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Much too late for that, I fear.
Re: Fifth Circle of Hell
How much to implode and bulldoze the structure with all employees inside?
Are you asking, how much should you pay, or how much should you charge?
You get some pretty dull spam.
I’ve gotten about 400 copies of this one lately.
Now that’s some quality spam!
It was spam?
SHIT SHIT SHIT
Obvious bullshit. Any human that would use actually twice in one sentence would be incapable of spelling that word without the letter K.
Axually, it’s spelled with an axual “X”.
“Publish and be damned!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shut_Up_and_Dance_(Black_Mirror)
Yes, I immediately thought of that episode too. Perhaps the most chilling and disturbing of the Black Mirror episodes, because it seemed all too possible.
Yes. Though the twist at the end change the whole episode for me.
Very first choice is to just ignore this e-mail. As a result, I will send your actual recorded material to every bit of your contacts and consider regarding the disgrace you can get. Or should you be in a romantic relationship, just how it will affect?
You know. If that happened, maybe I’d just run for office. “Whatever, you’ve already seen whatever I expected would be dug up in this process, and doesn’t the CA Leg need someone with a nice pair of balls, you’ve seen them, you can’t unsee them, just vote for them.” Jesse CA Assembly
I have considered running for office, and then when the inevitable oppo research determines I’m a kinky non-monogamous pervert I’d would simply follow your lead here.
“Yes, I have a wife and a girlfriend and women let me tie them up of their own free will. I’m living the dream. Imagine if I can do that for me, what I could do for you in the Oregon legislature!”
I’m not sure we’re quite there yet as a society:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ex-porn-star-running-florida-school-board-article-1.1834375
He got creamed (pun intended).
Great, another person in Salem that wants to fuck me over. Join the line, pal! There are 89 ahead of you in the shithouse alone.
That can be read multiple ways, can’t it?
Yes. Just wait for the kicker.
You got my vote man…
You’re in Oregon?! I’m voting for you!
As a gay man, what would you consider a “nice pair”? As a boring breeder, my focus has strictly been on my own and whether they’re functional.
I don’t know what gay men look for, but I know that alien puppets hate it when they swing pendulously like two ostrich eggs in a turkey skin
Source
Inquiring minds want to know…
Are there grooming protocols?
I don’t know that I could give a breakdown on that besides avoiding obvious disfigurement and size extremes. Expectations vary by age, body-type and environmental factors. Other than that it’s an issue of proportion with other bits of anatomy and presentation.
“size extremes”
Are we talking ball bearings ranging to jumbo eggs?
Pretty much. There’s something disconcerting about going to fondle someone’s sack and not being able to actually locate their balls. Too big can be visually impressive and difficult to work with in practical terms.
Huh. Fascinating. I never figured there would be that much variation in testicle size.
There’s something disconcerting about going to fondle someone’s sack and not being able to actually locate their balls
Indeed. I had exactly that experience long time ago with one guy I had been seeing for a while. I told myself perhaps that’s how it’s supposed to be with black guys.
Semi relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoVb6-s-wEA
Mostly though, it cracks me up.
Who doesn’t just assume that everyone masturbates to porn since the do also?
It’s so that we don’t have the mental image of That individual person doing so. Some of us don’t subject their minds to SugarFree on a regular basis and have fewer brain scars.
I pretty much assume that you all constantly have some sort of BDSM/scat/Japanese bus/watersports crap up in the other tab whenever you’re on glibs.
Huh, I’d pictured a lot of Glibs being into Sailor Moon X-rated anime porn.
No, no. Just the regular Sailor Moon.
You forgot to mention the sheep.
This guy?
Do people these days not have their webcam taped over? Even all of my colleagues have their work laptops taped up.
No, mic still works. Unplug when not in use.
Is there an easy to physically disconnect the internal mic?
Just mute it.
I have mine disabled and the sensitivity turned to the lowest setting. I assume, perhaps mistakenly, that a hacker or the FSA could just turn it back on?
Yes, turning on mic or webcam can be done via software. It is well within the powers of a nation-state to turn on anyone’s mic if they take an interest in that person enough to aim a human operator at that person’s device, assuming it has a network connection and the hardware connected.
I’d rather my laptop not even have a webcam or mic included. I’m guess I could custom build it that way, but Costco often runs extremely good deals on prebuilt models.
I really hate having both on my phone. Seems like an impossibility to get rid of the mic and too inconvenient to get rid of the camera. At least I try to be cognizant of leaving my cell covered when not in use for all the good that’ll do.
I leave mine uncovered and unmuted.
If somebody wants to watch, they deserve what they get.
No, not really.
I recommend a sawzall
Mandatory video calls prevent me from doing that. I need one of those slider things
I use a USB plug-in camera for those. Same with the microphone.
Maybe you should stop going to that porn site. I mean, $400K is a lot of blackmail money.
“In this instance, I will instantly delete your videoTAPE.”
VHS or Beta, smartguy ?
“Go ahead and send it. Everyone already knows I’m a pervert.”
I got some pretty cool spam the other day. It was the usual semi-literate prose, but the pitch was that they had put malware on my computer which turned on the video camera when I was looking at porn sites, and they would send the video of me wanking it to everybody in my contact list if I didn’t pay them off. I wish I’d saved it; it was pretty abusive, really, with “deviant” and “pervert” and whatnot sprinkled through.
Joke was on them, though. It came to my work account, and I only access porn from devices that have zero connection to my work account. I passed my phone around at the meeting I was in when I got the email, to much amusement.
Yeah, kinda like what Scruffy got, only a different version.
Interestingly enough, this scam has generated a few hundred thousand in bitcoin donations.
Of course it does. They are the result of a business process, and you only get them because they have a positive expected value. If we would have instituted that penny-per-email-received plan that was kicking around like 15 years ago, they would have a negative expected value and would stop.
I get lawyer spam which is always pretty obviously spam but every few months some geriatric member of the Bar falls for it and since there is like one IT guy that does work for most of us we get to have a don’t be an idiot on the internet lecture.
I only select Family Friendly spam for my posts so as not to endanger our certification.
OK, the Bigfoot political ad is actually pretty good.
Trying to hide their actual links amidst the chaff?
I can’t stand Erik “common sense gun measures” Paulsen, but it will take a lot more than a semi-funny ad to get me to pull the lever for the trust fund commie.
I hate MN politics. Jesse, come back! You’re our only hope!
I constantly get spam for Russian brides. The jury is still out on whether that’s related to my incessant trolling for titty pics.
Russian, eh?
*squints suspiciously*
Are they well-endowed Russian brides?
That changes everything, yes.
So Ford’s lawyers announced she would be willing to testify provided a list of terms were met, including pushing the hearing back later than Monday.
My understanding is that Monday is the last day the Judiciary Committee can hold a vote, advance through General, and still have Kavanaugh seated by the start of the next SC term.
I’m sure that has nothing to do with the insistence on a delay.
Somebody put Flake’s tiny balls in a vise and let’s get this done.
About what I figured their next move would be. Now to see if the Repubs are really as spineless as I fear they are.
The answer is… even *more* spineless than you fear!
Got a link, Dad? I’d be interested to see the other conditions.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/senators-in-standoff-over-handling-of-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-allegations-1537451055
The other conditions aren’t provided. Apparently they are still being negotiated. This is ridiculous the Repubs are taking it seriously.
Hmm. If I were calling the shots on this for the Repubs, I would say the following:
(1) Monday is the only day that we will hear her testimony, as the vote is scheduled for that day to allow Kavanaugh, if approved, to be on the Court when their next session starts. Non-negotiable.
(2) We need a written list of demands before the end of the day today, and would respond in writing with our final proposal by the end of the day Friday. It will be up to her whether to show up on Monday. In short, we are not negotiating with a potential witness (who we could just subpoena, don’t forget), but we are willing to accommodate her, within reason.
I think that is enough to be reasonable, without giving the Dems the one and only thing they want – a delay in Kavanaugh’s nomination vote until after the elections.
Yep. This is one of those situations where negotiating is, in and of itself, a concession for the repubs and all that’s needed for victory by the dems.
“We don’t negotiate with terrorists.”
This is getting to the point where the only rational response from the Republicans would be, “We’re holding a vote on Monday. If you want to come in to testify to an empty room after that, feel free.”
That said, a funny thought occurred to me. The shape of the upcoming elections looks like the GOP might actually pick up a couple of Senate seats (Yes, the Dems will pick up seats in the House. But, there’s a lot more vulnerable Democrats in the Senate up for election than vulnerable Republicans). And this story is like fish, it doesn’t age well in the sun. Wouldn’t it be a pisser if the Democrats got their precious delay, only to have Kavanaugh’s confirmation being decided by a more Republican-friendly Senate?
Fuck that
1) We have issued a subpoena you will appear on Monday or you will be held in contempt of Congress.
2) If we do not find your testimony 100% truthful will will instruct the FBI to conduct a full investigation. Not into whether Judge Kavanaugh assaulted you 36 years ago as that is long past any statute of limitations and there is no possible criminal charge that could result from such an event. But rather into whether you have perjured yourself before Congress and whether it was an individual act or you colluded with others to interfere with a Constitutionally mandated Congressional hearing.
Understand we sympathize with your plight if you are indeed telling the truth, however as we have been amply assured over the last few years Colliusion against the government of the United States is a heinious crime that must be investigated no matter how outlandish the claims.
‘demands’ in that context seems an awful like like good ol’ fashioned extortion to me.
But what do I know ?
Isn’t the lawyer also a known Dem activist? Move on with the confirmation already.
“We’ll hold your meeting on wednesday, but the vote is Monday.”
Good answer
The Republicans should pull Kavenaugh and put in somebody’s even more conservative/libertarian, and push him without a hearing.
The Dems will manufacture a smear against the new guy in no time. Kavanaugh is the perfect case–almost SC quality–there’s no evidence behind the accusations against him. So, we’ll have to wait and see if a completely unsubstantiated allegation can derail a person’s career.
Amy Coney Barrett isn’t busy, other than tending to her job as a judge and mother of seven, and attending Catholic Mass on Sundays.
we’ve known it was gamesmanship from the start. now it should be obvious to everyone else.
Hold the goddamned vote on monday. If Flake flakes out then take him in the back and the rest of the R’s beat him with a bar of soap in a sock. I mean, really let him have it.
Stop fuckin’ around and put K on the bench.
I can’t believe the elephants haven’t figured out how short the American attention span is. Push forward. People will bitch, but it will be forgotten in 2 weeks.
That’s what I thought about the TDS when Trump had the audacity to win an election that was rigged against him. Going on 2 years it has been constant shrieking and shows no sign of slowing.
They’re the worst kinds of pussies: stupid ones.
I can’t even see most people bitching.
Sure the 40% who are hardcore democrats/leftists are gonna bitch no matter what but in this case the 20% in the middle are looking at the claims and saying “It was 35 years ago and there is no substance to the allegation”. They really don’t care
I’m guessing she has a dentist appointment on Monday.
A gynecologist appointment would play even better.
If the Republicans give a damn about winning elections they’d hold the vote Monday. Voters want to see them stand up to this bullshit.
I wonder what Elon will call the TIME guy. I’m starting to think that people are writing these articles just to see what happens.
Thot Thursday continues.
http://archive.is/0LsDn
67 wins with 53 closely coming from behind (IYKWIMAITTD).
Huh. I was expecting an Ibis-headed god, but no…
i still don’t know what it means…… I’ll go with Ibis headed Gods for 200 Jesse,
That Hoe Over There.
That’s Dumb, and tacky IMO, I’ll stick With Ibis headed gods
Yes it is. It originated with a subculture not exactly know for respecting women as much more than bags of meat for sticking ones dick in.
Cum dumpsters. Cock holsters. Slut receptacles. Meat sheaths. Pre-warmed tube socks.
When we used to play Tony Hawk on the N64, there was a HORSE mode, and you could specify your own word. There were just enough characters available to do CUMDMPSTR, so the contextually odd call of “do you wanna play cum dumpster?” was heard at all hours. It was particularly funny when I played cum dumpster with my roommate’s gf.
I remember my roommate and I in Okinawa playing NCAA Football 2003 on XBox. In Create A School mode, we made ourselves the Vagina Tech Clit Commanders (this was not long after Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back came out). Used Virginia Tech’s logo. Always laughed at the opening screen graphic for every game, where it would be “Vagina Tech Clit Commanders vs. Auburn Tigers” or whatever.
That’s Thoth, not Thot, Yusef.
…and all you got were the 610 Stompers.
31 for me
I too, on many occasions, have come from behind.
Pope Jimbo cracks me up.
The shit-on-toilet thread in the morning links really appeals to my level of erudition.
Btw, toilets/bathrooms made me a libertarian. That’s not a joke.
Would read.
I’m with her
me#2
If only the actual story were as interesting as the teaser :p
The tragedy of the commons?
Yep. I was a kid and saw a John Stossel special on 20/20 about it. I was like, “Damn, never thought of it like that.”
Toilets, man. That’s the key. Appeal on a visceral level.
visceral level:
like I wrote yesterday, my socon cousins can only understand liberty through cheeseburgers: the government that can enforce prayer in school can ban BigMacs
first them……………..
lol
“Me today, Big Macs tomorrow.”
Tapping on the floor is some sort of signal for ass-sex, and that is one of the three pillars of libertarian philosphy at TOS.
Messicans* build the bathrooms, and pot is what is smoked there.
Libertarian
MomentMovement.*I spelled messicans that way without even thinking about it, I spend way too much time here
I was thinking about my favorite Glibs, and humor figures greatly. Oddly, Tres Cool is the funniest guy on here to me; I think it’s because we’re so very different, so his every thought and phrasing is fresh and hilarious to me.
Then there’s all this covariance: if I think you’re smart, I probably think you’re funny, and vice versa.
Fuck off Tulpa.
How do you feel about his bromance with Yusef?
Ok, but enough about looks…
Heeyooo!
Hey! Wait just a minute here…. all this time I have been submitting articles for free?
Oh, wait. I forgot. I am getting a free subscription.
Oops. Was I not supposed to say that?
Now EVERYBODY will want a free subscription. Sheesh, Suthen.
Not enough articles? on a non commercial site? That’s funny.
I’ll bet there a plenty of monetized sites that would love the amount of readership that goes on here,
What are our actual numbers versus the monetized?
I’m curious to know the lurker/commentator ratio.
A graph of activity bands would be interesting. Or just a table of numbers.
We don’t need to know who is the most spammy.
*no monikers on the table, we don’t need to know who is the most spammy.
*cough*Q*cough*
/just kidding!
I’d hardly call my posts spam fine sir!
/righteous indignation
I figure there are 50 folk who account for 90% of the posts.
Did I see 2600 registered lately? Seems hi, but who knows.
so 50:1 ?
but that’s a ceiling; what’s the TF ? ( tulpa factor )
Speaking of posters, where’s Gilmore?
saw him here briefly maybe three days ago
but I’ve been busy and probably only read 50% now
He’s having trouble typing in the link and can’t get here.
Even the lurkers are Tulpa.
We all are tulpa!
Speaking of which, does anyone else notice a steady stream (going back to TOS) of new handles that overpost for a short amount of time and then disappear, never to be seen again?
Maybe they tried it and didn’t like it.
Unpossible!
Umm. We don’t sell ads. Egould is the only consistent donor. Thanks, buddy. SP will have to give you lurker vs. commenter. Please shop at the cafepress shop. SP was going to look at it for us.
I know you don’t sell ads. There is still traffic, and the comparison of those numbers is what I was wondering about.
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
Very tempted to attach the link but could result in me getting doxed, plus I’m sure the UPS driver doesn’t want his face plastered all over the interwebs. A giant spider decided to setup shop in front of our door so that there is no way around the web. Just so happens we have a lot of packages coming in this week. Anyways all week long my doorbell cam has provided me with a steady flow of entertainment. Brown shirts jumping back in fear running around shaking their clothes and crawling under the web. I finally managed to get rid of the spider last night, but the drivers are still crawling around trying to avoid the non-existent web. Does it make me a bad person that I’m enjoying this?
Yes. But we all float down here.
Preview of part 2 of that movie.
No spiders at all?
/link?
Different link to same thing.
How hard is it to get rid of a spider that it took you a week?
And, maybe its just me, but I don’t really enjoy jerking around people just trying to make a living.
Every time I went and took the web down the spider was gone. Finally caught him. I wasn’t intentionally leaving the web up.
Ah, a stealth spider. Got it. I hate those bastards.
Well, this was fast:
Never let a crisis go to waste, right?
Their masters of making money off bull shit.
Speaking of Dante, they’d fall in the opportunist part of hell.
they’re
Never let a circus go to waste, right?
FIFY
It’s always cocktail parties. Ban mixed drinks and we’d have libertopia. Well, except for the ban on mixed drinks.
I laughed, good one.
When people ask what Blasey would have to gain by coming forward, I think of the way the CIA recruits agents, MICE: Money, Ideology, Compromise, Ego.
Money: She’s probably going to get book deals and speaking gigs out of this, so check.
Ideology: Check.
Compromise: Probably not.
Ego: Maybe.
God, that’s going to be one shitty book.
How about some spam of the HR variety? (paraphrased to avoid doxxing)
“Dear employee,
We are committed to an inclusive work environment, where we see diversity not just as a value, but as a competitive advantage.
As a federal contractor, we are required to invite you to self-identify your disability status.
Regardless of whether you have a disability, I encourage you to participate. You will provide a more accurate picture of our employees and help us measure our commitment to inclusiveness of folks with disabilities.
While you’re doing this, please also self-identify as a race, gender, ethnicity and military status so that we can track how we’re doing at catching ’em all.
If you need help self-identifying as disabled, read the FAQs or call HR.
Sincerely,
White guy who gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to whine about diversity”
Response: “Fuck off slaver!”
“I identify as Superman”
I am a meat popsicle.
You’re a Towel!
SMOKE YOU!
Wrong answer.
You can have great fun with that.
Dear Overpaid space heater-
Your disablist and discriminatory email has grossly offended me. To assume that someone with disabilities is somehow less able than their counterparts is wrong and should not be encouraged by a person in such a position as yourself. Moreover, trying to trick them into outing themselves to the administration of this company and the associated agency is disgusting. How can you expect people to work in the environment you are creating with these types of messages that single out individuals for differential treatment?
I have a chronic inability to deal with stupidity. It makes me irritable and prone to fits of anger.
I love the ‘self-identify’.
I could have some fun with that.
Ford’s scrubbed yearbook highlights.
http://archive.is/IywgY
Personally, I don’t give a rat’s ass about what juvenile shenanigans high schoolers get up to. However, if Kavanaugh’s going to be unfairly dragged through the mud because of his yearbook, turnabout is fair play.
I went to a somewhat similar private school in Richmond for 6-12 grades. A few years back, I was moving stuff out of my old room in my parents’ house and found a box with my old yearbooks, which were for the entire school K-12. Flipping through the first one, from 6th grade in 1987-88, it was surprising how many obvious pictures of drinking were published. No way you could get away with that today.
Remember the drinking age was not raised to 21 until something like 1985 and even then it wasn’t universal. Back there there were high school kids for whom it was perfectly legal to drink
Blocked by work filter.
Mine doesn’t like it either.
TL;DR – OMG, Misty and I got sooooooooooooo wasted at a party and blacked out! Susie and Kelly went out with college boys! Jenny likes to date Sophomores because they’re innocent! We went to the beach and drank lots of alcohol!
It just highlights the overall absurdity of the entire allegation; we’re judging middle aged adults based on the behavior of 17 year olds.
Pokemon has gotten really weird.
Pokemon was always really weird.
Gotta grope them all!
“behavior of 17 year olds”
I doubt the utility of recovered childhood memories and ancient news, so I don’t really don’t want to hear her, but
character matters; lots of us did zero at 17 for which we are now embarrassed; in fact, I get a little bummed out that following the rules and being a good guy has counted for so little
I agree 100% that character matters; however, how many people would agree that your overall character as a human being has solidified at 16 or 17?
Umm…
I was sort of already a premature curmudgeon then.
Wouldn’t you say that it’s easier being young than old: the grays emerge later. You nick a MilkyWay at four, you know it’s wrong. Your department allows some clients to misinterpret the quality of a bundle of bonds, it’s nobody’s fault, just one of those things.
I hear you Don. I sometimes regret not cutting loose as a youth, but the upside is I have no criminal record or STDs.
You’re really not Floridaing right.
The real me is far less interesting than my alter ego.
lots of us did zero at 17 for which we are now embarrassed;
No kidding
I attended a single party in high school(I was periodically invited to some but never took anyone up on the offer). A cast and crew party after the third and final night of the annual student play.
I probably wouldn’t have gone at all except my younger sister wanted to go and my parents wouldn’t allow it unless I went too, which meant I was there as a baby sitter for a 15 year old girl who easily succumbed to peer pressure.
Instead of partying, my cousin and I sat around in another room of the house writing BASIC code for a game that we never finished. For some reason I cannot recall he had brought his computer with him to a party. Oh the fun a couple of dorks have at a party.
The behavior of 17 year olds when the legal drinking age was only 18 and drunk driving was generally just considered youthful hijinks
It links to the Liberal party of New Brunswick?
That spam is all over the place.
This is what happens when you name a province after a bowling ball.
I ran across it earlier today and thought it was soooooo typical that I couldn’t resist sharing.
Hungary and the EU disagree about Hungary being invaded.
I’m listening to Styxhexwhatever right now on that subject,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGzq7q_X18Q
Italy, Czech Republic, Poland, and Bulgaria all back Hungary.
Hey, keep your opinions to yourself, unless you want to end up invaded too.
/assumes bend over position.
I’m pleasantly surprised by my Italian cousins.
Just end the EU already.
“Walla Walla, Washington”
/snaps finger.
And thats that.
Newport News!
USS Newport News!
Funny how eastern Europe, the part of Europe with the most experience in this matter, are diametrically opposed to the Polyanna attitude western Europe has. That should be a clue, western Europe. Never mind, you will figure it out soon enough.
Yeah, but they had the wrong top men. It’ll be different this time.
I know. They see this guy as a hero. Definitely wrong top men.
http://pure-romania.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Vlad_Tepes_Vlad-The-Impaler1.jpg
So, MIcrosoft fucked up our CRM environment, which basically means we can’t work. With user testing Monday. Not what we needed today. Then homeboy amateur other vendor brings in a competitor as his solution to manage something I’ve been doing I(create and manage an Azure environment), but is really his responsibility. I immediately emailed my boss. Now I’m on the (a) you’re not getting your shit tomorrow and (b) why are you letting this guy fuck you and us call. The sad part is, we’ve been trying to pull homeboy along and not calling him on his shit. Now that he has fucked us, I expect things to get real. Hooray for meeting hell instead of delivery hell.
On the plus side, I have the ultimate Florida Man drink. I call it the Russian Tang:
1 part vodka
4 parts Mad Dragon “Orange Wine” (I assume this 20% abv abomination is actually orange colored malt liquor with a lot of sugar and some orange color and citric acid)
MIx in tall glass with ice. The vodka actually does a great job of masking both the cloying sweetness and harsh alcohol taste. And you end up with something that is about 9 oz of 35% abv. Not sure what it says about my drinking habits that I’m on my 2nd at 4:30 in the afternoon, or that I discovered it at all. But watch out Cody Wilson, I have the high school panty dropper drink right here.
Thanks for covering the links, SP.
Everclear + Grenadine + Kool Aid = Instant college nymphos.
My roommate fondly dubbed this drink the “pussytini”.
I am now officially precluded from ever holding public office.
Oh, you were precluded from holding public office by commenting here.
We left the grenadine out… Good old jungle juice.
I was apparently well known for mixing high-alcohol/easy drinking beverages in college in my “magic martini shaker” which were often jokingly referred to as date-rape drinks. I’d be curious what that would look like if my life were deeply scrutinized without the context of the moment.
As long as women weren’t involved it was just boys having fun.
I ran with a group the included one of the drunker sororities. On the bright side, there’s at least one woman who would testify that I cockblocked the shit out of a creeper who kept trying to peel a very drunk freshman her off from the herd when I was put in charge of walking a bunch of women back to campus from a party, so I guess that would look good.
Right up until the creeper files a complaint at your judicial hearing.
He probably doesn’t remember that it happened, and I theoretically didn’t do anything to him. He’d just try to lure her away from the group and I kept pulling her back in and keeping her focused on questions I was asking. He tried to get me to just let her go with him and I told him that I’d been charged with getting her back to her room and once she was in her room she could invite him in and I’d respect their decisions as adults or she could not invite him in and he’d need to skeddadle or I’d call the campus cops on him. She slammed the door in his face so hard I thought he’d bruise and then I stared him down until he left.
I wish you would have been there the night something similar* happened to me. Unfortunately, no one did and I banged a fat chick in a alley in Charleston.
I was the very drunk one.
“and I theoretically didn’t do anything to him”
Theoretically, huh?
CHS or CRW? fat chicks vary
+10 busting up guys taking advantage of chicks
“So are we gonna fuck or are you going home?”
“So are we gonna fuck or are you going home?”
Noooooo. He was not even a little bit attractive and radiated “sexually desperate slimeball” I wonder if I can find him through some of his (eventual) frat brother’s…
The panopticon scratches its head and wonders why youth suicide and measures of anxiety and neurotcism are sky rocketing
Mad Dog 20/20 with a vodka booster? Will be on the lookout for Florida Man news tomorrow.
Today’s music link is not heavy metal.
Come on, beat off Tulpa!
Who’s the Soyboy here Tulpa?
Slaver, Fuck Off!
Is Tulpa the subject or the object of that sentence?
Both. They’re all tulpae down here.
tulpae
I was wondering what the plural was. Thanks.
You can observe multiple tulpae flourishing in their natural environment during a tulposcopy.
Yes
I’ve had so much after-hours work of late that I got confused when I looked at my claendar to see what was scheduled for today and found nothing.
There had actually been something scheduled, but it was postponed because the team doing the execution didn’t have their shit together last week.
They need to Hone there skills if they want make the Cut,
just Say’n
I’m scheduled to do a video interview of some candidate in Poland tomorrow morning, about 30 minutes before I normally even start. Joy. I’m not at my best in the mornings.
Start off by asking the candidate if they can describe the local technology behind submarine screen doors.
Indian dude living in Krakow. I imagine there’s a joke in there, somewhere.
And you’re not very good in the evening either.
/ba-dum-tish
Holy crap. Some good news for once.
https://twitter.com/ByLynhBui/status/1042872636802560003
tl;dr: Cops serving drug warrant kick down door of wrong house. Homeowner, protecting himself and his daughter, shoots and injures two cops.
This is usually followed by “Homeowner killed in barrage of 80 bullets” or “Homeowner facing life in prison for attempted murder”. Instead the police actually seem to recognize he was acting in legitimate self defense and say he won’t be charged.
Bet they worked him over pretty good when he surrendered.
Fake news?
And the two cops will be charged with B&E, right?
The homeowner tagged them both, I’d be ok with no charges after getting shot.
Don’t even get me started. We came home from Thanksgiving last year to find a flyer on my wife’s front seat that said, “The Pinellas County Sheriffs closed an locked your car door to prevent theft. You’re welcome”
My wife was as fired up as I’ve ever seen her. “If someone who wasn’t a cop did that it would be burglary!”
ME: “Welcome to the party, babe.”
She still gets ranty about it.
So the cops are just wandering around parking lots checking handles? Assholes. My wife quite intentionally leaves the doors unlocked in her convertible because A) she takes her valuables with her and, B) thieves are happy to cut a hole in a $1500 top to avoid setting off an alarm. Locking the doors just costs her money.
Driveways. Even worse. It was at my private residence.
That’s even more infuriating.
JFC. That’d drive me into a rage.
What the fuck?
That’s just as bad as those assholes who ticket people for leaving their vehicle idling without someone immediately behind the wheel.
Fuck you pal, it’s a free countrysorry officer, won’t let it happen again.I walked out one morning to drive to work in my Jeep Wrangler, and the door was locked. I was confused since I never locked the doors on that vehicle. Then I looked to my right and noticed that someone had sliced open the canopy to get inside and try to hotwire it. Just try the door handle, asshole.
Had a truck once that you couldn’t unlock from the outside, I can’t believe I’m the only one with a vehicle that has that particular mechanical problem.
Got racial quick.
“Police said a confidential informant lead investigators to the address they sought a search warrant for and went to last night. Stawinski said he is not satisfied with how the amt of information used to obtain the search warrant.”
Whelp….wouldn’t wanna be THAT guy.
“Kavanaugh’s accuser and the curious George Soros links
First there was a report from June in the Daily Caller that found “a new political advocacy group that vowed to put $5 million behind an effort to stop … Kavanaugh’s confirmation has significant ties to the liberal financier” Soros.
The group, Demand Justice, established in 2018, gets its money from the Sixteen Thirty Fund — and the Sixteen Thirty Fund received roughly $2.2 million from the Open Society Policy Center, one of Soros’ outlets, between the years of 2012 and 2016.
And Demand Justice’s entire mission is to advance a progressive agenda through the courts.
Debra Katz, the attorney representingKavanaugh’s accuser — Christine Blasey Ford — is vice chair of the Project on Government Oversight, an organization that has been directly funded by Soros’ Open Society Foundation.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/18/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-and-links-ge/
“Curious George Soros” was a terrible reboot.
“Curious George and the Man with the Yellow Star” seemed to be in bad taste.
*golf clap*
So this foreign interference in our democracy will be investigated with as much attention and vigor as the Russian influence right?
If he keeps fucking with Trump and Jeffy Sessions takes time off to spend with his family, he might. I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
What foreign interference?
Exactly. We better get a special prosecutor with undefined power, scope, and duration on this asap.
By the time I’ve caught up reading yesterday’s links and articles I’ve forgotten the comments I wanted to make on them because now it’s today. Sheesh.
The religiosity post was pretty good though. Your comments were fascinating and it’s good to see I’m not alone in being crazy. I’m totally indifferent to religion now, but I was a Jesus-freak for a while through high school. A trip to Afghanistan sealed the indifference and now I’m fairly sure my neighbors are trying to save my doomed soul. I don’t mind since my wife likes to hang out with them and knows better than to bug me about it. I do enjoy the peace of spirituality and have found the temples here in Japan to be very good places to travel to in order to wind down a bit.
I especially liked them because everyone talked religion with no tantrums, arguments or shit flinging.
That’s the culture we have here. Seriously.
TOP. MEN.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2018/09/20/this-ivy-league-food-scientist-was-media-darling-now-his-studies-are-being-retracted/
Ah, the Peter Principle in action.
Yeah, but he probably never tried to feel up a fellow teenager 36 years ago.
the past week or so, I’ve gotten half-dozen robocall voicemails in Chinese. I assume they’re trying to sell me something, but they’re fun for spam calls. We have a good time making up stories for what the calls are “really” about — activating spies, the Chinese-language version of the “you owe the IRS and the police are almost there!” scam, etc.
Very common in NYC area. According to my Chinese speaking coworker they claim to be the Chinese Embassy and are calling about a visa issue.
Even the Chinese have cousins that are Nigerian princes.
You’d be surprised at the amount of Nigerians I ran into in Asia.
Those cousins are from the countryside.
Maryland cops break into home (wrong address warrant, per usual). Homeowner shoots, WILL NOT GO TO JAIL.
https://twitter.com/fox5dc/status/1042880580579459077
JB beat you to the punch.
Dagnabbit
In MARYLAND?!?!?
There may be hope for the human race after all.
Again!?
Yeah, right.
Well, for that particular address.
All searches will now be Terry stops.
And that house looked shady.
That’s gotta be on the Eastern Shore
DC area
Not to play the “whatabout” or whateverthefuckever game, but I invite you to imagine the shit hurricane that would result if a Republican had said this.
https://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/09/19/watch-beto-orourke-to-black-american-illegal-immigrant-labor-needed-for-cotton-gin/
“Oh please, he was just monkeying around. He didn’t mean it that way.” – Media
Holy shit. I dont put any stock in the hypersensitivity people have these days. I say what I think and I dont give a damn what anyone says. In fact I would consider being called a racist by a pinko a badge of honor….but that is a bit over the line even for me. That is some straight up naked racist shit. Well, they are the party of slavery, Jim Crow, fought the civil rights act tooth and nail so I guess it is no surprise.
Nice to see the mask slip.
I’m not sure what’s so racist about the empirically verifiable observation that a.) the U.S. is the 2nd largest cotton exporter, b.) Texas is the largest cotton producing state, c.) the majority of unskilled labor in that industry is provided for by recent immigrants from Latin America, and d.) without a supply of low-rung unskilled labor it would no longer be profitable to grow and harvest cotton in Texas?
There are a lot of racist slurs that aren’t used anymore because we are such a hotbed of racism these days. ‘cotton picker’ is one of them. He might as well have said that illegal immigrants are the new niggers.
I think he could have put it in a less offensive way.
But O’Rourke didn’t use the phrase “cotton picker”, all he said was that he went to a “cotton gin” in his hometown and talked to a guy.
The person who used the phrase was the author of the article.
It was a senior Trump aide that told a black man he was out of his ‘cotton picking mind’, maybe you’re confusing the two, Beto referred to a modern cotton gin where they process cotton, and the lack of Americans wanting to work there, picking cotton had nothing to do with it.
And in a way, that’s right. They are also the new wops, kikes, and micks. That’s how America is supposed to work – you get in on the ground level working the shit jobs and you build generational wealth. Once your folks have worked their way up, it’s time for the next group.
Did you read the article or just the headline?
*shrugs*
Having read it, I see nothing wrong with it whether he was a Democrat or Republican. In fact, if I were presented with such a loaded question by that asshole, I would have provided a much more biting and less charitable response. In this case, I have to admit that O’Rourke was a better man than I would be.
As I scan the article, this kind of jumped out at me.
Basically, he was saying (to a black man) that Americans aren’t willing to work, no matter what the hours or pay. That’s echoing an old slur about black people being lazy.
Of course, there’s also the part where he didn’t answer the guy’s question, which was about giving welfare and citizenship to illegals. The guy didn’t actually go into “Dey tuk our jerbs” territory at all, but Beto’s answer was basically “Illegals do the jobs that Americans won’t do” and “oh, those poor refugees”.
All in all, though, other than dodging the question, I thought it wasn’t a terrible statement. Just not responsive at all to the question.
He essentially claimed (to the extent that he said anything—there was a whole lotta filling the air and equivocation) that illegal immigration is OK because they’ll work for low wages that Americans can’t work for, couldn’t even if we wanted to.
Same as Nick Gillespie in a recent Reason video on illegal immigration.
Fuck that rhetoric. It’d be completely different if you said it, because you’re not supporting minimum wage laws and increasing MWs. They should be taken to task for their hypocrisy.
My bad, this thread is dead.
We will never die.
Car experts: I was changing the oil in my truck and my wife’s SUV. She has a 3.5L V6 and I have a 4.0L V6, but her oil capacity is 6 quarts and mine is 5 quarts. I found this counter intuitive. How is engine oil capacity determined? I tried google but all I get is stuff about Trump’s mushroom.
It’s the volume necessary in the pan to ensure the oil pump pickup never sucks in air. Different pan shapes may require more oil. It’s true that larger engines generally have higher oil capacity, but this is because of cooling requirements, not how much the engine “needs.” Only a small amount of oil is in the working part of the engine at any time.
Says the guy with a rotary engine avatar…
So if you have a higher torque engine that runs at lower RPMs but has larger displacement, you would need a lower oil coiling capacity than a slightly smaller displacement engine running at higher RPM?
Depends on all kinds of things. For example, if you take two identical engines and put an oil cooler on one, you have to fill that cooler as well as the engine, so your capacity goes up. If a small engine makes a lot of heat and has to use an oil cooler to eject it, it may require more oil than a larger engine that doesn’t get as hot. Add in factors for compression, bearing types, number of cylinders, cylinder layout, packaging constraints, etc., and oil capacity will be all over the map for different engines.
I’m just going to leave this right here.
Neat!
They now have an exporter so you can drive what you design in this game.
That’s awesome.
The V8 bent over backwards to get the exhaust runners to the same length, but the I6 was straight off a 1966 Chevy (balance be damned).
Wow. So much to consider. Thanks for indulging my curiosity.
Interesting. I wonder if since the VW is transverse there are cooling issues. 6.3 quarts seems like a lot for a pretty small engine.
One of my good friends races a Jetta. The bottom of that engine has a couple of counter-rotating balance shafts that are submerged in oil (for some reason only Germans can imagine). As a result, the pan is much deeper than it otherwise would be. I’d bet that’s why you have the higher capacity.
…(for some reason only Germans can imagine)…
I remember when BMW started making the cute windows that lowered slightly when the door was opened and resealed once you were in and the door closed. Now that was some fun complexity!
Is his Jetta the 2.5? A buddy of mine is an autocross dude. He keeps telling me to take the Jetta away from Spawn 1 and get it set up to race.
I remember when BMW started making the cute windows that lowered slightly when the door was opened and resealed once you were in and the door closed.
As a guy who has no idea why they’d do that, uhm, why did they do that?
My Mercedes did that. Windows lowered so as not to get caught under the convertible top weather seal when opening/closing the doors.
Yes, he runs the 2.5L. We affectionately call it the Rusty Trombone because of the way the not-quite-muffled 5-cylinder sounds (and also because he has no idea what a rusty trombone is). That car is WAY more fun to drive on the track than a grocery getter has any business being. He’s stripped it and made some modifications to the front control arms and upgraded the brakes. And if you blow up an engine you can generally get a replacement for under $500. Disabling all the ECU faults is a pain in the ass though.
I had a Nissan pickup ages ago that was built so tight that closing the doors with the windows up would make your ears pop.
So if the window presses against the seal on just one side, it still whistles at speed. If it presses against the seal from the bottom up, much less noise. So the window drops when you open the door to take pressure off the seal, and closes when you close the door to put pressure on the seal. It’s not only a gimmick, it also makes the car quieter.
Yep. It was originally for the frameless windows.
Still, when the motor got fucked up, it really cut into the cocaine budget.
Driving any German car cuts into the cocaine budget.
That car is WAY more fun to drive on the track than a grocery getter has any business being
Yeah, I’ve been driving it periodically while he’s been gone. It really is a weirdly nice setup.
Except for the fucking ECU. And the goddamn brake pad sensor.
The other odd thing is the cable actuated shifter. If you shift to quickly you end up in the wrong gear.
2 to 3 is problematic. It seems better once everything is warm and working.
I get to race that Jetta at Sebring this December. I’ll try to get some video for you. It’s absurdly fun to drive.
Perfect! Thanks, Mad!
Design of the engine. My 2.5 L VW takes as much as my old Tahoe.
Get a diesel. My Cummins required 3 gallons.
Quick search says diesels need more oil because it gets dirtier faster.
That, and the diesel is designed to use oil as cooling for the bottom of the piston via a high-pressure oil pump. Or so I was told.
Most modern engines spray the bottom of the piston with oil, whether diesel or gas. There may be some lawn equipment engines that don’t, but I don’t know of a modern automotive or motorcycle engine that doesn’t have that designed in.
Starting around 1991, heavy truck (40ton) engines were getting so efficient that we were having a hard time defrosting windshields. The Daimler engines from that era proved to be as fuel-efficient and as durable as any since, but cold-starts were not driver-friendly.
I get it’s a different design but what is the engineering reason for higher/lower oil capacity. If it’s primarily as a heat sink, then it would make sense for higher RPM engines to need more volume for cooling.
No clue. It’s german. I’m sure they do it just to be assholes.
My uncle’s old air-cooled 911 took some ridiculous amount of oil. 12 Quarts if I remember correctly – for a flat-6.
For you and TresCool both: oil does a ton of the cooling on all IC engines. Notice that your coolant only gets up around 200F; the oil has much higher temperature tolerance and specific heat capacity.
To the extent that ICE are only 25 to 33% efficient, imagine that for a 100 mile trip you really only use one gallon for translation and as much as pour two other gallons out and just set them as a pool fire.
The primary purpose of your oil is for keeping the inside of your engine lubricated and clean.
Diesels require more because they are a lot dirtier than gas (soot as a by-product).
Heat is only a secondary concern. And more so for how hot the oil gets than in cooling the engine.
Expected type of service (heat, speed and cleanliness) and maximum lubrication volume are the primary engineering considerations for setting your minimum lube requirements.
I understand that pistons/rings aren’t as tight lately in an effort to reduce sliding friction, a way to find a fraction of an MPG. As a result of ever tighter CAFE standards, we’re going back to the old days when you might “burn” a quart between changes. With improvements in quality/form/fit and the 3,000 mile change interval, that burned quart had disappeared in the late 1980s….but it’s back.
Performance envelope matters as well. Another way to starve the pump’s pickup is with lateral Gs (Corvette) or odd traction angles (bulldozers and 4×4 on sides of hills or taking hills); again, depending on front end and pan baffle design, you might need a deeper pan to prevent starvation.
I understand that pistons/rings aren’t as tight lately in an effort to reduce sliding friction
These euphemisms!
YMMV……….literally
Lubrication is key to longer performance.
It’s ridiculous. Trading a tiny mileage bump for more oil consumption. Only a watermelon could come up with such a genius plan.
Hell – my wife’s new car shuts itself off at stop-lights unless I remember to disengage the stupid thing. So I’ll have to buy a new starter the day after the warranty expires for the slightest gain in gas mileage.
It’s less than tiny: looser pistons means bypass which means less compression, so less efficiency….very regressive notion.
There are a lot of things going on to offset the looser rings.
Better designs and materials of the piston rings, as well as lower viscosity oil all are part of the improvements in modern engines. Car companies still sell the ‘up to one quart of oil lost between changes is acceptable’ but that’s more due to how well that particular engine was put together than chasing CAFE standards.
Ring materials allow designers to make the rings a lot thinner than they were previously, so that the pressure per area on the wall can remain the same while making the spring rate of the ring actually lower.
My 20 years in automotive design, tooling, production, and sales was more in heat transfer. I can certainly confirm your notes on advancements in materials, and, as far as I know, the one quart thing never went away at VW.
This was all heard from colleagues, suppliers, and clients: “I understand.” I didn’t/don’t challenge it because I know all the loony things that were asked of me in pursuit of CAFE.
Sounds like you got a lot more experience than me, I studied automotive engineering in school (long time ago), and basically keep up on this kind of stuff as a hobby. Read a lot; and still find internal combustion dynamics and design really interesting.
That makes sense, lateral Gs in a performance car or extreme angles of approach for heavy equipment.
The info you want may be on the sticker on the frame inside the driver’s side door. If it isnt there it is in the manual. Don’t over-fill or you can ruin the seals.
Check the dipsticks before starting.
I know the oil capacity of both engines, I was curious why the smaller displacement engine requires more oil.
Oh. I should shut up. I can do most car maintenance but all I really know how to do is read instructions.
Overfilling can also cause the oil level to rise to the bottom of the crankshaft (in those weird piston engines) and cause all kinds of problems.
I was recently in getting a smog check and the guy running the shop told me the day before a customer had come in with his truck smoking like crazy. He had gotten an oil change the day before. They checked the dipstick and the engine had twice the oil it was supposed to (thus the smoke). Then they checked the transmission and it was empty. So, the monkey at the oil change place drained the transmission, filled the engine and sent him on his way without checking anything. Never mind that gear oil looks and smells completely different and he should have noticed immediately. This is why I NEVER go to those 15 minute oil change places.
Gear oil dispenser nozzles and motor oil dispenser nozzles look a lot alike.
In process design, I have Don’s first law of process design / poka yoke: things that are not the same should be different.
I’m going to borrow that, credited, and my boss is going to be so excited he’s going to say it for the next year.
And didn’t change the filter. Unreal.
I read about a guy that did that. Locked up his rear end on the highway. I could see how it could happen on the Tacoma. The drain plugs look the same and the diff looks like an oil pan.
I’m sure the latest Project Veritas scoop has been posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9qugiX6uYY
Pretty jarring.
I think someone yesterday implied it wasn’t a big deal. It’s a big deal. A very big deal. That is some dangerous shit.
That was me and I have yet to hear exactly what this guy did other than using his work computer to send DU memes, Sure he should be fired for fucking around on our dime and it sucks that it’s so hard to fire federal employees but this ain’t exactly treason.
He wasn’t the only one and they used their work computers and federal data bases to find personal information on political opponents so that they could harass them. To find their homes and phone numbers.
You dont see that as dangerous? I dont just mean what they did but the mindset it takes to do it.
they used their work computers and federal data bases to find personal information on political opponents so that they could harass them.
Source please, I haven’t read of that in any of the posted stories, admittedly I didn’t watch the 16 min vid ( after 30 seconds of the trenchcoat guy and scary music I got bored) If they are using their access to get personal information on anyone then they should be looking at jail time.
WaPo
Thanks, although paywalled so I can’t read it. Again, if they are abusing their positions fuck ’em but it’s phrases like this “publicly available database [Lexis/Nexis], in a way that suggests she might have used a government account” that sends up flares whether it’s coming from the left or right. Anytime I see the exaggeration of possible actions my Bullshit Detector goes off.
Technically, it’s paywalled and you don’t want to spend the money. It’s a shame poor people like us do not have access to such services.
Fair enough, I could read it I just don’t want to give WAPO any money and my impeccable morality won’t allow me to ‘trick’ them by using incognito mode or doing the ‘google the headline’ thing I’ve heard about.
I’m with Suthen on this one. There needs to be a hard, bright line between pubsec resources (including employee time) and political activity.
The particular kind of political activity here is especially noxious to me, as it involves targeting people at their homes. But I don’t think pubsecs should be allowed to use pubsec resources to do any kind of political activity, including sending dank memes. In the nonprofit world, we are absolutely intolerant of any kind of partisan activity using our resources – you can’t send emails, for example, on the company account inviting people to a fundraiser or supporting any candidate for office.
You let political activists working on the public nickel use state resources to advance their political agenda, and things can get really ugly really fast. We’ve seen the IRS do exactly this to cripple the Tea Party movement. Law enforcement gets into this game (as we know they have), and its no-shitting banana republic time.
There is a hard bright line. Federal Employees are almost unfireable, but this one thing that can get you fired.
But somebody has to enforce it. And ultimately some political animal making political decisions is in the food chain.
Aren’t these fairly low level people though? I don’t think it’s surprising at all this is going on, although it is surprising that they’re so willing to openly run their mouths about it. Airing this kind of thing like they do is just stupid.
In one sense I’m gratified to know these doofuses are sequestered away in civil service rather than polluting private businesses.
Well, there’s two things. One, low level or not, these people work in the public trust and are paid by taxes which are collected by people they disagree with. Because nobody has a choice as to paying taxes it’s supposed to be the case that whatever personal opinions government workers have stop at the door and they’re supposed to do their jobs professionally and without bias. That’s clearly not the case with the one DoJ chick who’s purposely dragging her heels processing paperwork in order to hurt companies she doesn’t like. Two, this kind of stuff doesn’t happen in a vacuum. If this many people are getting away with stuff like this, it’s because people higher in the chain of command are turning a blind eye, if not tacitly or even actively encouraging it.
Just because this isn’t a hanging offense doesn’t mean that it isn’t serious and doesn’t represent a bigger issue than a couple of slackers goofing off on the clock.
Exactly.
So thought crimes. Fucking off at work is bad, fucking off at work because of thoughts is worse.
No, but deliberately violating a position of trust because you disagree with half the people who are forced to pay you is bad.
So is abusing power, however little, based on your personal preferences. That’s not a “thought crime”, that’s corruption.
And to be absolutely clear, I’m saying that there is no difference between a bureaucrat dragging their feet because they don’t like the politics of someone who filed some required paperwork or the same bureaucrat fast-tracking the processing of that paperwork because they were paid off. Both are examples of corruption.
So thought crimes. Not liking someones politics equals taking a bribe, got it.
Not liking someones politics equals taking a bribe, got it.
Nobody is talking about their personal political preferences. I am objecting to them using their government jobs and government resources to advance their personal political preferences.
Yes, abusing the powers of your position to inflict harm on your enemies is a perversion of the responsibilities of the position just as it would be if you used those powers to help your friends. It is the same thing. If that is the same thing to you as thinking the wrong things, then so be it.
Taking a bribe one can prove, financial record etc. “This guy hates Trump” is subjective.
What if he says “I hate Trump” and then acts on that statement by, say, doxxing Trump supporters and sending the info to protest groups?
What if he says ‘I hate muppets’ and then mugs Rufus? If doxxing and sending on private info is wrong it doesn’t matter why it was done.
Mens rea can also be inferred. You don’t need to state out loud what your motives or reasons are; in fact, that’s quite rare and mens rea is almost always inferred.
If doxxing and sending on private info is wrong it doesn’t matter why it was done.
Indeed so, and I would love to be able to fire every pubsec when they do something wrong on the job. But you can’t. I think using your government position to advance your politics is extra wrong, and is also more easily enforced (if anyone has the will or the integrity to do so).
What if he says ‘I hate muppets’ and then mugs Rufus?
He’ll probably get off based on qualified immunity?
“What if he says ‘I hate muppets’ and then mugs Rufus? If doxxing and sending on private info is wrong it doesn’t matter why it was done”
Hey, keep me out of this!
At the very least, part of their behaviour needs to be disciplined.
By the way, the crap they were doing pulling people’s addresses up, if you did that at the bank that’s an immediate dismissal.
Agreed, first I heard of it, the Breitbart story I responded to yesterday, and was called out for only had a guy using his workstation to send out Democratic Socialist Propaganda. If you are cops creeping on a fine lady you ticketed or a political activist going after your enemies using one’s clearance to dig up info should result in jail time.
Sorry Hyperbole. I am having trouble responding in a reasonable amount of time.
I used to work for the state of Louisiana. We could not own t-shirts promoting candidates. We could not put out yard signs. We could not work for campaigns. We could not even talk about candidates with co-workers. That is state law here and they enforce it strictly. It makes sense to me that state employees with access to state resources cannot present the appearance of impropriety. We are on the state’s dime and have more power than the ordinary voter and perverted incentives.
I have also lived in banana republics where govt employees, given a little power, use it to advance their personal agendas. You never know where you stand, you never know what you can or cant do and you can be disappeared for saying the wrong thing to the wrong person. People live in fear. A first amendment makes no difference in a place like that.
Whoever is in power decides what everyone else can say and do.
This shit is rot and if it isnt shot, hit with a shovel, shit on and then set on fire we will end up just like that. It is clear to me that that a place like that is exactly the goal of the left. The mob and arbitrary targeting are the main tools in their box. They are waging war on due process right now. It has to be shut down.
So thought crimes.
Not really. Its violating the public trust, using public resources for partisan purposes, and opening the door for using actual government authority for partisan purposes. I’m puzzled that you would want to minimize this. This is the abuses that we have seen at DOJ/FBI and the IRS writ small. But, if you let it go when its low level functionaries, then you have set a precedent and facilitated a culture that leads straight to the FBI/DOJ colluding with the intelligence communities to overthrow an election.
Using public resources for anything other than their intended purposes should be a crime, when you start deciding that it’s worse if it’s for ‘political reasons’ you open the door to who interprets what is and what isn’t politically motivated, Just like hate crime laws. There should be one standard – Do your job or you get fired – I don’t care why you weren’t doing your job. You are adding subjectivity to what should be an objective issue.
I agree, but there can be a lot fuzz around whether you are “doing your job”. You can put a bright(er) line around political/partisan activity. I think that “doing your job” is more subjective and less enforcable than “no political activity”, especially since we know that you can’t fire a pubsec for merely not doing their job.
Have you watched the video in its entirety? That’s what I’m referencing, and that goes way beyond what I think you might be reacting to from earlier. I’m not familiar with the article, I’m just going by what the government employees in question are admitting to doing. And, to be totally clear, I’m not making the argument that it’s worse because it’s politically motivated, I’m making the argument that it’s just as bad despite the fact that it’s politically motivated.
But if you want to take it there, then, yes, I do believe that there is a separate element of malfeasance involved when a person in government behaves unjustly and then papers it over by saying that they’re “resisting”. There is no freedom of association with government; everyone is forced to pay for it, and everyone is subject to it. That being the case, if it is just, it has to serve everyone equally. When a person in the government allows personal bias to influence how they treat the people who are forced to live with their decisions, it is an injustice.
Maybe I take this a little more seriously because I’ve worked in government for some years and know a lot of other people who do, too. I’ve seen some of the “resistance” shit first-hand, and before it was Trump it was the more conventional biases of petty bureaucrats abusing authority, but it is a different thing than just somebody working for a private business looking at cat memes all day.
Except, Hype, they make it pretty clear in the video they’re looking to ‘stall’ or ‘resist’ Trump.
It’s the abuse of Chicago Machine politics that created the Shakman Decrees. “Writ Small” is being FAR too generous.
I was thinking that sending dank memes and doxxing lobbyists is pretty small compared to what the IRS, DOJ, and FBI have done.
Death by a thousand cuts, from my perspective.
More like theft than thought crime, but at least you live up to your name.
The comparison is that the theft is wrong, full stop. Some here want to make the theft worse if it’s for ‘political reasons’ for which you have to read minds to determine, ala thought crimes.
Yes, because determining the state of mind of the accused is something that the criminal justice system has never done before.
I don’t necessarily have to read their minds. I often just have to look at what they do and say. Even with the IRS, it was apparent that they were fast-tracking liberal applications and slow-walking Tea Party applications. I’m comfortable inferring their political motivations from that.
And what is the standard libertarian position on that?
I’m going to go watch the Browns find a way to lose, good talk, everyone.
Are you asking me? Because I don’t think there is a standard libertarian position on that. Off the top of my head, I can think of at least three theories of punishment that are all “standard libertarian” and that are all mutually exclusive of each other.
. . . for which you have to read minds to determine, ala [sic] thought crimes.
Not always. Sometimes the doofuses actually admit to stuff whilst being secretly (or not-so-secretly) recorded, in which case zero mind reading is necessary. Even without recording, admitting stuff like that in front of potentially hostile witnesses purely for purposes of braggadocio would allow a reasonable person to infer political motivation. Mens rea is hard to prove, but not impossible.
I think I just threw together the best pineapple chops ever. Amazing how you can make the same recipe numerous times and get an ‘Meh, it’s ok’ sometimes and an ‘Holy shit that’s a masterpiece’ other times.
Now spread it all on the pizza dough and cook it up!
Chops? Is that Louisiana speak for “slice of pizza” that I have never encountered before? You guys and your crazy creole speak.
Well Canadian bacon is pork, so I think he’s having a Hawaiian pizza.
I believe the consensus here is that pineapple is fine on pizza as long as it is Canadian bacon that comes with it. This consensus indicates science and so cannot be argued. It is settled.
heh. Pork chops. Pineapple juice, soy sauce, brown sugar, vinegar, a little corn starch, chicken broth and red bell pepper. The seared pork is put on rice, the sauce over that and then sprinkle green onion over the top. Pretty simple and delicious.
That applies even for the pros – consistency is the thing that gets a restaurant Michelin stars. If you have an amazing dish, the kitchen might just be having a good night. Making it consistently amazing is really, really difficult.
‘Meh, it’s ok’ sometimes and an ‘Holy shit that’s a masterpiece’ other times.
I’ve done the same thing with roast pork loin and apple sauce. Seasoned with some teriyaki and little of spicy seasonings.
It sometimes is the best thing I’ve ever made and ate.
Well, they DID say it was a baby whale .
More proof that your average cop would try to put a square peg in a round hole.
What? Did no one have a chainsaw ?
Well, it’s still not the worst way of dealing with a dead whale.
I know what that is before I click. Priceless.
Same. I can picture it with total clarity.
Lobsters in the news .
That doesn’t sound right, but I don’t know enough about lobsters to dispute it.
Jordan Peterson approves
Jerry Brown: “We never had a president who was engaged in this kind of behavior[.] I mean he’s not telling the truth; he keeps changing his mind; he’s sabotaging the world order in many respects . . . It’s unprecedented, it’s dangerous, and hopefully this election is going to send a strong message to the country. The Democrats will win . . . something’s got to happen to this guy, because if we don’t get rid of him, he’s going to undermine America and even the world.”
Something like what happened to Steve Scalise, Jer?
Fuck off Jerry
Hmm, “who shall rid me of this turbulent priest?”
from the morning links: How many different alcohols can the same barrel make in its lifetime?
More importantly, after it’s made the booze rounds, is it then dried out and chipped to smoke pork with? And after being reduced to fine white ash, is it then used to make blackpowder for fireworks?
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GJVBWLG
I just ordered it this week. I’ll be trying it this weekend.
Whew, that’s covered then. How’s your ATF application for making fireworks coming along?
Application?!?!
Fuck off slaver!!!
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Forgot to tell y’all! As of today, I’m back to earning a salary (with a small raise) and vacation days!!!
*ron swanson dancing gif here*
Hey!!! Fabulous! Did you get your office politics situation worked out?
Did I have an office politics situation? You’ll have to forgive me – I may be slightly zooted.
Oh sorry. It was someone else. I am on Percocet. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
LOL! Cheers to dat!
Have you started trying to wean yourself off the Percs, yet?
I’m at q12 hours, interspersing with Tylenol and ibuprofen. Thanks for asking! 🙂
I think that was Tulip.
Congrats!
Congratulations!
Next round’s on Kristen
Kristen’s raise and vacation days are for her to snow bunny all over the slopes. But we can have a round in her honor.
I will buy a round and nachos for any glib that shows up at Jack’s Bar at Copper Mountain on Feb 10.
Woo! Congrats!