such intense. many stares. wow
“Joseph Stalin in His Own Words”
“AI Seinfeld Is Back On Twitch, But Without Seinfeld (And Fans Are Upset)”
“Michael B. Jordan is working on a Creed anime, Rocky spinoffs”
“Everything Everywhere All at Once can add another historic win to its list.”
I’ve absolutely posted this song before, but I thought I might include this variation on it (in case it was too hard for you the first time).
I refuse to call Eskimo Callboy by any other name!
🙄️
Someone taught the computer to be naughty.
I’m not going to watch that but I will guess that it’s the sort of mild stuff that would get every nineties show “cancelled” in current year.
Riven!
I could finish cleaning out my car this weekend, if I’m really aggressive…
I wasn’t even gonna bring it up again this week, I promise!
But since you did…
I think she should invoke the NAP.
Don Imus hardest hit.
Obscure reference, that.
And right off the top of his head, too!
I …got started… last weekend. I grabbed the most important stuff out of it–dash ornaments and CDs. Also aired up the tires since they were low.
._. MAYBE I’ll do the rest this weekend.
This car wouldn’t happen to be a DeLorean, would it?
Plymouth Reliant K
This triggers the church kid
Lololol, nah. It’s a Taurus. Half my cars have been Tauruses.
Front half? Back half?
Hula girl and Limp Bizkit?
Without knowing a single other fact about it, I suspect it is abysmal for that reason alone.
The girlfriend and I watched it. Both of us thought it was overhyped, not as “groundbreaking” as the media claimed, too long, and mediocre.
We’re monsters.
I haven’t made it more than 15 minutes in yet.
I never heard of it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s my favorite movie of the year. I think it’s fantastic.
I, like rhywun, had never even heard of it, but critical acclaim has become a reliable inverse indicator of film quality in my general experience.
The Banshees of Inisherin is good, too. It’s Martin McDonaugh, who did In Bruges.
Sometimes the critics get it right.
Triangle of Sadness was cynical and bleh.
Tár is worth seeing for Blanchett’s performance and the cancel culture scenes.
Marcell the Shell with Shoes On is very cute.
The Fablemans is standard Oscar fare. It’s not one of Spielberg’s best despite the acclaim.
I have not seen Avatar 2 but was not a big fan of the first one.
Top Gun: Maverick was good but not as good as the first one.
I didn’t bother with Women Talking
Obligatory
It is good, but derivative. People who have never seen Kung Fu Hustle or the like are amazed by it.
The Drinker liked it. I haven’t watched it though, so can’t comment further.
RLM liked it as well.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Sucked.
But then again, so did Return of the King.
:::scours shire::::
Sours Shire, am I right!
We’ll have to agree to disagree; Mr. Riven and I loved it.
It’s a movie about families dressed up as a fantastical multiverse adventure. I’ve seen it four times.
I’m right there with you. Three or four times in the last six months, probably
When I was in Moscow in the 90s plenty of people were placing flowers at Stalin’s grave in the Kremlin wall. Lenin had the most flowers because he had his own mausoleum, but of those buried in the wall only Gagarin had more. And then there were the daily protesters with megaphones and large portraits of Stalin.
As for the quotes in that article, I bet a lot of progs these days would agree with him.
When the US finally collapses, there will be mourners for Clinton, Obama, Trump, Bush, Biden, etc…
Hell, people revere McCain.
Not Bush or Trump.
The Mourners are only allowed to wear blue.
Number 5 will not shock you!
Number 6 was pretty good too.
Another answer to “why does Hollywood suck now”.
Stalin, who followed in Vladmir Lenin’s bloody footsteps, suffered a stroke and died at his Kuntsevo Daach on March 5, 1953. He was 74.
Only the good die young.
Trotsky was fairly young. Helluva guy.
Way to pick ’em!
That was ice cold.
Trotsky can handle the criticism. It just goes in one ear and out the other.
He did have some rather pointed views on Stalin.
I looked it up. He was 61 or so when he received his free brain surgery. That is a bit younger than I thought he was.
Can’t spell Kuntsevo without the Kunt.
Best movie of that year.
Following the science is hard
Neighbors and city officials in Bastrop County are concerned about the Boring Company’s request to dump more than 100,000 gallons of treated wastewater into their drinking-water supply, and this month they will get a chance to hear from Elon Musk’s company and the state commission responsible for granting the permit to dump.
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In July, Gapped Bass LLC, an entity affiliated with the Boring Co., submitted a permit application with the TCEQ to dump 142,500 gallons of treated wastewater directly into the Colorado River below Lady Bird Lake. The water treatment facility on the company’s property would serve a “tunnel boring equipment manufacturing and testing facility with on-site residences,” according to a notice from TCEQ.
The company is also requesting the ability to discharge the wastewater onto its own 63 acres of land that cannot be accessed by the public.
The area of the lake where this treated wastewater would go directly into is known as Segment No. 1428. The TCEQ says the area is designated for “primary contact recreation, public water supply, and exceptional aquatic life use.”
By law, an antidegradation review was performed on the area of the lake that would receive the water. The review found the existing water quality uses would not be impaired by the dumping. The executive director of TCEQ “has made a preliminary decision that this permit, if issued, meets all statutory and regulatory requirements,” according to a TCEQ notice.
Even with the assurances from the TCEQ, Ambrose is still concerned about the dumping in his community. He has more questions for both the company and the commission during the public meeting.
Maybe they could truck that water to California.
They should look to Japan for how to stall the inevitable…
Despite opposition, Japan may soon dump Fukushima wastewater into the Pacific
Is ‘Gapped Bass’ the fish version of goatse ?
Fishing for Brown Bass?
Still pink on the inside.
Corn eye, speckle back, boneless brown trout.
100,000 gallons a year? An hour? It kinda matters.
“Drinking water supply” is a tad tendentious. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt that they take their water from downstream,(although I would expect to come from the reservoir upstream), but I strongly suspect they treat it before it goes into the pipes.
Mississippi man sentenced to 42 months for burning cross
I know, I know, not the hill to die on it, but seriously, what in the fuck?
That’s pretty outrageous. But expected in current year.
Yeah. Such a hard one. That is clearly a batshit crazy person who was a step away from murdering someone. I think the prosecutor tried hard to find some charge to stick.
That said, 42 months is excessive.
I read somewhere that the neighbors killed his dog.
Electric Callboy – PUMP IT
(´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)
It’s Friday, and the girlfriend and I are heading out to appropriate some culture by going to a Fish Fry (neither of us are practicing Catholics), and (I hope) to catch a band playing at a local bar. So I give you the unmoderated, open Zoom/Happy Hour/Gossip center for you lot.
Sounds like fun
It’s tiki night!
An appropriate theme song. (RIP David Lindley)
Asteroid has slim chance of collision course with Earth in 2046
SMOD be my Valentine <3
Yeah, I will be 75, so, not too worried.
I’ll be just shy of 95, so I’ll be praying for it.
*Starts betting board
*counts on fingers and toes, unzips, still can’t quite get to 23*
I’ll be around 83. In the unlikely event I make it that long.
You’re not trying hard enough. Fingers and toes makes 20, meat and two veg makes 23.
Won’t matter as we will all be dead from climate warming by then. Or WWIII or the regime of President Harris and V.P Chelsea Clinton.
No shit, Shirley?
Over the past 18 months, inflation has dominated our understanding of the pandemic economy. Americans have endured the highest yearly price increases in four decades, from soup to nuts — literally. Even now, as experts and forecasters worry that the economy might dip into recession, observers also remain dismayed about the relative stickiness of inflation. Through it all, we’ve heard an almost mantra-like refrain from the Federal Reserve: We’re still not close to 2 percent inflation.
It might seem odd, then, that this ostensibly carefully crafted rule of monetary policy, the goal of arguably the most powerful technocrats in the world, is sort of … arbitrary. In fact, there’s little empirical evidence to suggest that a long-run inflation target of 2 percent is the platonic ideal for balancing the Fed’s “dual mandate” of price stability and maximum employment. So as the Fed continues to raise interest rates with the stated goal of bringing us back down to 2 percent inflation, it’s worth reexamining this long-held “rule of economics.” Despite its widespread acceptance, there’s a strong case that we should understand it as a product of history — and relegate it to the dustbin accordingly.
“The idea that inflation should be relatively low and relatively stable is certainly a reasonable position to have,” said Jonathan Kirshner, a professor of political science at Boston College who studies the politics of inflation. “But there’s nothing magic or special about 2 percent.”
They couldn’t get inflation UP to 2%, why would anybody think they can get it DOWN to 2%?
Why do I get the feeling this is a set up for “Ackchyually, high inflation is good!”
Yep, there it is.
At least the title is correct.
Now I have Russ Roberts’ voice in my head saying “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
“the economy might dip into recession”
One Narrative to rule them all, one Narrative to bind them . . . .
The rise of hyper-tokenism
Silly Brits. I’m glad that kind of thing isn’t happening on this side of the pond.
You mean to tell me that 50% of the population isn’t gay? I mean it might be a low number for the UK, but I doubt it is in the US.
At least. And just as many are in interracial marriages.
That was my comment too. All with beautiful caramel children.
Give it another hundred years. Then the 15 percent whatevers will be discriminating against those only 8 percent whatevers.
America isn’t made up of 65% or more inter-racial couples with lovely caramel children running around?
These are getting funny. NSFW with language and the inclusion of Ben Shapiro as the DM is fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IREgYXOJDe4
Another…with JFK making an appearance. lol
I saw a COD one where JFK keeps getting sniped.
Thats awesome. The Internet is the Internet again if even only in a moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pad-YLsd16U might help to post. This is SWTOR lol
Cute. I need to play…
Yahtzee!
I LOL’d
With this in mind, Ball’s research found that had the Fed targeted 4 percent inflation before the Great Recession, overall economic output would have been considerably higher — and unemployment lower — in the years following the start of the Great Recession. Additional research has found that, under certain conditions, pursuing a higher inflation target can actually improve economic stability.
According to my model, et c.
Print print print!
And an 8% target would have meant even more growth!
As long as you’re not adjusting your numbers for inflation, of course.
Why do I get the feeling this is a set up for “Ackchyually, high inflation is good!”
Very good, Pat. You win a cookie.
Had a not-quite-argument with the spouse. Backstory: I’d submitted eight of my best paintings to an open call from a local art gallery, which had a very lefty business name. The first word of their business name was the very Soviet “People” thing.
They sent a two sentence rejection letter. Mrs. Prole was … outraged? … when she looked at the artwork that had been accepted, a mixture of talented art and quite a lot of shite. I was sanguine. Whatever.
Mrs. Prole wanted to know why none of my art got in. I suggested it was possible I had run afoul of the flip side of DEI, Diversity and Equity and Inclusion, where Diversity meant “no cis white males”, and Inclusion meant “exclude anyone who hadn’t strongly signaled that they were a hard-core lefty”.
Mrs. Prole was upset that I had suggested that people in the art business might not want anyone not of their tribe to get wall space. I suggested that she was giving leftists undeserved credit for being basically good people, despite ample evidence to the contrary about human nature.
Submit the same art under her name. See what happens.
Boom
JR knows how to divorce
La’kisha Lopez-Muhamed?
I mean… really? Leave the DIE shit aside entirely and the art world has always been an incestuous, petty, cliquish subculture. I’d be more surprised to find that a gallery wasn’t gatekeeping their wall space for fellow travelers, whether political, cultural or stylistic.
^^THIS.
A buddy of mine in Calgary (quite a good photographer) couldn’t get space on any of the gallery walls there, so he and several other photogs got together, pooled their resources and created venues to sell and show off their stuff. Worked a treat, and the main gallerys got the message: “Get bent.”
A renowned curator at SFMOMA was cancelled and forced to resign because he refused to not consider buying artists by whites. He was called a white supremscist when he had problems with the idea that they should only procure art by minorities.
TOS covered it too.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/07/15/nolte-san-francisco-museum-curator-forced-to-resign-over-white-supremacist-smear/
Main page pic haz a sad. If only there was a way around the auto-cropping.
WHAT THE FUCK YOU TALKING ABOUT
https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1634323916813393920
Scrolling down, holy shit:
https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1634192009756852224
or not. Apparently, it was a bit.
I had noticed that the markets have had a rough go of it the last few days.
My dad has 1 week left in his 74 day cruise, and the weather is supposed to get colder, so it feels like one of these kind of nights.
Choose your fighter
https://ibb.co/LdJQR1g
I have the green and the brown cups that you have in the back.
Back left
Parrot, back right. As if perched on the shoulder of a swashbuckler whispering “more rum” into his ear.
Seems a bit Bideny
Gimme the pig
The brown one. I like the classics.
……. If i am interpreting that correctly, i am sorry KK.
sorry i misread that as years rather than days….. I guess i failed my perception check.
sorry i misread that as years rather than days….. I guess i failed my perception check.
Wait – did you think my dad was in prison?
I thought 74 year cruise was an euphemism for death.
Once again, i am sorry for misreading what you said.
Are those voodoo dolls in the back?
My neighbor Gavin (not Newsom) just stopped by to render his services…
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He rolled me some Js, you prevents!
Is a roll of the grass something like a roll in the hay? Because it sure sounds like it.
Greater chance of chiggers.
I have, in fact, taken a bleach bath for chiggers.
Chigro, please.
Unexpectedly
[insert anecdotal sob story]
After balking at the repair prices, Clynes instead sold the car back to Ford last October for $8,000, less than a quarter of what he paid when he bought it used three years earlier.
“It was crazy,” Clynes said. “It just wore me down.”
Clynes is hardly the only car owner encountering high auto repair prices. Motor vehicle repair prices have jumped a staggering 23% over the last year, an inflation rate nearly four times higher than overall price increases, government data showed.
The price hikes stem from a shortage of workers and car parts that has sent costs soaring for auto shops, industry experts said. On top of that, the rise of high-tech cars, equipped with features like rearview cameras and traffic sensors, has added cost to even some routine repairs, they added.
“It’s a perfect storm because everything is coming together at once,” Tara Topel, the owner of Topel’s Service Center, a car repair shop in Lake Mills, Wisconsin, told ABC News. “The pandemic exacerbated what was already an issue.”
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Topel, the repair shop owner, said the company’s prices have gone up as much as 20% over the last year.
To attract workers amid the shortage, the company has raised hourly pay by $5 per hour over the past two years, which amounts to a 20% increase in the base pay for entry-level technicians, she said.
Meanwhile, the repair shop faces added costs as it purchases big-ticket items that allow it to fix high-tech cars, she said. The company recently spent $38,000 for a machine that allows for the calibration of advanced driver-assistance systems, a set of technologies that help drivers navigate.
“More and more new technology comes into our shop,” she said. “It becomes a bigger deal by the month.”
As repair prices rise, Topel notices customers opting for basic repairs rather than more comprehensive ones, she said, noting that customers and shops alike are trying to weather elevated costs.
Repair costs skyrocket. Lots of deferred maintenance; let the next guy take care of that.
And it all came out of nowhere.
Fucking change the oil, dude.
Employee got a quote to repair a 2018 Honda windshield with lane control.
$1395, approximately half of which was recalibrating the computer.
Which we all pay for in insurance costs.
Tesla, to their credit, lets you enter service mode and calibrate it yourself.
The glass, OTH, is like $1.3k by itself. It’s frickinghuge.
My wife’s Outback needs a new window. Just over 1k. Normally I would pay out of pocket, but this time I am going threw insurance, so only $250.
My 2013 RAV4 with minimal automation keeps looking better and better.
I’m gonna drive it into the ground.
Friday Funbags will soothe what ails you.
https://archive.is/jAEBl
One of the Stalin quotes: