Happy New Year, Glibs!
Just wanted to point out a couple new site features, in case you haven’t noticed them.
1. I’ve added a Recipe Submission form that can be found on the top navigation menu on desktop version, and toward the bottom of the menu on mobile. We’ve been talking about creating a Glibertarians.com cookbook; this is the first step in gathering recipes so they can be formatted consistently. I’m planning on also creating a section of the site to house all the recipes.
2. The Search function has been changed to index comments, in addition to posts. Be aware that because we have over 406,000 comments (so far), it may take a little while to search and searching for very common terms might result in a gateway timeout. Try to be as specific as you can for best results.
3. The GlibFit posts will be found by going to the obviously-named GlibFit category. I’ve added a link in the footer menu for easy access since the posts will be quickly pushed off the front page.
That’s it for now!
Comments
107 responses to “New Year Site Update”
Cool, I will try to find something good for the cookbook/ recipe feature.
I was hoping for a voice-activated Siri/Alexa type interface.
Please send your request and a check for $100,000 – payable to the Glibertarian Foundation – to my home address. I will then consider your request after the check clears. Thank you for your support.
How much for an HAL 9000 type interface?
I’m afraid she can’t do that, Swiss.
When we do recipe submissions, do you want HTML with mostly text and links to pics on Imgur or whatever, or should we upload whole Word docs with pics embedded?
Also, thanks for everything about the site. It rocks.
Please just copy and paste into the form in the submission link. I can then import the recipes easily since they will be more or less in the same format.
No need to send photos yet, but if you want to, just email them to me labeled with the recipe name and a description of the image. sp@ this domain. I was planning on getting back to submitters with any questions, clarifications etc, then requesting a photo at that time.
Thanks SP. You’ve built a great site that works great on my iPhone.
You are welcome.
Yep. Works great on Android, too.
Yes, even excluding the much-improved content, this site is far and away better and more functional than TOS. Y’all have done a bang-up job with it.
Random question, IVWC. Is your avatar illustration by Robert Thom? Wonderful illustrator.
Seconded. And the x for the nav arrows is great. I wish you did site design for United Healthcare and Marriott, both of which fucked up their previous usability with tabletfied drek.
406,000 comments (so far)
Because the glibs is the best fucking site on the internet. Name another start up blog that gets that much participation in the first 10 months of its existence. Glibs is the most engaging and interesting site I have ever graced with my presence. Love you guys. Happy new year and, Hail to the Glibs!
SP, I have noticed that over the past few months, you have been more active in the comments section of your site. I think that you built this site at the request of OMWC, yet had misgivings about interacting with the lot of us. I think that most of a year of interaction with the glibs has made you like us.
She likes us.
She really really likes us.
No, I’ve simply had more time lately. (If I fire my biggest problem client, I’ll have even more free time.) I still have grave misgivings about interacting with you lot. 😉
And, sadly, when the Founders were saying, “gee, wouldn’t it be great to have someplace to hang out and comment at will” I said, “oh, I could put a site together, no problem.”
OMWC would never volunteer me to do something for free when it’s something I do professionally.
I think you don’t regret your decision to build our place. And that is great. Thanks SP.
My first recipe submission will be josei no soba, pictured below:
Is that being played in reverse?
It’s no interracial milk bath recipe but it’ll do.
The only milk recipe worth a damn.
Jesus christ the Jappers are Weird
nipponese, you and I will never understand.
I dunno. I’m thinkin’ it’ll be pretty difficult to pick up a Japanese schoolgirl at your local Wholefoods.
Try the Whole Foods in Kailua. The Japanese presence is huge between 9am and 4:40pm every day. If you aren’t careful you will think you entered “The Man in the High Castle” alternate reality.
Thanks to straff’s 5 minute Japanese post, no is a possessive. Soba are buckwheat noodles and we’re 2/3 of the way to filling in the name for the gif. Excellent work Team Glib!
We’re on pace for the millionth comment around next New Years. Any contests in mind?
Maybe closer to Thanksgiving.
Even better. Love to see the numbers vs TOS.
I hope Sugarfree gets to write the intro to the cookbook.
To Serve Man
IT’S A … oh, nevermind.
*trudges up ramp onto spaceship*
Maybe I should do a cheese potato recipe so you serve it to OMWC.
I watch all of Red Letter Media’s stuff, and they seem to have a Glib’s type sense of humor, and a while back I saw one of them was following TOS on twitter. Maybe we should invite them for like an AMA type thing.
Unless they’re here already… MikeS… Mike Stoklasa…
I don’t think ND is in Milwaukee, but I have a bad memory.
Thanks, SP. I appreciate everything you’ve done.
This, a Thousand times this, Thanks Sp!
It’s a great place, SP. You did/are doing great! I’ll work on getting some contributions to the cookbook, ASAP.
Now I’m interested:
http://mashable.com/2017/12/31/dave-chappelle-netflix-transgender-jokes/#7r7gqOKWLiqG
An outspoken Black Muslim comedian vs trannies. I think my grievance scale meter just exploded.
The tweets in response are, um, interesting.
“As someone married to a trans person…”
Both specials are pretty good. Chappelle is in fine form. ??
New Zealanders drink on tiny island to avoid local alcohol ban
Hilarious pic.
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The island was created by shoveling mud together during low tide. Photo via Tairua ChitChat/Facebook
Jan. 1 (UPI) — A group of drinkers in a small New Zealand town created their own island to get around a local ban on alcohol during the New Year holiday period.
The local government of Tairua, located in northern New Zealand, bans consumption of alcohol in public places each year from Dec. 23 to Jan. 6.
But this New Year, a group of about seven people created an island in the middle of the Tairua estuary so they can drink outside. According to the New Zealand Herald, the group used the low tide waters to shovel together enough mud to create a mound big enough for a bench and several people.
As the waters surrounded the newly-formed island, the revelers imbibed in public, successfully flouting the local laws and doing so to the delight of local law enforcement.
“That’s creative thinking,” Waikato eastern area commander Inspector John Kelly told Stuff. “If I had known that I probably would have joined them.”
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Libertarian Victory!!!!
And when they run out of alcohol?
Been drunk for the first two days of 2018. Might as well try to make it the whole year.
Sounds like a plan. I’ve been drunk since 2006.
Booosh.
Fee Fie Foe Fum, I will make this robot cum!
That film will age well.
well, it is from 2012.
The STEVE SMITH movie I always wanted! But with robots? I’m now confused.
406 000 comments?
I TOLD YOU NO ONE WORKS.
About half of those were you asking if anyone here works.
I Larfed
My boss is a bitch.
You need to flip that around this year.
Sadly, I am otherwise unemployable. I can barely stand to work for myself, never mind anybody else. 😉
OK, that was funny, welcome from Yusef and OMM
Thank you!
Here’s something that is unlikely in the US:
Gang of youth attacks cops near Paris; video of assault posted online
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/01/01/gang-youth-attacks-cops-near-paris-video-assault-posted-online.html
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A female police officer and her boss were attacked in a suburb of Paris by a group of young people who then posted videos of the attack online, reports said.
The officer — who has not been named — was recorded being kicked around violently as the attackers around her whooped and screamed in the suburb of Champigny-sur-Marne, southeast of the French capital. Her colleague was so badly hurt that, according to The Mirror, he was forced to remove his pistol from its holster, but he did not get a shot off.
Investigators said the officers suffered concussions and other injuries, but their condition was not life-threatening.
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Police originally were called to the address where a New Year’s party was taking place, AFP reported.
A number of people had been turned away from the house, which led to fighting in the street, according to The Daily Mail. The officers were attacked when they arrived at the scene.
The footage on social media has sparked outrage across France. President Emmanuel Macron promised to bring those responsible to justice.
“Those guilty of the cowardly and criminal lynching of police doing their duty on the night of December 31st will be found and punished,” he said. “Force will support the law. Honor to the police and full support to all the agents attacked in such a low level fashion.”
French interior minister Gerard Collomb said after the attack: “I just spoke with the police officers assaulted. Everything is done to ensure that the cowardly perpetrators of these unspeakable acts are apprehended and sentenced. To attack our security forces is to attack our Republic.”
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Time to ramp up the surveillance of the public. Cowardly attacks on the state will be met with a cowardly response from the state.
How about a function where someone associated with the site says “thank you” to the donor when a donation to the site has been given?
Narrows gaze
Look at this glory hog. If you want something for your money don’t give it to greedy libertarians, they only want to rape the population.
Hey, those Orphans don’t buy themselves!
I’m guessing a donor here doesn’t need any glory or even a public acknowledgement. Perhaps a two-word email saying “hey, thanks” would be nice, though.
I’m starting to think this is bothering you, I dunno, just getting that vibe. I’m not one of the overlords, and I’m not one to suck up to them, but this is all being run on their spare time. I don’t know how much you donated, but whatever you did I thank you. I haven’t had the spare change to donate, but I have contributed to content. Sometimes with an enterprise as freewheeling as this the small details may get lost in the shuffle, but even in it’s first year this place has made great strides toward being better run and more professional, with lots of content creators donating their time. Perhaps as it grows it can get better at these smaller things, but don’t get upset at these growing pains.
Yes, I guess you figured me out. But it’s not like I’m super-bothered, I really appreciate all that they do to make this site run, and I’m certainly supportive and understand there can be glitches, oversights and growing pains. And it’s because I do love the site so much that I took the time to make a decent contribution. But I’ve never made a contribution to anyone or any organization that didn’t merit at least some minor communication in return, such as an email note, at least within ten days of the donation — without that, can I even be sure that they received the money?
Here’s a relatively simple concept – spend 30 seconds dashing off an email saying “Got your donation, thanks! See you in the comments.” Boom, painless. You could easily even have the email template ready to go and just enter the donor’s email address, making it even faster to do. Because when you do that, the chances of getting subsequent donations greatly improves. Otherwise, you might think it doesn’t really make any difference to them whether you donate or not.
You are 100% correct.
This week’s worst political cartoons
3rd place
I was tempted to make this one the winner because it raises so many questions.
Why would a shovel be useful for draining the swamp?
Who do the alligators represent and why would they bludgeon fishermen with the shovels?
Why is the Pepe frog giving a thumbs up?
It’s a riddle wrapped in a an enigma inside a golden brown crumb crisp coating of mystery.
I didn’t know until today that the moon guy from 80s McDonalds as was an ‘alt-right’ meme.
Let me put on my patented stuponotorn helmet. See, the shovels are the tax code, and the alligators are BIZINES. The Fisherman represents the tax payer being beaten to death by BIZNES, and pepe is the deplorables.
How I love Ren and Stimpy. I’m pretty sure it causes brain damage, but I love it nonetheless.
“It’s discipline that begets love.”
-George Liquor, American
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8Tx-3tCj-k
It was a great achievement when I turned a philosophy class onto the philosophical questions of Stimpy’s Fart, and the prof not only allowed it, but was very into the idea.
It’s a flat and uninspired cartoon, but
Yes, shovels are used to drain swamps. You trench coming and going: to make it easier for water to avoid the swamp in the first place and to make it easier for the water that is there to drain out. This is usually achieved by enlarging the capacity of existing drainage: straightening and deepening upland creeks into high-flow channels so the inflow never settles into the in the first place.
You can’t pump a swamp dry: the original s**t-runs-downhill problem would remain and the flow in would never stop. You don’t fill in a swamp: you make the surrounding rivers deeper.
2nd place
portraying Trump as a gorilla is A-OK (by the way, the OK symbol is racist) but it would be racist if it were Obama.
1st place
As usual Derpy, you’ve found some real winners.
Congrats
That one is kinda sorta true if no spending cuts come about.
Yeah, that’s fair, but the tone alone is pretty shite.
I mean, see it from the cartoonists POV; doesn’t believe the Laffer Curve exists and and doesn’t believe the government can or should ever cut spending, then it is true, from a certain point of view.
I think your first-place winning artist even won the Pulitzer for editorial cartooning some years back.
Why is Trump a “DJ”?
Try wrapping your head around this monstrosity
I’ll go with “When Donald Trump does his Vanilla Ice impersonation, he offends the kind of black man who wears a cardigan over a rugby shirt.”
No crying bald eagles nor statues of Liberty.
0/10 would not lose 3% of my brain cells again.
Thanks SP, you and the rest of the founders (PBUT) have done a great job around here. Y’all got a TOS lurker like me engaged and having fun with a like minded community of miscreants. I look forward to another great year with all y’all.
What the everlovin’ fuck?
Admittedly, the article itself has a different heading. “Jewish-American”? I know the DM are retards, but I’ve never heard The Tribe in America defined that way.
You havn’t read the book of Mormon then.
I try and avoid the Word of God as far as possible, via all the possible routes.
Oh. Forgot the link … that’s the main page. do a word search for ‘Jewish’.
Jewish-American Princess
Yeah, I’ve heard it in that context, and I’ve chased a few in my life. But Jewish-American?
How many of you are Athiest-Americans? And how many Satanast-Americans?
The kind with gigantic tits and sand-blasted zits?
Thanks for everything, SP! I also appreciate that you moved the up-down thingie (state of my brain right now…) to the other side and made it collapsible. Super handy on mobile and I can still take screenshots of my favorite comments without interference, yay.
Will you be doing a print version of the cookbook?
SP, and all the magnificent founders, I can’t begin to thank you for creating this island of misfit toys. I missed the initial exodus, but since I’ve found it, it’s been a bright point of my day. Every day. Not a day goes by where I don’t get a chuckle and feel a sense of community. Y’all made something special.
Plus, it has more rape than anywhere else on the web, and that’s a good thing.
STEVE SMITH SAY “YOU ARE WELCOME”.
Thanks SP!
A big thank you to SP and everyone involved in creating and providing content for this site.
As a chronic lurker at both this site and TOS, I will make a New Year resolution to get off my lazy ass and get involved, as commanded by sloopy.
Happy New Year, glibs!
Thanks SP! Happy New Year!
Whoa, you got past the work block?
Thank you to SP and founders. I don’t know the circumstances of the creation of this place, but I like seeing all the regulars in one place again.