I probably mentioned it here once. During the summer Dana White posted on Twitter X a short video of him wearing a Musk vs. Zuckerberg shirt with a UFC logo. It was around the time the speculation they were going to fight in the Octagon was intense.
This is my review of Destihl Spicy Pickle Sour Beer:
So I did the reasonable thing and found the shirt online and gave it to my oldest son, who is the classic burgeoning nerd. He immediately wore it to wrestling practice. While I have my doubts those two will actually engage in fisticuffs, something the boy asked the other day made me rethink the whole thing:
“What does Zuckerberg do?”
“I was promised 7 virgins. For now all 7 loaded are XY, but we *can* make them XX here.”
The thing is, for a billionaire he’s produced very little of value. He technically didn’t even come up with the idea for Facebook, he just monetized it. The entire concept of social media changed how we waste time and he is the face behind the madness. Which continues today. Recently he went on the Lex Fridman Podcast to show how his new Metaverse technology has progressed, by airing the entire podcast via Metaverse. It looks cool, and even makes Lex and Zuckerberg look almost human. Quite frankly both need all the help they can get in that regard. Its a dystopian future that seems almost like the Matrix.
Musk in contrast actually builds things. Whether or not one actually wants these things is another story, but at least they are real. There is a fight between these two billionaires but its cultural not physical. One one hand, one is building a dystopian future with electric cars, rockets, moon colonies, robots, and flamethrowers—almost sounds cyberpunk. The other one wants you to live your life in the Matrix.
I have officially encountered a manmade horror beyond my comprehension. This beer is absolutely incomprehensible. You might first ask yourself, “do I even like pickles?”
Personally, I don’t like pickles enough to eat them out of the jar but its not revolting.
Does this then taste like pickles? You’re damn right it does. Now they say to pair it with pub food like a burger, something you might typically eat with a pickle. There are even cocktails that use pickle juice, and some people chase shots with pickle juice. These people are living in a dystopian nightmare, and should not be taken seriously. This is terrible and I will not be doing this again under any circumstances—being paid by a billionaire notwithstanding. Destihl Spicy Pickle Sour Beer: 1.8/5 5.2% ABV
“Destihl Spicy Pickle Sour Beer”
No
Shit, no man
“What does Zuckerberg do?”
I’ll bet that brought the conversation to a screeching halt.
I think pickle beer is an evil abomination, but I will
fight like hell forbegrudgingly admit to your right to make it.After reading that review I was surprised to see a “1” before the decimal point. I figure you either fat-fingered a zero or left out the minus sign.
Yup. I was expecting a 0.
C’mon, I gotta give them a point for not making me go blind, right?
You really are charitable.
The other one wants you to live your life in the Matrix.
I’ll live my life in my own head.
Musk doesn’t appear to want me dead.
So I’ve got that going for me.
Snow Crash re-read is in order.
I once bought a six pack of pickle beer. Once. Four of them stayed in my fridge for months before I gave them away.
Musk is building a future for mankind that achieves real goals and believes in a future in the stars.
Zuckerpunch has wasted an entire generation’s time on navel gazing and cat videos.
This was from a 4 pack. I drank a second one to see if I can get used to it but wound up giving away the other two.
Elon yes, Pickle beer? Oh hell no….
I could watch these for hours
Wait a minute, that’s not porn!
No, its definitely porn.
I’ve seen them IRL – they had a travelling exhibit at The Peabody Essex museum.
They’re incredibly fragile as they’re mostly plastic conduit, which breaks down from UV light.
FB is CIA.
I like Marketplace, though.
That beer looks awful. Thanks for taking one for the team.
Worse atrocity: Pickle beer, or pickleball?
Beer
To be fair, beer in general *is* an atrocity. 🙂
Beer.
Pickleball is fun as hell.
Mexi, that sounds completely disgusting. Is it okay to suggest that hipster brews like this are *the worst?*
Or maybe, the wurst?
Anyway. Musk v. Zuck is emblematic of the decay our age. Think of some of the richest people on Earth of eras gone by – and then compare them to these two jibronis.
I know there’s some Musk fanboys here, but Musk is a byproduct of being a subsidy whore. EVs still don’t come close to the combustion engine.
Musk is just one of the more likable, less trying to kill me, beneficiaries of the EV Eco-Grift.
I love what he kinda sorta did for free speech with buying Twitter (but then backed away from), but he’s definitely a hero for allowing Taibbi et al to see inside and see how the whole thing was being controlled by the government. Missouri v. Biden helped, but he really started that rolling. Full marks for that.
Zuckerberg, by comparison, is a little twerp. I continue to enjoy watching all of his META projects tank.
This was certainly the worst one I tried in a while
Musk basically started Tesla to fund/do development for SpaceX, is my understanding. SpaceX is such a massive benefit to humanity I don’t hold Tesla against him.
Also, hate the game, not the player.
“a subsidy whore”
Bingo. While I agree with RC that one should hate the game, not the player it is still repulsive to me. It is, after all, the players that designed the game. My money is stolen from me and squandered wildly in countless ways that I did not consent to. Elon is just another squanderer. The entire EV grift is just that…a grift designed to relieve fools of their money.
If something good comes from it it will be by accident and exponentially more expensive than it should be.
Throw the lot of them in woodchippers. Hmmmm…woodchippers….there is something I would be willing to subsidize.
By the way, I haven’t been around, has this gem from the Bee already been covered after Hillary’s “reeducation camp” interview?
https://babylonbee.com/news/elderly-woman-escapes-nursing-home-rants-about-deprogramming-the-populace?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email
This is how she should be viewed and treated.
yes in the morning linx
I’ve been thinking about that. She still can’t take responsibility for her losing to Trump. She chose to take the blue collar voters in the rust belt for granted. They always voted for Dems so no need to campaign there. Then Trump came in and said “I hear you, I’m on your side.” All she had to do was make a few appearances and say “Forget Trump, we’re your party, we always have your back.” But nope, she called them deplorables for supporting Trump, and she just keeps doubling down.
She could play to adoring crowds in California, or go slum with people she couldn’t stand being around. I’m sure she also had people telling her she couldn’t possibly lose.
And to continue that thought – there is no one that has a good explanation still for those counties that voted Obama and Trump.
Trump’s campaign approach: The government serves the citizen and has lost sight of that. I will help you make America great again for you. It is about you.
Hillary’s campaign: “I’m for her”. It was about her. Put people who dont support her in concentration camps.
Yet they still cant figure out why they lost. It had to be some malicious outside actor, right? It couldn’t be them, it had to be….uh…PUTIN! Yeah, that’s the ticket!
IIRC Bill urged her to do that, but the experts running her campaign said “nah, we got this”.
Dip shits. Bill is a POS, but he was good at politics. Nobody in that party even tries anymore.
“Maga extremists are taking orders from Trump”
It really is all projection all of the time with them, isn’t it. They cannot imagine that people unlike them think and operate in ways unlike they do. I have not yet seen the rationalizations that the left is/will use to explain this away as a harmless comment. I think her intentions are unmistakable but it will be hand waived away by someone, probably people that agree with her but know better than to say it out loud. No doubt some of those people are in some positions of power.
Who are they taking orders from Hillary? Hmmm?
Nah, Suthen, they understand that those people exist; they just can’t understand why all of us can’t see how wrong we are for disagreeing with them.
Messaging….they just need to explain it to us in simpler terms, that’s all.
When someone, who is not a stand up comedian or on a parody site like the Bee, tells me that they want to put me in formal re-education camps, I’m gonna take them at their word.
We dodged a big one in 2016.
I look forward to the Vegan Purge.
https://twitter.com/ClausCarlsen1/status/1710360263969411304
Who the fuck is George Bard?
Does this then taste like pickles? You’re damn right it does. Now they say to pair it with pub food like a burger, something you might typically eat with a pickle. There are even cocktails that use pickle juice, and some people chase shots with pickle juice. These people are living in a dystopian nightmare, and should not be taken seriously. This is terrible and I will not be doing this again under any circumstances—being paid by a billionaire notwithstanding.
I like pickles, but I don’t know about this beer.
The butcher had veal ribs, so I bought some. Now I have to decide the best way to cook them.
I’m thinking slow roast with sauce…
Sauce…use those ribs to make some Demi-glace.
Mexican Sharpshooter, destroying his palate with crappy beer, so you don’t have to.
Yet again, MS has taken one for the team. It may be time to give him hazard pay.
Tune in next week, where I get ambushed by the Kool Aid man.
Oh yeah!
Any clue what that is from?
I think the Sandy Frank US version is called Time of the Apes. MST3K did it in Season 1 I believe.
Afraid not.
Can Disney piss on their audience any harder?
WTF
And WTF is Johnson thinking? He’s smarter than that.
I donno, I’ve seen his filmography.
I’m going to say yes only because they always find a way.
On second thought, this might be a semi-strategic retreat from pushing Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Indy’s successor.
It’s a revisit to the Temple of Doom plot, Johnson plays Mola Ram.
/lies
Probably
I like the odd pickle back shot on occasion.
https://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/how-to-make-pickleback-shots-recipe
Picklebacks are pretty popular on the playa (i.e. Burning Man).
Gotta keep the electrolytes up in the desert.
If SpaceX wants to find out how 2 middle aged fat engineers cope on Mars, I and my bestie volunteer.
If he needs a lawyer on Mars Mrs. Dean volunteers me.
What did you do this time? Or what did you not do? It has to be one of those two things.
I expect the Mars thing to end up like Sir John Franklyn’s Northwest passage expedition.
That would be “Franklin”.
Musk vs Zuck:
At least Musk strives to create or at least improve real things.
I never had a problem with Musk taking subsidies that were freely given to his companies.
The Space X government subsidy critique makes little sense to me. The alternative was a nearly a 10X more costly NASA rocket made using your money or a aging Russian rocket.
Mysterious
The diverging fortunes of the two most prominent electric vehicle start-ups in the US show Wall Street is picking a side – and it’s not Lucid Group.
Having recently touched an all-time low, the stock is down nearly 25 per cent this year through Thursday’s close, compared to a 1 per cent decline for pickup truck-making peer Rivian Automotive in the same period.
The percentage of bullish analyst ratings on Lucid has dwindled to only about a quarter of all recommendations. For Rivian, more than half of the ratings are the equivalent of a buy.
The performances reflect deeper differences. Lucid, which according to a Bloomberg Intelligence estimate is set to burn $338,000 for every vehicle it makes this year, said in August that it still expected to produce at least 10,000 cars in 2023.
Analysts’ average 2023 sales estimate for the firm has sunk nearly 50 per cent over the past six months.
That’s a promising business model.
They’ll just make it up in volume.
There are now 2 Rivians that I know of in east Tucson.
I have seen exactly two in DFW. That’s it. I see more Lamborghinis.
Lots out here. They have a main distribution hub in Denver, I guess.
There’s tons of them here in Southern California.
I’ve seen quite a few of them in Phoenix. Even one with an overland setup when I visited Bryce Canyon this summer.
I have zero tolerance for this dishonest, destructive horseshit.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/06/kinzinger-christian-nationalist-jim-jordan-is-very-dangerous-to-this-country/
And I see something is happening in Israel. By “something” I mean terrorists targeting civilians. Maybe Israel should make carpet bombing great again.
I am getting damn close to advocating for Israel to impose a “Roman peace” on the Gaza strip.
Since Arafat walked away from a peace treaty that would have given him over 90% of what he asked for, my opinion for the Pali’s has been “Fuck them.” They chose the corrupt killers who rule them so they can share a grave. Hopefully this attack on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War influences other Arab states to wash their hands of supporting Hamas and adjacent groups.
Why would they? The palis have always been useful idiots.
Yeah, it’s clear this won’t stop until one side is wiped out.
It is scary looking at the terrorists going out of their way to kidnap live hostages to take back to Gaza – to try and trade for xxxx imprisoned terrorists, etc. If they’re dispersed, etc it’d be almost impossible to safely rescue.
Nuts that Israel could pull off something like Operation Entebbe in the 70s and then have to sit on their hands in this situation.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/israels-retribution-will-be-righteous/
He’s right, Jim Jordan is dangerous. I’ve been watching him run committees about weaponization of government and Hunter Biden. He doesn’t fuck around. So yes, I’d say he is dangerous to Dems. I hope he wins.
There is no doubt in my mind that this attack is funded by our radical left, and that includes Obama.
At least we dont have Donnie Two Scoops int he White House. That would be so much worse.
This was from a 4 pack. I drank a second one to see if I can get used to it but wound up giving away the other two.
It doesn’t even sound like something you could use for cooking.
Why not?
you need wine for cooking
Destihl Spicy Pickle Sour Beer
Whoever created this should be publicly shamed and exiled.
I’ve been checking in on Moderns stock off and on. Their recent financials are not great. Look at recent quarterly revenue.
Sep. 2022…$3.36B
Dec. 2022…$5.08B
Mar. 2023…$1.86B
June 2023…$344M
Maybe they got something in the pipeline after COVID-19 vaccine, but that’s not a good trend line.
They lost me at sour beer, which is the only beer I’ve been given a tiny sample of and still couldn’t finish.
Adding pickle juice feels like trolling, frankly.
I can’t even with this.
Betting he eats pickled jalapenos.
You’re gonna love this beer
Feh. I like chicken wings too but that doesn’t mean I want chicken wing beer.
A solution has been found for the Israel Palestine conflict
https://twitter.com/LRH_Superfan/status/1710573115644768316
Imagine being that moron.
Imagine all the morons
It’s easy if you try….
Sadly, imagination not required.
https://i.imgflip.com/36tm1r.png
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GE_dAOvSgDw
Pickles and beer is probably good for a hangover.
Pickle brine is. I cant count the number of Sunday mornings I sat in church, burping Claussen’s.
No need for pickle juice. Just sitting and listening to mainstream Presbyterian sermons usually gives me indigestion.
The blood of Christ. The body of Christ. The brine of Christ.
Gothic Architecture in Romania, a🧵
Transylvania represents the eastern-most point of infiltration of the Gothic style of architecture in medieval Europe — join me for a look at its most representative edifices.
https://twitter.com/RomanianHaiduc/status/1710369177712672992
Very cool!
I love architecture and the history behind it. The cathedral at Speyer, Germany is one of my personal favorites.
Romanian historical architecture has a flavor all of its own that I find especially appealing.
Why not?
The “unique” flavor. Maybe it would enhance something, but I can’t guess what.
I took a flyer on some beer a while back which turned out to be an awful heavy syrupy glop. However, in the crock pot with beef ribs, it was a definite win.
“an acceptance of the inherent duality of freedom.”
Bad kitty is the best.
He really is.
I thought I was the best.
[runs from room quietly sobbing]
Off to the boat for a couple days of racing. Have a great pickle-beer free day to all of you.
Hopefully when I check in later a new war in Asia doesn’t complete the trifecta.
Speaking of planning for war in Asia.
On what exact piece of ground do you think you are fighting the PLA? On their home turf?
Tank: Wildly expensive BBQ pit.
We dont need more tanks. We need faster vehicles plus more and better firepower.
Technically speaking, I think our M1s (upgraded edition) are still pretty much ground superiority forces (that need support AA support and infantry support just like tanks in WWII). A lot of it does come down to training tanker crews and our updated Active Protection Systems (APS), but our 4 man crew system (vice autoloaders) and ammunition options are still top of the line. Fighting environment does matter, but in a toe to toe armor fight, I don’t think we’d be the loser on anything less than 5 to 1 (although I may still be pumped up from John Ringo and Tom Clancy).
Toe to toe armor fight. No thanks.
Are we still using TOWs? A dozen marines with all the TOWs they can get their hands on can eat any number of tanks before lunch.
Two or three(?) generations beyond now.
*adjusts belt onion*
Oh, ok. That figures.
TOWs leave you exposed. We’ve been using Javelins almost exclusively for a hot minute (IIRC). (may depend on service).
How about we stay the fuck out of it and secure our own borders?
Yeah….there is that. I vote for that.
My loony lefty youngest sister is moving to Las Cruces. Should be instructional.
He’s a good kid. He just happened to be out at 4am knocking over bikes.
Lawyer claims NYC teen charged in poet slaying is ‘great kid’ who wasn’t ‘looking for trouble’
The lawyer is damn near channeling AOC there. WTF
An episode. I see.
Evil and lunacy are not mutually exclusive…on the other hand he did kill a commie.
They’re a defense lawyer. They’ve gotta mount a defense, however crappy and unbelievable it might be. They gotta try. This defense is so bad, it seems to be angling toward getting slightly reduced charges in a plea bargain.
He was turning his life around.
Spicy Pickle was my nickname at my frat.
“a dystopian future with electric cars, rockets, moon colonies, robots, and flamethrowers”
Doesn’t sound particularly dystopian to me.
Well, one out of two.
https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/investigations/youre-in-big-deep-s-right-now-police-body-camera-shows-raid-inside-journalist-eric-meyers-home
Journalists protecting their own.
No, overbearing asshole cops doing illegal shit. That whole department should be scooped up and thrown into their own jail.
Two witnesses positively identified Dowling as Carson’s killer in a photo array. The victim’s girlfriend failed to pick Dowling, the prosecutor said.
They all look alike to her.
He was coming at her with a knife at close range, and she’s still not testifying against him? I can’t wrap my head around the level of indoctrination it would take for her to give him a pass.
Military Summary covers the Israel/Palestine situation.
Got a summary of the video?
TW: Beth Mole
And therefore reducing the already marginal utility of the flu shot by 25%
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/10/after-covid-killed-off-a-flu-strain-annual-flu-shots-are-in-for-a-redesign/
I can’t understand why people are now skeptical about many vaccines.
Here a number
The key issue: for every 100 men promoted from entry-level to manager, 87 women, and only 73 women of color, are promoted.
So for every 100 men, 160 women?
Women and particularly “women of color” appear to be far overrepresented.
Leaving aside the absurdity of using aggregate averages to determine if a particular individual was likely discriminated against, the ratio of women of color to white women seems to be extremely over-represented based on the demographics of the U.S. Funny how the article doesn’t mention that statistic, and instead focuses on a tiny difference between women and men.
And lumping Asian women in with black women seems absurd, given that Asians on average are the most successful socioeconomic group in America. Why don’t they then argue that white workers are discriminated relative to Asian workers?
Oh wait. Because using their logic that way would make them look — racist.
Using collectivist arguments like they are doing seems to involve a lot of cherry picking of statistics.
From the same crowd that thinks men and women are interchangeable cogs with no differences whatsoever, no doubt.
The first step is setting explicit representation goals not just for senior levels, but at all levels. Then comes measuring employee outcomes around hiring and promotion — at all levels — and tracking hiring and promotions. Then, they recommend mining the data not just around promotion, but also around the likes of participation in career development programs, performance ratings, and job satisfaction, to adjust programs.
What’s the point of measuring employee performance if you promote based on quotas?
Get ready for the age of incompetence.
Courageous Dissident Reads Banned Book He Bought From The ‘Banned Books’ Section Of Barnes & Noble
The emergency root canal I just got was fun. I wish that were a euphemism
First: “wrestling practice” and “burgeoning nerd” appear *to me* to be in opposition.
Second: although I trust your judgement, this is sublime, even though it’s not available except at their tap room and you can’t even find it on the net without stooping to Google as a search engine.
Third: R C gets it.
That is all.
See you this evening.
She’s cute enough. I hope he wasnt complaining. But I can see quite the lawsuit Mom is gonna file…
Ohio social worker accused of having sex with 13-year-old client
He gonna need more therapy?
She just could go to an LP convention and, in minutes, find a hundred guys drooling at the chance to service her.
24?
I’ve got scars older than her. And socks. Hell, I’m likely wearing both.
Nope. Don’t stick it in crazy and Payton’s are always crazy.
What is it with all of the female pedophiles nowadays?
They were always there. Dont ask me how I know.
Boys just had more spine back in those days.
Crazy Horse? Geronimo? I cant remember who said this:
Paraphrased “Indian boys have killed their first man by the time they are ten years old. White boys at that age are still wearing dresses.” (As was the style at the time)
The Columbus Division of Police SWAT team took Payton Shires, 24, into custody Friday, according to our news partners at WBNS in Columbus.
I guess they thought she might try some of her sex witchery on them.
Israel day 1 summary – https://twitter.com/vcdgf555/status/1710548274816635381?t=GGV2hMIqyatGM1CVOQDBPA&s=19
Day 2 so far – https://twitter.com/vcdgf555/status/1710746952349184420?t=b09GcuKyOsXgsYrWtkswTQ&s=19
How in the hell could Israeli intelligence botch this one so badly? It’s a failure of epic proportions.
Maybe they didn’t botch it.
Well, another Ukraine for us to pour money into would be handy to take away from all the shennanigans in the White House.
What is it with all of the female pedophiles nowadays?
They have to get to them before they get turned into soyboys.