This weekend I’ll be returning to the beginning of my astrology career in the tall trees of Todd Mission, TX. Honestly, my entire life was shaped by that place, and it’s a pretty good (actually one of the best) renfair.
That’s actually a whole more interesting than what’s going on in the skies. The only thing that’s going on is the Moon and Jupiter Retrograde indicating domestic fuckups.
Scorpio: King of Cups reversed – Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
Sagittarius: Page of Wands reversed – Anecdotes, announcements, evil news, indecision, instability.
Capricorn: The Magician reversed – Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet.
Aquarius: Wheel of Fortune – Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity.
Pisces: Temperance – Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation.
Aries: Page of Swords reversed – The evils side of: authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination.
Taurus: The Hermit – Prudence, circumspection, treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption.
Gemini: Queen of Coins reversed – Evil, suspicion, suspense, fear, mistrust.
Cancer: Queen of Cups reversed – Distinguished woman but one not to be trusted, perverse woman, vice, dishonor, depravity.
Leo: 9 of Coins reversed – Roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith.
Virgo: Ace of Cups – House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility.
Libra: The Tower – Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin.
The Berner’s name is Alpina.
I’m not sure how well this is going to come through with both the recording quality and the playback, but this track is one that I used to listen to with headphones on so as not to bother my dorm roommate. It’s one where you can listen to every part and they’re all interesting.
”Cancer: Queen of Cups reversed – Distinguished woman but one not to be trusted, perverse woman, vice, dishonor, depravity. ”
Am I gonna have to pay extra for that?
Hold on, isn’t NA already dating her?
Two of these things are not like the others.
Who doesn’t like rodgery?
Those who prefer Sean-y or Pierce-y or Timmy?
Timmah!
Sagittarius: Page of Wands reversed – Anecdotes, announcements, evil news, indecision, instability.
I’m here tonight to announce my candidacy for President of the United States.
Aquarius: Wheel of Fortune – Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity
I can do anything a man can do backwards and in heels – Nikki Haley
Capricorn: The Magician reversed – Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet
you call those heels? – Ron deSantis
Why would a man be doing things backwards while wearing heels? Is this some kind of tranny thing I am unaware of?
OK, change that tire backwards and in heels.
Ah. Fun.
Found the fed.
It took the stars long enough.
That’s attractive.
WTF Do we have to wait for this psychopath to shoot up a school before being taken out of commission?
These people are ALL OVER TikTok, and there are a lot of them. Now, @CountPotato objects that I don’t know what an autogynephile is, but when the majority of the ones I see look like this and talk like this, I can’t but think otherwise.
Last night, one was complaining that a lesbian wouldn’t date him. “Bonus rod,” LOL.
I’m beginning to side with Nikki Haley about TikTok – it is an evil plot.
I didn’t know that was her stance, but there is something off about TikTok and the way it sort of … hypnotizes? people. Or at least super-shortens their attention spans from what had already been shortened. I don’t have TikTok. I just see this shit on Twitter (lol, like that’s any better).
I just see this shit on Twitter
The difference between a fruit fly’s normal attention span and one cranked on meth.
I am going to put a flashing red sign in the air about eleventy thousand feet tall that says “TikTok is owned by the Chinese communist government”
I wonder how many people will understand what that means.
Well, when I said this to my son, he said, “And the rest of social media isn’t as bad?”
So I stopped saying it because he was right and there’s no going back because no one cares. Everybody just wants their artificially induced dopamine hit.
It is not as bad. I dont blame him, he is simply ignorant of the Chinese culture of criminality that pervades those people. They are all grifters. Whatever problems we have jack them up 1000x and you will start to get some idea of it.
Efficient return on investment for them?
OK, what does that mean? That the ChiComs are monetizing narcissism?
It means they have a detailed dossier of the stupidest population on the planet. Not sure what they expect to do with it.
Perhaps the plan is to compile a list of useful idiots who will be first ones to be lined up against a wall, should a communist takeover succeed?
100%
You are a dude, dude. The whole point of being a lesbian is that they dont want to fool with dudes.
Reality, how does it work?
I’ve known plenty of lesbians. All of them were sane. So, none of them would date that dude.
To go old-school Scrooge… are there no mental hospitals?
I mean that person (and I strongly suspect most or all of the other “dismorphia” crew) has some severe issues. Stop coddling these crazy people and actually help them deal with reality again.
No, there are no (public) mental hospitals to speak of.
I would be not unhappy if tax dollars went to support these as they do prisons.
“….caused the death of too many many trans…uh…(.tranny, I forget the term he uses)….”
What no one is willing to say out loud is that the higher percentage of sexual deviant deaths is due to them killing each other.
The vast majority of straight, sane dudes are too busy holding down jobs and taking care of their families to go out looking for trannies to kill.
People who are seriously mentally unbalanced on the other hand…
YouTube has started this same thing. Have you seen YouTube shorts? It is basically Tik Tok. It is seriously addicting and terrible.
Yes, I’ve seen those. Also, Facebook Reels.
I’m not sure if we’re talking about the same thing. The whole “YouTube Shorts” thing is obnoxious in its interface and the attempt to feed me videos I didn’t ask for. I hate when it intrudes into a sane session and forces me to kill that tab.
Canadian, thank goodness.
Please stay there.
UCS – yeah, back Vallejo spray can primer and white Tamiya spray can primer. Bought a bottle of Vallejo Grey primer a couple months ago without noticing that it needs an applicator – so I can try that. Pretty sure I’ll get a basic Chinese all-in-one airbrush set for Christmas – good enough to get me started.
Like I said though – the colors do look pretty good so far. Gonna try one more coat of the blue/grey/red speed paints on the first set and then start using the same combo for the rest of the army – then work on metal, leather, etc on all of them once the basics are done.
Here’s the important question – are you enjoying the process so far?
Indeed. That is the most important questions by a very wide margin.
Definitely. Didn’t cramp up at all painting all those models the other day – so that’s a plus. Kinda complicated trying to keep the Astartes codex coloring in mind – ie. Librarians all blue…what color will I paint their cloaks or the eliminator cloaks…etc. Will need to make sure I keep the right helmet color – may have colored the Sternguard Veteran helmet a little grey when it needs to stay white.
You two are going to make me break down, figure out a workbench and unbox one of the dozens of starship models I haven’t touched in a decade.
And the cats (especially the youngest one who’s catch phrase seems to be ‘Gravity works!’) will proceed to break things most likely.
From the ded-thred, KS sez But it’s largely not poor discipline in schools that are causing what I see on the streets of cities in the West Coast.
Same results from removing the necessary amount of authority. The hard part is ever staying at that necessary amount (and not going over/under). Shits right all over a nice clean libertarian principle.
in schools
School was never the authority for me.
I feared my parents’ disapproval and prompt judgment: I didn’t know all the rules of society, but I knew to keep my head down and learn quietly because I worried there was some serious chance that I was crossing some boundary that my parents had yet to explain to me. They did not let me teach myself how to cross the street or use a chainsaw or behave in public.
Oh I came from the same kind of family – you thought you were in trouble with the school, no, you’ve got bigger worries right here.
Ideally we should not have government schooling. As a waypoint to that I support charter schooling with the ultimate aim of getting the ‘ment out of education as much as we possibly can.
Obviously we have had severe cultural degradation in this country over the past decades. Most certainly part of that is the increased influence of the left. There are also other factors at work. My main point is that legalizing/decriminalizing hard drugs will not in any way bring down prison populations (nor cartels for that matter) unless you don’t mind seeing what we are currently seeing on the streets of (especially) West Coast cities. You get more of what you reward, less of what you punish. “Recreational” use of meth and opiates (with some exceptions) does and will lead to more of what I described. I am not even necessarily against legalization/criminalization of hard drugs. I just acknowledge that by doing so you will most certainly have more users, and most certainly have more anti social and criminal behavior. There will absolutely not be a significant prison population reduction unless you choose not to punish that. Which is what we are doing right now here on the West Coast (and other places).
You can still punish the crime that supports an addiction without imperiling someone who can use a recreational substance responsibly. Consider alcohol, and the history of abstinence movements. Libertarians may well applaud de-institutionalization – mental or carceral – but those have existed for valid reasons. The problem, as always, lies in the state staying within its fucking bounds. And since people – wonderful, fallible people – vote, and operate government; it’s pretty much impossible to avoid one excess or another. Best of all, lurching from one to the other like a drunken sailor on shore leave.
I voted for Prop 47 in California in 2014 that decriminalized drug possession. I did have some serious reservations at the time (and was proven right) that the parts of it that deceased some penalties for types of theft would lead to big increases in petty crime. I remember that Ron Paul appearance on Morton Downey he made the comment “if we legalized heroin, I would not start using it, would you?” If we somehow had adopted Paul’s suggestion it would have not lead to a net increase in liberty in the United States, as within a decade there would be such an increase in hard drug use (and it’s attendant social ills) that we would be having this same conversation just on a larger scale that we need to put a lot more people in cages. Ron Paul would not be one of them, that’s for sure. But as Suth says below, libertarianism works amongst a moral people. There’s no way it works in present day United States.
The heart of this issue for the liberty minded: Does drug use diminish one’s agency?
We can debate that and the rest of the problem will have an obvious solution.
I would say that there are absolutely drugs that vastly diminish one’s agency. Weed is not one of them (or more precisely not enough of one of them). Neither are any of the hallucinogens, nor the ones like MDMA that fall between a couple classes of drugs. Methamphetamine most certainly is, heroin most certainly is. That doesn’t mean there aren’t people who could and do use them recreationally with no problems at all. There are. But those drugs most definitely have a very high tendency to take away personal agency.
I have less knowledge than you do on the matter but I am inclined to agree with you.
Perhaps the approach should be more toward punishing crimes committed while stoned rather than the being stoned. Of course that the drug reduces agency creates something of a dilemma.
As I said, I dont have the answer but I know things are fucked up they way they are now.
This is the same argument that was engaged in by the temperance movement. It is pretty much the same argument used by the anti-sex-work crowd, that all prostitution is trafficking because no woman can consent to engaging in it.
Doesn’t mean it is wrong in this case. The temperance movement was correct that alcohol can also cause a loss of personal autonomy, it is indeed one of the most terrible drugs out there. That doesn’t mean it should have (nor should) be banned, alcohol is in its own category for various reasons. But it’s far closer to heroin than to marijuana. Some prostitution most certainly is trafficking and that should be fought against as much as possible, but of course now anti sex leftists have conflated all prostitution as trafficking which is due to their basic Puritan nature.
The temperance argument has some merit. Prostitution, not so much. Legal consenting adults and all that. The ‘no woman can consent’ argument is an argument that women do not have agency by virtue of their sex. If so, then they cant consent to anything, or to vote, etc. It is absurd.
The problem with making prostitution illegal is that it increases crime in addition to prostitution being illegal. It puts prostitutes outside of the protection of the law. That is unacceptable.
Making drugs illegal, of course, does the same thing but drugs diminishing agency is not an unreasonable position.
anti sex leftists
They are well outnumbered by the good busybody Christians determined to save others’ souls.
Making drugs illegal, of course, does the same thing but drugs diminishing agency is not an unreasonable position.
There is no real line between that and alcohol, and barely one between it and tobacco. As soon as I know it is bad for you, then I am morally justified in doing whatever is necessary to stop you.
Junkies, like alcoholics, can bottom out and deal with the addiction. Or they don’t and they die. Call me an evil bastard, but I can live with that. No reason of course for society to subsidize the slow death or to tolerate the secondary problems. I mean, I don’t care WHY you steal – supporting a habit doesn’t make it worse – don’t steal is the point.
| They are well outnumbered by the good busybody Christians determined to save others’ souls.
The wife and I put on Footloose last nite as our Saturday eve movie for us and the boys. I was stuck by how anachronistic the Bible thumping town now seems. In the 80’s the Moral Majority was indeed a real threat to liberty, I don’t see that now, even in small town America. While there are still busybody Christians, they have no where near the power of the left.
I am not so sure about that. Notice that all of the things busy bodies want to ban or discourage are things people enjoy.
Alcohol, sex, food and so on. The list is quite extensive and always just so happens to be of the things that bring joy, delight, or happiness.
Who, but the worst kind of sadist, would want to convince people to not eat bacon? That coffee is bad for you? The whole anti-meat movement is equivalent to forcing people to become become flagellants. Puritanism has plenty of adherents wherever you look.
“As soon as I know it is bad for you, then I am morally justified in doing whatever is necessary to stop you.”
I see where you are coming from. I do not subscribe to this notion.
Who is qualified to decide what is good or bad for me?
I prefer the iron law…you are only free if you are free to be wrong.
We have been over all of this before. Dig too deep and you hit rock. Free to be wrong? What happens if your being wrong hurts others?
now we are up against externalities which of course are an easy devil to conjure up premises for trampling all kinds of inalienable rights.
There is still, unfortunately, no shortage of busybodies Suth. I just see it as mostly coming from the left these days, rather than the 80’s when it was coming from the social conservative right. The meat thing, the sex, the tobacco are all much harder pushed to stop people from enjoying from forces on the left than the right these days.
I dunno KS….as I responded to JI, there seems to be plenty of it going around on all sides.
We are herd animals and individualists like us are few and far between. The rest have a powerful urge to police and punish to ensure uniformity amongst the herd. It is an ugly impulse.
I live in hardcore southern baptist/pentacostal country and I see it a lot. I also see a certain sadistic glee anytime anyone on either side gets to coerce others.
I dont get it. I wish self-awareness was at least as common as envy and sadism.
While there are still busybody Christians, they have no where near the power of the left.
Just speaking to the composition of that particular issue. The left is nowhere near as anti sex-work as the right. Not even counting feminist socialists.
Most of the busy body Christians I know are on the Left.
I, of course, see it much more from the left because of where I live. But I’m also speaking in more of a general, country wide phenomenon that I see much more from the left, as I see the left as currently having far far more cultural power than the socon right. But yeah, it would not please me to be policed by busybody rightists any more than I like it from the left.
And like Suthen, I see it from socon Christian types (that are all around me).
The left has greater cultural power in the US today, unlike back in the ’80s when I was in high school.
And this is obvious from the drug crisis happening on the west coast. If the religious right was in charge the drug war would be in full swing in and around all four major Left Coast cities. And, as we see, it just isn’t.
I get you – the whole “they’re experiencing homelessness not because of their own choices but because the system has forced it on them”, and gods-almighty, that is stupid. And given this is the left we are talking about, realizing their intentions have gone awry, they’ll DO IT HARDER.
But specifically to all-prostitution-is-trafficking, that damn trope is catnip to the socon Christian world, even if it is absent on the west coast.
I don’t know how you are defining “drugs reducing agency”. I don’t feel that is the case, unless someone is holding the user’s down and forcing the drugs into their body without their consent.
Knowingly taking drugs that reduce your inhibitions or whatnot is your choice, and whatever you do while high is also your choice. Saying their agency is reduced seems like blaming inanimate objects like chemicals instead of perpetrators. Only a small step from blaming inanimate objects like guns instead of perpetrators wielding those tools. Or blaming a baseball bat instead of a serial killer who uses that tool to kill.
“The devil made me do it”
/Geraldine
I agree.
If it came to a vote today Suth, there is not a flipping chance I would vote to legalize hard drugs. I wouldn’t see it as a net increase in liberty for the country, which is my general stance, I could still be okay with decriminalizing hard drugs, but with the caveat that we need increased institutionalization as a result. Again, it’s my least libertarian position, but this country definitely needs a return to insane asylums, with a good portion of those occupied by hard core junkies that are currently causing much of the street carnage.
Removing the zoning restrictions against flop houses might help too.
Drug legalization would work if two other things happened. 1. prosecute petty crimes to the same extent that they had been. IE no raising the minimum for petty theft, no catch and release for aggravated assault, and so on. 2. Supply and demand both need to be taken into consideration. In other words, you cannot increase the supply of users with out a corresponding increase in the means of supply. When you have twice as many junkies on the streets, you need twice as many sources of dope, and without this you will have a cost increase which will lead to a crime increase. So, our policy of not doing anything with addicts (demand) means we need to increase the supply (dealers) and the best way to do this is selling through legitimate sources, such as liquor stores and pharmacies. Prices are as advertised, and one can use any medium of exchange that is legal, but one cannot trade a car stereo for drugs, nor can one trade your girlfriend for drugs.
If we had ended the supply restrictions 20 or 30 years ago we would’ve crippled the Mexican cartels. Now they’ll move in on some other legit business, as they’ve done with avocados.
Avocados aren’t legitimate.
Alcohol clearly and temporarily impairs judgement. Agency – that’s a tougher call.
Tobacco also impairs judgement. I see people standing outside in a cold Minnesota winter having a butt break. No way, man.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder. Is that what you are saying?
I wouldn’t know anything about that. No Sir, I would not.
Because of the way we think we create paradoxes and this is definitely one of them.
We have rules A,B,C and D that must be followed. Rules A and D conflict with each other.
Drugs reduce agency so we must have drug prohibition laws. Violators of drug prohibition laws force us to punish people who have reduced agency.
Round and round we go.
“Does drug use diminish one’s agency?”
Of course, at some point you exercised agency by choosing to use (and keep using) the drug. There’s a reason why “I was drunk/stoned” is not a defense in criminal or civil cases.
Carolla and Dr Drew and others have been pointing out re: weed that most of the new stuff is vastly more intense/stronger than what was around in the 70s/80s – and the fact that not just weed but almost everything is getting fentanyl or other stuff cut into it for “increased intensity” is just nuts.
That and the fact that there is ALWAYS a need for treating the addict – whether in prison or in hospitals or anything else – just removing them from the scene isn’t enough. Active medical intervention is a necessity.
There’s definitely an argument that if we had decriminalized drugs in the 80s or legalized weed back then that things might have progressed differently, but with the track we’re on right now, it’s a lot harder to argue that it’s been a net benefit.
In the same way that our founders said a representative republic can only function amongst a moral people, libertarianism can only function amongst a moral people.
Ideas shape culture, culture shapes morals and character. All of that stands on the bedrock of the nuclear family.
Interesting thought: Familiar with the shopping cart rule? No penalty for not bringing the cart back to the store, no reward for bringing it back. The people who bring it back do so voluntarily because they know it is the right thing to do. If everyone was the kind to bring the carts back our whole criminal justice system would collapse from lack of customers.
1. How many bringers back were raised by 2 parent families vs. not bringers back?
2. Same contrast with criminal records.
3. Same contrast with successful marriages
Also reminds me, how many times have I heard people say that Americans are by and large the most honest people in the world….that out retail model would not work anywhere else in the world.
I’m actually grateful to find a shopping cart in the parking lot. I walk better with handles to hold. If I find two I share with the missus.
Indeed Fourscore, I was raised right and I almost never bring the cart back to the front of the store. Now I most definitely make sure it is not blocking any parking space or going to roll out or cause an issue for anyone. Buy I view my leaving the cart out as helping not only people such as yourself, but people such as myself that prefer to grab a cart that’s out in the lot to pretend I’m 10 and lean on as I roll it fast. Also it gives the employees of the store a fun diversion and a nice little walk to collect them from the lot.
Rationalizations.
Take a cart from one of the cart collection places that dot the parking lot.
Sure if I’m within 20 feet or so of a cart corral. If not, it isn’t going there. And that is absolutely okay, no rationalization, it just is. Do you insist on bagging your own groceries so the bag boy (or girl) doesn’t have to?
I usually use the self-checkout, which doesn’t have bag boys.
It really depends – Did I get the checkout where they put the blind guy on as bagger?
(That’s not a joke, there are at least two blind bag boys in the area where I live)
You’re evading the question Ted. If you do use the checker lane do you immediately move to the end and start baggin your own groceries or do you wait for a bagger to show up, or even worse wait until the checker is finished scanning the items and has to start bagging themselves? If so you are far far worse than the person, such as myself, that leaves a shopping cart abutted to a planter in the parking lot.
Usually the first, but then, if I do use a checker I’m generally in the express lane which doesn’t have bag boys.
Put the ficking cart in the corral. I came out to find a loose cart had rolled into my new car, causing an $800 dent.
I can’t wait to see Creech and KSue appear in front of Zombie Judge Wapner.
I’m the anal weirdo who either returns the cart to the front of the store or the corral — and then often organizes the carts in the corral to boot. The sheer chaos of corral-less carts roaming the lot bumping into cars is maddening to me.
Yeah, I do that too. New pet peeve now that many groceries have both small and large carts and corrals with a lane for each: folks who put the cart in the WRONG LANE!!!
My brother from another mother.
I love the small carts! We had small carts in NYC but they were just a baby version of the adult size and not as handy.
*Flashes SDF-7 and Chafed the International Cart Organizers gang sign*
*belated includes GT*
ICO Scum!
*responds with National Cart Sorters sign*
We do leave the carts in the Kart Korral, so keep from causing different problems, as you say. A lot of young people start their retail careers by being the cart gatherer. Real Go Getters.
I don’t mind if someone left a cart in the random parking lot so I can just grab it, so long as it’s not in my parking way.
However, I return mine to the cart corral. And every new mother knows you don’t park as close as you can to the store. You park as close to the cart corral as you can get.
[snort] The evils side of: authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination.
and Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet.
Lordie, lordie, another wonderful week for house Imprudent.
Last week’s forecast for Libra: Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit.
Looks at news of Jimbo Fisher’s firing; hmm, no mention of undue bounty?
I played https://squaredle.com 11/12:
62/62 words (+23 bonus words)
📖 In the top 2% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 3
You folks are going to 100% the bonus words one of these days. 😉 Nice job.
I have observed some of the complete bonus lists from previous days and it’s mostly a case of AYFKM?
I played https://squaredle.com/?puzzle=10×10:
476/890 words (+194 bonus words)
I’m making progress.
LOL still nope nope nope
Man City and Chelsea play to a wild draw; City only 3 points clear of 5th place (Aston Villa). Maybe, just maybe we’ll have an entertaining title race in the PL.
Maybe City will finally get punished for the financial fair play violations.
LOL good one.
Wenches?
I need a good wench. None of the wenches in my toolbox are appropriate for fixing this stupid blender.
Maybe if I wrap the jaws with duck tape.
Why would you want your wenches to wrap the Jews with duck tape?
Rule 34 dictapes that I would rue the day I googled that.
They prefer uncircumcised and are trying to simulate it?
Roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith.
Sufficiently shitty.
Nice dog videos.
Scorpio… forget that nincompoopery. I’ll just make banana pancakes.
My original comment in the dead thread was: “If you permit (or encourage) anti-social behavior in the schools, you get more anti-social behavior.”
That was meant in a much larger context than simple classroom discipline. Schools have always been, for better or worse, a primary source of “socialization” or the establishment of what is and is not socially acceptable behavior. If you consider how far we have strayed from the once common principle of simple “respect for others” it’s hard to be surprised by what one sees in the big cities.
A lot of that comes from the cultural change that has happened as a result of post modernism and the embracing of moral relativism. It’s had terrible effects on our culture in many ways and areas.
How do people survive, living a wasted life on the street? I suspect they are on some sort of dole, like social security disability payments.
A long time ago, I went to lunch with some guys I was working with. We were going through one of the less nicer parts of Indianapolis, and there was a group of guys on the front steps of a big old rundown house, drinking beer and laughing and having a grand time. One of the guys I was with said, “See those guys over there? I pay them to do that.”
Same people are out and about in the wee hours of the morning, 2-3 AM. They all can’t be working nights. I always had a day job and had to get to bed fairly early so I’d be ready the next day.
At some point unemployment runs out. OTOH one has to have had a job to even collect rocking chair money.
Footage of the incident.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_xHsZDsIQA
LOL it’s funny because it’s true.
I know bums in CA or at least SF get welfare because that’s where all the media attention has been focused lately, but I bet it’s the same in all the blue states.
Been working outside, so coming in late to the conversation.
Regarding prostitution . . .
It used to be a crime to have sex outside of marriage. So, paying someone to commit a crime was an additional crime.
As soon as sex outside of marriage became legal, prostitution should have also become legal.
Instead, it stayed illegal and the liberals that made sex outside of marriage legal pivoted to prostitution as being abusive to women who could consent to sex with any other consenting adult, but could somehow not legally consent if money changed hands.
Prostitution should 100% be legal, it is a complete self ownership question, provided it is over age and not coerced. I never understood how it is legal to film porn but not engage in prostitution (in almost all the United States save Nevada). Leftists don’t like it being legal as they see it as ceding too much power to men in the battle of the sexes.
Men have no power in a legal brothel, that’s the real laugh. But, idiots be idiots regardless of why they are.
Having sex is legal. Unless you are paying them to have sex, in which case it is illegal. Unless you are filming it and calling it artistic expression, in which case it’s legal. Unless the intent of the filming is not artistic expression … in which case the film flips from a legal defense to evidence of a crime.
Makes no fucking sense, unless you understand that the basis of most law is an emotional sense of intolerable ickiness by a majority of legislators, not a rational principle of “no crime unless harm given without mutual consent.”
And Christians see it as sinful so as a result it will in all likelihood never be legal anywhere in the US outside of rural Nevada counties.
There’s only about 20 left in Washington State, so go ahead and explain why it isn’t legal there. Or in Oregon. Or California.
As I said above, leftists think it cedes too much power to men. Their stated reason is that it promotes human trafficking.
That’s because anyone doing something for pay means they can only be forced into it.
What the shit is with this game coverage?? Cleveland makes the field goal as time expires, seemingly winning the game, but there’s a flag, and they CUT TO COMMERCIAL?!?
Then they come back from commercial to a different game! So it’s pretty much assumed that viewers have a way to look up the ending score & circumstances.
Not cool.
Flag was for late hit, so dead ball, game over. OM was chortling this morning about who would be letting down whom.
Oops, wrong game – that was Steelers last play.
I was doing chores but I thought I saw that happen *snort*. Seems like they usually wrap it up and join the next one late.
Didn’t cut away in our market, but we’re relatively local-ish. Turned out to be a “no flag on the play,” so the Brownies won.
🙁
I am plagued with server errors and a spotty hotel internet.
Browns climb out of the grave and hit the ravens over the head with a shovel.
Test
loud and clear
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Lordy. Errors all afternoon trying to post.
CFP is going to be very interesting assuming Alabama beats Georgia in the SEC Championship game. If Washington loses the rematch with Oregon and that makes both of them 12-1, and of course the second-place team in the Big[we-can’t-count] East division, with only 1 loss. I already assume Texas will shit the Big12 Championship game to self-eliminate, but if they don’t, another 1-loss conference champion. So undefeated from Big[we-can’t-count] and ACC, plus Bama and a whole host of “quality” 1 loss teams for the last spot (though probably Texas if they don’t lose). I think this is more likely than 4 undefeated Big 5 conference champions (which drops Texas out even if they win).
Zach Wilson looks like he’s 16.
Me too when I was that age, and about six inches shorter and 80 pounds lighter.
It won’t last forever, Zach. Trust me.
LOL always amusing to check in on my former town.
For those who aren’t aware, the site is seriously remote – as in, nowhere near anything. But that’s OK! In addition to paying for their food and lodging, we also get to pay to transport them and their ebikes to their illegal jobs. A job no American will do because, you know, they have to pay for their own food and lodging.
The only thing we should be paying for is a one-way flight back to whatever shithole we think they came from, unless they’ve illegally entered before, then it’s one bullet to the cranium.
Nah, capital punishment is not acceptable.
I think the link says it all.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/qanon-shaman-jacob-chansley-running-congress-represent-arizona
He’s going libertarian. I think he should keep the hat.
Perfect.
That will help the brand.
To be taken seriously, he needs a boot on his head, or to dance in his drawers at the next LP convention with the pink haired chick and the gay man who wears the outlandish costumes..
*drops head and cries*
Sugarfree’s Subaru dog story reminded me of this:
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“Roog” is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was his first sold work, although not his first published story.[1]
“Roog” is a story told from the point of view of a dog named Boris, who observes his masters carefully storing food in containers outside of their house day after day. Unbeknownst to the dog, these are the human’s trash cans for garbage. The dog is later horrified to witness some food being ‘stolen’ by garbagemen who the dog believes are predatory carnivores from another planet. The dog comes to know these beings as ‘Roogs’, and tries to warn his master of each ‘theft’ with cries of ‘Roog!’ ‘Roog!’. The humans, unable to comprehend the hound’s message, think the dog is just being rowdy. Thus they attribute the sound the dog makes to be the sound that all dogs make when they are excited: ‘Roog!’ ‘Roog!’ The tale concludes with the animal being somewhat distraught, barking “ROOG!” very loudly at the garbagemen before they make off once more with trash in their garbage truck.
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I spent a lot of time today thinking about chemistry. Here is an article I wrote about the structure of antivirals:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2023/11/comparison-of-antiviral-medicines-are.html
late night nut punch, 4th amendment extinction watch edition
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Like all new mothers, New Jersey residents Hannah Lovaglio and Erica Jedynak each experienced the usual emotional whirlwind during their pregnancies. They had attended prenatal classes, meticulously planned their nurseries, and devoured books on parenting. They were determined to give their newborns the best possible start in life. Little did they know that a disquieting surprise awaited them after their babies were born.
Shortly after giving birth, medical staff performed a routine heel prick. Their children’s blood was collected on a card and whisked away to the New Jersey Department of Health’s Newborn Screening Laboratory to be tested for a range of disorders. New Jersey didn’t seek Hannah’s or Erica’s consent first; instead, each got a handout stating that New Jersey law mandated it. But that didn’t raise any red flags for the two: Every state conducts such testing, and they trusted the system.
But Hannah’s and Erica’s real shock came upon learning what New Jersey didn’t disclose.
Unbeknownst to parents, a portion of their baby’s blood remained unused after the screening was complete. And New Jersey had unilaterally decided that it could keep that blood for 23 years. Even worse, New Jersey believed it could use that blood however it saw fit, whether that be selling it to third parties, giving it to law enforcement, or even turning it over to the Pentagon.
Hannah and Erica were appalled. Their top priority was protecting their children’s health and safety. Realizing that they had no idea where their children’s blood might be or what it was being used for only deepened their distress.
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all your baby are belong to us
keep that blood for 23 years
New meaning to 23 and me.
NJ could just say they signed the user agreement, like the tech companies say.
All babies have a number stamped on their names as soon as they come out. I was kind of shocked when I had my first, because I had to go apply for my social security number before I could apply for a job.
But whattaya gonna do?
Mark Davis looks to be finally moving on from his decades-long commitment to his bowl cut. Good to see personal growth.
I noticed that earlier in the season. Who is the lucky lady that inspired the change?
I, too, assume that’s the reason for the change.
*cough*
https://youtu.be/W9mek7ukWIE?si=6DpoeT4TEYoOpjgk
*cough*
Best two vampire movies: Bram Stoker’s Dracula and The Lost Boys.
Speaking of Christmas movies, I totally loved Violent Night (adorbs) and now I want to see Candy Cane Lane.
I prefer this alternate scene
https://youtu.be/LpuwcINDHnQ
*snort*
Sax guy. I forgot about him. Priceless.
Let The Right One In, and Salem’s Lot ( if TV mini series count)
Let the Right One in Swedish movie or American TV?
Swedish
Added to my watchlist, thanks!
It is excellent
Swedish movie, although the Americanized version stayed very close to the original and didn’t suck. and I’m taking back Salem’s Lot and subbing in 30 Days of Night.
Upon further reflection.
A vampire movie is kinda supposed to suck, isn’t it?
Clever girl…..
Dinosaur movies count as monster movie variants, right? Trying to keep my references relevant….
I liked 30 Days Of Night quite a lot. Only saw it once but it has stuck with me.
Danny Houston was great. https://youtu.be/MRqijH1dDdI
That movie could have been great, but I got the sense they did a cheap rushed adaptation of the comic it was based on.
I was just talking about “Let Me In” (the US version of “Let the Right One In”) with my high school bff, since Matt Reeves set it in Los Alamos. It filmed there in part and he does a good job of setting it in the 80s, so even though it’s not exact, it feels very similar to how it was when I was there. I suppose it’s set there for similar reasons that “Stranger Things” is also sort of Los Alamos, since it’s inextricably tied to the Cold War, etc, but it’s still hilarious to me that a VAMPIRE would choose a small town with a ginormous security presence. Like, i dunno, try Taos if you like NM mountain towns? Fewer FBI agents and other armed govt flunkies maybe? lol
Moj you might like Bones and All. Not quite a vampire movie, but might as well be. Interesting unique concept.
Got it on my list now.
Warner Herzog’s Nosferatu was excellent, Klaus Kinski is fricking super creepy awesome in it.
The oldest remedy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jweLDWGtRXs
Where can I get that clock? I must have that clock…
The Marvels died officially with The Marvels and while it is woke…it’s primary sin is just being bad. Bad writing, bad acting, and shitty special effects.
Disney is now sitting on multiple movies with budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars that have no chance of succeeding. It’s the ultimate story of hubris. Didn’t create the MCU, but sure as shit did kill it.
A lot of praise is heaped on South Park for calling Disney out, but honestly…they were ripe for mockery years ago. It is kind of ball-less to hit them when even the wokerati have abandoned ship and stopped defending them.
And a lot of the Youtube talking heads say The Eternals was the worst Marvel product, but I don’t know…I think it was probably the most interesting movie Marvel made in phase 4 and now 5 outside No Way Home which was Sony.
Yeah… Marvel’s turn for the woke has made many a youtuber’s career. Thor: The Dark World was relieved with a good deal of derision at the time…. but compared to what has happened since, it is a masterpiece of cinema.
Disney seems determined to destroy everything they have. Not just Marvel, but Star Wars, Indiana Jones…. and getting rid of Lassiter for the crime of being a hugger has certainly ly done wonders for Pixar and Disney animation.
You really have to work at it to be this bad. I get that there is a global conspiracy to control corporations and push DEI to mold society… but even in that environment, this has been impressive.
Is Glib’s Gulch the place where we go to die like those fabled elephant graveyards? I want to go to there!
Festus my friend!
I was just within a 5-iron shot of BC this week- work had me in Kettle Falls, WA
Now Im in Vancouver (WA) and I leave for Kansas in the morning.
I called ya, sorry I missed you
Regarding the big bang theory article this morning – god are journalists awful. No where in it did the writer even try to explain why a second Big Bang type event was necessary to explain things. Or how it would have happened.
Because the writer didn’t come close to understanding it. He’ll, Sabine Hostettler didn’t understand it all. Today’s science writer didn’t have a chance. They transcribe press releases.
Awake and reading back over.
Re: shopping cart experiment
Y’all are going to have to spill it. I spend a lot of time and effort sharpening machetes, axes, chisels, various knives etc. You are going to have to tell me where you get them because y’all seem to have an abundant supply of blades sharp enough to split the finest hairs.
re: prostitution
The problem with prostitution does not present nearly the kind of dilemma as drug use. Complicating our discussion is the plain fact that govt does not concoct laws based on societal or individual good. They dont give a fuck about any of that. It makes laws aimed at maximizing govt control of individuals and income for govt. For us it is about principle, for them it is about money and power. It is always about money and power.
Which is why and how they managed to screw up Marijuana legalization so badly that the black market still thrives.
It was called around here long before it happened just how bad they would fuck it up.
I dont understand how people cant see this shit coming.
Stepson, nursing wound: “Suthenboy, how do you always know what is going to happen?”
Suthenboy, while gently rubbing an old scar: “How do you think I always know what is going to happen?”
LOL… luckily, nobody ever asks us for advice. This one was dead simple.
sharp enough to split the finest hairs
Now that is a description of our common talent of the first order.
I want to make a meta-joke by finding something in your post to split hairs over, but it is too early for that.
Some people have a talent for saying exactly the right thing in the moment…. then there’s folks like Meghan Rapinoe…..
https://x.com/areasportsnet/status/1723824941299007882?s=42&t=NHTkzwebyBaR5q5QoqwHwg
Lucky for her she doesn’t rely on her intellect to eat.
From last evening’s discussion, the ketamine treatments for depression set of a bunch of alarms for me when I heard about it. My sister in law wanted to try it, so I looked into it. There are clinics popping up everywhere around here. The treatments are covered by insurance, but cost an arm and a leg. Over a thousand dollars each.
This is insane. Ketamine should be dirt cheap. But they reformulated it into a nasal spray.
The results were described as dramatic, but reading the papers it seemed a lot more like “spotty at best”.
So, she is trying it. She was super excited to try it. It is a big disruption. They do a whole “experience” thing, and then she has to take off work for at least a half day.
At first she reported that it seemed to be working.
I saw no evidence of this.
As they ramped up the dose, she finally reported getting high, but has not experienced any of the hallucinations or dissociation.
Based on my limited observations, I would say it has made things worse, not better. And even though her insurance covers it, it has also rendered her quite a bit poorer for the process.
I hear bad trips can happen.
I can say 100% that it has worked for my wife. Before the adventures with the neighborhood developer it reduced her anxiety.
Now, i think its the only thing keeping her alive.
Supplemented with Magnesium seems to make a big difference.
Thanks for the testimonial.
How long did it take to show results? I think we are about two months in.
Hey Cyto:
I will post this on the morning thread…
She got measurable improvement within 3 treatments, about 69 mg infusions.
Dallas texas.
Good morning!
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You’re too cheerful.
Good morning all!
Today we return to Manfred Mann, who brings us angels.
You Angel You.
Angels at My Gate.
Share and enjoy!
Morning, Glibs.
I’m trying to decide whether I should wait for the hotel breakfast to open, or just get on the road and stop somewhere. That would get me past the early morning traffic, but cost more. On the flip side, I’d arrive sooner and have more time at my destination…
I’m going to get on the road.
That means I will be incommunicado until either late tonight or even tomorrow.
About how much, and how good is the hotel brekkie?
Are good hotel breakfast buffets even a thing anymore, outside Vegas?
No. Though I got a pretty good buffet a few months ago only because they let me crash a college commencement breakfast.
Good morning, U (wherever you are,) TO’G, Beau, Sean, ‘bodru, cyto, Stinky, and Suthen!
Took Friday off, but it’s back to work today to find out how much fallout there was from seven employees being charged both the old med insurance premium AND the new one. 🙄
Of course, it could have been much worse. It could have been EVERYONE being double-charged. (And for a few terrifying moments, we thought it might have been.)
I hope its a calmer day for you GT.
Thanks, ‘bodru!
Excellent parody idea but somewhat poorly executed: Yootoob video entitled “The Woking Dead”
It got a few chuckles out of me. I am surprised that on such a low budget they were able to make use of such sophisticated special effects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgOjS89QurY
And another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib_7Wsix3nY
“OH NO! He’s coming out of the closet!”
Low hanging fruit indeed.
I followed that first link and got an ad for the new Netflix movie by Zack Snyder. It looked pretty impressive.. but at the same time it was pretty funny as an ad on “The Working Dead” since it features a 110lb waif super warrior who easily destroys a half dozen roided up 225 lb male warriors at once in hand to hand combat.