My god…
“Amish Farmer Faces Fines, Prison Time for Refusing to Comply with USDA Regulations”
“Microsoft Flight Simulator becomes hover simulator this November with helicopters”
“It was the worst script that I’ve ever read by anybody.”
“Even larger than Webb’s previous deep field image”
A potentially NSFW musical link to get the weekend started right.
IP law is bullshit.
Like the post office, the only good thing about it is that at least it is constitutional.
But, yes, total bullshit.
Those damned Amish poisoning all of those customers with unregulated food. I’m sure there’s a huge list of people who have been harmed… right?
Two might have been, according to the article.
Out of 4,000 members?
Two cases of listeriosis traced to the Amish farm. Nasty.
https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/outbreaks/packaged-salad-mix-12-21/details.html
During the most recent investigation, epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback data showed that packaged salads produced by Dole made people sick.
I guess Dole must be out of compliance with the regulations, because as we all know regulations eliminate bad outcomes. I eagerly await the shutting down of Dole’s operations.
We all know what the answer is. Dole is a big corporation with good lawyers and they did not openly defy the government.
Of course not. Big Gov is all about getting more people on the Dole.
And more pineapple on the pizza.
Dole grows good pineapple in Hawaii. Too bad it’s now just a boutique operation and the crap from Costa Rica and elsewhere dominates the food supply.
Um, well…
But, I believe people should have the right to consume raw milk as long as it is labeled as such.
Living on a dairy farm, my brothers and I were raised on raw milk.
Wish I could buy it.
I’m sorry for you. I grew up on a beef farm and know how much work it was. I can’t imagine how much work a dairy farm was.
What do you mean?
We would wake up at 4 milk cows, shower, and then go to school.
After school we would milk cows and help with whatever else needed doing.
There’s a reason I am not a farmer.
You’re not stoic enough about the work involved? :-p
Something like that.
Same here. But I would want to know all about the condition of the cows before I bought anybody else’s raw milk.
I bet the Amish farmer is around long after the FDA ceases to exit. I sure hope so.
Damned Amish couldn’t leave well enough alone, what with burning down cities, killing peaceful black folks in the ghetto, refusing to get vaxxed, forcing motorists off the road with their racing buggies, and hiding their hawt women under unflattering clothing. No, now they have to try to kill the English with their wholesome raw milk.
Let the free market decide. Dead people won’t go back to that guy and buy contaminated milk.
The story reached a climax in March of this year when a federal judge ordered Miller to cease and desist all meat sales and authorized armed US marshals to use “reasonable force” to gain access to Miller’s farm so a court expert could inspect it. The expert—accompanied by the armed marshals—took an inventory of all Miller’s meat, and federal inspectors are now returning every few months to make sure he hasn’t sold any of it.
Those feds are thanking their lucky stars that the Amish are pacifists.
“The expert—accompanied by the armed marshals—took an inventory of all Miller’s meat…”
Hawt.
Puzzling
Siegel added that he’s “disturbed” there isn’t much discussion over what he called a “productivity collapse,” calling it the biggest puzzle that the Fed needs to address in upcoming meetings.
“We’ve added 3.2 million workers, yet we’ve had declining GDP like we have never seen before,” he said. “This is a productivity collapse of unheard in proportions, and it’s very significant.”
“What are they doing? How many hours?” he said. “Are we misreporting? Are people that are working from home not really working from home?”
Inflation, accompanied by low productivity? There’s a name for that.
Sure — must all be the workers fault, Mr. Economics Academic. Pay no attention to the supply chain disruptions, dramatically higher energy costs, hostile work environments (DIE, fallout from the mandates / masks brouhaha)… can’t have anything to do with all that crap, nah…..
Taking GDP changes and trying to infer causes from that… yeah it’s got to be people slacking WFH that are causing it. Speaking of non-productive sectors of the economy…
Best economic recovery in history, Jack.
Inflation, accompanied by low productivity? There’s a name for that.
Stag-something. Stag party? Staggering drunk? Hmmmm . . .
Stag-OSaurus
Stagger Lee! 😃🎶🎙🎷
Riven!
Gaiman is something of a dipshit, isn’t he. I mean, I give him a lot of credit for Good Omens, but most of his stuff leaves me cold.
If only I had one of these!
Gaiman killed the early Sandman movie adaptations because they were… reportedly terrible. When I was at a signing (this would have been when American Gods was released), during the Q&A section, he said one of the scripts included Morpheus proclaiming, “Your mortal bullets cannot harm me, for I am the SANDMAN!”
Sort of like the Disney execs who wanted to adapt PTerry’s Mort as an animated movie, but wanted to back off the Death angle. You know, one of the main characters of the book.
Sandman is very much one of those books that I have zero interest in any adaptation. They were a spark of creative genius that Gaiman can’t even recreate (as these things tend to be), and any director’s vision is not going to match up to how I see things in my head. And there’s no real need…. the books are fine.
But if there’s someone out there who would enjoy it, and someone who wants to pay for it — knock yourselves out, I suppose. They’ll exist in the same universe that had 3 additional Matrix movies, Highlander had sequels, etc… not our universe, thank goodness. Nope, not at all….
There can be only one Highlander movie.
Can there be a series?
Alexandra Vandernoot says yes.
I read American Gods and couldn’t figure out what all the fuss was about.
The more hyped a work is, the less likely it is to strike a similar reaction in later readers than those who hyped it, because expectations are raised to unattainable levels – even if the work is good.
That should be (and probably is) an Iron Law.
I’d propose a corollary based on my son’s reaction to things I hype to him — the older a well received work is, the less likely a fresh viewer is to appreciate it, because they will have encountered many derivative works building off of its style, themes, etc… such that what was well regarded for innovation in story telling or characters now seems trite and cliche…. because it established the tropes.
You mean like Seinfeld Is Unfunny?
No, because he was always unfunny, even when he was setting those bad trends (which are also unfunny)
I rewatched Lethal Weapon a couple years back and was thinking it was more clichéd than I remembered. But then I realized it was the source of many of those clichés
Maybe you’re getting too old for this shit.
We all are.
I’m on the edge, haunted by the death of my wife. I should probably be off the street, since I’m a danger to myself and others, but I’m just too good at my job.
You know what you never get too old for? Being First.
I would like to point out that phrase was muttered by William Peterson’s partner in Live and Die in L.A. 2 years earlier than Lethal Weapon.
Was it a constant refrain or a one-off?
I suspect all the clichés in Lethal Weapon weren’t truly unique to that film, just that they were so ingrained.
Pre traumatic-brain-injury Busey was quite good in that.
The Godfather suffers from that.
I had to read up on Citizen Kane to appreciate how groundbreaking it was.
While I enjoyed that book, I think Coraline and Stardust are his best books.
Exactly same for me. Loved both movies, too.
The Coraline movie was very engaging. I don’t think I read the book. So, I didn’t have a reason to be disappointed.
I liked Stardust, a lot. Also Neverwhere. Won’t watch either of the film/TV adaptations. Even though Stardust has Michelle Pfeiffer.
The film adaption of Stardust was pretty good, as was Coraline.
Sandman? Nah…
Stardust, Neverwhere, Graveyard Book (which I think is getting an adaptation) and Ocean at the End of the Lane. Seems like he just does better with childrens/young adult fantasy?
I thought American Gods was pretty good, though, even if its not a very popular opinion here. I like the ideas presented, same with Anansi Boys. Good Omens fell flat for me, but maybe thats the conservative Christian side of me making a frowny face at the sacrilege
I am with Mojo on this. I read Good Oman’s on the behest of a chick, and it sucked. I read American Gods just to make sure it wasn’t him, and it was. He sucked.
But, I will be dead honest, I strongly dislike all British SF after Tolkien.
Douglas Adams?
Iain M. Banks?
Iain Banks? OK. Add the M and he sucks donkey dong.
I like some Alastair Reynolds, Peter F. Hamilton, and Stephen Baxter, off the top of my head.
de gustibus something or other
Terry Pratchett?
#meneither
Same place as Moorcock and Gaiman. Not impressed in the slightest.
They all have what I call the Sniggering Schoolboy effect. I think that post-Tolkien, fantasy in Britain became the province of schoolboys who really like to say the word poop and think it is the height of humor.
Not much into fantasy, TBH. The authors I listed are more-or-less hard SF.
I actually was kind of unimpressed with Good Omens. American Gods was alright. However, I absolutely loved Neverwhere.
Did somebody say “perpetual motion machine”?
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) announced Thursday it will grant 54 universities and 11 national labs over $500 million to conduct research on clean energy technologies and low-carbon manufacturing, ranging from direct air capture to carbon storage and sequestration.
The move comes on the heels of the passage of President Biden’s historic Inflation Reduction Act, which aims to significantly cut emissions by 2030. By 2050, Biden hopes to have a net-zero emissions economy.
The new funds allotted by the DOE will be spread across institutions in 34 states and Washington D.C.
“Meeting the Biden-Harris Administration’s ambitious climate and clean energy goals will require a game-changing commitment to clean energy — and that begins with researchers across the country,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm in a statement.
New research projects “will strengthen the scientific foundations needed for the United States to maintain world leadership in clean energy innovation, from renewable power to carbon management,” Granholm added.
Self licking ice cream cones are the future.
“Get me a cat, a piece of buttered toast and some twine, stat!”
Get me an avocado, and ice pick, and my snorkel
Sounds like Monster Margarita night at the local Mexican place
Glibs should band together and apply for a grant to make a clean energy technology that runs off of gender equity.
Ooh, can we make it plant-based and cruelty-free too??
It’s free range and sustainable.
And no gluten!
It’s another weekend, and that means that people want their Zoom/Happy Hour/Discussion Room link. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern.
A large portion of the money, $400 million, will go towards establishing and maintaining 43 Energy Frontier Research Centers, while these projects will study multiple topics including energy storage and quantum information science.
Giant battery powered self aware grant writing robots.
“GOP operative wants LGBTQ community put in “isolation camps for their own protection”
A supporter of Kari Lake, the Trump-endorsed, newly-declared winner of last week’s Republican gubernatorial primary in Arizona, has called for the forced relocation of LGBTQ people to camps in an effort to stop the spread of the monkeypox virus.
Ethan Schmidt-Crockett declared in a video posted to Patriot Takes on Twitter: “We need to quarantine and isolate all the folks of the LGBT community. We need to find all of them. We need to hunt them down and put them into isolation camps for their own protection.”
Of the government, Schmidt-Crockett asks: “How come they’re not taking precautions advocating against reprobate fornication?””
https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1555609281793347586
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/gop-operative-wants-lgbtq-community-put-isolation-camps-protection/
He’s not a GOP operative. He’s a right wing ass clown who pulls stunts for clicks. As opposed to lgbtqnation, who are left wing ass clowns who write headlines for clicks.
Yeah…I don’t think it works like that…
Reprobate Fornication was the name of my band in high school.
Reprobate is the best kind of fornication.
I had a homebrew called “Formication Fluid.” Not everyone got the joke.
Lots of Formic Acid?
You can really taste the ants!
It’s spreading. The mis-types from auto correct. It’s the new Minkeypox.
“Formication” is an actual medical symptom term we use. It means that someone has a feeling that bugs are crawling on your skin.
Wait, wasn’t that the playbook for COVID cases?
I do recall people calling for the unvaxxed to be put in camps. And Australia actually doing it.
3… 2… 1… “Trump supports caging gays!”
I’m guessing there’s at least a 50% chance he posted the video as a riff on how some people thought the dirty unvaxxed should be handled.
Oh, the injustice of it all
To see Neumann raise hundreds of millions of dollars roughly three years after his exit from WeWork is a sign of how “there will be Adam Neumanns but there won’t be Abagail Neumanns,” said Katica Roy, a gender economist and the CEO and founder of Pipeline, an award-winning startup that uses artificial intelligence and cloud computing to close the gender equity gap in the workplace.
I wouldn’t pay that Neumann guy ten bucks to mow my lawn, but “an award-winning startup that uses artificial intelligence and cloud computing to close the gender equity gap in the workplace”?
Cut it the fuck out.
“gender economist”
Yeah, that stopped me for several seconds.
I wonder if she has outstanding student loans?
I wonder if she got a research grant at some point.
“I guarantee she does.”
-RJ
At least my spell corrector didn’t screw up my post.
I guarantee she does.
And Abagail?
Are parents just fucking with their kids now by giving them oddly spelled names?
Boy do I have something for you. This showed up today in my browser’s trending-articles-written-by-neurotics-on-a-tight-deadline suggestions…
https://www.thecut.com/2022/08/why-we-mock-baby-names.html
Kymburleigh?
OFFS, get over yourself. At least be actually original with a name like Tarot or Hashbrown
Seven.
Seven Nerfherder. It rolls off the tongue.
“This is my child. She’s binary. Her name is 1011101.”
Wasn’t there some TV show character named Six?
Little Bobby Tables
https://xkcd.com/327/
SQL injection code jokes never get old.
That one’s from 2007
Blossom, CP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZcNCwsL60
Every snowflake is unique.
https://imgur.io/gallery/o3daV
Elizabeth Holmes would like a word with that writer.
“an award-winning startup that uses artificial intelligence and cloud computing to close the gender equity gap in the workplace”?
Seems to me a faster way to close the gap would be to persuade lots of male workers to identify as females. Their prize (which
Q and a few others may go for) is the new legal privilege to shower with the other women at the gym, pool, spa, etc.
Another heckler from the peanut galley:
Rebekah Bastian, the CEO and co-founder of OwnTrail, a startup that helps people achieve their next personal and professional milestones
Something you can really sink your teeth into.
What’s in the Trumputin search affidavit? I assumed they’s redact everything but the page numbers. For national security.
Babylon Bee has you covered.
https://babylonbee.com/news/9-biggest-revelations-from-the-trump-affidavit
That one wasn’t what I expected. I LOL’d.
Nice
“Potato” xxxxxx “Brian”. Heh.
Wife Hands Husband Target Receipt With Classified Purchases Redacted
That’s not me! I swear! 😨
Piss dwarves and mongoloid hookers
The affidavit had more blackface than Trudeau.
But not by much.
If you haven’t been to the Bee today, it’s worth a visit. They have a number of stories about the Trump affidavit.
Inconceivably lethal
The Environmental Protection Agency moved Friday to designate two “forever chemicals” used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances, a step that would clear the way for quicker cleanup of the toxic compounds, which have been linked to cancer and other health problems.
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The EPA’s action follows a recent report by the National Academies of Science that calls PFAS a serious public health threat in the U.S. and worldwide. It comes after an EPA announcement in June that PFOA and PFOS are more dangerous than previously thought and pose health risks even at levels so low they cannot currently be detected.
SCIENCE!
Guaranteed they used a linear extrapolation of the data to arrive at that conclusion
Hormesis is never a thing with these people, is it?
Sell your Chemours stock. The vulture lawyers are gathering
It’s amazing how everybody in the media suddenly started using the loaded term “forever chemicals”.
Guaranteed they used a linear extrapolation of the data to arrive at that conclusion
Millions of people have died from drinking water out of plastic bottles!
Ha, I already died from Net Neutrality. Fortunately I had the vaccine.
So you’re not as dead as you would have been without it?
“He’s only mostly dead.”
— Miracle Max
First they told me, pa rum pum pum pum
A new born First to see, pa rum pum pum pum
Our finest Firsts we bring, pa rum pum pum pum
To lay before The First, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,
OK. That was an actual LOL
I brought a gift for you, it’s up in my bum….
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1qWExYp1eH8
For the Late P Brooks:
The Idaho State Bar does have an attorney referral service: https://isb.idaho.gov/lawyer-referral-service/
https://www.phillyvoice.com/love-park-alligator-wally-emotional-support-philadelphia-joie-henney/
Meet Wally.
Nowhere near the most dangerous creature in Philadelphia.
Is it bedtime yet? I was up at 3:30am.
Michael Bluth- thanks.
I think I found a firm which does real estate work. I’m going to call them, anyway.
Wait, what? What did I miss?
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/desantis-opponent-names-running-mate-a-teachers-union-head-who-fought-to-close-schools-compared-parents-to-serial-killers/
Perfect choice.
Like I said before, he expects to lose. It’s a scorched earth campaign.
That is the only explanation for selecting her. He’s laying the groundwork to place blame on her for his inevitable loss.
Women and minorities hardest hit.
Once again, every Team Blue candidate should get asked about that.
Remember Todd Akin?
Wait, what? What did I miss?
Shitshow.
Serious misrepresentations.
Agent- “You can just put a new septic leach field in, since I cut the old one off when I subdivided the property. No big deal.”
Installer 1: “There’s no way you can do that. You’ll have to replace the entire septic system.”
Installer 2: “There’s no way you can do that. You’ll have to replace the entire septic system. But first you’ll have to pump that well full of concrete and cap it, because you can’t put the new leach field that close to it.”
Yesterday, Water Authority site inspector confirms what Installer 2 said.
Oh, yeah- the agent bought the remainder of the land post-subdivision, so he now owns the leach field. But he has very graciously offered to sell it to me for a price which I can only describe as outlandish. And, of course, that money would go into his pocket, and not to the previous owner. I think they call that sort of thing “self-dealing”.
Yikes. Sorry, dude.
Boy that’s awful.
Ugh. I ducked a serious legal fuckup on my part this week regarding a piece of property.
Long story short, hire your own fucking lawyer instead of relying on your father’s who is older than dirt.
Oh man. What a mucking fess.
I just glanced at a headline about Alex Jones. Have the Sandy Hookers sued Jones’ parents and children yet? Blood guilt is real. All must pay.
I’m stealing “Sandy Hookers”.
Huh, looks like Powell is going to actually push rates up in a more significant manner.
I have to give him more credit than I did previously.
I think they may be serious about crushing the ECB.
I ducked a serious legal fuckup on my part this week regarding a piece of property.
Was that the eminent domain thing?
Nope, got that cleared up relatively quickly.
My primary company took over ownership of the LLC that held the deed to the property in question back in 2012. Then we spun the LLC down. The title was supposed to be transferred to the main company but the attorney didn’t do that part.
And my controller has been paying the taxes under the old LLC name for the past ten years without saying a word about it. Fortunately enough, nobody grabbed the LLC name and took the title, which would not have been that difficult.
Needless to say, I was not amused by the situation.
I got my new attorney to spin up the LLC yesterday. Of course that will cost me a few hours, plus the title insurance company for the buyer is going to have a few questions.
I’m currently in Adams County, PA taking my son back to school.
The car differences between northern NJ and here couldn’t be any different. The number of Asian brands are about the same, but far fewer European.
I’ve never seen so many late model Corvettes. In my town those midlife crisis cars would all be Porsches. Although at home I did see my first C8 there. Surprisingly not NYC.
Needless to say, I was not amused by the situation.
Oops.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/easton-to-get-equipment-which-creates-3d-visuals-of-crash-fire-and-accident-scenes/article_94a46b8a-2585-11ed-907d-13e6696b06fa.html
Sounds expensive.
I remember that there were graphic crash reenactment billboards on the way up to Lake Tahoe back in the 1970s and early 80s. That article reminded me of them.
That is the only explanation for selecting her. He’s laying the groundwork to place blame on her for his inevitable loss.
They’ll blame the voters. The racist, misogynistic, anti-SCIENCE!, hateful, fascist voters.
Hilarious. Skip ads button in YouTube now just skips to the next ad, not all of them. Yes, show your hate for the viewers!
Seems to have been that way for a while. Work PC can’t run an adblocker.
On the home pc they are blocked.
I’ve noticed more and more don’t have a skip button at all, but first time seeing skip ads only work for a single ad.
We can all watch cat videos on a different platform. Vimeo, anything.
Oh, a Euro-Asian fusion recipe for your weekend.
No natto for me.
Also not a fiddlehead fan. Plus there is this:
https://www.cfs.gov.hk/english/programme/programme_rafs/programme_rafs_fci_02_04.html
Never had fiddleheads. Ok with keeping it that way.
Fiddleheads are delicious.
They are, as legions of South Koreans can attest.
I stopped eating ’em when they were implicated as a factor in the very high incidence of stomach cancer amongst South Koreans.
Ah, natto. The one food that could make me seriously consider eating bugs in the alternative.
https://mobile.twitter.com/nypost/status/1563296195929223169
No one in NYC speaks Spanish. Uh huh.
Right…
“Getting free everything is hard!”
/”Asylum-seeker” Barbie
Appropriate frowny-faces in the pic.
https://mobile.twitter.com/shirtsthtgohard/status/1563216150716350464?cxt=HHwWgIDQqdGz1LErAAAA
*nostalgic sigh*
“The Amish are often regarded as uncivilized people, but perhaps there’s something we can learn from them.”
This tagline really doesnt sit well with me. Who is regarding them as uncivilized? Because they dont have beaurocratic monstrosities that show up at your place of business with machine guns? Because they dont threaten to imprison each other or ruin each others lives and livelihood for not following arbitrary rules? (Well I guess technically they just shun you, but my point remains).
Seems like they have civilization figured out just fine. But the author is right, there are definitely things to learn from them.
Oh cool that replied to someone instead of its own comment thread. This would never happen at TOS! Edit button when?
And i guess it would help to read further down, author makes my exact points. I am shamed. Shame!
Fuck you mutherfuckers. Leave those people alone……..*deletes rest of comment*
Hey! Motherfuckers!
Leave those meats alone!
/Pink Flesh
👍🤘
He doesn’t want Miller’s customers to have any pudding.
If you don’t impound your meat, how can you have any pudding?
*deletes rest of comment*
Too late.
All your keystroke are belong to us.