The wife and I got a new bedframe today. I have yet to assemble it. I guess I should do that before bedtime, eh? That old one was wore out. Probably from being moved 4 times, or making 3 kids. Might even talk her into breaking it in. Hopefully, this buys me at least a week of peace about the sleep situation. Pregnant wife never seems to sleep well. Only 3 months to go before the tiny, loud poop-factory reminds us every three hours that he his hungry.
You’ve heard of Black Irish, this guy has a plan to create a city of Yellow Irish.
Florida Man goes full-on PPP fraud, buys Lambo.
A step-forward in the fight against Dark Matter. My pet-peeve, Dark Matter Theory is simpler, annoys the shit out of me. It depends on the existence of a class of particles that have never been observed and only inferred through the theory.
Who doesn’t want a 60-foot Gundam suit?
Dark Matter Theory is the physics version of communism.
They just know it’s going to work, but have no evidence for it.
That’s a little harsh. Communism keeps the theory and throws out the inconvenient observations.
They do have evidence that communism doesn’t work.
Was talking to my dad a while back bout how it seems we’re in a bit of a physics rut…there hasn’t been much that’s revolutionized our understanding of the universe in decades. Granted, much of the more recent theories are untestable with current equipment. Sagan talked about needing superconductors erected in space to make the next big leaps.
“Dark Matter Theory is the physics version of communism.”
Is it though, or is it that most Dark Matter journalism is just complete fantastical hooey?
When I read deeply about Dark Matter, the sense I get is that it started with “The universe seems to be expanding at a rate that indicates there is more matter than we can observe today.” So that matter is what we call Dark Matter.
While some have theorized these particles that have never been observed in real life, just a year or two ago I saw an article where they detected these huge webs of hydrogen atoms spanning between galaxies. Normally those webs are completely un-observable, but they just happened to see some when backlit by other stellar phenomena at the right time.
https://www.livescience.com/cosmic-web-hydrogen-filament-photo.html
Likewise, I have seen references to black holes as a type of dark matter. Until very very recently, we haven’t been able to observe one- we just heavily suspected they existed due to our understanding of the maths and the ability to see their gravitational impact on their neighbors.
Which all goes to say that my understanding of Dark Matter is that while some people theorize exotic particles, most people just use “Dark Matter” as a term for “Matter that isn’t lit up enough for us to see”.
That wasn’t real dark matter!
Dark Matter Lives!!!!
You are here.
“AAAAUUUGGGHH!.
I, for one, look forward to our new Voltron overlords.
“Who doesn’t want a 60-foot Gundam suit?”
Gundam is written ガンダム which is “gandam”. I’m not sure why it got changed in English. I’m guessing the “gun” part sounded cooler.
I like anime, but have no interest in the whole giant robot / mecha thing genre.
Gandam?
Need one of our folks more familiar with Korea to chime in.
My understanding is that it a reference to Gangnam.
It does elicit a closer to accurate pronunciation of the name in most English speakers. Gandam would be pronounced like can-dam, especially when it first became known to American audiences.
Related
https://www.youtube.com/c/Gunplameli
Mildly nsfw depending on your workplace
Tard Tuesday: Specifically, We Have A Five Year Plan
Yeah, there’s nothing quite so reassuring as a commie proclaiming “We have a plan!”
Indeed.
A man, a plan, a canal: St. Lawrence Seaway!
Ah, commies. So many plans, but just one result.
Look, it’s not their fault that the CIA foils all their plans and the end up with Not Real Communism.
Others agree that the model’s preliminary results appear promising. “It’s a bit baroque, but since nothing else has worked so far, I’m still impressed that it seems to work,” Durrer said.
Hey, if it works, it can’t be baroque.
*opera clap*
They experienced a Renaissance in engineering.
Rococo-n!
I’m sure they’ll get a Handel on it soon.
Just as soon as a messiah appears.
You know they’re Hayden their true motivation, tho.
Bach to the drawing board then.
Get Bach. Get Bach. Get Bach to where you once belonged.
This pun thread is borrominiing me.
I once labeled another programmer as the master of baroque code. That was after I tried to maintain some shit he had written.
“Super-luxury” would apply to a Bentley or Rolls, but a Lamborghini? They’re just really fast and crazy looking.
You mean luxury doesn’t mean a large door sill, parking your ass on the floor and feeling every crack and bump on the road?
(Still would happily take one. Or a Bugatti…)
Supercars have an unfortunate habit of ending up wound around a tree, lamp post, or barricade less than a mile away from the dealership. I think it would be cool to drive it around a track for a day, but owning one is just throwing money away.
Porsche 911 has historically brilliantly split the balance of near supercar with reasonable livability,
The new C8 Corvette has such a honking big center section because it has a large center structural element. They know their target market needs hip space and doesn’t want to climb over a big sill like the Italian (err German) exotics.
Two-thousand-dollar oil changes are a bummer.
A Bugatti’s tires cost $10,000. Each.
*Falls out of chair*
A performance car built just like you’d expect a tractor company to build one.
He wasn’t alone in the way Ferarri felt about his customers.
He had a car that fast and the cops still managed to catch him? What a wuss.
Also…checks picture…guilty!
Tard Tuesday: I Wanted It To Be Aliens Instead Of A Virus, Then Everything Would Have Been Great
We have run out of wood to make more crosses, so please get off of yours.
as our schools struggle vainly to reopen
With the only impediment being the teachers themselves.
Well the GOP cult of selfishness definitely explains why NY, NJ, Mass, Conn, DC, Ill and RI have 7 of the 10 highest death rates in the country.
Every single one of these states has worse COVID death numbers than the worst affected country in the world, Belgium*. And then Fauci says that NY’s dealing with the virus was great, when it’s literally the worst in the world.
*Villages like San Marino are excluded.
The worst actually documented disease course in the world. I guarantee you there are actual worser worsts out there.
As with cross-country crime stats, I’m suspicious of methodological differences.
“Every single one of these states has worse COVID death numbers than the worst affected country in the world, Belgium*”
To be fair, if you compared New York to- say- London, or Brussels, New York wouldn’t be the worst. But it would be pretty bad.
I’m not dead yet. In fact i feel like going for a walk.
I’ve been bombarded with that nonsense on Facebook lately. It adds extra spice when I upload my mask free photos of the family on our extended journey (fourteen states so far!)
I’m a little frightened by the way mask wearing has been adopted with such religious fervor. When it doesn’t work out, and the commie cough keeps popping up anyway, what’s next? Do you think any of the governors are brazen enough to claim that #science has shown that covid particles are less prevalent closer to the ground, so everyone must crawl? And given that I’ve seen people admit they hold their breath when people walk by… what percentage of the population would get on their hands and knees?
Ask BLM.
Ouch. You make a good point.
“When it doesn’t work out, and the commie cough keeps popping up anyway, what’s next?”
Let’s be honest- they will point to pictures like those of your mask-free family and say, “See, there are sinners among us, and because of them, God- I mean COVID has smote us. Burn the unclean!”
I have already seen people on Twitter who follow this nonsense. Someone said that they wore a mask and still got COVID, and MULTIPLE people jumped online and said, “Then you must have been wearing the mask wrong, or failing to wash your hands…”
“You lack sufficient faith, brother. Thus the covid hath struck thee down.”
I might be able to escape the shaming in that all of our family photos have no one else in them. Camping is a pretty naturally socially distanced activity. And I’ll just keep fleeing to areas without the bullshit. We’re at Fort Supply Lake in Oklahoma right now, and there’s pretty much zero masking or panicking going on here. I really like it and am wishing I’d booked a longer stay.
Do they even consensus? And they call themselves scientists.
Cosmology is full of cultists. It used to be just summed up as the Cosmological Constant, or as we called it, “God’s Fudge Factor.”
More or less of a science than cosmetology?
an invisible, intangible form of matter forms the universe’s primary structure
That sounds more like a placeholder than an actual scientific theory. As in, “we can’t explain this phenomenon yet, so we’ll just say its a vibration in the ether/”
It is basically that. A term that makes the results work perfectly with no observed physical analogue. This is just a different path for creating a workable theory that matches all of the observed measurements that does not depend on an inobservable form of matter. Traditional theorists have made lots of attempts at independently observing DM and failed. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but a theory of gravity explained by only independently observable phenomena would be my preference.
does not depend as much on an inobservable form of matter
I was disappointed to see that this was a hybrid DM/MOND theory.
I’ve never read it deeply, but a lot of theoretical physics seems really shaky.
The details here aren’t correct, but I remember hearing once that until something like 1 e -30 seconds after the big bang there were 13 dimensions, then they collapsed into 4. The whole statement just made me laugh.
Also, as much as some STEM people like to laugh about the Sokal hoax, where a couple physicists wrote a nonsensical postmodern paper that got published, as I recall a similar hoax paper was submitted and published in a theoretical physics journal.
Nothing wrong with playing with ideas, but theory seems like too strong a word a lot of times
From what I can tell, the words cosmologist and quantum physicists use don’t mean the same thing as they do to you or I. They are just place markers to describe something they understand.
I have always felt this with quantum theory. My eyes were opened when discussing quantum entanglement. All of the salacious journalism spoke about teleportation, when it seemed much more simple:
According to quantum physics, the act of measuring a particle changes it. So measuring the speed with a sensor that measures its impact speed, obviously stops its movement. So a lot of the math around these particles requires you to assume that it has many probabilistic states until you either use math to reduce the probabilities, or you “observe” it at which point all these probabilities collapse to one answer.
The point of quantum entanglement is that you take two particles and apply the same transformation to them- say shoot them both in opposite directions at the same rate. And then you measure the one, and now know the speed of the other. In the math, measuring one particle suddenly caused the state of the other particle to be known- but from the math, it is as if the entangled particle’s state actually changed.
This is the big confusion of Quantum Physics- the math is dealing with the fact that we cannot know certain states about the particles. But to a lot of people, that means the particles don’t fundamentally have a state. They are two different concepts.
Tard Tuesday: I Learned It From You
DadStereotypical White Supremacist Shitlord!At least they are saying this specific guy is a white supremacist, unlike RVA’s mayor who says all their rioting is caused by white supremacists but of the dozens of people they’ve arrested in RVA not one has been identified as a white supremacist.
It’s only taken months to come up with a patsy to pin the blame on for the city going up in flames.
They really, really, really, want to pin the riots on white supremacists. But remember they are not actual riots. they are peaceful protests.
Protesters throughout the nation really wanted to maintain peace, but when one biker dude in Minneapolis showed up and started smashing windows, they were suckered into rioting.
Peaceful protests that intensify!
“But remember they are not actual riots. they are peaceful protests.”
They are both. In honor of Quantum Tuesday, we understand that the protests were both simultaneously peaceful protests and violent riots. They exist in both states in a sort of shrodinger’s box multi-state until the point where we open the lid and observe the ideology of the instigator, at which point the probability collapses.
Heh – probably arrested because Soros owns AutoZone and insures himself with Progressive.
seeking to incite racial tension in a demonstration that until then had been peaceful, police said
So all the other protests without this instigator have been perfectly peaceful… right?
I have trouble picturing a Hell’s Angel who would even own an umbrella.
That’s just your white fragility talking.
Accept our conclusions.
A masked man who was seen in a viral video smashing the windows of a south Minneapolis auto parts store during the George Floyd protests, earning him the moniker “Umbrella Man,” is suspected to be a member of the Hell’s Angels biker gang seeking to incite racial tension in a demonstration that until then had been peaceful, police said.
“Umbrella Maaaaan, burning out his fuel at AutoZone…”
*piano riffs*
*holds up lit Bic*
If one guy smashing windows will cause days of looting and rioting, doesn’t that say something about the rest of the “protesters”?
Police say the suspect has been identified, but no charges had been filed as of Tuesday afternoon.
Does that sound odd to anyone else?
the man’s actions at the AutoZone on East Lake Street set off a chain reaction that led to days of looting and rioting
They seriously expect me to believe that days of looting and rioting would never have happened if this one guy hadn’t smashed the windows of one store?
Naturally, the use of umbrellas by antifa to prevent video identification is purely a coincidence that doesn’t bear mentioning.
Maybe the guy really is that St Paul cop that the twitters were virally passing around that night. Hell’s Angels is … suspiciously convenient.
No matter what his day job is, he was obviously antifa – the umbrella, the little pink shirt helper, the way he broke the window and walked away. That’s the playbook – I saw it just the other night on a video of some courthouse vandalism. The black bloc girl (I think) broke the windows in front of a crowd with a hammer and left. They know what they’re doing.
The guy was dressed in black from head to toe and was wearing a gas mask, but some Muslim woman was apparently able to identify him as the guy who allegedly accosted her weeks earlier. Do Muslim women have a special ability to identify people who are all covered up? While it could be true, I’m going to wait for more evidence.
Apparently he really likes Lamborghinis. It wasn’t his first.
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/couple-arrested-after-fleeing-from-miami-beach-police-after-reporting-lamborghini-stolen/49143/
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/07/28/twitter-censors-videos-of-doctors-capitol-hill-coronavirus-press-conference-locks-breitbart-account/
Yeh. That’s not good.
If they violated their TOS, sue them for TOS violations.
And if they didn’t violate their TOS, then why expect them to do otherwise?
Yeah, they’re quite obviously an arm of the DNC at this point. I wouldn’t waste my time dealing with them.
*looks up Terms of Service*
Huh. Its titled the Facebook Youtube Twitter Way of Servicing its Customers.
I think people have forgotten that these are advertising companies. They should be called out when they pretend to be public forums, but I think everyone should keep in mind that you are getting no more than what you’re paying for.
Oh, you get exactly what you pay for.
As I said in the last thread – They got their egos tied up in the cloroquine thing and aren’t taking any lip from uppity doctors who treated hundreds of covid patients.
More importantly, they just censored the President of the United States. Your move Donnie.
Their hoster dumped the website too.
Their hoster dumped the website too.
I remember when the mantra was “the internet views censorship as damage, and routes around damage” or somesuch.
Those were the days, eh, comrade?
We thought they’d never end.
It’s on Bitchute. My wife just watched it. From what I saw the doctors are just saying stuff that seems reasonable. Maybe their confidence in HCQ is too high, but maybe not. I certainly didn’t hear any reason why it should have been removed if one were committed to open debate. Oh, I guess I just found the problem.
This is nothing new, unfortunately. My son has been telling me for a while now about videos made by doctors that have been getting banned from youtube for questioning the effectiveness of masks, or other COVID orthodoxy.
Proggie social media is all over debunking this. Which does the opposite.
It’s very telling.
Dark Matter Matters.
Dark Matter Lives! Stop trying to marginalize Dark Matter.
yellow Irish
well, I’m from Donegal . . . .
Was expecting this.
The link on the last thread about the blow washing up on shore in the Keys made me think of this Rev. Horton Heat classic.
That’s a good song.
The whole record kicks ass.
OMG, I just read over at the epoch times, Developers asks Supreme Court to Overturn Award for Covering Graffiti (might need to create a free account to read fully).
I’m stunned that the VARA (the Visual Artist Rights Act of 1990) was created and never challenged to overturn until now. In what world does a person who paints without permission from the property owner have more rights to the property than the owner. What country are we living in? We really are living in strange times.
IIRC there was a pre-existing agreement between the owner and the vandals. This isn’t a case of “paints without permission”.
“We wont arson your building if you let us……”
I see – from a 4/9/2017 new york times, “Painting with Mr. Wolkoff’s permission, artists had turned the spot into an international graffiti mecca, an exhibition space and conservatory.” But still this case stinks because even though he gave permission, he couldn’t paint over them without giving legal 90 day notice, but any other joe could come and paint over existing murals with no problems….Doesn’t seem right.
Yeah, I don’t follow all the details – esp. this law that you mentioned which seems bogus to me (“recognized stature”? Yeah, OK….). The only thing that should matter is the agreement they had.
Interestingly, my naive read of VARA is that it should protect the statues that are getting defaced across the country, or at least provide a course of action against those destroying them, but since most of those artists are dead, I’m not sure who would have standing.
Attractions included Ireland’s low population density and Brexit creating opportunities for its financial services sector, Ko said. He added he was considering additional countries, which he declined to name.
Liberland?
Hines, who was arrested Friday, also spent thousands of dollars on dating websites, jewelry and clothes, along with stays at high-end hotels such as the Fontainebleau and Setai on Miami Beach.
Go big or go home.
Industry group says reopened gyms don’t spread Lil Rona
IHRSA sent a letter to every U.S. governor stating that reopened health clubs are not the cause of the continued increase in COVID-19 cases and asking that governors not shut down health clubs that can operate safely, according to a July 7 media release from IHRSA, the trade association for commercial health clubs. The letter was signed by 61 U.S. health club executives who represent thousands of clubs and studios.
“As leaders in the fitness and wellness industry, we value above all else the health and well-being of the millions of members (and staff) who visit the tens of thousands of gyms, clubs and studios operating across the 50 states. We are equally committed to doing our part to help stop the spread of COVID-19—and our members, who are health conscious, share this mindset,” the letter stated.
All they have to do is hand out BLM t-shirts to all the patrons. That stops the virus cold.
Buffed Lifters Massive?
I’m sure the governors will give this their due consideration
My gym owner is convinced that Murphy hasn’t budged on letting gyms reopen because the Atilis guys annoyed him. If true, he has to be the most petty, fragile-ego, fucking asshole to ever walk the Earth. Collectivists love to dish out collective punishment.
It appears similar has happened in Arizona with the Governor and Mountainside Fitness. The Gov’s most recent move was releasing a document that all the gyms had to sign in order to open back up, with the catch that they had to agree that the Governor had the right to shut them down in the first place, thereby ending the various lawsuits they’ve filed against him.
That’s a nice small business ya got there. Be a shame if it were shut down again.
Pretty much. It’s one way in which Republican Governors are similar to Democratic ones.
In any event, Ducey has a 36% approve, 62% disapprove rating right now. His waffling back and forth on shutdowns has managed to please no one and piss off everyone.
Gym owners and patrons are a conservative bunch for the most part. What a stupid asshole to piss them off.
Similar with Gauleiterin Whitmer and barbers/hair salons. Also Gauleiter Wolf and keeping Lebanon County on yellow phase.
“Dark Matter” sounds better than “we fundamentally don’t know how to explain the observed evidence, and we’re not gonna make up bullshit to pretend we do”.
Science!
Every once in a while a scientist will put it as you did, and a “science” journalist will get a hold of it and write an article titled: “We really don’t know why apples fall to the ground: the exciting frontier of science”. It will get posted by IFLS and then “science” youtube will go about explaining that the article is clickbait. In a few weeks the author will then stumble on another bit of science to go and misunderstand.
That combined with citogenesis makes up most of what passes for “journalism” these days.
Visited a different gun shop this afternoon. Bought a box of Blazer and a box of Tula 9mm – both about $5 more than I would have expected to pay 6 months ago.
They did have an impressive amount of .223 which they just got in. A guy was picking up a case of it while I was there so they may not have it for long.
The Church Forests of Ethiopia
Interesting.
“Meet Trump’s new favorite doctor, Dr Stella Immanuel, a homophobic preacher who uses ‘alien DNA’ as a cure, blames witchcraft for illness and says hydroxychloroquine can stop Covid 19”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8569147/Trump-promotes-Dr-Stella-Immanuel-homophobic-doctor-preacher-uses-alien-DNA-cure.html
RACIST!!
If I got the covid bad, I would want her as my doctor.
Symptoms include cough, headache, congestion or runny nose, and jungle fever.
Article Summary: So we have no evidence to refute her claims so we are going to publish a blatant character assassination instead.
“PICTURED: Former president of accessories brand Kipling, 63, who was killed by a great white shark while swimming with her daughter off the coast of Maine – as witness details harrowing moment the beast pulled her underwater”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8569417/PICTURED-Woman-63-killed-great-white-shark-swimming-just-20-yards-coast-Maine.html
This was not a boating accident.
I really really dont want to see or hear about that.
Everyone has their statistically irrational fears. Mine are lightning and sharks. (Although I’ve encountered both, so I can reassure myself that they’re not totally irrational.)
Government and rust but not irrational
The one thing that makes me really panic is when someone pulls on my toes. /ns
Covid-19 related death.
If you receive unsolicited seeds in the mail, don’t plant them.
https://kdvr.com/news/local/multiple-states-including-colorado-warn-not-to-use-unsolicited-packages-of-seeds-sent-through-the-mail/
“The packages appear to have originated from China and other countries, and are labeled as containing jewelry or other items.”
………………………
“Unsolicited seeds could be invasive species, could contain noxious weeds, could introduce diseases to local plants, or could be harmful to livestock.”
After coronavirus, their sophomore effort was bound to be a dud.
Probably triffids.
Bingo. They cant fool me.
Are they smokeable?
Feed me, Seymour!
Couple the article this morning about Nevada dropping the phased approach to a directed enforcement and punishment scheme with what his new attack dog is saying and I now live in what used to be a republican form of government.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/jim-murren-it-is-not-your-public-right-to-not-wear-a-mask-2082840/
And what is a “public right”? People buy that shit and its all gone.
Jim Murren’s opinion on what my rights are have zero relationship as to what my rights actually are.
I see in the photo douchebag is not wearing a mask.
Welcome to the new world where every product you buy never leaves the “beta” period.
I’d like to thank MSFT, Google and the tech companies. Followed up by Tesla with self driving coming “real soon now”, but please give me $8,000 today.
Well VW wants in on that action. These were all needed to be produced by a certain time because of Dieselgate so they’ve got hundreds if not thousands produced and parked. And why? Because the software is a mess.
Volkswagen ID.3 First Drive: More Important To VW Than Golf, But Is It Exceptional?
Keep in mind this site is a green cheerleader. My guess is not only are these two functions missing, the current software is probably a buggy mess.
Minimum [non]viable product is the gold standard. Everything beyond that is just waste. We’ll fix it in a future release.
I used to follow Tesla pretty closely, but stopped in maybe February, the fact that people pre-paid for the self driving always shocked me. Tesla fans are something else, some would acknowledge issues, but the majority didn’t want to hear anything even remotely negative.
Maybe it’s gotten better now, but when they released the summoning feature, it looked pure beta, if that – slow, didn’t always stop for other cars – it looked like it could only be trusted if you constantly watched it, I didn’t get the point.
Summon was released because they had to get something out. My hypothesis is something promissory with regulatory or accounting.
It’s still awful from what I’ve seen. I have no regrets not paying for self driving.
Yeah, from what I was reading some people were thinking to recognize the revenue they had to release something.
Do you have a Tesla?
Model 3. Works great for my purposes as a second vehicle. Enjoy many things about it, but it’s far from perfect.
The acceleration never gets old, however.
I’ve heard the acceleration and overall driving is pretty incredible
Welcome to the new world where every product you buy never leaves the “beta” period.
The invention of “Early Access” that never ends has been an unmitigated blight upon the world.
Microsoft has gotten it from both ends. A lot of the complaints about MSFT from the olden days boiled down to, “how come you didn’t see into the future years ago when you released this product?” ISA PnP, PCI, TCP/IP, USB, web browser, firewall, virus scanner, account isolation, etc.
I’m still mad that C:\ exists when real operating systems at the time understood that file system logical structure does not have to be married to physical device structure. But that’s the legacy of coming from the hobbyist space and DOS derived systems.
I can’t believe that “Program Files (x86)” still exists.
But my support for legacy applications!
I never understood the technical need to keep them in a separate directory – I suspect there never was one.
The only technical reason I can guess at is if you had both an x86 and a 64-bit version of the same application installed, and there was a file shared between the applications that didn’t have an identifier as to which it was (which would point to a lazy developer).
Of course, I remember the old jokes about PROGRA~1.
Hm, perhaps. I do recall a couple installations that had both 32 and 64 bit executables now that I think of it. Visual Studio, maybe?
OTOH I have spent more time on my Mac in the last 14 years and there was never any separation during the years where both were supported.
Program Files (x86) is there so misbehaving 32-bit programs don’t clobber 64-bit stuff. It’s just the most visible part of an entire false world that 32-bit applications see when run on 64-bit Windows, to ensure they remain compatible.
As for Mac’s 64-bit transition, Apple had a couple aces up their sleeve:
1. Fat binaries, which could work for Windows too, except
2. Apple gives very few fucks about backwards compatibility, a mentality that is much more common nowadays than it was 10-20 years ago, so “recompile all your shit” is an option for them where it wasn’t as workable on Windows, and
3. Mac apps have always been more tightly contained than their Windows counterparts, with the latter having a tendency to splay their files all over the place and make lots of assumptions about the presence and contents of various important shared DLLs up to and including rewriting them for the app’s convenience
This is apparently playing out again as Apple is ditching Intel for ARM.
OSX is 19 years old and has been a certified UNIX system for most of that so you’re already less likely to run into architecture specific pathing. (Sometimes they lapse on the certification.) For applications you’re not really exposed to underlying architecture needs. Whether it’s the app bundle actually being a directory containing dependent libraries and the actual executables in hidden subdirectories or the universal binary concept which shipped multiple versions of the executable and the OS picked the correct one to run (which they’re reusing for the upcoming ARM transition).
Yeah, that will be fun. Actually I went thru the Intel transition and that was pretty painless. Luckily I’m not much of a gamer anymore so this one should be even easier.
I’m mad that they won’t let me map it as A: or B:, I mean, while I am the sort of deranged nutcase to install a floppy drive in a modern computer, I should be able to use those letters for anything.
You can assign A: and B: to any type of drive now, not just floppies.
*grumble* I’m making progress on my cleaning but I keep having to stop because it’s somehow 84 degrees in this house and I don’t have enough fans to keep the air moving. I’m not performing enough arobic activity to justify dripping with sweat, it’s just hot, stagnant air in too many areas.
Anyone know of a fan-maker that still manufactures in the US?
onlyfans.com?
-joking. Dont click that
lol
Vornado are designed and supported in the U.S., but I don’t think they are made here.
https://www.usalovelist.com/made-in-the-usa-fans/
Thank you.
Lasko mostly, but that’s probably just assembly of unknown origin components like most things.
Lasko is in Fort Worth down the street from my old wind tunnel. The building is too small to do much more than assemble, so I assume their motors are imported and their large moldings are shot locally. I’ve seen them around for decades and think they are at least a little better than other products in their range.
🙁 I broke one of my pretty cobalt blue glasses. I have three more, but still.
I’ve got Big Ass ceiling fans. They’re expensive but super quiet and move a hell of a lot of air.
There’s not enough clearance for me to be comfortable with ceiling fans. I don’t need a step stool to work on ceiling fixtures.
If that’s the case then the Vornado stuff is pretty good.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/07/portland-issues-maximum-fine-on-feds-for-unpermitted-fence-outside-courthouse-bill-is-192000-and-counting.html
?
Is it too much to ask for the feds to arrest Wheeler, Hardesty, and Eudaly on criminal conspiracy and civil rights charges?
And people wonder why the riots go on every night in a city whose leaders actively support the riots.
https://twitter.com/repblumenauer/status/1286036173882884098?s=21
Politicians, even the small fry, love to rattle any saber they can lay their hands on.
“We send millions of federal dollars to Seattle every week. Just charge it against that.”
+1 Kamala Harris, IYKIMAITYD
And the Feds should charge Portland for cleaning up the courthouse. Charging overtime, of course.
Arrest? Just shoot the motherfuckers.
The sociopath in me would like to see a perimeter with crew-served weapons positioned at the corners, M240B’s or M2HB. maybe quad 50’s all around… final protective fire bitches!
Don’t forget the mark 19s.
What is it with these people and their impotent threats that are supposed to be news? We’re going to arrest the feds, we’re going to fine the feds. You’re not going to do anything of the sort and you know it. I could announce I was fining the federal government and it would be just as effective.
“A conservative coronavirus-denier is urging others to take the virus seriously after 14 members of his family were infected and one died when he threw a party to celebrate the birth of a grandchild.
Tony Green, a 43-year-old from Dallas, and his partner, threw the party on June 13 for more than a dozen family members including father-in-law Rafael Ceja, his partner’s grandmother and sisters.
Masks were not worn during the event, which was thrown to celebrate the birth of a grandchild, with Green explaining he believed coronavirus was a ‘hoax.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8567615/FOURTEEN-members-Texas-family-test-positive-coronavirus-party.html
Oh Lord, he has seen the light!
I bet he used to be a libertarian, too.
He’s a gay conservative. Probably even worse than libertarian.
He voted for Trump – not a real gay.
He’s a concerned Christian conservative who is very concerned.
Uh-huh.
If the virus is that super contagious (I’ve never been to a gathering where 14 people came down with the flu within days) then masks, distancing, hand washing, and etc. is not going to make any long run difference. We are all going to get it to one extent or another. All the theater does is, perhaps, draw out the time line and give one hope that participating in the theater may allow one to avoid illness until better treatment or vaccines are developed.
Chicago officially has deadliest month since Sept 1992 – and we’ve got three days to go!
Also – our all-knowing and benevolent Mayor has added Wisconsin to the list of quarantine states. But! Commuters are exempt. Because the virus can totally tell that you’re crossing state lines for work rather than pleasure. Just like it can tell what kind of protest you’re attending. Damned smart virus, this one.
What about people going to their lake homes on the weekends? Because when I lived in Chicagoland, it was bumper-to-bumper on both interstates going into Wisconsin on Fridays and Sundays.
Verboten. Significant fines, supposedly. In reality? Probably just more bullshit theatre performed by a mayor hopelessly out of her depth and looking more hapless by the day.
That’s when I moved to the South Side down the street from Farrakhan. Chicago was averaging about 3 murders a day. Just a coincidence.
It’s not just the south and west sides any more – downtown had more murders in July than in 2019.
Seven meters of snow in July
That dude is the epitome of a modern Lambo driver. And the Huracán is the ideal vehicle for such a douche.
Non-douches would have bought one of these..
That’s some dashboard.
OT time:
I just got back from seeing my neurologist. Unequivocally, she said that I now have epilepsy. We talked about my latest EEG and she wants to do a virtual-EEG (not sure why it’s called virtual…) that might have me overnight in the hospital for about two days. For more fun, she wants me to again change my meds. Keppra is apparently out and now Dopokene is in. I used to be on it, so now were stopping another med and changing to another one. I made sure to tell her that I was pretty damn sick of being a lab rat, and was responsive, caring, supportive, and helpful. Keppra has been making me feel incredibly nauseous, taken away my appetite and vomiting sessions are frequent. So I think it’s great to go back on meds that I think worked better. Good!
I don’t really see why any of this is necessary. I haven’t had a seizure in three months and I think the vast majority of my problems are coming from depression rather than my skull getting blown out. Other than that and my understandable hatred of the COVID panic, I feel just fine. That didn’t used to be true but I’m convinced that I am. Could be wrong about some of that. I wouldn’t bet on it though. I won’t get into it, but I have my own issues (that I’ve had for over a decade) that I think are blatantly the problem.
This is just an update. I’m not really even that upset. It’s like someone calling your car ugly when you like it just the way it is. They can think whatever they want. That’s no biggie. I just don’t agree. I’m the one driving it after all!
I just wanted to put this out there to get it off my chest. No worries on my end to be frank, so don’t be concerned. Thanks for listening! Y’all are the best! And I always want to repeat it: The GoFundMe help that you guys provided is the biggest act of kindness I’ve ever experienced. It has helped me profoundly, and also ensured that I was better able to support Lady when she needed it the most. She helped me when I was most in need, and being able to put her on my back has provided for our gain.
My deepest thanks and appreciation to you all!
*and SHE was responsive, caring, supportive, and helpful.
I like your perspective and attitude.
Chin up!
If she’s already unequivocally diagnosed it, why does she want to do more diagnostics?
How else is the hospital going to get its billings up?
From my EEG report:
“photic stimulation: photic stimulation produced no abnormal responses
Hyperventilation: Hyperventilation produced no abnormal responses.
Alpha rhythm was seen symmetrically over the posterior head regions, however, this was poorly sustained…mixed alpha and beta activity….some subtle focal slowing in the right hemisphere. in the form of moderate polymorphic delta waves…
Frequent sharp waves in the right temporal region…No seizures or events were noted during this recording.
Impression: Sharp waves which place the patient at risk for focal onset seizures.
Noted background asymmetry with subtle slowing in the right hemisphere suggestive of an underlaying lesion.”
She was saying that it should be done so that nighttime acts are more easily seen. She wants a “closer look.”
This…on the bright side, goes to show (at least to me) that I’m pretty much correct in that I’m OK. I still don’t necessarily believe that I have epilepsy, but she she said it was a given. I’m not sure why there should be more tests. To see how ‘bad’ it is? I am not sure. It doesn’t make a whole lotta sense to me.
Any thoughts? Someone else is paying for my care so I’ll certainly play by the rules, but it might take “a month or two” to get into the hospital bed and do it. I intend on getting back to Korea ASAP. I let her know that and she might be able to bump me up.
I largely just don’t know anymore. Lab rat does (for the most part, but not always!) what it’s told. I just don’t open my mouth and reveal how many rules I’ve already broken and how many I break every single day. A (wo)man’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets!
Yes. I just quoted Titanic. I was 10 when it came out and I got some nice titty action. And I think it’s actually a great movie. I stand by it!
And I think it’s actually a great movie.
Concussion confirmed 😉
If you’re not opposed to the hospital-based night time EEG, sure, why not? I wouldn’t change your travel plans for it, though. But its your call.
Ami Horowitz on the Portland insurgency
Hang them all.
The Shoosting Begins
“Kill off the hate”
Sticks and stones are necessary to kill off he hate and bring love, peace and harmony to the New World Order. These young people appear to intelligent until they answer a question.
It’s gonna be wonderful once we burn down all the buildings and rebuild. It’ll be a real old fashioned barn building party, with food and music and stuff,
Or, you know, this.
America is A Empire
You gotta proofread your signs, bro.
“Contraband such as gasoline, hockey sticks, defense shields, leaf blowers, paint sprayers, paint cans with paint, and a jar prepped for a Molotov cocktail confiscated by federal law enforcement from violent agitators outside federal Portland courthouse”
https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1287902077050593283
Don’t read the comments.
Leaf blowers?
Used to blow tear gas and smoke.
They use them to blow away tear gas.
Tear gas.
So, tear gas then?
Eh, if you throw tear gas at someone, I don’t see how using a leaf blower to blow it back can be a crime.
Same with things like shields, helmets, body armor, goggles, filter masks. Purely protective equipment can’t be contraband, IMO.
None of the items listed are contraband.
The malice and intent to harm of the individuals is a different story.
Come and try to burn my house down and see what happens.
Depends on the purpose for which you have it and the use to which you put it.
Also, a minor quibble: shields are not purely protective. They have always had a significant offensive use.
There have been used to intensify fires too.
hockey sticks as contraband?
They’re not using them to play hockey. Why do you think they have them?
See, also, bricks, skateboards, baseball bats, etc.
I feel like there’s a Canadian joke in there.
I recall mobsters carried ball peen hammers in the first half of the 20th century because these were considered a workman tool and wouldn’t get charges added for a weapon if stopped and searched by cops. A quick google search doesn’t pull anything up though so I could be misremembering.
Story with the Lambo and how the cops caught him reminded me of a funny local story.
Not far from me is the “Porsche Experience” It’s a driving track where you can test drive a new Porsche or take your own out on the course. So they have a bunch of various models in the lot for people to look at.
This guy in an old Sentra (that turns out was stolen, fyi) drives into the Porsche lot. He acquires a key easily and drives a brand-new Panamera right off the lot. Apparently nobody even notices him until the car’s driving away. The place calls the cops, and the car’s GPS is active (because they’re not totally stupid I guess, just mostly) and so it’s easy to locate the car. Was he driving like a bat out of hell in a joyride? Well, no, he was less than two miles away, parked at a 7-11 to buy snacks. As one does in a 200K stolen car.
But I guess, why not? It’s not like he’s going to jail for it any time soon.
Stop at 7-11 first! Everyone knows this!
I caught the end of a Judge Napolitano interview on Fox. He was going on about the unconstitutionality of sending armed federal agents to protect the Portland Federal Courthouse. But I didn’t hear his reasoning. Anyone see it and can tell us what his thinking is? It might be quite worrisome if,for instance, the feds couldn’t put armed agents around the (supposed) gold supply at Ft. Knox. And I guess the Statue of Liberty is game for fascist rioters?
Makes no sense to me. The feds can’t protect their own buildings?
Yeah I don’t know my Portland geography, but from what I understand this is all going down in the immediate area of the federal courthouse. Like, what if I go in the lobby of a federal building and smash a window, the fed security has to catch me before I get across the street? Of course, I am not a lawyer.
The fun thing about this is watching people who think the federal government should regulate every single aspect of human life waving the flag of states rights in this case.
Perhaps they leave it up to the locals & never envisioned the locals actively aiding and abetting attacks against them.
At some point there will be a coming out party. One side or the other will initiate it. Kent State only had 1 side armed, this time the oppositions are both prepared, I believe, and willing to provoke the other.
I fear that you are correct, however, I dont expect any of it to show up here.
His reasoning is TDS.
Didn’t see the interview, but based on some of his recent opinions, I suspect this is the case.
Every federal courthouse has always had an armed security detail. Every single one. That’s one of the duties of the federal Marshals. I can’t imagine saying that the Marshals service is (and thus always has been) unconstitutional. I suppose there’s an argument that this is outside the remit of the Border Patrol agents who have done the brunt of the heavy lifting, but that strikes me as only remotely plausible as it comes to their powers of arrest.
So, if the feds can’t defend their people and their buildings, and the locals refuse, I guess it just burns? Sure you want to go with that, “Judge” (if that’s even your real name)?
I didn’t see it either, but I do have minor quibbles with what the Feds are doing. 1) I don’t see how the Border Patrol should be involved. I guess it’s because we’ve allowed them to operate within 100 miles of the border and the coastline counts as a border. I dislike the mission creep. 2) I don’t like police in military garb, and though they aren’t unmarked as some people say, the labeling should be more conspicuous.
All that said, the Marshals should be able to protect the building, especially if local cops refuse or are not allowed to do so. This episode makes a good argument for DC to not be allowed to be a state.
The Border Patrol is there because they are Federal LEOs, either essentially or formally seconded to the Marshals (DOJ) or FPS (sister DHS agency that is in charge of security for federal facilities) to assist them. They’re not enforcing border laws nor is their authority as federal officers limited solely to the border.
I never expected that from him. I was naive.
He kind of lost all perspective (or is being dishonest) when Trump got elected. I didn’t expect it either.
I’d call him an idiot but he’s smart and full of shit. If the locals won’t protect federal property then who the hell should be able to do it? The optics of these communist sacks occupying and torching a federal courthouse would be absolutely unacceptable and he damn well knows it.
The optics of these communist sacks occupying and torching a federal courthouse would be absolutely unacceptable and he damn well knows it.
He’s counting on it being damaging to Trump.
But to CNN and everyone that watches their drivel, Drumpfler is not trying to protect federal entities from violent, marxist insurrectionists. Drumpfler is marching his thugs through the streets of Portland , rounding up peaceful protesters and whisking them away to non-disclosed locations.
Unless everybody they’ve arrested is an illegal immigrant, an intrepid reporter or say an ex-judge like Nap should be able to walk into a courthouse that’s not under siege and request info on those who have been arrested and where they’re being held. We are not hardly at totalitarian state yet and people need to exercise some basic civics if they’re so concerned about government overreach.
(and if they are illegal immigrants, there’s still a process to do this, though I imagine it’s not quite as simple as for legal residents)
It’s possible that the feds are overstepping their authority, whether by going beyond pure defense of property or overstepping onto city and private property. But they can and should be suing the ever loving fuck out of the city of Portland. A state choosing not to defend U.S. government property seems an awful lot like abetting insurrection.
Possible, but unlikely. Federal agents, rightly or wrongly, aren’t limited to purely defense and only on their property in all circumstances.
I appreciate the spirit of your remark, but I feel like federalism, a worthy model, is best served when every jurisdiction tools up to manage its own resources and enforces its own laws.
My own experience includes three examples; as a city employee, I’ve been a “guest” at the Federal Reserve, a thank-you dinner from the guys whose building doesn’t comply with any city standards but, to your point, would enjoy basic city services if it caught on fire (one presumes Treasury would be billed accordingly, no big deal for the boys with the presses); consultanting with the county which consistently ignored my recommendations in zones that the city would likely soon annex; and as little more than friendly neighbor regarding land-grant construction in the heart of town. My posture was abundantly seen but not heard.
I’m totally okay with cities and states ignoring violations of federal laws. The big boys can enforce those on their own time and on their own dollar. Particularly, border states can’t be on the hook for international goings on. One of the Portland problem may be the rules of engagement: the BP crews may not be well regulated to operate in a zone where they are not gods, where probable cause is a joke; they should be burned for their misbehavior.
every jurisdiction tools up to manage its own resources and enforces its own laws.
I agree.
And if Portland, Seattle, et al. were doing that, there would be no need for all the feds that have flown in. The question has become, what should the feds do when the locals are either failing to enforce their laws in ways that impinge on federal interests, or are actively colluding with the lawbreakers?
Wait for it…
https://mobile.twitter.com/VincentCrypt46/status/1287763798200406019
Here’s an ap story on the Battle of Portland over the weekend.
https://apnews.com/1dd1bb39093a3691f4e78093787ab877
Here’s a nice juxtaposition…
“We are not here being violent or being destructive. We have a positive message — there is nothing to quell here,” she said, referencing Trump’s statement that the agents were there to quell unrest.”
…………
“As she spoke, small pods of three to four protesters dressed in black circulated in the crowd, stopping every few minutes to point green laser beams in the eyes of agents posted as lookouts on porticoes on the courthouse’s upper stories.”
…………
“Thirty minutes later, someone fired a commercial-grade firework inside the fence. Next came a flare and then protesters began using an angle grinder to eat away at the fence. A barrage of items came whizzing into the courthouse: rocks, cans of beans, water bottles, potatoes and rubber bouncy balls that cause the agents to slip and fall.”
Etc.
Huh. Sounds like the peace intensified.
Pass.
It’s for your own good comrade.
The one lethal response I would support right now would be blowing holes in the scum with the lasers. The great thing is, they are designating themselves as targets.
Also from the ap: The Iranian Revolutionary Guard is really laying it to their fake aircraft carrier:
https://apnews.com/b931ea8d6751c953233665202a59e5e1
The U.S. Army should probably call up some of those inflatable Sherman tanks from Operation Overlord just in case.
The IRG has improved – they didn’t kill any of their own people attacking a defenseless stationary target this time.
I know Kodak owns half the land in the city, but I’m disappointed they plan to produce HCQ in Rochester. In fact, I’m amazed Kodak is still in business. I figured they folded years ago.
I think they’ve been through a couple rounds of bankruptcy. I thought all they had left was patents.
Why disappointed?
Of course I am from Rochester so I may be biased.
Until New York reforms, businesses should avoid the tax, graft, and regulatory plague.
I figured they folded years ago.
I thought so too. They’re like the AOL of… whatever. I got nothin’.
Dodged a bullet there. Something something internship.
My colleague keeps nagging me to learn to ride a motorcycle and then buy one.
I was thinking a Honda Rebel to start.
Any additional suggestions?
I’m anti-Harley (just because I’m a contrarian, no other reason)
I like the look of this.
I have been thinking about an Indian. Or a Victory.
250-300CC means you’re riding the red line at highway speeds. Being able to speed up to avoid trouble in addition to slow down, dodge left/right is valuable. People who complain about chain maintenance are lazy, rubber bands are dumb.
I don’t anticipate keeping my starter bike more than a year (depending on how often I ride it), and would only go around town as practice. Hell, I may not even enjoy it!
In that case look at what holds resale value (I’m going to take a wild guess and bet the Hondas out perform every other brand on that metric). In the same vein probably want to buy used, at least to avoid the new->used depreciation and the engine break-in period. Although that might make getting the fancier features like ABS harder.
My Dad rides a Harley.
Being anti-Harley is just good fiscal sense.
Coffin on wheels.
I speak from experience.
Yes, I have a suggestion and it involves 4 wheels and an airbag.
My 1st bike was a H/D. Which is why Ive not had one since.
Q: Whats the difference between a Harley-Davidson and a vacuum cleaner ?
A: The location of the dirt bag.
LOLing
For the uninitiated, keep it under <500cc
I’d recommend a 2cc displacement. Not a lot of torque, but very safe.
On the one hand I agree with not getting more bike than you need/can handle and weight definitely affects a lot of quality of life aspects. On the other hand CC can be misleading. Compare an SV650 dyno chart to a GSX-R600 dyno chart. Granted you don’t see those differences in tuning as often under 500CC.
Rebels are fun and cheap. They’re gutless, but since they also don’t weight anything they’re about the least intimidating bike to learn to ride. I’d highly recommend finding your local ABATE chapter and signing up for the beginning riding course, which is frequently taught on Rebels. When you finish the class, you get your license. And you’ll have test ridden a Rebel long enough to decide if you want one, or something larger.
Kristen,
I would recommend a slightly used <650cc bike. Go with a Japanese maker. There are tons of used bikes that are hardly used.
I bought the wife a Vulcan S 650cc. Great easy to ride cruiser.
As others have said take a Motorcycle safety class and see if you have the desire and skills. They are free usually.
Oopsie? Is Kamala the Kop the D VP pick?
https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1288234725606293504
If so then everyone on Biden’s team is as mentally challenged as the top guy on the ticket.
“Who cares about the knee pads, Joe and blow will make a great ticket!”
???
Joe n’ Blow 2020!
I don’t see how she would make a good pick. Her reputation as a cop will not play well with the Dem base. Maybe they are thinking that she will gain more of the Law and Order types in battlegrounds states and the voters she’d lose are in states the Dems will win anyway.
Biden’s tough-on-crime reputation hasn’t hurt him in the slightest, why would hers matter?
Didn’t she really rip into Biden during the debates? It seems like it would be an odd choice
BLACK WAMAN GET VOTES OF LEFTIST RACISTS… AND MY RACISTS MEAN RAPISTS
says Biden campaign chair STEVE SMITH
yes. She was widely unpopular among democrats. and wasn’t on biden’s short list earlier.
Lol…
Looks like some collusion going on, perhaps.
And, assuming this is legit, he would make the. worst. possible. choice. Of course, there are no good choices. But even Fauxcahontas’s mannerisms and voice are not as annoying as Horizontal Harris’s.
nah. Fauxcohontas is worse.
I think she can be entertaining. It was funny when she tried to centralize the memes of production.
THe Dems better be damn sure their VP pick is President-ready because Biden will step down within weeks of the inauguration if he wins. They will not replace him before the election – he’ll resign after.
I like the cut of your tin foil hat. Also, I agree that that’s the plan.
With her on the ticket, they’re sure to carry California.
yes. excellent strategic choice.
Vital swing state. No Dem can win without it.
My guess is they have bios ready to go for all possible picks and accidentally published the Kop’s.
Given her freakish makeover and affect during a recent interview, yikes.
But to CNN and everyone that watches their drivel, Drumpfler is not trying to protect federal entities from violent, marxist insurrectionists. Drumpfler is marching his thugs through the streets of Portland , rounding up peaceful protesters and whisking them away to non-disclosed locations.
You forgot “goading these otherwise peaceful advocates of free speech into overenthusiastic demonstrations of their love for truth which they never would have committed of their own volition.”
President Cartoon Villain’s incendiary rhetoric and lust for power have made them what they are.
My colleague keeps nagging me to learn to ride a motorcycle and then buy one.
Is he in line to take over your job?
LOL – we are professionally separate but equal, so no. Maybe he has a fear of dying alone? 😀
The class in VA is 16 hours over a weekend. I first need to get the motivation to do such a marathon.
I was thinking of getting a bike recently because I used to ride dirt bikes as a teen and it was a blast but the stats, thirty six times higher fatality rate per mile than in a car, scared me away. More power to you if you know the risk going in. Kawasaki makes a nice little 400cc standard bike that’s getting raves right now as a good beginner bike that you won’t outgrow too quick.
Wear decent gear! How often do you see some squid running around on a GSXR wearing a t-shirt and flip flops? Those are the idiots who get themselves killed.
That’s true too, a spill on asphalt at 20 mph without the right gear will split your head open like a coconut and shred you like a cheese grater.
t-shirt, shorts, flip-flops, and an $800 Shoei helmet, on a Hyabusa
That’s another thing…in NoVA, there would be many weeks where I wouldn’t be able to ride because it would be too hot to wear the gear. The good news is, much of the winter months are rideable.
I agree with Brooks. I made ex-gf (OG-1X-OG) take it, and I went with her, despite having already ridden for a few years. I learned some things, too. In Ohio, if you pass the ABATE course, when it comes time to get licensed you dont need a road test. Proof that you successfully passed the course counts.
And a 1st time rider with a valid license or endorsement only means now you’re ready to learn. One thing Ill say about years of riding- it makes you (at least me) a much better driver. You learn to pay WAY more attention.
It’s worth it. I would take it if you never rode before or haven’t in a long time.
In VA your license is amended with the motorcycle provision if you take the class, and the insurance carriers give a hefty discount.
I mean, to me, it’s pretty much mandatory.
But I haven’t found any free ones. The local community college had a class in the Before Times that was reasonably priced.
The only ones I’ve fund around here are with private companies and they’re in the $300 range for the 16 hours.
You are paying for 8 hours or bike rental and lessons and 8 hours of class room training. It’s worth it.
How much is it to rent skis and take 8 hours of lessons???
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdnP7rTX0AAto3U.jpg
OK, which one of you did this?
Not me, She’s Dead……….
Me neither. My wife grew up in a communist country. She trusts no one, especially not the government.
I just forwarded that to me wife. She responded, “That’s you no matter what the other people are talking about.”
who needs eight beers to get after it !
Yeah, I am ready to give my unpopular opinions, well, sober. Especially to fuck with and irritate leftists.
My husband just said he’d be the one trying to shut *me* up, and he’s right.
Nadless, you Kovid-Karen kunte.
Nadler, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, accused the Republican representatives of somehow endangering the health and safety of the committee’s members by momentarily removing their masks.
With his mask pulled to his chin, Nadler said:
“Is it permissible to drink a sip of coffee?” asked Biggs.
Nadler replied, “It is not permissible.”
Hm. *sips chardonnay*
Nadler is a sack of shit. Ugly as a dick on a dog too.
Said with his mask off his mouth. Nice touch, shitbird.
I’m hosting some Glibs for a meetup at my house. Check out our livestream!
AND BY GLIBS MEETUP, MEAN…
I’m kind of embarrassed that I knew her name without looking in the comments. Ah Elsa Jean, what a cutie.
Never apologize for who you are.
When I was in school in the Army, a classmate was a mulatto from New Orleans named “Broussard”. I always called him White Chocolate.
Or “Daktari”.
That’s better than part of me being called “Charlie Brown”.
He was a solid dude. We still keep in touch.
Show us on the record where the Coasters touched you.
It’s the zig-zag yellow and black shirt, isn’t it?
Good grief! How did you know?
Daktari!
/Raises a Glass !
TALL CANS!
HEY YUFUS!
“Gold prices hit all-time high, and it’s a bit of a mystery why”
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1287930777737601025
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gold-price-all-time-high-coronavirus-recovery/
Yeah, it’s a fucking puzzler, isn’t it?
Isn’t gold the standard haven during times of uncertainty? Man, our supposed betters have become idiots.
Gold is a treacherous investment right now. It always gets liquidated when the market collapses and a market collapse is probably not far off.
Yeah. Big time gold investors are the sorts who hedge and bet on margin. When their margin trades go poof, they liquidate their gold to cover.
Silver’s made much larger gains in percentage terms.
Good. My meager collection of 1/2 dollars, quarters, & dimes is worth more than when I acquired them in March.
“Gold prices hit all-time high, and it’s a bit of a mystery why”
Inexplicable.
I came home to a tree laying on my shed and vinyl fence. The tree is on a lot that is owned by some guy that doesn’t have a house on the land or nearby.
I have a guess on who it is but not sure. I called the town manager to let them know so I can get a address and phone number.
I would have purchased the land years ago, but it will require lots of cheddar to clear and clean up the lot.
ugh
Both are less than 3 years old. I would like to cut the tree down, but since it is not mine I risk the damage being blamed on me. So I let is lay there. I’m going out to take a bunch of pictures.
Check the laws about fallen trees in your state.
Here, once the tree falls on your property it belongs to you. However, the adjacent property owner bears no responsibility for the damage it causes unless you legally notify them that the to is a hazard to you.
It’s not cheap to clear out de brie.
Swiss will be along shortly to tell you how grate you are.
I expected to be called a muenster.
Sounds like a havarti party.
It could be a muenster of a job..
That’s what I get for not refreshing often enough.
Sorry.
The Glibertarians.com Comment Section: A Reenactment
Pretty much, and yes I clicked, God help me,
I think it would only be an issue on a pizza, with some pineapple.
That’s Deep Tres,
Dish…………..
https://nsfwyoutube.com/watch?v=GDhstd3-Cow
What is that?
things you learn by clicking on the related links to a HM link:
OMWC’s first name is Tyrese and SP’s dad is a bit scary.
You’d lay the ham on grams in a heartbeat.
Democracy at work
The Democratic mayor of Portland is calling for an immediate meeting with acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and other top officials at the department to “discuss a cease-fire” and the removal of federal officers sent there to quell protests.
Mayor Ted Wheeler said in a tweet Monday night that both he and Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty are calling for a meeting with Wolf and top DHS officials on the ground in Portland “to discuss a cease-fire and the removal of heightened federal forces from Portland.”
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Wheeler has sought to de-escalate tensions in the city between residents there protesting racial inequality and police brutality, and federal agents, who were sent there earlier this month by President Donald Trump in an attempt to protect federal property.
For several nights, the largely peaceful protests in the city have turned violent as a small subset of rioters have set fires and launched fireworks at the city’s downtown federal courthouse. The issue has led local Portland city officials and members of the Trump administration to engage in a public war of words over who is to blame for the actions of rioters.
Though Wheeler had already called on the federal agents to withdraw from Portland, his demand for a meeting with DHS signals a shift in his previously entrenched public posture. When asked by CNN last week if he was in touch with Wolf, the mayor downplayed the need for any communication.
“I have no reason to reach him,” he said. “My demands are clear. I want them to leave.”
Wheeler and other Oregon officials have been critical of the tactics of the federal agents. Recent videos from the scenes of the protests show DHS personnel arresting protesters and putting them in unmarked SUVs.
In one such video that was shared on Twitter by Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, two masked, camouflaged individuals with generic “police” patches, detain a person dressed in a black outfit and place them in an unmarked van before driving away. CBP has identified the officers as belonging to that agency, and indicated the man was wanted for questioning regarding a possible crime. However, a DHS official said he was later released.
“The tactics that the Trump administration are using on the streets of Portland are abhorrent,” Wheeler told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” last week. “People are being literally scooped off the street into unmarked vans, rental cars, apparently. They are being denied probable cause. And they are denied due process.”
Like DEATH SQUADS, dooood!”
What a maroon. He’ll most likely be mayor of Portland for decades.
He’s sure is enjoying his little grandstand theater to the hilt.
He’ll be lucky to squeak by re-election this fall. Mayor’s office is just a stepping stone. He wants higher office and if this hadn’t happened, he’d be a lock in. If merkeley, who probably has staff reminding him to keep breathing, can become a US senator, there was no reason Wheeler couldn’t do the same or the governor’s mansion.
Well, its not OUR Festus it seems:
Beer spills everywhere after semi overturns on I-55 in Festus
*Yawns, stretches, scratches balls, scrolls*
Oh, same old shit, eh?
*Goes back to scratching balls*
The Story of how R Lee Ermey Made Sgt Hartman an Icon:
https://youtu.be/6xR2qWrUs1o
Literally heroism
When Raphaela Mueller saw a couple wearing swastika masks in a Minnesota Walmart, she knew she had to say something.
“I never knew that I’d see this with my own eyes,” Mueller said. “But we have to be aware and be prepared to step in.”
Mueller was born in Germany, and her great grandmother fought in the resistance against Nazis during the 1930s and 40s.
Her personal history compelled her to speak out against the use of the hate symbol, she told Don Lemon on CNN Tonight Monday. “I thought to myself that if I don’t say something now, what did my great grandmother risk her life for all those years fighting against the first wave of Nazis?”
When Raphaela Mueller saw a couple wearing swastika masks in a Minnesota Walmart, she knew she had to say something.
“I never knew that I’d see this with my own eyes,” Mueller said. “But we have to be aware and be prepared to step in.”
Mueller was born in Germany, and her great grandmother fought in the resistance against Nazis during the 1930s and 40s.
Her personal history compelled her to speak out against the use of the hate symbol, she told Don Lemon on CNN Tonight Monday. “I thought to myself that if I don’t say something now, what did my great grandmother risk her life for all those years fighting against the first wave of Nazis?”
Much brave. So hero. Many truth to power.
Twice the truth to power, in fact.
Irony, satire, protestation by absurdity-what the fuck is that?
The irony is that the swastikas are backwards.
At least they got the 45 degree cant right.
Re: the ammo discussion earlier that I missed – Fenix Ammo might be a good example of a newer company that does work nearly exclusively through direct mail online sales vice working with B&M distributors.
BTW, dems may want to reboot gun control, but with the sales skyrocketing among ALL demographics and the summer crime wave….it’s going to be a MUCH harder sale.
Saw that Korean war ship you retweeted (or liked on Twitter). I sketched the Titanic last week and I’m gonna give that ship a shot tomorrow. Love black and white pics because I still suck and they’re easier to sketch. Got any other pics like that?
I retweeted an Australian thread about the Korean War (didn’t think there were any US ships in those pics).
Huh?
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1288216981884338177
Build Back Better was Sir Mix-A-Lot’s slogan from his failed ’96 bid.
But despite attempts to educate the public about the atrocities of the Holocaust, as well as the discrimination and danger Jewish people face in the US and globally, a swastika mask still made its way onto the faces of two people in a Minnesota Walmart.
“It’s been shown that trauma gets passed down in the DNA, so I know I’m carrying what my great-grandmother went through,” Mueller told CNN. “I didn’t lose anybody in the Holocaust but I know that so many other people did. So just the thought of them having to see this, it’s heartbreaking.”
Mueller said she thinks the woman in the store may not have even known exactly what that mask represents, and others still don’t grasp how hurtful the swastika is.
If you are reduced to a quivering blob of panic-stricken jello by the sight of a piece of cloth, you might want to seek professional help.
I wonder how this story would have been framed if the granddaughter of Cuban refugees had accosted the wearer of a Che shirt.
What?
I’d like a citation on that study. Unless it was just pulled from her ass.
It fell out. Along with the drugs.
Soviet genetic science is the best genetic science.
I think she’s half-remembering fear conditioning being heritable through epigenetics, but the human brain is not a mouse brain.
This is pretty disturbing.
Yes, because as someone who believes in the principle of self-ownership, an individual should have the right to end their own life in the time and manner of their choosing.
But doctors should not face legal consequences for not wanting to participate in the action or anything similar. Additionally, depending on the situation, the individual may not be in full grasp of their faculties at the time of their decision.
Which is fine. But voluntary euthanasia is really one of those easy things – either you own yourself or you don’t. If you are forced to continue your existence against your very own desires, then you don’t own yourself.
Having seen how its played out in other countries, I am wary of legalizing it here. It seems to go very quickly from “self ownership” to “The Liverpool Care Pathway has been assigned to you. ”
Particularly as we continue to march toward State Healthcare for all, I’d prefer to throw up as many roadblocks to the culling of the deplorables as possible.
I don’t care what consequences there are. You do not get to force me to participate in killing someone. I fully support your right to end your own life should you want to do so with a clear mind, but I don’t have to help and you will not force me to do it.
My immediate thought on this sort of “x% because y” is — were the answers multiple choice, a checklist, prompts or otherwise pre-selected? If they were free text entry, how were they reduced to these choices/wordings?
Hanging’s too god for him
The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump GOP group, launched a new ad Tuesday again targeting President Trump’s response to the coronavirus.
The ad, titled “Memories,” focuses on a series of sentimental moments Americans missed in the last three months — showing clips of missed graduations, new business openings and weddings.
“These are the memories COVID took from us,” the narrator states.
“None of this had to happen,” she adds. “We have suffered needlessly because Trump is a fool, a liar and a failure. Most countries stopped it, Trump refused. It’s Trump’s virus now.”
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“We’ve lost millions of moments that make life worth living,” Reed Galen, co-founder of group, said in a statement. “And while people around the world are going to movies, eating at restaurants, and sending their kids back to school, Americans continue to live in purgatory.”
He should be dragged from the Oval Office naked through the streets and be drawn and quartered on the Capitol steps.
The evidence is all laid out right there in front of you.
All of that is down to state governors’ panicked reactions.
most countries stopped it? doesn’t virtually every country in western europe have a worse per capita death rate?
LOL.
Save us, Joe!
Trump and his reelection campaign have repeatedly criticized the group and its members, including accusing them of not being Republicans at all.
In response to the new ad, Trump’s campaign issued the same statement it gave in response to one from the group attacking Trump’s push to reopen schools in the fall.
“This is the swamp — yet again — trying to take down the duly elected President of the United States. President Trump is the leader of a united Republican Party where he has earned 94 percent of Republican votes during the primaries — something any former president of any party could only dream of,” campaign spokesperson Erin Perrine said in a statement.
But he’s icky, and he doesn’t play by the rules.
accusing them of not being Republicans at all.
Depends. What is their opinion on Lincoln’s high-tariff, centralized national government control, limitless public debt, fiat currency, mercantilist agenda? They very well may be 19th century
WhigsRepublicans.Brett, just had to comment on the humblebrag about wearing out the bedframe. Bravo!