It all seems to fit today…
“Oh shit, it’s Saturday. It’s also less than an hour before you have to have links posted. Fuck.” But, never underestimate the power of Spud. French fries to vodka, people, we do it all.
Kentucky sure as hell pissed off the wrong gods. And why the hell does Kentucky have a Democrat governor?
So instead of just killing the baby, or letting it live, they decided to cut it in half.
Roiling in the royal family. That’s right Queenie, they did the deed on your dining table.
You know why this is back today? Because I friggin’ ear wormed myself and some of you SOBs need to suffer too.
I used to be a libertarian…
“Some of my best friends are libertarians…”
Holy shit you got a first, I was starting to worry about you a little.
Yea, follows the same format as I used to be a libertarian stories. How committed to any set of beliefs could you be if one video debunking one coded message changed you? And alls you did was walk outside, smoke, and then go post on Reddit about how you had been converted back to the light.
I didn’t read that one because I thought it would be stupid, but reading that snippet, it way surpassed my expectations.
“Australia also has stricter gun laws, so I didn’t need to worry that someone could show up armed.”
The kinds of stupid. assholes that say stuff like this completely discount that the kinds of people that would show up armed dont pay attention to moronic gun restrictions.
I got one paragraph in.
Nope, I can’t do this. Something something Trump living in your head something.
This is the lamest 1st I’ve ever seen.
In fairness, he is pregnant.
Yusef, I missed your photo tour of the disc golf park, the Sequoia, and other sights last night.
Great pictures and a nice little virtual trip. Thank you for posting!
I was pleasantly surprised by how picturesque Michigan is, at least that part of it.
Thanks HE! I have plans for some new adventures, but you know that.
Why are the ones with no understanding of freedom and human rights the ones claiming to be the defenders of America?
Slavery is freedom!
I’m pretty sure the founding fathers wouldn’t recognize school curricula or what the role of government has become.
Brian Williams lost all credibility many years ago. Who gives a shit what he says?
^^ This!
“ The truth is, I’m not a liberal or a conservative. I’m an institutionalist. I believe in this place. And in my love of my country, I yield to no one.”
Brian Williams is openly complicit in the destruction and distrust of the institutions he so cherishes. But, you know, projection…
This.
He helped destroy this country and has the nerve to bitch about it.
Then he belongs in an institution
An institutionalist – for when liberal or conservative isn’t quite enough of an asshole…
The good news is the piece of shit is retiring.
The bad news is people like him never stay retired.
Miss Manners: My new neighbors are scary, and I’m miserableAlso, my house is haunted, which I didn’t realize when I bought it
Sounds like you’re the problem…
Apparently I have reached my article limit on a website I have never heard of before nor recall visiting. Oh well.
Scary neighbors, I am gonna guess Trump figures into that somehow.
Pandemic over? Im sure all of these rules are going to end ASAP.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-stunning-data-from-south-africa/comments?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozMTYyNjE4MCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDUzNDMzNTksIl8iOiJyVmFuLyIsImlhdCI6MTYzOTI2NDM2MCwiZXhwIjoxNjM5MjY3OTYwLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzYzMDgwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.GGbIbW0X_6CHJWy2eT5D7oh03vEez69ZUklD8mhGHgs
They will not end their edicts so one as one sniffle remains.
Do you think it ends if this becomes a normal cold/flu season?
These people have shown no sign of letting up on the hysteria. They are too vested in it at this stage.
Meanwhile the UK govt, goaded on by the opposition party and the media, are lurching toward more lockdowns, expanded vaccine passport requirements, and probably Austrian/Australian style vaccine mandates. Because Omicron. Weeeeeeeeeeee…
Fordham U. prof fired after mixing up two black students in class
“Hours after what he called an “innocent mistake,” lecturer Christopher Trogan, 46, sent a rambling, nine-page email to students in his Composition II classes explaining the faux pas — and defending, without being asked, his “entire life” of working on “issues of justice, equality, and inclusion,” the campus newspaper reported.”
Love it when the left eats their own.
Never. Apologize.
So you mixed up two people you see a few hours a week amidst a crowd of people. So what?
Oh wait, you’re in academia and they’re insane.
*Nelson laugh*
Hope they can keep this up. The university system can keep doing this until the bubble pops.
Hell, I mixed up two young women in my class just last year (18-year olds do tend to look alike when you’re at retirement age).
I think the word is petard. And it’s his own petard that he’s being hoist by.
Anchors aweigh, bitchezz! ??
All right Navy you won. Congrats and here is your march.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhqaPumDBSo&list=PL59B7A506BF2CFF20&index=7
Here is her march.
One set of ring knockers beat another?
Meh…
I was prior enlisted and didn’t go to an Academy.
Meh, I was only enlisted even after college.
Continuing the musical theme.
In the spirit of sibling-personhood and goodwill towards others, and a general lack of order and structure, I will kick off the Glib Zoom Happy Hour You-Know-Who Shaming and general drunken mayhem at 2021-12-12 @ 0100 GMT (2021-12-11 @ 2000 Eastern, 1900 flyover zone alfa, 1800 flyover zone bravo, 1700 Pacific, and you fancy buggers figure it out on your own).
OT:
Mr. Tonio – Looks like you guys shored up quite a bit on pending content; but I dropped a turd in the punch bowl earlier today anyway. Forgot SUBMISSION in the title, but I hope it’s just a drop-in. I’s a gud edtyr.
Thanks, PM. I’ll look at that on Monday morning when I go through the
slush pileweekend drunken submissions.Wait, wait, wait… I’ve been submitting my stuff while sober. Am I doing it wrong?
drunken
Workin’ on that now. (Burp). Wanders off to look for edit button on the submission page…
My fire pit, a heavy metal one, was sucked off of the porch last night and tossed into the middle of the back yard. No other evidence of high winds. I guess we dodged a bullet.
I got nuthin’ on the abortion thing. It is an issue that will never be resolved.
“It’s as if I’m going to wake up tomorrow morning in Bedford Falls.
The reality is though, I will wake up tomorrow in the America of the year 2021, a nation unrecognizable to those who came before us and fought to protect it, which is what you must do now.”
How did we get here Bryan? Who are we defending against? Could it be people like y ou that have spent their entire careers attempting to turn the US into the USSR?
Qanon? Jan 6 insurrection? Really?
What about the tooth fairy? Santa Clause? Sasquatch? Alien lizard people with secret bases on the dark side of the moon?
All total horseshit. Imaginary boogey men. Fucking idiots…Qanon, even the name is trolling you. You morons just bite on whatever they toss out no matter how obvious it is. Somewhere a bunch of pimple faced misfit boys are laughing their asses off at you.
Want to know who the conspiracy nuts are? Take a good look in the mirror.
Billy Jack…the first and worst outrage porn in the service of social justice. Ugh. *facepalm*
“Billy Jack…the first and worst outrage porn in the service of social justice. Ugh. *facepalm*”
My work here is done.
Is that what you said when you killed the Zoom?
I will admit that I chuckled.
One First to rule them all,
One First to find them,
One First to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them
So, the first is a chloroform soaked rag and a pair of interlocking zip ties?
Spud’s Salacious Silicone-enhanced Sybaritic Splendor.
https://archive.md/E5LTy
“The truth is, I’m not a liberal or a conservative. I’m an institutionalist.”
Whatever Commie.
Oooooooh, mebbe he meant “state-capacity libertarian,” or whatever absurd bullshit Tyler Cowen’s peddling this week.
(Damn shame. Tyler’s introductory text on Economics is really quite good.)
I remember seeing an interview with….Mike Wallace?…..anyway a long time, well known journalist. Upon retirement he admitted he was a scarlet red leftist. When asked why he replied with “What has the right…the republicans…ever given us?”
The interviewer sat there silent like a wart on a toad’s ass instead of answering – “Well, they outlawed slavery. They got rid of Jim Crow laws in spite of the democrats fighting them tooth and nail every step of the way. They integrated schools. They passed the civil rights act.”
The left is forever trying to dissociate themselves from their own past, projecting blame onto anyone right of Mao or Stalin while pushing for repeats of the same shit they try to distance themselves from. It is amazing really.
People with popular ideas don’t have to keep hiding them and changing their name.
Commie -> Socialist -> Progressive -> ?
That should be a tip off. Unfortunately most people cant figure out which shoe to put on which foot.
+1 Southern Strategy
Institutionalist = statist.
So far, Alex Baldwin has killed more people than The Dreaded Omicron.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/10/new-cdc-data-shows-first-known-omicron-patient-in-us-had-symptoms-starting-nov-15.html
Genuine LOL.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess omicron has already infected thousands who just assume it’s a cold. Those who tested positive either did so through some random test they were forced to take. Or they’re paranoid lefties who get tested at the slightest hint of a tickled throat.
We should be cheering this. Highly contagious and pretty benign. It was a strain like that put an end to the Spanish flu. Well, didn’t end it it’s still around but we no longer care.
The problem with this is that “the flu” has always killed lots of old people every year and now that we have established the precedent that this virus which also killed lots of old people is the end of the world, it’s going to be mask- and lockdown-a-palooza from now until the end of eternity every winter.
“I Left QAnon in 2019. But I’m Still Not Free.”
This is like Penthouse Forum for political retards.
Like?
And the same person probably thinks Antifa doesn’t exist.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mitchell_knight/status/1469656473068265479
^ominous tornader video. That seems to be a particularly unpleasant kind of weather.
Y’all dont really get bad ones like we do here, do you? I almost never hear about them if you do. If I am right you should thank the gods.
Hardly ever, and nothing on that kind of scale. I pray it stays that way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Birmingham_tornado
That was incredibly exceptional, and still only a baby.
NYC doesn’t either… until it does. Like the one that tore off the roofs of a bunch of houses one street over from me about a decade ago.
Supervisor at Harbor Freight actually hassled me about a mask today. On the plus side, the oil extractor was mispriced at $30 under so that plus coupon was what I paid.
The last HF I was in a month or two back, none of the employees were masked either.
I read Brian Williams screed and I could have written that. I absolutely do not recognize the country I am living in.
When I was a kid we watched shows born of an era directly out of world war II. We had the shadow of the Soviet Union hanging over us. So we watched comedies like Hogan’s heroes. For those of you who are too young to remember, Hogan’s heroes was about prisoners of war in a German prison camp during world war II. A light-hearted romp about American, French and British soldiers fighting the Nazis directly under their noses.
There were several shows and plenty of movies that had similar undertones of American exceptionalism. And the greatest signal they had to all of us as to our superiority over those authoritarian societies was constant demands from uniformed officials in places like Nazi Germany to”Give me your papers”.
That was the America of my youth. We’re the ultimate sticker middle finger up for the commies and the Nazis was that we don’t have to show our papers to go anywhere. We are Americans, damn it! We go where we want, when we want without asking the government for the slightest “by your leave.”
In the America of my youth, one third rail of politics that does not exist anymore was a national ID card. If you could spend anything as smacking of a national ID, it was death. Left right or center everyone in this country agreed we don’t do that here. National healthcare did not have a chance because it required a national ID card.
Fast forward to 2021. Vaccine passports required to go to a GD restaurant. Good lord! You have to get felt up to get on an airplane. Half of the country thinks spying on presidential candidates and framing national level politicians for crimes they did not commit is a fine and dandy thing for the FBI to be doing. Presidents openly take bribes! You don’t even have to go back to when I was a kid for that to be ridiculous. Hell, Gary Hart got caught with a picture of a girl sitting on his lap and his career was done.
Here is Brian Williams….. I can only assume that he is talking about people who dared to vote for Trump, and the rampant white nationalism that has gripped our country, and the wave of white nationalist terrorism that has us cowering in our basements when he talks about not recognizing the country And burning it down.
You know, a fantasy that he helped write. Not the reality that we all live in where activists of the far left stoke hatred among the mentally weak and the mentally ill and pulled the police back so that the crazies could loot and burn. I mean, part of me hopes that he was full of crap the entire time and he really means the insane leftist brigade that is trying to create racism de Novo and burning cities. But deep in my heart I know that can’t be true. He drank the Kool-Aid and went back for seconds.
I don’t remember a lot of what you mention, but the change, even since the 90s, has been seismic. In hindsight, many of the events of the 90s pointed back to a better, more sane time, but it was subtle enough that it was hard to see in the moment.
Today? Well, let’s just say that there’s a reason we’re looking to get out of the suburbs and get out of a high growth area. The worldview issues are only a part of it. Americans these days are broken and broke people, and even when we try to surround ourselves with like minded people, we still feel like throwbacks to another era. This culture is insane, and there’s no pendulum swing waiting to return us to sanity.
Another way to tell just how stunning the changes are is the let’s go Brandon chant.
Conservatives generally don’t do stuff like that. There was plenty of derision for Carter and Clinton, but you didn’t see people driving around with banners on their cars, boats and four wheelers. I live in deep blue South Florida. We don’t have any Republicans here in Broward county. They just don’t exist.
But everywhere you go, there are Trump flags and let’s go Brandon is not uncommon anywhere in the county.
New York City sports events feature f Joe Biden chants. The propaganda state is deep. And something very strange happened in the last election.
In 2000 we had a hotly contested election that came down to a single state. And the left told themselves a fairy tale of voter suppression and legal shenanigans. They still haven’t let go of it. They called bush every name in the book.
But you did not see large crowds of random people chanting anti-bush slogans.
This dude just got elected and the animus is widespread and nobody is embarrassed to show it. That is a sea change from 4 years ago.
I think we are at a tipping point. Either they’re control through propaganda and whatever shenanigans they are pulling with vote by mail seal things up and there is no turning back from the international communist workers party takeover of the Democrat party, or the people are about to rise up and throw them out by such a wide margin that no amount of ballot stuffing can alter the outcome. Then it will be a battle royale to see if the propaganda state survives.
To be fair, Biden and the people running him are the worst president of my lifetime, and it’s not even close.
I’m too young to fully have lived Nixon and Carter. But Jimmy made for some screeds around my immediate and extended family.
I vaguely remember Carter and Biden seems similar but worse. Certainly the mood of the country was very different and Carter got his comeuppance and then some. I’m not certain Biden will face that fate whether through the endumbening of our citizenry or through “fortifications” it’s hard to tell.
I was talking to my mom recently about vaguely remembering waiting in line for gas with her as a child. We’re not there yet, so it’s still hyperbole, sorry Hyperbole, but we didn’t have food/product shortages then either, so not sure what to think. *keeps ammo dry in event police recover weapons from horrible, horrible boating accident*
They called bush every name in the book.
Except when he is convenient for them to use against their enemies.
TL;DR – Fuck off Brian you fucking pinko.
It’s a good screed. I remember that America, too.
Me too.
“I remember a free country. I’m going to miss it for the rest of my life”
Some .sig on a USENET post.
You know, a fantasy that he helped write
Why I say he can go fuck himself.
Carried forward since i was late
Evil Sheldon: Steve Jobs was a fucking monster. I pray that he’s spending eternity being spit-roasted by demons, for what he did to the field of industrial design.
You misspelled Jony Ive.
Him too.
It’s almost 7:00, can I switch from beer to bourbon yet?
Why switch? Do it up Midwestern style, a beer and a bump!
You should have started with the bourbon and stuck with it.
I’ve been on bourbon since 1500. ‘Tis the season.
Does anybody know if we have people in the Kentucky disaster?
I dont think we had any in that part of the state. And since I left Bowling Green, I dodged it. It came nearish to my old neighborhood.
It’s pretty far western KY. Past where Mrs. T grew up. She had not heard of the town even though it’s less than 100 miles from her hometown.
My wife is from Madisonville. Her parents were from Dawson Springs, which was another town destroyed, but it is much smaller than Mayfield, so not getting the coverage.
Sounds like Bowling Green is pretty torn up in parts, but “only” 12 deaths so far.
From CBS:
Just awful.
KY has had 3 GOP governors in my lifetime and all have been some sort of idiot that prevented reelection.
They are the stupid party for a reason.
Brian Williams Quits TV: America In 2021 Is “Unrecognizable”
No shit, Shirley. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined the crypto-Stalinist authoritarianism on display by the Biden administration.
Fuck you and everybody else who voted for that asshole.
And don’t tell me he’s just a puppet. That’s bullshit.
crypto-Stalinist
The “crypto” part is a thin, sheer facade. The only ways he could be more stalinist would be to start speaking Russian and start disappearing people.
Seriously, they aren’t even pretending. The media is channeling Pravda so hard that I got to believe that even people who worked at Pravda are embarrassed when they see the way things are going in our press.
Her log cabin was one of her favorite spots on the planet—a haven deep within a haven—and one can imagine she now feels, on a deeply personal level, violated.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
https://i.imgur.com/Qy4OujT.gifv
NSFW.
https://archive.md/FYUs3/5f8ebc290b8cff89dcb828a72b7930360fe4a4cd.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.md/SNzFJ/d9b66776238e40cd2f8e94981604adfeeb06d297.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.md/4zzRI/2799990bcd7bb475e4cd37238f4b58787b010d53.webp
NSFW.
I think that’s Noelle Easton.
Easton? We need to see the south end.
Ask and ye shall receive!
https://archive.md/5GQbZ/7d11cb10e1f31f53f469195eedc64db1da50e9d3.jpg
NSFW.
Just for you as for whatever reason this showed up in my playlist.
https://youtu.be/Q3JlbXQZNrU
Not entirely safe for work, but likely not fireable offense.
Fortunately wiki how can help…
https://www.wikihow.com/Play-the-Pocky-Game
Asserted
The White House knows the danger higher prices pose to not only passage of Build Back Better, but the president’s approval ratings. Biden on Friday moved to downplay the Labor Department report, asserting in a statement that more recent data reveals “price and cost increase[s] are slowing, though not as quickly as we like.”
In fact, Biden said, inflation “underscores the importance that Congress move without delay to pass my Build Back Better plan.” The legislation will save families money “while easing long-run inflationary pressures on our economy,” he asserted.
Why is the media so mean to Biden? Why do they challenge and nitpick his every word?
We urgently need to spend another few trillion dollars that we don’t have…… So that inflation goes away?
This is how you know the communist workers party is behind all of this stuff. For a while it was just the black lives matter stuff that was directly out of the communist workers party. I mean, that one’s pretty easy since they all were members of the communist workers party when they founded the thing.
But I didn’t think it went any further than that, you know, friends of convenience for the Obama administration and his grassroots organizing.
But now? It is clear that the Biden administration is all in on destroying the country. It’s the only way to explain much of what they are doing. And when you do it without a cogent argument, just smiling right in your face and telling you that s*** is shinola, it tells me that the consequences are the intended result.
They all just sit there and say there is no inflation. Then they say that deficit spending and printing currency does not cause inflation. In fact, it will stop inflation!
This is not a serious answer. Nobody believes that that is true. That’s like Jack Black saying donuts are his new quick weight loss diet. It’s a joke. Nobody is expected to believe it .
Except we have a propaganda machine that pretends like it is a real answer. I don’t understand how they can do it, not with a straight face. I don’t even get how there can be that many people who are all in on tearing down the American experiment. But here we are.
In the same way that they talk about inflation, they talk about Republicans trying to destroy democracy through horrible things like free speech, preventing voter fraud, wanting to enforce immigration law, believing in a color blind society, wanting their children to go to school in person…. You know, horrible anti-democratic things like that.
I call it confession through projection.
Never fear. We will get dragged into the Ukraine as a distraction any day now.
One way they get away with it is by couching everything behind race. Hover over Brooksie’s URL above for an example. Americans are utterly terrified of race and the race hustlers are doing everything in their power to feed that terror.
Considering how rapidly minorities are starting to go Pachyderm, I think that tactic might finally be going stale. It only took half a century.
Biden himself is an enigma to me. I have no doubt that he’s not all there, but neither is he a complete vegetable puppet. He’s always been an asshole but he was a fairly milquetoast weathervane politician for 4 decades. Just go along to get along and keep the gravy train rolling. Nothing too radical (aside from the Thomas confirmation hearings) just roll on getting those ill gotten gains and fucking interns (probably).
Now he’s all in on completely radical anti-American policies that are horrendously unpopular and likely to reduce his party to smoking rubble in less than a year. JTFC, Virginia has a Republican governor already! He’s skull-fucked the Dems that badly in that short a time! What’s the motive? I know the endgame of the Commies, but what’s his endgame, especially since he’s likely to be pushing daisies in the near future?
Biden goes with the flow – he’s just a reflection of where his party is today.
I have wondered this exact question and the only thing I can think of is that all of this crazy AOC style spending has allowed literally hundreds of billions of dollars to be siphoned off by all of the establishment cronies. They have probably slid more money to insider cronies in the last 24 months than they have in the last two decades combined. The amount of spending is apocalyptic.
Clinton got a half of billion dollars in pledges to his charity off of his time. Obama got a 60 million dollar paycheck the day he walked out of the office from Netflix for his net neutrality stuff. I’ve never even seen an accounting of all of it, but you figure they’ve raked in a ton. Maybe they promised Biden a billion bucks if he just shuts up and does his he’s told. It would be chump change next to the trillions that they have spent without debate or even thought.
Well at least Biden won’t get much time to enjoy his billion but DOCTOR Jill and Hunter should live high off the hog for the rest of their lives.
I think Hunter’s life will be shorter than Jill’s.
And Joe’s
I wonder how much if any of Qanon guys story is real.
I would have fairly well insisted that it was fake, except we actually have a Q guy in our neighborhood.
I don’t know the guy, but he has a giant banner in the front yard. Last year it was a big Qanon banner and a big Trump banner and a big JFK jr banner.
Now he is down to one banner, I think it’s Kennedy Trump 2024. He had some weird flag as well.
Dude has one of the bigger houses in the neighborhood too. Probably worth close to a million bucks.
He remains the only actual Qanon enthusiast I have ever heard of. I don’t know the guy, I’m not even sure I’ve ever seen the guy. So maybe he doesn’t actually exist.
But this guy sounds like he is a born and bred conspiracy theory guy … If he actually exists. I mean, he’s afraid to speak out in the United States because violent q enthusiasts are going to hunt him down? That’s grade-a nutty. And that part of the story is the reason I think that she made it up out of whole cloth. This dovetails too neatly with the insistence that white nationalist terrorism is running rampant across the USA.
Or your neighbor is a Fed.
“The way that you get inflation down is you lower demand. The way that you lower demand is you kick people out of work, you lower their income,” Spriggs said. “If you happen to be one of those people who keeps their jobs, then winner, winner, winner. If you happen to be one of those people who, we decide, ‘The rest of us need lower prices. You need to lose your job,’ then it’s like, loser, loser, loser.”
“What frightens me in all of this drumbeat about inflation is just not admitting that this is how inflation gets fought.”
That’s weird. I thought the way to fight inflation was to stop pumping trillions of dollars of new money into the economy.
So the guy was just helping!
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgmpab/better-ceo-taking-time-off-effective-immediately-email
I’m so glad I don’t work at some “hip” tech outfit.
If you haven’t seen it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said he expects the death toll in his state alone to reach at least 70 to 100. If that is the case, it will become the deadliest December tornado outbreak on record and among the 15 deadliest in any month.
All Covid deaths right?
“The reality is though, I will wake up tomorrow in the America of the year 2021, a nation unrecognizable to those who came before us and fought to protect it, which is what you must do now,” Williams said. “They’ve decided to burn it all down with us inside. That should scare you to no end as much as it scares an aging volunteer fireman.”
Go fuck yourself.
Ileft QAnon back in 2019, but I don’t seem to be able to walk away. I talk about my experience a lot — to the Washington Post, CNN and Rolling Stone magazine among many others. I even apologized to Anderson Cooper on his show for having once thought that he ate babies.
It sounds like the problem is still you.
In a statement Friday, Amazon said the problem began Dec. 7 when an automated computer program — designed to make its network more reliable — ended up causing a “large number” of its systems to unexpectedly behave strangely. That, in turn, created a surge of activity on Amazon’s networks, ultimately preventing users from accessing some of its cloud services.
That’s a hell of a bug.
As Christopher Andersen, the royal historian and author of the new book Brothers and Wives, which sensationally claimed Prince Charles was the “royal racist,” told The Daily Beast: “It’s hard to imagine how things could get worse for the royal family, but as the Maxwell trial proceeds things almost certainly will. At the palace, they are just waiting for the other stiletto heel to drop.
Elizabeth should have had Maxwell bumped off too.
On AWS, I am beyond impressed with how stable and reliable these services are. The scale of Amazon and Google’s server farms is beyond comprehension. I visited the nap of the Americas in Miami back in the early aughts. It was just when streaming video was starting to become a thing. NBC sports had their server farm in a pen in there. Connected directly to the backbone of the internet, they had racks of disc servers and racks of pizza box virtual machine servers alternating. The guy giving me the tour stopped me and said watch this, and we waited a few minutes. A soccer game was starting up in South America and the servers started spooling up one after the other as people logged on. Rack after rack they lit up, hard drive started firing up, and network routers started lighting up and pegging their displays.
I doubt that set up is enough to handle the remote monitoring for an AWS server farm these days. And they just don’t have outages. It really is the eighth wonder of the world.
I’ve heard the left complaining about server farms and how much energy they use. Yeah they must be yuge.
They are.
At a previous job we tried building an AWS competitor back when AWS was still in its infancy.
The data center where our stuff was going to run was pretty big, and our plan was to start out with a fraction of customers of what AWS had at the time. Our plan was to build as we got more customers.
I’m watching a little basketball, and they have a commercial on for something called bird dogs.
They are khaki pants with silk boxers sewn inside them.
I thought it was a really bad SNL skit. But I think it’s actually a real commercial. Please tell me you guys have seen this and I am not hallucinating. Cuz it sounds like the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of. Pants with underwear sewn in? Anyway, it looked like a real commercial and nobody came on after in Grand at me and said the name of some internet registrar or some other random business that was using it as a joke.
Ok, I am being punked.
https://www.birddogs.com/products/the-kevin-buffets
$109 for pants with underwear sewn in.
Shoulda called them the commandos.
Absolutely related to the first thing I thought. They talk about how comfortable they are with underwear sewn in and the first thing I thought was you got to make it comfortable with no underwear and go commando.
Great minds?
That’s how they’re supposed to look? They appear to be really tight and uncomfortable. And that guy has never had one leg day.
No way you are doing any manual labor in those pants.
Pants of the leisure class.
Reminds me of the now oldish Army PT’s from the 90’s with the panty liners.
It’s either a joke or someone figured out Covid Zoom business calls aren’t going away and they aren’t sweats and look close enough to pants.
Damn Rhywun, aren’t you celebrating NYCFC’s win? Rhywun? Rhywun?
AW YEAH!!
I barely followed soccer of any kind this year. Hell, I missed NYC’s Eastern Conference win last week. But wow what a run in the playoffs. They were basically the underdog in the last three matches and all away games.
And let’s not forget they had to play half their games in fucking New Jersey Red Bulls stadium because baseball at Yankee Stadium.
Maybe winning MLS Cup will convince the Emirates mothership to pony up for a stadium of their own finally.
So wife and I finally got around to seeing Dune. I was very pleased (as a big fan of the book).
I felt the same. I knew the essentially staged ending was going to be abrupt. Other than that it’s a good film. Not easy to do.
I do wonder if someone unfamiliar with the novel will be able to easily follow it, however.
Yeah, I can’t believe they didn’t go ahead and film the whole thing and release it in stages. Like Peter Jackson did with Lord of the rings.
I guess they didn’t have the money .
But the look of it is amazing. And it seems to be a good setup for what is to come.
Who cares about them?
Yeah, we’re not going to watch it anyway.
Glad to hear. I’ve been wanting to catch it but don’t have HBO+. I guess I’ll have to wait for it to show up on regular cable.
As a fan of the book, I liked the de Laurentis version. I also happened to catch the SyFy version and thought that it was okay.
I have the SyFy version on DVD. I thought this new one much better.
Good to know. Thanks!
I got it from Lobot. It’s on the back-burner.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-steven-spielbergs-west-side-story-has-plenty-of-spanish-but-no-subtitles-11639144802
But of course…
He should go for broke and subtitle all the English lines into Spanish.
The coverage of this is unbelievably eye-rolling, but there’s one thing that nobody should be allowing to get by them .
They are introducing the term brown face.
They talk about Rita Moreno having to wear brown face makeup, which is totally offensive.
Brown face?
That’s not a thing. Black face is from minstrel shows. White entertainers wearing clownish black makeup performing black music and doing comedic takes on black stereotypes. That is why it is offensive. Not because someone of one race wears makeup to look like someone of another race. We should have never allowed them to redefine it to mean anyone wearing makeup to look like someone else.
So here we have a Hispanic woman wearing makeup to look darker than she really is for a part. A part that is played and shot like a stage musical in film form, which it is .
In addition to the idiotic whining about the non-existent brown face offense, they also labeled the Jets as Caucasian.
It was not a bunch of white gang members going after a bunch of dark Hispanics. They were Italians. That’s the whole point. Immigrant ethnic minority gangs in New York. Italian gangs. Jewish gangs. And Puerto Rican gangs. It was part of the melting pot. There were Irish gangs before that. They made a whole movie, gangs of New York. You left these loved that thing. Remember when you wanted to give it all those Oscars?
We have got to stop putting up with these idiots.
You can say that it is better to have a Japanese actor play a Japanese character than to have Sean Connery play a Japanese guy without proclaiming it offensive to have a Colombian play a Puerto Rican (Yes, that is claimed here).
The more you allow this kind of crap, the more they take. They are already starting to whine about straight actors playing trans characters to the point that they cancel the couple of movies because of that.
I suppose they are going to have to cancel the upcoming avatar sequels, since nobody is actually a blue alien therefore we can’t play those characters.
It is 11 kinds of stupid, and it is damaging to the polity.
That’s the whole point.
SMASH THE SYSTEM!
Straight from the commie playbook.
Yeah, it’s not like they had, say, Alexander Hamilton being played by a black guy or something.
+1 William Jefferson Clinton = first black President
Only whites are racist. Only whites are guilty of cultural appropriation. Only whites …
Spud, love the MAGA hat the pigeon on the left is wearing. You sly old dog, you, tried to slip one by us, didn’t you?
Ok, I’m gonna go on a wild-assed sidetrack here.
The “Billy Jack” series touched the young Hobbit for a couple of reasons.
#1, and the least important, was that it was filmed near where I lived.
#2 is an introspection and a commentary of the late 60’s
My journey to libertarianism came through my fundamental conviction that the individual, and the rights of the individual, were the basis and cornerstone of humanity.
To those who didn’t live through the era it tends to get glossed-over with the long-term leftist goals that emerged. A lot of the 60’s revolution came about as people realized that they are individuals and not cogs in the machine. “Do your own thing” was not some sort of commie manifesto, and not necessarily a rejection of morals but, to my experience, a celebration of the individual. Was this wrong?
Billy Jack defended the weak. The guy whose ass he kicked was a rapist and, ultimately, a murderer. Was this wrong?
There are cardboard bad guys in the flick and cardboard good guys. Same, same as a Rand novel. I think that I managed to put aside the commie shit and focus on the rights of the individual. We are the sum of our experiences, good or bad.
https://youtu.be/cTBx-hHf4BE
You looked at the problem correctly, unfortunately, for most people, they see the state as the one that needs to set them free; which, as we’ve all seen, is not how it works.
21st Century Billy Jack = Kyle Rittenhouse
I worked in the produce department of a couple grocery stores “in the day” and potatoes are tied with watermelon for #1 worst smelling rotten produce.
+ 1 “trashroom”
Always was better if you had rotting fruit to blunt the smell.
I interviewed to be a plant engineer at a french fry plant. After the tour I noped right out of there.
If you are like me, you lose sleep at night wondering what would happen if you shot a baseball at Mach 1.5 into a gallon jug of sprinkles. Thank goodness we now know.
That answers that question.
all of a sudden, when I was offered a job, a shit load of companies are looking for my skills, up here My skills are hard to find, mayebe I can sore a good one,
Score
I just woke up thanks to piles of aspirin and melatonin.
Seems I slept right through some pretty impressive storms. I don’t know what Jugsy ordered, but her packages were blown off the front porch and out into the yard.
At least I’m assuming they’re hers.
My sense of taste seems to be intact based on the beer I just opened. Not that Milwaukee’s Diet Beast has much taste.
My back, ribs, and hips feel like George Foreman (or any boxer) used me as a heavy-bag. Ive had broken rib s that hurt less.
Current titty status: infected but fighting back
I’ve had more broken/bruised ribs than anyone I’ve know. My condolences.
Get better, dude.
Take your horse dewormer.
Anyone about? I’m so ronerery…
Just us insomniac mice…
Hey, Miss O’Grady!
Day 21 done. 12 to go. At least they had the foresight to schedule fine-assed girls for the Saturday shift. I know that I’m Aqualung but you get your little ya-yas when you can. I like the one that’s about a decade younger than me. She enjoys bawdy humor. Super nice girl but almost aggressively friendly. Not just to me, mind you, she’s just one of “those” people.
She would have made a great softball teammate.
I’ve always liked “forward” girls, not that it matters anymore.
Evenin’, F! May I borrow a cup of Ambien? Don’t take it personally if I do manage to fall back asleep.
Does Judi have a schedule opposite to yours? If so, that must be hard.
Shy guys can be cute, not that I am young or was ever forward.
She works afternoons, I work nights. Two ships, passing in the dark.
I have never been a “Shy Guy”, quite the opposite.
RIP Anne Rice. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10301149/Author-Anne-Rice-dies-aged-80.html
Back to shuteye…
I liked “Interview” when it first came out because it went against the grain at the time. Pretty much everything else was garbage. Sleep well, T.
‘Sup Glibs?
I am.
I have to stock up before Kathy’s illegal order goes into effect just in case the stupid people bend over and take it again.
I will not.
We got some takeout bbq last night.
https://trolleybarnpublicmarket.com/
The place is in this building. Very few masks, including staff. Very busy too.
Yeah, I’m going to have to go back to shopping out of state if the idiocy or fear of the penalties takes hold of people.
https://www.space.com/news/live/blue-origin-michael-strahan-launch-updates
Meh. Remember when we used to go to other planets?
No.
Moons are planets.
They are not. Planets orbit a star or nothing at all, not each other.
We are destined to live and die on this rock. Humanity is too focused on it’s own masturbations than to ever bother getting off this planet.
Even if I weren’t inclined to argue, they stopped going to the moon before I was born, so no, I don’t remember that time.
CNN, you never go full commie!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cnn-producer-arrested-charged-raping-children-young-9
And I’m out…
https://youtu.be/i7t3Q48aYxg
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/another-one-manchester-united-player-stops-play-leaves-game-early-reported-chest-pains/
Clot shots are bad.
This is cool:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/heres-how-reserve-currencies-have-evolved-over-120-years
Interesting.
When China takes over, it won’t be so cool though.