Hey guys. As you might have noticed, Sloopy is still not pulling his weight. I’m not saying this explains it, but we might be selling merch for bail. Maybe. There’s some discussion about whether or not this is too deplorable for even a site dedicated to freedom, rapesquatches, sexually explicit political slashfic and puerile “humor”.
This is an awesome (and super-depressing) insight into North Korea where Rocket Man is personally intervening in holiday camp hot springs and bag factories.
“Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs,” said Ocasio-Cortez. This prosperity is killing us! Right and nobody goes to the popular restaurants, they’re too crowded.
As I have been saying, $70/bbl oil is far more likely than $170/bbl, no matter what Bloomberg and other scare-mongers are hawking.
Florida Woman, please do not mix 4Loco, methadone, and child care. What’s the over/under she serves more than the 20 months the chick who hung the toddler in Minnesota served? Or more than this Florida Woman who killed her mother in a confrontation about being left out of the will. Wait. I’m married to a Florida…. hold on. Got to change the will.
And here’s something of interest to one Glib in particular — “How to Eat Like a Gilmore” h/t jesse.in.mb
It’s not creative, but I ain’t heard it in a while.
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*thinly veiled sexual innuendo*
http://archive.is/cIs5c
6, 8, 13, 18, 55, 57.
Thinly veiled indeed
These are doing nothing for me now that I know all the photos are run through a filter. Just kidding, to me it makes just as much difference as the airbrushing they did in Playboys when I was a teenager.
I haven’t stopped watching porn because I know the plots are fake.
One day some enterprising porn director will put out a flick where the plumber actually fixes the sink and really bend your mind.
Don’t be fatuous, Patrick.
Wait, what’s this you say? The plots are fake?
i lol’d really
As a friend said to me 30 years ago regarding pics in Playboy, “I don’t care if they ARE airbrushed. They look good to me.
I think 3 would give me a heart attack.
I think a great number of them would give you a much more violent death.
#6
““Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs,” said Ocasio-Cortez. This prosperity is killing us! Right and nobody goes to the popular restaurants, they’re too crowded.”
They could have put a better looking picture. I know the Left did it to Michelle Bachman. But still.
She is kind of gummy
Plus she has crazy Commie eyes.
It’s uncanny!
that’s rather well done
Tard Tuesday:Save the World Pay Mom Basement Rent” target=”_blank” “If Only I Had Control Of That Money, I Could
Save the WorldPay Mom Basement Rent~~~edit faerie…tries to save link~~~
WUT
How to link like a Gilmore?
I love their rules at the bottom:
“Please remember that this subreddit is a SAFE SPACE for socialist discussion. Any liberalism, capitalist apologia, anti-socialism, gun-prohibition campaigning, or attempts to debate socialism will be met with an immediate ban. Bigotry, ableism, and hate speech will also be met with immediate bans. See our sidebar for the full rules.”
Nothing says intellectual rigor and confidence in one’s philosophy like preemptively silencing any dissent and/or debate.
No gun-prohibition campaigning?
I guess it’s tough to seize the means of production without some guns.
Yes, the gun prohibitions come only after they’ve stormed to power.
Allowed posts: 1) Anything about how much you really love socialism* or 2) Anything about how much you really, really love socialism.
*You will be banned too. You should at least really, really love socialism to hang out here.
ECHO CHAMBER UBER ALLES!
/r/latestagecapitalism is the “best”.
/r/communism comes in second, what with their upvoting “The US deserved 9/11 and Al Qaeda are heroes” posts.
Yeah, that “gun-prohibition campaigning” kinda sticks out. Why ban that, which no socialist has ever opposed ever, when they could just ban “attempts to debate gun control” or somesuch?
Hilarious. My 16-year-old budding libertarian son has gone on this subreddit in the past just to troll them with thinly veiled sarcasm about how much he loves socialism. If adolescents can easily make fun of you, perhaps it is time to start paying rent to Mom and find the big boy pants.
Same son is in Spain right now on a summer exchange student program. My biggest fear is he’ll meet some hot euro chick who will somehow seduce him into renouncing his free-market ways and embrace ‘democratic socialism’. Just three weeks until we find out if he can withstand the eurotrash pressure!
I’ll be disappointed if he doesn’t renounce his free market ways so he can embrace some eurotrash tottie.
I’ll be really disappointed if he renounces his free market ways, and means it.
Cripes. I think I lost a couple of IQ points reading that link.
My second job is to pay my property taxes.
My third job is involuntarily supporting deadbeats faking a disability because they don’t want to work.
Golly, Q, now you’re talking about my family and some of my younger friends. They’d like to work more but it would cut into their long week ends.
My daughter and her husband have been able to scam the system for years. I’m not sure what disability means but if having a rotten personality
qualifies then they are OK.
Oh, and being 100 lbs overweight, I forgot that part
My second job is to pay my federal income tax.
My third is to my state income tax.
Property taxes would be my fourth job.
My second job is to make sure that I pay for an enormous amount of tax for the unsustainable schemes of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
My third job is to make sure that no single defense contractor ever has a bad quarter.
My fourth job is to prop up tyrannical third world dictatorships.
Jelly.
I take “contract” work (court -appointed) for daily bills, family law for the icing on the cake (the vacations I need to take because of family law), and real estate or criminal law for paying off taxes.
I’d re-enlist as a private in the Infantry again, if it meant avoiding family law for the rest of my days.
Family law and bankruptcy law, the two areas where you can be the best attorney ever and it’s still the worst day of your client’s life.
I am still taking it, because it does pay for a lot. . . but I wish I could do all criminal defense. Which is my true joy.
“Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs,”
How to single-handedly devalue a university economics program. I feel bad for Boston U grads.
Unemployment in Venezuela is 45%! High unemployment is a sign of a strong economy.
Just like: food shortage = people are losing weight and getting healthy!
Nobody needs three meals
…a week
Tard Tuesday: Please stop making us own our failures
LOL
“Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs,” said Ocasio-Cortez.”
News flash sugar tits, people have been working two jobs for years.
For a while, in my twenties, I worked 3 jobs and still managed to party my ass off.
/shrug
Gigolo, wedding planner, and what was the third?
cabana boy?
Porn actor. Like DUH.
I was trying to think of something not directly sex-related, since I already picked gigolo.
Rickshaw operator?
B&B assistant innkeeper. No pay, but a free room at the inn.
Ahh,, freeloader.
When I was going to school I also worked 25-30 hours a week. Once I graduated and only worked 40 hours a week I didn’t know what to do with myself, so I considered taking a part-time job in the evenings. Eventually I realized I could just go to the bar instead.
Uffda. I remember that. I had two profs working me for weeks to stay in school and go for a Masters degree. Unfortunately for them I had gotten a job offer for $30K/year! And like you said, I only had to work one job to get that princely sum.
Even better, when I showed up, I learned that they would pay you overtime for any hours worked/billed over 40. So I didn’t have to find a hobby.
Sort of, people working two jobs is still at an all time low.
Would this be the two jobs they have to work because of the number of 29-hour-per-week jobs that suddenly sprouted after passage of Obamacare?
^This
I’d love to see the numbers. Wonder what the % is that have two 25 hour jobs because no employer wants anyone close to the level where they have to give them all the govt mandated goodies like maternity leave, sick leave, health bennies.
Remy – ♫ Working
NineOne to Five! ♫NEXT July 4th I’ll really show those showoffs up the road that have to have a display that rivals The Mall in DC.
Then again, I may just do it for Labor Day, and aim for some socialists.
Non-link related rant. I got “commie’d” by my company today. They announced everyone in our department below management will now share the same title and pay grade regardless of merit, experience, or education. While the title and pay will change for those below me, their job responsibilities will not. I am as far as you can get on the ladder before management, have a college degree, multiple certifications and have worked my ass off for this company for the last 8 years. My teammates and I hold more liability, knowledge and experience than anyone within the department. Now we are no different than the guy with a GED who answers phones and pushes paper. I need a drink.
Sounds like you should get a second job. Drive the unemployment rate even lower.
WTF? That is unadulterated horseshit. Time to update the resume my friend.
Already submitted a few applications.
Good way to retain their top talent. I’d be shopping my resume around if I were you.
What is their stock exchange symbol?
“Asking for a friend”, amirite?
I would say but I don’t want to get “called” out.
Job titles can be useful in dealing with the outside. Flattening those is stupid.
Putting everybody in the same pay band effectively caps future raises, etc. for those at the top of the band. Doing this for all non-management staff is an excellent way to drive off your “senior non-coms” who get shit done.
I’d start looking right now, while you have time to explore the market and be a little picky about what you do next.
It also caps the skill set of the people in the band. Why try to do better if it doesn’t matter? And if you’re in the management band, would you want to manage people in that lower band?
The only proper response is to leave. Make sure you get an exit interview with a non-HR person.
“I want to be very clear that my choice to leave is directly tied to this decision”
This.
All of this. I’m currently looking anywhere and everywhere.
Based on what I read up-thread, you should consider gigolo & cabana boy as possible 2nd and 3rd occupations.
And leave out pr0n actor?!
Agreed. Joking aside, this is an insane decision on their part. And as the people worth keeping leave, it will only get worse for the people worth their salt remaining. Unless there’s some sort of bonus arrangement you haven’t been told about, thew sooner you get out the better. What you don’t want to be seen as is the guy who couldn’t get another job.
You wouldn’t be employed by a Twentieth Century Motors, by any chance?
By the way, be the first to leave. Or at least in the first cohort. I started looking as soon as I started seeing signs that the acquisition of my employer by a mega-corp was decidedly not going smoothly. I had a friend give me the details. Its pretty grim for the remainers, their job sucks even worse, there’s no relief in sight, and even though there is high demand for their skills, after 45 other people left, it means that they aren’t getting offers quite as quickly.
Also, don’t be tempted by any counter offers when you do turn in your notice.
I’ve seen death spirals like this before and I wouldn’t be surprised if when management gets wind of how many of the good people are leaving if they don’t try to bribe some of you to stick behind (either permanently or temporarily). You are a fool to let that happen. No amount of money is worth it when you are in that situation.
Once you decide to leave, just leave. Living well is the best revenge.
That’s a very effective way to drive out the people with skills, experience, and a work ethic, and retain only the GED paper pushers.
You work for Twentieth Century Motor Corp?
That’s an especially dumb move given the low unemployment rate. It’s an employee’s market now, you can’t piss off your employees with impunity.
They were trying desperately to hang on to those low-skill employees.
If I were a betting man, I bet this move is some HR genius’ idea of how to handle employees in a hot market. They hope that by lumping everyone in one bucket they can dampen all the requests from the good employees for raises/promotions. Instead of having to deal with employees with all the cards, they came up with a policy that says “Hey, we’d love to help you but our hands are tied.”
Sadly, this tactic will work with a lot of people. One of the hardest working guys I ever worked with has never left his job because he is loyal as a dog and is terrified of going into a new situation.
HR is also populated by a bunch of mendacious assholes who are jealous as hell that everyone else has shitloads of opportunity. Why be in HR if you have to listen to the workers and take their concerns seriously? It would be like becoming a cop and finding out that you can’t shoot dogs with impunity. What is the point?
My boss told me its easier to get good customers than good employees as he bumped me up. Worked, too. I stayed.
Sounds maybe like your boss was pro-active and smart.
I don’t think LJW is laboring under such restrictions at his current job.
If you can, walk.
Fuck those commies.
By walk you mean run, right?
Sprint.
Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs,” said Ocasio-Cortez.
Allah’s gift to Republicans. If they are smart enough to use it.
I can see the ad:
Clip of Ocasio saying this, followed by “What a great country! If you want two jobs, in America you can have them! Keep America Great! Vote for the party that doesn’t put socialists on the ballot.”
“If they are smart enough to use it”
So they’re screwed then.
Royally. They’re going to make statements about how “smart and insightful” is.
It’s not creative, but I ain’t heard it in a while.
Groove metal is still one of my guilty indulgences from time to time. I keep Hellbilly Deluxe around for such occasions. Because if you’ve heard one Rob Zombie track you’ve heard them all, and the cohesive campy horror theme adds to the guilty indulgence of it all.
I agree. This and Astro-Creep: 2000 have managed to stand the test of time for me. Rob Zombie was mainstream, but he had his own voice and style and followed it.
“mix 4Loco, methadone, and child care.”
*looks at calendar*
Yep it’s Tuesday in Florida
Or just any day that ends in a Y.
BTW I miss old 4loco.
Just take a couple NoDoz and drink a EARFquake.
You mean snort a couple of NoDoz, right?
I think Kim may have been studying up on his new Bestie and found out how much better real estate development works in the rest of the world.
Fuck you, Daily Caller.
I assume because of the ad-blocker blocker?
Tard Tuesday: Equally Distributed Poverty Is The Answer
Bonus dipshittery from Sawant concerning Amazon
“The solution is in no way to turn away from technological innovation, the logic of economies of scale, or ease of access to goods and services. Instead, we need to unionize, and to take these behemoths into democratic public ownership, so that they are run not for profit for a few, but in the interests of the majority of working people and of society.”
Because communist countries have been responsible for so much innovation over the years…
The solution is in no way to turn away from technological innovation, the logic of economies of scale, or ease of access to goods and services. Instead, we need to unionize, and to take these behemoths into democratic public ownership, so that they are run not for profit for a few, but in the interests of the majority of working people and of society.
Communism is always one big technological revolution away from finally ending scarcity and becoming a viable economic system.
Funny how they can’t seem to get there on their own.
Instead, we need to unionize, and to take these behemoths into democratic public ownership,
Nationalizing the tech companies. Well, that will certainly solve the “too much prosperity” problem.
This gem jumped out at me (not a quote from the socialist nutter):
I doubt you could fill a Starbucks in Seattle with “fiscally responsible, moderate progressive” Democrats. And I would bet strongly that the ones you found wouldn’t have a clue about running a small business. I find it the mention of unions in that sentence to be interesting, as well. These people live in a truly strange and wonderful land.
“Fiscally responsible” and “moderate” are mutually exclusive with “progressive”.
“Nationalizing the tech companies. Well, that will certainly solve the “too much prosperity” problem. ”
The anti-trust shackles slapped on IBM and Xerox 60 years ago comes to mind.
i wonder if her family owns any apartments in India but keep them empty year round b/c India’s rent control laws are batshit insane.
The Soviets really did a number on India. I doubt they’ll ever get over it.
Here’s the thing, though – I can only spare Amazon so much sympathy. Sawant isn’t exactly being oblique about her aims. In fact, I’d say she’s being pretty damned blunt about what she wants to do. So, why the hell is Jeff Bezos staying in Seattle? Does he think these people are just a passing fad? At this point, my first, last and intermediate priority would be to empty out my Seattle offices and move operations somewhere where I don’t have to worry about keeping my company.
Are you the last person to hear about Amazon’s HQ2?
HQ2 is way too low-ball for the stakes. He needs to move HQ1
Give him credit for doing the exact opposite of what Sears tried.
I think HQ2 is cover for them moving HQ1. All this shit will do is make them put a bid out for HQ3.
To avoid the mob though, I think Seattle will never be told that
Ark Fleet Ship BHQ1 has been replaced.Very true. If he likes Washington, he should move to a suburb, or maybe buy a ranch/farm and found his own city. It’s not like Amazon has a majority of its infrastructure in Seattle, so what’s tying them there?
In Seattle, our movements need to continue to build the fight to end homelessness, make housing affordable for all, and fully fund social services.”
What she’s not revealing, I can almost be certain because I know west coast city budgets in general, is that the lion’s share of the city budget already goes for social services and programs for the homeless. But again with the totally-untrue canard that the noble homeless are only living in tents and shitting on the sidewalk because they’ve been priced out of investing in the local real estate market.
If the socialists did take over, though, everyone would be equally poor, but she’s right, there’d be no more of the tent cities. That’s because they’d take all those types of homeless individuals out back and shoot them.
Florida Woman, please do not mix 4Loco, methadone, and child care.
Let’s not be hasty, I know parents who would consider those ingredients but in possibly different ratios and situations.
CRISPR DNA editing may cause serious genetic damage, researchers warn
Nobody tell Ron Bailey. He’s liable to stroke out and lose the deposit on his cryonics.
Worked for me.
*scratches ass with third arm*
i had mixed results.
*cautiously pets dog with poisonous bite*
You use yours to SCRATCH?
Why, now I can use both hands on the keyboard….
Well, for poor scruffy, the arm isn’t positioned where it can reach to be useful…
It’s great for an itchy taint though.
I find that the 2nd set of balls are why my taint itches so much.
Bigotry, ableism, and hate speech will also be met with immediate bans.
*pre-emptively bans self from reddit*
the SALT workaround “solutions” sound expensive and painful to implement..
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=796f2d3e-eda2-4e32-a73f-f415834f5f90
On July 3, 2018, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance issued a Technical Services Bureau Memorandum (TSB-M-18(1) ECEP) regarding the implementation of the recently enacted Employer Compensation Expense Program (Part MM of Chapter 59 of the Laws of 2018; Tax Law Article 24, Sections 850-857, 606(ccc), 171-a).
The Employer Compensation Expense Tax (ECET) was enacted as a ‘work around’ to deal with the limitation on the deductibility of state and local taxes that came with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). The ECET is an optional tax beginning Jan. 1, 2019, for employers paying annual wages in excess of $40,000 for each employee who elect to participate. If an employer elects to pay this tax, a credit will be available to the employee, reducing the employee’s New York personal income tax, thereby mitigating the effect of the federal SALT limitation.
It’s basically a payroll tax.
The addiction to government money is a far bigger problem than the opioid “crisis”.
This.
THIS. THIS. THIS.
The ECET is an optional tax beginning Jan. 1, 2019, for employers paying annual wages in excess of $40,000 for each employee who elect to participate. If an employer elects to pay this tax, a credit will be available to the employee, reducing the employee’s New York personal income tax, thereby mitigating the effect of the federal SALT limitation.
Hilarious. I wonder how many employers are going to sign up to increase their tax burden, without offsetting it with reductions in the pay of their employees. And how many employees are going to sign up for it. Let’s scenario this, keeping mind that the new cap is $10K on all state and local taxes, including property taxes.
Let’s say you make $250K, and your NY income tax is $15,000. You are a renter, so you don’t pay deductible property taxes. Without the SALT cap, you could deduct another $5,000 from your federal taxes, with a value of @ $1,500.
Not being sure exactly how the ECET tax works, let’s say the employer only pays taxes on your behalf above $10K (the SALT cap). So, for this guy, its a $5,000 payment by his employer that he gets a credit for, knocking his state taxes down to $10K. If his employer doesn’t cut his pay, he’s $5,000 ahead (his NY taxes are reduced by $5K, and his federal taxes are unchanged), but his employer is $5,000 behind. If the employer doesn’t participate, then the employer breaks even, and the employee is $1,500 behind. Why would an employer spend $5K to deliver a $1,500 benefit to an employee? Why not just give the employee a raise to cover their higher federal taxes, if you feel compelled to do something. Even grossed up, it would be less than $5K (my rule of thumb is that grossing up for taxes doubles the payout, but there’s probably a real number out there somewhere).
I can’t imagine a scenario where it would make sense for an employer to opt in to this. It may be the stupidest possible way to try to offset a change in federal tax law.
I think I mangled that.
If his employer doesn’t cut his pay, he’s
$5,000$6,500ahead (his NY taxes are reduced by $5K, and his federal taxes areunchangedreduced by $1,500), but his employer is $5,000 behind.So, assuming no pay cut, the employer will be spending $5K to deliver a $6,500 benefit to the employee. Might not be a bad way to give raises to people, but if that $5K in ECET is on top of what they would otherwise make, its a bad deal for the employer because of the option to give a raise to cover the $1500 in taxes.
Employees might be willing to take a pay cut. Your pay is cut $5,000, the employer breaks even, you break even because you owe $5,000 less in state taxes, and you save $1,500 in federal taxes.
So, it may not be as dumb as I thought. OTOH, I can easily see the feds treating the $5K in ECET payments as income to the employee, since it is effectively paying taxes on the employee’s behalf.
What if your employer is New York City, or the Teacher’s Union? It’s a whole new incentive to cry poor.
If his employer doesn’t cut his pay, he’s $5,000 ahead (his NY taxes are reduced by $5K, and his federal taxes are unchanged
Until the Feds deem this a taxable benefit, and I would be very surprised if they didn’t.
Not taking is giving?
If the employee comes out keeping more of what he earned, the only difference is a business is paying the state tax instead of an individual. If SALT isn’t capped for businesses, then the Feds will balk because it will reduce their revenue as the states have moved themselves to the front of the line for business taxes. The Feds will then cap SALT deductions at ZERO, for individuals and businesses. Any business in a competitive industry will leave a high tax locale, and there will be little incentive for individuals to remain, thus eliminating any need for a business to “locate where the skilled workers are”.
In Chicago, the recent trend is for suburban companies to move into the city. Ignored in the trend is the entir reason these companies move to the suburbs in the first place – the city enacted a payroll head tax in the early 1960’s. In five years most of the largest employers opened suburban campuses and gradually phased out their city locations. Sears was one of the last to do so, in part because they already had begun work on the tower. But even Sears had enough and had to threaten their way out of their tax burden. I really don’t see a revised version of a payroll head tax as having different effects than before.
My understanding is that technically your wages would be going down by the amount of whatever tax the employer is paying. Or something.
Cuomo is just trying to avoid the consequences of overtaxing New Yorkers. Which is why he’s also coming up with shit like suing the Supreme Court should they overturn Roe v. Wade, or the special session I mentioned in the dead thread. (New York legalized abortion on demand before 24 weeks back in 1970. A repeal of Roe v. Wade wouldn’t change that.)
My understanding is that technically your wages would be going down by the amount of whatever tax the employer is paying.
So, an employer opting in has to cut wages by the amount of the ECET they pay? That won’t be hard to administer or anything. And, it reduces the total tax collections by the state, since your total tax liability goes down as your wages go down.
And if this is the case, it makes the case for the feds to tax the ECET as deemed income even stronger, since that makes the ECET effectively nothing more than an increase in state tax withholding.
OT (somewhat)
gbob, I listened to this week’s podcast and it was awesome. I love how Barbara reacted to the classic Spidey stories, since he’s a hero near and dear to my heart. Unlike you, however, I tried Slott’s run (Spider-Verse intro and the whole thing) and ugh, I couldn’t bear it.
I was kicking myself when I heard you solicited listeners for suggested reading. If you’re wondering what Tom deFalco wanted to do with Peter’s and MJ’s daughter (I believe official line is she’s dead, the thing snuck from hospital was real Aunt May, because they needed to undo one of the most emotional moments in the series), can you post the show email here and I can hook you up with my favorite American comic series of all time 🙂
Still need pics of Barbara.
You can see her on the twitter. https://twitter.com/GalWalks/status/1005600761642930176
Not the most flattering picture!
Did you see folks recommending Kim and Kim? Please don’t let Barbara read those or she’ll never pick up another comic.
Sometimes things are so bad they are good. Let the gal experience the joy of Full Visagio.
We already plan on hating it!
Thanks, man.
I dunno. I liked Slott’s run. He had some real moments, and I agree with Barbara. 801 is one of the finer spidey stories ever.
Are you talking about the great Spider-Girl series? Yeah. May Parker is incredible. Shame she never got a fair run. Don’t think you can really do an alternative universe and still get readers. Those things are doomed to fail. Too bad.
I also wish I could have gotten into it. By the time we hit the nineties series, I realized just how fucking long we were running.
Yes, Spider-Girl (the real one), and I think 149 issues over 12 years is a fair run, given the readership for the most of it. And the fact that Tom deFalco wrote all of them. Hell, that thing was great if you’re a Spider-fan, and you want to see Peter catch a break.
I guess my problem with Slott was that I went into his run because I heard May was coming into the Spider-Verse crossover, so I wanted the background and it was pretty meh. Then he upends her world and leaves her on the sidelines to literally babysit while other characters go and have adventures. deFalco actually had a small story in ancillary series where he basically said “my May is somewhere out there, not here”. So I wasn’t enticed to keep reading and, well, I had 60 years of Marvel Comics to catch up on (say what you will, Marvel Unlimited is insane value).
Slott did do a great job on Renew Your Wovs miniseries – another alt-universe married Parkers have a super-power daughter. It was latter spun into an ongoing written by Gerry Conway, which was pretty good.
The perfect gun if you’ve got 5 grand burning a hole in your pocket.
https://www.shootingillustrated.com/articles/2018/7/12/review-nemo-arms-omen-rifle-in-300-win-mag/
It would be cool to have one of these… but expensive.
Impressive but not paying that kind of money for direct-gas-impingement.
proprietary brake, “IonBond” heavy barrel. still not seeing the value to justify MSRP $5700.
Is that the one machined from titanium? Can’t access GUNZ at work…
Machined from a petrified unicorn penis. That’s why it’s so expensive.
I recall Nemo having some notoriety for using exotic materials and pushing the limits of the AR platform. Seems legit.
If I have five grand burning a hole in my pocket, I’m going to put that towards a serbu 50 BMG semi-automatic.
You can build an AR-30 for way less than $5K.
Love me the .300 WIn Mag. That big case full of slow-burning powder makes for nicer recoil, and makes different rounds shoot more consistently – in my experience, .300s aren’t nearly as picky about what they shoot as rounds with short cases full of hot powder.
I have a weakness for tarted-up tacticool guns, I admit. I like, but I already have a very accurate .300 bolt action (sub-MOA, ten consecutive rounds covered by a quarter at 100 yards), and even at 1/4 the price couldn’t see buying one.
If I pay $5k for a rifle, it better be a gorgeous masterpiece of blued steel, engraving and fine walnut. That thing’s just plain ugly.
Some addicts check out and a NC town decides to violate everyone’s rights by monitoring sewage:
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/north-carolina/articles/2018-07-17/north-carolina-city-to-check-wastewater-for-opioid-use?int=undefined-rec
Sounds like a really, and I mean really, stupid idea to me.
https://youtu.be/6Nobm4-xpVk?t=15
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let this happen.
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2018/07/17/u-s-to-make-more-drugs-easily-available-cutting-role-docs-play
An idea that’s long overdue…
Leave it to Chicago to try and out-stupid Seattle.
https://theintercept.com/2018/07/16/chicago-universal-basic-income-ubi/
Of course he did. So dreamy.
Anything to make his over rated ass look good.
He’s the epitome of the “idea fairy”, the guy who flits around distributing “great” ideas but never bothering to consider implementation, let alone doing any of the work.
Or worry about the unintended consequences.
How guys like him get respect; let alone elected to the highest office in the word is beyond me.
Okay, let’s have a conversation about universal basic income…. no.
Whitey will pay for it. They owe it to humanity.
California has a rental housing shortage. Don’t worry, the Dems have a solution to it! Price controls, they have simply got to work this time!
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/California-rent-control-ballot-measure-wins-13082331.php?t=52b9e773ea
NYC is trying to cap security deposits.
NYC actually has a more ridiculous rent control ordinance than SF which is really hard to accomplish. Rent control in SF is not even the worst of the landlord/tenant laws. Here adults are not allowed to enter into a contract to rent for a specified period of time. Well, technically you can write it up but it isn’t worth jack shit. I found this out when I wanted to rent a fixer upper I had for just 1-2 years. I was told that having a tenant in the house would lower its value by 50-80k. I couldn’t take that risk so it sat empty for a year.
I’m sure you could have found a Tony or Paulie to help “encourage” the tenant to move when the time came. Seems like a tailor-made job for them.
Interesting times we live in that the regulatory state starts making something like this actually seem like a rational option for your average joe.
I know for a fact that happens.
People will find ways to mete out justice in the face of laws that favour one side too much.
Developers and real estate agents found an ally in a group that could help them cut into progressive support for the measure, when the California NAACP announced last week that it opposed Prop. 10.
“It will make affordable rental housing even more scarce than it is today, widening the gap between our state’s haves and have-nots,” California NAACP President Alice Huffman said in a statement. “We need to increase the availability of affordable housing targeted to those most in need — but this initiative is the wrong approach that will only make the problem worse.”
Something something find a woman you hate and buy her a house something
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/16/a-bad-marriage-is-as-unhealthy-as-smoking-or-drinking-say-scientists
I seem to recall the studies that showed married couples were healthier and lived longer.
Let me guess, it’s all meta-analysis of statistical data, so the authors decided to write a study denigrating marriage and worked the numbers to get the result.
Lies, damned lies and meta-analyses.
Good news for non-profits:
Presidents swear an oath to “protect and defend the Constitution,” and that includes guarding against restrictions on political speech. So congratulations to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Acting IRS Commissioner David Kautter for advancing that cause on the controversial issue of donor privacy.
Treasury announced Monday evening that the Internal Revenue Service will no longer require most 501(c) organizations to include donor names and addresses on their tax Form 990 Schedule B. Nonprofits have had to divulge those sensitive details for donations above $5,000. From now on, only 501(c)(3)s that receive a tax deductible benefit will have to provide such donor information. This new IRS revenue procedure will exempt some 45,000 nonprofits from the reporting rule, including unions and social-welfare groups.
Donor names are supposed to remain private, but the government has inadvertently revealed donor lists. IRS employees also used donor-information demands as part of their harassment of Tea Party organizations during the Obama Administration. State Attorneys General have even sought to require nonprofits to release Schedule B details to state regulators, with a goal of requiring public disclosure that could tee up donors for political harassment—a threat to free speech. The new IRS policy means states won’t be able to exploit this donor information as easily.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-irs-advance-for-speech-privacy-1531783998?mod=hp_opin_pos3
It wasn’t inadvertent.
only 501(c)(3)s that receive a tax deductible benefit will have to provide such donor information.
I’m a lawyer for a 501(c)(3), and I have no idea what this means.
Out of control judiciary.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/16/california-judge-bars-family-deportations/
I;m still trying to figure out how a judge could demand that the families be reunited. I thought the law required the separation in some instances due to different time scales in handing the adults and the children.
Well, some judge or other said they couldn’t keep them in detention for longer than a certain time period.
Another judge says they can’t deport them (I can’t imagine what the purported legal basis is for that).
One way or the other, the judiciary is going to get their catch and release program for Central American peasants.
Speaking of bad moms, this story seems suspect to me. But I know nothing about drugs, so no idea if there is even a bit of truth to the claim.
Well, if the cops can become addicted from third-hand opioids….
I first read that as 11-year-old son.
So brave. So edgy.
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1019248772042420226
Kathy Griffin II
I hope the owner enjoys talking with the Secret Service.
A rodeo clown should try that.
I would love to know more about this.
Seems like they removed it and moved out.
Instead, we need to unionize, and to take these behemoths into democratic public ownership, so that they are run not for profit for a few, but in the interests of the majority of working people and of society.
I am fully willing to agree there is a lot that’s fucked up about corporate governance, these days, but I do not foresee success for her preferred alternative. In fact, that sounds like a recipe for unmitigated disaster.
“we need to unionize, and to take these behemoths into democratic public ownership”
Molon labe, motherfucker.
but I do not foresee success for her preferred alternative. In fact, that sounds like a recipe for unmitigated disaster.
Even for them. That’s what idiots like Sawant ignore. There’s a reason corporate execs are at the high end of the economic pyramid. They have a skillset that is relatively rare and absolutely necessary for running a large-scale enterprise. Even in her little socialist utopia, a guy with a skill-set like Jeff Bezos is going to be the guy running the distribution network. And, odds are, in a system run by the ruthless exercise of power, it’s going to be a guy who is a much, much, much bigger prick than Bezos.
Having an interesting text conversation with Mrs. TOK. There are all kinds of hickeys on our 17 year old after her visit to her boyfriend’s house last night. We are wondering why this generation of kids seems to not have the sense to cover their tracks, or at least not do anything that leaves evidence. My oldest was that way, too. She’d spend all her money on junk food but wasn’t smart enough to hide the wrappers at the bottom of the trash can outside. These kids are really lacking some basic life skills.
Have there been any repercussions for these children over their actions? Operant conditioning still works.
As long as you’re not finding positive pregnancy tests in the trash all is well.
Haven’t found one of those, but once our oldest left a receipt for one in her room. It was from the dollar store.
Have you checked her facebook page yet?
She doesn’t have one. In answer to UnCivil, this one is banned from social media due to repeatedly misusing it. So yes, we aren’t shy about repercussions. At the very least she’s not allowed to be at the boyfriend’s house anymore.
Aside from the hickeys, did she break some other rule related to her boyfriend (e.g. stayed out too late, wasn’t supposed to be there, lied, no kissing/touching allowed, etc.)?
She isn’t supposed to be unsupervised with her boyfriend, i.e. alone in his room with the door closed. We do not allow that at our house, but apparently nobody’s watching at his house.
Is she going to college?
She’ll be a senior in high school this year, so still under mom and dad’s roof and rules.
I am so not looking forward to my daughter dating boys.
She already had a *boyfriend*. Jewish no less. Anyone around here Jewish?
Your daughter the shiksa.
She must have shiksappeal.
Maybe they were making out in front of her boyfriend’s parents.
For punishment, they beat you with the stick. For encouragement, they beat you with the carrot.
The really bad ones got the wet noodle.
I snorted coffee out my nose, thanks.
Unless the harvest is lousy, in which case they’ll have to use a rock for both.
That may be the perfect description of power I’ve ever heard. Thank you.
… Hobbit
Sure, I just repeating my post from the dead thread, but….John Stossel really did get better looking.
Now THAT’S the way to transition successfully.
It takes a long time for some scars to heal.
So, plastic straws are bad because they go up turtle’s noses? Can our resident lizard hip us to this reptilian cocaine problem? Also, more from Ethan Bearman:
“Plastic doesn’t actually biodegrade.”
Everything is biodegradable; Ethan Bearman is just impatient.
With all the pharmaceuticals in the water turning the frogs gay you’d think that turtles wouldn’t need straws to take their drugs.
There’s no bigger turn-off to a cause or policy than seeing a video of smug celebrities reading scripted sermons and regurgitating words emphatically.
Good news for non-profits:
That’s weird. The headline I saw earlier said something like, “Victory for Dark Money!”
I hope this Minnesoda caregiver gets out before I need a caregiver to change my diapers. She sounds like someone I’d employ when I have one foot in the grave.
Does muscular dystrophy reduce mental capacity? If not, I hope someone on her jury get one of those fully informed juror pamphlets from those ‘lets educate citizens’ rapscalians.
Fuck, this is great. But it also sucks.
Glad that a real asshole has been caught. Sucks because stories like this are being used to convince people that only serial murderers have anything to fear from a national DNA database.
I have a feeling that principled libertarians are not going to make more friends when they oppose expanding DNA databases.
What are those?
You only need to ask Whodini .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVoCJJFuS60
Why would you oppose more safety and security?
/bootlicker
Speaking of bad privacy news….
Minnesoda rolls out its new improved driver’s licenses! Now we will be compliant with the Real ID act. Woohoo!
Our only hope now to delay this BS is if the progs freak out over the cultural appropriation of using a canoe on the license. But I’m sure I’m worrying about nothing. How can anyone be concerned when Mr. Friendly from the government says this:
Why is it not racist to demand an ID to go into a govt building or get on a plane, but it is to vote? Why do the progs never flip out about the crazy paranoid shit that bothers me?
By the by, I know you cant vote with a felony conviction, but can you still run for council in St. Paul?
And even if you can, can you vote while serving on the city council?
*Scratches chin*
So where is the pic?
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/17/developing-trump-speak-helsinki-2-pm/
Trump is just blowing in the wind…
Pitiful. He should have just agreed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and let it be.
Can’t take away the celebrity developer out of the man…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVGoOBTmDA8
Turns out
Seb Gorkhamy boss was on the teevee during the HR derby. During the player intros.You work for John McCain?
Even I have standards!
(my boss looks just like Gorkha, and we work very close to the White House, so he often gets dirty looks when we’re walking to lunch outside the office)
Why aren’t these scowlers following standard operating procedure: Follow the two of you to lunch and then scream slogans at you in the restaurant while you’re seated?
Does he have Gorkha’s magnificent voice?
AMERICANS ARE STEALING THEIR OWN JOBS!
CaliforniaCouple tries to attract the attention of FloridaMan™ with fire truck.
Rico’s comment on this subject is absolutely top-shelf:
https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1019328604080132096
For some reason, I suspect that she can change a tire though.
You just wanna change her tire IYKWIMAITYD.
I dunno…she’s attractive, but….those eyes belong to someone that I dont need to be sticking anything in.
Well, she’s not wrong. Capitalism hasn’t always existed in the world. Capitalism requires a surplus after consumption that can be used to build better ways to make stuff. Pre-agricultural societies likely weren’t capitalist, but I suspect that every agricultural society had people who accumulated surpluses through trade and used them to build better ways to make stuff.
Zardoz or Point Blank?
WRONG. Running Man.
Good god Q that may be the worst movie related opinion since the entire OMWC Jaws fiasco.
Sleepless in Seattle speaks to me.
Youngblood is a better hockey movie than Slapshot.
*patiently waits for Tundra and Mike S to show up*
*drops gloves*
I do find interesting that OMWC was saying this a year before he claiming to have watched Jaws:
https://glibertarians.com/2017/03/reviews-youll-never-use-house/?highlight=jaws
https://glibertarians.com/2017/03/tuesday-morning-links-3/?highlight=jaws
I was comparing John Boorman movies…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man_(1987_film)
OMG they predicted Trump!
Oh shit! you were serious. Lee ‘Fucking’ Marvin kicking ass pisses upon Sean ‘Look I’m in a onesie’ Connery from a great height. You ask a lot of stupid questions but this may be your magnum opus.
One movie created a contributor for this site while the other didn’t.
How can Walker kick ass when he is dead?
I think Marvin smashed that guy’s balls in the night club:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=301Qqvfy5fg
The Real Question is: How much Coke was John Boorman snorting?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS MOVIE QUESTIONING CHOSEN ONE.
WATCH ZARDOZ!
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
You which other New York party thought the rent was too damn high?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Rent_War
NY state: 200+ years of thuggery to steal private property.
The DNC better put a muzzle on this chick if they want to have any chance at winning the House.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/socialist-democrat-superstar-ocasio-cortez-calls-for-occupation-of-airports-we-have-to-mobilize/
Of course I say: More, more, more! She needs more exposure!
I can see a susbstantial number of her supporters following her direction and it ending very badly.
She’s the new direction of the party it seems. Didn’t Cali just sell out Feinstein for a considerably more radical lefty?
“We need to occupy every airport. We need to occupy every border. We need to occupy every ICE office until those kids are back with their parents, period.”
[Psst. Don’t tell her the length of the country’s borders]
“Watch the video below for the entire, lengthy interview. The “occupy” comments begin at around the 52-minute mark.”
This shit goes on for hours!?
This shit goes on for hours!?
Villains always monologue about their plans for world domination.
Commies seem to have a bad case of it, though. They are famous for giving speeches that go on for hours and hours.
+1 John Galt.
They just need to get their message out there better, because the people are uneducated. THEN the people will know what’s best for them.
Motherfuckers are still skiing at Copper. Fuck you!
People hitchhike to the top of Loveland Pass and ski until September, sometimes straight through if there’s enough snow. You gotta move here KK, we need more good people. There’s a big FedGov presence, you should be able to transfer.
I have one colleague that works offsite, so I plan to negotiate a move once I’m there for a few years. I’m a contractor, so I have more flexibility and mobility than a Fedgov employee.
The tradeoff, of course, is not being plugged into the day-to-day office shit. It can lead to paranoia. But my boss is great at including the offsite dude. But it’s still tough.
We have the lowest snowpack in decades, so the July skiing ain’t great this year.
The key is you have July skiing
Fascism: “a form of radical authoritarian ultranationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce[…]fascists believe that liberal democracy is obsolete and they regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties”
This is from Wiki, itself a fairly lefty outlet. The only part here that Trump seems to characterize is the nationalism and, to less of an extent, control of industry and commerce through tariffs. Everything else is much more Left-Democrat:
Authoritarian? Check
Suppression of Opposition? Check
Control of Industry and Commerce? Check
One-Party State? Check
I really struggle to see the distinction between Communism and Fascism.
A couple of things:
(1) The (formal) ultranationalism. Back in the day, the Communists were all about exporting communism (international socialism). The fascists were focussed on getting socialism in their own country.
(2) The fascists were also more open to leaving some industries with private ownership, while the commies tended to go full nationalization.
D’oh.
Commies are usually globalists, Fascists are nationalists. Otherwise, same-same.
Mussolini was a disgruntled Socialist, back when the Italian Socialist Party was still Marxist, after all…
What’s hilarious is that the second-largest cohort of anti-fa consists of syndicalists (after the anarcho-communists). Mussolini was a syndicalist, and basically implemented as much of it as he could get away with in Italy.
And thus it’s actually pretty easy to get anti-fa guys agreeing with Mussolini in debates. Then you do the reveal. Then they block you on social media. And you realize you just wasted fifteen minutes of your life.
If he hadn’t sided with that moustache guy they’d be publicly singing his praises right now.
Just had dinner with three lefty friends last week. They all said they had no problem with Antifa because all they were doing was attacking fascists, who deserve it. They all agreed Antifa should be considered “the good guys”.
They also were dumbfounded when I said the NY Times was biased. Did I not know that it’s the newspaper of record?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN MUSSOLINI REMEMBERING ONE.
EVEN ZARDOZ ENVIED HIS CHIN…
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
The color?
WHo knew marshmallow Fluff was such an international phenomenon? (TW: Buzzfeed. But not political)
Brett, Mr. Lizard, et al….I need to know if this qualifies her for official FloridaWoman® status.
For people who care about the “are immigrants a net-positive” debate
https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1019280810913001472
very good thread there. its a summary/review of George Borjas’ ‘We Wanted Workers’ book. he provides a pretty good roundup of the data & arguments
+for my own part, i take no particular side on the topic
some people think its not a question of any utilitarian, realpolitik interest at all: we should welcome all comers no matter what, on principle, whether its for the good or not. and i share some of that.
some people think its purely a matter of economics, and if they’re a net+, then Yay, if they are a net -, then Boo. I also understand and find some of that compelling
(in general, my own work on consumer-markets has influenced this and i think there are solid arguments that America Needs Babies – not just workers – and that one of the worst things that could happen to the US would be some sort of ZPG stagnation a la Europe; on the other hand, the mistaken belief that mere-babies + new taxpayers will forever keep the bill for deficit spending from ever coming due may be the source of our undoing. there’s no easy answer)
Did you see my reply from last night? Only asking because it was kind of long, and you might be the only here who would care to read it.
hm, re: what? the ‘clave’ thing?
Yes.
-i read your last remark on the topic, but i began to lose the plot and couldn’t really make out what we were discussing anymore. (* i had a few drinks in me myself, was tired)
i thought the gist was that you thought traditional latin structures made for better music; mine wasn’t disagreeing, but just pointing out that most 60s-70s jazz+ latin type music followed pop song structures
(e.g. verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus out sort of thing, rather than evenly divided rhythmic sections)
if there’s any follow on thought re: the topic, i think EDM/dance music has probably served to make more-cyclical arrangements more popular. Tho… even that stuff? has its own formulae, with ‘buildups and drops’ and other structural cues that borrow from Pop arrangement
Crime: Juan gets his 2nd dui and a week later he’s now jose…rinse and repeat
2nd gen: Being low income they end up in “bad areas”and have children, who then
get into gangs.
ESL: Can’t go on forever (meaning a kid from 1st to 12th grade)
I worked at a currency exchange and met alot of illegals. have no problem with most.
I’ve met my share of illegals, too. Most were, what’s the phrase? Oh, yeah, “good people”.
I’ve also lived in communities with large embedded populations of illegals. Their neighborhoods are typically not neighborhoods you want anywhere near where you live. Its kind of a conundrum, for me, but I think it shows that you can’t evaluate immigration solely on an individual basis – people form communities, and if the communities they form aren’t copacetic, well . . . .
Its why I’m a high fence, wide gate guy. I struggle mightily, though, with how to run the gate to achieve its proper goal: making America a better place for Americans.
I do think culture plays a role, though. You do need some kind of common culture in a multiethnic society like this, and that’s the point at which I part company with more doctrinaire libertarians. Seems to me that immigration should be in cycles, slowing at times to allow for greater assimilation.
Many of these problems disappear with no welfare state.
best of luck w/ that.
are immigrants a net-positive
Doesn’t it depend on the immigrants? And the country they emigrate to?
Skimming the social/economic/intellectual cream from another country – highly likely to be a positive.
Taking in uneducated, low-skill people – maybe a positive, if your country has a shortage of low-skill laborers.
The economic impact is only part of the equation, in my mind. I’m also interested in assimilation. I want immigration to mean more Americans, not pockets of Americans balkanized with pockets of other countries/cultures.
we should welcome all comers no matter what, on principle, whether its for the good or not
Sorry, can’t go there. We should not welcome all comers if doing so makes this a worse country to live in.
I think that’s part of what he addresses.’
many of the arguments made by the Cato types, fwiw, rely on obscuring that sort of angle.
one of the few things that Welch ever rubbed me wrong about has been his persistent attempts to conflate immigration + refugee policy, and the mendacious claim that “less refugees” being taken in now is somehow unusual or remarkable.
they are hugely different topics; immigration being more of a ‘constant’, and refugees being something that by its very nature occurs in bursts.
Awww yeah – the spiritual sequel to Turbo Killer (Carpenter Brut) is getting closer. Blood Machines teaser.
Looks like it’s growing longer than the original 30 minutes and now has over 400 visual effects shots. Not bad for a garage project.
Titty Tuesday.
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/screen-shot-2016-09-12-at-12-22-50-pm.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600
http://www.urbasm.com/2013/07/babe-tribute-flbp/flbp-big-boobs-bikini-babes/
https://i.thechive.com/submission/59413cb219d14f3be24b8bd7
http://uberhumor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/did-your-nfl-team-lose-take-some-flbp-to-help-ease-your-pain-32-photos-10.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/7f/2e/4a/7f2e4a2d3a6a9f76f33a24ab7360494b–girl-photos-bikini-babes.jpg
http://uberhumor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/flbp-75.jpg
Right after Mammary Monday and before Whoppers Wednesday. Nice.
Respectfully submitted w/o comment .
A part of me wants to be part of that fiasco.
Only one small donation in 6 days. 🙁
“What A Fake ‘Female Orgasm’ Statistic Says About Gender Bias”
https://medium.com/the-establishment/what-a-fake-female-orgasm-statistic-says-about-gender-bias-591985f8d68c
What that article says about Medium’s editorial standards is they don’t exist.
Another successful bidder from Sloopy’s auction ?
“Psychic Tells Me I’m Pregnant (But I’m Trans…)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6dM-MKV-Ms
Too bad they blurred the psychic’s face because they didn’t want to expose her.
xhe shoulda ended it by flopping out xer’s t̶r̶e̶e̶-̶t̶r̶u̶n̶k̶ huge-clit and screamed “Yo! You just been punk’d bish!”
I’m good if nobody is exposed in an article about transing.
We’re having an herb drought here. I think I’ll need to venture to the H St. corridor (DC) and get a $50 pair of socks, with a “free gift” of weeeeeed.
Breaking the herb drought
And if that didn’t break the herb drought, try this
Idle curiosity – am I the only Glib who doesn’t get high? We’re definitely in the minority, at least.
Pot never did much for me. Now, cocaine on the other hand…..
Still illegal for me – maybe in a few years – don’t feel that I’m missing too much. Then again, I didn’t like beer until a couple years ago and I still haven’t tried too much in the way of liquor other than mixed drinks, so I’ve got some room to experiment.
Same here. Virginia, despite its rather rapid progification, is still a pretty draconian WOD state.
I use it for its sleep-inducing properties. I tried it in public exactly once. Never again.
I drink a glass of wine at dinner and vodka on evenings when I don’t have work the next day, but that’s it.
Besides underage drinking, the only illegal consumption I’ve done was an Adderall one time at Cedar Point to keep going all day.
Never got into pot in college because I thought I was going to end up working for the DoD and have to take a hair test.
No. The Mojeaux Household is dry and smoke-free. (Nurse: Do you…? Me: No no no no no no no not that either. Nurse: You’re boring. Me: Have you SEEN my rx list, bitch?)
No booze either? How do you survive the casual meaninglessness of existence?!?
I don’t know wtf this is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCq7f2jcbxU
it apparently has something to do with the fact that a DJ has been using a hand-puppet as a gimmick for 20 years, and suddenly people think its interesting now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieAJ4zn3K1I
by my “where does this fall between ‘not cool’ and ‘HOLY #@()*#$ DIE ANTWOORD VIDEO’”-scale, i give it ~ 1 out of 5 retarded-albino-children
am starting to grok that its maybe “every 10 years someone decides the French aren’t actually the worst at music on earth”… and one person/band gets nominated as “example of why french aren’t terrible”.
then we go a decade of not caring again.
Daft Punk sucks, but Die Antwoord is awesome.
You take that back!
ok, Die Antwoord sort of fell off w/ their last record
The one with “Alien”? Not their best, but given enough time, every band has so-so albums.
I’ve noticed a lot of puppets in music videos lately. Maybe he’s just trying to cash in on hipster cred for having done it decades ago. (Not that it was terribly original back then, either.)
One of my pet peeves is “Music videos which have long dramatic intros which have nothing to do w/ actual music”
on the other hand, this has got to be the most hilariously exaggerated example of that i’ve ever seen
Especially given that the “music” part just has the camera freeze on the tape-deck and never moves again afterward. its like mocking the very premise of those kinds of videos.
Me, too. With one exception.
How about this one?
Needs more Vaseline on the lens
I’m pretty sure that’s semen.
Hey! They read my Tweet on the Weather Channel!
https://ibb.co/eLaY1y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9kuNMdUq_0
C’mon, mang!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W75BJauz8oo
Admit it, you just want to take a warm shower with Simon Le Bon.
Um, yeah! For about 33 years now!
Is the B. A. for “Bad Attitude”, like B.A. Barraccas?
Justice WIllett’s mom’s obit. If you have followed Don Willett, you’ll know a lot about his mother. Seems like this obit must have been written by him.
Gun freaks? Just saw this in my feed. Another channel to subscribe to. Think I first heard of these in some old Heinlein or Niven short stories, but don’t recall which. Good stuff.
For the 1-2 AvGeeks up in here, Big Jet TV will be live from Farnborough tomorrow, ~9am Eastern U.S.
Razorfist on teh “OMG RUSSIA”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUoG4Tahd2
This video does not exist.
my bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUoG4Tahd24
Thank God. One of his best rants ever. Helps when the subject matter is this risible.
so, i’ve binged watched a bunch of “hunting down serial killers” type dramas in the last few weeks…. including re-watching the Mindhunter series, the Manhunt: Unabomber bit, Looming Tower (which isn’t really technically that, but its structured more or less like one, in that its like “Cops hunting down single perp (osama)”), and then last night, the movie Zodiac (2004) which i’d never actually seen
Anyone recommend any other movies/shows like that?
I was sort of miffed w/ Zodiac, esp given that it makes zero effort to actually resolve the stories of its main characters (ruffalo+ jake gylls). It just ‘ends’. I can’t believe that movie got positive reviews despite that.
Well, since there was no resolution to the Zodiac case in real life…..
ITS A MOVIE. MOVIES HAVE CHARACTERS AND PLOTS FOR A REASON. WE’RE EXPECTING MAIN CHARACTER (in zodiac case, the cartoonist) TO RESOLVE SOMETHING
i honestly begin to expect in beginning of 3rd act that the movie was going to end w/ some sort of “Sixth Sense” huge bomb-dropping reversal and insinuate that the cartoonist was the killer all along and he was feeding the paper all these letters because he was bored and wanted attention (it actually makes complete sense for most of the movie, which almost makes me suspect that the original plot actually tried something like that, but then quit because they couldn’t pull it off). You start to wonder why there’s never any mention of his first wife… and how the Zodiac murders/letters also (coincidentally) all stopped when he met the Chloe Svegny character and had a family again.
So you are saying it was Ted Cruz?
I’m not ruling him out as a suspect yet.
The Boston Strangler, with Tony Curtis as the killer.
For lighter fare, Robert Montgomery in The Mystery of Mr. X
thnks
I only made it 1/2 way through Zodiac because I was increasingly demoralized by the knowledge they wouldn’t find him.
Criminal Minds is ridiculous in its cheesiness, but it’ll give you a good bit of serial killer fun.
Best serial killer movie ever made? Bar none, Citizen X. It’s not really about a serial killer – he’s just the vehicle to tell a story of a man of principle working in a system completely without principle. It’s fucking amazing.
“‘I was increasingly demoralized by the knowledge they wouldn’t find him.”
I was like ITS THE FUCKING GUY FROM FARGO JUST SHOOT HIM but NOOOOOOOO “law” needs “evidence” (smdh)
I re-binged Mindhunter over the weekend. I’m surprised at how much I forgot from the first time around (watched it as soon as it originally came out so it’s been a 9-10 months). I can’t wait to see how they play out the BTK storyline.