He doesn’t exactly look like a future Emperor but hey, Trudeau is in charge of Canada.
Yes, Spud is going to step foot in a theater today for the first time in about 25 years. Based on the trailer, Dune 2 must be seen in IMAX.
Links?
“Is that hole supposed to be there?”
This took an entire team of rocket scientists to figure out.
My guess is we have troops in Yemen by summer.
Yay, bigger windmills in places nobody wants them…
I’m thinking Bud is going to take a pass on this.
I think DARPA was just fucking with them.
Okay, time to head off for a fine lunch followed by an epic sci-fi flick. Have a great evening!
From another epic sci-fi flick.
Mullaney deserves a chutzpah award for complaining that many brands are no longer replying to his proposals.
Who in their right mind hires the captain of the Exxon Valdez to pilot anything?
The tide is turning on him. Women are upset about his little “song” that apprently makes a mockery of girlhood. But, um … he’s been doing that all along and just NOW you’re getting pissy? Where were you when he started this minstrel show?
I wasn’t aware of the backlash for that video. Good. It is an abomination.
Here’s what I don’t get: why is it that, aside from rabid activists, the loudest advocates for this insanity are middle to upper-middle class white suburban women; the exact people the movement is most hostile to?
Your guess is as good as mine.
Because they have empty unsatisfying lives & they want to be liked and accepted.
Yes. That.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
IN THIS HOUSE WE
…say hi to their dog.
He looks kind of hot in that picture.
Wait until you hear him “sing”.
The thing is a single still can be very deceptive.
At the risk of stating the obvious, Mulvaney is a creepy weirdo.
I just had smoked turkey and guacamole on sourdough toast. Tasty.
Bud Light lost a bunch of pre-existing event sponsorships and working relationships with gay businesses and groups, as well as the hillbillys, over that Mulvaney nonsense. They screwed that pooch every whichway. They need to just put their heads down and quietly mend fences with every body BUT Mulvaney.
Half a century selling nun’s piss to frat boys and middle aged weekend warriors with distended livers, and that of all things is what brings them down.
Know Thyself.
Enjoy the movie! It was beautifully shot, I liked the story, but it was really long so pee ahead of time and go light on the beverages.
Iceland is blowing another loaf
https://www.youtube.com/live/YBpXrBLnKzc?si=–gfryUdz2RKUy3S
Loaf, load – whatever
From the other thread, you’re going to get a lot of New Belgium and Sierra Nevada stuff since they outposts in Asheville. You can throw a rock and hit a brewery in the Upstate though, maybe go get a growler or something.
KK is in Asheville?
Go check out the green man, if it’s still there.
Green Man is good.
I liked Burial.
Wicked Weed is a shadow of its former self.
Highlands got rid of the Highlander in their logo.
If you want a change of pace from beer, Old Europe Pastries is good.
For BBQ, 12 Bones.
The former sounds like a successful day to me.
Mulvaney, a biological man who identifies as a woman, was at the center of a panel discussion during South by Southwest on Sunday under the theme “When Beer Goes Viral: The Role of Brands & Media in Fighting Hate.”
Gve me a fucking break.
*I thought all the rightthinkers were boycotting that festering Nazi hellhole, Texas.
Cringest pair of words in the English language. And a perfect example of lefty projection.
Is Boeing sponsoring Air Disasters? They’ll likely be featured prominently in upcoming seasons.
They should sponsor a re-release of the Airplane! movies in theaters.
They bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into.
+ Point Counterpoint
Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
Idiotic shit like this is what convinced me that the whole ancap “bUsiNesSeS hAvE An INcEnTivE nOT tO kILl tHeIR cUsTOmErS” thing is pretty much a load of shit. That incentive is one of thousands, and can conceivably come in quite low in the stack.
Compare to Aeroflot.
Airplane passengers are not Boeing’s customers. The airlines are.
I’d say the airlines have a strong incentive to have customers feel safe getting on their planes.
explains Pat.
“I think humor can be very healing, and I think it can appeal to both sides,” Mulvaney said.
Mulvaney has long publicly pitched an ad for Bud Light, in which the influencer, with the premise involving sitting at a bar when a cowboy arrives, and they are both seen drinking a beer. “There’s room for all of us beer drinkers in this town,” Mulvaney suggested as the tagline for the imaginary ad.
How precious.
explains Pat.
That’s just… like… your opinion, man.
step foot in a theater today for the first time in about 25 years.
Tell us about the prices. How much is cheap popcorn covered with artificially simulated butter flavored grease (I used to love that stuff)?
Me too, my kids love it but now it makes me want to vomit but whatever it’s part of the experience for them.
Air popped kernels drizzled generously with EVOO and lightly salted while I park my ass in front of my 55″ LCD panel is the best movie watching experience and anyone who disagrees doesn’t know what the hell they’re talking about.
^^^Communist.
Yeah, right. Only a 55″ screen? Gotdamn commies!
80″ or GTFO.
Also, nice to see you, Pat!
To replicate the flavor of old timey bucket o’ grease corn there needs to be some coconut oil in the mix.
I agree that the movie experience at home is to my preference as well. Cell phones have ruined theaters.
To get the exact flavor of the movie theater popcorn you need the Flavacol they use.
Thanks for the reminder. I forgot all about that stuff. I blame Sally Field.
I always thought it was butter flavored palm oil.
stove-top popped in 50/50 bacon grease and Redenbacker’s butter oil stuff.
Salt generously
Yeah, the arrival of good enough TVs did it for me. I’m not picky about my popcorn; hell, some of the microwavables are better than that movie shit – I prefer as close to butter-tasting as possible.
You would have to pay me to watch a movie the old way.
I use a Whirley Pop with avocado oil and a bit of salt.
The girlfriend was upset one Christmas that I got her one of those… until she used it. Now it’s her favorite way to make popcorn.
I still have a fondness for Jiffy Pop in the foil pan. It’s the ritual of it.
Anyone who doesn’t appreciate the foil balloon just hates fun.
Ehhh…most theaters around here are only $10-$15 for nice reclining seats. I don’t need to buy anything else – especially if I get a nice meal and some beers beforehand. (and bring snacks in in my pocket if I feel like it).
*tap tap tap*
Dune Deux is playing across the street here for eleven bucks. I think it was around fifteen bucks the last time I saw a movie in a theater, but it was in NYC and almost twenty years ago.
That’s, just, like, your opinion, man
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Don Felder-Heavy Metal
Love that song. I have been known to loop that song and drive everybody crazy.
Smokey and the Bandit era Sally Field: young me fell madly in lust with that young woman. Turned my feeble brain into a potato.
The South Park riff on Heavy Metal is one of my top 5 episodes.
Is there an SVG version of the Glibs logo running around?
Trashy made a version, I think.
Any idea where it went?
What format is SVG? I’ve been planning on trying to special order some miniature transfers of the glibs logo but I was just using a screencap jpg for reference.
SVG is the opensource vector graphics format, equivalent to Illustrator. Use Inkscape to edit.
Further instructions: just drag your screencap into an inkscape doc, then you can trace the design with paths.
Adeptus Glibstartes.
Sensei did a series on 3d printing and had a link to the logo, I don’t know if it’s what you need because I’m not a nerd and I have no idea what SVG means but here it is, hope it helps.
I looked there, and all of what was in his article were raster images.
What was that about windmills?
Why is there a giant anus on the links?
Relevant.
https://archive.is/UyVQq
Q girl?
I attended a rattlesnake roundup last weekend on my journey to becoming a bona fide Texas local yokel. The 66th Annual World’s Largest Rattlesnake Roundup, to be exact. So I am obviously qualified to offer an opinion. She’s cute, but I swear to all that’s holy I’ll never be able to adjust to southern accents. I don’t run across that many of them here in west TX. It’s probably a good thing I ended up here rather than the deep east.
An excellent podcast on asset forfeiture – I believe the interviewee is with IJ.
I have been following the Tiktok discussion with some interest given the contrast between some conservative libertarian folks and other libertarians. I find Charlie Cooke’s comments on it very compelling even in the face of Massie and Rand Paul’s disagreement. (starts at 19 min on this one): https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-editors/tiktok-on-the-chopping-block/
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I think it was a helluva lot more than that… more like $100M per month, with no end in sight. From last fall:
However, Bud Light — which lost its spot as the top-selling U.S. beer over the summer amid a conservative-led boycott, protesting its partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney — weighed on U.S. performance, the company said.
Revenue in the U.S. dropped 13.5%, while earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) in the country plunged 29.3% due to “market share performance,” along with productivity loss and higher marketing spend.
AB-InBev staved off lost sales by raising prices, and is using their cash reserves to buy back shares, boosting the share price. But you can only do either of those things for so long.
AB InBev owns Modelo. The US distribution is by Constellations Brands with their fake Modelo.
That Yemen story is a little sus – according to wiki (I haven’t been tracking other stuff recently), Iran may have unveiled a hypersonic cruise missile in Nov. Alternatively…they could have gotten something from Russia – but pretty much anything they fire will have a distinct signature. At any rate…it’s hard to see how anyone (particularly the houthis) gain from taking expensive potshots at commercial vessels. It’s not like the rash of piracy about a decade[!] ago where the Somalis were holding them for specific ransoms – unless companies are paying protection money – and they only reporting I saw for that was re: CCP cargo ships, and probably not that many – I have no idea what they’re gaining from this.
Of course…it’s certainly not making things better when the Biden admin keeps giving pallets of cash to the mullahs – including this week. Talk about enabling terrorism.
Yemini crickets! They are going to start manufacturing Mach 8 missiles? We need to import some of their scientists. I doubt that we’ll have troops on the ground. Too soon after Afghanistan/Iraq. I don’t think the American people are ready for a ground war.
Flying at hypersonic speeds doesn’t mean it’ll hit anything – the rate of hits/misses for their legacy cruise missiles hasn’t been great but they could be getting stuff on the black market. Still with satellite imagery and sigint being what it is these days I find it very difficult to imagine they could get these without anyone else finding out about them.
ECHL hockey game w Dad: Indy Fuel v Tulsa Oilers. 2-1 Tulsa after the first. Last goal was a duuuumb own-goal. These games are highly entertaining.
Following game: More full-time job applications. Pretty much anything will do and be a good step. Preferably w some possible advancement, but Wishes only hope so high.
Hope all are well!
Evannnn!
Whatever is it?! We won 4-3. On way home soon…
Just saluting you there, young Zimmy.
The picture of the guy in the airplane article looks AI generated.
I’ve been having a ton of fun playing with the StableDiffusion stuff after reading UCS’s article, highly recommended for anyone inclined to lose an hour cobbling together some pre-release-grade software.
There’s five more articles in the pipe on the subject.
Took 15mins to make a custom node for comfyui to concat strings, then lost three hours working out how to convert a Sampler input to text. But I got the filename prefix incorporating the selected sampler like I wanted.
I’ve been seeing a ton of clearly AI generated commercials lately. Yuck.
A 2003 study found consumers were “willing to pay an average of $184 per household annually for a mandatory country-of-origin labeling program.”
2003. In 2003 you could pickup a 16oz NY Strip at the store for like $7. And you could still afford that making $13/hr.
You have to go to walmart to even get a 16oz Strip now, 3pk might be on sale for $26 ($33 reg). My local groceries have shrinkflated the thickness to a 12-14oz steak that’ll run you around $12-14.
GET OFF MY FUCKING LAWN
Yep. I saw Hormel Corned Beef Hash “on sale” at the local grocery store for $2.99 today.
I remember complaining when it went to $2.00 per can not that long ago.
I need to accelerate the production of pasture on my land so I can grow and process my own beef at those prices.
I added 6 more chickens (Bielefelders this time) to my flock tonight. I paid $7.50 per chick which doesn’t really make sense when you consider Costco Rotisserie Chicken sells for $5.00, fully cooked.
All the grocery had were flats, no points like they used to have.
It would be helpful to have some examples of those ‘facts vs opinion’ questions. Something tells me that somethings these researchers marked as facts probably were not, as they themselves are most likely the same as the sample group.
+1 masks stop the spread.
They tell people you’re ill if you don one?
Mentally ill.
I meant “Caution, I have a cold.”
Masks are modern day Rorschach devices.
At least they’re not starving.
OMG North Face was right.
LOL
X2
The next hoax has arrived. Trump said today that if Biden wins it will be a bloodbath for the auto industry. They already edited it to stop at “bloodbath”. So it sounds like he’s calling for a civil war.
The movie was fucking exceptional. IMAX fills your field of vision with movie. The seats were not comfortable. Tickets were $17.50. No popcorn because we ate ahead of time.
Glad you liked it. I never read the books or saw the original movie so I had no idea what was going to happen. Much better than the formula most movies follow. Good story, great visuals.
I like Lynch’s movie despite it falling apart a bit in the last half.
“WE”
Is there a frog in your pocket? I need to know more about this “we”
It’s probably a secret. You know how a modern day satire works.
“SATYR.”
I need a drink.
There’s a woman I’ve been seeing for about a year. We get together most weekends.
/sitcom-laughtrack-salacious-hoot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yBnIUX0QAE&ab_channel=ToploaderVEVO
which is a cheap reprise of, I believe, an ABBA song.
King Harvest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SebH8En9ZOY
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That’s good news. I really enjoyed the first part.
Heh.
https://www.newser.com/story/347564/scientists-urge-french-to-cut-down-on-frog-legs.html
Damn frogs.
Eating frogs is a hate crime, cuz all the frogs turned gay.
Fucke offe.
Wait, isn’t cutting down on frog legs what they’re trying to decrease?
Oui oui! tous les bons français doivent manger les grenouilles gays pour sauver la terre !
What’s that in American?
I think he’s asking for a spanking.
Or he has to go to the bathroom.
Good Frenchies [must?] eat the gay frogs to save the environment.
Based on the trailer, Dune 2 must be seen in IMAX.
No IMAX near me, but I plan to see it in the next couple of days.
The FAA said a post-landing airline inspection of the 25-year-old plane revealed a missing panel. United said it would also investigate. It said no emergency had been declared because there was no indication of the damage during flight.
And I’m planning to fly to FreedomFest….
From Mojeaux’s post last night:
Marina stood there in the middle of the supermarket aisle, looking at this man who was so willing to believe she— She gulped. “Can we discuss this at home?” she asked softly.
“Why’n’t we discuss it here,” he said. It wasn’t a question.
Trey dun fucked up. Couples shouldn’t fight in public.
Haven’t watched anything in a “real” IMAX in a very long time. I think it was Pacific Rim in a massive imax amphitheater in Sydney in 2013. There are theaters around here that have a “sim” imax I think but nothing like the original.
“‘I’m not getting no job,’ he said in the TikTok video. ‘I’ve had jobs in the past, and I’ve got fired at 90 percent of those jobs. It’s not for me….”
Huh.
Ya dont say.
Not the first time I’ve heard “entrepreneur” used to mean “bum”.
Oh, and, 😂🤣
I dated a woman that had an unemployed ex that she couldn’t get rid of. She said he drank all day and played the lottery. He called himself a “venture capitalist”.
JFC. What a loser.
From another epic sci-fi flick.
Oh yes.
Ladies? In case you ever wondered….
Women are only just learning why bras close at the back rather than the front
Needz moar study. I have a black belt in sciencing. Give me grant munny.
hunny munny.
Back when women had dressers / maids (servants). Hence lefty buttons on blouses.
Wait, I thought was so the guys could catch a glimpse while driving to the “country club”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcj5bysG7f8&ab_channel=TravisTritt-Topic
God fucking dammit. Someone is telling me to move back to PA.
In Pennsylvania, Bud Light took the number one spot. Bud Light is owned by Anheuser-Busch and offers many different products from beer to seltzers and cheladas. The beer products come in at 4.2%, 110 calories and 6.6 grams of carbs and is classified as an American-style light lager.
Bud Light should be removed from any such survey in order to help correct the curve.
“I’m doing my part!”
Median is probably a more valuable measure.
Good news! We’re not going to have to eat only bugs.
Python farming could offer one of the most sustainable sources of meat in the world, according to a new study.
Lots of nice belts and boots, too!
When I hear the word sustainable, I reach for my gun.
Human beings have been raising cows for thousands of years. Pretty damn sustainable to me.
Those also make nice belts and boots.
I bet pythons chop up into a nice imitation of swordfish steaks. Prolly taste like fish too. Muddy fish.
Pass.
Twenty minutes into Shogun: Amazing. This isn’t adaptation, it’s realization.
Did you First?
Oh do I have to hate this guy all over
This may be the best series I’ve ever seen
This is amazing
We’re a couple of eps into it, and I would agree. Just excellent so far.
Fortunately, I don’t have clear memories of either the book or the first series, so I’m not burdened by comparisons among the three.
When I was young, I could not control my Firsting. I would First randomly, prematurely, sometimes seemingly spontaneously. It was a force that threatened to ruin my entire life.
With age, I learned to channel the First. I am a different man. People ask me how I did this. Well, here’s the secret. I embraced it. I channeled it. The secret is I am always Firsting.
Happy St. Patrick’s morning!
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsc57nK8mg
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You and me, Sean, Good Morning
We must have missed the St Paddy’s Day Eve Party
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Top of the mornin’ to ya, 4(20) and Sean!
Mornin’ Sean and Fourscore! I’ve been lurking, nothing to say ;-\
Hope your days go well!
Top o’the mornin’to you, too, Beau!