Welcome to today’s unicorn links. Why unicorn? Because I have a link about a unicorn. The writing in the link is terrible. “sported a horn of biblical portions, possibly as long as three feet (1 meter) in length”. First of all the word “portions” should be “proportions”. Second of all, things of Biblical proportion could include: floods, famines, and plagues. I suppose arks and temples. I was unaware that YHWH had specified the appropriate length of a unicorn’s horn. Also, I’m not sure that rhino is kosher.
A brothel where sex robots have to “give consent” before you can engage in intercourse with them. Unless “consent” means getting an approval message when charging a credit card, the very stupid idea that these robots have a will or a mind or a consciousness capable of consenting to or opposing something ought to discuss actual human beings. We didn’t build stubbornness into cars because mules were efficient engines. (NSFW warning: robot boobs below the scroll)
I know the French riot and burn shit at the drop of a hat, but I do believe there would be American officials decorating lamp posts if the gas spot price were $1.65/gal and the cost of gas were $6.25/gal. Even Californians might treat it like a Lakers NBA Championship.
Stephen Hillenburg, creator of Spongebob, died from complications related to ALS. My dad had a good friend go downhill and pass very quickly after being diagnosed with the same condition. Fuck ALS!
So I came across this wardrobe disaster and thought I’d share. It looks like they raided a lesbian’s closet.
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$6.25 a gallon? Even my car isn’t efficient enough to make that palatable!
Oh my…I think I got my first first!
Somebody popped their cherry
*looks around for first gif*
Well, I was busy 7 minutes ago.
They finally figured out” soak the rich” meant them and got tired of watching everyone else take it easy.
FWIW: I doubt the average French car goes through more than 400 gallons in a year, and they’re more than accustomed to the price anyway.
When taxes hit $4 a few years back, I got really tickled at how many people who thought nothing of wearing through $4,000 of book value each year but were terrified by an extra $1,000 a year for fuel.
Why would that “tickle” you? It’s apples and oranges. Those people (I assume) made a decision that they were willing to “spend” $4k a year on depreciation. That is completely unrelated to their gas bill being $1k a year higher than they thought it would be. An unexpected grand a year sucks regardless of what caused it. A budget is a budget…that extra $1k has to come from somewhere.
Wouldn’t be for me either.
I just paid 4.10 a gallon because I had to gas up near a freeway. Could have drove a few miles and paid 3.60. We were paying 5.50 or so a few years back at the peak. Californians are dumb fucks , generally when it comes to voting.
Damn. In Honolulu away from the airport it is running around $3.30 for mid-grade. That is after hauling the crude from the west coast to the middle of the Pacific and refining locally.
And I thought it was bad in Illinois and Iowa…my last Iowa tank was 2.80 (3.20 if I went no corn)
I filled up in Missouri on my way home this past weekend.
1.88 at the Costco.
It felt good.
This morning I paid $2.30 for gas near a freeway a few miles from a major airport. /Texas privilege
On an unrelated note, while traveling for the holiday I saw a billboard leftover from the election that said “It’s too late for California – Keep Texas Great, Vote Republican”. I thought that was amusing.
Egad. It’s $3.49 for regular gas, and $3.89 for diesel here.
I paid $2.199 in Delaware, north of Wilmington, yesterday.
Where you could smell it being refined!
Looking at the gas station I can see from my family room window, regular unleaded is $2.14/gal.
And a few miles away across the state line it’s usually another 10% cheaper
It’s nice to live somewhere without such visual pollution.
(Except for the fucking solar installation they’re putting on the hill opposite me.)
“biblical portions”
Now we know what unicorns eat.
But do they sou vide it first?
I ordered one Monday. You people are rubbing off on me.
You may want to ask Jesse to knock that off.
To be fair, I asked for it.
I larfed
Where’d you get my picture???
You really should close your old tumblr accounts
You really should close your old
tumblrTinder accounts.But you’re okay with his old Grindr photos?
And really REALLY close your new ones.
Really.
I was wondering, how often do the feds do 2 week prison sentences? It seems strange to me. This is the guy who supposedly started the entire Trumputin investigation, and he’s doing all of 2 fucking weeks in prison. For lying to the feds. Seems rather strange.
All the time.
(Fun fact: You’d probably rather do 6 months in the fed than 2 weeks)
Why? Are the two week sentences not served in the same relatively cushy federal pens?
If you serve 2 weeks (or really 2 months and under) it’s not worth the paperwork to send you to a minimum security camp, so you’re going to do your time in a local facility (usually high security).
yeah but c’mon. are the sodomites really going to circle the bunks for that guy?
He actually has a fairly attractive blond he’s attached to. That’s really the only thing I’ll remember about this all in three years.
Aha. Yeah, my wife used to work in the local county jail in classification. The stories she told were less than pleasant.
To be perfectly honest, in either situation you don’t want to drop the soap.
It’s not strange at all. They needed to justify their existence and scare any future witnesses,
I think that is a national embarrassment. The fact that people joke about prison, because it’s true, is sad.
It is criminally ridiculous. We consider it an 8th amendment violation to whip, pillory, display in the stocks etc. but are fine with the fact that incarceration is a virtual guarantee of rape, often by HIV positive rapists. It is yet another case of being squeamish about what is seen and blithely ok with what we can pretend not to know about.
Good for the French. Rioting for the right reasons.
The real issue is that they don’t want to pay for their free shit and environmentalism. They want the other guy, the wealthier guy, to pay for the free shit and green initiatives. And the wealthier guy got a tax break. So, I think there’s more class envy to all of this.
In the article it says it’s the middle class rioting because they pay the lion’s share of the taxes and get nothing in return. Maybe they support those programs maybe they don’t.
And a soupçon of “running out of other people’s money”.
Class envy is a thing in France.
Apparently it isn’t in Belgium.
The French are thoroughly socialist in their mind set. The more ‘free market, free thinking ones’ end up here in North America.
So I’m told.
Wait, the Quebecois are the more free market, free thinking French? Jeez, the French French must be really messed up.
The more ‘free market, free thinking ones’ end up here in North America.
I worked for a CAC40 firm recently, four years. The French in the US (FUSs, I call them) have all these opinions about what is wrong with America to which I tried a Socratic reply:
a/ So you think those things ought be more regulated?
b/ So you think more of our economy should be dedicated to regulator and compliance salary/expense?
c/ So when you turn the US into France, will you be happy when all you get is your old French salary
Only the Japanese ever hated me more than the French for being right about so much (Germans took it well).
Only the Japanese ever hated me more than the French for being right about so much (Germans took it well).
Now I want to know what you discussed with the Japanese that offended them so. I also want to know how drunk you got the Germans before they took it well.
what you discussed with the Japanese that offended them so
American B2B industrial markets: I couldn’t convince them that complicated, medium-volume modules built in Asia wouldn’t sell into traditional firms; I didn’t have time to waste on the marketing or engineering work; now that Japan sells a few tires to heavy truck firms here and there, I’d consider it (but not on contingency!)
I also want to know how drunk you got the Germans before they took it well
It was simple finance; typically, European engineers are only versed in money to the extent of using corporate models (aktuel kosten); once I explained total cost, time value of money, and discounting warranty expense, they could see that lots of the business they were pursuing wasn’t profitable once they truly considered all the costs. The appeal of focused, simplified business was all the reward they needed to listen.
Good for the French. Rioting for the right reasons.
Broken clocks, and all that…
How dare you. I love ALS. It’s one my favorite debilitating disease. Top 5.
What are the chances that Lou Gehrig would get a disease with the same name as him ?
Yeah, he shoulda seen that one coming.
One of Denis Leary’s better bits…..*as Babe Ruth* Poor Lou Gehrig, died of Lou Gehrig’s disease – how the hell do you not see THAT one coming? We used to tell him all the time, “Lou, there’s a disease with your name allllll over it, pal”
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqm273
Norm MacDonald as Lou Gehrig
(NSFW warning: robot boobs below the scroll)
Are they adjustable, size-wise?
*asking for
a friendQ.They’re attached to a wall.
Sorely disappointed.
That AIC song reminded me of what my selection woulda been for some mother-fkin’ THEME MUSIC !
a horn of biblical portions
Maybe it’s infinitely large (see, also: loaves/fishes).
My 9 year old told me that she and her friends were “hacking” webpages (changing them locally with inspect, but it’s a start), and they changed “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” to “Diary of my butt”.
I’m glad I’ve taught her well.
Father-of-the-Year award right there.
*changes Juvenile Bluster to Juvenile Buttcrack*
*giggles*
A few years back one of our customers thought that kids at their school were changing their grades by doing that. In order to get the point across, I showed them how they could change the price of a diamond ring to $.50 on Amazon but that didn’t mean you could buy the ring for that price.
*erases new Monocle feature from whiteboard*
Next she’ll be hacking State Election pages… You truly are a shitlord
I hope he’s not raising a Democrat.
That’s exactly what I thoiught of when she told me.
She’s smart enough to know she’s only changing “what she can see”, at least, unlike our media.
God knows I love Spongebob and the whole gang of sea critters more than any forty something man has a right to. RIP Mr. Hillenburg.
Love the avator, Stink.
How… does a forty-something get into that? You had to be like 30 years old when it started.
Have children?
Ah, so pretend to like it.
Nah, I just found it innocent and sweet and funny. I usually prefer my humor on the raunchy and irreverent side but I took a liking to it for some reason.
I like it, because the voice of Spongebob and several of the characters is done by Tom Kenny, an old acquaintance.
Rule 34?
Spongebob turns 20 next year.
If you serve 2 weeks (or really 2 months and under) it’s not worth the paperwork to send you to a minimum security camp, so you’re going to do your time in a local facility (usually high security).
,Just as long as it’s not two weeks in the drunk tank. That would suck.
You don’t like microwave burritos and pissing in a drain in the floor?
That’s my idea of vacation.
Spring Break can be rough.
That was my last time at your place.
Mr. Upper Decker?
$6.25 a gallon? Even my car isn’t efficient enough to make that palatable!
You think the Euroweenies drive clown cars because they *want* to?
Come visit Portland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRuMV7GXkM8
Make Little Beirut a shithole again!
A brothel where sex robots have to “give consent” before you can engage in intercourse with them.
Do I also need to get consent from a fleshlight?
No, because although a fleshlight and a sex robot are the same thing in concept, we live in 2018, which means appearances are most important. (See: vaping and guns).
What if we combined a flashlight with an ecig? We could call it the Pole Smoker.
Sigh. That was supposed to be fleshlight not flashlight. No wonder my kickstand has no contributions
All government sponsored recreational services are clean and efficient
Would I get enough consent after a 2 week sentence? Or do you have to be in at least 6 months?
Noah’s Ark and unicorn extinction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EPsuOEH1fY
TW: Irish music.
I’ve been drunker than a billy goat, singing that song in a pub.
Há! I had that on a 45 when I was a kid and used to play it all the time.
It didn’t work for Moshe Goldstein either
Either a small amount of drugs or an abundance of foreskin?
It was so big they should’ve called it an eightskin!
hey oh! he’s here all week, folks!
Ugh, I am in a leadership meeting at work listening to the chancellor prattle on. It’s amazing how much mileage he gets out of bromides, blather, and ignorance coupled with a lot of education.
I’m sorry you have to listen to Merkel. But you don’t have to mis-gender her. :-p
Well played.
God, it’s getting worse. He just declared that the main reason that Amazon chose NY for Amazon HQ2 was “workforce availability.”
Yep, there were no incentives or tax breaks or similar. Ignorance is bliss.
I believe they would have chosen NYC and DC with or without the handouts. In fact, I bet the decision was made long before that fake “contest” was announced. Hell, the contest could have been intended to gin up some incentives in the cities they had already targets.
Fair enough. But I think this means my point about his ignorance still stands?
Well, it’s one of the reasons Amazon gave.
FWIW.
Fair enough.
They picked it to get close to Wall St and develop their data services business in the financial industry.
Much like they picked NoVa to get close to the Feds and their data services business.
Everything else is just bullshit.
First of all the word “portions” should be “proportions”
No. Portions is right. Back in biblical times unicorns existed until they ate them to extinction. And the horn was considered a portion.
Tangential reference (KJV): Numbers 23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
They also ate all of the behemoths. I think this was when the Jews were wandering the desert.
So (((they))) didn’t just kill Jesus, but unicorns and behemoths, as well?
And they have the gall to complain about the Holocaust and pogroms.
Nope, see my youtube link above for the true story of how the unicorns went extinct.
Ezekiel 23:20 is also relevant.
When Ezekiel saw “the wheel”, it was probably the spaceship of ancient astronauts.
/Chariots of the Gods?
This is actually not a bad article, once I managed to shake off my extremely low expectations, and recover from the clever wordplay [insert eyeroll] of the title.
These trends helped bring about a dramatic expansion of the welfare state. Trillions of dollars poured into low-income households as the welfare system sought to guarantee an individual’s right to consumption, while doing nothing about (if not actively retarding) his ability to become more productive. Today, a welfare benefit such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food stamps) gets credit for “lifting people out of poverty” merely because the benefit’s cash value raises the recipients’ income above the poverty threshold, even though it does nothing to help them gain a foothold in the economy and provide for themselves.
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A constructive definition of prosperity would look different in two ways. First, within the economic context, it would emphasize the ability to produce rather than the ability to consume. Second, it would attend to not only economic outcomes but also social foundations. Much modern policy analysis works from the assumption that only quantifiable economic impacts matter, either because economic growth, and the accompanying rise in consumption, is an end unto itself, or because growth and consumption can be trusted to benefit society more broadly. This is wrong: Economic policies have dramatic effects on family and community health, and the health of those social institutions in turn influences the economy profoundly.
Productive activities lie at the heart of most people’s conception of a good life. Higher material living standards are desirable, but fulfilling obligations and serving others, supporting a family, contributing to a community, and attaining competence or even excellence in a vocation are tied much more closely to life satisfaction, a flourishing society, and the creation of opportunity for the next generation. More tangibly, engaging in productive work is critical to self-esteem, mental health, and life satisfaction.
There is a shortage of actual policy recommendations, but that may be because they make too much sense to be published in the Atlantic.
I still assume he’ll make some irrational leap to more government “assistance” in the job market and the overall economy. At least he recognies the folly of paying people to be useless.
Or… we could stop trying to prescribe a one-size-fits-all description of “the good” and let 1000 schools compete without government interference. I want to enthusiastically agree with a lot of this, but it still feels prescriptive and top-down to me.
So close… and then failure.
Yep, a mixed-bag of an article to be sure.
Its like watching someone describe the workings of a car engine exactly, and then attributing the motive power to some magical spirit. If he could just see his way clear of attributing government and policy to any long-term benefit that is actually distributed across the whole population of the governed….
I regularly read articles describing internal combustion as an “explosion” which is about as wrong as one can get on the subject.
Pinto ring any bells? 😉
Ding!
The second car I ever owned was a safety orange Ford Pinto station wagon. I tinted the windows and installed sex sex lights in the back. My girlfriend gave me a bumper sticker that said this car explodes on impact.
Sweet.
Now I need to ask what sex lights are, even though I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know.
My first car was a 1980 Pinto. I loved that car – the prior owner had dropped a huge V-6 in it, and that thing was incredibly fast but very nose heavy. Made driving a rear wheel drive car rather entertaining, especially in the rain. Once I was driving a friend home, and we had to go down a road with a fairly fast s-turn. Did a complete 360 on the first curve, recovered just in time to hit the second. Did a complete 360 in the other direction, and continued driving down the road like nothing happened. I’m pretty sure my friend had to change his pants when he got home…
If its outcomes are ones unacceptable to society,
According to who, I wonder?
then policy makers must alter those conditions.
Because that always ends well.
I’d be really curious to know if the “conditions” that policy makes might alter to ensure the labor market’s health might include serious restrictions on immigration, or if we will be confining our policy-making to such things as minimum wage, more unionization, perhaps restrictions on automation, the kind of thing you can talk about at the right cocktail parties.
I can understand your low expectations, but I first read that at City Journal. Not sure how it got into The Atlantic.
Friends wey turn di challenge of pissing for bodi to beta business
Let’s totes copy Europe.
Let us.
Perhaps if Canada goes first, the US can learn from its mistakes.
LOL
Robo-boobies!
When James Brown told us to “do the Robot”, I don’t think this is what he had in mind.
That was The Saints.
Speaking of clown cars (on steroids- with superpowers)…
I can haz plz?
You know who else has a horn of biblical portions?
The guy with a pound of cocaine in his foreskin?
God, it’s getting worse. He just declared that the main reason that Amazon chose NY for Amazon HQ2 was “workforce availability.”
Lots of Puerto Ricans to mop the floors?
Hah!
I can understand your low expectations, but I first read that at City Journal. Not sure how it got into The Atlantic.
I think it must be an excerpt from his book.
I want to enthusiastically agree with a lot of this, but it still feels prescriptive and top-down to me.
Same here. I kept waiting for the “In theory, I believe in agency and self-ownership, BUT…” part.
EXACTLY. People have agency, but they’re stupid, so a technocratic government focused on optimizing the RIGHT bullshit aggregate statistics is necessary. Or something.
“aggregate statistics is necessary”
This. GDP is just an aggregate, and should be used as a guide, not a goal.
similarly any aggregate measure of “Production” may be useful as a guide, but the goal of economic activity is in the end, fulfilling individual wants.
Are you saying that paying some people to dig holes and some other people to fill them would be counter-productive?
From the French national Pastime Article:
“In France, an individual earning between $30,675 and $82,237 is taxed at 30 percent. In the U.S., an individual earning $30,675 would pay 12 percent in federal tax while someone earning $82,237 would pay 22 percent”
Is that 12% the FICA tax? or Income Tax? I’m not smart enough i guess. But it’s also fun when people compare Taxes in the States to other countries, cause while they have higher rates, don’t they typically have simpler systems (VAT, Single Jurisdiction Income…)
One proposal I’ve thought of (though it hits the “Sovereignty” of the states is that the State Governments pay a Tax to Federal Government and then they collect taxes from their constituencies. Then the people are being screwed by everyone, but that the States actually have to think about how to balance tax policy with Federal Requirments. It would also make the State reps be more likely (hopefully) to be critical of the Federal Budget…
Also, does France have local taxes? I can assure you I pay way more than 22 percent. Everything I’ve briefly glanced over suggests that US taxes – taken in total – are not dramatically lower than anywhere else.
From Wikipedia
It’s hard to get good data (and I’m lazy) but it seems to say corporate income tax was 30B Euros (at 33% rate), compared to 60B up there in local taxes. Income tax was 57B in 2007.
Also, current sales tax is 20%, nation-wide.
On the upside, their Social Secuirty equivalent is only 8%, but on gross income. And you pay 7.1% on retirement and disability gross income.
More fun at Wikipedia.
I have also proposed this, in combination with a repeal of the 16th and 17th amendments.
Once the budget passes, divide the total by the state populations in the previous census, and send the appropriate size bill to each state. How the state collects the money is up to them.
“How the state collects the money is up to them”
As long as it’s an SLT?
/ I keed, i Keed
Actually, an SLT wouldn’t raise nearly enough money to pay the federal budget.
We would need to dramatically cut spending to fund it with an SLT. Which is another good reason to switch to an SLT.
Are you SLT shaming robc? For shame
I’ve been advocating that the Federal government be funded exclusively by the States by allocating 10% of the total tax revenues of each state to be send directly to the FedGov, but for some reason get called John every time I mention it here.
In this proposal I also suggest barring any form of financial transfers from the FedGov to the States. 16A would be necessarily repealed, and 17A would likely go with it.
Would you rather we call you Tulpa instead?
They may be narcissistic but at least they have a reason to be.
http://archive.is/GQuL4
83, now that’s what I’m TALKING ‘BOUT.
46 is the bunny boiler
78 is the realdoll
Gotta concur. Well played, sir.
95 win, 99 place, 14 show
I was thinking I wouldn’t even finish out a top three, but then it ended strong.
83 looks like a chubby girl who took great care with the camera angle — which I’m down with, except faces matter most to me.
You know who else has a horn of biblical portions?
That golden calf?
The guy outside of Jericho?
The Ricola guy?
Satan?
Can you believe global warming killed Satan in the most recent South Park?
Louis Armstrong?
John Holmes?
Dizzy Gillespie ?
DHS: More Than 150 ‘Fake Families’ Have Been Intercepted At The Border In Six Months
“there has been a 110 percent increase in male adults showing up at the border with children. Further, DHS separated 507 illegal immigrants between April 19 and September 30 because they fraudulently claimed they were part of a family unit.”
Customs and Border Patrol separated 170 “families” for being unable to prove any family relationship. In 139 of those cases, children were removed from the custody of unfamiliar adults. In other cases, “families” were separated after Border Patrol agents discovered that a person claiming to be a child was actually older than 18.
DHS blames the rise squarely on the Flores case, a Clinton-era court ruling which prevents illegal immigrant children from being held in custody while they await an asylum hearing, allowing children and their parents to, instead, remain in a residential setting inside the U.S. until they’re up for assessment.
“Aliens know that if they bring ANY minor with them they will be apprehended by Border Patrol and released into the interior of the United States,” a spokeswoman for DHS told the Washington Examiner. “This is a direct result of the Clinton-era Flores Settlement decree that has created a massive loophole which allows alien family units to illegally cross the border and enter the United States after a short detention. This well-known loophole acts a magnet for family units and entices smugglers to use children as a way to gain access to the United States by posing a family unit. Word has gotten out.”
CNN; “Whycome you no talk about
global warmingclimate change?!”GDP is just an aggregate, and should be used as a guide, not a goal.
Which is one of the many reasons it’s so infuriating whjen people say we shouldn’t cut government spending because it has an adverse effect on GDP.
Who gives a shit?
cut government spending
the expenditures simply move from G to C give or take a few points in savings and efficiencies
Wonder why this isn’t a national story
(I don’t think any of y’all will need two guesses to figure out why.)
“Wonder why this isn’t a national story
(I don’t think any of y’all will need two guesses to figure out why.)”
Honestly… because it’s a non story. No on was hurt. The real outrage is that Fake Dorm “Hate Crimes” become national stories.
I saw MSNBC kept flashing photos of a noose left up in a tree on some campus or other. They don’t give a shit that it’s a fake ‘hate crime,’ they get to push their narrative for this news cycle and nobody cares or pays attention for the 5 second retraction they may or may not do tomorrow.
Because the link doesn’t work?
Fuck. https://nypost.com/2018/11/27/driver-tried-to-hit-men-leaving-la-synagogue-cops/
(and now you know … the rest of the story)
The driver was a white-hispanic?
Named Mohammed Mohammed?
No, I am not making that up.
Now, if he had been named Jesus Jesus, I would be willing to go with white Hispanic.
Damned Methodists
So… isn’t it strange that we live in a time where National Leaders are decrying Nationalism. Shouldn’t that make the supposed “Citizens” of these countries wary that their leaders are activly arguing that they shouldn’t be looking out for the national good? Their is a difference between Nationalism and Jingoism, and Fascisism, but i guess it’s all the same now.
Not categorizing by appearance=racist. Classical liberalism=Facism. Taxes=sharing. economic migration=fleeing a holocaust.
Words have no meaning anymore.
“Words have no meaning anymore.”
By design and as Orwell predicted.
Yep. It infuriates me how goddamn dumbed down we’ve become.
Random person/coworker/friend: “Dude you use some of the biggest words, I have no idea what you are saying sometimes.”
My inner monologue: “Yeah, and I have a public school education and a college degree that may as well have been printed on the inside of a cereal box, read a fucking book once in a while.”
“Dude you use some of the biggest words, I have no idea what you are saying sometimes.”
Or in other words,
“You talk like a fag and your shit is all fucked up”.
Who’d have thought Idiocracy was just an early documentary.
However, I will stipulate, Judge was wrong about the nature of the dumbing down. It isn’t that there are now more stupid people at the bottom of the distribution, it’s that the top of the distribution has collapsed.
Eugenicists?
Probably. They would have been as wrong as Judge, though. As I said, the problem didn’t come from “the wrong people breeding”, it came from the children of “the best and the brightest” turning out to be middling intellects, at best. They preen themselves that they’re the most educated generation in history. And the educated amongst them can’t put together a coherent argument and has to have mommy and daddy ban the mean man telling them what they don’t want to hear. I mean, even twenty, thirty, years ago, if I asked you to name a prominent living intellectual, you’d probably be able to rattle off a dozen without even much thought. Who do we have today, beyond say, Paglia or Peterson? Hell, twenty years ago Krugman was a legitimate intellectual. Look what he’s devolved into.
Who do we have today, beyond say, Paglia or Peterson?
Bill Nye, the Science Guy?
Bill Nye, the Science Guy?
I rest my case.
Heh, they hate those two.
I’d bet your average sjw would pick Zizek or Dworkin, if we include the recently dead.
if I asked you to name a prominent living intellectual, you’d probably be able to rattle off a dozen
Who are you considering the prominent living intellectuals from the late nineties that we could rattle off? Other than talking heads and political pundits like we have now I can’t think of any.
There’s Piketty, Ferguson, Pinker, Chomsky (alas) still lives, Sowell, Molyneux off the top of my head (no Google, so last names may be misspelled).
Does Tom Woods count as one, or is he too yokely?
Is Dan Carlin of Hardcore History podcast an intellectual? He has (or had) a talk show I never listened to which was supposed to be about current affairs and politics and such, and he puts a lot of thought into his histories.
Mark Steyn? Ayan Hirsi Ali? Victor Davis Hanson? Too yokely? Too racist?
Dude you use some of the biggest words, I have no idea what you are saying sometimes
I spent years dumbing down my day to day vocabulary because people saw it as intimidating and snooty.
That’s a perfectly cromulent reaction.
A sustainability design consultancy billing itself as “unique to the region” stopped by campus earlier to advertise its internships to the construction management and CAD students. I wonder whether as a white man I’d even get an interview. Their delegation was all granola-looking whites.
Show up on a skateboard, tell them you identify as a man, but which to use “oog” as a pronoun. ??? Profit.
Spoke with a rep for a few minutes. She instantly pivoted to speaking with a young woman who appeared a few minutes later. Not sure if my own nervous personality or she’s more their type. Guessing a measure of both. I need anxiety relief before I start having to interview for real.
The Border Control uses tear gas on people storming the border and it’s chemical warfare. The French use it on people protesting taxes and crickets.
Frenchies are protesting a tax to save mother gaia
That makes the tear gas use perfectly fine
This caught my eye in the article JB linked above.
https://nypost.com/2018/11/27/wedding-photographer-arrested-for-having-sex-with-guest-urinating-on-tree/
Wood and something, something Florida, step up your game.
““Y’all families will be dead by Christmas, y’all’s daughters are dead,” she told deputies from the back seat. “My dad is going to find out about this and y’all are [expletive] dead. D-E-A-D.””
Well that escalated quickly.
At least she’s giving fair warning on how crazy she is
deputies believe she mixed the drug with alcohol, which can lead to dangerous side effects, including extreme drowsiness, nausea and confusion
Hope they never catch me in the throes of a good Benadryl buzz. I’ll be in the clink for sure.
Looks like she was popping Xanax and drinking. Sounds like she’d be a fun date.
#CosbyApproved
Nice music choice.
bacon!
What the hell is going on with your Blues?!?
Tanned Tuesday:
https://thesexier.com/how-not-to-love-hotties-with-tan-lines/
Warning: a few are borderline NSFW
8 win, 27 place, 22 show
Is Gilmore MIA ?
I vaguely remember him starting a new job which is not Glib-compatible.
Hmmm, I haven’t seen him in a while
/searches backyard for fresh soil……
Apparently the UN thinks the countries of the world are on track to fail to meet their Paris greenhouse gas reduction targets. I wonder if this is more scaremongering or an attempt to make excuses for when the whole thing goes belly-up. But the best part of the article is this:
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. I’m glad the US isn’t officially roped into this mess (for now).
What will the French do then? Burn the vineyards, piss in the Seine?
Going after nations when they meet their goals is dumb dumb dumb. Piss them off enough and they just won’t bother.
They already aren’t bothering. Developing countries are on board with this shit because of the prospect of handouts. Wealth redistribution on a global scale. India is one of the best examples.
And China gets to keep merrily building hundreds of new coal plants. “Sure, where do I sign?”
Am I the only one who has to tell her son that his ax does not belong in the family room? “No, not your room, either. Put it in the garage.” I swear, this child is going to put me in an early grave.
What kind of axes are we talking about?
Brochettaward’s avi, but +1 Blues Brothers!
Body spray
My little sword fanatic Son salutes your axe wielding Son
If mine hasn’t broken all my power tools by the time he’s 18, I’ll be shocked.
e will know how to use them by then, much more fun
Well, if you keep nagging him like that…
Getting things wrong: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46363865
Hopefully Twain has been translated into Spanish.
Macron blames the riots in France on far right gangs…
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46331783
And why are they wearing yellow vests?
“All drivers in France have to carry the jackets in their cars as part of safety equipment for use in a breakdown.” [….] “Failure to wear the jacket after a breakdown or accident can result in a €135 (£120; $153) fine under a law introduced in 2008.”
With all the news surround the caravan at the border, we still catch 30k trying to jump every month, let alone the ones that get through.
I’m begging to think this is much more than meets the eye
I assume most of those 30K are doing it on the sly. If a large group shows up at the border with a set of demands and the government says, “Sure, come on in.”, expect more of it.
It’s common practice to jump In to Mexico, visit and fix up your house, the one you have sent money back home to buy, and then jump back in to your job here
“Whether any of this is a big deal depends on who you ask. Roxanne Price, a sex worker at the legal brothel Sheri’s Ranch in Nevada, argues that brothels with submissive sex robots are sending the wrong signals to men because they “get used to having sex with non-consenting, minimally responsive female-looking objects.” Robot partners will only make men “less social and less able to have quality intimacy with a woman,” Price says. More bluntly, she sees sex robot brothels as “rape training facilities” that could even “increase the possibility that men will commit violent crimes against women.””
No bias there.
having sex with non-consenting, minimally responsive female-looking objects
But enough about marriage.
Shorter Roxy: I don’t like competition.
Automation was supposed to be displacing other workers.
Honestly, I think I would prefer a sex robot to a prostitute. They can be sterilized between clients or you could own one, plus no morality issues such as are you taking advantage of someone that doesn’t have a lot of prospects.
taking advantage of someone that doesn’t have a lot of prospects
That’s my move!
I’m know you’re joking, but for some people I think that is a turn on. The power over another person. I would feel guilty, because I’m not sure there are too many women enthusiastic about sex work. SLD prostitution should be legal.
Aw, I’m joking about dating prospects. And yeah, I share your uneasiness with prostitution. I couldn’t do it. Not unless the pay was great.
Hey, 20 bucks is 20 bucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqRkgmAkL4s
Yeah, I think the point of the sex robot is that it’s just an object. It’s a device. It’s not even on the level of porn, which at some point involves another real person, albeit on film or video.
Now do dildos, Roxanne.
(I know what I said)
On the other hand, the robot never whines about how you don’t appreciate it.
That’s funny, because I’ve heard the argument made that sex work objectifies and degrades women, teaching men that women are objects or commodities to be bought and sold.
“Not only do I treat women as objects, I sometimes treat objects like….women.” -T. Cool
Medfly: Ha-ha! You see? You see? You think of women as nothing more than a collection of anonymous body parts!
Duckman: What are you talking about?! I think of women as breasts, legs and butts. What’s anonymous about that?
Rhino: not kosher.
There, you should have asked me from the start.
What if we genmod one to chew its cud?
Yahweh would be satisfied. Not sure about the rabbinical Pharisees, who have taken being dicks to an amazing level.
Schism! Jews and Baptists are more alike than either would want to admit. Take two Jews or two Baptists, read a passage from scripture to them and ask for their thoughts, you end up with 3 sects, and a lawsuit over the property of the old church or temple.
Jim Jones knew how to stop a church schism!
Jews drink wine, which makes it a far superior religion compared to Mormons, Muslims, or Baptists.
Fun fact: there are four kinds of locusts that are kosher. No idea how they circumcise the little guys, but we have to leave some mystery in our religions.
Baptists drink. They just deny it to their wives.
And you always take two Mormons with you fishing otherwise if you only take one he’ll drink your booze and smoke your cigars.
#lazycook
Tonight I made roast beef roll ups. From start to finish it was less than 30 minutes. ?
Lay out 1 slice thick cut roast beef. Add 1 slice of cheese. Spoon on a little pizza sauce. Add three pieces of pepperoni. Roll up tight and stick a toothpick to hold. Repeat as needed and put on a foil lined tray. Brush with olive oil, shake on some Italian seasoning and a a touch of salt. Bake @ 350 for 7 minutes.
Served with a side of TJ’s cauliflower tabboulleh. This stuff is good. https://www.traderjoes.com/fearless-flyer/article/4328
“You Can Sleep With the Latest Sex Robots at This Brothel—But Only if They Say ‘Yes’”
It would be hilarious if getting consent required saying something like “Taxation is theft!”
End the Pole Tax!
You have to pay that particular pole tax if you want to play.
There’s been a lot of hating on EVs around here lately. Well let me tell you, I bought one last week and it’s wonderful
The thing I looked forward to most when we retired to Montana was riding my mountain bike all over the two mountain ranges that surround the town. Problem is I retired about forty years too late. My 72-year-old legs and already-failed-once heart aren’t up to the grades – the problem with mountains is that they’re mountainous. It’s fun four wheeling around in the GMC, but not the same as biking.
Solved the problem last week with an early Christmas present – an electric mountain bike. It’s “pedal assist” which means the motor adds to the torque your legs supply – the harder you work the more power the motor puts out. Yesterday I did a 4-mile 1,000′ climb. I’m in terrible shape and I was wore out at the top, but a little rest and I was ready for more. However, it was the last day of hunting season and I started hearing gun shots so I turned back. No way I could have made it on my muscle-powered bike I would have been dead a third of the way up.
Suddenly a whole world has opened up. The bike was stupid expensive but after a couple rides I’d gladly pay twice the price.
http://imgur.com/a/tELlocl
I like it, and I’m not a fan of either,
Climb!
EVs aren’t the devil, despite what some think. They’re not some sort of magical elixir for global warming, but they’re not horrible.
Honestly, I’ve been quite happy with my hybrid. 45mpg average, doesn’t look like a fucking prius, and has all the gadgets and gizmos I wanted. Only thing I wish it had was a bit more low end torque.
I like EV’s and I think they will be an increasingly important part of the transportation system. They are not cost competitive or as convenient as ICE based vehicles.
If you have a short distance but long duration commute they are great. This assumes a home with a garage. You can’t get past range and recharge issues with the infrastructure as it is today.
They are not automatically greener than ICEs but they can reduce smog and pollution locally in cities.
Nuke or Natural gas power plants are much cleaner than gasoline or diesel.
Until the cost and charge time for EV’s go down they will continue to be 2nd or 3rd cars for well off folks.
I’d expect that the hating on EVs around here has a lot to do with the corporate welfare involved in selling them, not to mention that they will at some point be mandated, probably before they are truly ready for mass adoption.
Top 10 Chinese Knockoffs of Foreign Products:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tx5zdf-bG4c
Funny stuff…
Hmm, yesterday I had a job interview where I was told that the client wanted a tap-dancing unicorn, and today I see both THIS as the afternoon links and got a message that I might actually fit the bill for the job.
I think I need [another] drink.
You cant fight karma, brah
Paging Dr. Jung.