Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all had a good weekend. We went to a carnival at a local church and dropped $100 amazingly fast. My kids did get to ride a Ferris Wheel and none of the rides collapsed, so net win. Also, the Texans stole a victory in Denver. I’d say the Denver coach drastically over-estimated his kicker’s ability.
I’m going to assume that “insensitive” in this context means “too effective”. “NBC backtracks, will no longer air controversial Trump ad”
This is good news. Kids with “polio-like” illness able to walk again after new surgery. Fuck you, nature! Humanity is going to win!
I’m not saying its Moties, but on the gripping hand, I’m practicing verbalizing “Fyunch(click)”. Reference here for any sci-fi Luddites.
Good luck, soldier. Even if you aren’t successful in crossing Antarctica alone, I hope you have Shackletons’s luck and come home safe.
Here’s one from the archives on “how to front a band”
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Because this amuses me
needs a wig
I feel like it’d be funnier in reverse.
So that’s 2,000 viewers that won’t see the Trump ad.
bam
It’s like they want to give Trump free advertising. I wouldn’t be aware of the ad if they hadn’t banned it.
Streisand effect.
I’m sure you are right. I’ll add that I saw the ad on television. I think it’s offensive, but not racist, because Trump is overplaying the immigration shtick. NBC pulls the ad and now I’m sympathetic to Trump. Nice work jackasses.
“Kids with “polio-like” illness able to walk again after new surgery”
Oh man, I haven’t seen good news in forever.
I’m not crying- you are, pussy
hope you have Shackletons’s luck and come home safe.
*holds beer up in solidarity *
Damn those guys went through a lot!
Meth Monday
Damn. There are a ton of trains where I live and a ton of Crossfit hipsters. I’m going to see if I can make this a new WOD
Somebody responded: “So someone films this shit, instead of getting out to try and talk some sense into him?”
He kinda looks like a guy that would stab anyone who tried to talk some sense into him, so… yeah?
Seems like breaking his concentration would be more dangerous.
Yeah, there’s some sort of amphetamine involved there.
If it is Moties, we’re screwed. If it wasn’t for the Murcheson’s Eye bottleneck, I don’t think even the First Empire of Man at its height, much less the second could have held them.
What if it’s the Foot?
That would be awesome. Somebody please record the hot-launch of the Orion from Seattle.
Heh… that’s what always runs through my mind when people say we couldn’t handle an asteroid even if we had warning.
If it came down to it, we know how to build an Orion. And we know an Orion can, if nothing else, push a lot of mass aside. It all comes down to how much the launch would mess up the planet versus whatever we’re trying to stop. Honestly, given the small impacts of the various testing over the years, I think there’s a solid case to be made that taking the hit for one good Orion launch to really get a well planned industrial station in orbit for asteroid mining and comet harvesting is worth it.
Back on pseudo-topic… I’m not entirely sure how well we’d end up against the Fithp these days. Lots of ramping down from the Cold War and overextending the Guard means I think their beachheads would do better in the States. On the plus side, I think the rest of the world would do a bit better if they didn’t get drowned by the Foot.
The Guard is a joke these days and has had most of their mech firepower stripped out. On the other hand, those mech units were obliterated with kinetic bars before they did any good. On the gripping hand, lots more civilian gun ownership now and plenty of vets and serious shooters around to guerrilla war the elephants.
I don’t know. I still think Orion is the best way to establish a beach-head in orbit for commercial purposes and development. We’re not gonna get anywhere very fast for asteroid mining, etc – without a proper orbital platform. I think as a joint/coalition effort to get a cubic city block in space, it’d be worth it environmentally – particularly if we launched from say….the middle of the sahara or the Gobi or somewhere else. We’ve got low yield options and I think it’s worth the costs as at least a one-time thing to get the mass and raw materials into orbit before we let the bots start going to work.
Our supply of sewer-dwelling turtles is down since the end of the cold war, but we’ve transitioned to pizza-rat and smoking crabs so we’ll be ok.
Good luck, soldier. Even if you aren’t successful in crossing Antarctica alone, I hope you have Shackletons’s luck and come home safe.
Just keep away from Mountains of Madness and he’ll do fine.
Its a good thing I didn’t have money in my 20’s, because this is something I would have tried and probably died.
I never thought I’d see the day that NBC hacks an election just like the Russians did.
To be fair, it was nearly every media outlet. CNN began it by insisting that the ad was racist and then writing articles about other stations airing the ad. They got Fox to stop showing it.
Seems like CNN did some political work on behalf of Democrats, which would require disclosure
CNN has also been leading the charge to purge Youtube and Facebook of wrongthinkers,
“After further review we recognize the insensitive nature of the ad and have decided to cease airing it across our properties as soon as possible,” an NBCUniversal spokesperson said in a statement.
Huh. I had no idea there was a “sensitivity” clause in effect for political ads. I guess this is why we need the FCC and three officially sanctioned news outlets.
That’s an unfair characterization. They were applying their standards for ads being too racist, which standards were totally not just pulled out of their ass.
Portraying a group of violent immigrants as a threat is racist. Showing an elderly woman in a wheelchair being thrown off a cliff is totally fine though.
Mammary Monday bounces onward to raise your heartrate and stiffen your… resolve.
http://archive.is/jbpEh
Motorboat war between 14 and 27.
That looked more like Jailbait Jamboree. Lemmy Lives!
There needs to be a couple of ID checks in there and somebody get 25 a sammich, STAT.
I’m pretty sure 55 is a profile pic for an AMP.
#5 knows how to set a table.
#3 is just cute S hell.
Alternatively, it could be whales.
Appropriate music for Moties link.
I was just wandering around the shop, thinking about all the things I want to do and NEED to do before the snow comes to stay. What needs to be inside, and what needs to be outside. I’m going into brainlock.
“Before the snow comes to stay.”
LOLOL
/Virginian
“Snow? I better buy six gallons of milk right away!!!!”
/Virginian
For the love of god do not forget the 6 loaves of bread! //Virginian
It’s been solidly dark for an hour …. fuck daylight savings times.
It would have been just as dark right now if there was never a Daylight Saving time, as we’re in Standard Time now.
Time has come today.
Yes. Fuck daylight savings.
I think this is the actual ad that got pulled. Nothing in it that wasn’t already in the news.
Your judgement is irrelevant, you don’t have the special racism detection glasses.
New handle!
In the last 5 or 6 years, I’ve given up on my up-till-then unbroken streak of finishing every novel I ever picked up (that wasn’t assigned by a high-school English teacher.) This is new for me, so I’m excited to announce that I have found exactly how bad a book can be for me to finish it. This answer is exactly as bad as Steel World.
I swear to God, this book is the grey man of mil sci-fi. The protagonist has no personality and low-key Marry Sue’s his way from one uninterrupted success to another, but never is so Marry Sue that it rises to the level of being offensive. The colorful cast of characters are.. well at least you can tell them apart.
But the setting – blagh. It has more special pleading that.. a thing with a lot of special pleading… because the technology would break the story the author wants to tell. Which he should have let happen, because the author imbues the book with all the been-there-done-that military realism that I would (note – I went to grad school, not the military, but I did play a fair bit of GI Joes.) This book should be labeled “EXTRUDED MILITARY SCI-FI PRODUCT,” except that seems like the kind of thing that could happen with military equipment, so this book wouldn’t have that. And it looks like the author BV Larson turns out about a couple of these kinds of books every month.
I paid exactly $0.00 for the audiobook, and that is exactly what it is worth. I’ll finish it, but I’m not picking up the sequel, which I also got for free.
PS – Read the Galaxy’s Edge series in stead. This is like that series, except with all the good parts removed.
It’s only mil-SF on a coin toss, though. At least, I prefer all the non-Legion parts (including the ‘special Ops’ parts that are technically MSF I guess).
It’s pretty good, though. Even if the last book so far has been pretty much “OH NO, PRISMA, DON’T!”
Having never read her, I decided to try an Ursula LeGuin audiobook from the digital library. 45 minutes later I deleted it when I realized I had stopped listening 30 minutes earlier.
Don’t know the title you tried, but would recommend giving Ursula LeGuin another go; she’s not considered one of the greats for nothing 😉
She got a little too hippie (for lack of a better word) for me later on but her early stuff is classic.
“The protagonist has no personality and low-key Marry Sue’s his way from one uninterrupted success to another,”
Ready Player One, then.
I had never heard that term until the last couple Star Wars disasters.
Thank you no. Did it once, and that book had no redeeming value.
I actually enjoyed the movie somewhat. The book was crap.
*shrug* Didn’t watch the movie. If I sit down for an entire movie, it needs to be something with true artistic merit. Like Scorpion King or the first Hellboy movie.
It was a fun movie. Kind of better than the book in that manner.
To be fair, I watched it on a plane ride, so my standards were “better than reading technical documents”.
At the minimum, Spielberg can tell a story.
I got through two chapters of Dune once.
Muad’dib is disappoint
Made it through Dune, then started the sequel and hit a wall.
I made it thru God Emperor and didn’t care about the universe any more, so never read Heretics or Chapterhouse. Or any of the prequels, because I am not stupid.
I muddled my way through Children, then bounced hard off the beginning of God Emperor and never went back.
If Herbert really wanted to explore more of the setting and his ideas, he should have skipped over direct sequels and picked up the story 300 years later. Original Dune just ends so well, continuing with the same characters seems unnecessary.
That is …. ummm … what?
I haven’t read Dune in about a decade, and it worries me, as I might not have it memorized* any more.
*not really, but pretty damn close.
So you failed the Gom Jabbar?
If you want a good Cliffs Notes version, listen to Iron Maiden To Tame a Land. It’s got all the essential parts.
Seems like CNN did some political work on behalf of Democrats, which would require disclosure
Speaking of advocacy disguised as journalism, there was a long adoring Jon Tester tongue bath in the Atlantic recently. I wonder if anybody assigned a dollar value to that and declared it as a campaign contribution. Montana campaign finance laws are pretty strict.
Iowahawk on the new, creepy, vote-shaming apps
That’s fucking insane.
These people are officially more fundamentalist asshole than the socons have been in the last half century.
Yep, they are the new Puritans.
Some days I’m surprised this hasn’t turned into a shooting war yet. I feel like I would have to use almost all of my restraint to not shoot somebody who nagged me about not voting.
It is a shooting-people and running-them-over-with-cars war already trashy.
As long as it isn’t a “say mean things about them on Twitter” war, there is still hope.
My wife got one of those mailings that says you didn’t vote last election we see. It made her mad and she decided not to vote again.
Incentives, how do they work? Was she targeted by people who might actually understand that?
She is registered NPA. I don’t remember who the mailer was from.
My wife has been getting those notices once a week for about 6 weeks. Last week she was rated below average in voting, only 2 out of the last 5. Tomorrow she’s voting against Ellison, she has no idea of any other offices/candidates, only she’s voting against Ellison, because she’s an Asian racis.
I’m sure she’ll be in and out in a couple minutes, just casting her participation piece of paper and get off the shitlist she is apparently on. I, on the other hand, am not on any list, including registered voters. I explained that and the reason why to a hack wanting me to vote for someone for sheriff.
You know what’s more of a civic duty than voting? Not being a fucking Orwellian creep to your fellow citizens
Well said.
Time for a choose your own adventure game:
“Yeah,” Jack said, “but that doesn’t help me because…”
If Jack is a cynical political operative with a D after his name, turn to page 84, which says “…low information voters disproportionately vote for my guy. And we need those voters too stupid and lazy to make it to the poles themselves.”
If Jack is a rube, turn to page 77, which says “…conspicuous enforcement of social norms raises my status in the opinion of my peers.”
Just kidding, If Jack is a rube, he wouldn’t use words with more than six letters.
“Jack is a rube, he wouldn’t use words with more than six letters”
Hey, hey, hey, I resemble that remark. Its not that I wouldn’t use words with more than six letters, its just that I don’t know any.
He says, using several seven letter words.
He can’t count that high, either.
When four score years you reach, count as good you will not,
Both sides pushed mailers stating “voting is a matter of public record…” in the Las Vegas area.
Which baffles me to no extent
I got the lift installed on my Tacoma Saturday (old man emu 3 inch lift with Dakar HD leafs). I discovered muscles I never knew I had, because I’m sore head to toe. On the plus side, I made $8.50 for scraping the old suspension.
Stock wheels?
For now. My BFG KO’s still have a lot of tread left. When it’s time for new tires I’m going to go from 16 to 18 or 20 inch wheels with the KO 2 tires.
I didn’t realize that the KO2s had the mountain/snow rating when I bought them. It’s a nice added bonus.
I’ve been happy with the KOs. Good grip and long life.
I love them.
We have questionable pavement and steep hills around here. I haven’t had slippage once.
They were applying their standards for ads being too racist, which standards were totally not just pulled out of their ass.
If the DNC tried to run an ad with photos of black people (like Kanye) in MAGA hats with a voiceover saying, “Don’t be like these ignorant Uncle Tom race traitors, vote Democrat” I can only assume CNN and NBC would accuse them of racism.
DNC is not that stupid, though. Why give free publicity to that which you don’t want others to know is possible.
Last week, I had a very brief discussion here on whether someone who believed in traditional morals, values and mores, but didn’t want the government at all involved in their enforcement would properly be considered a “social conservative”. I can see why someone would say they would. The person in question has views on social issues that would obviously be seen as conservative. But, I don’t think it works. We use “social conservative” mostly in a political context. And the person in question certainly doesn’t have political demands on social issues that would fit with that agenda. Heck, by that definition, there’d be a huge numbers of libertarians who would be considered social conservatives. I think a more apt description might be “libertarian traditionalist”. Anyone have any thoughts?
My first thought is that to a very large portion of the electorate, not wishing the government to enforce your particular set of morals is an enigma to them. They just don’t grok it.
You’ve described me* and I call myself a social conservative.
“We use “social conservative” mostly in a political context.”
Who’s we, kemosabi? There is more to life than using the state to enforce morality. I prefer persuasion and social pressure.
The problem becomes that social conservative has been conflated with moral majoritarian (aka the Ed Meese and Ralph Reed Show)
When most people refer to social conservatives, there’s definitely an implied assumption that we’re talking about people interested in legislating an agenda. Whether fair or not, it’s pretty much common parlance.
In the political sphere, that’s true. But among the social conservatives that I know, who aren’t political junkies, they don’t necessarily mean pushing legislative agendas. Sometimes they do (aka abortion) but not always. If your only exposure is to social conservatives in political junkie spaces like this, you’ll think they are all political junkies. If your only exposure to them is in a church, you’ll think they are all church goers. etc.
And usually it is seen as pejorative.
Yes, if they are an interfering busybody who don’t want government involved on account of it being less certain than knowing they can punish you socially much more effectively without all the stupid written-down rules, “social conservative” sounds good to me.
Also, even if one doesn’t want to involve the government, If one tries to get others involved in enforcing those moral choices through social pressure, shaming, shunning hectoring etc.. Some of the recruits are going to get tired of not succeeding through those methods and turn to force. Not wanting government involvement means little when the end result of your actions is going to be government involvement.
Trashy had a great write up on this… restrictionist vs. something?
I’m in the camp that people’s actions insofar as government regulation should strictly be governed by the NAP. If you wanna throw 24/7 cocaine-fueled furry yiffing scat parties be my guest. That doesn’t mean I think all actions are equivalent when it comes to happiness. Traditional values and morals survived an evolutionary process like biological organisms did. They seem to be the most effective at producing the best outcomes for happiness and stability for the most people. Do they apply to everyone? No. Am a utilitarian fuckstick who thinks the government should enforce them? Hell no. Heaven knows I don’t fit into such a category. But I acknowledge that traditional, bourgeois morals create the most functional society and the largest segment of happy, contented people.
If you wanna throw 24/7 cocaine-fueled furry yiffing scat parties be my guest.
NAP question – all the scat is strictly on this person’s property but man does it waft over when the wind blows northerly – NAP violation?
Furry music is not loud enough to keep you up, but your next-door neighbor says that it does keep him up and has been affecting his work – NAP violation?
I’m serious – I never heard of Holy NAP until I started hanging around here, and it seems to me that it is either meaningless or a semantic masturbation. Not that it’s different from most simple ethics proposals, but I’m genuinely curious.
“all the scat is strictly on this person’s property but man does it waft over when the wind blows northerly – NAP violation?”
Most NAP-peddlers generally agree that pollution is a form of aggression, and I’d consider that pollution, so I would say yes.
“your next-door neighbor says that it does keep him up and has been affecting his work – NAP violation?”
Yes, by same logic.
Now if it’s a situation in which your next door neighbor is not directly affected by said parties, but is just grossed out by their existence I’d say no NAP violation. You have no actual effect except for MUH FEELZ. I think of the NAP kind of like a fractal; it’s a simple rule, but iterate it over and over again it gets increasingly complex.
How is an offensive smell a NAP violation, but an offensive sight is not?
I’m thinking this takes place in a basement or something. I assumed his characterization of smell was that the house was so shit-soaked it nastied up the whole neighborhood. If you’re having a scat orgy on your front lawn, I’d call that an NAP violation.
Yeah, front lawn, fully-fenced in scat orgy. And, you know, he’s apologetic and stuff, but, without shit out in the yard, how is it a scat orgy? You gotta use all-natural shit, not some non-smelly plastic substitute. And he’s a very responsible scat orgynizer, it’s all from 100% healthy animals, vet certified, furries aren’t allowed to shit in the yard because that would be ridiculous.
Because you didn’t get an invite?
Smell is a little more objective. We all know when something smells like shit.
Not everyone agrees about pink flamingos on front lawns.
But they got the flappy wings that spin when the wind blows. You gotta like that.
Is there something you’d like to share with the class? Something about what’s on your lawn right now?
Uh…no.
*throws tarp over flock of lawn flamingos*
Playa, don’t disparage the culture of my neighborhood. But we’ll let you appropriate it Florida Man, because… Florida.
Fabulous question: I think one’s core philosophy is who he is, regardless of whether he is activist.
I grew up conservative, and most of my own behavior would be considered extremely conservative, but I have zero interest in legislating or enforcing my beliefs. The pluralism of living in a free country and then living to my own standards seems the perfectly American perspective.
A tougher question is which traditions are essentially conservative at all (in the American sense): monogamy, monotheism, pro life? Individual and property rights seem to me to be classic liberal ideas, so I don’t think the American right should get credit for those. Small government / low regulation seems derivative of the preference for individual rights; small budgets seem derivative of small governments, so none of that seems particularly conservative to me.
A tougher question is which traditions are essentially conservative at all (in the American sense): monogamy, monotheism, pro life?
Which argues for my designation of “traditionalist”, rather than “conservative”. Limited government, individual rights, and personal responsibility are certainly values that define the American tradition, even if they o0we to classical liberalism.
I thought that in the end, it breaks down to Slaver and Non-slaver. Did I miss something?
That’s a really good philosophical question.
Speaking of “Voting is haaaar5d” Barbie-
There is an article in the NYT about how awesome it would be if we had universal on line voting. Strangely enough it was by some blockchain guy who says it would be totally secure and unhackable if it were done with blockchain technology, because that would make it unhackable and totally reliable. Take that, you Rooskies!
I use blockchain technology to clean my toilets. Totally unhackable.
I can’t tell if this is a joke, or a great idea for a start up.
I’m in the venture capital phase right now. You can still get in on the ground floor.
There’s also a social media aspect to the product.
“You can still get in on the ground floor.”
But I have a toilet in my basement too.
Also, do you have a influencer that can give me a code to enter on checkout?
Well yes!
We call our loyalty program TurdBucks. Entry level starts at Brown with the top tier at Corn-Flecked!
I have a coupon for diarrhea.
I use blockchain technology to use the toilet IYKWIM.
Conference I was at last month had a great blockchain flowchart:
Can you use a database? –yes—-> Use a database
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no
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V
Use blockchain
Fuck that. I think we need to make voting harder. No early voting. Absentee ballots require a valid justification. Everyone has to wait in a horrendous line to cast their paper ballot. No party affiliation is shown for any candidates. No explanations for ballot initiatives.
Quit making it easy for retarded assholes to have their moronic say.
While we’re living in fantasy land I want the option to record a vote against a candidate instead of voting for their opponent. I want the vote total to show only the net numbers so Duopoly Dipshits can try and talk about their mandate when they win an election with 1100 total yes votes.
And as many have mentioned before lets kick this fantasy up a notch and move elections to April 16th after we get rid of all withholding.
*writes in Negroni for Senate*
My pet policy solution is that voting and purchasing a pistol/rifle should have the same requirements. Always good for a conversation starter (assuming by conversation you mean being lectured about how that’s not the same thing at all.)
I still get absentee ballots from LA County from my military days even though I am registered in Nevada….but there is no fraud….EVER
WHYCOME YOU WANT SUPPRESS MINORITY VOTE
To be fair, I also want to suppress the majority vote too.
I want to suppress it the most.
This is the best idea I’ve ever heard.
Instead of voting, the citizenry gets to throw one (1) punch at a candidate of their choosing. Any candidates that survive can rock-paper-scissors for the gig.
Maybe they could just text us our ballot.
As I’ve said before: it’s high time the DemOpMedia Complex started advocating for universal, compulsory voting in which the ballots are prefilled straight D at the Secretary of State’s office then sent directly to be certified. The voter doesn’t even have to do anything and it’s totally secure! It’s so simple!
Based solely on personal experience I find that the people most in favor of Daylight Saving Time tend to be the most statist. I also realize that this could be partially due to my framing it as “do you really want government redefining physical constants on a whim?” The word “government” of course being a word which triggers their reflexive defense of the state.
Opposed to DST = Wants to See the World Burn
Hey man, if they say it’s an hour earlier then it’s an hour earlier.
I don’t really know anyone who is in favor of it. It is mostly an argument between which one do we go with permanently, and that’s when you find out there are people who want the clocks to be wrong all the time.
I actually want to get rid of time zones and go to local time … at least at the county level. Computers can handle it now.
I oppose changing time back and forth, but I think I prefer year round DST than year round ST.
This driving home in the dark shit is intolerable. The sun is setting here right now and I got another 30 minutes of work.
I agree. In my case it means that Boston belongs to the Atlantic time zone. Then no daylight “savings” time.
I hate that it gets darker earlier now. However, I ride my bike to work and appreciate the extra light in the morning. The road I take in the morning would be too dangerous without the time change. So if you are opposed to DST, you are in literally in favor of killing me and are worse than Hitler.
Let’s split the difference and only shift the time by 45 minutes.
That would certainly generate billions of dollars of busywork for the IT industry.
That’s exactly the kind of outside the box thinking we’re looking for. It seems that you really know how to leverage new paradigms to generate synergies and create value. You’re hired.
He’s disrupting the status quo!
Why not adjust clocks such that when the sun is overhead it’s 12 noon at your location. Let the computers figure the rest of the shit out.
May I interest you in some opinions about the metric system?
Living not too far north, and not too far south, DST as applied to summer kicks ass.
A summer sunset of 7:30 is a waste of an evening.
whether someone who believed in traditional morals, values and mores, but didn’t want the government at all involved in their enforcement would properly be considered a “social conservative”.
I’m willing to posit the existence of people who adhere to a “traditional” moral code who are able to restrain themselves from imposing their behavioral constraints on others. Judgement of the libertines is a different matter.
I believe that consenting adults have the right to fuck anyone they want anyway they want for any reason they want.
Of course, I have been monogamous and married to one person for 42 years.
I grew up Catholic, so I can still feel guilty for being a libertine in my head.
+1 Catholic guilt.
Mine goes to 11.
I turned away a pollster/voting advocate/whatever the other day and she was not happy.
The family was setting out on our walk when we saw this lady coming from our neighbors house. She approached and entered my property and said “Do you live here? I want…” I cut her off. Stated we have sign in the neighborhood that solicitation is not allowed.
She made the claim she didn’t see the signs but still insisted with “I drove all the way from Brooklyn to register people to vote (we are in Nevada)”.
I told her once again, leave. She got all snooty and drove off real slow as I stood in the driveway waiting to see if she would still canvas the area.
Fuck her.
I drove all the way from Brooklyn
Aren’t you just precious.
If she hadn’t had the demeanor of an obvious Democrat I would have at least been nice. Get mad at me cause I don’t want you evading my property….again….Fuck Her
“How much did you pay for the gas?”
$20 says she’d have been stumped by this, because she didn’t.
Depending on where you are sometimes political canvassers are given exemptions from no solicitation zones. That obviously still wouldn’t mean you can’t tell them to fuck off.
I use it for everyone…if you aren’t invited to my house or aren’t dropping off my wife’s Amazon shipment…go away. You all made me a Get Off My Lawn type
Yeah, I was getting at some towns will ban soliciting but exempt political canvassers. I think if you are and feather them enough times they’ll get the point though.
Soliciting is what the harlots on the corner do, canvassing is totally different because its done for democratic reasons. Vote dammit !
My old PE teacher used to rustle us out of the locker room with pithy little statements like “only hookers and hoodlums” stand in doorways. Stuck with me cause when my idiot kids just linger in an entryway I get to tell that to them.
“only hookers and hoodlums” stand in doorways
“Got $50?”
So what you are saying in that political parties should hire harlots to do their canvassing? It just might work.
Works for me!
Should? Done and done.
You get my vote!
If politics is Hollywood for ugly people, canvassing is harloting for conflicted prudes?
It worked for Mike Dunafon
“canvassing is totally different because its done for democratic reasons”
So it’s far, far worse.
the people most in favor of Daylight Saving Time tend to be the most statist.
I want DST all year ’round. I like it when it’s still light out at 10 in the summertime.
That is because you are literally Hitler. The sooner it’s dark, the sooner all the little hoodlums quiet down and go inside. Plus I like night. Empress the dark.
I also like driving to work in the light.
Then again, I don’t really care one way or the other as long as they stop making us change our fucking clocks. Fuck that.
I don’t believe anyone makes you change your clock, the Amish around here don’t give two shits about DST. If I go to the Amish lumber shop at lunchtime I always have to consider whether were on the same time or not, cause they close from 12 to 1, their time not the Englishman’s stupid time.
I think long term though, if the time was just set at standard everyone would adjust and be awake when it is more light out and down when it is dark. 8 to 4 can be the new 9 to 5.
That Dolly Parton song wouldn’t be as catchy.
Embrace
#metoo
THIS. Having the sun go down at 5pm is bullshit. DST all year round! DST all year round! DST all year round!
Kanye can take off The Hat. But The Hat will never take off Kanye.
On this week’s episode of “Shit That Never Happened”…
https://twitter.com/atDavidHoffman/status/1058391718410756096
“Hey David…not only is Mom blind, she’s senile as well..
Time for Mom to go to the home..”
LOL
Mom ain’t gonna be around to foot the bill anyway.
I just realized that if he really did help his mom vote, there’s a possibility that he may have willfully committed voter fraud and then alluded to it on Twitter.
Actually, the comments have several other instances of likely voter fraud, depending on local laws.
Did you see the comment about the “Ballot collector”?
That’s actually a thing in AZ, and there have been some highly, highly suspicious activities involving them. They are a stone-cold break in the chain of custody for ballots. I can’t imagine why they are tolerated.
Also: I guess ending slavery was too tough to remember.
https://twitter.com/SueGlashauser/status/1058476330675814400
They forgot Wilson segregating the Federal Government, WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
“Well Paula, I guess we’re going have to agree on a definition of ‘accomplishment’ first.”
Or alternate response “So you are admitting that this entitlement shitshow is almost entirely the fault of Democrats?”
First man on the moon goes to Nixon. Kennedy just made a nice speech. Hell, Johnson deserves more credit than Kennedy.
Clinton Budget Surplus…never existed, his last budget left us only slightly negative for the year, I think the deficit was legitimately 5 digits or something, but there was no surplus.
17.9 billion, so 11 digits, but close enough.
It also ignores the role that Congress has in setting the budget.
I made the mistake of reading down through her last 20 tweets. Damn thats some supercharged mendacious derp. I may need to lay down for a while.
The democratic party put a man on the moon.
Clinton budget surplus
Had nothing to do with the Republican controlled legislature because wtf is a “republic”…
And I like how they assume all of those things are good when they are mostly anti-freedom and/or unconstitutional bs.
So I got a job offer with a 30% pay increase.
I like my current job and my current boss and I’m comfortable.
The thought of starting over at a new place and learning the ropes all over again makes my stomach turn a little bit.
But dat 30% tho…
hmmmmm…. autistic avoidance of new environments versus an enormous increase in disposable income earmarked for hookers and blow?
Tough call.
Don’t forget guns.
And sex robots.
And sex robots with guns.
Oh man, my first paycheck after my MBA is over is going to involve at least one really nice gun.
I’m going with an upscale steak dinner and a decent bottle of cab sauv.
That would be tough to turn down right now.
Take the money.
You are a young dude. Take your base pay and add 30%. Integrate over the rest of you life with reasonable cost of living increases every year. That’s what the raise actually means.
Even if you hate the job, you start the next job search with an established pay rate 30% higher than you have now.
Unless it requires you to move to a location where housing eats up the raise, this is a dead-simple choice.
Crank up your 401k significantly too – and never think about it again.
Don’t be afraid to leverage that offer either. My brother was in the exact same position a few years ago. When he gave them his notice they matched the other companies offer without hesitation.
Yeah, somebody throws a 30% raise at me, and I’d consider doing things like actually commuting into Houston again. But not Katy. Fuck that.
OK I guess I’ll take the job.
I’m not paying for anyone’s damn drinks though!
How about ice cream? Will you buy us all ice cream?
but the joy of walking away from all that legacy responsibility:
* mistakes of the past, soft and hard
* translation and maintenance of information in obsolete formats
* mothballed equipment/processes
* culture and history
* shame from poorly handled interpersonal issues years ago
Walk away! I’m suddenly thinking about the tooling for BMW 320i HVAC and just had that Grinch smile come over me knowing the next order for those won’t nick me in the least: some other bastard who was still in high school when that was designed will have to figure out where its buried, drag it out, translate the documentation and specs, set it up and fire it off, wade through a week of rejected components as he dials it all in…. suck it, stooge!
How stable is the new company?
Is the CEO named Jacob Wohl?
I’ll answer your question, but first I’m going to need a corner office and a company car.
Something Intelligence? I dunno, it’s researching political candidates and public figures.
“hey boss, I really like it here, but I just got an offer for +30% from a competitor. I’d really like to stay here, but that’s a lot of money. If you can find me 25%, I’d gladly stay. “
But dat 30% tho…
How much of that 30% will magically disappear into higher taxes/expenses?
Probably half.
I like my current job and my current boss
That’s not nothing. If the new job comes with daily AGILE meetings and an asshole boss, is it worth the money?
If the process is *actually* agile, the meetings aren’t so bad. The asshole boss is a deal breaker though. Also, using “agile” to mean “our startup doesn’t know what we’re really going to make, so we claim to be agile because it changes all the time based on who our target of the week is”….lived through that (*with* an asshole boss to boot!). 0/5, would not buy again.
Me evaluating a job offer.
That was a thoroughly enjoyable film. Might have to rewatch it soon.
More importantly will it lead to Q post more or fewer t and a pics?
Hopefully the same. But we’ll have to see how restrictive the new place’s firewall is.
Surely that’s a question you already asked during the interview.
Also, Q-
Is relocation required?
Negative.
Speaking of policy preferences:
No matter what it is or who commenced it, I’m against it!
I don’t care what you have to say,
It makes no difference anyway
I’m against it!
In case this doesn’t get your engines revving enough, remember that a Chelsea Handler sex tape exists.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/11/05/chelsea-handler-posts-nude-video-promote-voting-midterms/
*begins vomiting uncontrollably*
LOOK AT MEEEEE!!!!!!!
(insert person here) does (thing that they were already going to do) to promote voting! So selfless!
Ballgag and a solid contract to not turn around….would
She’s hard to recognize without piss all over her face.
First off, she wasn’t “nude”, she was topless (but covered). Second, what Ownbestenemy said…at least about the ball gag. That voice!
You get your ballgag, but she wears her pussy hat the whole time.
Like I care about anything above the eyes!
Or even the waist!
I’ll have to admit that for being a forty-something alcoholic she’s actually pretty decent looking. Her retarded politics are industrial strength bonercide though.
Do not knock the enjoyability of a good grudge fuck.
How To Cause Voter Supression 101
NBC backtracks, will no longer air controversial Trump ad
I recall an asinine ad with Trumps white-supremacist minions trying to run down minorities with their pickup truck. Was that controversial?
Yes, plenty of people bitched about it.
This seems a lot like concern trolling.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/04/trump-2018-elections-midterms-republicans-immigration-960748
But I’m just a useless yokel so what do I know.
Mueller’s closing in on Drumpf
Whether intentional or not, Robert Mueller has honored an unofficial Justice Department policy that limits major actions in political investigations 60 days before an election.
But as Mueller and his team of prosecutors have worked behind the scenes on investigations of Trump associates, numerous clues about the probe have emerged through witnesses and attorneys who have shared insight from the investigation with reporters.
The smoke signals have generated speculation that, if Mueller plans to issue indictments in his investigation, they will be handed down within days or weeks. There have also been reports that Mueller will submit a report on the investigation to the Justice Department by the end of the year.
I await the findings with eager anticipation.
Mueller summary of findings:
Clues, smoke signals, and reports. If it was any two of those I’d have my doubts but with all three…. that’s iron-clad.
Clues, smoke signals and reports! Oh my!
Something something hateful rhetoric
CNN commentator Ana Navarro called President Donald Trump a “racist pig” on “Cuomo Prime Time” Sunday night, citing his treatment of Mexicans and minorities.
Former Trump campaign operative Steve Cortes told host Chris Cuomo his view of the president’s immigration policy was skewed because the media automatically assumes Trump is a racist.
“You presuppose, because you come from the presupposition that [Trump’s] racist,” Cortes said. “And so then it logically follows what you’re saying.”
“I think he’s racist,” Navarro said. “He called Mexicans criminals and rapists. He called El Salvador and Haiti sh*tholes.”
Navarro continued to accuse Trump of racism before finally calling him a “racist pig” who has mistreated minority communities.
“Sign me up in the category of the people who think he’s racist,” she continued. “He’s said so many racist things. He has done so many racist things … He is a racist pig.”
“He’s the worst one ever because minorities are thriving under his leadership,” Cortes responded.
Sound, reasonable analysis.
“He’s the worst one ever because minorities are thriving under his leadership,” Cortes responded.
I hope she came back with “well, Hitler is the reason Israel exists!” to complete the Circle of Logic.
They really don’t have anything other than just screaming RACIST! over and over and over. The characterization that they are NPCs caught in some kind of infinite loop is not far off.
I had this from Friday, but worth reposting. This is the future, no joke.
The long march through the institutions has been a greater success than anyone could have dreamed. Only minds that have been destroyed by indoctrination and brainwashing could lead someone to behave in such a way. Lucky for you Canuckistanis, we have more guns than people so you can use some of ours when SHTF.
This? This was in Australia.
In fucking Australia. A place I thought would absolutely demolish “mandatory voting” with constant piss-taking, but no, they bowed and accepted it meekly.
If it can happen to Aussies, it can happen anywhere.
Buncha Pooftas
The Great Emu War left them broken, man.
Magnificent documentary on the subject.
I will definitely give that a watch after Rufus stops beating me to go back to work.
He called Mexicans criminals and rapists.
I can’t remember if that was just before or just after MS-13 raped and killed some people in the US. Point actually taken, though – that was not one of his better moments.
He called El Salvador and Haiti sh*tholes.
Yeah. And?
“Animals” was in reference to ms-13.
I hate racists. But I also think that people who support affirmative action are about as racist as white supremacists. And vastly more numerous.
What’s the evidence that he called those countries shitholes? Wasn’t it from unnamed sources who weren’t even present in the meeting in question? But OK, let’s suppose he did call them shitholes. Is he wrong? If they are not shitholes, why do so many people want to leave?
Did Navarro open her golf club to Jews and blacks when no one else around did?
Some jackass is buzzing every apartment in my building, asking people if they intend to vote for the Democrats.
This bullshit cannot end soon enough.
What did you tell him?
Nothing. I’d picked up just enough of the neighbors conversation (very quiet apartment, very loud intercoms) to know it wasn’t worth bothering.
I got to use a Glib line on one of them today!!
A candidate (D) stopped by the house today and asked if I would vote for him. I pointed to the word ‘bipartisan’ on his campaign flyer and told him that I see that as simply meeting halfway between two bad ideas and I have no interest in that. He left rather quickly.
So, thanks to whomever posted that. Worked like a champ!
“Fuck off, slaver” too subtle for you?
Minnesota Nice, dude
“*Please* fuck off, slaver.”
“Fuck off and have a nice day, slaver!”
Tell them they are interrupting a Kavanaugh party…IYNWIM
“I still like beer, so… no.”
Had a DeWine canvasser stop by. I told her I was voting Libertarian. She said okay. I wished her good luck and she went on her jolly way. Didn’t even try to make the sale.
Krugnuts creeps ever closer to that padded cell with a drain in the floor.
https://twitter.com/MattWolking/status/1058395112110243844/
Nah, he’s just delivering what his customers want. If he believed one tenth of what he writes, he’d be in jail for attempted assassination by now.
Yep, the man knows his audience.
From the peanut gallery:
I wonder how he feels about black people.
I think this is the last time I click on a twitter link. I use dot have a no-click policy on it, and I’m going to go back to that.
Good people can’t be Republicans. Republicans are bad people.
Republicans think Democrats are wrong. Democrats think Republicans are evil.
Meh, “Dems are socialist and socialism has killed and will kill millions”, “gun grabbers want you defenseless so they can enslave you”, “Libs want to burn down society so they can stand on the ashes”,….there is enough of stupid invective to go around. Both sides think the other is evil.
Do you think that Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias are actually trolls who try and one up each other by saying the dumbest shit possible that they think people will fall for?
https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1059553661586567168
*dies*
Theoretically possible in the sense that the Democrats win their seats by large margins and the Republicans win their seats by thin margins and keep the House by 1 or 2 seats.
Maybe, but the house popular vote isn’t a thing. There are a ton of uncontested districts (on both sides). There are districts in CA that have two Democrats running. There are districts where one party just has a token running in a district everyone knows is going to go 85% one way or another.
I understand what you are saying. Democrats as a whole can get more votes than republicans and still lose the house… but every district is voting for different people. At least for a presidential election you could have a seemingly perverse outcome, but we don’t even use a parliamentary system, so the idea of a ‘House popular vote’ is a non-sequitur.
In a parliamentary system, “house popular vote” is certainly a non-sequitur. Westminster-style parliament is even less representative of a country overall than the weird bastardized version you lot created.
I don’t know why I associate parliamentary systems with proportional representation. I blame all the drugs I don’t take(?).
Well, that’s a new one.
I have heard about it before. This talking point was already used by the Dems lately.
I don’t think Democrats are ready for the backlash that they’re going to get if they continue to amp up the hostilities.
Here’s a crazy suggestion for the Dems in that scenario. They could push for a constitutional amendment that says that governmental powers not defined in the Constitution are left to the states. That way California can be California, Texas can be Texas, and so on.
That’s just crazy talk.
The very essence of liberal-democratic globalism is to stick your head where it doesn’t belong and wasn’t desired, shit on everything and browbeat everyone in order to get your way—all because you’re on the side of righteousness, you’re doing it for the ‘good’ of everyone.
So no. They demand totalitarianism. They need it.
In other words, everyone has to suffer equally under their policies.
If only the ones I knew believed in Federalism.
For Q.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aLnZ1NQm2uk
The nerds in the band are fucking brilliant. Well done, fellas!
“It’s all about junk, in the right places.”
Damn you. I’m headed down another musical rabbit hole.
It’s worth it, though.
Damn, girl.
When you start clicking on Puddles Pity Party videos, my work is done.
Done. Mad World was funny.
We made it! 3.5 hours, 243 miles avg 35.4 mpg @80mph. A fantastic drive for once. NO COPS! Life is good ATM, Lagunitas Brown Shugga Ale and going to dinner real soon.
I can’t tell what time it is, AZ has no DST, Nevada is Mt. Time? I’m on Cali time, so 3:30? 4:30? who knows, who cares?
Hey YUFUS!
Sup Tres!
/Cold Ales in the Air!
Glad the drive went well. Enjoy the booze and hope you have a nice dinner and trip, man.
Thanks, looking at a House tomorrow, getting out of Cali for good, it’s 81 degrees here, colder than back home, go figure…..
Avi Resort, Laughlin NV. on the River
Excellent, also damn, nice resort dude.
*considers a future trip to NV*
Nice!
I can’t tell what time it is
Today, we are on Mountain Time. Last week, we were on Pacific Time.
Odd, how living in a state where you never change your clocks actually makes DST and ST harder to manage.
Good luck, Yusef!
My final prediction before tomorrow:
Dems end up with 230 seats in the House.
Republicans gain 1 seat in the Senate.
Gillum wins the Governorship hear in FL, is shocked to realize his plans won’t work because of a Republican State legislature and a constitutional ban on a state income tax.
Senate +6
House -4 house stays Republican
The comments here are…colorful.
https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3542/Which-party-will-win-the-2018-Florida-gubernatorial-race
Possibly the most libertarian drugstore yet.
Not even a cameo appearance by Steve Smith I bet.
That movie could easily end up being a cult classic.
German Jews propose anti-Semitism lessons for Muslim migrants.
I think they know how without tutoring.
A couple of classes will definitely alter an entire cultural touchstone.
I could see it backfiring horribly as well…
That article is trying really hard to deflect attention away from the migrants and onto the AfD. Never change, BBC.
Sure, it might work. Just like the sexual harassment videos at work have taught be how to harass properly.
The Democrats are Terrified of the Midterms
My prediction for tomorrow, since that seems to be a popular theme today:
I’ll pick up a new handgun and get drunk tomorrow night. Also, there will be much snark posted by Glibs.
Other than that, we’re all still screwed, it’s just the degree of screwed.
Screwed with Beer and Guns? We’ll be OK, the rest of America…….
I plan on celebrating congressional gridlock. And the Senate will spend the next two years confirming judges that cleave much closer to the Constitution that the proggy judges.
Wake me up when those new judges put a stop to data collection, license plate scanners, no knock warrants, etc.
sees something
so says something in his block party chairman report to the FISA court
Not gonna happen but it’s still better than what the proggys would give us.
I’ll celebrate a gridlocked congress that will be able to do nothing except for once a year come together and pass a budget that puts the U.S. government ever deeper in debt. That will be the real libertarian moment, the collapse of the dollar.
+1 Bipartisan Compromises
The rational will say: Another election, let’s move on and work towards…
The irrational will sat: Its the end of the world…rhreeeeeeee!
And life will find a way
I want to believe.
DST has rendered me a voiceless, bottom of thread commenter. Sad. How do you say Shitlord in Portuguese? Also, defense minister named “Augusto”. LOL.
It’s Shitlord, google it
How the mighty have fallen. Also love how they didn’t bother to say how or recommend any women who could’ve been good potential nominees.
’cause they all in da Kitchen, makin’ Sammiches
Granted, they did include this: “Last week, he said that the priority was to nominate experts in infrastructure and economics.”
I am criticizing the bloomberg piece, just for clarificiation. I just find it funny he’s not being Justin Trudeau and it’s upsetting them.
I wonder how much of that criticism didn’t come from non-Brazilian, MSM concern trolls like Bloomberg.
I hope I wasn’t too much of a Dick Yesterday, I was in a mood…..
Dick Yesterday sounds like a superhero.
Don’t worry about it. Find a house and get on with the fun stuff!
Sell it to Marvel! you have my Permission, thanks Tundra!
So was I. No probs.
Akshally… the end of DST has rendered you bottom of the barrel. /UCS 😉
I love this guy.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/08/07/marijuana-devastated-colorado-dont-legalize-nationally-jeff-hunt-column/536010001/?fbclid=IwAR3Wtmo5kxRNY4Uo6zQAGrhAhdbRHmEBrWUUbcz1RTvet5NDDumkrRwXBqk
The kids. They won’t stop getting high. Save us AG sessions from the ravages visited upon us from the devils lettuce.
Yup, having fewer
reasonsexcuses to arrest people will certainly only make arrests more numerous.Maybe AG Sessions need to borrow VP Pence’s gay conversion machine and flip the switch to “pot”. Of course, if he does so, Trump might seize it and change it to the dreaded “Mexican” setting…
But, that’s Libertarian! Gay, Pot, Messicans, I want my settings!
And now you know the hidden truth about the dreaded Conversion Machine.
When do we get our Mexican sexpots?
Gee, implying that only the poors and the minorities can’t tear themselves away from the devil weed is not patronizing or racist at all.
Arrests have gone up. So using in public arrests? In other words still not really legal.
Unlees you’re whit living in Boulder, then isallgoodman……..
White
They can Fuck off, the Slavers,Devil weed Kills! 111!111!!!!1
“We still have a black market.”
Gee, I wonder why.
“According to the Colorado Department of Public Safety, arrests in Colorado of black and Latino youth for marijuana possession have increased 58% and 29% respectively after legalization.”
Somebody didnt do legalization right.
Don’t come between the state and it’s bone.
Somebody didn’t do legalization right.
Right? RIGHT?!?
From the above, it sounds like somebody didn’t do legalization at all.
Let’s see, i can get an 1/8th Tax free in Cali for 50$ Top shelf, in Colorado I can get an 1/8th for a Hundred dollars OTC or 1 a half ounce for 100$ black market, same quality,
no more danger than when it was illegal, I know my choice
mind=blown.
What the fuck?
The dreaded devil’s lettuce. Lawd save our chillun.
SOCOM 16 M1-A
lights Suthen torch
A friend has one – I do not like.
Much louder, more recoil, and less accurate than a normal M1A or M14 (have shot both).
Why do I suspect that I may already know who this is ?
We have an operative in Boise, don’t we.
Christ, Spud, at least throw her a couple bucks.
Tacky.
Hey, Tundra. What’s up with this?
Lol. I hadn’t seen that.
Edina is a fairly wealthy suburb of Minneapolis. The really, really wish they were the wealthiest, but they aren’t. Preciously progressive, I consider them the Gwyneth Paltrow of affluent Minnesota cities.
Hey, I couldn’t see out of the costume. It’s the costume makers fault, not mine.
Nothing like closing in on an election to harden my hatred of democracy, voting, and the smug proselytizing for all of it—and in places it’s not even relevant.
Just two more days… before the inevitable shaming sessions of the aftermath.
God bless our traditions.
They can take that shame and shove it where the sun don’t shine. Sit back, have a beer, and get some popcorn ready as they also start barking how the next election wil be THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE EVER.
My tradition is going to the bar for a bump or two after voting. Been doing it for years.
I think this just showed up today. The Dem ads on youTube (only “television” I ever watch) now feature a red,white & blue donkey logo that says “VOTE – PLEASE!”
I’m going to vote for the first time in 10 years just so I can vote against every Democrat in sight. Won’t accomplish shit except make me feel a little better for a moment.
I just came here to say, there are also Moties in the second of Iain M Banks “Culture” sci fi novels. Great freaking books.