Man, having a Friday afternoon off was nice, I hope you were all able to find adequate beverages to refresh yourselves without any recipes from me. With that, lets get back into the links.
Locally, I know where I’m planning on heading tomorrow. I may not be the biggest Big Blue Boy Scout fan, and have grave concerns about the upcoming movie, but I am fullheartedly (or foolheartedly) a geek and think things like this are cool as hell. Besides, nothing can be as bad as wall building vision.
Continuing in local news, this entire story is entertaining to me. The girlfriend and I are not fans of the billboards, and wonder why this guy wants everyone to know he looks like a pedo.
*sigh* One thing I’ve grown to hate about the yutes is not bothering to learn the roots before they start claiming to have invented something new.
It also allows you to wait for reviews, bug patches, definitive editions, and the like.
Dave and Busters already beat you there decades ago. Which is coincidentally about the last time I’ve been in a Dave and Busters.
I for one, am not surprised.
Yes, because the problem with the new movies was being tied down by continuity.
Look, I had INTENTIONS of playing them!
I truly applaud the publishers who open source and give clear community guidance to rogue servers, but this is the risk of buying an online multiplayer only game.
For the drink this week, we’ll staying light, as we’re getting back into the 90s this weekend.
Lillet Tonic
- 1 part (1 oz) Lillet Blanc
- 2 part (2 oz) Tonic water
Yep, I’m phoning it in with a highball. Build this in your glass (a wine glass is recommended), by filling it with ice, pouring in the Lillet, and topping with tonic. This can be garnished with any herbal or summer notes you would like (cucumber slices, mint sprigs, berries, etc). Really, I’m talking about this cocktail so I can talk about Lillet Blanc, which is a relatively young addition to the spirit world (1980s). It’s a fortified apertif based on white wine. It was created as a replacement for a previous spirit (Kina Lillet), who’s claim to fame is being included in a Bond cocktail. Since it’s a fortified wine, once it’s opened, it needs to be refrigerated or used up, it does not have the shelf life of a full spirit. Also, as it’s a fortified wine, and the only alcohol in this drink, this would also qualify as a low ABV cocktail (made as stated, it should wind up at about 5.7% ABV).
With that, go out and do what you want for the weekend.
https://babylonbee.com/news/republicans-unveil-debt-plan-transfer-balance-to-capital-one-credit-card-with-0-intro-apr
I expect to get blasted for this, but I recently saw Indiana Jones #4 and #5…they are both better than #2.
My rank order: 1, 3, 5, 4, 2.
I never like 2, but never watched 4 and 5.
I’m there with you.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about the recent video game, I’ll likely pull the trigger when it gets a deep enough discount. I mean, I just played through Spider-Man and Spider-Man: Miles Morales over the past couple of weeks (thanks Steam sale!).
I had just heard how bad 4 and 5 were.
Me and my daughter recently watched them, one per weekend, and 2 is by far the worst. 4 and 5 were not good, but they weren’t as bad as Temple of Doom.
3 was ok in an even more campy way, but the first one is how I prefer to remember the franchise.
No. No, no, no. #2 wasn’t great, but it was fucking Chinatown compared to #4 and #5.
Related story, I took my old man out for Father’s Day to see Last Crusade in the theater. That was a good time.
Temple of Doom was cheesy but it was a kid when I saw it and still love it.
Sounds like fortune cookies.
Well, preferences and tastes are subjective. Also, you’re nuts.
Currently drinking a Fiddlehead IPA. I don’t get the hate.
I mean the too many IPAs hate, that I get.
The emperor of China assigned his top man to the job. The guy’s name was Lin Zexu, and he was a scholar, philosopher, viceroy, and all-around teacher’s pet.
That was where China went wrong. They used a TOP.MAN instead of TOP.MEN.
Chuck E Cheese is last in a crowded field.
You should see my Amazon watch list…
The count of my Unplayed Games in my Steam library is currently sitting at 244. In my defense, quite a few were part of bundles, ones that were played that Steam didn’t track, freebies, remasters that were given away free to owners of the original and the like.
Cousin!
Did you see my Tubi queue count from last night?
R.J.:
I did. In my defense, I do also have 796 games in my Steam library. Since they added categories, I’ve also started slotting games into there when I’ve beat them. There’s over 125 in there.
There’s a reason my DVD collection has enough material for over sixty reviews of unwatched material…
The world needs
ditch diggersinfluencers and Twitch streamers too.Trump is the reincarnation of Queen Victoria. I can go with that.
Indiana Jones- everything after the first one was stupid, and the first one was pretty wobbly.
Stow away on a German submarine? Piece of cake.
That was the dumbest part, but consistent with the movies that Spielberg was using as his inspiration.
Tons of hiding room in a 25 foot wide tube, and that is assuming they somehow already had a Type X in 1936 (which they didn’t)
Tons of hiding room in a 25 foot wide tube
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That’s what she said…
I like a bit of whimsy in my table-top RPGs, especially as a counterweight to the low fantasy grimdark Soulslike stuff, but some of these kids are taking the whimsy way too far. I like to think that there’s a balance to be had between ‘basically playing Candyland‘ and ‘don’t get too attached to your character because he’s probably going to be raped to death, cooked, and eaten, possibly not in that order, by session #3…’
The best description I have seen between 70s/80s DnD and modern is “Can we beat the big bad?” vs “How will we beat the big bad?”
Modern is more like TV shows or movies. You know the hero is going to win, just don’t know how.
I like mixing limeade and tonic fifty-fifty on a hot summer day. I don’t, but I suspect it would be good if you added gin. A lime Tom Collins, sort of.
I go with sparkling lemonade or limeade and gin. Makes it really simple to make.
Lillet Blanc is tasty.
Tons of hiding room in a 25 foot wide tube
After you open the hatch from outside and climb down the ladder into he control room as the boat is submerging.
This doesn’t exactly jibe with conventional theology, but he gives a stoat defense of his point.
Not a scam
Under the GOP’s tax and spending law, developers of low-income housing would only have to finance 25 percent of their building and land costs through a special type of municipal bond — known as private activity bonds, or PABs — to qualify for a widely utilized tax credit. The volume of PAB financing available for those projects is capped and, under the previous regime, developers had to obtain 50 percent PAB financing before they could take full advantage of the credit.
By cutting the threshold in half, “you can do the same amount of housing [development] with half the bonds,” said Emily Cadik, the chief executive officer of the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition. The shift gives states the ability to move ahead with “twice as much affordable housing with the existing bond cap.”
This sounds like a totally legit straightforward business finance decision. Nothing to see here.
How to get more low income housing:
1. Create cumbersome zoning, building, environmental, and general regulatory codes to make building new residences slow, cumbersome, expensive, and frequently impossible.
2. Watch the limited existing, and overly expensive, new housing become more expensive.
3. Notice that housing is insanely expensive.
4. Create cumbersome regulations that require, or subsidize, specific, governmentally dictated types, locations, styles, and construction methods for new housing to ‘encourage’ low income housing, because all housing is necessarily predesignated as to potential occupants and there is no way that simply building more units on the high or mid range would ever cause existing units to go down in price.
I’m going to ignore the totally unexpected accusations of racism and just ask that guy if he’s willing to buy and fix up any crack houses.
Germany is going to spend €25 billion (whatever that’s worth in real money) on new tanks and APCs.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/germany-considering-purchase-of-1000-tanks-and-2500-ifvs/
So they can be destroyed by unjammable $2k drones.
https://youtu.be/LQMVxnDmYDs
Will they have to meet EU environmental and safety standards? Electric tanks with airbags! Pride rainbow camo! Less lethal projectiles!
Treads that don’t crush endangered flora and fauna?
I read that Germany’s current APC was insanely slow to be developed, expensive, and underperforms because it had to meet the safety standards for pregnant women.
– *sigh* One thing I’ve grown to hate about the yutes is not bothering to learn the roots before they start claiming to have invented something new.-
Plato, is that you? We all thought you were dead!
More that all the light and fluffy stuff they’re talking about was done in print, in Dragon magazine before they were born. Phil Foglio made quite a bit on whimsical D&D comics and the like.
TSR’s 1980s silly period was like 100 years ago and was in a language no one speaks.
I have an extensive but by no means complete collection of Dragon magazines.
I loved that mag, especially the older issues.
Oh, stewardess, I speak Nerd.
I think Dragon is available online for the older issues, via Internet Archive. Plus, Wormy:
https://www.angelfire.com/wa2/haroog/archive/Archive.htm
And they have to come up with some silly name. I was just talking to my wife about this. She told me there’s a thing called “chaos gardening” where you throw random flower seeds into an area. That doesn’t seem new.
Bongino is considering resigning, now there are reports that Kash might leave too unless Bondi gets fired.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/bongino-took-day-after-clash-bondi-epstein-files/
See the misogyny in the Trump administration!
I don’t blame him.
Me neither. That Epstein bullshit tarnished them perhaps beyond repair.
From what I can tell, this is more palace intrigue/anonymous gossip that DC and the DC media just loves to push.
Of course. Another chance to claim a scalp, stop whatever momentum the Trump andmin has, and roll the dice on a replacement.
Poor innocent victim President Trump, forced to work with these people who keep failing him. They should just commit seppuku.
Bro1 (51yo) is having a hard time with the cancer.
– He underwent surgery. Couldn’t get it out because it was too entangled with his innards, like kudzu.
– He underwent chemo, which went about as well as it usually does.
– He underwent surgery again, and they got a lot/most of the colon cancer, but he still has nodules/mets in his lungs.
– He failed to thrive after surgery, and they found an intestinal herniation. He went back into surgery.
– They found not only the herniation, but that his bowel was so inflamed nothing could pass.
– Now he’s on a feeding tube while they do … something. I need to ask.
Things keep popping up and if it’s not one thing or another, his quality of care is suboptimal. Bro2 keeps asking me if I have any premonitions of death, and I don’t (shut up—it’s a thing I do and my family relies on it), but I don’t have any confetti feelings, either. Just a long, hard road to recovery.
Also, with Mom better and the Glue Factory sold, I’m only now being able to think about it in depth.
Sorry
+1. Absolutely sorry to read that.
Sorry to hear that. My FIL had appendix cancer, and it took a good year before all was said and done. He’s still weaker than he’d like, but all the medical intervention is over. Hope your bro is headed there.
I’m having a bit of a hard time myself this week too.
Eek. Out of one family fire into another. I hope all goes as well as it can, but that sounds frightful and… Unwelcome.
Strong person, daughter and sis, you are. *Big squeeze from afar*
Well, these fires were concurrent. Bro1 was here in Jan helping to get Mom all sorted out, went home after a week, and promptly collapsed, and found out stage IV colon cancer.
So basically, Bro1’s fam has been taking care of him, while I’m taking care of Mom.
Mom’s about 80% settled into a new normal, so I can turn some attention to Bro1, albeit from afar.
I’m sorry, Mo. That doesn’t sound very positive.
Sorry.
Sorry Moj.
Sorry to hear this, Mo.
Where is my instant gratification?
President Donald Trump’s shock-and-awe tariff campaign is off to a slow start when it comes to reviving American manufacturing jobs.
While it will take time for the full impact to play out, the early results suggest that not only have tariffs failed to inspire a hiring boom, but the chaotic policy rollout is paralyzing businesses.
Economists and trade researchers say the haphazard nature of the trade war is compounding the longer-term pressure on US manufacturing.
Even as Trump spiked tariffs to levels unseen in nearly a century, the manufacturing sector lost a combined 14,000 net jobs in May and June, according to federal data. Manufacturing employment is little changed overall since Trump took office in January.
It has been six whole months. When will Trump surrender?
Many factories have struggled to find workers who have the skills and desire to work at manufacturing sites that are often located away from major population centers.
“There is this paradox where around 80% of Americans think it would be a good idea to have a bigger manufacturing sector, but only 25% want to work in it,” said Lawrence. “These are hard jobs.”
A CNN poll in April found that 73% of Americans would prefer a job doing office work over one with the same pay in manufacturing.
Sit on your ass shuffling paper or bullshitting at the water cooler, or work on an assembly line where your productivity is clear and obvious? Tough call.
Jesus. Give me a manufacturing job where at the end of the day I know I produced something of value.
Paper shuffling office jobs are nice in the short term and soul crushing in the long term.
This is so true!
Did a summer on the line. Stacking boxes onto pallets when they hit the end of the line. It is not rewarding. It is monotonous.
“work on an assembly line where your productivity is clear and obvious?”
Never worked on an assembly line, huh?
Full disclosure- neither have I , but I knew/know plenty of GM and Ak Steel workers, and there is as much fuckery in those as in any ‘paper pusher’ job.
I would need to make another zero to consider a desk job.
One thing I’ve grown to hate about the yutes
It’s not the yutes, Neph, it’s the millennials and we’re pushing 40 now. Millennials continue to be the worst generation
I don’t believe in a worst generation. It’s collectivist thought. I worked hard to purge that from my heart.
Now I only hate individuals. Or the Dutch….
We Dutch have plans for the likes of you.
I try my best not to hate, because it takes too much energy. I prefer measured disdain.
Nobody likes the Dutch.
The Dutch gave us gin.
They are OK in my book.
So, PONick says we should Gin and Bear it.
Tonio needs to weigh in on this.
I am a millennial, RJ, and I can tell you that my peers truly suck, almost universally
Yes, it’s the Millennials’ fault, which I’m firmly, upsettingly, squared in, now 38. My generation is raising their kids this way. What we got ain’t nothin’ new, and that *is* true, but I’m of the thought that the *speed* of modern connectivity has crossed a threshold we can’t undo. (By choice? Yes.)
Actual human interactions are shockingly rare in modernity. Even when ya do go out and see real humans, ya often order through a screen. It doesn’t bode well for our fertility rate, with humans so icky and all.
No worry! Kids’ll just have AI girlfriends! Oh, how Power would relish having the ability to *delete* a person’s ‘partner,’ or threaten to, without all that helicopter complication. Helluva sword o’ Damocles to wield, right there.
Actually a pretty good quasi sci-fi story, now I think of it. Pretty much the State holds power over everyone’s relationships, which folk have ‘decided’ (one way or another?) to sink their emotions into the AI vault. Convenience sells, and they’ll be damn good lovers, the ‘bots. They’ll also suck up every bit of user info possible for their Masters’ purpose. ”
“Shame if anything’d happen to your w̵i̵f̵e̵ avatar, eh?”
Yeah. You’re going to love it!
There’s still the Boomers and the remnants of the “Greatest Generation” to deal with.
Millennials are just boomers except worse
Lawrence worries that Trump’s tariff tactics will end up hurting American factories by simultaneously making it more expensive to manufacture in the United States and by angering overseas customers.
“We are setting ourselves up to be a highly uncompetitive country,” he said, “while alienating our allies and pissing off the biggest markets.”
We were amazingly competitive six months ago. But now, suddenly…
How about we drive an economic boom by cutting business income taxes to zero? (OK, tax dividend income at regular rates, if you must.)
Dream on, dream until your dream comes true.
These tariffs work differently than the olde timey tariffs.
The American tariffs are paid by foreigners. They were designed by Monty Python. Oops, I mean Peter Navarro
Stunning realization
Stephanie Brinley, an auto analyst at S&P Global Mobility, said it will now be up to consumers to decide “how fast the EV adaptation should go.”
“Trump was not shy about wanting to roll back the regulations and incentives for EVs. You have to believe there were voters who wanted that to happen,” she said.
Huh.
The free market is driven by reality.
The free shit market is a different animal entirely.
Stolen Valor: Jihadi Edition had me in stitches.
https://youtu.be/XHdQ7RoM1UY?feature=shared
That’s amazing.
I think the intel community has created a stink bomb so powerful that no one wants to touch it and no one knows what to do with it.
Think True Detective season 1 x 1000. Think the entirety of the political class taking helicopter rides. If it were me, and I get the notion Bongino is on board I would say fuck it. Let the chips fall where they may. If the political class is populated with such evil moral degenerates then they should go. Buzzards gotta eat too.
Maybe we end up finding out who orchestrated the trump shooting….cuz it’s a big mystery. Maybe we find out why Steve Paddock melted down his rifle barrel. There are so many squirrelly things that stink worse than a Chinese wet market and the govt keeps telling us ‘nothing to see here’.
This is not going to come to a good end.
Since my sweetums is away on [redacted] operations in Appalachia, I will be on the GlibZoom tonight, shortly after 2100 EDT.