My apologies for being, well, scarce for the past little while. Massive project at the university, pressing stuff from my consulting and paid writing, and attempted forays into the dating world have been more than a bit overwhelming. All sad excuses and I’ll try to do better. Maybe even drop in a Jewsday or two. On the bright side, it’s gotten 10b0T to start contributing. So don’t hate on me too much.
Birthdays are numerous today, so much so that I’ll have to skip over far too many. But the curated list includes a hero of the Left; what journalism used to be; one of my two favorite historians; a great scientist who was a veritable quote machine; a woman who married a millionaire; the quintessential Hollywood Cowboy who was quick on the Trigger; a guy who squeezed the Comet instead of the Charmin; a famous nymphomaniac whom I sadly didn’t meet; the guy who inspired Eugene Levy; a guy who told her twice already; a nobody who parlayed disgrace into a fortune; a woman known for her tits who was actually quite a good actress; a mediocre mathematician, indifferent songwriter, and terrific singer; a guy who truly could do it all; the guy who convinced me that I could never be a Libertarian; a guy who was the subject of one of the most memorable lines in movie history; the stereotypical empty-headed self-important actress; and the stereotypical empty-headed self-important NFL player.
On to actual Links.
Team Blue gonna blame the black guy.
We’re trying to keep up with the Chinese.
Maybe if you paid the $8 per month…?
Want to know what a dimbulb asshole looks like? Here’s what a dimbulb asshole looks like.
How often does a hit song speak about the libertarian ethos? Not often, and therefore Old Man makes an exception to his “no country pop” rule.
“Want to know what a dimbulb asshole looks like? Here’s what a dimbulb asshole looks like.”
Did he get fired from Jezebel?
Certainly seems like he thinks Musk pissed in his Cheerios, doesn’t it?
Does that guy like anything?
He apparently takes pride in having been published in The Weekly Standard, so he must like Bill’s balls.
“Let Mikey do it, he’ll screw anything!”
Mikey fondles Bill’s balls…
“He likes it! Hey Mikey!”
Yeah, probably going straight to Hell for that one….
For someone who hates Twitter so much, he sure cares about what’s happening to Twitter.
Morning, Glibs.
Morning!
So how’s it going?
Taking daughter to an archery class in thirty minutes. Then taking down Halloween decorations. No storm damage from last night, which is good.
So, not shooting down the decor?
Heh… the gift that keeps on giving!
I had to get up before sunrise the morning of All Hallow’s Eve to get all the decorations taken up. Tuesdays are when the landscapers show up — and given how they show no compunction about running over every plant I’ve tried to add to the mix, quite a few irrigation nozzles and a couple of downspout endings, I was sure they’d just mow them all down.
I found that surrounding new plantings with large bricks cuts down (heh) on that sort of thing.
Mornin’!
Good morning, ‘patzie! How are you and yours today?
Dude — always nice to read your links (and (((days))) ) — but obviously Real Life(tm) takes precedence. I seriously doubt anyone here begrudges you doing what you need to do. And if they do, they should get a cat butt or something. 😉
— oh come on! There’s WAY too many to have a chance at guessing that one! 😉
Re: Trump 2024… I’m definitely in the “I think he’d do more harm than good” camp at this point. DeSantis looks to be a fighter, have the right priorities but still be able to get things done in a political system — I’d much rather OMB take a bow saying “Look, unlike the Donkeys — we know when to let fresh blood step up” or something. It isn’t a matter of the rancor dying down, though… they’re going to go all for DeSantis is the new bastard love child of Hitler and Satan anyway (actually at this point, I think they’d be all in for such a bastard love child….)
Re: “We’re trying to keep up with the Chinese.” — “We regret to inform you that your civilization died… because it was STUPID!” Thanks, Goose.
The absolute insanity of this continuing research is mind boggling.
This wasn’t gain of function.
Just gain of dollars?
Nice
BSL 3 labs don’t “often” have sealed perimeters, negative pressure, etc., they *always* have those things. It’s kind of the definition of level 3, along with a few other precautions such as autoclaving all waste before removal. Still can’t make them human-proof.
This. And it’s not like any Donald fans are going to choose Kamala over Ron.
Me too but that bloviating megalomaniac only thinks about what’s best for him.
I wanna hear about the forays into the dating world.
My hand I couldn’t be happier.
That may be worth an article, but that just feels very self-indulgent.
I will say that the percentage of Jewish women of my dating age range who are NPR liberals is 100. Imagine the scarring on my tongue from all the bitemarks.
I was wondering about that NPR liberal ratio. This is unfortunate.
Being a liberal but open minded if fine for me.
Plus you can infuriate and confuse their more hard core friends.
Welcome to my marriage. Not always easy.
Jewish women – sounds like discrimination
He likes to spin their dreidel.
I’d bang a centanarian just so I could start with Hoover.
Chuck Colson also found religion after his prison term, but he at least had the decency to launder all his speaking fees and Templeton prize through his prison ministry.
*outright, prolonged laughter*
Here in CLE, I’m much more impressed by Amari Cooper then I ever was with OBJ. Cooper does the job that OBJ was supposed to do, and does it with no drama. When he gets a touchdown, he acts like he’s been there before.
And as for “hit” songs talking about libertarianims, I would be remiss to not link The Plan (first lyrics: Call it libertarian, cause we do as we please). Too bad it seems that Fat Mike has lost his way somewhere along the line.
Can’t be any worse than The Trees
Good morning, Old Man, Neph, Pat, TH, straff, Shiny, SDF-7, R.J., U, Grumble, and Count! It’s November in SW OH and a balmy 64 degrees and I’m out at Tranq Base! 😃 This may be it for the year, so I’m planning to make the most of it. ::settles in for the duration::
I’m trying to motivate myself to leave the house.
Problem is I don’t know where I’d go.
Is the weather there conducive to a walk?
I haven’t looked outside.
I had a nice stroll about 2 hours ago. The upside to it being colder than a well digger’s ass is that everybody takes their dogs inside. 3, 4 in the morning it’s so quiet and peaceful.
If you lived closer you could come to archery class and watch ten year olds dangerously miss targets.
(You, too, rhy & JI!)
Mornin’ GT.
Mornin’.
Morning GT.
Time for me to head out for the first spin class of the fall/winter season. I wish I had looked at the weather report before booking it…
/Supposed to get up to 75 today.
We reportedly have bluster coming in late morning/noonish. Tomorrow morning it should be clear again, but about ten degrees cooler, so I’ll probably break out the thermal & flannel and try for one more TB morning.
Good morning. It is 34 degrees according to my outdoor thermometer. I thought I was supposed to live in the warm part of the country.
It’s near 60 shortly after sunrise in PA, in November. Go figure.
64 in sunny NYC on the way to 71.
Perfect.
I’m in shorts today. Loving it.
And a properly good morning to you as well, GT. Nice 43 in God’s Own Measurements here — chance of rain again on Monday and Tuesday, which is always nice in this semi-arid mess of a state. I do enjoy the fall/winter here, just for the change of pace if nothing else!
Have to fill out the ballots this weekend… will be dd’ing the NAS nvme to clone it to see about setting up my revised version with the external storage… what wild and exciting plans for the weekend I have! 😉
::slowly nods with glazed-over eyes, frantically DDGs:: Oh! Computer stuff! Well…good luck?
If it’s using ZFS it’s as simple as just adding the external drive to the pool.
Fedora Server homebrew — so the primary drive is lvm + xfs. The data drives are btrfs (been transfering the read-only snapshot of them to the new ones in the external enclosure for the last couple of days). I’ll just boot to a live image and dd the thing hooking up the new drive via a usb-c to m.2 adapter.
I’m hoping that moving to an external enclosure with a NUC style ryzen 9 I had originally bought in case my son broke his school laptop will keep the drive heat down and reduce the corruption errors that sneak in.
I prefer Linux and btrfs over bsd and zfs because zfs is much more picky about drive pools from what I can tell — btrfs will happily let you add/remove devices in a raid10 set regardless of size, when you want to add them, etc. Plus I can run KVM/libvirt and experiment with things — BSD would have Bhyve, yeah… but KVM is a lot more industry prevalent (GCP and AWS are both almost all KVM now), so it helps messing with work-style environments.
Nice. My antiquated A8 APU-based homebrew NAS also runs Linux. Started out as a Debian build, then I added the Open Media Vault packages for easier admin, then for reasons I can’t even remember now I had to do a reinstall, so I just used the OMV base media, which is Debian-based anyway. I used FreeNAS (now TrueNAS) on a really old single-drive build when I was a youngster just playing around, but I also prefer Linux, if for no other reason than inertia. There’s OpenZFS on Linux, but it’s more trouble than it’s worth for my use case. I basically just use my NAS for storing my movies and TV shows to stream to my RPi living room media center, and an encrypted pool for personal data. Even though it’s long since become stable, I still have PTSD from multiple instances of system-breaking data corruption back when I was still a openSUSE user and they made Btrfs the default when it had only just been mainlined, so I stick to XFS for my data pools and good old ext4 for the system drive.
GM 🙂
Subaru!
It will be in the 60s, maybe 70 today at Houghton, where I will be spending the day hiking with a delightful Jewess.
“Why do you keep looking around?”
“STEVE SMITH.”
Maybe save explaining STEVE SMITH until after she’s signed the prenup.
“It’s called culture, sweetie, look it up”
STEVE SMITH HELP OLD MAN SEAL THE DEAL — LET HER KNOW SHE’LL BE TAKEN CARE OF WHEN HE AWAY AT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES.
AND BY TAKEN CARE OF, MEAN….
Hiya
Trump will draw the bigger crowds, but all that proves is he puts on a better show.
He’ll be here in the Dayton area Monday evening stumping for J.D. Vance. The rally’s right by the airport, so his presence will almost certainly disrupt both ground AND air traffic. So glad I don’t work on that side of town any more (though the other 364 days of the year it would be a heck of a lot closer to home.)
Caroline Gilby on Feteasca Neagră Romania’s flagship grape
http://www.the-buyer.net/opinion/exploring-feteasca-neagra-romanias/
I still owe you big time for teaching me about that variety.
I tried to slog though that Labash thing.
“Oakland Cops Hope to Arm Robots With Lethal Shotguns”
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/17/police-robot-gun-oakland/
What could possibly go wrong?
Obligatory.
More seriously, glad my friends that lived in Oakland moved out.
Huh… I was expecting more along the lines of SSD’s reference…
And the countdown towards Judgement Day begins
As long as I get my very own Tricia Helfer, I’m ok withthat.
Dallas PD used an EOD robot to hold a small brick of C4 to a wall, so as to explode a fellow on the other side – https://youtu.be/8x8GN_RyWiU
Have you tried wearing a lab coat with a stethoscope draped around your neck?
I even have a speculum in my pocket.
Medical stirrups on the end of the bed?
“We’re trying to keep up with the Chinese.”
I read the whole thing. The author strongly implies that more government regulation is needed. I’m most generally against more government, but letting any asshole make bubonic super AIDS in their garage might not be a good idea.
I agree. I don’t even have a garage. So I make mine in the open air where it’s safe.
The United States has a patchwork of regulations and guidelines covering lab biosafety.
The solution is obvious. Put Foochy in charge.
Those are just the government regulations. Every institution/lab also has its own procedures and protocols that are supposed to be the very first bit of training that anyone has to complete before being allowed inside the lab. I still don’t see how adding more layers of mandates will solve the problem of dumbasses not following the ones that already exist.
Imposing civil and/or criminal penalties for failure to follow posted procedures would probably be a better route. “Don’t fuck up or they’ll toss you in the slammer” would probably go further toward ensuring diligent compliance with best practices than another twice yearly inspection by some pencil pushing bureaucrat from the Department of Pointless Wankery.
You might be right.
It still seems to me, though, that not dying of some horrible infection ought to be motivation enough, and if it isn’t, it’s not clear that a fine or gaol time will make much difference. People who are sloppy with protocols need to be banished from the lab by their supervisors *before* they cause a plague. Unfortunately, my experience has been that too many supervisors (faculty in my case) are either equally sloppy or not diligent in supervision. There is a big race on to identify treatments and/or vaccines for many viruses; the rewards for getting there first are very great, and the rewards for getting there second are nil. As with anything else, this creates incentives to cut corners.
BTW, those pencil-pushing bureaucrats have the authority to shut down the lab. Maybe they should exercise it more freely.
Yep. Unfortunately, despite the “hurrrrrr no business wants to kill its customers” logic of free marketeers, the market often incentivizes risky behavior. A little counter-incentive may help to balance it out a bit, but all a regulatory agency is going to do is get captured, even if it weren’t filled with incompetents. This is one of those areas where there’s not really a great libertarian solution.
I still don’t see how adding more layers of mandates will solve the problem of dumbasses not following the ones that already exist.
This also applies to IT security. Our corporate workstations (Windows and Macs) are crippled by multiple layers of security bloatware which consume most of the resources and still cannot prevent a random end user from falling victim to a phishing attack or clicking on a random link in an email.
Just switch everyone to OpenBSD with only the default cwm. They’ll spend so much of their workday just trying to figure out how to launch programs and manage files that they won’t have any time for clicking those celebrity sex tape and dick pill emails.
“patchwork of regulations”
It’s like the states are separate political entities or something.
I’ve been drinking and my theory, which I defended aggressively with my other drunk friend, is that you can stare down a woman
You know what? I’m gonna bail on this.
With predictable results
That he could pull off lines like that is impressive.
Hello from the north, it was 80 degrees at 7 am,
Holy cow!
Powerline
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/11/the-week-in-pictures-countdown-edition-2.php
“Hours into Twitter’s Elon Musk era, the company has apparently undone its ban on the term “groomer” as a slur against LGBTQ+ people — and many worry this is just the start.”
https://twitter.com/TheAdvocateMag/status/1586123141130190852
https://www.advocate.com/business/2022/10/28/lgbtq-rights-groups-worry-elon-musk-will-allow-more-hate-twitter
Still no idea how it’s a LGBT slur.
Dog barbers rejoice!
Some people do use it a bit too liberally BUT it perfectly encapsulates the ultimate aim of the whole child transitioning drive and it should absolutely be allowed. They’re just pissed because it’s so in the nose.
They’ve made it perfectly clear that you’re not real alphabet people if you don’t wholeheartedly support their deranged politics.
Kinda a self-own by QUILT groups if you ask me.
The activist set’s squawking about this is kind of revealing.
It’s not. The only thing I can deduce is that anyone who thinks it is a slur is also a groomer.
So what is everyone drinking?
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/finca+la+luz+callejon+crimen+grand+rsrv+petit+verdot+uco+valley+mendoza+argentina/2017
not bad but I am still not sure petit verdot as a varietal is my thing
Maxwell House.
Chock Full o’ Nuts or GTFO
I usually do a 50-50 mix of Maxwell House and Cafe Bustelo.
🎶 Mi cafe es el cafe Bustelo. Que cafe! Es todos El primero! 🎶
Si, Cafe Bustelo es lo mejor de los espressos.
That sounds good actually, might have to give it a try.
Lately it’s whatever’s on sale.
Lavazza currently.
Lavazza – eewww gross
Heh it’s not bad at the price.
The good stuff is insanely expensive right now.
for me of all the things to save money on, coffee isnt one.
sounds icky
French roast
sounds icky
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3AhLaKxDb40
That’s a lot of words to describe fermented grape juice. Or is it a Habsburg duke or something?
French press Koke for breakfast. Off for a picnic and bringing a Dr Konstantin Frank Gewurtztraminer.
Perhaps a breakfast Truly or something.
Lipton black tea, because I ran out of Great Value generic green tea. I’m fancy as fuck boi…
It’s not so much lies, per se, that I don’t like; it’s lies which don’t help my side
Biden said at a fundraiser: “And now what are we all worried about: Elon Musk goes out and buys an outfit that sends – that spews lies all across the world… There’s no editors anymore in America. There’s no editors. How do we expect kids to be able to understand what is at stake?”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters earlier that Biden had been clear about the need to reduce hate speech and misinformation.
“That belief extends to Twitter, it extends to Facebook and any other social media platforms where users can spread misinformation,” she said.
Get back on stage and tell half of America what a bunch of hateful racist misogynist monsters they are, Joe. We’re listening.
It is breathtaking what a hateful tyrant he is. Him and everyone around him.
When it’s Joe talking you know it’s all about the kids, he thrives on the scent of their innocence.
As if editors don’t lie.
Well, it’s progress of a sort that they’ve dropped the flimsy pretense that social media is user-generated content rather than a curated publication.
Bacon is in the oven and the eggs are prepped. So now is the perfect time to spike my blood pressure…
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/11/04/clyburn-if-gop-wins-we-are-going-to-see-this-democracy-come-to-a-crashing-halt/
You people are literally guilty of everything witch you accuse the opposition.
Everyone has to vote Democrat to keep their right to vote Republican.
Let me guess: “Democracy is on the ballot.”
Tucker showed one of his montages of a dozen talking heads using that exact phrase.
Bacon is in the oven – is your pan broken?
Baking bacon is vastly superior.
U wot m8?
LOL
Cooking it in the oven is better because you can just pop it in and forget about it, and it doesn’t buckle up, and cleanup is easier.
Microwave FTW when I don’t want to reuse the grease for cooking brussel sprouts or whatnot.
Sandwiched between paper towel layers it gets flat and crisp, and cleanup is trivial (barring tossing the paper towels in the garage trash instead of kitchen so the cats don’t do late night spelunking for that wonderful bacon smell… 😉
ditch the cats
Nice, I’ll have to try that. Didn’t even occur to me.
Look, I love you rhywun, but you just can’t go around extolling the virtues of flabby, floppy, half-raw, pink bacon like that. Stiff, I tell you! Almost burnt! Get that fat all nice and crispy!
? You can get the same results in the oven, and it’s not all shriveled up when you’re done.
I got it just shy of crispy and it is excellent. Put it in while the oven is cold, then roast at 275 until you reach your desired doneness.
When are you cuntes going to stop using slave labor and sweat shops?
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2022/11/04/nike-splits-with-kyrie-irving-amid-antisemitism-fallout/
Just let people talk, if they say stupid shit they just make fools of themselves. This hammer coming down on people that speak on the Jews makes it look like they might actually have a point and is actually counterproductive.
Never happen. Everyone has their “image” to protect and when you associate with someone who has more money than you do, you are expected to say what they want you to say.
“With crime dominating the headlines and the airwaves, multiple Democrats watching these races closely are pointing to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, accusing him of overhyping the issue and playing into right-wing narratives in ways that may have helped set the party up for disaster on Tuesday.”
Right-wing narratives derived from observing the results of the deliberate actions of the Democratic party…
crime is a social construct
“I have spoken to the police and they believe the culprit of this heinous act of racial photoshop violence was one of the following accounts: @MattWalshBlog
@MattsIdeaShop @elonmusk or @grandoldmemes
I will being suing for emotional damages in the near future.”
https://twitter.com/AnnLesbyPhD/status/1587973197500010498
Racial photoshop violence???
“Ann Lesby, PhD (she/her) 🌈
@AnnLesbyPhD
Head of Gender Studies @ACL_Univ. Author “Antiracist Fetus”. 1/8 Black, semitrans, neurodivergent, lesbian who dates men. “A national treasure.”-S.A. Tyre”
Holy shit, her entire feed more insane than I could have imagined.
it is a paaarodyy
It’s hard to tell these days.
Was kind of the giveaway. Also, I guess Twitter parody accounts might become a thing again, so there’s that.
Good catch.
also
ACL University (Rody, PA)
also the bio gives it away a bit too much
Yeah, that really is a case of Poe’s law.
A damn good one, if true. I laffed at the bio.
I wouldn’t be so sure.
“Lesby” lol
lesbyann please
“”Jews kill blacks,” and “Jews enslave Black lives,” were found spray painted publicly in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday.”
Historically everyone killed and enslaved everyone else. I care not for groups claiming victim status (especially, in this case, when blacks kill each other in droves and still enslave each other…) and I’m tired of dishonest characterizations of history along with the present.
Expert opinion
While Trump has been hinting at another run for months, the news would certainly send shockwaves through the political world. Trump is arguably one of the most controversial and destabilizing political leader in contemporary US history. And as we have seen with recent Supreme Court decisions like Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – as well as the toxic rhetoric and support for conspiracy theories within the GOP – his presidency was enormously consequential.
While there was an audible sigh of relief in many parts of the country after President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, some Democrats might feel that Trump’s reemergence is good news for the party. After all, Biden, who has said it is his “intention” to run again, seems to have the magic formula for defeating Trump. The contrast that he automatically presents – a stable, experienced and low-key political leader– is powerful. Trump’s presence on the campaign trail would likely also unite Democrats behind Biden and allow the President to raise significant campaign funds.
Yes. The past two years of reasonable, stable statesmanship have really put America back on the right track. Joe Biden will be remembered as one of the truly transformative Presidents in history. It would be a tragedy to allow Joe’s great works to be undone.
I live in a different world than people like this.
On what planet is Biden stable? He can physically barely walk and mentally barely think plus he has the temper of a guy who’s been an asshole all his life and has lost the little voice in his head that tells him to moderate that.
He literally gets lost between the car that drops him off and his front door.
Good lord, CNN. Dial down the crazy just a little bit.
The sad thing is, he will. Historians write the history books, and historians as a group are totalitarian dick drainers.
“Want to know what a dimbulb asshole looks like? Here’s what a dimbulb asshole looks like.”
What a dishonest cunte that person is.
It’s 35F and snowing here in the middle of America. I have switched over from mulled apple cider scented wax cubes to fir/pine. It’s that serious right now.
You just keep that weather on YOUR side of the Mississippi, thankyouverymuch!
Hear hear!
chanting..
freak california blizzard! freak california blizzard! freak california blizzard!
I mean, we’ve had practically everything but dogs and cats raining from the sky and living in sin, can’t I get some dang snow over here? 😉
Well, damn. The snow has stopped and the sun’s trying to peek through the clouds, just enough for a right glare.
I’m not seeing any snow. Rain for nearly 24hrs, sure.
Lots of things don’t translate across the river.
Even with unconventional and deeply flawed candidates such as Herschel Walker and Dr. Mehmet Oz running for key Senate seats, recent polls are showing that the GOP is in relatively good shape overall going into the midterm election on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Democrats are scrambling to defend several seats and even candidates in reliably blue states such as New York are at risk.
Bear with me, here. I know it’s a tough line of reasoning for somebody like you to follow, but maybe it’s because people are beginning to realize just how much Team Biden sucks.
“unconventional and deeply flawed”
I.e. “disagree with my destructive politics”
Maxine Waters, Ilhan Omar, and AOC are all perfectly conventional.
I have switched over from mulled apple cider scented wax cubes to fir/pine.
You must have a cast iron stomache to drink that.
Don’t be silly, Brooksie! They’re not for drinking! They’re for ripping the hair off your legs! (The lovely fragrance makes the pain tolerable.)
No, I use salted caramel vanilla for that. Can’t have my hoohoo smelling like Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Awwww, why not? Someone’s been a good boy this year, hasn’t he? (And I suspect he’d be VERY thankful!)
For some reason I don’t understand, I am suddenly incredibly hungry.
“”Jews kill blacks,” and “Jews enslave Black lives,” were found spray painted publicly in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday.”
Is this some sort of “Jew lawyers from the ACLU hijacked the civil rights movement” thing?
SPLC.
https://twitter.com/SuspectRWFed/status/1580448312540696576
Reposting this because would?
Maxine Waters, Ilhan Omar, and AOC are all perfectly conventional.
Exactly. They are the baseline. Anybody to the right of them is a right wing authoritarian worse than Ming the Merciless.
No Context Brits
@NoContextBrits
Congratulations to Dick Balson on his award for services to sausages.
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1588553315125956609
No Context Brits
@NoContextBrits
Name a bigger lie than this.
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1588841296348975105
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1588848892128350208
Gives new meaning to “banger.”
weird year this year. driest and warmest i remember. I don’t expect to heat my apartment till 10th November earliest which never happened before. still tshirt weather 21 and sunny
Good morning!
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Oh crap… right… forgot to start that thread when I went to go play a round of F1 ’22… Mine were solidly in the “not great, but not terrible” camp. Did have a 50/50 on the LL with the remaining letters, and of course chose the more common word that it wasn’t… but had enough guesses left to not chump, fortunately.
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LL was first one I got 😉
Speaking of all he bad coffee you people seem to drink, how much do you spend monthly on coffee? I would guess about 75 American bucks
I think closer to just $50… the packs I buy (already in the filter… just much easier to clean up and price wise aren’t much more) are about $5-6, I go through about 2 a week at a guess, so 8 a month… 40-48 range.
$0
lame
Probably the only thing on our shopping lists that is identical.
Koke is superb coffee, Vlad.
Probably more like $40-50 for me.
could be don’t know what that is. I like fresh roasted single origin African coffees myself, mostly Kenya or Ethiopia. Some south american occasionally, especially if anaerobic process.
Since it has been well established that I like a little coffee with my creamer, there’s really no need to get fancy with the beans.
A quart a day, so $10 for bottled water. A 3-lb. container of Maxwell House is maybe another $10, so $20 max.
I buy a 3 pound bag of San Francisco Bay Coffee French Roast for 20 bucks or so. It probably lasts around a month.
I’d say about $20. I drink Community Coffee which is gas station coffee. I drink it black and bitter, like my heart.
Your heart… Suuuure… 😉
About $45/month. Two pounds of (usually) Trager Brothers Blend 90 for $32, two pints of heavy cream for $10. My pourover and grinder are long since paid for.
About $30 for 2#. But I drink a lot at work too so probably closer to 50.
I’m jealous. I’m not even allowed to drink at the bar at work if I’m not on the clock.
My office used to do beer-30 Fridays. But that has not been done for awhile now. I am disappoint.
WFH not more than $20. Probably less.
I could spend more but the sticker shock is off-putting.
I have a few different brands lying around. But I mostly drink Green Mountain. It’s not expensive. But it’s also not cheap.
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How much on Diet Dew?
Xtreme amounts!
You want me to do the math on that?
😖
With your computer skills? Easy peasy!
#REF!
Great song, Old Man. Definitely not my genre, but she’s got a lovely voice and the lyrics are terrific!
Elon Musk must destroy Twitter
He should fire its servers into outer space
https://unherd.com/2022/11/elon-musk-must-destroy-twitter/
Intellectual consistency, you say
What is a woman? Just in time for the election, the Democrats seem to know again.
On Thursday, Gov. Hochul, who had planned to sail easily to reelection but now has the indignity of having to actually campaign for votes, brought in the big guns to help her effort. Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris flanked Hochul with “New York women vote” signs behind them. Referencing the Teddy Roosevelt speech about the “man in the arena,” Hochul tied it to herself, saying that “for the first time in history, a woman has entered the arena.”
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The “women” mostly talked abortion, since apparently that’s all we little ladies care about anyway — and not crime, inflation, quality of life or the way test scores plummeted in regions of the country, like New York, where Democrats kept schools needlessly closed during the pandemic. “To all of you but particularly to the women of New York: This is our moment,” Hochul said.
Women can be forgiven for wondering what exactly that moment entails. Hochul shrugs off crime in New York, Harris is part of an administration that keeps trying to spend its way out of inflation, and Hillary Clinton exists on the national stage mostly to insult us into voting for Democrats, as she did last week when she said voters “don’t really understand” what’s at stake in the midterms. Maybe they do understand and want to vote out the candidate using womanhood as a political weapon and treating half the population like some tiny special-interest group. Maybe they understand perfectly.
Writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali quipped on Twitter, “Hillary, Harris and Hochul as role models for girls? Heavens! No wonder so many are transitioning. No fun looking forward to that.”
Don’t worry about any of that. Stop nitpicking and vote for the Democrat. You’ll thank us later.
Writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali quipped
Now that’s something Iowahawk just couldn’t pull off.
The two most disliked women in American politics with a woman that is very far up that list…I thought Dems were supposed to be good at this politicking thing.
Also, I find it offensive that they are using that Teddy speech.
Markowicz is a treasure.
2022 can be the year that Democrats realize they can’t take the female vote for granted and just scream “Abortion!” at us as it gets closer to Election Day. So many of us are fed up with policies that hurt our families and rhetoric that erases our womanhood. This could be the year we declare, to the women who think they are owed our vote because we are the same sex, “We are women! And we’re not voting for you.”
Stop it. You’re killing me.
Does anyone know how long it takes to get a mortgage? I’m thinking of making roast beef.
The Arby’s drive does usually take a long time.
I will be very happy when the only things left in my Etsy store are downloads. Shipping stuff is getting tedious.
@CPRM, a long time ago, I got mad about something you said in jest. I wasn’t thinking, took it seriously, and told you to fuck off. I want to apologize for that.
Me, jest? I assure you not! Harrumph!
Apology accepted. No biggy.
Out here in front of me he drizzly and foggy Pacific trying to snare up a Dungeness crab 🦀 or three. First day of recreational crabbing here. Last year I got a couple opening day. A storm is coming in so maybe that will push them on the beach. The great (and frustrating) thing about surf fishing is the vastness of the beach. Hope springs eternal. Hope it’s crab for dinner. Time to check the snare.
The only glib trying to get crabs.
weird year this year. driest and warmest i remember. I don’t expect to heat my apartment till 10th November earliest which never happened before. still tshirt weather 21 and sunny
But people still talk about global warming as if it’s unequivocally bad.
The lady and I are on a mini-vaca in Shenandoah this weekend. It’s rainy, cool and nice but weather will be better (cooler) a week from now. Oh well.
We (but mostly I) just crushed an entire pack of bacon. I apologize for nothing. Tonight it’s steak and potatoes. If certain theories about diet (that are wrong…) are correct, I may not live the longest life. But I will live deliciously.
Germany plans to replace its successful €9-a-month local public transport pass with a €49 version, a move that is drawing criticism from charities and social care groups who say the new price tag will freeze out millions of Germans suffering under the cost of living crisis.
The €9 pass (equating to about £7.80) was introduced as an experiment over the summer in an effort to entice people to use public transport and help counter rising inflation.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/03/row-over-germanys-public-transport-ticket-jumping-from-9-to-49
Inflation! Putin’s fault!
Russia is the climate change of countries.
The pass is still €9, there’s just a €40 fuel surcharge applied now
They’re sequel-booting everything so much that they can’t even keep track anymore.
A CHRISTMAS STORY 2: CHRISTMAS Trailer (2022)
A Christmas Story 2 (2012)
Does Ralphie come back from Viet Nam with an eye patch?
With Peter Billingsley returning to the role I just got curious and looked at his IMDB page and found a movie I had forgotten about. The Dirt Bike Kid.
I went out and found exactly what/who I was looking for
Yet in Croton, Ossining and Mount Kisco, the issues enraging voters weren’t the costs of gas or child care. Instead of the economy, a surprising number of people were outraged not just by the Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, but also by election deniers and the spread of disinformation.
I met Alex Smoller when he was walking home with his daughter. “The misinformation that’s out there right now and seeing some of the candidates who are pushing these, like, absurd agendas” were really motivating his vote, he told me. “Because I think it’s poison in our society.”
And he wasn’t alone. Across the street, Andy Newberg didn’t hesitate when he was asked what issues make his blood boil. “The whole idea of election fraud just burns me up,” he said. “I can see people lying so openly and with confidence, and it’s just … terrifying and disgusting.”
When I asked residents what issue they worried would prevent their candidates from winning, the same topic came up again and again — crime and bail reform. And yet, these are neighborhoods, and, indeed, counties, where crime has actually decreased for the most part over the last few years. Walking along tree-lined streets, it felt more likely that we’d get hit by a falling Halloween decoration.
But it’s the type of fear-based dog whistling that might have an effect on the election. For these predominantly white Hudson Valley communities, resident Jeanne Claire Cotnoir told me, it wasn’t about the actual threat of crime but instead about the threat of change.
“If you look at every single advertisement,” she said, people of color are always the representatives of fear and “the other.” Republicans sense this and are pushing these messages hard.
Smug comfortable upper middle class Democrats who swallow the narrative, hook, line and sinker.
Wow.
So many incorrect opinions in so few paragraphs.
Noone is dead yet but this archery for 10 year old girls os fraught with danger.
May the odds be ever in your favor! 😳
Once taught a gaggle of girls how to use a radial arm saw.
One of them didn’t follow directions and I barely snatched her hand back from the spinning blade.
Obligatory Just call me Mr. Butter Fingers.
Sigh… at least the mangled link still seems to work…
There are just a few simple rules before using this…..
(Al) “Markup language”
Just be careful they dinna turn their mother into a bear…
Defend your scrotum!
I quiver at the thought.
We’ve already had some pointed conversations about safety.
“Why Elites Like Greta Thunberg Hate Capitalism
Free markets have lifted millions out of poverty, liberated women, and protected the environment. Why, then, are so many progressives against them?
For the last three years, Greta Thunberg has said that her life’s purpose was to save the world from climate change. But last Sunday, she told an audience in London that climate activists must overthrow “the whole capitalist system,” which she says is responsible for “imperialism, oppression, genocide… racist, oppressive extractionism.” Her talk echoed the World Economic Forum’s calls for a “Great Reset” away from fossil fuels and toward renewables. There is no “back to normal,” she said.”
https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-elites-like-greta-thunberg-hate
Shocking.
“Why, then, are so many progressives against them?”
They hate human freedom and prosperity.
“which she says is responsible for “imperialism, oppression, genocide… racist, oppressive extractionism”
Everyone knows that communism’s record on these things is spotless. (Not that market economies have anything to do with such things other than avoiding them.)
1) They’re useful idiots who don’t realize they’re idiots.
2) They think they’ll be the ones in power after the Glorious Revolution (instead of shot by the ruthless because they’re no longer useful and still annoying as hell).
That’s my take on it, anyway.
Impressionable teenage girl being exploited by older men for their own prestige and financial gain.
A story as old as civilization itself.
“Elite” and “Greta Thunberg” should not be in the same sentence.
This privileged princess has no business telling the world what to do. How dare she.
They’re against it because they haven’t ever experienced actual privation that was not of their own choice.
+1 intermittent fast.
With Maloney’s and Hochul’s elections coming down to the wire, it appears these attacks may, indeed, be working.
This presents a core challenge to Democrats as they attempt to close the enthusiasm gap benefiting Republican candidates across the country. Republicans have found a unified, if disingenuous, theme. From New York to Nevada, they are pushing the ideology of fear.
But to keep the Senate, fight for the House and win governor’s mansions around the country, Democrats will have to motivate a big, diverse group of people who don’t have uniform concerns, fears or motivations. The stakes are incredibly high. Next Tuesday we will find out whether Democrats have convinced voters of this fact — or whether Republicans were, instead, able to scare enough card-carrying liberals and override logic with anxiety.
Guess what- telling those who do not agree with you to go fuck themselves might not be a winning strategy. Furthermore, making it plain to them that your winner-take-all brand of politics means you’ll be shoving your most beloved agenda items down their throats no matter how razor thin your victory may have been, and no matter how far your rabid anti-capitalist plans may be from their preferred policies might be a tad off-putting.
If you yell them they are your enemies, and say no quarter will be given, they might just believe you.
“From New York to Nevada, they are pushing the ideology of fear”
Progjection as usual. Though it’s logical to fear authoritarianism.
This is some thread:
“Who is Harley Pasternak, the man whom Kanye West has accused of trying to institutionalize him, drug him into oblivion, and take his kids away?
As it turns out, this “personal trainer” is connected to psychological operations, the Canadian military, and other strangeness…
🧵”
https://twitter.com/restoreorderusa/status/1588556212102082560
The psyop divisions of the military need to be burnt to the ground. We’re funding our own brainwashing.
Hi Everyone,
I hope I’m not being a pain in the neck, but I’m wondering if anyone might be able to point me in the right direction on some ideas bouncing around in my head that I’m trying to formulate a little more concretely. Right now, they’re mostly vague intuitions, flashes of (hopefully) insight, and 10,000-foot outlines of broad suppositions. So, I know I need to do some research before I can say anything useful.
In particular, I’m thinking about an idea I’ll call paleolibertarianism, for lack of a better term. I know that term was used to refer to some tactical ideas Murray Rothbard and the Mises Institute folks had a couple of decades ago. But, I think it might be useful as an underlying philosophy. My thinking is roughly this:
Might repost this after 11:30. This thread is getting ready to be dead.
You’re basically talking about Tom Woods and those like him, particularly in the Mises Institute.
I have to admit that, yeah, I have listened to a lot of Tom Woods, Dave Smith and some of the Mises guys. But, the move to the country has also influenced my thinking, as well. I just haven’t been able to find a clear synopsis of the thinking and I’m thinking it might be interesting to put something together,
You might look at some of Rothbard’s stuff from the mid- to late-70s. I’ll admit I haven’t read very much of it, but I’ve listened to podcasts, etc. about it. This is probably the main one: https://www.mises.at/static/literatur/Buch/rothbard-the-betrayal-of-the-american-right.pdf (Trigger Warning: pdf line). It was published posthumously but he wrote it in the 1970s.
There’s also his essay, “Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal” which is online at panarchy[ .] org rothbard (trying to not break the multi-link rule). At one point, Rothbard argued for an alliance with the New Left because the NL (in its early incarnations) was opposed to the bureaucratic state and Rothbard believed the Right had lost its way.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Have you read Malice’s Anarchist Handbook? There are some essays in there that might take you in an even more primal direction.
Billy Strings grows up
But last Sunday, she told an audience in London that climate activists must overthrow “the whole capitalist system,” which she says is responsible for “imperialism, oppression, genocide… racist, oppressive extractionism.” Her talk echoed the World Economic Forum’s calls for a “Great Reset” away from fossil fuels and toward renewables. There is no “back to normal,” she said.”
It’s all about demand destruction. Modern society runs on energy. Modern society must be destroyed.
All that nonsense about emissions and renewables is just window dressing.
She has a platform to speak that is made possible by capitalism and free ideals, hope she like being the town idiot when we achieve her dream. Getting away from culling the heard might have been the starting point of humanity’s downfall.
The drive for renewables was always about limiting energy supply. The advocates didn’t push it because they mistakenly believed it would be capable of producing sufficient energy to provide for our needs. They pushed for those things precisely because they knew they would never be able to. The obvious answer to emissions, if that were their goal was always nuclear.
Noone is dead yet but this archery for 10 year old girls os fraught with danger.
You don’t mean they have been given arrows with sharp points, do you?
Good gravy. They should be restricted to suction cup arrows, or tipped with tiny boxing gloves.
I can hear them clattering on the ground behind the target. And yes, proper target arrows with points.
I am disappointed.
Teach them to get their shots on the paper.
The wind is starting to pick up here. The futon, which I swept when I came outside this morning, is once again covered in brown pine needles, and I’ve been pelted by a few of the fallen leaves from our neighbor’s oak tree.
And the path forward for libertarianism is to go back to the Old Right portion of its roots and confront the administrative state and managerial society, rather than focusing on, well, pot, Mexicans and butt sex (not that there’s anything wrong with any of those).
Self ownership is one of my hobby horses. I think libertarianism as a structured political philosophy should (must) strongly condemn and reject the ward-of-the-state paternalism of progressivism.
The irony is that the ward-of-the-state paternalism was always only candy coating for the underlying agenda – the reordering of society to be managed by a technocratic elite. The ultimate progressive utopia was Brave New World. The question remains whether the characters of that society can meaningfully be called human, even ignoring the fact that it would never exactly work in practice.