Howdy Giibs and Glibettes – I hope everyone is having a wonderful day. I had to go out and buy an actual jacket and slacks today as I am taking my wife to a place nice enough it still requires jacket and tie in the main dining room. But I haven’t bought a jacket in 15lbs. So.. off I went. Not bad for last minute, off-the-rack. I’ll look (appropriately) like a guy who landed a lady way out of my league, and am doing my (inadequate) best to keep up.
Fascinating long-form article about the first MMO, called Habitat.
Sumo or samurai, pick a lane pal. I hear Florida has offered citizenship based on this audition video.
Here is another California story that should’ve been from Texas, though they’d be cutting her body down after the lynching if she stole that much from a HS football booster club.
I appreciate a naked political bribe. I don’t believe it, but its nice to be offered money.
Nephilium put this in my head like a week ago and it won’t go away unless I give the earworm away
We will get the reelection checks right after our DOGE and Tariff checks.
Glad the deficit hawks weighed in on this one.
But think of the fiscal multiplier …
Early this year there was talk of “affordability” and Trump ignoring the economy that normal people experience. Then he created a team to look at the problem. And then 2 weeks later… IRAN. Now we just had to deal with higher prices. That’s the point he lost me.
Nice $5000 last minute band-aid that wouldn’t be necessary if he had kept his promises.
He seems hellbent this 2nd term on making me sympathetic to his would be assassins. It reminds me of high school and college when I spent half my time raging about GWB’s fugazi conservatism, and the other half defending him against moronic 9/11 conspiracy theories, Code Pink fugazi pacifism, and accusations of geronticide for daring to suggest maybe we should privatize social security for the 2 generations of people who won’t benefit from it.
He started out strong. I liked most of the EO’s, and I liked MAHA. He just needed to get congress to vote on making each of the EO’s permanent, and if they didn’t pass, at least we’d have a record of who opposed them.
Instead, someone pulled out a laser pointer.
The courts would put a halt to it even if it wasn’t a straight up lie which it is. A desperately stupid last ditch proposal that a blind man could see through.
@TOK+ He did start strong. I think Congress refusing to do anything about DOGE, and the Judiciary puking over its jurisdiction, Trump 2.0 really shows how adamant The State is to yield *any* of its authority.
Nothing will come from this, me sadly thinky. But, with EOs and his foreign bullshit, it’s all the Executive can itself wield. He is not NOT trying to stop the Left’s culture war and more. *shrug* That’s rather sad, but he’s giving it a good go.
He did start strong but is finishing last. Meanwhile the DeepState™ is still fully in control.
He’s not giving it a good go Evan, he could have leaned on congress at the beginning of this term and expended a bit of the sizable bank of political capital he had at the time but he ultimately didn’t really do shit. EOs and the like are no better than a fart in the wind and he’s well aware unless he really is stupid. It was and is all performative.
Trump was never going to be someone to override the entrenched bureaucracy. We knew this going into his *first* term.
Having had the experience of the entire intelligence community and law enforcement apparatus working overtime to destroy him throughout his entire first term, then surviving multiple suspiciously-easy-to-prevent assassination attempts, I foolishly thought he might respond to incentives in a rational way.
*That was poorly phrased. He’s giving the Left’s culture war a good go. Being, at minimum, a *break* from some of it.
Iran and his inability to get anything done with Congress are my problems with him. Congress really should be ‘in charge’ of most of the shit ‘we’ want done, and they’ve predictably fought against it. I don’t blame all that on Trump.
OTH, educational loan forgiveness is a-ok!
Harris promised $25K down-payments for first time homebuyers. Mamdami….
Good trolling by Trump on the $5K especially with Dems saying he owes every household $2K.
Maybe this is Trump admitting that the GOP is going to get crushed in November.
The officer will be fired for failing to mag dump the guy.
Sumo Samurai Ninja Pirate
They could re-record it with an air raid siren replacing the voice of Geddy Lee with no diminution of the final product.
One of Bruce Dickinson’s nicknames is, or was, the Air Raid Siren.
I can’t see him singing, “The Trees”.
An air raid siren would be a slight improvement.
Men’s fault, somehow, someway.
You know it.
$411,000 just on the booster side.
How much was actually wasted on the kids throwing a ball around in total?!
https://www.thedrive.com/news/meet-the-guy-who-owns-every-2007-chrysler-model-in-the-same-shade-of-blue
I admire that level of ocd.
Different for sure.
Wonder what he does for a living. It’s not cheep to keep them all licensed and insured.
PA is cheap for registration. $48/year nowadays.
I’m remembering my $36 tags.
Idaho Aparently now goes off the value of the vehicle when they used to be just a flat sticker fee. And some bullshit state police and EMS fees.
Idaho Aparently now goes off the value of the vehicle when they used to be just a flat sticker fee.
For the state fee, NH law uses classes based on vehicle weight. There are three classes with a flat fee per month (multiply by twelve to get the annual fee). My two cars are in the middle bucket which is, if I remember correctly, $46 per year.
Some or all municipalities charge fees. State law sets the fee schedule which uses vehicle class, weight, and age to get a rate per $10K of original MSRP. Municipalities use a database, which is maintained by a third party that the state contracted with, to look up original MSRP. If the database is wrong in your favor and the government finds out, it gets fixed really quickly. If the database is wrong in the municipality’s favor, good luck getting it fixed. For my two cars that fee is about $750 total.
That’s brutal DEG.
My dumptruck that’s lisences at 40,000 lb is around $350.
My Comercial vehicles are nuts. About $3500 for the three of them.
Plates and liscencing should be permanent and a one time fee. You’re paying road tax through fuel for wear and tear on the roads already.
In the state of Washington, they slapped a bunch of transit fees and now EV penalty fees (if vehicle is an EV). My 3 year old Tesla was more than $1k to register.
The rates of nonrenewal are skyrocketing since the penalty for expired tabs is less than the tabs themselves for many vehicles.
If you have a non-EV, the tab cost is still outrageous, but you don’t pay the EV tax. However, gas is about $5.75 a gallon, so they get you either way.
I own all of the USA production models car that used the paint color I have.
Nissan used the Interlagos Fire paint color (color code L40, also known as Premium Mystic Maroon in Japan) exclusively on the 2006 Nissan 350Z (Coupe and Roadster/Fairlady Z)
Production Years: 2006 only (available for a limited period during that model year)
Nice.
The MMO C64 thing is wild.
I had never heard of it before but I’m not surprised Lucas was involved.
A friend had a C model and I remember it taking about 25-20 min to load Pole Position. It was super cool to me a kid that didn’t have a computer in the household at the time or an Atari.
I never heard of that either but from the timing, I know why.
After 1988 I completely avoided all things computer until the late 90s.
We did get a 286 and later upgraded it to a 486 which screwed up the clock speed on all the games we had.
I knew enough dos to load a disk. That was all.
Nice music choice!
I took the day off for trip #1 of 2 to pick up my new pistol. NJNICS is backed up 4 days. Doesn’t particularly matter as the magazines to be restricted and that would have taken a few days as well.
Used the trip to hit the range for the first time in about a decade. Ouch. Was fine with the .22lr at 25 yards and awful with G21. Not surprising, but still disappointing. That said they were all in Q target at 10 yards.
When I pick it up I’ll go to the range again.
NJ has the most secure elections part 2!
N.J. primary election ballots were mistakenly shipped to Tennessee, USPS audit finds
https://www.nj.com/news/2026/09/nj-primary-election-ballots-were-mistakenly-shipped-to-tennessee-usps-audit-finds.html
Having the USPS ensure election mail is valid and delivered to the correct recipient is illegal and likely racist, or something.
I chuckled while listening to the song.
I’m having a bunch of oaks removed from my property. My plan is to make room to plant sugar maples.
Took my kids to see Rush in Fort Worth. The Trees is one of my daughter’s favorite songs and they started playing it, she grabs me and starts shaking me, yelling, “they’re playing The Trees!” At intermission they put up a clock for their timer, when it hits 0:00 it starts rolling back up, then stops at 21:12, so I grabbed her and started shaking her, yelling, “they’re playing 2112!” Great show. I had more fun at that show than any others, and I was sober… unlike any others.
That’s seriously adorable.
Much cuter than the time I took my niece to see Pennywise and Out To Lunch and I nearly had to stab a fool…
ES, you cannot leave me hanging like that. What transpired that caused you to nearly cut a fool?
Necron 99:
I would guess someone in the pit. I’ve had to be the elder defender in the pit a couple of times.
Eh, it actually wasn’t all that interesting. Drunk asshole accosted us in the parking lot – more aggressive panhandling than anything else, but that shit escalates into robbery pretty often. The niece didn’t really have footwear suitable for running. I told him I didn’t have anything, he escalated, I put my hand on my knife (neck pendant under my shirt) and told him to fuck off before this got unpleasant. Thankfully, he took the advice and fucked off.
If it happened today, I would go right to the pepper spray. The club had a metal detector though, so that wasn’t an option at the time (my knife was tucked in my phone case when I went through the detector.)
This was maybe five or six years ago. According to the niece, when I’m angry or frightened I put on a notable working-class British accent. No word on whether that helped or hindered.
Neph – the pit at that show was pretty cool for a Pennywise show. It could be intense, but if you went down and threw an arm up someone would pull you out.
ES:
When I went to Punk Rock Bowling in Vegas, I was surprised about the difference in pit culture from there to what I was used to. Out there it was always circle pits spinning, instead of the mass of chaotic motion that is the ones here. Locally the rules are pretty simple:
1) If someone goes down, start blocking out the area and helping them up.
2) Don’t grab someone (exceptions allowed to prevent going down and mutual clasps)
3) Don’t punch or kick people
4) Don’t look like you’re trying to hurt someone
5) Don’t bring in your drink, cigarette, or joint. Just… Don’t.
1. It seems like the circle pit is a west-of-the-Mississippi thing, probably originating in California.
2. What sort of knife fits inside a phone case?
A noife.
It’s safer than the Motorola brick that used to live in that case.
Neph: That’s pretty much how it is around here (meaning Philly, Boston, NYC – I don’t know a single punk or hardcore club in DC anymore). Shoving/body checking is cool, throwing hands is very much not.
(Incidentally, I just realized that At the Drive-In released Relationship of Command, 26 years ago this week. Fuck me I’m old.)
B.P.: An Emerson La Griffe. https://www.emersonknives.com/collections/fixed-blade-knives/products/la-griffe It’s small, but it gets the job done and it’s super easy to get through security.
Cool blade. Will be buying.
And I just had At the Drive In on in the car.
It’s been a long time since I’ve gone to a show but those rules were the same in the NW
the Commodore 64 was named for its then-generous 64 kilobytes of memory. In its twelve years on the market, it became the best-selling desktop computer in history. A conservative estimate puts its sales at 12.5 million machines worldwide.
The C64 sold for $595 in the US
A friend of mine sold his a year or two ago. It still worked. I can’t remember how much he got for it but I think inflation adjusted he lost money on it.
And I noticed who wrote that article. I wonder what she’ll say if you she finds out it is linked here.
Lol, I went right past the author. If she could see this website, would she still want to kill us? More than ever, probably.
Should I know who she is?
Oh my. That takes me back.
Former Reason head honcho who notoriously loathed the vulgar, low-brow comment section.
Shikia Dahlmia? (I know, I know. I couldn’t help myself.)
Dahlmia was a wild one.
So, I learned the concept of coding on a Commodore 64 in 1986. Senior in high school. Physics teacher took a few of us on a side-quest into computers. He outlined if/then, and I was off. My assignment was to code it to play “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” Did it, too. Good times.
I was so proud of one of my first, longer Pascal programs ca. 1987 I printed it out and hung it on my bedroom wall. It was like four feet tall.
Apropos of nothing, we’ve just had 5 uninterrupted days of sunshine and dry skies. So what do you suppose happens on my day off when I finally have time to go outside and work on removing the last of the failed factory wrap from the window frames of my car so I can sand, bondo, and repaint in preparation for the rest of the body work and paint? I’m out there with a heat gun and scraper for all of 15 minutes before the skies blacken and the rain starts…
I’m happy, we are getting our first significant rain here in over 50 days here. Good luck on the wrap.
August was hotter than mercury and dry as a one, but we got some good monsoons in July.
I just had new siding put up, so I also have to get that painted in the next month or so before temps drop and the skies open again.
*dry as a bone, that is
I actually dragged myself outside. What a mess. The weeds have completely taken over out back; out of sight… Maybe I should just call it “Xeriscaping” and let it go.
I needed to run the mower dry so I can pull the carb off and attempt to make it not run like shit. Or I could be a true blue American and zoom off to buy a newer bigger one. Maybe it just needs a new fuel filter (Does it even have one? I don’t know, Shirley).
O/T: My lifts at the gym have been stalled for a while. I happened upon a video with Dorian Yates, and he talked about shorter training sessions (45 minutes) with more intensity, i.e. lifting to failure or beyond the last set of every exercise. I’ve been trying it out the past 2 weeks. In just that time, I found my supposedly 2-3 reps in reserve were way, way off. By like 8 reps or more. For example, I did a set of lat pulls with a weight that I’d normally do 15 reps, and going to failure I did 30 good reps. I’ve been holding back and keeping things too comfortable.
We’ll see if this translates to strength gains, but so far I feel good and I’m only a little sore the next day. Guess you’re never too old to learn.
Bravo!
Once I’m back from vacation I have to get serious about regular weight sessions. Man can not live by cardio alone (but I do like that I can multitask while breaking a sweat on the bike).
That’s often the problem. People think they’re going to failure when really they’re going to “failure”. Like, you should be barely able to lift your arms at all afterward if we’re talking real failure. I’ve found, however, that hitting true failure, especially if lifting heavy, without a spotter, is dangerous and nigh impossible.
I would agree here. My new “failure” is when I lose form. We do have safeties on our rigs so I can actually fail on bench safely.
Another thing I’ve observed is that your brain will attempt to shut you down long before your body fails. I’m sure it’s just trying to prevent injury, but if you ignore the “OMG that’s all I can do!” self talk you can keep cranking out reps.
Every time I think this is happening to me I go to a slightly higher weight, apparently lose good form, suffer a minor injury, spend 10 weeks getting it healed up, and then start the cycle all over again.
If you’re using a lot of dumbbells I can see this happening. A 5# jump can be a lot. I don’t use them, but for barbells we have tiny washers that weigh less than a pound.
You’re spot on. Lacking the space for a full bench or rack, I only use dumbbells for weight training. I’ve got some 2.5# “plates,” which always seems like it’s going to be doable, until it isn’t… Front raises are usually where I fuck myself up.
Amen, Pat.
Shorter training makes sense. As you get older, it gets harder to recover from volume training.
We’re getting new mapping datums.
Our killbot accuracy will be better than ever!
It will help when we need to accurately target nuclear explosions to restart the Earth’s core.
We _really_ need to run that by the Deep Sevens first. Don’t wanna piss them off.
Meters.
Sounds gay.
So does this mean Africa is actually bigger than Greenland?
Ducks Announce Disneyland Resort as Official Helmet Logo Sponsor
Chico’s Bail Bonds would be a better sponsor. At least they don’t own the team.
Put mouse ears on the helmets too.
+1 Tatum O’Neal.
Dargie acknowledged that it’s fair for someone to have a differing opinion, but said this particular juror would not engage and could not “find something to support his view.”
My bullshit detector is giving me a headache.
It’s acceptable to have different opinions for why you vote the way I want …
Could not or he didn’t find his explanation acceptable? It sure would be nice if they’d just shut up but then it’d be hard to sic the lunatics on the guy.
Murder is not an option, you need a real reason, like blouse and skirt clash style wise. If Mrs Clancy was dressed inappropriately for a triple murder she could be both insane and a murderer.
Men don’t always understand these things
sic the lunatics on the guy.
One of the three male jurors went on teevee to smear the guy. It won’t be long.
The lone juror is a hero that we need more of.
One guy really can make a difference, at least until they seat the next group of nine cat ladies and three cucks who’ll finally manage to let her off.
Trump administration pitches taking undocumented immigrants off census
Perhaps we could strike some sort of compromise for fractional representation of those present, but not lawfully able to vote…
The solution is to throw them out of the country before the census happens.
Say…3/5ths?
5/3rds. Diversity is our strength.
How about we count them but only to determine the needed ICE expenditures in a given area?
I like the cut of your jib.
Narcissistic broads on THICC Thursday.
https://archive.is/LRZbY
4, 7, and 20 have earned themselves a little narcissism.
That inkstain ruined the whole batch.
Average 30-year mortgage rate tops 7% for first time since May 2025
The fact that rising mortgage rates never seem to put even slight downward pressure on home prices signals to me that something is a bit off.
But it has. Local residential market recently went from sellers to buyers market, and offers now under ask instead of at or slightly higher.
Location, location, location.
Here prices are still going up.
Here being southern NH. Northern NH is probably unaffected because outside of vacation homes, not many people want to be there.
Another thing – Rates went into the double digits in the eighties before housing costs went down. It was a bad situation. We could face that again.
Rates are far too low.
Mine is down 30 percent from peak.
Tox.
You have somehow come to the conclusion that someone from this site sent cops to your door. If you were in so much danger, all you had to do was blink twice. Give them a weird look. Tilt your head a little. Step outside and speak low. They would have taken care of you immediately. They would have taken you to the hospital where a social worker would have found you a bed in a women’s DV shelter. They may or may not have done anything about Bob.
That is what a smart woman would have done. But not only did you NOT do that, you wished the busybody to perdition.
You’re not a victim. You’re a glutton for punishment, and you have run through the last of my patience.
^This. đź‘Ź
^^
I was quite concerned, perhaps longer than most. Sigh. It’s tedious, at this point.
I’m almost completely OOTL on this, but I see this came from Ev’s article earlier, and I remember seeing something similar a couple months back on an overnight thread.
It’s possible to be both, and the psychology involved can be very… weird for lack of a better term. I’ve had family, including my mom, who got trapped in really bad, abusive situations. At 3, 4 years of age, I didn’t like seeing my step dad shove my mom for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or Nth time, and I really didn’t like seeing him slap her, choke her, shove her up against the wall, throw her pictures out on the driveway in the rain, smash her keepsakes, etc, etc. When my step brother called the cops during one of their rows and he spent a few nights in jail, I was unaware how embarrassing it was to tell my first grade classmates that my dad got arrested until my mom and step brother scolded me for it. My mom’s family didn’t like her, and she suffered paralyzing social phobia, to the point that when asked to perform a simple task like reciting her phone number and SSN to a DMV clerk, her mind would go blank, she’d turn red, and just simply not be able to speak. She had to write everything down at home in order to communicate it later. She had few options. So… I understand stupidly staying in a situation from which it would be better to flee. Learned helplessness, isolation, fear, lack of self worth, etc, etc.
That having been said, life isn’t cinema. You’re probably not going to be rescued in cinematic fashion by a powerful main character who can safely ignore the legalities and practicalities of life without consequence. The help that people on the internet can offer is going to be of the more limited and mundane variety, like raising some money, contacting charities and churches on your behalf, or, yes, loathe as we are to do it, sending a cop by to check on you. Those might not be the resources that will resolve every problem in your life, but they’re the resources that get you on the path to resolving those problems. The first step.
I’ve got cash to contribute to a fund, or anyone local that can help. Other than that, we as a group obviously can’t stage a commando raid. Sometimes one must choose the least-worst among a set of sub-optimal options.
Well… that brings back some unpleasant memories. Not a stepfather though, just a “boyfriend”. I was a similar age. Much later there was a real stepfather who treated her right.
Eesh, sorry.
Court-ordered anger management after the aforementioned few nights in jail, along with physical deterioration put a stop to most physical violence when I was still pretty young (the last remaining vestige concluding my 18th year when he started to raise his hand during one of their yelling matches and I grabbed him by the wrist and told him that’s something that will never happen again), but they continued their toxic relationship until his death in 2015. I was never as close with him as with my mom, but to the extent he had the capacity, he loved me in his own way, and I basically maintained compartmentalized relationships with each of them. He entrusted me with POA and medical proxy, which duty I fulfilled when the time came. My mom later told me just a few months before she passed that the 7 years between his death and hers when she was able to live relatively independently with just me around were the best of her life. Like I said, the psychology can be weird.
I’m with you there Pat.
Psychology can be weird.
Lots of people are in abusive relationships that they could simply walk away from but the draw is too strong for them.
I don’t get it. I’ve been in an emotionally abusive relationship and was dumb enough to let it go on long enough that she moved on.
I know I should #believeallwomen but I think Tox is a performance.
Claims that Lindsay Clancy’s attorney is facing disciplinary action
I looked him up on the MA Board of Bar Overseers website. It says there is a disciplinary action pending against him. When I try to bring up the documents with the search link provided, I get nothing. I wonder if it is because the action is still pending.
Yeah, I just get a “View decisions” link that leads to a search page with 0 results.
Re: small edc fixed blade knives
https://www.amazon.com/Spartan-Blades-SBBL2BK-Pocket-Folding/dp/B00T36AR7S/
I have one of these that I quite like. The link text is wrong, it’s not a folder.
If I’m going to carry a fixed blade knife instead of a multitool, my first choice would be the one I made. It’s not the most inpressive, nor does it fit in tiny spaces, but I made it, and that means a lot.
My first choice is a folder, or otf. I just had to try out a fixed blade though.
I packed a Buck 119 for years during college. Nobody said anything about it.
I prefer a folder unless I’m out in the woods. It’s shorter, and how much knife could I need in “civilization”?
Gird your loins and…
Ah. We missed schedule. I suppose I will hang out with Sean and discuss knives. Let me pull up my latest obsession…
https://a.co/d/00KfM4PP
I lost my Leatherman Arc. Bittersweet, it was a great concept but it rusted like an iron skillet in the rain. I had to disassemble it every quarter year, brass brush it, soak it in oil.
I won’t miss that. Back to the Wave platform.
I bet you can really MacGyver some stuff with that.
The TSA has my Leatherman.
Where did I pick up the turn of phrase “an accent thick enough to deflect small arms fire”? I know it’s not my turn of phrase, but it stuck in my head.
I like it. Never heard it before.
Listen, I’m not a robot. I just want the movie post.
Well, it missed schedule.
It was your selection too, “From Beyond.”
Anyway to get it posted?
I think Mojeaux can move it into the actually posted if she’s still around?
That’s a great Thursday night movie too. Crazy ass shit from another dimension, old school special effects, Barbara Crampton in a BDSM outfit. And Lovecraft. Anyone who doesn’t like that should be deported to Uganda.
Good stuff.
I have done the needful.
Thank you!