Glibs party!
I am still worn out from the weekend. OMWC and SP’s hospitality is … formidable. Trying to fly home into the aftermath of a foot of snow didn’t help either. But the deep flaws of O’Hare Airport aside, we need some links for this here Monday afternoon. So, here they be:
- “I have evidence linking COVID to the Clintons…urk!”
- No worries – the UN is on the job now! (or since 2017 with no appreciable positive results).
- Oops.
Now discuss and debate amongst yerselves.
In the dark days of Biden, the world needs my Firsts now more than ever. I am here for you Glibertariat. My chosen ones. You may not be First like me, but I will lead you from your seconder lifestyles.
I’m not a follower.
Where’s Fist of Etiquette when you need him instead of this aspy incel?
I First fair and square. Fist of Etiquette is a coward. A yellow cheating coward.
None of your so-called firsts meet the standard requirements, as has been pointed out to you repeatedly.
But hey, you’ve been promoted to aspy incel, a rank you needed a boost to make.
I offer to lead you all to the First land and I am met with this jealousy and envy. I know how Jesus felt.
…wading the Rio Grande…
* sigh *
the before times
“An internal investigation has been launched into the Swiss army pharmacy’s purchases of masks”
They had holes in them.
That comment cuts like a knife.
Comments like that really grate on me.
C’mon man! Don’t try to turn this into some divisive parmesan issue.
Romano eunt domus!
[grabs db’s ear] Nominative? This is motion towards…
All the gouda ones are taken.
I find it rather cheesy.
I’m surprised it o-curd.
I’m rather fond, due to the comments.
BUT IF FEELS SO RIGHT.
Also Swiss Army masks can also be used as coffee filters, cocktail napkins, postal envelopes, and origami ducks.
The tweezers were missing.
Fake News! Everyone knows it is the toothpick that goes missing first.
Too late, I realized what an error I had committed in leaving that nice, fat, slow pitch hanging right over the plate.
*partially narrows gaze*
It was a target Zurich environment.
What a Bern.
Only for the Luzerners.
What the Zell?
Davos a close one, no?
Are you copping to a Swiss Miss?
I hope it’s a Swiss Miss with mini-marshmallows.
Q would be very disappointed if they weren’t at least D marshmallows.
*Sets fire to post, walks away*
I’m trying to think of something witty to say, but I canton.
It wasn’t exactly the Maginot Line.
Maginot all the people, living for today..
.
Maginot
allthe people, living for today…Works better now.
I am gonna stay neutral on this topic.
Monday Afternoon Links o’ Tiredness
I’m having a Starbucks Nitro Cold Brew to solve that problem.
Glibs party!
+1 Somalian libertarian paradise.
Roadz not necessary
The only thing I ever get at Starbucks is the Nitro Cold Brew. The canned version from the supermarket isn’t bad either.
It is like Guinness with caffeine instead of alcohol.
*lightbulb*
I can mix it with Guinness to have with my breakfast on the weekends.
There’s a brewery not far from me that makes a coffee stout. It’s fantastic.
One of the derelicts at a brewery I used to hang out at would always come in around eleven for breakfast and start his day with a Porter with a shot of espresso. I believe he called it a speedball.
Founders Breakfast Stout.
This was frickin’ delicious, but $32 for a 4 pack was steep (and a good deal).
Oh my. *chokes at price*
Went and looked, since it is no longer only available as a seasonal, It has dropped a lot in price.
Meijers says they have it for $18 a 4 pack.
I like KBS.
A research professor at Rutgers University who developed the first saliva test for the coronavirus has unexpectedly died, the college said.
New Jersey native Andrew Brooks, 51, passed away on Jan. 23, the university said in a statement, without elaborating.
Andrew Brooks did not kill himself.
I’m not saying it was a missing HTML tag…
“Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger has launched a new campaign to take the party back from the influence of members like Donald Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
‘The Republican Party has lost its way. If we are to lead again, we need to muster the courage to remember who we are,’ Kinzinger, 42, said in a video launching his Country 1st PAC.
‘Republicans must say enough is enough. It’s time to unplug the outrage machine, reject the politics of personality, and cast aside the conspiracy theories and the rage,’ the Illinois rep added.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9210335/Adam-Kinzinger-launches-campaign-GOP-Donald-Trump-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene.html
So get back to fundraising as a lame opposition party?
Controlled opposition today, controlled opposition tomorrow, controlled opposition forever!
I thought it was ‘loyal opposition party’.
Could these fuckwits be more pathetic?
It’s time to unplug the outrage machine, reject the politics of personality, and cast aside the conspiracy theories and the rage,’ the Illinois rep added.”
Democrats can go first.
So, who are you, exactly? Or rather who do you aspire to be?
Because every time the pre-Trump GOP was in power you effed it up and did nothing to advance freedom, nothing to reduce the size and scope of government, rolled over for the gun-grabbers, etc…
“The spiritual heir to John Anderson”
IOW, a Milquetoast like Mittens.
Correct.
“Uh, um, hold on a minute, I’m sure I can come up with sumthin…”
“I know – ABORTION, booga-booga”
shorter: “gimme that sweet NeverTrump money, Democrats!”
Myanmar’s military seized power on Monday in a coup against the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained along with other political leaders of in early morning raids.
I didn’t realize Trump fled to Myanmar.
It did not slow down this lady’s workout.
Earlier this week, an army spokesperson confirmedExternal link to Swiss news agency Tamedia that Viola Amherd, who heads the department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport, commissioned the internal audit department to look into the army’s procurement of essential medical goods during the Covid-19 pandemic.
That’s how you do it.
Why I Hate People: A Daily Reminder
Neighbor 1: Does anyone have a spare power supply for a Dell Laptop, my kid lost theirs (for their government school-issued laptop). [photo of ps connector]
Neighbor 2: How were you able to photograph the connector if the ps is missing?
Neighbor 3: What model laptop, exactly? Dell makes a lot of different models…
Neighbor 1: OMG, every time I post something on here asking for help someone posts a smartass comment. You people just wait around to do that…
Neighbor 4: You’re going to lose my spare, too, aren’t you?
They cost like $60
OMG, every time I post something on here asking for help someone posts a smartass comment. You people just wait around to do that…
Tonio lives in Glibistan.
I remember back in the ’90s I had bought a cheap car stereo at a garage sale, but there wasn’t a diagram on it telling what wires were which (I was about 98% sure I knew what all of them were).
No worries, I thought, I’ll go on this cool thing called Usenet using my connection to Memphis State’s computer lab. So I found a likely looking room and asked if anyone had a wiring diagram for the Krayco CAR-1000.
First response was some guy saying car thieves like me should be killed. Then another guy responded that I said I bought it at a garage sale and he should chill out.
Long flame war between those two about who should chill out and who should die in a fire.
More people began chiming in and taking sides. Eventually the big schism was between who thought the ACC was a better basketball conference than the Big 10.
Never did get an answer on that wiring diagram, but it did give me a taste for how dumb the internet could be.
“Dumb from inception!”
People are real assholes when they can be (semi-)anonymous and physically removed from the risk of being punched right in their fat mouths.
“Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory”
Ture, and it’s like death threats. Dudes in their mom’s basement issue “death threats” against almost anyone with a slightly controversial point of view. So when AOC or some washed up lefty comedian or some Trump rally attendee or some mom who wants her kids to go back to school says they are “getting death threats” believe them but don’t take it seriously.
So true, they probably had someone use the frequent internet dismissal “go die in a fire” and screamed “OMG! Death threat!”
Eventually the big schism was between who thought the ACC was a better basketball conference than the Big 10.
Please tell me somebody posted “You know who else thought . . . .”
I probably had quit by then. The other problem back then was Memphis State had a VAX and for some reason the key lock was always on, so all REPLIES CAME OUT LIKE THIS UNLESS YOU REALLY PAID ATTENTION.
So, STEVE SMITH or ZARDOZ was commenting on the board?
I doubt either of them did so bad on their SAT’s that they would have been forced to attend Memphis State. So clearly imposters.
How were you able to photograph the connector if the ps is missing?
Good question.
It turns out she has two children, thus two taxpayer-owned laptops.
Good answer.
Neighbor 5: You know, there is a very thin line between a smart ass and a dumb ass comment, right?
Well…bye.
Dozens of Republicans who served in former President George W. Bush’s administration are reportedly leaving the party, unhappy that fellow members are not disavowing former President Donald Trump after he claimed fraud cost him the 2020 election – a claim that ignited a violent riot at the U.S. Capitol last month. …
“The Republican Party as I knew it no longer exists. I’d call it the cult of Trump,” Jimmy Gurulé, who was Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence in the Bush administration, told the news agency.
“If it continues to be the party of Trump, many of us are not going back,” Rosario Marin, a former Treasurer of the U.S. under Bush, told Reuters. “Unless the Senate convicts him, and rids themselves of the Trump cancer, many of us will not be going back to vote for Republican leaders.”
Will the implosion of the Republican party leave room for the Democrats to likewise disintegrate as the decide they can take the risk of alienating one subfaction or another without losing control?
Good one.
The Democrats will absorb all those “Republicans” and they will enforce their usual lockstep conformance on them.
I liked the Democrats better when they were Will Rogers party.
The Republican party is not imploding. Trump in ’20 pulled as much support as Reagan in ’84. If any Republican can manage to be a better version of Trump, they will be winning landslides.
What were they doing in the party of Trump for the last four years?
If either party bothered to find out why so many people voted for Trump, and addressed those voters’ issues, they’d clean up next election.
Too logical.
You can’t get a man to understand what he’s paid not to. Or something like that.
Racism isn’t that hard to figure out, they just don’t want to address it.
Good to know that the DNC and their operatives in the media have convinced you that the only reason people voted for Trump was racism.
I don’t even own a TV.
Just in case anyone had any doubts about what an insufferable cunt The Hyperbole is, he went to the go-to line for all insufferable cunts.
I firsted?
You are first at being an insufferable cunt at Glibs. Notice that? It’s lowercase.
I hope you’re doing this in good humor fun, because if not, you’ll be chatting all day with Dumb John over at HnR.
Hype?
It’s all good.
Kthx. It’s often hard to tell.
The Democrats are quite open about addressing racism. They’ve even been promoting it lately.
Where have all the conservatives gone?
Long time passing…
When will they ever learn?
When. Will. They. Ever. Learn?
*urge to limpet-mine the Clearwater rising*
So what I’m hearing is that the next Libertarian Party convention to choose which GOP loser will head up the ticket will be quite crowded.
Not the Bee.
“Dozens of Republicans who served in former President George W. Bush’s administration are reportedly leaving the party” desperate to abase themselves enough to get back on the sweet, sweet, public money gravy train.
Imagine my surprise.
Voting rights activist and failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, a Norwegian lawmaker announced Monday. …
“Abrams’ work follows in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s footsteps in the fight for equality before the law and for civil rights,” said Haltbrekken. “Abrams’ efforts to complete King’s work are crucial if the United States of America shall succeed in its effort to create fraternity between all its peoples and a peaceful and just society.”
“We are also very impressed how she lead the defense to beat the only undefeated team in the Super Bowl.”
It isn’t that difficult to get nominated. Maybe a few Trump supporters should nominate him for his efforts to broker peace between Israel and a number of Arab countries? Of course, that wouldn’t be reported or, if it was, lampooned as another ridiculous move to rehab Badorangeman’s reputation.
Trump has been nominated more than once, since the Abraham Accords started rolling out.
I hope he gets one, so SugarFree can bring back The Hat and The Hair for a special Nobel Episode.
The Hat perched on Greta’s head, valiantly attempting to put another hole in it.
Yikes!
He’s been nominated at least twice.
But having Several ME nations recognize and normalize with Israel is just a “distraction” according to the hag in SF.
It could well be the biggest accomplishment of any president since Reagan, or even before, and the biggest step towards ME peace in DECADES, but Orange Man Bad.
Carter’s only foreign success was getting Begin and Sadat to the table.
I see ‘Nobel Peace Prize’ and I immediately think ‘Lying Shitheel’.
OFFS
Nope
Ford is the latest automaker to turn its vehicle operating systems over to Google. The Dearborn, Michigan-based company said it will use Google’s Android to power the infotainment systems in “millions” of its cars starting in 2023. That means Google’s voice-activated Assistant, Google Maps, and other automotive-approved Android apps will be available in Ford’s cars without requiring the use of an Android smartphone.
The deep integration of Android will allow drivers and passengers to use Google Assistant to change things like climate settings, and it will also enable over-the-air updates that can add new features or address some maintenance issues, according to Ford. But iPhone people, don’t despair: Ford’s system will still be compatible with Apple CarPlay. And Ford will continue to offer Amazon’s Alexa as an option as well.
And when you piss off some 4chan (or whatever it is) guy, and he hacks you into Thelma and Louise mode, you can watch youtube on the way down.
Right after they lock your Bluetooth penis cage.
And when Google and Apple agree to assist law enforcement by providing your location or shutting your car down or autopiloting you to the nearest detention center…
See, this is why Mrs. Dean and I are planning to keep our current totally non-connected in any way vehicles pretty much until we die. She’s already looking at crate engines and replacement drivetrains for hers, even though it runs without a hitch now. Because what every FJ Cruiser needs is 700 HP under the hood.
My 2006 GMC W/T is so disconnected it doesn’t even have power windows or locks. I don’t think google can track it but I can play compact discs.
“‘Operation Safe Pump’: Chicago aldermen creating safe spaces to pump gas due to carjacking spike
Chicago’s spike in carjackings has some residents so rattled that aldermen are working with private security to make sure residents can pump gas in peace.
South Side Ald. Stephanie Coleman, 16th, said one of her residents was carjacked at a gas station on Christmas Day, which inspired the idea to hire local security to provide a safe place to fill up “because people are afraid to get gas no matter what time of day of being carjacked.”
“It hit home for me,” Coleman said.
She’s since worked with local gas stations and Kates Security Services to set up times when people can fill up. The Citgo on 63rd Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway, and the Shell at 55th and Halsted streets are secured as part of Operation Safe Pump for an hour each day, Coleman said.
Citgo is open from 11 a.m. to noon as a morning option while Shell is open from 6 to 7 p.m. as an evening option, Coleman said.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-carjackings-operation-safe-pump-20210129-sldfbasufveclkqk6zfozafkky-story.html
“Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said last week that there had been 144 carjackings since the beginning of the year.
The skyrocketing figure from the first three weeks of 2021 comes after the number of carjackings more than doubled to 1,417 carjackings in 2020.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/1/26/22251664/south-side-alderman-says-chicago-is-in-state-of-emergency-with-uptick-in-carjackings
If only there was a security oriented group, that Chicago was already paying, that could help.
All these calls to “defund the police” are going about it the wrong way. You just have to do it like fedgov and create an entirely new agency with the same mission but a different name and methods and fully fund that one as well. Then when that doesn’t work, you create another, and another…
That is exactly why Minneapolis is so progressive. They have a plan to create the new agency to replace the cops but will not also continue paying for the old police department.
So we have the name change, the bloat of new employees and subdivisions, but without paying for the old stuff too.
Nah, the white supremacist Republicans who control Chicago don’t care if you get carjacked. They have the political support of “Big Car Dealership” which wants to sell you a shiny new car.
Bob Rohrman….car Mafioso
If only they recognized the 2A in Chicago….
Aaaah, a new market for the company that shall not be named.
See you on the West Side, soon.
I HAVE NEVER WORKED FOR THEM!
Better than using the cops I guess.
“Local security” So the Gangster Disciples then.
Republicans deploy SS on black woman.
Republican strategists in Georgia announced the launch of a group called “Stop Stacey” on Monday as they prepare for a potential rematch between Gov. Brian Kemp (R) and Democrat activist Stacey Abrams in the state’s 2022 race for governor.
The group plans to target Abrams, who narrowly lost to then-Secretary of State Kemp in the 2018 governor’s race and who has since led massive fundraising efforts for Democrats through Fair Fight and the New Georgia Project, groups that contributed to the party upsetting Republicans in the November 3 presidential election and two Senate runoff elections last month.
“After losing the White House and United States Senate in 2020, grassroots Republicans across Georgia and America are standing together to stop radical Stacey Abrams,” the group’s senior strategist, Jeremy Brand, said. “Thanks to her socialist backers and billionaires like George Soros, Stacey Abrams has raised over $100 million to orchestrate a total takeover in the 2022 election.”
Day late and a dime short?
“We’re going to leverage the talent and assets of both companies to push the boundaries of Ford’s transformation, unlock personalized consumer experiences, and drive disruptive, data-driven opportunities,” McClelland said in a Medium post. “This may include projects ranging from modernizing our plants through vision AI, developing new retail experiences when buying a vehicle, creating new ownership offers based on connected vehicle data, and more.”
Wake me up when they bring back the Boss 302 with a distributor and carburetor.
Dozens of Republicans who served in former President George W. Bush’s administration are reportedly leaving the party, unhappy that fellow members are not disavowing former President Donald Trump after he claimed fraud cost him the 2020 election – a claim that ignited a violent riot at the U.S. Capitol last month. …
The Whigs Askew Party.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9211597/Demi-Rose-highlights-famous-curves-high-cut-bodysuit-racy-snap.html
Nope. Bombshell.
Miss me yet?
I’m sure that Noor and his lawyers knew they were ultra-fucked by the upcoming trial of Derek Chauvin and the other cops for killing Floyd. No way they were going to find some uber liberal judge to toss on a technicality.
They can’t risk those other cops saying, “look the guy died, but the circumstances were way less horrible than that Noor guy you just let go. That guy just straight up shot a woman and he wasn’t convicted of Murder 3”
But the deep flaws of O’Hare Airport aside
One terminal at O’Hare, about 12 or so years ago, had a restaurant with the best Reuben sandwich I’ve ever had. I wish I could remember the restaurant’s name. It’s probably long gone.
Otherwise, O’Hare sucks.
This comes amid criticism based on a TamediaExternal link report that the army pharmacy bought 700,000 FFP2 masks – which are supposed to have higher level protection than simple hygiene masks. According to the Tamedia story, some masks turned out to be poor quality and had to be destroyed.
There are probably easier ways to launder money and/or gold.
My favorite part of flying through O’Hare were the periodic overhead warnings not to take your eyes off your luggage, or airport security would take it.
Uffda. I hated flying into O’Hare. Particularly since the Blue Line runs all night so if you are flying in early morning, you get to take a train in full of stinking homeless drifters who are sleeping in the cars.
At least the Orange Line from Midway stops running at a certain point at night and they get the bums off.
Probably not destroyed. resold on the discount market to another grifter in a lesser country.
“Yep, these masks came from Switzerland, highest quality available. Going to Myanmar Rohinga camps, won’t someone think of the DPs (besides me)”
In too local / Trump with heels news…
Following through on her threat to pursue legal action, state Sen. Amanda Chase (R-Chesterfield) is claiming “a civil rights violation” in a federal lawsuit Monday in an effort to have the censure against her removed from public record.
The Republican gubernatorial hopeful told colleagues ahead of the vote that she would seek legal action if she were censured. Chase announced plans in a news release Monday to have her attorney, Tim Anderson of Anderson and Associates in Virginia Beach, file the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia.
“The Plaintiff has received a public censure from the Virginia Senate for speech and expression that is protected under the United States Constitution, namely free speech and political expression. The issuance of a censure, issued by the Virginia Senate, was unlawful and contrary to the Plaintiff’s Constitutional rights,” the release said.
I really like Tim Anderson and he’s a rising star in the world of Virginia conservatism. I’m not sure if they will prevail in this given that she was censured, not censored.
He’s a really good baseball player too. Unfortunately he plays for the chisox.
Ooooohhhh, the auto scroll to take you to the comment you just posted is working again. SP has shown uncommon mercy to us.
“So I’ve discovered the sector of melanin Twitter that thinks Hitler was a woke black ally. It’s some wild shit”
https://twitter.com/Halalcoholism/status/1152490445760421888
https://twitter.com/Halalcoholism/status/936413020099448832
https://twitter.com/Halalcoholism/status/1356033688320897024
Minnesoda Fish House culture. Don’t appropriate it.
Near my hometown. These are people who have pretty much ignored the mask mandate since King Walz imposed it. I’m surprised she got hassled so much about the code for her fish house bar. She must have ruffled some feathers with some inspector somewhere.
Minnesota 3rd degree murder:
Minnesota 2nd degree murder:
I’m struggling with intentionally shooting someone as “without intent to effect the death”.
I knew a guy who got into an argument with his brother-in-law, a police officer, and shot him in the crotch after the argument reached a fever pitch. In front of a school bus full of kids. AFAIK, he intended to blow his balls off, but not “effect” his “death.”
That’s where legal intent gets squirrely. If in your heart of hearts, you don’t mean to kill someone when you magdump into their chest, you may not have “specific” intent. But you certainly intended to shoot them, and under a more “general” intent you are deemed to intend the foreseeable results of magdumping into their chest.
Specific intent to kill is nearly impossible to prove, unless you announce it. No idea how MN applies that statute. My general rule is that if you shoot someone, you mean to kill them. But that may just be projection on my part.
And “shoot em in the leg” would sound all warm and fuzzy, if it wasn’t for that pesky femoral artery…
Oh, yeah, you shoot someone, you’re definitely attempting to cause them serious harm that can indeed result in death. Interestingly enough, I think he only served about 10 years…
Lincoln Distances Self From Lincoln Project
Heh: “Honestly, Trump is kinda my dude,” he added. “I love when he slams the journalists. Hate those guys.” He added though that he wished Trump would have started at least one war.
Star Wars Fans Threatened By Strong, Independent, Free-Thinking Woman
“The police department in Rochester, N.Y., released body-camera footage on Sunday that showed a 9-year-old girl being handcuffed and pepper-sprayed by police officers who had responded to a family disturbance call.
During the incident, which occurred Friday afternoon, officers restrained the girl, pushing her into the snow in order to handcuff her, while she screamed repeatedly for her father, the footage showed.
At one point, an officer said, “You’re acting like a child.” She responded, “I am a child.””
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/nyregion/rochester-police-pepper-spray-child.html
Marvellous.
Given the lack of reference to her race, I assume she was white.
I’d bet real money on it.
Or one of my child laborers.
I watched the video – pretty sure you lose. Her faced was blurred by her hands did not look melanin deprived. Her “mother” had a pronounced ghetto dialect.
I’d still be way ahead in this guessing game.
Was Lincoln Gay?
Have you seen his wife?
Geez, not even FourScore is that old.
Relevant
Well he did talk like a fag, and his son was all retarded
So two gay Presidents in a row?
Buchanan not gay. Take it back. He was engaged to Anne Coleman. She broke it off, thinking he had been unfaithful with another chick. Reportedly killed herself. Her father refused Buchanan permission to attend the funeral. Buchanan kept her portrait on display for the rest of his life.
Supposedly we’re going to refresh our snow cover here, but it hasn’t started yet.
We’ve gotten a fair amount down here, and it’s really blowing.
Ours was refreshed overnight. We might have a few more flakes fall.
It’ll all be gone in a couple days though.
I’m so done with this storm.
“This is extraordinarily dangerous and shows you how big tech is just an extension of the government.
1at amendment stops govt from silencing you, so the government wants to outsource that to the tech companies. (Also, as per Supreme Court there is no such thing as hate speech.)”
https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1356328633149784064
“Revealing answer by WH Press Secretary on the Censorship of President Trump by Twitter & Big Tech
WH Press Secretary Psaki: “We’ve spoken to and [Biden has] spoken to the need for social media platforms to continue to take steps to reduce hate speech.””
https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1356307048388915201
That’s totally true. Tech firms are operating as an arm of the government. First, the gov. gave them special protections, then it says, we will harm you if you don’t do our bidding. Even if the tech firms would have done it anyway, they are being drafted and pressured to do it now. When they drag that teenager dude, Suckerberg before congress, that’s applying pressure.
Oh Reuben. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
*looks at bottle*
1000.
Bottled sandwiches? Is this a Mormon thing, or a KC thing?
A specialty of Chez Mojo. Reuben in a bottle.
I just ate a reuben. It was on a plate though.
Paul Reubens? Careful with that bottle, you don’t know what’s in it.
That pic of the Glibs partying is gonna trigger someone cause there are none of our special ladies in that pic…
They must have been the ones taking it..
GO HOME WASH HUSBAND MAN DRESS READ QURAN ALL DAY OR HEAD CHOP OFF TIME
Is “mining” just busywork for computers as a way to regulate the money supply of bitcoin?
Yes and no. My understanding is that the mining calculations are more involved and thus resource-intensive (time, electricity, etc.) as more BTC is in circulation, and thus it takes significantly longer and is more expensive to do now than several years ago. Its “busywork”, yes, but there is an additional element that is added over time to regulate the supply. I believe there is also a cap on the total number of BTC that can be created.
So, roughly how much money and time is required to invest in creating 1 bitcoin? Today 1 BTC = ~30,000 USD. If the investment was $25,000, then is that a guaranteed return of $5000 on your investment assuming it doesn’t suddenly tank? Can Yellen destroy BTC value with the flick of her magic wand?
I have no doubt Yellen can destroy whatever she sets her mind to.
Okay but there’s a limit right? I think by the 7th everything burrito I think she’d be struggling.
*snort
My understanding is that it costs more in electricity to mine bitcoin than they are worth, which is why people use botnets to do it.
Or they don’t pay for the electricity.
So, roughly how much money and time is required to invest in creating 1 bitcoin?
Depends. It’s about beating everybody else to the solution of a somewhat random problem. Statistically, you can calculate the likelihood of your PC mining even 1 BTC and realize how hard it is these days. I don’t know what the numbers are like these days, but it used to be prohibitively expensive to build an array of computers to just give you a greater than 10% of 1 BTC/month. I’m sure it’s even worse now.
The Bitcoin mining was capped and that cap was hit a couple of years ago, IIRC.
There is no more Bitcoin to be mined.
Did you sell yet?
No. I have a number in mind, though, so when it hits it, I’ll sell.
? Elon gave you a bump recently, supposedly.
I actually expect it to start creeping upward on the next stimulus check and/or awful economic policy.
So I am going to a ski area I have never been to tomorrow. Good thing I looked at their website because you have to pre-purchase tickets online. I guess that is one way to make you commit. But they still make you go to the ticket counter. How fucking stupid is that?
Is this part of a COVID registration scheme? I’m told that the ones in Summit County are requiring that.
Er, reservation scheme…
Ya I guess. Don’t know. It is a podunk hill in Mesa County. It was less than 70 clams for a lift ticket.
Powderhorn! I’ve heard the skiing there isn’t too bad, and I’ve been meaning to get there.
I can neither confirm nor deny the name of the place I will be tomorrow.
I may or may not have sold them parts for their lifts. Riders beware.
If you don’t go to the counter how are you going to get the miniature coat hanger thingy for the peal off sticky ticket pass? You know, the thing you leave on your ski jacket so people know you go to the cool ski area not the big commercial place.
Show the lift ops the same bar code on my phone that I am supposed to show at the ticket counter?
Doesn’t address my second point, and I doubt the stoner lift op duudesss can read bar codes, or anything more challenging than Dick and Jane books.
Ya, because the lift ops are way dumber than the ticket counter stoner who points some apparatus at your bar code. It is almost like those apparati(?) could be mobile.
you have to pre-purchase tickets online.
Is that because of some idiotic “visitor limit”?
Bridger is doing that.
And people don’t want the hassle, so they herd into the backcountry and trigger avalanches.
COVID death.
I don’t know. We have shit for snow down low but I am trying to break my habit of being a bitching bitchy bitch and go do some stuff. I sold my ski boots for gas money a couple winters ago but I still have a snow board. And it is a fucking nice snowboard.
COVID death.
It’s insidious.
Any recommendations for a full size (4.5”) optics ready 9mm pistol? If it has a threaded barrel, it’s a plus, but not a requirement.
I’m looking at:
CZ P-10 S
FN 509 Tactical
FN 509 LS Edge
Sig Sauer P365 XL
I generally prefer European designed pistols to American ones.
The chair is against the wall.
Small rig cheese handle.
Nick has long chin whiskers.
Not much of a haiku.
Fixed it –
The chair is against
the wall. Small rig cheese handle.
Nick has long chin hair.
Suspect is armed and
dangerous. Proceed with an
exreme prejudice.
Doesn’t make it not true.
“Small rig cheese handle.”
*snort*
Make sure you ask Tonio to see his small rig cheese handle.
For full sized, the P-10 F is bigger than the P-10 C.
But of course the real question is what is the purpose of this gun? The CZ Shadow 2 optics ready is a joy, unless you’re carrying it around.
I notice those are all striker fired. If you’re OK with DA/SA, the SP01 Tactical is a great all-round, and does come with a threaded barrel.
Glock 17 MOS.
Or, if you’re too much of a beautiful and unique snowflake to own a blister-pack people-popper, an H&K VP9 or P30.
The Sig P365 XL isn’t really a full-sized gun to my mind. It’s about the size of a Glock 48.
Not opposed to Glock at all. I had a G19 for years (it was my first pistol). Loved it, but my wife couldn’t properly use it because it was a little big in her hands (which I why she married me, because she doesn’t have that problem).
BUT. Although its overall a good gun, I’ve read one too many reviews not liking their plate system, and having to buy plates separately.
I have a FN FNX45 Tactical that I absolutely love, but am looking for something a little less kick-y for the kids, but still have the features I like.
It’s why I gravitated to the FN first. I’d get their FNX9, but not optics ready.
Any recommendations for a full size (4.5”) optics ready 9mm pistol? If it has a threaded barrel, it’s a plus, but not a requirement.
Sig p225
Fun science news from Korea!
“…the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) device, a nuclear fusion reactor known as an “artificial sun”, broke the world record by maintaining a plasma for an incredible 20 seconds at an ion temperature of over 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit), which is one of the core conditions for nuclear fusion from such a device.”
This is in Daejeon, where I have lived for 7 years and where I should be returning shortly. (Contract with the school, just waiting on the visa paperwork.) They have KAIST University–Advanced Institute Science and Tech. People call it the MIT of Korea and I have hung out with hundreds of expat students who study (mostly engineers of all sorts) there. No idea if it deserves the rep, or if MIT deserves its rep.
Everything is out of my hands right now, sadly, but I am technically supposed to start a side gig on March 2. We shall see if this develops the way that it should. Judging by current events and the history I have with this school…it will successfully proceed…but slower than I would like. So it goes!
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/koreas-artificial-sun-breaks-world-record-running-for-an-incredible-20-seconds/?fbclid=IwAR0BKJBMlvJjnRKphINFfkBb9yynsRgWMQU9F2nT8p2oI1_UtJ8_wYtZNUQ
Did the reaction produce more power than was put into it?
Assuredly not. But no matter. Now we have Internal Transport Barrier Mode and it is activated. We expect higher ion temperatures and will be able to maintain them for over 300 seconds with this groundbreaking technology.
A cute woman with an Indian accent explains why fusion isn’t great for electricity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrUWoywZRt8
TL;DR: The sun cheats by having a shitton of gravity, and also by not giving a fuck about neutron radiation.
“A hundred million degrees. I’d try to put it in context, but there’s really no point. Here’s a meme instead.”
Neutrons schmootrons
Whatever man
Good vid. Pretty much at the threshold of my knowledge. (I know nothing.)
I never thought of fusion as ever being a possible way to get energy, but I know nothing and have never thought it important enough to delve deeper into. For my personal purposes, at least, this stuff is put into the ‘cool stuff that people on working on’ box.
It’s a nice box to have to think about. (For individuals/society/whatever.) Means everything is pretty much going just fine and we still have the time to follow little pet project rabbit holes, regardless of whether or not they’ll have an immediate impact.
I am also about to put a sandwich in that box.
You know what else has a shitton of gravity?
Chris Christie’s shitter?
That Brit bird with the big ass?
Great minds, juris.
Great. Minds.
That Demi Rose chick?
Sandra Bullock and George Clooney?
They also had lovely chemistry.
Also, Cute Indian Accented Woman: Would. I envision a fanciful fusion-fission cycle of some sort occurring between us. Drinks after squash or similar would be lovely.
As a plasma physics grad school dropout, I should have some info about this. But I am 28 years out of date.
Had I got my PhD, this is exactly what I was going to be working on.
Double masking is now mandatory.
OFFS!
How can we get the the proles out of their cars and onto public transportation?
The mask police will make mass transit considerably more unpleasant than it already is.
Pish Tosh. Just like BLM rioters, the Maskenpolizai’s goodthink will prevent them from spreading the virus.
I thought most masks are double layered anyway, nah? A bandana folded over is two layers.
It’s bullshit anyway. Fauci wearing two separate masks is the stupidest thing I’ve seen this year.
I have this one, which is definitely single layered.
The Provo special.
Especially since he’s walked that back. They’re reducing themselves to enforcing something that he’s implicitly said is unfounded horseshit.
He’s loving his time in the spotlight. He literally tells people he makes shit up as he goes along, lies, walks back his nonsense, post-hoc rationalizes his behavior like someone on the pathological spectrum (give or take some DSM nonsense that Bandy Lee wouldn’t dare level at St. Fauci), and all the while basks in the celebrity of his new status as CCP virus czar.
My minimally compliant mask(tm) is one very thin layer.
The fabric mask I bought at Rite-Aid – a very common one worn by many and which clearly states on the package that it doesn’t work – has two layers.
Hinky inky derpity doo…I wish they’d all try something that’ll really keep Covid out like maybe an impermeable plastic bag secured in the neck region with a strong elastic band.
. . . secured in the neck region with
a strong elastic bandduct tape.Improvements galore today!
That’s a great idea.
But I thought a single mask was totes effective?
Yeah… about that…
Fuck off
Thankfully, this was not enforced on my flight earlier today. Zero words were said about my neck gaiter.
Rosa didn’t fight so she could sit in the back.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtKPxI1XYAYvnm_?format=jpg&name=large
That’s the back of a police cruiser – where they place the arrestees.
Racists!
14 yo daughter literally falling asleep at dinner table still is vehemently arguing with me about getting eight hours of sleep at night.
I really hate this age group.
My son was a colossal pain in the ass from 16 to 18. If they survive there is a chance they get better. And I have to admit, I was very happy not to have a daughter – I’m not sure I would’ve survived that.
Dad?
Different, but equal.
Just 16 – 18? Pater Dean would say you got off easy.
What a myoclonic jerk.
Younger generations are becoming nocturnal?
My father it “going stupid”. As in “Jaime just entered puberty. He’s going stupid.”
Same thing happens to dogs around eight to ten months of age . . .
I’ve got some cheesy and garlicky broccoli roasting in the oven.
Mmmmm.
That is delicious. Also do it with cauliflower and brussel sprouts.
So… did I miss anything? Is food now in pill form? Are pills now in food form?
Normal winter weather, plus reduced travelers meant that there were no Lyft or Ubers near the airport. Surprisingly, the taxi stands were still running, and were now cheaper then the rideshare to get home from the airport (for me at least).
Sadly, we’re now living in a postapocalyptic dystopia.
I was banned from the Zooms by Western.
He’s not my supervisor. All are welcome…
Maybe you could try being nicer to people.
GFY, Buddy.
I guess i missed that,
Good for you.
?
(GFY)WARCS.
Yes
What did you do to get banned?
What are the odds on full frontal nudity??
*waves $20 around looking for a bookie*
Naaaa, that is not that uncommon.
?
Fuck off, I have never banned anybody from anything.
Oh wait, you the creep who just sits there and never interacts with anybody? I have no recollection of banning or even know how to do that but I would have.
FASCIST
It’s called free association ya weirdo.
Brochetta is the OTHER fed monitoring Zoom.
He’s too busy writing it all down to respond.
I KNEW IT!
straffin’ is the other. I mean, come on, can you come up with a better alibi?
Only a Fed would walk into somebody’s house and look around at their murder hornets.
I took a cab. First time I’ve done that in I don’t know how long
I like the John Cena one.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtLbntMW8AAZB4_?format=jpg&name=large
Boaty McBoatface Elementary School for the Internet Unsavvy
You gotta have Boaty McBoatface! The classics should always be represented!
Two days old and drugs falling from ass probably. Still, I just saw this. Fuck the media.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/30/good-guys-gamestop-story-its-hedge-funds-short-sellers/
Most read in Opinions:
LOL
/taps out
So the jack asses who shorted more stock than a company was worth in the market are the good guys? Ya, fuck off WAPost.
eh? I didn’t RFTF, of course
Caveat: I am not well versed in this kind of thing.
Its my understanding that when stock is shorted, its essentially loaned to the short seller out of the pool of stock held “in street name”. If you own stock, its probably not in your name, but is held in your broker’s name, and they assign it to you more or less internally. That stock is held in their name, and they can loan it to short sellers.
I have heard that the geniuses shorting GME actually shorted more stock than was held in street name. When it comes time to close a short, you have to have stock to sell, so you either execute on your contract with a broker for the stock they loaned you or you buy it on the exchange. Shorting stock without having a contract for it is called “naked shorting”, and is a famously stupid thing to do because it leaves your ass hanging in the wind when the short contract closes.
Some (much?) of the GME shorts were naked shorts.
Naked shorting is counterfeiting. (limited exception: when market makers do it)
So is covered shorting, to some extent.
FINRA has what is called a “locate” requirement. When you open a short sale, your broker has to make a reasonable effort to “locate” shares to borrow. If they don’t, it’s a “naked” short.
The fucked up thing is that FINRA only requires a “reasonable effort”. It doesn’t say anything about succeeding, and “reasonable” is highly subjective.
The problem with short selling 150% of float (shares available for trading on the open market) is that, in addition to the obvious issues with counterfeiting, is that there is quite literally nowhere for the share price to go but up. If a bona fide owner of GME decides to sell, it creates 2 buys: the one that the seller effects with the buying counterparty, and another buy where the party holding a short position has to cover his position because the shares loaned to him have been sold. When you have a situation where, statistically, there must by 2 buys for every sell, the price is going to go up really quickly.
Work wants my “anonymous” opinion on whether I want to get jabbed. I should report it as phishing.
That would be most excellent.
My work is doing the same thing. If I believed it was truly anonymous, I say no to the vaccine, but could I please have a shot of heroin instead?
My honest answer wavers between option E, “Wait and see”, and option B, “AYFKM?”
“FOAD”.
Oh how I loved working on a service desk when the infosec guys decided to send out a phishing scam to everyone in the company. Queue up several hundred tickets from people forwarding the e-mail into the help desk e-mail software asking if it was real. Of course, infosec would never tell the help desk when these were happening.
Ours are automated now. Got one Friday. If I had been stupid enough to click the link to the document that was “waiting for me” from “Joe in Accounting” or whatever who had no entry in the address book, I would have immediately received a curt little sad-trombone email and probably auto-enrolled in another stupid training session.
My company is down to 6% response rate to the IT generated phishing tests.
I mean they are cheesy. How can you NOT tell it is a phishing scam?
“How do you do, fellow coworker?”
Considering that the average user will try to tell me their password on a call that isn’t even for an invalid login/password issue, I can easily believe it.
Current job sent one out that was fairly well done. It was from someone in the address book, with a valid title, and had something approximating the mandated sig block (the requirements have changed three times in the three years I’ve been working there). It was saying to click the link to download a required training document from the company sharepoint. My scriptblocker caught the redirect on page load, and the URL was not the standard sharepoint login.