“Return the slab…”
“Jack Black’s Bowser is the best part of the Mario movie so far”
“A group of archeologists has banded together to demand the return of the ancient slab.”
“More Dense Housing Means Less Dense Housing”
“Elle Fanning to be in the next Hideo Kojima/Kojima Productions game”
Better than Ron Jeremy’s Mario?
I thought he was Sonic
+1 giant mushroom
Not Bob Hoskins?
Heh. The only way to watch that film is on a video tape Nintendo hasn’t found and burned yet.
Oh, I stand corrected. I wonder if this will stay up through next Thursday…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rL6nzJ2_RFc
My favorite Bob Hoskins movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7JkEPlyvRA
plus a yummy Helen Mirren
knew what it was before I clicked. Such a great movie.
I’m so sorry.
The fix for a song stuck on your head. Unless it is this song.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XkB_CFi9row
Mariah Carey? ::fires up the death ray::
Yeah, I opted for this instead.
The anti-Maria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES0vHAUGy8s
Oooh. Nice choice!
Hi Riven!
HAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Good luck with that, Egypt.
“More Dense Housing Means Less Dense Housing”
Sure, if the people pushing housing density had any interest in free markets or freedom of movement or cars or non-corporate agriculture. What did I forget?
If Market Urbanism means living in a concrete cell inside one of those plattenbau monsters in the picture, it can go have carnal knowledge of itself.
Pratt does an Italian plumber voice, he gets called a racist.
Pratt does his normal voice, he’s called boring.
There is no pleasing the critics. But I would have opted for over-the-top Italian myself.
Italian is a race now?
Always was.
But which one? Before WWII Italians were not considered white, but now they are.
In Philly, Italians not being white lasted quite a while longer. 70s/80s.
It used to be.
Whatever….
This has been stuck in my head for a whole day.
This is better (and yes I know it’s not the original).
Better fantasy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPQgfaB3S1c
Clay Travis
@ClayTravis
Joe Biden just said the risk of nuclear Armageddon is at its highest level since 1962. Remember when all the blue checks on here told you Biden was the safe choice for president? Welp, here we are.
Adam Baldwin
@AdamBaldwin
It’ll just be a transitory Armageddon.
Now this is stuck in my head.
https://youtu.be/HayjUnLyB3Y
I was thinking this.
I was thinking of this
I was thinking of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIpTE-aHEZ0
Or it could be this.
I’m not certain what they’re trying to achieve here.
Are they trying to shore up support prior to the election by scaring the bejeezus out of everyone? Because that’s utterly stupid.
If they truly feel that the risk is that high, then why aren’t they taking steps to de-escalate?
Or are they just building a public resignation towards the idea? Because that really is nucking futs.
what they’re trying to achieve here
Possibly nothing. From what has been reported, it was just Joe speaking off the cuff to donors.
The problem with Joe speaking off the cuff is that mentally he’s wearing a tank top.
*genuine snort*
Joe doesn’t de-escalate. In every situation he puts on the tuff guy act and cranks it to 11. He’s outright calling people who didn’t vote for him “a threat to democracy” and “a clear and present danger.” In the run-up to Russia invading, he made zero attempt to negotiate. It’s his way or the highway, Jack.
+1 “Nobody fucks with a Biden”
Exactly. But Trump was the loose cannon who was going to start wars.
Listen, Fat. Trump was a bad dude. I had to beat his ass with a chain because he was such a lying, dog-faced pony soldier.
There’s a Twilight Zone episode there – Joe as the last man on earth, wandering around, sputtering incoherently.
At least when Trump was calling Kim “Little Rocket Man” he was also trying to negotiate. It’s one thing to put on the tough guy act but it needs to be in conjunction with negotiation. (see also Regan trying to negotiate with the Evil Empire at Reykjavík)
Band name or album name?
Album.
Hey, if you’re still around, I ended up reconsidering that privacy schizo article I’ve been talking about maybe writing. I couldn’t get it short enough as a stand alone article, so I expanded it into several sections. I’m still not all that happy with it, but I figured I might submit it anyway. Is the leads/submissions link still the best way to get in touch with somebody about it?
Sacrifice a goat.
I trust Britain to preserve and take proper care of the Rosetta Stone, and the Elgin Marbles, and pretty much everything else in the British Museum far more than I do Egypt, Greece, or any of the other claimants.
Exactly.
Yeah. If the Brits hadn’t plundered all that stuff much of it wouldn’t still exist.-
The Acropolis museum in Athens is very modern and can take proper care of the Parthenon frieze.
Let’s see what the state of Britain is in the spring. They may need to end up pawning the Rosetta Stone to pay heating bills this winter.
Fair is fair.
If Egypt wants them back, go conquer Britain and take them.
So, spherical cows in a vacuum then. This is like the mental masturbation where increasing the labor supply has no effect on prices.
I like that Pat not only beat me to it, but said it better than me.
Damnit, I was on the spherical cow kicker myself.
*glances at TOS*
Mexicans, Mexicans, weed, weed, weed…
Not a single top line article on Ukraine.
I wonder how long they would survive without the Koch injections.
And Tundra brings the buttsecks angle
🤣
Without bothering to go check, because I value that last tiny thread still tethering me to sanity, I’m going to guess that they’ve utterly and completely abandoned any pretense of opposing war and are all-in on the rah rah Team America to the rescue bullshit, continuing the process begun when they decided that sticking our dick into the middle east wasn’t so bad after all as long as somebody named Bush wasn’t president?
Hard to tell, there’s literally one article on the entire page about Ukraine, and it’s a pretty dry report on the new weapons package we’re sending them.
Saw this on there, though, holy shit: LAPD Officer Killed During Training Exercise Was Reportedly Investigating Cops Accused of Gang Rape
Looks 100% like murder of a cop by another cop he was involved in investigating, and the LAPD is covering it up.
And nothing else happened
Ass, gas, or grass
Nobody rides for free
In the libertarian party
Enact my labor and you’ll see
A giant bill with a massive fee
I will lay upon thee
Holding geography and population constant, as one area becomes more densely populated, another area will become less densely populated.
Just above this, the author talks about the Dutch reclaiming land. And population constant? Oh boy.
Theory and practice just aren’t the same thing.
Friday is here, and it’s not yet Cleveland Beer Week, so here’s the link to the Zoom/Happy Hour/Article discussion for tonight, which I’ll kick off at 20:00 Eastern.
On that note, I’ll be out and about next weekend (beer crawl Friday and a beer fest Saturday), so someone else will need to step up to host.
I’ve been watching the Tim Pool show (? podcast? whatever) on YouTube – and it leans lightly libertarian. Surprised how much I like it – in small doses.
TimCast to be specific
He will beat you over the head with chicken talk and civil war predictions though.
MAJOR MEDICAL ORGANIZATIONS. Bro, they never lie.
I bet Rutledge isn’t even a biologist. And with a name like Leslie, who is he/she to judge?
“taking the decision out of parents’ hands“
Not the only one. We also don’t let parents pimp their children on street corners.
Not yet, anyway.
Well, now that Epstein is gone the market is way down.
They should print that FEE article on the side of every spherical cow, and we can read it as they roll past.
“A Harvard-affiliated children’s hospital has sparked outrage after claiming some babies know they are transgender ‘from the womb’.
In a now-deleted video, the Boston Children’s Hospital suggested an even larger number of minors know ‘as soon as they can talk’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11280475/Harvard-hospital-claims-babies-know-WOMB-transgender.html
Remember when Harvard was synonymous with smart and educated?
They are so smart they can talk themselves into anything.
Nice self-pwning by Harvard left wingers admitting it’s a baby in the womb.
“Just a few weeks after assuring fans she’s ‘not racist’ during an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Sharon Osbourne is being accused of just that by demanding her $900,000 donation to Black Lives Matter be returned.
The British television personality is catching flack for seemingly defending Kanye West’s ‘white lives matter’ drama by telling TMZ on Wednesday: ‘I don’t understand why white lives don’t matter?’
Sharon, 69, also appeared to back Ye’s assertion that the Black Lives Matter movement was a ‘scam’. Her comments come as the star is emerging from her own public cancellation over a racism scandal on The Talk.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11291933/Sharon-Osbourne-defends-Kanye-West-white-lives-matter-wants-money-BLM.html
$900K?
Those are expensive indulgences.
If you’re trying to convince people you’re not racist, you’ve lost.
IKR, that’s like only half a house in LA. It should have been 1.8 million so the leaders could have gotten a decent LA home.
Well she just realized (correctly) it’s a scam so good for her.
“Assertion”? I think it’s been pretty definitively proved.
“EXCLUSIVE: Woman, 23, who survived 2016 Brussels airport ISIS bomb but could not live with the trauma is ‘euthanised’ in Belgium”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11291995/Woman-23-survived-2016-Brussels-airport-ISIS-bomb-euthanised-Belgium.html
WTF? She’s only 23.
She probably saw “Bros” in the movie theater recently and the will to live is gone entirely.
It seems like they could have tried a few more methods of therapy before going Old Yeller on her.
No way was the “terror attack” the sole cause; it was perhaps a trigger, but that gal just wasn’t right.
I wonder if travel to a distant land, away from cities, might have helped her. Sad story all the way around.
“Uvalde suspends ENTIRE school district police force over failed response to Robb Elementary School massacre”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11292461/Uvalde-suspends-ENTIRE-school-district-police-force-failed-response-school-massacre.html
I wonder if this will ever get fixed? The same shit has been happening since Columbine.
Every one of those officers should be put on trial and tried as accessories to murder. Well except for the one cop who actually tried to stop the shooting and was physically restrained by the other officers. Additional charges for the officers who drew up and formed the gun line against the parents.
That’ll fix it fast. I guarantee we’ll never again see the cops choosing to face down unarmed parents over the mass murderer again.
Keep getting that fucking internal server error so I’ll drop the link and see if that helps….
There’s a link there to a story about Uvalde rehiring one of the cops who stood around. She is caught on video saying if her kid was in there, no way she’d be standing around outside. So no, I don’t think anything is going to change anytime soon.
My company recently revised their policy for dealing with an active shooter. The old policy was that the scene needed to be secured before medical care could be rendered or people could be rescued from the area. Now it allows trained first responders to enter the area even if the shooter is still active.
They conducted a big active shooter drill a few weeks ago coordinating with the fire department, sheriff’s dept, and company security (who are conspicuously armed and vested at all times on duty). They had some employees play “victims” and get rescued and transported by stretcher while the “shooter” was being cornered by the LEOs.
We really do have whack jobs trying to get onsite and a lot of threats that are mostly hot air. But they did have to aerate a dude a few years ago when he tried rushing a barrier.
It’s good to know they learned from Uvalde that letting people bleed out for an hour isn’t a good way to handle such situations.
My kid is watching that Dahmer series in the other room. Sounds interesting, but I remember the news reports so I’m not too interested in watching it myself.
Gotta be honest. It wasn’t that hilarious.
Some people just eat it up
Trashy! You slay me!
They took so many liberties with the story that it feels only skin deep.
You know what the cops found in Dahmer’s shower?
Head & Shoulders
Say what you will about his victims, they had good taste.
I hope they include that time cops handed one of his escaped victims right back to him.
They just had that scene. There’s a black woman in the series, a neighbor, who keeps trying to tell the police something’s up, and they ignore her. I’m not sure how true that part is.
The cops probably assumed she was just homophobic because she’s black.
I’m guessing they rolled several people into a neighbor. There was a girl and her aunt who lived in a nearby building who called the cops when the kid escaped, but the cops wouldn’t listen and just accepted Dahmer’s story about the kid being an adult and it being a lover’s spat.
My daughter has been watching Dahmer too. She says I look like him. It’s true that I had the same bad hair and glasses back then. Anyway, I usually don’t dress up for Halloween. I just tell people I’m a serial killer. We look just like anyone else.
Haven’t watched the new series yet, but I did watch the My Friend Dahmer movie that came out a couple years back.
/starts to wonder about the number of serial/spree killers from the Cleveland area…
Biden says he’ll release 10 million more barrels from the dwindling ‘oil piggy bank’ after OPEC’s production cuts.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-says-hell-release-10-191500094.html
Sounds like an act of desperation. Too bad we don’t have any energy sources in this country we could tap.
No doubt but they’re too ideologically committed to allow increased drilling, fracking, or refining. Let’s just release oil from the strategic reserve while antagonizing the other two major world powers, excellent idea.
I keep seeing memes that production is way up. Is that bull crap? Too lazy to research. Except by asking glibs obviously.
Doesn’t look like it to me I guess it depends on the definition of “way”
Monthly, thousands of barrels:
FEB22: 316,851
MAR22: 362,725
APR 22: 350,052
MAY22: 360,503
JUN22: 353,634
JUL22: 365,785
I mean compared to previous administrations. That’s the meme they’re passing around. I’m sure it’s misleading somehow but not sure how.
You made me do all that work for nothing?
This is why I hate pickles.
Agreed. We are the worst.
From the same source it looks like it’s up about 20% since May 2020 when demand had fallen off due to the shutdowns. Still about 10% below the peak in Dec 2019 and the rate of increase looks lower than it was between 2017 and 2019.
Yeah, but it does seem like that 2019 was peak overall.
Look fat, there are midterms to win.
“Urban Marketism”?
No thanks I prefer living in an area that isn’t hit hard by pandemics and the subsequent authoritian lock downs.
Did you read the article?
Because, ummm, yeah, you clearly didn’t.
Reading is gay.
I wish there was a lot more Urban Marketism. Too many transplants are moving in as they retire. Should be a law. I was outside today and I could hear hammers driving nails. Not a welcome sound.
Too much IMBY
It is rude of Mrs. Fourscore to be building that coffin during your nap time.
*shrug*
If they want to put up a whole bunch of apartment and condo towers in the city, it’s no skin off my back. Just keep the high density in the urban areas so the city problems stay in the city.
The worst configuration is when medium and high density housing is relocated to the outer suburbs. Yeah, land is cheap and plentiful. However, the infrastructure can’t support it, the places end up attracting the kinds of issues that most of the older residents were trying to avoid by living so far out from the city, and the town’s culture is demolished and replaced by a clone of the urban culture.
I’m not sure where I sit on zoning and other land use regulations, but I sit on the side where it’s really hard to put a 40 story luxury condo high-rise in the exurbs.
The premise of the piece is basically that you don’t need to worry about that, because the people who are interested in living in high-density housing will seek high-density areas, leaving more room for everybody else. It’s exactly like the Econ 101 textbook examples of Ricardian free trade that use a simplified model of two countries with two export crops to explain comparative advantage. It’s only useful for teaching the principle, since that’s not the way reality actually works. Interestingly enough, one of the few places with practically no zoning regs is Houston, Texas, and it doesn’t look much of anything like what the YIMBY, pro-density, “market urbanism” types say a city with unregulated land use should look like.
It always works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoUtoqeEw8U
Inertia helps.
People who want density aren’t moving to Houston because it never really had any.
By the same token, they aren’t going to move to a 40-story high-rise in the exurbs because what would be the point?
*points to 25 story condo building down the street… 35 miles from the city core… more is coming, too*
The creation of these urban-wannabe “town centers” is what I was targeting with my comment. They’re going in all over the place here in the outer suburbs of Dallas, and they’re all the same. Some high rise tower of condos/apartments, a few 10+ story hotels, an outdoor mall, and some sort of outdoor concert space.
They’re not all bad, but they definitely bring along the issues that come with high density.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy (#TooLocal)
Why the hate for Mike? Because he is the tool who single handedly screwed Hennepin county residents by paying for the new Twins stadium for billionaire Carl Pohlad. The funding solution came out a month after he was won his re-election. He never even mentioned his plan to have the residents of Hennepin county pay for the entire thing with new taxes. You figure if he had come up with such a great plan, he would have run on that.
I’d probably be living in a drunken stupor myself if I fucked over my constituents* like that.
* must be read in full Pappy O’Daniel voice.
The cop was drunk too? How bizarre.
Way to live up to the stereotype boys! We’re just figuring out things here in flyover country. Minnesota’s economy shrank for a second quarter, meeting one definition of recession
I guess I should be happy. If the gov here was a GOP monster, the press would still be baying – like a bunch of rubes – about being in a recession because we had two quarters of declining output. At least with King Walz at our hand, we have learned the nuances of advanced economic theories.
I enjoy these sort of posts because it’s a stark reminder that Minnesota is real.
Real shitty.
Is there anyone who thinks that 3rd quarter GDP will be up? Then the definition will change to “need four quarters down to be a ‘real’ recession.” Sure, many voters will be fooled, but the Dems are just whistling through the graveyard now (at least as far as House races go; GOP senate candidates are so pitiful, the Dems will probably take the Senate.)
The majority of polled Americans thought we were in a recession way before the second quarter numbers came out.
Most will know.
Fuck me. I can’t wait till next week, so you guys get a rare Friday Daily Ray of Sunshine
I can feel it…Firsting in the air tonight…Oh Great Firster….ohhhh
The Great Firster…hmmm. Don’t know him. Is that the illegitimate son of Linus and the Great Pumpkin?
A truly great Firster answers to no one but himself. I am that Firster. The greatest Firster.
/Howard Cosell voice
“Things are getting pretty tense here in the Glibs First-Off. Reigning champ Bro appears to have been resting on his laurels while MikeS, up and comer from the great state of North Dakota, has been training, frankly, like a madman in anticipation of this epic battle. We will be here for every second of the fight. May the best man win.”
Truly, an awesome spectacular.
Now, a study in moppishness.
Thanks. I was expecting that.
Tundra picking up what I’m putting down. 👍
Bro’s pathetic devotion to a mystical Firster means that by his own admission, he is a Seconder. He is not the best anything. I have conquered him without even lifting a First.
What Firster would ever capitalize seconder? An imposter who knows nothing of the ways of The First. An Anti-Firster who will be washed away like inhuman filth when the climax between Firster and seconder reaches its climax.
I reached a climax during a first once. I had to have my pants dry cleaned.
Oh, Lord.
How about this for shitty conversions?
You are Bidding on a (PENNY AUCTION)
OMG RARE – GR BSA Co. 1916 SHT LE III .303 W.W. I Rifle – Lee Enfield smle
CONDITION IS REMARKABLE – COLLECTORS DREAM – GOOD SHOOTER
Wow. Careless:
I chuckled when I noticed that.