I have a long day ahead of packing, cleaning, and vacationing. 1100 miles in a car with three young children and my step daughter’s dog. Wish me luck.
Whoever had “delayed indefinitely with regular updates as to how Flynn has been assisting with other cases” wins the what will have happened to Flynn during his sentencing hearing contest. What happened yesterday is dependent on who you are. If you have TDS, it was revealed yesterday that Flynn committed super treason, if you’re more logical it was revealed that the judge was highly skeptical of the charges and Flynn’s plea and repeatedly tried to get him to withdraw his plea, probing special counsel as to why he was taking the plea and discovering that he too would have been charged with a worse FARA charge specifically related to Turkey.
It was also revealed during Comey’s second round of testimony that he’s a fucking moron. How the hell was this man in charge of the FBI?
Usually I’m horrified by bipartisanship, but this I can support.
Trump starts to back down on his threat to shutdown the government over wall funding and the US pledged over 10 billion in aid to Mexico and Central America for general aid and assistance with securing Mexico’s northern border. He’s looking underneath every cushion in every couch in the White House to find change to help fund the thing. Needless to say, his base is not happy.
Just a reminder that 21 year old Kylie Jenner is worth $900,000,000, ya losers.
DNA making is easier for detectives to solve cold cases.
That’s all I got for today, I have a long day ahead of me. I won’t forget to leave you with a song.
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DNA making is easier for detectives to solve cold cases.
Mmmm, beer.
Flynn took the plea to avoid Mueller destroying his son. That’s the only reason.
The Mueller investigation is corrupt partisan bullshit from top to bottom.
It’s just legal arm twisting bully tactics on Republicans, while granting immunity to Democrats like Podesta who did far worse. It’s a “Russian Collusion” investigation led by the bag-man for the Uranium One deal.
In most functioning Banana Republics, the President decides who is the political prisoner. In our Shadow Banana Republic, the Bureaucracy decides who is the Political Prisoner.
At least in most banana republics they don’t have a huge chunk of the population cheering and waving pom-poms. In any decent banana republic the largest swath of the population knows they are all getting screwed for the established oligarchy or socialist top men, depending on the political flavor of the machine in charge.
This crap we’re wedged hip-deep into is the blue side holding cultural sway over the dickless-wonder red side of the aisle.
I would like to thank the glibertariat, even though none of you were actually involved.
To elaborate – If my mind gets stuck on a conundrum, either of a technical nature or regarding plot, I find that the act of explaining to issue to someone willoften dislodge an idea that lets me resolve it, even if the person listening does naught but listen. So with this in mind, I’d prepared to explain a issue with characters I wanted to use, and how they might not work in the story. In composing my thoughts for sharing here, I figured out how to make one of the characters not look like a distaff counterpart of another (she wasn’t supposed to be, but there were a number of parallels that could be drawn). This made it easier to let another character stay in-character, and I’m now happy (a rare thing).
So thank you all for being a sounding board, even if I never got to blathering at you.
Now I need to smooth out the timeline in my head. So far the events I have are:
Dug has arrived in a new to him land and found a way to communicate with the locals by way of a pair of translators who share a dead language in common. Dug has bet Konstantin and his father, and been mistaken for an ambassador due to errors in translation. He has been directed to the imperial capital.
Events that need to happen:
Discover that there is only one time of year when winds will let him sail around this continent and head for home
Learn the local language
Become a curiousity at court
Meet Drea at the arena
Begin an affair with Svetlana
Get introduced to the [redacted] weapons used by the villains designate
Agree to help the locals do something about said weapons
Leave the capital
Oh, I forgot
Meet Casey, help capture some Pygmy Dragons for study (and some for sale back home).
Winds: Has he missed that window or how far away is it? If all of this is rushed or drawn out will greatly influence how you’ll want to address these plot points.
How fleshed out and interesting is the new land? (Do I know it, yet? I doubt it. I don’t know Konstantin.)
I think the court curiosity should be the most fun to write. Some cultural difference that really shocks them but they love it. The two immediate things that came to mind as examples (and examples only) was how people used to be really freaked out when people could read without saying the words out loud at the same time. The other thing that popped up was Ben Franklin in France–the coonskin caps and his clothes and sort of rustic Americanism…but he was able to use that angle (and his natural ability) to charm the fucking pants off of the entire country.
Svetlana sounds hot.
Quick reread and I have the next two chapters to send you in an hour or so. Check ’em out when you can.
I don’t know how interesting the new land is, but it is fairly fleshed out. I have a number of stories set there that kinda sorta make a book if you squint at them.
You don’t know it, because they first appear in the very last scene of “Beyond the Edge of the Map”.
Svetlana’s the daughter in this introduction:
Hire Mojeux to flesh out the sex scene.
Hrmm… *looks at existing scene*
I’m not sure it needs fixing…
It’s lovely the way it is.
Well, if you don’t like my ideas…
*storms off in a huff*
Not unlike rubber duck debugging.
“Whoever had “delayed indefinitely with regular updates as to how Flynn has been assisting with other cases” wins the what will have happened to Flynn during his sentencing hearing contest. What happened yesterday is dependent on who you are. If you have TDS, it was revealed yesterday that Flynn committed super treason, if you’re more logical it was revealed that the judge was highly skeptical of the charges and Flynn’s plea and repeatedly tried to get him to withdraw his plea, probing special counsel as to why he was taking the plea and discovering that he too would have been charged with a worse FARA charge specifically related to Turkey.”
Hmm Now i’ll really have to dig into this. All, and I mean ALL the news stories i saw on this in Google News said that the Judge was “Disgusted” with Flynn. They were saying it was a big loss for Flynn and his lawyers. I don’t see how these two views could mesh.
You’re assuming they’re writing what they see as truth.
The judge went off when the FARA violation was revealed, he very quickly pulled back everything he said when it was revealed the alleged violations took place before Trump was in office. The media, beingg cunts only reported the tongue lashing not the later apology.
The backpedaling indicates he realized his earlier statements would be misconstrued. Why else would he walk them back like that?
Psychic Nazi mind control by the Trumputinfuhrer, obviously.
I would just like to see some video of what the judge said, but I can’t seem to find it.
Here you go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA2NDf9LdDE
WSJ has an analysis approaching sanity:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-flynn-fiasco-11545182606?fbclid=IwAR18HGw8aI8f_Xodb03CHMUDYJszII78YA_0xixXzfNfpspmqiOhZU5CRWQ
The sentencing was postponed until next year, but not before federal Judge Emmet Sullivan damaged his own reputation with an extraordinary public attack on the former national security adviser for a crime he’s not been charged with or admitted to.
paywalled, of course.
“but not before federal Judge Emmet Sullivan damaged his own reputation”
That was my takeaway, really. That either The Judge did not understand the case, or he went off the walls. Neither reflects well on him.
WSJ might be the only thing evenly closely approximating a good newspaper left in this country. And let’s be honest, there isn’t much competition there.
Tallest midget…
I read the WSJ every weekday. Have for more than 30 years. Clearly, they are more objective than most, but they are not what they use to be.
“He’s looking underneath every cushion in every couch in the White House to find change to help fund the thing. Needless to say, his base is not happy.”
https://www.apnews.com/6c1af80fb290472c89fb930e223505af
Having his administration re-write a law through executive agency fiat isn’t going to set too well with his base either.
Disagree
TBF, he didn’t say he could use a bump stock when shooting a person on Fifth avenue and still have his supporters.
the “redefinitioning” of automatic and single trigger pull required to support that ATF final decision is some Cirque du Soleil levels of verbal contortion.
Kylie has the cash and can easily get more, IYKWIM
“I was also revealed during Comey’s second round of testimony”
Banjos has been doxxed by Comey?
? You been drinking again?
*hides edit*
Sneakier than a Fusion Dossier.
Not exactly secret when you have the author of the damn thing shopping it around to sympathetic ears.
So i get to take Friday off so that i don’t loose an hour of vacation time when the year hits.
Okay. If you do loose an hour, how far does it fly?
I’m hoping it’s got good millage, cause it’s a long way to Tipperary
The Shat gets it.
William Shatner … lamented that since the #MeToo movement, he can’t tell women they have “great legs.”
He was on “Wait Wait don’t Tell Me” last weekend. He sounds fantastic for someone eleventybillion years old. And also he’s got a mean streak.
SP and I went to a taping of that show. It was delightful. Martha Stewart was a bit drunk and funny as hell- a lot of what she said was cut from the aired episode.
Best part was talking with PJ O’Rourke afterwards.
That’s one of the few NPR programs I can stand.
You’re not kidding.
Giving women a compliment? That’s a Jailing.
I saw a video the other day that someone had posted (on FB i think), basically where women complained that “a Man” asked them if they were okay because the weren’t smiling or looked upset at work. “Oh i have to do a good job, AND be happy?!”. Well in honesty people are trying to be nice, but now that i know your a bitch, i’ll make sure to not fucking talk to you.
Shatner is a fucking character. I’d genuinely love to hang out with him one night just drinking and shooting the shit.
How about shooting the shit with Takei? NTTAWWT.
From his public coments, George is not a very likable person.
Takei has always like to bitch about how Shatner stole the show. Hell, Shatner was the show.
He’s just jealous that Shatner’s turn on Twilight Zone was superior to his.
Takei was on the TZ? Which one?
I had to look it up myself, one episode that was generally not included in syndication.
I watched that episode. All I have to say is BANZAIII!!!
That was a memorable episode. In general, Twilight Zone sorta freaks me out. . .
It’s a pretty good episode. One you’d never get on TV today. Still, the Shat in Nick of Time is peak Twilight Zone.
Takai also had a pretty significant role in the movie “The Green Berets” as an ARVN Captain.
Takei was also in Cary Grant’s last movie.
Samantha Eggar and Jim Hutton made a very photogenic couple.
^This^
Hell, realize Shatner was on the Twilight Zone twice! He had one of the greatest SNL skits ever “You, you must be almost 30… have you ever kissed a girl?”, and does roles that he actually seems to enjoy.
And let’s not forget all that quality time he spent with Heather Locklear
I sat next to him on an airplane once, and came away with the impression that he was a pretty good guy. That was in 1997, though.
Did you ask him if he saw something on the wing of the plane?
Message was unclear. I sat next to Takei, not Shatner. Takei was cool, Shatner would have been effing awesome.
Oh my!
So i read through the Article on Fox, and while it’s not as bad as it looks in the rest of the Media, i don’t think it’s great for Flynn, He’s still hostage to the Special Prosecutor, and still hasn’t been sentenced. The worst part of the article is the last sentence: “Flynn was not charged with wrongdoing as a result of the substance of his calls with the Russian ambassador.”
It’s not a lie,
if you believe ituntil the special counsel needs a scalp to nail to the wall six months later.Trump should start a Patreon account to get funding for the wall.
*BANNED IMMEDIATELY*
Usually I’m horrified by bipartisanship, but this I can support.
Meh, the fact that it had bipartisan support tells me there was something in it that was of benefit to someone, and it will probably end up disastrous.
It partially scales down the drug “war”. Whatever else is in it, that appears to be a solid win for team libertarian.
It was also revealed during Comey’s second round of testimony that he’s a fucking moron. How the hell was this man in charge of the FBI?
The question answers itself.
“He may be a moron, but he’s OUR moron, through and through.”
eh, Comey’s not a moron, he just thinks the rest of us are.
My best guess is that the puppeteers want useful idiots as figureheads running the bureaucracy, rather than the most competent. That, and/or the Peter Principle.
Shit like this is when I really want to say “Fuck it, burn it all down”. How is what Flynn did a crime whereas that POS Comey blatantly attempting to blackmail the president not?
The FBI needs to go away.
/Not Sarc, come at me bro
Just a reminder that 21 year old Kylie Jenner is worth $900,000,000, ya losers.
Something something born on third thinks he hit a triple.
Seriously, calling her “self made” is kind of sickening.
Just a Modest loan of $1,000,000
Don’t be jelly.
I’m not, I’m jam.
You know what the difference is between jam and jelly?
One produces music, the other wishes it could.
I can’t jelly my [ ] up your [ ].
[REDACTED] you.
I’m jealous of far better people than any of the Jenner clan, and I don’t begrudge her the colossal fortune she’s amassed, it’s just a fucking sham to say you’re self-made when you were cashing royalty checks from appearances in your family’s reality TV series before you could legally drive a car.
She did have a head start with the name and cash. So I’m with you that it’s not self-made in the technical sense.
It’s like the Dragon’s Den. One guy there is not self-made. He entered a business his father started. Sure, he grew it but it wasn’t him who built it. Does it mean he can’t be a ‘dragon’? Perhaps not to some but to me it’s a no. Especially considering some of the things they say that doesn’t even apply to their own past.
I even say Mark Cuban as a Shark is dicey.
But I could be stretching there.
It would have been very easy for her to become a play girl or junkie and waste every dime. Is it as impressive as someone who totally bootstraps? No, but I’m still impressed she is growing her wealth. Also, a touch jealous.
I’m going to give you a gift. All’a y’all.
Tossin’ the salad. In Prison.
Make sure to watch it.
As we all know, in x years the way we treat prisoners today will be viewed the same as we view crucifixion or the Munster uprising or such things.
It’s utterly barbaric.
Whenever I see someone claim “Future people will look back on us as barbaric” I always go “Suppose they look back at us as foolish and weak?”
I think that there is *some* truth to this. You could argue that Rome fell because it got too soft, or that we are currently doing it to ourselves right now.
However, over time and with contemporaries within our own, the more peaceful societies are the strongest militarily, economically and socially.
America is more peaceful that it was in 1970; it is also more advanced. In 1970 America was more peaceful and more successful than China or the USSR.
As much as it sucks that that shitstain only got 21 years for the shooting in Norway, they do prison better than we do (there are a lot of controls that I understand but don’t have time for). We throw criminals into an absolute base mode with the brutality of our prisons. Violent criminals become more violent. Nonviolent criminals become so. The wrongfully convicted become violent in order to survive.
You can’t just throw people in a box for 15 years and expect them to magically become good people.
“they do prison better than we do ”
No one really does prison the right way.
Obviously, victimless crimes should not be crimes. So any state (and I think that’s all states) that imprison people for victimless crimes are doing it the wrong way.
Moving on to the crimes with a victim, the victims are taxed to pay for the system. So the victims are doubly victimized.
We’d be far better off with a system of punishment, either through restitution or through corporal punishment, then the current system.
Like that glitter bomb video that went viral? He’s on video taking something that doesn’t belong to him. Trial would take an hour, tops. Take him in front of the courthouse, put him in the stocks, five lashes with a cane. Turn him loose.
That fucking psycho in Norway should have been crucified, and I am not being metaphorical. Murder dozens of children? Brag about it? Tied, not nailed. You’ll beg for death inside of a day.
But the system is run by lawyers, for the benefit of lawyers. More laws, more trials, more hearings, more billable hours.
Was the Munster uprising led by Eddie or Marilyn?
Paul Ryan
Note to self: Stay out of prison.
And her mom has a penis. Trade offs are a bitch.
I am always suspicious of these claims of net worth. How much that is cash?
Most wealthy people have very little cash.
I misspoke, but her cosmetics company being temporary valued at 900 million can change quite easy. It is not an old established company. That may not mean much but I am suspicious of stock market wealth that changes by the tens of billions overnight.
You are quite correct. The article mentions Michael Jordan made the list on the recent increase in value of Nike.
If she is smart she has at least some of that wealth diversified into other investments.
There is almost zero chance she is worth $900M: it would require a perfect storm. L’oreal trades at four times sales at the top of an extended market (that is repeatedly looking for opportunities to correct). So, on average sales of $300M, at best case that does get her to $1,200M (the perfect storm).
But Kylie is pure good will: a brand play. Compare that with L’oreal with brick-and-mortar assets, manufacturing, research, labs, intellectual capital, international experience, and wide demographic competence; a recent quarter’s return on assets was 13%. What assets does Kylie have other than the virtual ones? Five years from now, L’oreal will still be $100B . . . almost zero risk on that. Kylie has no production and enough quality problems to show she doesn’t even know how to farm out the work.
Kylie has one demographic and an instagram account; that should be good for an enduring, low nine-figure worth of which she can be rightly proud. But unless she sells out to Steve Case or Ted Turner and locks this into other assets, it will mostly go away in the next few years, at a minimum when the next pretty face comes along.
Private company paid $13.6 million to recruit thousands of Border Patrol agents, and they’ve hired 2 so far
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) hired Accenture to hire and recruit 7,500 agents within the next five years. But just 10 months into the contract, only two accepted job offers have been processed, according to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General.
Accenture, a global management consulting company headquartered in Ireland, was awarded a $297 million contract to achieve the hiring goal.
But the report said $13.6 million has been spent in the last 10 months, and CBP “risks wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on a hastily approved contract that is not meeting its proposed performance expectations.”
I found a little money for that wall.
Meh it’s probably staffed with all those recruiters who never call anyone back…
If I were to outsource recruitment, I’d make it payment on delivery. The recruiter would get some on hire, but more if the recruit makes it past a probationary period.
And even then, do they really get to make almost $40k per recruit?
Highly unlikely. Generally speaking in the IT industry a recruiters fee is between 10% and 20% of the workers annual salary, that would seem to have them getting paid as much to recruit a border cop as it would take to recruit someone like a San Fran based PHD Data Scientist with a couple decades IT experience.
I am reasonably certain the job requirements for border cop are signiicantly lower than PHD data architect
Accenture used to be Andersen Consulting. AC was my first employer out of college and I still don’t think I’ve worked in a shop of brighter more ambitious people in my life.
As much as I love AC, I’m not that surprised that they shafted the govt. The partner who got that project probably wrote a great contract. I bet if you read it, all the milestones were met and they performed on the metrics that were agreed upon. Unfortunately for the govt, they forgot to make # of people hired a metric.
Also, for Accenture $13.6M isn’t that big of a project.
The entire project is $297, $13.6 is what they have received after 10 months and 2 recruits.
Gotcha. I also wonder how many recruits they have brought in the door, but have been stymied by the govt workers who are supposed to process applications.
I’ve done lots of those projects. The ones that are technically successful, but because of the client’s ineptitude still don’t work.
I love their building downtown.
I would gladly sexually pleasure Kylie Jenner to her satisfaction for a a bit of that moolah.
I would also gladly sexually pleasure Kylie Jenner just because I would greatly relish such an opportunity to prove my immense, erotic acumen.
And don’t forget the Super Herpes you get as a going away present.
You’re way off base. As an ultra hot and rich female, the pinnacle of True Intersectionality, she chooses only the highest quality thoroughbreds to mount her.
Verily, I am that
seedsteed.Prince says:
I will say she has good taste in cars.
Well congrats on being confident of your size.
SO the Romanian government is preparing a tax of 3% of the revenue of all energy and telecom companies. Also a revenue tax on banks called the greed tax that increases with the increasing interest rate charged by the bank. I wonder how much magic revenue this will bring the state coffers.
Do these companies even make 3% profits?
No but they are probably hiding their profits and this is why a revenue tax is needed
Also they plan to set prices for electricity and natural gas lower than market price.
Are people that nostalgic for outages and rationing?
This time it will work. And anyway necessities should be reasonably priced.
Gross Revenue? Or profit?
Also a revenue tax on banks called the greed tax that increases with the increasing interest rate charged by the bank.
So the people who can only get high-interest loans will be punished with a higher tax. That’s nice. /sarc
“I wonder how much magic revenue this will bring the state coffers.”
Less than the 100% tax on assets that Venezuela levied on some companies.
Not gonna encourage energy, bank, and telecom companies to invest further, that’s for fucking sure. And other businesses are gonna start preparing to exit stage left.
Romania: Venezuela, but in slower motion toward the hell of full on socialism.
How’s that working out?
I suppose it’s less likely to get people rioting in yellow vests – at least until they get their next phone and electric bills.
SJWednesday: Without Redemption, Original Sin Is a Real Bitch
Considering that cisgender men like myself are socialized in the context of the violence of patriarchy, we need to own the fact that cis-masculinity is fundamentally oppressive and violent. – cut your balls off. You will feel better and strike a blow against the patriarchy
Symbolic violence. Wut?
I was thinking the same thing.
I live in my grandparent’s house, a lot of their stuff is still here. My grandfather was TEH PATRIARCHY: A religious white entrepreneur Republican involved in local government who hunted and fished, yet there is a this little decoration that says, “I’m the boss in this house and I have my wife’s permission to say that.” The same sentiment with all my relatives here in the deepest deploraland. Huh.
Why not just kill yourself and get it over with? If you’re such a horrible, irredeemable stain on existence, wouldn’t it be better to unburden the universe from your pitiful life?
I prefer my suggestion. It is more appropriate. Inciting to suicide is not ok
And I thought my occasional bouts of “Catholic Guilt” were bad. Jeebers, at least I don’t regret being a man.
He doesn’t. The author is a con artist telling a subset of people exactly what they want to hear.
Whatever puts the bread on his table I reckon, but jeez I wouldn’t be able to live conning like that all the time.
He lives with his loving partner and his funtastic dog, Chloe.
He needs to get a better bio writer before anything else, because from this sentence I cannot tell if his loving partner and his funtastic dog are one in the same being. And even if not, he’s still not out of hot water because who names their dog and not their partner?
Repeat after me: Nature hates you and wants you to die.
And patriarchy is violent.
It really isn’t, at least not how you mean.
Full stop.
This is how you know he is super serious.
White supremacy
I would like to know what world they live in that they think the US is somehow white-supremacist. Introspection and reflection are not their strong points.
I would like them to provide concrete, objective examples of white supremacy in the modern US.
It’s like the Vietnamese and then later African-American woman who told me how racist the South was, and then I drove them all over the South without a single racist or disparaging comment made or observed about an interracial couple. Pretty much everyone was super nice. And then the narrative was that they behaved that way because my white privilege was some kind of shield.
Pretty sure that white privilege wouldn’t have been helpful in, say, 1955.
Micheal Richard’s career ended when he went on a tirade with some racist remarks when people showed up late to his show. This was 12 years ago when the country wasn’t nearly as woke.
Behold the power of white supremacy.
‘I wouldn’t choose to be brought up by white parents again’
it took her years to embrace her blackness. – poor thing. I cannot imagine the trauma
All those years of not being racist against the people who raised her. How awful
It’s always the hair.
What an ungrateful piece of shit.
Well she does mention the foster dad was an ass to her.
A hair blogger?
Jesus, the world is truly spinning down the toilet.
down a hair-clogged toilet
So it’s staying right where it is?
embrace her blackness
Something tells me that if I were to “embrace” my “whiteness” it would not be viewed positively.
euphemism?
My adopted daughter is 1/4 black. She has beautiful, curly hair that she insists on straightening.
While we have never tried to dissuade her from her black heritage, we have also not promoted it.
I wish you luck in keeping her away from the social misfits that would corrupt her into thinking that her genetic makeup defines who she is and how she relates to the world.
My fiancee is about 2/3 black, with fairly non-curly hair, and she has hair envy of black women with full on curly hair because you can do so much more with it.
In which case it is ironic that the picture they used for the article heading is one of her with hair cut so close to the scalp she looks almost bald. I may be old fashioned, but I don’t trust a hair blogger who doesn’t have any hair.
I read this last night. Cunt, if you are so unhappy with your white parents, go back to Nigeria. Oh wait, your family abandoned you and didn’t bother to raise you. What a fucking retarded ingrate
Accenture, a global management consulting company headquartered in Ireland, was awarded a $297 million contract to achieve the hiring goal.
Huh. I see their commercials on the teevee, and ask myself, “What does this company actually DO?” I guess know, now.
They’re in Consulting. They Consult.
By the way, you have another meeting that you’re going to be billed for. Don’t expect anything to be achieved.
I think they still do accounting and auditing, which is actually a useful service. Anyone who does HR consulting is a scumbag though.
“We audited your account and found 13.6 million dollars had been transferred to our account. You’re welcome.”
The audit practice was destroyed after Enron. It’s all consulting now.
One last Flynn thing (maybe).
“probing special counsel as to why he was taking the plea and discovering that he too would have been charged with a worse FARA charge specifically related to Turkey.”
Am i the only one who read this as the Judge finding out that he could have been charged with FARA violations?
The whole damn society is having trouble with pronouns.
If he could have been charged he would have been. You really think Mueller would pass up something a little more substantial than a bullshit perjury trap?
I was wondering what the judge did that could have broken this law no one seems to know of.
Hussy Hump Day presents a heaping helping of fantastic floozies.
http://archive.is/cvTiI
Number 30 is particularly gravitationally challenged.
59
12, 49, 68, and 87 are the winners.
I wanna play Smash with #10, would also 59 and 74. Danks as always, Q.
59 appears to be as close to a consensus as is possible given the disparate tastes of the glibertariat.
Gotta agree with Florida Man — 59 is adorable
14 has that sexy combo of a black girl’s hair and lips on a non-black girl body
93 is thicc as fuck
How the Catholic Church Created Our Liberal World
Trade, capitalism, secular power—all owe a greater debt to Catholicism than we like to think.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-the-catholic-church-created-our-liberal-world/
I find the claims tenuous.
There are all sorts of claims like that:
– How the Scottish made the Modern World
– How the Catholic Church made the Modern World
In as much as the Modern World is the result of the actions of the powers that reigned in the past… Is it super insightful to say that the catholic church was a big player in that?
I don’t disagree with the premise, however there were additional elements to the mix. If it were only the Catholic Church, Central and South America would be doing much better than it is.
Well, duh, you also need scotsmen. True Scotsmen, not those imitation scotsmen.
They got too many damn Jesuits.
If it were only the Catholic Church, Central and South America would be doing much better than it is.
I think this is because it was a twin function of Catholicism and Protestantism: Catholicism started the ball rolling by separating church and state (the religious hierarchy being outside the purview of the government hierarchy was a new thing for Europe) and Protestantism finished it off by saying you could question authority (yes, they did so by appealing to a higher authority – but it was one outside the temporal plane, so I think this helped pave the way for the enlightenment thinkers to continue questioning things by appealing to their own higher authorities).
It should also be noted that most of the influential thinkers that shaped what is considered the modern world, for good or ill, came from three cultural groups (Anglo, French, Germanic) that had turbulent histories with both of these religious groups competing with one another. Marxism, laissez faire, fascism, communism, limited-government republicanism all germinated in this milieu.
I’ll read the article later. It’s probably overstated, but not entirely wrong. But then the Catholic church was such an integral part of the social and cultural fabric of the western world that you can pretty easily find the seeds of modern western society within it. To wit, it’s also largely responsible for giving us the cultural foundation for secular socialism.
Didn’t RTA, of course, but the church kept Europe together through the middle ages when it was starting to fracture after the fall of Rome and the ethos of the church did shape the British who create Magna Carta, so some connection is warranted.
The Catholic Church was not really the Catholic church as is today in the middle ages. Also there were a lot of factors, Christianity probably among them but I don’t see the point of making such claims
If you have TDS, it was revealed yesterday that Flynn committed super treason, if you’re more logical it was revealed that the judge was highly skeptical of the charges
I thought I heard that the judge was lambasting him for “selling out his country” after having seemed skeptical of the whole thing, which was a strange turn of events. (And I still don’t know what his actual crime was.)
What they got him on = lying to the FBI (as bullshit of a crime as you can ever imagine).
His real crime = having the audacity to be part of the Trump administration.
Oh he had other crimes – he was messing with the Deep State.
Note the article date.
“Far right” of course meaning “not a commie”.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics-bolsonaro/brazils-bolsonaro-says-he-will-target-venezuela-cuba-idUSKBN1OH2F8
Meh I would not call Bolsanaro far right but he seems an unpleasant sort of right wing
Compared to the left wing tyrannies that are screwing over much of Central and South America, this might be as enlightened as you can hope for from that region. Which ain’t very.
Christmas with Hitler: Children enjoy a festive lunch with the Fuhrer while Göring and Goebbels hand out presents before carols are sung beneath a giant Swastika in Nazi propaganda
uh…
The holocaust was not publically known until after the war.
It was in Germany. Maybe not to the full extent, but it’s difficult to keep rumors about something like that secret from the neighboring towns.
I’ve been to Dachau. It’s in the middle of a fucking neighborhood.
They knew.
A good read
Thanks! That looks interesting.
A: When was the neighborhood built?
B: Did they know it was explicitly there for extermination rather than just an internment camp?
Dachau, along with the Killing Fields, were the most haunting places I’ve ever been to.
UCS: Apparently the town had to deal with the smoke and soot. They knew.
I feel really sorry for (((them))), obviously, but I also get fucked up thinking about the people that knew, despised it, but were too fearful to do anything for sake of their family’s well-being and safety.
Tragically, I think your brain’s aptitude for cognitive dissonance would make you accept it even if you didn’t want to. How could you possibly live like that and not push it out of your head?
And they didn’t even have Twitter to bleat about #Resistance, poor souls.
What could they have done, realistically? Not a situation where opposing the Nazis didn’t risk you being on the wrong side of that barbed wire.
The entire history of the concentration camps. It is an incredible, but wholly depressing, read.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=KL
The German people knew, especially about the camps within Germany. The camps and sub-camps were everywhere. They also knew from rumors, disappearing neighbors, seeing the tens of thousands of people released (especially before the war), from public speeches by the national socialist leaders, from articles in the popular press.
They probably knew less about the extermination camps in the east, but even then people knew by most of the same manners as the German camps (less the released people).
So if you have a festive lunch with children you are just like Hitler?
Obviously. If you enjoy celebrating Christmas, too. Just like Hitler.
Christmas is all part of the Nazi Denial plan… George Washington didn’t even celebrate it because he knew it was invented by Nazis
You’d never catch a Commie celebrating an evil Nazi holiday like Christmas.
Goddammit. It took me a while not to read that as “Nazi Dental Plan.”
“Üter needs braces.”
“Dental plan!”
“Üter needs braces.”
“Dental plan!”
“Üter needs braces.”
“Dental plan!”
“Üter needs braces.”
“Dental plan!”
“Üter needs braces.”
“Dental plan!”
“Üter needs braces.”
“Dental plan!”
“Üter needs braces.”
“Dental plan!”
“Üter needs braces.”
“Dental plan!”
“Üter needs braces.”
“Dental plan!”
*GASP*
“If we close down Dachau….then I’ll have to pay for Üter’s braces!!!”
Is it safe?
Burglar admits having sex with corpse in Birmingham funeral home
I’m more disgusted by the (pictured) pizza joint right next to the funeral home.
Ok, that’s gross.
I guess he lacked affirmative consent.
Still more action than sex with my ex-wife.
that was cliched… I blame your advancing age
I blame my ex-wife.
1+Sam Kinnison
The victim’s gender is never mentioned.. Nor it’s age, and other such details… They didn’t even bother to ask the victim to tell his side of the experience..
I’m more disgusted by the (pictured) pizza joint right next to the funeral home.
They share the same oven.
Why are there burned teeth in my pizza sauce?
“who pleaded guilty to sexual penetration of a body”
I’m a little disturbed that this has been common enough to warrant a specific law written against it.
Also, wouldn’t this be a victimless crime.
It was fairly common in Victorian society, common enough that laws were developed. Sexually repressed cultures seem to indulge in it more often.
Abuse of the dead is not victimless just because the victim is physically unable to complain. That’s a half step away from saying whatever you do to a person in a vegitative state is okay because they won’t notice.
Silence is affirmation, isn’t it?
“who pleaded guilty to sexual penetration of a body”
…that wasn’t a goat…
You know seeing the Kylie Jenner story is sobering. It makes you realize how crappy your own life is. That girl will have a wonderful life. Everything that is worth a damn in this world is out of reach of the vast majority of us (nice scenery, beaches without the hordes, nice quiet restaurants with good food, etc.)
It’s depressing.
Take for example some personal stories.
I bought a new truck recently. It’s nice to me but a piece of shit compared to what the few successful actually important people could have. I go on vacations to shitholes. My house is nice to me but actually of low quality compared to what can actually be built. I hunt shitty public land, fish shitty public waters, and even if I buy expensive clothes (to me) they’re still basically peasant rags.
If I have a tail light out I’ll get a ticket and service industries treat me like shit just like everyone else.
That girl will never ever have to worry about any of that.
That’s a life actually worth living not one where you delude yourself into thinking things are better than they are
I say we go socialist!
If you measure yourself against others, you will end up eating the muzzle of a firearm. Decide what is actually important and ignore success or failure of the people who are not you.
100% true. I struggle with constantly comparing myself to others as well (although for me it’s my actual peers rather than celebrities and fortunate sons), but I realize it’s unhealthy and unhelpful.
As long as you view this sort of stuff as a means to motivate you to try harder and do better, I find nothing wrong with it all, although some might. It becomes a real problem when instead of being motivated to do better you decide you need to cut down those that you feel are doing better than you. I think that distinction is the thin line separating totalitarianism loving shitheads from most people that don’t feel others should be brought down to their level.
Such is life. In a way it does put the lie to the idea that the market is a true meritocracy. On the other hand, most of us were never going to be exceptional under any circumstances, so the unearned success of others is of no real consequence to our own circumstances or happiness.
Less the merit thing as a normative standard, more the fact that consumers are king. People seem to like whatever tf the Jenners and Kardashians sell. Hate their customers, if you like. They seem worthy of a measure of contempt. Then again, I’m more than a little contemptible for my fixations. The market is a mediocracy: we plebs decide who the winners are.
I’m perfectly happy with my Mustang. And I live in a really nice neighborhood – with a pool association, top-rated school, and great, friendly neighbors. I eat at some really good restaurants, and my local watering hole has plenty of beers on tap. I’ve got a few acres up north, both of my parents are still healthy, I’ve got a good marriage, I make good enough $$$…. I stay at nice hotels when I go on vacation. And I can go wherever I want without being mobbed by photographers, fans, etc
Hell I live like a king compared to 90% (or whatever) of the population of the world. It’s good enough for me. A whole bunch of extra $$$ wouldn’t buy me the equivalent amount of happiness.
I live in a very small house, yet there are 3 rooms I rarely ever go in, sometimes it feels like those movies where a wing of a mansion is abandoned and no one ever enters it. A larger house would feel very empty.
LUXURY!
My entire apartment is maybe 20’15’. Includes “kitchen” with one burner and a bathroom that has the Asian style shower, so no separate door or alcove. The wall separating the kitchen and bathroom doesn’t go up all the way to the top, so I can see my shower head from my kitchen sink.
I have no idea why it is that way. I can throw stuff between the kitchen and the bathroom. It’s just….baffling. But I get used to things quick. I don’t even think about it. The fact that it is mine is all that I care about. My little box where I don’t have to deal with the world as long as I pay the bills.
WE USED TO DREAM OF LIVING IN A CORRIDOR!!
Well when I say ‘house’ it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.
That reminds me, I need to get quotes on fixing the basement door so it stops leaking.
Yes, but that’s because you decided to move to one of the most densely populated places in the world. The US is spacious, we can afford to waste some of it on empty rooms no one ever uses.
The size of the apartment doesn’t bother me one whit. I live a three minute walk to work. It’s fabulous, other than the shittiness of my job.
BUT EXPLAIN TO ME A 2-FOOT OPEN EXPANSE BETWEEN THE ADJACENT KITCHEN AND BATHROOM. THESE ROOMS SHOULD NOT HAVE COMMON AIR BETWEEN THEM. TIS LUDICROUS.
Also—-Six. More. Teaching Days.
They ran out of sheetrock and went “No one will ever notice.”
This much is obvious UCS. But even Koreans I’ve shown it to are baffled by it.
It’s comically stupid. It’s all tiled and caulked and everything.
Utar Fen and Bloodsap sent.
BUT EXPLAIN TO ME A 2-FOOT OPEN EXPANSE BETWEEN THE ADJACENT KITCHEN AND BATHROOM. THESE ROOMS SHOULD NOT HAVE COMMON AIR BETWEEN THEM. TIS LUDICROUS.
That is indeed strange, but at this point I do not question the reasoning behind anything I hear from the orient. I assume people just do things different and its normal to them, so whatever. I may have become jaded by all of the “Japan is weird” stories.
Although now that you’ve raised the issue, how strong smelling is Korean cooking? If it is especially pungent, perhaps this was a clever design to create a cheap air freshener for the bathroom by filling it with the overpowering smells of food.
Korean food is indeed pungent. Ask Pope Jimbo.
But there’s a window right by the burner, again of which I only have one. This isn’t a place that was designed for cooking. My cooking space, including sink, is maybe 4 feet.
1.5 for the sink, maybe 1 for cutting board area and 1.5 more for burner and buffer zone next to the wall.
The washing machine is directly below the burner. I love cooking and this place has hampered it, but also (looking on the bright side of life) it has also helped me to learn simplicity in my culinary designs.
Moving out December 31st. I managed to put up with all my work’s gaslighting attempts to get me to quit. Didn’t in order to get my bonus.
Working on too many projects right now, but once work is out of the picture I’ll be able to get my Sri Lanka and Cambodia write-ups posted. Six. More. Days.
Well said. There was a study reported on in the WSJ a few years ago that basically said money does buy happiness, up to a point. I believe that point was $75k/year.
$75k/year was considered enough to afford all of life’s necessitates and some luxuries without worrying about money if budgeted wisely. Incremental wealth passed this threshold was not significantly associated with increases in happiness. To quote Biggie: “Mo Money, Mo Problems”.
Not that I’m adverse to making more money, but I couldn’t imagine being much happier than I am now with more. It would be nice to have some extra things, but I’m not sweating it.
Not that I’m adverse to making more money, but I couldn’t imagine being much happier than I am now with more.
This. If I were wealthy, I know that my hobbies/entertainment would just be more extravagant versions of the same things I already do.
#metoo
I would be left alone in style.
Yeah, I could be having a lot more fun with a lot more money.
World travel, with a combination translator/cultural attache/”companion” alongside.
I could be having more fun, but my life is still good, and I’ve found that when I do travel I often end up setting up my laptop and writing more. the main benefit of being in another place seems to be a distance from the distractions at home and some random grist for the mill of the mind.
Sounds like someone has been spending too much time in Ecclesiastes.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile.
I go on vacations to shitholes.
That’s on you for vacationing in New Jersey.
New Jersey = shithole: Can confirm.
Cape May, New Jersey = one of the best vacation spots.
I’ve been there. I’ll still take Wilmington, NC over Cape May (assuming the hurricane didn’t destroy it too badly)
If you are into shitholes?
You obviously think New Jersey is only what you can see from the Turnpike.
When I was little we vacationed a few summers in Atlantic City – it was a freakin’ blast. Beaches, rickety amusement park rides, the dive hotel, weirdos on the boardwalk… I loved all of it.
you are only looking at one side of the coin
She will never know true friendship because she can never know of the people around her actually care for her or her money
She will never know true love for the same reason
She will never understand the value of anything because to her everything can be had for no effort whatsoever
She will almost certainly have died never having had the chance to find any real meaning or purpose in her life because she has been denied by her wealth and beauty any chance to struggle to achieve anything of significance. There is a near universal chance that every day she battles nihilism and depression because she has no connection to anything that provides meaning in her life.
Unearned wealth such as she was born into, ESPECIALLY when it is accompanied by beauty and celebrity is far more of a curse than poverty.
She will live a life of luxury that none of us regular people could ever dream of and yet for her that life is little more than an exquisitely gilded cage locking her away from the things in life that actually matter.
She will almost certainly have died never having had the chance to find any real meaning or purpose in her life
Yup. There’s a reason why so many people who grow up fabulously wealthy are bitterly unhappy, as seen by the drug use, busted personal lives, and so forth. Beaches, fancy houses, parties with other shallow people, etc. is probably enough for a matter of weeks or months, but sooner or later, if that’s your life, the hollowness of it all will eat at you, down deep.
I was really feeling good this morning, ’til I read that. Now I realize what a miserable life I lead…
Or, if you simply must compare your life to others, try any of the billions of people on this planet who would trade places with you in a heartbeat because, fuck having a new truck, they will never have a motor vehicle of their own, nor reliable electricity, indoor plumbing, clean water, property rights worth a damn, or etc. ad infinitum.
Yep, picking someone who got dealt a royal flush at life’s table as your comparison is obviously going to lead to envy and despair. How about look at where your life places among the 108,000,000,000 humans that have supposedly walked our planet?
You have consistent access to nourishing, and by historical standards, astonishingly tasty and varied food.
You are not hunted by predators.
If your tooth becomes abscessed, or you develop a kidney stone, or a staph infection, you can obtain treatment that will cure the ill with minimal pain and virtually no chance of death. People living anytime before the 19th century simply died, and died slowly and in horrible agony.
Having a child die is an unusual tragedy for anyone living in the modern world. Even a century ago it was an expected part of life.
You are not a slave/serf/thrall/peasant/villain or any of the myriad other terms used to describe the fact that almost everyone born from the day we took up agriculture till the 19th Century was owned as an adjunct to the land and could be used largely at the whim of the tiny minority who had somehow been awarded ownership of said land.
If you are female, despite the constant whining about patriarchy, you are not property of a male, have the right to not be used for sex against your will, and almost certainly will not die giving birth! Your great Grandmothers could not say the same.
So actually in life’s poker game, being born a 20th /21st century American is pretty much drawing that royal flush.
Grudgebear you are in the top 10% if you can buy a new truck and are owningvyour own home.
Cheer up.
*looks up data*
WOOT!
I just nudged into the top 10% of Personal income in the United States. As in, by a smidge.
“Everything that is worth a damn in this world is out of reach of the vast majority of us”
I see it the exact opposite way. Everything that is worth a damn i have now (family, job, etc.). All the other stuff is just bonus.
Almost had it, leon. Unforgivable not to have beer on that list.
Lol. It would be but I don’t drink so… (I’m part of the Shadow Glib Mormon Conspiracy)
Oh, and everything I need is within reach. Got a beer in reach and ….
I find small pleasures daily are more satisfying than grand experiences yearly. Sure I like trips, but after a couple of years the memories fade, but the money is still gone.
Books
Coffee
A nice home cooked meal
Netflix
Whiskey
Beer
Ice cream
Fishing
Cool summer nights
Visiting friends and family
Make your own list and try to do one a day.
Envy is the most powerful of the deadly sins.
Nobody has a perfect life, nobody.
And money doesn’t make you happy, even thought the lack of it can certainly make you unhappy.
Well said Scruffy.
I find it very unhealthy to compare your life to the lives of those better off than you. I don’t begrudge baseball players that were born with the ability to throw a strike at 95mph. I also know the work that went into it. My brother has his own business and pays himself $180k a year. I didn’t have to work 16-hour days for ten years. I prefer my modest lifestyle over the amount of effort he had to put into that. When I’m done with work for the day I’m done with work–I’d rather travel, read and enjoy myself. Takes all sorts.
Find happiness in little things and you’ll always be pleased.
Yes, I do live in a shoebox, but it’s easier to clean.
Oh I don’t begrudge rich folks. I would like to have that much money but I would never dream of taking from someone. Don’t mistake, I am not poor or anywhere near it. I have nice things but they’re just nice to ordinary people. It’s like having a nice painting by one of your really talented buddies compared to a Michaelangelo painting.
Yours is nice but come on it’s nowhere near the best.
Eye of the beholder. I can fantasize that my wife is that hot 7-11 clerk down the street when I have a slurpee.
Can confirm.
But you should be tryin’ for a slurp-she ya know what I’m sayin’?
*Yaks it up with the crowd. Realizes no one’s going for it. Slinks off into solitude*
East Asian convenience store clerks. That should be a PornHub category, amirite?
Well, if you can’t find satisfaction unless you live in a mansion decorated with Michaelangelos and supermodels, there’s not much to be said, really.
Ironically, Jagger and Richards probably do, or could.
With all due respect, this sounds like the perspective of a very sick person who will never be able to find value in life.
I feel you. All our money woes are because, 13 years ago, we bought a shitty house in a very nice neighborhood that we couldn’t afford to maintain. It’s not the mortgage we can’t afford. It’s fixing all the shit that breaks down. We are a slave to this house and it will never get better.
/bitter because we are without kitchen and laundry water, have been since Saturday, will be until Christmas Eve or beyond, and have to cough up unexpected cash for a jetting and camera for a rusted pipe.
But! I have relatives who live under a cloud of neverending doom. Half their problems (and they have a lot) are plain ol’ bad luck that just keeps on a-comin’, so all their decisions are based on what misfortune befell them last. They are stuck in a repeating loop of reaction.
So we say, “At least we’re not them.”
Oh, my point: Right now I am grateful we have the wherewithal to get this fucker diagnosed. Our home warranty will cover the fix.
“Everything that is worth a damn in this world is out of reach of the vast majority of us (nice scenery, beaches without the hordes, nice quiet restaurants with good food, etc.)”
I’m gonna have to beg to differ. With even a modicum of hard work, most everyone can take vacation with nice scenary, go to nice restaurants with good food, etc.
I don’t envy her success. Good on her. Doesn’t make my life any worse, and she has created a tremendous amount of value for others to get that rich. We need MORE people like that, not less.
I know we are suppose to be kind to each other here but you know what? Fuck your bullshit.
As a westerner reading this you have access to everything that is wonderful in life. You have food and shelter and clothing and sanitation that are a fucking miracle simply by dent of being born and living in the western world. The fact you have a new auto of any kind puts you lightyears ahead of the richest man that ever lived. It’s only depressing because you are a choosing to live in a mindlessly petty paradigm fueled by envy and discontent.
People with this attitude piss me right the fuck off. I don’t care how po’ you is, you have the necessities. And further the finest things in life aren’t nice scenery, beaches with few people, or nice restaurants, though all those things are nice too.
It’s family, it’s friends. It is people that understand you and get you. Who take your oddities as simply part of who you are and embrace you for them. It is having work to do and doing it well. It is having a purpose in life that drives you. Those are available to you without restraint other than your own having your head up your ass and focusing on what some Instagram tart from a celebrity family has that you don’t instead of looking at your own blessings. Grow up.
For crying out loud, I am an atheist pervert of the worst sort. But one thing the judeo-christian religious tradition gets right is the idea of focusing on your own blessings makes it a whole lot harder for this sort of dumb-fuckery to infest your world and make you miserable.
>>I am an atheist pervert of the worst sort.
preach it, brother!
Oh I don’t know. I have worked with multimillionaires (as in they make millions and millions every single year) and all their money means nothing, when their mom has Alzheimer disease and their wife has MS. I do not recall where I read it years ago, but it was that the poor are better off than the rich, because the rich can’t delude themselves with the belief that their life would be perfect if only they had money.
I know Lachowsky already posted something about this, but this has the DoJ’s statement on the matter:
https://lidblog.com/bans-bump-stocks/
Not sure how they can unilaterally change the NFA… And boy am I glad we have Team Red to “compromise” with the Left on 2A!
Bump stocks are dopey so this will not get much of the uproar that it should, but it serves as a lesson for how unprincipled Team Red is.
They are setting a precedent that they can ban firearm accessories by fiat without any legislation or concern for the second amendment. This will not end well.
Precisely, as well as change definitions clearly stated in law.
Machine gun in the NFA is defined strictly as a weapon that fires multiple projectiles with a single pull of the trigger.
Bump stocks do nothing of the sort; they just became “machine guns” because of the FYTW clause.
I’d like to say that there is no way that this would uphold in court. But what would happen is that all the lower courts uphold it, then the SC may toss it out, and then congress will just write a law to “stick it” to the SC. In the end the little guy gets’ fucked.
And then the SC gets to toss the new law, because legislation can not override the constitution.
(I can dream, can’t I?)
Hell, the Hughes amendment (the add-on to a bill which stopped any more registration of NFA registered machineguns in 1986) was “passed” by voice vote which very clearly did not pass. The “nays” (opposing the bill) clearly were louder than the “ayes” – but the democrats running the show called it as they wanted it called.
Hell, the Hughes amendment (the add-on to a bill which stopped any more registration of NFA registered machineguns in 1986) was “passed” by voice vote which very clearly did not pass. The “nays” (opposing the bill) clearly were louder than the “ayes” – but the democrats running the show called it as they wanted it called.
Not even a bit.
I saw the GOA is driving the suit against it. Not sure where the NRA is sitting on this.
The NRA is all on board with the bump stock ban. Which is why they get none of my money.
If the ATF can say a semi auto is machine gun because it bbn has a sliding stock attached to it, that opens the door for them to call what the fuck ever they want a machine gun. Maybe a trigger that takes less than 10lbs to pull in a semi auto will be a machine gun next.
Yes they will. They banned some rotating trigger device that simulated full-auto as well.
This is where the pernicious doctrine of judicial deference to administrative agencies will cost us.
Yes, this is the camel’s nose under the tent. When (not if, when) they get away with this, they will start a new round salami-slicing.
I don’t give a flying fuck about bump stocks. However, these shenanigans about banning them does piss me off – a lot.
Mostly I’m mad that the .gov is giving ground AGAIN on “gun control” and in the manner they are doing it.
Former Volusia teacher faces prison for having sex with student
God Bless You, Florida Teacher
Ha the teacher I linked yesterday did a 13 year old so my link was better
Straff was asking where the cutoff should be when a teacher fucking a boy was no longer abuse.
My criteria: When he is developed enough to cum in her eye — deliberately.
Straff was asking where the cutoff should be when a teacher fucking a boy was no longer abuse.
The same as it is if the student were a girl and the teacher a man.
Or, the same as it is if the student were a boy and the teacher a man.
” Detectives said they were able to identify Peterson because her face was visible in the photos.”
MmmHmm. And if it wasn’t I’m sure they would have gone down to the school and had all the teachers strip down to compare asses with the pictures.
Detective work 101…
WATCH LIVE:
Is that… is that legal?
You know seeing the Kylie Jenner story is sobering. It makes you realize how crappy your own life is. That girl will have a wonderful life——-
It’s depressing.
I can go anywhere, do ~anything, and nobody knows who I am, or cares what I’m up to. Nobody takes my picture or asks me for an autograph (or a handout). That’s worth a lot to me.
But they still ask for dick pics?
Spontaneity is the zest of life, CP. Buy a trenchcoat.
That’s ok, he gives em out whether they ask or not anyway
https://youtu.be/j2n4RnXTS1A
Seriously, I’ve been digging and i can’t tell if this is actually for kids or for adults that are kids.
I can’t tell. What is this world
When you live in a world where adults behave like children, this confusion is bound to happen.
*puts on adult footie pajamas*
I bought recees puffs the other day.
It’s for infantilized adults, aka millenials.
65 thumbs up and 6,500 thumbs down. That’s got to be a record or something.
“How can we blame this negative feedback on the Russians?”
– Super smart, and totally not insane, people
They must have deleted some of the negative feedback, Youtube claims there was only 5400 down when I looked just now.
Youtube does have to run an “eventually” consistent model for their data. But even then they probably found some to delete, or people changed their mind…
Those down votes were Russian bots.
I. Want. To. Believe.
You’re evil.
People got paid for this.
843 subscribers. Ma va caca.
But they get actors to guest on it?
It’s all a scam for the connected.
Roth thinks being a sanctimonious judgmental douche is proof of logic and reason.
There’s one for ‘Unconditional Love’ that is so bad, it gave me a permanent narrow gaze.
Hat and Hair has 43 🙁
44 now!
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Harvard Business Review overwhelmingly writes clickbait articles, for the sake of internet traffic & for their sponsors. Here’s why that needs to change.
I hate, hate, HATE that the whole journalistic world has adopted the Buzzfeed headline template. It is fucking asinine. Stop stating some fact and then telling me how you have to interpret it for me.
“I just fucked a man in the ass. Here’s what that means.
by Retard McGee”
Q TOTALLY DESTROYS GUY’S ASS. Here’s 5 reasons why!
#4 will shock you!
1 weird trick for fucking a man in his ass!
Sadbeard haz a sad.
Ben Shapiro MURDERS hooker with LOGIC the throws her body in a river of FACTS!
I hate, hate, HATE that the whole journalistic world has adopted the Buzzfeed headline template
Same here. Its condescending. Its not telling you information, its telling you what you should think.
News article headlines like these are hacks, designed to engage our instinctively-tribal*, self defense**, or loss-aversion*** Type 1 instincts to make us click on the link before our Type 2 brain can remind us that we don’t care about this issue.
*”Here’s what it means” and “XYZ shows how ABC” are both tribal in nature. Tribes function by interpreting objective observations using the same framework, and we instinctively yearn to learn how our tribes framework applies to novel observations. AKA we are all NPCs.
**Picture of a pretty young woman matching your deomgraphic, in handcuffs, “Drivers in $readerLocation were SHOCKED by new law.”
***Usually FOMO or Fear of Being Excluded
U.S Journalists are woefully ignorant of statistics and demographics. Here is why that needs to change.
If I’m ever in a fire I’m going to refuse to be rescued by anyone other than a non-binary female person of color. Also, fire is a cultural construct.
Dude, do you even do intersectionality? How dare you assume the gender of a non binary person
How Dare you Other the Analog community!
I stole that for twitter, you can sue if you want to.
Shock as woman strips and pole dances on Sydney bus
Passengers on a Sydney bus were left gobsmacked when a woman stripped naked and began to pole dance in front of them.
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/shock-as-woman-strips-and-pole-dances-on-sydney-bus/news-story/8e48633616c5353c36e3e579fdf109d5
I’m surprised that A: the article included pictures, and B: it wasn’t a landwhale.
Since they have the relevant parts censored, I am unable to gauge my level of outrage at this incident.
Yes, there might indeed be enough talent there for this to be a perfectly cromulent way to spend the morning commute.
Another said: “How childish is this woman. Such a silly act. Shame on you. You are an embarrassment.”
Another had an interesting childhood.
“The bus driver can be seen speaking on his radio after one of the other passengers alerted him to the strange situation”
Snitches get stitches.
Didn’t this happen on an Australian flight not long ago? Or was it English
Is ‘platonic parenting’ the relationship of the future?
So… a marriage?
No
>>who are not romantically involved with each other who decide to raise a child together.
So just about any parents? 😉
Platonic or romantic; straight or gay- however people want to do it, this is a positive turn of events.
No.
I thought co parenting was when the divorced couple can manage to go to an event for thier kid together and not ruin it.
I thought it was any time they had a kid but didn’t stay together. So anything from a one night stand through getting divorced after 25 years of marriage when the kid was 16.
I have never heard of it being used for people who were never in a romantic or sexual relationship at any point in their lives, but then I find the idea of such people deciding to raise a kid together for no particular reason to be odd at best.
At my weirdass high school (first graduating class at the first magnet school in Indiana!—as Woke as that place was, goddamn it is a really good school. Consistently ranks among the best in the country. Grad class of 45–I had a car and smoked weed and was the only person with a car. It was a very, very good time.) the female English Comp teacher, principle and her female hand of the queen were all in some sort of a relationship together with an adopted daughter.
I’m not sure how well that worked out, but I’m cool with people trying things as long as the child gets taken care of.
And the English teacher…she was in her late 50s or early 60s, but you could tell that she was a stone cold fox back in the day. The others…ugh….more like stone fish.
“I’m not sure how well that worked out, but I’m cool with people trying things as long as the child gets taken care of.”
Yup.
Yeah, I don’t have a problem with it. It seems to me people who form families by choice and not by blood may have happier holidays.
I will continue to just not give one single fuck what people do, so long as they leave me alone.
Nope: you’ll be made to care, then made to embrace, then made to participate. And if you refuse, you’re a bigot and you’re fired.
Except you do care. Because if the article said more people were raising their kids to be gender neutral you would be (quite properly) outraged.
In this case there is no obvious downside. So the people are not fucking each other, well that is the same for most married couples anyway the point is they are committed to raising the kids together in a healthy beneficial if not exactly traditional environment. You don’t care because there is no obvious moral outrage here so you can afford to not care
No. I honestly don’t care.
It makes a ton of sense for a pair of single mothers to buy a house together in a good school district and share the work of running a household.
It’s Uncle Bernie! Everyone’s favorite fossilized commie!
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/bernie-sanders-top-choice-of-progressives-in-2020
If he gets the nomination, it will be an excellent measurement of how much damage has been done to the under-30 crowd’s brains by public education.
I really hope he doesn’t get anywhere, but the talk of my friends and their excitement for him concerns me.
The fact that he gets the support of about half the people who vote in Democratic primaries tells you how hard-left the Democrats are trending.
I actually wouldn’t mind a Sanders win, for the simple fact that I think he’s less competent than his most competitive rivals and would therefor be least capable of doing significant damage. And he’s not intersectional, so he can be freely criticized and mocked.
SJWednesday: The Racial Equity Resource Guide, You Will Be Tested On This Material
My personal favorite:
Socialism hardest hit.
TW: The New Republic
Robert Mueller’s Legal Masterpiece
The special counsel has spun a web of investigations that draw closer to Trump every day.
As is the case with ANY special prosecutor, its sickening that this has devolved into sheer politics. The writers at the NR don’t care about truth, just that Mueller is on their team. And he’s not supposed to be. And if he were asked he’d say he is just seeking out the Truth.
And, as i sated yesterday, A 2 year investigation resulting in a few “Lying to FBI” charges is not a slam dunk.
They’ve got him now!
Trump should just kill himself, Pence, and his entire staff right now to avoid the shame.
Seems more like “spray and pray” theory.
He has spun a web of bs.
Mueller won’t indict a sitting president.
I am pretty sure you cannot do this. There is a legal method to remove the president. Try to stick to it.
The bill gives judges more discretion when sentencing some drug offenders and boosts prisoner rehabilitation efforts. It would also reduce the sentences of some drug offenders currently serving time.
Jeff Sessions has a sad.
Long-term study shows most prostate cancer patients don’t need aggressive treatment
https://www.statnews.com/2018/12/12/long-term-study-prostate-cancer-patients-dont-need-treatment/
I thought that was already pretty commonly accepted. A lot of patients will die from old age before the prostate cancer metastasizes.
I’ve heard of recent studies on placebo surgeries as well (not for prostate cancer, but surgeries in general). Have not looked into it.
One of my old HS friends has a dad who is dying from cancer. Started with the prostate… and has spread to the spine and bones.
Showed up with a sudden PSA spike – he was getting that checked every six months – so the cancer is apparently really aggressive. No chemo or radiation therapy; only some drug that helps _some_ patients.
Why the quickest route to happiness may be to do nothing
Apropos of the discussion upthread.
Trump starts to back down on his threat to shutdown the government
Noooo!
He’s looking underneath every cushion in every couch
He should be careful. They flipped the cushions after the Clinton administration.
You know Bella Thorne is a slow motion train wreck but for some reason I can’t look away…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6511707/Bella-Thorne-gets-festive-spirit-dresses-sexy-Santa.html
Cripes. I must be getting old. The first thing that went through my mind with that is “FFS, can’t they even leave Santa Clause alone?”
seems stupid and slutty….not that I am complaining about that, of course
She looks awful without make-up.
I’m at work so I won’t search for the link, but there is a series of before/after of porn actresses without and with makeup. Amazing what a good makeup person can do.
I knew a girl back in the old punk rock days who was a solid 6.5 without her makeup. But once she was done doing her face, it would pop up to a 7.5/8.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/19/politics/us-syria-withdrawal/index.html
“US preparing for ‘full’ and ‘rapid’ withdrawal from Syria”
The Weekly Standard going under is having some positive dividends.
“a US withdrawal of ground forces would fulfill a major goal of Syria, Iran and Russia and risks diminishing US influence in the region.”
The same people who suddenly discovered and were outraged that the US was helping the Saudis starve and murder Yemenis are now appalled that the US is no longer going to help the Saudis starve and murder the Syrians.
There are no good guys in Syria or Yemen and our presence isn’t helping anyone
a US withdrawal of ground forces would fulfill a major goal of Syria, Iran and Russia
Umm, yeah, because their goal was to prevent us from succeeding in our goal of deposing Assad. Nevermind the fact that doing so would more effectively turn the country into a haven for ISIS than any other strategy imaginable.
The only reason we got involved in Syria in the first place is that Barack Obama had his dick size challenged (maybe, but not necessarily) by Assad and his ego couldn’t let him just leave well enough alone after that.
The U.S. withdrawing from Syria would also fulfill a major goal of me and anybody else with their head screwed on straight that realizes we had no business being there in the first place.
“But, but, DYING CHILDRUNZ!!!!”
/CNN/MSNBC/FOX/BBC………
” In the town of Hajin, the terror group’s last redoubt, the coalition estimated some 2,000 ISIS fighters were present. But a Defense Department inspector general report put the number of ISIS members in Syria and Iraq as high as 30,000.”
How are they getting these numbers? Is there an ISIS tattoo or something? My guess is that one day you’re an ISIS fighter, an opposing army rolls in and *poof* you’re not an ISIS fighter.
A rapid withdrawal is not 100% effective at preventing pregnancy.
So I have some questions that maybe someone here can answer. I’ve been lurking here and at reason for several years. Read a little here and there from some libertarian icons and I’m confused on some things.
Regarding the free market what do you do with those doing the bribing. I see people here complaining about bribes to escape govt regulations but what about those bribing to secure their positions. How would you prevent a return to where we are now if you could make all regulation disappear tomorrow?
I mean it seems a little pie in the sky to say that just getting rid of regulations would solve a lot of problems
Removing regulations does not equal removing laws.
That’s not what I mean. People here talk about human nature constantly. Human nature involves getting what you want by any means many times. We have laws now and they are flouted daily and openly . What would be any different in the world argued for here?
Make a new law against bribery stating exactly what the current law does?
Have a small govt just like we had in the past?
I’m just not understanding how you can do it without a population that actually believes in what is advocated here
The reason people bribe and coerce the government is because they have the power to pick winners and losers. As you curb that power, they won’t.
As Doom says below, bribery only works if someone has power that you can extort from them via funds. Less people with less power leads to less bribery. You can’t stop every instance, the world will never be paradise.
Secondly, regarding violence, at what point is it permissable. If your adversary is destroying you through non vient means such as elections and bribes to the electorate and regulating you out of existence, when do you say fuck this and actually take the gloves off to secure your position and way of life.
I haven’t ever seen this really discussed. All I’ve really seen is the grade school answer of violence is bad, m’kay.
Disclaimer: I’m not advocating violence nor think that it applies to any real situation. This is theoretical for my own learning journey. It’s just a personal interest.
I’m not a true libertarian I suppose, because I totally think violence is justifiable.
“Pacifist” and “Libertarian” are not synonyms.
Yes. Some libertarians are pacifists, but hardly all of them.
My guess is hardly any of them. But then again, I’m a Yokel surrounded by Yokels.
There are Japanese yokels?
I think everyone would have their own limit, but every law is enforced through violence. So at some point, it can’t be a violation of the nap.
My limit is moving. It used to be no first use of force period. Now I am approaching constant war of all against all.
If your adversary is destroying you through non vient means such as elections and bribes to the electorate and regulating you out of existence, when do you say fuck this and actually take the gloves off to secure your position and way of life.
In theory (strictly in theory, mind you), once they directly violate your rights through the government, you have a right to violence. That’s even the philosophy enshrined in the Declaration of Independence (“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government”).
Exactly. It’s just a matter of strategy and efficacy.
100%
There is of course a pragmatic case for grin and bear it: resorting to violence probably won’t bring back your rights. Even if “your side” “wins,” you will likely end up with fewer rights than you went to war to preserve. And if you lose, well, Bloody Assizes, Reparations, Reconstruction, etc. OTOH, we’ve seen peaceful reversions to liberty time and again through the legislature and the courts. I’m not Whiggish about the prospects of liberty, but I’m much less optimistic for armed resistance.
Rothbard and Rand probably have the most consequential writing regarding permissible violence within a libertarian/NAP ideology, if you want to delve further into it.
If your adversary is destroying you through non vient means such as elections and bribes to the electorate and regulating you out of existence,
Government is violence, or at least the threat thereof. It is tolerable only so long as it is legitimate (however you define legitimacy). If you believe the government is illegitimate, then go water the tree of liberty.
Much like self-defense, though, your personal belief that the government is illegitimate and violent revolution is called for may not convince me.
Limit the power of agencies and bureaucracy in general. Less power would mean less incentive to bribe.
^^this.
It’s hard to bribe an agency that doesn’t exist.
It’s hard to bribe an agency that doesn’t exist.
True. But it isn’t that hard to bribe politicians to create that agency.
We would need something to basically say that while agencies can exit to enforce regulations, Congress has to make every single one.
Put it ALL back to Congress. Let the house fund it. Like it should be.
If the people don’t like a agency or regulation, they can easily vote for the person advocating for it’s removal.
No, but I think he’s getting at something a little more difficult to deal with. How do you stop people from bribing those in government to get them to reverse or ignore those limits?
And isn’t that the problem, isn’t it? I mean America’s founding documents are incredibly libertarian in their intent and structure. Yet, here we are today?
It’s VERY VERY expensive and difficult to directly bribe enough people to change a law. And it’s very difficult for the legislators not to get caught.
It’s really easy to influence regulators. In fact it is usually in the regulators’ best interest to keep the targets of their regulations happy and their own jobs easy. They are symbiotes.
Again, though, here we are.
Those agencies don’t just pop up out of nowhere. Legislators actively support their creation.
Universal suffrage made it inevitable.
It’s VERY VERY expensive and difficult to directly bribe enough people to change a law. And it’s very difficult for the legislators not to get caught.
Campaigns are an easy way to transmute your money into political favors.
There is also the enduring mystery of how legislators, with few exceptions, get so rich while in office, on a salary that could not possibly generate that much wealth.
IOW, its easy to bribe legislators, and very easy for legislators not to get caught.
>And isn’t that the problem, isn’t it? I mean America’s founding documents are incredibly libertarian in their intent and structure. Yet, here we are today?
The founding documents of America died in 1783. The founding documents of America decentralized power. When the Constitution was ratified, with its central and final authority and centralized taxation power, it was all inevitable from there.
It would be much, much harder to bribe a “government” (or whatever you wanted to call it) official to violate property rights if the society was based on the respect for property rights in the first place. It’s a tough call to say exactly when the government has gone too far and so you take up arms. I’ll give you that. Maybe when they are tossing people in rape cages for possession of a plant? I dunno. The virtuous often have the most to lose when the decline starts, so it’s hard for them to put it all on the line.
https://www.mcall.com/opinion/muschick/mc-opi-what-is-the-definition-of-assault-rifle-muschick-20181217-story,amp.html
You can’t have them.
The legislation proposed in Pittsburgh defines an assault weapon as: “A selective-fire firearm capable of fully automatic, semiautomatic or burst fire at the option of the user or a firearm that has the ability to accept a large capacity magazine.” That is any magazine fed weapon. So now we assault pistols!
The author entirely missed that “or”, and what it actually meant.
Define “large capacity”. And “select-fire” firearms are already (unconstitutionally) virtually banned.
This is something we need more of – unmasking the antifa scumbags who hide in plain sight.
“Jose”….just another self-hating white boy.
And speaking of antifa scum…..
Seriously what is stopping a free market alternative? I simply reject the notion that their aren’t conservative or libertarian minded tech folks out there who would be happy to take peoples money. I don’t know much about it but I feel like there has to be some government controls out there stopping this from happening……
The deplatforming of Gab is an interesting thing to look at for “Barriers to Entry” of alternatives to current tech companies.
Yeah, that’s why I can’t just dismiss all the deplatforming stuff as “Oh well, freedom of association and private entities can do as they like”
Mind you I’m not for the gov’t stepping in to referee yet it seems that these businesses colluding with the government to block competition has implications more threatening to liberty than most Commies could dream up
It’s naive of us to think that just because we have 1A rights that therefore those rights will be protected. If society doesn’t believe in the spirit of free speech, the laws won’t really matter. They’ll just be reinterpreted to mean whatever the attitude of society wants them to mean. People will either tolerate ideas that challenge their opinions or they won’t. Gotta win the hearts and minds of the population to have any hope whatsoever.
Very true. That’s the fallacy many conservatives buy into, that the constitution is something more than an old document. Once the people at large stop believing in the principles underlying it’s reason for existing it ceases to be anything more than a historical relic.
Yep. “Free speech” is on life support, and it’s not looking good. And a majority of America seems to be cheering on the collapse.
Conservatives. “General Welfare clause” and “Commerce Clause”. Why don’t conservatives appoint SC Justices that know how to read what those phrases meant in the context they were written?
Straff….When was the last time we had a true conservative appointing anyone to the SCOTUS? Every Republican president has been statist-lite since….Coolidge?
Gab found a registrar with balls.
https://epik.com/blog/why-epik-welcomed-gab-com.html
no idea who their payment processor is now. or the other crucial infrastructure providers.
Tim Pool had an interesting solution. Make a processor that allows people to buy or sell Bitcoin with their MC or Visa and then allow the user to donate to whoever they please. Just makes it a little easier for people who are scared of buying Bitcoin themselves.
Smash Racism DC organizer Jose Martin, also known as “Chepe,” is a radical communist and Antifa leader operating in the U.S. He advocates for the violent overthrow of the government and for the murder of the rich and claims to have international involvement in left-wing movements.
So a standard leftist/socialist/communist who is at least honest about it. Also, he couldn’t look more cliche.
He really fits the stick-boy revolutionary LARPer doesn’t he. I’m not a big dude nor do I claim to be a tough guy but I’m pretty sure I have nothing to fear from a dude like that as long as I see him coming.
I’m a short fat bastard, and I’m supremely confident that I’d whip his ass without breaking a sweat.
It’s not very NAP of me but I have to admit I like seeing these cowards get their asses handed to them on Youtube when they think having a howling mob at their back makes them badass.
Oh, absolutely. The one of the guy catching the weak punch attempt and then smirking at the commie shitheel is poetry.
That was awesome for a lot of reasons. His dispassionate restraint in not hitting back showed more power than if he’d power-bombed that guy.
Yeah, he looks like stock commie from Central Casting.
Tucker was willing to ruin their leaders as soon as they cracked his door while his wife was home alone.
So much for that
A federal judge on Monday ruled that Broward County schools and the sheriff’s office were not legally obligated to protect and shield students in the shooting that occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., last February, according to a report in the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
The outlet reports that U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom tossed out a lawsuit brought by 15 students who survived the school shooting that argued the sheriff’s office and the Broward school district had a legal duty to protect them during the massacre.
Bloom, however, reportedly ruled that the defendants were not constitutionally obligated to protect students who were not in custody.
“The claim arises from the actions of [shooter Nikolas] Cruz, a third party, and not a state actor,” she wrote in the ruling last week. “Thus, the critical question the Court analyzes is whether defendants had a constitutional duty to protect plaintiffs from the actions of Cruz.”
“As previously stated, for such a duty to exist on the part of defendants, plaintiffs would have to be considered to be in custody,” she continued.
But if a student claimed to have no duty to obey a “school resource officer” the world would end.
“plaintiffs would have to be considered to be in custody,”
I mean School is mandatory no? The kids would be taken away from their families if they don’t show up, How much more in custody do they have to be?
In handcuffs in the back of a squad car. Then maybe the police might have a small amount of responsibility for them.
But not if they die during transport…
And the fucking them is still consensual.
Although it’s depressing, it is indeed a correct ruling.
This tells you how much money and faith we should be putting into law enforcement.
Will this ruling change the mind of all the kids who are crying for further Gun Control? The cops aren’t there to save you… and have no legal obligation to do so. Maybe letting teachers who want to carry to do so would keep kids safer than some fat fuck who likes his position as long as he gets to be trotted around as some hero. Also if this is the correct ruling then it should be hand in hand with the striping of all special statuses of Cops. I know it might not be principled, but if you are going to have a bunch of carve outs then you will have to submit to some obligations.
Its analogous to the cops saying “WHaaaa” about having to abide by the 10-round mag capacity in NJ. That law is blatantly unconstitutional and showed be promptly overturned. That being said I’m all for the off-duty cops being forced to comply the same as the rest of the sheeple.
Yep. This case isn’t new, and has been tried over and over with the same result.
They have no duty to protect.
“To Serve and Protect”
That’s just a marketing slogan, it doesn’t actually mean anything.
You aren’t allowed to protect yourself and the gov’t is not obligated to protect you. It’s almost like they intend for you to be helpless cannon-fodder.
You aren’t allowed to protect yourself and the gov’t is not obligated to protect you. It’s almost like they intend for you to be helpless cannon-fodder.
Welcome to Canada. Kindly leave your 750-year-old Common Law expectation of a right to self-defense at the border. You can pick it up again as you’re leaving our lovely country.
It’s because the countries have become so safe that they begin to indulge in this foolishness of stripping people of their right to self defense. Most people never have to utilize this right, so they don’t realize the value of it. The sad thing is that the only way this will change (barring some sort of seismic philosophical shift in the populace) is if the countries become more violent. Brazil, a violent nation with heavy gun control, recently elected a man who has toyed with the idea of allowing their citizens to be legally armed. Closer to home, Texas loosened its gun controls after a survivor of the Luby’s shooting made the case that she could have stopped the murderer (and saved her parents’ lives) had she not been forced to leave her gun in her car. People will eventually realize their mistake, but not without much needless bloodshed.
Even in Texas, the retarded and grossly unconstitutional law against open carry was only recently repealed.
Heroic Hump Day presents babes with bountiful booties (a few are prolly NSFW):
https://thesexier.com/big-booties-photos/
24 is my idea of heaven
15 dispenses solid advice
12 is the rare non-skinny-butt Asian girl
For the tech folk:
Hasbeen mad that new companies provide better services than his
Seriously though, it might be true that no one in their right mind would move from Oracle to AWS because only people in the wrong state of mind would put their shit on Oracle in the first place.
“only people in the wrong state of mind would put their shit on Oracle in the first place.”
You mean like Amazon? Lol.
Lol, and that’s why Larry’s pissed, because they left.
I don’t know. After my company started shutting down our QA environment for 4 hours at night during the week and over weekends because it saved us $40k a month in AWS fees I am having a VERY hard time seeing where the value proposition of the service is.
What are you running to be racking up $40k in 120 hours?
It may be the difference between guaranteed 24×7 and guaranteed 20×5 rather than the cost per cycle.
Oh i missed weekends so its 40K in 2040 Hours. Means your paying $19 an hour.
The big selling point (IMO) is not the “Cheapness”. The Cheapness is nice when you are experimenting. You don’t have to fund a new server or three to begin working on something new. You have to remember that incorporated into the price (depending on what you are paying for) is the maintenance of the physical servers and ensuring your data is protected from a server failure. For a developer like me, who has very little IT knowledge, that’s a big boon. Also it provides a nice consistent interface to work with. In a way it’s a nice way to Abstract your Infrastructure.
I’m a systems guy. Before the consolidation into ITS, I built half my agency’s infrastructure from the bare metal to the application install. I never did development for work. Because no one wanted to pay for what it took to get 24×7 in our datacenter, we could only guarantee 12×7 and a best effort for the other half. Our developers never fretted the iron, but also didn’t do much to get more when complaining about performance bottlenecks.
I hate cloud “solutions” because I don’t like doubt about where my data is or who else might be seeing it. I also don’t like the consolidated model because the silos of responsibility mean no one has a clue how the pieces fit together, and I’m still supporting things that were officially given to others.
I’ve been a developer for almost 20 years and we don’t do “cloud” at all*. The push for years is all “cloud this and cloud that” everywhere you look but I have a nagging feeling that it’s nowhere near as popular with actual businesses.
*The one system where the data was kept by a third-party was an EPIC disaster that quite possibly led to the company’s failure.
Another thing that I don’t like about cloud solutions is vendor lock-in. Once they do have your data, it becomes a big lift to change providers or shift back in-house.
Senior management has been pushing for the nebulous “cloud” as the ultimate solution to all of the world’s problems.
When we explain to them all of the downfalls we just get the exasperated look. Luckily we’ve held the line – so far – and have the majority of our dbs in-house.
I’ve gotten good results by reminding people that “the cloud” is just a euphemism for “other people’s servers”. We don’t use the cloud for anything critical (and around here, most things are critical) because we cannot afford any downtime at all.
Also, if you are in a business where confidentiality is important and anyone is talking about using an Amazon or Google cloud, ask them if they really trust those companies to keep their snouts out of your data if there is money to be made.
We handle health benefits and human resources data for the state, including the politicians. I remember seeing paperwork regarding hte LtGov crossing one of the desks while we were troubleshooting something.
Now I don’t rightly care about the LtGov, but My data is in that same system too.
He’s got a deep neural network trained on every episode of In Living Color, deep-dreaming up all the yo-mama jokes that never were made.
Other than flexibility, the big driver is opex vs. capex. Heck, there are some states where capital depreciation is taxed, making capital expenditures even less desirable.
Hello Glibs. I have been away for a while because I have been very, very busy with work. I think (hope, pray) that that project is over. I’m glad that you all enjoyed my top 10 list for 2018, even if you are all incorrect on your choice of footwear.
You were wrong about everything. So I concluded you were just being a troll and could be safely ignored.
Trolls need boots, too.
No they don’t. Trolls have tough skin and go around barefoot.
Correction, faeries wear boots.
Well, with the number of discarded needles and the amount of fecal matter on the streets of their native habitat, can you blame them?
I grew up in Chippewa and we wore Chippewas (or Mason’s shoes) to squash Leinie’s cans and kick wade through cow manure. I have no idea about those boots that Leap thinks are good.
Packing today for a road trip tomorrow from Austin through Taos, Santa Fe, Phoenix, and San Diego, with a stop near Clovis to meet one of my favorite libertarian bloggers.
Nice!
You live in Austin?
Just applied at a few colleges in that area.
Good for you, Doom. What field of study?
Oh, to work for one. I’d like to go back for mechanical engineering. Want more econ classes.
You can learn econ without setting foot in a classroom. I had exactly one undergrad macro class that was worse than useless. About fifteen years ago, I decided to learn economics with nothing more than a library card and a podcatcher. Learned it well enough than a PhD friend sends me his journal articles to ghost-edit before he submits them for publication.
(I had a leg up because I studied the kinds of comp-sci simulation and math in school that is econ adjacent, but you can consume econ research with nothing more than high-school algebra and stats.)
Mechanical engineering, I’m not so sure about. It think math above calc and science would be very hard to autodidact.
I’ve forgotten how to do differential equations.
I may have mislaid how to do calculus.
I’m not sure if I can calculate standard deviations anymore.
Shit, I think I’ve forgotten more math than the average person will ever know.
It comes back quickly though. I have been helping my daughter with her high school calc homework all this year.
I have only used calculus once in my professional career. We measured the propane level in a 90,000 gallon tank. I had to convert that vertical level to gallons stored. I’m told that bit of ladder logic is still being used.
Yeah, the econ I’m slowly building.
But getting free classes for working at the school is a nice perk
THE BEST KIND OF ENGINEERING
*I might be biased
Yeah, I live in Austin. Barely. I can walk out of the city limits in like 5 minutes.
It’s a pretty nice place to live. The hordes of CA refugees moving here haven’t wrecked it — yet.
I’m used to living in the hard blue.
I’d like to be just outside.
How humid is it really, though?
Bad. Really bad if you aren’t used to it.
I did a stint just south of Atlanta. AC just got on my checklist
Atlanta? Hell, NYC is unbearable without AC in the summer.
That’s true, VT isn’t great on the summer, but I can usually get by with the windows down.
I’ll adapt.
Austin is central Texas, so not that humid. Go east toward Houston and it gets really muggy. Go west to El Paso and it is really dry.
The long string of 100 degree days in mid-summer would likely be more of a consideration. But the flip side is there’s only a few days a year below freezing.
Thanks. I tried looking for some data on it all, but it’s nice to have a first-hand account of what’s going on. The 100’s kinda scare me, but I think I’d get used to that.
Hoping to get a call back in the new year.
When I lived in Vegas, after I got used to the heat, 100 their felt better than 90 in Wisconsin due to the lack of humidity.
Agreed. Denver at 85 is very different than Burlington at 85.
I get laughs every time I point this out, but humidity is where all of the energy in the “air” is, hot or cold.
http://web.uconn.edu/poultry/NE-127/NewFiles/Psychrometric.html
Look at the enthalpy on that chart and you’ll see that a summer in NYC is indeed no picnic. A quick comparison of Dallas and Memphis shows the same required total mechanical cooling load, but in Memphis it’s all humidity. In DFW your A/C drips a few times a minute; in Memphis, you are required by code to install a French drain for condensate!
But don’t get me wrong: Dallas (and Austin) are better; the dry heat does matter. I carry my clubs, walked 36 this weekend here in TN, but it’s much easier to do in TX: without mechanical heat, you rely on your sweat, and in dry TX that works; I routinely hike and schlep my clubs west of I-35, and I’m 54 and no athlete. Also: swamp coolers don’t work really work east of THE Red River: you can’t effectively cool anything (anybody) in a humid place by throwing wet air on them no matter what the University of Florida football program thinks! If the air has as much moisture in it as your skin does, where’s the potential to drive the sweat off for that sweet, sweet evaporative cooling?
Fill the tank before entering CA. Last time it took me a minute to grasp how much more gas costs there.
“Holy fuck. That’s per quart?”
“Well, there’s the business tax, the deliver tax, the excise tax, the road tax, the tax tax, and the sales tax.”
Thanks for the heads up. I keep forgetting how fucked up CA is.
HiFi Question… Last night I was picking up some end tables at an estate sale. There was this nice cabinet there that turned out to be an old phonograph. I bought it. It powers up but there’s only buzzing in the speakers. There are 3 or more tubes inside but only one lights up. Any suggestions to get me started on how to repair this thing? It’s a Westinghouse, model HF-1051B.
You can quickly order new tubes if they are common. Pull the tubes that are not working, get the tube PN and size, search for replacements.
Thanks. Hopefully their removal isn’t a hassle.
Put a boombox in it.
Ha! I do have a boombox on it, for now. Nostalgia got the best of me. I can’t wait to hear the sound of a needle scratching on dust again.
Have you located the thermostat?
Uhhh… nope. I found where I can order the schematics online. What’s the significance of the thermostat?
Running joke.
Doh!
Gah – the majority of vintage turntables were plain awful. I wouldn’t let one, especially one that hasn’t been setup properly and doesn’t a new stylus, touch any of my vinyl collection.
With vintage tube gear, power supply electrolytic capacitors are always suspect. And the oil ‘n’ paper coupling caps usually need replacement. And the carbon composition resistors are waaay off spec. And the input jacks are shite. So, if you do want to restore this for use, it may take more than some tube replacements. I’ve rebuilt a lot of tube gear – it’s fun hobby – but make sure you know what you are doing.
Thanks for the link. I think I’ll take out the electronics module, put it on the workbench and start with replacing tubes and the capacitors.
Fun story: I designed & built a tube amp for my senior project when I got my BSEE. The two things you never see in any circuits when you’re in college: Switches and fuses. I was turning the amp on and off by plugging and unplugging it from a surge protector. If there were sparks or cooking smells, that meant unplug it fast! And by amp I mean a series of breadboards daisy chained together, each with a different stage of the amplifier. I still have no idea how I avoided burning the house down or shocking myself.
Hopefully Yuesf can help. He’s a vacuum tube expert or something.
OMWC is the expert.
I dabble in the stuff, or did until I got into weirdo solid-state designs.
The “V” in HVAC is for vacuum…tube.
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“A Thai YouTube star is facing charges for criticising a Miss Universe contestant’s ‘ugly’ dress – that was designed by the king’s daughter.
Wanchaleom Jamneanphol is said to have made the comments about a blue outfit worn by Thai beauty queen, Sophida Kanchanarin, at the pageant in Nonthaburi province.
The dress was designed by the king’s 31-year-old daughter, Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana. Thailand’s lese-majeste law bans criticism of the monarchy.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6511219/YouTube-star-faces-charges-criticising-ugly-dress-designed-Thai-kings-daughter.html
“The charges were filed and accepted by the Thai police’s technology crime suppression division.
Thailand has some of the strictest lèse-majesté laws in the world, punishing anyone who “defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent” who are greatly revered in Thailand and hold considerable power.
The law, which has been in place since 1908, has been increasingly enforced ever since the Thai military took power in 2014 in a coup, with many people punished with harsh jail sentences. Critics say the law is used to suppress freedom of speech, and campaigners and the United Nations have repeatedly called for it to be amended. The computer crimes laws also strictly control what Thai people can post online and carry equally severe sentences.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/19/youtube-host-faces-charges-for-criticising-thai-princesss-miss-universe-dress
That reminds me, there was something I wanted to say.
Fuck the king of Thailand.
Thanks to you I now get updates in my news feed every time Daily Fail puts up another stupid Demi Rose piece. And I don’t even find her particularly attractive.
You were clicking through?
Sucker.
And the sexist goes down FTW!
This cutesy trend where all nouns are turned into verbs is pissing me off. (“adulting”, etc.) GMC’s holiday slogan is “Gift like a pro.” We have a word for that; it’s “give.”
It’s vapid, stupid trend that needs to go away.
I hate car commercials that show some one giving a their spouse a car as a gift. “Surprise, $30,000 of debt!”
The people in car commercials are all filthy rich, though, and live in million dollar postmodern mansions.
I love it!
Like this, or , or this
Ha that last one is the one I immediately thought of.
Or the one with the kid who makes his dad drive his girl-crush home, from his ridiculous mansion next door to her ridiculous mansion.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I’d prefer to look at a few cars before I get one.
And half those ads are with cars far above 30k.
Reminds me of my super sweet 16 “ugh! I wanted the range Rover to pink, and instead daddy got me a white BMW m5!”
That alone would piss Mrs. Animal off no end. She’d been driving the same truck for 12 years now, loves it, loves that it’s been paid off for years. Her only worry now is that it’s pushing 200l miles, and at some point it’s going to give up the ghost.
Buy the best vehicle you can afford and drive it until the wheels fall off, that’s our method. YMMV.
I tried.
Damn Buick parked in the wheel well. The wheel was still on, but the axle bent.
I had a quarter million miles on my Z3 until a short dumpy UT student drove into the back of it at 50 mph.
When the wheels fall off, put them back on.
My silverado has been paid for for 7 years and is well over 250k. As stuff wears out, I replace it.
I spent 1800 on the motor last year. That’s a hell of a lot less than a new truck.
We do the same. Fortunately we have a dealership and service department we know and trust (we’ve bought our last 7 vehicles from not only the same dealership but the same sales guy). When Mrs. A’s truck needs something done, the first question to the service manager is “is it worth fixing?” So far the answer has always been yes. When he says no, then we’ll decide what to do.
Buy the best vehicle you can afford and drive it until the wheels fall off
We do the latter, but don’t buy nearly as much as we could afford. Just a good, solid, reliable vehicle.
Buy the best vehicle you can afford and drive it until the wheels fall off, that’s our method. YMMV.
Our method too. Drives our Millenial nieces crazy (‘cept for the one who’s actually got her head screwed on relatively straight . . . )
“I’m in your debt.”
“Well, no, you’re in your debt.”
1) Verbing is a natural part of language evolution, and every language has it.
2) Gift as a verb has been used for centuries. Giving is not the same thing as gifting, and replacing gift with give would be involve a loss of denotation.
^^^This.
I read that last word as “detonation” and was thinking “what the hell kinds of gifts are you gifting?”
Gifts that go Boom are the Fun kind of gift.
Just make sure it’s not premature detonation.
It’s not just you
GMC’s holiday slogan is “Gift like a pro.” We have a word for that; it’s “give.”
*pushes reading glasses up nose*
Actually, “gift” has been a verb for quite some time in legal circles.
But, I agree with your larger point. Still, one of the purposes of the young is to irritate older people, including by fucking with the language.
It’s like some people don’t even millennial.
Actually, “gift” has been a verb for quite some time in legal circles.
We do like to devise new ways to convey.
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary.” James Nicoll
And that applies to your complaint as well. It is why English STEVE SMITH’s every other language. It’s so dang versatile.
“Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey ‘gave rapper Azealia Banks some of his beard hair to make amulet for protection from evildoers’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6509887/Twitter-CEO-Jack-Dorsey-gave-rapper-Azealia-Banks-beard-hair-protect-evildoers.html
Now you’re just making shit up.
I guess that cunt gettin’ eatin’.
In case you thought I was being crude for no reason. And for some reason YouTube thought that song would be a nice lead in for Abba’s SOS.
I’m surprised that David Copperfield is in the top ten. I didn’t think magicians or illusionists, or whatever, were a big thing anymore. I assume he must have a permanent show in Vegas?
I believe he does, yes. But Penn & Teller do too, so why bother?
“Words ARE violence. They are mental violence. Hate speech is like getting punched inside your head, In your brain. So it is not violence to hit or kick someone who is invalidating your identity because they have already assaulted you. It is self defence. The science is clear.”
https://twitter.com/MadelineSeers13/status/1075269803642765313
“I asked a janitor where the intersectional bathroom was and this white male 1) didn’t do an Indigenous land acknowledgement before he answered me and 2) said there was no intersectional bathroom. So I pulled the fire alarm.”
https://twitter.com/MadelineSeers13/status/1075254283078053888
LOL
there’s some top notch talent out there.
CTE is ruining the world.
Hmm… would you prefer that I call you a pompous bitch or kick you in the head? Your choice.
Can’t tell if satire.
Yeah. “Professor of intersectional mathematics”?
That should strike me as obvious satire but it doesn’t.
It skates right along that line between trolling and “holy fuck that idiot actually thinks that”.
Hey, first I’ll spend 30 seconds saying mean things to you, and then I’ll spend 30 seconds punching you in the face. See if you can tell the difference, dumbass.
Between this and Titiana McGrath, I have hope for this world.
because they have already assaulted you
No, they haven’t. But if that’s your standard do not be surprised when I ventilate you after you *actually assault* me.
Wow. My boss just told me I could no longer accept projects from clients involving international cases because I’m a “white American” and it would be construed as racism (yes, racism was used). I’m a little in shock right now.
Um. Wat?
I very, very rarely would say this, but you may need to go have a chat with an employment lawyer.
Or at least redouble my job application efforts.
Yes
And document that interaction, and every one like it. Leave a paper trail for the lawsuit if you pursue it.
Or just get a different job.
Say what now?
That’s fucking retarded. I hope he is just messing with you.
Nope dead serious. I was told it would be racist for me to write about the experiences of people in other countries as a white American. Presumably, brown or black Americans would be okay but that wasn’t said.
Lawyer.
On th bright side, maybe you won’t have to work in the future?
Get your resume in order.
That’s proper fucked.
I am very confused
Your boss actually said he would be steering work away from you because you are white?
I would spend some quality time with my resume, if I were you.
LOL WUT
WTF??
your boss is afraid you may appropriate your clients’ cultures or enslave them.
he could be saving you the trouble of a malpractice suit down the line by some aggrieved foreigner convinced of your devious white motives. and that perspective is not jaded at all.
Sounds racist.
Identify as Black. *Ball in your court, Bossman.
Better yet, tell him you can dumb it down if that’ll help.
Lawyer. And resume.
Think very hard about going the lawyer route. Suing an employer will definitely dissuade future employers (who aren’t idiots, and who wants to work for an idiot?) from hiring you.
We screen candidates for lawsuits. Mostly as a way to protect against professional whistleblowers, but it has the added benefit of protecting against people who are in the habit of filing employment lawsuits.
If you don’t do it habitually, I wonder if there’s a problem? I sued one employer for an egregious breach of contract and wrongful termination. Won a six figure settlement. I’ve gotten three jobs since then (leaving each one under good circumstances) without it ever coming up.
That said, I turned down one candidate here because ze sued zer previous employer for what looked like total bullshit disability claims.
I’d worry about having to explain that, no, I don’t subscribe to the collectivist racialism of progressive bigots. But then, I assume most people are at least knee-jerk lefties, if not true believers.
Employment lawyers also negotiate severance packages that include language to protect both parties from unrealized litigation risks.
See if you can get him to e-mail you that policy or otherwise get it in writing, then, as others have said, lawyer up.
I’d agree with RCD, be very careful about lawyering up.
However, if this individual is this dense see if you can get the discussion in writing. “I’m trying to clarify our phone conversation of…” and confirm that as a white American the following….
At most organizations I’ve worked having an email affirmation of such a conversation would be a get out of jail card.
Sounds like you need to take a few days off to do some self care and get focused after being hit with such a traumatic experience.
If the “government shutdown” that trump is threatening ends up happening, I will be affected exactly as much as the last time the government was “shutdown.” In other words, none at all.
Despite the fact that the federal government steals a significant portion of my earnings every single week, there is not a single service provided by the feds that I use. Not even one.
I’m trying to think about that. I work in a highly regulated industry, but nothing they do is really beneficial – it’s just an ever-changing obstacle course to navigate.
When I travel, some of the Feds’ semi-retarded guards search me. The airport could hire security guys for half the cost and twice the efficiency.
That’s all I have…
KDW: “The problem with Obamacare is Obamacare.”
??
LOL
This law is so good we have to hand out exemptions to it to keep the people who want it from feeling its effects!
The second exemptions were made brought into question the validity of the who stupid thing.
How anyone can still fight for this even as politicians exempt themselves is beyond me.
I spent 1800 on the motor last year. That’s a hell of a lot less than a new truck.
But leather seats! New car smell!
Flashy gadget that has no support! Touchscreen/smart display! It’s not like people view a 5year old phone like it’s the slowest piece of shit ever. Let’s put a low quality one of those in a car!
All that new fancy crap in a car has me cringing at what I’ll get stuck with when it comes time for the next vehicle in the Salsa household. All the neat gizmos will be broke and I’ll end up with check engine lights coming on for non-important components.
“A Response To Zack Ford’s Dishonest ThinkProgress Article, “Atlantic cover story is a loud dog whistle for anti-transgender parents”
https://medium.com/@jesse.singal/a-response-to-zack-fords-dishonest-thinkprogress-article-atlantic-cover-story-is-a-loud-dog-1bb36b4f6aad
“I finally wrote a long, detailed response to Zack Ford’s deeply dishonest, confused, scientifically illiterate response to my Atlantic article about gender dysphoria. In it, I show that he committed a genuine act of journalistic malfeasance.”
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1075149569300795392
If it’s in ThinkProgress, I generally assume it is total bunk and probably outright lies.
Isn’t overreliance on a handful of activists in the face of widespread consensus something the Party Of Science routinely denounces in other fields?
Also, how badly must someone hate trans people to deny any modification of the core beliefs of a subset of trans activists, even in the face of reversion and high rates of suicide? If I didn’t know better, I’d think Zack Ford not-so-secretly hates trans people and wants to see them suffer, and for no better reason, best I can tell, than because the politics of the thing pleases him.
You know, Trump, just when I think you couldn’t possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this…and totally redeem yourself!
Bump stock ban yesterday and I think he’s an idiot; withdrawal from Syria announced today and Ithink he’s a damn genius. We’re actually going to (mostly) end our involvement in a war. Thank God.
I think this would be the first time we have ended a war since gulf war 1.
It’s great news.
We never really ended Gulf War One. We had a permanent combat air patrol over large parts of Iraq, kept one or more brigade in Kuwait (rotational) and in the year leading up to round two bombed critical military infrastructure to enable a rapid ground campaign without an extended air campaign.
But it be good news if leaving Syria means withdrawing all US ground troops and not just conventional troops.
Yeah, this is great news. Do Iraq and Afghanistan next, and we’ll round up some boys to go steal Obama’s Nobel Piece Prize and send it to you. You’ll love it. Its gold.
It will look great sitting on top of his gold
shittertoilet.Someone should actually do this for real. Is it in the White House? Or did Obama take it with him to his Presidential “Library”.
Maybe we can get he Wu Tang Clan and/or actor Bill Murray to do this as a 2-for-1 when the go to steal back Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.
If he pulled us out of the rest of the Bush-Obama wars and rescheduled weed, I’d not just vote for him, I’d actively campaign.
I would love if Trump pulled the weed card a month or so before the election. Watching the fallout of the Bernie Bros and the clintonistas (or whoever it actually ends up being) fight over what to do would just be joyous.
The NPC’s would blue-screen.
The administration needs to do this quickly so it will coincide with the release of the final issue of the Weekly Standard.
Rub some salt in that wound.
Nork Nut next, please.
Think of all those government contractors that will be without work. Why do you hate children!?
Why do you hate children!?
Because they’re smelly, loud, and have the mental capacity of Democrats?
/just kidding
Rubin and Peterson working to create alternative to Patreon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=133&v=VvGs5bGwWiM
Sam Harris already dumped Patreon over their deplatforming. Quillette and a few other content providers have already committed to alternative.
Yesterday I heard on the “news” that Trump saying Merry Christmas is just a dog-whistle to his white supremacist supporters. In an unrelated note I’d like to wish you all a merry Christmas.
The exact thing a Russian Nazi would say.
Damn, I never realized how many racist radio stations there are before.
I’m still all het up about the up-thread jealousy of Kylie Jenner or whoever she is.
One of the things that is most damning of the entitlement culture that has sprung up is the way it is corrosive toward gratitude. It is why I despise the phrase “giving back”. It is part and parcel of trying to destroy American culture. If you replace gratitude and generosity with guilt and entitlement, it’s far easier to put your boot on people’s necks.
Part of what makes America work is social capital, that feeling of bonhomie that under girds and supports free markets and individual liberty. And that social capital is reliant on generosity of the giver and gratitude of the receiver creating a virtuous cycle where people want to take part in both. Moreover, feeling gratitude for what you have in your life and for the kindnesses and generosity of those around you makes it far harder to be envious, petty, and mean.
I love Christmas. I may not believe that g*d became man and was born in a manager, but taking a moment to be grateful and to express that via generosity is important to me and a message worth communicating.
You should be. That kind of thinking is poison that will destroy the thinker. It should be confronted with alacrity lest it spread.
Here. This should help.
You’re not wrong, just keep in mind some people use this a forum to work through ideas and express things they might be afraid to say (or lack an audience for) elsewhere. That particular Tulpa might not be indulging in envy to the extent that we might be attempted to assume they are.
ehem…..*tempted*
That’s a fair point.
This is probably too dead to bother with but now you’ve got me thinking about it so……
Reading his comment I think he’s more consumed with the injustice of it rather than being plain-old envious. I get it. Shallow, materialistic and usually contemptible people tend to be the ones with all the material wealth, fame, etc and on it’s face it’s really unfair. Why is wealth so often wasted on the worst sorts of people?
However as many people pointed out, wealth is not necessarily a reward, and in fact can be a curse. Assuming “grudgebearer” isn’t trolling or making a bad-faith argument I think his first mistake is the assumption that wealth=happiness.
I agree with Bob. I’ve often spoken of my struggle with envy, and I have always appreciated that I can do so. In grudgebearer’s case, I am empathetic because my husband and I have struggled with barely making ends meet for years upon years because of one bad decision. That WAS our decision, though, so I try to look at it as a challenge instead of an injustice.
Then again, Matt Paxton on Hoarders says, “We’re all 5 bad decisions away from shitting in a bucket.”
Here’s a fun story: “More than 80 percent of registered voters support the Green New Deal proposal being pushed by progressional (sic) Democratic lawmakers, a new poll found.”
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/421765-poll-majorities-of-both-parties-support-green-new-deal
Phrased in what manner?
Good question.
No doubt in the same way that occludes attitudes about universal healthcare when theoretical premiums creep into the three-digit range. “I have to PAY TAXES on this massively expensive federal program!?”
“The plan’s centerpiece is a goal of moving the nation to 100 percent renewable electricity. It would also guarantee jobs for unemployed people and boost energy efficiency and infrastructure.”
See also Obamacare, which was supposed to cover a bunch more people while resulting in a $2,500 savings for the average family.
Unless I get a pony, I can’t support it.
“We can’t increase production to meet your greedy selfish desire to not die, so we’re going to initiate rolling blackouts for 23 hours a day.”
“Do you support healing the planet so it doesn’t burn up into a cold, hard cinder?”
vs.
“Do you support paying 22x your current power bill?”
Hm… I wonder which way they went.
Phrased in what manner?
Would you support a Green New Deal that delivers crystal clear air and water, free electricity, an electric car in every garage, and millions of high-paying no-show jobs?
Bullshit.
I actually believe it. Most people in my world seem to have zero clue about the wheres and hows of energy production.
Trump saying Merry Christmas is just a dog-whistle to his white supremacist supporters
I’m going to have a Xermus Doloroso, just to spite him.
that UC Davis/Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study on the ineffectiveness of Universal Background Checks in California has stuck at Wikipedia and survived a couple edits. for now anyway. study showed no rate change for homicide and suicide firearm mortality so expect the pressure to tear it down to increase with the new House anti-gun movement next year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_background_check#Effectiveness
Phrased in what manner?
“We want to make you happy, and perfect the world. Would you approve of that?”
“Not liking green energy is like being hit in the face with a ping-pong paddle. Would you prefer being hit in the face with a ping-pong paddle, or do you support green energy?”
Part of what makes America work is social capital, that feeling of bonhomie that under girds and supports free markets and individual liberty.
Absolutely, and within that is the understanding that co-operative effort makes everyone better off. Not necessarily equally better, but so what?
Could this country band together successfully, the way it did in WWII, to strive for a common goal, now? I hope so, but I’m not sure. Satan’s elves have ben busy deriving wedges between us, every place they see a crack.
“The plan’s centerpiece is a goal of moving the nation to 100 percent renewable electricity. It would also guarantee jobs for unemployed people and boost energy efficiency and infrastructure.”
Why, you’d have to be some sort of depraved monster to not want that.
Six-year-olds may not be voting (yet!) but clearly they’re running opinion polls.
I am that depraved monster.