Yell it as loud as you want, Vanity Fair.
“NOSTALGIA IS A HELL OF A DRUG”: WILL GAWKER’S SWASHBUCKLING STYLE SURVIVE UPCOMING RELAUNCH?
Like a Bat-Signal to the media industry, Gawker’s long-dormant Twitter feed sprang to life one recent morning with a request: tips@gawker.com. “IT’S ALIVE,” Gawker and Deadspin alum Timothy Burke responded to the account’s first tweet since 2016, the year wrestler and reality star Hulk Hogan, backed by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, successfully sued the gossip site into oblivion for publishing his sex tape. Gawker is now set to return in early fall, a source with knowledge of the plans said, under Leah Finnegan, a former features editor at the site and one of its most caustic writers, who followed up on Twitter with an ask of her own: “only good stuff please.”
The resurrection of Gawker under Finnegan is being closely watched inside the New York media bubble, which its earlier iteration both catered to and gleefully punctured. “Nostalgia is a hell of a drug,” said former Gawker editor in chief Gabriel Snyder. “When Gawker alumni talk about how great Gawker was, I think they’re often talking about how great their Gawker was,” added Snyder, one of 14 editors in chief of the original website. “There isn’t real clarity in my mind of what it would even mean to bring Gawker back in 2021,” and “anyone who is going to do it would have to do a lot of defining.” That being said, Snyder notes that Finnegan has long been “one of the keepers of the Gawker voice.”
“There isn’t real clarity in my mind of what it would even mean to bring Gawker back in 2021,”
There’s a ringing endorsement.
Why bring it back now, just to be Biden and then Kamala’s lapdog? To gently snark Cuomo and DeBlasio but then still vote for the toerags? Just to recapture that fresh-out-of-journalism-school-with-crushing-debt high of working at a media start-up that let you trawl for clicks at all cost? (You know it’s gone, right?)
Work out your disappointments in how your life turned out some other way, Gawkerites: there’s the bottle, the gun, and suburban hell to choose from.
There is a number of people to choose from in the YouTube community of people bemoaning and beating up on the horrible state of modern film, this semi-drunk Scotsman is my favorite.
There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named–the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.
-Thomas Harris
54 Brand New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Add to Your June Reading List
I’m going to be honest: this feature is one of my very favorite hate-reads. In fact, the flaming arc of science fiction and fantasy as it dives into irrelevancy is one of my hate-favorites. It’s like going to a high school reunion and finding your crush is a bloated, toothless whore. You can have it now but you no longer want it at all.
I swear, Sturgeon’s Law is at about 99% to 1% at this point.
My old man is acting up real bad today, y’all.
I want to keep my reading list at a comfortable 0.
Fourteen beers at Chili’s? Start off with a free beer, courtesy of Dear Leader.
Under the Xiden dynasty, beers will soon be free. But no one will make them because yeast will be $40,000 a lb.
TBF, It’s Anheuser-Busch. If they substituted corn starch for the yeast, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
HFCS is gonna be $25K a gallon.
Tomayto — Tomahto.
I didn’t even think they actually brew Bud anyway. It tastes like formaldehyde or some other sort of noxious industrial chemical.
And yet it’s an expensive “import” in the grocery stores of Europe.
Heh, I exclusively drink European beer. Right now, Heineken and Carlsberg.
Shush now y’all, I’m researching how I can use the word ‘Blarens’ as soon as possible.
A note from the last comments:
While I did coin “Blarens” while writing the story, I figured that it was so obvious that someone else had already coined it. Which is the case, since it is in Urban Dictionary.
I’d never heard it before and now I have an irresistible urge to use it soon and often.
re: the book cover up there – my wife wants to know what I’m laughing at
“I swear, Sturgeon’s Law is at about 99% to 1% at this point.”
Or it just the 1 – 10% “crap” just isn’t entertaining anymore with everyone trying to signal how woke they are?
What kind of sturgeon? Did you that the Kaluga sturgeon is the biggest one and it gets really big? I learned that on the internet.
Sturgeon is the password
“There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named–the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.”
Douchenfreude?
Heh heh, good one.
LOL. The internet, it has been won.
Democrat Pilot And Republican Co-Pilot Argue Over How Fast They Should Fly Plane Into Ground
I was about 50/50 on the BeeOrNot meter.
On the list of science fiction books, I didn’t see the one Fauci is writing.
It’s in the horror fiction section.
It was that one where a young woman comes to terms with her burgeoning magical powers.
He’s gonna ghost write AOC’s memoirs?
She’s going to write those herself. Her office is full of crayons and butcher paper.
I thought that was how she was doing legislation?
Why do you think she called it the New Green Deal? It was the only color she had.
You people are the best!
Bought in bulk by the Congregation of Compassionate People
How long before the first Twitter photo of Fauci’s book side by side with a Fauci votive candle in a non-ironic way?
And then, the Fauci Chia Pet, just like the one for Bob Ross .
I had vaguely heard of Sturgeon’s law, but without Sturgeon attached to it (much less Voltaire and Kipling who according to Prof. Wikipedia, said similar things).
I still don’t see how this is legal considering that I am pretty sure a lease is a contract.
The Biden White House plans to cancel all oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge until a further review of their environmental impacts are assessed, according to the New York Times Tuesday.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the paper reported citing two insiders familiar with the administration’s plans, will publish an order to formally rescind existing leases months after the new president mounted a White House crusade against fossil fuels on day one with moratoriums on new drilling in the Arctic and other federal lands.
Marcella Burke, an attorney who specializes in energy policy and is an alum of the Trump Interior Department told The Times the move to halt drilling in the more than 19 million-acre refuge was far from unexpected.
And I can’t figure out what I would be doing differently than the Biden-Harris admin if I was trying to bring the economic and social collapse of the country.
Were the leases finalized? It is government after all and those take…time.
He’s altering the deal.
The brief summary that I saw says: 1) OMB cut corners on the process of issuing the leases, therefore they are not valid; 2) Joemala can void those leases and start the process all over again; 3) they won’t be approved a second time.
They’ve been voiding leases on apartments (also known as “rent forgiveness”) for quite some time, this just extends the principle. We’ve gone from handshakes to contracts to… nothing? All in my short time on this rock.
Polar Bears >> Poor People.
Putin sends his thanks.
I figured he’s been too busy laughing his ass off since January.
Not since 2016?
Fair enough but since January he’s having a hard time catching his breath.
“Democrat Pilot And Republican Co-Pilot Argue Over How Fast They Should Fly Plane Into Ground”
https://babylonbee.com/news/democrat-pilot-wants-to-crash-plane-at-high-speed-republican-co-pilot-recommends-crashing-at-lower-speed-instead
You’re tripping over the drugs that fell out of RS’s ass.
You need a new meme.
You’re a meme.
*sticks out tongue*
It’s right them in the emanations and penumbra that a Democrat president can issue EOs that are at odds with the rulemakimg process or just rescind a previously issued ones without going through that process.
EOs by “good” Presidents are sacrosanct and unrescindable; EOs from icky OMBs must be eliminated.
And god forbid we’d have any environmental impact in an area that is unbelievably cold and dark for much of the year, and no one other than the drilling employees will ever visit in person. But OMG! A polar bear just like in the Coke commercial might come within 500 miles!
Wait, Biden’s granddaughter works at Gawker?
Isn’t the Gawker voice just a white girl being a cunt and then vomiting?
Insert Standing Ovation GIF here.
Of course she does, she is woke. Finnegan’s woke.
I was trying to find a way to use that, thank you.
You’re welcome, I’ll be here all night. Try the waitress, etc.
Should be a groan but I laughed.
Let me guess…Disney is making Cruella DeVille the good guy?
I mean, if they can make excuses for a slavemongering witch (Wandavision), then why not for this dame?
Victim is more in line with it.
Maleificent too, which I have sadly seen.
Did you see the first one?
Yes, I may have seen the second one too but it’s hard to say for sure.
Cruella DeVille is one-dimensionally bad. Marvel characters, hero or villian, usually have more depth.
I bet she can fight climate change like no guy ever.
Just wait for the body positivity angle in the Ursula redemption story.
If we got some good tentacle action while she’s young and hot, I can’t see a problem.
Wicked was an ok musical. But yes there are no more villains just misunderstood people.
That said, I do like a more understandable villain rather than just some cackling nut intent on world domination as it makes for a more interesting story. Just so long as it’s understood that they are evil.
“Just so long as it’s understood that they are evil.”
Yes, that’s the thing, isn’t it?
Milton “gave the devil the best lines,” but he was still the devil.
My issue is more with prequels. They are generally lazy stories that violate continuity and harm the original for a cheap cash grab. I cannot honestly think of one that enriched the viewing of the original in any way whatsoever.
(Caveat: I do not consider Godfather II a prequel. It was already part of the original book that Coppola cut out of the first movie.)
Rogue One is the only prequel that I can think of that doesn’t damage the source material.
OK, yeah, I did like that. I forgot about that one.
I hesitate to bring this up because of the shocking number of glibs who thought Breaking Bad was…bad, but Better Call Saul has been great and possibly better. They could fuck it up in the last season though trying to tie it out to the beginning of BB.
BCS >>>>BB
The Bowl Championship Series is definitely better than baseball.
You are both wrong and should feel bad. Punched out of BCS because anything that didn’t involve Mike was just boring.
BB is maybe the finest series ever.
Which Mike? Ehrmantraut is in both of them.
To clarify – I was bored by BCS except when the storyline switched to Ehrmantraut.
Oh, OK
I think they are both great.
Fuck, I really hate agreeing with you.
What? Why?
It implies that I might ever click over to that weird chick you’re obsessed with. I won’t. She’s gross.
That said, I love hash browns.
@OMWC
Gross? Aw, you’re mean. She’s lovely above the waist. Weird below, sure. More like medically deformed. How would you describe someone like Lena Dunham or that WAP skank? because those two are my definition of gross. Inside and out.
I have a Peter Pan flip screenplay I was working on. (Hook good buy, Pan bad guy) but with the lousy returns on Pan, I basically shelved it.
But yes there are no more villains just misunderstood people.
Trump?
Literally Hitler.
From the review, it sounds like she’s not misunderstood, but consciously made the decision to become a vile, narcissistic, vicious POS. And the movie’s take is “Yay, her!”
There’s nothing wrong with trying to “give the devil his due” or trying to understand evil. But, if you’ve found yourself in the position of actively celebrating it, you’ve lost your way in this world.
Because “girl power!”.
Alright…given the climate, what I thought was a shoe-in for a promotion is probably a non-existent reality now. I am too white, too straight.
Sorry to hear that. I’m at an age where promotions no longer matter, but I am saddened by the change of culture in my organization. From a freewheeling startup culture where give and take (LOUD give and take) among the engineering staff was frequent and encouraged as a means to find the right solution, to the faux nice bullshit of today, in less than 4 years. At least it still pays well, and I check enough boxes (senior citizen, Hispanic) to make it worthwhile for the wokesters to keep me around.
Can’t you just identify as a black homosexual? Or maybe trans if you really want to be edgy.
In my last interview (I mean I was basically already hired by people who actually understood that the job was about), I used this very effective strategy when talking with the very bored HR chair filler.
I was talking about the actual job and she’s playing on her phone and didn’t hear a word I was saying. Then I just said ‘I’ve worked with and can work very effectively with a very ‘diverse’ group of people’. Note the keyword. She snapped to attention, sat straight up, put down her phone, grabbed a notepad and pen and was all smiles and totally attentive.
That’s icing on the cake.
Just say a bunch of bullshit they want to hear and they won’t care how white or straight you are.
Crap like that is why I used to have a rule against working for any company that has an HR department. Unfortunately that’s nearly impossible these days in the US.
Yeah, it’s like finding a newly built subdivision without a HOA. Everyone wants to be a worthless mini-nazi, seems like.
^^
HR should consist of a crusty old lady with cat hairs stuck to her sweater and an overworked balding beanstalk guy who never has more than 5 minutes before somebody is calling to get their benefits fixed.
Of course the reason I had that rule is that they were the least likely to run background checks.
*looks at PowerPoint presentation I made that was meant for broad consumption*
Yup, toss in those buzzwords like diverse and inclusive and they eat it up.
A department that is 100% black is, in HR-Speak, “diverse,”
…and equitable too.
Well, that sounds all too plausible.
I don’t know how to think like an HR person, if I did, I’d suggest something to make up for your deficiencies in the melanin and LGBLTQUERTY area.
Maybe you have a fashionable disability (NOTE: not meant as actual advice)?
Reverse Tourette’s – you don’t swear even when the situation calls for it.
The way to think like an HR person is to pretend to be a brainless idiot who’s programmed like a bot. It’s not thinking.
You have to pretend to think like they do. If they want me to pretend to be woke, I will. Then I’ll proceed to finish up my day and laugh at the losers. If they really knew what I thought about them, they’d be horrified.
I mean, these people are stupid. Tell them your preferred pro-nouns and make it really stupid. The more ridiculous the better. I mean it’s not like they’ll figure out you’re ridiculing them.
Although, one of these days, they’ll push it too far and I’ll be close to retirement and then I’ll officially be retired until this bullshit abates or forever.
what I thought was a shoe-in for a promotion is probably a non-existent reality now. I am too white, too straight.
That’s one of my bright lines. If I’m passed over for a promotion because of bigotry, my resignation is on my boss’s desk by EOB. I’d rather work 3 jobs for 1/3 of the income than work for a company that hates me.
A few years back when I was working at a MegaCorp, the HR department had me fill out a “diversity” survey for my department. I had a Palestinian working for me- he counted as “diversity.” I did not, despite the fact that our families were from the same fucking town. Our HR drone was quite unhappy with me ranting at him that he was propagating antisemitism and what would our corporate board think of that? (for the record, my group had a Chink, a couple of Wogs, one WASP, a Polack, a raghead, a chick, and a Christ-killer, the last being “not diverse”)
He never gave me another survey to fill out.
Golda Meir lived for a few years as a child in the town where I was born.
We aren’t trying to take your guns, destroy the industry or otherwise violate 2A.This is just commonsense gun safety.
Democrats in New York are making a new push for stronger gun control laws in the remaining days of this year’s legislative session, including a provision that would allow individuals to sue gun manufacturers in the aftermath of a crime.
Lawmakers rallied in Albany Tuesday to support the package, which aims to restrict gun ownership in certain cases, while adding additional requirements for those seeking a firearm.
“We have seen New York state move swiftly in other crises, and now we are looking for this state Legislature to do the same in this critical month,” said Assemblymember Diana Richardson, a Democrat from Brooklyn.
Part of the package would create more hurdles for individuals seeking to purchase a gun, which Democrats said would help cut down on unlawful gun ownership while protecting firearm users who obtain their weapon legally.
One bill would require those seeking to purchase a gun to clear a mental health evaluation and pass a drug test — both of which would have to be certified by a doctor.
The legislation would also require prospective gun owners to undergo a five-hour gun safety course, and complete a live firing test with at least 90% accuracy at a shooting range using the type of firearm they intend to purchase.
That bill would also require individuals to apply for a hunting license before they purchase a gun, and provide proof that they’ve bought a safe storage depository for the firearm.
“That bill would also require individuals to apply for a hunting license before they purchase a gun”
That’s retarded.
It is retarded, but it is an attempt to frame the argument for the less vocal gun owners. Why do you need a gun if you don’t hunt? Well if you hunt, why don’t you have the King’s Mark?
Hey, they already require you to buy a handgun without being allowed to touch it before you can apply for a gun license, why not also make you pass an accuracy test without being allowed to practice with the gun either?
Actually this is even better — since you can’t touch a handgun prior to receiving your license, and you can’t get your license without the live fire test… BINGO! No more new handgun licenses!
Gotta figure out a way of disarming all those cretins that found the loophole of “already legally possessed a handgun prior to this” next.
Gotta love the definition of “school shooting.”
We had 135,000 drunk driving cases this weekend, in the stands of the Indy 500, drivers weren’t involved
*opera applause*
Cool. I just came home from a
late beer lunchteam building exercise. I was proud of myself. I only had one beer. Of course it was a 33 ounce one, but let’s not quaff(le).“I had just one beer.”
* hides pony keg labeled Foster’s Lager, aka “one beer” *
“Foster’s, it’s Australian for
beerBudweiser. 🙂I keed. It’s not that bad.
That was like ten years ago, it’s now “Oh hell yeah we’re taking your guns! Whatcha gonna do about it??”
The legislation would also require prospective gun owners to undergo a five-hour gun safety course, and complete a live firing test with at least 90% accuracy at a shooting range using the type of firearm they intend to purchase.
Will agents of the state be required to pass the same threshold for accuracy before being allowed to use a gun?
I’m guessing the accuracy threshold for civilians will be such a high bar that almost nobody can pass it.
Narrator: “Illegal guns” are not purchased by people who follow laws.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9645075/Demi-Rose-sends-temperatures-soaring-new-sultry-snap.html
What is it with the Daily Mail and Demi Rose, not that I’ve been noticing?
I believe there are many Z list celebrity types who regularly fill out the terrabytes of clickbait garbage produced by the DM.
And here I thought the Tater was diversifying his portfolio…
Nope. Braless and a slick of radiant make-up.
“Clear your desk! Trump SHUTS DOWN his website From The Desk of Donald Trump after just 29 days because he ‘didn’t like it being mocked and having so few readers'”
A Trump adviser told The Washington Post that Trump shut it down because he didn’t like that the site was being mocked and didn’t garner a large readership.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9644569/Trump-permanently-SHUTS-website-posted-statements-amid-social-media-ban.html
Then it must be true.
he ‘didn’t like it being mocked
It’s about 35 years too late for that, if it’s even true.
Yeah, that’s quite the whopper. You know, given the long history of Trump thriving on it.
“EXCLUSIVE: Hunter’s ‘stripper’ baby mama was an assistant at HIS firm and after she had his baby he kicked her off company health insurance – disproving claims he had ‘no recollection’ of her”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9641655/Hunter-Bidens-baby-mama-Lunden-Roberts-employee-firm-texts-reveal.html
CWAA
I forgot about his book. I swear, if you look up chutzpah in the dictionary, his face should be there.
disproving claims he had ‘no recollection’ of her
In fairness to Hunter, he might not remember her due to his admitted and alleged substance-abuse habits causing memory loss.
“It’s not a lie if you really believe it!”
What’s worse, a drug addicted entitled asshole, or an entitled pathological liar? ?
It depends: which one are you?
I continue to be impressed by the management’s ability to dance among the woke without blowing the whole place up.
We just got an email that they’ll be giving out “I’m vaccinated” pins (#fightcovid #one[companyname]together). But in the largest font in the email it says:
“But what if I don’t want to wear the pin?”
Seinfeld wasn’t an instruction manual!
I’m going to be honest: this feature is one of my very favorite hate-reads. In fact, the flaming arc of science fiction and fantasy as it dives into irrelevancy is one of my hate-favorites. It’s like going to a high school reunion and finding your crush is a bloated, toothless whore. You can have it now but you no longer want it at all.
I read through the list and very little on it interested me.
Re this from the am links:
“I guess they’ll just steal water. I have no idea what other solution exists, since they have basically no de-sal plants in the state.”
The market approach – setting water prices at a point where people getting big water bills voluntarily cut back consumption enough that the reservoirs always remain full – always works.
The political approach – rationing underpriced water – invariably creates shortages, because incentives matter, and people will find ways to bypass the rationing. Partially counteracted by people fleeing an authoritarian state, of course.
If we ever invent large scale desalinization, there will be massive protests from the same crowd of useful dummies who do the climate change protests. The progs and greenies will hate that as much as they would hate large scale cheap fusion. Sure, they want renewable, as long as renewable is expensive and limited and can be used to control people.
“Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.” -Paul Ehrlich
If we ever invent large scale desalinization
Saudi Arabia, a country of 34 million people (California has 39 million people, for reference), already gets half of it’s water supply from desalinization, so large scale desalinization is already here.
Pretty sure Israel does too – and they look a lot better than SA.
Well, the political approach is already law and is fast approaching.
We’ll see what actually happens once districts are supposed to enforce it.
And I suspect a CA “market” for water would more reflect the electricity market where they simply charge you like crazy if you’re living in anything more advanced than a cardboard box (by a van….. down by THE RIVER….)
A real free market would address both supply and demand, since high prices would make it profitable to find the cheapest way to add each incremental amount of demand. You get some of this with individuals building storage for rain water, etc., but by far the cheapest way would be to find the lowest value use of water, in general agriculture, and instead divert that water to industrial and residential uses.
Growing rice in CA, instead of shipping in rice grown in some place with lots of water, like Louisiana.
I’m all for growing a lot more rice in LA and AR – prime markets for my company. Keep that rice a-sellin’!
Though I *think* most of the CA market is medium grain stuff, rather than the long grain, so it wouldn’t be as much of a win for us.
I recently bought a 25 pound bag of Louisiana rice for around $8. When my wife asked WTF that was about, I said it was a damn cheap insurance policy against going hungry if the stores shut down again for an extended period of time.
My wife busted my hump for buying a bunch of rice early last year, “just in case”.
We’ll see who’s laughing when they reduce our rations.
I have a few vittles vaults full of flour and rice in the garage.
There is no water in the river. It is just a concrete gulch where all the homeless sleep and poop.
The raw Fauci e-mail dump.
Good golly that’s a lot of redaction.
Page 17: it looks like smoking might be…bad?
Did smoking do that to his face? I thought it was chewing on acorns.
Large fries, please.
Would you like a large amount of small fries, or just one big fry, like on a stick?
*Hands Hyperion a hand-written coupon which appears to be written on a yellow sticky note. The “coupon” appears to read,
‘FRIES, 1
(fuck fiat currency)
Awaits response.*
Jeffrey Tucker
What would be interesting is to see if there was any prior coordination with the Chinese. My guess is no, and that contain and isolate is their standard response to infectious disease (see similar reactions to HIV outbreaks) and just happened to dovetail with Mecher and Venkayya’s visions.
I think “just happened to” is less coordination than actually exists, but “email conspiracy” is too much.
You get to going to enough conferences and meetups and seminars, and you get a consensus starting to emerge on the “best way to handle X”.
I see it all the time in legal. Somebody makes the rounds advocating for us to stop using the word “engine” after a court case interpreted “engine” very broadly, and all of a sudden, “engine” becomes a no-no word.
This is similar to how the whole world went full authoritarian lockdown over covid – some have proffered that as evidence that the US lockdown wasn’t an over-reaction (one driven in some part by a desire to hurt the Trump admin), everyone did it.
The simple response is that Top Men the world over were thrown a lifeline against the rising tide of populism and they grabbed it with both hands. It doesn’t have to be a worldwide conspiracy.
That’s what I mean with prior coordination. My wag is there isn’t even that and more coincidental in how the Chinese handle similar problems.
in heavy truck we had to move to “unplanned exothermal event wall”
Just a thought on this. What I’m starting to notice, is that since their totes natural origin of the vid has broken down, what I’m starting to see is shit something like this:
Why does it matter the origins?
Really?
It feels like I’ve heard this before.
People died, someone lied, what difference at this point does it matter?
Definitely partial to the Drinker. A good choice for a reviewer….
Love the Drinker – I now have Nah, it’ll be fine run through my head when I see someone about to do something dumb.
GO ‘WAY NOW is something I think on the occasions I deal with certain people.
The market approach – setting water prices at a point where people getting big water bills voluntarily cut back consumption enough that the reservoirs always remain full – always works.
The political approach – rationing underpriced water – invariably creates shortages, because incentives matter, and people will find ways to bypass the rationing. Partially counteracted by people fleeing an authoritarian state, of course.
This reminded me of a story from one of the many prior drought emergencies. Some heinous rich guy in Beverly Hills or some such p[lace, who had lots and lots of money invested in the grounds of his estate said, “I’m going to keep right on watering. Go ahead and fine me. I can afford it. It’s still cheaper than replacing everything.”
Outrage ensued.
This is an excellent article, I think. What happened, was Sullivan about to get cancelled by his beloved wokesters?
CRT, Why it Sucks
CRT is an explicit call to tribalism. If you wanted to introduce a political philosophy that would ultimately end with blacks being exterminated in the US, you could hardly do better than CRT in creating a rationale for a white identitarian reactionary movement.
It seems like that, but I believe it’s a veiled Marxist movement, or at least one to destroy Western culture to make room for Marxism, probably originally conceived by the CCP.
As always, it’s probably a bit of both. One part true believers, one part commie agitators, and six parts useful idiots.
I like to always reduce it to an Occam’s Razor scale.
If anyone really wants to know how we got to the current state of dystopia with Neo-Marxists taking over academia first, and now sports and even business, just read ‘Radical Son’ by David Horowitz. Myself, nothing has increased my understanding of where US politics are at today, more than that.
Then, back to the reduction to most likely cause. The former USSR is no longer a world power. But we have the CCP, now a world economic power which is intent on controlling the world with a centralized authoritarian entity. Now how would you achieve that? You can’t just beat up the USA militarily, that’s suicide, they’re not stupid. So how to you achieve that goal?
Well the early commie infestation of the Bolshevik apologists have already done most of the work for you over the past 100 years. All you have to do is figure out a way to build on that and make them destroy themselves from within. Welcome, Wokeism.
Same thing for LGB with transgender conversion therapyand sexual grooming.
Critical Theory is explicitly Marxist, attach whatever modifier to it you like. Critical Theory is always:
1. Identify group that has been wronged
2. Blame Capitalism to sow divisions in the current power structure
3. Supply Marxist power structure to replace
That’s not anti-Marxist, that’s just an objective review of the method.
I had vaguely heard of Sturgeon’s law, but without Sturgeon attached to it (much less Voltaire and Kipling who according to Prof. Wikipedia, said similar things).
Isn’t Sturgeon’s law essentially just an expression of the Pareto distribution? From what I can tell, it’s not even particularly a judgement. Only a small portion of phenomenon are really worthwhile. If worthwhile is the rarity, worthless is something we have to accept as a matter of course.
Sometimes, I really wish they’d teach things like mathematics and statistics. It would make people understand a lot more than they do.
They do teach it, badly.
at Lake Wobegon High, where are the students are above average
“Sometimes, I really wish they’d teach things like mathematics and statistics.”
White supremacist confirmed.
Math and statistics? Wouldn’t that more make me an Asian supremacist?
*Notes attack on Asians by White Supremacist*
That’s why such things aren’t taught.
But math is hard. Grievance studies is much simpler.
+ cosine(0/2/(pi))
I have sine(0/2/(pi)) understanding of what you mean. ?
It’s come to this.
West Virginia’s governor announced plans to give away firearms as a reward for residents who have received a COVID-19 vaccine–part of a Father’s Day lottery.
Well, I am back from a very easy and successful visit to the local Passport Acceptance Office, so I am available to host a Midweek Glib Zoom of Friendly Bureaucracy should anyone be inclined to join in.
Starting at the regular time: 8 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Glibtime, 6 p.m. Spudtime, 5 p.m. SP Time. (I believe that’s midnight UTC.)
See you in a couple hours!
Yay!
Bye bye Bibi:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bibi-out-change-coalition-moves-fast-knesset-approval
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a fifth election a year from now.
So this guy is going to finally take Hamas to the woodshed?
I attended an extensive meeting at work today (remotely) regarding the “Future of Work at [company name].”
Of moderate surprise to me is how much support there is in general for going to not only a hybrid (some official office time per week, bulk “remote work”) to a 100% remote work regime for those whose jobs/departments can support it. This is not only at the grass roots hourly levels but also at the most senior levels of leadership.
We had a very open and honest discussion on the topic, with our HR department being very open about the new world of competition they are seeing with other companies for talent, especially if that talent can easily change employers with better schedules/working conditions/salary/etc.
Being a global manufacturing company, we have a large number of employees that must be present at a specific location to do their jobs, but we also have a large number of staff that can do our jobs from basically anywhere, from customer service to applications engineering or manufacturing support.
Mentioned specifically were the possibilities of working not only “from home,” but truly remotely from places of our choice which may change on a more or less frequent basis.
Interestingly enough, the people who voiced the strongest concerns were (predictably) older managers who prefer the ability to look at cubicles and count heads, and (surprisingly, to me) our commercial and sales teams. The applications engineers and customer service folks were the most supportive of 100% work from home.
I’m wondering if this is going to ease, if it happens on a large enough scale, the tensions in the country regarding living and working around people who share different values and politics.
Could it be a way to heal, or will it, in the long term, deepen the divide?
Taxing jurisdictions will happily expand convenience of the employer theory so they continue to get their vig. Even better, the tax cattle aren’t residents of the jurisdictions so can’t vote against it or elected representatives of those taxing entities.
I asked HR about that and she said most states have varying rules about how long you have to work in that state in order to be taxed there, and how much. I’m wondering how it works if you work remotely say, 50% of the time in a state with personal income tax and the other 50% in states that do not. Certainly there has to be precedent for this, and I’d hope, but not necessarily expect, that only the income earned while working in a particular state would be taxable by that state.
Any info on that? I’ve spent a ton of time traveling in my career, but never enough to trigger any special calculations, that I’m aware of.
Like this
http://www.nysscpa.org/news/publications/the-tax-stringer/stringer-article-for-authors/remote-workers-beware-potential-double-taxation-under-the-convenience-rule
A bit covid specific, but the basic rule is if you work somewhere other than your regular workplace because your employer allows it rather than requiring you to work at that remote location, you are still subject to taxation of the original location. Only a couple of states (NY being one) do it currently.
It’s a little different than temporary work assignments in another state, which varies from state to state. I’ve never worried about as it’s always been occasional and minor. The higher profile temporary workers, like sports players, usually get a bit more scrutiny but ultimately it’s on the company (if they fail to withhold where legally required) and you to pay imposed taxes and ignorance is never an excuse.
“applications engineers”
Half of my career I’ve been sitting in an airport anyway.
The biggest improvement in my operations days was the 4×10. No way I can get my job done that way, but I loved that on Friday no one was in the plant in my way, and the maintenance, B&G, and CapX teams were in a better mood because their overtime wasn’t punctuated with production emergencies.
I heard yesterday about a Stanford Univ. survey that showed 28% in favor of never coming into the office. That seemed pretty high to me, even for office workers who may not be members of a “team.” Hybrid was probably fine, but I’d never would have liked 100% contact just by phone, Zoom, or text. A lot of office jobs are more efficiently conducted by walking down the hall and meeting face to face, instead of exchanging interminable texts. And, lots of times, the person has something to show you – a proposal, pictures, diagrams, etc. – that can be shown without being scanned and e-mailed and screwed up when you try to read the attachment. Too, a lot of good ideas come from sitting at the lunch table or having an adult beverage after work.
That’s what surprised me a bit about our company. A large number of people said they are far more efficient at home because of the lack of distraction from colleagues being able to barge in unannounced. Part of that is because we have a relatively open office floor plan that makes it hard to concentrate, but a lot of it is legitimately from people just thinking, “oh, I need this now, I can just go and grab so-and-so” when so-and-so has plenty of important work to do already.
As I mentioned, our sales and marketing folks seem to be the least enthusiastic about remote work, but I think that might come from their top guy, who is not a trusting individual and does not inspire trust in his people.
The rest of people, managers included, seem to be just fine with remote work and the level of trust and productivity they are seeing.
it’s a shame in a world where there is a glut of unnecessary BA (because a high school diploma cannot be relied upon as a certification of basic competence) that half the emails at work require face-to-face clarification
We talk and work in terms of supplier cost “multipiers,” but my boss sends out a note that supplier X is now a .4 deduct. Um: .6? Sends out correction: .4. Okay: why muddy the water with a deduction value when we never ever work in such terms?
I for years and years wanted a work from home scheme. Then I was forced into it full-time.
And to your last question, until pay is adjusted, it will deepen as residents of high tax cities and states move to lower cost locations and bring their politics with them. The current exodus of Califucktards will pale in comparison to the wave of locusts spreading out across the land.
I wonder if we won’t end up moving to a compensation model across the country that considers the type of work primarily, but that has a large portion of salary dedicated to a cost of living index.
I can see attempts to do so but also problems with gaming the system in a number of ways and unhappiness with disequal way for same work. I’d think it will eventually end up like all compensation, enough to hire/retain for a certain point and no more. Increased competition on the demand side will eventually balance out with increased competition on the supply side.
You beat me to it. I was going to say it will metastasize the cancer.
Heh, do you work for the same clients I do? Or are they all evil clones?
“Could it be a way to heal, or will it, in the long term, deepen the divide?”
What’s going to happen, obviously, is that the employers allowing WFH for those who can, are going to win.
The only way out of that is a Marxist style world authoritarian government, that can control the movement and employment opportunities of everyone.
But I mean, since no one is even thinking of such an evil (hahhhhaaaa, lololool), we’re completely safe.
For my company, the spiel is “Work Your Day”. They’re talking about putting our jobs in categories (All Remote, Mostly Remote, Mostly Office, All Office). Given I’ve moved, I really hope I get put in one of the first two. My company has a satellite office in Charleston and I can do that, no problem. I’m just not sure they want to put people in the satellite offices. They have a hub in Charlotte. If I get a “Mostly Remote”) I can schlep there once a week. But, I really have no desire to go back to NYC. And, really, there’s no rational reason for me to be there. Pre-COVID, my boss was in Charlotte, my report in Dallas, and the other people I worked with were scattered in Charlotte, NYC, Denver & San Francisco. Really, there were only two people I worked with with any regularity in NYC. So, I’m hoping the decision is at least semi-rational. At the same time, even before COVID, they were doing a remodel in NYC to the hipster “open office” with toys and couches thing. Honestly, I really don’t know who the hell works that way, anyway. I’ve got a list of things I’ve got on my plate, anyway, without playing ski-ball or Pac Man or wasting my time on the corporate rumor mill. Nevermind having to take the elevator down to the ground to have a five minute smoke break while I think about something.
All that said, I think it could be the key to easing tensions. If each side can ratchet things down and accept federalism as a solution. I honestly don’t have a whole lot of ill will to my progressive friends in the Northeast. I wish them all the best. To the extent I don’t have to live under their rules, more power to them. But, being stuck with them doing and demanding things that I know are batshite insane, I was growing resentful. And, hopefully, they feel the same way. I’m no longer there to be an impediment to whatever the hell utopia it is they want to create. That really should be an unvarnished good for them. We may think the others’ way of life is silly or backward or whatever. But, it’s no skin off of either of our noses if they want to live that way.
https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-just-civil-rights
Each of these things can be traced to law. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination based on race and gender. While most at the time thought this would simply remove explicit discrimination, and many of the proponents of the bill made that promise, courts and regulators expanded the concept of “non-discrimination” to mean almost anything that advantages one group over another.
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The rise of HR departments can be directly traced to the federal government’s race and gender policies, which involve direct control of the federal bureaucracy, the “carrot” of government contracts, and the “sticks” of EEOC enforcement and lawsuit threats.
Interesting…
“Liberals control institutions because they care more about politics”
That’s because for them, it’s a religion and has been since before the Bolshevik revolution, inspired by Marx.
Let’s try this again ?
Just here for the GBV. Excellent selection from an excellent album, SF.
Still catching up on the past few days links due to being on the road. However, did come across this gem in GKC’s “Outline of Sanity” last week – one of his texts outlining Distributism.
http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/Sanity.txt – formatting is due to the source page.
They are willing to give him a vote, because they have long discovered that it need not give him any power. They are not willing
You can threaten to diminish and dilute the little power his vote has by withdrawing all protections against fraud and promising to mint millions of new voters, and your average voters cheers it on. Total farce! SAD!
Hell Yes! Thanks!
Shut down like a dog.
You should Email me, I have a few questions I would like to ask you,
72.
On a serious note, ask away, I’d email you but I don’t believe I have your address, or if I did once have it I have now lost it, let me know where to email or hit me up at HeyBuddyStopDoingThat@protonmail.com
Love the new avatar. You are fucking weird man.
Decent tune. Thanks.
I can’t believe it’s still up, but this was super interesting:
COVID, Ivermectin, and the Crime of the Century: DarkHorse Podcast with Pierre Kory & Bret Weinstein
Just watch/listen. As Fauci is dragged out of his office and (hopefully) run out of town on a rail, you may want to consider alternatives to the vax.
Yeah, that was a good one. Highly recommended.
Dude, I personally know one guy, and know of another person now who has contracted the vid recently and they don’t do any treatment at all. “Oh, you have Covid, go home and stay away from people.” They struggle to breathe and no treatment. I am at a loss why they don’t treat people. It makes no sense. The young guy I know I was sure was going to roll through it no prob but the other person is an elderly lady. Why don’t they treat them with the known treatments? It is bizarre.
In certain states their doctors’ med licenses are in jeopardy if they hand out scripts for that stuff. Heads need to roll (metaphorically of course).
Money. There isn’t shit to be made with Ivermectin. These people are evil.
Buy the horse stuff if you need any. It’s cheap and if you can do basic math you’ll be able to work out the needed dose and schedule. It’s a shame that it needs to be this way but it is what it is.
Critical Drinker and GBV IN THE SAME LINKS? This is the best.day.evar.