“These links are terrible!”
“Jurassic World Alive, Cookie Jam developer lays off 200 workers”
“Another Princess Is In Our Castle”
“Merely entertaining the notion creates cognitive dissonance.”
“IGN has contacted Square Enix for a statement on these announcements.”
It was great to meet some of you last week, even if it felt a little like this at times.
You guys had a boy band last weekend?
I think I missed the dance number.
Im curious on who would be Popeye
Popeye does smoke a pipe, I got that covered.
I figured you’d be the Indian chief.
How?
I think he’s making a joke about Felipe Rose of the Village People. Rose is a NYC Puerto Rican and his claims of Native American heritage are… questionable.
And grosspatzer responded in kind….do you need smoke signals for that one?
Great to meet you too; but now I’m *convinced* you guys were not sharing all the drugs…
Maybe if you know the code words…
Swordfish?
That’s crazy talk.
I just did a lot of drugs.
“hy might that be? The problem is that his support for the minimum wage “is merely part of a whole system of thought,” as Hazlitt said: namely, the progressive economic, political, and moral ideology he has imbibed from school, the media, or some other influence.”
Moral ideology?
“So instead of just debunking the minimum wage in particular, it is key to also provide at least a glimpse of a wider alternative vision: i.e., the economic function of wages in general, the ethics of contracts in general, and what free markets and free societies are and how they work. Once your opponent starts to understand and embrace the freedom perspective as a whole, embracing market wages and letting go of the minimum wage will be a lot easier.”
Feelings don’t care about your facts.
Yeah, I’ve tried this approach debating libs. Most don’t care about freedom, mine or their own. The rest don’t understand principles, do good luck having a rational discussion. I just avoid them now.
*so good luck
I interacted with a flaming commie once who said “Your math seems to check out, but it doesn’t feel right.” You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves in to.
I knew a colleague who would often say things like “fuck your feelings” and talk about how she tried to make everything rational and evidence based, and then turned out to be a flaming socialist.
Congnitive dissonance takes practice.
I don’t know if this story was discussed earlier. If it was, apologies, It’s about a Dem congressional staffer who spent his free time driving around DC in a fake cop car pretending to be a fed. It’s good to be a Dem staffer, it seems:
He also embezzled by faking documents to give himself an $80,000 raise, for which he was sentenced to nine months. Think any of us would get a total of nine months for impersonating a federal officer, carrying a firearm in DC, and embezzlement?
More like:
Man was shot dead while a warrant was being served at his home in the earlier hours of Sunday. The suspect rushed agents entering his home with a loaded shotgun and was shot 57 times before falling back into his bed. The suspects wife and dog are under investigation for resisting arrest and are recovering in the hospital and pet cemetery respectively.
The man was suspected of impersonating a federal officer and embezzlement.
Good thing he wasn’t doing anything serious, like “parading”.
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
OFFS. This is how you soft on crime, by treating obvious adults as children.
That’s obscene.
Hello Riven,
It was great meeting you last weekend. It was a bit overwhelming at times trying to remember who everyone was in duplicate as well as trying to interact with as many people as possible.
Were handles used or did folks kind of recognize IRL names?
If wishes were horses I’d have been there, but it was not to be.
Pretty much everyone used IRL names, so I imagine the Federal warrant issuing system is overwhelmed at this point.
I’m disappointed everyone didn’t use a second alias, like Mr. Green and Col. Mustard.
Rusty Shackleford
That….would have been ideal.
But only if there 3 different endings to the weekend.
“Why am I Mr. Pink?”
Suddenly everybody wants to be Mr. Black
Thadeous Periwinkle III
“Better than being Mr. Stink.”
I can remember the face and handle of everyone I met, but I can’t remember all of their real names.
It actually was a bit overwhelming to me; finally putting faces and names to handles.
My overall opinion was that Glibs in person are some of the finest people I’ve ever met, and I mean that. Everyone just seemed really solid.
Glib vandalism.
Yeah, after knowing each other only by handles and personalities, sort of, for a few years it maybe difficult to recognize someone IRL.
At an HH a couple years ago I knew the names of several whom I had never met. I confused some, even after they identified them selves.
As you said they were (are) all good people, I’d loan them my truck, have to think for a while about loaning a gun (which I don’t have) though.
I would like to think we treat each others guns as our own and no man wants to handle anothers gun for more than they have to.
It actually was a bit overwhelming to me; finally putting faces and names to handles.
Zoom helps. I wonder how many folks I freaked because I knew who they were from Zoom but they don’t know me because there is no camera on the computer I use for Zoom.
My overall opinion was that Glibs in person are some of the finest people I’ve ever met, and I mean that. Everyone just seemed really solid.
Seconded.
I recognized your voice immediately.
I’m bad enough with just names; I’d probably quickly give up on handles and names.
I’m easy!
Bruh. Facts.
I’ll have to meet everyone again, honestly. Lol. It’ll basically be like the first time all over again.
“it felt a little like this at times.” That reminded me of this song, Walk on the Ocean…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12bM1CqHoBY
Via Nintendo Life, this is Another Princess Is In Our Castle, “a Super Mario 64 inspired horror experience,” where you “decide to come back to Peach’s castle a few years after the princess’ death, but something isn’t quite right…”
This looks kinda cool.
Why might that be? The problem is that his support for the minimum wage “is merely part of a whole system of thought,” as Hazlitt said: namely, the progressive economic, political, and moral ideology he has imbibed from school, the media, or some other influence.
You can’t reason someone out of a position he didn’t reason himself into.
Do you know from whence the First came?
ask not what your first can do for you, but what you can do for your first
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! I HAVE HAD
How the hell did hitting TAB by mistake submit the comment…. grrrr…
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! i HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKING FIRSTS ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING PLANE!!
“what you can do for your first”
what you can do with your first
O First! How lonely must it be
To perch alone on high
Without an equal, none like thee
With whom to live or die
O First! From whence did you arise?
A riddle quite abstruse
Until you come to realize
That someone dropped a deuce
O First! You must be quite nonplussed
It really is the worst
To find that in the end it was
That deuce that birthed the First
World-class city. Boston will shut down one out of four subway lines for 30 days.
Also, working from home seems like a solution to all problems nowadays.
People who can work from home live next to the Red Line not the Orange Line.
I suppose it’s better than bursting into flames on the middle of a bridge but, yeah, bush league.
“It’s the oldest subway in North America” only goes so far, especially when the Orange Line isn’t that old bit.
Bursting into flames on the middle of a bridge is better than bursting into flames in a tunnel underground. I recall I was afraid of the latter possibility when I rode subway in Moscow as a little kid.
Ayn Rand nods
👍🏻
The Moscow subway triggers sponteneous human combustion?
Just a fear that if something happened I’d be completely trapped.
Probably catching up on decades of deferred maintenance. 24-hour access as opposed to overnight-only for years on end – NYC did the same thing with a few projects recently.
That’s a big part of it – the T has been complaining for years that, even with the relatively early shut-down at ~ 2am, they still don’t have time to do all the maintenance they need.
It’s older than I realized – 1901 for the Orange Line (1897 for the Green Line)
I’m old enough to remember that the orange line goes to the Combat Zone.
Even knowing The Combat Zone existed marks you as old.
It’s been a long, long time since it’s been gone.
Heh.
I heard about the Combat Zone after I moved to NH. After hearing about it, I thought, “Sounds like an average neighborhood in Philly.”
No big plans of heading out tonight and interacting with real people, so I’ll be hosting the Zoom/Happy Hour/Recap at 20:00 Eastern and hanging out with you tulpas. Tomorrow night, I do have a conflict as they cancelled my lazy afternoon beerfest session, and shifted me to the evening one.
Beginning to look like that accident we had is going to be a combination of pilot/air traffic errors. Inbound was on an IFR flight plan but was dropped or canceled while going through Nellis AFB airspace.
Air Traffic didn’t call traffic and no plans were tagged up in our automation system. That last part isn’t unusual at a GA however, the automation system for very obvious reasons, doesn’t call out collision alerts on untagged aircraft.
Running the accident through the system and playing with parameters, if one plane was tagged up, it would have alerted AT of a CA/CA and possibly averted the mid-air.
Of course, lets see what NTSB will find.
Oh..other things. Crash phone was called twice, 1 minute apart which most likely means they didn’t know a second aircraft was involved AND they landed two other aircraft after the accident on the parallel runways after the accident just happened.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams wants photos of all city job applicants to increase diversity.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/04/adams-photos-city-job-applicants-00049730
Is that even legal?
The photo? No. Tying it to a diversity quota, most likely.
lol, legality, lmao
You know if he just said “we updated our process and all new applicants must include a photo” and left it at that, no one would have cared.
Imagine if you were an unemployed white guy named Devarius Jackson.
My suspension of disbelief doesn’t stretch that far.
I know a white woman named Deshawn.
De’var-ius, can I just call you Mr Jackson? You can call me …
His office seems to be spinning a different tale, but you’re not going to convince me that a current-year mayor of NYC isn’t a racist, sexist POS.
Full face mask for the photo would establish the proper pandemic bonafides.
A little photoshopping never hurt anyone…
“Sen. Ted Cruz lambasted the Biden administration as ‘cheese eating surrender monkeys’ on Friday for failing to stand up more vigorously to China when a former editor for its state media called for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plane to be shot down when she visited Taiwan.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11085323/Ted-Cruz-accuses-cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys-White-House-making-world-safe.html
Because they’re French?
No cause they are all children and treat DC as a giant preschool playground.
“EXCLUSIVE: VP Joe Biden met with two Chinese energy execs in the West Wing – the FIFTEENTH meeting with businessmen tied to his son’s company – who days later sent Hunter a fawning email offering to fix his $102k Fisker and inviting him for a visit”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11084655/VP-Joe-Biden-met-two-Chinese-energy-execs-West-Wing.html
Nothing to see here, move along.
White supremacist conspiracy theory. *waves hand*
Today, in black don’t crack
“‘Naked and unafraid!’ Gabrielle Union, 49, shows off her flawless body as she goes NUDE while cryptically hinting at secret ‘struggle’ over past few months”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11085783/Gabrielle-Union-49-goes-NUDE-hinting-shes-struggled-mightily.html
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/summer-special-elizabeth-hurley-posts-bikini-photo-on-boat-at-57/
Who says money cannot buy happiness?
Unbelievable. Deal with the Devil.
I received some cards about this documentary at FreedomFest. It’s about two hours long. I started watching it, and it looks good so far.
Planet Lockdown Film.
Bookmarked thanks. Is that the one Tom Woods was promoting during the lock down times?
I don’t know if he promoted this one.
The one I remember him promoting was a different documentary, which was a multi-part series.
At least we kept the spending
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday that Democrats had “no choice” but to drop a key tax provision from their major spending bill in order to gain Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s support.
Sinema, a centrist Democrat from Arizona, had withheld her support of the Inflation Reduction Act, the sweeping bill that includes much of the Biden administration’s tax, climate and health care agenda. Senate Democrats need her support to pass the bill through the Senate on a party-line vote using the budget reconciliation process, which requires a simple majority vote. The chamber is split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans.
Sinema announced Thursday night that she would indeed back the legislation, following an agreement “to remove the carried interest tax provision.”
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“I pushed for it to be in this bill,” Schumer, D-N.Y., said of the proposal to narrow the loophole.
But “Senator Sinema said she would not vote for the bill, not even move to proceed unless we took it out,” he said. “So we had no choice.”
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Sinema “has been clear and consistent for over a year that she will only support tax reforms and revenue options that support Arizona’s economic growth and competitiveness,” the spokeswoman said. “At a time of record inflation, rising interest rates and slowing economic growth, disincentivizing investments in Arizona businesses would hurt Arizona’s economy and ability to create jobs.”
I had no idea there were hedge funds in Arizona.
Home again. 😃
Schumer said that another tax piece from the Inflation Reduction Act was taken out in order to secure the deal with Sinema. This one came from a proposal to impose a 15% corporate alternative minimum tax aimed at rich corporations that are accused of skirting their tax obligations. It was projected to raise $313 billion — more than 40% of the bill’s revenue.
And they make no attempt to tell us what that was.
And while the carried interest provision was nixed, Schumer said Democrats added in an excise tax on stock buybacks that will bring in $74 billion. He said that multiple legislators are “excited” about that update.
“I hate stock buybacks. I think they’re one of the most self-serving things corporate America does,” Schumer said. “I’d like to abolish them.”
If there’s anybody who knows about self-serving, it’s Chuck (or any United States Senator).
I thought Schumer thought American corporations were all greedy bastards? Here they are, buying back stock and getting cash to move from the greedy hands of the corporation
into the hands of pension funds, 401k plans, and millions of other stock holders who may now direct that cash where they please. Sometimes a corporation has no good place to invest their cash, so instead of pissing it away on some ill-advised acquisition, they direct it to the stockholders. What, Sen. Schumer, don’t you like about that?
It’s not going into his pocket.
Your daily Sanford and son:
https://youtu.be/Qn434Q7-ku4
🙂
Rough road
The outcome has far-reaching implications for the country, including for countless American families who have benefited from an extraordinarily strong labor market but also grappled with historic price surges that have eaten up pay raises and strained household budgets. It also presents an enormous challenge for Joe Biden’s presidency, since a miscalculation by the Fed could result in a nosediving economy, persistently high inflation, or worse, both.
Tanking the economy was the right thing to do when it was Trump up for re-election.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/a-child-was-in-the-street-bystanders-rush-to-help-victims-of-fiery-crash-in-windsor-hills-area/
Ugh. That’s horrible.
6 dead.
Jesus
“Asian smoke shop owner defends his store in Las Vegas”
https://twitter.com/AsianDawn4/status/1555597994736594944
Neil DeGrasse Tyson offers more info that he’s a dick.
Ain’t his account.
Watched the whole interaction. Owner will probably get charged however, the reason these shit weasels take the risk they did is because they don’t think people won’t fight back and deal with the consequences, hence the ‘oh shit, im dead’ as he was confronted.
If charged I’d be tempted to go for the jury trial. Can’t imagine too many LV residents would convict.
Kid lived
https://nypost.com/2022/08/05/las-vegas-vape-store-owner-defends-himself-by-stabbing-would-be-robber/
Wow. I thought for sure that last thrust to the back of the neck would finish him.
Is he paralyzed? Because it looked like a hit on the spine.
NDT posted a response.
Sometimes when he’s not pretending to be a scientist, he pretends to be a lawyer.
Damn. Bet he doesn’t try to pull that shit again.
That’s fucked up. No way did he need to stab that guy that many times. The coup de grace to the back of the neck is going to earn that guy a murder charge.
I watched the video twice.
I can see it going the way you think, but if I were on the jury, not guilty.
Hell yes.
I’ve had a gun pointed in my face behind a hotel front desk. The boss’s baseball bat wasn’t going to help me, either. Fuck these fucking criminals.
Don’t get me wrong–I have no problem with the idea of killing in self defense at all. I don’t even have a problem in principle with use of lethal force in defense of property, to a degree. A single shot would be enough to kill that assailant, and that would be fine. The issue I have is that when you stab someone that many times, at some point you’re trying to kill them, not to stop the threat.
If that kid had died, the shop owner would likely be up on murder charges. Even without a death, he’s going to have a massive uphill battle defending against the inevitable civil suit.
Knife wounds don’t really work that way. They’re like peripheral gunshot wounds – it takes a while for the brain to catch up to the shock and blood loss.
I understand.
I agree that there can be situations where the attacker stops being a threat and continuing to defend yourself turns you into the attacker.
I don’t see it in this situation.
More than one robber (yeah one ran, but what if he comes back?). Close quarters. Just because the robber has his back to the store owner doesn’t mean the attack has stopped – he could be maneuvering.
So in this case, not guilty.
Tough to watch but I don’t have a problem with it. I hope the stabbee recovers and I hope the stabber isn’t charged but if he had killed him, oh well.
I didn’t see any blood.
That can happen depending on the stab wound and type of clothing worn.
For example. Not mentioned in the wiki article is since the knife went into her heart pretty quickly, the heart shut down quickly stopping blood flow and therefore heavy bleeding won’t happen.
10 stabs over a few seconds looks more violent but I wouldn’t really consider it different than unloading a mag. Is the coupe de grace to the back of the neck with a knife that different than aiming for center mass and working your way up to a headshot?
I think you could argue that the store owner stopped stabbing as soon as the assailant stopped fighting. Same theory as ‘shoot until they stop.’
I’d have to watch the video again to be sure, and I really don’t feel like doing that.
Two guys in there?
You have to make sure the first one isn’t going to get back up while you prepare to deal with an attack from the second.
If he went back after the first guy dropped and the second guy fled and stabbed him again then yes, it’s murder. Stabbing him multiple times in the middle of a fight? I’m not judging him for the particulars.
From the Post, 3 guys – one was blocking the door.
Then even more so.
https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1555558374049255424
CWAA
Stunning and brave
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1552496478446305280
LOLOLOLOL
It was great to meet some of you last week, even if it felt a little like this at times.
Sorry I couldn’t make it.
Honest to God trigger warning here: Smoke shop owner defends store with a knife
https://www.asian-dawn.com/2022/08/05/smoke-shop-clerk-stabs-1-of-3-robbers-with-a-knife-multiple-times-in-las-vegas/
Yikes but don’t put on ski masks and rob people for god’s sake.
Well damn…
Drugs,ass,etc
Brutal:
‘Never Has America Faced A Greater Threat Than Donald Trump,’ Says Guy Who Started Two Wars And Shot A Dude In The Face