Soon? I hope so.
The end (of the week) is nigh! Thank God. Now a long weekend and then the kids will all be back in actual school come Tuesday. I hope y’all are as excited as I am. The US Open is pretty much going according to plan. There may be Big Ten football this fall after all, and that has Dabo a little perturbed. I think the Kentucky Derby is this weekend. And that’s about it for sports.
Why you looking surprised, you creepy fuck?
Big birthdays today are British carmaker William Lyons, American car exec Henry Ford II, TV’s Paul Harvey, actor Dick York, economist Clive Granger, baseball player Ken Harrelson, golfer Raymond Floyd, legendary golfer Tom Watson, drummer Martin Chambers, underrated actor Damon Wayans, Nobel winner Shinya Yamanaka, sex offender (D-NY) Anthony Weiner, catcher Mike Piazza, infielder Luis Lopez, actress Ione Skye, and musician Beyonce Knowles.
There you have it. Now on to…the links!
This won’t fuel any conspiracy theories, I’m sure. Oh wait, it already has. A shitload of them.
Adios, dickhead.
“Ahead of Election Day”. Yeah, that has to be it. It couldn’t be to speed up the process in order to save lives, right? Or maybe because the FDA approval process is unduly time-consuming and arduous. Nah, it has to be because of Election Day. I suppose if he said he wanted it approved for use by Dec 1, CNN would say he wanted Americans, especially black, brown, and female ones, to die ahead of the election because they will overwhelmingly vote against him. Or something equally retarded.
Trump denies unsourced claim made against him. At least that’s how I read this. Look, Trump is a loudmouth. But there’s no reason in the world who anybody who actually witnessed him saying this couldn’t put their name on the claim. They stand to lose absolutely nothing and to gain everything by standing up for the troops. That’s why the whole thing stinks like last week’s garbage to me.
This is just what a dictator would do! Oh wait, it’s the opposite. Well, the reaction is the opposite. The actual killing of the guy is what a theocratic shithole would do. But I doubt our media will cover it. Unless they get some quotes from the austere scholars running the country that’s about to kill a guy for protesting.
Get a load of this scumbag. Also, a million bucks is a hell of a lot of money. But why is he being accused of stealing government funds? Weren’t they his victim’s funds?
No ballot access for you!
The Democrats continue in their efforts to exclude a black man’s name from the ballot. You’d almost call this silencing black voices. I mean, if you were objective, you would.
The Chicago way. And no, this isn’t a Connery line. It’s the real Chicago way…where cops do whatever the fuck they want and taxpayers foot the bill while the officer simply goes back to work. And the one-party rule in the city seems to be fine with it…seeing as they haven’t done a fucking thing to correct it since I’ve been following shit like this (and they’ve paid out nearly a billion dollars in excessive force/wrongful death suits over the last 13 years).
Pelosi is doubling down again. This time her stylist is coming out in her defense. Apparently it’s not selling, as even Don Lemon is giving her shit for it. LOL, what a maroon.
Alternate headline: PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!!!!!!!
Enjoy this one. Yeah, his catalog is limited, but this is still a fun song.
Now get out there and have a nice Friday and a great holiday weekend.
“Disbarred attorney allegedly bilked $1M in 9/11 compensation from NYPD cop.”
He seems like quite a guy.
Mornin’.
I’m genuinely curious how the determined who qualified for the 9/11 funds. And how they determined the cause of cancer and severity of it.
Not knocking this cop, it’s a legit question I have.
I agree.
I smoked cigs for a long time (quit for good 6 years ago), and occupationally Im exposed to all sorts of air-polluting things, raw & at the source.
If I were to get a cancer diagnosis, which runs in the family, there’s no way in hell any competent doc could point to a single cause.
Yep. Worked around shitty chemicals since I was 15. Heavy smoker. What dun did it?
#metoo
If only because I want my cut some day after working down there during that time.
Tobacco money is gone, you’re on your own. Maybe you rode the bus and the exhaust fumes. Big oil, for the win!
George is always good drinkin’ music but one whiskey does drag some. His shorter tunes (like that one) are better.
Hank, where ever he is, will be happy, that he’s not been forgotten
I prefer the shorter John Lee Hooker version. George spliced together two Hooker songs in that version.
I appreciate you reminding me of how much I despise Mark Herring. A woodchipper would be far too merciful for him.
Hey, show some respect to the guy who will be governor someday since your state has jumped the shark.
!&*^$%&^!
We are getting another round of Terry McCauliff. In all honesty it’s the best we can do the guy is just content to loot the coffers he has no other agenda.
You mean soon-to-be Governor Mark Herring.
Look… how can you expect a member of Congress to know the laws of their state? Besides, are they not made of finer clay then us mortal men?
Come on, Man… You expect that all these lawyers running for office would know… the thing? You know what I mean!
I doubt Pelosi knows the laws she has passed. I’m in the “she is a blithering idiot” camp. Not to mention evil.
And here I thought you got to know what is in the law after you pass it.
I want to see the roof of Congress get pulled away and watch all of these superannuated beings crumble to dust in the cold light of day. What the fuck? You are 80 years old. Go pretend to enjoy your family and sip Chablis. I’m 55 and I would give it all up if I could golf every day and not be so damn tired all of the time. What’s their fucking excuse?
You are a wise man, Grasshopper, following the in steps of your old man.(Adopted and unseen but what the hell?)
Thanks, Good Dad! The lust for power runs weakly in my veins. I’d prefer that everyone just get the fuck along without the drama and bloodshed. I’ve always been a (mostly) peaceful sort. Kinda like this site – “We’re the Fun Libertarians!”
What’s their fucking excuse?
They are addicts, to power, and attention. Asking them to give that up – well, just ask them to stop breathing why don’t you?
From the unsourced source
Yet another, related, explanation concerns what appears to be Trump’s pathological fear of appearing to look like a “sucker” himself. His capacious definition of sucker includes those who lose their lives in service to their country, as well as those who are taken prisoner, or are wounded in battle. “He has a lot of fear,” one officer with firsthand knowledge of Trump’s views said. “He doesn’t see the heroism in fighting.” Several observers told me that Trump is deeply anxious about dying or being disfigured, and this worry manifests itself as disgust for those who have suffered. Trump recently claimed that he has received the bodies of slain service members “many, many” times, but in fact he has traveled to Dover Air Force Base, the transfer point for the remains of fallen service members, only four times since becoming president. In another incident, Trump falsely claimed that he had called “virtually all” of the families of service members who had died during his term, then began rush-shipping condolence letters when families said the president was not telling the truth.
Trump has been, for the duration of his presidency, fixated on staging military parades, but only of a certain sort. In a 2018 White House planning meeting for such an event, Trump asked his staff not to include wounded veterans, on grounds that spectators would feel uncomfortable in the presence of amputees. “Nobody wants to see that,” he said.
According to chickenshit anonymous backstabbers.
Nobel prize for literature material.
Not a backstabber. Some guy who worked near the White House that one time and enjoys shooting his mouth off and getting attention.
Remember, the FBI and CIA predicated an entire spy operation on the president elect of the united states on a “reliable source close to Putin” who was actually some junior guy at a Washington DC think tank with a Russian name who not only wasn’t close to Putin, but probably didn’t even know any Russians.
Remember how they kept intimating that the whole thing was based on some secret intercepts from inside the Kremlin? How 27 different agencies all agreed? Every news story was unanimous… all sources agreed. And the “source” was some kid at a bar in Washington DC.
This is who we are dealing with.
I think it’s reasonably accurate. Trump has no taste for blood which these assholes are casting as a bad thing. Otherwise he’d be like every other President and find a nice, small war to win to boost his popularity (because we Americans are suckers for that shit).
Look at it from a business perspective.
What’s the payback? We’re getting nothing from our sunk costs over in the ME. Trump is a pragmatist and doesn’t give a shit about our global footprint.
Shocker used car salesman, known contract stiffer and womanizer is more morale than 90% of the the elected officials at the helm of this criminal enterprise.
Here’s the thing Trump is so terrible we must make up lies to tell people how terrible he is. Personally I guarantee if said it was a joke. My problem is these people have actually used the intelligence apparatus in this country to fabricate lies against him with criminal penalties attached and been caught doing it several times, so like they are far worse.
Every cop, soldier, nurse, etc. who met Trump in private has said he was really cool and genuinely nice to them. So I’ll file this under bullshit until somebody has the guts to take ownership.
If I were to get a cancer diagnosis, which runs in the family, there’s no way in hell any competent doc could point to a single cause.
That’s the attorney’s job.
^^^ Big Julia Roberts fan here. Get’ im!
+ Festus Brockovich
I like leggy brunettes. It’s my calling.
I remember sitting in my surgeon’s waiting room during a follow-up visit after my skin cancer surgery. I was reading some cancer doctor magazine article that said basically that – everyone wants to know why they got cancer but often there is no answer. Some things – smoking, too much sun – can make it more likely. But people like me who never did much of either can still get cancer.
A family friend had an 11 year old son develop a rare form of cancer in his nasal sinus. Fought it for about a year before it got him. Strong kid.
Cancer is a sumbitch that has no respect for persons.
Cancer is your own cells fucking up the copy/paste. It’s the most natural of diseases, no outside interference required. Yes, outside factors can exacerbate it, the same way they can a failing heart or the aging process, but this idea that is always caused by something external is just an extension of the fear of mortality.
Your body is constantly maintaining cells – nuking bad ones, etc. If something disrupts autophagy, bad shit happens.
There is a ton of cool research happening right now in this area. Finally, they are looking at it as a metabolic disorder.
Citing three law enforcement officials, The New York Times said Michael Forest Reinoehl was killed in Lacey, Washington. The Associated Press, citing a senior Justice Department official, said Reinoehl was shot by an officer after he pulled out a gun.
Fake news. Cops are all white-supremes that exclusively shoot blacks.
Diana Roth and the Supremes!
I read ‘Diana Roth’ in Mike Tyson’s voice, for some reason.
The Thupremes!
Don’t make fun! He couldn’t help that he had a watermelon seed gap! Lithspers are people too!
Bloomberg is running with the Atlantic smear. Don’t vote for Trump. He’s asshoe.
Who didn’t already know?
He’s been Bonzo and Neil combined for all of my adult life. If anyone has asshoe chops it is Donald J. Trump.
Being the drummer’s birthday, I thought you might go for one of these, but I still like your pick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL8Dj5xOjm0
Facing a persistent polling deficit and a struggling economy
Because state/local retardation in reaction to a new flu strain are his fault.
And I ain’t taking no damned corona vaccine.
Yeah, that ain’t happening.
Annnnnd I’m out. Not reading that.
The fake black Jewish girl from last night might have been cringier. Why are so many willing to tug the forelock? What the fuck just happened here?
Confession precedes redemption. Religion gets a lot of mileage out of the human desire for redemption; politics has taken notice.
Consider the source was once hospitalized for both suicide attempts and drugs/alcohol addictions.
I don’t say that to demonize her, but to put into context that maybe we shouldn’t lean on pop singers as our moral compasses.
The comments are in stark contrast with the president’s public persona as a champion of the military and a fighter for veterans.
And just as Dems are having trouble with that in the wake of rioting they support. Funny that.
I’m going to call bullshit.
I’m sure those sources would have sat on the story for three years. Especially since they’re so aghast at his disrespect.
I mean, it’s unlikely they’re all still working for him since his elation is a revolving door. Yet they all stayed quiet so this guy could profit when he chose to publish his book right before the election?
Pull the other one.
“No, not that one. A little to the left… Almost got it”
Trump is a con man. He plays himself off as rich but won’t allow his taxes to be publicized because that would ruin the play. Same thing with him as lady-killer and tough-guy – it’s all a fucking act.
So, just taking the Clinton’s act and reversing a couple things.
Melania’s bum is an order of magnitude higher and tighter than Ms. Clinton’s or Ms. Obama’s and that’s all you really need to know.
this the guy is the greatest example of fake it till you make it this country has ever produced. And we’ve produced some grade A flim flam men.
They are called politicians and have gravity but not brevity. Flim flam persons, leeches and lechers.
“Reinoehl, a self-described snowboarding instructor, had a fraught personal and social media history, records show. He appeared to have had a number of issues with landlords and with traffic and tax authorities and—this summer—faced multiple misdemeanor charges, two of them firearm-related. One of them, from July 5, appears to result from an incident in which Reinoehl allegedly brought a gun to an anti-racist protest, resisted arrest, and interfered with police activities. But it appears local prosecutors never filed a criminal complaint, and the case was dropped.”
Look at me. Shocked face.
He deserved what he got.
why are there no criminal complaints against violent protesters?
The DA supports the protests
But what does that have to do with the law?
Wait, wait… Surely you don’t think equal treatment under the law is still a thing in this country, do you?
Shh! Why do you want to disillusion the one foreigner that still thinks America is a nation of laws?
It’s Big Tin-Foil! They have a lock on the media and nothing passes muster except for what THEY want you to know! Just ask Hyperbole, he’s sure to have a peg-board and strings that tie it all up nicely in a neat little bow for the sheeple. 🙂
I think Joe Biden has a problem. Aside from rambling incoherently and not remembering in what solar system he’s in, he tends to have an addiction to plagiarism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f2Z30j61aw&feature=youtu.be
I remember him plagiarizing back in the ’80s. And at that time, plagiarism was something that would get you expelled from school.
That’s all I knew him for for 20 years. When he was running in 2008, my first thought was, “The plagiarizing guy? He’s still around?”
He’s not plagiarizing! He’s just using other people’s private intellectual property!
He got caught doing it 30-odd years ago. What the fuck did he think would happen when basically every voter holds the wealth of the world’s knowledge in their hot little hand? Not that I believe for one hot minute that Joe writes his own speeches.
Maybe if he did he would remember more of what he’s supposed to say.
Dude plagiarized his life story. That is baller.
The bigger the lie…
I wonder if Joe would hit on Kamala.
I’m sure there are times when he spaces out enough to do something like that without any realization what he is doing.
Nursing home care-givers with the “pool noodle rule”. It’s a thing.
Do I want to know?
Probably not.
“I wonder if Joe ‘could’ hit on Kamala.”
I’m sure he could hit on her, but doubt he could actually hit that, no matter how easy she tried to make it, he ‘d have a
hardtime.Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for president, criticized Trump in a statement Thursday.
“If the revelations in today’s Atlantic article are true, then they are yet another marker of how deeply President Trump and I disagree about the role of the President of the United States,” Biden said, adding, “And if I have the honor of serving as the next commander in chief, I will ensure that our American heroes know that I will have their back and honor their sacrifice — always.”
Go get ’em, Joe. Scatter those troops to the four corners of the globe. Flex America’s muscles.
Can’t honor their sacrifice if you don’t sacrifice a few for national honor.
Bag-cough-dahl. Cough.
Make that….Berg-cough-dahl. Cough. BLOW JOB!
So for the first time in my life I cooked rice. Turned out ok, I used to much water but drained the excess
That’s the French technique.
I cant apply the Japanese technique cause they all have rice cookers and I don’t.
A rice cooker is like $15. Make the investment. It’s worth it.
I am considering it but it takes up space and I would rarely use it as I try to eat lower carb and such rarely rice.
CHeapest one I see is ECG RZ 11, 400W, 1 L for 110 Lei so about 25 US
Cheap rice cookers make no better rice that stovetop or microwave.
“A rice cooker is like $15. Make the investment. It’s worth it.”
Nah.
I have posted “the Japanese technique” (which is also the *Chinese* technique) several times, and all it requires is a pot plus measuring rice and water by volume. Full disclosure: I have a rice cooker (actually two, one of which is quite fancy) but rarely use it/them because they’re for making rice in quantity, not for one or two people.
You seem to be taking it well. I would be steamed.
“I like rice. Rice is great when you’re hungry, and you want 2,000 of something.”
-Mitch Hedberg
Lol. Aw man, Hedberg.
That is a brilliant line.
Swallow, don’t spit.
1 cup rice. 3/4 cup water. Put it all in a medium pan. Set heat to high. As soon as the water begins to boil, stir once with a fork, cover the pan tightly with foil and put a lid over the foil. Turn the heat down to low. Cook for 17 minutes. Open it up, fluff the rice and enjoy.
does high and low have a specific meaning, or is low just simmer heat?
I simmered the water put the rice in left for 10 minutes then drained the excess and fluffed it with a fork. Overall it came out decent
Just simmer heat. Lowest setting possible on an electric range, on a gas cooktop you have to learn the setting but it doesn’t take long to figure out. With this method there’s no excess water at the end.
See my note below abou twater volume too! It’s important!
I cooked stovetop into my 40s. But I will admit that my Zojirushi is better because it 1) always cooks perfectly and 2) holds the perfectly cooked rice at temp without overcooking for literally hours which means 3) you don’t have to pay attention to when the rice is done so you can start it whenever and not worry about timing it with the rest of the meal.
Apparently the price of my cooker on amazon has tripled since I bought it a couple of years back. I blame Trump’s tarriffs and the Coronavirus.
WARNING: the amount of water I listed is wrong. use 1-3/4 cups, not 3/4. The rice package will usually tell you if the particular rice needs more or less than this, but the basic method is good. 17 minutes after covering seems to work no matter what kind of rice I cook, including basmati, jasmine, and sushi rice.
I used Jasmin rice. I also have some arborio in the pantry.
Switch to Basmati.
Dude 3/4 cup water will leave 1 cup of rice hard as gravel. More like 1 3/4 to 2 cups depending on the rice, and how tightly your pot seals.
see my correction above
You don’t appreciate good whisky so I’m not gonna tell you how to make good rice. :p
given your taste in whiskey why would I think you know how to make good rice?
Hehe. I’ll give you that. You still have to eat bad rice, though.
it was not bad really.
I learned early how to cook perfect rice but Wifey likes exotic types, Goldarnit!
Does she know why jasmine rice smells like jasmine?
How the fuck would I know? She brings home these weird blends that all need tweaking.
The rice paddies are fertilized by water buffalo who graze on jasmine.
Get your rice/water ratio right — bring to a boil, cover, turn to low for about 17 minutes.
Also, use Jasmine or Basmati if you are doing white rice.
Carrying over from last night’s thread re: U.S. Marshals and training.
Caveats: Sample size of 1, and NY shooters are pretty terrible for some reason.
I completed against a Marshal in my third competition and absolutely smoked him. So far the best shooters I’ve witnessed outside of “serious” competitive shooters have been Military personnel. Including a medic.
Guy I used to shoot with at my club in California was a fireman by profession, and he consistently outshot cops. I think he really enjoyed that.
I shoot USPSA. Usually cops come to our practices and shoot once. Then we don’t see most of them ever again because they can’t stand the fact that they don’t shoot as well as “civilians” and are too proud to practice and learn anything from us.
One of the things that irritates me about IDPA is the special “cops can wear their duty rigs” while tax cattle have to carry concealed.
I used to shoot IDPA until I realized that I could learn to shoot better doing USPSA, and apply the cover tactics when I actually needed them. Shooting as fast as you can, accurately, really improves the skills needed in an encounter more than staying slow, a la IDPA, IMO.
I got bored with the speed of IDPA, and the excessively pedantic rules.
Dude, given the choice between a Level 3 retention holster and snapped magazine pouches, and carrying concealed, I’ll take carrying concealed any day of the week.
I’ve seen some guys give themselves major wedgies trying to draw their gun fast, without deactivating one of their holster locks.
It’s less about the advantage and more the special status.
Like, Cops can load 11 rounds in their first mag and chamber it, while I have to use a Barney. Does that make any difference when the timer beeps? No. Still pisses me the fuck off.
True, true.
You’ll feel better though, when you wipe the floor with them while shooting from concealment.
Re: last thread – Not too invalidate your lived experiences, but I was specifically talking about US Marshalls Service personnel assigned to Fugitive Task Force teams. Those dudes train a lot, because they exist specifically to go after criminals with major warrants out.
I’ve shot USPSA and 3gun with a bunch of military guys, too, including a few active and recently-retired SMU face-shooters. Some of them have been really good, and some have been surprisingly mediocre, and it doesn’t really seem to have much to do with their day job.
What it really boils down to, is that if you enjoy shooting, and train at it seriously and consistently, you’ll get pretty awesome pretty fast. If you don’t, you won’t.
Go right ahead and invalidate. I’ve squadded with fewer than 200 different people from a small geographic area. I are noob shooter.
The most anti-stereotypical shooting I think I ever saw was when William H Webster picked up an MP5 and mag-dumped it into the middle of a silhouette. I gained a lot of respect for the FBI bach then (that has evaporated for obvious reasons).
I can confirm from my time in the National Guard that results with cops and soldiers can vary wildly. Had a good buddy who never practiced but was a truly excellent shot with a rifle – just a natural. Most of the soldiers in my tank battalion were mediocre to poor with a rifle – the old guys had never trained with a rifle ever. They had qualified with an M3 submachine gun in basic training because that’s what tank crews were issued. Many of the cops in the unit were crappy rifle shooters (we rarely shot pistols so I can’t say how they’d do).
There was also a former Marine cop and a former SF Sniper Mst Sgt in the unit – the two best shooters with rifles and pistols I’ve ever seen. Everyone would gather around to watch them go head-to-head on the range.
I assume this dumbass decided to fire a pistol at Marshals armed with rifles. That will always make for a very short, one-sided fight, even with mediocre shots.
I heard, somewhere, that the dumbass had a rifle or carbine of some kind. Might be bullshit, but even if true, you do have to practice with the things to do yourself any good.
A rushed vaccine for a class of viruses that has never had a successful vaccine where the makers of the vaccine cannot be held liable for potentially harmful side effects? Sign me up!
Why do you deny SCIENCE! you white supremacist?
In general, no vaccine maker can be held liable for side effects.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/300aa-22
That’s only for unavoidable damages. If you accidentally mix bleach into your vaccine, your ass is grass. Its actually a pretty good system, given the broken system around it.
Can’t wait until it’s required to return to work.
I haven’t missed a day of work since this started, and my job requires me to be in proximity of hundreds of mouth breathers a day. I wonder how they will know who has gotten the vaccine. Maybe a gold star for good behavior pinned to your clothes?
It won’t matter. People up here in Alberta have been freaking out about the possibility that the government might mandate a vaccine, but there’s no way on God’s green earth they’re gonna be able to secure 4.4 million doses in any reasonable timeframe. No vaccine supply == no way to enforce a mandated vaccine shot. I’ll always be willing to smile sweetly and say “Isn’t there someone else who needs this more than me?” The answer to that question will always be “yes.”
Thank God for Texas, Thank God for Tennessee (and Alberta).
The judge ordered state elections officials to prohibit anyone from printing West’s name on state ballots for the Nov. 3 election, finding that the notice of qualification the Department of Elections issued for West on Aug. 28 “is contrary to Virginia law, and is therefore, invalid.”
Kanye write-in campaign commence!
Worked for Nick Freitas last election in VA.
Wait… wut?
This statement would seem to rule out write-in campaigns.
OFFS, CNN. Give it a rest.
and deaths from lightning strikes could reach as many as 500,000 by next week
Lightning strike startled me a week or so ago. I was miles ahead of a thunderstorm going down the highway and I’d swear it hit right between the north and southbound lanes.
Deaths by meteor strike could top 1 billion by tomorrow.
That line never got me laid in HS.
That article is silly. They spend the entire thing making it sound ominous that Trump wants the vaccine as soon as possible. Why wouldn’t he? Why wouldn’t anybody?
Pelosi’s defence reminds me of when pedophiles were caught live on 20/20.
IT’S A SET UP!
Yeh, and? You’re still doing the crime dip shit.
Pelosi still went to a salon, to party and without a mask. Period.
It’s the exact story in Brampton, Ont. with Mayor Patrick Brown. The sleazy worm was caught in an arena without his mask on while security paraded in those stupid things. He and his buddies could play hockey but the city couldn’t. He then took a different defence when caught. Rebel Media are racist alt-right extremists…blah, blah, waw, wah, waw. You got caught asshole.
And still, there are people who aren’t infuriated by this. Boggles the mind.
Masks are teh stupid.
The only thing Nancy is upset about is that she forgot to play politician because she forgot the cameras were on and she made the mistake of behaving honestly, which might ruin her reputation.
I say we draw and quarter her for being an ogre 99.9% of the time, and not for the 0.1% of the time she actually behaved like a human being.
The big angle of that story is not the elitist “rules for thee and not for me” attitude, although that is pretty epic.
No, the big angle is that this 80 year old near-corpse who is directly in the most vulnerable population for dying from Covid-19 and who spends every day hectoring the American people because she thinks it plays to her political advantage is actually not the least bit concerned about catching Covid-19 or social distancing or any of it…. particularly after all of the feigned outrage over the RNC convention where people sat every other chair outside in the wind.
That’s the story here….. she’s not even honest about what she personally perceives the threat level to be.
And the idea of catching this virus outside has never been proven or established.
Nothing in fact about this virus has. It’s all ‘FEELZ’.
Like any other virus.
I’m A Giant Pussy
I risk being squashed to marmalade by a runaway pickup truck, which is not that bad, as unplanned departures go. COVID-19 is reportedly much more horrible.
I’d rather risk a cold.
That’s the best long-form satire I’ve read in a while. He perfectly encapsulates the pants-shitting morons and their overreaction to this whole thing.
I can’t wait for his next piece.
If only it were satire.
The funny part is he cannot even see how terrible his risk comparisons really are…
What in the actual fcuk??? This isn’t Ebola or the Plague. I imagined there are people out there like this but it’s bizarre to read the depths of their delusional fear.
Among the goofball stupid, there is the notion that dying from pneumonia is worse than dying from getting hit by a truck. I suppose he thinks the truck is instant – but you could lay around with gangrenous crushed pelvic bones and liver failure and a collapsed lung, lingering in unending pain for weeks or even months.
Given a choice… catching covid or getting hit by a runaway truck? Yeah, I’m gonna take covid. That has a 99% chance of survival. Probably over 90% chance of no lasting injury.
I couldn’t say the same about the runaway truck.
Yup. People actually believe this. They don’t think, but boy howdy do they ever believe…
That weakness is now a virtue, and strength is despised, is the most infuriating thing to me. I keep wondering how far things have to go before the strong have had enough.
I recently read the screw tape letters. The one lament From the demons was that cowardice couldn’t be made into a virtue. You just needed to wait until 2020 Mr. Screwtape.
Cowardice is an accurate description of this guy’s behavior, and it needs to be used more often.
My mom didn’t tolerate any complaining while raising my brother and me. We moved to a new neighborhood once and my brother was getting picked on, came home crying. My mom told him to go fight the bully and locked him out of the house until he did. I’ve got several such stories. How was that dude raised that he thinks it’s acceptable to broadcast that he’s still a whining child?
The publication is called ‘Think’.
I don’t think he did.
Fucken pussy for real.
JFC.
“I am now going to spend two weeks taking my temperature and furtively smelling things.”
This guy is fricken nuts.
He has other mental issues.
He lives in NY. I guess that explains why Cuomo does what he does. His constituents seems to be functionally retarded weaklings.
New York Limp.
save some chicks for the rest of us bro.
Got my ticket for Imax Tenet tomorrow (first IMAX flick in a few years and definitely my first Nolan IMAX flick). Gonna hit up Park Lane Tavern for brunch first (unfortunately the theater isn’t the one across the parking lot from the pub so I won’t be partaking quite as heavily as I prefer pre-movie).
Having seen, and assisted, a guy hit by a truck (well, a van, twice – the guy flipped a U to try and finish the job), I’m picking the Kung Flu, every time. And like the Kung Flu, that guy survived.
“COVID-19 helped her realize her white privilege”
I swear. This virus.
Covid and narcissism on full display.
I had it bad I tell ya. BAD!
Anyone notice The Rock jumping on the pseudo-science that are masks and mixing up causality and correlation?
‘I had a party. People came over. We all got Covid. Therefore, wear the masks!’
It’s beyond another level of stupid.
His logic is….
/dons sunglasses….
Rock solid.
“We all got Covid.”
So you all got immunities now? Immunities are bad, mmkay? WTF?
I’ve got a tiger-repellent rock to sell her.
That’s not mixing up causality and correlation…
That’s mixing up “don’t have a party when the covid is rampant” with “wear a mask while you are running in your suburban neighborhood”.
I thought Rock said they all tested positive and he and the missus got the CV? No?
Today’s chive replacement link is OH POLLY 4K UNCUT / 2020 Swimwear Bikini Collection / Miami Swim Week 2019 featuring our old friend Demi Rose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2ZE-kf5p2c
I am partial to 6:10 / 10:10
Hiya Sloopy!
With the NFL being supreme dickheads, it would be really smart business for the Big 10 to play. But I’m doubtful.
Conspiracy theories notwithstanding, I’m fine with the fucker getting clipped. What took so long?
No vaccine for me, thanks. I’ll gladly donate my dose to the brave heroes on the front lines.
I dig Lonesome George. A buddy once met him at an airport bar and said he was a really nice dude, outgoing and funny. My buddy refrained (barely) from ordering this.
Have a great weekend, peeps!
https://medium.com/@PhillipStutts/sports-has-a-problem-being-woke-aint-helping-85382803176c
Celebrities have so much money, they’re bored and lose their sense of purpose. The more profound ones wonder if they deserve it at all. It’s part of human nature to want to be part of something bigger than them or to want to face adversity. How they’re acting is exactly because they’re privileged and their narcissism won’t allow them to keep a healthy perspective. Latching on to BLM or any other pseudo-revolutionary group can only happen to a class of people who are ignorant and bored
I want to give the media the benefit of the doubt here, really I do. So I’ll say there’s at least a chance that some of them didn’t realize what they were doing with the COVID panic. But we’ve now managed to needlessly terrorize our entire population and it looks like it could be a long time before we put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Mass media is a brutally competitive business – you can’t sell advertising without lots of eyeballs glued to you. So you better report shit that will keep people’s attention. That isn’t a business model even remotely related to informing the public.
Social media is even worse – a billion attention whores with insatiable appetites.
You wonder why we’re fucked?
Part of the problem is that the social media companies let people take the role of informing the public.
it doesn’t matter if you give them the benefit of the doubt at best they are dangerous retarded chimps because people listen to them, at best.
Guessing because that’s the government’s money – and they could take it back, even, any time they wanted.
Demi Lovato credits Black women for her career, says COVID-19 helped her realize her white privilege
Who?
Whatever. Show us your tits.
I’ll pass. Not my type at all.
I know your type.
https://i.redd.it/z5rdl24uunk51.jpg
Greek ballerinas, got it…
Greeks, Italians, Spanish, Israelis…
I’m a sucker for the Mediterranean type.
See? Something we can all agree upon! Leggy Brunettes with a dancing physique. I always liked you Scruff but now you have risen in my esteem.
She should give all of her money to Beyonce to make up for it.
Happy Oaks Day!
Weird time of year and weather Churchill Downs dreams of for Derby weekend but never gets in May.
I am in Louisville right now, yesterday was my parents 60th anniversary, so came to see them.
The Cink/ Watson playoff was hard for me. Watson was my all time favorite golfer but Cink is a GT guy. No lose situation really, but I wanted Tom to pull off an Open miracle.
I always liked Tom. Just a no-nonsense guy that was really good at his craft.
WRT to the dirtbag 9/11 lawyer:
Fort Myers roofer arrested for using company’s coronavirus relief funds to buy 40-foot boat
I wonder if they’ll be any scrutiny at the people that wrote him the check ?
what is with Americans and boats?
I’m saving for a helicopter.
It’s an American status symbol for some reason. Miami Vice?
Rent the boat. Buy the linen jacket and pants.
Don’t forget the Bren-Ten! The coolest gun any TV character ever fielded.
It is the most tactical pistol.
What kind of retarded question is that? Boats are awesome. I’ll have ours out this weekend. The jet skis too.
I don’t even have a boat driving license
Waterskiing is the shizzle.
what is with Americans and boats?
It’s a cultural thing. It would be like us asking “what’s with Europeans and living mostly in cramped apartments/houses without lawns while having no garage space and relying mostly on the government to provide for their personal transportation”.
“whilst”
I live in Fort Myers. Round here large bodies of water are never more than a few miles away. Lots of people have boats, but 40-footers are few and far between. That’s a real offshore boat–maybe he wanted to start going to the keys on weekends.
It’s interesting that the offspring of Crowther Roofing (a well-known company here) felt the need to set up his own firm in the same business. Created in 2015 according to state records, probably after his relatives refused to let Fredo take over and ruin the family business.
Hey everyone dumps their wealth into stupid things. Europe has Aristocrats and the modern equivalent in Brussels, America buys boats. They both take all your money, deliver much less fun than you expect, and leave you sore and sick afterwards, but at least boats don’t ask for subservience.
Fort Myers, Florida.
Lots of water around.
In fact, the shots came from two other officers who moments earlier fired at a stolen Jaguar that O’Neal was driving as he tried to elude police who had attempted to pull the vehicle over.
I see…
Mayor Boss Hogsett want to go “full footloose” on you if you let people dance!
Sounds like they got a visit from some Dem enforcers who said something along the lines of “Nice family/business you got here, be a shame if something happened to it”.
Racist condemns BLM and peaceful protesters.
“We the leaders of Conservative Clergy of Color have watched with sadness and frustration as the country we love has been torn apart by violence and looting,” the letter begins. “This civil terror, perpetrated and lead by the Black Lives Matter movement, has turned American against American and possibly set race relations back decades.”
“Black Lives Matter, a movement run by anti-Christian, self-proclaimed Marxists, hijacked legitimate calls for police reform and turned it to their own ends,” the letter explains. “This is not a group interested in constructive change; through their vicious campaign to defund police and silence anyone who disagrees with them, they have destroyed livelihoods and gotten innocent children killed. It is antithetical to the nonviolence that Dr. King and the Civil Rights movement stood for.”
Oh, wait. Scratch that. Reverse it.
“innocent children killed”
True, true but what are the dead innocent adults, chopped liver?
Well, if you’ve got some fava beans and a nice Chianti…
Legit LOL.
Can this consarned year be over already?!
Generally a bad idea to get in a cat fight, with a very large cat.
“If you look at my life, everything that I have — money, success, a roof over my head — it’s because of the inspiration those Black women gave me,” she wrote, citing influence from soulful singers like Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin.
Interesting way to say you shoplifted their albums.
Debbie Gibson haz a sad.
Psychos.
Today’s inequities, psychologists say, are deeply rooted in our past, and the status quo is no longer acceptable. “Every institution in America is born from the blood of white supremacist ideology and capitalism—and that’s the disease,” says Theopia Jackson, PhD, president of the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi).
Across the country, there’s talk about what it would take to achieve true systemic change. Psychological research, treatment and leadership can and should be a key part of the solution. But that requires taking a hard look at how the field has overlooked—and even perpetuated—racial injustice in the past, psychologists say.
APA is addressing the issue on three levels: by broadly communicating psychological science on bias and racism, including through media interviews, blogs and podcasts; by developing actionable recommendations through an APA Presidential Task Force related to racial disparities in policing and police-citizen encounters, particularly related to the Black community; and by working to dismantle institutional racism over the long term, including within APA and the field of psychology.
Psychologists have a role as activists in their own local communities as well. They can make their voices heard by contacting their lawmakers, volunteering for a cause or candidate, speaking up on social media and more.
Another institution captured.
This stuff is going to create either a giant backlash or destruction of the country. Either case isn’t good.
Herein lies the problem I have with people who are not concerned with the massive number of grievance mongers that American universities are churning out.
They’re generally highly motivated to achieve some level of authority and power over others and gravitate to those positions where they can influence policy whether by hook or by crook.
Everything we do is regulated, and they seek to control those regulations. There’s no other positions that they are suited for. It’s Ayn Rand’s prophecy come to fruition.
“Every institution in America is born from the blood of white supremacist ideology and capitalism—and that’s the disease,” – cant argue with SCIENCE
Yeah, show me the numbers and analyses that back up this assertion and trim the emotional hyperbole or get fucked.
In fairness to Psychologists based on experience they all suffer from some kind of mental instability which they treat by finding people who suffer from worse problems so they can tell themselves theres actually nothing wrong with them.
Do these people have the faintest clue how easy the switch from:
Every institution in America is rooted in white supremacy
White Supremacy is evil
:: America is evil
:: America should be destroyed
to
Every institution in America is rooted in white supremacy
America is the most successful nation in human history
:: White supremacy is good
:: We should restrict the rights of those who are not white
is?
“Across the country, there’s talk about what it would take to achieve true systemic change. Psychological research, treatment and leadership can and should be a key part of the solution.”
So we’re to the Clockwork Orange phase of this whole thing now.
Yesterday, I was returning from the optometrist and I saw a woman riding a scooter (motorcycle, not the other kind). She had open-toe shoes, shorts, a short sleeve t-shirt, no helmet, and…a surgical mask on.
Talk about a massive misjudment of risk.
We know who is to blame
In the wake of a deadly protest-related shooting in downtown Portland last weekend and nearly 100 straight days of frequently chaotic protests, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown called for an end to the violence.
“The violence must stop,” Brown wrote in the Thursday statement. “There is no place for white supremacy or vigilantism in Oregon. All who perpetrate violent crimes must be held equally accountable.”
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Brown’s condemnation of violence was also signed by almost two-dozen state and local politicians, a host of organizations including the local NAACP chapter, and the city’s professional sports teams: the Trailblazers NBA team, the Timbers soccer team and the Thorns women’s soccer squad.
All those white supremacists out there running amok on the streets of Portland, night after night, burning and pillaging, raping innocent schoolgirls, lynching the black folk and Chinamen, destroying the very foundation of democracy.
I weep for America.
Check your weeping privilege. Only cishet white men have the luxury of weeping.
There is no place for white supremacy or vigilantism in Oregon
Then it’s a damned good thing there isn’t any. Violent leftists mobs on the other hand…
It’s amazing, they try to burn down his apartment complex with him in it and he still wants to suck them off. I’d say people aren’t stupid enough to buy it but I’m not so sure anymore.
On the Big 10 playing football story, I heard a teaser for a story on the radio and I have not heard the actual story.
The guy said that there was a “study” out of Penn State that said that 30 to 35% of college athletes who get Covid-19 develop myocarditis.
This sounds… completely made up.
But I am only operating on background knowledge and the single sentence quoted above.
Did anyone get the scoop? Who can ELI55
Ok, I googled.
CNN came up, so it is full of anti-Trump spin, which is pretty amazing for a story that does not include Trump in any way.
But here’s the quote:
So…. one doctor was talking out of his ass and the media picked it up and said that Penn State did a study of college athletes who had covid and were asymptomatic yet one in three had serious heart disease as a result.
You go, media!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/03/health/penn-state-big-10-myocarditis-covid-spt-trnd/index.html
Maybe no one has ever really done a study of college athletes before looking for serious heart disease because…college athletes are assumed to have good cardiovascular health?
Or maybe extreme training regimens place excessive stress on the heart? Or maybe performance-enhancing drugs have a negative health effect?
Maybe I’m talking out of my ass?
It’s just lies. But it is a good point we are now actively looking at a problem we wouldn’t normally and we probably have no idea how wide spread this is among the gen pop, but they don’t actually care about that it’s all about manufacturing reasons to point to for justifying keeping their power and keeping the economy bogged down.
Here is CNN stoking the irrational fears, with “Dr.” Gupta telling us just how frightening it is:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/09/03/big-ten-doctor-covid-19-heart-inflammation-lead-vpx.cnn
I find this stuff infuriating. I was a grad student in molecular biology nearly 30 years ago. I have not worked in any related field in decades. And yet I am more of an expert than the MDs they keep putting on network news. (I am also thinking specifically of NBC and the Today show, who put on MDs to push random snake oil all the time)
There should be almost zero cases where the medical expert for a huge national news source like CNN who holds a medical degree appears on the air and has less expertise than I do. Yet this is extremely common.
I blame CNN for this one. But I also blame the medical profession for not having higher standards and not policing their own.
They certainly do a good job of limiting the supply of newly minted MDs so that salaries are kept nice and high. You’d think they would be able to handle Dr. Oz going on TV and explaining that aligning your energy will cure psoriasis.
I read that condition can happen with any virus.
Another health scare.
It’s at epidemic levels now.
I predict this one goes away.
you can develop it with a bad cold.
It was completely fabricated.
https://twitter.com/FootballScoop/status/1301647114565550088
“I reached out to Dr. Sebastianelli earlier today letting him know every Big Ten football staff I had heard from said his information could not be accurate.
This afternoon he released a stmt saying his info was wrong.
Incredible.”
Remember how Twitter deletes “misinformation”. I member.
Heh…
We did random drawing at work for the Kentucky Derby. Figures that the only one here who cares about liberty would get “tiz the law,” on the plus side, he is the favorite and I get a $20 gift card if he wins.
I get a $20 gift card if he wins- you can buy a rice cooker and have some left for some rice
“During his discussion with board members, (Sebastianelli) recalled initial preliminary data that had been verbally shared by a colleague on a forthcoming study, which unbeknownst to him at the time had been published at a lower rate,” said Scott Gilbert, a spokesman for the school’s health department said.
SCIENCE!
China has plans to rewrite the Quran and the Bible to reflect Communist and social values
https://twitter.com/KhaledBeydoun/status/1301845574954741760
I though one of the leaders of one of the -stan countries already rewrote the Quran
Pretty sure they’ve already edited the Bible worse than Jefferson’s edition.
I was on my daily constitutional yesterday and I passed a woman on the sidewalk going the opposite direction. As she passed me, she held her mask to her face & moved to the side.
I hate what we’ve become.
My buddy went to the dominican republic and is scared to post pictures on social media because of the possible blowback. We truly are a broken society.
Yeah, I have concerns about sharing my trip to SD where the Karens can see it
The good news is that social media gets used less because of it.
My buddy went to the dominican republic and is scared to post pictures on social media because of the possible blowback. We truly are a broken society.
Not sure what that has to do with Covid, but posting pics of your Dominican romps is never a good idea
I was running the other day on a walk/bike path. As I headed north a maskless woman came southbound on the sidewalk. Already, maybe four feet apart, she jumped to the side shoving her face into her t-shirt.
Yes fool. That ‘Dominican Republic’ cotton t-shirt is going to stop the virus. They act like a virus jumps around like fleas.
I too hate what we’ve become.
It’s infuriating,
And at this point I completely reject people are ‘worried’. It’s more than just worry. it’s a full blown psychosis of fear.
I’ve seen maybe 4-5 people out mountain biking wearing masks – I have no idea
Everyone in my neighborhood does the cross the street thing. We are a walking the dog sort of neighborhood, and everyone crosses the street when they have the dog, so it kinda just developed, I suppose.
Except the gay couples. They always stop and talk.
Everyone else just says Hi crossing the street.
That’s the one that doesn’t bother me, I find dogs to be annoying.
I get that every day. Although it is slightly less prevalent than it was three months ago.
Uh, maybe it wasn’t the covid fears?
I mean… we have been isolated for a while.. have you checked your hygiene lately?
just sayin’…..
There are still people up here shying away when you hold the door for them as a courtesy. 169 cases, 0 deaths. I want to scream at the sky and collapse in a coughing fit.
I get that, quite literally, every single day. People go into the street to avoid me and my maskless family outdoors. I’ve had three different women put their shirts over their mouths as they passed me. Yesterday three hot 20 something women walked by and each pulled up their bandit bandanas as they passed my maskless visage. When I go out with the three kids I am Moses parting the Red Sea of paranoid ejits.
You should get a robe and staff and have someone film you.
If my city is anything to go by, that behavior will go away fairly quickly when this thing dies down despite the tyrannical scaremongering.
that behavior will go away fairly quickly when this thing dies down
It already has nearly everywhere.
Oh please god please. I’m starting to wonder if it is ever going to go away. I think we have had under 80 deaths from this thing in SF the whole time and yet everyone is going around looking like a train robber in a B movie.
That would be kind of epic Scruffy. I have to find the humor in this shit so I don’t lose my marbles.
I can only surmise that
(a) we had 20,000 deaths* and we’re fucking over it all now
(b) we peaked early enough to avoid the more sinister tyranny that’s become evident in the last couple months
*take that number with a few grains of salt
So It’s time for a brake change on the F150. Rotors seem warped, so I’m going to do those too. My question, why did Ford make the front rotor and wheel hub an assembly on the RWD? Instead of a $30 rotor on each side, I have to buy the whole assembly for $200. WTF Ford? Also, not I have to get the axle nuts off. I’m guessing they are seized. I don’t know where half my tools are thanks to moving. So, now I have to find my breaker bar, probably a cheater bar too. This should be a simple brake change and Ford pulled a GM move and made it a pain in the ass.
Instead of a $30 rotor on each side, I have to buy the whole assembly for $200. – you answered your question it seems
Because they’re Ford.
If you’re going to have to replace the entire thing, try the Powerstop Z36 replacement kits.
Ford did a great job on the Mondeo/Contour. They designed it to be really easy for mechanics to do the oil change. The oil filter is right by the wheel well, really easy to get to if you have it on a lift or over a pit. Nice and low too, so the oil doesn’t splash anywhere.
But if you are changing it in your own garage……
You cannot remove the filter without placing your head directly under the filter. There’s just no way to get to it and unscrew it from the top, and from the bottom if it isn’t on a lift, there’s no way to reach it without a major chunk of your body being directly under the filter. Genius!
So when I got the wife a Contour, that’s when I started paying for oil changes for the first time.
I feel that. Tacoma needs new pads and rotors and somehow it will turn into a nightmare, to be sure.
Also, if you do not have a can of PB Blaster get one. A sailor put me onto the stuff years ago. Soak said nuts or whatever stuck fastener in the stuff for five minutes and have at it. It smells absolutely awful but is magical in its ability to get corroded fasteners off.
My ’99 F150 says “Howdy”. Had a lot of expensive repairs, due to rust. Ford repair shop loves me, the customer assistance rep knows my voice on the phone and we’re ol’ buds now but still cheaper than monthly payments. Engine/tranny still in great condition.
LP back at retardation even after it had to delete yesterday’s awful tweet.
Yes, of course
@realDonaldTrump
said it. Of course he’ll deny it.
After the past 4 years, it shouldn’t be shocking to anyone – this is what the GOP has become. #TrumpHatesOurMilitary
https://twitter.com/LPNational/status/1301860547634266113
I thought twitter deleted disinformation….
To be fair, they did boot Sloopy.
And me.
#TrumpHatesOurMilitary
He literally fellates it at every opportunity…
This is 100% due to a poll that came out a week or two ago saying that Trump’s military support was sagging a bit. Whether this story was made up whole cloth or whether it was sitting in wait for the right time, I dunno.
They really are stupid, his actions point to an opposite belief on his part but they take some unsubstantiated horseshit and run with it like it’s gospel. I’d say LP delenda est but they’re managing that themselves.
I just want to tell the LP “Dems don’t want to sleep with you, bro”
That’s what’s so sad, they’re bending over backwards and casting their supposed principals to the wind to appeal to leftists and Never Trumpers who will never even consider a vote for them. It’s just so pathetic.
The LP is like the other two Plastics in Mean Girls.
They keep trying to make fetch happen.
Donald Trump has exposed these people for what they truly are. City dwelling pot smokers who mostly understand the dangers of communism but lack the moral courage to say anything get excommunicated from their leftist social circle.
The LP is a failure. Again.
It is pretty funny, though, that they deleted that tweet, but still went after Rand:
https://twitter.com/LPNational/status/1301517232934129665
The fuck?
What the people on that thread are reading into that statement is absolutely ridiculous.
2020 be wildin’
https://twitter.com/bendellwerry/status/1301341166705815555
That’s funny.
My question, why did Ford make the front rotor and wheel hub an assembly on the RWD? Instead of a $30 rotor on each side, I have to buy the whole assembly for $200. WTF Ford?
My guess is it’s all about time, and the flat rate book. At the dealership service department, the “mechanic” zings off the big nut, does a half-assed job of wiping away the brake dust and slams the new assembly on. On to the next job. Ford makes the money on the parts and the labor.
There was a joke where a mechanic gets to haven and asks why did I die? Old age is the answer. But I am 35! Says the mechanic. Oh we based our calculation on number of hours billed.
So my colleague that’s getting divorced has women clamoring out of the woodwork to date him. With no effort whatsoever on his part. Like, 4-5 chicks since COVID Times, at least.
I’m jealous AF. Not because I want to date him, but because how does one do that? Fuckin-a.
I couldn’t say. Maybe he is an alpha in red pill speak
is it just a product of people wanting to get laid because they haven’t in 6 months? I’ve noticed a sizable increase in my pool of choices directly because of that where I am.
basically from went from 0 to 1
Maybe? BUT WHERE’S MY SLICE, THEN?????
Triple six? 6 foot, 6 figures, 6 inches.
Can’t speak to #3, but he’s about five-tenish and in the 6-figure range (which is not that much for DC). He’s no doubt attractive, but I think I’m not so bad myself. I just can’t seem to put together something that leads to naked times, whether I put in effort or not. I suppose wanting to know his secret is moot, since he’s a middle-aged dude, and I’m a middle-aged woman. One of those things is in high demand consistently.
Sorry to hear that. I wish I had some advice but people baffle me. I feel like nice people should be the most sought after for mates but it doesn’t appear to be that way.
People who signal they can produce the healthiest offspring are the most sought after mates, same as it’s always been. IE, “hot” people. Short of that, rich ones. Now they don’t actually want the rich ones as mates, just the resources that come with the post-mating process.
I don’t mean to sound “captain red pill,” and I’m not. Those are some _seriously_ toxic folks generally. But not everything they say is wrong. Pretending that we aren’t somewhat driven by base instincts doesn’t give us much of a chance of controlling said instincts and picking and choosing when we follow them or hold them back.
I have no interest in reproduction so this might be where I’m out of step with humanity.
Having an interest in reproduction and having an interest in the process of reproduction are, from an evolutionary standpoint, identical.
If middle-aged men are in high demand, it’s apparently not where I’m at.
When my mom died, my 72-year-old dad also dated without any effort on his part (other than just socializing as normal). There were women lined up even before she died, when she was sick.
That I’ve noticed. But that’s older. And I still think it’s down to specific men and not a generalized thing.
There are studies showing that women tend to favor a man who is already in a long-term relationship (since it demonstrates that he’s capable of that and doesn’t just bounce around) so maybe that’s the big attraction.
*off to goodwill to pick up a cheap $10 wedding band for tonight’s festivities*
This may be dead-thread, but I’ll just ask here anyway. I’ve heard this triple-six thing before, but isn’t it a joke (literally)? Like the first 2 obviously seem like they’d get positive check-marks, but the third one is, um, obviously only like 0.75 of “normal”?
These are bare minimum numbers. Obviously 6’2” is better than 6’0” and seven figures is better than six.
We’re all going to die.
Ahead of a slew of new missions to Earth’s natural satellite, researchers have detected a bizarre and unexpected anomaly on the lunar surface: the airless, liquid water-free Moon is rusting.
This perplexing discovery has its roots in 2008 when the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 orbiter surveyed the Moon’s surface and discovered water ice.
It wasn’t until recently that Shuai Li of the University of Hawaii and his fellow researchers discovered signatures in the data matching the iron oxide, hematite, a form of rust that normally requires the presence of both oxygen and water.
“It’s very puzzling,” Li said. “The Moon is a terrible environment for hematite to form in.”
I just assume Trump is having painted to look like him.
Doesn’t mean that it has to originate from there – moon gets hundreds of meteorite impacts every year, not counting ancient comets (and if it split off earth, etc).
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8697221/Demi-Rose-showcases-phenomenal-figure-sizzling-string-bikini.html
Nope. Sutton Coldfield-born beauty.
It’s tough enough having one Demi Rose fanboi here, but … two?
Ok….here’s a really weird question…probably just me.
If I make coffee at work (as I do daily) – I use 2x k-cups with 10oz pours to fill up my cup – no digestive issues whatsoever. Normally chasing an Atkins shake or something.
If I buy coffee at sheetz or starbucks or anywhere else…no issues whatsoever. Normally not eating at the same time.
If I make a pot at home – often but not always drinking on an empty stomach – by the end of my first 20oz cup – I start getting distinct bowel urges (a good way to clean out the pipes if I’ve been feeling constipated, etc – as today). It’s not my water since I don’t have it happen with tea, etc using the same coffee pot – and it’s happened regardless of location.
Not making it very strong either by my standards – I honestly have no idea why it seems to do this every time.
Maybe home coffee brand + how you’re making it at home has just enough additional caffeine to send your gut into overdrive
Makes sense….except that I don’t recall having these issues when I used to make it extra strong by the pot at my last reserve unit.
(currently a dunkin donuts coffee mix – may be that brand – may try with HT next weekend). (taking a 4 day this week).
You may be brewing at a lower temperature. High temps breakdown caffeine and Starbucks k cups brew way too high temps.
I made a perfect cup of coffee this morning. Fresh grind, this many beans, that temperature, some sugar, some milk.
And yet there is every chance that tomorrow’s cup will taste like crap. But I really am too lazy to measure shit out.
Did you end up buying the aeropress?
I did but I find myself using this most often now.
Burr grinder and aeropress.
Boom.
Nice. I have the chemex and I find it hard to clean. That looks lower maintenance.
I just hauled my (burr) grinder out of storage a couple weeks ago and started using it again. I dunno why I stopped.
As for the Aeropress… hm. I like it, but in all honesty it doesn’t significantly outperform the pour-over, at least not enough to justify my lazy ass fiddling with the thing every day.
I use the upside down method and it couldn’t be simpler.
Also, it travels beautifully. Nice to have real coffee instead of the shit hotel stuff.
What the Florida Man said. Almost any coffee you buy outside the home is going to have most of the sweet sweet caffeine boiled out of it.
It’s how they get away with using shitty beans.
I started using my Areopress at work after the Kerourig died. My work coffee is so much better, cheaper, and takes up less space. The plus is that no one wants to use my Press, but they were in and out using the Kcup machine.
I really like the relatively inexpensive and tasty Peets coffee they sell at Target. Major Dickason’s Blend is one of my favorites.
I use a drip coffee maker with pre-ground in a can Hills Bros. Mild. I drink it black. I’m glad I like cheap coffee and one of the easiest brewing methods in the world. I drink a pot a day and fancy coffee would be expensive and a lot of work.
I also like cheap beer.
I’m happy that my consumption of both items has gone way down over the years – enough that I can justify splurging now and then.
Probably the comfort of your own home, no stressors, etc that bring about the movement.
It probably is the caffeine, as you suspect… not some contaminant or biological agent.
It is probably down to the concentration in the grounds you are using. K-cups are notoriously weak, so 2×10 in a k-cup is not the same as 20 oz in a pot. K-cups are 6 oz, probably… so you are comparing 12 oz with 20.
Not sure why the Sheetz coffee doesn’t hit you the same way. It shouldn’t be too much different from your drip brew at home.
I do the same thing – double up the K cup or do a big cup… and it will semi-reliably send me on an urgent mission at about 10am.
Same coffee, or different coffee? Has the coffee at home been sitting around for a while?
Yeah, generally been sitting for a long while (but I’ve noticed the same issue over the past several years – obviously not the same coffee every time).
Initial caffeine thing probably makes sense in the big picture though.
Coffee degrades relatively quickly (especially if it’s already ground). Also, light roast coffees will have more caffeine then dark roast, the higher temps break down the caffeine during the roasting process.
I have no idea, but it’s nice that you feel comfortable enough to ask that question here.
we are family
Normal reaction, coffee is a diuretic, your stomach is empty in the morning. Does the same thing for me, coffee early, 20 oz, then breakfast, make a visit to the reading room.
Regularity is welcome for some things.
…or you are just getting old…
“Reading room” LOL
I was never a toilet reader til I got a smartphone
I became one the week I got married. Stopped being one when my vision started to fade, and there were no more paper reading materials because of smartphones.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8697301/Ana-Armas-proves-perfect-Bond-Girl-new-No-Time-Die-trailer.html
Like you wouldn’t fuck a robot.
Ana Armas is a complete and total smokeshow in my opinion.
I thought there was a de in there
This is america Pie in this country we have two names.
Plebs. If I ever get to there I expect to be called “Your Grace”
She hits my go button
Last Bond fembot was Shirley Manson, so… yes. Yes I would.
Trump doesn’t like the idea of seeing military veterans with their arms and legs blown off, and that’s a bad thing?
Maybe that’s why he’s reluctant to send them off to every shithole country where there is civil unrest.
Cue Lt. Dan telling Gump to let him die his glorious death.
Hey! the Canucks came back and tied the series with the Vegas Team by shellacking them 4-0. Backup Goalie stood on his head again. He’s stopped 91 of 92 shots in two games and the star defenseman broke the record for assists in the play-offs. That being said, piped in crowd noise still sucks balls but I know why they insisted. Have you ever heard hockey teams chirping from the bench? It would make the Trailer Park Boys blush.
I so want Vegas to go down in flames….I hate the Canucks but despise the Knights and their fans.
Even Bettman couldn’t gift them a Stanley Cup team with the 500 million and choice entry draft they graciously recieved.
Heh… the girlfriend decided to be a Golden Knights “fan” the first year they existed.
I doubt she’s even aware they’re in the playoffs this year.
Go UCF!
Have you ever heard hockey teams chirping from the bench?
Once or twice 😉
We are angels on the bench…now my god-fearing grandma in the stands is a different story.
FERDA!
I remember watching an old video in the 80s where they had refs and linesman miked up. Given that almost all NHL refs and linesman were at one time trying to be hockey players, the comments from the REFS to the players were frequently better chirps than anything the players said to each other. Plus, the Refs get the benefit of the last word. It was epic and fucking hilarious. Players swearing on their way to the box, the refs calling the guy a baby, or just telling him to STFU and get in the box – it was all 100% awesome.
It’s what I enjoy about my old man league. Most of the refs are pretty chill and just laugh as they point you to the box.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, the other guy did it…” while skating to the scorekeeper. Then leans in the window to shout at the scorekeeper: “FOURTEEN BLUE! Two Minutes – Tripping.” Makes tripping sign. Then turns to guy on my team: “Your table is ready, Monsieur.”
Nature: the most inhumane clown show
https://twitter.com/WeirdInspiroBot/status/1301811058688942081
basically from went from 0 to 1
Infinity per cent increase!
math is hard ?
coherent sentences are harder.
https://nypost.com/2020/09/01/ballsy-tourist-slammed-for-grabbing-tiger-testicles-for-selfie/
This person is insane.
If the tiger had minded even the slightest bit, the headlines would have been very different.
this.
That pussy grabs back.
That chick fucks.
*pussy
I stand corrected.
So desperate
South Dakota is one of the nation’s hot spots for COVID-19 infections. That didn’t stop another large-scale event from kicking off Thursday.
The rural South Dakota State Fair, which reported an attendance of 205,000 people last year, is set to run through Labor Day with more hand-washing stations, social distancing reminders and an encouragement — but not a requirement — for attendees to wear masks. It comes on the heels of the state’s two largest events: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the The Sioux Empire Fair.
In the weeks following those events, South Dakota has emerged as a virus hotbed, according to data analysis. State and national health experts say the rise in cases is likely fueled by a combination of factors, including school reopenings, small gatherings and major events.
Those larger events have been made possible by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s steadfast resistance to restrictive measures aimed at slowing the spread of the virus. She has discouraged schools from requiring masks, instead promoting hand-washing as the best way to prevent infections, and railed against an “elite class of so-called experts” whose opinions impact individuals’ liberties.
But as cases surge in the state, public health officials are grappling with the impact of the Sturgis rally, which gained national attention as one of the largest events to be held since the onset of the pandemic.
The event has so far been linked to one death. In South Dakota, 118 residents who attended the rally subsequently tested positive for COVID-19. Nationally, about 300 cases have been linked to the rally.
While that’s less than 1% of the more than 460,000 people who converged on Sturgis, Dr. Robert J. Kim-Farley said it’s likely “the tip of the iceberg.”
They’d rather see hundreds dead and thousands hospitalized than be exposed as the fearmongering quacks they are.
Yep. They’re grasping at this point because the Great Destructor has not appeared
They are waiting on the key-master to arrive but he is under strict quarentine rules. Government cannot even bring about the apocalypse right.
“While that’s less than 1% of the more than 460,000 people who converged on Sturgis, Dr. Robert J. Kim-Farley said it’s likely “the tip of the iceberg.”
Ya…okay. It has been how long since Sturgis ended and they are only going to use that snapshot in time as the point of infection? Those people that went immediately quarentined themselves and did nothing else or went anywhere since?
He’s actually insisting that this respiratory virus behaves differently than every other virus in history. Despite the 6+ months of data that shows that it behaves like every other respiratory virus.
The window on cases acquired at Sturgis closed last week.
You people are too stupid to understand the raw data, but trust us, it’s a hotbed!
Not according to the data mind you, but the analysis says so!
the national state of discourse by our elite class is beyond parody at this point. This article could literally be published verbatim in the onion or the Babylon Bee.
I’m surprised the reported infection rate has been so low. I would have expected tens of thousands to have Covid following Sturgis but with almost no one needing hospitalization.
My guess it’s a combination of a huge number of asymptomatic cases who didn’t bother getting tested and a huge proportion of attendees already had Covid, likely without realizing it, preventing reinfection.
Also the type of people who go to sturgis aren’t exactly the type to run out to get tested for a low grade fever and a cough that lasts a week.
Hell, it wouldn’t surprise me that the guy who died had something like stage 4 cancer as an underlying condition and just went for one last ride.
The DIRTY BIKERS REFUSE TO GET TESTED!!!
South Dakota is one of the nation’s hot spots for COVID-19 infections.
*checks the data*
Actually, they are. Kind of. A spike of new positive tests starting a week ago, and a pretty stout one on a cases per million rate (relative to other states).
Their fatality rate remains quite low, but it tends to lag.
Now
watch this drivegimme me another Worther’s Original.A seemingly confused Biden later contradicted his own advice by denying the prospect of defeat. The exchange(s) went like this:
BIDEN: “I really am optimistic. I promise you, win or lose, I’m gonna go down fighting.”
Then the prospect was broached again:
MODERATOR: “We’ll go down fighting with you.”
BIDEN: “We’re not gonna go down.”
MODERATOR: “We’re definitely not going down.”
That’s quite a crowd, lol. Maybe a dozen people there? Really packing them in.
I’m pretty sure Kamala goes down.
We’re withholding treatment, for
yourour own goodDozens of major hospitals across the U.S. are grappling with whether to ignore a federal decision allowing broader emergency use of blood plasma from recovered COVID patients to treat the disease in favor of dedicating their resources to a gold-standard clinical trial that could help settle the science for good.
As many as 45 hospitals from coast to coast have expressed interest in collaborating on a randomized, controlled clinical trial sponsored by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said principal investigator Dr. Todd Rice.
Officials at some hospitals said they are considering committing only to the clinical trial — and either avoiding or minimizing use of convalescent plasma through an emergency use authorization issued Aug. 23 by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
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Issuing the EUA puts the fate of clinical trials into “extreme jeopardy,” said Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at the New York University School of Medicine. With convalescent plasma in very short supply, it sets the stage for fights over access and makes sick patients less inclined to join a trial, where they might receive a placebo.
“If you have the EUA, it starts to damage the trials,” Caplan said.
Still, given that the FDA has authorized convalescent plasma for patients ill with COVID-19, hospitals that hesitate or refuse to provide it outside a trial are sure to face questions from families.
That creates “a very interesting and delicate ethics problem,” said Cohn.
“If you commit to the randomized controlled trial only, you’re committing to a long-term dedication to science,” she said. “The question is, is it ethically inappropriate not to provide a therapy that has been shown to be possibly beneficial?”
The holy rituals must be adhered to, or people will wonder what the High Priests actually do.
The object is to protect the institution, not provide care.
The way this whole thing has unfolded has me thinking my rasta pot smoking buddy in college who blamed big pharma for literally not curing cancer because their is no profit margin in it and thought we could cure everything if we all just smoked an ounce a day not only had a point but is more ethical and scientific than anything these clowns do.
The healthcare system has nothing to do with health. Type 2 diabetes is gonna cripple Medicare in a few years. It is simple to treat it with diet, but instead people are on meds for years, lopping off limbs, etc. See also statins and ACE inhibitors. It’s absurd.
There is zero incentive for the industry to change course.
My brother was a pharmacist. We worked at the same drug store for a while and during the slow periods – weekend nights generally – we’d talk about the healthcare industry. His understanding was this: “The medical profession isn’t interested curing patients, they are only interested in managing patients. You cure someone your is done and you have to find another patient – you manage someone and your job and income is steady. “
Maybe you need an adjustment. I’ve scheduled you for Monday afternoons, OK?
/chiropractor
A “professor of bioethics”. So, not a physician and apparently devoid of any knowledge of how clinical trials work. And he’s got a perverse understanding of ethics.
If a hospital chooses not to be involved in a clinical trial, it is almost always due to things like lack of capacity (available physicians, patients, etc.).
A “professor of bioethics”.
There are very few bioethics issue that don’t arise unless you first deny that patient’s have agency and should make decisions for themselves.
What about that guy with a lots of strong feelings about how ethical it is to fuck chickens, huh? Doin important work.
They are playing with lawsuit fire. It’s illegal to coerce participation in a clinical trial through the witholding of other treatments.
“Well, we can give you the good stuff under the Emergency Use Authorization, or we can enroll you in a trial where you have a 50% chance of getting the good stuff, and have to come back every few days for blood draws. Wanna do the trial?”
Posted about it a few times already, but since I just received and read issue #2, I highly recommend the “Shitposts” comic here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/StudioNJ?ref=search_shop_redirect
A bunch of them have been posted on twitter, but there are some new ones. Great stuff with a hefty dose of sugarfree level content as well.
(his other comics are really good too). These also make great gifts – home-printed but essentially laminated-quality covers with really high quality paper (and signed).
The last month has lead me to actually contemplate the possibility that Trump is smarter and far more rational than 98% of our leadership/expert caste. And my opinion of him has not changed an iota since 2016. God help us the insufferable boomercons might have been right.
I mean, it’s hard to imagine how a stupid person could get to Donald Trump’s position in life. He navigated the NYC real estate market, one of the most competitive and over-regulated in the country. Then he won an election with practically every institution working against him.
He may not be erudite, eloquent, or cosmopolitan, but he seems to have excellent instincts on how to succeed.
Contrast that with Obama, who I believe worked for one year in a private sector job, then spent the rest of his career in fields where being correct is not relevant to his continued employment. He has this veneer of intelligence, but he’s basically been shuttled to his current position by the Democrat Party establishment and probably owes a big chunk of his success to being black.
‘Scram! It’s A Setup!’ Screams Pelosi Running Out Of Salon To Getaway Car
New Tapes Show Salon Owner Luring In Unsuspecting Pelosi With Her Favorite Ice Cream
Good Lord they are inspired!
“Cheese It! It’s tha Cops!”
The way this whole thing has unfolded has me thinking my rasta pot smoking buddy in college who blamed big pharma for literally not curing cancer because their is no profit margin in it
“You can’t end the war on drugs, there’s too much money in it.”
“‘We know that by two years old,’ warned megabrain anti-racist guru Ibram X. Kendi the other day, ‘children are already consuming racist ideas.’ Sure, sure. If there’s a racist sitting on your corporate board, lurking around campus, or hatefully babbling in a pram somewhere, you better believe Kendi will sniff them out. Racism is Kendi’s thing, his groove, his métier. He was first catapulted to prominence when, in 2016, he became the youngest person to win the National Book Award for Nonfiction, for his surprise hit Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas. Next up was his 2019 memoir-manifesto How to Be an Antiracist (‘dogmatic’ and ‘brilliantly simple’ according to a wowed Guardian reviewer). That one has rarely left the Times bestseller list, with more than half a million copies in print by June this year.
Writing about racism is a big, solemn business in America, particularly in the Academy. What distinguishes Kendi from all the others in his field? Well, his yuuge idea, his Newtonian revelation, is that everything is either Racist or Antiracist. Ideas, actions, policies are either Racist or Antiracist. That’s it. No on-the-other-hands, no benign ambiguities, no novelistic murk, no neutrality, no confusions, no mistakes, no unintended consequences. Nothing is ‘not racist’. This includes children, toddlers, babies. They too are drafted into the Kendian project. Hence the existence of another one of his mega-sellers, the picturebook Antiracist Baby, written with illustrator Ashley Lukashevsky.”
https://spectator.us/antiracist-baby-ibram-x-kendi-racist/
So not the Bee? Fuck me, fuck us all and fuck every horse that we rode in on sideways. I’m non-plussed.
What did somebody say about flim-flam artists above…?
Kendi is a grade A piece of shit peddling cult indoctrination techniques.
He tries to get you to accept the idea that you’re racist by washing away the stigma associated with it, then he turns around uses that racist identification to nullify your thoughts and opinions.
So a black man has appropriated the concept of the Manicheans?
Systemic race hustling is at epidemic levels in this country.
It appears we are going to have visitors in Fredericksburg.
fun
Fridays are fun fun fun! https://youtu.be/kfVsfOSbJY0
Well that sucks
On the bright side, there are a lot of active and retired FBI living in the area. Might get interesting.
Yeah, they warned us about it on base a few days ago. Hopefully it’s quiet by tomorrow.
So they’re gonna riot in another swing state?
I’m starting to think that BLM wants Don-Don to win a second term…
Job security?
I think the DNC wants to lose. Fundraising will be much easier with Two Scoops at the helm.
Just like the LP and the RNC in 08 and 12.
Apparently Biden/DNC did have the “record” campaign fund-raising month of all time in Aug – although that doesn’t appear to be translating to anything yet.
Certainly looks that way.
I think they’ve realized that there are no viable candidates left after they fucked over Bernie and Tulsi. I think they’re just going through the motions with the presidential election, but they’ll use Trump’s victory as fodder for midterm races. They can even rile up their base with things like:
– “Oh no, Trump stole another election through ballot fraud! Vote for us and we’ll investigate and impeach him!”
– “The country was just so racist and sexist that they wouldn’t accept a black woman as VP! Vote for us and we’ll indoctrinate your kids some more!”
This occurred to me the other day, but I attributed it to buying time to regroup and up the ante.
Great. Just in time to visit my pops.
*stuffs armor, carbine, and extra medical gear into truck*
Joe Hiden farts on his audience while telling an obvious lie.
Which black guy?
The fact that you don’t know just proves the systemic racism that has permeated America throughout history.
This was Joe’s moment to enlighten me, now I’m a racist forever and I blame Biden.
On the idea of his speach (not his chocolate starfish mating call) I agree on the premise…we do not teach history.
The example he used was terrible.
I believe the correct terminology is that Biden did a Swalwell.
Joseph Swan wasn’t black.
Thus begins a very funny epic story:
It’s three hours of drama that beats anything on TV.
Read the whole thread.
We’re preppers now, honey!
That was awesome!
something something ignorance of the law…something something.
Well, I’m tapping out for now. Maybe see you guys on the Zoomer tonight. Depends on how stupid work gets over the weekend. I’m supposed to turn my keys over and I have no idea when. That’s some long weekend Labor Day fun.
https://www.startribune.com/questions-remain-about-attacks-reportedly-by-white-supremacists-during-george-floyd-riots/572312312/
So much tortured wordplay. Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.
“It’s almost like racism: when you’re experiencing biased behavior or racist behavior — there aren’t [always] things that indicate it, but you just know it.”
Give me a break.
Well Vegas bars will continue to remain closed partially. Countertop food service can continue which reaffirms that the virus is immediately eradicated upon the mere sight of food on a table or countertop.
The cognitive aspects of this virus are most puzzling – how does it know?
It’s a very considerate virus. After all, this is the same one that will abstain from infecting you if you’re protesting racism.
Or shopping in big box stores.
There’s still no talk of even removing the early last call hours here in Ohio, which is starting to piss me off.
https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1301663253425250304
Enthusiasm. This is what it looks like.
“93 percent of protests nonviolent. This is an important read from a sweeping report”
https://twitter.com/Sulliview/status/1301854344661393409
If only 7% of planes crashed, no one would fly.
We shut down the world for a virus with a sub 1% death rate.
And 93% of the people on the planet bought it
The people in the burned out neighborhoods should take comfort in this (maybe factual, maybe not) fact I suppose?
Kyle Rittenhouse shot less than 1% of the people protesting in Kenosha.
I have to wonder about the data on this.
What counts as a single instance of a protest?
What counts as a “peaceful” v “violent” protest?
“What counts as a “peaceful” v “violent” protest?”
This one’s easy –
“peaceful protest” – lefty-woke cause
“violent protest” – RIght-wing / un-woke cause
The proportion of interactions with the police that don’t end in violence is at least 93%.
Jeffrey Goldberg went on national television this morning and said that his sources for the Trump military cemetery story would have gone on the record, but they were afraid of getting a lot of angry tweets. This is seriously what he said. Tweets.
Please tell me that someone was close enough to slap him.
To be fair, the wrong tweet can make you unemployable now.
Senior military and government officials slamming Trump have zero worries about being unemployable, though.
Well, that certainly tell me that Jeffrey Goldberg self-edits to avoid angry tweets. Much brave.
Needs more study and whatnot but The Lancet is reporting the Russian vaccine to be safe and effective:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/lancet-rules-russian-covid-19-vaccine-safe-and-effective
Damn you Putin!!!
Lol.
If the Lancet told me the sun was out I would verify with a dozen other sources. They are stunningly corrupt.
Zero hedge and Russia. I’ll need to buy stock in a salt mine first.
I want to see the Isreali government study on it just to see ZH base heads explode
The Lancet also said that vaccines cause autism.
And they recently had to retract a bullshit Covid paper courtesy of Surgisphere. They are fucking clowns.
And in too local news…
Dude got forced out of his job for this: https://twitter.com/MOB514/status/1301307236032143363
Well thank god for some level of accountability! /s
If that’s racist then the word means nothing.
1. In this case, same meme with dude’s head Dodgson, he’s got a cushy pension, he felt invulnerable, he’s still getting paid.
2. That’s shit photoshop.
3. No, it’s not racism.
I’ve been watching the show Fortitude lately, and I have to say that the idea of living on an isolated Artic island hundreds of miles away is growing on me, even with the parasitic prehistoric wasps.
You don’t need to go that far.
https://www.privateislandsonline.com/
The company I used to work for has a facility on Svalbard. I asked whether they needed someone to sweep the floors and lock the doors at night up there.
Let me know if they have an opening grooming the Panzerbjorn.
I applied to contract positions in Alaska and Great Falls, MT – think I was qualified for the first if not the 2nd (but very trainable). Saw some good ones on Greenland, but they were a little too technical for me.
If I knew the first thing about satellite ground station maintenance, I would have seriously approached the company about transferring me.
It’s all in the manuals, you’ll be fine.
For a long time, my life goal was to live as alone as possible. I was looking at cheap plots of land and options for prefabricated cabins. I spent a lot of time researching the skills needed and watching YouTube videos of other people who live a detached rural existence.
The biggest obstacle was trying to figure out how to maintain some small source of income (for taxes and buying things I can’t produce myself) without having to hold a job and travel into the city regularly.
I still catch myself daydreaming about building a big wall around a few dozen acres, tending to crops and animals all day, and spending the rest of my time reading old philosophy and poetry books. Just forget about this damn crazy world and live out my life in peace.
Still an eventual goal of mine. Just determined that the unit I’m assigned to (reserve in my case, but mostly an active unit) will have more “work from home” positions in the future – since they realize that all the folks they need to hire (skills, exp) don’t want to live in the tidewater area – so as long as you have reasonable access to an airport to travel for inspections, etc it should be fine. Sounds like a perfect combo for me in a few years…we’ll see how well I integrate with this unit in the short term once I get my quals.
Got an audiobook download from Amazon, which can only go through Audible. Apparently Audible only lets you actually own the audio books you pay for if you use their app. Lame. when I go to work tonight I’ll play it through the web player and record it. This shit is fucking retar…stupid.
Jeffrey Goldberg went on national television this morning and said that his sources for the Trump military cemetery story would have gone on the record, but they were afraid of getting a lot of angry tweets. This is seriously what he said. Tweets.
Bravest of the brave. So honor. Much fortitude.
Thats some Iwo Jima shit right there. Someone give those sources a medal.
Thanks for the kick in the box, Facederp! 🙁
https://pasteboard.co/JpxwFm4.jpg
(this came up in my Facederp “Memories”. It’s the beginning of my planning my dream AvGeek trip that never happened and never will happen on account of this flight not existing anymore)
I lost Prague in April. Now I’m starting to wonder if I’ll ever get to go.
We’re booked for Turks in December. I’m glad I bought insurance.
I’ve decided that now would be the optimal time for Bader-Ginsburg to croak. Its the only garnish that our shit sandwich is lacking.
The fates owe us at least that much given what a shit show 2020 has been so far.
I’ve decided that now would be the optimal time for Bader-Ginsburg to croak. Its the only garnish that our shit sandwich is lacking.
The shit flinging howler monkeys would die of apoplexy.
Bring it on.
This is wonderful. The Secret Service just confirmed that there was some kind of altercation at a photo op when Biden groped a Secret Service agent’s girlfriend. Unfortunately, the records have been destroyed, but in saying the records were destroyed, they admitted there had been records of the incident.
Let me get this straight – an active Secret Service agent on the protective detail, *shoved* the sitting Vice President, and got off with a week’s suspension?
I’d be real careful with this one. It sounds like bait.
Was it Bring Your Girlfriend To Work Day?
Local news: 12-year-old boy suspended from school for five days for briefly flashing Zombie Hunter toy gun during online class; cops sent to home….
https://kdvr.com/news/problem-solvers/12-year-old-suspended-over-toy-gun-seen-in-virtual-class/
“Curtis Elliott told FOX31 the video shows his son sitting at home on his sofa when he momentarily picks up the toy gun on the right side of where he’s sitting and moves it to his left side, not realizing that in the process his teacher and fellow students saw him move the gun across the computer screen.”
………………………..
“The Elliotts said their son was traumatized by deputies telling the 12-year-old his behavior could’ve led to criminal charges and might in the future if he were to do something similar again.”
The number of “problems” in our society today that are entirely self-inflicted by escalating emotional responses grows daily.
Common sense is dead.
I’d do two things:
1. Pull the kid out of the district permanently
2. Lawyer up and sue the school.
These fucking totalitarian shits need some serious push back on their overreach.
I love Blue Oyster Cult, but I never really figured out the lyrics of this song until today when I heard a line I had never noticed before (for some reason I have a real problem puzzling out song lyrics–not the meanings, but the actual words–so I often just hum along with “dee-dee-blah-blah”). While I was listening I suddenly thought “is this song about the Ayatollah Khomeini?” I checked the actual written lyrics and found out it actually was. I had thought for years it was about some televangelist or other who had denounced BOC. Nope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-hyOnScZhw