbeg yesterday. OMG, smokey. I like it, thanks for mentioning it.
If you find a bottle of their “Perpetuum” on the shelves, buy it.
Noted.
I like the uigeadail never had perpetuum but googling it looks kinda out of my budget
I did not die yet. I am 34 so I hope i have at least 5 more years.
Save up your coins and get a bottle of their “Corryvreckan”.
I am unsure if i prefer it to the uigeadail
Here’s a question for the more navally-versed among us.
Is it workable to build a half-galley (that is a ship with proper rigging and a smaller compliment of oars than a true galley) with the row-deck high enough that the ship can make oceanic voyages under sail?
how Many slavers do you have?
Slaves. Damn you new iPhone update.
A lot. The setting is rife with slaves, someone has to be trading in them.
In general slaves make bad rowers. A lot of historical galleys had free men rowing even in slave societies. Although there were slave rowers as well.
The ship in question isn’t using slaves, I was answering the sarcastic comment.
Not even slave girls to keep the men entertained?
Yes, the Vikings did it, and it is still Dangerous as fuck
The vikings used dangerous, low ships. I was talking more of a hybrid caravel/galiot with a high freeboard and oars.
A truly ocean going ship? Like in the Atlantic? Seems like a hybrid galley like that would sink pretty quick. I’d think it could be done bit it’d be a deathtrap.
It must be since they all were so happy living in the worker’s paradise:
Communism causes heavy drinking
Look so I have a glas of wine or five once in a while. I aint about to be judged buy you bunch of drunks here
That’s what made the sex so great.
The latest conspiracy theory concerning the Gab shutdown is that there was already a movement to shut it down because of child porn being posted there–which Gab allowed so that they would be shut down so that they could beg for more money, since their funding is based on fleecing supporters of Free Speech.