Happy Friday the 13th for those who celebrate.
The Browns are now living down to expectations, we’ll see how it goes at home on Sunday. I expect boos if the first half woes continue. But at least we’re not the Ravens. But that’s enough about the balls of sports, let’s get to some links.
In local assholes.
In OTHER local assholes… Occam gives me about four or five things before we get to spiked drinks.
This will likely be of interest to some here.
“It was the FANS who were wrong!”
Happy end of the world.
“Infamously racist”? Show you work you ignorant fuck.
I sent this to my friend who’s a member of KoC.
Having an automated drink dispense is not AI you retards.
What part of “Designated Driver” do you not understand?
I really want to go to ROSY, but it’s a hard sell to the girlfriend.
For the cocktail this week, I’ll be going to one that’s been popping up in my feed more than once:
Ramos Gin Fizz
- 8 part (2 oz.) gin
- 3 part (0.75 oz) simple syrup
- 2 part (0.5 oz) heavy cream
- 1 part (0.25 oz) lemon juice
- 1 part (0.25 oz) lime juice
- 3 dashes orange flower water
- 1 egg white
- Club soda (to top)
Yep. This is correct. A drink recipe with cream and not one, but TWO citrus juices in it. First things first, raw egg whites… health hazard… yada yada… you’re all (ostensibly) adults. Start by putting everything but the club soda into a shaker, and dry shake (without ice) for 45-60 seconds vigorously. This will be tough, as the shaker will want to pop. Next, open it up, fill it with ice, and shake it until it’s chilled. At this point, strain into a cold Collins glass. At this point, rinse the shakers with some club soda (pour it between the shakers), and use that to top the glass. It should pop over the top of the glass. Now, the longer you shake it, the more it’ll rise. Some bars use modified paint shakers to automate it, others claimed to shake for 10-12 minutes per drink.
With that, I let you go onto your weekend, let’s go Browns, Bengals, and… Chargers? Really? Cheebus that MNF game will be hot garbage.
A rerelease of Song of the South was the first movie I saw in a theater. The lead actor was the first Black man to win an Oscar.
Not a racist thing about it.
I liked it, Br’er Rabbit and Br’er Bear were the shit.
This particular form of virtue signaling requires not knowing what you are talking about.
Those parables are fantastic, and something important is lost by pretending you are superior and yelling “raciiiiiist!”
And no, Whoopi, the reason to play the movie isnt so you can crow about how racist white people are.
Joel Chandler Harris was a redheaded bastard son of an Irish immigrant and some bint in rural Eatonville, Georgia. To say he had a modest upbringing would be to understate things.
At fourteen he quit school and started working on a plantation, where he spent more time with the slaves than with the free whites (who ridiculed him for his ginger noggin and illegitimacy). He carried those stories with him and published them after he became a well-respected journalist and editor of the largest newspaper in the state.
I suppose he could’ve just let the black oral tradition in the South die, but then people like Kayleigh Donaldson (who is paid to deliver Amanda Marcotte-level takes in online magazines) wouldn’t have anything to snark at.
They just need to cast Ta-nehisi Coates as the lead in a remake.
I was recently at Disney World, and they redid the Song of the South themed ride to be Princess and the Frog. It was terrible. The original ride followed the story of Br’er Rabbit, and just before you went down the big drop was the “Please don’t throw me in that briar patch” line. It all made sense and they wove storytelling into the ride. A+.
The new version is just “let’s go find our friends in the swamp so we can have a party.” Boring.
It was a GlibFlick a while back. It was good. And not racist.
This looks bad. A tanker rammed a cruise ship in New Orleans and it’s capsizing.
https://x.com/RT_Visual_on_X/status/2121340843533492721
Yes. Yes it does.
Oopsie!
So much for my idea to take a riverboat cruise as a safer alternative to an ocean liner. 😳
Yikes!
I’ve heard Glenn Cook mentioned as the father of Grimdark. The Dread Empire series and The Black Company series are most often cited in what I see. There’s plenty of Grimdark in The Black Company, but I don’t think you can slot the series (13 books with at least 1 more coming) into Grimdark.
Just my $0.0002 worth.
Re: ROSY
Not sure what this means. Whitefish? Walleye? Sauger?
Walleye, from Lake Erie. I understand that there’s other fish called walleyes as well.
This is what I would call a walleye as well, though some people here call them yellow pickerel.
For decades, impaired-driving prevention has rested on sound advice: plan ahead and choose a designated driver.
Or… practice, practice, practice.
Now it’s not your fault for failing to be the designated driver or over-imbibing, it’s the fault of the Uber guy for charging more than you want to pay. Does anyone these days understand the concept of “my bad?” “Affordable Transportation” will be the next “right” discovered by the Progressive Socialists.
Learn to drive with one eye closed perhaps?
kinnath, one eye, window rolled down and hand scooping cold air into the car.
Another reason I quit. Lucky and no dents in the fenders.
Now my glasses are so thick I don’t dare close one eye ’cause the center line would shift back and forth every time I switched eyes.
College was a lot of drunk driving all around.
Post-college was NYC and the problem disappeared entirely for the cost of a subway token, and later as we got better paid, a cab fare which is not subject to “surge” pricing but sometimes might entail a modest wait.
I hope OBE is stoic right now.
I’m good. I was already off and no call backs.
Looks like multiple ARTCCs were being affected but nothing concrete
You can’t be too cautious
A coalition of nonprofits is suing five leading artificial intelligence companies in an attempt to freeze development of the technology.
The complaint, which was filed Thursday in San Francisco County Superior Court against Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceXSI, argues that the catastrophic risks of AI pose a threat to public safety.
“We hold every other industry accountable when its products threaten public safety, and AI companies should be no different,” said Brendan Steinhauser, CEO of the Alliance for Secure AI, one of the groups that brought the suit. “Today, we’re asking the court to hold AI companies to that same standard and protect the public from the threats posed by these powerful models.”
This is the latest effort in a growing campaign to check the immense power of major AI companies and the technology they are creating through legal action. The case and others like it are tests of whether individuals or organizations who have not been harmed directly by AI companies’ technology can sue over it.
When what-if-ism rules the world.
“When what-if-ism rules the world.” And learn to speak Mandarin.
Yup. Follow the money and guess where it leads.
Ground stop ordered for all airports nationwide for ‘reasons of safety’
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/faa-orders-nationwide-ground-stop-departing-flights-reasons-safety-rcna609247
I have no idea why…if I hear anything I’ll give the skinny
Did you try unplugging the ATC and plugging it back in?
Are FAA systems running MS apps?
No
Only things that would do that is credible info on terrorist activity or NOTAM os down again. Outside that, it would all be localized
Whoa, WTF.
I’m hearing a “comm failure” but we dont centralize those…so…any guess is a good guess unless it was a larger feeder and rather than meter flights, they halted the whole NAS..
I dunno
What’s the threshold for a “commercial flight”? Use of ARTCC services? IFR?
Not a clue
Happy I’m done flying for a few months. I’ve flown 6 times since September.
FAA uses Microsoft?
We do for admin. Not on systems outside the remaining ones using it for OS as we continue to migrate to Linux
I’m in EWR since our flight was delayed for other reasons. Now before taking off we were affected by the ground stop. We have the concert tix for our friends who are in CA already. We are stuck. Should we wait and hope, rebook for tomorrow early or cut and run.
Are going LAX or John Wayne?
*Are you?
I’d wait and see if you get out tonight. You still have a chance to arrive in time for a late dinner
I was going to John Wayne.
Thanks for the article on grimdark. I’d not heard the term before.
I’ve always enjoyed dark fantasy. Strange to hear people bitching about stories that don’t end well for most of the characters involved. But people will bitch about anything.
I’m surrounded by assholes.
At the proctologist’s office?
Today’s featured cocktail is my favorite drink of all time.
One night I drank like six in a row at some cocktail joint I don’t even remember which NYC borough it was in.
Made a few at home some years later, good but not professional.
They are delicious. But ordering six Ramos Gin Fizzes in one night is probably a good way to get your bartender to hate you, unless you started drinking at 9am or were tipping with Krugerrands…
Apropos of my recent trip to the PCSL 2-gun Nats, there’s a speak in downtown St. George, UT – https://spiritualspeakeasybar.com/ – that does a really good Ramos Gin Fizz. I gotta say, between that, the shooting scene, and the amazing scenery, I’m increasingly tempted to pick up stakes and relocate to Southern Utah.
Nah, they were happy to oblige. It was a pretty fancy place. A small army of cocktail engineers, and well-remunerated.
The Liberty Bibberty ad campaign is the worst. Especially that puppet.
How are people defending James Gunn? The DCU is a complete mess. Reboots and movies that don’t tie together. How hard is it to just continue the Justice League story line, and give the individual characters a few sequels?
Maybe the kids are alright.
I dont mind the Libery one with the idiot guy or him and the idiot girl…but ya that puppet is stupid
I think something happened to Gunn. Sometime shortly after being with Troma he lost his way.
Liberty Bibberty puppets should be burned as winter fuel.
I’ve heard the ad a zillion times but I’ve never actually seen the muppet thing, since I turn away from the tee-vee during ads.
Damn the torpedoes- full steam ahead
It’s no secret that labor costs in Germany are higher than building, say, in the U.S. or Mexico. But as much as Mercedes wants to keep building more cars in its fatherland, it’s becoming increasingly more difficult and costly to do so. To keep its Made in Germany tag, the company made negotiations with its workers’ council to find a middle ground.
In a previous story, it was said that Mercedes may be forced to close one or two plants if no progress is made. It rubbed the union the wrong way, with one representative saying, “Threatening plant closures is no way to shape the future. Anyone who resorts to such threats must expect our determined resistance. If the management board believes it can pressure employees with the ultimatum of ‘concessions or plant closures,’ our answer is a clear ‘not on our watch’.”
That “we’re going to go broke” routine is just a scary campfire story to frighten the workers into donating their labor to the fatcat oligarchs.
Something tells me their Chinese competition isn’t working 35-hour weeks, nor are the factories subject to punishing “green” nonsense.
“Threatening work stoppages is no way to shape the future. Anyone who resorts to such threats must expect our determined resistance. If the union believes it can pressure employers with the ultimatum of ‘concessions or strikes,’ our answer is a clear ‘not on our watch’.”
I have no idea why…if I hear anything I’ll give the skinny
My money’s on rogue AI.
Please don’t throw me in the briar patch.
Mercedes has a monumental challenge ahead of it. Not only does it have to shave off costs, it also has to keep its workers happy, keep morale up, and continue vehicle development and launches with all of this happening in the background. It won’t be easy, but painful decisions will have to be made for the future’s sake.
All while attempting to comply with increasingly onerous and insane EU “climate” regulations.
” painful decisions will have to be made for the future’s sake.”
Make it up in volume. Borrow more money, big discounts. Keep the big sucking sound alive, It’s what unions crave.
More unrelated news…
https://www.news9.com/oklahoma-city-news/national-weather-service-reports-nationwide-radar-website-outage
They use the same L3/Harris contract. So im leaning to an issue with them and something borked at their control center.
NJTransit doing more digging!
GD SpaceX really gets that Starship up and out in a hurry….now for a catch……
Never mind…diverted to ocean.
I has a sad.
One corporation has half our infrastructure in its hands.
1. Local apps
2. Cash
3. Physical media
4. Batteries
5. Own domain
6. Own email service
I’m not panicking. Not like I did during the Great Mojo Prepper Panic of 2008, but I looked around and saw our situation isn’t too shabby because we’ve been pretty smart about our tech. We are about as analog as we can be in this day and age. I can live without web and email, so if the internet and my email service go down, well, that’s inconvenient.
The first sort is what’s inconvenient, what’s difficult but survivable, and what’s unsurvivable.
And I forgot paper and pen. (Not pencil. That shit fades and then you lose thousands of words you wrote that you can’t get back and you’re bitter about it because you have to offload your brain and then you were stupid and used pencil.)
Shoot yer new gun yet?
Good gravy. I forgot I had it.
It’s a girly gun.
lol!
The link doesn’t work.
I wonder if that’s an IBB thing. Fuckers.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hsnymanfvxa2inoplb9d7/newtoy.jpg?rlkey=cqhi3db3bnp2ph8tee71s2p3s&st=fpg0ym26&dl=0
Sporty. 👍
Nice!
1. Guns
I can “trade” for your stuff
Those James Gunn’s DC universe featuring James Gunn simp articles are fucking hilarious. Four years as co-head of DC, sixteen months of films and tv shows, and less total combined revenue than the single Marvel movie Spiderman: Brand New Day. That’s not factoring in profit, just revenue. DC in all likelihood lost hundreds of millions of dollars under his watch. He was an absolute fucking disaster as leader of DC. No coherent goal, direction or sense of giving the fans what they wanted. He indulged in making films and movies around obscure characters he liked that the vast majority of people didn’t even realize existed, much less cared about. A complete shitshow, good riddance.
DC doesn’t grasp that Marvel started with their B and C list heroes because they didn’t have the rights to their big names. DC needs to make some low budget, city level movies around some B or C listers. They need to drop the Justice League angle and go with a JSA or the like.
😬😬😬
https://x.com/emirates/status/2121130906878431668
It is halfway through November and the temperatures are unacceptable, as is the sunshine. Dammit, I want 42F and drizzle until December 15, at which point, it needs to snow like it never will again, and then on Jan 2, the snow needs to stop and be 42F through the end of Feb.
We’re in Northern Missouri. Since when has there ever been a reliable, consistent stretch of weather outside the heat and humidity in the dead of Summer in Northern Missouri?
Hey. If the Twentysomething TikTok Twats can go through life denying reality, so can I.
Heh.
42 and drizzle here & just broke down and turned on the heat.
Posted to ded thred like an idiot
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarTrekTNG/comments/1xucifn/arthur_carlson_his_face_forlorn/
+1 WKRP