STEVE SMITH HEAR BASEBALL HOOMANS HAVE MUSEUM THINGY…HIM MORE FOOTBALL SQUATCH. HIM LIKE FULLLLL CONTACT. IF YOU KNOW WHAT STEVE SMITH MEAN, AND HIM THINK YOU DO.
HIM THINK BLATIMORE N’ POOP CITY HAVE REMATCH.
STEVE SMITH GIVE OLD HOOMAN BREAK. HIM GONE TO BIG HOOMAN CITY, HAVE THING TO DO. SO GET STEVE SMITH LINKS. BEST LINKS.
- NONE THESE COUSIN SEA SMITH FAULT! HIM SWEAR! OK, MAYBE ONE…TWO.
- IF NEW FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HOOMAN, READ THIS – KNOW STEVE SMITH PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER, AND HIM WORK ON FREE CASCADIA!
- STEVE SMITH CONFLICTED. HIM WANT MOAR HIKER, TRAIL USER 9HELP WITH QUOTA…BY QUOTA, MEAN….) BUT HIM WANT FREE CASCADIA AND LAND IZ HOOMANS TO USE.
- HI BROWN MAN! CASCADIA NOW WANT BE LIKE MEXICAN SHOOTER OF SHARPNESS LAND.
FREE CASCADIA!
whaddup doh’
FREE CASCADIA!
I hope we WILL be able to welcome NEW FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS soon – maybe after the big switcheroo next week? ::crosses fingers::
(Someone HAS checked with NA to make sure we’re not in the middle of Mercury Gatorade, right? 😳)
FREE CASCADIA!
Believe!
And someone should post the family portrait of Steve Smith and Steve Austin.
(Im not sure if that is Andre the Giant or Lurch since both played Steve Smith)
That’s Andre.
Right on!
Must be quoting a Democrat.
Lincoln did say you could fool all of the people some of the time, but this is not one of those times.
If I had linking abilities, Thompson Twins – ‘Lies, lies, lies’ would be good here.
I’ve linked to this before.
Great tune, but I’m movin’ on.
Don’t stop like the hands of time
I don’t think I’ve linked to this before.
Also appropriate.
And also appropriate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awY1MRlMKMc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbuRtMUc6tM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIYthyp2lto
I saw that report in today’s paper (via Assoc Press). It went on to make the astounding comment that grocery prices were up only 1.3 percent from prior year. Think government pulls these stats out of ass right after Steve Smith leaves same.
Since Brandon took office gasoline and energy prices are more than doubled. Grocery prices are more than doubled with some items tripled.
I suppose I am credulous enough to believe my lying eyes.
Combination of shrinkflation and cherry picking the basket of goods? The venerable 5 pound bag of sugar is now 4 pounds, for instance.
You mean 15 oz isn’t a lb? The hell you day! Damn it!
say
I thought it was 12?
*Looks at package of bacon*
No, you are wrong, it is 12.
Welcome news for STEVE SMITH
https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/news/2024/01/22/minnesota-dnr-advances-implementation-get-out-more-funding
Easier and more fun with the city folk
First paragraph…the wording, the mentality and all of the silly acronyms. First thing that popped in my head was Leslie Knope.
The fairy tale lives on, Maidstone United* (6th tier, semi-pro) upsets Ipswich Town (2nd tier, and currently looking at promotion to the Premier League) in FA Cup and will play in the fifth round.
* not to be confused with Maidenhead United (one level higher)
What is it with y’all and the commie ball?
Who said anything about the NFL?
Touche.
Is there something I dont know about? Commenting seems to have dropped off dramatically in a relatively short period of time. By this time of morning there are usually more than 100 comments. It is Saturday but….
As far as I know, it’s just Saturday. I suspect many run errands this time of the day. I’ve been reading a book I got for Christmas. Nice to relax near the end of a long, very busy month at work.
Also OMWC has a lot of birthdays posted that draw in comments.
“He leaves for 1 week end and the place falls apart”
Hopefully we’ll get a blow by blow commentary when he resumes his regular shift.
Hopefully we’ll get a blow by blow commentary
Phrasing?
Football season.
And for me, I have a living room to redo, and a massive trash run to assemble. Otherwise I would be celebrating the post of STEVE SMITH!
Aw heck.
Good to see you STEVE! Do you want that massive Sasquatch poop you left in my living room, or shall I throw it out? I just put it in the garage because it was getting ripe.
We could always invite some shitheads from tos to goose the numbers. At least half the comments there are spam, commie sock puppets, and commenters calling said commie sock puppet a lying turd.
“…calling said commie sock puppet a lying turd.”
I recall doing quite a bit of that myself back in my TOS days. It is nearly impossible not to, at least for me being constituted as I am.
Our commentariat has dropped off significantly because reasons,* and we can’t add new commenters because the software mechanism to do so is broken.
*Reasons I’ve heard (that I can actually remember):
– becoming too much of a hive mind
– too much fiction, not enough philosophy or meaty topics
– too Trump or not Trump enough
– TPTB forgot we exist (don’t comment, don’t contribute)
Sorry. I don’t do philosophy. I am too primitive.
And I love the fiction and make no apologies for it.
As I recall, a bunch of people had dropped off because the constant focus on politics was a drag.
Can’t please everyone . I say please the people who come here and contribute. Others will follow.
It isn’t really about politics for me, it is about ideas. The implementation of those ideas and the practical outcomes of that implementation. Very often one has to work backward from outcomes to the ideas that gave birth to them. That, of course, often translates to politics.
Still, it is ideas that I am interested in.
Perhaps they did not see that.
As I recall, a bunch of people had dropped off because the constant focus on politics was a drag.
too much fiction, not enough philosophy or meaty topics
I’ll make a few observations.
First, good on people for providing content, regardless of what the content is. It’s a sacrifice to devote hours of your spare time to creating content for free for this site, and the people who do it on the regular are awesome. TPTB are also very much to be thanked for keeping this place going. They’re good folks and they had all the reason needed to pull the plug multiple times, but kept this site running.
Second, the meaty content doesn’t get and never got engagement. The usual suspects would engage with the topic, and then after 5 minutes start the porn (outrage, doom, and actual) , tabloid and Twitter hot take links. Over the years, I cut down my article drafting time from multiple hours per article to 1 hour per article to 30 minutes per article to not submitting articles because what’s the point if 5 people are going to engage and 20 people are going to post “hubba hubba” to the latest teacher screws 14 year old tabloid link? The market spake, and meaty content won not.
Finally, I have been candid in the past about my reduced engagement and departure being tied to what I perceived as a decreasing signal to noise ratio in the comments. I think that problem is getting worse as people peel off, not better. There are some great people in this community, which is what draws me back in time after time, but I don’t get much out of the normal course of conversation anymore.
Disclaimer: I’m not trying to bitch about things to make people change or to make a noisy exit. If and when I decide to end this current try at reengagement, I’ll quietly go away. However, I wanted to give the perspective of somebody who was heavily engaged 3 or 4 years ago, but finds himself drifting in and out of the periphery now.
Thanks for this. Shame the time on the post. Perhaps carry it over?
I know that I spend less time on my posts and changed the language learning aspect.
I appreciate the reengagement and also the genuine discussion. I still learn things here and respect the different points of view.
So, much like the mainstream news?
It’s too bad, with the exception of just a couple, the other ‘Disappears’ comments were certainly enjoyable and added much to the board, even when we were not in agreement
Registration has been opened up again (link, it’s also in the sidebar). There’s also the site revamp that should help things out as well.
We’re in open enrollment season?
Silicone Saturday titty time!
https://archive.is/CUy0u
Heh. The cheesesteak people failed to cancel the statue of William Penn, maybe they will go after Quaker Oats now?
Oopsie. Meant for KK.
That was a bit odd to me. Why. go after Penn? I know the reason, of course, but how were they spinning it?
I read several articles and it was never mentioned, only that Leslie Knope decided nope.
Owned slaves
If we erase everyone who owned slaves we will arrive at year zero pretty quickly.
I would still be here. We’re Johnny-come-latelys
That was refreshing. Thanks.
I LOLed
https://ibb.co/1mCy1Ms
Me too
Mornin’, reprobates!
I support Cascadia!
https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipe-tobacco/cascadia/
Once upon a time, before Washington even became a state, the U.S. government let a railroad company build some train tracks along Lake Sammamish.
How magnanimous of them!
For those not familiar with the area, there is coal in the foothills eat of Seattle. However, the east side is separated from Seattle by Lake Washington. So you have to go around the lakes to get the coal to the city. That is why there is a train. And wa was a federal territory at that point so they would have jurisdiction on large transportation projects.
Today in Sansung Android update hell:
3 downloads, 3 restarts, 15 minutes, and 12% battery drain. And now some weird text entry behavior. This is progress?
Responding to trshmnstr from yesterday.
“”It’s just fake porn.”
“There’s a reason sexual impropriety is in a special “defamatory per se” category in defamation law. Rape and torture need not be portrayed for the “just fake porn” to be massively reputationally destructive.”
Sorry, I’m not seeing how an obvious fake is reputationally destructive. I severely doubt anyone would believe Taylor Swift did porn even if it looked real.
Anyway, I looked into it. Lots of “deepfakes” of Swift, but the only gang bang I found was just her faceswapped with some pornstar fucking a bunch of black guys. No violence, rape, or torture. I’m not saying it’s right, but I’m also not seeing how these celebrities are being harmed.
They’re harmed by getting their names in the news for a few more cycles. Oh wait….
an obvious fake is reputationally destructive
Does $83.3M ring any bells?
Murder. Attempted murder.
Mens rea comes into play here, I think. I am certain it does with criminal law, not sure about civil. Damage or no measurable damage an earnest, calculated attempt is being made to besmirch a person’s reputation. Perhaps Libel could be better handled under criminal law but my instinct is to be cautious of slippery slopes, of which that could very well be one.
As already mentioned in this discussion photos and videos have become one of those things that, rather than the base assumption being truth ( as in the past), going forward the base assumption will be that they are false.
obvious fake
The real problem is when it becomes a less obvious fake, but even with obvious fakes, it can color people’s perception of you. See Sarah Palin and “I can see Russia from my back window”.
“it can color people’s perception of you”
That’s a very broad brush. Then you get into Mad Magazine and old Warner Bros cartoons of celebrities, parodies, jokes, etc.
There was a series of porn parodies of Sarah Palin, and I don’t recall her suing. Don’t public figures have to show malice, and that it wasn’t just for entertainment?
Hustler Magazine vs. [Jerry] Falwell
Hustler won.
That’s a very broad brush.
Yes, but it is a true one. Just because reputational damage is done doesn’t mean liability should accrue. As suthen mentioned, intent matters. Also, the obviousness of the fake comes into play. It’s a spectrum.
A video of some porn star who looks kinda like TS engaging in a threesome with a pair of guys who kinda look like the Kelce brothers is very different from a deepfake video showing a convincing TS taking it from a convincing Jason Kelce in the Arrowhead bathroom while Travis is down on the field playing.
*slinks out of view*
I think I like this guy.
https://nypost.com/2024/01/26/entertainment/jay-leno-files-conservatorship-over-wife-after-alzheimers-diagnosis-report/
“I said always marry your conscience,” he explained. “Marry the person you wish you could be, who is kind and maybe whatever fault you have, doesn’t have those faults. That’s worked out for me, so to me, I married the perfect person.”
Describes Mrs. Patzer to a T.
Then there’s this.
“This is a brand new ear,” Leno said on the podcast. “When you get burned in a fire, ears are like paper. They’re so thin it just goes up.”
He quipped, “I got a buddy of mine who’s a mohel. He gave me a bag of grafts and they work out great.”
Damn.
Jay is a good guy in general and a car guy. He is an old school Top Men Team Blue guy, but he doesn’t let politics dominate his life.
He’s had a rough time of it. I wish him well.
Yeah, he seems like a good guy. I rarely watched any of his shows but… yeah. He has the right attitude.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/01/the-week-in-pictures-stuck-out-on-the-border-edition.php
Kelce hurts swift. LOL
Legit LOL at KJP’s Captain Kangaroo jacket. I knew I’d seen it somewhere before.
From Juris’ link:
“It is hard to say which is more remarkable: that GDP growth accelerated last year following the Fed’s most aggressive tightening campaign in decades, or that core inflation nevertheless fell back to the 2% target in annualized terms over the second half of the year,” wrote Andrew Hunter, deputy chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics.
“Either way, it is time for Fed officials to take the win and start dialing back the level of policy restrictiveness soon,” he added.
By all means, declare victory and turn the free money spigot back on.
What portion of that fantastic GDP number was deficit government spending?
Funny how there’s no “private sector GDP” to give a number minus the fiction that govt spending is in any way equivalent to productive uses of capital?
All Right fellow Glibs, here is the special footage from STEVE SMITHS Asian cousin, YETI SMITH. It seems he has special, secret footage of one of our regulars in an undisclosed Far Eastern City, Pyong Yang perhaps? Judge for Yourselves!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcD_YXCxxZM
I assure you Snow Smith is not in Pyongyang
https://ibb.co/RhyNk1C
What did I just see?
And I thought the japanese were weird.
Its Evan! And he found the third room!
“To much of a hive mind”
If you’re looking for argument for its own sake…
How is that even a thing? We have tons of opinions and disputes here. I learn a lot from listening and reading.
Well, I understand, and RJ’s point that some people thought the constant focus on politics (I assume he means in the comments) is a drag is also valid (I forgot that one). No, you can’t please everyone, but also, it seems like we’re pleasing fewer and fewer.
Even the ones who argue for argument’s sake weren’t really trolling. For instance, Theeeeeeee Hyperbole is always a contrarian and maybe sometimes that’s for its own sake, but he isn’t WRONG. He just follows a path to its logical conclusion. Bro has his schtick, but when important comments pop up, he has thoughtful replies and explains his reasoning. Brooks (heh) Brookses his replies, but I like thatbecause it freshens a conversation that may have gotten lost above.
There are a few of us who depend on this place for a breath of sanity and the falling-off of commenters is distressing to us.
Count me in on that last line, also. I live in deep, dark progtopia, and the wife, though I love her so, is pretty far left. And while that keeps me out of a silo of thought, I do need a release.
Not to mention shitty jokes and puns.
I can see us relying on too much fiction, but I do my part to shift that. But, the huge first burst for this place came when it was so obvious that Reason hated its commentors, and now we are settling in for the winter, so to speak. You are right that Hyp and Bro do add much, and it is sad that some internal bickering keeps them from possibly commenting more. Yes, new blood is nice, which, according to Swiss is about to be enabled again. Or, at least made easier. But the number of schticks is a tad thick sometimes, and we have lost commentors due to that (RIP Tulip) at times. It is hard to balance, as we are mainly a balancing act set of politics. We are for freedom, and that sticks in peoples craw, especially when there is such a massive divide in the counties politics.
We could use new blood.
Just no assholes, please.
BTW I disagree with some of you in major ways but maybe it’s just me, I don’t let it bother me.
I am in that basket but not yet any distress.
If everyone turned into Nikki or Joe From Lowell then that would be different.
I probably run too contrarian for most tastes, but I offer no apologies for that, only for being wrong when I am wrong.
If contrarianism were offensive to libertarians, there would be no libertarians
Never apologize!
I think that comes as close to a Glibs axiom as anything. (Obvious circs aside.)
No, you are thoughtful and honest. We cannot ask for much more than that.
One other thing. I used to write for Ordinary Times, and what had once been a good website for discussion ended up being ideological trench warfare. And it too lost a lot of readers and commenters, especially after Trump took office, as it didn’t openly come out and condemn him, along with not throwing out any writer who wasn’t immediately against him in every word written.
I’d love for us to consistently outstrip TOS on comments, both in quantity and quality
I want to know if things will return to somewhat normal after OMB has left the stage.
It can’t really just be all about him?
Or is the current state of nastiness coming from a very large segment of the population just the new normal.
Me as well. I have done what I can to get new people in. I imagine we all will when the site refreshes.
Came for the links, stayed for the comments. Weekdays still seem fine (300+ by 11am or so). Maybe it’s fewer people commenting more and we should forcefully redistribute the commenting wealth from the top 1% of commenters.
Wait, what?
Senate negotiators have agreed to empower the US to significantly restrict illegal migrant crossings at the southern border, according to sources familiar with the matter, a move aimed at ending the migrant surge that has overrun federal authorities over the past several months.
President Joe Biden has vowed to use the authority offered by the deal, embracing measures that are far more draconian than he’s previously considered in an area many voters perceive him as weaker than former President Donald Trump.
The Senate deal, which is expected to be unveiled as soon as next week, would also speed up the asylum process to consider cases within six months – compared with the current system, under which it could take up to 10 years for asylum seekers.
His hands are tied. Give him more power.
This is really going to be the big issue in the election this year. Immigration is reforming the political landscape faster than abortion or guns.
And I can’t see it breaking in favor of Biden and his administration. If he was smart this would be his chance to shuffle all the blame off on Harris – his czarina, and reset. But Joe himself has never been smart, and neither is whoever is actually running his administration.
I think, pursuant to your last line, that one huge problem with this admin is that, no, no one person is running things, and it shows in how they cannot let Joe ride off into the sunset because 1) Kamala is abjectly horrible at any job, while 2) losing her would cost them the black vote.
The D’s would love to put Newsome in, but, Kamala is officially designated at the replacement. To get him in, they have to kick her to the curb, and there is no way to do that in this period of Black Power without looking racist.
Immigration is just an example of what the activist base wants vs. average voters want. Activists run the gov’t, but they need the average voter. This is the pickle of not having a single strong hand on the tiller, so to speak. Activists wont go anywhere, but if they are steering things, well…
Not smart? They beat Trump , will do so again handily, doubled the size of Fedgov, staved off a red wave in 22, opened up the border, found new wars to replace Afghanistan, have completely converted the media to unashamed propaganda, and thrown political dissidents in prison.
I’d say they’ve been pretty successful for being so stupid.
“a move aimed at…”
…winning elections.
I still think the left can rule for centuries just plugging abortion and with an assist from fortification as needed but what do I know.
Largely it’s because I the elites on both “teams” are all for the status quo.
Ugh. I think the elites on both sides are supportive of the current wave of “asylum seekers”.
I’m not sure lefties understand how deeply, deeply conservative a good chunk of these immigrants are.
And the GOP establishment drools over the influx of War Pig cannon fodder.
TBF, so does the DNC, but it seems like the GOP wants to pivot back to neoconism lately.
I can see a quasi Starship Troopers future where illegals can get citizenship by enlisting
The immigrants might be conservative, but they can be bought off with free stuff.
Maybe they can just hand out American passports at the border as a welcome home present.
I have a defunct railroad that cuts my property in twain. I guess another railroad owns the land now, but they don’t police it or anything or have any plans to do anything with it. kids come and smoke and drink and old people come and fish. Be nice to be able to get something done with that. Sigh.
There was a township road/bridge that divided my property. As the bridge fell into disrepair (and wasn’t needed) the township decided to abandon the bridge and give me back that part of the road that led to it. I was not in disagreement, had to post the road to keep out snowmobiles/ATVs.
Can you post the RR with No Trespass signs? Try it and see
The details provide a new window into high-profile negotiations that have been going on for months – as Senate leaders hold out hope they can attach the deal to aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan as domestic and international crises loom. The plan would also put pressure on Republicans to decide whether to greenlight these new authorities or reject the plan as Trump has urged the GOP to defeat anything short of what he calls a “perfect” bill.
“Nobody move, or the nigger gets it.”
I have a defunct railroad that cuts my property in twain. I guess another railroad owns the land now, but they don’t police it or anything or have any plans to do anything with it. kids come and smoke and drink and old people come and fish. Be nice to be able to get something done with that. Sigh.
Be glad they haven’t turned it into a public park and hiking trail. Yet.
There are a few of us who depend on this place for a breath of sanity and the falling-off of commenters is distressing to us.
Me too. This place is a refuge from the outside world of knee-jerk “yes-boss-ism”.
I wish I had “before” footage of this dog, when he was so nasty and vicious
https://youtube.com/shorts/gAUTsIEsPt0?feature=share
Speaking of trolling, a video popped up yesterday about a 2JZ Toyota engine swap in a Jaguar XKE. I haven’t watched it yet.
I should link it, just for Zwak.
Hssss!
If you find a chassis without an engine or a destroyed engine, why not?
My issue is restomodding mostly complete cars. But running 12v and modern ignition and dual master brakes and the like I have no issues with even on a classic.
2JZ swapped Mercedes 240D
I’m calling that a massive step up from stock.
Except that diesel was bulletproof.
I learned to drive on an automatic 300D. Wow was that slow. Good news was it had the FedGov mandated 85 MPH speedo so it gave the illusion it was accelerating.
But, why? If you want a Toyota, get a Toyota. If you want a cool, old car that gets great milage and you will always be able to get parts for, get the Mercedes.
Every part of that Mercedes was engineered to work together, at the same performance level. The brakes are designed for stopping a car of that size that goes that fast. Put in a different engine, and you completely change the performance envelope, and to fix that you have to start changing every aspect of the car. At that point, what you have is a body of, admittedly, better design on a chopped up chassis, with everything shoehorned in to fit. At best. More likely you have redneck engineering that breaks every time you try to use it.
Everybody’s workin’ for the weekend.
I played https://squaredle.com 01/27:
*33/33 words (+7 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 26% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 15
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 01/27:
*19/19 words (+6 bonus words)
📖 In the top 6% by bonus words
Because some were wondering if it was fake:
“Alyssa Milano SLAMMED for sharing GoFundMe for son’s baseball trip: Multimillionaire who is married to a Hollywood agent gets trolled by fans”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13010583/Alyssa-Milano-worth-10M-married-Hollywood-agent-trolled-launching-GoFundMe-soliciting-donations-sons-baseball-trip.html
I stand corrected. I almost admire her chutzpah for posting that. Almost.
“Anti-Israel NYC elementary teachers twist ‘Wheels on the Bus’ song to celebrate the eradication of Jewish state ”
https://nypost.com/2024/01/27/metro/nyc-teachers-twist-wheels-on-the-bus-to-celebrate-israel-hate/
CWABOA
My issue is restomodding mostly complete cars. But running 12v and modern ignition and dual master brakes and the like I have no issues with even on a classic.
Notorious youtube dimwit Emelia Hartford, owner of the “GT40” profiled in that WSJ article, has a series of videos about getting the_most_perfect solid ’69 camaro she could find, just so “she” and her off camera elves could hack it up and put a12000 hp youtube special motor and a bunch of off the shelf suspension stuff on it. If you’re going to cut it up anyway, why not start with a clapped out beater?
CNBC, CNN and Politico are all in on how great the economy is. Last week it was the NYT.
Amazing how in synch all the MSM is on this.
Most of those people probably don’t shop for food or buy gas.
Hence Core CPI.