Apparently, this exists. I had no idea.
Black Sign Language
Black American Sign Language (BASL) or Black Sign Variation (BSV) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL)[2] used most commonly by deaf Black Americans in the United States. The divergence from ASL was influenced largely by the segregation of schools in the American South. Like other schools at the time, schools for the deaf were segregated based upon race, creating two language communities among deaf signers: Black deaf signers at Black schools and White deaf signers at White schools. As of the mid 2010s, BASL is still used by signers in the South despite public schools having been legally desegregated since 1954.
Linguistically, BASL differs from other varieties of ASL in its phonology, syntax, and vocabulary. BASL tends to have a larger signing space, meaning that some signs are produced further away from the body than in other dialects. Signers of BASL also tend to prefer two-handed variants of signs, while signers of ASL tend to prefer one-handed variants. Some signs are different in BASL as well, with some borrowings from African American English.
It came up because the movie Sinners is going on to stream with a version that has BASL “subtitles.” (No, I don’t know why regular subtitles are not sufficient.)
No one ever is prepared for ZOMBIE IN A CLAM!
The woman who is painting her roof blue to protect her house from orbital directed-energy weapons. (No, seriously.)
Finders-keepers, I say.
Human leg found on Ayrshire beach linked to body in Northern Ireland
Police do not believe the deceased man is from Northern Ireland, and the death is not being treated as suspicious.
The things I learn around here…
Is it that the lasers targetting is designed to avoid blue, or is it a bug in the software. I never figured it out.
Back at at the base, bugs in the software
Flash the message, something’s out there
Floating in the summer sky
99 orbital directed-energy weapons go by
The blue scatters the energy beam making the roof impenetrable to lasers, man. /sets down blunt
Blue magically reflects directed energy weapons. This is a thing that emerged after Maui, because some building with a blue roof did not burn
I had no idea the explanation is that dumb.
They won’t come out and say it directly, but the Koreans think green is the real color to prevent this.
I know two guys who believe this crap.
I see missed the Skline, or rather Cincinnati “chili” discussion.
I am proud to say, two years in and still no urge to partake.
However, as others have noted, it is a meat sauce that isnt to he discounted. All the makings of proper spices to hide rotting meat within.
I wish the original families will come out and just call it its proper name. Chili, it is not.
It was the zombie in the clam wut did it. Ripped his leg right off, it did.
Just remember: Clams don’t like the taste of exploding robot legs.
Well, to be fair, they do give you that “I just bit into a battery” taste.
the zombie in the clam
👉👌
This explains Night of the Living Dead.
If it is a zombie clam does it really qualify as necrophilia? I mean she moves, she gives love bites…
I assume naggers in BASL is reasonably close to other words?
Well, if you want to say nigglets, you do need to use BSL.
No one ever is prepared for ZOMBIE IN A CLAM!
These euphemisms.
The painting the roof lady is almost quaint in her craziness: No screaming at people in the street, sleeping on your doorstep, or randomly physically assaulting people. I like her.
When I see craziness like this, it makes me Kind of Blue, like a Miles Davis record.
She didn’t really come up with it–please forgive me–out of the blue. There was a conspiracy theory that blue buildings/things didn’t burn in the Lahaina, Hawaii fire. I’m pretty sure one of the examples was a guy that had built his house out of cinder blocks.
It seems they didn’t really try to see how the fire started and instead blamed the left’s favorite catch-all: Climate change.
Ah, but were they BLUE cinder blocks?
I hope someone lets her know that a blue waffle will have the same effect.
“blue waffle”
I shouldn’t have searched for that…
Nick, if you use a directed energy weapon you can burn it back out of your brain.
Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV):
The girlfriend had a similar unfortunate experience when she tried to search for pictures of a blue cornmeal waffle that was served at a restaurant we had visited.
“Human leg found on Ayrshire beach linked to body in Northern Ireland”
Not any more it’s not (linked to the body from which it came).
That is a real cutting comment.
He’s really amping things up today.
“You want a
toeleg? I can get you a leg, believe me. There are ways, Dude.”Was it floating like a Cork? No sign of his Ennis? Okay, I’ll Galway now.
He was just trying to get a leg over.
Tonio is just stumping for another pun thread to rile up Swissy.
To be fair, we’re all amused when Swiss gets his Irish up.
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It sounds like reading in Pidgin. Very amusing!
De make dem sign language for da black peepo.
I’m pretty sure that’s a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain’s mate.
The WP never fails.
GOP tax bill includes a $6,000 ‘senior deduction.’ Here’s who qualifies.
https://archive.fo/XRcpy
The problem is the “wealthy” get to keep more of their money while roughly 50% of less wealthy seniors don’t actually get money from FedGov. That’s unfair.
I see you speak Democrat.
But the provision would not benefit tens of millions of low-income seniors, and it would hasten the date by which the Social Security trust fund runs out of money, according to nonpartisan estimates.
LMFAO. /picks blunt up again
To the extent there is a trust fund, it is made up of the internal IOUs the government issued to, umm, itself when it took SocSec tax revenue for the general fund. How a tax credit impacts those IOUs is an exercise for the reader, I suppose.
Ahh, wonderful another overly complicated for no reason other than political stupidity, targeted to buy votes from a particular demographic, complication of the already 7,000 page (actual code, add in the commentary and case holdings it’s 10 times that) long tax code. Meanwhile we’re adding the GDP of Italy plus Ireland to our debt this year. Next year we’ll be adding India or the UK’s GDP to it…
In case that doesn’t sink in, our debt this year is increasing by the total of all economic activity in the 8th largest economy on Earth, plus a side order of the 25th largest economy, and next year will go up by the 5th or 6th largest economy on Earth. That’s our annual deficit. Our total debt right now is more than a year of the 1st place economy (ours) plus the 3rd and 4th (Germany and Japan)
But… I still have checks left.
Ok, but unfortunately the mail no longer works
Stop with the black pills, we’ll just grow our way out of it.
There was a conspiracy theory that blue buildings/things didn’t burn in the Lahaina, Hawaii fire.
We recognize patterns, even where none exist.
Axios: “All the places in the U.S. where minimum wage went up in July”
Now tell us how many people will actually be affected.
Everyone, everyone will be affected when prices rise and employment and business numbers fall.
The real minimum wage is zero.
Oh, okay
<em.Why it matters: In Alaska, Oregon, and Washington, D.C. alone, that means paycheck boosts for more than 880,000 people, according to The Economic Policy Institute, also impacting workers in major hubs like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and D.C.
Take our word for it.
Is that number net of the workers who will lose their jobs?
I hope I can retire before the guy flipping burgers at McDonald’s is making more than I am.
No kidding.
I make good money and it’s a treat anymore.
I want the Trump administration to start working on an amendment to allow foreigners to be able to be president. Not for Arnold or Elon.
No. The ultimate troll would be for Trump to run Melania for pres in 2028. He should use the Clinton “2 for 1” slogan too.
Also announce that in 2036, his daughter will be running.
The trolling would be just as silly as his “make Canada the 51st state” bullshit, but the Dems wouldn’t be able to lay off the high heat.
* I would almost want him to “transition” at the end of this term so he could be the first female president. I doubt he’d be willing to go that far though. Vance on the other hand seems to have enough of a sense of humor to pull that off if he was pres.
Not to worry, Minnesoda already allows parents to opt out of classes that offend a parent’s religion. Pay no mind to the fact that they’ve been fighting with our new vibrant Muslim neighbors about this in several districts.
Or that the process require:
I remember when I got in a big fight with my kid’s school because they made me come inside to pick up the Altar Boy to go on a hunting trip. I had sent a note with him to excuse him from class and have him waiting out front for me.
When he wasn’t waiting I went to the office and got into it with the secretary. Not only was it against school policy to allow him to stand outside, but my note didn’t even provide a reason for why I was taking him!
Things went badly when she gave me a form to fill out to excuse him and it had a line that said “Reason for absence” and I put “Because”. When the secretary got snippy and said it wasn’t good enough, I changed it to NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS. At that point the principal had shown up and he de-escalated things. I was lucky he was kind enough to let me have my own son back.
First world problems. Just got home from a pub i posted about a few weeks back – Guggenheim Birrarium. Good stuff. Absolutely massive burger tonight.
But…they have Delirium Tremens on tap. I’ve only ever had bottles or cans before. I should have taken a Pic but I swear their stuff on tap was NOT DT. Too light and bitter. Seemed like a missed connection or something else – more like a Pils or IPA than the DT I’ve had before (I had Gulden Draak on tap last time I visited and that seemed normal). This really didn’t seem like the right color or flavor for a Belgian. I’m planning to get a couple cans/bottles at the NEX when I have a chance for comparison. Not necessarily to prove them wrong – more to prove myself right. First time I’ve gotten something on tap and been certain it was incorrect….
Uffda. Just fucking uffda.
New Minnesoda laws go into effect.
The best thing? We are honoring an ancient beaver.
Most enraging thing:
Your state is late. NJ has had boating licenses for all for decades.
However, last I checked rentals were exempt. Because.
I did lots of boating up until my 20s. No license for me now however.
Don’t be hard on the old beaver tonight.
No, NJ requires their boating safety course + written test for all ages (used to be grandfathered). But you can’t boat on “non-tidal” waters unless you take your safety course certificate and go to MVC and get “boat” added to your drivers license.
NJ also still requires an in-person exam, where most other states will allow an entirely online experience.
NY just ended the last of its grandfathered safety requirement and age 50+ boaters now need a NY course (or a similar one from their state)
MD still exempts people born before 1971 in their waters..
Thanks. Half my family had to get the damn license.
Which is funny since many of us went to weeks of sailing school and good chunk of us took Coast Guard courses before the license requirements.
Once I moved north and became landlocked I had no interest in even trying to add the endorsement. It used to be a no point no criminal charges fine so I really didn’t care as I was always on a boat with licensed skipper.
No idea now as all the family boats are gone in NJ.
See, y’all are afraid of ghouls and goblins, commies and vampires…..but I repeat myself. I grow timber and fear beavers the size of bears. *shivers*
The stuff of nightmares.
I’m scared of giant anthropomorphic ducks that don’t wear pants.
It seems it evolved a sense of humor.
Anthropic tasked an AI with running a vending machine in its offices, and it not only sold some products at a big loss but it invented people, meetings, and experienced a bizarre identity crisis
Seems that was a big miss, Anthropic!
Uh-oh, experts are concerned (TW:TOS)
According to Florida’s 37-page Immigration Enforcement Operations Plan submitted by state officials in May, the Florida National Guard has nine field-grade JAGs suitable for training as immigration judges, and can be trained within six weeks of Justice Department approval.
Legal experts have expressed concerns about this plan given the intricacies of immigration law. “Immigration law is very complex,” Fola Olubunmi, an immigration attorney, told WINK News. “With immigration judges, you have to have a certain amount of experience and understanding of the laws in order to be able to do that job.”
Seems to me that immigration judges only have to parse a couple of facts:
1) Is the defendant a citizen?
2) If not, does the defendant have legal authorization to be in the United States?
If the answer to both is “no,” out they go.
The only complication would be if they have some kind of pending application process underway. If it’s not ripe for judicial determination, then presumably they can stay until it is. Of course, even then, if they have been dodging ICE by not keeping them notified, missing court dates, etc., then, yeah, out they go.
Won’t someone think of the
childrenwetback beer drinkers?Modelo and Corona owner Constellation Brands (STZ) is warning about the impact President Trump’s immigration crackdown is having on its beer business.
Executives said consumer sentiment deteriorated and socioeconomic headwinds increased during its latest quarter amid rising concerns among its core Hispanic consumer base.
One would assume that falling consumption in the U.S. would be offset by gains in points south.
Heaven forfend a ‘Merican beer reclaim the top position.
Related: Jim Cramer calls Constellation “A Fallen Idol”
On Tuesday, we get results from former market darling, Constellation Brands. What a fallen idol. There’s so much to unpack here because this consumer packaged goods company is a microcosm of what’s gone wrong with this now pathetic group that used to be the place to go when there’s a slowdown.
Constellation was up 4.48% today.
I’m pretty sure the zombie in a clam is from a Tales From the Crypt comic. The story is called Forever Ambergris.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x74s6vu
When I lived in Chicago and returned to my apartment after a few hours of target practice, I’d play Tales from the Crypt and Night Gallery in the background while I cleaned my guns.
*Jive SL
Maybe Garrett Morris was unavailable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSh0dAaqIA
Lahaina fire: The pineapple companies left and they let the fields grow up in grassoline….some stoned asshole threw a cigarette out of a car window, a power line sparked…or lightning. I forget what the cause was but wasn’t sexy so who cares.
Bah, there were no fires on earth before sinful humans started them!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_record_of_fire
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Earth’s oldest known wildfires raged 430 million years ago
Fossilized charcoal points to atmospheric oxygen levels of at least 16 percent
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DAMN SMOKING DINOSAURS!
I blame Cyanobacteria.
https://hawaiifreepress.com/Articles-Main/ID/2818/Crichton-Environmentalism-is-a-religion
They even have hymns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in5O4SipbTQ
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Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. Why do I say it’s a religion? Well, just look at the beliefs. If you look carefully, you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths.
There’s an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there’s a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for us all. We are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of the environment. Just as organic food is its communion, that pesticide-free wafer that the right people with the right beliefs, imbibe.
Eden, the fall of man, the loss of grace, the coming doomsday—these are deeply held mythic structures. They are profoundly conservative beliefs. They may even be hard-wired in the brain, for all I know. I certainly don’t want to talk anybody out of them, as I don’t want to talk anybody out of a belief that Jesus Christ is the son of God who rose from the dead. But the reason I don’t want to talk anybody out of these beliefs is that I know that I can’t talk anybody out of them. These are not facts that can be argued. These are issues of faith.
And so it is, sadly, with environmentalism. Increasingly it seems facts aren’t necessary, because the tenets of environmentalism are all about belief. It’s about whether you are going to be a sinner, or saved. Whether you are going to be one of the people on the side of salvation, or on the side of doom. Whether you are going to be one of us, or one of them.
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I heard the above song and others by the same group in music class when I was in 3rd or 4th grade music class. This was in the early 90s during the height of the environmentalist panic. Captain Planet was all the rage and I kept my booklet of endangered species stickers in a safe place because I was worried they’d all be gone by the time a grew up.
It was a wonderful relief to see elephants and other so-called endangered species in the wild as a young man.
An angry elephant nearly made me extinct one time:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgok3tsQZsvxdHI5TsbYLwDgA8rmtTTKfUDfX2-ehuZZL6b1RdmweKWmakAoLaGbiecTN68acoPih04N6dRtne2T1TSgSL0tfz7XDQ8RgqC7GGO_Y3zupodd1LdGixqTXII3W5iO7CYPYFxN-Etz4CqiXvnRuwwBJgYBrSWZ0-MV22xvQ0W0p_QXng7XAds/s320/elephant.png
“I kept my booklet of endangered species stickers in a safe place because I was worried they’d all be gone by the time a grew up.”
That’s precious, in a good way. Thinking of you watching Tales from the Crypt as you cleaned your guns living in Chicago… perhaps there’s a connection there. Desire to protect, avenge, or exterminate wrong-doers?
Yes.
One thin vegetable waffer, please.
Damn.
That song makes me want to burn a stack of tires.