We’ve made it to November, we’re on the downward slide of the year. Change freezes start up, holiday schedules start slowing projects down, and people just plain don’t give a shit anymore. But you care not for such musings, you want links and drinks.
A bit early, but local news has been going on about it for a while now.
Some news that may lead to some changes in the links around here.
Pyrovision or GTFO.
What about Star Wars, Pixar, Indiana Jones, Marvel…
Don’t care. Outside of Steam, I prefer physical media.
I really don’t need it, but I will say I want it.
So which one of you lot is this?
Made of plastic?
But can it run Crysis?
Does closed captioning not work?
Man, if only someone had said the same thing about drinking ages.
Pretty sure I know the answer. (Location, location, location…)
You mean plagiarism is bad?
Shouldn’t the union be looking out for its own members first?
“Gets away with it” my aching ass. Do you expect them to be doing the fermentation themselves?
A bit more of a serious piece than my usual lighter side links, but I spent some time down in that area right before this story begins. Seems like things have changed a lot.
As a Gen Xer, you yutes need to toughen the fuck up.
For the cocktail this week, I’m going with another seasonal one, which once again will call for applejack/apple brandy. For those commenting on some of the earlier recipes using applejack, I believe you may have an incorrect assumption on the flavor profile. Applejack is not sweet, a fact the girlfriend learned the hard way, the sugars are fermented out. Think more of a whiskey finished in cider barrels to get a bit closer.
Pumpkin Flip
- 4 parts (2 oz) pumpkin ale (if you don’t like pumpkin ale, sub out a nut brown or a Christmas spiced ale, but you’ll probably want to call it something else)
- 2 parts (1 oz) applejack/apple brandy
- 2 parts (1 oz) bonded rye
- 1 part (0.5 oz) maple syrup (strongly flavored preferred)
- 1 egg
First things first, yes. There will be a raw egg in the drink, if you are worried about this, use a pasteurized egg, a tablespoon of aquafaba, or leave it out. Second, be very careful with your shaking technique on this one. Combining egg, carbonated beer, and shaking can lead to a truly epic mess. Start by measuring out the beer (pouring vigorously, we want to drive out the carbonation now) and then the remainder of the ingredients. Add everything into a shaker (without ice), and start with some swirls (and letting the carbonation out) and when you feel comfortable give it a couple of good vigorous shakes. Crack the top slowly (aiming towards a sink), and assuming no mess, add in ice, and shake until chilled. When complete, strain into a chilled coupe or flip glass, and garnish with some grated nutmeg if you want to go fancy.
Here’s hoping you all enjoy your weekend, well… after cleaning up the kitchen from the mess you just made.
I’m building a GOG library of games I may never even use. (Thanks Amazon!)
Good to know I’m saving the environment in the process.
Welcome to my own personal hell.
“The Constitution demands the Court set aside this lawless behavior,” McConnell wrote.
Bullying and extortion are no longer part of the fedgov toolbox? How will anything get done?
I sent home a Gen Z’r who clocked in for work and spent the next 20+ minutes in the bathroom.
Think that made him depressed?
I used to work with an old guy who used to Tell me, “Always shit on company time.”
He was a shithead.
“Managers expect you to do six jobs in a 40-hour workweek. My company had mediocre benefits and offered little to no professional growth or training,”
I tapped out here.
Jobs or tasks?
WTF do these people think a job entails? It can’t all be attending No Kings protests.
My work history is almost all either running small businesses, self employment, or working for very small companies, and the idea of something not being my job, or bitching that I have to do 6 different things in a week sounds remarkably whiny and entitled to me. It explains clearly why large employers are so easily able to layoff tens of thousands of people, and replace them with robots. Robots do one task, that’s their strength. Humans bring skill, experience, knowledge and judgment to situations as they arise, or at least worthwhile humans do.
“New Study Finds Physical Games Are 100x More Carbon-Intensive Than Digital”
And breathing is 100000000X more carbon-intensive than not breathing. So what’s your point, you lazy-ass coach potato?
“Judge rules Trump administration can’t tie transportation funding to immigration”
Says another TDS-addled priest in black robes.
“Attorneys for Jan. 6 defendants face lawsuits for plagiarism”
Whatever it takes to keep the poor bastards in prison, I guess.
“Government shutdown deal must include health care funding”
Maybe the EPA bureaucrats want a lateral transfer to the Labor Department.
“Great ‘Overnight’ Replacement”
But it’s a GOOD thing!
“For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment”
“But it’s my RIGHT to not have to work!”
Yeah, I’m feeling particularly cynical today.
“Whatever it takes to keep the poor bastards in prison, I guess.”
Didn’t they all get pardoned?
That is what I thought.
Dear Gen-Z. Please go work the factory floor or dig ditches for a few years. That will put your terrible office jobs into perspective for you.
I did factory jobs when I was young. Really liked the physical work and seeing the product of my labor rolling off the production line. Also no emails, HR nags, etc.
Might have stayed in that kind of job if there was a future at any of the factories I worked at. I’ve met people who work at the gigantic BMW production complex in Greer, SC – they seem happy with it.
I ran a printing press for 5 years.
There is a certain satisfaction in seeing stuff get done by the end of the day.
But, punching a clock and having your productivity tracked every single day is part of the job.
The GenZers whining about being tracked at work is “amusing”.
I did the same. I loved factory work. I did heat-treating of metals. Worked nights during high school. Wish I had never left sometimes. The factory is still there.
“Being tracked at work”
Amusing. They’re fine with being tracked by their friends, their dating apps, the government, etc. etc. But they’re allergic to being tracked when they might be held accountable.
Grow some bark, kidz.
I can’t be bothered to read that whole vodka article. Was there ever a point?
Just bitching about Tito’s using the term “handmade” and complaining about how evil the company is.
Now, if I were a person to think the worst of others, I would say that the real reason was to pull Tito’s down. IMO, they code slightly right, leaning on red, white, and blue, and being from Texas.
I got as far as the bit about the caps being plastic, not real copper. I mean, that’s totally obvious. The color is more rose than actual copper and I never even considered it was supposed to look like copper. I’m also acutely aware of the spot price of copper, and wouldn’t pay extra for that bullshit on a quite drinkable but unexceptional vodka.
I miss my Ру́сский Станда́рт…
Tonio:
That’s it to me, Tito’s is a non-offensive, mid-range, drinkable vodka. It’s the one I buy for the rare times I use vodka in anything.
I am a Monopolova fan myself. I harbor no ill will to Tito’s and I find that article to be an exercise in useless nitpicking.
Tito’s is the Tullamore Dew of vodkas. Inoffensive, tasteless, and the hoi polloi know it by name.
@ Zwak.
Hoi polloi as charged I guess. We do get a neat commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81oiF7VIOw
Yeah, I tapped out early too.
Mostly just baffled at “America’s bestselling spirit”. Really? Maybe I’m just a basic bitch but I only buy it when they’re out of any of the half dozen cheaper but perfectly acceptable choices. It’s hugely overpriced around anywhere I’ve lived.
Its one thing to be laid off..Id search for a new job. Yet, I am still employed and expected to perform my duties.
Getting that second LES with 80+ hours worked, $0.00 paid just sucks.
Get back to work, slave!
*cracks whip*
Yessa massa!
Sorry, buddy.
No one working at the EPA is drawing on OCare plans..so why are they demanding it?
That’s what stood out to me too.
Solidarity. The struggle is real.
Gen Z-ers don’t even deserve this perfunctory slander, because the entire process of getting and keeping an entry-level job has become a grueling and dehumanizing ordeal over the past decade.
They deserve to go directly to Executive Vice President at a seven figure salary.
Even my orphan workers whine less than this.
Excellent call back.
Though she doesn’t have benefits through work now and deals with more uncertainty as a freelancer, she is happier because she has autonomy and control over her time and her efforts.
If there is a problem there I cannot identify it.
Huh. Likes the autonomy and control as a freelancer. But! Wants benefits.
Wasn’t 0-care supposed to fix this? If only comrade Obama knew…
The unhappiness of young workers seemed so pronounced in the past year — whether because of the rapid rise of A.I., the uncertainty of the market, or some other rancid combination of post-Covid malaise and general disaffection.
It’s because of President Cartoon Villain. They are still distraught over Kamala’s shellacking.
The rise of ai is unfortunately timed for me, its first victories have largely overtaken what I’m technically kinda good at. Especially considering the permanent cheese-dependent underclass, w Medicaid being another massive factor, being employed certainly would feel like a lot more work for not much more (if any) gain than just moping about and being fed to feel bad about themselves.
*scrunchy-thoughtful face* Thinking of things I can do that *don’t* involve learning to code, as I’m lightyears behind on that front. ‘Tis vexing.
It sounds like you should measure out the beer, then kill some time finishing the rest of the bottle before shaking…
Honestly, I would start with a room temperature beer for making any shaken cocktail. More of the carbonation will be driven out, and you’re going to be cooling it down at a later step regardless.
Aside: My life runs much more smoothly when I don’t pay attention to the news.
Me too.
Trying my best to be Stoic. A layoff, or having my team dismembered is coming soon. I will be spending time reproducing my good templates and work examples in preparation for a different job, after about 20 years of continuity. Jeez, I just needed about 5 more years here before I could downsize my job needs.
Good luck. I’ve been in that situation where you see the train going down the tracks and there isn’t much if anything you can do to stop it.
There is nothing fun or easy about it.
I need to kick job-hunting into high gear. Reproduce all my examples, clean up the resume and start submitting. I won’t outright quit, I need to just stay calm and use this time to prepare.
Sorry, RJ.
That sucks, man.
Hit me up at my handle at proton and I’ll send you our careers linke – we’re a large, established mostly-remote tech company.
Best wishes RJ.
+1
There’s a lot of worry out there. I’m certainly hearing a lot of it.
(400+20)×200−(300/3)+185
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09#success
(400+20)×200−(300/3)+185
420 * 200 – 100 +185
84,000 – 100 +185
84,000 + 85
84,085
[Now to see if I remember my orders of operation correctly]
I think you forgot to subtract 100.
Nope. Never mind. Easily distracted right now.
OMFG ChatGPT can’t do simple algebra???
(400+20)×190−(300/3)+385
I told ChatGPT that as a computer that can’t do math, it belongs on the Island of Misfit Toys
There’s a joke in here, right? Chicken, road? Something?
A tractor-trailer carrying 7,000 chickens overturned in Dauphin County Friday morning, shutting down two roads, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
The single vehicle crash happened around 6 a.m. on North Crossroads Road near Luxemburg Road in Lykens Township when the tractor trailer overturned.
Police closed North Crossroads Road and Luxemburg Road as they work to clear the vehicle and debris.
It was an inside job. Those chickens knew the risk, but thought freedom was worth it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEOfT7hUcDs
The first article I wrote for Glibs was about this. When I was self-employed, I could imagine an organization like NFIB forming an insurance group. Thank you Rand Paul (even though this won’t go anywhere).
“My plan would make it legal for businesses such as Costco, Sam’s Club and Amazon to offer group health insurance to their members. If Costco’s tens of millions of members purchased insurance as a group, they would have the leverage of size to force premiums lower.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/11/07/shutdown-healthcare-subsidies-rand-paul/87128634007/
I’m all in, but states and insurance companies won’t go quietly.
I’d think you’d need to repeal or modify McCarran–Ferguson .
Agreed. See below for more.
Absolutely. What you run into is a spider’s web of mandates that crush most attempts to reduce cost.
Everybody’s favorite commie Obama put the last nails in affordability by banning catastrophic plans and making pre-ex illegal.
There is just a fuck ton of money involved, all aligned against simple and affordable.
One of the things that drives me nuts, and I am sure most everyone here is the same, but when someone calls that a “market failur” and sees that as a reason for more gov’t interference.
`No, you idiot, that is a gov’t failure.
It’s hard to tell, but it seems as if some of the “work sucks” whining might be due in part to a lack of a real sense of tangible accomplishment. When you dig a ditch you can see the end product.
Don’t worry, if they keep voting for socialists they will get to dig a ditch soon enough, only one though.
Work has always sucked. Yet again, a group of people who have had everything handed to them find themselves unprepared for reality.
What’s your ditch doing in my dirt?
a communications failure?
I embody that. I push papers all day. I don’t “do” anything. Nobody tangible is helped, nothing tangible is done.
I’ve much preferred the jobs where I’ve been physically exhausted and had something to show for it.
Aaaaand they’re off
Two area law firms have announced that they will be seeking damages from UPS following the deadly crash of UPS 2976.
Morgan & Morgan announced that they have filed a class action suit on behalf of three plaintiffs and others who may be potentially impacted by the crash. Their clientele includes a woman who lived near the crash site and suffered injuries after inhaling toxic smoke, as well as Triple D, Inc., an automotive repair shop located in the path of the wreckage of UPS MD-11. The entire business, including but not limited to its machinery, personal property, customers’ vehicles, and other assets were all destroyed as the result of the crash and Ensey LLC who owned property that was damaged by chemical contamination. Those two properties are located at Phillips Lane.
Whiteford Taylor & Preston, alongside the Kentucky-based Peterson Law, announced they are representing several Kentucky families of the injured and deceased.
That list includes Grade A Recycling and its employees who are suing for damages suffered when the building was struck directly by the plane.
This doesn’t mean the have no merit, but you might wait a day or two to see what kind of settlement offer you get.
It’s Morgan and Morgan. Do you want to see my shocked face?
https://www.forthepeople.com/
They are like the textbook example to explain “ambulance chaser”.
Like first responders they run toward tragedies.
And… there it is.
Oh, that. Pfft.
So are you saying it wasn’t gay focused enough?
Just watch Torchwood.
Torchwood was actually fun, unlike what I’ve heard about recent Who. The woke was tolerable and almost “organic” – not preachy and shoved in your face.
My favorite Torchwood quip was “Apparently, The Rift makes everyone gay”.
I as well enjoyed Torchwood.
Read a review about Ken Burns’ new one on the American Revolution. It had to be spat out, apparently, and a couple graphs in the timing of the release to the No Kings ‘movement’ and the current political woes America faces living under one Donald J Trump. The fretting continued for a bit, but as I was uninterested to begin with, I tapped out.
They really can’t help themselves, and they wonder why we call it T𝐃S. To be politely fair, to some extent, I presume their editors, either out loud or through environmental insinuation, actively wanted or requested bits like that to be sprinkled throughout their pieces. I guess to remind the reader what they’re all up against. Keeps the froth goin’.
Everything I have heard abut Burns, he want it to be that way.
I’ll watch it only if it talks about slaves a lot, and reminds us how the natives were treated despite the Iroquoi Confederation being the basis for the eventual Constitution.
Not in-your-face enough.
I want to know why it’s OK to illegally exclude deaf people who don’t speak English from crucial updates from the government.
Not since it became automated?
Lego 1701D
After a full two
Months of not making a LEGO order even.
Westly?!
Come on, Chief O’Brien is what we want. And Crusher, everyone knows the superior Dr is Pulaski.
Maybe we have to wait for the 36,000 piece DS9 set to get O’Brien?
We’ll get Lego DS9 right after they put out a DS9 movie.
I have a metal Enterprise with detachable saucer section. My parents bought for me when I was 4. Funny that, because the only things I can remember watching at that age were Sesame Street, Jaws, and The Land Before Time.
My dad wanted toughen up me and my siblings without hitting us, so he let us watch violent movies and play violent video games.
It worked. My mom was freaked out when my brother and I watched Saving Private Ryan and became more determined to join the Army. Other WW2 movies seemed tame by comparison, even the one where Audie Murphy played himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wveDGdtt-Mg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QslUo5TRe4
Rwy, uhff!
Seems like things have changed a lot.
If my aunt and uncle are to be believed, yes they have. I remember visiting them in Collierville 15+ years ago and seeing a nice bedroom community outside of an awful metro. By my last visit, they seemed very choosy about where they took me and where they socialized. They moved out of collierville a couple years ago and i don’t think they miss it in the slightest.
Fedex is on a downslide, but i think my uncle is hoping to get out before it gets bad.
I’d prefer a Department of Victory over war or defense. With my name, at least they’d feel shame after a defeat.
Oh, and female plastic soldiers are finally for sale. They cost about 50 cents each.
https://bmctoys.com/products/bmc-plastic-army-women-od
I’m disappointed that it’s not 70 cents
[golf clap]
There was a Dilbert cartoon where Wally pointed out that if the disparity in 75 cents per dollar, then men make 33% more than women, not 25%.
You sound calm despite your recent harrowing experience, Derp.
“then men make 33% more than women, not 25%.”
Reminds me of the time the local news rag headlined a “1% tax increase” when some local income tax went from 1% of earned income to 2% of earned income.
My life of adventure (Army, Africa, jail, loony bins, etc) has made me stoic, I guess.
I have journeyed across time and space, both in reality and my imagination. The mystical experience that landed me in a psych ward for a second time was cathartic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZdZKolMIl0
My third eye is definitely open. Might just be the anti-psychotics they injected into both my shoulders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMRIOOvEeg4
On a related note, it’s mind boggling that psychiatrists are the only doctors who don’t examine a brain scan before prescribing medicine.
They got the one laying down for the chain of command right.
Alternate headline: Judge orders Orange Hitler to look the other way as states refuse to enforce federal law.
*Hand up* Am I the only one who immediately thinks of Sean P ‘Diddy’ Combs when I see this dude’s name?
Can’t be the only one.
But they can be tied to race
Pumpkin flip?
I’m sure canned pumpkin will work just fine.
/Jking
My sudden emergency move to Tennessee has various benefits. I’m a few miles from my parents, so no more long road trips for holidays, etc. Plenty of jobs nearby and a technical college. The county is deep red, and veterans are held in high esteem as it is the birthplace of two Medal of Honor winners. Plenty of welding workshops nearby too.
Tomorrow, I’ll merely watch the Veterans Day parade. I marched in it in 2021. That was fun. Someone yelled “thank you for your service!” and after a dramatic pause, the response was “you’re welcome”. I’ll be wearing my WW2 steel Army helmet just for fun.
I gained 20 pounds almost during my 17-days in the psych ward. At least I have reliable access to cheap, dark beer now. Feels good watching all those bridges burn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgeIINs1TrQ
I made these to honor my gal pals from the Army, Navy, and NSA:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/barbie-world-war.html
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/11/in-navy.html
Ha. I was just looking at rents there today. Much less than I pay now and I don’t give much of a shit about “location”. I do give a shit about keeping my job, though. If I ended up having to move there to keep it, I guess there are worse things.