I had a handful of short sentences, seeds of a Random Thought write-up. But given the content maw, I’ve succumbed to article shrink-flation and broke it up into 2 mediocre sets. Enjoy!
Item the 1st – Prostitution Memes. “My favorite part in Pretty Woman is her joy when he agrees to pay $3000 for 6 days effectively lowering her rate from 100/hr to 21/hr.” One of those things that seems ‘clever’ on the surface, but is actually dumb. Like democratic socialism. Actually, that doesn’t even seem clever, never-mind. But that calculation assumes that her hourly rate could be sustained continuously for 144 hours. Now maybe that’s achievable for Winston’s mom, but not your average call girl. If we give the guy credit for 3 times a day, each lasting 1 hour – which is reasonable for me, but not your average guy – that’s still only 18 hours for nearly $200/hr. That doesn’t even account for meals, shopping etc. To make $3000 in 6 days at $100/hr, she’d have to work 30 hours. Six days of hanging out, wine and dine, presents, luxury digs, and the occasional fling – I can’t see that a call girl (or hooker if she’s dead) might prefer that to 30 hours of random dudes. Except of course Winston’s mom. Dumb meme.
Item the 2nd – Fuck with your Dr. There was some discussion a bit ago about social engineering questions you might encounter at a Dr’s office, in this case about guns in the home. Someone said something along the lines “I just say a simple NO. Ain’t their business and they deserve a lie for asking.” While that is true, I’m more a fan of push back/confrontation, especially in a case were there is minimal/no cost to you. Sometimes, when I feel like casting my ass-holishness as noble and principled, I think of it as not letting the lie into the world. By simply saying “no”, you avoid a perhaps uncomfortable situation, but you re-enforce the cultural norm that is based on the lie. The Dr., if anti-gun, has his biases strengthened, doesn’t have to confront a different position and maybe have one more brick removed from his wall. You are lying to the Dr. and, more importantly, lying to yourself in a small way, acquiescing to the notion that gun ownership is bad and strengthening that proposition in the wider culture, in however inconsequential a manner it seems at the moment. Obviously, it’s an individual choice and trade off, but I think uncountable such acts integrated over time are a part of the reason we end up in a society that doesn’t acknowledge, let alone value, individual liberty.
Item the 3rd – Traffic lights and the urge to control. Yeah, yeah, it’s traffic lights again. And people don’t like it when you don’t follow ‘the rules’ blindly. The local municipality decided that they’d make it so the lights are red in both directions for 3-5 seconds. I suppose there’s some logic to it, e.g. allow someone to enter the light legally under a yellow and still be clear before it’s green in the other direction. What it’s really done is train people to run the lights even deeper into the red. Neither here nor there. Anyway. If I’m at the red and it goes red in the other direction and there’s no one at the intersection or everyone is stopped, depending on time of day, I’ll just go. The other day (around 5am), guy in the truck next to me caught up 2 blocks later and, as he passed me, gunned it up to 30 over the speed limit to demonstrate… I don’t what. Policing my lawlessness? Displeasure with my willingness to ignore what a sign tells me, even though it added no danger? Understanding that it’s meaningless to sit there for 5 seconds staring at an empty intersection, but not being willing to ignore what he was told to do and so is upset at someone who was willing? Sheer coincidence? I don’t – I think it’s just that people really don’t like it if you act outside of what they see as the established rules and will be willing to see you suffer immensely if you don’t live within their constraints.
time travel
Don’t care; Site’s up!
Whew. I was getting worried there for a minute.
And we are back!
i was worreid from 0700 to 0850
What is going on?
The site was down, now there are articles missing, and some showing zero comments.
The last couple days were just a figment of your imagination.
Also links broken.
Server migration I think Spud said
That would be correct. We’re at the mercy of the migration now. It may be a bit before the comments/content from the past couple of days pops back up.
At least we arent Blizzard amirite?
Which version is actually on the new host? I get two depending on whether I’m using my work connection or my house connection
This is the new host – I’m sure they took a snapshot from Dreamhost and loaded it up here at Hostinger.
You’re bobbling between the two due to different upstream DNS hosts and DNS caching (they didn’t even have a DNS entry on the Hostinger server until recently).
It bothers me how much the site being down bothers me.
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It’s why Krispy Kreme managers get so many blow jobs.
Huzzah!
Is it just me or is the new host loading pages several times faster??
Yes seems faster
Maybe cuz all the other comments are gone lol
Maybe because most of it is missing? Less stuff to load?
That was one of the reasons for the migration (the speed, not the data loss).
Depending on whether I’m going from my house I have either this version from Wednesday, or the one from today with the open post and the intervening articles
WEBSITE STATUS UPDATE: WebDom migrated us to a different host last night and it took a while for DNS info to propagate. She’ll have to re-migrate the missing comments and that may take a couple of days since she has baby, husband, business, dogs, a personal life, and (God bless her) OMWC.
So we back baby
Give us the Thursday morning links you coward!
Thanks for update buddy
They are moving for Commie Sainthood of that Preeti guy. News running bits on how he was the guy you want dating your daughter to arriving of pols to ‘holy ground’
I guess no different than Kirk except one wasnt actively engaging in bad faith
Even after new footage shows him acting like a complete maniac in an earlier confrontation with ICE. How many times can you pick a fight with cops before things go bad?
Last night was bearable. I could find other content to waste time on. 😉
But not having Glibs during the work day was going to be a crushing loss.
Is this a dream? A hallucination?
UPDATED UPDATE: PLEASE DON’T COMMENT ON THIS POST, OR THE OTHER POSTS WITH MISSING COMMENTS; ALL THESE COMMENTS MAY BE OVERWRITTEN WHEN WEBDOM REMIGRATES THE COMMENTS FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS.
I’M ABOUT TO PUT UP AN OPEN POST TO GET YOU THROUGH UNTIL THE AFTERNOON.
Ah, I was wondering about that – a selective update of comments, etc. is a much bigger PITA that just doing a fresh dump and load.
Now is your chance to talk smack and have it lost in the mists of time!
How’s that all Dem VA state government working out?
https://x.com/i/status/2016903344477130872