Today, I got nothing. I haven’t slept more than 5 hours in 3 or 4 nights. Not really sure at this point. I haven’t started having any squiggles at the edge of my vision or auditory hallucinations yet, but the coffee isn’t doing it for me anymore. So if tomorrow’s links are gibberish, either I didn’t get any sleep or I’m just making less sense than usual. One day, one day, I will finish a project working steadily over the whole time. On that day, I will probably be terminated. Maybe the day after. Oh well, less than 3 weeks to deadline. Maybe tonight I’ll be too tired to worry about what didn’t get done.
Main page image courtesy of the super-awesome Hyperbole and a Half, who has not updated in years, but if you never read it, or haven’t read it in a while, is worth your time — and you will probably recognize some famous internet memes if you read much, because it is just that awesome.
Of all the horrible things that Net Neutrality has wrought, allowing the US to move from 12th to 6th fastest in speed at which racist, sexist filth can be downloaded over the interwebz has to be the worst!
Good news out of AZ, where the cops have really started adopting turning on their body cams — to record office trysts. You goddam moron. No matter WHY you are recording something, it is still evidence.
This Florida Man’s way to Heaven is definitely greased. “Authorities say a worker has died after falling into a vat of oil at a facility near Walt Disney World.”
Oh lawd. Elizabeth Warren launches “Accountable Capitalism” campaign. In which “Warren wants to create an Office of United States Corporations inside the Department of Commerce and require any corporation with revenue over $1 billion — only a few thousand companies, but a large share of overall employment and economic activity — to obtain a federal charter of corporate citizenship.” Which is not the school-days definition of fascism “government control over a corporate economy” by some magic handwaving. What in the everloving fuck? I guess that’s one way to pop the stock market bubble.
Here’s something from the Pogues for all you pogues.
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319 responses to “Wednesday Afternoon Links of Insomnia”
Fucking nighbors. They’ve skipped throwing their garbage in my can and now just drop the racid bags on the corner. This still leaves me vulnerable to citations which carry fines of $250-$500. I fucking hate people.
Put them in the next bag.
Trash day is Monday. Garbage at the curb between Tuedsay and Sunday is citable. They tossed the bag there on a wednesday. Where am I supposed to put it? In my house?
And if you mean the people, I can’t figure out who’s doing it, because it happens while I’m at work.
Open the trash look for anything with an address on it. Go place it on their porch.
As far as I can tell they only seem to saddle me with the rancid kitchen waste.
So, NY style pizza boxes?
ID them, throw their garbage in their front yard.
Get then arrested for trespass.
Of course, this is shit that the Albany police don’t care about.
Get a webcam, or a GoPro (older models are cheap and will work for this application). Place camera where it has a good view of trashcan and conceal camera. Charge them with illegal dumping, littering, trespass, whatever.
^^^^^
Yup.
UCS can’t recognize birds and you expect him to identify people based on camera footage?
The GoPro I own has about two hours of battery life, I’ll see if I can figure out how to get it to record while running off wall power, hopefully that’s just “plug it in and puch record”
If you can mount it to your wall, get a Ring or Arlo.
Arlo makes a great battery version too. I’m not as big a fan of Ring’s stick-cam, but they have the superior plug-in cameras.
They aren’t cheap, but it could be re-purposed for general home security afterwards.
Should last longer in time lapse mode. Anything from 1-4 pictures per second should work. Also, external battery packs.
Listen to this guy. You can go get a open-source security cam software package called zoneminder as well. I use zoneminder now after my home robbery 2 years ago, to enable any type of security camera to act as a motion detect camera.
I’m on a libertarian site and people are advocating turning the petty bureaucracy on people for being nuisances. Ignorant pieces of garbage, perhaps. Does not warrant interactions with law enforcement.
I mean, if UCS has to pistol whip a bitch, pistol whip a bitch. Take the law into his own hands. It’s at least honorable.
Gotta ID the asshole first to talk to them.
I had a totally thoughtful and rational explanation for why going for the throat first is a bad idea, then argued myself right out of it.
Spend your time figuring out how not to get caught and ask WebDom to delete these comments.
Someone is violating UCS’s property rights by dumping their trash on his property.
Find out who it is, then hire an assassin.
Claymore in the area where they drop the bag.
Actual serious suggestion: Scarecrow
Arguably, unless you’re an anarchist, enforcing laws like this is one of the legitimate purposes of a government even in a minarchist system. Also, pragmatically, siccing the fuzz on them is better from a not doing life in prison standpoint than, say, laying in ambush with a Remington 700 and blowing one of their legs off at the knee from a distance.
Unless I’m mistaken UCS is in the ‘Property Taxes are they worst Taxes ever’ camp. It would be a tad hypocritical of him to rely on the common government to protect his property rights when he isn’t willing to pay for such protection. Unless of course, he’s fine with enacting my and your labor to defend his land. Which, and I may be mistaken again, generally receives a ‘Fuck off, slaver!’ in these here parts.
He doesn’t pay property taxes?
As I said it is a ‘Tad’ Hypocritical, he pays it, but he claims it’s pure evil, until it comes into play for him, then its ‘Let’s use the violence inherent in the system’. This is assuming USC will take the advice given to him upthread if he handles it himself then more power to him.
He does pay the taxes. He thinks it’s immoral that he is forced to, at gun point, pay them. But he pays them.
I see zero merit in your “argument” at this time. But I girss you are some kind of Georgist trying to get in a cheap dig. So not surprised.
Yep, you got me, it was all a chance to get in a cheap dig. Not at all an expression of my firmly held belief that land, all land, is held by force, and that the people who benefit from that force backed ownership should pay for the cost of that protection, and that one should either defend ones’ lands autonomously or pay ‘taxes’ based on your holdings to a collective that enforces such claims. ( Note: I am not claiming that there is a better way or that “We” own all land or that private property is evil. I am pointing out that thinking one can own land at no cost to himself but then want the rest of us to recognize and bear the cost of defending that ownership is contradictory in its nature.) Nope not that at all, just a cheap dig, good catch, color me busted.
So you think land ownership should always come with taxes. But when those taxes are actually paid, you think services should not be sought when the ideologically impure have their property trespassed upon?
The issue is that the former is not really an option. Sure, you’re allowed to shoot intruders who are a physical threat, but if you used any kind of physical force on someone who was just putting garbage on your property, that would not be legally justified under the current legal system. Therefore, his only option is to inform the authorities, even if he’s morally opposed to this system where you pay property taxes in exchange for property protection.
So you think land ownership should always come with taxes.
You must have missed this part… defend ones’ lands autonomously or pay ‘taxes’
And I don’t have a problem with expecting services rendered for taxes paid, however, many (and I admit I don’t know if UCS falls into this categoy) anti-property tax folk seem to believe these services are unnecessary, which is why they don’t want to pay for them, so as I said, it is a ‘TAD’ hypocritical to suddenly expect them when it’s in their best interest and not merely an unrealized hypertechnical.
The issue is that the former is not really an option
Sure it is, lethal force is not the one and only way to defend one’s property, as others above stated find out who’s doing it and return the trash to their front porch, opened and strewn about. Or stand guard and hand out a beat down or two to the litterers. Get a junkyard dog, build a trash-resistance wall with viewports, there are always options.
He did pay taxes. So that negates your requirement that he defend his own land. By definition of “or”.
You seem like a tad bit of a hypocrite on this.
And I suppose Rand was hypocritical for taking her Social Security draws as well?
I’m not sure of the accounting at the time but if, as it is now, her money was long gone, stolen and used by the government that she abided, then yes she was a hypocrite for taking other peoples money simply because she allowed herself to be stolen from.
Even if you are an AnCap, I have no problem using a sevice you’ve already been forced to pay for, provided you’d have no qualms about doing it yourself.
Disagreeing with some facet of the petty bureaucracy doesn’t mean you are obligated to accept their punishments if someone else wrongfully dumps them on you.
UCS is going to get charged fines for this garbage on his property. But even if he found out who it was, there’s only so much he can do. I don’t think many jurisdictions would allow any kind of physical force to stop someone from putting garbage bags on your driveway. So what is he supposed to do? Keep paying fines? Or physically assault the perpetrator and end up in prison?
“Authorities say a worker has died after falling into a vat of oil at a facility near Walt Disney World.”
Nobody dies in Celebration.
I love how any news remotely near central Florida get “Disney World” in the title.
Now hit my mother-f’in Theme Mu……oh, nevermind
On a conference call, but the Pogues are always worthwhile.
I don’t know this band, but when I was in the Army, POGUE was an acronym, more or less synonymous with REMF.
Pogue mahone is Irish Gaelic for -kiss my arse.” The band’s name is a reference to that.
The Pogues were the first celtic punk band and have spawned many imitations, etc.
Hyperbole and a Half’s pain chart is worth looking up.
Found it:
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/02/boyfriend-doesnt-have-ebola-probably.html?_sm_au_=iVVpVpL6BHmmj7RR
Oh damn, I literally am crying with laughter. Thank you very much for that link.
I’ve never seen this site. Seems like she’s the female Oatmeal?
A little more narrative driven, but not a bad connection. I haven’t read him in years, either.
I’m sure antifa will be along presently to set her straight.
Sounds like a cross between Mussolini / Hitler style fascism and what the Chinese require these days. Did none of them ever take a real history course?
The problem is that folks like Warren understands history all to well and see it as an example of how shit should be ran.
“only a few thousand companies” – are you kidding? I anticipate a resurgence of private verus publicly-traded companies.
Somebody has finally figured out a job for the Commerce Department (other than patents). Can we know get rid of it and fire all 43,880 people employed there? (Keep the 9k at the Patent Office if you must)
Move patents back to interior.
But I want to fire them too!
Patents are mostly bullshit anyway.
“Authorities say a worker has died after falling into a vat of oil at a facility near Walt Disney World.”
And they said getting rid of trans-fats was healthy…
Shane MacGowan, worst teeth in music.
About damn time: President Trump Revokes John Brennan’s Security Clearance
Its always nice to see one of the Top. Men. get process as punishment. Oh, you want to peddle influence? Too bad you can’t legally have access to classified information any more.
This is what I don’t get about the Security Clearance bugaboo, Is SC a magic key to any and all secret info? Seems to me you would need a reason and SC to see secret stuff, Trumpsters act like having SC alone means you get to see anything you want, I can’t imagine that’s the case. These guys losing their positions effectively lost them their SC, so it seems odd to be either happy or mad that they are losing it, Seems like it should be a “Meh” at best.
I lost my clearance the day I was discharged. It took over a year to get it back when I re-enlisted in the national Guard, I know this because they held up my enlistment bonus until I was cleared.
Ya. Ditto.
Does the SC allow/facilitate government employees (or private) with SC’s to share information with Brennan? If so, and particularly if Brennan is obtaining information this way, I say “yeah” revoke it.
No, sharing classified info is a two part. Does the person hold the appropriate clearance to see the info and does the person have a need to know?
In the fight against Trump everyone has a need to know! /prog
Thanks for the explanation.
Supposably. If he wasn’t still employed by USGov, how could he ever have need to know?
So either this revocation did nothing, or it did something, and the something was good.
Exactly. Clearance is tied to a position. You can retain your eligibility for clearance after departing, which means that a full security investigation may not be required to reobtain a clearance.
Clearance is good for time in general (5 years or 10 years – but currently 6/11 based on backlog – which will hopefully improve as DoD starts handling their own vice OPM). My clearance didn’t expire because I separated from active duty – it’s a big deal for folks getting out or retiring who need it for a civilian job. You read out an NDA when you leave a command where you used it, and need to be read on at a new location – so basically – you should “Forget” anything you did at your last position – at least till you get to the next facility.
I’m going through the renewal process – 4th time (technically since I had to redo paperwork a few different times over the years not necessarily at the right expiration date process).
That’s what I used to think, but unless you move into another cleared position (I think its transfer of sponsorship), what you retain is the ability to be cleared for up to two years not an actual clearance.
Well if you weren’t in a position where you needed it, you would have zero need to know, but I still think it’s more technically than just “eligibility” since there’s no need to restart any application paperwork – just a couple forms and notifications.
From OPM, it’s administratively withdrawn, although it’s relatively easy to reinstate as you say. Certainly compared to the first time.
Now another question, which agency was/is sponsoring Brennan?
The guy is the former head of the CIA. Odds are almost 1 to 1 he has people still in the agency leaking to him. God only knows what side gigs he has where he is allowed to his previous connections and clearances to his advantage. So, it’s probably not just symbolic.
I believe I read that former CIA directors received the President’s Daily Brief as a courtesy. I’m not sure if stripping Brennan off security clearance is the same as removing him from the list of the PDB recipients.
Yes it’s pretty meaningless to remove his clearance. His position outside government makes him ineligible to access classified information.
I think it’s just a tactic to discredit him. Which is deserved. Every once in a while team red figures out how to play the game.
Now they can say he can’t be trusted because he lost his clearance.
Maybe he and Nellie Ohr can split HAM radio duties?
I still would really like to know what cleared position Brennan was holding.
Brennan was about to get the pee tapes, wasn’t he?
Clearances are a huge part of DC social standing. Trump is pretty much delivering a petty, but effective, “Go fuck yourself!” to his opposition.
I thought The Jungle was fiction?
I’m having a bit of a moral crisis today. I’ve been a Catholic all 46 of my years, but the results of the investigation in Pennsylvania has me seriously considering quitting the church. Maybe it’s colored by my libertarian disdain for authority (especially corrupt authority). Or it might be that last year, one of my kids was sexually assaulted at school and we had to fight the school administration to keep her attacker out of the school, and that’s still on my mind. Most of my fellow Catholics are nice and kind people, but I’m now aware of just how rotten the church is from the top down, and there is nothing that peons like me can do about it, except refuse to participate.
I’m so sorry to hear about your child being assaulted. I can’t think of many worse things. I wish I had some useful advice WRT the Catholic Church. Lots of good people involved, but there is clearly has a gigantic, long term, systemic problem.
I attended Catholic High School and have a lot of respect for many in that church… But never thought that a “celibate” priesthood was a healthy rule.
Prohibition never works. But almost everybody is in denial.
My grandmother was in her mid-70s when all the stuff came out about the NY arch-bishop knowing that some abuse had happened and covered up. She had been, since my grandfather died before I was born, the classic little old Irish widow. Went to church at least 5 times a week, was always lighting a candle and saying a prayer for someone. After all that came down, she said to me one time when I asked if she was still going to the same church, “I don’t need to go to mass to talk to God anymore.” I’ll fight St. Peter himself if I find out that kept her out of Heaven.
Your grandmother was awesome.
Would you want to belong to an after-life social club that excluded members based on their aversion to pedophilia?
No, but I’d want to deliver a good ass-kicking to its first member.
I do wonder how the guilty priests square their behavior with the Bible’s teachings on judgment and the after-life. I mean, when your holy book has passages where God says “‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me’” I’d think you’d want to steer clear of child abuse.
The sexual drive is more powerful than the drive for food and water so I’m pretty sure it can overcome abstract ideas like the afterlife.
It isnt just the Catholic Church. The other churches are the same but they dont get the publicity that the CC does.
Mainline Protestant churches used to hire straight married men (unless they were right out of seminary school). They had kids and were normal dudes. Not saying that none of them were ever perverts, but that lifestyle is a whole lot less prone to weirdos than the life-of-celibacy thing.
Now the mainline churches are obsessed with social justice and bleeding members.
Evangelical protestant churches still hire straight married men. Some of them are perverts, but probably less than in the general population.
You present compelling evidence.
Don’t make a hasty decision. If you think church bureaucracy is rotten, the leftist government school bureaucracy is way worse. In fact, it’s so bad they have to make sure the church rottenness gets the lion’s share of the news coverage so that people don’t look look at how bad the leftist alternatives are until its too late.
It is a terrible thing to deal with, and my daughter will have issues for the rest of her life because of it. That’s why the idea that so many in the Church covered up or even enabled the same thing makes me so sick. The only reason we know about it in Boston or in Pennsylvania is because that’s the only place anyone has looked so far. I have no doubt the same thing was going on everywhere.
See also, The Keepers on Netflix.
Do what I did. Except for Christmas and Easter, stop going until they improve.
I’m assuming you were wise enough to know the “improvements” they made since 2002 were pure bullshit?
Yup.
Screw Christmas and Easter. Go the week after Easter and once in August, if you are only going twice a year.
The week after Easter always has the best sales.
You can continue to attend, but withhold funding. Or better still give thaoney to SNAP or another group working for accountability and victim healing. I don’t know how legit SNAP is, but they are the only group I know about working on this issue.
And I’m sorry about your child.
Thanks. She is doing ok this year, but last summer was a huge legal battle that really sucked. We ended up with an order of protection and the judge siding with us.
I’m not Catholic so I’m uncomfortable offering an opinion. Sorry about your daughter; it sounds like you fought tooth and nail for her.
I left the catholic church for doctrinal reasons. Just my personal interpretation, but as I read it Jesus made it pretty clear that a church should even *have* a top from which there should be rot to flow on down. In spiritual matters, he came to die for our sins. But on the way to doing that, he made it pretty clear that the idea of a hierarchy needed to go because we were each and individually responsible for our own selves and the church community that we join (which is literally a single church, not a globe-spanning bureaucracy.)
The kiddy diddling and worse, the cover up, make me regret I couldn’t leave again.
Actually, kiddy diddling is a problem for any organization with kids. Cover-ups are not. In scouting, I know of one kid that was raped by his scoutmaster. You know what the BSA did? They disowned the bastard and helped out with the investigation.
I’m sure it is a big problem with other religions too. But I keep thinking that a smaller local church is going to have a harder time covering up something like this, and will be held more accountable. Another libertarian-ish thought I have is that I’m not in favor of sacrificing individuals for the good of a larger organization.
I can never figure out how/why scouters end up in one-on-one contact with scouts. Youth Protection Training works, it’s been around for at least forty years, and 1-on-1 ist verboten. How a violation of the first and holiest commandment in YPT can happen is beyond me.
Along that line, I learned about these rules from my scoutmaster in the seventies: he explained to me then we couldn’t be alone, even during some special situation or during a helpful ride share…it was plain as day and easy for a 12yo to digest. Fast forward 30 years and New Wife learns that I won’t let myself get trapped in a one-on-one/he-said-she-said situation anywhere; if a chick comes into the copier room, I leave, period….been doing this for decades before the Veep professed the same.
I never understood why he got mocked for that when, at the same time, #rapeculture was being screamed from the rooftops and #metoo was a sparkle in somebody’s eye.
I can never figure out how/why scouters end up in one-on-one contact with scouts.
One assumes that if they are sexual abusers, they manipulate the rules until everyone is used to them being broken, and then takes advantage of that. The rest of them are mostly fathers who don’t think about what could go wrong and are just trying to help a kid out.
This is exactly correct. YPT rules should be followed fastidiously and conspicuously. We make a big deal about following them even when its stupid. Every year, I email my families about the rules and tell them that they should expect no 1-on-1 contact between a scout and a leader under any situation. And that they should call out other parents that break this rule.
The time to prevent a problem is at the top of the slippery slope, not at the bottom. I don’t have any first hand experience, but I’m told by someone credible that potential abusers are more likely to be drawn to an org that has weak enforcement norms about these rules.
YPT is followed so religiously that I wasn’t allowed to drive my brother to a camping trip (I had work on Sunday afternoon and had to be back before we would have gotten back on the troop bus), but by that point I was 18, and even though I was not a scout master, the troop applied the rules to me.
Fast forward 30 years and New Wife learns that I won’t let myself get trapped in a one-on-one/he-said-she-said situation anywhere; if a chick comes into the copier room, I leave, period….been doing this for decades before the Veep professed the same.
I try my best to do this, too. Sometimes I have to meet 1 on 1 with a woman, but I try to avoid those interactions at all costs.
You know, this huge glass walls on every office that make it impossible to have any privacy have certainly gotten trendy in the last couple years, haven’t they?
And I’m the same way. If I must have a 1-on-1 with a woman, the door is open.
It’s one (possibly the only) advantage of the “open office” concept.
We have the glass walls, which is the one saving grace. I can’t leave the door open because I’m usually talking about highly confidential stuff.
He is a Republican.
If he’d been Hillary’s running mate, he would be a shining example to emulate.
Yes. Agreed. I’ve thought about looking at the local eastern orthodox church.
All of the US bishops, whether involved or not in this vile cover-up, must resign immediately.
I’m very sorry to hear about your daughter and your crisis of conscience.
“my libertarian disdain for authority”
The question for me is the correct size for any institution. We need scale for economy in expensive things (school?), but that very scale means there is administrative remoteness: overheads we pay to herd and enable the folks who do the actual thing that we need. This remoteness creates all kinds of mixed motives and reduces accountability: that way lieth disaster.
I don’t know what the correct size is for a school or a religious movement, but my instinct is to err to the smaller wherever reasonable.
Maybe, at the secondary and university level.
At the primary school level, I think economy of scale favors local/neighborhood. [standard libertarian disclaimer] If we had vouchers at something like the national average of 10k per student, you don’t think you and 24 other parents in your area couldnt find a room and a very good teacher for $250k?
I’ve already done this to some extent: I moved to an exclusive neighborhood with a nationally ranked albeit public school. My kid never was exposed to any real problems there except envy ( when the other dads are CEOs and NFL quarterbacks, the other kids drove nicer cars than I did ).
While not at that exclusive a level, we basically have too. We live 3 doors away from the local elementary that is … hey, its rating has changed. It was a 9/10 at Great Schools, now its an 8/10. I looked at why, and its because the Asian kids don’t read as good. Huh, wouldnt have expected that.
I wonder how the Bosnians are doing (the school is apparently 7% Asian, I am guessing the Bosnian percentage is about 10%)?
In this world, I would be a high-school teacher. Probably without a second’s thought.
“The question for me is the correct size for any institution. ”
I also question the correct lifetime for any institution.
That’s fucking awful. I don’t even know what to say about it. A parent’s nightmare for sure.
I am not a Catholic and do not go to any church. However, we have a family friend who is a priest. He has a doctorate of Canon Law, so he was involved with prosecuting pedo-priests back in the early aughts. He’s a really great guy, so if I lived in his city (Bay Area) I’d go to his church because I’ve been to his Mass a couple of times over the decade and he’s fantastic.
So I guess I’m saying don’t paint the entire Catholic church with a broad brush.
I think there’s a point where there’s such damning evidence about the leadership of an organization and institutional corruption that painting with a broad brush isn’t just appropriate, but necessary.
Brochettaward, that’s where I am right now. It feels like it did when I gave up on the major political parties. Sure, there are good people at the bottom, but the people at the top have all the power and will sacrifice as many of the little people as necessary to hold on to that power. The only protest I have is to walk away and hope others do the same.
Thousands sexually assaulted? And the cops helped the church avoid investigation and criminal charges? Would you, as a parent,
stand for the cops or your priest handwaving your kid’s complaint that Father Sean forced him to suck him off? I suppose some kids never told Mom and Dad or that Father Sean said they would go to Hell if they told on him, but surely there’s some sleazy cops involved in this scandal.
WTF is an administrative probe of another agency? Anything to avoid using the correct term “investigation”.
Also, that Megan Cassidy half way down the article? Wood.
I would read it, if AZCentral fixed their website so it doesn’t crash my browser. By my browser, I mean Explorer, Chrome, and even Safari. They suck.
Well, King of the Remedials Sad Beard loves Warren’s idiotically fascistic idea. So….make what you will of that.
I bough the Hyperbole and a Half book…it is fantastic bathroom reading. I hope she’s OK and doing well and stuff. I wish she would come back to the internets, but she’s gotta do her.
100% the same. I would love to give her some more money for new work.
Sludging through that Lizzy Warren article from a corporate lawyer perspective
You can start a corporation in most states like that. They’re called B-corps (Benefit Corporations). I think there’s been a grand total of one IPO out of a B-corp though, and there’s a reason for that: Investors generally expect a return on their investment.
Who decides what that standard is? (I know, I know, probably a rhetorical question). Would make running a corporation profitably a whole lot more difficult and narrow the pool of people willing to take the risk – after all, what if someone, somewhere, decides what you’re doing is “wrong” in whatever vague way? Would running, say, an oil company automatically qualify as bad?
Most share-based compensation is in the form of options, not straight stock grants. The options are, by rule, issued at an option price based on the stock price on the date they were issued. This is to give a material incentive to executives — do well for the company, the stock goes up, shareholders are happy, and as a result, you make more money. Otherwise they’re restricted stock units that are granted on the achievement of certain milestones. How are those restricted? Are they? Until a few years back we mostly did 5 year options (now 7). Would these rules make 5 year options impossible to exercise, except on the final day of exercisability?
Plus, I represent a small public company (~30 employees). Every employee receives a yearly stock option grant. Would only the C-suite not be able to exercise their options?
You think we have a pension crisis *now*, how bad would it get if stock prices fell by 25%? Or the people with investments in 401(k)/IRA accounts? You’re going to uniformly decrease everyone’s retirement savings and say “whatever, you’re going to make more money somehow, so it’s all good”.
So you’re going to put effectively a union rep on the Board of Directors. We’ll assume this is analogous to private companies where certain large investors have in their investment agreements an automatic board seat. Who decides who gets that Board seat here? Since these would be public companies, do the shareholders get a say, since shareholders vote on Board members, or do the workers get to put in whomever they want?
Ah, ok. Now I get it.
Everything is easy if you don’t know what the fuck you are talking about. This has all the hallmarks of being designed to rile up those who think restructuring the economy is easy.
Also, its economic fascism. Thanks for the rundown.
This. A room full of stoned sophomores who have never had a real job could have come up with this dreck.
2 or 3 stoned sophmores. At a roomfull, you probably get a libertarian asshole in there bringing up inconvienent facts.
“You think we have a pension crisis *now*, how bad would it get if stock prices fell by 25%?”
Once you realize people like Warren WANT failures and crises, you don’t have to ask the question anymore. It’s all about consolidation of power – these people are hoping to be in the same position of maniacal power Chavez and Maduro have been in. Their conceit always leads them to believe they will not have the same problems, even though they have zero examples of their ideas ever ending anywhere else.
I need a copy of the social contract I signed. I lost mine.
Same. I think I left it at my old place…a messy one-womb apartment.
Oh baby! That’s a good one!
I wish someone would cut the cord on these ridiculous puns.
I told my wife that there’s only one person who could make me pull the lever for Trump in 2020 and that’s Warren. The issue with Warren is that she reminds me of Ivy Starnes from Atlas Shrugged. She isn’t proposing these laws to help the poor, she’s proposing this shit because she wants power and control and believe that those who are successful without the government’s help should be destroyed.
That is a good analogy.
I wonder what this person thinks of so-called “public servants” who go on strike for higher pay. Is that not acting as someone “whose sole obligation is profitability”? Or is it different, because…reasons…
Also, JB, good points all in your dissecting of that mess. A little expansion on that post and you could submit it as a full fledged article.
It’s different because PubSec union money goes straight to the Democrat Party.
It’s just one more example of “progressive” doublethink: We’re told that Republicans can’t be trusted because they get donations from big corporations who have a financial interest in seeing those policies implemented, but we’re supposed to trust Democrats, who take donations from entities who would rake in massive profits from more Democrat policies.
Yes.
I mean, I’m not a corporate lawyer or a lawyer at all, but I’d have to think this is just blatantly unconstitutional and would be struck down by most not bat shit crazy prog judges. Definitely by the current Supreme Court.
Lol, if only. (see wickard v. filburn, for example)
It is almost like she is unaware that there are actual laws on the books compelling them to act this way
So you’re going to put effectively a union rep on the Board of Directors. We’ll assume this is analogous to private companies where certain large investors have in their investment agreements an automatic board seat.
Or analogous to public employee unions who bribe… uhhh… make campaign donations to the government officials with whom they collude…. uhhhh… negotiate with.
I’ve actually heard “progressives” refer to something like this being done in Germany. Of course, they love the idea and think it should be done here.
From the Net Neutrality article:
I think this means Pie gets to celebrate having the fastest connection to glib-post.
They probably measured Romania during the daytime when everyone but the Renfelds are asleep.
But if it comes from a US, server, max speed is what’s available in the US.
But wouldn’t max posting speed be determined by what’s available in the poster’s location? I’d think if you had faster upload speed, you could get your comments to the server first.
But wouldn’t max posting speed be determined by what’s available in the poster’s location? I’d think if you had faster upload speed, you could get your comments to the server first.
Two different speeds. Connection “speed” in the context of this study refer to throughput… The amount of data you can send across a link in a given time.
“Speed” of posting a comment (which is a really small amount of data) refers to latency… How long it takes a given piece of data to get to its destination. Latency is correlated to physical distance.
Like the server is in the US and not in some tax haven like the Caymans.
Omarosa is going for the throat now – Trump’s Coke problem.
His Diet Coke problem. No, I’m not making that up.
Hard hitting stuff there.
How much money did she get for selling that reputation that John Kelly was trying to keep intact? Was it enough to keep her housed and fed for the rest of her life?
Can’t fool me. That’s ripped from a teaser for an upcoming episode of Hat & Hair.
Fuck, that IS an episode of Hat & Hair. She’s been here. Paging, SF, sue that fucking bitch!
He can summon anything with that button
ANYTHING?
ANYTING.
The Hat denies all.
‘Oh, he’s just a whiny punk b—h.’
BS. That’s not how Trump talks.
This tweet is about a month old, so it might have already been discussed here, but LOL.
AKA The Day the DNC Realized the Bench was Empty
Is he making a fast and furious debut for the nomination?
Golf clap.
First Avenatti, now Holder – things are getting SERIOUS!
So the Democrats choices are between socialists and weasels?
History always repeating itself…
I’m sure a couple of idiots will come along and fill the third possibility
3rd possibility? Run of the mill Goblin?
https://goo.gl/images/ZNm1tt
Actually their choice is among socialist weasels.
You repeat yourself.
Must…learn…to…read…the…thread…first…
This isn’t a breaking news story. Not only has the fact that he’s considering a run been reported on, but someone considering something isn’t really news. This annoys me because I read this piece of shit article from the AP today. It’s closer editorializing. It’s asking a question few people are asking or care about. It quotes a few self-appointed leaders of the blacks (because they have a fucking hive mind). Then some bogus poll where 90% of black people think Trump is a racist.
Isn’t his approval with blacks close to 30% now?
Paycheck > politics. So long as he isn’t sending in the national guard to cause them grief, he gets a pass.
Reposting because schadenfreude
SEC sends subpoena to Tesla
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-drops-report-sec-subpoena-152046858.html
Sorry the tits are late; I was getting ripped a new one by my boss for blowing a deadline by accidentally putting it in my calendar wrong.
http://archive.is/KRsLh
I feel cheered up already.
Q: So are we done here, boss? I got stuff to do
Boss: Yeah. Get back to work
Q: Ok. If you need me, I’ll be posting titties
Glad I’m working at home today so people in our new open office can’t see me laughing.
I’m glad I’ve got two days PTO. It’s my weekend already.
The dressing-down was regarding the time you posted the titty link almost an hour late last week, wasn’t it?
Make your boss proud and engage in some self-flagellation?
Sorry the tits are late; I was getting ripped a new one by my boss for blowing…
Kinky.
“You mean ‘away,’ though, right? Because otherwise it sounds a little different.”
I stopped at 1.
“a nearly four-minute video showing Doran, then the agency’s second in command, wearing a uniform shirt with the Superior police insignia, but no pants or underwear.”
Do you think his girlfriend asked him to keep his uniform shirt on as a turnon?
Maybe. Or it could be some unfortunate woman “working” her way out of an arrest.
My guess is he has to have the uniform on to be able to get it up.
Jeebus.
Dafuq? Then why is it in a folder marked “fun times”??
Uh-huh. Right. I’m sure that would be the case for any “civilian” caught with the same shit.
You, buddy, are a piece of work.
The whole “naked child” thing caught my eye too. Since it’s his daughter and none of the images were prurient, I guess I’m willing to give the guy the benefit of a doubt; however, as you said, any other random joe off the street would be facing kiddie porn charges for that.
I read a story, it might even been from here, about a dad who snapped a pic of his kids playing in the tub and texted them to his wife to show her how much fun they were having, or something like that. Verizon apparently runs an algorithm that inspects every picture that goes out over their network. It was flagged, sent to the police, and the poor SOB was arrested and charged with child pornography.
I don’t remember how the case turned out.
I remember a case with similar details. Maybe it was the same one. Somewhere in the Midwest, I think?
Damn, I am fucking shot. Worked all day and then wife sent me a document draft she’s working on for my perusal. She’s writing her employee training plan proposal for the company she works for, to present to her boss. She’s a damn good writer and shows a lot of passion and professionalism for what she works on. The little problem is that English is not her first language. She’s getting really close, it’s really the cultural difference that still shows. One thing is that Brazilians come off as a little redundant compared to Murkins. Murkins do not have much patience for reading stuff like this and so you have to get to the point a lot quicker and keep the volume as low as possible while making your point. I spent 2 – 3 hours on that and sent her my draft back. I have to roll an update into production for one of my apps in a couple hours. Long fucking day, I’m about done already.
You didn’t offer to file it straight into the shred bin?
Kidding. I used to do procedure documentation when a former boss decided I didn’t have enough work to do, and volunteered me. In fairness, I really didn’t. One of the big motifs of overhauling our procedures was finding ways to mitigate paper waste. Instead, we ended up wasting reams of paper printing out instructions to give to everyone to put away in their desks and never consult again until the next iteration of procedures was published, whereupon the old copies were dumped and new copies printed for everyone…
I had to spend almost three hours today just putting together metrics about what work needs to be done. I could have had a huge chunk of that work done if I had that three hours back.
I’ve been really jaded about the whole “career” thing lately. I left factory work in 2015 for a somewhat professional career, and I’m starting to think that it may have been a bad move. I know that sometimes you have to build up experience before you can get a really good job, but so far it just seems like more stress. It has really made me angry at the people who just parrot the “go to college” advice.
I used to do a lot of freelance Internet marketing (SEO, affiliate marketing, etc.) and copywriting, and I’m thinking I may need to get back into that. It’s easier than ever to make money on a blog IF you have great content, and I think I could have a shot at that if I would just be able to focus on one topic. It’s just a matter of deciding.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ottawa-negotiating-to-create-new-statutory-holiday-marking-brutal/
So give white people a day off to commerorate white oppression?
Either that or fill it with struggle sessions.
From the URL, I’m guessing it will start with a parade of Zeds, followed by a ZARDOZ.
Sounds like the start of a new Purge series.
Great New Stuff from Sadbeard
Who told these morons that capitalism needs saving?
“she’s introducing a bill Wednesday, the Accountable Capitalism Act, that would redistribute trillions of dollars from rich executives and shareholders to the middle class — without costing a dime.”
LOL, this really is a parody isn’t it? I mean, it has to be, right?
Not taking is giving! Taking is also giving!
Bush? FDR?
Right now, you basically have a bunch of progs who are stuck in 2010 where they think this shit sells. Not 2018 when just removing their boots from the throat of capitalism has led to actual growth. Not the artificial kind just propped up by government spending.
https://youtu.be/WB6p5QPVhPI
Outstanding. Funny how the Democrats till this day still use the ‘It won’t cost you a dime’, they just leave out the ‘sign away your freedom’ part. I guess selling snake oil has evolved a lot.
Washington state considers a bold move in the carbon wars:
The kicker:
(emphasis added)
Gotta get that sweet, sweet graft. It’s a bit refreshing to see the mask drop on the carbon-scam. Do we have any Washington glibs who can weigh in on the likelihood of this passing?
“Unlike Initiative 1631, that proposal took a revenue-neutral approach, returning all money collected by the carbon fee directly to state residents.”
OK, let me see if I got this. You’re going to create a new tax to collect from state residents, but then you are going to turn right back around and return ALL of it, to the same people you took it from. And none of it is going to go missing, right? Good grief, I don’t even…
This doesn’t just reveal what a scam carbon taxes are. They reveal one of if not the fundamental problem with democracy. Someone came up with a scheme to punish one group of people (nebulously labelled “polluters”) and offered what amounts to a bribe or payoff to the voters to rubber stamp it. Then you have the opposition from the typical left wing groups who angry that they aren’t getting the cut they want.
A revenue-neutral carbon tax is one of those things that’s not objectionable on paper (if its is used to offset current revenues from other, more distortionary taxes), but it just neeeeeever quite seems to get written that way as a bill or prop.
Package a revenue neutral carbon tax and UBI constitutional amendment with clauses abolishing all other forms of taxes, transfers, and subsidies, and I’d be at the front of the line to advocate for it. The fact that these never end up being on the docket tells you everything you need to know about those proposing them.
But only if it is a constitutional amendment. If not, new taxes will be created before the ink has dried.
Correct, one Congress can’t really bind the next one short of a constitutional amendment.
ACA sez “Hi!”
Sure, and they should include words like “shall make no law” so people know they are serious.
“A revenue-neutral carbon tax is one of those things that’s not objectionable on paper ”
I find it objectionable on the fact that taxation is theft.
Even if I were to suspend some moral compunction to taxation on some reasonable costs grounds, the fact that measurement could not only NOT be precise, it couldn’t even be accurate actuarially speaking without forgoing shitloads of privacy is enough to call bullshit on any claim of neutrality.
Comrade, you are allowed to purchase only 10,000 calories per week unless you pay tax on the overage.
As opposed to the privacy-protecting system we have in place now where every applicant for a job needs to play mother-may-I to start work, needs to have a non-secret unique identifier that can’t get changed, and needs to report all income and major expense to the government? Yes, that is surely less objectionable than putting a sales tax on major sources of carbon.
The problem is that you are expecting politicians to create new taxes and entitlement programs while at the same time not wanting to increase taxes and spending.
No shit. That’s the point. If they cared about carbon in the atmosphere more than they cared about growing the leviathan, they’d take the half measure that reduces carbon in the atmosphere and leaves the leviathan pretty much the same size*. That would be actual compromise that makes both sides better off by their own lights, even if not perfect.
The fact that this isn’t an option demonstrates that the carbon tax (and UBI) are just motivated reasoning for another goal, not the actual motivation.
*Though tying revenue to a single substitute commodity may just be a cunning ploy to put a noose around Leviathan’s neck that won’t cinch tight for a generation or two. insert.image(innocent_whistling.jpg);
Hmmmmm.
Hopefully it does. Not because I hate people in Washington state, but it’ll serve as a nice laboratory for other carbon tax schemes that are floated around by supposedly smart people. Maybe they’ll stop advocating when it fails.
Meh, who am I kidding?
When has failure ever discouraged a bureaucrat? Failure is usually the prime motivation.
I can relate, Brett. I haven’t been able to get to sleep before 4am in weeks. I’m going to finish my last coffee before 6pm tonight, and go to Walgreens to get some melatonin (like a couple people here were discussing) tonight.
I get up at 4.
As a chronic insomniac I sympathize. If you haven’t already give the liquid melatonin a try, it seems to hit harder and last longer, particularly if you hold it under your tongue a minute or so before swallowing.
How do you expect us to say, “These euphemisms!” when you’re not using euphemisms?
I go double whammy if I absolutely have to fall asleep: Melatonin and a Benadryl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v7Bo_or7h0
At 51 seconds….I literally laughed out loud.
These people are another grade of ignorant.
You won’t laughing when you see this graph!
That chart is clearly racist. So are you. KYS.
I found this comment quite interesting:
Basically: TL;DR – Lefties are collectivists and perceive everything in the world through that lens. They cannot understand the diversity of individual preference and only want action through a grey goo of monolithic humanity.
Seems legit.
Perhaps a curmudgeonly translation, but definitely not wrong. The only thing missing in my opinion is proper scare quotes around “progress”.
I have enough experience in 50+ years of life to hold ALL organizations with suspicion. This is why I despise every idea that springs from a leftist – every one of their ideas requires an organization, almost always formalized – which 99.999999% of the time will expand its scope to expand its power which inevitably confers to the few elites in charge of the organization.
Despite contrary advertising, everyone is clear on the prime intention of a for-profit business – to make money for its owners. Most other organizations lie about their intentions – hence their need to signal their virtues.
There are several very strong woulds in there. Like, I don’t care how stupid everything coming out of your mouth is. I’d still let you sit on my face.
The girl in the pink top has small ones, but she knows how to present/highlight them.
I do need to revise my statement. There are two strong woulds and then one would of the if I were drinking enough why the fuck not variety (the friend who is on the thicc side of things).
Allie Brosh: would.
Also, what happened to her? I thought that blog was a hoot and, like Brett, hadn’t thought of it for quite a while. Seems like it went inactive for no apparent reason.
Maybe she was done expressing her best ideas and didn’t want her blog to become an embarrassing parody of itself.
Here’s a completely unrelated link.
“Accountable Capitalism Act, that would redistribute trillions of dollars from rich executives and shareholders to the middle class — without costing a dime.”
Nope, not a dime. Who believes this tripe?
The middle class, who own most of those shares, will absolutely get soaked. If they were to pass this, shares in companies that fit the criteria would tank immediately. She may as well call it the Fuck the American Economy Act.
Feature, not bug. Can’t institute Communism when Capitalism is succeeding; we have to tank the economy first, then UTOPIA!
It’s the damn Middle Class that is the enemy of the Socialist revolution. Of course we are the target.
To be fair, there won’t be any “dimes” left after she has completely destroyed the economy.
Accountable Capitalism Act, that would redistribute trillions of dollars from rich executives and shareholders…
The latter almost certainly see their investments “redistributed” (can’t we just say stolen by a gang of thieves?) away. The former, by no stretch of the imagination. In fact, it would do exactly the opposite. The pool of executives approved by the state would inevitably dwindle to a small collection of cronies whose largesse the survival everyone else will be dependent upon. If there’s a loving God in Heaven, He’ll see to it that Ms. Warren dies in a fire. Very slowly. And exceedingly painfully.
Warren is not a communist. She’s a con artist and a power seeker. This is a straight up play for money and power on her part. It’s like she has watched Hillary for years and said to herself “I can do it better”
That Hyperbole blog was funny.
Thanks.
And I can relate being an undiagnosed ADHD muppet.
This cake thing is really looking pretty malicious. https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/colorado-civil-rights-commission-jack-phillips-case/
It looks like it’s just one person (maybe in collusion with the civil rights commission) making multiple obviously bad-faith trolling demands.
Touched on this in Morning Lynx. I say it’s time to go on the attack. He’s got a Supreme Court victory in his pocket and pro-bono legal representation, start suing the fuck out of these assholes.
At what point is the Commission pretty much defying a Supreme Court decision?
Well, conveniently enough, the court didn’t apply any proactive protection for Phillips, they just said that the case already against him was tainted and needed to stop. Nothing the SC did even suggested that this kind of thing was out of bounds.
He filed suit against the state.
Pocahontas going after the big chiefs.
DON’T ENCOURAGE HIM.
Funny, I just turned on Fox News for the first time in years and heard Jeanine Pirro say ‘Trump is loyal but sometimes he makes bad mistakes, like hiring Jeff Sessions, probably the worst mistake he has ever made’. Well, she stole that from me and I never thought that woman would ever say anything I agree with to that extent, I basically cannot stand her.
So. You would? Is that what you’re saying between the lines?
That’s how I read it.
I know I would. I would imagine she’s a cross between a jack rabbit and a praying mantis in the sack.
Nietzsche something true man something dangerous game something women.
I’d be more than happy to let her take the lead.
You misspelled load
Damn your nimble fingers.
Jeez. Good Line.
I’d be a little afraid she’d whip out a penis to be honest.
Will Dems fete Sessions after Trump fires him like they did Kingmaker Comey?
I would certainly think so…
Simple answer. If Hitler arises from the dead right now and say he has the pee tapes, he will immediately become a hero of the resistance.
Let’s look at the list of resistance heroes so far:
Comey
Mueller
Maxine Waters
Stormy
John McCain
Lindsey Graham
Tom Arnold
Omarosa
Think they are choosey?
After someone is declared savior of the week, the comments go like this:
‘[insert new hero name] is a total badass! Trumpamze is going down!’
They’re like windup toys.
It’s just incredible the about-face they did with Comey within the span of a year. He was a crooked hack for even having the temerity to investigate Clinton on clearly trumped-up charges… then he exonerates her, and he’s an honest career bureaucrat, a civil servant through and through… then, when his hand was forced by the NY office and he announces reopening the investigation, he’s vilified as a cynical Republican partisan, a scoundrel who doesn’t abide by the unwritten rules of electoral decorum where the FBI is concerned… and when she loses, they’re ready to hang him… and when he’s fired, they instantly canonize him as the patron saint of investigative probity. It’s just phenomenal.
Given that her ideology, best as I can tell, aligns very closely with Sessions’, I’d say when you’ve lost her, you’re off the reservation.
Yeah, she’s a neocon law and order type. With a man’s voice. She has nice legs, but like I said, she’s high up on the list of ‘might whip out a penis on you’.
After straws, balloons get more scrutiny
While I can see concerns about releasing balloons into the air willy-nilly, as that is tantamount to littering, banning them entirely is ridiculous. The hard left has really become the foes of fun.
Here kids, play with these blunt sticks, don’t poke your eye out.
*dejected kid, looks at stick* ‘But mom, this is a stupid stick, this sucks! I want balloons and…’
Sorry honey, you’ll kill Gaia, don’t poke your eye out and make sure to put your stick in the recycle bin.
/progs making life more fun as always
Become?
How is that social liberalism going?
They’re liberal with your money. That’s how it’s going.
Recreation itself is a waste of carbon.
It’s not the best use of our biological resources.
Waiting for them to boycott National Geographic and other magazines that make tourism to pristine and wild places look like fun.
The cold, colorless, soul crushing world that was the USSR, East Europe, and E Germany is what they want. It takes more than useful idiots, everything that gives hope must be crushed.
OK this made my day.
https://twitter.com/WholesomeMeme/status/1029714518295961601
Got his priorities straight.
Not only is it Telework Eve, it’s also Shooting Range Eve! YAS! Pew! Pew! Pew!
Whatcha shooting? I’m taking Friday afternoon off to pu my new toy and get in some range time with it:)
Prolly the H&K VP9 again
Sweet:)
What’s yer new toy?
1911:)
https://www.vanceoutdoors.com/products2.cfm/ID/74961/px9105mlp/springfield-1911-loaded-mc-operator-45acp-od-green-armory-kote
I was just down at elite last weekend! Nice place! I love the fact that I can shoot the pistols and the big guns on the same lane.
Awesome! Let’s think about a meetup fallish?
Agreed. Fun will be had!
Pew pew pew…
You were a fan of Sue, right?
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/14/abcs-middle-spinoff-centering-on-daughter-sue-heck-gets-green-light.html
OMG! I love, love, love Sue Heck!!
Probably already discussed here, but I only just heard of it.
Blowing out my diet on all this popcorn.
Maybe Trump should have checked with his buddy, Slick Willy.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/omarosa-fired-from-clinton-white-house/
Trump has a penchant for trashy women of all kinds it seems.
How the frick is she getting these WH jobs? She sounds like a real true blue loser and utter trouble.
I would venture that Omarosa has a certain appeal to men like Trump and Clinton. She’s a bullshit artist, much like they are.
And dat ass too!
In Trump’s case, it was because she said great things about him. You want a job in the Trump administration? start saying how great Trumps is.
MasterCard threatens Patreon into dropping Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch even though there was no violation of terms of service:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/08/patreon-and-mastercard-ban-robert-spencer-without-explanation
Who’s next?
I fucking hate them for making me support a twat like Spencer.
Ah shit, that’s Robert, not Richard
I honestly don’t know too much about him but I wouldn’t support these kinds of moves against the CPUSA.
For the love of fucking God.
In before we’re shut down.
Brett L.: Try an amino acid supplement known as L-Theanine. Typical dose before bed is 125mg (approx. one capsule from most manufacturers). It’s one of a growing class of compounds that are considered nootropics. L-Theanine enhances mental calmness and helps prevent “gerbil brain” (my wife’s term) that keeps spinning spinning spinning when you’re trying to get some sleep. I take double the standard dose, and it works like a hot damn for me. My wife takes it as well. We’ve been using it for several years, and other than the second head I’m growing, I haven’t noticed any untoward side effects. 😉 I also occasionally use melatonin, but the theanine seems to specialize in helping a person to not obsess overs tuff when they’re trying to get to sleep.
On the flip side, I do not recommend 5-HTP — it does help some people, but others get rather severe stomach/abdominal pain from it. Hot, stabby pain. 🙁
5 HTP can cause the same heart valve fibrosis phenfen caused. Don’t take it for anything.
5-HTP turns into serotonin outside your brain. And serotonin can’t cross the blood/brain barrier. What does work is taking l-tryptophan with the right precursors.
Turkey and wine!
I found not drinking coffee after 2pm made all the difference in the world. After that? I was up until 2am.
Thats good to know. What about when I want Gerbil brain. St johns Wort isn’t doing it for me anymore.
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
That shit is expensive. And habit forming.
Random question – probably for Gbob, etc – since I haven’t sold comics on ebay for years – and those were all issues I had bought new in college and could confirm quality.
I’m slowly working my way through one of my old shortboxtober boxes from last year – this one is all weird, random indie books. I’ve come across a few that I definitely plan on holding on to and a stack I’ll dump – although, looking at the titles on milehighcomics.com and other sites, some of them are actually potentially quite valuable (one bagged/sealed with a chrome card inside a normal bag/board). As I don’t have any convenient/realistic way to actually grade them myself, what would be the recommended format for listing them on ebay (probably in batches). Just some standard photos or something more specific? They were all bagged at the time I bought them – probably for at least 15-20 years in most cases (per the stickers, they transferred between a few different shops/collections over the years without finding a home). I’m guessing the condition is fairly good for the age, but I’m no kind of expert with this kinda thing.