There’s only one thing that makes the shithole we call “Twitter” worthwhile, and that’s Thoughts of Dog. It’s got all the Founders greeting one another with a hearty, “gooob morning frens!” and humping each other’s legs at get-togethers. The account’s genius creator has mostly kept apolitical, but there’s a bit of edging in that direction now and then, which I fervently hope stops. Leave the politics to morons like us, please.
OK, I’ll admit to being amused at this exchange between Somalis and Ethiopians predating the latest round of ginned-up outrage by several months. I am also delighted that the stupid and tired “But Somalia!” rejoinder to any hint of the idea of Americans having the liberty promised in the constitution may now be forced into retirement.
Something about this story just doesn’t smell right.
One more reason why, if we’re going to have a celebrity president, it damn well ought to be Mike Rowe.
When I was a grad student, I spent long hours in a lab running experiments, then more long hours scrawling research papers about things like quantum mechanics and macromolecules and transition metal interactions so I could eventually get that union card which said “Ph.D.” I really could have done much easier things for the same result. Man, am I a sucker! That is some impressive gibberish.
Remember the rantings of a particularly vocal and dumb commenter at Hit y Run about this? Being profoundly ignorant about a subject never stopped a true believer from forcefully giving his opinion. The phrase “overtaken by events” keeps occurring to me.
Given the state of our legal system, it takes a lot to have a lawyer be an actual embarrassment to that “profession,” but here’s someone who managed.
I am an unabashed fan of Chef John and his YouTube cooking videos. Which heightens my sense of being totally betrayed. What’s next, fricassee of foreskins?
OK, obligatory Old Guy Music. It’s a prog rock band that was weirdly a cult fetish only in Baltimore and Pittsburgh. Their fans are… avid. This song was from my college days when you’d see them at Painter’s Mill (before it burned down). You can hear how it anticipated a lot of other bands (this song was released shortly before Bohemian Rhapsody, for example), with lots of interesting tempos, key shifts, and complex arrangements, not to mention virtuoso playing. They’re still around and still kicking ass, not that I’m likely to be able to see them here in the Democratic People’s Republic of Illinois.
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Good morning. Almost the weekend. Just one more workday…
You can’t fool me, I slept in and then we went for a leisurely breakfast.
A car without a steering wheel is too dangerous to be near.
One more reason why, if we’re going to have a celebrity president, it damn well ought to be Mike Rowe.
Mike Rowe is my favorite famous person. The guy is everything that I would want to be if I were a celebrity.
I too love me some Mike Rowe. One reason I still use Facebook.
Have you seen any of his letters from mother fb casts? Hilarious.
I would want to be DiCaprio. Rich, bangs 20 year old model after model although he does not stay in shape, is a fucking hypocrite but everyone praises him for it. Best deal ever.
Then again I would not want to be a celebrity. I would much prefer being a completely anonymous rich guy
DiCaprio has it good, but I think Mike Rowe could get more and better quality women.
Mike Rowe is my favorite famous person. The guy is everything that I would want to be if I were a celebrity.
Seconded.
Thirded.
Women say his jeans make his butt look nice, too
Well, we had out chance.
OUR chance. Goddammit.
Hmm, is Freddy old enough — even in dog years?
If there’s no steering wheel, how will the cops know whom to ticket for DUI?
I fully expect municipalities and other small jurisdictions that get the majority of their funding from highway robbery to fight this tooth and nail. What are DUI courts and jails going to do?
The person who started the car up. Someone had to start it.
The sleeper
What about the harridans from MADD?
I’m sure they will find some way to rationalize their neo-prohibition into some new channel of meddling. No way they will greet this new car as the perfect solution to DUI and then close up shop.
It might be a great time to buy a bar downtown if this works out. I would guess a lot more people would hang around after work for a few drinks if they didn’t have to worry about DUI’s.
My in-laws from that shithole known as Filthadelphia are coming today. I need some immigration reform.
Have you thought about building a wall around your property?
Make the in-laws pay for it.
Ooooooo… I like that idea.
*starts presidential campaign*
You need to end your DACA program and stop letting their daughter live with you.
Here’s the only workable solution to the Dreamer problem
We send 1/2 of the Dreamers back to their home country
We build a wall but only half as high as Trump wants
Of the remaining Dreamers 1/2 will go to school
1/2 will be eligible for welfare but only 1/2 as much
We will only let in 1/2 of the extended family, for example mothers can come, fathers not or vice-versa
Don’t be silly, we cut the dreamers in half vertically, send the right half home.
Our right or theirs?…
ah, both, save on burial costs for the other half.
Mike Rowe is a menace to society.
My in-laws from that shithole known as Filthadelphia are coming today. I need some immigration reform.
Build the wall.
got me a new laptop and I am not sure if I should keep it or send it back. The screen has pretty bad viewing angles, looks god straight plus minus 30-40 degrees bad otherwise. Dunno how often I will need to see wide angles.
Kinda heavy at 2kg but I don’t carry it around that much. Good keyboard and track-pad, good sound for a laptop, fairly solidly build good spec. According to the law which i philosophically oppose I have 14 days to return it if I so choose no questions asked…
Also it only has 100 MB LAN but i wont use the LAN much anyway. It has a DVD which although I haven’t needed one last year could be useful at some point i guess. Decisions decisions
Just get an iPad. You won’t need anything else.
That’s the exact opposite of true if you want to actually do anything.
Lies.
meh i dont feel a tablet is enough …
Do you know who else didn’t think a tablet was enough?
Elvis?
Aaron?
False idol fanboys?
Hammurabi?
Bill Cosby?
WINNER!
Steve Jerbs?
DELL 15.6” Inspiron 5570 (seria 5000), FHD, Processor Intel® Core™ i7-8550U (8M Cache, up to 4.00 GHz), 8GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, Radeon 530 4GB
I chose this over
HP 15.6” Pavilion – 15-ck000nq, FHD IPS, Procesor Intel® Core™ i7-8550U (8M Cache, up to 4.00 GHz), 8GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, GeForce 940MX 2GB
an
Asus VivoBook Pro N580VD Intel Core Kaby Lake i7-7700HQ 256GB 8GB nVidia GeForce GTX 1050 4GB FullHD
Maybe was not the best choice, but read some noit great reviews on the HP and I heard Dell are pretty robust and well built
That all depends on the class of Dell you get. The business class ones are a different build then their consumer class, which is a different build then their budget laptops. (Note: this was true 5 years ago, I don’t see why they would change this, but they might have).
I’ve been kicking around a 17in i3 inspirion since 2013, weren’t a lot of options with a numberpad, but it’s worked well for coding and Blender.
Fuck laptops with the 10 keypad built in. Adding the 10key moves the center of the keyboard off, so you have to slightly shift your hands. For those who think that they need one, buy a usb keypad and let the rest of us have decent laptops again.
The 10key infestation started with 17″ laptops but has now spread to most 15″ models as well.
You have your desktop keyboard shifted too far to the right too?
Just get yourself an external keyboard if you’re so annoyed about the exact eky/screen alignment.
If I thought I was in the freak, I would buy an external keyboard and never bitch. But I think the vast majority of users never touch their 10key.
Why am I being tyrannized by the minority?
I’m sure all of you will pile on to let me know that I am a freak and that EVERYONE uses the 10 key pad. Go ahead. I know I’m right.
I don’t use laptops – the screens and the keyboards are too small.
I don’t use laptops – the screens and the keyboards are too small.
This. I could live with the screen, but a man needs a full-size keyboard, dammit!
RC’s keyboard at work. Yes, I paid for it myself. I find it pleasingly noisy.
I’m using a DasKeyboard at home – I won’t bring any into work, they’d be stolen.
Most of the time, my laptop is docked and I use external keyboard (one of those split ones) and big displays. I get it.
It just irritates me when I go to the coffee shop or somewhere and the laptop keyboard sucks so bad.
Especially because I do so much work that is all text based (terminal sessions, vi editor, etc.)
Split Keyboard? You have no right to complain about being tyrannized by a minority, Nobody types like that.
“Curated design”? I didn’t know RC Dean was a hipster.
I got one of these 18 months ago. Lotsa bang for the buck, metal case, easy to add memory, SD Slot right in front. Fits nicely on an On-Stage Mixer Stand. Love itt
Could look for a new model Acer.
Acer Aspire E 15 E5-575G-53VG Laptop, 15.6 Full HD (Intel Core i5, NVIDIA 940MX, 8GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, Windows 10)
That may be intentional — it is a security option on some laptops so folks beside you in meetings (or in the thrice-damnable “open floor plan”) can’t look over at your screen and see sensitive data. If you didn’t want it, maybe see if there’s a similar model without that option or a way to select a customized version without it — it should be just a different screen selection, after all.
I have a pretty kickass Lenovo mobile workstation at the lab so at home I subsist on second hand Thinkpads with Ubuntu linux. I’ve always been happy enough with them and doesn’t cost me much. New Thinkpads are overpriced but businesses are always chucking them so refurbished is a good deal.
Does college major matter for women’s and men’s health in midlife? Examining the horizontal dimensions of educational attainment.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29328984?dopt=Abstract
We find that physical functioning in midlife varies significantly by college major. For instance, the odds of poor functioning for men who majored in Psychology/Social Work were 1.9 (95% CI: 1.7, 2.1) times greater than for men who majored in Business.
This is what I don’t understand:
So a bachelor’s degree is some magical health elixir that makes someone working a sedentary office job healthier than, say, a construction worker?
“report better functioning” I’m wondering about their methodology just from that phrasing.
Well, they use US Census data. Self-reported data.
Take cum Oceano salis
The Haitian in the judge article can’t even Pidgin, yo.
That’s because Haitians don’t speak Pidgin, they speak Creole.
That’s the (admittedly lame) joke.
We can get it some gag crutches, get it walking again.
Ah. Duly noted.
Carry on.
Does make me wonder: does any major news outlet do a Creole side feature like the BBC does for Pidgin?
RFI used to have a Haitian Creole service, but I don’t see it there any longer.
So I just woke up this morning to an email about my Restricted Stock Units from work. Because of the evil new tax plan that only helps the rich, Federal Income Tax withholding is going to be 22% now, instead of the 25% it was last year. I guess I must be rich to be benefiting from that tax plan?
but you benefit 3% which is not that much you see. So I am afraid I have to tell you still poor.
Latest chapter in the left shooting themselves in the dick: Pelosi says the bonuses are just crumbs and the tax cuts are pathetic. I wonder if people will believe her or their bank statements?
3% of my salary would be about how much I have to pay in income tax to New York this year. It’s no small potatoes.
If the cuts can coincide with bonuses, lower tax rates and better economic growth it could be a real boon to perceptions about limiting govt.
Unfortunately, facts and math don’t change perceptions in the prog mind. It’s tax giveaways to the rich all the way down.
I guess I must be rich to be benefiting from that tax plan?
Of course!
Just remember whom your friends are when you have all the models over to visit your yacht. 😉
When I was a grad student, I spent long hours in a lab running experiments, – were you able to replicate those?
” I spent long hours in a lab running ”
Pie is a white mouse?
Oh man I can’t stop reading this thread, so good. The state of the Horn of Africa is a real head-shaker though, the common people get the short end every time. Too much State Capitalism I suppose.
Conversation I had with a buddy who was working in Ethiopia a few years ago:
westernsloper – How is the job going?
friend – God what a shithole.
Friend of mine was friends with an Ethiopian who migrated to NYC. She actually thought NYC would be a few skyscrapers and the rest tents because that is how it is in Ethiopia.
Any idea when she came over to the US?
The whole shithole thing reminds me of the backwards Seinfeld episode when Pinter’s parents advise Elaine to never go to India.
Through a friend, I have an acquaintance thats Indian. His parents emigrated here some 50 years (by now) ago. When he was a teenager, his Father took him and his brother back to visit the area where his father grew up, for the sole purpose of pointing out what a shithole it is. And how much better his sons have it, comparatively.
Spolier alert: Dad wasnt raised in the Taj Mahal.
I know what you’re saying, but I can’t help it, the first thing that comes into my head is “Isn’t the Taj Mahal a tomb?”
The Taj, Xanadu, Shangri-La……one of those places.
…forget it, he’s rolling
Being raised in the Taj Mahal would be weird. It’s a mausoleum.
I have an Indian friend and coworker. Born in Britain but spent about 8 years in India. Moved to the US when he was a young teen. His family is fairly rich by Indian standards. And he only wants to go back to visit and show his kids where their family came from. He absolutely does not want to live there. Even rich Indians don’t live as well as your average American.
Conversation I have with myself every month:
“Think it’s about time to cook door wat and injera again?”
“Damn skippy.”
I’d love to support my regional Ethiopian entrepreneurs more often by patronising their restaurants, but the cheap assed Scotsman portion of my blood cannot abide to knowingly pay a 1000% markup.
*doro wat
I have never partaken, (partook?) of Ethiopian cuisine. Is this something I need to look into?
I would say yes. I’ve had it maybe half-a-dozen times and it never disappoints. A friend of my wife’s family is Ethiopian and every now and then as a thank you for helping her out with things, she cooks for us. Outstanding.
Only drawback is, if you go to a restaurant, there’s usually no silverware. You eat the main dish using this heavy bread. So if you’re low-carbing, that could be a problem.
Yes, yes, and yes. UCS would not like it.
Yeah do it. The sourdough injera is delicious.
I larfed at that 2012 era Somalia forum/rant.
Sadly, it’s the same with the Sudanese. As soon as South Sudan threw off the yolk of their oppressive Arab North Sudanese overlords and became independent, the Dinka tribe and Nuer tribes turned against each other and civil war raged.
Some Nuer refugees used to go to my church so I am more aware of it than a lot of Americans, but once you read up on it, it’s both heartbreaking and frustratingly predictable given the tribal mindset.
(A bunch of the Nuer missionaries headquarter in adjacent Ethiopia for safety and stability from which they reach out missions to South Sudan proper)
The Dinka and the Nuer where killing each other long before the independence vote. They routinely raid each other and steal cattle and have been doing so forever. It is just now they have Kalashnikovs. I worked there in 2006 right after the vote. The place is……how do you say…….a shithole.
They fashioned an uneasy truce to separate from the North. The optimists thought it was a new era. Lasted about a day and a half.
Mmmm… brunch is calling
I blame autocorrect on the galaxy 7. This thing corrects perfectly spelled words that it guesses you didn’t mean and autocorrects as soon as you hit spacebar to move on, so you don’t even notice. Grrrr
First thing I did when I had a “smart” phone – find and disable the autocorrect. If I make a mistake, It’s my mistake, I’ll not have a machien put words in my name.
Perfect
I saw it, thought about correcting it, then decided to leave it in.
I finally just found the setting on my phone. That shit drives me nuts but I never got around to fixing it.
What did they do? Fuck it?
“social–natural, subject–object binaries that marginalize the possum.”
Gibberish.
Also, this person has obviously never met a possum.
Related: My father belongs to an HOA over in Houston. He got on the board and one of his duties was to help advise homeowners having problems with their property. He gets all kinds of nonsense that is hardly believable. One of the residents wrote a panicky email begging for advice – “Help! I saw an Opossum in my yard at night! What do I do?!”
I suggested this solution: “You need to hide in the bushes at night and await the possum’s return. Bait it with fresh baloney. When you see the critter you have to leap onto it and grasp it by the neck. Be very careful that the possum doesnt get its tail around your neck or you will be strangled…..”
You get the idea.
Possibly the most awesome euphemism ever.
Ok… that certainly qualifies as “phrases I never thought I’d see for $200, Alex”.
Do you know who else didn’t think a tablet was enough?
The Israelites?
Indiana Jones?
All the folk over in the Medical Tent being given oranges and vitamin B12?
LOL! That Drugachusetts skit made my morning. Thanks!
You are most welcome. Mr. Show is, for me, an all time favorite; I very much love when television gets self-referential. Also, I was weened on Krofft Brothers products: Electra Woman And Dyna Girl, SIgmund And The Sea Monsters, Land Of The Lost, Lost Saucer… bloody genius.
Bayer aspirin?
Something about this story just doesn’t smell right.
This is just our worses trying to embarrass Assange. I remember another story about women commenting on the size of his penis that served no journalistic purpose. I can’t find that one, however.
I can’t find that one, however
That’s what SHE said.
Mike Rowe with his boots kicked up on the desk of the Oval Office penning Facebook wisdom while wearing naught else but a bathroom is something I would vote for.
Wife met her hero at the Tokyo Auto Salon today and actually cried. Pic of said hero:
https://imgur.com/a/2khTm
That would not survive a pothole encounter…
Which part of the bathroom is he wearing?
The robe part.
The bidet, of course.
I hope you’re feeling better.
And that the laughter doesn’t hurt your lungs.
Laughter helps clear them. My muscles hurt terribly from coughing but they are feeding me Vicodin so I am chill.
Obligatory –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYIe9o2jMSE
He just died recently
I can’t find anything about Hogsey passing on.
Wiki says Paul Hogan is a alive.
Wiki wouldn’t lie to me.
Although I had just happened to look up Brett Farve a few years back when he was a Viking in that minute after somebody troll edits and hasn’t been reverted, so it opened with
Threading fail. That was supposed to be a reply to the My Mother the Car link below starring Jerry Van Dyke who just died.
Hah! I was expecting the SNL sketch.
Her hero is a car?
Yes. It’s a big reason we’re married.
No, but my mom is
Probably should be wearing bathrooms — you can appear flushed.
Look, can I just wipe that part of the comment away?
no, the intertubes are backed up.
This is really becoming a drain on my time.
i hate to see you showered with complaints. let’s just wash our hands of this.
You seem resolute now, but in the end I bet U-bend.
I have a sinking feeling someone will narrow their gaze at this.
Someone?!
*NARROWS GAZE*
Harumph!
Jees, what a groutch
What does it transform into?
a hole in the bank account.
The unbearable dudgeon of the liberal elite
Nevertheless, we should worry at the constant stream of racist, crude remarks this president unleashes on the public. Normalizing that kind of behavior leads to what sociologists call “otherization” — making the subject of one’s remarks different from one’s self to the point that it is easier to neglect, harm, even kill people one doesn’t see as people. It happened in Germany in 1939. It happened in Rwanda in the ’90s. It’s happening now in Myanmar.
Donald Trump’s relegation of whole nations filled with black and brown people to an undesirable inconvenience is another step down a slippery slope. If it’s not called out and stopped, it could lead to something far worse than hurt feelings.
Which is why we should still take a moment to be shocked when the president of the United States says racist things. Even if you know his history.
Editor’s note: NPR has decided in this case to spell out the vulgar word that the president reportedly used because it meets our standard for use of offensive language: It is “absolutely integral to the meaning and spirit of the story being told.”
When I need the authentic emotion of people of color, National Propaganda Radio is my go-to source.
Like bitter clingers?
Irredeemable deplorables.
1938 Germany was apparently a tolerant paradise before that othering started.
Speaking of NPR, I have been absolutely relishing every time i hear a super serious commentator say “shithole” without disclaimer or warning. It’s fucking incredible and i love it. Anyone want to file a frivolous FCC decency complaint that complies with the spirit of the complaint system?
They are “normalizing” apocalyptic hysteria
Wife met her hero at the Tokyo Auto Salon
Kind of looks like a Noble, with a bunch of extraneous crap tacked onto it.
Not familiar with the Pagani Huayra then?
I can imagine the pronunciations of the Noble at the Tokyo Auto Saron
Ted S is a Florida Judge?
I didn’t see anything about milk.
What ever happened to Bacon Magic?
He’s been around. his work blocked us.
The complaint says that a Director said at a staff meeting that blacks worked hard when they were slaves but are lazy now. If there is any other witnesses to that then the hospital better hope they don’t get a legible complaint together. Because the plaintiff may get a lot more money than they’re asking for.
Wow. I did not read that far. Ya, that one might leave a mark on the old balance sheet.
Apostrophe abuse is a violation of the NAP.
i’s th’at ‘so?
Hawaiian and Welsh hit hardest.
I’m not going to hit on my sister in law no matter how much I drink tonight.
That bad, huh?
Standards. At least I’m not walking tonight.
I definitely missed the “on” the first time I read that.
Pic?
Well now my interest is piqued.
NYT headline: Porn Star was Reportedly Paid to Stay Quiet About Trump.
I’ve got one.
Arthur Sulzberger, jr Was Reportedly Urgted Not to Have Sex With Underage Girls.
FTFY
Christ the left is disgusting.
From The Root: https://www.theroot.com/reporter-april-ryan-asks-trump-are-you-a-racist-durin-1822031140
Nothing about Iran. Nothing about the Norks. Nothing about black unemployment being at a historic low. Nothing about the stock market increasing 20+% in a year. Nothing about tax cuts. Instead we get vitriol and “Mr. President, are you a racist?”
Comments are…something.
And I’m the bitter clinger. Gotcha.
What’s it like to be that reporter or any of the commenters?
Like this?
https://youtu.be/mxuwXczWQC0
Lolz. Exactly.
“Will ‘Shithole Countries’ Be Enough for People to Finally Admit That Donald Trump Is Racist?
The answer, of course, is no. And by “no” I mean “LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL FUCK NO. THAT SHIT AIN’T EVER GONNA HAPPEN. THESE DUDES COULD WATCH DONALD TRUMP INSCRIBE THE FIRST CHAPTER OF MEIN KAMPF ON MIKE PENCE’S ASS CHEEKS AND THEY’D STILL BE LIKE, ‘WELL, THE PRESIDENT IS JUST VERY DOGMATIC ABOUT GERMAN CALLIGRAPHY.’”
THESE FECKLESS AND CRAVEN FUCKS HAVE NO SHAME.”
https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/will-shithole-countries-be-enough-for-people-to-finally-1822005429
Facts are not racist. These places are shitholes.
Challenge: No one could ever make CNN say “shithole” 100 times in a day on live TV.
Trump: Hold my
beerDiet Coke.I saw a CNN clip featuring someone from The Root saying “Donald Trump presents a clear and present danger” to non-whites in the US.
Sean Penn just came out and said that he is a “threat to humanity”. Not the Ayatollahs, not Lil’ Kim, Not (his best buddy) Maduro; nope, Trump is the real bad guy on the stage.
The last time the Norks were firing missiles, I was listening to BBC news and they reported that Trump was making comments that threatened to destabilize the situation.
But calling for the destruction of Israel from tin-pot dictators and terrorists is a-okay to useful idiots like Penn, right?
I’m sorry, but what part of Penn’s idiocy is useful?
Touche.
Why does the Left automatically equate dark skinned people with excrement? I think we know who the real racists are…
BTW: Uzbekistan, Syria, Libya etc. all have populations that overwhelmingly fall into the US government’s definition of “White” and I think everyone here would agree they’re shitholes.
Calling a country a shithole has nothing to do with the people who live there other than the government officials who keep them from progressing.
^^^This guy gets it.
Wasn’t Trump saying we didn’t want/need people from these countries? He wasn’t just saying the countries are shitholes, he was saying the people from them were less desirable, In that context it does have something to do with the people.
He did, but a person with an IQ above room temperature can surmise that it’s clearly a shot against low-skilled labor that (under our current welfare state scheme) will more than likely end up on public assistance. Moronic journos are being purposely obtuse making this a race thing.
Not familiar with the Pagani Huayra then?
Sorry- all that gold plated boy-racer crap bores me. Is Pagani still using Mercedes v12s? Thatr’s the only interesting thing about it.
I’d rather have a BMW M1. In reality, I’d really rather have a Caterham.
That’s fine, but it’s all functional aero on the Huayra.
I’d rather have this
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8a/d7/8e/8ad78e5d7f6a467d99f3bc82c64337d6.jpg
While I appreciate the simple lines, the 70s aesthetic never appealed to me.
I don’t understand. Are you speaking pidgeon?
70s cars are too bland for me.
They varied so much! although If you discount anything that started design in the 60’s, it does limit it.
this is also easier to get than an M1.
If the cuts can coincide with bonuses, lower tax rates and better economic growth it could be a real boon to perceptions about limiting govt.
Oooh, get a load of Mister Voodoo Economics, over there.
Stuck at work today? How about a Tobacco break.
What the fuck is a “Possum?*” Did she perhaps mean “Opossum,” a North American marsupial?
Okay, fine, I don’t know anyone who actually uses the correct name in spoken conversation, but if you’re going to publish pseudo-intellectual claptrap and pretend it’s a scientific paper, you might think about using correct English.
*We named our black-and-tan Dachshund “Possum” and she is the cutest, sweetest dog ever, and I invite anyone who says otherwise to meet me on the Field of Honor.
If nobody calls it ‘Opossum’, then perhaps the name is actually ‘Possum’
Next you’ll be saying you are a non binary dragon sky-scraper
Don’t be silly, no one talks that way.
The ‘O’ is silent, morans.
Opssum? That doesn’t sound right.
“Is a hippopotamus actually hip? Or just a really cool Oppatamus?” -Mitch Hedberg
RIP.
If there’s a better use of synthetic fabric than yoga pants, I’m not aware of it.
http://archive.is/BHIkb
Bonus:
https://imgur.com/a/YfWmX
1 point docked for bad trigger discipline. She still comes out ahead.
13, 15
But you can’t see her face.
I’ll go with #2
You can’t see most of these faces.
I blame Q.
2
4
2, 4, 12, 14, 27 – Ugg Boots are ridiculous and should be banned, 41
You just picked my Lotto numbers for today!
Ever heard of Reverse Tithing, bro? I’ll have 90%.
11 and 21 appear photoshopped.
Orgy.
14, 14,14, 14. Also 14.
Heh, my endpoint security client does not like somalinet
Interesting take on the NFL protests.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/black-protest-has-lost-its-power-1515800438?shareToken=st8c8691f0138f4c2eb4d8ef7117f83389&reflink=article_email_share
I agree that what made the protests a farce was the fact that the players (who are already hugely privileged) were essentially risking nothing by their actions. Real payoff requires real risk and their protests were just pathetic virtue signaling.
Fappening hackers sent to prison
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5262931/Connecticut-man-charged-hacking-celebrity-accounts.html
Dude did the world a service, yo
Isn’t it strange that after all this time, our Celebrity Overlords still haven’t realized that if they take nude pictures of themselves and put them on the internet, then people are going to get nude pictures of them from the internet.
50/50 shot of this lasting more than a few years; these “intentional communities” always fall apart when people discover you have to work.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/style/washington-olympic-peninsula-queer-intentional-community.html
Don’t worry, even if it doesn’t disintegrate, it’ll vanish as there will be no children to take over.
You can’t really make this stuff up.
nothing wrong with quality basket weaving no need to make it douchey
When I read stuff like that, it just reminds me of that Camille Paglia quote about “If women ran the world …”
We’d still be living in trees, cowering in fear of lions.
And someone tell that disgusting cretin to stop pissing all over and dig a proper latrine already,
Letters to the Local Rag: The My Little Pony Movie Exists Edition
So, this person goes to see what is billed as an action movie and is shocked that they advertise other action movies before it?
Did this person live in a cave until that point?
“Don’t they make movies where people are having fun and not being killed or mutilated?”
May I suggest “Debbie Does Dallas”?
Song in Nigerian Pidgin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHV3_QDbp0Y
Can’t understand a damn thing.
Letters to the Local Rag: Deep Thoughts About Adverbs Edition
Best letter I’ve seen to the local rag in a while was:
“If a person has a stroke or heart attack and the paramedics take longer than 6 minutes to reach them, that person most likely has brain damage.”
And that was it.
Then you should like this one. This is the letter in its full context.
Is that person writing autobiographically?
You know what a common root in these complaints is – people who treat human langauage as though it were machine code and must exactly describe one and only one outcome. Efficiency in conveying patterns of thought to the listener. Most listeners hear “He only plays golf on fridays” and the concept “only plays on fridays” is being modified by the activity “golf” and very few will ever think it means “he does nothing else whatsoever on fridays but play golf”
For example, given the premise, ‘all fish live underwater’ and ‘all mackerel are fish’, my wife will conclude, not that ‘all mackerel live underwater’ — but that ‘if she buys kippers it will not rain’ or that ‘trout live in trees’ or even that ‘I do not love her any more’.
Murdering the sick, via the tax code
Pfizer was heavily invested in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s research, and was part of the Dementia Discovery Fund, launched in 2015 with GlaxoSmithKline and Eli Lilly as a partnership between industry and government groups to develop treatments for the diseases. The Pfizer neuroscience group currently has nine drugs in clinical development, and four of them are focused on Alzheimer’s.
The potential payoff for an FDA-approved treatment to Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s could be huge, but the definite, near-term costs are also staggering.
Still, Pfizer isn’t hurting for money. The company is set to win big from the tax overhaul, but they’re passing the money on to investors instead of funding research and development. The company plans to spend about $10 billion buying back shares of its own stock, adding to the $6.4 billion it previously greenlit. It will also increase its dividend rate by six percent to 34 cents per share. That money could fund multiple clinical trials.
Is there no end to Trump’s evil?
I can see him building a concentration camp for minorities from my front porch.
almost as if it is a business
Oh it’s Newsweek. They don’t hire anyone who isn’t daft.
Logic fail. Why would they send money to investors if they could send more by pursuing the trials? Hmm, maaayyybbbeee Pfizer knows more about its own business than the commenter.
It’s almost as if all of the trials they can legally perform have already been fully funded, and trying to run more would actually hurt them.
No, no, they need to spend more money on ‘science’, that will cure all diseases. No need to have any special plan for that money.
Because the author fucking loves science.
a partnership between industry and government groups to develop treatments
they’re passing the money on to investors instead of funding research and development
You don’t suppose they are doing the latter because the “partnership” is doing the former, do you?
the big questions on law and ethics
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTO-dKjU0AAcaHg.jpg:large
The answer would depend on what country you tried that in.
Some authoritarian shitholes (France, the UK, etc) have “Historic Preservation Laws” that strip owners of property rights at the whim of the government because their property is old.
Same with the USA.
I said ‘Etcetera’
No. Next question?
Especially if you didn’t tell anybody until you were done.
This is one of John’s favorite topics. He would say no, that as a society we have moral and legal obligation to preserve our cultural icons. And then he would read your mind if you disagreed with him.
Sanity? Your investment?
If I were as rich as Jeff Bezos it might be fun to do something like that just to troll the whole world.
“Obese man arrested for using moobs to pretend he’s female so he could sneak into women-only topless swimming pool
Staff at the Sapporo Bathhouse in Hokkaido called in detectives after the man shouted “I am a woman” in a pitched voice when confronted.
The “heavy-set” man, who works part-time, was arrested for trespass when shocked officers discovered that he was wearing a bob-shaped wig and heavy makeup.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5327731/obese-man-arrested-for-using-man-boobs-to-pretend-hes-female-so-he-could-sneak-into-women-only-topless-swimming-pool/
If you’ve got ’em, flaunt ’em.
We can be heroes….
Based on my extensive viewing of Japanese video, I would have thought it would take a lot more than a fat man in a wig to shock Japanese police officers.
He jabbed them with a Swiss Lobster-Shocker.
Does Assange put his feet in kleenex boxes to walk in too?
153 comments at 9:58am?
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?!?
3% growth my foot!
I’m at work.
We’re migrating servers to a new datacenter… across the street from the old datacenter.
well i wish you better luck then kraken had
Our deadline for completion is 1/1/2018.
This is our first migration of the set.
Same month as the deadline?
That’s getting the job done early in government work.
We started in october.
But the site wasn’t ready.
Then the hardware was delayed.
Then the network was not in place.
Then the network failed again…
All the while, the deadline stayed at the original date, because it had been set by political fiat.
the deadline stayed at the original date, because it had been set by political fiat.
Yeesss. *strokes white Persian cat in C-Suite*
You can’t fool me, govt work doesn’t have deadlines, that would be too stressful for the civil service employees (this is a direct quote from many years ago when I was consulting at L.A. County government IT).
Nobody gives a damn about our stress levels, or capacity, least of all the political appointees who set the deadlines.
Or agency head has these god-awful morale crushing webcasts disguised as agency-wide team meetings (only he and the people in the room with him get to talk). At the latest one he was trying to say “look at what a good job we’re doing” by commenting about the five outages we’d had and one that went on for three days with the same people on the call, trying to spin it as “look at the dedication” All that was in my head was “We had Five outages so severe the agency head was on the calls, one of which lasted three days?! What godawful uptime.”
Nine fives is bigger that five nines, isn’t it?
Speaking of missed deadlines – according to DoD Policy, all DoD networks are IPv6, today (actually, it was supposed to be 5 years ago).
Your foot grew 3%? Might wanna have that looked at.
I’d rather have this
That’s a really nice (69?) Chevelle, but they’re too big. If you could scale that thing down to about75% of its original size, I’d like it better.
Do you want to be first up against the wall, Brooks? Because that’s how you get to be first up against the wall.
‘Radio Dalsan
@DalsanFM
Bilicsan Company & #Mogadishu Municipality launches its first modern Bus Stops across the city. The project was launched in Hodan District”
Losers.
The association between exaggeration in health related science news and academic press releases: retrospective observational study
Results 40% (95% confidence interval 33% to 46%) of the press releases contained exaggerated advice, 33% (26% to 40%) contained exaggerated causal claims, and 36% (28% to 46%) contained exaggerated inference to humans from animal research. When press releases contained such exaggeration, 58% (95% confidence interval 48% to 68%), 81% (70% to 93%), and 86% (77% to 95%) of news stories, respectively, contained similar exaggeration, compared with exaggeration rates of 17% (10% to 24%), 18% (9% to 27%), and 10% (0% to 19%) in news when the press releases were not exaggerated
http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7015
“A restaurant in New Zealand has been branded racist because of its ‘juvenile’ choice of dish names.
Philip Kraal, the owner of Bamboozle, in Christchurch, was criticised for the restaurant’s menu, which includes dishes titled ‘chirri garrik an prawn dumpring’ and ‘pang pang cori frower’.
Labour steps up investigation into MP Ivan Lewis after sexual harassment claims
Twitter user Alice Galletly shared a picture of the menu on her feed with the caption: ‘Ho lee phuk, the menu for Bamboozle restaurant is some super juvenile racist trash!’
A large number of the items exchange the letters ‘l’ and ‘r’, which appear to mock the way some Asian accents sound to English speakers.”
metro.co.uk/2018/01/12/restaurant-slammed-racist-menu-mocking-asian-accents-7225057/
Fail, if you’re going to go with “Ho lee phuk” you need to call it “lacist”
I find it a little odd to start your criticism of someone else’s racism with a little racism of your own, but whatev.
Kiwis aren’t the brightest bulbs in the anglosphere.
Labour steps up investigation into MP Ivan Lewis after sexual harassment claims – racism and sexual harassment in one story?
“He only harassed the white women. He was discriminating against black women!”
Something like that?
My wife loves Chef John.
Would you suck his dick love-love?
“Donald Trump ‘shithole’ talk dey make people ginger”
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-42669364
So, the big stories from yesterday are that Pres. Trump paid a porn star thousands of dollars to keep her quiet about his affair with her, and that he proved once again that he is an irredeemable racist.
So, anymore, when the press starts harping on nothingburger stories, I start trying to find out what they are desperately wanting to not talk about.
hm.
LOOK OVER THERE
Clearly Trump is behind it.
He’s so good. playing this long con with russia since 09.
Or it could be that porn stars and racism pulls viewers to television, readers to newspapers, and clickers to websites. Nah it’s probably the conspiracy thing.
Those stories have what plants crave.
Nah, it’s probably the conspiracy thing
I would agree, excepting that we have had over a year of hearing that Trump and his cronies are definitely going to prison for colluding with Russia, but when someone is actually indicted for colluding with Russia….
*cricket chirps*
Someone no one has ever heard of and it looks to be more of a bribery kickback scheme than some nefarious Russian spy novel collusion type plot. I don’t see too many people giving a shit even if the ‘MSM’ did put it above the fold.
“RAPE OUTRAGE ‘Some women enjoy being raped’, claims ex-porn star Brigitte Lahaie as she joins hundreds of French women slamming #MeToo movement”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5333192/some-women-enjoy-being-raped-claims-ex-porn-star-brigitte-lahaie-as-she-joins-hundreds-of-french-women-slamming-metoo-movement
*lights STEVE SMITH signal*
Brigitte Lahaie, 62,
STEVE SMITH NOT AGEIST
Here she is, I’m guess significantly before she turned 62.
http://www.daily-celebvideos.com/nudecelebs/brigitte_lahaie/brigitte_lahaie1.jpg
NSFW!
That is a beautiful rack.
It should be noted that in civilized and far less puritanical countries such as France, that rack would also be deemed Family Friendly.
Doing an image search on her name reveals many things that would be PG-13 even in France.
Don’t give away the secrets to your success, Mr Q.
Can we get STEVE SMITH to weigh in on this?
In their debate on BFM TV, Ms de Haas had rejected Ms Lahaie’s argument that women were more sexually powerful than men.
When you’ve lost the French before they can surrender…
PROTIP: If you enjoy it, it is, per definitionem, not rape.
Even though I hate this phrase for several reasons, I must employ it here: words have meanings.
Yeah, pretty sure the chicks who are into the rape fantasy are still rather choosy about who and when. Maybe even where, or is that part of the fun?
I prefer to aggressively chase my hubs when he least expects it. He has yet to complain.
I prefer to aggressively chase my hubs when he least expects it. He has yet to complain.
Y’all need to have a talk with Mrs Gordilocks. Just a little sisterly advice, know what I’m sayin’?
The Splosives family house is basically Married with Children.
I said he had yet to complain. And he chases me plenty. It’s just less surprising.
(I am a good cook, too. So aside from the red hair, not very similar)
Still funny tho.
Top quality pussy.
https://imgur.com/a/kKLUU
Looks a little green around the gills.
Don’t they make movies where people are having fun and not being killed or mutilated?
Yes, but they’re all rated XXX.
yeah, I had to stop after the several tweets about net neutrality.
unfortunately, this proved them right about NN. it’s gone, and now I don’t see their stuff.
“Starving mob beat cattle to death with rocks in desperate search for food and four people are killed during looting in Venezuela as country’s economic collapse continues”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5262257/Starving-mob-beat-cattle-death-rocks-Venezuela.html
The shocking thing about this story – there was cattle left in Venezuela.
damn state capitalism
Where’s your mighty capitalism now? Why can’t it step in a save the day, eh?
Has Sean Penn said anything about this?
In a just world, it would have been Sean Penn having rocks thrown at him.
“See – Meat is murder!”
+1 Morrisey
more important news
Spending
Venezuela’s ‘butt-lift’ boom
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180110-venezuelas-butt-lift-boom
But recently, the economic woes of Brazil’s northern neighbour Venezuela are prompting more Brazilians to cross the border for surgery, where cosmetic tweaks are far cheaper.
Though prices vary, a liposuction, breast and buttock augmentation surgery in Venezuela can cost Brazilians around 10,000 real ($3,098). In Brazil the same procedures can cost closer to 30,000 real.
Can the doctor even get sanitizer?!
Put the stuff they take out in liposuction in a blender with some vanilla extract and a bit of milk and you make a pretty good shake.
Can we trade toilet paper for titties?
/Q
Damn right.
Nurse is late with my 9 o’clock vicodin!! I demand social justice!!11!
(Am I doing social justice right? Just take my pet complaint and invoke social justice cries so that if you side against me, you are a bigot or something?)
You forgot to claim that the hospital was clearly misogynist for witholding your pain medication by however many minutes.
You’re also part of the opioid epidemic now. Congratulations.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s exactly correct.
Get well soon. Hope you feel better
Thanks. I feel better and the SpO2 is okayish now at 95%, but I am still on oxygen so no idea how it would be without it.
What is not getting better is my lung peak flowmeter. It is stuck under 250 L/min, my red zone in which i am supposed to seek emergency care.
What stumps me is that asthma patients all use peak flowmeter so they can see if they are heading for an attack, and can see if they are responding. They do the same in urgent care.
But in the ER and the hospital, nobody checks it. They just look at the oxygen saturation. I brought my meter from home and plan to force the doc to look at it before they decide what to do.
They probably aren’t consulting it because they haven’t calibrated it and its not hooked into the electronic medical record system.
Yeah everything is barcodes around here. They have a remote supermarket type scanner they use on every med and then scan my wristband, do a procedure, scan the band, etc.. Weird.
Barcoding is actually one of the bigger improvements in care quality and patient safety in the past several years. You’d be appalled at the error rates before barcoding everything was done; the overall error count is lower now even though we catch a bigger percentage of errors.
I hope they are planning to discharge you today (for a lot of reasons). You’ll be an observation patient until midnight (the “two-midnight rule”), and then you will become an inpatient and probably have to move to the where the really sick people, exotic germs, and hustle-and-bustle are. Plus it gets more expensive.
Barcodes make total sense. This is the first time I’ve seen them in use like that.
And it just became official. Just saw the doc, and I’m an inpatient now.
Thanks for the insights.
Good part is, the doc actually listened to me about the peak flowmeter and wants me to keep track of how it’s going.
Starving mob beat cattle to death with rocks in desperate search for food
Administering the People’s Justice.
I was once stuck in a meeting with an Obama appointee who was asking what we could learn from Venezuela about how to solve the obesity epidemic. That stupid twat went on and on about people having lost 20 pounds. I finally said, “it’s not a solution, it’s a measure of human suffering.” We didn’t get any work from her and I am ok with that.
Helicopter ride. The only solution.
what we could learn from concentration camps about how to solve the obesity epidemic
Same question, really.
“Obama appointee”
Socialist asshole. Glad he’s gone.
Did she understand what she was saying? I mean, was she ignorantly naive or openly evil?
Ignorant, arrogant, and stupid. Deadly combination.
Especially when combined with bureaucratic power. Wouldn’t be as big a deal if she worked at the mall selling trinkets which no doubt she would have been if we lived in a sane world
Did she need to go on the Venezuelan diet?
Seriously though, mass starvation as a solution to widespread obesity. I would make sure the bureaucrat went first.
“Vanguard of the proletariat means you go first, right?”
My takeaway – Obesity is preferable to socialism.
Yeah, shortly after OCare was launched we had a walla from CMS at the hospital. She was asking what affect we thought OCare was going to have (fishing for gushing praise, seeing as my hospital had been a vocal supporter of the bill). I told her we had budgeted exactly zero additional dollars from health insurance exchange patients (true), and that we were expecting to net a few hundred thousand from Medicaid expansion (also true).
She wasn’t happy. Our government relations people stopped inviting me to meet with bureaucrats.
The cooking show CHOPPED had a series where they brought in lunch ladies to compete and some Whitehouse douche bag as a special judge. He kept telling the lunch ladies to use smaller portions and they kept talking about kids for whom this was the only cooked meal they got. I got the impression that the editors of that show weren’t all that impressed with the Obama school lunch initiatives despite the lip service everyone gave. It was surprisingly subversive.
Those shows are conflicted. They’re always going on about “organic” this and “local” that and then the cooks go and make food that would give Herself a heart attack.
Eh, organic and local is about status, not “healthy” so that doesn’t bother me. This was kind of hilarious with the way they reacted to him. Yeah, thanks for the money to buy fresh produce, but we’re still serving pasta cause kids need to eat.
Nurse is late with my 9 o’clock vicodin!! I demand social justice!!11!
They give pain meds to all the male patients, first. Wait your turn.
And you’ll only get 72% of the dose the men get.
And the male nurse will rape you for good measure.
No thanks on the one male nurse, an older Asian man (great nurse btw), but one of the female nurses, Rosalie…would consider. (Not in a rapey way though…)
Who am I kidding? I like dudes. But I do appreciate looking at a nice female specimen.
At least I am not black. Then it would be 3/5 of 72%.
It has kicked in. Feeling fine…lungs still sound like shit, but the feelz…
I made your stroganoff with the nutmeg, tarragon, and olives earlier this week RS. Used grilled NY Strip and assorted mushrooms in it. Quite delicious!
Glad it turned out well for you !
Hi five, self!
Mr Splosives brought in my real laptop, so I am myself again.
You look somehow familiar.
How long will constituents in deep red states (Like Missouri) put up with funding institutions like these?
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10371
I bet long. Can’t be accused of hatingz ze childrunz
Yeah, is frustrating how intractable these problems caused the left seem to be. Doesn’t help we’re fighting against their massive propaganda machines that include these universities.
aren’t they saving money, hiring the black woman?
But if she doesn’t work out they can’t fire her.
Remember the rantings of a particularly vocal and dumb commenter at Hit y Run about this?
I remember him as one of the most interesting contributors to this site. Until you and your ilk kicked him out. He also never forced anyone to tacitly normalize pederasty.
If you don’t like it here why don’t you just moved to Somalia?
When you tell another commenter, not in jest, to go fuck himself, that’s not acceptable in our bar. Postrel was mostly wrong, but not entirely.
Is this just an OMWC joke or is this a serious claim?
Either way, that’s a definite catbutt:) lol
Let’s hope it was just a poor attempt at humor.
I’ve never found OMWC’s schtick funny.
That’s a perfectly valid opinion. It’s also quite different than claiming it “tacitly normalize(s) pederasty”.
The effect of images of Michelle Obama’s face on trick-or-treaters’ dietary choices: A randomized control trial
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0189693
Setting
Economics professor’s front porch in New Haven, CT.
Participants
1223 trick-or-treaters in New Haven over three years; on average, 8.5 years old and 53% male (among children whose gender was identifiable).
Eligibility
Trick-or-treaters over the age of three that approached the house.
Intervention
Random assignment to the Michelle Obama side of the porch or the Comparison side of the porch.
Main outcome measure
Selection of fruit over candy.
Methods
Difference-in-means estimates.
Results
We estimate that viewing a photograph of Michelle Obama’s face relative to control conditions caused children to be 19% more likely to choose fruit over candy.
I could make a joke here but I won’t.
Fear is a great motivator. Ask Cass Sunstein about Nudge ….
I would’ve thought it would make them lose their appetite altogether.
they chose the fruit, it doesn’t say they ate it.
They took it so they could come back later and throw it at Michelle.
We have never seen Michelle Obama and STEVE SMITH in one place. Discuss.
STEVE SMITH HAS STANDARDS
WOOKIES TOO CLOSELY RELATED
/STEVE SMITH
Some,more conspiracy theory for you.
During Comey’s last year of tenure, someone inside the FBI was giving FISA-702 search results on U.S. individuals to a private entity that had nothing to do with government. Those 702 (American Citizen) results were not “minimized” and exposed the private data of the American citizen(s).
In addition, NSA Director Mike Rogers, who is also in charge of Cyber Command, discovered people within the intelligence community were doing “searches” of the NSA and FBI database that were returning information that had nothing to do with “Foreign Individuals”.
My link got corrupted…they’re on to me!
Looks OK to me.
/chuckles at gaslighting
*blinks suspiciously at flickering lights*
If I worked for the NSA, damn right I’d do a deep background check on that cute chick at the gym I was going to hit on. What’s the point of working for them if you can’t use the facilities to avoid bunny boilers?
LOVEINT.
How many bytes is that kind if INT?
Not so sure. LUSTINT is probably more accurate,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT
Oh, so, a real thing, but what about if you’re running backgrounds on a hooker you’re interested in?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEXINT
and this is why people my age won’t be able to run for office if they have some wrongthink.
“Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe would punch President Trump: ‘This guy thinks he can intimidate everybody
Outgoing Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe talked tough about President Trump on MSNBC Thursday night, fantasizing to an admiring Chris Matthews about punching out the commander-in-chief.
“You would have to pick him up off the floor,” McAuliffe said on “Hardball,” as he described what he would do if President Trump ever got in his “space.”
“That would be the last time Donald Trump ever did that,” added the longtime Clinton crony who reportedly could be considering a 2020 presidential run.’”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/12/democratic-gov-terry-mcauliffe-would-punch-president-trump-this-guy-thinks-can-intimidate-everybody.html
But I’m sure he is for more gun control.
Trump’s existence is a provocation. Republicans are so hateful and violent.
File under: EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING IS RACIST!
http://freebeacon.com/politics/durbin-claims-chain-migration-term-offensive-descendants-slaves/
Durbin clearly thinks black people A: have genetic memory, and B: cannot recover from trauma recorded in their genes.
How cupcake shows oppress women
https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/949633321591623681
“Moby Bizarrely Claims the CIA Asked Him to Push Trump-Russia Collusion Hysteria (AUDIO)
New York-based DJ, Moby, bizarrely claims the CIA pushed him to promote Trump-Russia collusion hysteria. In an interview with Kentucky radio station WFPK this week, the singer-songwriter said current and former CIA agents told him ‘[Trump] is the Manchurian Candidate, like [Putin] has a Russian agent as the President of the United States.’ ”
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/moby-bizarrely-claims-cia-asked-push-trump-russia/
If he was the Manchurian Candidate, shouldn’t we be investigating China?
/derp
He is from the “Little Moscow” district of Manchuria.
*checks reptilian agent logs*
Yep, that was us
I like Moby’s music, his politics don’t align, but at least he’s consistent in his distrust of CIA unlike others.
Well, everybody knows the CIA works in extreme ways.
“I hope all the Africans in this world call on their ancestors. See you forgot. Juju, voodoo, magic. Don’t worry Donald, we are the wrong ones. You are not safe because you are on another continent. Biko do yourself a favor, take a break. Wahala de come for you oh.”
https://twitter.com/CynthiaEriVo/status/951850941745070081
wut?
Every single person in that Twitter exchange presented irrefutable empirical evidence that their individual IQs hover around 70.
Except for the Uga Buga comment:)
70? You are trying to be nice, aren’t you?
Some of the comments were slightly witty.
Well, exactly 50% witty.
3/5s witty?
Oh, nevermind.
To be fair Twitter naturally lowers your IQ by about twenty points.
That makes me a bit sad. It reminds me of a guy I worked with once. All of the others teased and tormented him relentlessly. He was dumb as a rock, low on the ladder, and had no money or connections. One day he got enough and stormed out while swearing he would curse everyone and the company with black magic and boy were we going to be sorry.
That is what happens when a powerless person convinces themselves that they aren’t as pitifully powerless as they know deep down that they are. It is sad.
So how many albinos are going to be murdered in order to try to witch-doctor-up a sufficient hex?
As many as the 7 year old girls who will be vaginally penetrated to provide protection from TRUMP AIDS.
Prove that doesn’t work! See, you can’t!
…this 1 weird trick?
I have a good Somali friend. They tell Ethiopian jokes like we tell Polish jokes. I also will say that they lose everything in translation. I have not understood one Ethiopian joke he has told me.
Maybe if he didn’t tell them in Cushite they’d be more comprehensible.
Yeeah. Humor doesnt cross cultures very well. Years ago I gave up trying to figure out what jokes will get my Peruvian step mother to laugh. The things that make her laugh leave me with a poker face and vice versa.
The Thief: At 1st level the thief looks almost like any other urban Normal Man…but it’s just an act. Even at 1st level he has abilities that set him apart from the general populace. The thief’s cunning and grace makes him an excellent combatant compared to the Normal Man (better attack matrix), and his wit, luck, and powers of observation make him immune to hazards that the NM would suffer (better saving throws). In addition, the thief’s skills allow him to attempt stunts that no normal man could hope to accomplish…climbing sheer surfaces, becoming invisible in shadows, picking the most complicated locks. The thief is like a ninja assassin (+4 to hit and double damage from behind? Yowza!), and normal men should walk carefully (and with a bit of trepidation) around such dangerous men and women. Even the “average” thief of 3rd level can survive the most inspired attack of a Normal Man (attack roll 20, maximum damage of 6, versus an average of 7.5 hit points). The normal man is going to be whispering the rumors of the thief’s exploits around the tavern fire, while glancing furtively about to see if the shadows have shifted unnaturally in the firelight.
Well, that’s an epic heap of industrious twatwaffle …
I no, itz grat3, rite?!?!
Nah, I was critiquing it on its purported sensibilities actually.
While a D&D character is an ‘exceptional’ human being, in that he’s benefiting from the individual control of a player, the concept that a hit point is not a huge abstraction is laughable. In the ‘standard’ game, the mechanics would indicate that a fully armored high level warrior could expect to leap off the top of a curtain wall and – if lucky – hit the ground below and walk away with a slight limp.
Try that in one of my games and you’d be upset to find that you just lost between 130% and 180% of your total HP. You just changed classes from “fighter” to “smear of jello”.
It is a cinematic fantasy game. Just take the 20d6 terminal velocity hit from falling off the flying fortress.
Hopefully GM chooses shitholes for their test cities. Really want to see how those cars handle black ice and heavy winds. Do we still own a piece of government motors? Cause if not I might consider a short position until the lawsuits work their course.
I nominate Rochester.
I think I’ve figured it out. Government Motors didn’t design a self-driving car, they just ran into a manufacturing defect wher ethey forgot to put in pedals or a steering wheel. But, since no one expects their cars to start, they hope no one will notice.
They’ll put them in a vast underground storage facility and wait for the next Democrat administration, whereupon they’ll lobby for a new initiative, Cash for Clunkers II, at which point they’ll drag them out of storage, pour sodium silicate solution thru’ the valves, have the cars crushed, and collect $40,000 per unit from the tax payer.
It’s almost like you don’t government, dude.
I met a guy on a plane once that did ice and snow testing (forget which car company it was for) in Summit County, CO. A lot nicer place to visit than Rochester.
We don’t want to send them to nice places, we want to send them to shitholes.
“Shithole tested, shithole approved!”
Like Haiti?
Well it can’t be Somalia cause they don’t have roads.
Ah but does this “Summit County, CO” have tens of thousands of out-of-work Kodak employees that could be put to good use testing these things? I think not.
That was for Q
There are a lot of ski bums, but I’m not sure if any of them could stay sober long enough to complete a driving test.
Well then Hopkins, Minnesoda is out. Even though it had a nice example of what humans can do on black ice (22 car pile up) caught on video.
Seriously, humans or computers will have trouble on black ice. The advantage that autonomous cars connected via a mesh network is that the first car will wipe out, but can warn cars behind it about the road conditions.
I’ve seen a demo (well a video of one) where the first car in a group lets the following cars know about ice so that they can adjust their own traction control. Very cool.
Can I put the car in airplane mode so it doesn’t talk to the other vehicles?
I am not sure. Maybe?
If you turned off the mesh networking, my guess is that you would be held more liable for any accidents that might happen. The thinking would be that by turning off safety features, you made it more likely to have an accident.
If you were shutting it off for privacy, I think that you would be mistaken. In the scenarios I have seen, the connected cars don’t know anything about your final destination. They only know that you will take the next right. And the stuff I have seen so far they only kept a 5 minute log of info in the car. Nothing was stored longer than that.
Granted, the stuff I said above was all for a test track demo of technology. In the real world I don’t know what will happen. No one does.
I’m sure Big Brother would love to have way more info about you from your car. On the other hand, car manufactures might find out that they have to make privacy a feature and not an option if they want people to buy them. I think that it is way to early to predict what the final autonomous car solution will be.
The state won’t let them make privacy a feature or even an option.
Maybe they should choose Wisconsin?
That shithole has a shithole governor who mocks the great progressive Chicago Transit Authority.
Fucking Scott Walker making it easy for people to drive!
You Know Who Else made it easy for people to drive?
General Motors Hydra-Matic?
Alec Issigonis?
Ric Ocasek?
We’re damned monsters over here in this shithole! Driving our cars as we please, I should just bike the 17 miles to work in -6 weather like Gaia commands, but fuck that shit. Not to mention we force toddlers to wield guns.
No offense pal, but I would rather not live on the same planet as you and your ideological fellow travelers.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/01/12/obama-rips-fox-news-viewers-are-living-on-different-planet.html
Well he is somewhat accurate…
It is certainly true just not in the way he thinks it is.
Clearly GamerGate, shitlord patriarchy at work.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/13/video-gamer-28-kills-mom-after-blaming-her-for-broken-headset-police-say.html
Some of those comments are golden though. Gallows humor, yet golden.
“His mom had some dirt on Hillary”
Another conspiracy theory I just saw: Pres. Trump made his *shithole* comment just so he could start a conversation about H. Clinton’s criminal activity regarding Haiti.
If he said it at all, of course. Right now we have two politicians telling us different things. Which means the truth is probably something else entirely.
I love the way they flop between “evil genius playing 5D chess four moves ahead of everybody else” and ” slobbering buffoon”.
Oh, hey. I saw your comment from yesterday. I had a funeral to attend for a dear friend who passed too soon, but I’d love to continue the conversation.
We estimate that viewing a photograph of Michelle Obama’s face relative to control conditions caused children to be 19% more likely to choose fruit over candy.
Big Mother is Watching.
Well, rumor has it that she chose a fruit, so…
“You would have to pick him up off the floor,” McAuliffe said on “Hardball,” as he described what he would do if President Trump ever got in his “space.”
Big talk for a guy accustomed to being surrounded by state cops every time he steps outside.
I would have thought that would get you a visit from the Secret Service. Not McAuliffe, though. Must be white privilege, amirite?
Congressional Tuff Gai stuff
What stumps me is that asthma patients all use peak flowmeter so they can see if they are heading for an attack, and can see if they are responding. They do the same in urgent care.
But in the ER and the hospital, nobody checks it. They just look at the oxygen saturation. I brought my meter from home and plan to force the doc to look at it before they decide what to do.
Don’t fret. They have the machine that goes “ping”.
New motto: “Me so hawny. Me luv you long time.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2018/01/12/can-the-chinese-government-now-get-access-to-your-grindr-profile/
It’s getting to the point that i would care *less* about the Chinese having access to my profile (or, given that it’s grindr, the Iranians) than I would with the US Government having it.
OK, I’m lying. I’ve been at that point since about 1993.
Don’t forget, if the US Government has access to it, the the Chinese do as well (references massive breaches of US Government computers).
If? Snowden alerted us to the fact that the NSA has a program that collects the porn-surfing habits of pretty much everyone in America for blackmail purposes.
That doesn’t seem like a terribly effective avenue for blackmail.
Everyone looks at sheep scat porn. Right?
It’s worth noting that a disproportionate amount of Mormons are present in the US intelligence community.
Jus’ sayin’
Except that landing page had one image down in the lower left corner of a 14 year old Russian girl, so you get slapped with a “child porn” jacket.
You can’t rule an honest man, which is why you must be turned into a criminal.
“Yeah, I subscribe to the Hot MILFs with Pets channel. So?”
We’re getting to the point where not having a fetish in your browser history is weird.
“Hey, check this guy out. Nothing but PIV with adult women. What a freak.”
::Kurt Eichenwald nods, morosely::
“We hear your sexual tastes are disturbingly normal. Wouldn’t want your wife to find out would you?”
I’ll believe that when the first Squat Cobbler American is elected.
Even if someone is freakishly normal it is nearly impossible not to look. A lot of that stuff has to be seen to be believed.
I bet the intelligence community has a larger and better quality collection of amateur videos than the pornhubs make available.
I porn surf like this
I’m not sure how anyone could blackmail me w/ porn habits. I haven’t even looked at hentai in years.
“Gilmore’ libido is so low, he hasn’t looked…”
/the alternate direction.
I think the power of blackmail has diminished now that you can just make shit up and everybody believes it anyway.
Take home message, just come out of the closet so it can’t be used against you.
The Swiss seem to be reading my mind when it comes to immigration and citizenship.
A new civil rights act has come into force in Switzerland that prevents residents who have been on welfare in the past three years from becoming citizens unless they pay back the money they received to the state.
pay welfare to non citizens??
Those Swiss. Such softies!
You know, like California.
Trump is so much better than I ever imagined.
The Environmental Protection Agency is on track to slash 47% of its total staff by the end of President Trump’s first term…
What a shitty website.
No wonder the left is freaking the fuck out. It aint just the EPA. He is systematically dismantling nearly everything those sleazy pinko assholes have spent a hundred years building. They were this close (holds fingertips nearly touching) to getting their glorious revolution and turning the world into a giant gulag, less than an inch away from their dreams of mass graves and they blame him for yanking the rug out from under them.
I just came.
Oh God yes.
Perfect summation of GENDER EQUALITY NOW!!!
Some information on the Las Vegas shooting (remember that). Not much but some.
I have heard that crap before from cops. “He had a bazillion rounds of ammunition stockpiled!”
It is bullshit. I have known many sport and competitive shooters in my life. They all had bazillions of rounds of ammunition at any given time and none of them had malicious or criminal intent. None of them presented any danger whatsoever to the public. As soon as I hear a cop announce a scare story about lots of ammo the first thing that pops in my head is that if he had a good case he wouldn’t have to exaggerate.
“[I]t takes a lot to have a lawyer be an actual embarrassment to that ‘profession[.]’”
RC Dean, straffinrun, trshmnstr, RBS, a few other Glibs, and I haz a sad.
My business card says:
“Proud to be an embarrassment to the profession since 1987”
Don’t forget Swiss.
Just remember, it’s the 99% of lawyers who give the rest a bad name.
At 0812 Hawaiian Standard Time my cell phone network sent out the following text message “Imminent extreme alert BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.”
No civil defense sirens went off, but it is freaking people out. I have been called by two friends I sail with asking what I knew. I told them no sirens, no alerts on TV and it has been 13 minutes and no bombs so all is good. I wonder how Trump managed to do this.
“sorry brah….our bad”
/nelson laugh
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/37259684/ballistic-missile-threat-alert-sent-to-hawaii-phones-was-a-mistake
That’s creepy shit. Could be anything from a prank to an honest false alarm based on bad intel.
It’s likely a mistake. I’m somewhat familiar with some of the systems they use and sometimes they can be setup in such a way that if you aren’t reading what you are clicking you can hit the confirmation button.
I still would probably be taking cover.
It took me a while to get used to the Japanese emergency vehicle sirens. They sound vaguely like the incoming alarms we had in Afghanistan. They still wake me up occasionally.