The boy child is home sick watching Fireman Sam, which, in the pantheon of annoying kids shows is closer to Daniel Tiger than Caillou. Although the mythical town of Ponti Pandi appears to have one of each type of Anglophone, including “Southern bachelor” — you know, like Ray Gillette from Archer, but a bit more — queenish. Plus the Aussie and the Canukistani dudes hang out exclusively with each other. That has nothing to do with the links or the afternoon. Just what was at the front of my mind. In SPORTZBALL stuff, the Astros really need more practice winning stuff, as their World Series banner unveiling went… poorly. Thank goodness for men with lawn equipment and a purpose.
Well if Carter, Clinton, and GWB are for it, I’m agin it! Or let’s just say I am the cynic who both agrees that vote fraud is likely a problem in some elections (mostly local) and disagrees that photo IDs to vote will fix the problem.
I might be a fan of Spotify now, as they appear to have made a killing screwing the traditional banksters out of their 35% share of the IPO. The high-level view is instead of the listing banks buying some huge amount of the stock at the reference price and selling at market (almost always higher), Spotify sold directly to the market.
The US Federal Reserve picks most hawkish dove for Presidency. At least this guy is willing to argue that interest rates should go up until inflation materializes. SLD, there shouldn’t be a Fed, but if there is, it would be nice if the leadership would acknowledge that interest rates should be increasing in a period of prosperity, lest they have another easy money collapse and no tools to affect the economy with. Better still if they acknowledged that they don’t actually steer the boat, but hey. Baby steps.
The Zombie (Raccoon) Apocalypse hits Ohio.
I never realized how much this song just straight up rips off “Start Me Up.” The 80s are like a different planet, now.
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This Kurt Eichenwald thing is just sad.
I know it’s kind of a trope to say “so-and-so is crazy” but all kidding aside I think Eichenwald might actually be headed to some kind of breakdown.
I’ve been in therapy of various sorts for two decades. I’ve been in a psych hospital before. I can see that kind of vibe with some people.
Eichenwald has issues. A lot of them. And he has a lot of enablers, who’ve been allowing him for years to no deal with those issues, so they’ve been getting worse and worse.
“And he has a lot of enablers, who’ve been allowing him for years to no deal with those issues”
And that certainly says something about the type of people he had been working with (“journalists”).
If it’s as bad as we suspect, then I do hope he gets the help he needs.
One of his issues is underage Twink pr0n, so yeah.
Wait, he’s into something other than tentacles?
He:
1. Paid over $3000 to the owner of a kiddie-porn website
2. Received admin privileges to said site.
3. Said “it was just for a story” and had the NYT legal team get him out of trouble.
How the hell did I never know that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRcpuMM51lQ (part 1)
Part 2 covers the Diversity and Comics rants.
Its not “sad”.
It would be sad if he were an otherwise smart, healthy, kind-hearted individual who gradually lost his faculties and turned into a gibbering loon.
instead, he’s a creepy slimeball who gradually turned into a gibbering loon.
The eternal battle between tits vs. ass is as fundamental as the battle between good vs. evil.
http://archive.is/P5fU7
With a group this spectacular, ordinarily I’d say orgy; however if you just send 17 and 29 nobody gets hurt.
Well yes, in that men who prefer asses are evil.
Well, not evil.
They just have terrible taste.
^^^This guy gets it.
Why does one have to be good and the other evil?
if you just send 17 and 29 nobody gets hurt.
You’d get hurt. Soul crushed. Broke into tiny little pieces.
I would definitely enjoy the process, however.
¿Por qué no los dos?
I don’t make the rules.
Me neither. I just break them into little tiny pieces. Like my soul.
So Manichean, so problematic.
I do enjoy a shapely fundament.
Good God Almighty.
1, 7, 27, 58, 67, 94, 98
The boy child is home sick watching Fireman Sam, which, in the pantheon of annoying kids shows is closer to Daniel Tiger than Caillou.
It’s like parents of small children speak a foreign language.
Yeah I had no idea what that meant
I know from time spent with the grand-daughter that Caillou is the devil; so I’m not sure if this Daniel Tiger is literally Hitler, Stalin, or Nicole?
Pinochet? Bad but with some not terrible aspects?
Thomas the Helicopter Engine?
Would purchase the Coastal Town Playset.
What do you figure for “Peppa Pig?” 4 yr. old is entranced by it.
Beria.
What historical world leader starts out OK, but over time ends up incredibly annoying.
Napoleon III?
Daniel Tiger is a creation of Mr. Rogers. He was in the Land of Make Believe but must now have his own show.
Last time I had a small child at home Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the hot cartoon.
I thought this was the intro for a porno. Boy was I disappoint…
Better or worse then Zombeavers?
I liked that movie. Stupid enough to be funny.
I enjoy it as well, but then I love me some terrible B-movie horror films.
As long as they are self aware I enjoy mocking the genre.
Oh, then do I ever have the perfect horror movie for you.*
https://vimeo.com/143630702
*NSFW
Luckily I saw the NSFW before I clicked
Look up “Doghouse” by Jake ‘Evil Aliens’ West. That’s another set of classics. (not discussing J splattercore right now)
I’m mixed on ID to vote. If it became taxpayer funded, I’d be more inclined. That also takes away some of the more common arguments used against.
Barcode tattoos.
On the forearm.
No. They should be on the bikini line. For men or women.
That could get ugly.
You can fit the equipment needed to issue photo IDs in a briefcase. They should just have a setup at the polling places and issue “provisional” voters IDs on the spot when they show up.
“disagrees that photo IDs to vote will fix the problem”
Absolutely correct. A few fraudulent votes may be turned away by IDs but most effective (as in changes outcome) election fraud is the voting officials casting votes for those who didn’t show up at the polls or are known to be dead.
That’s exactly how the voter turnout reached 99.8% in the USSR.
IIRC, people used to cite that kind of turnout approvingly.
Pshh, amateurs. Certain precincts reported 100% voter turnout during the Ascension of the Lightworker.
Is there really an issue with adding a photo to a Social Security card? It’s not as though the numbers are really secured at this point.
/pol/’s reaction to the Eichenwald saga:
“How can one man make so many missteps?. This guy is the real-life George Constanza”
“Haha. Holy shit Kurt is a fucking mental patient.”
“This guy is a fucking train wreck.”
“this has gone too far”
“best thread right now”
“Kurt really needs to get a fucking psychologist and psychiatrist on speed dial because he is fucking batshit insane.”
“>lies about where he works for months on end
At this point I’m more inclined than not to believe that his wife and kid(s) havent seen him in years or that they never existed to begin with.”
“I laugh and feel kinda bad at the same time. Still funny desu”
“Kurt Eichenwald is a national treasure, we must protect him at all costs. Not saying don’t troll him, just saying make sure he stays healthy!”
“It took me a minute after reading to put two and two together that this fucking psycho really thinks what he wrote in that email was reality. His perception or thinking, or both, is completely disordered.”
“Honestly I’m starting to feel sad for the guy it’s clear he needs a long visit in a mental hospital cut off from the Internet and some really strong meds”
“Imagine being so crazy you think you’re the hero for shutting down a child pornography site where you’re the admin.”
“This is really embarrassing now. Is it performance art?”
And for me personally, well, I’m starting to feel sorry for the guy… but holy shit has he provided me with some first-class entertainment on a slow work day. So thank you Kurt.
He’s here to help
The boy child is home sick watching Fireman Sam, which, in the pantheon of annoying kids shows is closer to Daniel Tiger than Caillou.
Pop a DVD of Zabriskie Point in for him. Or if he’s old enough to read subtitles, Les Diaboliques.
Pop a DVD of Zabriskie Point in for him. Or if he’s old enough to read subtitles, Les Diaboliques.
It’s like
parents of small childrenTed S. speaks a foreign language.Those were just the first two really inappropriate for kids movies I could think of.
And I’m amazed you haven’t seen Diabolique (the original version, not the Sharon Stone remake). Watch it in a double-bill with Psycho.
And I’m amazed you haven’t seen Diabolique
I like that I’ve given the false impression that I’m cultured!
Oh, you’re cultured all right.
Cultured like agar.
Oh you two!
John Agar?
?
Between the bathtub scene in Diabolique and the shower scene in Psyco you won’t get clean for a month if you watch those two movies in a double-bill
Relevant
What about “Danger Diabolik”?
I thought it was a porn intro.,,
Holy fuck, Cristiano Ronaldo. That’s not fair.
I’m not watching since Fox decided they weren’t going to show Sevilla/Bayern on any channel (streaming only), unlike the other three QFs. Obviously they hate any team that’s not English/Real/Barcelona.
I’ll assume CR was offside for both goals?
Nah. Madrid’s just dominating.
He almost made it 3 just now.
Fuck Real. And they didn’t dominate the first half. Fuck them.
Ted, they showed Bayern on my end.
Yes, but you’re in Canada.
So, cold and white.
Here’s the second goal that had me make the “unfair” comment
https://twitter.com/FOXSoccer/status/981262742894989312
I look forward to the day Real become Fake.
Jesus. If I was the Juventus GK I would go around to each defender and personally kick each one in the balls. They are apparently not doing anything except keeping Madrid onside.
You blow on a fricken Real/Barca player and the ref gives you a fricken yellow. They can tackle and mug you and you’re lucky if they get a whistle.
Tired of this shit.
And yes, you’re right – the marking isn’t Italianesque. Italian defence isn’t what it once was. A total collapse as a whole.
No, but they get their usual fair share of weird calls.
I’m not watching because I loathe both of those teams.
Oh fuck Liverpool v Man City tomorrow and City have home field advantage next week in Leg 2. Like they’ll need it. Shit.
I love the waving leaf-blower gradual reveal.
Headscratcher, it is
There’s plenty of evidence that having insurance is a good thing. People with health coverage spend less out of pocket on medical care and are less likely to go bankrupt. They see the doctor more often and get more preventive care. They’re less depressed and tell researchers they feel healthier. Some studies suggest having insurance reduces the likelihood of death.
Despite those benefits, some 27.5 million Americans under age 65 were uninsured in 2016, about 10 percent of that population, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. The most common reason: the cost was too high. A Gallup poll suggests that, after declining for years, the percentage of adults without coverage has increased slightly since the end of 2016, when President Donald Trump was elected promised to dismantle Obamacare. Other data show no significant change.
Uh-huh. Peace of mind is priceless, apparently.
But… wait a minute:
Three days after dropping their Blue Cross coverage at the start of the year, Keith took a wrong step and injured his knee.
It could have been worse. He got it checked out at an urgent care center, where the visit and an X-ray cost him $511. That’s still less than he was paying in premiums to Blue Cross.
That looks like a rational choice, to me.
^This
There’s plenty of evidence that having
insurancea job is a good thing. People withhealth coveragegood employment often spend less out of pocket on medical care and are less likely to go bankrupt. They see the doctor more often and get more preventive care. They’re less depressed and tell researchers they feel healthier. Some studies suggest havinginsurancea job reduces the likelihood of death.I usually just play dumb and tell people that Obamacare solved the healthcare problem once and for all by providing cost containment and affordable access to great health insurance for all and that anything you hear to the contrary is fake news. There are no uninsured people in this country.
My old business partner’s brother never had insurance. Any time he needed something done he paid cash. Amazing how big the discounts he could negotiate were when he was willing to pay everyone unreportable cash.
The only thing he every worried about was some sort of emergency injury where he wouldn’t have time to dicker with the docs.
It’s so sad that this is considered to be completely abnormal by today’s standards. In my fantasy world you pay cash for all routine medical interactions and carry insurance only for when shit goes haywire.
Showing your privilege there cis-shit-lord?
The only thing he every worried about was some sort of emergency injury where he wouldn’t have time to dicker with the docs.
A long long time ago, back when a dollar was really worth something, there was this thing called catastrophic insurance. You paid a very reasonable premium, and when something like an emergency injury happened, you weren’t bankrupted. However, this was an awful idea because … reasons… so we don’t have it anymore.
Tuping is hsrd.
Update on Eichenwald: Vanity Fair did not renew his contract and nobody “told” him (don’t you have to, like, sign a contract?).
LOL
You’d think he would notice when the paychecks stopped coming.
“Uh, you’re gonna have to talk to Payroll about that.”
I see a fire in Vanity Fair’s future.
There was salt on the rim!
“If you could just move your desk down into the basement, Kurt”
Damn your nimble fingers!
Did he get his red Swingline stapler back?
+1 Milton and his stapler.
Vanity Fair did not renew his contract and nobody “told” him
“We laid him off years ago, but he just keeps showing up every day.”
relevant comment from /pol/: “At this point I’m more inclined than not to believe that his wife and kid(s) havent seen him in years or that they never existed to begin with.”
People near the poverty line got Medicaid for free, while those making more—up to about $100,000 for a family of four—got subsidies to lower the price of private health plans.
Above that threshold, people pay the entire price. Because the law barred insurance companies from charging sick people more or refusing to cover them entirely, costs for healthy people went up as well. Some insurers have left the market, while others have sharply raised premiums to compensate for actions taken by Congress and the administration to weaken the law.
Wait, what?
Repealing the individual mandate.
Since we live in a democracy, the election results matter. And the integrity of the voting process is essential. Also, if you haven’t noticed, trust between people of different political views is not very high. A requirement to have a photo ID in order to vote will improve the perception that the elections are not rigged. In practically every country in the world voters have to produce a photo ID to be able to vote; it’s not a burden there and it’s not a burden here.
Since we live in a
democracyrepresentative republic, . . .Requiring photo IDs for Congressmen?
I like it.
They should be sandwich board sized.
With concentric circles.
Of course, we live in a democracy… and in a representative republic… and in a constitutional republic. And some people abroad live in a democracy and in a constitutional monarchy.
Man City or Man United?
Which one’s more evil? United, by a hair, because they’re scum.
So you’re siding with Ay-rab ownership over good ol’ American shit-lords? [stinkeye]
Better support military policing you racists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
…so he grabs the horse by the ears and yells, “You idiot, I said bring me a POSSE!”
So Bob Fosse?
The sheriff is near?
This Sheriff?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyIGlUoTh9I
See? It’s coming off!
Jesse Owens!
The very beginning of the article:
The country is doomed.
You’ve been warned!
The only “victim” of this scam figured out it was a scam before she lost any money. Still Minnesoda Public Radio won’t let a small detail like not having a victim stop it from breathlessly reporting on this epidemic.
Where’s Tundra?
Even Tundra wouldn’t hit on a Finn….
I had a Crazy hot Finnish chick in high School
Crazy and Hot
Paive (pronounced Pie-Vee) was hotter than the hinges to the gates of hell.
And not crazy. The English teacher who was her sponsor was fucking bugshit insane, though.
Goddamn right! I have standards, man!
Oooh, I’ve actually watched a successful romance scam go down. I’d wager a lot of the successful ones never actually get reported based on who gets targeted.
Did he break your heart?
Good lord, no. I’m not a good target for romance scams. My crippling emotional issues make me standoffish instead of desperate, so if you come at me all in love without having met me I think you’re fucked in the head and run away as fast as possible. A lot of my second or third dates have ended with me saying something along the lines of “You seem nice and all, but I think you like me more than I like you and it’s best not to continue this.”
A coworker of mine got sucked in by someone claiming to be a Danish national. She was contacted on Christian Mingle. I had to help her wipe all of her accounts and start over and in the process I saw the angle of attack and the kind of desperation involved. It was depressing.
Better to swear off all human contact. It’s simpler and most people suck anyway.
So… you’re saying the best way to Jesse’s heart is negging?
Rohypnol, I think.
I don’t believe you’re so much interested in his heart, per se.
Not Adahn has been paying attention.
A little attention and then backing off would be more effective than negging.
Christian Mingle? Everyone knows Farmers Only is where the real action is at.
There are no engaging Minnesotans.
food and housing insecurity may be keeping college students from graduating
My favourite part is the survey conclusion that 10% of students are homeless. The most rage-inducing part of the interview, is where the interviewee states that since college is the new high school, therefore we need more public funding of food and housing for these students. Fuck off lady.
Sharing a house with a half a dozen other broke people and subsisting on Ramen for 3 years totally wasn’t a thing until 2018, apparently.
“college is the new high school”
So by continuing to inflate it with public money, we wait until graduate school becomes the new high school?
One of my classmates literally lived in a van down by the river. He was an odd duck. His accommodations were probably better than most of the rest of us, though.
Dammit Trump! Stop doing things that I like! . You are making it hard to quit you.
So she fined people less, reduced the number of people on the Wisconsin payroll and made those mooching campers pay for their fun. What a monster!
Anyone who urinates off the president of the Sierra Club is all right with me.
The horror of lunch shaming!
I don’t even know where to begin with this. Pay your fucking bills you mooches. It is all YOUR fault. It is not the school’s fault that one of your mooch kids used his “free lunch” account to buy even more food, or that you didn’t see the email warning your that your account was in arrears or that your busybody grandma can’t throw you a few dollars to tide things over.
GAH!
How about you don’t run a joint account between brother and sister?
How dare the school not properly discipline her children! What is a parent supposed to do?
Let’s hope Sloopy isn’t there. Reports of shooter at YouTube Campus.
Unpossible. YouTube banned the guns.
Active Shooter at YouTube HQ
Everyone, to your takes. I wish you luck in yours becoming the correct one. I’ll be sitting this one out.
Great.
Sarcasm by the way.
I, for one, blame the Jews.
Dammit!
It’s Elijah, all hopped up on the millions of glasses of Manischewitz he’s drunk this week.
It’s (((them))).
Amish, always bet on the Amish
Dennis Prager
The NRA has blood on their hands.
That’s just combustion residue.
It’s so weird, why didn’t there campus weapons policy prevent this?
*their
I laughed for some reason.
I’ll see you all in Hell.
I’ll save you a seat at the bar.
Over/under on the building being a “gun-free” zone?
No Bet.
Stupidvideos.com owner?
Is this what comes after the March Madness Pick’em? What do we call it, April Anguish?
Amazingly enough there is no video of this on YouTube.
“Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital,”
Really?
I found out today that a male friend of mine from high school is now a female friend of mine from high school. Not a close friend, but a friend nonetheless. He doesn’t strike me as someone who’s doing it for attention (see: Caitlin Jenner), so I’m trying to be understanding.
I don’t understand. Not in a way that says I don’t want to understand. I don’t understand in the same way that I don’t understand quantum physics. It seems counter-intuitive to me, but I admit that I have limited understanding, so, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
A few thoughts:
He made some comments on his Derpbook page about hormone treatments and brain chemistry. I assume that he has a penis and testes, and a Y chromosome, so that represents the physical reality. Something in his brain chemistry makes him see himself differently from that reality. It seems to me that taking hormones to transition is trying to make reality fit one’s brain chemistry, rather than trying to make one’s brain chemistry fit reality.
He also made some comments about suffering for most of his life from depression and mental illness. As someone who can relate to this, I would think that depression and mental illness are the cause and gender confusion is the symptom, rather than vice-versa.
Moving in the circles I do I run into lots of trans people. Many of them are bugfuck crazy. I do not know if the trans thing is a co-morbidity or completely ancillary to their crazy. Some are nice folks who are clearly in a great deal of mental distress over their feeling of being trapped in the wrong body. Some are attention whores. Others are just nasty people.
The first group I try to treat with kindness, use their preferred name and and gender, the 2nd and 3rd groups I actively try to piss off and make even more unstable by using their ‘deadname’ and gender.
I dunno what the right answer is. Though my personal opinion is that if your head is telling you X but physical reality is Y, then the thing to adjust is your head. I mean, if people want to pay to have their bodies modified to fit what’s in their head, go for it. Just don’t expect me to necessarily play along.
So just like every other group in the world?
The groups are roughly the same. I’d argue the proportions are quite different in my experience. But that isn’t exactly scientific.
I think most people in this group are just insane. The medical community needs to go back to stridently identifying and supporting the very small number of actual gender-dysmorphic people and the public in general should stop feeding the typical neurotic who isn’t happy with their general lot in life and decides that they’d be happier as an *other*.
Feeding their neuroses makes us all a little crazier.
People are free to be crazy in the privacy of their own nuthouse, just don’t expect me to rearrange reality to conform to your delusion.
Due respect to polite, non-totalitarian Trannies.
This is pretty much how I feel when people get pissed off because I won’t wish them a “Merry Christmas”.
Such people are engaging a practice known to anthropologists as missing the entire goddamned point.
Bill O’Reilly, missing the point since forever.
So are they just showing “Debbie Does Dallas” in 4th grade now?
https://pjmedia.com/parenting/parents-stage-walk-planned-parenthoods-graphic-violent-sex-ed-public-schools/
Mea Culpa to MikeS!
Mike is visiting our wonderful city today. Starting yesterday our forecasters were warning us about a snownami. Mike asked Tundra and I to let him know if things were really bad weather-wise.
This morning, it looked like the storm was fizzling and most of it would go south of us. The morning commute didn’t look too bad and I told Mike that. Then right around lunch we started getting a lot of snow. That is right when Mike was supposed to be getting here.
If he lives through the storm and reads this, I just want to say one thing: Tundra made me do it! I tried to warn you, but Tundra said he’d blackball me from the ultra exclusive Maple Grove Libertarian Guild Brotherhood of Tundra chapter.
I thought Mike was from NoDak, where they’re even more used to snow than Minnesota.
Yeah, but we have a shit ton more cars to avoid while dealing with snow than Mike is used to. I sympathize with him. I worked out of my house for the last 3 years or so and now I walk to work. When I get stuck having to drive during rush hour, I am just as terrified as I was when I first moved here from the prairie.
Blackballing beats brickbatting, anyway.
ultra exclusive Maple Grove Libertarian Guild Brotherhood of Tundra chapter.
Sounds lonely.
“wouldn’t want to be part any club that would have me as a member?”
It’s not lonely, it’s Ultra Exclusive. Didn’t you read the name?
All libertarian clubs are ultra exclusive. At least I’m guessing that they are based on their paltry numbers.
It is just that the Maple Grove LGBT chapter is extra posh.
I did not even catch the LGBT part. Well done.
Pants optional. Not lonely at all!
I thought you all were dissing Mike this trip anyway.
We aren’t dissing him, we are just busy with our very active social life. Mike needs to book our time
yearsmonthsweeksdayswhen he gets to the bar if he wants us to show up.Thank you SP. Yes, they are all dissing me. I mean, some even went to so far as to move half way across the country to avoid me! *looking at you ‘splosives*
“interest rates should be increasing in a period of prosperity”
This makes no sense to me. I blame the Fed for making people afraid of reality.
Interest rate is a price – the price of risk. If risk is high, the interest rate should reflect that risk.
If I loan someone $5,000 and the risk of them not paying me back is high, I charge 8% interest. If the risk of not being paid back is low, I charge 4% interest.
In a period of prosperity, the risk is low and REAL interest rates will reflect that. This is common sense to EVERY money lender except a central bank.
If interest rates have been artificially suppressed for many years, the risk becomes exceedingly high that the dollar you loan today will be worth a nickel when you get it back.
In a period of prosperity, the risk is low and REAL interest rates will reflect that. This is common sense to EVERY money lender except a central bank.
Sorry, I spoke glibly. To be more precise, I believe the Fed’s interest rate is still at least 4% below where the REAL floor rate should be. Again, there shouldn’t be a Fed, but if a huge private consortium of banks and lenders agreed to publish the overnight rate they lend to each other, it would more likely be 4.5% than 0.5% in an unsubsidized world. I would argue the cost of having the interest rate too low was at least the cost of TARP plus the unemployment benefits extension of 2008.
One way to look at it:
The interest rate is the price of a loan. It has supply and demand curves and a market clearing value.
So, the price you, an individual, might charge other individuals will vary according to how risky you perceive them to be.
However, the cheapest loan that person can find (i.e. the one with the lowest interest rate/most desirable terms) will be dependent on how much money people are willing to offer to loan and how much interest they want to charge.
During recessions, people tend to want to maintain high savings in order to tide them through the tough times. This leads to higher interest rates (the production curve shifts upward). More people also want to borrow money if they are out of savings. That also drives up interest rates (the demand curve shifts rightward).
From a misesian perspective, the contraction of a recession is generally the product of the central bank mis-setting the interest rate for overnight loans to one that differs from the market clearing price, and setting it too low. When it is set low, it encourages more borrowing than there are savings to support (and they effectively and indirectly print the money to make up the shortfall), and leads to capital investments that appear falsely to be supported by consumer demand but which will not be profitable in actuality.
Since this expansion looks like prosperity and the contraction looks like its opposite, the instinct of the finance people is to lower the commanded interest rate further. The problem is that the contraction is required to free up resources being used uneconomically to support production that is not desired by consumers, so that they can be repurposed towards production that is sustainable. Consequently, the powers that be are just kicking the can down the road and allowing this misallocation to get worse and bigger.
Some recognize this, and hope to, by increasing interest rates, make the commanded interest rate more closely match the market clearing rate. They want to do that in a period of prosperity because they fear that doing it in a recession will make the recession deeper. They are correct that increasing them during a recession will make the contraction larger. They are incorrect in thinking it is a bad thing.
Stands to applaud
Economics is for fagz.
(seriously, that was a good explanation, I learned something today)
Some recognize this, and hope to, by increasing interest rates, make the commanded interest rate more closely match the market clearing rate. They want to do that in a period of prosperity because they fear that doing it in a recession will make the recession deeper. They are correct that increasing them during a recession will make the contraction larger. They are incorrect in thinking it is a bad thing.
My only quibble is that I believe the price of keeping the price of money below market when the market can most bear it primarily causes the pain of recession to be rolled into government deficit spending, further distorting the economy and keeping the actual reckoning even further down the road. If the price of the rates being wrong is the liquidity freeze that TARP and the $1T stimulus were used to avoid, but can no longer be avoided, a lot of people who did nothing financially wrong are gonna get destroyed. That’s the immoral part to me.
Suspected shooter at YouTube was female.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/03/police-on-the-scene-at-youtube-headquarters-with-reports-of-an-active-shooter-.html
TOXIC FEMININITY!
TW: Autoplay and early info could be crap
Holy shit, the glass ceiling just got broken!
Also, the glass partition and the glass door…
That’s the Apple campus, not Alphabet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D71kkzp9Sw
As usual, women are erased from mass shooting history!
Don’t have to go back that far, don’t forget that husband wife team from Cali who shot up their coworkers in 2015.
The Ghost of Bonnie Parker would like a word.
See? Women invented mass shootings!
I bet they only get seven bullets for every ten men get, too!
Yeah, but since their fine motor skills are better than mens’, their raw hit rate is higher.
WIMMIN SNIPERZ RULE!!!!111!1!
Good thing Damore was fired when he was.
Further:
One dead, “several’ injured
Police think it’s either domestic violence or disgruntled employee.
https://twitter.com/_DanielSinclair/status/981264715975483392
Look at this bullshit. Fucking cops.
That thread gave me cancer.
Pajamaboy account.
I bet every single one of those cops had a boner.
Fold, you win.
HOT TAKES! GET YOUR HOT TAKES HERE!
burn!
I too miss the early ’00s.
Is Michael Ian Black the real name of Winston?
Michael Ian Black is literally Winston’s Mom.
You are calling me a gun-grabber. Seriously?
LOL. WOOOOOOOSSSSSHHHHHHHHH
Say Hi to Rachel for me.
?
Aren’t you from Alberta?
Or living there
Nope. Spent alot of time there in the past, but not from there.
And even if I was, why would I say hi to the premier; especially a Dipper?
Says the guy who said I was Michael Ian Black. What did I do to deserve getting compared to the guy who wrote Run, Fatboy, Run? 😛
Again, WOOOOOOOSSSHHHHHHHH
I’ll give you one more try to get the joke, Winston, and that’s it. More tries than I would give one of your relatives, yeah?
Your Juvenile “joke” did not go over my head.
Yes, clearly you got it the first time and just feigned confusion for funsies.
Yeah actually you are right. Getting compared to Michael Ian Black is just fighting words. 😛
I mean the literal oldest joke in the book versus getting compared to a guy who was in the Smosh movie. Ugh. 😉
I thought Michael Hihn was the real name of Winston.
I don’t support gun control while he does so that is false. Nor do I go on crazy tirades about goober aggressor bullies.
Very well, you might not be Hihn but you are most definitely tulpa.
Can’t tell if serious.
We are all Tulpa.
I saw your last post about Discord on the previous thread. I don’t have access to the account stuff – I’m just a sometime user.
Sorry.
No problem.
See Viking1865 down below around 7pm
Also I have interacted with that nutjob before. I said he couldn’t be Hihn but must be Mary since his facebook account shows he liked the Pauls despite his attacks on him. However he then edited his account to erase the Pauls from his favorites. So I was wrong.
Kyle Kashuv release unhinged Tweeter DMs between himself & Eichenwald.
So, I totally believe that Eichenwald consulted a shrink, that shrink told him he was batshit insane, and Kurt reported it as the shrink saying Kyle was the cuckoo one.
I’m starting to think Michael Hinn and Eichenwald are the same guy.
Goober!
BULLY!!
Kyle Kashuv shows great maturity…. Except for being on twitter. Twitter is stupid.
Twitter is the internet’s bathroom stall scrawlings.
Digital Truck Stop Poetry
Huh, there are a bunch of #’s there, too.
It’s high-school cafeteria gossip. It’s about the least interesting thing on the internet.
You don’t find this fascinating?
What if Jeff Bezos bought
Twittera woodchipper with the change in his pocket andshut Trump’s accountput me through it?Nope. He’s a complete jackass. I don’t need him to prove it to me again and again.
Meh, Twitter is what you want it to be, I follow some musicians and authors and artists I like, it’s nice to know when new things are coming out, and there are a handful of genuinely funny accounts, Iowahawk, etc….
Twitter is way better than Facebook. Twitter is my own little echo chamber, where I get to read pithy shit from some really interesting libertarian thinkers and pundits.
Prediction –
Slate, Salon, Everyday Feminism, or any of the other places our hero Derpetologist digs up the derp for us, will provide a hot take that looks like this –
‘To her, it was a penis, and her act a retributive rape and impregnation by leaden spermatazoa of a male dominated platform for predatory objectification’
So it was pegging projection?
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
There’s a few hundred craptacular Masters theses buried in there somewhere . . .
Was there some story that prompted this or is this a random musing on the ways of derp?
Almighty –
The YouTube shooter being female.
Ah. I’m slow:).
[sensible chuckle]
You know me too well.
The Social Security Card ID is a racist ploy to keep undocumented Americans from Voting. / NY and CA and DNC.
They’re suing to get the citizenship question stricken from the next Census.
Goody.
Just had my dad tell me I was emotional (like, heartbroken) because the squeeze’s things were still in my house. He said he saw a post on Facebook of me asking for funny gifs because I was feeling anxious. I explained I was anxious, not emotional, because I was in fear for my personal safety in my house because this woman kept calling me over and over and over. He then asked what good would gifs do for my personal safety. I said “funny gifs are distracting and make me feel better.” He said “Ok, yeah, sure. Whatever.”
What the fuck?
You get the psycho bitch problem resolved?
I think so. My boss and colleagues said I should text her and say that I received her info and do not contact me further. So I did, and she essentially said “OK”.
Well make sure you give her name and as much info about her as you can to everyone you know. Forward them any text or emails you received and save any voice mails. Don’t hesitate to file a police report or for a restraining order if you hear from her again. She should be made aware that if something bad ever happened to you that everyone would be looking at her. That’s sufficient deterrence for most people.
Good tips. I screen-shotted the text exchange so I have proof she agreed to leave me alone. I think the message she sent me on Facebook is still there, so I have her name.
Any messages anyone sent anyone are still there. Including the deleted ones.
So do we send Brutals to put your dad on the grain line or send them to cleanse the woman on the phone?
Pro tip: don’t explain people’s feelings to them.
You sound like you’re feeling miffed. I keed!
Miffed? Definitely! Pissed off? YEP!
Weepy and heartbroken? LOL. No.
The best I could do on short notice. Old reliable. https://giphy.com/gifs/wow-shocked-hillary-clinton-l3fQjHugtGrGhHs5y
I LOLed
That looks like the donkey from Hee Haw.
No, no, that’s Bill Clinton’s wife.
So sorry about the squeeze and the psycho Kristen.
Thanks, pal!
We need common sense cross control.
http://freebeacon.com/culture/franciscan-university-facebook-rejected-ad-shows-jesus-cross/
The dead lady shooter is said to have been wearing a head scarf. Speculate away!
Bad hair day?
Sounds like a Roma.
::hides::
YOU WILL REMOVE ALL VIDEOS FEATURING CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS!
/nun
“Mother Theresa will see you in Hell…from Heaven!”
4th doctor cosplay.
Obligatory applause
Did YouTube not have a banner for ____ cancer month?
I’m going to hell. I’m sorry.
I’ll save you a seat at the bar as well. How many reservations do I have to make though?
Many.
That’s where all the good music is gonna be.
– Bill Hicks
I saw one report where she was after her boyfriend but who knows at this point. Prolly not gonna help the 420 situation.
It’s at YouTube. It might be a Harry Potter scarf.
Babushka!
Hey Gordilocks. On our trip down 95 we paused at a truck stop in Dumfries, VA. Place was AMAZING! There were 2 full size rigs inside on giant rotating platforms advertising the custom truck shop, just about any electric appliance one could imagine, converted to 12 volt, a 1946 Dodge Power Wagon, great coffee and all the tchotchkes one could ever want.
I would love a power wagon like that.
My youthful love of Simon & Simont has instilled an appreciation for them as well. Honestly, it almost made me tumescent. Fully restored, lifted, winch on the front, giant running boards; it was beautiful.
It will always be beautiful.
I pine for bumper like that every time I have drive into Manhattan.
Yes! Yes!
Driving in Manhattan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDwgIBVkU7g
Glad you enjoyed.
My favourite truck stop was somewhere along the coast road between Carnarvon and Karratha, nothing there but a couple of rubbish bins; but a great place to light a fire and have a few beers under many trillions of stars and no one around for hundreds of kilometers.
That, and portage 49 at the north end of Mackay Lake.
/holier than thou trucker
Truckier than thou?
mental sandbox time- odds and ends
If you are trying to find a bunch of rebels hiding in the jungle or mountains, it makes more sense to send a small force than a large force. A large force makes a lot of noise and gives the enemy a chance to run away or hide. A small force is much quieter and more alert. They know their small size makes them vulnerable, so they try harder to be quiet and pay attention.
The US approach to warfare in general is to adopt new technology instead of new tactics. For example, instead of finding an alternative to road travel, the push is for vehicles which have more armor to withstand bombs.
In counterinsurgency, there are many advantages to operating at night, especially when the enemy lacks night vision equipment. Night movement and fighting should be a training priority.
Since counterinsurgency differs greatly from conventional fighting, it might makes sense to have a dedicated unit or branch for it. This was the original idea behind the Green Berets, but the implementation has been mediocre.
It would make much more sense to train troops in helicopter assault rather than airborne. Helicopters can do everything airborne does and more, and with greater precision and less risk.
The first step of counterinsurgency should be to find, train, arm, and support friendly locals. It is the locals who must take the lead in combat.
Progress should be measured in terms of local support rather than enemy losses.
today I learned
***
After the U.S. forces in and around the island of Luzon surrendered in May 1942, Fertig decided not to give himself up to the Japanese. When another fleeing officer accompanying him asked what they were going to do, Fertig replied, “Any damn thing but surrender.”
During his movement from Corregidor to Mindanao, Fertig survived or avoided a number of airplane crashes.[13] As a result, he felt that he was destined for something special. Later, after organizing the guerrilla forces on Mindanao, he wrote in this diary,
I am called on to lead a resistance movement against an implacable enemy under conditions that make victory barely possible even under the best circumstances. But I feel that I am indeed a Man of Destiny, that my course is charted and that only success lies at the end of the trail. I do not envision failure; it is obvious that the odds are against us and we will not consistently win, but if we are to win only part of the time and gain a little each time, in the end we will be successful.[14]
***
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Fertig
I still say we should have had circuit judges in Afghanistan. Protecting them would be one thing but I’m not sure how you protect the people who would avail themselves of this legal system. I was thinking this when I saw a documentary in which the Taliban had what were in effect circuit judges traveling on motorcycles to dispense their brand of law and order. I wish I could remember the name of the documentary.
The first step of counterinsurgency should be to find, train, arm, and support friendly locals. It is the locals who must take the lead in combat.
Gosh, if there only was a part of the US Amy that did that…. maybe they could give them distinctive headwear…Green perhaps? Oh wait, you said they were mediocre.
Or, have some sort of teams that could be embedded with local police or paramilitary or military forces… they could advise the locals – they could give them an acronym like “ETT” or such. Maybe a “MiTT”
If only such things had ever been thought of or tried!!!!
Oh, yeah…. I did that shit a decade ago.
Did you even read further in Derpetologist’s post? :-p
No, no, no, we gut some infantry units and call them SFABs.
I know it has been tried, at least on some level, but the results have not been encouraging. We’ve spent more money training and equipping the Afghan air force (about $800 million in 2017 alone) than on foreign internal defense.
My understanding is the first SF guys in Afghanistan were there to direct airstrikes, not train, etc. I don’t know what else they or later groups did.
To backtrack a bit, Afghanistan is about twice the size of Malaysia. And the insurgency there (1948-1960) had about twice as many guys as the Taliban does now.
What I’m getting at is a war like this has been won before.
It’s frustrating to see the same mistake being made: the attempt to turn another country’s military into a carbon-copy of the US military.
Feel free to take what I say with several tons of salt. I’ve never been over there.
My understanding is the first SF guys in Afghanistan were there to direct airstrikes, not train, etc. I don’t know what else they or later groups did.
We have done plenty of training – the ETTs were with ANP and ANA. We have schools set up – the one just north of Kabul was fairly decent sized. We are not trying to run ANA Kandaks into US Army like units – anymore than we tried to turn IA units into US Army look-a-likes.
Believe it or not, we all read history too – even had to write about it at CGSOC, CASSS, War College, etc.
The Iraqis got really good and cleared the country out – then hollowed out their force, politicized the commands and stole or diverted resources and effort. Here comes ISIS….
The Afghans have some good units, some not so good – and they have no national unity, no economy or industrial base or infrastructure to maintain a force, and a tendency to steal the shit out of every stray nickle that rolls along, because they are sure everything is going to go to shit and they will have to bolt.
You can have all these great ideas, but with nothing to implement them with….you are pissing into the wind.
Go back to the last post I did on Afghanistan – there are several nuggets in there for ya.
I don’t know if I read the right one. It was the one from September about Afghanistan flirting with India to tweak Pakistan.
I do know that about half the $76 billion that the US has given in military aid to Afghanistan has been stolen- with weapons, ammo, and equipment ending up on the black market.
If there was an easy answer, someone would have found it already.
I think part of the answer is to not give out so much money so quickly. The focus should be on people, not stuff.
https://glibertarians.com/2018/02/here-we-go-again/
Malaysia is 50% Malay, 40% Chinese and 10% Indian (mostly Tamil) – maybe %s a little different vs. Singapore, but whatever. Either way, it was a mostly developed UK colony pre-WWII with real civil society, limited Islam, etc. Very different from Afghanistan, etc.
Maybe we just stay out of such places.
+1 Weinberger doctrine
Alternatively, pay the British to do counterinsurgency. They seem to know it better.
Used to know counterinsurgency better.
British counterinsurgency skills look more like Northern Ireland than Malaya.
You REALLY don’t want to know what I think of how they did in Iraq….
I know a fair amount about the fuckups in Basra.
Overall, despite being British, the whole ‘Military Superiority’ myth needs to die.
Yeah…then I need not repeat anything, as that was where I ended up, when the doo doo hit the whirling metal blades.
You know, the British (Army, particularly) has been smelling its own farts re: Malaya ever since , well, since Malaya. Their CI efforts in Yugoslavia were not great, but a generous observer might say they were better as a component of UNPROFOR than the other contingent groups, but really, they did nothing to distinguish themselves, because their brief was so scant.
The biggest problem with the British military in the Middle East is the legacy of Lawrence of Arabia and the British Foreign Office’s historical Arabist bias. “Oh, Johnny Egyptian is no problem, we understand those wallahs“, which pervades not only foreign policy, but war planning, logistics and tactics. Basra was the perfect storm of this thinking, and it’s utterly understandable that the British forces were only told of the Charge of the Knights at the very last moment, where all that was expected of them was to stay out of the battle. Andrew Stewart was – just to put icing on the cake – possibly the least qualified General on staff to be given that position, having had no combat command on his resume to that date.
I could go on, but there’d be no effective defense I could give against Swissy’s onslaught. Basra was a pivotal moment in the so-called Special Relationship.
Gas? / Churchill
Yeah, I don’t mean to be rude Derp, but we’ve been doing exactly that for decades across multiple services and countries, each with different approaches and they are constantly re-evaluating their tactics. Yes, we like technology, but the idea that the people on the ground are just going to keep using the same route while waiting for armor is…a bit naive. We changed routes multiple times a day based on intel. It’s just basic patrol tactics. Technology takes years to implement. In the meantime, everyone from your basic grunt all the way up through the four stars are continuously re-evaluating tactics.
Even the pampered Air Force rubes like me know and use the advantages of night vision.
Helicopter assaults have been used with varying degrees of success and failure since…Vietnam?
Sorry Derp, but you may want to find some doctrine papers from the past couple decades to browse through if you’re looking for mental sandbox material.
It’s an interesting pattern:
-criticisms/suggestions are made
-those criticized say they are already implementing the suggestions and acting on the criticisms
-the quagmire continues
-meanwhile, oodles of money get spent on exotic and unlikely to be used weapons like the F-35
The US focuses on conventional warfare and excels at it. Unconventional warfare has been a sideshow and the results are lackluster.
I read that JFK had to put a lot of pressure on the Army to get them on board with the Green Berets. The top brass at the time were obsessed with firepower and maneuver. I don’t think much has changed.
The only real concrete suggestion I have is that I think it is a mistake to fund Afghanistan’s air force. They will never be able to sustain it without US help.
Right – we have never improved, adapted….only made excuses…and remained static. Also, there is no Center For Army Lessons Learned. usacac.army.mil/organizations/mccoe/call
The Command & General Staff Officer School, War College and Sargent Major’s Academy have the same lessons as 50 years ago…
Might want to tamp down the sweeping generalizations just a wee bit.
You can walk into any clothing sales shop and find bookshelves full of the lessons learned.
Everything has seemed to have changed substantially and for the better in the past 54 years………except:
* the notion of politicians that we need never miss a chance to get busy on the ground in Asia
* and the indifference of voters that this is just totally cool since my kid has a zero risk for conscription.
I’m not an expert and ain’t gunning for anyone here philosophically, but I really only have two sorts of reactions to proposed foreign endeavors: a) carpet bomb their military and infrastructure until capitulation and satisfaction are achieved, collateral damage being a sad but normal part of these things, or b) meh, leave those folks alone.
“we have never improved, adapted….only made excuses…and remained static.”
I didn’t say that; I did say the results suck, in that we haven’t won yet.
There are ways to improve; some just haven’t been tried yet. The continuation of large scale airborne training is a good example of a bad idea with an easy fix.
I keep meeting guys who went airborne who end up with busted knees and backs. And all to acquire a skill that has virtually no relevance in wars we have been fighting. If it’s all about a macho morale boost, it would be cheaper and safer just to have firewalking seminars.
I’d much rather do a night land nav course than sit through a bunch of PowerPoint fluff, which constitutes a large share of “training” these days.
How is it that soldiers take classes every year on everything from opsec to sexual assault, but none on how to spot an IED, the number one cause of casualties in recent years?
There’s just a lot of things that don’t make any sense.
Welcome to the party. Those exact complaints come up in nearly every survey, discussion, call for suggestions that ever occurs. Not saying it’s right but it won’t be changing anytime soon and I agree that it is a terrible way to do business. I have serious concerns about our ability to actually defend the US because of it.
The problem is, of course, that the military organizations of all Western countries are going thru’ an existential crisis. The societies in which they find themselves – even more than in Kipling’s time – are loyal inasmuch as they ostensibly honor the warrior spirit, but find the whole idea of having rough men doing dirty jobs more than a little distasteful.
The next generation of those rough men, come from the very society that disdains those qualities, and there’s an understandable tension there – just how ‘rough’ do these men have to be? The fact is, of course, that these are two separate and compatible facets of individuals, but the image is hard to maintain, and with at times, a very large volunteer military, there’s the danger that a sizeable proportion of the personnel aren’t able to maintain both facets. Instead of kicking such individuals out on their ass, the military seeks to thread the needle, and end up with serious programs that make the military look like the Elks, but less threatening.
As I noted, this isn’t a problem solely of the US Military. There’s a cultural thrust to make the military look un-threatening and ‘inclusive’ like firemen and doctors – and giving out participation certificates to spouses is a classic example. How many service members think this is a net positive, if you asked them without their partners being in hearing distance? The ones who think it is a good idea are likely to be the ones you want to be on the ‘out’ track when an ‘up or out’ question is asked.
Well put.
How else are you gonna earn that elusive AATW for your email signature?
I didn’t say that; I did say the results suck, in that we haven’t won yet.
Ah, there it is – THE problem. How would we know we won?
Yeah, if someone could have defined that a decade ago I’m pretty confident we’d be out of there already, which is why I say it’s all political. The decision makers don’t want to leave. It’s a great place to test weapons and line the pockets of politicians. Looks good on the generals’ records too.
Center For Army Lessons Learned
Ah, yes, as the retired Warrant put it to me: the reason the Army keeps lessons learned is to see how many times they can make the same mistake.
I will tell you the bigger problem in the Army – the culture of can do. Where the fuck are the 4-stars telling the politicians “that is a really fucking stupid idea”?
I’m not saying don’t criticize stuff, just that you might want to look at what has been tried already.
Unconventional ops are not lackluster or a sideshow. We have an entire command dedicated to it (spec ops). Having worked with them, entire theaters shift to get them into the fight the way that they want. A huge portion of my job is figuring out how to use and defeat unconventional tactics.
What you are seeing is the current superpower learning the lesson that every other superpower has learned about Central Asia and Afghanistan specifically…it’s unconquerable. It’s just not going to happen, but also having witnessed the politics behind some of it, it has very little to do with actually wanting to win, whatever that means.
Again, have at the criticism, but don’t get put out when someone else has already been there and done that.
We created the SFAB because after 18 years, Army has realized you can’t get blood from a SF stone and a lot (not all) of the missions have evolved to the point where well-trained, experienced, line NCOs and field grades can get the same results.
There are similar units in the Air Force whose sole purpose is to train other nations on air base defense, air strikes, and whatever else.
We created SFABs because we are still convinced that we can build a nation to suit us. That has to fucking stop.
When Failure Thrives- harsh criticism of airborne operations
https://usacac.army.mil/sites/default/files/documents/cace/CSI/CSIPubs/WhenFailureThrives.pdf
gist
almost every airborne operation was either a clusterfuck or a Pyrrhic victory. Airborne training is good publicity and boosts morale, so it continues. It makes about as much sense as horse cavalry.
Thanks for sharing this, I’ll be tucking into bed with it tonight. It looks fascinating.
I serve the people of the United States and live the Army Values.
[gives Benny Hill salute]
“almost every airborne operation was either a clusterfuck”
War is inherently a clusterfuck. The victor is the one who can best navigate the chaos.
Some operations are riskier than others though. Airborne operation casualty rates are often 2 or 3 times higher than regular ones.
To make an analogy: there’s a big difference in risk between taking a pot shot from 500 yards and charging with a bayonet.
So are amphibious operations. But sometimes, they need to be done.
I remember seeing a piece of a documentary on airborne troops in WWII. As I remember the explanation, one of the experts argued that paratroopers should normally expect high casualty rates (50%+). But when the Germans used paratroopers in Belgium & Holland they succeeded with remarkably light casualties that Hitler took to be the norm. So when they jumped on Crete and suffered much higher casualties, despite achieving their objective, Hitler decided that they were no longer effective and basically shelved them for the rest of the war.
The only successful airborne operations have been against weak (Panama, Grenada, Iraq) or neutral (Belgium) opponents. Every other one has been a meat grinder.
Well, certainly British military doctrine has always been that airborne is an important component of combined ops and should be considered as a standalone solution only in extremis.
Operation Market Garden was the only lesson they needed, and I understand that even then, the War Office was decidedly unconvinced that it was a good idea, and as we found out, audacity isn’t enough.
I hate stories like “Zombie Raccoons!” because, God damnit, I want a picture of a zombie raccoon. If you don’t have a picture of zombie raccoon, go home.
Time for Gandhi to be purged:
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/kzxb7e/why-students-at-carleton-university-are-trying-to-have-a-statue-of-gandhi-removed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/04/02/xi-term-limits/?utm_term=.82e93a3137fc
Shorter WaPo: TOP MEN
I guess Democracy dying ain’t so bad after all.
Oops that wasn’t supposed to be a reply. And I quoted too much. But then again you don’t have to go to their site then… :shrug:
Yeah…we’d rather you not paste an entire piece like that…for many reasons, OK?
Sorry. Can you get into legal trouble for quoting an entire piece?
That was never a worry.
“Eric X. Li is a Shanghai venture capitalist and a trustee and chairman of the advisory committee of Fudan University’s China Institute.”
I’m sure Mr Li’s views are heartfelt and he would have no problem publishing a contrary opinion.
What is Tom Friedman and Justin Trudeau’s excuses?
They are morons… like you…..
Tell more about Trek’s non-didacticism…
I’ll have a Toaster ask Spock
Mixing BSG and ST? For shame…
Let’s ask Mal what He thinks, He’s the Captain after all
Totally OT: California no longer permits employers to ask prospective hires about their salary history. I have two jobs I need to fill. For anyone who recently had to hire under similar conditions or who was recently hired, how and when was salary discussed during the hiring process?
That’s ridiculous.
when it looks like it might work out for both parties, I never heard of that law, must be new
Without regard to anything else, I figure what a job pays in the region, adjust for the ability and fit of the individual, and then offer them that. They take it or they don’t.
If beating some staffer out of $10k makes all the difference, my going concern ain’t going so hot.
That I can do well into the process. I’m trying to do this in a way that doesn’t make the position unappealing to qualified prospects or super appealing to the unqualified.
Without regard to anything else, I figure what a job pays in the region, adjust for the ability and fit of the individual, and then offer them that. They take it or they don’t.
If beating some staffer out of $10k makes all the difference, my going concern ain’t going so hot.
What happened to that cool little Gilmore-proofing warning thingie?
Jesus.
What is the reasoning for not asking salary history? In the last year I was in desperate need for a job and they all asked salary history. Given my previous salaries I had a hard time finding a job. Nobody understood, “ya, if I could make that money I would not be asking you for a fucking job, I just need a damn job and I will do my best for you”
I know I’m a bit underpaid at my current job but I stay there for other reasons. If/when I have to look for another one I don’t expect to have this problem. ??
That’s good. When you get to a certain age and have spent most of your life in the trades it is a different story. I can’t really blame them, I am not 30 any more. Such is life.
I’d assume it’s so the evil kulaks can’t use it as an excuse to oppress the workers.
Also, imagine if we didn’t allow comparative pricing in other fields. Never mind, I forgot about some government contracts.
Pretty close. See below.
This is California’s brilliant attempt to eliminate the wage gap.
https://discord.gg/T7QDZYs
Thanks.
RE Trump yelling in the microphone. I have to say I am with him on Jared’s bunny suit glasses. What is up with the glasses?
Maybe it’s an attempt the lessen the “killer rabbit” effect that those costumes always have.
New season of Deadliest Catch!!
(of course, the Hillstrands have retired, and they were my favorite)
If Carl is out there, I sent you an email. Wondering if you’re here in Japan.
A little preachy, I like the ruling either way.
https://www.afa.net/activism/action-alerts/2018/victory-for-religious-liberty-in-the-us-air-force/
What the hell is a “certificate of spouse appreciation”?
I can’t get past this sentence. What is the purpose of such a thing other than to maybe ferret out someone who doesn’t give a shit about the whole thing.
In answer to both you, I have no fucking clue what that is. Basically it seems like a trap to do exactly what they did to this guy.
I don’t know when it became a thing, but when a military member retires (at least in the Air Force), their spouse usually gets a fancy certificate that talks about all the sacrifices they also made during the member’s career. It typically acknowledges things like deployments, moves, etc.
Basically, the military has decided that spouses get benefits like an honorary military personnel. There’s a whole other can of worms about defense spending buried in there that doesn’t get touched. Who wants to go after the benefits a spouse receives? They’d get burned alive.
So they get certificates and awards like “Spouse of the Year” all the way up to headquarters levels. There’s a whole magazine dedicated to military spouses.
MilMilfs?
Dependapolitan.
It used to be somewhat frowned upon to wear a spouse’s rank (even though it happened all the time). Now they can wear their spouse’s career.
That about sums it up.
So the end result is more fodder for the “Trump hates gays” machine.
I hate to say it but… I hate everyone in this story.
“I hate everyone in this story”
Seems fair. The Colonel is a jackass; what’s the harm in signing a stupid card? Then again, I’d rather not open another Nazi cake can o’ worms. Can’t people just leave each other alone?
Does anyone else feel like a late night HM post is coming? My Jungian sense is tingling.
I hope so…
My ‘Fight, Freeze or Flee’ response is firing on all cylinders.
You’re only supposed to choose one.
DS9 Season 7 ep.16 Adrienne Barbeau as a Romulan Senator, HOT!
One of the great things about DS9 – in addition to Adrienne Barbeau’s assets – was its willingness to take the shine off the lofty Federation.