This was a pretty big sports weekend, so if I re-post a news link, I apologize in advance for not even paying attention to what was going on in the rest of the world. I mean, I wanted Djoker to win…and he did. I didn’t want Serena to win, and she not only lost but did so in a way that should forever taint her legacy as much as the incident against Clijsters some years ago. Of course, she’s playing the victim card and many of the usual suspects from the media are lapping it up. But most commentators and former players/officials from the rest of the world are calling it for what it was: a pathetic attempt to avoid responsibility. Congratulations to Osaka though. She remained graceful in the face of Serena’s idiocy during the match and her selfish grandstanding afterward.
Elsewhere, Ohio State annihilated another opponent and are ready to head to DFW this week, where I will coincidentally be as well on Saturday at gametime. Huh, I guess I may as well attend. ASU (shout out here to Banjos and family) beat MSU sometime Sunday morning. Stanford easily handled USC, Mississippi State looks to be for real, TTUN had a WR catch a TD pass for the first time in over a year, Clemson won in College Station, Va Tech needs people to start paying attention to them, and the other usually suspects took care of business, although Notre Dame struggled with Ball State.
The NFL kicked off the season. I tuned out last night after Rodgers was carried off on a cart…only to find out that was a mistake.So his Packers won, as did: the Ben-gals, Dolphins, Vikings, Patriots, Buccaneers, Jaguars, Ravens, Chiefs, Broncos, Redskins and Panthers. The Steelers and Browns played to a well-deserved tie…meaning they both sucked.
The birthday roster is so weak, that Rin Tin Tin gets mentioned. That son of a bitch shares it with the late, great Arnold Palmer, eccentric designer Karl Lagerfeld, baseball player* Roger Maris, singer Danny Hutton, rocker Barriemore Barlow, hypocrite Bill O’Reilly, guitarist Joe Perry, rocker Johnny Fingers, under-appreciated writer/director Chris Columbus, actor Colin Firth, and film director (and probably carrier of countless strains of VD based on who he married) Guy Ritchie.
September 10th is also the date on which the following historical things happened: John Smith was elected president of Jamestown Colony council, Simon Bolivar was named Presidente of Peru, a London cab driver became the first person ever fined for drunk driving (1894), Leopold and Loeb were convicted for murder, Neal Diamond hit the Top 40 for the first time, Ali beat Norton, and Alex Trebek hosted his first episode of Jeopardy!
OK, now you get to…the links!
That Dallas, TX cop who shot someone in her apartment building after she claimed she mistook his apartment for hers has been charged with manslaughter. Its also been revealed that she is a member of the “elite” crime response team and that she shot someone else a year ago…after she let him take her taser.
Hurricane Florence is heading toward the Carolinas. I’m still thinking it will veer north just enough to miss the mid-atlantic and hit New England. But we’ll have to wait a couple more days to know. Wherever it hits, stay safe and evacuate if you can.
Oh look, another media bigwig has been exposed as a piece of shit. The embattled Moonves now has six accusers and a host of other complaints about sketchy behavior, which was an open secret tolerated by the profession for some time.
“Move along. There’s nothing to see here.” The facts are just a series of coincidences and do not indicate a pattern at all, right?
You think your local government bureaucracy is a mess? Check out this shitshow in the San Francisco area.
And if you thought your local government bureaucracy was corrupt, then take solace in the fact that they’re probably not as corrupt as this Catholic diocese. I sincerely don’t understand how these people can do what they’ve done to protect their “brand” rather than the children of their flock.
Nice apology, but no matter now as the damage has already been done and the narrative set. Nice job, deep state. You did what you were supposed to do: undermine every politically-motivated organization you disliked to create unrest.
And Sweden faces an interesting political future after neither side reach a majority in latest elections. Gee, maybe have a separate but equal government setup for legislative and executive functions and avoid these kinds of things.
Anyway, here’s a little tune to start the day. Enjoy.
Now go out there and have a great day!
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Guy Itchy?
First!
::golf clap::
I sincerely don’t understand how these people can do what they’ve done to protect their “brand” rather than the children of their flock.
I’d say they’ve largely failed on protecting their brand as well. The public response to a practically never-ending series of abuse scandals over the last 20 years has largely been “Get fucked”.
It seems there are two ways that an institution can get respect:
1) Act in a respectable manor
2) Use social power to demand respect
Lots of people picking option 2 and completely ignoring option 1 these days.
Know what’s not happening? Featured Image.
Now you put one in, just to fuck with me.
He does that – add the featured images after putting up the lynx. Half the time I never see what it is, because I don’t wander back to the front page until the next article might drop.
*or just sit on the ‘new comments’ page
Patience, man.
Dude, I’m a premature ejaculator.
How long have you been waiting to pull that one out? HiYo!
Not very long, obviously.
It was worth the wait. That picture from Tommy Boy is great.
“Now you put one in, just to fuck with me.”
That’s typically how it works… :Ducks:
That’s crazy talk! No country could operate like that.
More seriously, the part I never liked about these systems is the “vote for party and party picks the officials” stage. I have a soft spart for the ‘Primary upset’ of the party’s picks. Even when it delivered the comedic stylings of a Karla Marx.
Feds have admitted they misunderstood text messages they previously used to claim that accused Russian spy Maria Butina offered sex for access to political figures.
“Misunderstood.”
Har de fucking har.
“misunderstood”, “lied about”; tomayto, tomahto.
They misunderestimated her.
She got lawyers : stomps feet: that aren’t supposed to have lawyers!!! /Government
Curious question: what usually determines if a foreign spy is prosecuted or just expulsed from the country? I’ve read in the past spies being sent home, usually those who are parts of diplomatic missions. Is it just those tires to an ambassador?
Being PNG’d only happens to government officials. When someone doesn’t have a diplomatic cover, they’re prosecuted and/or expelled via the INS. When they do have diplomatic cover, they’re expelled by the State Dept.
That makes sense. Thanks.
She sent texts talking about a pizza party?
https://youtu.be/HPtbyOOdMcQ
I have a question for Glibs more familiar with processing game. What is the ratio of the live weight of an animal to the number of people it can feed after being processed?
Context – in the current book, an army on the march is running low on provisions, and I’m trying to figure out how much of an impact taking down a beast will have on their food supply, and if they’ll still be forced to eat some of their horses. To do that, I sort of need an estimate of how much food they can cut out of the carcass (so, probably including edible organs in that estimate).
It varies widely from species to species.
A few common values would still help get an idea of how many horses get spared.
Meat Yields (In Pounds)
Animal Weight* Meat Waste %Meat
Lamb** 50 40 10 80%
Hog 240 189 51 79%
Black Angus 600 438 162 73%
Holstein Steer 900 513 387 57%
Mature Buck 180 72 108 40%
Thank you.
I’d do the math around calorie consumption, and then take a comparable creature and find how many calories are in a lb of their meat.
For cows:
“which for fed beef is usually around 62-64%. In other words, from a 1200 pound steer, you can expect a 740 – 770 pound carcass.”
Depends on what shape the troops are in. Skinny or plumpers? Depends on the weather, the terrain, the morale etc…
A big rat can feed a person for a day.
Give a man a rat, feed him for a day. How does the rest go?
“Teach a man to catch rats, he can become the mayor of New York.”
Lol
Thank you, people.
Not related to butchering, but premodern army logistics is Donald Engles’ Logistics of the Macedonian Army. Something like that anyway. Quick read and should give you a good idea of how much food an army on the march will need and how much they can carry before needing every pack animal on the planet.
How do you get a Bears fan to stop masturbating?
Paint his dick green and gold, then he’ll never beat it.
Not having watched the entire game… I can only assume that in the fourth quarter, while in the pistol formation, Aaron Rodgers pulled out a pistol and shot Mack to stop his pass rush.
We left Minneapolis at 6am to get back in time for *my* game, Ravens-Bills. I enjoyed every minute of it.
SP, who is a Packers fan, was pretty glum at halftime. She got the last laugh.
Just like Mack playing with the Raiders, he kinda disappeared in the 2nd half.
Unfortunately or fortunately, I’m going to miss my Vikings play the Packers next week as I’ll be on the road. I’m sure the Blue Ridge Parkway will be less stressful assuming the storm doesn’t venture over to the Asheville area.
If you take it as far north as Roanoke, be sure to stop by the Texas Tavern. I miss that place.
We’ll probably just go as far as Mt. Mitchell as we’re on a bit of a tight schedule. I’ll keep that in mind for our next trip though!
BTW, thanks for always posting the sportsball stuff in the links. I don’t really have any interest in sports ( I vaguely pay attention to FAMU/FSU stuff because college and Orioles because wifey’s cousin is one of their pitchers) but I learn enough here that I may better conceal my nihilistic apathy (apathetic nihilism?) from my coworkers and in-laws with sporty banter.
LOL – western NC is in the flooding bulleye.
Also, for next week: https://giphy.com/gifs/3sLw1HqpVv3z2
Though never charged with sexually abusing kids, McCaffrey admitted during the court case that he had molested so many he couldn’t remember the exact number.
Exact number=eternity. Enjoy.
“Unfortunately, one of the key parishioners . . . received an anonymous phone call which made reference by name to Vince and alleged misconduct on his part with young boys,” the Rev. Raymond Goedert wrote to then-Cardinal Joseph Bernardin.
The unfortunate part is that someone outside the group heard about this disgusting activity going on? That’s the unfortunate part?!?
continuing…
“We all agreed that the best thing would be for Vince to move,” Goedert wrote, according to documents released as part of a court settlement. “We don’t know if the anonymous caller will strike again.”
Move the child molester along to somewhere else and hope that word does not continue to spread. As long as the brand stays safe man.
Millstones for the lot of ’em.
It’s all political at this point. If it weren’t commie pope on line, the same people explaining away the cover up would be calling for heads to roll. It’s absolutely gross. Pervert or protector of pervert. You gotta go.
“The man was chased by 20 petanque players and pelted with metal balls, several of which hit him in the head”
Huh. It’s like people feel like they have a right to self defense. The French need to jump on that, and ban metal balls.
I didn’t know anyone in France had balls of any type.
::loud guffaw::
“In addition to reporting hate crime, please report non-crime hate incidents, which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing. Hate will not be tolerated in South Yorkshire. Report it and put a stop to it”
“I would like to report South Yorkshire for hate comments against free expression and western civilization.”
If the incident is a non-crime, and therefore there are no attending consequences, then what good exactly would it do to report it?
No kidding. Are they going to put that info in your permanent file?
And then root around until they dredge up something to prosecute you on.
Being the UK, there are a bevy of bullshit ‘crimes’ they can use above and beyond the three felonies a day here.
Fine. Sign language it is.
South Yorkshire is full of morons and trollops and has a lower average IQ than a rock garden.
This is even more fun
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1039191159346737153
“Mississippi State looks to be for real”
I was at the game… Cheering for the losers. Miss St. is a big team. If their QB can improve his accuracy they will be a tough team to beat.
Also PSA for Mississippi the civil war ended a long time ago, get over it. Can’t count how many times I heard the “northern war of aggression” casually mentioned.
That was Ali – Norton II – Ali won by a split decision. My favorite fight ever was Ali – Norton I. After the fight Ali had nothing to say for once – because Norton had done the world a big favor and broke his jaw.
Got a great bout coming up next week. Canelo vs GGG. First one ended in a draw (GGG won, IMHO). Should be another great fight.
Sperm Count Zero
It’s the soy!
Oh no, I think Alex Jones was right.
“so much so that within a generation we may lose the ability to reproduce entirely. ”
Looks at three kids. Nope, doesn’t seem to be an issue here.
It picks up if you stick it in crazy…or Puerto Rican
When did you meet a sane Puerto Rican woman?
My thoughts, you stole them.
All latin womenz are batshit crazy…
The last known man to have a productive sperm count, is going to live one hell of a life.
Unless he’s gay.
Sounds like a twilight zone plot
Or my favorite episode of Sliders.
Or the plot of “Twilight”.
They will milk his ass in a lab and hold him as a prisoner, because that is more efficient/effective than letting him pound it out…
I don’t think that is where it comes out.
They will use a contraption that is as painful and degrading as possible to achieve that goal, so regardless of where it comes out, he is going to be taking it in the ass…
Yup, the most numerous mammal on the planet is going to go extinct. It’s definitely time to panic.
The animals with the least of a chance to go extinct all are the ones that humans eat. maybe long pig should also become something we eat?
/Dahmler
Fucking neurotypicals– I hate ’em.
In addition to schools poorly designed for non-neurotypicals, our society traditionally has had scant tolerance or compassion for anyone lacking social skills or perceived as not “normal.” Temple Grandin, the animal welfare advocate who is herself somewhere on the spectrum, contends that Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Mozart, and Nikola Tesla would have been diagnosed on the “autistic spectrum” if they were alive today. She also believes that autism has long contributed to human development and that “without autism traits we might still be living in caves.” She is a prominent spokesperson for the neurodiversity movement, which argues that neurological differences must be respected in the same way that diversity of gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation is.
Despite challenges with some of the things that neurotypicals find easy, people with Asperger’s and other forms of autism often have unusual abilities. For example, the Israeli Defense Force’s Special Intelligence Unit 9900, which focuses on analyzing aerial and satellite imagery, is partially staffed with people on the autism spectrum who have a preternatural ability to spot patterns. I believe at least some of Silicon Valley’s phenomenal success is because its culture places little value on conventional social and corporate values that prize age-based experience and conformity that dominates most of society and most institutions on the East Coast. It celebrates nerdy, awkward youth and has turned their super-human, “abnormal” powers into a money-making machine that is the envy of the world. (This new culture is wonderfully inclusive from a neurodiversity perspective but white-dude centric and problematic from a gender and race perspective.)
No shit, Sherlock; we should treat people as individuals. Sometimes somebody will express an idea which I pretty much completely agree with; I *should* find its unobjectionable and sensible, and yet they will manage to express it in such a way as to make me want to object in the most strenuous way possible.
Yes, the system of public eduction as it has evolved sucks. It is designed to serve the interests of everyone but the students first, and only those students in the bulbous middle of the bell curve, at that. You know; teachers like the the easy, compliant students who sit still and do as they say.
But this guy suffers from such a compulsion to dress his thesis up in the frilly frock of modern social justice theory that he makes want to dismiss the whole thing as noxious twaddle and root for the bad guys.
cries more of an epidemic of overdiagnosis than anything else.
Diseases that are measure on a spectrum are not real diseases. Change my mind.
Don’t tell me what to do.
Autism is definitely a real disorder. I think there’s a technical difference between disorder and disease. I do get annoyed by the classification of pretty much normal people who might lack social skills, as soon the spectrum. It tries to shift away the agency, and it is used to classify those who are different as having some defect, rather than just being different.
I do believe there are such things as mental disorders, I just don’t think the disease terminology is appropriate, and even as disorders the diagnostic criteria for probably the majority of recognized psychological maladies are so overly broad as to be virtually useless.
That’s just stupid. Most disorders are on a spectrum. Sleep apnea is on a spectrum, and its causes by a flap of flesh that doesn’t work properly. Joint pain is on a spectrum – haven’t you ever seen the Wong-Baker faces at the doctor?
I have a feeling you are giving a person definition to the word disease, and then assuming that it is a universal operational definition. But the there is no universal definition for disease, and thus there is no reason to exclude dysfunctions that are on a spectrum from that definition.
It’s not really stupid if you desire some form of clarity and distinction between different types of malfunction of the human body. When pathology devolves entirely into the realm of subjectivity it becomes less useful, IMO. Pain is subjective. Obviously to the extent we can measure it, it has to be on a spectrum. Pain in and of itself is usually not referenced as a discrete disease though; it’s usually a symptom.
Most disorders of the mind that are not caused by physiological dysfunction of the brain are bound to fall on a spectrum for the same reason, and that’s where I question the utility of pathologizing emotions and behaviors in the same manner, or at least with the same language, as physiological dysfunction.
When you say you “question the utility of pathologizing emotions and behaviors in the same manner,” what, precisely, do you mean?
Because in my personal experience as a lay-person involved in a number of children’s activities, the ability to categorize common dysfunctions of behavior and to apply coping strategies that have been developed to target those dysfunctions has been incredibly valuable.
For example, when I work with boys on the autism spectrum, I have operationalized and gamified social interactions. Which is a trick I learned from asking other lay-people how they deal with boys on the autism spectrum. When I work with children with anxiety issues, I’ve used CBT-style Socratic dialog about the source of their anxiety when its irrational and and frank, direct discussions about their anxiety when it is more rational or less severe. Which is a technique I picked up from reading about how to deal with kids with anxiety.
I was only able to find resources for these precisely because we, as a society, use the syntax of spectrum and dysfunction to describe these common features of behavior (and also because there are common mechanisms that produce the common features of behavior).
So yes, there is great utility in this for me. Where do you see the disutility?
Do an article!
I may. Let me think about it and gather my thoughts. There’s a lot to this topic and I wouldn’t want to fuck up my advice. For obvious reasons.
You’ll have to abide yourself with a different topic in… about 1 minute.
I would think that the strategies you have deployed when dealing with various children with various degrees of various different behavioral challenges would be more or less the same regardless of whether they fit the APA diagnostic criteria for one or more particular psychological disorders, and that’s where I question the utility of the pathological approach vis-a-vis behaviors and states of mind. Diagnostic replicability is another reason. You could take the same child (or adult) with a given set of behavioral or emotional challenges to 5 different psychologists or psychiatrists and you would be substantially more likely to receive different diagnoses than you would if you visited 5 different physicians for diagnosis of a physiological abnormality. That’s not because mental health professionals are incompetent, but because there can be so much diagnostic overlap in the DSM definitions for various disorders. Whether the child in your care has a clinical diagnosis of ADHD, ADD, or ODD, or whether his parent says to you “I don’t know, he’s just really bratty”, it probably makes little material difference in the strategies you use to handle their behavioral problems. Whereas the difference between, say, a broken ankle and a sprained ankle is both distinct and of very high relevance as it regards treatment.
By way of example, a close family friend has been in and out of inpatient and outpatient programs for most of his adult life and been diagnosed variously, at different stages and by different practitioners, with borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and schizoaffective disorder, and been treated variously with SSRI/SNRI drugs, MAOI drugs, anti-psychotic drugs, anxiolytic drugs, group therapy, individual therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and electroconvulsive therapy. It’s entirely possible he might be the single most psychologically disordered person in the history of humanity, and each diagnosis and treatment he received was perfectly appropriate to his changing mental pathology at any given point in time. Or possibly there is an excess of diagnostic ambiguity in the field.
FWIW, as I said, i don’t deny the existence of psychological disorders. In fact, I’m quite confident I meet the diagnostic criteria for at least a couple, and if I could afford it, I would probably look into therapeutic approaches to resolve at least one of them. But I do question how useful a psychological diagnosis is in terms of resolving the problem, or even identifying it.
Sounds like your friend has extensive, comoribid problems and is on the right hand tail of the distribution. I would fully expect that to be a problem.
But as a way to coordinate accommodations and care for people nearly the mean or left side of the distribution, people that never-the-less have satisfaction-inhibiting dysfunction, a shared syntax and response structure has provided me with more tools and more understanding than a ‘every person is a unique instance and should be addressed de novo’ type of approach would provide.
I concur with Brooksie.
You better be prepared to back of the “hate speech” shit if you’re going to include people with autism in your group. I got introduced to a 15 year old girl with autism last year. Not, “Nice to meet you” or anything like that. First thing she said to me: “You’re not my type”.
Did you prosecute her for sexual harassment?
You think I’d have a case? I wasn’t wearing pants at the time.
So… a Yukata?
I know. There’s no filter with them.
Same with people with early dementia.
The progressive left are anti-humans.
I believe at least some of Silicon Valley’s phenomenal success is because its culture places little value on conventional social and corporate values that prize age-based experience and conformity that dominates most of society and most institutions on the East Coast.
Yeah, explain the Route 128 phenomenon.
We have ‘mental disorders’ and ‘mental illness’ in my family.
They’re absolutely fucking real.
About half of my fictional characters have some sort of mental illness.
I’ve seen this show before. In the early 90’s it was “Everybody who did anything great was gay.” While there no doubt have been successful, closeted gays who have made tremendous contributions to our society, the movement was making some pretty extraordinary claims with some particularly flimsy evidence.
“The company said in a statement that CBS and Moonves will donate $20 million to one or more organizations that support the #MeToo movement and equality for women in the workplace. ”
Nice cottage industry you have going there now.
I support pound me too.
[Hearty applause.]
Extortion racket status achieved.
$20 million to do what exactly?
What do these organizations actually do?
Sell indulgences.
Funnel money to some board of directors and/or an executive officer while making vague noises about equality? Other than that I got nuthin’…
More like to democrat political operative’s campaign coffers.
They pay politicians to make feel good laws.
Pay themselves to talk.
That’s about it.
Moonves – Jewish, in the movie / TV business, and likes Trump. That’s 3 strikes right there.
I think of Otter every time I here about a Hollywood guy who got handsy – The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests – we did.
So what you’re saying is that CBS needs to clear the air with a good old toga party.
I like it.
You can’t have a Secret Nazi President without a few Capos.
Eh, Norah O’Donnell on CBS This Morning was blathering on about how this is endemic to all of society.
No, this is endemic to industries filled with shitweasels like yours is. Media attracts the lowest of the low.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6151329/Norah-ODonnell-says-Gayle-King-SUPPORT-Les-Moonves-firing-proud-work-CBS.html
Where can I apply for a job at the fledgling “Les Moonves Center For The Study Of Sexual Assault and Harassment”?
Probiotics labelled ‘quite useless’
Meh. I think they are over-hyped but one study is insufficient to label them useless. But, as many things in health,. I think it great depends on the person and there is no one size fits all thing
I believe that in 50 years or so not only will you have a blood type but there will be a matrix for renal type, liver function, digestive efficiency, Cardio factor… a bunch of stuff that science will finally understand are different for most people. This one-size-fits-all attempt at medicine is a fool’s errand.
Don’t get me started on the cow vs goat’s milk thing.
People are putting them into the wrong end.
“Simon Bolivar was named Presidente of Peru”
It has been a long time since I took world history or read up on South American history, but I think they made the guy a dictator, not a president.
Just like DRUMPF
Bolivar tried very hard to set up constitutional republics in South America. But they all kind of dissolved into Banana Republics as soon as they were created.
A lot of people prefer systems of government that allow them to impose what they want on others, even when that directly impacts their freedoms, because they are more concerned with others doing better than they are, than they are with the boot of big government being on their own throats. Fuck, I hate humanity.
Hurricane Florence is heading toward the Carolinas. I’m still thinking it will veer north just enough to miss the mid-atlantic and hit New England. But we’ll have to wait a couple more days to know. Wherever it hits, stay safe and evacuate if you can.
Joe Bastardi thinks it could be :
“Since Wednesday we have had this going inland over NC and then crawling into VA. Should this turn out correct, this is likely to be the worst natural disaster on record for Carolinas into VA Major hit combined with 3-4 feet of rain in some places over 3-4 day period.”
I have no idea what 4 feet of rain means. And translating it to mm used in Romania does not help. Snow makes it easier to visualise
Put it this way. Rubio would be on his tippy toes to breath.
It’s a lot of water. Lots of flooding of basements, houses in low-lying areas. Some smaller roads wash out (as in roadways swept away by water). But often the worst is the damage caused by trees which come down due to wind, erosion or lightning – houses and cars damaged, power lines knocked out, streets blocked, etc.
“The company said in a statement that CBS and Moonves will donate $20 million to one or more organizations that support the #MeToo movement and equality for women in the workplace. ”
What happened to, “Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute!”?
Dead in the age of PC.
And Sweden faces an interesting political future after neither side reach a majority in latest elections. Gee, maybe have a separate but equal government setup for legislative and executive functions and avoid these kinds of things. – they can always make one of those European big tent coalition things between moderates and social democrats like the Germans did.
IIRC Belgium survived a couple years without a functioning parliament.
Nike’s controversial bet on Kaepernick has millennial investors piling into the stock
I find everything about this stupid. And not news.
It’s interesting when people let politics cloud their own economic judgement. Idealy a stocks price is worth what the amalgamation of buyers and sellers think it’s worth, prices fluctuate on earning potential. But here we have two groups, one who wants to increase the stock for social signaling and one who wants it decreased. This creates an environment where huge arbitrage profits could be made by buying from those jumping and selling to those who are pulling in. Now if the buying and selling is between the two groups directly, the price would equilibrate but if you make yourself a middle man, you could buy cheap and sell high. It is almost as if it’s a big part of a plan to buy back sticks and sell off older ones for a huge gain,likeifyou
As in it’s a boon to nike executives.
I’m trying to figure out if Nike is going to cool it on the woke stuff or go full in.
For whatever reason, companies have a hard time realizing what a bad idea that road is. I give 2-1 odds they double down.
I wonder if they even realize how much they are offending half the country, They have their headquarters right near Portland and their executives may not know anyone who isn’t a full-blown prog.
They aren’t offending half the company, a third at most and probably closer to 10-15%. But even if it was a fifty/fifty trade-off they’d be smart to take it, I doubt they have anywhere near 50% market share and if permanently losing 50% guaranteed the other 50% bought your shit any company would make that trade.
Third rule of Day’s 3 Rules of SJW’s.
Looks that way
The youth probably will go in on Nike, as they are the product of an education system bent on Marxist and SJW indoctrination.
Nike might see a small surge in sales on the short term, but I think they’ll see declining sales on the long term.
In my scant review of my FecesBook account on the train to work I noted a bunch of veteran related images about “sacrificing everything” – MoH awardees and flag draped coffins – which I am certain the Nike execs never thought about.
We’ll find out if they sign Serena up.
And if leon is right that t’s a calculated scheme and it works, why stop? Maybe they can prove being woke is profitable.
After all Ocean’s 8 actually made money. Feminism can make money at the box office!
Nike’s online sales jumped 31% after company unveiled Kaepernick campaign, data show
Oh they’re going all in.
While its fun to play the culture war with short-term stock prices, why would we think that this is the metric used by the Nike decision makers. Nike’s biggest asset has to be good-will, long-term, durable good-will. The goal here isn’t to juice this quarter’s stock price by 3%. The goal here is to maintain themselves as a premium brand.
Did they think that paying Jordan buckets of money in the first year of their relationship was going to juice profits in one quarter? I don’t think so. Buy it positioned them to win the sneaker wars with A-list celebs, which let them be a premium brand that charged premium prices for a decade or more.
I think this is an alignment with what they see as long-term trends – associating their brand with famous athletes that become social-media-famous. I expect it to be fruitful for them, because I don’t see the type of society created by social media going away any time soon.
Felling down? Your neuro frequency may be out of whack.
http://www.anftherapy.com/who-we-are/faqs/
What is Amino Neuro Frequency – ANF Therapy?
ANF Therapy consists of thin circular discs which are applied directly on the skin. During this therapy, neuro-frequencies are transmitted through the neurons in the body. These frequencies are in turn picked up by the nervous system to start an efficient self-healing and self-regulating process. With Amino Neuro Frequency Therapy, Dr. Hoff hopes to help therapists increase their clients’ life quality within the first week of consultation.
How Does Amino Neuro Frequency Therapy Work?
ANF Discs contain a unique material discovered by NASA two decades ago.
The material is a carbonized metal with 28.4% pure metal. The discs attaches to the skin using a double sided 3M tape.
The therapy functions through nervous system signalization and control of frequencies. As you may know, the human body contains between 5-15 million different chemical and electrical signals in the nerve pathways. These are occasionally activated by the bodies’ infrared heat.
A breach in frequencies weakens the body’s immune system, thus refocusing the priorities of the nervous system and the body’s defense system and resources. Through nervous system signalization, ANF Therapy helps the brain correct the errors by returning the “correction signals” to both the brain and other body parts. The therapy consequently controls the frequencies and makes the body function properly.
Shut up and take my money.
And if that does not work supplement with some quantum tachyon therapy
https://www.sedonatachyonhealing.com/
• Design & Sacred Geometry received direct from Pleiadians, by a well known Pleiadian Incarnate & Scientist.
• Healing Tachyon particles portaled in through Crystal Wormhole Oscillators on board a Genesis II Satellite in real-time, as you lie on the chamber bed. (Tachyon particles do not enter the earth’s atmosphere through the tachyon barrier but this specialized technology allows you to experience them)
• Sessions kept to 20 mins, due to potency & current accretion capacity of most people, thanks to this Pleiadian design & portal technology… (to avoid too much spiritual, emotional or physical ‘detox’ all at once)
$3 per minute or $60 for 20 mins:
$3 per minute or $60 for 20 mins:
It’s nice that they recognized ahead of time that anyone stupid enough to actually go in for that wouldn’t be able to work out the multiplication.
Combine that shit with some Reiki therapy and you’ll never get sick.
A breach in frequencies weakens the body’s immune system,
Aka Carrie Underwood songs
product demo video
Yeah, explain the Route 128 phenomenon.
It’s the exception that proves the rule.
*I have never, in my entire life, figured out what in the everloving fuck that saying is supposed to mean.
I’ve heard that it is an archaic saying, wherein “proves” means not “vindicates” but rather “tests”.
Correct. Proves in this case means tests; as in Aberdeen Proving Grounds, where they test munitions.
Lots of rules are unstated, and you can only prove that they exist when there is an exception.
A group of fifth grades go and place their bookbags at the table nearest the end of the cafeteria line. Everyone knows that this means that they reserved that table, but its not written down anywhere.
Now imagine you got into a fight because someone sat at your table and started shit with you. You need to prove to the principal that they were the ones starting shit with you, not you being the aggressor. How would you? Its not written down anywhere that you reserve a table with your bookbag, and he’s saying there’s no such rule. So you go to the lunch monitor and ask him to tell the principal about the rule. But he’s an apathetic jerk, and he says he never wrote that rule down.
So you ask the monitor, hey, remember last week when Tiny Tim was hobbling around on his crutches, so he got into and out of the lunch line first? We were still in line, and you told him to sit at our table since it was closest. Then you moved all our bags to a table farther away. You did that because you knew that we reserved it but there was this exception to accommodate Tiny Tim while he was on crutches. Instead of putting our bags on the floor, you put them at another table because you knew the point was for us to reserve our table so we could sit together.
That’s an exception that proves the rule.
Video shows Japanese nationalist kick comfort woman statue in southern Taiwan
That’ll teach ’em.
Ironically, he has the same avatar as you.
Gaijin bitchez…
*chuckles* I’m in danger
Does he deny kicking the statue?
within a generation we may lose the ability to reproduce entirely.
Sounds like wishful thinking.
Anyone up for joining the war in Syria in a much expanded fashion?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-09/us-says-assad-has-approved-gas-attack-idlib-setting-stage-major-military-conflict
Sorry about the ZeroHedge, the initial article is WSJ and is paywalled.
I stopped reading at “unnamed officials”. Not that Trump wouldn’t be so stupid, but I’m done with that game.
Ever notice how every time Trump makes noises about getting out of Syria, there is another gas attack?
The Corey Booker act.
Low brow, low quality fiction to appeal to greedy and envious douchebags…
Good summary of NJ politics.
Booker is a fucking embarrassment. His only virtue is that he was a somewhat less corrupt mayor than Sharpe James.
There’s a bar most people couldn’t reach with a ladder.
And for his act of civil disobedience, he’s going to rip the tag off his mattress.
And carry it around to protest …. something?
ANF Therapy consists of thin circular discs which are applied directly on the skin. During this therapy, neuro-frequencies are transmitted through the neurons in the body. These frequencies are in turn picked up by the nervous system to start an efficient self-healing and self-regulating process.
Sounds legit.
Hate speech, collusion, and the constitution
Whew! That’s a load off.
And I assume that throngs of retards who otherwise spend their time ranting about corporations cheered them on.
I notice that the DFL candidate for gov fails to actually do the math on how much it will cost to “fully fund” education in Minnesoda.
I wish someone would ask him to define those desired educational outcomes and then have him break that down into a cost. Even better would then put into the funding bill a poison pill that if the outcomes fail to appear, all the funding will be slashed.
Meh, just fucking pass the law already and we can worry about paying for it after. It is a human right, after all…
/marxist douches
Yup. Education is a bigger tent than when I was going to school.
Free shit paid for by others!
Free means nobody has to pay for it, right? Legislation just makes things happen, like magic.
The left seems obsessed with getting their way and not worrying about how things work in the real world.
Free shit for everyone! We can worry about paying for it after we have made it impossible to back away from it.
Impeach Drumpf! We can worry about the crime after we have replaced him with Hillary.
America is evil, racist, misogynistic and must be changed! We can worry about the marxist hell hole’s body count after we got what we wanted…
Make America a Duopoly again
rediscover comity and bipartisanship
Meaning the Republicans don’t attack the Dems the same way the Dems attack Republicans, and the Republicans give the Dems what they want.
Anyone watch this douchebag reading a teleprompter this past weekend and trying to claim credit for the economic boon we now have after the guy that prevented his weaponized administration from stealing an election for that crook Hillary Clinton rolled back all the marxist shit and Keynesian nonsense his administration straddled us with? Remember these cunt’s telling us we would never again see a 3% GDP day? Fuck you and the horse you rode in on community organizer.
Was that the same speech where he claimed he always supported press freedom, inbetween hacking Sharyl Attkisson, spying on James Rosen, and jailing more whistleblowers under the Espionage Act than any other president in history?
Yes and see this response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MrSsV6gUoE
He’s probably expressing what a lot of people feel.
That guy caught a ban from Twitter, I think
That he did (sort of, for 12 hours or so).
That Twitter timeout punishment. Go fuck yourself, Jack. Treating people like they’re 8 years old. Why anyone would stay on that shithole platform with all the materialistic garbage they’re pulling is beyond me.
*maternalistic. Is that not a word?
Yes, it’s a word.
A soldier no less.
Nuance is for chumps. TW: Slate
The word “unprecedented” applies to so many aspects of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States. From the threat his confirmation poses to many of the rights we hold dear, to the withholding of thousands of documents from the public on spurious grounds, to Kavanaugh’s persistent dissembling before the Senate Judiciary Committee—the list seems endless.
Democrats are fighting to expose Kavanaugh’s extreme right-wing ideology and the deeply flawed process by which his nomination is being hurried through the Senate. But the inside game effectively has an audience of two. Unless Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski are moved by Kavanaugh’s apparent perjury and the near-guarantee that Kavanaugh will provide the deciding vote to end a woman’s right to choose, we are almost certain to see Kavanaugh elevated to the high court.
While last week’s hearings proved rougher sledding than expected for Kavanaugh, we must prepare for the prospect of Judge Kavanaugh becoming Justice Kavanaugh. That is where another unprecedented element of this nomination comes into play. This will be the first time in American history that a president who many have described as an “unindicted conspirator” in high crimes and misdemeanors has had the chance to hand-pick a vote on the Supreme Court, including in matters that involve him.
We’re just seconds away from Armageddon, People! The Anti-Christ sits in the White House, and he’s got an itchy trigger finger.
It’s a good thing our collective memories only go back to a week ago, or else it might seem strange that they said the exact same things about the guy who fucking bailed out Obamacare.
From the threat his confirmation poses to many of the rights we hold dear, – how many is many? 5? 50? who knows?
An awful lot of unsupported assertions there.
“the near-guarantee that Kavanaugh will provide the deciding vote to end a woman’s right to choose”
Where?
I honestly do not understand where they think one Supreme Court judge has the power to do that.
In their minds…
Because they are fighting the unenlightened assholes that are preventing them from establishing the marxist utopia collectivism promises!
I give you today’s most punchable face.
Standard just-out-of-college tripe about GOP being the lapdogs of the wealthy and tax cuts are just crumbs BS. But man that pic is the epitome of white proggie
Yes, yes, the GOP must be held accountable for letting people keep more of their earnings.
What a fucking piece of shit.
Low T in human form there…
All he needs is the peach-fuzz pseudo-beard and he’d be in the dictionary next to “soy boy”.
That picture explains a lot about what is going on in the world these days. In many parts of the world (Africa and the Middle East in particular) displaying weakness is seen as an invitation to attack and will in fact provoke anger and violence.
I made the mistake of reading the comments in that article. That site must do nothing but shill for Democrats.
Yup. They were the local journalists who decided that the two rags in town weren’t sufficiently woke for their tastes.
his mommy is so proud of him for writing that.
Nope. Some rich bastard repossessed her pride. The crumbs from Trump’s tax cut weren’t enough to keep up on their payments. They are worried that the next thing they lose is his sister’s virginity.
Kamala Harris hates the idea of us Normals owning guns, but really likes having armed protection for her august self
Rights for me, not for thee…
That is basically the way these top men leftists think.
But man that pic is the epitome of white proggie
That kid would probably pee his pants f he saw a spider.
And rather than funding the public schools my sister teaches in, where educators are woefully underpaid and often forced to buy supplies their schools can’t afford, the tax law further erodes government revenue that helps our students learn within and outside of the classroom.
It’s just another recitation of the catechism.
Real spending on education in inflation-adjusted dollars has tripled since the 1970s. Educational outcomes and achievement have remained flat. Because the best indicator of educational achievement is parental engagement, which is independent of money spent on the government education complex.
Baltimore City schools are what, #4 in spending per pupil? With all that money they must be great schools.
So great they produce fine upstanding citizens like this young man!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/09/07/baltimore-teen-charged-elderly-womans-rape-murder/1225952002/
But is it such and extensive thing in the US for teachers to buy all sorts of things for class? Does not really happen in Romania…
My gut is that it doesn’t happen all that often in the US either. And when it does, the root cause is that there is so much red tape to requisition supplies that teachers figure it is easier to just buy it on their own dime.
I have no facts for that, but I never saw any of my kids’ teachers buying stuff on their own dime. But every time the school had a levy on the ballot they talked about how they had to do shit like that.
Or it’s just a lie to keep the narrative of “TEECHURZ NEED MOAR MUNNY” rolling to consolidate power in the unions and pay off the political machine.
They do, but it’s like $50 at Target to decorate their classroom and put stickers on the homework.
And no other profession ever spends their own money to improve themselves or make their lives easier.
I’ve never bought a computer book on my own. Or bought some software that makes my life easier. Or subscribed to a training site like Lynda.
^^^This. SIL is a teacher, and invests about $100 of her own money each year for classroom things that would be “nice to have”. A friend is a HS English teacher, and he buys copies of all the books he uses in class. Which is totally a different thing than some mid-level manager buying a book on management techniques or upgrading some of the office supplies they use at work every day, or attending networking events on their own dime.
Wow, the books we used in HS were there since at least the 70’s (this was the late 90s). If there weren’t enough copies the reaction was “tough shit”. Very few of my teachers bought anything for the classroom.
You know how in rent controlled apartments, the accounting price is fixed, but the real price still changes because the landlord starts treating their tenants like shit? We all know that, and its because you can’t wish away real economic forces just because a piece of paper holds one parameter constant.
Well, teacher salaries have been distorted the same way, and are divergent from the undistored market-clearing price for teaching services. In response, the teaching job changes because you can’t stop large economic forces just because a piece of paper holds one parameter constant.
Artificially high teacher salaries (compared to what they would be without a powerful union) lead to redefinition of the teacher job to be worse, including the expectation for larger out of pocket expenses.
I don’t remember doing this when I was in school, but these days its really common for every teacher to send home a list of supplies they would like donated for the year. These aren’t just luxury items. My kids lists this year included dry erase markers, paper, pens, and books. These were for classroom use, not individual. And anything not donated in gets purchased by the teacher (or done without.) And this isn’t some broke school in the ghetto or the boonies. This is in a perfectly well funded suburban school. I don’t know of a school that doesn’t do this.
When my kids were in elementary school, they would be sent home with a packet to sell some sort of crap door to door to help raise funds for crap like Leap lists out.
One year, one of the things that they listed in the “what we do with the money” was a teacher appreciation luncheon.
During the first parent/teacher conference would tell the teacher that if I want to turn my kids into door to door salesmen, I would expect to get all the profits and saw no reason to cut them in on the deal.
I would have been much more Ok with a list of actual supplies.
*sarcasm detector reading: ambiguous*
Pretty much this. I expense the mandatory stuff, and I personally buy the nice to have stuff. That’s pretty much how every job works.
Teachers buying supplies is pretty much the norm in the schools I have personal contacts with.
Teachers buy supplies. They are not buying text books or chalk, it stuff like extra notebooks, paper, and pencils for students that can not or do not get theirs from home.
How much is academic achievement shaped by genes?
Careful now, you start talking about genes and intellectual ability and you may find yourself Charles Murray’d.
Oh, they will love talking about it if they can then blame the disparity on racism/sexism/shitlordry
Be careful…
Bolivar’s above mentioned Constitutional Republics failed because of… Spanish colonization!
Africa is dirt poor because of White colonization!
Africa led the world in enlightenment and technology until the White Devil stole it all through Tricknology!
I watched that Black Panther movie over the weekend – wow was that some stupid shit.
WAKANDA FOR EVAH!
I have to say that orangeman sure knows how to tell fuckers off.
From that Slate thing:
Judge Kavanaugh has expressed more extreme views of presidential power than any Supreme Court nominee in our history. Through his long career, his writings and speeches have shown that he does not believe the president can be forced to comply with a subpoena. He does not believe the president can be subjected to criminal or civil proceedings while in office. And he is among the most extreme proponents of the “unitary executive”—the theory that the president has total power to control the entire executive branch, which would include his ability to fire his prosecutors, obstruct justice, and more—on any level of the federal bench. Kavanaugh has said nothing in this week’s hearings to suggest that he is aware of the president’s boundless view of his own power; indeed the nominee has declined to even discuss this president’s claims about his executive authority.
It’s almost as if the progressives’ sentiments on the power of the Executive Branch may have “evolved” somewhat in the past two years.
Well the constitution does give the president control over the entirety of the executive branch, so if they don’t like that then they should work on amending the constitution.
so if they don’t like that then they should work on amending the constitution.
Or perhaps shrinking the executive branch.
But then they wouldn’t have that sweet, sweet unilateral power when they get back in the driver’s seat and we can’t very well have that can we?
It’s always a bit funny watching the same people suddenly shitting their pants about the unitary executive who admonished Obama for not thumbing his nose at congress and ruling by executive fiat more often than he already did.
+1 pen and phone
Who in the fuck do they think should have the “power to control the entire executive branch” ?
http://www.listal.com/viewimage/15783641h
Mary Ann Mobley, Miss Mississippi 1959
Why I am seeking to stamp out online echo chambers of hate
Lucy Powell
Closed forums on Facebook allow hateful views to spread unchallenged among terrifyingly large groups. My bill would change that
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2018/sep/10/online-echo-chambers-hate-facebook-bill
We should educate people to be more resilient and better able to spot fake news and recognise hate, but we must also ensure there are much stronger protections to spread decency and police our online communities. The responsibility to regulate these social media platforms falls on the government. It is past time to act.
That’s why I am introducing a bill in parliament which will do just that. By establishing legal accountability for what’s published in large online forums, I believe we can force those who run these echo chambers to stamp out the evil that is currently so prominent. Social media can be a fantastic way of bringing people together – which is precisely why we need to prevent it being hijacked by those who instead wish to divide.
The interesting part comes when the social media companies allow themselves to be effectively nationalized by a few dozen different countries or supra-national governments and have to enforce all of the rules across their entire platform. Running a separate walled garden for China is one thing. Running 30 of them is a little bit more challenging.
PS My friends and I get to decide what “hate” is.
Well I’m glad that someone is taking a hard line on radical islamic extremists spreading hate on Facebook.
Wait. What?
Oh, they are going after Tommy Robinson and his ilk. I’m sure the radical muslims will be just fine.
I’d actually respect the gayz if they sued a muslim baker to make them a cake for their wedding.
“I’d actually respect the gayz if they sued a muslim baker to make them a cake for their wedding”
But he might hurt us and that’s so scary!
Translation: Anything that doesn’t tow the progressive lion is “hate speech” and banned.
I think that the most obnoxious thing about Black Panther is the fact that we end up with:
1. A villain born in America who becomes radicalized by the racism and oppression he faces
2. They completely gloss over the atrocities committed in Africa
3. The best way for Wakanda to help their “kind” is to spend money in Oakland. That’s where the real black poverty is…
Mammary Monday returns!
http://archive.is/GAJdn
44 looks like an office breakroom. That’s the kind of place I’d like to work.
10 and 16 intrigue me, although 16 would have to wear a compression sleeve or something on that left arm.
The United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, is sending teams to Italy and Austria to look into protection of migrants after what she called an “alarming escalation of attacks” against asylum seekers and Roma people.
In her maiden speech to the UN human rights council on Monday, in Geneva, Bachelet said: “Italy’s decision to close its sea ports, denying entry to NGO rescue ships, had serious consequences on the most vulnerable. Even though we are seeing a big drop in the numbers of coming from Libya over the past 12 months, the numbers of those who died during the crossing is higher in the first six months of 2018 than it was.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/10/un-human-rights-chief-sends-team-to-italy-after-alarming-anti-migrant-violence
That will teach ’em.
The Austrailian “No foot touches our soil and those who do get sent back” policy worked wonders for cutting off the flow of migrants. If you’re worried about the attacks, ending the migration flow and returning the migrants would end the fighting.
These links need more cowbell.
NPR ponders a great mystery
“The one consistent finding from 1972 up through 2008 and in subsequent elections are that voters and nonvoters have different preferences on economic policies,” said Jan Leighley, co-author with Jonathan Nagler of the book Who Votes Now? Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States.
Her research found that nonvoters are more likely, for example, to support a redistribution of wealth, housing bailouts and expanded social safety net programs.
———-
“I don’t believe it is actually effective to vote as a main method of accomplishing political change,” said Rand, a senior who studies anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Rand follows the news closely, he considers himself a political activist, but he’s not a fan of the current two-party political system.
“The system itself is stacked against the citizenry,” he said.
He thinks Trump is a “fascist,” but still he doesn’t see how voting for Clinton would have changed anything, pointing out that Nevada’s votes in the Electoral College went for Clinton anyhow.
But if young people don’t vote, they’re less likely to be targeted by political campaigns. And that worries community activist Francisco Morales.
Blah blah blah how do we reach theses keeds? How can we ram through our socialist redistributionism if those darn kids and poor people won’t vote?
You can be goddam certain NPR wouldn’t be beating this drum if it could be shown the people who belong to the National Federation of Independent Businesses were all too busy working to get to the polls.
The great mystery to me is why our supposedly intelligent credentialed class is obsessed with Marxist-socialism.
Because no system allows/enables the easy consolidation of power, providing the elites with the ability to keep the riff-raff out (or to just kill them when they become cumbersome) while appealing to so many low information people (greed & envy sell). That plus the fact that the easiest thing to deliver is misery, and nobody can do anything to these elites for being total fuckups.
Because most of them have never been in a real business environment and are still ruled by basal emotions like envy and sloth. Some might even realize their credentials aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.
Money is not a zero sum game, but power is. The consolidation of money in the hands of elites is a mere side effect of Marxism. The accumulation and consolidation of power is what gets their prog-boners stiff.
Money is just a physical and metaphysical manifestation of debt, so the more of it there is in circulation, the more indebted the society.
“…why our supposedly intelligent credentialed class is obsessed with Marxist-socialism.”
Because it is custom designed for totalitarianism and the stupid fuckers think they will be given positions of power instead of the firing squad.
Sounds like we need to select committees to discern the wishes of nonvoters and give those wishes equal weight to the voters’ wishes. After all, they’re citizens too.
I heard that on the radio this morning.
The palpable concern over voting rates is ridiculous. How, in any way, shape, or form, does a higher voting rate correlate to improved quality of life for anyone?
They were interviewing poor Georgian voters who said that it didn’t matter if they voted, nothing changes. Well, no shit Sherlock, get an education and do what is necessary to improve your own life. Government has nothing to do with the culture of self-sufficiency (unless it comes to disincentivizing it).
We’re firmly into mystical belief territory when it comes to voting.
Ask not, what your country can do for you. But, what you can do for your
countryself.Well, by voting in large numbers in the manner that NPR wishes they would, they have the power to make their own lives substantially worse. That’s a change right?
The number of studies that get commissioned where the result is “No shit, Sherlock” is quite astounding. Maybe we have really discovered everything.
Sup, gang
Word.
fuck off Tulpa
Wow, gone for almost a year, and this is what I get on my triumphant return??? Where are the rose covered streets, the debauched parades, the piked heads of my enemies??? You guys reaaaaaally changed
You were gone?
This stings worse than the Tulpa accusations *wipes away tear*
It doesn’t count if you just transition to a couple different sock puppet accounts, Tulpa.
It’s Glibs, not Iraq as described by Dick Cheney.
Yeah, we have no ROADZ to cover with roses, and if you want your enemies heads piked, you have to do it yourself after they attack you.
Well, it didn’t take long for this place to turn into Mogadishu. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN NO ONE CONTROLS YOU!
So what’s new around these parts? I didn’t even realize I had been away so long until just this morning
We’ve decided that Totalitarian Anarchism is the way to go.
on a monarchism kick tbh.
Are you Mr. ‘Splosives? I have not had the pleasure. Good morning!
I’ve been called Mr. Explosive many times, sometimes after just a few seconds, but I am not betrothed to the resident Mrs. ‘Splosives.
I came over about two months after the initial split with Reason and then about a year ago, got married, started doing married stuff, in the process of converting to Catholicism, etc, etc. and just never got around to posting here.
My apologies!
I stopped commenting at ToS about 2 years ago, but didn’t stop reading. I found this place about 6 months? ago. I think. Ken Schultz mentioned it, someone else asked, etc etc etc.
Welcome aboard! I’m going to try to get back to commenting more, but we’ll see. I have monocles to have polished and whatnot
Yeah, I hear those Catholic masses can least about a year.
Like I’ve said, Sessions is way too busy hunting down some high schooler smoking a joint to worry about things like soft coup attempts in the permanent bureaucracy and corruption in his own agency.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/marijuana-research-applications-go-nowhere-at-justice-department-1536404401
FIRE HIM ALREADY, HE’S USELESS.
He’s so bad he’s counterproductive. The most ineffective AG ever IMHO.
He’s been very effective at enabling the deep state to fight against Trump and any threat to their power.
Looks like Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the East Coast are going to be pulling out their umbrellas:
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/WxMap.aspx
Maybe eve South Texas! That’s a lot of hurricanes running around.
Word on the meteorological street is that the mid-Atlantic is going to see a lot of storm activity through the fall and winter. Like if we’re going to get another good blizzard, this is gonna be the winter.
Sounds like we need to select committees to discern the wishes of nonvoters and give those wishes equal weight to the voters’ wishes.
What would be even better would be a means to extrapolate those nonvoters’ true desires in order to apply a correction factor to the final vote tallies, in order to achieve a true expression of the wishes of the people. Make democracy great again.
An excellent idea…will you email Ocasio-Cortez with it or should I?
Works for climate science.
The FEA program is a little kinky.
you may have a change in
stiffness somewhere in your model
which is too abrupt.
Speak for yourself. My stiffness is sustained and stable.
Such blatant ageism on display.
+1 little blue pill
“The greater (lower) the degree of government involvement in the provision of a good or service the greater (lower) the price increases (decreases) over time, e.g., hospital and medical costs, college tuition, childcare with both large degrees of government funding/regulation and large price increases vs. software, electronics, toys, cars and clothing with both relatively less government funding/regulation and falling prices.”
http://www.aei.org/publication/the-chart-of-the-century-makes-the-rounds-at-the-federal-reserve/
Accompanying twatter comment: “Blue lines = prices subject to free market forces. Red lines = prices subject to regulatory capture by government. Food and drink is debatable either way. Conclusion: remind me why socialism is so great again.”
Whats really interesting is that the red stuff is the stuff where normal consumers have the least elasticity. When the price of toys or TVs skyrockets, its easy to cut by on your consumption and substitute in something else. When the price of education or a hospital stay skyrockets.. you are pretty fucked. Even minor changes in consumption of education or health services has a big impact on our lives, and we are loath to accept that.
To be redundant on this page… No shit Sherlock.
I’m getting two MRI’s this week at a private clinic for $300 total, cash up front.
If I use the insurance system, it will cost me over $4000.
From this place?
Submitted without comment.
http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2018/09/land-of-the-giants.html
And you expect us to click on your link? It could be anything.
Are you willing to take the risk?
I took the risk and dove in. It’s just pictures of fat chicks. Oh and there’s some words there, but the pictures repelled me so violently that I didn’t get a chance to read them.
Wait. The Guardian’s front page actually teases a scallop-related article?
That’s. Uh. *Scratches head* That’s super.
Well, the UK is in the middle of the Scallop War with France.
Of all of the great dystopic fiction like 1984, That Hideous Strength, and It Can’t Happen Here, who would have know that the most prescient would be 2000AD?
That sounded vaguely familiar. I looked it up and had to face-palm myself that that is a real thing.
I mean, I guess it likely *is* an issue over fishing/property rights. But. Just the silliness. Sigh.
The Root cause is simple – The French government.
The waters are a joint fishery, but the French government forbids the French Fishermne from fishing during certain times of year. There is no such restriction on the British.
Out of various Gallic emotional responses, the French Fishermen blamed the British and began doing stupid things like ramming much larger british craft and whining when they damaged their own boats.
Communted to work from Evansville this morning. Had to make a last minute grocery run this AM. Schnucks is surprisingly nice considering the name.
The Green River/Washington Ave Schnucks was always my jam. They’d let kids have one free cookie.
I worked at the Schlotzky’s Deli on Green River for three or so years. I know you fancy City Folk can get all sorts of great sandwiches, but that was the best in the city. Turkey original on jalapeno cheese (no tomatoes)–and their BBQ chicken pizza would no-joke be a part of my Final
SolutionMeal.The wet burrito at the Hacienda across from Schnucks is/used to be fantastic middle-class Tex Mex.
The Schlotzky’s is gone. Saw the empty shell of the building.
That was the Schnucks I was at this morning, my wife needed bread.
That Hacienda looked interesting. Know anything about Mission BBQ?
Wow. That actually somehow managed to really upset me. I went to IU Bloomington from 2005-2009. Then I moved to Korea. I really had only spent summers delivery driving for Jimmy John’s when school was out. I haven’t lived in Evansville since that glorious summer of 2005.
I got my first hip done there and I made sure to get a hotel within walking distance of that Schlotzky’s. My parents had already moved up to Indy to be full-time grandparents for my brother’s kids.
I truly have no more reason to ever go there again. That kind of makes me sad. Spent 20 years of my life there. *Tear*
Do keep in mind that food in Evansville is obviously very much subdued–hard to get too much quality in a small-mid sized middle class town. Don’t know Mission BBQ. The Acropolis used to be very good. G.D. Ritzy’s is a great old-school burger joint across from Eastland mall. Straight out of the ’50s.
Nagasaki Steakhouse was my favorite place to go when we could splurge on a birthday meal. Lic’s Ice Cream is a local joint as well—their chili is great. The Cork ‘n Cleaver is a longstanding place. Expensive but my dad would take me there sometimes. Right next to my (Hebron) elementary school. Los Bravos was always the best Mexican.
Bosse Field, where they filmed A League of their Own, is downtown. Looks like the Evansville Otters (where the mascot is an otter named Evan….) just finished their Independent League season. It’s the third oldest ballpark in the US after Fenway and Wrigley. Was a special place to go and watch a game. Out team once got to go out on the field with the players during the national anthem. Second basement cracked at me that the anthem was gonna be a long one and he wasn’t happy about it.
Huh. That really flooded me with memories, exactly like thinking of an old ex that you haven’t thought about in a while but got surprisingly sentimental reliving those experiences.
Hope everything is going well with you and yours. Stay strong and push on.
We’re going through something like this with my oldest (the one we kicked out of the house recently). In the past 2-3 years she’s gained about 80 pounds, all due to junk food, sugary drinks, and now that she’s 21, beer. Plus she flat out refuses to exercise. Now she has back pain and other health problems, just like we told her would happen. I’m guessing diabetes is right around the corner. But if you so much as mention her weight you’re being mean and hurtful.
Body positivist is, I am pretty sure, a horrible joke to see how far you can take the seed of a reasonable idea and turn it into something monstrous and deadly.
Almost any idea taken to its logical extreme can become horrific. Anorexia is the opposite pole of this foolishness. It’s true that there is a natural distribution of healthy sizes and weights among the population, but “healthy at any size” is just plain bullshit.
That’s a lot of extra person to carry around, especially considering it’s mostly adipose tissue. I think the kind thing to do is to be mean and hurtful. Since when is being fat an act of rebellion anyway?
It dovetails to your comment below:
“I object to reality because I lose out to competition”
The fatties got together and decided that the hard work required to stay in shape was a tool of the patriarchy (or something) so they demanded that the world conform to them, not the other way around. Of course, your coronary arteries don’t really give a shit about the patriarchy…
Yes, it is a lot of weight. Picture two 40-pound dumbbells that you carry around with you every day, 24/7. That is going to wear down your knees, your back, and your ankles. You’re going to be tired all the time.
I’ve decided next time she complains about her back pain to me, I’ll tell her we warned her about this, and unless she does something about it, I don’t want to hear the complaints.
Correct me if I’m wrong but couldn’t these people STOP USING THE FUCKING APP?
https://nypost.com/2018/09/08/how-tech-bros-ruined-dating-for-young-people/
I guess not. It’s all Silicon Valley’s fault. Scratch that. It’s Trump’s fault.
Anything not forbidden is Mandatory! If it exists and has not been banned, people must use it!
/idon’tknowwhobutI’veheardtheargumenttoomuch
More fun:
“Both sexes “rely on gender stereotypes, leading many women to sexualize themselves and many men to present themselves in a very stereotypically masculine way,” Sales says.”
You mean it pulls the rug out from under your half-baked proggy tranny/androgyny theories?! SAY IT AIN’T SO!
The purpose of social roles (including gender roles, but also including non-gendered roles “team lead,” “first chair,” or “party coordinator”) is to reduce transactions costs and allow groups of people to operate more efficiently. Given that most human endeavor requires complex social coordination, trashing social roles seems pretty stupid.
Also, you have to be pretty stupid to think “socially created” and “arbitrary” are the same thing. But there you go.
Also, you have to be pretty stupid to think “socially created” and “arbitrary” are the same thing.
There’s a lot of stupid going around these days,
It’s always been there. Communication has just become a lot less expensive.
Clearly the answer is to restrict free speech.
/prog
leading many women to sexualize themselves
And here I thought people were just naturally sexual. The only thing I can think of that might satisfy somebody claiming that women sexualizing themselves to attract men is a bad thing, is to put every woman into a shapeless bag after her first period.
But enough about Syria…
As someone who found his wife through an online dating app, I can only laugh.
Those apps make it easier to meet lots of people. It doesn’t change anything else. You still have to decide which people are worth getting involved with, which people you can ignore, and which ones you should flee.
Yep. And yet lots of people treat it like a grocery store where you can just pick a ready-made date/partner/mate/sex buddy off the shelf.
This is just more horseshit encouraging people to not take responsibility for their own actions.
To the ladies: tired of being treated like an unpaid prostitute? Try actually getting to know your date and don’t jump into bed with someone you met 15 minutes ago.
To the gents: looking for a serious relationship? Try actually getting to know your date and don’t jump into bed with someone you met 15 minutes ago.
But no, again it’s Silicon Valley’s fault that your personal life is a trainwreck. You have no agency whatsoever.
I’m sorry, what? It’s well known that getting to know someone and having sex are mutually exclusive. It’s almost as if loneliness and just being being horny are totally different needs. Weird.
“It’s well known that getting to know someone and having sex are mutually exclusive”
Of course there are hookups that evolve into long term relationships, but that seems to be a rare exception. Furthermore, if you’re only looking for sex on an app, more power to you. My comment is mostly aimed at the people bitching about how they’re not getting what they want from the apps. If you don’t get the results you want, change your strategy!
I’m sorry, what? It’s well known that getting to know someone and having sex are mutually exclusive. It’s almost as if loneliness and just being being horny are totally different needs. Weird.
Not nearly as decoupled as you think.
I’m willing to give it the old college try.
especially if you work in a male-dominated field or (smartly) don’t want to get involved with coworkers, how else do you meet people?
casual conversation with strangers is pretty much dead, you’re just not going to even be able to strike up a conversation!
I’m not even that old, but I can remember when dating was still done primarily offline, and people still bitched about pretty much all of the exact same shit.
My inner John Kreese came out last night.
Some sort of FtoM transition thing? Or did you find some little scrawny kid to beat up?
No, but the Bears (almost) did.
Wishing (((you))) all a happy new year!
Since I couldn’t ski this summer I got a stupid hobby to scratch the itch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYOLbxJpOTs
Turns out all the fun stuff is heavily tut-tutted by every imaginable enemy of liberty under the FYTW clause of civil society. Now that I have a pet cause I’m back on lynx until I wander off again. Hi everybody!
Hiya waffles! Good to see you back!
Howdy waffles!
Your video makes me dizzy. Also, you should’ve spent your summer skiing in Chile.
Instead I read books and crashed tiny flying robots into stuff at increasing speeds. Chile and Argentina were last year, and next year. Variety is good. I think the quadcopter can be imitated on the skis. It’s never been proven to not work as cross training.
That is awesome. Several years ago I was all set to head to a resort in S. America (owned by a friend of a friend… how convenient) and two weeks prior to departure it was taken over by bandits. I decided to stay home.
The quadcopter video is pretty cool. My in-laws have an 80 acre compound in the mountains that I’d like to see from above. Is that stuff cost-prohibitive, and is it pretty easy to fly?
The flippy spinny stuff has a steep learning curve if you aren’t already inclined, I’m flying through a low latency video feed to a specialized goggle. It’s enough to trick my brain into feeling the motion of the aircraft. And I think it’s just wonderful. Also it’s very DIY which is sweet because I have to learn all kinds of new stuff to really delve into it.
It’s tuned to respond to the slightest input, the limit being my skill. On the other side of the spectrum GPS-enabled drones practically fly themselves. Crashes, fly-aways, and all the reports of critical failures are human error nearly 100% of the time. The latest, shiniest DJI is expensive say 1500. But for around 300 you can get a Parrot Bebop 2 that is more than enough copter and camera for me to take skiing, durable/repairable too.
The truth is, if you have any interest in tiny flying robots, you should burn 20-50 bucks on a solid toy-grade one. Fly the heck out of it without worrying about its destruction. Then use that experience to either decide you had enough or get the camera bird of your choice.
Worked for me, now I’m addicted to crashing/fixing/flying these buggers. It hits all the notes for me.
Tell me about the skiing in Argentina. I’m well-versed in the offerings in Chile, but not Argentina. Do they have full-service resorts there (lodging, dining, drinking, rentals, lessons, etc.)?
Yes, absolutely. But everything is just a little more out of touch for a non-spanish speaker. You are going to have a much more difficult time finding an english speaking person for all of the above, at least compared with Chile. Fortunately the accent is far easier to understand (for me). I was only in Barioliche and San Martin de los Andes, which are the locations of the Argentine mega resorts Catedral and Cerro Chapelco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYOLbxJpOTs
And yeah there’s a gopro edit for that stuff too.
oops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y_8tldqP7Q&index=3&list=PL0pG3tzfvpOTgXIXzhGpVBVJ9k6PXy1pK
That snow!! I’ll be in my bunk
Awesome – thanks! My 1st choice is Portillo, but I’m always on the lookout for antipodal ski options!
Antipodes you say?
https://www.onthesnow.com/news/a/585247/best-skiing-in-australia-new-zealand
Thing about NZ, according to the many Kiwis I’ve met in Colorado, is their snow is pretty much like Vermont – can be icy & unreliable. If I’m going to travel that far for skiing, the odds of good snow need to be better.
Yeah, that’s fair. Southern NZ in the winter without snow would be pretty limited in options.
Catedral’s trail map looks right up my alley!
Black Spartacus 2020!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/09/cory-booker-staff-iowa-2020-white-house-run
I wonder if T-Bone is on the team.
is he for or against charters now?
yes
Oh, please God, no. I don’t need to have him running around the state for the next 2 years.
I really love football. I really hate almost everything other than the actual game. Pre-game shows, the idiot announcers with the vocabulary of a 6 year old and/or a speech impediment, the stupid truck and beer commercials, the politics, the shitty business practices, the fact that rapists and murders are getting valorized, the knowledge that the players are literally self-inflicting debilitating brain damage, etc. I hate all of it.
But good lordy, do I love the game itself, and its one of the last things on TV that my wife and my kid and I can all curl up and watch together.
https://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/football-games-have-11-minutes-of-action-011810
“Football combines the two worst aspects of American society: violence and committee meetings.”
George Will
130-ish plays per game, four or five strategic choices per play, two or three strategic choices to be made in-game, that gives around 1,600 strategic choices in a 4 hour block of time. You’ll be hard-pressed to find another game with that level of strategic complexity. Not to mention the fact that there are 21! player-to-player interactions and a ball that’s an oblate spheroid, you get a game that is much more formally chaotic than most others, leading to high play-to-play variance, which has been shown to be a large driver in fan attention.
It tickles everything I love about games.
I have this visceral need to find out why Thom Brenneman has a Bronx accent sometimes.
“Watch: Rascally Rat Jumps and Pulls Fire Alarm at DC Condo”
https://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/Watch_-Rascally-Rat-Jumps-and-Pulls-Fire-Alarm-at-DC-Condo_Washington-DC-492773051.html
More Serena Williams absurdity.
https://nypost.com/2018/09/08/its-shameful-what-us-open-did-to-naomi-osaka/
This caught my eye:
“Katrina Adams, chairman and president of the USTA, opened the awards ceremony by denigrating the winner and lionizing Williams[…]“Perhaps it’s not the finish we were looking for today,” Adams said, “but Serena, you are a champion of all champions.” Addressing the crowd, Adams added, “This mama is a role model and respected by all.””
WTF? What kind of horseshit is that coming from the president of the USTA?
Classless pieces of shit, right there.
I feel so bad for that young woman who won. I wouldn’t blame her one bit if she just ups and quits tennis at this point.
It really was a disgraceful display.
She could just keep beating Williams. I mean, I think that’d be better. As a guy, I’d just be out for revenge.
I can’t help but think that skin color plays a part in this.
The winner is half Haitian and half Japanese, I think. A heroic mulatto, so to speak.
But not someone that the USTA head considers one of her own. Not someone with enough melanin to really be black, let alone an American black. She doesn’t win the hearts of the white guilt inflicted progressive audience like Williams.
Like I said, the best thing for her to do would be to keep beating that stuck up and frankly racist/petty/classless bitch Williams.
I think she’ll be fine. The $3M check helps.
And I hate that my mind went there, but one of my first thoughts was how much worse it would have been for her if she was a white chick. I know The Atlantic, of course, immediately made it a race thing but so far they seem to be alone.
You’re right, though. If she was a white Swede, or, God forbid, a white American, Serena Williams would be delivered her head on a plate.
Had it been Maria Sharapova, the US would have already shut down another Russian consulate.
If I were not-Nike, I would sign her to be the face of my brand and give her the impetus to go out and beat the shit out of everyone.
NAOMI OSAKA vs. THE WORLD.
The circle-jerking of certain players is fucking nauseating. Some of the commentators were practically suicidal after Federer and Nadal were out.
The BBC coverage has been interesting. They faithfully report everything that happened and all the charges of sexism. But then they get into their analysis section and basically say, well, everything the umpire did was correct. On the issue of coaching, they said Williams should be mad but should be mad at her coach.
Sexism charge was refined on Sunday along the lines of, “because umpires [in general] don’t penalize male players then this umpire is a sexist because he penalized a female player. So, guilt by gender.
It’s bullshit for her to claim she isn’t aware of what was going on.
I can’t figure out what level of mental gymnastics are required to make a claim of sexism for penalizing one female playing against another female.
I caught some of it in real time, just after she got the violation for coaching. The commentators were all, “yep, she absolutely got coached”. Because she immediately started going toward the net and won a few points – which was the motion her coach was making.
That is straight-up lousy. She ought to be run out of the organization for that.
Don’t read the USTA press release.
Here’s part of what the WTA president said: “Serena Williams’ claims of sexism in the US Open final have been backed by the governing body of women’s tennis.
WTA chief executive Steve Simon said the umpire showed Williams a different level of tolerance over Saturday’s outbursts than if she had been a man.
She got a code violation for coaching, a penalty point for racquet abuse and a game penalty for calling the umpire a “thief” in the defeat by Naomi Osaka.
The American said it was “sexist” to have been penalised a game.
“The WTA believes that there should be no difference in the standards of tolerance provided to the emotions expressed by men versus women,” Simon said in a statement.
‘We do not believe that this was done last night.’”
I suspect the other thing that’s going to happen is this umpire is going to be run out of the game as well.
“WTA chief executive Steve Simon said the umpire showed Williams a different level of tolerance over Saturday’s outbursts than if she had been a man”
Is there any evidence for this? I don’t watch a lot of tennis, but I’ve haven’t seen any player go that nuts on the umpire in at least 15 years. I seem to remember John McEnroe getting penalized plenty for going ballistic on the officials.
Plus it’s an illogical comparison: even if no male player was penalized for such actions, unless this particular umpire was involved, then it’s meaningless.
Compilation of the penalties and fines McEnroe compiled over his career.
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/171029/FOR-THE-RECORD-MCENROES-TANTRUMS-AND-FINES.html
Yeah, what a ridiculous thing to say. You have no fucking idea what would have happened “if she had been a man”.
Well, according to Billie Jean King, Serena was being “outspoken”, but because she has a vagina the umpire considered her “hysterical”, and damned-near uppity, and that’s because sexism.
But no, I get the same impression. I don’t follow tennis, but I recall McEnroe getting penalized for losing his shit, and for less than Williams has done recently and in the past. And regardless, it doesn’t matter if umpires typically let men get away with it more than women. No other women seem to have had Serena’s problem. And it didn’t seem to stop her from getting 23 titles. Plus, I highly doubt that a man doing what she did wouldn’t have gotten a penalty.
The bottom line is she’s a sore loser, she’s a narcissist, and she played the sexism card to bully the officials. Fuck her.
I must’ve seen a different clip of the incident. In the one I saw, the umpire was a complete wuss. Serena was frothing at the mouth. It’s crazy.
If I’d been the umpire, I would have dinged her a game, given her a decent interval to calm down (say, five seconds), then dinged her another game, rinse and repeat.
If she had been dinged again for any reason it would have been a match forfeit. From what I can see the penalties escalate such that:
Violation 1 = lost point
Violation 2 = lost point
Violation 3 = lost game
Violation 4 = match forfeit
Yep, that’s the way it works. The verbal abuse she got hit with is not so much about her choice of words. It includes attitude and volume. If she screamed in the guy’s face, “You aren’t very nice!” she still could’ve received a violation.
Alright, then, I’d give her a warning that if she didn’t get her shit together in the next ten seconds, she would forfeit the match.
And then I’d count down the ten seconds, and forfeit the fucking match if she didn’t straighten up.
Wow. That’s worse than I expected. Utterly disgraceful.
“Both sexes “rely on gender stereotypes, leading many women to sexualize themselves and many men to present themselves in a very stereotypically masculine way,” Sales says.”
No shit, Shirley.
Both sexes strive to make themselves appear more attractive the opposite sex?!
The horror, the horror…
“I object to reality because I lose out to competition”
“The city of San Francisco has released a Guide to Registration and Voting Process for Non-citizens seen here in English and Arabic. They are allowing FOREIGN NATIONALS to influence our elections.”
https://twitter.com/jojoh888/status/1038947879291940864
I’m thinking this is fake.
Of course it is. The giveaway is that its in English and Arabic, not Spanish and Arabic.
I would not be surprised if aliens are allowed to vote in local elections. It does say “school board”.
Real one here
https://sfelections.sfgov.org/non-citizen-registration-and-voting
That is absolutely bananas. What the fuck is wrong with that place?
“Ohio State annihilated another
opponentpowderpuff team from a school that has no athletic programs of note and is only in the Big Ten for crass financial reasons.”The B1G should boot Rutgers. Maryland isn’t the greatest of fits, but at least they’re competitive.
I’m still bitter that Maryland left the ACC. The Maryland-Duke rivalry made for good sports drama. I think Loh might be out on his ass before too long, and I think the move to the Big Ten will be part of the justification.
They’re making more $$ in the Big Ten.
lots of people treat it like a grocery store where you can just pick a ready-made date/partner/mate/sex buddy off the shelf.
Really? I’ll be right back.
Ready-made?!?!! Fucking Slackers.
COMMITMENT means committing to changing someone through continual pressure until they make you happy.
At least spring for her boob job.
Ready-made? How gauche. I get mine bespoke.
No true gent ever buys off the rack.
(all two of my suits are off the rack…)
I’m pretty standard, so I just think of 2/3 of my suit collection as having been made for me in advance and stored in the men’s department until I could pick them up.
I feel so bad for that young woman who won. I wouldn’t blame her one bit if she just ups and quits tennis at this point.
I’m sure Nike is desperate to shove a big pile of money at her.
She’s…too Asian.
Well, based on Nike’s marketing decisions recently they’d be more likely to shove that pile to Serena.
“Stand up for something. Even if it means shamefully losing your shit during a match and then playing the victim card after you lose.”
Doesn’t really fit on a poster though.
SJW Barbie: “Math is hard, let’s smash capitalism!”
http://educationforatoz.com/images/2018-7-6_JME_Wells.pdf
Money quote: “[gifted math] tracking is rooted in capitalist exploitations and settler colonialism. In deconstructing tracking in schools, connections are made that illustrate how tracking creates cultures of academic apartheid[…]Tracking students based on ability fuels academic apartheid in mathematics education, as tracking often includes reproduction of social class by creating modern systems of segregation (Kohli, 2015). Injustices like these are evidence of settler colonial ideas, which have permeated schools in neocolonial mutations of an antiquated practice.”
Good to see the good people of Oklahoma getting such a value for their tax money.
Wow. I’m glad to see there’s still no bottom in sight for those willing to plumb the depths.
I was ready to hear the argument out until that bit. Those are the kind of phrases I think of as “time-savers”, because they let me know I can safely disregard everything that follows as idiotic drivel.
Just what a Colonizer would say.
“If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.” – Frederick the Great
In this instance, replace philosophers with these cultural Marxists. I mean, even commies didn’t completely throw out the notion of meritocracy, even if in practice the system doesn’t reward it.
I have a feeling this rot is behind the decisions in most school districts these days.
Here in NYC there are too many whites and asians in the smart schools so the obvious solution is to dumb them down. Problem solved.
I had a really phenomenal teacher in high school who refused to dumb things down. Most of the teacher’s at my high school took the path of least resistance because the school I attended was on the Southside of Chicago and the standards where much lower. The principals and administration would constantly pressure my teacher to lower her standards, but she believed that we were just as capable of doing well and learning like the students at New Trier in Winnetka. They hounded her until the standardized test results came back and showed that students from her class performed better on the text compared to other students with different teachers. After that, they basically let her do things her way.
Patrick McManus on his teacher:
Tracking students based on ability fuels academic apartheid in mathematics education, as tracking often includes reproduction of social class by creating modern systems of segregation
we are not all equal until we are all equally stupid.
Handicapper General to the rescue!
Injustices like these are evidence of settler colonial ideas, which have permeated schools in neocolonial mutations of an antiquated practice.
tl;dr- 2 + 2 = 5
I sincerely don’t understand how these people can do what they’ve done to protect their “brand” rather than the children of their flock.
If they don’t protect the brand, they won’t have a flock, therefore no children to protect.
They have to molest the children to protect the children, it’s like y’all dont even priesthood, bro.
Serena Williams’ claims of sexism in the US Open final have been backed by the governing body of women’s tennis.
End sex segregation in tennis now!
That or outlaw one handed backhands.
I’d be okay with that
/one handed backhand was always my weakest stroke
As long as you don’t do the Seles two handed forehand.
End sex segregation in tennis now!
Its indefensible, really. There should be just “tennis”, with everyone playing on the proverbial level playing field, regardless of sex, gender, or whatever.
like ability?
Well, you know the thing with that. Supposedly the level of athleticism in the men’s pro players so far exceeds that of the women’s that mediocre men will beat exceptional women routinely. I don’t know that this is true, but there seems to be some anecdotal evidence to back it up.
I have no doubt that if there was one division, you wouldn’t find any women in the top 20, maybe not the top 50. There certainly would never be another woman winning a major tournament.
Boys’ high school varsity soccer teams routinely beat the US Women’s National Team.
I have no doubt that if there was one division, you wouldn’t find any women in the top 20, maybe not the top 50.
If anecdotes are correct, youd be in the 250-300 range before an all-time great like Serena showed up on the list.
Somebody posted a story awhile back about a Pro from Australia (I think) that was ranked around 300. He played a round of golf in the morning and drank a few brews. In the afternoon, he played and beat Venus and Serena one after the other.
Here’s one telling of the story
thanks for that
Here’s a first person telling of the story
A few good points brought up. On the men’s tour, there are some shots (due to a combo of power and spin… which is also power) that aren’t seen on the women’s tour. The amount of spin on the men’s tour gives trouble to the women because they’re not used to it. Also, the Williams sisters clean(ed) up on the women’s tour because they could power past most other women with winners… doesn’t work as well on the men’s tour where that sort of power is minimally mandatory.
This is the one I read somewhere.
Someone asked Martina Navratilova (at the top of her game) if she thought she could make it on the men’s tour. She said her coach (a guy ranked about 125) routinely ran down her best shots and sent them back at her. So no, she couldn’t play on the men’s tour.
1998: Karsten Braasch vs. the Williams sisters
Another event dubbed a “Battle of the Sexes” took place during the 1998 Australian Open[52] between Karsten Braasch and the Williams sisters. Venus and Serena Williams had claimed that they could beat any male player ranked outside the world’s top 200, so Braasch, then ranked 203rd, challenged them both. Braasch was described by one journalist as “a man whose training regime centered around a pack of cigarettes and more than a couple bottles of ice cold lager”.[53][52] The matches took place on court number 12 in Melbourne Park,[54] after Braasch had finished a round of golf and two shandies. He first took on Serena and after leading 5–0, beat her 6–1. Venus then walked on court and again Braasch was victorious, this time winning 6–2.[55] Braasch said afterwards, “500 and above, no chance”. He added that he had played like someone ranked 600th in order to keep the game “fun”.[56] Braasch said the big difference was that men can chase down shots much easier, and that men put spin on the ball that the women can’t handle. The Williams sisters adjusted their claim to beating men outside the top 350.[52]
we are not all equal until we are all equally stupid.
In a mass grave, all men are truly equal.
A little thought I just had, about that whole Serena thing- I don’t watch tennis anymore, so I didn’t see the ladies’ match. But I remember watching McEnroe in the old days and thinking, “This isn’t about the refs, it’s about trying to distract the opponent, and knock him off his game.”
If that’s what Serena was doing, she obviously failed miserably. Good for Osaka(?).
The USTA has pretty much given Serena immunity from any further penalties. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
She’s pushing 40, her career is in its waning days anyway.
The best punishment for this would be if she keeps playing way past her expiration date and starts shamefully losing over and over. Icing on the cake would be if she continues blaming the umpires/fans/critics for her losing until the whole community is sick of her shit.
Not the way I saw it. She’s a power player and Osaka was handling it easily. It’s like a bully getting punched back and whimpering. She lost it.
Given how high stress the game is, I forgive some of those outbursts. I can’t forgive, however, Serena and the fans twisting it to some absurd political statement. I waited for the apology, instead we all got treated to a mass temper tantrum. Pathetic.
I think Instapundit nailed it:
A working mother, no less. He’s onto something there.
Oh, and let’s not forget that Osaka is smoking hot and Serena is, well, Serena.
I have to admit, her decision to wear tutus because she couldn’t wear a catsuit at the French Open made me chuckle.
Just checked out Japanese media coverage of the event. Osaka, in her cute and somewhat childish Japanese, apologized to the fans for how the match ended. I’m embarrassed as an American.
Re: Sweden’s future.
I say “meh.”
Minority governments. Us Canucks get ’em every so often. They’re a bit maddening (unless you’re a libertarian who believes that the best government is one that’s usually paralyzed into complete inactivity), but we’ve learned to live with ’em. Life goes on and there aren’t any civil wars.
Their only problem (as we’re seeing in B.C.) is that it’s possible for a very minor third party to hold the governing minority party hostage and make ’em pass weird, SJW/enviroweenie bullshit legislation in order for the governing party to stay in power.
Ain’t that right, Johnny Horgan?