Good afternoon, everyone. Today’s adventure in the new work computer was: Which version of dev tool X did I have on my old computer? I failed that test several times today, and had to retake it. Other than that, its been a meeting-ful day. Between the two things, I’ll be lucky to get a lick of akshual work done.
Looks like someone got twitchy at an Iranian SAM site. What a horrible reason to die in a plane crash.
Oh yeah, I’m sure the Saudis were really sad their world hyper-power buddy started flexing on their regional enemy. Given that they’ve been running a proxy war through Yemen for the last couple of years, I’m a little doubtful.
Definitely need those winning Powerball numbers to come up. And to buy a ticket. Or just find the winner on the ground. Odds are about the same.
Well this is a fascinating overview of commonly prescribed drugs and personality changes.
This seems like a good-old-fashioned bar brawl.
“Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday his country has intelligence from their own sources and allies that suggests a Ukrainian airliner was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile.”
At least he he doing something good for once.
Seems like the Ukraine should be the most pissed.
Well, apparently there were 63 Canadians. Which is half the population of Canada.
Wow, that’s like 48 Americans.
Was it wrong to laugh at this?
Or 204 Britons
There were, reportedly, a lot of Canooks on the plane as well.
Chinooks is the preferred term
I thought they were shnooks.
Most–if not all–of the Canadians were of Iranian descent.
Persians.
Not just descent I believe. Dual citizens.
They certainly descended on Iran after—
Nope, too far.
He prolly meant to say “Irkranian”
For once.
Shithead.
“Given that they’ve been running a proxy war through Yemen for the last couple of years, I’m a little doubtful.”
Hasn’t the Shia vs. Sunni thing been going on for about a thousand years now?
Nah. As is the case with all bad things in the world, it began on November 9, 2016.
So Obama’s fault then.
“And to buy a ticket. ”
You can’t lose if you don’t play.
“ Looks like someone got twitchy at an Iranian SAM site.”
I don’t know, the commenters over at ZeroHedge are saying the Jews did it.
They made the Iranians do it? That’s a hell of a plot twist.
They’re a crafty bunch.
It seems to me that if you were launching missiles from your country and were expecting possible retaliation, it would make sense to close your airspace to commercial flights for a little while. Inshallah.
Hi, Count, how’s it going?
Pretty good, that toilet paper dried out OK, now I have to figure out this phone thing.
Is that switching over from POTS to modem? Sorry, I don’t know much about it.
I don’t either. Then again, we’re the same person, so we know the same things.
LOL
Should we be worried about you?
Don’t interrupt. I want to see where this goes.
Shhhhh. He’s not posting a link to that sex doll.
Right? He might start masturbating. Let’s wait and see.
His IP has been compromised!
Whoever said that as long as you’re talking to yourself you’re at least guaranteed to have an intelligent conversation was wrong.
Salty Ted strikes again
Waiting for one of the techs to bring me a pair of wire strippers, realize that because of the last post I’m, whistling “The Lap Dance is so Much Better When the Stripper is Crying” in the lab.
Well, it was a good job while it lasted.
You should be OK. Whistling doesn’t have lyrics.
It’s the dancing and hand gestures that get you fired.
This. If anyone knows what he’s whistling, they don’t exactly have the moral authority to call him out on it, do they?
Love Bloodhound Gang!!!! Miss em.
Got a request from Jira to complete a survey. In their question about “What can Jira do better?” her was my reply.
You didn’t actually say what it could do better.
Educate managers on good management practices?
They have a product, and they have a clientele. I imagine my advice is like telling a dealer that he should recommend his clients to rehab.
The entire purpose of Jira is to break down a complex tax into simpler tasks, and then break down simpler tasks into so many minuscule tasks that it takes 10x longer to manage. That is why managers love it.
*snort*
I have encountered this technique before.
I note that bug tracking systems do the exact opposite – one small bug often becomes the common place for every other issue the user finds so that it becomes useless for future developers to search for possible fixes that were done in the past.
I use tags. In fact I custom coded a tagging system into my ERP so I can tag pretty much anything. People have an easier time keying in and remembering things that way. Seems to work better than hierarchical grouping as well.
Any system can and will be abused if the wrong people are allowed to use it.
You coded a tagging system into your erotic role play? Is the hierarchy of your sexplay really that hard to keep track of?
In my defense, there’s only two tags available, “penis” and “hole”
“Tag you are it”
*leers*
I’ve been using SmartSheet. Keep it simple with basic Kanban boards and Gantt charts.
^^^^Simple. Most project managers want something complex (maybe because it makes them feel like what they are managing is hard?) and they want it to model how they want the process to go. Not how it actually goes. The whole point of Kanban and kanban boards is to accurately model what is actually happening and then start making minor improvements.
“accurately model what is actually happening”
That sounds like work.
The whole point of Kanban and kanban boards is to accurately model what is actually happening and then start making minor improvements.
Have you… met.. real world PMs? My experience comes in two flavors:
Good: Tell me what you need so you can do your work. Report on these two or three things so I can keep you out of manager meetings.
Bad: Here is your by-the-minute task-list, scheduled for 40 hours per week. Additionally, we will have 10 hours of meetings per week so I hope you weren’t planning on eating lunch or seeing your family during daylight. Oh, and also these reports.
I would add to Bad: “I made the decision to cut the deadline in half without consulting you and already told the client. Even though I’ve insisted all other communication go through me, you’ll need to tell the client the deadline can’t be met.”
I spent more time arguing about timelines with shitty project managers than I did on actual work. I realized this was just a time and money blackhole, so my company sent me through PM training, gave me access to the tools, and let me handle PMing whatever I work on now. It’s just easier this way.
My recent life got a lot better when we swapped a PM for a delivery manager. It’s weird how she saw her success in managing the project and he sees his success in managing successful delivery. Why, its almost as if the skillsets are different.
I do love the: “all communications go through me unless I can’t be arsed to do this and/or it would involve me delivering bad news” one.
I’ve never used Mira. I thought it was just a software burn board? I use Excel for simple projects and MS Project for complex ones. And yes – as a project manager, I see my job as keeping things simple for people while making sure we’re on track.
Jira
Jira is fine as long as you stick to 3 lanes…To Do, Doing, Done.
Thats it.
Sign me up.
*salivates*
Ugh. Jira is a giant pain in the ass. I miss TeamTrack.
What happened to good ol’ fashioned handwritten to-do lists?
At least you could color a mind-map.
Make that shit stick in your head.
“This may have been unintentional,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at a press conference in Ottawa.
And it never would have happened if Bad Orange Man hadn’t made the Iranians so nervous with his threats and warmongering.
The Saudi-U.S. relationship has become particularly close since President Trump took office. It could prove to be a double-edged sword for the kingdom, analysts say, as Iran contemplates its next moves. Iran and Saudi Arabia have long battled for regional dominance, and the U.S. has supported the Saudi-led war in Yemen against Iran-backed Houthi forces.
I mean it was close to start with. Get much closer and we’ll be feeling like a 12 year old boy among the saudi royalty.
So close Trump practiced the dark arts with them.
Maybe just stick with trying to predict when the maple sap will run?
my bet is Feb 17th
Only if the beaver sees his shadow.
I thought all beavers were female.
Look i’m not trying to absolve Americas involvement, but that’s like saying the knocked up slut is in a bad position, almost entirely of her parents making.
Story of my life
They’re turning the fuckin frogs gay!
[golf clap]
holy shit Alex Jones was right.
Dude, frogs are already the gayest amphibians, so cut Jones some slack
They swing both ways – land AND water.
and what do you expect when they spend a bunch of time as ladpoles.
“Others have not been so lucky. Over the years, Golomb has collected reports from patients across the United States – tales of broken marriages, destroyed careers, and a surprising number of men who have come unnervingly close to murdering their wives. In almost every case, the symptoms began when they started taking statins, then promptly returned to normal when they stopped; one man repeated this cycle five times before he realised what was going on.”
Yikes!
I can attest from personal experience that after about a week on prednisone I turn into an even bigger asshole.
How much weight did you put on?
I’m in the class of people who eat less on prednisone. My blood pressure spikes and I’m just generally a massively irritable butthead.
So no effect then?
I mean, what’s the point in taking it? It does nothing.
So you weren’t actually any bigger?
“Back in 2011, a French father-of-two sued the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSMITHKline, claiming that the drug he was taking for Parkinson’s disease had turned him into a gambler and gay sex addict, and was responsible for risky behaviours that had led to him being raped.”
I see the problem there.
When my dad was recovering from Guillen-Barre they were giving him a ton of steroids. That summer’s salmon trip was horrible. He had a couple roid rage incidents that were pretty scary. He went back to his normal ornery self after they took him off.
I’m waiting for the smart pills to kick in. Been on ’em for about 5-6 years since the guy in Canada sold ’em to me with an auto refill. Took awhile to get used to the taste though.
“Oh yeah, I’m sure the Saudis were really sad their world hyper-power buddy started flexing on their regional enemy. Given that they’ve been running a proxy war through Yemen for the last couple of years, I’m a little doubtful.”
I want to see a Venn diagram of the people who believe this obvious BS from the Saudis against those people who believe that it’s perfectly logical to want to escalate tensions with Russia, while deescalating tensions with Iran. I have a feeling that would be a single circle.
These would be the same Saudis who were the ultimate evildoers for whacking that journalist? They’re the good guys again? Dann, it’s tough to keep up.
Remember that the Turks were the good guys, according to the narrative, in that instance, because they ratted on the Saudis? That lasted a couple of months before Orange Man decided to withdraw troops from Syria (which never actually happened), then the Turks became the bad guys again.
So stupid.
The Enemy of My Enemy is okay as long as that Enemy is Orangemanbad
Oh yeah, the Turkish Flip-flop was an instant classic. I particularly enjoyed Erdogan in his role of brave defender of press freedoms
That was Trump’s fault, though.
He did say “Kill all the journalists!” I heard him say that.
Whats the connection between Virgin and the powerball…..
Oh boy, i’ve done it now haven’t i?
You see leon, girls are known to allow wealthy men to take liberties with their pure and innocent bodies. Some toxic shitlord men have been known to aspire to wealth for this reason. The result of this phenomenon is what we refer to as “History”
If you win the powerball, you can grab them by the pussy.
If you win the powerball, what is the recovery time after they install it in your scrotum? And do you need to buy special pants to keep the powerball from shining through?
Hi Brett!
Thanks for the lynx! Especially the medication one.
The more I read and learn, the more I am convinced that nutrition trumps medicating in virtually every common ailment. My younger sister was on a bunch of meds for depression and she was a fucking train wreck. We talked her into getting off them, get physically healthy and dial in her diet. It made an amazing difference.
Of course, then there’s this:
Uh, no.
I wonder how much the government’s terrible dietary advice (this time on cholesterol) contributes to the problem.
Shouldn’t that end with a question mark?
No, grammatically he is stating a fact. That he wonders.
A ton. The recommended foods are extremely inflammatory.
That fucking food pyramid has killed more people than cigs.
Its almost like Oyz is onto something, with the testing and stuff.
I knew the first thing up would be statins.
They’re evil.
How Ruth Bader Ginsburg is trying to check the conservative majority
By refusing to
diestep down?Ginsburg spoke to CNN in a rare interview in her chambers this week. The 86-year-old four-time cancer survivor has resumed an active role in oral arguments and is often the first of the nine justices to pose a question. She regularly asks whether the Supreme Court should even decide the legal issue before it.
By framing the debate in this way, Ginsburg could limit the five conservative justices from setting new precedent over the dissent of the court’s four liberals.
Ginsburg’s approach goes back to her time in law school — but her expertise and emphasis offers liberals a path forward when the balance of power on the court is now solidly conservative. Ginsburg has taken up the cause in multiple recent disputes regarding the 2nd Amendment, criminal sentencing and tax law.
In an interview late Tuesday, Ginsburg talked about the rules for getting through the courthouse doors. She would not discuss specifics of any pending case and sidestepped questions about strategy or the ideological stakes on this divided court.
She said that procedural concerns can stop judges from intervening prematurely but noted that procedural safeguards can also ensure that worthy litigants are not kept out of the courthouse.
“It’s just instinctive to me,” she said. “Procedure is supposed to serve the people that law exists to serve.”
And the law exists to serve leftist/proggie goals I suppose.
You mean everyone?
SCOTUS shouldn’t look at anything as long as there are conservatives in control, they might set precedent that we don’t like. best to wait
She regularly asks whether the Supreme Court should even decide the legal issue before it.
I assume she treats the absolute 1A and 2A proscriptions of laws against free speech and guns the same way.
DaFuq?
With Justice Elections Have Consequences?
Wait, she gave an interview to CNN? I thought that wasn’t kosher.
Cnn, like all Nazi organizations and people is treif.
Do you need an additional reason to dislike the French? Well, here’s another reason anyways.
WARNING: This may sound like Alex Jones wrote this, but this is real.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/world/europe/france-pedophilia-gabriel-matzneff.html
“A Victim’s Account Fuels a Reckoning Over Abuse of Children in France”
FTA:
“Caught now in the crosscurrents of France’s changing attitudes toward sex, Mr. Matzneff is the product and longtime beneficiary of France’s May 68 movement, the social revolution started in 1968 by students and unions against France’s old order.
With the slogan, “It’s forbidden to forbid,” the movement rebelled against authority and fought against imperialism, capitalism, racism, sexism and homophobia. Some also argued for abolishing age-of-consent laws, saying that doing so would liberate children from the domination of their parents and allow them to be full, sexual beings.
Mr. Matzneff was one of the leading writers to advocate the legalization of sex with children. In “Les Moins de Seize Ans,” or “Under 16 Years Old,” he writes, “To sleep with a child, it’s a holy experience, a baptismal event, a sacred adventure.” First published in 1974, it was republished in 2005.
Thinkers on the left, like Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, spoke in defense of the practice, or came to the defense of men accused of engaging in sex with people below the age of consent in France.
Libération, the newspaper co-founded by Sartre, championed pedophiles as a discriminated minority and ran personal ads by adults seeking children for sex.
The newspaper ran “revolting” articles about pedophilia into the 1980s, and its staff included activists who fought for the right to engage in “sexual relations with children,” its editor, Laurent Joffrin, acknowledged in an editorial this week, adding that the publication now opposed the practice.
Tolerance of it was not limited to the left.
For years, though less aggressive than Libération, Le Monde, the centrist newspaper, published a weekly column by Mr. Matzneff and articles defending those accused of having sex with underage partners, including one in 1977 that was signed by Sartre, de Beauvoir and Barthes. While the right attacked pedophiles, some of its leaders were close to Mr. Matzneff.
Pierre Verdrager, a sociologist and author of “L’Enfant Interdit,” or “Forbidden Child,” a book on the politics surrounding pedophilia in the 1970s, said that what united its defenders was the belief that France had an “aristocracy” that was not bound to ordinary norms of conduct.”
If you go down the rabbit hole on some of the names here, you may start believing in Qanon
” this is real.”
LOL. It’s a NYT link.
Well played
With the slogan, “It’s forbidden to forbid,”
I know contradictions are all the rage, but did they not even stop to think about how this is exactly how something like South Park would make fun of them?
“At Camp Tolerance we do not tolerate intolerance!”
There was no South Park in 1968. The equivalent of Matt Stone and Trey Parker were Charles De Gaulle and Sartre. Neither of which were particularly funny (beyond their appearances).
Buerres, ça, c’est moi!
Plus ça change…
I’m guessing – like similar groups today – they were really just fighting capitalism and didn’t give a shit about any of those other things.
So there is an interesting story about the 1968 protests: the commies and workers shut it down. The protests were primarily led by students who were later joined by their professors who were later joined by some government workers who were later joined by private sector workers. But, the workers quickly started to resent the protesters so they backed out and the commies (who still feigned allegiance with workers at that time) followed suit.
And now Pizzagate comes closer into focus.
Of course France (there’s also a Dutch woman who gave a TedTalk about needing to become more mature about pedophelia) would push for this. Doesn’t existentialism pretty much lead to a bankrupted moral relativism?
“To bathe in the blood of someone who sleeps with a child, it’s a holy experience, a baptismal event, a sacred adventure.”
FIFY
Let me know when they deport Polanski in cuffs.
Those French, they’re so sophisticated, unlike us dumb yokel non-childfucking Americans.
Wasn’t someone here just arguing this very point with a sophisticated European the other day?
“The catastrophic fires in Australia are the latest example of the very real and very urgent consequences of climate change. It’s on us to stay focused and protect the one planet we’ve got for the next generation:”
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1215377738858663937
Climate change causes arson.
By passing laws that won’t do anything to change it even by our own numbers. But it will totally screw over people in the economy and give even more power to the people proposing the laws.
By borrowing money that we promise the next generation after the next generation will pay for.
Ok, Bloomberg.
The debate on gun control in Virginia and around the country has focused in particular on assault-style rifles like AR-15s that have been used in mass shootings. Some initial pieces of Virginia legislation filed by Democrats that would outlaw AR-15-style rifles have not included any “grandfather” clauses allowing current owners of the popular rifle to keep them.
But Northam and other top Democrats in Virginia have said they don’t want to confiscate guns. And Bloomberg said Tuesday such a plan isn’t feasible.
“It’s probably impossible to get all of those back. One can only hope that when people see the damage they can cause, and the danger of having them in their houses, they’ll decide to just take them to the local police station and say, ‘Please, get rid of this,’” Bloomberg said. …
“Nobody’s trying to take away anybody’s handguns … or rifles or shotguns,” Bloomberg said. “What we’re trying to do is have sensible gun regulations.”
That doesn’t even make sense. Not that I was expecting it would.
The little runt lies. While hiding behind armed security.
Every single fucking leftist on fucking earth lies every fucking time they open their fucking mouths. And the gun-grabber variety of leftists lies the most of their ilk.
The cunning runt just came through Minnesoda. While here he pestered some tame farmers and told them how totes awesome they are. Would have been great if any of the journalos in the press junket would have asked him about guns while he was out in the country. Would have been entertaining to see him try to explain to the farmers why they couldn’t be trusted with guns.
*bonus politician claptrap
Oh, so it was Bloomberg who sold them?
“It’s probably impossible to get all of those back. One can only hope that when people see the damage they can cause, and the danger of having them in their houses, they’ll decide to just take them to the local police station and say, ‘Please, get rid of this,’” Bloomberg said. …
Give it to me for safekeeping.
They are causing a lot of boating accidents, that’s for sure.
The Iranians really need to pay a huge price for this shit. Like Libya. It’s enough with this evil behaviour.
I don’t know how but they should. Imagine being immoral to the point of shooting airplanes filled with innocent people out of the sky?
They mostly killed Iranians. Might want to encourage them to continue.
It’s the regime, not the people, that is bad.
The Russians shot down a airliner and nothing happened. The US has shot down airliners before and nothing happened. Hell, the Obama administration droned hospitals like it was nobody’s business and nothing happened.
Not all bad guys can be made to account for their actions and not all bad actions can be atoned for by a similar response.
When did we shot down an airliner? I don’t remember that.
Oh, wait. Yes I do.. Aegis system in the gulf of Arabia. We said they dropped altitude and sped up to bait us into shooting them down.
We can even just ignore that one and consider all the bridal parties and hospitals that we have droned. Or we could just take the US out of the equation and look at the Saudis who have blown up commercial airliners over Yemen.
I’m just saying that just because someone does a shitty thing in war, doesn’t mean that you HAVE to respond in kind.
That was one of the bullshit excuses floating around to try to deflect blame from where it solely lay – the officers of the U.S.S. Vincennes.
The short summary: the vincennes (an Aegis cruiser) was involved in a skirmish with some small Iranian Revolutionary Guard surface ships.
The airliner took off on schedule and was vectored into the appropriate air traffic corridor by Iranian air traffic control which passed over the site of the skirmish. The airport was a combined civil and military airport. They were monitoring the appropriate frequencies. They were climbing normally about halfway to their cruising altitude when they were hit by a surface to air missile launched by the U.S.S. Vincennes.
The chain of command fucked up in multiple ways:
1) The petty officer manning the fire control radar wan’t adequately trained and drilled, and consequently got confused by his readouts, erroneously reporting that the aircraft was descending when it was climbing.
2) The CIC officer looked over the civilian flight schedule for the airport and missed the entry for the aircraft.
3) The radio warnings were sent out on the wrong radio frequency and not the one civilian aircraft were guarding.
4) They identified the airliner as a F-14 on a bombing run (Iranian F-14’s are not capable of dropping bombs, they are A block aircraft barely flying due to the shortage of spare parts).
The behavior of senior Navy leadership in the wake of the incident was thoroughly dishonorable & despicable.
Technically speaking theres a lot more to the Vincennes incident (including the fact that they were in a literal shooting surface action with the Iranians at the same time and the jetliner wasnt squawking modes and codes properly – among other factors. Still could have been avoided before they turned the key if they had triple checked but that was a first gen system.
Where do you get that the airliner wasn’t squawking properly?
The report that I read said the airliner was squawking Mode III 6760, which is what it was supposed to be doing.
The only source for the claim that it was squawking Mode II are the watch-standers in the CIC of the Vincennes – who in my mind are utterly untrustworthy sources for anything. IIRC the tapes showed it was always squawking Mode III.
And given that the warnings on the aviation distress frequency (the only frequency with which the Vincennes was capable of communicating with civil aircraft) were addressed to “unknown aircraft” with a different speed and at a different altitude than that the airliner was flying at, it’s quite probable that they heard the warning and thought it was addressed to someone else.
I guess you’re right that ‘everyone’ does it. Very sad.
You make it sound like they intended to shoot down a commercial airliner when its much easier to prove incompetence.
Yeah, this screams “dumbass forgot to check the settings before he flipped the power switch.”
Perhaps, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it was. But I agree it sounds like a fuck up at the moment.
Still.
Apparently Trump has mastered the art of fighting without fighting. How many Iranians is that, who’ve been killed by their own this week?
How to Fix the Internet With a Single Regulation
“Many brilliant net theorists and policymakers are already offering various ways of mitigating the internet’s amplification of disinformation, extremism, and hate. Twitter’s refusal to run political ads, though a bit vague to operationalize, is a nice start. So, too, are Facebook’s efforts to manually and algorithmically check posts for the most egregious content, such as livestreamed massacres and beheadings. Fewer beheadings on social media is a good thing. But it doesn’t solve the underlying problem.
The more structural and effective solution is to make customized news illegal. Platforms cannot deliver information based on who they think we are. They have to deliver the same news about the world to all of us. If we really want certain kinds of stories filtered or emphasized, we should be doing this ourselves — the same way we pick which cable channel to watch or which newspaper articles to read. Imagine a dashboard, like the system preferences on a computer. Except instead of letting us choose which apps can send us notifications and banners, the control panel lets us choose which news services can send us headlines or which subjects we want emphasized in our feeds.”
First of all no. Second it’s actually the opposite problem of what is described in this story. I have to sift through mountains of left wing garbage on any search I perform before I can find something unbiased.
Anyone want to try translating this comment into English?
Well, no, but I can tell you that trying to read it did more to scramble my neurons than drinking a half gallon of lighter fluid and taking an elevator ride with Ray Rice.
WTF? This already exists. If you’re too stupid to choose your own news, that’s on you.
But beyond that, it’s yet another solution to a problem that does not exist. Nobody needs more than “one news”? Yeah, go fuck yourself.
Because government-funded media concentration isn’t biased at all.
Sure, some doofus developer could easily build some app based on rss and you could get only the news that totes confirmed each and every one of your pet notions, but that is only half the problem.
The real problem is that the dumb deplorables can use that same app to only get news from InfoWars and Fox News. That is just wrong and needs to be stopped.
So to be eligible for being listed in the mandatory govt control panel, you would need an official Federal Media ID. And since freedom of the press is so important, it would take at least a cabinet level department to publish guidelines and enforce regulations on who gets those ID’s.
However, in the interest of fairness, the department will allow left wing sources like Mother Jones as well as right wing sources like the New York Times.
[sadly laughter]
Truth in advertising
Facebook says it will continue to allow political ads that target the social media platform’s users, sticking to its position despite concerns about the potential impact on the upcoming presidential election. Federal Election Commissioner Ellen Weintraub sharply criticized the policy, saying Facebook’s “weak plan suggests the company has no idea how seriously it is hurting democracy.”
Facebook’s policy falls short of measures recently taken by other tech giants. Google says it will limit the ability of political ads to target an audience, and Twitter has banned political ads entirely.
Taking aim at Facebook’s policy in a series of tweets Thursday morning, Weintraub, a Democrat, said, “I am not willing to bet the 2020 elections on the proposition that Facebook has solved its problems with a solution whose chief feature appears to be that it doesn’t seriously impact the company’s profit margins.”
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Facebook says it shouldn’t be in the business of fact-checking, that the U.S. needs new laws to govern political speech on social media — and to a degree, the American Civil Liberties Union agrees.
“This will not be a popular view. But on the whole, we think that Facebook got this right,” says Ben Wizner, director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.
Describing the gray area that political ads often occupy, Wizner added, “I don’t think Facebook is capable of doing effective fact-checking, and I don’t think as a society we should want Facebook to be the entity that’s making those kinds of distinctions.”
I can’t wait for the fact-checks on Liz and Bernie’s claimed economic outcomes for their programs.
Or is that not what fact checking means?
The more structural and effective solution is to make customized news illegal.
Right. Because id I want to know what idiotic thing the governor of California did yesterday in the name of “funding homelessness” I should have to wade through a bunch of moronic ree-ing about the Kardashians and Meeeeegan Markle, and maybe a few recipes for seasonal artisanal olive scones.
Good plan.
More Epstein shenanigans:
Surveillance video of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell during suicide attempt was destroyed: prosecutors
What a fucking clown show.
Not at all suspicious.
totally normal behavior from a secure facility.
At this point, I feel like you sound crazy if you say he committed suicide
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7870261/Demi-Rose-goes-completely-naked-racy-swing-ride-Mexico.html
Oozing
sex appeal.Someone get that chick a salad.
To make the rest of us happy, she needs a mumu.
“The moment Iran blew a jetliner out the sky after ‘mistaking it for a US bomber’: New video shows ‘missile’ hitting Ukrainian Airlines Boeing 737 before it crashed killing 176 – after Trump and Trudeau both said attack was a ‘mistake'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7870409/Video-appears-surface-air-missile-hitting-Ukrainian-plane-moments-crashed.html
Talk about being at the wrong place at the wrong time.
How horrific.
Wouldn’t they know if the US had launched bombers? Surely the Russians would have notified them if they lacked the capability themselves? Were they just turning on the radar and shooting at anything that pinged? And do passenger jets and bombers fly at the same speed?
I doubt the Iranian air defense command and control system can disseminate information that efficiently to all its units.
Also centralized systems can make mistakes too.
OK. Here’s my take on the whole thing, based on the latest postings on pprune.com
1) The track of the air corridor travels directly over a IRCG weapons development/testing facility.
2) The aircraft was delayed for an hour (in part because some passengers with baggage in the hold hadn’t boarded and the ground crew offloaded their bags (this is an anti-bombing measure))
3) The TOR-1 missile is a short range command guided missile that is capable of shooting down not only aircraft but cruise missiles and air to ground missiles used by the U.S. It is controlled by a ground station using radar to track the target.
After the attack on U.S. facilities, I expect that all the air defense units in the Iranian military were at general quarters. The IRCG was especially worried; they would be specially targeted by the U.S. (and deservedly so, the assholes). I also am certain that local commanders were given authority to fire their weapons in the event that there was a U.S. attack.
I think there was a communications break-down: the guys sitting in the air defense station were no longer guarding the air traffic control frequency. Maybe their radios broke. Maybe they were told the last flight was scheduled to leave at 6:30 and had turned off the radios. On pprune, there is some speculation that perhaps the airliner had a series of compressor stalls (at night they look very spectacular, and can look bubbles of fire bursting off the airplane), and the defenders on the ground thought it was an attack in progress.
For whatever reason, the guys in charge of air defense for the facility decided to engage the target believing it to be an inbound air-craft or cruise missile. They did not check with air traffic control prior to opening fire.
And, of course, the airliner had no chance, flying in essentially straight line with no stealth features whatsoever.
If I am correct, it will be kind of ironic given how much the Iranians have been waving the flag of their victimhood at the hands of the USS Vincennes, that they just pretty much repeated the same mistake.
But the flight departed in the morning. What kind of airport is Tehran that it doesn’t have numerous departures between 6 am and 7 am? The airport wiki page shows a long list of airlines and destinations.
I don’t know….
Obviously, the Iranians didn’t want to shoot down a civilian airliner. In the Detect-to-Engage sequence for air contacts, a critical step is the Identify step. Clearly something went terribly wrong. It appears that the previous few aircraft to take off were following the same departure route and flew unmolested over the IRCG complex.
Uuuurrrggh that tickled my OCD something silly when you repeatedly typed “IRCG” instead of IRGC
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Wacky tangent: I think the compressor stalls theory is a bit unlikely, and just some internet TOP MEN showing off their aviayshun knowlidje like some guy deliberately talking loudly enough so everyone in the bar can hear his amazing opinions and brilliant deductions.
This is me posting loudly enough so everyone on glibs can hear me talk about how much I don’t like those self-important jagweeds who broadcast themselves obnoxiously loud in public places.
Holy crap! I actually mouthed out the name of those assholes to make sure I didn’t dyslexia the the crap out of the acronym.
I’m pathetic. (－‸ლ) <- experimental facepalm attempt
Dammit! :facepalm:
Experiment concluded unsatisfactorily 😳
?♂️
I quite like the experimental one?
She’s got my support.
So in fact, they’re not. And that’s the irony of all this, the blustering regime rhetoric against America. The Iranians are natural allies of the Americans. This is a sophisticated, educated population. They look to the West; they see all the youth, the same education. Even sometimes not as educated as the Iranian counterparts and they have the lifestyle; they can afford an apartment; they can get married, they can move on. The Iranian counterparts are basically repressed; they don’t have an outlet for their dissenting voice; they don’t have a hope for the future.
And it stands in stark contrast to Obama where he waited 11 days, 11 crucial days before he offered support in 2009 uprising to the Iranian people. I was telling you before in the podcast that we did beforehand, that the chants on the street of Iran, out of the 31 provinces, 29 of them erupted in protests. They are not death to America. They are holding the regime accountable for their misery. They’re saying, not Syria, not Lebanon, my life is only for Iran. So they know that the regime elite is cracking down on them. They know that this is not the regime that they bargained for in the revolution. And they want, as Lara said very aptly, they want the regime to be held accountable.
I think you would not have a hard time convincing the current president, darling. ///would
What I’m drooling over today:
1961 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Speciale
Sexy.
Yeah right. You are such a poseur. Why don’t you tell us all about your Canadian girlfriend now?
Tundra’s “sports car” (of course it includes a manure spreader). Leap and I have covered up for you for far too long Tundra. Just admit that you are a hillwilliam and be done with it.
Details on how Tundra built it.
Now that’s sexy!
And practical, too!
Love this:
It makes me happy that there are crazy fuckers like this in the world.
But he destroyed a perfectly good manure spreader that was destined for re-purposing in DC.
Sexy af.
Would
mmmmmm
Austrian and Lufthansa turned their Tehran planes around mid flight. It’s pretty bad when airlines are overflying Iraq just inside the border to avoid Iranian airspace.
Uffda. What has happened to the journalistic profession?
Any headline writer worth his salt would have written
Manhattan: Old Fashioned Bar Brawl
*NY Post makes Pope Jimbo an offer*
Trump’s Approval Rating Among Terrorists Hits All-Time Low
Everyone On The Internet Awarded Honorary Degree In International Affairs
Stealing from the government
The Trump administration did sign a modest increase in the IRS’s budget into law for this year. But the consequences of putting the IRS on a starvation diet are already here. Every single year, the federal government fails to collect an enormous amount of revenue that Americans legally owe. This vast budget hole is known as the tax gap; according to the IRS’s most recent estimates, which are sadly a bit out of date, it amounted to $381 billion annually between 2011 and 2013. In a paper last year, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and University of Pennsylvania law professor Natasha Sarin estimated that $630 billion would slip through the government’s fingers this year. But I suspect their ballpark figure might even be too low; they arrived at it by taking the old IRS estimate, and adjusting it for income growth and inflation. Given how the IRS has been decimated, it seems reasonable to suspect that the rate of tax avoidance is higher now than it was at the start of the previous decade.
“Hey, Rocky! Look! Nuthin up muh sleeve.”
“Every single year, the federal government fails to collect an enormous amount of revenue that Americans legally owe.” it seems reasonable to suspect that the rate of tax avoidance is higher now than it was
Tax avoidance- the pursuit of legal means by which to conform to the letter of the law while minimizing one’s tax burden. Plainly the same thing as refusing to pay anything at all.
Sure, Jan.
Excellent. I can fix this. DHS has a proposed budget this year of $92 Billion. We are almost a third of the way to plugging that hole.
What else is there?
How the f*** did the IRS collect a greater percentage of what was due back in the day before computers? Did they do 100% audits (which wouldn’t even get 100% compliance)?
One would think that with computers matching W-2s and 1099s (which is where the vast bulk of personal income is reported) they wouldn’t be leaving so much taxes on the table.
I’m not complaining about the sheer incompetence of the IRS (if your call is answered you’ll probably get four difference answers about how to treat some revenue issue). Articles like this are pure “raise my budget or my department will collapse” crap.
OK, So if I activate the phone number I have with my cable company, will that screw up my POTS? I want to see if the phone wiring I have works with the modem. The phone comes in from the street on the bottom floor (that’s where the “network interface” is), but my modem and router are on the top floor. Even though phone lines are wired in parallel there could be impedance problems. So I want to test it out first.
Don’t connect the modem and the phone lines at the same time. POTS lines carry voltage that your modem isn’t set to deal with. In fact, if you’re using the existing phone wiring, you should disconnect it from the “Network Interface” to avoid getting that voltage incoming.
It’s the same nominal -48V at 20ma or less. It shouldn’t cause any permanent damage, but for testing, or for use, shouldn’t plug in both at the same time.
I was going to disconnect it first.
I’m concerned that both companies having the same number active is going to cause some sort of conflict or computer glitch.
That’s different than just testing two different (essentially) telephone lines. To reuse the number, the cable company will submit a request to port your existing number on a mutually agreed due date. On the due date your existing service will be turned off and your new service will be turned on. Termination fees may apply if you’re on a contract.
And even though your telephone company receives a request to port your number, you may still need to call in and cancel existing service after it’s ported. I don’t work in the customer care side and I don’t trust them to do the right thing.
So I can’t have them both on at the same time?
The cable company made it sound as though putting in my number (through their website) was automatic.
It’s automated, but to reuse your existing number, they need to port it from the current carrier.
OK, they made it sound like it was instantaneous.
And maybe it has improved. Interested to hear how it goes.
Just unplug your line at the SNI downstairs.
Guarantee that there won’t be an impedance mismatch. The cable modems are designed to backfeed analog telephone onto station wiring. Or another way, just plug a telephone set into your modem.
I just want to make sure all the phone in the house work, before I cancel my POTS service.
Sounds like some abuse of power.
During a press conference on Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that she won’t hold the impeachment articles from the Senate “indefinitely” and will send the articles when she is “ready. And that will probably be soon.”
Pelosi said, “I’m not holding them indefinitely. I’ll send them over when I’m ready. And that will probably be soon. … We want to see what they’re willing to do, and the manner in which they will do it.”
We want to see what they’re willing to do,
and the manner in which they will do it.”to rig the process in favor of removal.Sales taxes are less regressive than gentrification of a dying planet.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
Hearty ALOL
I posted this late in the last article. You don’t know it, but you want it…
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1146/355408/
No I don’t.
“You don’t know it, but you want it…”
What is things said in a prison shower?
And that was Ted’S response in the shower, as well.
Back at ya!
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1199/19960/
I already know I want it, but thanks, now I still want it. Can I have it? Yes!
I couldn’t drink this very often, but damn.
I’d def give that a go.
David Frum: Mendacious Cunte
“If your president is not able to lead the country, you don’t go to war. Donald Trump has never even aspired to be President of the United States,” Frum said on the program. “He’s president of a little less than half the United States and that’s the only job he’s ever wanted. He regards the majority of the country as his enemies. How can you lead a united nation to war?” …
“As President Bush pushed toward war with Iraq in 2003, he had legal authority from Congress, he had an international coalition, he had popular support, and the operation and a clear war plan, and the war still failed,” Frum said. “Now, none of those conditions are present. There is no authorization from Congress, there is no public support, there is no international coalition, and there’s no clear war plan. The United States has embarked on is an escalator of retaliation with no vision of where to go.”
yeah, I agree with your descriptor.
I note he picked Bush as his example and not Obama. Dude did the whole “regime change” thing without so much as a by-your-leave.
And strange that Obama was not president of only half of the US. His 2012 numbers were not that different from Trump’s 2016 numbers.
Yep. Try putting those points directly to Frum. Oh wait, you can’t because he sits sequestered in an impenetrable bubble of his own farts and noxious hypocrisies.
the war still failed
False.
We whipped the dogshit out of Iraq in 3 days. The aftermath of the Nation Building that douches like Frum masturbated over was where we failed.
Unachievable goals with no set objectives often work out that way.
Foreseeable consequences are foreseeable.
War’s just a money-printing machine.
War h’uh
Yeah!
What is it good for?
Quantitative easement
Say it again, y’all
“He’s president of a little less than half the United States.” If Hillary had won, the same statement would be true since she didn’t get a majority, but I doubt Frum would have mentioned that.
Popular support? From which country?
Ok, back to the media – deep state – CIA nexus.
I just read an article that said US intelligence has satellite intercepts of targeting radar coming on, then two infrared plumes of missiles being fired, then a third IR plume of the aircraft exploding.
So, here’s the question (aside from the obvious Iran shooting plane down implications)…. What the heck is up with our intel people? Was this an “approved leak” that we want out there, or is some low level (or high level?) official trying to show off for the press? Or is this just MSU?
In any event, that seems like the kind of thing that shouldn’t be leaked haphazardly like that.
Kinda like when they went around bragging that they found Al Quaeda by using cell phone signals and rock formations in videos. Suddenly, those things went away. Don’t know that we really needed to be bragging about methods on this one just yet.
This sounds like an “approved” leak to me.
Here’s the story
UPDATED 1:22 PM
U.S. officials confident Iran shot down passenger jet
U.S. officials are confident Iran shot down a Ukrainian jetliner in the hours after the Iranian missile attack on U.S. targets earlier this week, CBS News has learned.
U.S. intelligence picked up signals of the radar being turned on and satellite detected infrared blips of two missile launches, probably SA-15s, followed shortly by another infrared blip of an explosion.
The current thinking is the plane, Ukraine International Flight 752, was mistakenly targeted, CBS News’ Kris Van Cleave reports.
President Trump said Thursday it could have been a mistake.
Federal officials were briefed on this intelligence Thursday morning. A source who was in the briefing said it appears missile components were found near the crash site, Van Cleave reports.
The plane crashed in Iran Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board.
From CBS. They keep bumping it down the page though.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-commander-vows-harsher-revenge-against-us-relief-in-tehran-today-after-trump-speech-2020-01-09/#post-update-ca108587
The Ukrainian flight was delayed departing an hour. One line of thinking is the air defense commander didn’t have access to real time arrivals and departures and assumed it was an unknown and unscheduled aircraft aka US attack.
But flights are delayed all the time all over the world. Somehow commercial jetliners are shot by mistake by the air defense from time to time.
Here’s a list.
I dunno. I’m pretty hopeful that the CIA struggles to keep anything secret.
I don’t know, I have a hard time accepting any narrative peddled by the intelligence community. Iran is an asshole and I think they probably shot down that airliner by accident, but I’m not convinced that the intelligence community isn’t (as always) working in its own interest here.
“Iran is asshole!”
This should have been the Man of the Year
Never gets old.
Glibs should chip in and send that guy a muffin basket.
I just hope he’s still alive.
That too.
I wanted to like you, Dan. Oh, well.
What we get out of it is not another 9/11, every single day — and you’re right, it is under water as far as public opinion goes, and there’s a lot of people who hold the opinion that you have. The president himself is very skeptical of it. And I think the reason behind that is because there’s been a lot of leaders who have been constantly saying that we’re going to win, and we’ve got to win, win, win.
And then everybody’s like, ‘Okay, but what does winning look like?’ And we’ve never been honest about what winning looks like. I’m very honest about what winning looks like. Winning means preventing [a terrorist attack]. It’s preventing the ability of these people, who wake up every single day and want to kill us — and yes, we do go there so that they don’t come here, and I know you think that’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever heard, and I’ve heard you say that — but it’s not.
Fuck Dan Crenshaw.
That asshole supports red flag laws and was super duper worried about removing troops from Syria.
He’s a pretty standard neocon law and order guy. Maybe more personable than most but not worth listening to on just about anything.
Yes. He’s John McCain, except from Texas and will allow drug federalism.
Eh, he’s not my cup of tea but he ain’t as bad as John McCain.
But…. he’s the dreamy eyepatch guy that does axe throwing on the side!
I enjoy the trolling he still gets on the redflag laws.
Thot Thursday has T&A aplenty.
http://archive.is/vWW8H
30.
Andrew Cuomo commissioned……<a href="https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/01/09/thought-this-was-a-joke-people-have-questions-about-andrew-cuomos-poster-representing-the-state-of-ny-state/" this. I honestly can't believe this isn't from the Bee.
dammit….well, it still works
Wait, no it doesn’t
“The arc of the moral universe”?!??!?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Enlarge it. It gets more surreal and bizarre.
“THE PROGRESSIVE CAPITAL”
*swoon*
*where muh population fleeing to?*
Needs more unicorns.
“Vermont bill would ban cellphone use for anyone under 21”
https://twitter.com/PetiteNicoco/status/1215375842785800192
https://nypost.com/2020/01/09/vermont-bill-would-ban-cellphone-use-for-anyone-under-21/
WTF, Vermont?
Progs gonna prog.
For argument sake let’s say the bill passed. Could that be considered a violation of the 1st amendment?
Yes, but laws saying people under 21 can’t have guns aren’t considered a violation of the 2nd…
How would it be? You can block minor’s access to all sorts of media legally.
Not media, just content.
I’m still not seeing how restricting possession of a particular physical object is a 1A violation.
Freedom of the press requires a press.
Just because an object has an expressive use doesn’t make it protected. Age restrictions on spray paint cans have been upheld.
Well, then I don’t think you believe in the 1A.
It’s a 9th Amendment violation
Oof for Fed Government
oh, home.
“You’re fired.”
/every sane voter
Christ, what an asshole.
It looks like the video from outside Epstein’s cell, you know, the footage that can determine who did and who did not enter his cell on the day he died, was accidentally erased.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/video-outside-jeffrey-epsteins-cell-no-longer-exists-government-says
I’m not much of a conspiracy guy but shit.
As I understand, reading further, this is from the original attempt his cellmate “stopped”. Not the isolation cell he actually succeeded in. Still…
You’re correct, my bad.
It had to disappear. You know what happens to people who watch it, right?
I love that movie. The original is good too.
“accidentally”
There sure are a lot of “accidents” and “coincidences” when someone close to the Clintons might have dirt on them.
Three years ago, if someone posted that there was a pedophile ring amongst democrats, that the FBI was spying on presidential candidates, and that bribery was common for the children of pols, I would have scoffed a bit. Now I feel like I’m living in an Alex Jones world.
Fucking clown world. magnets. How do they work? Don’t ask a scientist. They be lyin’.
Interesting no one seems to be talking about Krugnut’s kiddie porn problem as well.
“Mr. Krugman, we found child pornography on your computer.”
“Uh…I was hacked!”
Just think, it’s probably a lot worse than any of us suspect.
I just assume there pedophile rings run by the rich and powerful. The rich and powerful exist. Pedophiles exist. So why wouldn’t there be any overlap?
I have a suspicion that any extreme or transgressive behavior is likely to be found disproportionately at the ends of the economic bell curve, for a variety of reasons involving the reduced impact of consequences.
Flying from Chiang Mai to Chicago. Waiting in Seoul right now Up next is Detroit. Then Chicago. My mom made me change flights cuz she’s all freaked out about the Gulf of Oman and planes being shot down.
I did the (painful) but moral thing of letting her have her way. Guh, it was hard to hear. Looks like the US for 5-6 weeks and then back to Korea where I can make make money again and hopefully fully, fully recover and get back to the life I’ve known since I graduated university.
Here we go. Sucks I can’t drink anymore. Normally I’d be loaded right now. Gut god damn do I have a lot of pills to play with.
Safe travels. Enjoy your time at home.
How’s the recovery going? Everything on track?
Safe travels. You’re mom is more worried about the gulf of Oman than Detroit. Bless your mom’s heart.
It’s what moms do. Freak out about vaping and school shootings and give zero thought to their kids riding in and driving rolling death machines.
Make sure your underwear is clean before getting in that death machine.
I’m worried about Evan in Chicago, he’s been away a long time and may have lost track of the daily statistics.
Good to have you back, Evan, enjoy your family time and get well (er).
Safe travels, and get well soon!
You bringing the little lady home to meet the folks?
Happy mail day. Just got a copy of Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billy Joe” LP and Oscar Brown “Sin and Soul” (The later has recommendation quotes on the front from Steve Allen and Nat Hentoff (?!))
Bid ‘Em In is so damn haunting. Reminds me of Nina Simone and Strange Fruit.
Cool, not familiar with “Sin and Soul” but a few songs in and it’s going into rotation at casa Hyperbole.
Highly recommend his song Mr. Kicks.
Interesting cat. Ran for congress when he was 26….as a Republican. Pretty red, but that was tied into the civil rights movement. Great poet, and amazing musician.
I’m digging the whole album, He’s one of those guys who I’ve heard of but never really got around to listening to.
NY lawmaker wants to double the beer tax
https://www.wellsvilledaily.com/news/20200103/ny-lawmaker-wants-to-double-beer-tax
Because there’s nothing left to cut.
LOL bullshit.
“We must increase every tax to the maximum found anywhere.”
/shorter NY legislator
A new bill from Manhattan Assemblyman Harvey Epstein
Co sponsored by assemblyman Adolph Stalin.
Does anyone have an opinion on CZ clones for someone who wants a CZ but is on a budget? I’m asking for a friend.
How much more affordable do you need if you can’t afford a real CZ?
your friend*
Or maybe there are more affordable ones.
Yeah, and the polymer framed ones are even less
I know that Tangfolio and EAA made some well-regarded clones.
Israeli surplus CZ clones, $319.
Real CZ for $440
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/851848614
And of course, he’s charging more for the PCR version
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/851060655
Man, I like those.
If I go to IWB carry, I’ll pick up the PCR without question.
I like the PCR version as well.
That Berretta 81 is sweet too. Not a a .32 acp fan but love the look.
I don’t own one, but the IWI Jericho looks to be pretty solid. I have an IWI Uzi .45 and it’s very well made.
I just bought a surplus IMI 9mm. That is one solid chunk of steel.
And it was a CZ clone too.
If your friend is looking for cheap firearms, try a local waterway. Seems to be an upsurge of firearms involved boating accidents these days.
I’m not gonna stomp on Rebel’s question, but I’m curious if any of you freaks has a carry gun with a red dot. A lot of the new pistols are optics-ready and after using a red dot on a rifle, I’m sold.
Eyes aren’t what they were, y’know.
I also – I mean my friend also needs an optic for a nondescript rifle. Something for short to medium range. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Well, my friend has a SIG Romeo5 that is inexpensive and seems to work well.
^This.
Having said that, I can’t pick up the red dot immediately.
Looks like PSA has it on sale!
Burris fastfire 2 or 3, Primary Arms, or Vortex red dots are all solid and reasonably priced.
Dunno…but once i pick up my xd-e next week, I want to look at an underbarrel laser as a carry option – need to muck with a good holster too – while it’s about 40 more days till my cch comes in.
Do Crimson Trace grips count?
Sure.
I can put a laser on my current gun. I am just curious about others’ experiences.
Most shit happens in the dark, muzzle flash can effect your eyes, and many night sights don’t work if the only light is in front of you.
I have a Bodyguard 380 and I’ve been thinking about replacing it with a M&P version without the laser or the safety.
Why no laser?
It’s almost as much of a pain to turn on with the button by the end of the barrel as manipulating the safety. I don’t think it really needs it and save a little weight and space.
The only time a laser might come in handy is if your body is in a position where you can’t aquire the sight which is probably pretty rare.
See my post below.
A laser is awesome if you can’t see you sights because you don’t have glasses on.
I don’t know where you live, but around here it gets dark at night.
I do not and do not have any plans currently to change that.
It has improved my slow fire targets during bullseye. But only my slow fire targets.
For anything I’m shooting at speed, I use irons.
My feelings are that a righteous self defense shoot will happen at a close enough range that a red dot isn’t necessary. But everyone has their own opinion.
Makes sense. Mine only has a 3.1″ barrel, so I’m also looking at moving to a 4″. I do like to take longer shots for fun.
I can understand that. But I shoot up to 15 yards without a dot.
I have a green laser on both of my carry pistols.
The gun does not need to be perfectly positioned before you can shoot. You get it up in front of you and stable, then put the green dot in the center of mass. First shot and follow up shots are much faster.
I am far sighted. Without my specs on, I cannot see the sights on my pistol at arms length. Thus, I cannot aim without glasses. But 20 feet out, that green dot is really sharp. So I do not need to have my glasses on to shoot accurately (see Paul Harrell’s video on the Miami-Dade shooting).
I have Crimson Trace on my Springfield EMP.
I have this laser on my Sig p938. Easy to install, easy to set the sites. You put your hand on the pistol and make skin contact across two copper contacts then the laser comes on. I love this thing.
What caliber is your EMP? I have one in .40 and it’s probably my favorite pistol.
9 mm.
All my pistols are 9 mm.
Hostess club sign I saw yesterday.
https://imgur.com/a/fjnplBA
Kinky or creepy?
It’s be creepy if it were younger sister.
Can’t answer the question without a picture.
What does any of that mean? I understand the prices, and the surcharge, but what is a Set what is a T.O.C.? And what does Sister Luna look like?
I dunno. I did a dine and dash.
How was the bearded clam?
Meh. I recommend the hairy crab.
*insert strategically pixelated queasy
emoji*
“The 2020 Battle For The White House™ chess set”
https://twitter.com/JimmyTraina/status/1215095467777953794
https://www.chess2020.com/
Better, less obscene, Chess Set
NSFW
Much better
Robby: If Iran Shot Down the Ukraine Jet, the U.S. Government Deserves a Little Blame
“I learned it from YOU, Dad. I learned it from watching YOU!”
Legit LOL
“The car broken down…clearly a tire was flat. Robby, not sure on how to weild hand-tools, phoned his fiancee for advice. Over the cacaphony of their teacup dog in the back ground she said, “Just relax. I called AAA. You have The Jacket next to you, so you’re not alone.”
Robby whined….”but we’re going to be laaaaaaaate” like a spoiled teen. She said, “the cocktails will still be cold. They’ll save you. Just stick wit The Jacket.”
“The Jacket”, Robby thought. In such close proximity he could rub against it. Maybe through osmosis its power would transger.
Its odor was strange- a peculiar mixture of ash branches, cottage cheese, perspiration, and self-loathing. Never the less, it was beguiling, seductive, and its siren song was in Robby’s head, calling to him.
“Nick?” Robby said weakly, a sudden lump in his dry mouth that corresponded with the soft-on in his made-to-spec Tommy John compression briefs.
“Maybe we should step outside and wait for the tow-thingy?”
They stepped out into the dusk. Robby, seeing his chance, bent over saying “the round thing broke again! No doubt due to the unfair tarriffs!” While signaling with his bum in the air like a Howler Monkey in estrus.
The Jacket, catching the odor of oestrogen, moved in….
(Ill leave the rest to SF)
Yeah, Iran was just defending itself after launching middles at a sovereign country.
Just when Fruit Sushi seems to be improving.
I know one thing. I will stay as far away from Ukranian airlines and flying over it as I possibly can.
Flying Ukrainian airline out of Iran while they are doing crazy shit because they’re favorite terrorist exploded… I’d rather walk.
Someone asks why we give Robby shit. Well, this is why Robby is a little shit weasel.
I knew that was coming
To be sure…
Wanna know where I stopped reading?
“A smart foreign policy includes the consideration of unintended consequences.”
/offs
“Warner Bros has signed a deal for a AI-driven film management system which will help decision-making for greenlighting certain films. The AI system can assess an actor’s value in any territory and how much a film is expected to earn in theaters.”
https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1215007789547999235
Art.
If the AI doesn’t recommend more nudity, we know someone is interfering with its profit-maximizing algorithm.
They pull the plug when the AI correctly predicts that black actors aren’t very popular in China.
Meh, Black Panther made $105,062,459 in China, for all the “CHINA AUDIENCE NO WATCH BLACK PANTHER” shit that took over media (and alt-media) on release.
Aladdin did $50M.
After Earth (that Shamaylan SF movie with Will Smith, I forgot the name too), in 2013, did $34,480,000, when it did ~$60M in the States.
Gemini Goddamn Man which was in theatres and I forgot it existed, made $48,546,770 in US and $33,373,622 in China.
Give Chinese audiences a likeable actor or a known franchise and they don’t mind The Black.
Showing once again a genius of DC Cinematic Universe, which had both in Suicide Squad and…failed to get it into China.
But how woke is the AI?
I assume it red-lights anything not based on a comic book or 80s movie.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EN2xyyYU8AAE2rS.jpg
LOL
Perfect.
10/10
Lol
Dude. My heart just broke for him, England, and……
Moko Ono
This one makes me smile
Does anyone here own a Springfield XD? Buds has them new for 279 bucks which is very tempting:
https://www.budsgunshop.com/product_info.php/products_id/3892/springfield+armory+xd+mod2+4%22+service+40+s%26w
I have an XDM in .40 with a 16 round mag. It’s my hiking gun.
So you’re happy with it it sounds like. I may order this weekend, I could always use another 40. All the Springfield stuff is super cheap over there, they must have fallen on hard times.
Made in Croatia.
Solid gear, but no style.
^^This^^
It’s a reliable firearm, but I’m okay with it getting beat up.
When I was renting lots of guns to decide what I liked, the XD was my favorite striker-fired pistol. But I went down the 1911 path.
I like the idea of a grip safety.
One of the things I liked about the pistol
Which of your’n kid is this?
Lol!
Nice:) She needs to run for office!
What tv show it movie had a character that was always taking his temperature with an old style thermometer? TIA.
Thanks, everyone.
Now I have no fucking idea what to do!
Glad to be of service
No problem.
Buy all the guns. Lose them all in a boating accident.
I plan on my next pistol either having a red dot or at least having the slide cut for one.