Had a busy weekend. First my oldest had to get up early and don the band uniform to perform in the Parada Del Sol. Its a parade put on by the city, they’ve done it for 70 years, and quite frankly its not as big a deal as they make it out to be. Holy shit, I forgot how many freaking horses there are in Scottsdale. It wasn’t all bad, my youngest tried to play a brain game with me and asked if this was a rabbit or a bunny.
I told him I am not here to split hares.
Later I took my daughter to the mall, and found out by “group of friends” she actually meant “goofy blond kid”. I have to give the kid some credit: he rode his bike to Fashion Square and even paid for my daughter’s movie ticket.
¡enlaces!
Yes. It does strike me as odd to me they targeted bus and taxi drivers. In fact I would go so far as to assume that wasn’t their real job.
Team Brandon to discuss security measures but more likely the best place to get some good barbacoa with a Mexican envoy later today. This is not helping.
“Austerity” measures and a five-fold increase in the price of gas looms over Cuba. Remember, Tom Morello insists its America’s fault the rest of the world has nothing stopping them from trading with Cuba.
“So I’m, like ‘DUDE’. He’s all, ‘SWEET’!”
The big news last week is El Presidenté Dudebro, the world’s coolest dictator, was reelected by an absurd margin. But remember, El Presidenté is the bad guy, NOT the gangs. Bloomberg naturally hyperventilates over the prospect of lingering right wing tendencies of other Latin American dictators that for whatever reason were elected, will have on the region.
The other big news is this guy died. No, not Willie Neslon. Not a fan but a ton or people I know liked him.
Is the dog OK??
I heard that in the voice of Little Tommy asking Uncle Lar.
He is shivering uncontrollably, but since he’s a Chihuahua, that’s normal behavior.
My Mom and Step Dad have a chihuahua/dachshund mix who loves to burrow. Little bastard has been sat on or laid on a great number of times.
“Drug gangs battling for control in the state have long been known to kill people for not paying “protection” fees, including drivers. ”
So it could have been their real jobs.
They tell me I don’t have to wait 30 minutes for morning/afternoon links. We’ll see if I can get away with it.
Gina Carano Sues Disney Over ‘Mandalorian’ Firing In Lawsuit Funded by Elon Musk
In an escalation of a standoff over her firing in The Mandalorian, Gina Carano is suing Disney and Lucasfilm for discrimination and wrongful termination in a lawsuit that opens another front in the battlefield for influence over Hollywood that has drawn in corporate America.
Carano, in a complaint filed on Tuesday in California federal court, alleges she was fired for voicing right-wing opinions on social media and seeks a court order that would force Lucasfilm to recast her. Elon Musk, making good on a promise to foot the legal bill for users who claim they have been discriminated against due to their activity on his platform, is helping fund the suit through X.
I am developing a man-crush on Musk.
As shitty as those shows have been they might have done her a favor.
Mandalorian was actually getting accolades for a while there. It went in the crapper too?
I did like all three seasons. But I think they were spinning her off into another series. Besides Mandalorian, the rest were meh at best.
“I think they were spinning her off into another series”
Well, they haven’t, so apparently not.
From what I hear, it took a nosedive.
3rd season went off the rails. Still worth watching.
I think it was only ever popular because it was originally released the same month as Rise of Skywalker, making it seem on par with The Wire by comparison. It’s been correctly reassessed as the pointless, meandering snooze-fest that it is.
I thought the first season was actually pretty good; one of the exceptions of Star Wars in this century, along with Andor and Rogue One.
He’s hit or miss but good on the balance.
“They tell me I don’t have to wait 30 minutes for morning/afternoon links.”
Thought that was for all links posts except Swiss’ ?
The Swiss who made a pun in his last post? That Swiss?
I don’t see her winning. I doubt bring right wing is a protected class in California
She shouldn’t win (from what I’ve read) Unless she had some multi-episode contract that isn’t mentioned, they should be able to fire her for any reason they want.
She has a billionaire backing her. The process is the punishment. And the publicity is a win in itself.
So who’s that guy? Supporting actor on season 3 of Narcos?
Dude…
“But remember, El Presidenté is the bad guy, NOT the gangs. Bloomberg naturally hyperventilates over the prospect of lingering right wing tendencies of other Latin American dictators that for whatever reason were elected, will have on the region.”
Is Bloomberg for ending drug prohibition? No? Then they can fuck off.
Toby Keith song I first thought of.
I heard it on Xm this morning, obvious winner,
🍻
Bloomberg naturally hyperventilates over the prospect of lingering right wing tendencies of other Latin American dictators that for whatever reason were elected, will have on the region.
If these places are more livable, what will keep the flow of migrants going?
Heh.
WRT the daughters date: I have a coworker with twin 16 y/o daughters. I’ve never seen someone age so quickly.
I’m preparing for my youngest to announce she’s moving to Washington. Her boyfriend has 3 or 4 months left of school at the naval base, then he’s assigned to a dry dock on Puget Sound.
So, I’m cleaning out my Pinterest pins and I come across a list of things dudes should remember about their girls’ fathers meme.
I decided it wasn’t funny anymore. Takes away the girl’s agency. There are less aggressive and more classy ways to get the point across.
My comments to young suiters:
1) I’m a smart guy.
2) I’m a huge fan of murder mysteries and who-dunnits.
3) I’m pretty sure I can get away with it.
4) I can live with the consequences if I don’t.
“So, what you’re saying is I should strike first. Got it.”
Strike first. Strike hard. No mercy.
I had a buddy in college who went to pickup a girl for a first date and he was cleaning his gun. I really appreciated the subtle menace of that.
The dad was right too, my friend should not have been near anyone’s daughter.
What? Cleaning firearms when he comes over the first time is out of fashion?
So that’s like a known thing? Well now I’m less impressed with the guy that did that to my friend.
That’s a very old cliche.
Actually happened to me once. I started talking to him about quail hunting, which probably made him wonder if I had balls of steel or was completely clueless.
It was the latter.
I have been teased often in my life. My 3 usual responses:
1. “Harsh, but not wrong.” (That may or may not involve crying.)
2. Obliviousness.
3. Obliviousness and running with the joke.
I must have driven my classmates crazy sometimes.
Much better.
My dad always threatened to be sharpening a Ka-Bar for my sister, but that mooted itself pretty early.
First time I met my daughter’s future and now ex-husband, I asked him, “Did you ever have a kill a man?”
Later he said he’d wished he had walked. I wished that by the second time I met him.
“Well, I wouldn’t say I had to kill him.”
I have over 100 pounds on the kid. Why go that far?
He’s probably a lot faster than you are?
LOL. You didn’t see this kid.
There are drawbacks to being overprotective. One of my girlfriends had a Dad like that, and she ended up being a stripper.
The old “I’ll show you dad” cliche.
That would be awkward.
“Anything happens to my daughter, I got a .45 and a shovel. I doubt anyone would miss you.”
I have to admit “I’m not afraid of going back to jail” got a chuckle.
I’d be careful with that “Whatever you do to her, I’ll do to you.” As a smartass teenager, I’d be asking him when he’s going to buy me dinner.
On February 4th El Salvador is holding elections. Mr Bukele is constitutionally barred from standing for a second term. Yet he is standing, having confected a Putinesque workaround to dodge term limits. And he is certain to win, having brought peace to a country previously terrorised by criminal gangs. He is one of the most popular leaders in the world. Many politicians in the region wonder if they should emulate him.
Siccing the police on murderous thugs won’t spill a whole lot of beer at the Salvadoran equivalent of the VFW hall, no matter how much it worries the folks at The Economist.
An accurate prediction from 14 years in the past.
Funniest Toby Keith song.
“Jennifer Crumbley is CONVICTED of four counts of involuntary manslaughter and faces 60 years in prison in landmark ruling after her neglected teen son Ethan shot dead four classmates”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13039197/jennifer-crumbley-verdict-ethan-manslaughter-school-shooting.html
No idea how it’s manslaughter if her son was the shooter.
Because apparently she had access to the gun before the son took it and shot people?
Yeah, that’s a WTF jury decision for me.
It would depend how much evidence they had the kid was disturbed before the gun purchase.
I find it hard to believe they had no clue he had issues.
But I have zero interest in following the particulars of the case.
I don’t see how evidence that the kid was nuts affects whether his mother personally killed someone.
This opens the door for anyone who sells a firearm to be charged with manslaughter if it’s used to wrongfully kill someone.
Summary of the case against the mother (the father is on trial separately).
1) The parents are horrible people.
2) The youth has a history of behavior problems (potentially indicating real mental health problems).
3) The parents ignored the youth’s problems and bought him a gun which they taught him to use in the days before the shooting.
4) The parents failed to control access to said gun.
5) On the day of the shooting, the school called a meeting with the parents and the youth stating the youth needed to leave school and be taken to treatment immediately.
6) The parents declined, the school relented, the youth shot and killed other youths that same day.
This somehow means the parents were legally liable for manslaughter (in the eyes of the prosecutors).
The jury punished the mother for being a sex-crazy, stupid bitch that ignored all the warning signs and let her kid have access to a gun.
I don’t recall reading any evidence that they directly abused the youth. There is plenty of evidence that they neglected the youth. Criminal charges for neglect were probably warranted. Instead, the prosecution charged them with direct culpability in the shootings.
It’s a horseshit decision that will spawn decades of terrible prosecutions in the future.
Thanks for the summary.
Vicarious liability ain’t new.
You are welcome.
No, but it’s a civil concept that applies to employers and employees mainly. Not sure how it carries over to criminal acts (which, BTW, are generally excluded from civil vicarious liability as they are outside the scope of employment).
My non lawyer recollection is it exists in rare forms criminally.
I’m only familiar directly in civil actions.
So when do they start applying this standard to underage criminal and gang-banger parents?
Right.
Every youth brought into juvenile criminal system is now justification for charging parents with parallel crimes.
At least no one will be able to accuse the criminal justice system of breaking up families anymore. They can serve time together!
Similar charges against the mother of the 1st grader? in VA. Only wounder the teacher, thankfully.
Access? She and/or her husband bought the gun for the kid. Yet they’re being tried separately – that part I don’t understand.
A point at trial.
The parents had a plan to keep the gun locked at all times when they were not practicing. The mother was the last adult to handle the gun. She said at trial that she and the husband had an agreement that the husband was always responsible for securing the gun.
So, the mother handled the gun; left it unattended; the father did not secure the gun; the son took it.
So, yes she was convicted for providing access.
“She said at trial that she and the husband had an agreement that the husband was always responsible for securing the gun”
Bitch set him up.
Felonious bad parenting, and yes, that still is a stretch to manslaughter. I guess there weren’t lesser charges so the jury wouldn’t be tempted.
Taylor Swift threatens legal action against student tracking her private jet
Attorneys for pop star Taylor Swift are threatening legal action against a college student who is tracking Swift’s jet use via social media, with some Swifties – members of Swift’s fanbase – decrying the legal action as unnecessary.
Swift’s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to Jack Sweeney, a University of Central Florida student who runs several social media accounts tracking the private jet use of Swift and other public figures, the Washington Post first reported this week.
For years, Sweeney has run the accounts to track the jet use of public figures and measure their carbon footprints. Sweeney’s coverage, which uses publicly available data from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and broadcast signals from aircrafts, has been widely praised and earned the 21-year-old a Forbes 30 under 30 nod
But in December, Swift’s attorneys from the Washington-based law firm Venable accused Sweeney of engaging in “stalking and harassing behavior” over his tracking of Swift’s jet activity.
Sweeney told the Post that the letter from Swift’s legal team is likely a scare tactic and only came after public outcry Swift faced for the environmental impact of her private jet use. He added that all information on Swift’s jet activity is publicly available and not a complete picture of where Swift could be at any given moment, similar to a publicized concert schedule.
Heart of gold that one.
The FBI is missing a big opportunity to get some autistic kid to buy an AA missile from them and throw him in jail for life.
Ya know, I bet if she had asked him nicely, he would have quit. I always advised that we ask nicely before I went all bloody-knuckles on somebody with a letter.
It was hilarious when this kid was tracking Musk’s plane but now he’s over the line /derp
sorry, toots, but ADS-B info is broadcast for all to see.
“Voters come out swinging for Taylor Swift: an overwhelming 75% of Americans support CRIMINAL charges against those who shared deepfake porn pics of the singer, our first-of-its-kind poll shows”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13039547/Voters-Taylor-Swift-overwhelming-75-Americans-CRIMINAL-charges-deepfake-porn-singer-poll.html
OFFS!!
I don’t like the deep fake porn of her. In fact, I resent and fear it. But this is not the way to deal with it, if there is any way at all to deal with it in a libertarian manner.
If they misrepresent it as being genuine, it should be illegal. But if it’s clearly labeled as fake, then…?
Well, I mean, “deep fake” by definition is not labeled as fake.
Number of fingers is usually a dead give away.
Mickey Mouse Syndrome?
More like C’thulu syndrome.
Libel laws.
Not criminal laws.
No idea how it’s libel. It’s too obviously fake to be misleading.
You would need to show actual malice for a public celebrity. Publishing deep fake with a clear intent to cause harm or damage the reputation of the celebrity.
“The intent isn’t to cause harm. The intent is to have some wanking material, your honor. A little self abuse, maybe.”
Correct.
So there is no legal recourse for a celebrity who is the subject of deepfake porn.
Using the process as the punishment probably works pretty well for someone with pockets as deep as Tay-tays.
Oh, I think you could get to actual malice with nasty deepfake porn. Saying “I felt no malice” isn’t a defense. It’s a jury call. And deepfakes of some celebrity getting airtight is probably going to strike most people as malicious (it would me).
Oh, and there’s also “reckless disregard for the truth” as one of the hooks for libel even under Sullivan.
Oh, and there’s also “reckless disregard for the truth” as one of the hooks for libel even under Sullivan.
Thanks. I was not aware of that one.
Isn’t Sullivan about journalists writing something that isn’t true? So for a deepfake to be libel, it would have to make some false statement. Deepfakes aren’t saying anything about Swift. There is no implication at all that the picture is something that actually happened.
What if some stand up comedian made a bunch a jokes about Swift blowing everybody in the Chief’s locker room? It’s not libel because it’s not believable.
I guess Swift could sue for emotional damages like Jerry Falwell?
There is deep fake porn of almost every female celebrity.
Somebody’s been looking at my search history.
a libertarian manner
A time when the NAP is actually inappropriate.
“Over 150 California street racers participating in an illegal sideshow event were seen shouting and moaning after being arrested by police and marched onto a jail bus….
But unlike other such events – where drivers have fled the scene unchallenged – this event resulted in swift and severe punishment – to the obvious fury of those arrested, who are facing criminal charges…
About 88 cars have also been seized from the scene for an undetermined amount of time.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13052443/street-sideshow-drivers-stockton-sacramento-arrested.html
Oh, that’s why. Maybe cops will arrest shoplifters if they get to keep the merchandise.
Yep, knew it was gonna Stockton.
Could be many cities – this shit is happening everywhere.
“Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen could try to sabotage internet cables in the Red Sea carrying nearly one fifth of the world’s web traffic, according to a spate of new warnings.
Yemen’s government warned that the Red Sea is ‘one of the three most important meeting points for cables’ on the globe and the Houthis pose a ‘serious threat to one of the most important digital infrastructures in the world.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13047693/houthis-sabotage-internet-cables-red-sea-yemen.html
Maybe they can get help from the team of Russians that blew up their own pipeline.
Of course they will succeed during our site update.
It will succeed because of the update. According to FBI statistics, the Glib commentariat is comprised of 95% Kulaks, wreckers or Houthis. If we can’t make snarky comments on here, our only other option is to blow shit up.
And it won’t surprise me in the least that the civilized world has completely ignored the possibility because wouldn’t want to hurt their feelings or something.
Mildred Granadillo de la Torre, vice minister of economy and planning, said Wednesday that an adjustment in fuel prices would incentivize savings and reduce demand, citing the high prices for fuel in the international market. Fuel in Cuba has been subsidized by the government for decades.
Subsidies and price controls. It will totally work this time, we swear.
Looked it up – apparently gas prices in Cuba are around $4.70 a gallon. And they’re gonna drive it up to over $20 per gallon?
Oh, and they charge $85,000 for a low end VW Golf.
WTF?
Zoom Zoom room tonite?
Might want to post a link to the perma-Zoom for folks to bookmark now before the site goes down for the update.
I’m game. Be in between 8:30 and 9.
Offsite permalink http://moriahjovan.com/talesofdunham/moriahjovan/glibs-zoom-room/
There’s an open Zoom link on the main page.
Yes, but the site’s going down, so it will be inaccessible. I just posted it to my site as a bookmarkable.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
Wait, what? The site’s going down?
Nobody asked me.
Meh, they promised us a shut down last week and we didn’t get shit. I think they are fucking with us.
“Emboldened” to enforce the law. What is this world coming to?
How long ’til an attorney for a celebrity deepfake victim (for lack of a better word) sues for some sort of intellectual property rights violation based on unauthorized use of likeness and/or theft of services?
Name, Image, Likeness violations. That is the other avenue beyond libel.
But, if there is no revenue being generated by the deep fakes, then showing damages will be tough.
Might have to change the name for other markets I think.
https://insideevs.com/news/707610/byd-yangwang-u7-range-revealed-china/
Speaking of celebrity fantasies… I was watching some movie not long ago which featured a young Doris Day. I couldn’t help thinking ol’ Doris in her twenties was a wonder of nature in her birthday suit.
This can obviously also be said for
thousandsmillions of women, famous or not.But, if there is no revenue being generated by the deep fakes, then showing damages will be tough.
As has been recently shown (Muh repyatashun!), Punitive damages is where the money’s at.
Speaking of gas prices- I noticed they are up by about $.40/gal in the past two or three weeks here.
Stop spreading misinformation. Inflation is coming down. The economy is doing great. Who are you going to believe, our President or your lying eyes?
I asked him, “Did you ever have [to] a kill a man?”
“I didn’t have to. I just felt like it.”
I once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. But really who hasn’t done that.
If the update fails and we never see each other again, i just want to say….
Its been an honor.
Good luck
We’re all counting on you.
Eh…has it though?
And don’t think it hasn’t been a little slice of heaven.
‘Cause it hasn’t.
Pull my finger. One last time.
All this has put Bukele’s approval rating at about 90%. Polls show him winning almost 80% of the vote on Sunday, with his closest competitor unlikely to get more than 5%.
If Joe rounds up all the ultra MAGA right wing terrorists his approval ratings will soar.
Sample of the one question survey that will be used to identify MAGA right-wing terrorists:
Do you approve of Joe Biden’s performance as president?
1) Yes
2) Call me Adolf
For a moment, I was going to ask you lot for additional eyes on my C code, but I figured out that one of my key variables was getting optimized to uselessness. Because I’m updating the variables during an interrupt event, they needed to be ‘volatile’ ints rather than just int so that the optimizer realizes they might change outside the main function. There was nothing wrong with the code I was blaming.
W00T!
Now that I’ve sorted that intermittant problem, I’ve gotten it working without the debug hardware.
I guess I can write the article now.
“optimized to uselessness”
I see you’ve met my children!
One last time before the site updates…
Q: What’s a pirate’s favorite letter?
A:
RA writ of safe passage signed by His Majesty Charles II of England.Swiss will read this and, after wiping a private tear from his eye, fix me with a gaze so fierce it’ll surely leave a marque.
He might even kick you in the booty.
I really like the hook on that joke.
🎶 Hey professor, what’s another word for pirate treasure? 🎶
“Loot.”
Ackbar the Islamic pirate: Silence, I keel you!
HASSAN CHOP!
Trying to explain to the dog that he occupies the sofa at my pleasure, and there’s no sense in getting bent out of shape when I want to lie down. I don’t think he’s getting it.
Are you entirely sure he’s not a cat?
Well, ol’ Chad *is* a dog under fifty pounds.
The ability to massively increase their mass when flopped out is amazing.
How my 70 lb dog magically becomes 400 lbs when she’s on the bed is an enduring mystery.
I’ve got a dog that stands 12 inches at the shoulder, maybe 2 feet long, who could easily monopolize a full size couch.
You think that couch is yours? Silly girl.
Testing
Testing
Testes
I’mma have to find a home cloud server other than Western Digital. I’m pissy that they forced an “upgrade” that deprecated perfectly functional hardware. I do NOT update shit without a good reason and even then, I wait as long as possible.
*Check check* Anyone ’round?
Yes!
Nope
He’s right. Nobody here.
Work went fairly well, despite its oddities. This first grader, pussy, just wanted to play soccer ON HIS OWN. Meaning, cuz he’s tiny and no good, just kick the ball to himself. Nothing wrong with that. But there’s only one ball. And other kids wanted to play. So he kept stealing the ball from them. Then bitching when THEY took it back.
He kept ‘losing’ it, and more and more bitching. Crying, ‘hidden’ behind doors or hallways, anywhere, just overwrought. Not everything goes your way, kid. And trying to be a complete dictator when you’re the runt ain’t the sharpest plan.
I tell them: I ain’tcha papa. I only play police when open fights start. Yeesh. Job search ON and many applications sent out. We shall see. It is clear: I want out. ASAP.
And trying to be a complete dictator when you’re the runt ain’t the sharpest plan.
That’s what politics is for.
Indeed. You are probably looking at the next president of the United States. Already a little tinpot dictator. Look for signs of “organizing” soon.
Congratulations – you’ve found one of the reasons I hate children. Why are the parents not teaching that one proper behavior?
Some are nigh-unteachable. And abortion past birth is not allowed. They can improve, but at the cost of your hair going grey.
The “Extended School Enrichment” program at my elementary school is fancy daycare. I hope their QUITE affluent parents have good cause. But it’s just shunting responsibility for four hours after school. That’s it. We contain and entertain, with a couple recesses!, and give snacks to 90-110 kids a day.
I like to think most parents are working hard. They ARE incredibly wealthy. Carmel, Indiana is not Scottsdale, but it’s up there. Hopefully they’re earning the affluence their kids enjoy every day. With the shittier kids, I *DO* think the parents are just Peter Panning, putting off their responsibilities to ‘relive’ their twenties.
I haven’t met any parents yet. I always blame them first for the assholes. Some folk, though, are just ‘missing’ key “social” aspects of being a social primate.
(At some schools in Korea, I had private parent-teacher meetings, all in English. Damn the parents FUCKING. CARED. Culture (Context) matters.)
I like to think most parents are working hard. They ARE incredibly wealthy. Carmel, Indiana is not Scottsdale, but it’s up there. Hopefully they’re earning the affluence their kids enjoy every day.
Carmel Indiana was a wealthy place 25 years ago, and there weren’t nearly as many kids in after school daycare back then. It wasn’t quite so opulent at the time, but most people weren’t hurting for money. Back then, though, they didn’t need 2 incomes to keep up the charade.
It’s amazing to me how many people find every excuse to not have to be around their kids, but will spare no effort in earning shit tons of money to buy things and programs for their kids. Things and programs that suck up all the kids’ time.
Hmmm… maybe they just don’t like their kids all that much. To be fair, I don’t think I’d like my kids if Blue Hair McLandwhale was the primary influence in their lives.
My friend (whom I’ve tried to come here…) says many teaching in Korea/etc for LONG stretches were Peter Pans, just trying to relive their ‘youth’ as it dissipates.
Children get in the way. Or they should, if ya have ’em. (Isn’t that the point?) Culture doesn’t break easily.
Children get in the way. Or they should, if ya have ’em.
QFT. Best thing to happen to me this week was going on a “monster hunt” with the 6 year old this evening to explore some wooded areas of our property we hadn’t tromped across before. It’s much better than working another 3 hours to buy shit we don’t even need.
🤘
I am glad someone out there is raising their critters right.
Brings to mind “Sideways Stories from Wayside School” by Louis Sacher.
Is it happening? I don’t feel updated.
“Is it in yet?”
I went to the zoom room, but no one was there. I’ll retry periodically tonight and later this week.
As it’s Tuesday and my work load is heaviest on Tuesday evening, I will not be able to join.
For those interested in unusual linguistics, this article is a gem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages
It has vibes of the Georgia Guidestones.
Atomic Priesthood and Landscape of Thorns are great band names.
“Menacing Earthworks” – nice.
Just copy the plans of the nearest Soviet Brutalism and stick everything in there.
I don’t think even Scooby and the gang would want to set foot in this monstrosity:
https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/brutalist-architecture-thumbnail.jpg
The kicker? It was an opera house.
“Wait a minute! This isn’t Baba Yaga. It’s a mask.”
“Curses! And I would have gotten away with it too if it hadn’t been for you meddling capitalists!”
It’s not so ugly from eye level. Lovely views of the ocean plus Dr. Seuss exhibits.
Yeah, that photo seems to be fish-eyed from all the other ones online and intentional unflattering, also seems it’s a library and not an opera house, which I must confess I don’t understand why Derp thought that was a ‘kicker’ anyway.
Lots of light too.
https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/6becd2f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2048×1373+0+0/resize/840×563!/quality/90/?url=https:%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F36%2Fc9%2F18e6e984a41c1b738ad4b5781fd7%2Fsdut-ucsds-geisel-library-20160904
I did an image search for “soviet brutalist architecture” and that building kept popping up. Should have done more research.
Another view of it. The only thing missing is a lightning flash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisel_Library#/media/File:GeiselHDR.jpg
Also, some of Geisel’s earlier, stranger art:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WSk86uIx2E
This is funny since there’s way worse architecture at UCSD. We used to joke that every time the concrete got watered another hideous concrete monstrosity got built. The apartments at Warren were then just dull grey cinderblock, known as “Little Lebanon” lol
The Central LIbrary at least has big windows and your image looks like it was taken before the plaza beneath was opened with skylights to the lower floors.
better pic: https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Geisel_Library-b-1920×1272.jpg
In that photo it looks like it holds alien eggs that gestate in your stomach.
Uhhh….no Tox, that is a hideous crime against all that is holy no matter how you look at it.
The death of beauty, isn’t that the point of brutalist style? To foster fear and crush hope?
Mission accomplished motherfuckers.
360° views and lots of light. Like ascending the Eiffel Tower or Tour Montparnasse so you don’t have to look at it.
Good new for Swiss: “Mad Heidi” is on Amazon Prime to rent or buy. It should be streaming this year for posting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjGIWcOrq-I
King Fury did it better.
You mean the short? It is great, but it’s not about Swiss people and cheese. You gotta work your audience.
That is just my standard reply, anymore, to discussions about entertainment properties.
“What did you think of ‘Henry V’, by Shakespeare?”
“King Fury did it better.”
Fuck this. I am going to bed. I just spent 20 minutes carefully composing a passionate rant to Mojeaux and the fucking squirrels ate it.
I might give it another go tomorrow.
*smacks head* “Godammit Suthenboy, remember to copy before posting. Remember to copy before posting. Remember to copy before posting.”
*clunks forehead*
Probably should have thought to request this feature from Trashy before Monocle stops working tonight. I think it’s doable.
“ I think it’s doable.”
As in ‘copy post to clipboard before submitting’? Perhaps, though browser access to the clipboard is hard-if-not-impossible, last I checked.
Hopefully the upgrade will be a squirrel extermination and such a feature will be unnecessary.
I don’t know if I want to see this passionate rant. LOL
Well now I am curious. Is it about fonts? Dads and daughters? Pirates?
I’m guessing dads and daughters.
I was secretly hoping for a long rant against Comic Sans.
Smart girl. Of course I knew that already.
Fucking GM products. “If you don’t do this update right now, we’re going to force you to go to the dealer to have it done”. Sitting at a gas station 100 miles from home and hoping it doesn’t brick.
“Install failed” ❌
Horrible.
Looks like Ronna is finally out of a job. She was definitely part of the problem. Quite a few more to go to make the GOP a decent party that wins again and has a consistent positive message.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ronna-out-rnc-chairwoman-plans-step-down-after-presiding-over-party-losers
And in completely unrelated news, several Housecritters announced their retirement tonight.
Maybe I should click on your link before commenting again.
Advice from Schopenhauer: be like a Swiss lake, which combines clarity and depth by being calm.
What is this “Calm” of which you speak?
Impeachment of Mayorkas has failed, by two votes.
Four Stupids sided with the Dems, because of course they did.
Nah, see Juris told us all that that this is totes normal, and that the D’s never vote as a block.
I said unity in opposition.
“Congress approves of Biden admin’s handling of border crisis”
That is shocking.
Next time someone tries to excuse the R’s they are going to Get seriously unloaded on.
Just woke up and read that. I can feel my face getting hotter and hotter…
In lighter news, did people catch this Jeopardy contestant celebrating her win because her opponents both bet zero?
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1ajyp52/todays_jeopardy_winner_celebrating/
Lol. She won’t be allowed to forget that gesture.
She looks like she’s done that before.
Not for money!
I find the stigma attached to having sex for money ridiculous when you consider all the dumb reasons people do have sex and the low or at least misguided threshold a lot of women have with their bodies in the first place.
I mean, if you’re going to fuck a loser, at least turn a profit off it.
The women guest stars on Star Trek: TOS were hot.
And big names.
Joan Collins stars in one of the best episodes: “City on the Edge of Forever”.
Jean Simmons is in one of the best TNG episodes: “The Drumhead”.
Welp.
Yup.
So did the update go through? I don’t see any big changes or comments either way.
I did not notice the site being down.
Those fuckers faked us out, again.
Good morning y’all!
🌄☺
Non cheesecake cover music:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V5FaLSkrD14
‘Tis a lovely, acoustic version. 🎶🎶
Morning.
I have to go into the office unless I want to burn more time for a mental health day.
:/
mental health is for the weak
I believe the quote was “Sanity is for the weak.”
Though my favorite from the character was
“Do you hear the voices too?”
Good morning, Sean, U, Stinky, rhy, Lack, and Ted’S., and good afternoon, Pie!
Utterly seamless transition, I must say! 😃
Except that trashy said Monocle/Eyepiece wouldn’t work… 🤔
I’m sure there’s a perfectly reasonable (drink!) explanation, and I’m just grateful the site’s up this morning! 😁
Approvals got clogged up in change control meetings, clearly.
We need to schedule a meeting to discuss all these meetings.
Maybe we can hold it at the meeting to celebrate Grosspatzer’s retirement. Assign him the outstanding tasks of figuring out why we have so many meetings.
First thing, I’d like to schedule a meeting to set up the meeting.
Can we sidebar to discuss the meeting that will be setting up the meeting.
The Marx brothers could have used this thread as a template for one of their skits.
Monocle is working fine here…
Yup. That’s how we know everything remains status quo, status-wise.
I see the Reps failed to impeach Mayorkas. They aren’t the Washington Generals of political theater, they’re that Argentanian soccer team that crashed in the Andes. What a bunch of pathetic jagoffs.
Politiking is hard. Don’t criticize until you do it yourself. Were you in Congress?
Sucking off the defense industry, their primary function it seems, doesn’t strike me as hard. A mayor of a medium sized city who has to contract to get the garbage collected on time has a tougher job.
you have to pretend to give as shit about the unwashed rubes that is not easy for an elite individual
Well the border issue is moot now that they’re going to pass a law throwing sixty billion dollars at Ukraine.
It’s like you don’t even politician.
“Evan from Evansville on February 6, 2024 at 9:01 pm
My friend (whom I’ve tried to come here…) says many teaching in Korea/etc for LONG stretches were Peter Pans, just trying to relive their ‘youth’ as it dissipates.
Children get in the way. Or they should, if ya have ’em. (Isn’t that the point?) Culture doesn’t break easily.”
As trashmonster points out, nothing will get you removing your childhood quote like actually spending time with your kids.
The wonder and excitement they feel, and you feel as a result cannot be beat.. Obviously this is all tempered with actual responsibility, so you’re not a kid, but you get the joy of having been the one to create something so pure and beautiful, so it’s actually one level beyond being a kid. It’s very rewarding.
Most don’t get that Peter Pan’s the bad guy or a tragic figure at best. Children or not, at some point you have to put away childish things.
“Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks — botnet causes millions of euros in damages”
https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/three-million-malware-infected-smart-toothbrushes-used-in-swiss-ddos-attacks-botnet-causes-millions-of-euros-in-damages
Yes, you read that right, malware-infected toothbrushes.
Do they deposit sugar on your teeth to give you cavities?
LOL, The IOT strikes again. #1 son got an Amazon delivery recently which included a Google Nest which he had neither ordered nor paid for. When he called Amazon to inquire they told him to keep it. Not happening, we will be donating it to a worthy recipient. *checks enemies list*
Mornin’, reprobates!
Well, I finally did it. Will be retiring in very short order, submitted the letter of resignation yesterday. Group director wants to arrange a dinner to celebrate my accomplishments. I think they are happy to be rid of me. I might have to pay a visit to NYC next week. It will be worth it, I think.
Good morning, ‘patzie! Mazel tov! 😃
There’s just one catch: you have to be jabbed and masked to attend your retirement dinner. 😉
Not
any moreyet. Need to get this done soon.“I think they are happy to be rid of me.”
As I asked at my retirement dinner – “Why is it that nobody celebrated when I started, but everybody’s celebrating now that I’m leaving?”
“We know now what we didn’t know then.”
Upstart wins Nevada in Republican primary surprise
“None of these candidates” was the top vote-getter on the GOP side of the bill, with the option receiving more than 60% of the vote when the race was called by the Associated Press.
If only this option were available in the general election.
I was rooting for “None of the above” myself, but “None of these candidates” was a close second.
“We’d rather have nobody than Nikki.” That’s gotta leave a mark! 😄
“Go home, Nikki. You’re done.”
+0
No delegates at stake but why not sign up if only to pretend to show respect for your supporters there? Seems kind of shitty to me.
IIRC< the Nevada Reupblican party said you couldn't be in the caucus if you were in the primary.
why both a caucus and a primary? Isn’t that redundant?
Stupid party?
I think in this case it was a glimmer of “smart” party with a very low bar. For instance, if the State of Nevada followed suit of Colorado and claimed Trump ineligible for the state primary, it wouldn’t have mattered as the GOP said they are deciding via caucus who the delegates go to.
And here, in answering your own question, you have also solved the riddle of politics. Now teach others so that the entire concept of a ruling class will disappear up its own asshole.
I believe it was the GOP separating its business with the State. My guess is state election laws require they (SoS) run a primary and the GOP said, nah, we will decide our candidates, thus the caucus where delegates are actually handed out.
Candidates have to choose which they participate in. Haley’s campaign most likely knew they were not going to get any delegates in the caucus but wanted her name out there. Talk about a backfire. Mainly because voter can vote in both the primary and caucus.
I am glad. She’s been hanging on waiting for democrats to rescue her so she could somehow swoop in and take over for Trump. It’s bot going to happen. this was the final hammer blow. “Give us anarchy over Nikki.”
Now will she get out? No. She is funded by a jillion #NeverTrumpers and democrats. Good. Drain away their resources so they never cause a problem again.
When the new site arrives, I want a five minute window to fix typos on comments. That would be magical.
2 min is enough I usually notice just as I hit post
Which is the worst because after you hit post it just stares at you like a hairy mole on someone’s face until the site refreshes.
Yes. That is my fate.
All meetings all day brotatoes and bratatoes. Everyone have a nice Wednesday.
Endeavor to persevere.
Not for sale, but really cool.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2-VzdtIxPk/?e=1a503308-6f16-4689-80e6-edd2c5ec28d6&g=5&img_index=1
Gorgeous.