Brett is currently obtaining a sample of clean urine for a violent, work related incident…so I am filling in.
Here’s a few imported links!
Mexico implements in home schooling via TV. A sort of La Calle Sesame, if you will.
Cuba implements a free market reform. No, seriously. A single reform allowing businesses to buy wholesale rather than it be distributed by the government.
Venezuelans fleeing Venezuela for Peru now includes doctors! Good luck, Peru.
…and the Bundy’s thought they had it bad.
Remember how some of those $1200 checks sent to dead Americans? Its worse than that.
How does a lagoon turn…purple?
Thats just weird, here’s some Seether.
Mexico implements in home schooling via TV. A sort of La Calle Sesame, if you will.
Are they going to learn more than their American counterparts?
Back in the day, early morning TV was reserved for educational programming. Perhaps relevant for Mexico was Ingles para todos, aimed at recent immigrants interested in learning the local lingo. But the best one for me was The Modern Farmer which featured lots of cool ( to a 5 year old) farm stuff. Tractors, readers, etc. and how to use them. I wonder what their ratings were in NYC.
I am waiting for the show which will teach me to close tags properly. I’m not even drunk.
The Miami PBS affiliate pioneered dual English-Spanish language sit-coms back in the 1970s with ¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.?.
They also gave the world pervy Jack Horkheimer.
The Miami Space Transit Planetarium (Horkheimer was director) and the museum to which it is attached were childhood favorites.
That show was great.
Some men hustle pool, some one hustle cards…one man hustles stars!
Who ya callin bruh, pal?
I sure ain’t calling you amigo.
More of a compadre to be honest.
~
I’ve been considering watching a telenovella. Recommendations? The cheesier the better. Sorry, the más cursi the better
Not exactly a telenovella, but you might find this one interesting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_and_Marisol
It’s kind of a meta-novella, but Jane the Virgin is fun
I second Jane the Virgin
I like Mexican food,
It likes you.
Does it though?
This seems like something SEA SMITH would know about. Intimately.
I’d call it more of a mauve color.
I was thinking “aubergine.”
Or maybe the colour of the tops of certain turnips.
So overseas foreign workers are getting federal benefits and I’ve yet to see a dime (because NJ is a mess)? Real nice.
You will thank Big Brother for all he provides for you!
They found out you post on glibs?
Another scalp for the belt
NBCUniversal has parted ways with NBC Entertainment Chairman Paul Telegdy after allegations of homophobic, sexist and racist behavior that also included claims Telegdy cultivated a toxic work environment.
The news comes after NBC launched an investigation into the allegations in July following a claim by former “America’s Got Talent” judge Gabrielle Union, who had been ousted from the show.
Union filed a harassment complaint with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. She alleged that Telegdy created a hostile work environment.
In a bombshell report last week, The Hollywood Reporter interviewed more than 30 employees who said Telegdy would mock “gay executives, sometimes to their faces; use homophobic and misogynistic slurs; and disparage or make sexual comments about the physical appearance of network talent,” with the story adding that “current and former insiders say they have heard Telegdy participate in what one former insider describes as ‘appalling’ discussions in the office that included crude sexual remarks.”
Telegdy left the network amid an ongoing internal investigation.
The guy sounds like an asshole. He must have been holding all those people hostage.
Sounds like a sociopath – which is probably a requirement for working your way up to NBC Entertainment Chairman.
Sounds like a good
shoot“parting of ways” to me. I’ve been in a toxic work environment or two – those types deserve what they get.“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. There’s also a negative side.” – HST
I like how Ms. Union didn’t file her complaint until after she had been fired. Real credibility-enhancer, there.
I wonder how much his successor had to do with collecting and reporting the allegations. Also, will his successor be any better behaved?
Poor Joe.
I’ll be amazed if he makes it to November.
Which makes the selection of Susan Rice, if that turns out to be the truth, all the more bizarre.
Where’s whahappen?. He should use that as a sounder, assuming he ever needs one
the ad in the replies is devastating, compare and contrast, wow,
Wicka-Wicka
Is this the DJ Cut Chemist remix?
“NBCUniversal remains committed to creating a safe, respectful and supportive workplace for all.”
Fuck that. What about my dividend check?
I’ll be amazed if he makes it to November.
He’d better never be ahead of Kamala coming down a flight of stairs.
She won’t need to Showgirls him. He’ll resign right after inauguration. They’re gonna Francis Underwood this shit.
They will let him attend the party first.
Translation: They will put him on display in his dotage for the entertainment of the cavorting evil ones.
But at least he’ll get some cake.
I have serious doubts he’d resign. That implies he’s gives a fuck about the good of the country. He’s a power hungry asshole and wants first and foremost what’s best for Joe Biden, and being president provides ample opportunities for hair sniffing.
He’ll resign the same way he picks a VP – without ever knowing it.
Exactly
“Sir, we just need you to sign this bill proclaiming that you have beaten Trump in a pushup contest.”
Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!
Maybe they’ll assign him a retinue of important-looking advisors to boss around, sort of like Napoleon when he was exiled to St. Helena.
I don’t think he knows WTF is going on around him. I don’t think he can think or care for himself very well. And I bet there will be a nice golden parachute.
For all the talk of 25th Amdt around Trump – you think that doesn’t go double, or triple, for Biden?
He’s gonna pull a Mel Carnahan and we’ll end up with President Doctor Jill Biden.
I want this.
More Than 200,000 Nevada Ballots Found to Be ‘Undeliverable’
17% of Clark County, NV just lost the ability to vote. That may be the most transitory city in the country – people move in and out of there at a remarkable rate (I worked for the local power company there for a couple years). It’s the last place you would ever want to pilot a new vote-by-mail scheme unless voter fraud and chaos were your objectives.
How’s that NYC tourist industry?
HOLY MACKEREL!
Because traffic isn’t bad enough at the chokepoints onto the island.
What could possibly go wrong?
I’m never getting back to the TWA Hotel at this rate
They’d have been better off with some sort of exit tax.
Dead or dying just like every other industry.
Wondering if De Blasio got the memo that the NY Dems are in favor of skool openings now?
I missed that. What happened?
Both Cuomo and SChumer now have said schools could/should open
Didn’t hear that.
Apparently they think that’s the only way they’ll get their bailouts.
Deblasio says partly online only. He’s a lame duck so why should he give a fuck.
Yes.
I am done with this week.
It has been crisis after crisis after annoying client after crisis.
I’m going to go home and hide under the covers with a pitcher of Old Fashioneds, an everything pizza from Lombardi’s, and Chrono Trigger on my laptop emulator. Wake me up Monday morning.
We like Old Fashioneds on the Friday Zoomies. Just sayin
I am gonna try one of those, one of these days.
We’ve been working Orange Old Fashioneds at the Casa Dean:
3 oz. rye (or whatever you like)
1 1/2 oz. orange juice (fresh squeezed if possible)
1/4 oz. maple syrup
orange bitters to taste
Shake, pour over ice.
The OJ and maple syrup are a nice combo. Maple syrup works well as a sweetener for just about any brown liquor cocktail that calls for simple syrup.
Unsurprisingly, maple syrup old Fashioneds are common up here.
Chrono Trigger is the only game that has made me emotional enough to make eye-water. Along with Below The Root for the old C64, it’s the best written game ever.
From the last thread:
A few things I’d think about were I in that situation:
– What’s the maximum realistic damage here? Could you accidentally leave a sewing needle in the article and poke somebody’s eye out? Could your employee burn themselves on the screenprinting machine? Or is the worst reasonable damage that somebody is dissatisfied with the preschool templates you email them?
-Does anybody you work with have insurance requirements? My FIL and his wife were running a consultancy for business management and leadership training. They were making enough money for a couple vacations a year, but not much more. Their primary client tried to renegotiate the services contract and inserted an insurance policy requirement. The insurance wouldve eaten up a large percentage of the profit margin. If Etsy hypothetically has an insurance requirement for vendors doing a certain amount of business, I’d be biased in the insurance direction.
-Is this a side job or are you actively growing the company (and wanting your primary income to come from it) ? Active growth means you’ll outgrow a $1M umbrella policy pretty quickly.
Thanks for taking the time to respond, and I have to go, but I’ll check back later. Either way…
Looking to grow a couple side hustles in prep for an early retirement during which the side hustles cover living expenses. No employees. I think the risk is low, but I don’t know what I don’t know…
The LLC does not protect you from your own acts. If your business is just you an LLC setup might still offer some value (assuming your state restricts judgment creditors to a charging order as their sole recourse) if the LLC holds assets separate from the entity in which you incur the liability, but generally speaking if you commit the tort personally the entity doesn’t stop them from suing you. I am a sole practitioner with no employees. A good chunk of my business is me setting up people’s entities, yet I don’t bother to operate in one myself, because since I don’t own my office and don’t have employees, anything I am likely to get sued for I am almost certainly getting sued personally for.
The LLC does not protect you from your own acts.
This. Its hard to see much benefit from LLCs for “kitchen table” businesses. That said, Mrs. Dean’s kitchen table businesses have LLCs. They are good optics when dealing with big clients. The way our assets are organized they actually do have some liability benefits, but our assets are organized pretty uniquely (family LLC and a charitable foundation).
I explain to my clients that the LLC is more about isolating pools of assets and liabilities from catastrophic events and insurance is there to handle the more likely disasters. In other words if you are doing any significant business and amassing any assets, you should have both. If you are starting out on a shoestring and have nothing to protect you should probably worry about getting an asset before you pay me to protect it.
^^THIS^^
Just because you asked KK.
I’ve scheduled the Virtual Happy Hour for 19:30 Eastern. I’m going to get off my lazy ass now and get a bike ride in before that. I promise to change out of my cycling gear before getting on camera.
Woot
Maybe i’ll get off my ass tonight and join. But it would be later, since that starts right at dinner time.
It gets cranking after 9pm (but don’t let that stop you from joining earlier! Way easier to converse when it’s fewer folx)
Thank you Neph. Also this, you knew it was coming.
https://youtu.be/WaeRM7X_yS4
Don’t make me show up in the cycling gear…
At a local brewery. The place I wanted to eat as is doing take out only. I pointed out this would be difficult given how I got there.
/shops for new TV
WHen I was in college and a poor young professional, my Ma used to send me Hickory Farms gift boxes with summer sausage, “cheese”, hot mustard, and crackers. Since I’ve been feeling low and missing my Ma (her birthday is coming up, as is the day of her death), I ordered myself one.
I hope they haven’t changed the recipes since the 90’s.
They had a store at the mall, and stopping there was a must because they had samples.
Loved stopping there when I was a mall rat in the 80’s
Me too, but they only opened seasonally around here.
There was one store that had replica swords behind the counter, and if you asked nicely they’d let you hold them.
We didn’t go to the mall often, so when we did it was a special occasion and we went into EVERY store.
I hated shopping even then so I just hung out in the seventies-style play areas the whole time. They had some seriously cool games and shit for kids to teens. You don’t see that any more.
My grandfather regularly bought huge rounds of farmer’s cheese from Hickory Farms. When the one nearby closed down, he drove the hour and a half round trip to the next closest one in his 80s.
Although I search for nostalgic reasons, I haven’t been able to find them at Hickory Farms anymore and other farmer’s cheese I’ve tried doesn’t have the same taste. Oh well. Still have Mrs. T’s Pierogies at least. /hides comment from Neph
Hope you enjoy it. For me, like nearly everything, HF has gone downhill and tastes cheap quality now. I’m tired of it. Stella salami isn’t even cased anymore because it’s fake produced now. Went to buy ordinary athletic socks. Thinner than institutional toilet paper and zero 100% cotton (minus the elastic in the cuff). I really am getting sick of this world.
The kiss of death for any product is me deciding I really like it. As soon as that happens it will either be replaced with a new ‘easier to prepare’ or cheaper version, or simply disappear. This seems to be true whether the prodict is high end or low. Examples: Baxter’s smoked salmon soup, IBC cherry limeade, every flavor of Uncle Ben’s rice pilaf except “original” (which may be on the way out now), my preferred cut of Champion’s sweats, and many others.
This happened to me with Tyson roasted chicken. They had these chickens that were already cooked, and you would re-heat in the oven. In order to withstand being cooked twice, the chicken was exceptionally fatty. And fucking delicious. The seasoning on the skin was awesome, and the skin would crisp up so nice at 450 degrees.
Damn I miss that chicken.
Went to buy ordinary athletic socks. Thinner than institutional toilet paper and zero 100% cotton (minus the elastic in the cuff).
I have some polo shirts and long-sleeved shirts from Old Navy that are nearly 20 years and could still almost pass for new. I tried buying some new long-sleeved shirts there a couple years ago online and had to return them. The material was so thin that you could just about see through it. LL Bean was the same way too. Disappointing. I think Duluth is one of the few retailers left with quality clothes available.
old navy jeans are the same way. I buy them when they go under $20, but I consider them disposable. My Duluth jeans have lasted years. My old navy jeans have holes by 4 or 5 months.
Dickies are still quality clothes, including their socks, thick and sturdy,
I’ve noticed for many products – and yes, I notice it mostly with food and clothing – to get quality you just have to pay more. Probably the equivalent after inflation of what we used to pay back then. We’re so used to electronics getting cheaper that we* didn’t notice what happens to quality for other kinds of products.
*not “us” we
I wish it was just about paying more. There’s a lot of stuff you just flat out cannot buy anymore.
I seem to remember seeing one of their stores in the Scranton area last time I was up there. Will need to check it out when I drop off the youngest patzer next week.
There are none in the Scranton area anymore. Their might be one that pops up during the Christmas season, but no permanent stores.
Bummer. Will need to find alternative amusement.
So you do cracker, mustard, sausage, then cheese (I think cheddar?). Fuckin delicious.
Nothing brings back memories like taste and smell. I hope its what you remember, KK.
Foreign Workers Living Overseas Mistakenly Received $1,200 U.S. Stimulus Checks
Better headline:
Government employees cowering at home mistakenly receive full paychecks
Anyone use Flightradar24? I keep getting 7700 squawk alerts for various Delta flights, almost every day, and when I look at the flights on radar, none of them is squawking 7700. This only happens with Delta flights. Very weird.
Not for that. Just plain vanilla flight lookups. 🙁
If you have a twitter account, dm FR24. They’re pretty responsive.
Maybe someone on board is refusing to wear their mask.
/sarc
I use FlightAware, never seen it
Trying a Basil Hayden Dark Rye tonight that I got as a gift (shh I think the sticker is below the ethics violation threshhold) from ‘client’ (Friend of a much loved coworker who needed a TOD and then affidavit of death to transfer her mom’s house). It was minimal work, and I was happy to do it as a favor to the coworker, so the bottle was a nice surprise.
Something else for KibbledKristen (and others who love skiing)… a nice article about a legendary Colorado ski bum who just died.
https://coloradosun.com/2020/08/07/charlie-toups-consummate-colorado-ski-bum-dies/
“He wasn’t the best skier. He didn’t have the latest gear. He didn’t ski the hardest lines or boast the prettiest form. But he was out there every day. From the late 1970s to 2010, he lived in ski area parking lots. For many of those years, home was a Volkswagen Beetle. He had ripped out the passenger seat so he could unfold his lanky frame. The Beetle spent many years at the base of Aspen Highlands and more than a decade buried in the corner of the Loveland ski area lot.
“He had to tunnel down to it. That car was basically a snow cave,” said Halsted Morris…”
There’s also a bit in the article about spending 61 days in jail a decade ago for not making nice with the U.S. Forest Service a decade ago.
“All he had to do was sign a paper admitting his crimes and they would let him go. He wasn’t having that.”
Awwww….that’s awesome. He kind of reminds me of me. Skiing is one of life’s great pleasures, even with shitty equipment.
(I mean, look at the look on my face in my profile pic. That’s what you call beatific
Excellent. At age 50, with a recent ACL rupture, I’m not quite the bumps basher and tree slayer I was a few years ago, but I love, love being on the mountain.
I ski almost all green groomers, with the occasional blue groomer thrown in. I’m not there for adrenaline. It’s like shooting at the range – it’s a zen-ifying experience. It really recharges the mental batteries.
I miss Elite. It’s a really nice range.
Surely you’ll need to visit the Manasshole area again at some point?
True true.
Cooking with ramen
I ate ramen for the first time yesterday in about 15 years, not out of need, but nostalgia. It turns out you *can* cook it in a microwave. Here’s how:
Put the ramen in a square shape tupperware container and fill halfway with water. Microwave on high for 2 1/2 minutes. Flip the ramen and microwave again.
Comes out perfect. I was surprised to see that ramen is so rich in iron. Some of the cheapest food in the store is surprisingly nutritious. My diet for this week will be v8 and ramen meals garnished with anchovies, spam, bag cheese, and beanie weenies. I got a week’s worth of groceries for $25. Dave Ramsey would be proud.
And now a dog plays the bass drum surprisingly well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjPVaOSaqJU
At first, I thought it was fake, but appears to be legit. Suck it, Keyboard Cat.
I actually like ramen if I don’t eat it too often. Noodles with chicken flavored sodium dust aren’t that bad.
I buy “gourmet” Korean ramen – it’s like a buck twenty for a (larger than usual) package. Fucking delicious. It’s ruined me for that cheap shit.
What brand?
This one. I add an egg and a little sesame oil.
Ordered and ordered. Gracias.
You won’t regret it. BTW, if you use the entire spice packet it will be *very* hot. It took me a long time to work up to that level of heat.
Our local T&T carries that stuff, plus other higher-end brands. They’re all the shizzle. Can’t eat Sapporo Ichiban anymore.
https://www.tntsupermarket.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=ramen
90 different kinds! (Including Sapporo Ichiban…)
As a notorious cheapskate, I find having a meal that costs virtually nothing to be a flavor enhancer.
A ramen packet is about 85 g (probably about 120 g when cooked), has 9 grams of protein, 380 calories, and 20% RDA of iron. 100 g of rice and beans has 151 calories, 4.6 g of protein, 8% RDA of iron, and 13% RDA of fiber. So, rice and beans is cheaper and more nutritious, but also has fewer calories per serving.
There’s a kind of food to treat famine victims called PlumpyNut. It’s basically peanut butter with powdered milk mixed in. Sort of like a survival Reese’s.
Mmmm. I could survive on Reese’s.
I’m with you on this: Ramen really isn’t all that cheap per calorie if you do find yourself in ‘broke mode’ and need to eat on the cheap. Rice and dried beans work well as does oatmeal and instant potatoes. Though I suppose whole potatoes are even cheaper as long as you have more time than money.
Getting your animal proteins (or vegan equivalents) are harder on the very cheap but should be done for health reasons until you’re really broke.
You can also abscond with condiment packets from various fast food and coffee shops if that is acceptable to your morality.
Rice or cheap pasta (mac and cheese) for your bulk calories. Tuna or whatever is cheapest (day of expiration meats) eggs, whatever meat or fish the store has too much of is usually cheap. Veggies? canned is your best bet. I lived a couple of really poor years on tuna and kraft mac and cheese.
Ramen, with a couple soft-boiled eggs in there, is one of my favorite comfort foods.
fun facts – Maruchan is the big ramen company. Maru means round and chan is like the y that makes dog into doggy. So maruchan is roundy, which is another way of saying smile. When you smile, your mouth is round.
As for the maru that shows up in the name of many Japanese ships, in that case it is a suffix applied to beloved things.
On the other hand, a telephone is o denwa. The O is an honorific, so like the right honorable telephone esq. I have no idea why they do this.
Thus saith the series of tubes.
Quite a few nouns get the honorific, like “chopsticks” and “butt.”
When someone gives you a blowjob, her mouth is round, too….
You sure it’s not “round eye”, or ramen for Westerners?
Instead of breathlessly scrolling coronavirus infection rates all day, every day, perhaps media outlets should post a business death count…
https://www.thecentersquare.com/colorado/report-over-8-600-colorado-businesses-filed-to-dissolve-during-second-quarter/article_b2bc0ca6-d80f-11ea-b15c-f3623767e1eb.html
Never happen, good news doesn’t sell.
And yet Fox Business News reported this morning an unemployment rate of 10%. While high it doesn’t seem like it is Depression level. With all the small businesses not ever opening I’m confused. Am I missing something?
/Permanently Perplexed in Podunkville
10% of the workforce, which is now less than half the population, and even then I think the 10% number is deliberately understated.
It’s over 20% in NYC. And the real carnage hasn’t started yet. Give it a few more months.
“With all the small businesses not ever opening I’m confused. Am I missing something?”
No, all of the people running those businesses got jobs working for mega-chains, along with their employees.
But don’t worry, once the dems have full control of the country, it will go to 50% like a good socialist county and the media will report if as the greatest news ever ‘people no longer having to work, can finally pursue their dreams of becoming artists or performers’.
Funemployment!
smallest companies are most likely to close first, meaning less of an impact on unemployment.
I’m in the “the other shoe is about to drop” camp.
An article in the local news said over 50% of Ohio restaurants don’t think they’ll survive another nine months of this.
Shit. I don’t think I’ll survive another nine months of this.
money printer go brrr
all better now ?
Yes! There won’t be any restaurants, or food to sell in them, but we’ll all be millionaires. We may get to see something absolutely unprecedented in our lifetimes. Actual famine in America. I am having a hard time keeping my temper.
Star Wars theme, disco version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWRWYYt47RI
funky!
I shit you not – I had this album when I was a young, young kid (like, 7 years old)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umz_oZJBYJ0
Ahead of your time, KK
#metoo pew pew pew
Love it. I’ll see you and raise you a disco arrangement of Stu Phillips’ Theme For Battlestar Galactica
Disco? Stu?
Disco…Stu.
DISCO STU!
Ooh, Disco Stu digs that groove!
We had a copy that we made by holding a tape recorder up to the radio.
You think none of us have heard of Meco?
Try a disco version of the theme to Exodus.
I remember Disco Star Wars on the radio but I never heard of who performed it.
Possibly even more spectacular.
lol outstanding
Derp, I have both the Star Wars theme and the Imperial March done as ice cream truck music.
the Imperial March done as ice cream truck music
Now, that would be an awesome ringtone.
Want me to e-mail it to you?
“Cuba implements a free market reform. No, seriously.”
We cans see from that photo it’s working already. Look at those chic new threads on that dude and that utra modern Euro car in the background. Prosperity at long last!
Fact Checker: FALSE.
There is no downside to registering illegal aliens to vote and It won’t cost a dime… and vast right wing conspiracy.
Meh, Giving people money for nothing on the thesis that the spending they will do with it will somehow make us all rich is so far down the pit of retardation and magical thinking all by itself, I don’t think it is worth an ounce of additional outrage that a few of the checks went to Guatemalans, Hondurans or Mexicans by mistake. Honestly I see getting all hot about this as basically the same race baiting as BLM using the fact that some people who get killed by militarized police happen to be black. The issue in neither case is who it happens to, in both it is that it happens at all.
“Hondurans”
A few? Half of the population of Honduras lives in MD, none of them are legal here, and they all vote. And if there’s any available free stuff for getting, they’ll figure out how to get it before you will.
That being said, I fully agree with you that the checks are bullshit. Cut taxes.
Yes, a few, and the voting issue has absolutely nothing to do with this point. I fail to see why a Honduran doing construction work is less deserving of the $1200 than a native born American who has never worked a day in xer life.
I wonder if they got one for all 4 (at least) different aliases they have along with their fake SS numbers? Must be nice to not be a citizen.
My 90 year old grandma who has never worked got one in her nursing home. Or so she says. We are not allowed to visit. She said she would gladly risk covid but of course that’s not allowed.
^^^ this is what “protecting” higher risk populations looks like
Its a welfare check. Foreign nationals aren’t supposed to get welfare, even if they pay taxes.
The fact that it came from the IRS doesn’t make it any kind of tax thing, just like having the IRS collect OCare fines didn’t make them taxes.
Yes, I know what it is. I am saying I could not possibly care less that few foreigners got checks. No one deserved the check, so why the hell does it matter that some subset also did not deserve the checks for two reasons, when every single person who got the check did not deserve it for one reason? It is not like deserving goes below zero. I did not deserve it, you did not deserve it, and Pablo from Tegucigalpa did not deserve it.
When we as a society decide to engage in potlach, you have to be insane to worry about what fire we burn the wealth in.
Indeed. It’s arbitrary.
However, governments are 100% responsible for all lost jobs and businesses due to forced shutdowns.
They should be on the hook to compensate 100% of all wages lost due to their policies. Feel free to liquidate whatever you want to make up the cost. And if society can’t afford or is unwilling to pay the additional the cost, then why was it ever ethical to shut down?
Govenrments caused the suffering, but responsibility implies some capacity to compensate. The government does not have resources independent of the people. It cannot compensate us for the harm it does. All it can ever do is make the harm worse for some in order to make others better off. If we could ever realize that we would make it much harder for the Struldbrugs (1 internet $ for anyone who gets that without googling) to loot us. When Government compensates you, rest assured that someone more powerful than you made a profit on the compensation, and that you in some way paid $1.25 for every dollar you got.
incredible wood carving skill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BnebcTPoxQ
Dayum!
Has he done that before? I mean, does that take practice?
Damnit, now I have to watch the Bugatti!
That’s not carving, he’s Sculpting, I noticed he uses his foot to hold the wood, pretty amazing find Derp!
“How does a lagoon turn…purple?”
*me me me! pick me, I know this one!*
The fake Fanta Grape Soda factory on that side, exploded.
500 years of Female Portraits in 3 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs
It’s like Q, but classy.
500 shades of Karen. Nice.
Featuring Bach’s Karenbande Cello Solo.
It starts getting weird around 2:30
I wouldn’t watch it, I knew there would be Clintons and Wookies eventually.
famous guitar riffs played on the hurdy gurdy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqHeOcItSkQ
comment gold: so…we could have had rock and roll 500 years ago?
kind of sounds like a duck
I find her strangely arousing.
R&R 500 years ago? Like this?
penultimate linky
old Turkic war song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZd_sAVKqPw
sounds like a combo of Spanish, German, and Klingon
Friday Funbags is not classy.
http://archive.li/KXuXj
#70 is, from the waist down, a reasonable facsimile of Mrs. Prolefeed.
T H I C C
great moments in Soviet animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgxHIWBt5yg
[Krusty the Klown voice]
What the hell was *that*?!
Best russian (cartoon) propaganda: American Imperialist: Mister Twister
my favorite wacky Soviet cartoon: from left to right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbar3nsf0_U
Soviet Winnie the Pooh is wild. There’s also a propaganda cartoon, Polygon about an American psychic tank (it reads the minds of its enemies to find them).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnJbtbh4tDE
It has a quasi anime style to it.
The fisherman looks totally Armenian. Not surprising, the cartoon was made in Armenia.
Here’s one: 16 minute animation to prepare population for revaluing the currency:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgxHIWBt5yg
Cheese review:
If you like brit-style cave cheddars, this is the best American version I’ve yet found. Quite the tits.
Looks too much like frumunda.
/slices velveeta
I like the Cabot cloth bound stuff they do. I’ll keep an eye out for that landaff.
I think the (official) unemployment rate is as low as it is because they aren’t counting “furloughed” workers, or anybody they can pretend has a job to go back to.
Yeah 10% of our full time people are “furloughed” and I was just asked if I wanted to do half of someone else’s job in addition to my own. I of course said “hell yes”. My boss goes “thanks, you’re the third person I asked”.
Hey guys, fun fact, when the boss starts coming around asking you “hey what can you do in addition to what you’re already doing?” in bad, uncertain economic times, answer with “These things that this other guy that you don’t like at all is doing.”
Yeah, or the always popular “Whatever shit is causing you heartburn, boss”.
Gee why would those on top
likecreate bad times? Propsperous people won’t pimp their daughters to the top men. Starving scared peasants will hold them down and whisper “Just let him, we need the food”I need to log out. I am not mellowing with drink. I am raging.
*makes note not to apply for job with Cancelled*
*looks at brokerage statement
*looks at practice P & L ytd
*looks at entire life
bwahahahahahahahahaha me a top man? I am the guy who was told he was smart as a kid and coasted through to middle age when he suddenly woke up and realized never actually trying at anything had gone from a failing to a habit to a wasted life.
Hey pal! Don’t try to horn in my schtick. That’s the story of my life. Wasted life, indeed.
Yeah… but at least you’re a lawyer.
I’m just an IT geek.
::administrative assistant hangs head, slumps out of room::
*chases after GT*
Come back, GT! At least they don’t. call you a secretary anymore.
/
mechanictechnicianOK, since you asked so nice, I’ll stay. Thanks! : )
Obligatory.
By what measure? I’ll put my history of missed opportunities, wasted potential, and failure to meet my obligations up against anybody.
::administrative assistant hangs head, slumps out of room::
If my admin/paralegal ever felt like she wasn’t useful, I’d disabuse her of that notion immediately. She may not be designing the latest product or selling millions of dollars of contracts, but she makes my job doable, and I treat her like the essential part of the team that she is.
One of the most disturbing and disheartening things I encountered in BigLaw was the flippant disdain many of the lawyers had for their admins. Just by saying please and thank you, apologizing when I put them in a bind or made them stay late, and eating lunch at the same table as them, I had developed a stronger relationship with many of the admins than most of the partners had.
Just because their billing rate was a fraction of mine didn’t mean their humanity was any less than mine, but some lawyers sure seemed to disagree. Hell, Minnie the janitor knew my name and didn’t know the names of half the partners, and I worked there for only 2 years.
/abso-fucking-loutely hate people who treat their assistants like trash
Yeah, I missed the part where getting through 3 years of a school entirely about rationalization makes us better than the ‘little’ people. The best, kindes,t hardest working person I know is an administrative assisstant. Yes I am smarter than her. Yes, I make more per hour. And by quite literally every other metric you can come up with she is vastly my superior. I wasted my entire life believing that smart mattered. Sure if you hit the Newton level you matter. If you don’t? Yeah not so much.
What trashy said. Not treating everybody decently, regardless of station, is a major failing in my book.
Thanks for that, Trashy. I consider myself very lucky that I have a great relationship with my boss of almost 20 1/2 years. We chat a lot and can even discuss politics. (I think I’ve helped him move a bit closer to libertarian from conservative.) He insists I’m forbidden from leaving/retiring until he does, so I do feel valued.
There are three categories of people who get my respect as a ground state – A: People who do jobs I can’t do. B: People who do jobs I don’t want to do. B: People who do jobs that I both can’t and don’t want to do.
Give me a technical problem, and I’m all over it.
Ask me to set up interviews and make sure all the candidates’ paperwork is in order… I’m a deer in the headlights. One of the few times I went out of my way to thank someone for their work was when the division secretary handled that so I could focus on whether these people were suited to the job.
Of course I thank the people collecting the office garbage, but I don’t think they know my name.
The Golden Rule is golden for a reason. I try my best, but sometimes people see kindness as weakness.
So courage, much dare.
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That is almost as intimidating to the patriarchy as the pussy hats. Why is it that the people who wantto smash the patriarchy always use methods thatmake them look like total pussies?
Because they are total pussies?
I’m half watching TV with the wife. I showed her that.
She said isn’t that part of the patriarchy??
Women doing things women like is half of the patriarchy, but it is the less offensive half. Men doing things men like is the half we need to stop first.
The nail polish probably is.
Gee I wonder why people hate us lawyers?
Jugsy is playing Disney+ and has some movie with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson on. She axed me about his ethnicity, and I said “samoan or some shit”. Knowing that technically correct is the best kind, I sat down here in The Bunker and saw his wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_Johnson
I had no idea that “Black Canadians” were a thing. Is that Zimmerman being a white-hispanic?
Black and white are a loose racial designators. Hispanic is cultural and/or linguistic. Canadian is either a Geographic, a political, or a manners based descriptor. Of course you can combine them.
For example a White Honky Nazi Mother Fucker is a racial (caucasian) ethno/geographic (Hungarian) political (Nationalist Socialist) behavioral (has pentrative sex with his
femaleegg contributing parent)Today I learned…..
(honestly, Ill stick with my original answer)
If you’re a waiter, Canadians are black.
Looks like the same as “African-American”, only further north.
He seems like a genuinely nice guy, one of the few Hollywood people I would actually care to meet.
I agree. He is in the good muscle bro category for me.
FWIW I recently watched one of his Jumanji movies and it was unexpectedly decent.
So now Hoover is on the unperson list
https://kval.com/news/local/corvallis-schools-to-remove-jefferson-hoover-wilson-names-from-schools
Wonder what he did, because the articles don’t say. Self made engineer and businessman, organized private relief during WWI, even lived in Oregon for six years as a boy (and the only president to have done so, the closest to a native son the state has).
*face-palm*
School #1, School #2, and School #3 it is.
Cool. Now do streets.
Nah, someone non controversial.
Che Guevara Elementary.
Ho Che Minh HIgh ?
Mao Middle School ?
Stalin Secondary School
Beria Trade School
Hoxha High
Wilson?
Howsabout Roosevelt? Both would be fine, but if only one gets the boot, it should be FDR.
Oh, please do an internet contest. I guess everybody has probably learned better by now, though.
Racist McRaceFace ?
Suggested names
1) Nie Yuanzi
2) Lin Biao
3) Zhang Chengzhi
4) Tan Houlan
5) Kang Sheng
Looking at the YouTube thumbnail, I realize I’ve got an interesting tidbit or two, but really don’t feel like doxxing myself or saying on an open channel.
I guess white people are out. Which is most likely the goal in the first place.
Surprisingly not on the list, Dixie School. Hasn’t been an elementary school for at least 35 years and is now used by the local ESD, but still retains the name.
He lambasted Saint Roosevelt would be my guess. He also denounced the USSR
How does a lagoon turn…purple?
Brooke Shields got her period perhaps?
::golf clap::
She needs more red meat, clearly.
Alternatively- Vulcan Menstruation
Repeal the NFA. Make the BATFE a Big Box Store.
*drools over prospect of Fireworks’R’Us*
RE: Purple Lagoon
Did they bother checking for algae? From the shitty journalism, it still sounds pretty clearly like a bloom and die off. Which would be caused by nutrient rich runoff. So they still could’ve run with the pollution angle, just, you know, accurately.
I am the guy who was told he was smart as a kid and coasted through to middle age when he suddenly woke up and realized never actually trying at anything had gone from a failing to a habit to a wasted life.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
Wow my drunken confessional hit a nerve. I wonder how prevalent the arrogant kid expecting to be a success because adults said he was smart, who lazed his way through school and then realized that work habits were more important to success than raw smarts is in libertarian circles.
*raises hand*
A certain willingness to whore myself out to a bureaucracy is probably what has gotten me this far.
My inability to deal with corporate bureaucracy costs me more than $100,000 a year. Capitalize on that whoredom all you can
If I had whored myself out just a little bit better, I would have retired this month. Nine out of eleven managers in my division just retired. They all started where I did 25 to 30 years ago.
$X00,000, same as downtown.
I have been doing one of my favorite things. Cleaning parts with gasoline. Taking undercoating off suspension parts, to be specific. I hate undercoating.
It might be time for a cerveza.
Get out of my head!
It was 4:20 somewhere!
My somewhat related project completed this week.
Inherited these from a landlord back in 2011. Started and stalled on the repainting last summer, got er done couple weeks back and turned to the knobs…
Some sort of paint over brass, so I tried a brass wire brush on the Dremel, limited success. Picked up a jug of Super Clean for stiping minis a while back….BAM, paint removed…wtf, clearcoat under the paint. The wire brush had only gotten down to that layer, turns out. Took another extended soak in the SC to get it all off….as well as some of the brass, whoops. I’m pleased with the result. Fucking clearcoat.
2nd dresser completion estimated c.2025
*BAM = 90min soak and the paint sloughed off
Purdy refurb.
The internal polling numbers on school re-openings must have been absolutely dreadful. Wonder how the teacher unions will react to this dolchstoss.
At some point they will simply declare victory (especially if Biden wins) and move on. The MSM will instantly declare that the goal posts were always there and that the Vid has been conquered.
Saturday kills the ‘Vid!
There, done, you’re welcome.
My daughter came down with a miracle cold. We’ve been mostly isolated, and none of the people we have come in contact with have been sick. Yet she has a fever, runny nose and muscle aches.
So I took her to get the Covid test today.
It was, predictably, both well run and horribly run at the same time. We went to Hard Rock Stadium, because they offered the quick turnaround. No need to quarantine ourselves if we get a negative result… so the sooner the better.
There were no signs telling you where to go. The main entrance off of the turnpike was the wrong direction, but there were no signs from that direction. I had to make sever U-turns to get to the back of the line – which was being kept discontinuous by the police for reasons that are not entirely clear to me. They kept us waiting out in traffic for a long time – 45 minutes in our case… then when I got into the parking lot it was apparent that there was plenty of room for the cars that were on the main road. For some reason they must have gotten the cops who work the clubs on Miami Beach to control the line – so they kept people waiting out front so you could tell how popular it is.
There was no distinction between people with reservations (like me) and other people. So having a reservation was to no advantage at all.
It took 3 hours waiting in line. The pace of testing seemed artificially slow. There were 6 or 8 employees standing around checking things for every 1 that was doing tests. I think a lot of their job may have been handling people who did not register online in advance and getting their information entered.
That being said, the staff doing the testing were kind and professional despite crappy working conditions – on their feet in the 90+ degree humid weather all day with frustrated people who had been forced to wait 3 hours for reasons that are not at all clear. A+ for the staff running the tests.
The up the nose test sucks. Not gonna lie. It was more uncomfortable than I thought it would be. My daughter was pretty mad at me for a minute. But it was pretty brief discomfort.. and an 8 year old girl who felt terrible was able to gut it out without much difficulty, so not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things.
The results were posted on the website really quickly – I checked about 2 hours later and they were there. Could have been sooner, but I didn’t check then.
That was amazingly efficient. So we get to go to the beach with friends tomorrow, being covid free.
– one observation – they took all of my information online and issued an appointed time and an appointment number for each of us. They did not use that number at all. They used name and birthday to track our test. So I absolutely see how people are getting the wrong results. They are probably picking from a list on the computer to see who to match the results with, an excellent moment for tired or sloppy work to send the wrong result somewhere.
Runny nose suggests it’s not Wuhan.
I am not a doctor, just paying attention.
Yeah, runny nose came about 8 days in advance of the fever, so probably not related.
I’m thinking 5th’s disease… she had the red face on Saturday, but had been in a pillow fight with a friend immediately prior so I discounted it. Then the fever and muscle aches started.
And I have a wife. Wife wants covid test. I go get covid test. I get to not hear about it anymore.
Plus, we have no idea how she caught anything. That’s the mysterious part. She’s been to see 1 other kid in the last 3 weeks – last friday and saturday. And they haven’t had any sickness lately. None of us have anything either.
“pillow fight with a friend”
“no idea how she caught anything”
Hmm.
Yeah, sounds goofy. But we know them and they haven’t been anywhere either. And they have nobody showing any symptoms.
Maybe an allergy and a UTI coincident with each other. That one is probable because it is more expensive than 5th’s disease (which clears on its own). Last one of those ran me $350.
South Korean lawmaker under fire (with coverage from CNN promoted by Bing!)… for wearing a dress.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/07/asia/south-korea-politician-dress-intl-hnk/index.html
Her real offense? Wearing tennis shoes with a dress.
I have heard a few times that Korea is stuck in 1950 or so.
My somewhat related project completed this week.
Inherited these from a landlord back in 2011.
Nice. I like clean, simple lines.
I’m calling the theme “Blue Jeans”. At the outset the idea was more SGI Indigo, but I didn’t pick quite the right shade (despite the stack of empty Indigo boxes I have to compare to, that I never compared to), and then I would’ve had to paint the knobs teal or something…this is much better I think.