The Lord Of The Rings
Bill Russell has passed away at the age of 88. Dude was a baller his whole life. Houston took 3 of 4 from Seattle after getting swept by the lowly Athletics (and sweeping Seattle in 3 games before that!). The season is feeling like a roller coaster. Looks like the Deshaun Watson decision is coming today. Not sure what to expect, but the statement put out by the NFLPA makes me think it’s going to be a soft penalty. An amazing press conference turns 10 today. Max Verstappen won from 10th in Hungary, and I’m starting to wonder if the Ferrari team is being run by morons. That’s it for sports aside from me mentioning that I spent the entire weekend driving at Circuit Of The Americas and that it was an absolutely amazing experience that I want to replicate as often as possible. It’s an amazing track and a treat to get to drive at speed. Right, now on to…the links!
Good lord, you people need to get a grip. If you don’t see how this could possibly foster more research, then you’re too stupid to be digging up bones. Private funding is where it’s at, not being paid by governments. Embrace it.
This story says a lot. And it pisses me off that the media have driven so many people to a perpetual state of panic over something that’s less likely than being struck by lightning.
Christ, what an asshole.
And herein lies the flaw of tenure. This dude is obviously unhinged and incapable of doing his job. He should have been fired. Instead, the taxpayers were forced to give him money.
I don’t think this story will ever die. Anybody that thinks there was a good guy in this case is crazy. He still deserved to win, but man is this guy ever an entitled weirdo.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, apparently. This dude sounds as weird as his son. A Woody Allen-level creep .
This is how you do it. A similar government program likely would have cost a few million dollars and gotten the backpacks to the kids some time in March. Well done, private sector. Well done.
I hear Washington and Oregon are nice. Unless you want to leave your state’s shitty politics at home, please opt for somewhere other than Texas.
He must have lived close to somebody.
This reasoning seems flawed. “Health experts say college students living in close proximity to each other could spur outbreaks.” Uh, you’re gonna have to get a lot closer than that, guys. A whole hell of a lot closer. Guys.
What an absolutely lovely song. The video is straight cheese though. And here’s a masterpiece. One of the 10 best anti-war songs of all time. Even if I disagree with it.
Anyway, enjoy them both. And enjoy the start of another fantastic week!
A Vegas shooting? I expect a full investigation!
“The investigation concluded that people are stupid.”
-reasonable policeman
“What Vegas shooting?”
Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me…
“I hear Washington and Oregon are nice.”
They would be nice if they got rid of a couple large cities. Same as most blue states.
The new hot spot is Mexico City. They are very hospitable to the idea of AWFLs moving in.
And even blacks have privilege.
*dreams of New York without NYC*
“Health experts say college students living in close proximity to each other could spur outbreaks.”
They seem to be bending over backwards not to blame Big Gay.
Well as long as they’re not bending over forward, they should be safe.
I don’t know. It’s not HIV. If monkeypox is spread by skin to skin contact, then the kind of sex, or the sex of the people having sex, wouldn’t matter in regards to infectology. I’m thinking it’s epidemiological — it’s spreading among gay men because it’s gay men who have it.
MSMs get it (and every other thing) because they are more willing to engage in orgies with people they haven’t met before.
Even though there is no difference between men and women somehow. It’s inexplicable.
“they are more willing to engage in orgies with people”
They are more willing to engage in orgies with other gay men.
The bi guys are totally willing to engage in orgies with women. It’s just that those orgies are a lot more difficult to find.
Unless you are a lesbian?
If monkeypox is spread by skin to skin contact
If Covid is spread via droplets…
“f Covid is spread via droplets”
It is. The droplets/aerosol thing isn’t binary.
No it isn’t, but if it’s spread by aerosol, the droplet vector is relatively inconsequential.
Ehh, viral insult is a factor. Someone coughing or sneezing in someone’s face is more likely to spread it than just breathing the same air.
The set of people I spend time in a closed room with is much larger than the set of people who cough directly in my face.
We did the distancing thing, shit still spread.
“We did the distancing thing”
LOL No, they didn’t.
So it is your view that spread via droplets is not insignificant when compared to aerosol?
“So it is your view that spread via droplets is not insignificant when compared to aerosol?”
I don’t think it’s insignificant. I don’t think we know enough about this coronavirus because the issue has been so politicized. It’s generally agreed that influenza is spread via droplets, and there are flu epidemics.
My point is it is factual but not truthful. Monkeypox seems to require a little extra skin to skin contact to get a good infection going.
STDs are typically less contagious diseases that spread only with very close contact. It has more to do with behavior than anything else. The gay men who are catching it are sluts with little regard for safety. And they probably hide their disease. I’d expect johns and hookers to be spreading it as well.
According to Maggie McNeill, prostitutes are less likely to spread disease than promiscuous amateurs.
Possibly. I’m not eager to test the theory myself.
I don’t have enough money for the high end market.
“I concur.”
-ENB
Hmm. Considering she chickened out of being a professional…
If it’s skin to skin, I don’t think condoms would prevent transmission.
This makes sense among professionals. The druggy street walkers are another story.
If I was gay, I would not think of people that want me to remain uninformed about a health/life risk as my allies. Cause this feels as if they are encouraging gay men to ignore a real serious risk, the consequences be damned, to virtue signal. With friends like this…
When politics trumps everything.
Exactly.
They’ve rhetorically trapped themselves on this one. The squirming is entertaining.
It’s just the dissonance between the “we have made so much progress on LGBT” and that, yes, some of the old “harmful” stereotypes about the gay community are completely based on real observable behaviors.
Feels expected, *shrug*
Ain’t a whole lot of lesbian bath houses out there.
There is on the internet.
I don’t know, I had a roommate in college who loved Big Gay.
“This reasoning seems flawed. “Health experts say college students living in close proximity to each other could spur outbreaks.” Uh, you’re gonna have to get a lot closer than that, guys. A whole hell of a lot closer. Guys.”
It gets better….
They want people killed by the medical profession.
A lot of them are stupid enough to think they’re helping with that shit. But some of them just hate middle and lower class whites.
Ignoring biological gender when prescribing treatments seems like a bad idea.
We’re boned. Thanks for the black pills.
Trolling morons FTW.
Trump should mimic Trumpo’s ’stache. It’s very distinguished.
Jim Breuer sums up the pandemic
Surprised YouTube hasn’t banned this video yet or labeled it misinformation. Anyways whatever the hell he is on, I want some of it.
Give-a-fuck-o-meter-q&a…
No more fucks to give
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0
As a pedant/nerd/aspie I have to point out that the meter scale should have start at zero, not a negative value. Because negative caring equals unhealthy obsession.
Agree with that comment…
Meh, if you think of caring as a vector, you need some sort of directionality rather than an absolute value. Just like one of the many, many flaws with the Kinsey scale is that it can’t differentiate between a bisexual nymphomaniac, an asexual, and a prude.
I was also perplexed at the starting point.
Funny you mention that, when I’m doing a DoD security assessment form that scales from -203 to 110…
It should have gone from 0 to 11.
I was going to reply to this, then I realized I didn’t give a fuck.
Two young men jumped off the elevator and were absorbed back into the screaming mob. They had sacrificed their own safety to give us ours. The doors closed.
As the elevator car finally ascended out of the danger zone, I sagged against the wall and looked at my companions in escape. Every inch was filled with bodies.
Wowsers
Glad you enjoyed COTA. When I drive it in the F1 games, I hate it — mainly for the “I want to be Silverstone when I grow up, Mommy!” set of chicanes in Sector 1. Just don’t get the flow there and it annoys the crap out of me. Miami was surprisingly more fun to drive (for me), though if I were God Emperor, we’d have something more like Spa (but not a copy obviously) in the Appalachians. *That* could be a fun course. The race itself I mostly slept through – but I waited too late to watch it after watching F3 and F2 so that isn’t exactly a ding on it (Hungaroring isn’t the most exciting course, though…).
Re: private funding / dinosaur auctions… am I misremembering, or was most of the Victorian age of exploration privately funded? (Not the “Go off and claim colony for the Queen” part, but things like Darwin, the Arctic expeditions, etc… those were private clubs / foundations, right?) I would think there’s a pretty good track record to point to there… Of course nowadays, I’m sure that just gets a “REEEEE!!! THOSE WERE COLONIZERS, YOU CISHET SHITLORD!” or whatnot.
Oh I’m sure the Vegas story (wait… a shooter in Vegas? That sounds dimly familiar… couldn’t be a well buried story in the media or anything…) is trying to lay the groundwork for that stupid “Freedom From Fear” crap they’re trying to push. I wish they’d accept us locking them all in Matrix couches in a secure bunker if they’d just leave those of us who understand living has risks but trying to crawl back into the womb doesn’t work alone. Be a trade I’d take.
I’m still very much in the “Oh my God, Who. The. Hell. CARES?!?” camp on Heard vs. Depp. I’d say “A pox on both their houses” but I’d bet they beat me to that. Hopefully not monkeypox….
Re: Chicago backpacks story — but no government program was established and somehow, somewhere a poor up and coming bureaucrat was denied a lifetime of screwing around instead of working the problem and a generous pension. Pity the poor parasites!
Re: Cal-exodus. I just hope folks clearly understand when and if I can escape this state that I was never a Californian to begin with… I’m just escaping *back* to sanity. So don’t blame me much if I do end up in TX (it is a possibility — a lot of tech companies are there already or thinking about it…). I continue to have the politics of Northeast Georgia (non-metro Atlanta, thank you very much). 😉
Given the Title IX stuff and all the normally “bicurious after a few drinks” girls pushed to be blue haired trannies or whatnot instead, I would think the risk of monkeypox would start to cross the mind of the modern American college males (kind of like being in the British Navy). Or a monastery… just not a Jesuit one.
Yeah, always been fond of the first music link. And this one. Sugar Tax was a great album all around.
The S’s in the first sector make a lot more sense when you’re experiencing the change in elevation that leads into it and through it. Out of 2 into 3 you’re really cooking downhill and then you’re on top of them in a relative flat spot then back up in six, down in 7, back up in 8, flat across 9 and 10 is a blind downhill left where you’re flat out until the braking zone before the looooooooong backstretch.
The real fun is 12 through 19 though. Those two complexes are amazing fun.
Hopefully I have a faster car when I’m back in November. I would imagine the track will be a lot different then.
One of the top men’s criminal cabal’s entities caught admitting they hope the recession foisted on is results in less power for the common man, because the serfs need to know their place….
I need to find a local bank and drop them once we are in a permanent location.
I was a big Celtics fan growing up in Massachusetts in the 80’s. Russell was royalty there even as Bird and the gang were winning championships. What people forget about him is how great an athlete he was. Easily could have gone to the Olympics for track events if he didn’t start playing pro-basketball. Chamberlain only other guy ever in the NBA with that kind of athleticism.
https://youtu.be/qT5GlgXrX-0
I don’t know about “ever” – David Thompson was a jaw-dropping athlete.
Danny Ainge played pro baseball for three years before the Celtics drafted him. Tim Duncan would have been an Olympic swimmer. And I think Alan Iverson would have been an absolute stud as a d-back.
Iverson was Virginia’s high school player of the year in both football and basketball at Bethel. You can find clips of him playing football on YT.
Shaq could have become a Kung-Fu master.
“an unintended consequence of the state’s environmentalism is we’re not building enough housing in desirable downtown areas”
something something foreseeable not unintended something
It’s a racket. One they know a swath of morons willingly accept when told to them.
That’s the thing. Even if you believe climate change is a real problem, the solution is bullshit.
I tell green morons all the time that climate change happens. Change is constant. That’s nature. And those that want to make the claim man is doing something, on a scale big enough to make an even bigger difference than nature – a ludicrous claim, at best – better show up with some serious undeniable evidence to shore up their claim as well as engineering solutions to overcome that problem. But that the climate change movement is nothing but a marxist racket, because the answer for these people is always government ripping off the productive to transfer wealth to the connected. And that’s not gonna solve any problems other than keeping the criminal element solvent.
Yeah, the people already there are pretty much universally against “more housing”. Kind of the same as everywhere.
I have noticed all the activists in Berkeley and Santa Monica never clamor for more housing in their neighborhoods.
That’s our problem: the people that make the rules always seem to be unaffected by or held to the rules…. If our system made them put their money where their ideological drivel went, the lot of them would shut the fuck up…
Oh, I dunno, there are some YIMBYs down here in Orca County.
“I’m not against more housing. This just isn’t the right place for it.” The universal claim of the NIMBY.
But the active part of my brain wasn’t operating rationally. It was stuck in survival mode.
Pull out phone.
Dim screen.
Text boyfriend.
Open Twitter.
The end cannot come soon enough.
On the Vegas… incident.
TFB TV had a video out about how when they arrived for SHOT Show, hotel staff at the Venetian searched their baggage and seized their (locked in a box) handgun. If this is standard procedure, how TF would a non-Fed enabled citizen transport an arsenal to their room?
It’s not standard procedure. The SOP for firearms varies widely between hotels, from ‘None’ to ‘Exhibitor weapons must be stored in the hotel vault.’ When I was attending SHOT, it was more the former.
Oddly enough, the video seems to be removed.
IIRC, they were told it was the Venetian’s policy and nothing to do with SHOT. The gun in question was EDC, not exhibited.
I carried a whole lot of stuff, over multiple trips, up to my room when I was at the Mirage for FreedomFest.
I suspect that if the firearms and other stuff were cases that did not scream “FIREARM!” he would have no trouble with security.
In the United States, we live in a perpetual state of panic to the degree that the sound of glass shattering in one hotel causes mass hysteria the entire length of one of America’s most famous streets.
When lemmings stampede it sounds like thunder.
better
safeanxious than sorryThese guns are causing a panic for different reasons.
https://archive.ph/w4dGo
Mammary Monday.
I give her credit for not deleting the results.
Make it dismissible in bankruptcy and going forward, get rid of federal guarantees and schools have to be on the hook for a portion of it.
This sham about canceling student debt accrued by people that were told the lie that college degrees all are created equal and everyone should get one – because – is a misnomer/huge lie. What these scumbags are doing is shifting the financial responsibility from the people the snookered in the first place to those that either already paid off their own debt or those that were smart enough to avoid this criminal enterprise from the get go. It is a despicable move…
No amount of wishful thinking about how government can keep itself in the middle of this racket – to pick the winners and losers – produces a system that will do anything but fail massively. The fix is to get government out of the student loan business (a racket that costs tax payers) and to make colleges financially responsible, partially or totally, for the loans being issues. All those dumb ass study degrees would practically immediately go bye-bye, and only students that they know can complete the degreed program successfully and then go be productive workers, would now be left with the assumed risk (making the problem a non-problem from the get go).
Yup — have the colleges have to charge what the market will bear, and I strongly suspect a whole lot of administrators, assistant assistant deans, etc. will find themselves redundant.
Education is the only commodity where the people that pay premium dollar for some service/item tend to never opt to get the greatest return for their investment. Worse yet, the premium cost is is not going to teaching or efforts to improve teaching, at all….
This problem was quiet obvious 40 years ago when I was in college. A huge group of kids spent their parent’s money partying for 4-7 years, but there already was a bunch of dumb fucks borrowing money to pay for their partying. The number of people in the latest category has become by far too large to keep this thing sustainable…
No amount of wishful thinking about how government can keep itself in the middle of this racket – to pick the winners and losers – produces a system that will do anything but fail massively. The fix is to get government out of the student loan business (a racket that costs tax payers) and to make colleges financially responsible, partially or totally, for the loans being issues. All those dumb ass study degrees would practically immediately go bye-bye
It’s not a racket and it’s not failing… it’s a massive success. The government isn’t picking winners and losers. It’s deliberate and intentional funding of indoctrination centers. Graduates leave those indoctrination centers and go on to infest government positions, NGOs, and the HR departments of businesses.
The very last thing the government wants is for those “dumb ass study degrees” to disappear.
Which is why there is no serious effort to do anything to fix this failed system….
It is doing what it is designed to do…
The wand waving is just to keep the morons locked in the system…
But it’s not a failed system if it’s doing what is designed to do. It’s a success. Same with public schools at the K-12 level.
My whole worldview shifted when I stopped substituting stupid for evil.
Same here. I always reach for “evil” first.
Nice – even with the biased wording.
He should cancel mine, obviously.
In a 2019 study, the American Psychological Association found that 79% of adults in the United States experience stress over the possibility of a mass shooting, and 32% can’t go anywhere without worrying they will be a victim of a mass shooting. About 1 in 4 adults are living their lives differently because their fear of mass shootings is so severe.
APA CEO Arthur C. Evans Jr. said of the findings: “It’s clear that mass shootings are taking a toll on our mental health. … We don’t have to experience these events directly for them to affect us. Simply hearing about them can have an emotional impact, and this can have negative repercussions for our mental and physical health.”
Oddly enough, I look at that and come to an entirely different conclusion.
That the cultures of our past that valued self responsibility / self defense instead of cowering waiting for someone to save you perhaps, just perhaps had some clue as to what they were doing?
Nah… we’re so much smarter these days.
Hard times make hard men (not sexual!). Hard men make good times (again, not sexual!). Good times make soft men (rinse & repeat). Soft men make hard times….
We live in a time people think it is an existential crisis that other people don’t want to bow to and cater to their mental disorders… This never ends well..
The last one was at least sexual right?
We have, culturally, lost our ability to accurately assess risk. Which is, literally, the prerequisite for doing anything at all.
Now we let the government and related institutions tell us what the risks are, which gives them a level of social control undreamed of in human history.
Carry a gun, practice with it, and rest assured that you are as prepared as you can be to face any number of unlikely events with the knowledge you have taken action to enable you to protect yourself and others around you, should the need arise?
“32% can’t go anywhere without worrying they will be a victim of a mass shooting”
Wow. Just… wow.
i call bullshit
Me too.
I can’t imagine that 1 in 3 people are preoccupied with being killed in a mass shooting.
They also can’t go anywhere without worrying about COVID and Monkeypox.
Almost every day it sounds like a mass shooting in my neighborhood. I get worried that something is wrong when I don’t hear the sounds of gun fire.
I wonder how much editorializing the findings is affecting how these numbers are presented. I could easily find myself in both groups with a slight change of phrasing.
I certainly consider if a place demands I be disarmed before entering, and my family avoids supporting any place as much as possible that requires this. I have no problem including a mass shooting in the list of conceivable scenarios where I don’t want to be disarmed facing a bad guy with a gun.
The odds of you being attacked in a legal place of business are very small. Most shootings are drug dealers shooting each other. 85% of murders are in 10 counties. You can even break it further into neighborhoods, or even streets — 25% of murders are on 1% of the streets.
Carrying a gun is for where you don’t think you need it. If you think you’ll need a gun, don’t go there.
Good advice.
Yeah, I don’t even recognize the NYC portrayed endlessly in the media these days.
My neighborhood is nothing like that, knock on wood.
Every time I see a movie or something with NYC back in the ’90s, I think, “Man, for a big city that looks like a pretty cool place.”
Not so much, now.
CBGB’s Brah. End of an era.
Fuck yes. That really was when everything turned to shit.
Pretty accurate.
+1 Recent Times Square stabbing
Of course. I don’t know why this is relevant though. I wear a seatbelt when going anywhere in a vehicle even though the risk of an accident is small. It’d be odd to see a “No Seatbelts Allowed” sign on an Uber or taxi.
Carrying a handgun is for where you don’t think you need it. If you think you’ll need a gun,
don’t go therebring a rifle.I’ve also heard this version.
I have too, but I think that applies more to an expected confrontation in a rural area.
“Uh, you’re gonna have to get a lot closer than that, guys”
I tripped and fell onto his dick Doc! One in a million shot!
Just dropped locally: Browns QB Deshaun Watson suspended 6 games by NFL Disciplinary Officer Sue L. Robinson for alleged sexual misconduct.
LOL
Hilarious.
The league office is gonna go apeshit and not want to stand by the decision. And if I understand it right, it’s not binding. So this is about to get even more hilarious.
They can appeal in the next three days, but based on the NFLPA statement, they don’t plan to appeal. It means no Watson for the Stillers game here in CLE, and his first game with the Browns (assuming the 6 game suspension sticks) will be against the Ravens in Baltimore.
Of course the NFLPA isn’t going to appeal. This is half the suspension the league was willing to negotiate down to.
The league will almost certainly appeal it. And then Goodell can impose whatever penalty he wants. Then it’ll end up in court.
I can’t wait to hear how his teammates feel about their new duties.
Fucking a dude over for looking for a happy ending?
Well he had to look for amateurs for his massages, the professional massage therapists would’ve busted his ass from the first ask.
OK, not wanting to comment on the remembrance thread:
I was amazed at the turnout in Butlerville. Honestly, I had no idea that the fed had the budget to hire so many actors to stand in for the various sockpuppets. The fact that there were painfully shy people desperately trying not to interact with others and yet they had made the effort to be there is a rather humbling indicator of how important SP was.
As for those who were disappointed at the lack of mayhem — of course there wouldn’t be! Part of being a libertarian is respecting the property rights of other, double so for on of “your own!”
And OMWC, your establishment’s kitchen is HUGE, especially for a place not business-modeled around table service. You could totally add shakshuka to the menu.
“Butlerville.” Heh. I’ve been looking for a way of saying the name without saying the name for a fiction piece I’m writing. Thanks.
I wondered if you were there. You weren’t the guy wearing a ball cap, reading the Quran quietly in the corner, were you?
That was not meant for Tonio.
I noticed that guy, and wondered what was up. I was tempted to introduce myself to him.
Yeah, I went under the assumption that if they were doing something that kept them from making eye contact with someone else (like filling out sudoku) that they had reached their social interaction limit for the time being.
He showed up all 3 days, but to my knowledge didn’t really say a word to anyone.
Documentary forthcoming.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/19367169/joined-ex-threesome-new-girlfriend/
And I’m out.
NO GLITTER
You’re probably not drunk fucking in a tent either.
My only opportunities to do so have been in the mountains with grizzly looking dudes, so no.
You broke Tonio’s heart!
Gary has a sad.
Bitch please…
As a history major in college I took an entire course on the Great Depression and New Deal (which caused the depression). Every time the economy would start to recover in the 30’s, Congress and FDR would hammer it with new taxes, a whole new set of regulations, and massive spending – rinse and repeat for a decade.
Watching the business news this morning, the Democrats’ seem to have the same strategy this time around. Keep spending and taxing to the point where the Fed’s rate hikes won’t make any difference. Six months from now the usual idiots will be telling us that 4 quarters of economic contraction doesn’t mean we are in a depression.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/manchin-schumer-spending-bill-targets-tax-loophole-favored-by-investors
This time they will get it right by doubling down and doing even more crippling taxation… and then blame the wreckers & kulaks when their insanity produces even more of the same results as it always did….
Didn’t feel that great when I was doing it, but for me, not a bad score so I’ll take it to start the week.
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“Boo” on BL.
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ATTN: Tres.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/im-22-stone-still-snatch-27509626
That’s just gross, literally.
Well, ackshually it’s two gross, if my calculations are correct.
That’s a huge bitch…..
Yes, but she’s not wrong apparently (285k followers)
Tres’ bot army?
Europe and their metric weights.
Like a lot of “plus sized” models, she’s got a pretty face and it’s not in proportion to the rest of her body.
I think you lose out on a lot of the fun in heterosexual couples when the woman is too heavy to pick up and carry or toss around. There’s a limit. It’s nice to have a woman who can fit in a lap and be fireman carried for more than a few yards.
Meh…with a fireman carry you can move up to Tres levels
Unless she is into the fart game, fireman carrying heavy loads can be detrimental to your ability to score…
Daily Ray of Sunshine
I love my grandkids but they grow up and act like real people. A disappointment.
Thanks Jimbo, for the respite
I don’t think that’s gonna happen…
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/paola-saulino-pompa-tour-comeback-16852223
If her average blowjob is 10 minutes, with no breaks to sleep or eat, it would take ~20 years to blow a million guys. I admire her ambition but she needs to set more realistic goals.
Let’s do the calculations…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-hUV9yhqgY
I think Judge called Season One the longest setup to a dick joke ever.
I adored that show.
I usually can’t stand any shows or movies involving computer stuff, they’re just too stupid and/or make me angry. But that show was wonderful.
My wife and I watched it together, and we were both dying laughing when that scene came up.
Hospital and lawyer stuff in movies and TV nearly always gets it wrong in some non-trivial way. And at least with the hospital stuff, its even more annoying because the real deal is generally even more entertaining.
For what I understand with lawyer stuff, an accurate representation would kill the audience with boredom.
It varies. But for exposition/filler dialogue, they often even get that wrong for no reason.
One of the nice things about Better Call Saul is they do a very nice job with the lawyer stuff. The BigLaw firm is spot on, and I think a lot of the courtroom/courthouse stuff is pretty accurate, too (leaving aside Saul’s antics, of course; his wife’s* lawyering is really the kind of thing you see).
*We’re catching up on the final season, and couldn’t recall seeing the actress in anything else, so we looked her up. I about fell over when I saw she is 50 years old.
Still a fun site to identify computers used in shows.
https://www.starringthecomputer.com/
I usually can’t stand any shows or movies involving computer stuff, they’re just too stupid and/or make me angry
Preach, brother.
The one time I saw about 5 minutes of Scorpion I started foaming at the mouth.
*types furiously*
I’m in.
Hah. I love how easy passwords are to guess on TV.
“Try his anniversary.”
*types* “Nope.”
“Try it backwards.”
*types* “I’m in!”
will there be glory holes involved? Also is the blowjob to completion or just a tease?
Surprise
If you’re debating whether or not the U.S. is in a recession, you’re asking the wrong question, according to a top Federal Reserve official.
“Whether we are technically in a recession or not doesn’t change my analysis,” Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “I’m focused on the inflation data. I’m focused on the wage data. And so far, inflation continues to surprise us to the upside. Wages continue to grow.”
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“Whether we are technically in a recession or not doesn’t change the fact that the Federal Reserve has its own work to do, and we are committed to doing it,” Kashkari said.
Don’t worry. The Democrats have a plan to reduce inflation. It’ll work this time.
Easy-peasy. Close the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the problems disappear. It’s a messaging problem
the Federal Reserve has its own work to do
To create another massive bust in the boom/bust cycle.
I’m glad to hear that Kashkari is focused like a laser on inflation and monetary policy now. It is a welcome change from his hobbyhorse of advocating for some educational amendment here in Minnesoda.
They’re going to legislate that parents take an interest in their children’s education? Good luck with that.
You are correct that the proposed amendment won’t do squat to help the kids.
Which makes it even more insane that the local Fed representative was even fucking around with this idea. WTF? Wasn’t he supposed to be doing money shit?
I am just so sick of the “bad schools” and “bad teachers” excuses. Sure, there is some of that, but nobody can or will address the real problem.
Around here they literally close “bad schools” and re-open another one in the same place and expect something to change. 🙄
Just change the name of the school, get rid of the old slave owner names. Quality ensues.
If you actually wanted to make the argument America was racist, you would showcase the public school system. There is no more racist and destructive institution, by design, in America.
Separate but equal, like the fingers of the hand
It is the use of adequate instead of quality that is holding back those children.
But if they take the wrong kind of interest, like concerns over CRT, then they’re domestic terrorists.
Our current constitutional education provision was written in 1857, while slavery was legal in much of America. The language hasn’t changed since then.
That constitution was written by dead white guys. You need to scrap the whole thing.
State constitution right? A state that NEVER had slavery. So connect those two for me, would ya?
They are still dead white guys. We need a constitution written by a modern, diverse group to ensure an equitable constitution that doesn’t restrict Democracy.
Fuck the diversity, I want logic and reason.
I don’t think this story will ever die. Anybody that thinks there was a good guy in this case is crazy.
good guy no, but the chad in the story is still Musk who allegedly had a bunch of threesomes with Heard and Cara Delevingne, and walked away unscathed, to then have twins with the neurolink chick.
The other night, I was flipping through the movies on Pluto (the channel).
Some guy is asleep in bed, and this girl walks in the door, drops her panties on the floor, pulls the sheets back, and mounts up. In no time flat, she’s riding this guy like she’s in the Kentucky Derby. All tastefully R-rated, of course; not pornography.
The guy comes to. Now here’s the weird part. Rather than the only remotely plausible response (Oooh. Hey! Lemme help you with that.) he says, “What are you doing?” They then engage in some convoluted debate about their relationship. By that time I had stopped paying attention. Wherever that movie was going, it was someplace I did not want to be.
Because the guy was woke?
So she raped him?
Well, he didn’t call her the next day, so he raped her.
She may also have regretted it later which would also make it rape.
And we’re talking RAPE rape.
Morning, Glibs.
The ancient skeleton of a Gorgosaurus
Looks like a small Tyrannosaur.
Private funding is where it’s at, not being paid by governments.
Private funding is ancient history. Government knows best.
Private funding isn’t as altruistic as government spending.
Private funding doesn’t amount to dick
That’s pretty much what Gorgosaurus was. They were a slightly smaller tyrannosaurid than rex, a little more gracile, lived about 10 million years prior to rex.
The mental health issues caused by a constant onslaught of mass shootings don’t get enough attention from politicians.
The mental health problems of mass shooters caused by psychotropic drugs is, of course, not up for consideration.
How about mental health issues caused by the constant onslaught of government crawling up your ass?
“You didn’t find that.”
My boss had to give me a one-on-one tutorial this morning to walk me through AAAAALLLLL the additional security steps now needed just to log into Windows, added while I was on vacation last week. Apparently we merged with Fort Knox Credit Union during my absence. 🙄
You now have an entire armored division providing physical security?
I don’t even want to talk about the invasive search to which I was subjected on the way in the door! ::whimpers:: 😢
I see you’ve gained an IT department that believes the companies assets will be very secure when no employees are allowed to sully them….
The only secure network is one no one is on!
And the back door is wide open because all the contractors working in countries like China, Russia, Ukraine, India, Vietnam, and so on, have none of these security precautions bothering them..
Is this wrong?
Well, they’ll be sorry when I can’t log in to process payroll!
It has (almost) ever been thus
The two companies I have dealt with that really did security right, were a big tobacco company and a big oil company. And they were primarily concerned with internal leaks.
“We definitely want to see some slowing [of economic growth],” he said. “We don’t want to see the economy overheating. We would love it if we could transition to a sustainable economy without tipping the economy into recession.”
Doing so poses a significant challenge for the Fed. Kashkari acknowledged that economic slowdowns tend to be very difficult to control, “especially if it’s the central bank that’s inducing the slowdown.”
Still, he said, the bank will do whatever is necessary to tame inflation.
We could always just completely shut the economy down for two weeks. That ought to flatten the curve.
I do not believe the bank will do whatever is necessary to take inflation.
In local news, the government estimates that maybe in the next 7 years they will manage to build a highway across the mountains… around 70 kilometers total
Sounds fun and scenic.
The I LOVE DEMOCRACY crowd is working overtime in Minneapolis.
Can’t say I’m surprised. The Twins and the Vikes both got stadiums despite a law saying that voters had to approve any subsidies. Why should the cops be any different. The stupid voters will get the community policing they need whether or not they want it.
*The city is currently not in compliance with a judge’s order to hire 50 or so more cops to meet the number specified in the city charter. But I guess they still have time to work on this shit.
You get what you vote for seems to be a concept too difficult for way too many people drinking the Minnesoda water to grasp, your holiness….
On the other hand, when you break things to the point nothing works, most people will give in and let you do anything to them – anything at all – just for the promise of security….
All the happy horseshit about “defund the police” that the left ginned up in 2020 seems to be quietly fading away now that the voters see what it leads to.
What baffles me is how many people couldn’t use some basic thinking to see how this scenario would play out… They really somehow thought this would end up with some Disneyesque happy-happy shit instead of the horror that was obvious for all people not infected with prog lunacy.
a new office aimed at better coordinating
MOAR OVERSIGHT!
How about mental health issues caused by the constant onslaught of government crawling up your ass?
Or the stress and paranoia induced by an incessant drumbeat of fearmongering by health agencies and their media accomplices?
Speaking of, I actually saw a family wear their masks into a restaurant this Saturday, sit down and then take them off. When the kids went to the bathroom, they put their masks back on.
I wanted to yell “What the fuck is wrong with you? Why are you still doing that?”
They are virtue signaling Cause they are SOOOOO much better than you deniers…
I saw someone in the store yesterday wearing an N95 and there are still people at my gym that wear masks (even one woman does so on the elliptical).
The question I want to ask them is not about mask efficacy but more, “if you’re that worried about the virus and/or have severe health risks, what are you doing in public at all?”
Signaling their virtue?
People still wear masks just walking around outside here.
I still spot people driving by themselves with masks on.
People are broken.
Wife and I were out of the car and heading into the doctor’s office and I saw someone with a mask – we had completely forgotten. Went back to the car to retrieve a couple of rags (cloth masks) to drape on our faces.
For the doctors that still require masks, they’ve been providing them – even if you have your own they want you to use theirs.
My guess is there is an insurance billing line involved with that…
The reception at the dentist handed me a mask and said they’re required. I laughed and said I didn’t realize they were still doing the whole mask theater thing.
She got huffy about it and responded that it’ especially important to wear masks at the dentist. A few minutes later, the dental hygienist called me back and told me to remove the mask for my teeth cleaning. The whole thing is absurd beyond belief.
I saw plenty of face diapering on my road trip. Mainly in Vegas and State College, PA. I even saw people driving around alone in their cars with a mask on.
Unfortunately, I had to put a face diaper on in order to see my mom who is in a home in NC.
Good. Stupid people should be conspicuous.
OTOH, if you are running errands to several places, handling the mask (taking it on and off) is not good either, so just leaving it on makes sense if you are going to wear it at all.
Oh, sloop. Someday you and I will meet in person and just listen to music. OMD was one of my favorites in high school, and they’re still on my Pandora playlist. When I was a freshman the hot concert was OMD and Depeche Mode. My parents wouldn’t let me go.
Sounds good to me.
*Laughs in Russian/Chinese*
JBLE is hosting its first ever “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Summer Festival” on July 30, featuring a series of performances and speeches, including a poem on “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” and a drag show by Joshua Kelley, who performs under the moniker Harpy Daniels.
The festival was first proposed by the JBLE Breaking Barriers Alliance, a committee comprised of volunteer service members under the base’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion. At least one top base official, Colonel Gregory Beaulieu, the installation commander, signed off on the event and approved the use of military resources, a JBLE spokesman told The Daily Wire.
The festival is advertised as a family-friendly event, including “bouncy houses and face painting for the children,” according to an event description. The event, which will feature performances by several cultural groups, is billed under the theme “Celebrating Differences.”
Let me add that JBLE is run by incompetents. Of all the bases I deal with, they are consistently the most difficult, and seemingly wholly staffed by petty bureaucratic types who get off on changing security procedures every three months.
And TRADOC at Fort Eustis is a money pit.
I’m guessing no one shows up for these things unless they’re required to.
bouncy houses and face painting for the children
Kinko the kid-loving clown’s bouncy house and drag makeup tips?
I haven’t heard that reference in about 25 years. Sat night live correct?
I must have heard it on Dr. Demento, but I remember it on some animated show as well. Who knows.
Dr D was my source.
Agh! Was just thinking about that yesterday. Local far-left-of-dial station has refused to play it for at least two decades if not three.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x36bn42
The JB whatever concept sounds good on paper, but I bet they never met the forecasted savings.
The dinosaur auction story immediately made me think of the Chappelle Show skit where he does MTV Cribs and makes a dinosaur egg omelette for breakfast
Dominion machines gonna have to work overtime.
CNN goes to Wyoming to ask voters if they’re gonna vote for #LizCheney…
Hilarity ensues.
For a moment I read that as Hillary ensues. Damn near lost my breakfast.
I know what you’re all thinking: “What has Talcum X been up to?” Why, using $40,000 from his PAC to buy a champion showdog mastiff, of course.
Not a fan of the cropped ears. On the dog.
Agreed. Hate when people alter dogs for purely cosmetic reasons.
Wisconsin needs common sense inner tube control laws. Also, don’t fuck with cranky old dudes from Minnesoda
The other victims were 20 or so. Impressive that the coot with a knife was able to do that much damage to those punks.*
*No idea who was in the wrong here.
Obligatory
Sure…
“We are Reagan,” a top confidant of President Biden tells Axios. “We had a big plan. We are getting it in place.”
At least Reagan saved his dementia for the second term. And he did not fail at everything.
Sure you are. And I dread to find out what that plan fully entails.
Maybe he should check out some of Reagan’s speeches, which didn’t try to sugarcoat the situation, and redefine words to try to make things look better.
It’s twilight in America, the sun is setting on another day…
Winter is coming: Time to move to Russia
Amusing, but pass.
Probably going to be better than certain sections of Germany this winter, but I’m not inclined.
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ‘IS expected to visit Taiwan tomorrow night’ despite warnings from China that its military ‘will not sit idly by’ if she makes the trip to the self-governing island”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11068973/Nancy-Pelosi-expected-visit-Taiwan.html
*makes popcorn*
Awesome. unfortunately I don’t think they’re gonna shoot her down.
Deactivate some chips in the plane’s avionics?
If China shoots her down, I think China will soon be missing an entire air base, maybe even their new aircraft carrier. Oh wait, I forgot that Trump isn’t president.
Dr. Jill’s husband will probably send a “strongly worded letter” to Xi while he offers to sell him another million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic reserve.
Trump would actually send them flowers if they shot Pelosi down.
😉
Flowers for Pelosi; a couple cruise missiles for the brave pilots.
The hashtags will be released.
I don’t even know why she is going and I suspect if she doesn’t go the government and its mouthpieces in the media will spin it as a conspiracy theory. However, at this point, China put the Biden Administration into a corner with a dunce cap.
“Listen, we’re subsidizing chip manufacturing in the U.S. – for a small consideration I can help you qualify for some of that”.
Go fuck yourself.
Zelinsky‘s aide tells Americans they need to “sacrifice their cozy life to help Ukraine“.
The question is whether DC thinks we should sacrifice our cozy lives for their proxy war with Russia.
The question is whether DC thinks they can use a proxy war with Russia to get us to sacrifice our cozy lives.
The question is what does DC get for us sacrificing our cozy lives.
That’s been answered already.
Yeah, I’ve had about enough of that guy.
100%. I have zero love for Russia, and I’ll be perfectly happy if they have to slink out of Ukraine with their tail between their legs, but what is this bullshit? Why am I supposed to have some kind of deep kinship with Ukraine?
I don’t know who got this operation set up but it’s worked brilliantly. Guessing it’s the same cabal that are running the Joe-bot.
Considering that a whole bushel of politicians and natsec operative types are making big money through Ukraine, I suspect a whole lot of elected officials and CIA/NSA types are pulling the strings.
Ukraine had to happen since Trump-Putin killed the racket in Afghanistan…
What? Why aren’t you giving your full support to the most second most corrupt country in Europe against the most corrupt?
OK, Modova and Belarus are likely the top of that list, and I’m not sure Ukraine is less corrupt than Russia, but c’mon man, get on the team!
Did he say it while he was at the $50,000/ticket event at Davos, or while he was on a photo shoot for Vogue?
The sacrifices the inner party make are different than the sacrifices the proles are forced to make.
“Non-binary transgender social justice warrior and author is CANCELLED by woke internet mob and labeled a ‘war criminal’ after her job at defense giant Lockheed Martin was exposed”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11068111/Disabled-non-binary-transgender-social-justice-warrior-CANCELLED-super-woke-internet-mob.html
I love watching them destroy each other.
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
THERE CAN BE ONLY
ONEME!Live by the Twitter Rage Mob, die by the Twitter Rage Mob…
#OTD in 1914, Germany declared war on Russia. Kaiser Wilhelm II announced the news from the balcony of Berlin Palace, hoping the war would bring social unity: “I no longer think in terms of parties or confessions; today we are all German brothers and only German brothers.”
https://twitter.com/hoyer_kat/status/1553991782836346881
“Eight models are gang-raped up to ten times each at gunpoint while shooting a music video at a South African mine – prompting calls for sex attackers to undergo chemical castration”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11069069/Eight-models-gang-raped-gunpoint-shooting-music-video-South-African-mine.html
Damn.
Was the song at least good?
I can’t find the name of the song, only that it was gospel music.
Drill, baby drill!
I think that was the name of the song
So you saying they got what they asked for?
Pics or it didn’t happen…
Is STEVE SMITH visiting South Africa or does he have a buddy there?
BBC Yorkshire
@BBCLookNorth
In 1958 a BBC reporter asked people in Sheffield what they were worried about
https://twitter.com/BBCLookNorth/status/1553269409434570752
This shit was obvious and anyone that read the dystopian prediction books, knew this was the future…
which part the five shillings for a pound of butter or not trusting your bird alone in London?
Apparently this “automotive” website I have never heard of has a cut-and-paste blocker.
The tl;dr version of their story:
“Many” electric car buyers are so put off by Elon Musk’s ANTICS they won’t consider buying a Tesla.
Take that, Elon.
He’s fucked now.
My friend in dutchland was undecided between a tesla and a bmw. apparently much better build quality on the bmw as a car, but tesla superchargers are a plus for tesla.
I was with him when test driving the electric bmw and damn that thing can accelerate, but what is the point given the speed limits are very low in dutchland and there are speed cameras everywhere. 80k euros seems a lot to spend imo
Party at your friend’s house, and he’s buying.
The Teslas can really accelerate too.
even better than the bmws but I heard the lag behind in breaking and cornering. The breaks are not as good as would be ideal for a fast car. Or so I hear, never drove one myself.
I thought there was no speed limit on the autobahn?
the autobahn is in deutschland not in dutchland. Also some autobahns not all, fewer as the years go on and some politicians there want the limitless ones to go away completely/.
Ah, that’s what I get for scanning rather than reading. My brain registered “Deutschland”.
I think he’s talking about the Netherlands.
There are parts of the Autobahn in Germany with speed limits.
Is it Jalopnik? That would be par for the course for them. Then again Road and Track / Car and Driver are pushing the same all-union all-electric nonsense. Could be any of them.
Just change the dress code if you want.
Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Sánchez proposed that his fellow citizens adopt a casual dress code every Friday in order to conserve energy while providing few details as to how the plan would help.
“I’d like you to note that I am not wearing a tie. That means that we can all make savings from an energy point of view,” the prime minister told reporters. “So I have asked all ministers and public decision-makers [to follow suit].”
“We will all be contributing to the energy savings that are so necessary in our country,” he added.
I knew ties were destroying the planet.
Dropping ties is not enough. Shorts and short sleeves are what’s needed.
Work naked as God intended.
I bet you could get even more savings by hanging the lot of ministers from the nearest lampposts.
Dry cleaners hardest hit.
Just put on the Mao suit already.
“I will not take questions in class because I’m wearing this … helmet in order to stay alive,” he said, a reference to an astronaut-style helmet with air filters.
He seems nice.
“The whole idea was to get their juices flowing,” Mehler told the AP in January, referring to the video and his students. “But they also knew their grade was not based on predestination. That was simply humorous.”
Sure.
Big shout out to whoever it was that turned in 62 3D printed guns for $150 each at a Houston gun buy-back
https://twitter.com/Xaniken/status/1553758094404075525
Why did I not think of that.
Given machine time and material cost – not a good tradeoff.
Do the guns even work?
I thought that was why it worked out – they were nonfunctional model guns, basically, and thus cost very little to produce. I thought I read it cost him like $35 to make the whole lot.
Yeah, that’s my thought. Print up a bunch of zipguns that could chamber a .22LR and collect the money.
No idea. I believe Defense Distributed has shown videos of it firing.
It fires something small like 32ACP and takes a lot of plastic.
You’d be better off making something like Abe’s assassin using pipe.
Years ago someone made these at $5 each.
Mark Serbu has plans for functional firearms specifically for gun buyback purposes. They used to cost ~$20 each, but those were pre-silliness prices.
Legit LOL.
Brilliant.
Wonder if I could turn in Abe style zip guns? Even with material costs higher, a 12″ steel pipe bolted to a piece of plywood and a wooden trigger shouldn’t be that much.
Great minds and all…
Muh-insurrectionisms.
If U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, agents show up on your property without providing a legal reason and will not leave, call the Benton County Sheriff’s Office, he said.
He or his deputies will investigate, he said.
“It is my duty as the sheriff of Benton County to defend the citizens and their constitutional rights,” Croskrey said in the signed news release Wednesday.
“Your Second Amendment right to bear arms will not be infringed upon, and any action taken by the federal government that is incongruent with those rights will not be enforced by my office,” he said.
I wanted to thank everyone who the Mrs. and I met this weekend. She and I felt very welcome.
I think I’m still confused about who was who on a few people, as I am not good with names in general let alone Schrodinger’s names.
Hell, I’m impressed I managed to keep most of them straight through the day. The girlfriend still thinks the lot of you that she met are kind, generous, and nice people (with the exception of me).
I am sorry I wasn’t there to make you look better.
You helped quite a bit when we got there.
https://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/1552480470515990530
looking at this tweet, would you say 15 dollars is a tyupical price for what I assume wants to be a fancy cocktail?
I belgium it was 10-15 euros depending on the place
$15 is about right for fancy cocktail at a semi-fancy place in a major city .
The good cocktail bars in the Cleveland, OH area range in price for cocktails from $10 – $25 (depending on the place, the time, and the drink ordered). $15 is close enough to use as a benchmark. That’ll also change as you move between different areas and regions.
I was with him when test driving the electric bmw and damn that thing can accelerate, but what is the point given the speed limits are very low in dutchland and there are speed cameras everywhere. 80k euros seems a lot to spend imo
Electric motors have tremendous torque. That is not in dispute.
I still wonder about part throttle driveability, though. And, if what little I know is correct, I think power consumption is higher at low throttle, if resistance is used to regulate current.
the car drives real well overall. the range the care gave was 400 km and it seemed correct, we drove it like 60 and it dropped by 60
Part throttle is no issue. And speed regulation is PWM – highly efficient.
EVs do very well at low speeds because of drag being less of an issue and stop go traffic is better than with ICE.
DYNF
“I think power consumption is higher at low throttle, if resistance is used to regulate current.”
I’m guessing they would use PWM or something similar.
https://www.edn.com/measure-pwm-motor-efficiency/
Imagine if Hawaii was 25 times closer to the continental US, and if Hawaii had been American for centuries, and if the Confederates had taken Hawaii after the Civil War, and if the Civil War was much more recent and also still unresolved.
The US can shut the fuck up about Taiwan.
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1553352411447566338
I am not sure that analogy works really, irrespective of views on True China
Imagine the federal government was the same government that operates mobile execution vans and is the same government that starved 50 million of its own citizens to death within living memory. STFU bitch, I don’t think we should go to war for Taiwan but the apologia for the CCP is disgusting.
The US civil war Chinese civil war style: it was fought between two sides that both supported slavery?
(actually, that isn’t that far of…)
if Hawaii had been American for centuries
except when it was Japanese from 1895 to 1945
Does it change your thinking if the bad guys won the Civil War?
Q: How many Germans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: It doesn’t matter — under a green energy policy, it won’t turn on anyway!
Q: What did environmentalists use before they used candles?
A: Electricity!
No one needs more than 1 light bulb and 1 outlet per room.
“He’s just joshing you. Nobody has two television sets.”
+1 Calvin Klein
Shocking
As the number of people with post-COVID symptoms soars, researchers and the government are trying to get a handle on how big an impact long COVID is having on the U.S. workforce. It’s a pressing question, given the fragile state of the economy. For more than a year, employers have faced staffing problems, with jobs going unfilled month after month.
Now, millions of people may be sidelined from their jobs due to long COVID. Katie Bach, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution, drew on survey data from the Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the Lancet to come up with what she says is a conservative estimate: 4 million full-time equivalent workers out of work because of long COVID.
“That is just a shocking number,” says Bach. “That’s 2.4% of the U.S. working population.”
The Biden administration has already taken some steps to try to protect workers and keep them on the job, issuing guidance that makes clear that long COVID can be a disability and relevant laws would apply. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, for example, employers must offer accommodations to workers with disabilities unless doing so presents an undue burden.
Something something more of what you reward.
Horseshit.
Who called it the new “chronic fatigue syndrome”?
“Dilbert” has effectively lampooned “long covid” in recent strips.
So china has a new rifle… do you see the issue?
https://twitter.com/TachankaKity/status/1553749809676394502
I have no idea, some of the comments say the bullets are tumble before they should, others that they are not, and someone saying they are because they are crowd control rubber bullets.
Chinese troops train for crowd control by shooting at the face? Makes sense.
Is that a cement block wall behind the targets? The bullets could be bouncing off and tearing back through the targets. And at the range they are shooting, I’d be surprised if one of the troops didn’t get hit by a ricochet.
Pretty poor performance all around.
More curious how it makes that entry if its a metal target stand behind the paper
Small caliber jacketed slugs ain’t gonna stay together after impacting a concrete wall, they’re gonna fragment and take chunks out of the concrete.
I’m pretty sure those are some kind of low-power plastic training round.
Not rubber bullets, those don’t exist in that tiny caliber. They could be frangibles or some kind of plastic training round, which could explain both the tumbling, and the lack of damage to the cement backstop.
Honestly, the real problem is that Johnny Chinaman has to stop and post up to make a 5-yard head shot. Poor showing overall.
| I hear Washington and Oregon are nice. Unless you want to leave your state’s shitty politics at home, please opt for somewhere other than Texas.
California is the only state you can move to and live for a few years and become a Californian (and then possibly move somewhere else). I like how the Californians in that article are from the East Coast as that seems to be where most of the hardcore proggies here originally came. They can move back or move anywhere else please.
Anyways, what kind of car did you drive on the COTA sloopy? That sounds awesome.
I’ve joked for years about how to identify a native Californian – first don’t look for one in California.
Through my work I’m constantly dealing with people who have just bought property or moved apartments. I usually ask where people are from originally when engaging in small talk. I’ve been told dozens of times that I am the first native SFer they have ever met. And this is from people who have lived here for years.
Somebody on this site – maybe you – claims to be a fifth generation Californian. That’s rarer than an endangered species.
I drove my 911. It’s a cabriolet so there was a bit more body twist than if I was driving a coupe. But I felt like I was holding my own. I think it’s time for a Cayman GTS (mostly) track car though. That rear engine layout is a lot trickier to drive than a mid-engine would be, which was really evident based on what I saw around me on the track. And that would let me keep the 911, which I absolutely love for normal driving.
I could go all the way and buy a Radical 2-seater. But I’m not sure Banjos is willing to let me lay out that kind of scratch for a track car. Especially since we got screwed and didn’t win the lottery this past Friday.
Especially since we got screwed and didn’t win the lottery this past Friday.
#metoo
I thought the rear-engine 911 would be trickier. I’ve driven an older air-cooled 911SC and it was very fast and very scary in the turns. Lose the back-end and it isn’t coming back.
It definitely hangs the ass end out relative to the Cayman. I had two Caymans (987 and 981) before I got the 911 (991), and they were a lot more balanced. But there’s something to be said for having a car that’s inherently loose in corners. Scary = fun sometimes.
Hey all you beautiful Glibs! It’s been a roller coaster of a year for me. Quit the day job went full time Realtor and business owner. It’s been some really great highs and some pretty rough lows. I haven’t had much internet roaming time. But I’m glad to see most of you still keeping that freedom torch burning in the night.
Hey, Cy Esq.!
It’s definitely been a year of transition for a bunch of us. Several moves to other states, job losses and new jobs, babies born, loved ones passed on, medical adventures—you name it and some Glib went through ti.
That’s one of the reasons we stick around. It’s a elf-selected community of people who help each other out, whether through advice, listening, Humor, tangibly, or just providing a place where we can escape a little while.
elf-selected community of people
Now I get why we are so gung ho on the War on Christmas issues. I guess TOS is troll-selected?
I’m just here for the gasoline.
Quit the day job went full time Realtor
Impressive timing. I know some will make it through, so hopefully you’ll be in the elect.
Congrats! (I guess?)
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He said there wasn’t much draw in California’s quality of life, local or social policies, or cost of living. “That forced us to question where we actually wanted to live,” he said.
No
fucking
way.
They should all move to Austin
No.
California’s natural beauty is the only draw, and even that doesn’t outweigh all the crazy.
The hugeness and natural resources draw the parasites.
The mild weather makes it an ideal place for bums.
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I can’t really picture living anywhere else other than California. I was born and raised here. This is where my family is. You can’t beat the weather and the scenery. Unfortunately, the weather and scenery are also its curse, which allows people to tolerate all kinds of crap that is going on. I’ve lived on the East Coast, in Chicago, and in Europe. I’ve travelled all over the country. There are nice places everywhere, but I can’t see living elsewhere. At most we might buy something in my wife’s home country and split time between here and there.
The mild weather makes it an ideal place for bums.
Thirty-some-odd-years-ago, when I visited San Diego, I thought, “Man, this is Bum Mecca.”
There is a reason that Beach Bum is a thing.
When we lived in the area, we called Santa Monica “Skid Row by the Sea”.
Big place, SD; depends where. Older flatter parts: can be hobopolis.
Ugh, the smell of the SM free parking garage stairwells even decades ago…
Good news, Everyone!
New Zealand’s borders fully re-opened to visitors from around the world on Monday, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic closed them in March 2020.
New Zealand’s borders started reopening in February first for New Zealanders and restrictions have progressively eased.
The process of reopening the borders ended last night with visitors who need visas and those on student visas now also allowed to return to New Zealand. New Zealand is now also letting cruise ships and foreign recreational yachts docks at its ports.
I’m certain you’ll all be booking flights this afternoon.
Well, for some values of “fully reopened”.
New Zealand is California surrounded by ocean.
I’d be whispering all the time, not grinning, with a set of gnashers like that. https://www.closerweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/mister-ed-main-2.jpg?fit=2199%2C1145
Naw, NZ sounds much worse. Not many masks in SoCal.
Oh, wait-
Most visitors arriving in New Zealand still need to be vaccinated against COVID and must take two COVID tests after arriving. However, there are no quarantine requirements.
Never mind.
Somebody on this site – maybe you – claims to be a fifth generation Californian. That’s rarer than an endangered species.
That’s like an albino condor, man.