All the regular posters are off pretending to work. I assume the orphan mines are running at capacity this time of year. So you get links from me today. And since there and so many subjects infinitely more interesting than politics, you get plenty of them.
Rare dinosaur fossil discovered on internet after disappearing for decades
Three more Mars rovers planned
I have an evil plan to charge you for air, but I need a billion years or so to make it happen
Around here it doesn’t get cold enough for this to work. Also, our poles are made of wood.
King of the fuckin’ jungle, bitches.
Playa Manhattan asked me to include this, and this.
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These are the best links I’ve ever seen! Bigly!
Bonus link just for you.
^
You can milk anything with nipples and evidently a few things without nipples.
Red rocket?
Well, yeah, that would be an example.
Ohhhh.
:Stops looking for Coconut nipples:
Who’s volunteering to milk Florida Man?
Unfortunately, no one. 🙁
YOU MILK STEVE SMITH YOU GET MORE THAN YOU BARGAINED FOR.
If our atmosphere is leaking into space…. shouldn’t we STOP launching rockets? Crazy, I know.
When I was a kid, I read a sf book called (I think), “Strangers in Space.” It was about a group of aliens on the moon who were slowly removing the Earth’s atmosphere in order to exterminate the human race rather than allow humans to enter space with their war-like ways.
I thought Venus was so inhospitable because it doesn’t have a moon to strip off some of the atmosphere?
Or start looking for Mega Maid
I wanted to change my user name to Matt Lauer’s Rape Room, but I’m not allowed. I’m being discriminated against as a non-contributor.
No it just appears that Matt Lauer has already copyrighted that name…
STEVE SMITH WANT NOBODY INFRINGING ON HIS SCHTICK.
RE: Tuna,
Or just don’t sell it….
But you can charge double and millennials are all over it. Marketing geniuses at work.
Smash up some avocado on it and quadruple the price!
We need to call up King Roland and find out who Druidia used to build their air shield.
Jared Kushner?
Is Eight Star Wars Movies Enough?
Goddam oxygen thieves. I blame millennial enlistees.
Funny, she doesnt look drewish.
Why is there a link to tires?
Playa Manhattan is fishing for a Christmas present from the glibertariat.
I suggested that he make the links about cars. This is his way of showcasing one of his many personality disorders.
^^ minivan guy ^^
I got rid of the minivan exactly a year ago.
We talked about this.
You can take the Playa out of the minivan, but you can never take the minivan out of the Playa.
Yes once a minivan guy, always a minivan guy.
I do miss the automatic doors.
Reminds me of something I saw on the way in today. Mrs. Dean and I were joking that you never see a Subaru that doesn’t have bumper stickers. The one I saw today didn’t have the usual run of commie-symp bumper stickers, but it did have one:
“I Used To Be Cool”.
I larfed.
There are no bumper stickers on our 9 year old Forrester. There are no bumper stickers on any of our vehicles.
On my beater truck and my junker Granny car, we have “Who is John Galt?” bumper stickers.
But on our very nice daily driver, we have no bumper stickers, and will not have any.
It’s a Subaru. It’s implied. No stickers required.
I have a tasteful (magnetic) Gadsden flag sticker on both of our FJ Cruisers. And a few window stickers for various under-the-hood upgrades. I also customized the badging, now that I think about it, on mine with an old-school Toyota Four-Wheel Drive badge, and on Mrs. Dean’s I added a TRD badge and a Supercharged badge.
I paid the $10 for the gadsden plates here in VA. I’d really like to get ahold of an old wall-hanging quality gadsden flag with some historical significance.
Don’t know about historical significance but I like this version.
I am a no bumper sticker driver, as well.
I’ve seen one that makes fun of the family bumper sticker where they have a stick figure for each kid.
It’s a husband, wife, and bag of money.
One of my favorites (possibly NSFW if you work with prudes)
My personal favorite.
Oh geez. That’s funny, but I can’t imagine what kind of people would put that on their car. Either they are very committed to the joke or they’re truly horrible human beings.
Whoa. That’s hardcore.
Not that I put stickers on my car anyway, but with that, I wouldn’t be able to leave Los Angeles County.
I saw one where the husband is missing and a has a big arrow pointing to the space – “This space available”
I chuckled.
I saw one with a husband and wife on one side and what appeared to be a mistress on the other side of the window.
No bumper stickers on my Outback.
If I remember the salesperson correctly it used to live in NY State and was owned by a couple of professors which would suggest to me that it should have been plastered in lefty drivel.
A couple gallons of goof off does wonders on bumper stickers.
There are no bumper stickers on my STI.
There is also no chrome NERV logo in the rear window, becasue it is too cold to apply decals.
Hmmm… Spider boobs…
May Parker?
Spider-Girl
Oops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Girl
Spider Girl!
You’ll be in your bunk…
http://sagacomic.wikia.com/wiki/The_Stalk?file=Saga_-Zone_015.jpg
Put the tuna in mason jars and put an organic label on it. Boom. Instant hipster appeal. Problem solved, tuna industry. Where’s my money.
They can mix it with artisinal mayo, put it on artisinal toast, and get $15 per sandwi…environmentally conscious wrapper-free hand-held nourishment stack.
“Millennials don’t even own can openers”
They really are useless. Let this generation pass on this generational conveyor belt. There’s nothing to be done with them.
Is not owning can openers proof of the latent libertarianism of millennials?
That’s some unforeseen libertarian moment.
IT’S HAPPENING!!!
Gillespie can explain it to us.
Not owning a can opening is puzzling to me. Such people must either eat out all the time (expensive), make everything fresh (expensive and time consuming), or live on a total junk food diet. Many good things come in cans.
A lot of cans now come with pull tabs.
Based on my experience with cans of Sun Vista black beans, the pull tabs have 50% failure rate.
I suspect many millennials may have neither the muscle nor intellect to use tabs.
Fair point. Although it seems to me this is mainly a feature of ready-to-eat items, not ingredient items, but one could subsist on those fairly and not need a can opener.
If not for Black Olives I wouldn’t need my can opener, and I could buy them in a jar or get them from the salad bar.
There are too many kinds of olives at the salad bar in Whole Foods. It’s ridiculous.
No one needs 37 kinds of olives. Yet, that’s where Bernie Bros shop.
Just buy fresh Moroccan olives.
Making homemade marinara is much more tedious and time consuming using fresh tomatoes. No need when you can get canned San Marzanos.
Just did that last night, except with regular crushed tomatoes. Prolly would be better with San marzanos, but Aldi doesnt have ’em.
Muir Glen. Better than 80% of the San Marzanos (which tend to be super inconsistent from brand to brand).
You can buy them in cans?!? What the hell am I doing canning my own then?
make everything fresh (
expensive andtime consuming)I don’t think of fresh as being more expensive.
Its usually not, unless you insist on doing everything out of season.
Time is money.
Right, and Bill Gates loses money if he stops to pick up a hundred dollar bill.
No, it’s more than that. It’s not worth his time to stop and pick up a $10,000 bill.
They’re waiting for the app.
Great.
Now I have the Spider-Milk tune in my head.
Good luck trying to shake Spider Pig
NOOOOOOOO!
Wait.. three way cartoon on the home page. Links by a guy with a triangular rotor as his avatar. Posted at 3pm CT. The fucking trilaterists have taken over Glib HQ, right?
*pulls tin foil hat so far down it rips. Tears off another foil sheet and begins folding*
:Points:
He’s folded his tinfoil hat into a tricorn! He’s part of the conspiracy!
These links… you really hate us, don’t you?
Not you personally.
Collectivist!
So am I supposed to watch the backup camera instead of looking around? If I hit something or someone am I still at fault or can I blame the camera? If I’m supposed to use the camera and look around, why did they require something that makes backing up more distracting?
Alright, I’ll get off your lawn!
You better, cause that’s where he is backing up.
It’s my understanding that federal rules caused all the high rear ends in modern cars that are impossible to see behind. So mandating cameras was the “logical” next step.
I usually ignore the camera and just go old school. However, I use the camera for hooking up the trailer. I LOVE it!
And the sprayer is a good idea, but wiping it off with a little spit works fine, too.
I just found out that I have headlight washers.
Oh… so THAT’S what that button does.
One of my Volvos has headlight wiper/washers. The washers were a good idea. The wipers were not.
I use the camera in tight parking lots so I don’t have to use the bumper method.
I stopped using the bumper method. 1 bad experience will do that to you.
I was trying to squeeze into a tight spot at Bludso’s BBQ in Compton. Services for the Nation of Islam had just let out.
We’re glad you made it out to tell us about it.
The NOI has a very strict no gun policy, so I just had to drive faster than they could run. Didn’t even run a red light.
That’s another lovely thing about tricknology: it allows you to escape some very unpleasant situations.
Of course.
Have you ever jogged in a full tuxedo in mid-July? I haven’t.
I have a minivan with air conditioning.
Some of us just avoid Compton. I stay straight out of Compton.
“In May of this year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration made it mandatory that all new cars have a back-up camera, which allows you to see any oncoming cars behind you that are not visible with only the rear-view camera.”
So two cameras? It think most of this crap is just to raise the price of the car.
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration made it mandatory that all new cars have a back-up camera, which allows you to see any oncoming cars behind you that are not visible with only the rear-view camera
This makes no sense. A backup camera is one that comes on when you put the car in reverse. I’ve never seen a full-time rearview camera on a car. Even if you had a rearview camera, how would a backup camera show oncoming cars not visible with a rearview camera?
I can’t believe a government agency would do things that make no sense. That’s just crazy talk.
I think they meant rearview mirror, but some worthless millennial wrote the article and grew up after mirrors stopped being a thing.
It is mandatory that new car prices continue to rise.
If new car proces didn’t increase it would kill the volume sales of new cars.
Sounds counterintuitive but is true.
How else can you trade in your used car and not have at least some paper equity in order to qualify for the new car loan ?
This is actually taught in New Dealer Management classes.
Reposted in the correct thread: Lions and Hyenas. I imagine this is how SP feels ever since the first moments of the Glibening
Banjos said this in the morning links:
https://glibertarians.com/2018/12/monday-morning-links-75/
I wonder how automation works into this…
Find somebody else to open your tuna can!
Transgender kicked out of bathroom and other gems. On the ‘Punchable meter’ how high does the second guy in the video rate? Holy frick….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIt2C_JHPHo
Not that high?
Also, purple who shot vertical video should be put in camps.
The Lions v Hyenas video reminded me of another one; can’t remember the show, but it was back a time. It was about the rivalry between lions and hyenas, and had a scene where the hyenas got into a couple of females (I think) and were really looking like they were going to kill them. The big alpha males aren’t around that much, and I think this pride’s alpha had been unaccounted for for a couple weeks. As the hyenas are closing in, he blows out of cover and just starts massacring hyenas, starting with their alpha female.
Bottom line: the alpha males are pretty useless for anything but fucking and fighting, but they are indispensable for those.
Stealing this.
I have it on good authority (Everyday Feminism) that Alpha males are the cause of all the worlds problems and that that Alpha male lion perpetuated the patriarchy by not letting the lionesses get eaten alive.
Here’s one badass lion who likes to kill hyenas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOJOXeow_VE
I think this is the one you are talking about. It was a great show. If I remember correctly, the lion broke her back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrZ3s1XCQD4
That second one is the one I was thinking of. Probably been 10 years at least since I saw it.
I remember watching that long ago and literally cheering out loud when big daddy showed up and went nuts on the hyenas.
They are until the honey badger bites them in the sack.
Brutal
But funny.
Jesus. I really hope it’s true these guys are professionals and wouldn’t intentionally tank to fire a coach. Although Rodgers is pretty obviously smelling his own farts at this point.
McCarthy may have lost the team, but by all accounts he is a top notch man. He certainly wouldn’t deserve that.
I can’t believe that “music” link wasn’t the four rotor Mazda GTP car.
Disappointed!
How about a 6-rotor RX4?
It’s so pretty.
You’re disappointed? I didn’t even get a fucking hat tip!
Just the tip?
Regarding the decline in tuna sales, im guess it’s just a change in food preferences
I thought tuna came in foil packets, nowadays.
^^Hipster!
Sure it does, if you want to pay twice as much.
The GSD video is priceless. Although mine would eat veggies, too.
Nobody needs six rotors.
Exactly. Eight or gtfo.
Six rotors?! All while children in Africa are starving?!
You evil capitalist pig-dog!
I can’t even hazard a guess at what it cost to machine that eccentric shaft. I assume it’s a three piece shaft.
Rotary engines: no power, shitty mileage, unreliable, and sounds like a swarm of mildly retarded angry bees…but hey, it’s lightweight and revs to 10k, who cares if you can’t go anywhere and sound like crap trying?
I’m thinking about biting, but I’m not quite there.
It’s a thankless job, isn’t it?
It just makes me want to go shopping for one.
False!
Plenty of power… no torque.
And their limitations on emissions is what really kills them.
Couldn’t get link to format properly on phone (my ignorance, not the website’s fault). There’s a new article in Bloomberg entitled: “Wallstreer Rules for the #Metoo era: Avoid Women at All Costs”.
The title tells it all. Basically male executives are avoiding their female colleagues like the plague to keep from being compromised by sexual harrasment allegations. Said female colleagues are now whining about exclusion being excluded from meetings, parties, and mentorship.
All to say, exclusion (i.e. men refusing to open themselves to harrasment allegations based soley on accusation) = the new form of HArraZMent1!!
We are truly living in Gilead. *eye roll*
I once got a concession from a prog friend (amazing as that is) in regard to mandatory maternity pay:
“So if I mandate that when must be paid maternity pay that makes the net cost of a male employee lower, so who have you incentivized companies to hire and who have you incentives them to exclude?”
The #metoo bullshit it that X100
*women*….not “when”
I’m surprised that your proggy friend had the wherewithal to admit that. I’ve pointed out the same to some of my friends and all I get back is “something something right thing to do”
it didn’t make a dent but at least I got a momentary, “yeah, you have a point there”
That’s why a lot of ideas for this would impose mandatory paternity leave.
Personally, I only took off 2 or 3 days after our kids.
Had I been required to take off, 95% of my time would have been spent goofing off for lack of anything to do as baby and mom both spend a lot of time sleeping.
I got 2 weeks that had to be taken in the succeeding 6 months. I took 2 days right after the birth and used the rest to take a day here or there, especially when there were sleepless nights. I know a guy who got the same deal, but 4 weeks instead of 2. He was having a hard time using all of his leave.
My job gives me two weeks but I probably will take a couple of days off and then go back to work. And also, my Mother will be around to help out a lot and my Mother in Law will also be there, so there’s no point in me taking the whole two weeks off.
As far as I know if I wanted to take leave, it would be unpaid unless we used our regular PTO.
Ultimately doesn’t bother me as I know there was no point in me staying home too.
That gif is gold.
I just read that one. It still blamed men in the end.
I know, they just couldn’t bring themselves to admitting it. They ended with some White Knight jerkoff telling men to “not be assholes”.
“Not giving women the chance to falsely accuse me is me not being an asshole.”
You wanted #believeher and this is what you get. If you can torpedo my life and career based on an accusation, I’m going to do whatever I can to not be put in that position.
^^^This.
+150 million Mike Pences
I know Q posted this on Thursday but I would like to comment on this:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/nov/29/why-we-stopped-trusting-elites-the-new-populism
When did the left start loving the elites? I don’t recall the Guardian being very trustful of Big Business and The Aristocracy in the past.
And I amused that he acknowledges that his vaunted liberal democracy was the creation of the Privileged White Men that the woke are supposed to hate. A cynic might suspect that this is intentional.
Also he acknowledges the importance of cultural homogeneity with the elites. How that works with multiculturalism and open borders is unclear. Of course I have seen plenty of people arguing that this purely intentional.
When did the left start loving the elites?
When they completed their Long March Through The Institutions, and became the elites.
Progressivism has always been an elite fixation. The original muckrakers were bored upper-middle class whites that prized “specialization” and “top down governance”.
Also he acknowledges the importance of cultural homogeneity with the elites. How that works with multiculturalism and open borders is unclear.
The implication of such a formulation would be the intention of the elites to create a permanent underclass.
This is of course an argument that quite a few anti-immigrant people have made.
Found this in a link from the lions v. hyenas link.
Those hyenas got lucky. I saw a video where a lion killed 3 of them in the blink of an eye.
I saw a video where a pack of hyena killed and ate some lion.
Hyena are night fighters.
They are gutsy – until big daddy lion shows up pissed.
So apparently this is what Evergreen St. College professors are up to once the sane among them all left.
https://twitter.com/BenjaminABoyce/status/1069340771055099905
Enrollment is down 18% from before the Weinstein protests. I’m knd of surprised it’s not more.
Dear God, that’s hilarious! Rearranging gender-neautral deck chairs on the Titanic.
We need an eccentric billionaire to buy that place when they inevitably close up shop and open up a Miss University or something just as a troll
Mises……F U Mac autocorrect, damn I regret getting this thing
A beauty pageant would also be acceptable.
FWIW, you can teach your Mac so it doesn’t autocorrect words. Mine knows a bunch of libertarian lingo.
The Miss Mises Contest.
Which would likely be a sausage fest, because no libertarian women.
“The Miss Mises Contest.”
Hawt
Every year the winner would just be Naomi Brockwell
I could get down with a Miss University.
I like the idea of a Miss University.
Bulldoze the university off, open a strip mine in its place.
“Tucker Carlson University” Lol
Eventually the proce will come down enough that we could just pool our pocket change and do it ourselves — hello, Glibertarian U.!
the ark of the community agreement
And the bastardization of the language continues, “community agreement” does NOT carry the same meaning as covenant. Assholes.
In a similar vein, my main objection to some of the new first-person pronouns is grammatical. An individual cannot be “they” unless need psychiatric help. One of my quite proggy colleagues also hates the idea and has decided, if they ever force us to include pronoun designations in official communication to choose “it.” I’m thinking I will do the same.
Finnish doesn’t have a gendered third-person pronoun. I’ve been told that in colloquial Finnish, the inanimate pronoun gets used
Neither does Turkish. ‘O’ means he, she, or it.
That’s what I would do. It’s grammatically correct, and it’s dehumanizing.
I’ll do pretty much anything out of courtesy, but as soon as you try to force me to do it, all bets are off.
Yeah, there’s someone I work with who insists on “they” as a personal pronoun. I smile and call her by her given name – which is acceptable.
‘Twatty’?
Thundercunt. It’s a Native American name of unknown tribal origin.
That’s obnoxious. Personal pronouns are most often used to describe someone who is not present.
Just another opportunity to control your behavior even when they aren’t in the room.
In honor of your plight, I’m updating my preferred twitter pronouns to:
“Me, My, Mine”
We thank you.
So my family were out eating, and my daughter who’s a sophomore in HS, was talking about a “they”, and me being the out-of-touch dad remarked what’s a ‘they’? So she explains that it is what you call a gender fluid person or something. Then she says, what else would you call them? I said confused! That got a great laugh from my son who’s a Junior at the same HS.
“It puts the lotion on its skin”
And does it keep it’s skin so soft?
Why would it be any lower? The people that go there either love Communism or are in love with Communism.
Spider milk
Like cockroach milk, gross as a concept. Idk what is wrong with some people.
Also, our poles are made of wood.
Do you like little boys to put their tongues on them?
Gross…..also I tired that theory out on a barbell (NOT a euphemism) when I way a kid. Unlike that pussy in the movie I just pulled until I detached, leaving most of the tip of my tongue on said barbell
/If your gonna be dumb you gotta be tough
As a kid, my Dad worked for Schwan’s. The deep freeze at the depot kept the ice cream bars well below freezing and I’d often leave some tongue and lip on fresh out of the wrapper fudgesicle.
Blood and chocolate.
Solid band name
Anyone read Rational Wiki?
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Libertarianism
Couldn’t make it past the 1st paragraph.
I prefer Encyclopedia Dramatica:
https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Libertarianism
“Established brands like StarKist, Bumble Bee and Chicken of the Sea amount for about 80 percent of all canned tuna sales — but have seen a drop in consumption by 42 percent since the late 1980s when reports linking tuna to mercury poisoning were widespread, the U.S. Department of Agriculture data shows.”
I think it’s because they gradually reduced the size of the can from 8 oz. to 5 oz.
Needs more dolphin.
The last line of the lead-in Larson cartoon is missing, I think it goes something like; “…three friends went their separate ways, vowing to never speak of the Turkducken again”, going on memory.
I didn’t even notice it got cut off. Here’s the whole thing.
I got that without the line. I assumed it was supposed to be an “aha” moment.
https://www.yaf.org/news/yaf-wins-landmark-free-speech-lawsuit-uc-berkeley-to-pay-70000-and-rescind-unconstitutional-policies/
Berkley loses big in court. Has to pay Young Americans for Freedom’s legal bills and end its viewpoint discriminatory “fees” on certain speakers.
Berkeley has to pay?
*checks public university charter*
There goes Playa’s donations…
I “donate” 13% to CA.
Only because the politicians have politely asked you to contribute your fair share.
…all those clearly illegal policies and they only had to pay 70k?
Students against Disney rape songs
In its typical performance of “Kiss the Girl” from The Little Mermaid, one of Princeton University’s all-male a cappella groups, the Princeton Tigertones, selects a woman from the audience.
The singers will playfully dance with her for a bit, and right before the number wraps up, they’ll pick a man from the audience, too. They might pretend to groom him, and spin him around, and then pull the duo together. And at the end, they declare that, in a node to the song’s title, they should kiss — and the couple will comply, sometimes on with a peck on the cheek, sometimes briefly on the lips.
The entire ritual appears harmless and lasts no more than three minutes, a usual and relatively well-liked selection in the group’s repertoire. But complaints over whether the encounter is consensual and appropriate has prompted the Tigertones to discontinue the song until the members can perform it in a way that’s comfortable for the entire audience, the group said.
Last week, a sophomore student, Noa Wollstein, wrote to the student newspaper The Daily Princetonian that the song was misogynistic and “dismissive” of consent. This was the first time the issue was raised publicly, though the group noted that audience members have expressed discomfort over the performance before.
Remove the context of magic and mermaids, Wollstein wrote, and the lyrics blatantly encourage a man to try to make physical advances on a woman without her consent.
The tune, which in the film is crooned mostly by Sebastian the talking crab in an attempt to unite the voiceless Ariel and the handsome prince Eric, also is a “heteronormative attack” on “women’s rights to oppose the romantic and sexual liberties taken by men,” Wollstein wrote.
The only I find offensive is their ties and shorts. And I suppose “Under the Sea” somehow promotes dolphin rape.
Ah remember the good old days when only prudish socons would complain about such things…
Under the Sea is one of the best Disney songs.
In all seriousness though, who the fuck has the time to think about this stuff. When I was college the only thing I did was work, study, and partying. To think that people expend their energies being this offended is sad in a pathetic sort of way.
People in foreign cultures kiss to greet each other.
Why are these students against other cultures? Do they think they are superior?!
STONE THE UNBELIEVERS!
From my understanding, it does not take a lot to promote dolphin rape, because they’re pretty rapey.
/Right in the blowhole
That’s why SEA SMITH uses them as his royal guard.
The lack of can-openers reminds me of this old Reason article on Soylent
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/reason.com/archives/2014/08/26/soylent-cuisine/amp
Just as silly. A story about how bluefin tuna will be bioengineered and save the world. And don’t try to say that this is a huge scam. The scientists behind it are 26 and 27 years old. Clearly they are almost past their prime inventing years.
https://www.aier.org/article/real-significance-french-tax-revolt#.XAVhSMPCSlQ.twitter
“The Real Significance of the French Tax Revolt”
Tempting to think they are a bunch of conservative libertarians calling for lower taxes and less government. But I get the impression they are calling for lower taxes and a lot more free shit.
And they are. These are not people just calling for less taxes. Although, that was the impetus for the protests.
Fun fact: the Puritans were the ones rebelling against the status quo and very critical of state religion, the aristocracy and monarchy. Also they loved to attack the Establishment for their immoral sexual behavior. So I suppose the proggies being neopuritanical is in fact a return to their roots.
Anyone know how the Reason donation web-a-thon went?
Cal lost.
They did. But the Rams and Chargers won, so I came out ahead this weekend.
But they’re going to the Velveeta Underground Bowl, so gouda for them. Hopefully they won’t jack it up.
Cheez-Its Bowl, so I approve.
Original, not whole grain.
I’m sure it’s the same as every year. They were waaaaaay waaaaaay behind until magically some massive donors came in at the last second to confirm the editorial staff’s biases.
Last year was pretty blatant.
It was the Nick Gillespie of web-a-thons
Brief and underwhelming, you mean?
It caused people to roll their eyes and shake their head while mumbling “Christ, this is such shit”. Much like a Gillespie article
Funny thing I notice: when Socons complained about anything libertarians and the left were almost universally dismissive of it and did not acknowledge that their complaints about sex and violence in media had any merit whatsoever. Conversely when the SJWs complain about something the cosmos go all “to be fair”. Gee I wonder why?
The woke Left’s puritanism will inevitably lead to the prudish ideals of the old Religious Right. Amazingly (but not surprisingly), the same people who once criticized the Religious Right’s prudishness are muted or supportive of the woke Left’s puritanism.
I’m thinking partner assignment a la 1984, except you don’t even get to choose what gender. That way they will really get to see who’s a shitlord.
And *poof* the world population plummets
*Malthusians get a stiffy*
Only if you get designated as the male in the partnership.
Rotary engines: no power, shitty mileage, unreliable, and sounds like a swarm of mildly retarded angry bees…but hey, it’s lightweight and revs to 10k, who cares if you can’t go anywhere and sound like crap trying?
That’s not fair. The four rotor sounds sweet; like a Cosworth DFV turning 20,000 rpm.
It’s a thing of beauty. Watch Johnny row through the gears at around the 1:50 mark.
Watch me make this thing screen like a Valkyrie!
The only thing that sounds more evil is a BRM V16.
I do find it very strange how in my lifetime that gay white men have gone from oppressed to privileged. So have Jews for that matter…
There is nothing, I mean nothing, that cannot cause outrage and calls for a mob anymore. Don’t believe me?
Suck it! Proof that I’m right.
A cake created this Thanksgiving that looks like a turkey in a g-string is not funny at all! A local feminist stripper explains (sexplains?) how the Twerky cake is horrible and is a plot by the alt-right to dehumanize sex workers.
This damn game continues. It’s not enough to believe that sex workers shouldn’t be victimized by the state, you must also celebrate them. That is not liberty, that’s just another form of tyranny.
Tolerance has become replaced by enthusiastic endorsement as the gold standard for these people.
Dave Smith responded to some twitter outrage folks for exactly the same assertion. Basically, if you don’t celebrate sex work you aren’t a libertarian. I really wanted to ask if one of the outraged was ENB.
I saw that. I don’t know what is so wrong with personally not liking something, but still believing that the state should not be locking those people up in cages.
I don’t like heroin, but I also don’t think the state should be punishing people for using heroin. Why do I have to celebrate heroin users, rather than pitying them?
Jacob Sullum has a sad…
It seems to be the same no matter who you are talking to. Don’t support war? You’re a stupid anti-war liberal. Don’t celebrate LBGTQ otherkins? You’re a bigot christian fundamentalist. Don’t agree with modern policing? You want cops to die. Think open boarders is a bad idea? Your a racist who hates minorities.
And it goes on and on……
Sadly even most def professed ‘libertarians’ (i.e. many other people left at TOS) don’t seem to be any better. Tribalism is not easily overcome.
These days you could also be accused of being a Russian bot.
Seems to happen quite often doesn’t it? Past history has shown that support for one victim group does not make one a non-shithead. There is also the fact that “group leaders” get more power and money that way so this will keep happening.
With the uprising of the “alt-right,” so too comes sexual censorship.
All this repression is because of the alt-right! Funny, I’m guessing here, but I bet the current crop of feminists are way more anti-sex worker than the neo-nazis.
Considering the alt-right has a definite contingent of PUA types, I think “sexual censorship” is not really their thing.
Newsflash hon, when guys come to watch you dance (assuming they do at all) it’s not because they like watching your fetching personality or beautiful intellect ‘shake it’.
Hey now, some of us might appreciate the groovin’ dance moves and the over-priced drinks.
Not me, but some of you.
She seems really professional.
https://deadspin.com/royals-pitchers-get-called-out-by-stripper-for-being-ch-1598041958
Yordano Ventura died 2 years ago.
Not a good day for motorists in the DR.
You have money and I want it, but you won’t give it to me, so you’re the asshole.
-Fem Stripper
I wonder how famous people feel about going to that club now.
Aroused and fearful or as I like to call it “Monday”.
You’re on their website as “Customer of the Month.”
sexplains
I would subscribe to that newsletter.
you are explicitly referencing a stripper. You’ve now reduced strippers to: a) a carcass, and b) literal pieces of meat.
I’m sure these dignified women are returning every single dollar they earn through intentionally flaunting themselves as sex objects. You know, because they don’t like being looked at as an object of sexual desire.
You can take my bacon…from my greasy, cholesterol-laden dead hand.
The common phrase “bringing home the bacon” may now be offensive to some. If you thought women (because it is about providing for a household and because women seem to be offended by everything these days) you’d be wrong.
According to the Independent, phrases like “bringing home the bacon” and “putting all your eggs in one basket” aren’t merely “harmless quirks of the English language,” but actually phrases that “could be offending vegans and vegetarians.”
The poor, malnourished souls.
The Independent article is based off another article from a researcher who wrote in the Conversation that meat is not just a “form of sustenance,” but “a source of societal power.” Throughout history, Shareena Z. Hamzah wrote, meat was something only the wealthy could afford, while peasants had to subsist on a “mostly vegetarian diet.”
After some literary references, Hamzah then lists all the bad things meat has wrought: Climate change, “environmental degradation,” studies noting some “negative effects of meat-eating on the human body,” and concerns about animal welfare. She wrote:
The increased awareness of vegan issues will filter through our consciousness to produce new modes of expression – after all, there’s more than one way to peel a potato. At the same time, metaphors involving meat could gain an increased intensity if the killing of animals for food becomes less socially acceptable. The image of “killing two birds with one stone” is, if anything, made more powerful by the animal-friendly alternative of “feeding two birds with one scone.” If veganism forces us to confront the realities of food’s origins, then this increased awareness will undoubtedly be reflected in our language and our literature.
How about “ventilate two birds with one round”? Also, fuck off, you food/language nazi.
“feeding two birds with one scone.”
/prog
This phrase is problematic
The phrase would encourage the ignorant masses to feed unhealthy human foods to birds altering their natural behavior and making them ill.
Relevant
I thought of the same thing.
Old SNL —
The new hand-held contraceptive that is twice as effective as an IUD, proving the old idiom, ‘one in the hand is worth two in the bush’.
The image of “killing two birds with one stone” is, if anything, made more powerful by the animal-friendly alternative of “feeding two birds with one scone.”
Fuck you. I’m going to kill two birds every time I hear that phrase and serve them on a scone.
literal pieces of meat.
I’ll bite – what is stripping if not this? That’s literally the entire point stripping as a profession exists.
Some of us go to strip clubs for the conversation, you know.
+1 Holden Caulfield?
My 13yo son came home from school. After a lengthy conversation wherein I had to put aright some a poor assumption, he’d made, he said, “Well, I’m not going to be a very good homeowner.”
Me: “You’re gonna be a homeowner?”
Him: “I’m not a Millennial, so…yeah.”
Wise beyond his years.
Rare dinosaur fossil discovered on internet after disappearing for decades
I wonder what layer of the OSI stack they found that fossil in?
Looks like Brett Favre is once again in trouble over an internet video
At least this time he is just making fun of (((them))) verbally and not displaying pictures of his dick to flaunt his foreskin privilege*.
*No idea if Brett’s dick pics showed him to be circ’ed or not. I just went for the funny version for the joke.
Will being personally hated on by Packer Great Favre change OMWC and/or SP’s love for the Cheezeheads?
Didn’t he end up a Viqueen QB?
One across-the-body stupid interception from the Super Bowl.
The dickhead.
Right up there with Gary Anderson.
And Blair Walsh and Kai Forbath and Daniel Carlson and Dan Bailey…
*sticks fingers in ears*
I CAN’T HEAR YOU. NEVER HAPPENED!
I HAVE NO LOVE FOR THE PACKERS.
I am still stinging over their bad-call victory in ’65.
Fuck those green and yellow bastards.
He learned it from Reggie.
The lesson from this should be to ignore celebrity endorsements because they are just getting paid to read a script. Instead the lesson will be Favre is a racist or white people are bad.
This site says he made $137M just from his NFL contracts.
Why is he doing stupid shit like this for $500?
Poor investments?
Boredom?
Because one stupid vid a day covers his morning coke habit?
Is there a transcript? I mean, how coded can the message be and still be anti-Semitic?
The story is so thread-bare I will just assume it’s complete horseshit, along with 90% of the other “journalism” I read these days.
It was just on NBC Nightly News. They didn’t mention a single word Favre said.
Well, at least they hit the major keywords. Did they name any of the other anti-Semites?
Not that I remember, but they said they were on the “dark web”.
The Buzzfeed article has the quote: “Brett Favre here with a shoutout to the Handsome Truth and the GDL boys. You guys are patriots in my eyes. So keep waking them up and don’t let the small get you down. Keep fighting, too, and don’t ever forget the USS Liberty and the men and women who died on that day. God bless and take care.”
The USS Liberty is pretty clever, I’ll give them that. Probably should do a quick google before endorsing someone. Also, where the hell is his publicist?
LOL, I see that noted intellectuals Soulja Boy and Andy Dick were also had. Yeah I didn’t know about that incident but after 10 seconds I did.
You send it using an enigma machine?
Very good.
The article said he was tricked, so now I’m curious what they paid him to say. Not curious enough to look it up, for obvious reasons, but I wish they had included such info in the news report.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/aug/29/libertarian-ideology-natural-enemy-science
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/17/libertarian-betting-curbs-fixed-odds-betting-terminals-gambling
Hmm
Got a jury duty summons today.
Why do I get the sense that I’ll be excluded
Do you believe that cops never lie?
I’m on call for this week.
Just show up with a shirt on that says “I support jury nullification”….
You’ll be home by lunch.
No, they’ll make sure to waste your whole day making you wait for a dismissal. Process as punishment.
If you also evangelically extoll the virtues of jury nullification to the entire pool of jurors they may just want to get rid of you……or more likely you’ll end up charged with some offense…
I’ve been sent home early at least once the last three times I was called, in NYC of all places. One time they even gave us the last day off.
So I shouldn’t print out flyers from fija.org to hand out to everyone else?
Do what I do, just “accidentally” drop it in the shredder. Problem solved. Last time I did jury duty (many years ago), I swore to myself never again.
As long as you don’t call the number and enter the code, you’re fine.
Small, nothing actually seriously criminal ever happens here County.
The sort of place where the judge and cops may actually be bored enough to care about dodging jury service.
I wouldn’t mind participating anyways.
I wouldn’t mind participating anyways.
This for me, too, although if I’m truthful during voir dire I suspect I’ll never get chosen.
Did they send it by registered mail? If not, how can they be sure it arrived? There is a terrible problem in this country with mail theft.
Just got my first one since going to work for the city. Full pop salary, whoo hoo! I’m actually going to try and sneak onto a jury and wield a vote for a change.
A month or so ago, I got picked for a trial, then it got postponed, and then canceled. So I missed out. I hope I don’t have to wait another 28 years.
On the backup camera comments, I drove a Ford F-250 in the SF Bay Area for 16 years with no backup camera and got along just fine. Now I drive a Chevy Tahoe in Idaho and I don’t know how I ever got along without one.
On another vehicle technology note, something that makes me shake my head every time it happens. Every couple of weeks, a message pops up on the screen warning me that taking my eyes off the road is hazardous. I have to take my eyes off the road to get rid of the message…
As Tundra pointed out, backup cameras are the cat’s pajamas for hooking up a trailer.
It absolutely is.
But still no reason to require them by law.
Fuck backup cameras.
We have backup cameras in both of our vehicles. The newer one has wide angle so you can see to the right and left. Have to be careful when I get in the older one being so used to being able to see more.
My 18-year-old son wants an RX-8 but is sad they don’t have back up cameras.
My Outback didn’t come with one, but they are fairly easy to add, and the cameras are relatively inexpensive (basic ones start at about $20)
I added one when I upgraded the stereo. You can find them with an external screen if the built in stereo doesn’t have a video input.
Yeah you can just buy a backup camera.
Sigh, I remember that truck. The Maroon Monster. Especially that long drive in it, down to the midget convention in LA.
Don’t forget the Bishops!
OT, and repeated, rant: I was listening to a brief CATO podcast from earlier this month wherein two highly informed CATO scholars continued to share their legal opinions on the Trump-Russia investigation and their fears that Trump would attempt to shut down this very important investigation into collusion in the American political system. In the course of this they went to pains to distance themselves from Sessions’ drug & immigration policies while saluting his overall integrity.
There’s a line in one of the Hitchhiker’s Guide books about the one thing scientists really hating is a smart ass. The one thing all the Beltway folks hate is the true outsider. Of all the things you could go after Trump for, RUSSIA! is the big one.
As I recall, it had to do with the discovery of the Infinite Improbability Drive, and using a hot cuppa tea for a brownian motion source.
Cant recall the guy’s name
Yep, that was it. I think he was a janitor?
Cato is really just Niskanen-lite. Once you start trying to appease the powers that be, it never ends.
Sessions’ overall integrity?
Bull.
Shit.
A true American hero who only wants to preserve law and order.
RE: Gay lions.
They cut away before things got kinky.
http://img.chan4chan.com/img/2011-02-10/chive-randomness-24.jpg
https://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20120918/girls_with_big_b_13.jpg
http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/55cd13592acae7c7018c008d-2133-3000/gettyimages-462840076.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/98/74/d3/9874d303b463060e72dad63015110d92.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3b/81/37/3b81376739a933e0d0f1eca5a90be3ef.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/77/36/05/773605eb9db6267f3d1aae7732554d26.jpg
I’m beginning to think Q likes boobs.
https://jantebont.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FABIENNE_JTBSHOOT1-1-336_small.jpg
I got an 11 and am more privileged than 74% of people.
https://intersectionalityscore.com/
Clearly I need to shitlord harder.
“How can I improve my score?
Unfortunately, you are born with most of your intersectional factors. However, you can make some improvement to your score by getting more involved with Islam or Judaism, donate all excess wealth to charity, or explore the wild side of your sexuality. The easiest way to improve your score, however, is to champion the intersectionality of your more-marginalized friends. You may award yourself up to 5 points depending on the level of your activism.”
Get the fuck outta here.
Well hot damn. I think that means I get to award myself -5 points for thinking this is the stupidest shit ever. Now I’m at a 2!
You bleeding heart! I got a 7 and an 86%!
Me too. And I was being generous with my skin color.
I got a 10 and couldn’t figure it out how to make it go any lower.
Oh wait – is cisgender normal? Now I have a 2.
17
LOL
I’m assuming this is satire, but… you can never be sure.
Got a 21, well that’s just too damn high.
I got a 9 or 10 depending on how white I feel.
” In an office setting, you can easily identify those who may have unique, and most often overlooked or disregarded perspectives. Some people even advocate giving more opportunties and promotions to people with high intersectionality scores so that they become more represented in positions of power. We suggest every group meeting to begin with everyone sharing their intersectionality scores.”
I encourage this behavior. That way the rest of us will know who to safely ignore.
6
Read it and weep.
/Does the cisgenderwhitemalepatriachshitlord dance
Well, you’re boring.
Boringly super duper privileged
Also, I resemble that remark
Bob in action
https://youtu.be/gOFcw2I9Gic
Well Bob, I ordered a more rational knife for EDC. You can relax now. 😉
Good. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to sleep picturing something marring that beautiful Damascus steel.
Benchmade?
More rational than a limited edition piece of art.
I didn’t say sensible.
?
I got 14. I’m disappointed it is not lower.
Maybe it’s because I am not Christian (or religious at all) and not rich.
I didn’t play with the sliders, but I assumed not being Christian would be a “good” thing.
21
female, older, not-rich
In re to all 3, compared to who?
I wasn’t sure what to put for “rich”. NYC rents kind of mess with the curve.
I put the slider half way between the middle and poor.
Oh, also, I put the slider halfway between the middle and OLDER.
Also, I am objectively female, as I have given birth via original female parts.
You just lost all your points for that. Maybe even in negative territory now.
Woo hoo!!!!
Heh. They asked me if I was born in Japan and whether Japanese was my first or second language. How do they know where I am?
But hey, we get a free bonus to our anti-shitlord points.
20. I noticed if I slide the Christianity slider from not Christian over to Devout Christian I lose 9 points. Sliding from not muslim to devout muslim adds a point. Sliding from not Jewish to (((devout))) subtracts 2. What a larf.
Slide both to “devout” and create a black hole.
If you score a 0 somewhere out there a transgendered minority Na’vi drops dead
I’m guessing that was made by someone mocking SJW’s? Thats about the stupidest most racist things I can think of if not,,,,,,
Wait, devout Jews are more privileged than your average reform Jew?
Lol! 7. I’m more privileged than 86% of the people. Fuck y’all bitches!
I’ve got 30. I’m more oppressed than all of you.
73% of others are more privileged than me
Loser.
Humph, I got a 12. Not being a devout Christian added 8 points to my score, though.
Common Japanese language test eyed for new visas
The language test will be taken for the type one category, the sources said. To pass the test, applicants need to have Japanese skills good enough for daily life, according to the sources.
Konnichi wa. Bukkake wa doko desu ka?
Sumimasen. Ketsu wo tabetai desu.
ii’n desu yo. itadakimasu.
I’m surprised they didn’t already have one. I thought every country did that.
Not here. Basically, if you wanted get a working visa as a professional, you need a 4 year degree. They have special programs for some occupations like nursing and construction, I believe.
Hentai?! Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto!
Can I get in now?
Depends, are your genitals blurred?
Only when he shakes them rapidly.
Sounds good enough to this gaijin. Welcome to Japan.
Toyota Honda Shimano Hitachi Sony Toshiba Mitsubishi Nissan Sumitomo.
Do I get in?
Mazak!
You forgot Benihana.
Kawasaki, Suzuki, Rikou? Especially Rikou!
Orale la pues, Vato?
Am I good?
Hey straffin, I posted a very profane joke in Katakana script to you a few days ago.
Just wanted to make sure you knew it was a joke. Hope things are well in Nippon.
First!