This is better.
Tomorrow morning, I wing my way to a small hamlet in upstate New York. I will have a extra dose of loathing for the TSA and flight attendants, because I was really looking forward to flying without a useless piece of cloth on my face. Screw them right in the pucker.
How about some links!
Written by a cat owner, desperate to get laid.
I can’t imagine anything much more dystopian.
I hope the kid enjoyed his time in Congress.
In keeping with this mornings music theme.
WTF does “based” mean anyway? I don’t speak jive.
I had to look it up. The Urban Dictionary says, “A word used when you agree with something; or when you want to recognize someone for being themselves, i.e. courageous and unique or not caring what others think. Especially common in online political slang.
The opposite of cringe, some times the opposite of biased.”
Originally, it meant someone who kept to their opinions even when they were unpopular.
Pretty much the opposite of ‘woke’.
I assume it is response to the media calling things they don’t like baseless.
There is no way 5 billion people will join the metaverse by 2030 unless Zuckerberg has perfected teledildonics.
If it’s voluntary…
Yeah. “Join or you don’t eat” may be coming soon.
I’ll take your word for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yXf3fe2iDw
I think that put me on another list.
The population of the world is 8 billion. If you exclude infants, old farts, and people who don’t have internet connections fast enough to use Meta, the number is even lower. So yeah, 5 billion is BS.
Back from the home improvement store. Bifold closet doors that were $560 three years ago are now $2400. Kill me now. Subbing in mdf doors I guess.
Jeebus. Putin really fucked you over.
I know! I could buy a plane ticket for Kiev for that money.
Build some yourself. Work that wood, motherfucker!
I might as well make a cross for my wife to use for me. I’m already way behind schedule on the reno, last thing I need is tell her I’m going to putz around making them myself. I don’t think she’d stop with a mere divorce attorney.
Speaking of which, doors are 20 weeks out.
Fuck me, that’s absurd. You’re in Oregon, correct?
That’s for special orders. Like solid wood core or nonstandard sizes. Mdf hollow core shite is stock for same day.
Factory is in state but I’d guess a good amount flows southward.
I don’t think she’d stop with a mere divorce attorney.
Well, since you are behind on the Reno….
My parents were married in the Reno.
Blames it on Reno
I had to buy a few pressure treated 2 x 4s and they are up to ten bucks a piece at Lowes here. 1/2” pvc conduit is $9. I thought the 1/2” conduit was 2 bucks and change about 5 years ago when I last bought a bunch, but maybe I’m misremembering.
Hang a curtain. It’s kind of a place holder, but at that price, fuck it.
If you’re in Butlerville through the weekend, we’re having a laid back practical pistol match (time plus scoring) on Saturday.
While not as bad as Legos, knucklebones hurt rather a lot when you step on them barefoot.
Hi Spud!
Have a wonderful trip. I’ve traveled quite a lot since the insanity began (9/12/01), and I can recommend lots of scotch.
That’s always good advice (unless you are flying the plane).
Tundra, et al: I have been rinsing the fuck out of my nose with that stuff. I had a painful ear pop when I attempted to go for a walk earlier, which I take as a good sign. Still motion sick. Hoping it alleviates soon, as I feel like the lower extremities of hell.
How’s the vertigo?
Not as good as the lifeboat or the rear window.
Or To Catch a Thief.
Yeah, you forgot the link.
Bunk.
Can you imagine walking up the 39 steps with vertigo? It’s not happened to me, but my suspicion is that was the trouble with Harry.
Scientists believe the tiny parasite subtly alters hosts’ behaviour — possibly through its effects on key hormones – to increase the likelihood of being passed on.
I remember that episode of Futurama.
I need to get off my arse and setup my new hydro system, which is still sitting in a box in the entry way hall. But I feel like I am glued to this fucking chair and can only muster the will to get up when I need another can of hipster juice.
Are you using LEDs? LEDeez nutz!
No, I’m using incandescent bulbs made in 1920 of course. It’s so nostalgic and retro and cool and makes me feel special and warm and fuzzy inside.
Metaverse is the name of the cat lady in the story above that one.
Isn’t that higher than the number of Metacorp users now? And doesn’t this require special hardware?
No fricking way.
Later to be renamed as ‘The Zuckerborg’, right before the Zuckerborg Prime himself admits to being leader of the Gray Aliens.
Great Bill Maher interview from a couple weeks ago (with Carolla): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G2XXNdTXmQ
Meanwhile in Armenia, Azerbaijani troops are breaking the 2020 ceasefire by invading Armenian territory that is being patrolled by Russian peacekeepers.
Of course, no one is paying attention because Armenia is an ally of Russia. Guess who’s been sending Azerbaijan military equipment, include phosphorus bombs, etc?
That’s right: Ukraine. What’s Ukraine’s interest in helping Muslim Azerbaijan make war on Armenia, including straight up genocidal rhetoric? If you read Armenian news outlets, you’ll see that it’s to tweak Russia’s nose. Mission accomplished.
Don’t expect to see any coverage of this in the MSM.
Here’s Reuter’s unenlightening coverage:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/armenia-urges-russia-make-azeri-troops-leave-karabakh-flare-up-2022-03-28/
Here’s an Armenian source:
https://armenianweekly.com/2022/03/30/russian-peacekeepers-deployed-to-parukh-after-azerbaijani-advance-on-artsakh/
Oh goodie…two more of the countries I deal with on a daily basis are fucked. Who’s next? Moldova? North Macedonia?
Transnistria waves hello.
Not Turkey?
Turkey was supposed to supply peacekeeping forces as part of the ceasefire agreement too, but didn’t. I haven’t had success finding out why.
Armenian Weekly? What, does that get published once a year or so.
There is a significant Armenian population in English speaking countries, so it’s published often. And there are many others in English.
Most Armenians now live in Russia; about 3 million of them. Armenia itself has 1.2 million, and the US has just under 500k.
Most of the US Armenian diaspora live in California.
Fresno.
Fresno Indians, to be correct. I was joking with ‘splosiv due to the many Armenians I knew when I lived there.
Sorry; I got the populations in Armenia and Russia flipped. It’s still true that more Armenians live outside Armenia than in it.
Glendale,
The couple who bought my house just north of Escondido are Armenian.
When I unpacked in Nevada, I found some stuff that the movers who packed my house should have left in the Escondido house but didn’t. A couple of garage door openers, warranty and manuals for new appliances, the oven thermometer probe, etc so I shipped them UPS to the old house.
They wrote me a very nice thank you note and said we were welcome to visit and stay with them anytime.
Nice folks. I’m sure they are loving the local neighborhood Serb/Montenegrin market and all the goodies they get from East Europe and Russia. I sure miss that market.
Current events look a bit like the way WWI got started. Everybody had their eye on somebody else’s territory and pushed and prodded toward war so they could grab something while it was going on. It didn’t turn out well for anybody and I suspect this won’t either.
It was worse than that. The fucking jingoism and propaganda was off the charts.
Our default state is war. Not sure why we think it could be different.
/depressed
Bees are awesome.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10679885/Could-glue-bees-use-seal-hives-boost-power-antibiotics.html
I ordered 4 packages for May delivery. I’m cleaning wax and propolis off now, tidy up the boxes so the bees can get busy making the honey on arrival
Something weird is going on with that Cawthorn fellow. He got married to an absolute smoke show in 2021 and then they got divorced a few months later. Now he is “exaggerating” orgies and blow use among Congress critters. How the fuck do you exaggerate that?
https://heavy.com/news/cristina-bayardelle/
The orgies and blow are beside the point. He’s a loose cannon who might spill the beans on anything – and for that, he must go.
He’s a twenty something full of himself.
Yup and he’s apparently dumb enough to believe no one will ask for proof.
Get into the Zoom
Any one who wears a red dress like that is trouble. As far as orgies go, sure, why not.
Yeah, I hear you about flying. we’re going to visit a school for the kid next week. I had been hoping the masks would be gone, but no. At least it’s a short flight. That flight last year to Maui was a long time with a mask, even though I very definitely ate pretzels as slooooowly as possible.
of course that’s if it happens at all, since Alaska Air is on strike/going on strike/labor disputing. Because air travel wasn’t fucked enough, guys. Thanks.
Anyone setting up a Zoom this evening?
I hope so. I got some shit to say.
Ooh! Ooh!
Dumb shit
Isn’t everything said on Zoom dumb shit?
Actually, yes.
Sorry, but ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK!
Mr. Mojeaux just gave me the news! w00t!!!
A Life Of Many Firsts.
The Firster and The Sea
Love In The Time Of The First That Changed Everything
I am beginning to pen my autobiography, for after I change the world. I’ve already accomplished so much. You’ve been blessed to witness greatness on a daily basis, Gliberati. But if you want the nitty gritty details, you’ll have to wait for the book.
I for one, will not be buying your book ‘My Firsts Love of the Penis’.
Moldy Dick:
A firster’s quest to once again get some “green eggs and ham” from a guy named Sam that he first encountered in a bathroom stall in Schenectady. The reader is along for the ride as the protagonist descends into a maniacal obsession focused on catching Sam and repeating their first rendezvous.
“I laughed, I cried, I gave no fucks!”
-everyone
?
I’ll preorder.
My masculinity and superiority is threatening to some. It provokes the responses above. Everyone knows they’d read the shit out of my book. That it would be the epitome of The First.
It will be the origin story of our new era after The First. It will be America’s Aeneid. Thousands of years from now beta male professors who study this sort of shit will say it was all just a myth, that no one man could have been so great…so First. But it will all have been true.
“My masculinity and superiority is threatening to some.”
So, you’re transitioning to compete in women’s sports?
Don’t forget to leave your review here, we’ll all be glued to the intertoobz in anticipation.
We all know that the Glibs really show up to hear about how you got tag teamed by the Amazon delivery drivers after they brought you a oversized package.
B-, a pretty good score for the Broktard.
As Firster of the Current Thread I regret to inform the bro that I won’t be ordering your book
Since there doesn’t seem to be a zoom, I’ll start one:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89880502557?pwd=QWdueXNWR0w2ZDlJZXFXczhBV1hQdz09
Starts now
?
Zoom done all ready?
No. Try again.
try again
I’m host again, so try again.
Too late! you people had your chance. I’ll find a libertarian-ish Zoom that appreciates me.
You’re sulking aren’t you?
We’ll miss you.
Haha. Just kidding.
I wonder how much cinderblocks cost these days.
Building some shelves?
Classy AF
I need 5-6 chimney cinder blocks, mostly I need someone to put them back on the chimney. There’s a block factory not too far from here so transportation may not be too bad. I can haul them myself if necessary, after the snow is gone. Chimney blocks are about $9 @ piece, with the tax
Building some shelves?
A big-bad-wolf-proof domicile.
Figured supports for a Camero.
Another kick at Amazon. I was actually quite pleased with Amazon this morning as they delivered my package on time, notified me well in advance and let me track the package live and then fulfilled their promise to bring package into house. What sort of bothers me is this, although not really by biz, so I’m silent.
But I get the knock on the door, go to door and this dude is standing there, doing nothing, no package, and then this guy comes into view behind him strugging to walk with this huge heavy box, and I’m thinking WTF? You don’t have a hand cart and this lazy fuck in front of you won’t lift a hand? So I sort of just pushed by guy at door and said ‘let me help you’ and so me and slave labor guy gets this into house? What even in the fuck, Amazon? All the conspiracy theory about you guys is really true, you fucking assholes. Bezos can’t afford a hand cart? What a fucking dickweed.
I hear the sound of sidewalks rolling up and zipping shut…
Sidewalks should be like your anus – always open and readily accessible to the public.
That would explain the shit on them.
I was thinking hard, cracked, and bleached.
Man you’ve watched a lot of porn.
Glibertarians: The Meme
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Checks out.
I can’t really argue with that.
I get to fly to Albuquerque next week. Not looking forward to the masking either.
I pulled a week-long training week after next – thank God it’s remote. There’s another session at the mothership in Ohio a couple weeks later and I did NOT want to have to tell my boss I ain’t flying.
I had a project in Colorado last summer. I drove down from WA instead of flying. I have another project there this summer. Even with the gas prices I’ll probably drive down again
Look me up. We’ll do lunch.
Don’t take the left turn.
I’m inspecting the tram on Wednesday and I should be free for lunch on Thursday.
That’s a reply to Hobbit.
I assumed it was a euphemism.
zoom
Nope, this thing
Is it a special inspection because of the stranding a little while back? I imagine their insurance co got a bit… jittery after that.
It’s an annual I do as part of our engineering retainer. The stranding was because of some unexpectedly rapid icing that occurred at the top terminal. I’m sure I’ll get the more complete version while I’m down there.
that’s cool. I grew up in NM so it’s always neat to hear about my old stomping grounds.
I’m a newb to Albuquerque but will be going there often to work at Sandia. I don’t yet know the hidden gems and things that I might want to add a day or two to see, so I will follow talk of NM with interest!
I keep trying to go to the Nuclear Science and History Museum but my schedule never seems to work out.
I was zoom host and my laptop crashed 🙁 anyone around that can start a new one?
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
Mornin’
Good morning, homey & NA!
::glances about:: Awful quiet in here. ::glances about again:: TOO quiet.
How are you two this…rather gray and dismal morning?
Hi kids. just waiting on links.
::glances about:: Awful quiet in here. ::glances about again:: TOO quiet.
Yes, it is
We’ve been having an awful lot of weather lately.
*waves*