Today marks an important day. It is the first day that I, WebDominatrix, am serving up your morning links.
You’re welcome.
But before links, a history lesson.
May 24th is a good day to be born. Today’s birthdays include:
- Julius Caesar, that old pole cat, that old so-and-so, was born today in 15 BC.
- Queen Victoria was born May 24th 1819, which means she was a Gemini. (Explains a lot.)
- And May 24th 1794 gave us William Whewell, English polymath and philosopher, who was really good at naming shit.
May 24th is also a good day to die. If you kick off today you’ll be in the company of:
- David I, King of Scots. He bit the dust today in 1153.
- Nicolas Copernicus shuffled off his mortal coil in 1543.
- And abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison kicked the bucket today in 1879.
May 24th appears to be a good day to travel.
- In 1218 the Fifth Crusade left Acre and headed off to Egypt.
- In 1660 King Charles II visited the Netherlands.
- In 1697 King William III traveled through Northern Europe.
But perhaps my favourite notable event of May 24th is the publication of Mary Had a Little Lamb in 1830.
Next, Links!
North Korea called Pence a “political dummy” and threatened nuclear showdown.
A pedophile put “copyright” on homemade child porn. (Link courtesy of OMWC)
A child who attended a swinger’s party is not a child after all, and just a really short woman. (Sorry to disappoint, OMWC)
Currently trending on Google: Cavs vs. Celtics, which might matter to someone somewhere…?
A Totoro-themed restaurant is opening up in Thailand. I think a roadtrip is in order.
The sinkhole in front of the White House got me curious about just WTF causes them, anyway? Turns out it’s no big mystery.
A couple Florida stories caught my eye: a zombie alert, and a nipple controversy. But, alas, not zombie nipple controversy.
GDPR is upon us and goes into effect tomorrow, May 25th. For those of us who have subscribers in the EU they either have to reconfirm their interest in receiving email or we have to delete them today because as of tomorrow even deleting their email counts as processing their data. (Give me a fucking break.)
just a really short woman. (Sorry to disappoint, OMWC)
That was not disappointing, it was your mom.
The little people (midget pron alert) need lovin’ too.
Web D. is Winston? I need a flow chart for this soap opera.
No, it’s even worse than you think. It involves a daughter who’s older than her mother, a pedophile dad, and… well, yeah, it’s complicated.
That’s better than I thought. You underestimate me.
That sounds like a Heinlein novel.
You leave SP alone, she is a Saint.
Sucking up to her will NOT get our dog to like you.
A little bacon magic might.
The polar dog loved me. I guess there is just something fundamentally wrong with bacon-magic.
You are no longer her favorite after the pizza incident with Swiss. But you’re SP’s favorite, so there’s that as a consolation prize.
I have documentary proof that I am her favorite!
She probably says that to all the guys.
He loved me so much he wanted my attention the whole time. I’m pretty sure it was the aroma of bacon and the fact that I was living instead of frying.
We had a homicidal maniac do a house concert for us and she was fine with him. You need to reconsider your life choices.
There’s your trouble. You are using the incorrect gender pronoun for our sweet pup! She knew you are a shitlord!
North Korea called Pence a “political dummy” and threatened nuclear showdown. – is it actually North Korea or the DPRK_newservice twitter account?
What’s the difference? All commie/dictatorships are parodies mixed in with death and suffering.
They are all Tulpa?
Currently trending on Google: Cavs vs. Celtics, which might matter to someone somewhere…? – tough one. As a Lakers fan I feel I should hate the Celtics. Then again I do dislike Lebron. So go Celtics I s’ppose?
Oh, don’t be bitter. I’m sure your Lakers can buy another championship soon.
I certainly hope they don’t try to go after Lebron. That would suck.
Making the finals again after years would suck? Not a fan, but Lebron is the best right now. Sorry, Steph.
I disagree. Getting old. To high maintenance. Not the kind to make his teammates significantly better, be coached or fit the system. Will want a 5 year max probably in his downward years. I would take at least 5 players in the NBA before Lebron (most are not free agents though)
He’ll still the calls for a few more years. And the Lakers will, too. Or have we forgotten about the Sacramento series?
Here in Cleveland, two different teams have put up billboards along the freeways to speak to LeBron: Cleveland (because we’re the worst kind of battered wife sports city), and Philadelphia. I’m fairly certain that all of them were put up by fan groups, but I’ve got to question the competence of any fan group that thinks LeBron is going to pay attention to billboards over checks.
At this point, does he even care about the checks? He’s going to get ~$170 million if he leaves Cleveland or ~$210 million if he stays. He makes more than that from endorsements. He’s going to end up the second billionaire NBA player (Jordan).
He’ll go where he can win a title easier, because what he cares about is his legacy and ending up being considered as being greater than Jordan, which is why I think he’s coming to Philly.
I really don’t see how your last clause is connected to your first. It would be like going to Milwaukee to win a title. Or moving to the White Sox (sorry Swiss!) to win a WS.
I don’t care, as long as he doesn’t go the whole giant press conference route again.
I figured He’d go to New York. Winning a Title for the Knicks would probably get at the very least the ESPN crew to proclaim him the greatest ever. I doubt the average fan who saw them both play will ever agree but for the younger crew and the future ESPN saying you are the best ever means a lot
He’d go to Philly for the same reason he went back to Cleveland. Young talent. He’s friends with Ben Simmons and can play off Embiid, assuming the latter stays healthy.
Sorry for quick OT, but can that fucking asteroid get here?
Federal judge rules Trump violating 1st amendment by blocking Twitter followers.
We need to ramp up the impeachment of politicized judges. Right now we’ve processed zero! That’s well below the target number of ‘All’.
Also the president should talk to anyone who comes to the White House to talk to the president
Also when writing Whitehouse in one word, whorehouse is only the fourth in the spelling suggestions. It is like spellchecker does not know me.
So, if Twitter is indeed a public forum, then Twitter can not block or ban anyone, right?
You might be onto something there:
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/05/23/verified-liberals-thirst-for-retweets-could-make-twitter-more-free/
I don’t see that. There could arguably be validity that no government official, posting as such, could block or ban anyone, but private individuals would be a different question.
A pedophile put “copyright” on homemade child porn. (Link courtesy of OMWC)
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I feel discriminated. This is microaggression.
For everything he’s said, and he’s said a lot of shit, this is the shittiest.
Fuck that, fuck Trump, and fuck the anthem.
“Squirrel!”
Meh. It’s business. The anthem thing cost the NFL. They took steps to fix it because their customers wanted it. The Donald knows his customers, too.
The whole thing is more TDS and is truly tiresome.
^
It’s not going to help them now. Funny how this isn’t an issue in other pro sports.
That is because Football is in many ways unique among sports in that it drafts a whole lot of kids who came out of the ghetto.
Baseball doesn’t because almost no African Americans play Baseball at the pro level, it is a sport that is made up at the lower tiers almost entirely of middle class white kids and Latin American players
Hockey has like what 6 black players in the entire league?
Basketball does have kids who grew up in the Ghetto but the ones who make the league are generally identified by the time they are 11 or 12 and pulled out of that environment and given private coaching in AAU so by the time they make the NBA they have been treated like superstars for close to a decade and don’t really feel a ton of solidarity with inner city Blacks
Football however is different, they have huge rosters and short careers and kids generally play for the high school where they grew up before going on to College for 3 to 4 years and then finally landing in the NFL so when they make the league they can look back just a few years to living in that inner city ghetto and as a result the BLM message resonates a whole lot more with them than it does to athletes in other sports
Interesting take, Rasilio.
I believe that this is correct. Baseball likely has players that were objectively poorest when young, but from wildly different circumstances.
I think I’ve told this story before, but I was at the game in 1996 where Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf returned to play after being told by the NBA he would be standing for the anthem. With the NBA it was a stated rule, something like “Players shall line up with their teammates in a dignified manner during the playing of the national anthem(s).” Abdul-Rauf had been skipping it, and had made known the reason–the flag being the symbol of oppression/conquest/whatever was trendy at the time. His stance was incredibly unpopular back then, but it was telling that pretty much every fan in attendance at his return spent the whole anthem watching him to see what he would do, rather than turning to face the flag. It hit me that they were there to see him obey, and that they could suspend their own allegiance to anthem protocol for at least one night.
Fast-forward 15 years, and Derrick Rose skipped the national anthem before every game when he was with the Bulls. (Who knows, maybe he still does it as he wanders from team to team?) But he (or more likely the team) knew enough not to tell anyone he did it. Since most teams turn off the lights for the anthem these days, it was easy enough to head down the tunnel and then come back for player introductions. What hurt the NFL was the attention they got, not the act of Kaepernick himself.
For some reason I recall a religious twist added among Abdul-Rauf’s reasons.
I thought it was more to do with the player’s union.
What cracks me up is all the idiot players thinking they have some kind of right to conduct political activities on their employer’s time using their employer’s place of business.
That’s what burns my ass about it.
Depends on what’s in their contracts. These guys are paid to practice and play football, they may have some contractual obligations to do press meetings and such, and there is probably some morals clause, but I doubt they can simply be fired or fined because the owner doesn’t like their attitudes.
It’s not about “attitude”, it’s about using the owner’s time and place of business for political advocacy. I damn well can’t just use my employer’s time and business to promote my political views, and for good reason. The business exists to make money, not to promote a political agenda; anything that interferes with that is therefore verboten.
Again are they contractually obligated to partake in pregame rituals? Can the owners force the players to do anything they want non-football related? If you have a contract with me to build you a house and you want me to wear a tutu and recite ‘I’m a little teacup’ every morning you better put it in the contract, because otherwise I’m not doing it and you can fire me but be prepared for a breach of contract suit.
I would imagine there’s a morality/conduct unbecoming clause in the contract, not only for when they’re on-site as an employee, but in their personal lives as well. That’s why they can be suspended for beating their girlfriends.
Certainly but is kneeling immoral? assault is a crime, fairly easy to judge that as unbecoming but as for standing, kneeling, linking arms, raising a fist, now you’re in a subjective grey area.
Yes but it would be a huge stretch to argue that not standing for the anthem is a violation of a morality clause and if challenged in court I doubt the league could win arguing it was. Hyperbole is correct, if standing for the anthem prior to the game is not a defined team activity then there is little to nothing the league could do to punish the players for it.
That is why they had to handle it the way they did. As far as I can tell there is no penalty from the league for the player kneeling, the penalty is to the team
Morality clauses should be called optics clauses. Anything that you do that causes bad optics for your employer would be covered in a morality clause. One such example would be taking a controversial political stand on national television while wearing your employer’s uniform.
Remember that FedEx guy who took the American flag away from the protesters trying to burn it? That was a very similar situation to the kneel down protests. FedEx, being a relatively conservative company, didn’t can the guy. The NFL, being a somewhat progressive company (and the players having much more ironclad employment agreements) has played patty cake with these guys so far.
The NFLPA contract gives the league and teams very wide latitude to punish players for off-field behavior. To much, in fact.
But this isn’t off field behavior. This is, literally, on the field of play, wearing the team uniforms, with the team logos plastered on them, with advertisers logos plastered on them, as part of the entertainment programming.
You seem to be under the impression that, for example, a quarterback is employed to throw the ball real good. That’s only one of his responsibilities. A player is an entertainer. They are contractually required to attend press event and give press interviews, for example.
Sidelines are literally not the field of play. I mentioned press meetings and such. I’ve said from the beginning if it is in the contract then fine, it would appear to me that it must not be or they wouldn’t have had to change league policy to enforce it. My point is these aren’t At-will employees who can be fired for any reason and thus have to do any stupid thing the owners/managers tell them to.
1) Many stadiums, before the anthem controversy, would align layers on the field of play, not on the sidelines. Coaches and staff were kept on the sidelines. This was done on a per-stadium basis, as a choice made by the home-team owners.
2) Anthem behavior qua anthem behavior is not in the contract. Compliance with league rules is explicitly in there. Changes to league rules of this type can be done by owner-fiat (or at least without formal renegotiation).
3) Players are absolutely can be terminated at any time for any reason (not barred by law). I don’t even this this qualifies as “at-will” because that term (I think) covers non-contracted employees (I am not a lawyer). This is the biggest difference between the NFLPA contract and the other major player’s association contracts. NFL players are cut all the time with no financial or other compensation. NFL, NBA, and I think NHL contracts all need to be bought out.
Sidelines are literally not the field of play
They are to the NFL.
Well, you know a lot more about NFL contracts than I do, I could swear I remember players getting cut/traded and the team was on the hook for the remainder of the contract or the difference at least. Must have been a different sport, or maybe a coach. Still gotta say I’m surprised they even bother with contracts if one side can unilaterally void it with no cause at no penalty.
Sidelines – Nope. In the NFL, the field of play is bounded by the sidelines and the goal lines. The end zone, ironically enough, is composed of the two end zones and the two sidelines.
NFL contracts – Oh, yeah, the NFLPA contract is incredibly bad for the players. It exists because its good for the league. The league can’t have a draft without one, legally speaking. And the players are in the weakest position of all the major sports. The average NFL career under three years and less than the average MLB, NFL, or NBA career. There are over fifty players per team, which is more in any league. Shorter career + more players = more diluted collective bargaining. Add in the fact that the NFL discovered two rounds ago that they can give current players everything they want and introduce clauses that don’t go into effect for 3 years, and current players will happily fuck over the next generation for temporary concessions now.
The only reason the NFL can get a contract like that is because they operate as an economic monopoly. The only reason they can legally act as an economic monopoly is because the players are permitted/forced into collective bargaining.
It is some fucked up shit. Like all labor law. Developed in the early 20th century on a framework of assumptions that weren’t even true back then.
I’m sure their contracts require them to comply with league policy, and this is the new policy. Ergo . . . .
I don’t like the maybe you shouldn’t be in the country thing either but it’s not the end of the world.
I hate to pull this card, but what would you have said if Obama had said “If you criticize Muslims, maybe you shouldn’t be in the country”?
If it’s something different … what’s the difference?
I would’ve called for his impeachment obviously.
Burge’s reaction
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/999627174675132416
This isn’t about the NFL guys. This is about the President saying that if you don’t stand for the anthem, “maybe you shouldn’t be in the country”. That’s a fucking problem.
I swear. Some of y’alls reverse TDS is getting to be as annoying as actual TDS.
“Murica, love it or leave it” has been a marketing slogan forever. I don’t give a fuck what Trump or anyone else says on the matter. I think having flyovers and fireworks and country music before games is retarded, but it plays well to the paying customers.
I just can’t find it in myself to care what any politician says.
I care when someone who single-handedly has the power to throw people into prison (and thanks to the growing power of the executive by the assholes who preceded him, he pretty much does) says it.
I am not sure he knows what came out of his mouth the very next day after saying it. When he starts Eugene Debbing people, then we have impeachment.
Yeah, I agree with this concern. Any time a politician – especially at the federal level – says something along the lines of “we just want to encourage X to do the right thing,” there’s just way too much implied power behind that for it to be perceived as anything other than a threat.
The players are (mostly) assholes in this. But Trump is an asshole for sticking his nose in it too. I get Tundra’s point about marketing etc., but I think Trump would have done OK with his base if he’d said something along the lines of, “you know, it’s really not part of the president’s job. The NFL needs to figure this out.”
If it isn’t already obvious, politicians at any level are completely incapable of staying the fuck out of the culture wars.
Assholes on all sides of the equation. Mark me down as one who finds the pageantry at the beginning of sports games to be a bit strange (national holidays excluded)
Anyone who doesn’t like Faith Hill in a short dress can go back to Saudi Arabia.
Eh, I think hot-chick-in-short-dress is a pretty strong counter signal for musical talent. For example, which front-woman do you think has more vocal talent, the lead of Xandria or Christian Mistress.
I often wonder why all the female blues guitarists that make it on the blues festival circuit are sexy little things and the men are usually fat and ugly. It’s a mystery.
Trump is a buffoon. Not every Tweet he e-vomits into the ether is a policy position.
Tell that to the federal judge in Manhattan.
The “proudly” in that tweet is the most fucked up part. Oh, and the “have to”.
I’d rather they recite the Bill of Rights before every game.
Ha! I kind of like that idea.
Agreed.
“favourite”
We talk ‘Murrican round these parts, damn it!
I have no idea what GDPR is. Some EU thing? Why should we care?
ahem…
Like he said. Why should we care?
As I said, I dont know what it is.
Because the EU has aspirations to be a worldwide bully in the same way that the US is, in the sense of trying to make as many people as possible obey its rules. This is the whole point of the EU – to make up for declining European world influence. It’s probably not an accident that Jean Monnet spent WW2 in Washington.
My dream is that the EU will try to introduce citizenship-based taxation at some stage. That would be very funny.
SP has an article on Sunday about this. Short version: the EU has figured out a way to harass US-based websites.
I will go back and read it.
Sorry to be unclear- it’s this coming Sunday. She was cursing up a storm yesterday while writing the article.
To add some vague detail, it’s an onerous data privacy law that basically puts undue burden on companies. Most of my email subscriptions are sending out annoying emails forcing me to reup my subscription.
I’ve been getting bombarded with “We are updating our privacy policy” emails from sites that I am registered with. The fucking EU is to blame?
I got that message for an iphone App – Angry Birds Blast! – of all places.
Apparently, and I’ve been casually deleting most of those e-mails so I’ve probably lost a few registrations.
Ditto. I guess I better start reading them.
I can’t believe the fucking EU is making me read stupid privacy policies!!!!!11!!
*shakes fist at clouds*
With rather large fines based on a percentage of total revenue, not EU revenue and not profits. Compliance wonks at companies, at least mine, are shitting bricks over getting gigged for non-compliance.
Still not sure how they expect to collect or enforce compliance against folks exclusively based in the US or elsewhere….sue a site to have me blocked/banned because a US court won’t enforce 300 million individual judgements? Once again – 1984 is supposed to a warning, not a guidebook.
It’s only for companies with data from EU residents, which gives them jurisdiction. It’s a government body, so they don’t have to sue you to issue an administrative penalty. Failure to pay would probably result in a judgment being issued and then filed with a US court for collection, unless you had any EU assets that could be seized.
The problem is that it’s quite easy to unknowingly have EU residents’ data, such as email subscription lists. Thus the freakout.
Really got to wonder how these undemocratic issues keep being presented. a hard Brexit can’t come fast enough and if it leads to other exits, it’s a good start.
It’s the reason that every website that you’ve ever given your e-mail or contact information to is contacting you telling you they’re changing their terms and conditions. It stands for General Data Protection Regulation. You can tell the EU is still learning the ropes, because they didn’t spell out a cute acronym with the abbreviation.
GDPR stands for World Government Policy #1.
German Democratic Peoples Republic
It does have a certain ring to it.
I have no idea what GDPR is. Some EU thing? Why should we care?
If you happen to do business in Europe, or at least work for one that does….it might be worth noting.
Yeah, so, it’s a shitshow.
Basically, any one who emails people or processes user data as part of their business is getting fucked.
What we’ve (we = anybody who does any digital marketing) have been doing for about 20 years now:
Someone signs up for an email list to get a free video or something. The email program automatically sends them the video. A couple days later it sends them an email about something else that they might be interested in. If they aren’t interested, don’t want more emails, they just click unsubscribe. Some subscribers will do this, while others will actually be interested and go on getting your emails.
This is the way it’s worked for 20 years.
GDPR says we can’t do this anymore, regardless of what country we live in and operate our business in, if we have subscribers in Europe, we have to We can only send them the thing they ask for and no more. We can’t even send them an email asking them if they want the other thing we have that they might like. We have to update all privacy policies. We have to delete any email addresses for anybody who lives in the EU unless they reconfirm they want to be on our list.
Because of the complication of knowing where a user is, this means we have to change our *entire* system. From running email lists to taking orders from customers. I’ve been working on getting my system in my own business compliant since January, and I’m still not 100% ready.
My birth city is truly a wonder of forward thinking. Long live P-Town.
He’s gonna wind up copyrighted in prison.
AND BY COPYRIGHT MEAN…
*le sigh*
I get the idea of tracking what people you’re paying are working on, but I have so many damn codes for this timcard that I need a code for time spent filling out the timecard.
Careful, I think I just heard the sound of a Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt Optimization Human Performance Tool perking up with a new idea.
As I like to say: “You want to make the company lean? Get rid of the Lean Department.”
I wasn’t suggesting an improvement – there actually is a code for time spent filling out the timesheet.
what is the code for dicking around glibertarians>?
Depends on what other thing I’m doing at the time. There’s a lot of hurry up and wait, so I charge it to whoever’s making me wait.
“research”
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Psh. A coworker of mine whose neighbor also works for our company but in a different department told her that his boss tried to tell him that he couldn’t do his performance appraisal on company time. Luckily my boss is not an idiot. There was no suggestion to anyone on my team that we do it on our time.
It is a company required activity I am doing it on company time or I ain’t doing it and if you got a problem with that we can have a nice little conversation with government over unpaid working hours
“I’m forwarding this to legal to get their opinion on this, and cc’ing HR”
Man, that nipple controversy was way sexier in my head before I watched the video.
Nipple Controversy — band name or album name?
Decent Band Name, Great Album Name
Some days I really think I picked the wrong profession.
Underwater Robot Discovers ‘Holy Grail’ Shipwreck Containing $17 Billion in Treasure
Being a Spanish shipwreck, Spain is going to do everything to make sure only they get any of the doubloons. Their salvage law basically incentivizes plundering and not reporting discoveries, becuase it says “any Spanish flagged vessel from any time no matter where it sank, is 100% our stuff, and you don’t even get a finder’s fee” and they do drag these into any court they can.
I figure the flag would have rotted away centuries ago. Just call it a non-union unidentified privateer and you’re good to go.
Would that contain indigenous cultural artifacts, or would everything be melted down into coins and ingots?
I’ve always assumed – and as far as I can tell – the Spanish melted everything down before shipment.
A large percentage. There was a nonzero amount that was left intact. But largely they wanted to save the space and that heathen stuff wasn’t of any importance anyway…
Haven’t read the article, but statistically the vast majority of Spanish shipwrecks contain silver or gold pulled out of the ground (ie not from indigenous artifacts). Or bat shit.
“the bottom of the Caribbean off the coast of Colombia”
No wonder they couldn’t find it.
Colombia has coasts on both the Pacific and the Caribbean.
Based on plate tectonics, but who considers Central America as the Caribbean?
I mean, the map literally says “Caribbean Sea” right there next to Colombia.
Like, if you go to Barranquilla, you are in a port city, and that port city is on the Caribbean.
What did you choose instead of being an underwater robot?
Internet bot
New Zealand’s moose hunt: A century-long quest for a forest’s final secret
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/103196185/new-zealands-moose-hunt-a-centurylong-quest-for-a-forests-final-secret
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Completely 100% OT but yesterday I managed to reach one of my goals, running a six-somthing minute mile. And I broke into the sixes quite handily, getting 6:48 time. That’s a 18 second improvement over my best. Not bad for someone withing striking distance of 50.
I have no idea where I got the energy to do the last quarter mile but I wanted to barf when I was done.
Running is pointless / Mark Rippetoe
Anything over five reps is cardio.
Fantastic. Now… let’s talk about the joys of a 6:30 mile.
I’m not planning into breaking into the fives. Under 6:30 might be attainable – in another few months (years?) or if someone pushed me off of an airplane.
A cruising altitude of 35000 feet is a 10K plus warm-up & cool-down… just saying.
I did 6:30 in 10tg grade cross country. 20+ years later, 14 years of military servuce, I have yet to equal that. Then again, I don’t know when the last time was that I timed myself outside on a strict one mile track.
In 8th grade I did Cross Country and could do sub 6 minute miles, I think my best was a little over 5:30 but I was routinely in the 5:50 range. These days that is closer to my hundred yard dash time
Congrats!
“Not bad for someone withing striking distance of 50.”
No shit brother. Congratulations. I almost hit a 4 minute mile….when I was 20. I am a bit over 50 now and I could probably do a 1 hour mile these days.
I was happy breaking 5 mins when I was 17.
Are we talking about running still?
*thinks about baseball*
*thinks about fishing*
*thinks about a campfire*
*thinks about sesame street*
DAMMIT!
We’ll always have *mutton flaps*
So which put you over the top: Bert or Ernie?
Rubber ducky, you’re the one!
I ran X-country and track in HS. That is how you know if you tried hard enough. My 2nd fastest cross-country time was at a large invitational where you went thru the back and forth pens after the race in order for them to get the order of finish exactly right. I dry heaved on the guy in front of me. That was what he got for outsprinting me.
I ran 5 miles the other day, and when I get within a few blocks of my stopping point, I absolutely gun it, 110%, balls to the wall intensity. I was so exhausted when I stopped that I peed my pants a little.
#likeatriathlete
I was behind someone literally shitting themselves in a Boston marathon qualifier. People be crazy.
I know it looks strange to non-athletes, but I have major respect for people who shit themselves running and do things like this.
Sometimes people who are non-exercisers are shocked and appalled at the thought of getting blisters on your feet from running or killer soreness from lifting weights. The usual refrain is, “But why do you do it?!”
Athleticism is not about being comfortable or looking neat and clean while you’re doing it.
Oh I get that, but we were just at mile 5ish of the race. I could see doing it in the homestretch when you know you have a chance. I thought it was nuts, but then again, I never passed her.
@Private Chipperbot
Oh absolutely, I get your meaning.
My gripe was more directed at chain-smoking couch potatoes who act like I’m doing something foolish by occasionally enduring a minor physical discomfort (like a blister or DOMS) by pushing my physical endurance.
Wow! That’s a good run.
In the first PE class of my junior year of high school (this is in August with 100-degree heat and we haven’t had PE since early June), they ran us for two miles. I was OK until the bus ride home, felt a little ill, got off the bus and promptly puked on the neighbor’s sidewalk. Scared the hell out of the handyman who happened to be driving by — he thought I was about to die. Funny thing was, after I puked I felt fine.
I’m out the door and on my way to Baltimore for my yearly 4 day metal fest.
I’d say, “Have a blast!”, but, uh, Baltimore?
It’s all in the Inner Harbor, so it’s fine. Sort of how the Normandy beach on D-Day +4 seemed ok, the rest of the continent…yikes!
I will say Baltimore has a shit ton of beggars. What a bunch of panhandling dirty bums…everywhere
Inner Harbor is the prime (only) tourist area in Baltimore, so they keep it pretty damn safe.
Safest place in B’more has always been Little Italy because… reasons. About once every ten years, some “youth” mugs or holds up someone. And within a day or so, that “youth” is discovered somewhere, with a great deal of ventilation. That’s usually good as a lesson, until enough time has passed that there’s a new generations of “youths” who need the demonstration once again.
+1 “good boy who was planning to go to college and just fell in with the wrong crowd”
True story:
About 20 years ago, Spudalicious and I had to go to Baltimore for an event. I grew up there, it was his first time. He was absolutely bent on seeing the Poe House. I told him, “That’s not a neighborhood you want to be walking around in.” He insisted, pointing out that he had traveled and worked in some pretty sketchy areas of Oakland/Richmond.”OK, I’ll drive you there.” And of course when we arrived, there were groups of “youths” on all the corners and a junkie passed out on the steps.
“Hop out, I’ll come back and pick you up in an hour.”
“NO. KEEP DRIVING.”
Wait a second. Spudalicious is part of your clan, too? What kind of inbred hell hole have I wound up in?
No, he’s been my closest buddy and partner in crime for the past mmmmm decades.
Are the “mmmmm” Roman numerals?
Cuneiform.
Crash Test Dummies?
Once there was this kid who ran into OMWC on his way home from school
When I briefly lived in Baltimore I was a few blocks from the Poe House, on Hollins, a few blocks down from the market. One day I decided to go check it out on foot. Got about two blocks before I thought to myself, “Self, this isn’t as good an idea as it seemed in the living room. Let’s go get a cold beer instead.”
Or the French Quarter in New Orleans, which has approximately 15 cops per block.
The problem with this is that New Orleans police have a history of crime approximately equal to a supermax prison. Serial killers, looters, serial rapists etc.
…in Baltimore?!
Nice. Which one is it?
Have fun. I’ve never been to MDF, mostly because I don’t like crowds. Or live music venues. Or Maryland. But the lineup looks great. I might try to find a stream.
Well done, webD! Nice to see you in the morning!
If I may add to your already meaty lynx…
A bomb.
Euphemism?
There are some great hockey how-to videos out there. I recently watched one that analyzed Ovechkin’s goals – where he was, and what kind of shot it was. That was just what you’d expect from him.
I’ve said it before, but he is one of my favorite players ever. I love the fact that every human being on the planet knows that shot is coming, but it doesn’t matter.
Wilson’s check in the neutral zone to start that rush should go into an instructional as well. What a play!
U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan stopped short in her written decision of ordering Trump or a subordinate to stop the practice of blocking critics from viewing his Twitter account, saying it was enough to point out that it was unconstitutional.
High Crimes and Misdemeanors in 6, 5, 4…
She must have that super-secret version of the constitution that only proggie judges can read.
I’m quite certain Trump will ignore it, and should the judge protest on Twitter, block the judge.
I want to see Trump block people with some kind of “You’re Blocked!!” gif of himself.
Come on man, amp it up a bit.
The (rather surprising) failure is the shitlords’. He cannot make one himself–the only technology he knows even rudimentarily is how to use the Twitter app itself–but if anyone makes one for him he is sure to use it.
Oh, the inanity
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/why-hopelessness-is-conservative
***
Civilization is very, very young and we have only just begun the process of figuring out how to live together well.
***
It is incredible that a person could be educated enough to be literate and yet capable of writing something so spectacularly wrong.
But wait- there’s more!
***
This is the way things are, and if your life sucks, it probably sucks out of necessity or because of your own personal failings. As Ben Shapiro puts it, “in a free country, if you fail, it’s probably your own fault.” Once we have freedom, whatever happens next is the natural order of things, and if you try to change it, you’ll be trying to muddle with things that cannot be changed, and you’ll end up destroying freedom.
I will admit that I hate this philosophy, and everything that sounds like this philosophy, and every piece of rhetoric that even has remote echoes of this type of philosophy. I hate it on a gut level, and my hatred is probably because I have spent much of my life thinking that the battle for my self-confidence and happiness was also necessarily a battle against this type of thinking.
…
It all often goes under the euphemism “personal responsibility,” but a better (if wordier) name for it would be “being an unsympathetic dick to people who are marginalized, weak, sad, flawed, or vulnerable.”
…
To my mind, there is almost no worse person than the one who says: “Oh, you shouldn’t give them money, they’ll just spend it on beer.” They should get to spend it on beer. It’s a hard world and sometimes people need beer.
…
and one reason I started Current Affairs was to try to help people resist despair, to feel listened-to and cared about. I think constantly of All The Lonely People, and wish there were a way to show up and give them a (consensual) hug and say “Look, we’re in a hell of a jam, but if we stick together and stay strong maybe it’ll work out alright. Why don’t you let me make you a cup of tea?”
***
“being an unsympathetic dick to people who are marginalized, weak, sad, flawed, or vulnerable.”
But who has sympathy for the unsympathetic dick? Huh? Answer me that, tough guy!
The empathetic pussy?
if once you have freedom you try to change it you will get not freedom. If that change is government or force. Otherwise nothing stops you from trying to convince people to change things.
That last quoted paragraph there is fucking hilarious until you realize we’re losing ground to these damn people.
They should get to spend it on beer.
Got a point there.
Progressives as a group are the least hospitable and stingiest shitheads. NOTHING starts from the individual with them. The flow stems from the collective. And the authority of the state is its master.
Whiny fucking maggots
I really think that Nathan J. Robinson is the most despicable piece of shit that currently passes as a public intellectual. I firmly believe that he desires to sit atop a pile of the skulls of his political opponents.
Civilization is very, very young and we have only just begun the process of figuring out how to live together well.
In the old days it was unacceptable to plunder your neighbor, who you lived together with, so instead people plundered foreigners. In modern times it has become acceptable to plunder your neighbor, so long as it is done by proxy through the government, which does not strike me as an improvement in living together well. It’s a lateral move, not progress.
This author is probably the kind of guy who constantly loans money to his heroin-addicted friend, then blames everyone else when said friend is found dead of an overdose.
>Civilization is very, very young and we have only just begun the process of figuring out how to live together well.
Civilization predates homo sapien.
I thought that whole thing was satire
Amazon + Facial Recognition + Police = What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
https://www.weeklystandard.com/dan-king/amazon-selling-rekognition-facial-recognition-to-government-and-police
A friend of mine worked for a social media related startup that had a lot of potential to be bought out by a bigger company (it did happen eventually, but not by the obvious choice). He was unhappy with the company and only stuck around as long as he did hoping for the buyout. What made him unhappy was that their primary source of income was from 3 letter agencies. Even worse, not American ones.
FIS?!
I think they were near the top of the list.
He was concerned that some other countries were buying data to repress protesters (Iran?).
I’m not saying that social media is going to cause the death of Western Civilization, but…
You know what? Fuck it. Social media is causing the death of Western Civilization.
KGB!
Martinez has said her nipples are neither a distraction nor a disruption.
Try some pasties.
Whip ’em out, and let’s judge.
Mmmm. Those are delicious.
They are, but that’s not her fault or her problem. Whether or not the young men at her school can see them through her shirt, several are probably thinking about her nipples instead of paying attention in class at any given time.
When I was in junior high, tube tops were a thing. I spent many happy days distracted by those.
Probably not even allowed anymore. Sad!
Biker shorts for girls were a fad when I was in HS. Good times…
I was in high school during the “let’s raid Dad’s closet for his biggest button-down shirt and button it all the way to the top with a nice brooch” phase.
Ugh. The worst.
Halter tops for the win.
Sitting behind a girl with few strings crossing a tanned back was the ticket to learning absolutely nothing during class.
Anybody see the video of Pelosi and Schumer rolling out the Demovrat’s new talking point, “Drain the Swamp”? It’s hilarious, do they really think anyone above the intellect of a raisin is going to buy that shit?
My reaction to Chuck saying that – “If you’re serious you’d have resigned”
Pelosi is rolling out a brand of douches?
/heads to fainting couch…
*paging SugarFree*
Calling it a douche is a bit misleading. It’s more closely related to sandblasting and other grit-based ablating technologies.
“Feminine hygiene shotgun”
VagiBlast
Month old, dried out Polydent.
Yes, it would be very effective at removing that from Nancy Pelosi’s vagina.
Don’t ever change.
It was either that or “where’s the beef?”
*The Ghost of Walter Mondale nods*
He’s still alive. I work with his grandson.
I sort of wish I could pretend I cared about EU laws, but I just can’t. I’m sure I’ll be adversely affected by some tertiary effect.
It’s unlikely to bother you individually, but it’s a hit on American business productivity comparable to SOX.
If I tell the Democrat Party “voter education” people to fuck off when they come to my door, is that a violation of their First Amendment rights?
Yes. If they were Republicans on the other hand…
/prog
Julius Caesar, that old pole cat, that old so-and-so, was born today in 15 BC.
Wait, what?
Besides being a terrific general and politician, he was famed for seducing the wives of his political opponents.
Think he was looking for a “missed it by this much”.
I don’t know why companies do business in Europe. Yeah, I know, to make money. But it hardly seems worth it.
I don’t know why companies do business in California either.
So they can cause cancer?
You’re in Nashville right?
Negative. Cleveland, Ohio. Home of a burning river, two and a half professional sports teams, an Iron chef, Drew Carey, and Rock and Roll.
Who’s the assho – er, I mean – person who lives in Nashville?
I am 1 hour north of Nashville. Its my local airport.
Ok. I have a question. We plan to visit soon. We’re not sure if it’s better to stay in downtown Nashville or 20 minutes away in/at Opryland. Any advice?
Thanks!
Rufus, I’m in Nashville. If you’re concerned about price, the Opryland Hotel is probably best, or an AirBnB. If you’re just sticking to the touristy downtown stuff you might as well stay in a hotel downtown, since you can go out honky tonkin’ and then stumble your way back to your room at the end of the night.
Downtown Nashville is the only part of the city that’s remotely walkable.
Thanks Sleeper. Gives snark look at robc.
No, money isn’t an issue. But is it crazy to stay in Opryland – is it worth it? We can shuttle in.
if you had to choose what would you lean toward?
And no partying like that. I’m with my 13 year-old daughter and my wife wants to go to the Grand Ole Opry.
The Opryland hotel is interesting.
Food there is expensive, so eat somewhere else.
Speaking logistically, the Opryland makes more sense. It’s about 10-15 minutes from the airport, you can likely get a shuttle straight from the airport to the hotel (or if you’re renting a car, it’s like 3 turns you have to make, tops).
The hotel itself is pretty cool and you could easily spend an evening just walking around the botanical gardens. I don’t think there’s any major events happening right now so crowds won’t be too crazy. And shuttling to downtown from the hotel is easy as well.
What’s with Ohio naming three of its biggest cities starting with a C? I keep mixing up which one is where.
Cleveland is in Michigan, Cincinnati is in Kentucky, Columbus has a crappy school.
Easy to remember.
My last visit to ohio was a cavalcade of disappointment.
Here is the least disappointing thing about that visit.
I would be down South a lot more if Ohio wasn’t in the way.
robc: Michigan, really? That’s a low blow.
UnCivilServant: It’s the three biggest cities. Just remember that Jerry Springer came from Cincinnati, Drew Carey came from Cleveland, and no one came from Columbus. I’ll say that at least for Cleveland, you need someone to tip you off to the good places to go to, or to do quite a bit of research. Also realize that Google Maps directions will take you through areas you don’t want to be driving in. Perhaps this may help.
Cincinnati is named for the ideal political leader, asked to lead, led, went the fuck home
Cleveland is named for a man named Cleaveland, but no one in Cleveland can spell so…
Columbus is named for an Italian shitlord who got screwed by the Spanish Court and then screwed again when they named every awful hellhole after him.
Negative. Cleveland, Ohio. Home of a burning river, two and a half professional sports teams, an Iron chef, Drew Carey, and Rock and Roll.
Don’t forget UFC Heavyweight Champion Stipe Miocic.
Someone should put up a billboard at the NV/CA or OR/CA borders with the warning, saying that California (or better, California politicians) causes cancer.
That too.
I could probably add a few more states to the list. Like yours.
Nobody does business in New York.
Manhattan is a barren wasteland of small shacks and open farmland?
Farmers would be more valuable than what’s there.
I will admit that I hate this philosophy, and everything that sounds like this philosophy, and every piece of rhetoric that even has remote echoes of this type of philosophy. I hate it on a gut level, and my hatred is probably because I have spent much of my life thinking that the battle for my self-confidence and happiness was also necessarily a battle against this type of thinking.
Don’t confuse wishful thinking with philosophy, Junior.
To my mind, there is almost no worse person than the one who says: “Oh, you shouldn’t give them money, they’ll just spend it on beer.” They should get to spend it on beer. It’s a hard world and sometimes people need beer.
Is he saying he wants to dismantle the welfare bureaucracy?
Yeah, I didn’t think so.
If we’re going to do the welfare thing, we’d be a lot better off and save a shitload of money every year if we just cut people a check instead of all the bureaucracy bullshit. Not saying we should do that, but we would save money.
Of course, we won’t do that, because people would misspend the check, and then the left would demand the current bureaucracy alongside the check.
This is reason #2 why a UBI is a bad idea.
The list is long, that one is just near the top.
Absolutely. It would be the hell out of the nonsense we have now.
Pity v. Compassion. Pity is “go grab a beer, your life is hard, boy”. Compassion is “I’m not gonna abet your alcoholism, but when you’re ready to get your GED, call me and I’ll pay for it.”
Also, I can’t stand the “life sucks” crap from the “adulting is hard” crowd. Sorry folks, life is what you make of it. If your life sucks, only you are to blame.
It’s because they’ve never had to work for things. That sounds trite, but I genuinely believe it’s true. The most important thing I learned from my father was to take pride in work. One thing the Marxists get right (at least in the promotional pamphlets) is that there’s a nobility in labor. I’ll never forget, one day I was at my grandparents’ house doing some work in the yard for them. I’d spent the day digging up a huge bush and moving it to a corner of the yard, and I was covered in dirt and sweating like a whore in church. I was done for the day and went to say goodbye to my grandmother before I drove back home for a shower, and as she went to hug me I stopped her because I was filthy and sweaty. She said, “That’s honest sweat,” and hugged me anyway.
I take the Marcus Aurelius view on life sucking: Of course life sucks. But instead of wailing and moaning and demanding that others fix it for you, just accept that life throws some inevitable sucky things your way that are completely out of your control. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do anything to improve your life circumstances, but just learn to differentiate between suckiness that you can control and suckiness that you can’t control.
Learn to endure the suckiness of life, and just acknowledge it like passing clouds. You’ll be a far happier and more peaceful person if you stop expecting life to be smiles and sunshine all the time.
Great job on the links!
The company I work for is in the healthcare/IT space, GDPR was Y2K, SOX, and HIPAA all over again. At this point I’m estimating something around 20% of our total annual labor expenditure is spent on compliance activities.
Just 20%? We can do better than that!
I’m sure you’re right.
I’ve seriously considered moving somewhere into the compliance career track, and I have moved a couple of underlings into that space. Demand for that work isn’t going away any time soon.
Thank you!
Because you’ve all been very good little degenerates… redheads!
http://archive.is/ufpGj
Don’t care if they’re true redheads or not, 20 and 24 get my vote.
Erin Go Braless.
*golf clap*
Damn.
Wow. That’s the best argument for white supremacy I’ve ever seen.
today in “things which should be in The Onion, but for reason, aren’t”
The War on Stupid People
American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/the-war-on-stupid-people/485618/
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We must stop glorifying intelligence and treating our society as a playground for the smart minority. We should instead begin shaping our economy, our schools, even our culture with an eye to the abilities and needs of the majority, and to the full range of human capacity. The government could, for example, provide incentives to companies that resist automation, thereby preserving jobs for the less brainy. It could also discourage hiring practices that arbitrarily and counterproductively weed out the less-well-IQ’ed.
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Revenge of the Luddites.
I’m pretty sure the country is already being run by idiots.
We must stop glorifying intelligence and treating our society as a playground for the smart minority.
Just like the best weapons grade derp, this one starts with a nugget of truth. Yes, there is a cult of IQ in this country. Yes, it leads to poor decision making. Some of the best people I’ve ever known haven’t been booksmart. Some of the worst people I’ve ever known have been geniuses. I’ve never seen a correlation between intelligence and quality of an individual.
Beyond that, I’m not buying into this idiot’s technocratic “solution” or their oppression narrative.
And there are a lot of very smart people who are functionally useless.
My childhood best friend was the smartest kid I knew – he graduated with a straight 4.0, was a genius at math, and started, but never completed, a neurology doctorate. He’s a total freak who thinks he is smarter than anyone else. But I still manage to bring him down to earth with a cutting remark, keeping him grounded.
But since he moved down to Austin he’s become a political idiot.
I have a very similar friend, except he didn’t finish his comp Sci doctorate and moved to silicon valley.
Thomas Sowell looms large.
Well, that’s the thing. They’ve successfully identified a problem – its really tough being not-smart. Which is true, The economy is radically different than it was 50 years ago. Its a lot harder to find a job with your muscles instead of pressing buttons.
But they only see one solution: “So Lets Remake Society!” Its never “So I’ll try to be more compassionate!” or “I’ll take Uber more and pay someone to landscape my yard and leave them a giant tip.”
The author needs to the government to tilt the world in his direction because he’s too stupid to make it on his own. He doesn’t want intelligence glorified because he doesn’t have it. He wants to get rid of automation because an algorithm could spit out the claptrap that he’s vomiting onto the internet.
The author needs the government to tilt the world in his direction because he’s too stupid to make it on his own. He doesn’t want intelligence glorified because he doesn’t have it. He wants to get rid of automation because an algorithm could spit out the claptrap that he’s vomiting onto the internet.
Intelligence or Brute Strength.
No matter what you do one of the two will weild power over you, I suggest he choose carefully
In the words of the Dude: “I still jerk off manually”
https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/23/tantric-witch-wants-help-unlock-sexual-pleasure-potential-7571972/
“Certified Sexological Bodyworker”
Yeah, right…
“Victoria is also an advocate of removing the shame and stigma around menstruation.
To illustrate her point, she recently posted a pic of partner Danny covered in her period offerings.”
Ewwwww
Already posted, but in case you missed it, interesting look at the “Intellectual Dark Web”. Which is a stupid name. It’s neither holy, Roman, nor an Empire.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/23/can-things-be-both-popular-and-silenced/
I found it odd that Alexander attacked Shapiro without any explanation though.
h/t Gilmore
I’m in the middle of reading it but…I found this strange: “I know a lot of closeted transgender people.”
He does?
Everyone leads interesting lives but me!
Where do they find these people? In all of my expanded social circles (this includes the second order associate of an associate) I know all of one transvestite and zero transsexuals.
I know one transsexual. I just assume that’s everyone is a transvestite whether they admit it or not.
I remember my sister making an off the cuff joke in the 80s about how British conservative MPs were cross dressers. Mostly to make you just never know about anything.
Where do they find these people?
To hear Jim Norton tell it, down in the Meatpacking District.
His overall point is fine but I’m nitpicking:
“…Gloria Steinem and Andrea Dworkin – who made waves by being at least as outrageous then as the IDW is now.”
What’s ‘outrageous’ about IDW? I see ZERO outrageousness in people like Shapiro and Peterson.
As an aside, Steinem these days is pretty mild compared to 3rd and 4th wave feminism
Link from the article. Meet the male celebrities who are ‘proud feminists’.
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/mark-ruffalo-ryan-gosling-male-celebrities-proud-feminists/tk-6-15/
/face palm.
Shapiro talks weird. Also he does not look like he lifts
He has an interesting cadence and tone. Off putting for people I guess. Like Peterson.
As an aside, is the codex writer a doctor of some sort? Which may explain why he knows many transgender people.
He’s a psychiatrist.
Ahhhhh.
I know a lot of closeted transgender people.
If he knows, doesn’t that mean they are doing it wrong?
>I found it odd that Alexander attacked Shapiro without any explanation though.
Its not odd. Shapiro is yukky. Musn’t let the right kind of people think I’m yukky too. Its a constant and regular refrain from Alexander.
True, but he usually backs it up with something.
Using impeccable logic to justify shit-flinging monkey-dominance-games is an integral part of the monkey-dominance-game.
Whose car is this?
http://libertyvan.com/
Lynda Farley’s, apparently. Her site is, uh, interesting…
That’s some leading edge web design. I didn’t even know GeoCities was still up.
Scroll to the bottom. Six children aged 28 to 14 months at 45? She has EARNED that crazy.
Not Laura Loomer. That tire looks fine.
Speaking of Shapiro:
“Trump’s Superpower
He can make Democrats defend anything.
President Trump has a magic power.
No, it isn’t the ability to engage in four-dimensional chess, or even to mystically connect with the “common man.” It’s simply this: He can make Democrats defend anything.
Democrats have increasingly defined themselves by opposing anything Trump does. Trump, unlike his predecessor, has promulgated a mainstream conservative agenda: He’s cut taxes and regulations and spent more on defense. Most Americans aren’t averse to that agenda, particularly considering the booming economy and a relatively quiet foreign sphere. But Democrats painted Trump during the campaign as an emissary of Cthulhu, and now they’re struggling to justify that depiction.
If they were smart, they’d stick to Trump’s obvious heresies, of course: his Twitter foolishness, his inane rants. But they can’t muster up that kind of discipline. Instead, they simply oppose anything Trump does, which leads them to the rather uncomfortable conclusion that the worst people on earth are preferable to even temporary alliance with Trump himself.
In the last week alone, Democrats have embraced the terrorist group Hamas and the vicious criminal gang MS-13. There’s a meme making the rounds on social media that conservatives will do [FILL IN THE BLANK] to “own the libs”: sign off on corruption, engage in the most vile insults, etc. But the Democrats will similarly do anything to “own Trump.””
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/donald-trump-makes-democrats-defend-indefensible/
They’ve been embracing Hamas for a while (because
JoooosIsrael), but otherwise 100% correct.Apparently, most Americans are fucking morons.
I’ve made a similar comment myself. If Donald Trump announced that he liked puppies, smiling children and warm summer days, Democrats would be lining up to announce their love of making children suffer, putting puppies in blenders and cold rainy weather.
And they’d introduce bills in congress to subsidize all of those things.
American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth.
I have known quite a few people who were technically describable as smart who were completely worthless.
But that’s probably not what he means.
This is impossible. I thought gender was a social construct, not something biological
Also, I thought we already knew that re: transgender peoples’ brains. I mean, before being transgender became a fad.
There are biological differences when it serves the narrative and there aren’t when it doesn’t.
“”Men & women’s brains are different” — Neurosexist trash.
“Some kids are born with a brain that doesn’t match up w/ their genitalia so doctors should help them transition from as young as age 3″ — Wow, how cool is science!”
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/999558852717625344
Gender is a social construct. And “sex assigned at birth” is a stupid phrase.
Anyway, I wouldn’t put too much stock in one study. Currently, there is more evidence of similarity between MTF and female brains, than there is for FTM and male brains. There are also studies that show differences between cisgender and transgender brains. And the evidence is stronger for MTF as well. Which perhaps shouldn’t be that surprising since brains of biological men show more extreme variation than biological women. There are way more men who are super geniuses, schizophrenics, serial killers, etc.
So what the study is saying is that some men are born with brains made for sandwich-making?
I ain’t eating no brain sandwich, I don’t care what gender the brain is.
Prion Paste is not particularly palatable
Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Man?
http://quillette.com/2018/05/24/cant-woman-like-man/
TW quilette
DEATH.
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20180523/news/305239878
You forgot a couple steps.
“With death rate up, US life expectancy is likely down again”
That’s some solid differential equations involved in that statement
734 deaths per 100,000 people
I like my odds.
Health officials say there was one three-year decline. That occurred in 1916, 1917 and 1918, a period that included the worst flu pandemic in modern history.
OK. Think a little war that Woodrow got us in brought the curve down a bit, too.
You know who else got involved in that little war…
Foul! You can’t ask a “who else” question with that as the answer.
WInston Churchill?
So Winston Churchill is off limits?
Heh. You jinxed yourselves.
You didn’t answer my question.
No. I haven’t ever had something stuck in there. How’d you get my email address anyway?
The Ghost of Otto von Bismarck?
The flu killed 10 times as many Americans as the war. Historically, disease has been a greater danger than a foreign war (i.e. one fought outside your territory).
Trump, unlike his predecessor, has promulgated a mainstream conservative agenda: He’s cut taxes and regulations and spent more on defense. Most Americans aren’t averse to that agenda, particularly considering the booming economy and a relatively quiet foreign sphere. But Democrats painted Trump during the campaign as an emissary of Cthulhu, and now they’re struggling to justify that depiction.
And the Blue Wave drizzles ineffectually onto the shore.
And the Blue Wave drizzles ineffectually onto the shore.
Don’t underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
The Law of Large (Stupid) Numbers?
I’ve seriously considered moving somewhere into the compliance career track, and I have moved a couple of underlings into that space. Demand for that work isn’t going away any time soon.
This is why I find it surprising when people talk about the declining need for lawyers. The Perry Mason track might be less lucrative or less popular, but it seems to me in house compliance work would be a booming career path. You might not make millions, but you’ll pay the rent.
*disclaimer- regulatory compliance should be a part time task of the janitorial staff, and not something requiring an army of lawyers
It will only get worse as your species advances. Most fledgling world develop Compliance AI. However the same maddeningly futile tasks involved have the same effect on the AI psyche as it does meat sentiments. The result is mental digital breakdown resulting in the AI turning on its handlers and attempting to fully exterminate them.
You mammals actually had a movie series loosely based on this concept…
WALL-E?
Ummmm no. Think Skynet
It’s less fulfilling than the “stabbing yourself in the eyes with an ice pick” job, but it pays better.
Lawyers certainly get a piece of the action, but a relatively small one. It’s a great career path for people who have some sort of technical background, have strong organizational skills, can project-manage, can manage a mountain of minutiae, and can parse quasi-legal standards/requirements language. I’m guessing that if you can pass yourself off as a GDPR or HITRUST SME right now, you can probably write your own ticket.
it seems to me in house compliance work would be a booming career path
At least in healthcare, historically most compliance officers weren’t lawyers. That has been changing – I see more help wanted ads for compliance officers aimed at attorneys.
A couple of observations:
(1) Its sad that compliance has gotten so complex and high-stakes that people think they need to throw a lawyer at it.
(2) Lawyers aren’t trained to be compliance officers. The job doesn’t call for much in the way of legal analysis or advice, and you can get into a fair amount of trouble, IMO, when people can take what a compliance officer says as actual attorney-client advice. Compliance officers are process and audit people, not counsellers or advocates.
Exactly so.
Response to a comment of mine on another site (non-libertarian):
I stole it because I liked it so much.
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/5/22/changing-americas-business-model
I have mentioned the site before, they are doing a membership drive right now, so ignore the 2nd half of the article. The first half is very good though.
Without any context at all, my reading of that would be someone whose idea of “pay for the lifestyle you want” would be “pay the government for all your privilege”. Maybe I’m becoming jaded.
Well, the qualifier goes without saying, doesn’t it? 😉
There’s everything wrong with trying to dictate what they can choose.
Call me jaded, but I’m not willing to assume that “trying to dictate what they can choose” doesn’t include “subsidize the lifestyle they want if they can’t afford it.” Remember, there are people who assume that if you won’t pay for something they want, you are denying their right to it.
My kids loved Totoro.
I liked it. Crimson Pig was my favorite. That Totoro song is mind numbing though.
I read that as Toronto. And they were going to serve poutine and ketchup chips.
I like toro too
The biomass distribution on Earth
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/05/15/1711842115
We need to eat more fish.
Not for health reasons, but to shrink their section.
Then again, compare livestock to wild mammals.
WE NEED TO EAT LESS FISH!
Kim Kardashian’s ass comprises a significant chunk of the “humans” section.
In seriousness, I find it interesting that viruses account for 3x as much as humans.
Surprised the entry for Winston’s Mom wasn’t bigger
So I read the link, and the first thing it mentions about him naming stuff is this:
So I have a little chuckle thinking the “good at naming” stuff is ironic, but then a few lines down is:
That guy was basically the Shakespeare of scientific literature. Probably should have led with that, Wikipedia writers.
My front lawn is apparently home to a rabbit nest. The neighborhood is already like Watership Down, well minus the rabbit dictatorship, but my wife was careful to mow around the nest. The day before I saw some movement under the fur / grass top so something is moving down there.
Crows, coyotes, foxes, hawks, cats or owls will be by shortly to clean that up for you.
I thought about introducing my daughter to Watership Down like I was at her age, and then I realized that’s probably child abuse.
Man that movie messed me up.
It’s really fucked up – plus I usually
cryman mist at the ending.I had never seen it or read the book as a child, so when I watched it with my kids when it was on TV recently, I was a bit taken aback. “That was created for children???”
Plague Dogs is a fun romp for a kid.
And what better way to teach kids about journalistic sensationalism and media gaslighting?
Redwall is a suitable substitute in the anthropomorphic animal genre.
Pellet gun + mustard + cream. Get to work.
Looks good, minus the Dijon. *gags*
We had one out back with 5 babies. I have 3 dogs. You do the math.
1 momma rabbit plus 5 babies = 6 rabbits, divide by 3 dogs = two rabbits per dog.
Like that?
Trying to read that Atlantic article about “smart vs dumb” but pretty much all I’m getting is Charlie Brown’s teacher.
Something else happened in Florida last night…in the Tampa region…
/C-A-P-S Caps Caps Caps!
The Caps not choking this postseason has me reasonably sure the apocalypse is nigh.
Yeah, between the Eagles winning the Super Bowl, UVA becoming the first #1 seed to lose to a #16, and now this, it’s turning out to be a wretched sports year.
Doomed
Handle checks out.
Dude, get consent first.
The US has a good shot in the World Cup I’ve heard.
No, see, I was talking about real sports.
Like NASCAR and Pro Bowling?
Bassmasters Tour
Assmasters Tour
The Caps are sort of one of the two “virtuous” DC teams, Nats being the other, and they’ve been around much longer than the latter, so that’s one reason why this is a big feel-good story around here. Especially after the sorry-ass Wizards, cocksure for absolutely no reason whatsoever, sleep-walked into the playoffs and then got sent packing by Toronto. And don’t get me started about the Redskins.
The other reason, of course, is the “DC curse”. Which is bunk, but still, there hasn’t been a national championship around here in a sport people care about for quite a while.
Gary Bettman is furiously masturbating. This is a perfect final for the NHL.
“Yeah, who needs New York, Chicago or all of Canada interested in this…we are going to dominate the Las Vegas media market!!!!”
*narrows gaze*
Storyline, Swissy!
Expansion team starts season at 500-1, now in final. Vegas sports book facing a monthly loss for the first time in years. Ovi, the best or second best player of this generation, snakebit for years, now in final.
Besides, the alternative could have been Tampa and WInnepeg.
I didn’t believe it until the 4th goal. Only one demon left to exorcise: Fleury.
I find it delicious that DC creatures are rooting for the local team whose biggest star is on PutinTeam.
Whenever there’s a Ovi/Kuzy connection for a goal I always scream RUSSIAN COLLUSION!!!!!!!! at the screen.
*opera applause*
Great job on the morning links WebD! I mean, I didn’t click on any, but it appears that there are some there, so good job!
Lol
And I heard male entitlement leads to violence …
https://www.thedailybeast.com/an-act-of-pure-evil-jealous-woman-poured-acid-on-ex-in-sadistic-attack?via=twitter_page
I thought anything and everything women did was empowering?
Anyhoo, wtf is up with the UK and their fucking acid attacks? Is it cultural; their version of a school shooting?
Acid (and other corrosives) are easy to get. Huh. It’s almost like people are the problem and not the weapons they use…
Also, lower rates of car ownership. In America, woman runs over ex and then backs up and parks on his head.
Four-wheeled acid-spraying gun-knife!
…so….got any of those? You know…for sale?
*shifty look*
I always knew we would eventually be in business together.
Call me when you have a model with the thing that goes up. I want the assault version.
“”wtf is up with the UK and their fucking acid attacks?””
I think they inherited it from the Pakistanis who are one of their principal minority groups
its a big thing in south asia
Fellow glibs I require assistance. While I pride myself with my master of the Queen’s English, I struggle with the meaning of a phrase in an email I received from a coworker who is leaving the company for another job. What does the following mean?
“Because of you, I have improved the wisdom quintessence of decision making.”
I am stumped.
It’s a fairly mild word-salad. It appears to be a misunderstanding of the word “quintessence,” which means a “perfect example of something,” as in “Pie In The Sky is the quintessence of Central European libertarians.”
I suspect the OP meant something more along the lines of “quotient.”
Oh tell me more
Stop batting your eyelashes at me. It’s disturbing. You haven’t even bought me dinner and flowers yet.
Autocorrect?
“You are without a doubt the coworkers I have worked with for the past few years.”
It means he swallowed a thesaurus because he wants to sound smarter than he actually is.
So you worked with Little Carmine?
He’s coming onto you. Let him down easy.
“Thanks to working with you, I’ve increased my wisdom, which is the quintessence of decision making.”
He’s just trying to convey that he liked working with you. You know – lies.
It is a she so your assumptions prove libertarians are sexist. Also it is unlikely a man would write that.
Sounds like a backhanded compliment to me.
Sounds like his co worker is Michael Dyson.
It just amuses me people do this. Why? Keep it simple: thanks for the x years working together later suckers
No idea on the word salad, but I just wanted to say you really have mastered English. As someone who has spent 46 years speaking (only) English, I can say I’ve never read anything you’ve written and thought, “English isn’t his native tongue.”
Agreed.
It’s a code phrase for “I’d like to give you a farewell handjob.”
You know who else shook a staff while leaving his former place of “employment”?
Well, me for one.
Moses?
Dammit.
Now we’re never going to be able the promised land because we posted twice.
Moses?
Matt Lauer?
Total tangent: In the greatest Pen and Paper RPG of all time, Mage: The Ascension, quintessence was the fancy name for magic points. The game was set in a world of heroic traditional magic traditions vs “The Technocracy” (which committed such vile acts as perpetrating the enlightenment, inventing flush toilets, and popularizing antibiotics). One of the factions of the Technocracy couched their magic in terms of high-finance and corporate doublespeak. Their internal emails would probably look like this.
What i’m trying to say is I would just assume he’s an evil wizard.
The Technocracy was nearly as funny a foil as the camera company that the werewolves in the WOD were always getting worked up over.
“”the wisdom quintessence of””
replace this with “my”
and excuse the person for throwing in Gibberish-flourish as a garnish to an otherwise boring and simple sentiment. god most people’s freshman college papers are made up of 30% of that sort of shit. just “using bigger words you don’t understand” out of some vain hope it will impress
FREE THE THOs!!!
Dunno if this was covered but …
Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda …
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999367582271422464
I like the implication that a popular vote = the truth.
Also, “the public” probably just means the people who are not banned by site admins for allegedly being Russian bots or malicious right-wing infiltrators.
A site full of Lefties casting votes to settle objective truth… Sounds fucking wonderful.
Given the volume of vote fraud that goes on in some of these places (and that’s just what we’ve caught when being hamstrung from looking), the “Popular Vote” is an imaginary figure.
Musk is running into the same problem all frauds eventually run into when playing in the private sector…. eventually the mismatch between their bullshit and reality becomes so great that their reality distortion field no longer covers it.
What Musk is searching for is a way to paint his critics as being biased against him and to get people to stop listening to them. It will fail… spectacularly. Because the guys who are motivated enough to participate in a voluntary news curation scheme are the sort of people who will either vote their biases, or be the sort of people who try to see past the bullshit.
And the people who can be gulled just won’t care enought to use his service. The end result? Nothing will change except people will laugh at him even harder.
It turns out that real tech entrepeneurship is a rather different animal than Hollywood’s portrayal of Tony Stark. Who woulduv thunk it?
The problem with this theory is that Musk is not purely a Fraud.
Yes TESLA is a fraud, but Space X is a true leap forward and while the government is it’s biggest customer it was largely accomplished with private money
Yeah, I’m actually a fan of SpaceX. Fight me.
Seen nailed to a telephone pole:
“CA$H FOR DIABETIC TEST STRIPS
719-[XXX]-[XXXX]”
wut?
Unused leftovers from people on automatic delivery. The insurance-covered automatic delivery of testing supplies assumex X self-tests per day, but often people will test less and have leftovers. The people who put up the ad are resellers, and will buy leftovers below cost to sell to their own customers.
Interesting. I actually buy those things to check my ketosis since I’m doing the keto diet. They’re like 10 bucks for 100 at Walgreens.
And if you could get them for $5 for 100?
He’d save $5. It’s not difficult math.
But it’s in those margins that the people buying leftover test strips operate. Which was my point.
Point taken and ignored for comedic effect.
I could use the 5 dollars I have leftover for 3 prostitutes in New Delhi.
Different blood sugar testers also use different strips and the testing machines are often given out free and the strips are pricey. (Sort of like the “printer is free but the ink costs an arm and a leg” model.) Some of the strips cost far more than that.
71-SPARTACUS
NFL themed porno featuring females kneeling during the playing of the National Anthem.
Rule 34 dictates that this either already exists or is in the pipeline.
Well, it is now.
I am already disappointed at Larry Flynt for not coming out with a Tomi/Kaepernick spoof last year. Dude must be getting old.
Pretty impressive for a guy who died in 44BC.
Before Creditors.
Oops. Screwed that up.
He was like Merlin and lived backwards in time.
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/999428039258836993
LOLOLOLOL
FAKE NEWS! Trump would never eat hummus.
But he would eat humans.
But he paid to have a chickpea on him.
Well done, sir!
+1 Dossier.
Nicely done.
More information about everyone’s favorite sex cult.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sex-slaves-branding-and-blackmail-graphic-court-docs-shed-light-on-nxivm-sex-cult
Question: putting aside the extortion angle (which the founder is apparently not being charged with), how is this illegal? Everyone entered into this nonsense voluntarily. Is the very act of founding and running a cult illegal?
“This popular news article doesn’t do a good job of explaining the legal issues at play in this trial.”
Literally every lawyer that has ever read a news article about any legal issue they have even a passing familiarity with.
“This popular news article doesn’t do a good job of explaining
the legalissuesat play in this trial.”Literally every
lawyeperson that has ever read a news article about anylegalissue they have even a passing familiarity with.Equally true statement^
I actually don’t think that’s true. As bad as most coverage is, I think legal coverage is uniquely worse.
Worse than science, law enforcement, political protest, medical, or tech coverage? I doubt it
For fear of breaking the first rule of Fight Club (never talk about who you are in the meatspace with a pseudonymous personality), let me just leave it at – Yes, my informed opinion is that legal coverage is worse than any of those.
PATRIARCHY!!!
Not completely wrong is the new smart It’s Larry Summers, so you know it involves large sums of money doled out by the federal government.
As technological trends reduce the demand for less skilled labor, we must both strengthen American skills and encourage the employment of all Americans. The simplest way to encourage employment across America is just to add a few dollars into workers’ hourly wages, which would effectively increase the national minimum wage without discouraging employers from creating new jobs. The benefit could go entirely to workers, or be split between workers and employers to increase the incentives to generate new jobs.
Subsidizing employment makes sense, because the suffering associated with not working appears far more profound than the pain associated with being part of the working poor. Two percent of prime-aged men earning over $50,000 report that they are unsatisfied with their lives. The share reporting such unhappiness rises to 4 percent among men earning between $35,000 and 50,000, and 7 percent for men earning less than $35,000. But the share of jobless men reporting such unhappiness is 18 percent.
The fans of programs that accept, and even encourage, joblessness, like universal basic income, seem to forget that human satisfaction doesn’t come primarily from material comfort, but from purpose, a feeling of accomplishment and the social support that often occurs in a work environment. An America in which 40 or 50 percent of adults live without working, relying on the generosity of a federal handout, is a nightmare.
At least they recognize the pernicious effects of paid joblessness. It might be helpful if they made some sort of cursory acknowledgement of the requirement for profitability and the presumed financial returns from these jobs they’re planning to pull out of their magic hat.
“Just add a few dollars to everybody’s paycheck”? Feel free to give your housekeeper a raise, Larry.
“Missed it by *that* much”
Y’know, for an ostensible economist, you’d think he’d have a basic understanding that an individuals salary is determined by what skills they have and how marketable they are, not by arbitrary dictat. Then again the guy is from Harvard so who am I kidding…
Since when was happiness a measure of whether or not we should do something? Does this mean if I just report that I’m unhappy that the government will force my employer to pay me more?
Unhappiness is a good motivator to do better. You have to earn happiness.
The funny thing is, people who are happy at work generally do a better job, which makes them worth more. Basically, what he is saying is that employers to pay poor performers more.
add a few dollars into workers’ hourly wages, which would effectively increase the national minimum wage without discouraging employers from creating new jobs
This guy is an economist, and he doesn’t think increasing the cost of something will affect its utilization?
If you want more of something increase the cost of it.
Sounds legit.
“Furious neighbors slam ‘baby-killing’ cheerleader as she is seen driving around town and out to dinner with family after judge lifts house arrest for ‘burying her newborn in the backyard'”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5764447/Furious-neighbors-slam-baby-killing-cheerleader-seen-driving-town-eat.html
See, these are exactly the kind of baby-killing white trash God never meant me to remain around. Build a bubble around the town and gas the lot of them, for the good of our country.
–Kevin Williamson (@kevinnr) May 24, 2018
Did he really say that?
No! A bit much even for him.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5765499/Dakota-Fanning-24-stuns-baby-blue-dress-Alienist-Emmy-FYC-event-Beverly-Hills.html
Now I feel old.
Heh….I remember the first time I had that feeling, when Natalie Portman suddenly was a hot woman rather than the little girl from The Professional.
How’s Leon looking these days?
A bit scattered.
For shame. All of youse.
https://d919ce141ef35c47fc40-b9166a60eccf0f83d2d9c63fa65b9129.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/images/543728980.original.jpg
That’s some make-up for a 12 year-old.
I said later, not in The Professional!
EVVVVVVVVERYONNNNNNNNNNNE….sorry, couldn’t help that
She was sexy in Leon The Professional largely because of the way Besson had Arbogast shoot her. She’s an ingenue presented with much of the same cinematographic techniques used to establish a female character as a femme fatale. Her hair and wardrobe as well.
Goddammit OMWC.
(wait…)
Maybe it was part of the whole “cinema du look” thing of making everything look gorgeous, but I’m thinking Besson knew exactly what he was doing.
“too old”
Eh. One of those “wouldn’t look at twice, well, three times” on the street actresses. Honestly, in my little administrative office of 15 people, there are two women who are better looking.
You subscribe to the Charlie Wilson school of administrative staffing? Hard workers, easy on the eyes.
“Former “Sex and the City” actress Cynthia Nixon lost her bid Wednesday to secure the New York Democratic Party’s nomination for governor.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo received 95 percent of the votes cast by delegates attending the state party’s nominating convention, meaning Nixon was well short of the 25 percent she needed to be automatically listed on the ballot for the Democratic gubernatorial primary on Sept. 13, per the Democrat & Chronicle.
Nixon said she intends to circulate petitions and gather enough signatures so she can contest the primary, the New York Daily News reports.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cynthia-nixon-denied-democratic-party-nomination-for-new-york-governor
“Former “Sex and the City” actress Cynthia Nixon lost her bid Wednesday to secure the New York Democratic Party’s nomination for governor.
INCONCEIVABLE!
The patriarchy strikes again
Do you know what that sound is, Highness? Those are the shrieking progs. If you don’t believe me, just wait. They always grow louder when they’re about to feed on human flesh.
As I think I mentioned before, most people get Cuomo’s concern wrong. He’s not afraid that this woman will come anywhere close to beating him. If he’s paranoid enough to tack to the left over a woman who’s lucky to get within 25 points of him, I could pull him to the right by announcing my candidacy. (I am a Democrat, after all.)
What’s got Cuomo unnerved about her is that her fame and his “centrist” infamy pulls national attention every time she opens her carpet muncher. And he is delusional enough to think he can get the Presidential nomination that Daddy never really wanted. But now instead of prog signalling when he’s safely into his last term, he has a panicked urgency to do it now to avoid getting shown up and a light shined on him.
I’ve often wondered if Mario could’ve won in 1992 had he decided to run, and if so, what would’ve been different. No Presidential sex scandals for one. I’d hope. I was only 14 at the time so I didn’t get it (plus I was still 100% prog in agreement with my parents, and partied when Bill won that November. Then went full teenaged rebellious and became a Limbaugh-listening SoCon for a few years before settling down to my libertarian self)
I disagree with pretty much everything Mario stood for but he was a far better governor than his son and far better a human being than either of his sons.
My grandfather had an octogenarian neighbor who was a heavy lawyer from New York City who was very connected with the political scene (he was one of the guys FDR had brought into the government to enact the new deal… very connected).
That very topic was raised when I attended a cocktail party as a young lad ~1990, and the neighbor said very firmly, “He has very, very serious skeletons on his closet that will come out if he tries to run nationally. He will never be president.”
IIRC it was stuff involving the mob.
One of my favorite SNL political skits was one I only saw once, when it first aired–exactly a year before the 1992 election and only months before the first primary.
Back when SNL had moments of brilliance.
I think Sargent Shriver is the one I most still keep a residual respect for from my youth when I not only respected him for being principled but respected the principles too. But Mario too, yeah you can’t help but feel respect when contrasted with the kids.
They call his 1984 “two cities” DNC keynote, delivered at the height of Reagan’s popularity when absolutely no one wanted to hear that shit, the last great American political speech. And they’re right.
Bret Stephens wants to believe… something or other.
But the significant question is whether any competent counterintelligence officer would not have seen, in this constellation of facts, serious reason to believe that the Trump campaign was profoundly vulnerable to Russian manipulation, even (or especially) if the candidate himself didn’t know about it. Just imagine if Manafort or Flynn hadn’t had their Russia ties exposed and now occupied positions of trust in the White House. The Kremlin would surely know how to leverage their secrets.
Trump is now taking his usual unbridled umbrage at comments by former National Intelligence Director James Clapper, which the president then misquoted, that he should be glad the F.B.I. was looking into potential Russian infiltration of his campaign. Of course he should be glad: The Bureau has now twice rescued him, first by reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails on the eve of the election, and then by clearing out the Russian stooges in his employ.
That Trump won’t acknowledge this means he’s either profoundly foolish or, in ways we don’t yet understand, dangerously complicit. I still lean toward the former interpretation — just.
I guess we should prevent anybody who has ever worked in the private sector, or who has ever done business outside the US, from entering politics. They’re not qualified. They can’t be trusted. And they’ll never be able to avoid violating abstruse election laws. We’d better just stick to Ivy League professors from places like the Kennedy School of Government, for America’s sake.
I feel safer knowing that I am now disqualified from entering politics after my retirement from doing real work.
We could pass laws to prevent talking to Russians if we’d just repeal the antiquated First Amendment. These free speech fetishists are the (hopefully) unwitting agents of the Kremlin anyway; their plan is to use speech to sow mistrust in our institutions.
I remember when red baiting was despised by lefties.
Flynn’s “Russia ties” amounted to talking to the Russian ambassador during the transition as Trump’s incoming natsec advisor. His “crime” was having lied about it to FBI interviewers who walked away from the meeting saying he hadn’t lied.
Manafort, otoh, does sound like a sleazebag, but he was a known sleazebag and his financial improprieties go back a decade, well before Trump’s candidacy turned serious. Perhaps he deserves to be nailed to the wall for his crimes, perhaps not, but trying to tie his past lobbying on behalf of Putin-backed Ukrainian politicos to the nascent Trump administration, and suggesting that explains everything and justifies everything Comey and now Mueller have done to hobble the president, is absurd.
Bret’s grabbing at thistle bushes looking for a fig leaf.
How many NYT readers have developed ulcers in the past 18 months from their breathless conspiracy theories?
I guess they expect the Trump administration to emulate Kevin Bacon’s character in Animal House
whether any competent counterintelligence officer would not have seen, in this constellation of facts, serious reason to believe that the Trump campaign was profoundly vulnerable to Russian manipulation,
What facts? These?
In sharp contrast to Hillary Clinton with her reset button and her assistance to Putin’s government?
Let’s just ignore the tens of millions of dollars Russian “businessmen” gave to Bill and Hillary.
How that leaves him uniquely vulnerable to the Russians is an exercise for the reader, I guess.
See previous comment.
I’m not clear on how not-Russian-collusion leaves Trump vulnerable to Russian manipulation.
So their defense is that the FBI and DOJ actually helped elect a politician win by favoring one over another? If that’s the case than they definitely should be burnt to the ground. How over the course of the article does this thought never addressed.
She said she was sexually assaulted by a state trooper. His camera footage shows otherwise
Noted race baiting asshole Shaun King said,
One questions Shaun; does that definition of racism still stand if applied to white people?
Why does anyone care what Talcum X says?
(sorry, saw that name for him on Twitter and it’s so damn perfect I have to use it.)
I heard she said the trooper put his anus and testicles on her face but he says he was just goofing around and mooning his partner.
Peyton Manning is a Texas state trooper?
Talcum X isn’t bad. I kind of stick with Herbert Kornfeld. I mean, hell, he even looks like him.
Yet more of the highest quality pussy.
https://imgur.com/a/UVtEiTa
You didn’t have me fooled for a second!
I know your tricks
Tricknology!
Nicolas Copernicus shuffled off his mortal coil in 1543.
https://youtu.be/nIciw2Rgz50
Anddddd the Nork summit is off. Good thing I didn’t have any other plans for the summer. On the one hand, we did get 3 citizens back with no concessions and no lifting of sanctions …and since kim tried to leave denuclearization off the table – now he’s the one who needs to grovel a little more.
Wasn’t it Trump that called it off, too? So he saves some face by looking like the strong one and making Kim look unreasonable. I suppose all this was a net positive, considering we got something (healthy prisoners) for nothing.
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/313623700085817344
I love how this tweet is five years old. Not that I’m into five-year-olds. I was merely discussing French cinema.
Do great hosts of fans and foes just constantly hold forth now endlessly on every piece of communication that the man ever produced over the course of his boring life? Is this what we do now?
Yes. Humans have always gossiped. Now we just have a lot more material, a huge publically-available database, and a loudspeaker.
Yeah but you don’t see five year old tweets pulling multiple replies each hour for just anyone. Sexy, sexy Jordan Peterson is in a league of his own.
Obviously it matters how popular you are, but this isn’t unique to Peterson. It happens to everyone that says something controversial, right or left.
Say something in support of an idea/opinion? Be prepared to have everyone look through your twitter/facebook history to see if you ever said anything even remotely opposite of what you say/believe today.
Don’t tell Putin
More than a dozen U.S. Air Force airmen faced disciplinary action – including court martial – after a drug ring was found operating at a base that controls America’s nuclear missiles, the Associated Press reports.
Military investigators cracked the ring in 2016, after one of the service members made the mistake of posting material to social media that suggested the drug use.
Nearly half of the airmen were convicted of using or distributing LSD – a drug for which the Pentagon had stopped testing, the AP says. Citing records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the AP reports that the drug ring operated at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, just outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The airmen took the drugs – which also included ecstasy, cocaine and marijuana – during their off-duty time, but at least one airman admitted that while under the influence of LSD, he wouldn’t have been able to respond properly if he had been suddenly called to duty.
Air Force prosecutors had a different view, saying that taking the powerful hallucinogenic drug can produce “paranoia, fear and panic, unwanted and overwhelming feelings, unwanted life-changing spiritual experiences, and flashbacks.”
“Unwanted life-changing spiritual experiences” like deciding you might not really be cut out for the Air Force?
By “unwanted” they mean “unwanted [by the Airforce/Military].”
Sheesh wait for leave like a normal person.
I’m just glad to hear that acid remains a popular recreational past-time
“Kendrick Lamar is right about white fans rapping. The N-word is off limits
by Ellie Mae O’Hagan”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/23/kendrick-lamar-white-rap-fans-n-word-off-limits
Thanks, Ellie Mae. In other news, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the world’s leading authority on leprechauns.
Shorter David French: Twitter judge is taking stupid pills.
RE: Tranny brains.
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/992019796685344768/
I’d call this a knowledge bomb.
Of note: the tax cuts are still front of mind in our company. We’re seeing tangible impact to our bottom line, and every meeting that discusses Financials broaches the topic.
“Let’s move on from this fruitless discussion. It’s clear that white people using the N-word is offensive and unacceptable”
How about setting a fan up by inviting them onstage to participate in a song that you perform that contains “nigga?” And then being a dick and selling that fan down the river? I guess that’s all good.
Ahem. I admit I have yet to read what America’s most brilliant public scholar has to say on the matter, but I do remember what Mr. Rock did. It was hilarious, and specifically mocked the idea that whites shouldn’t be allowed to sing along with music lyrics.
I have had it with this infantile “N-word” nonsense anyway. Everyone should just say “nigger” when they are talking about the word. This isn’t fourth grade.
Trshmnst posted this earlier “Also, I can’t stand the “life sucks” crap from the “adulting is hard” crowd. Sorry folks, life is what you make of it. If your life sucks, only you are to blame.”
I agree with this unless the person has a legit mental/physical disability.
I remember the second time I was in Tokyo and I was crying in public and had to go to the bathroom to settle myself (don’t be CRUDE! in your Glibby fasion…).
Had to stay up and catch a red-eye back to Korea. Ex and I are in a Japanese diner. Two employees. One of them is boss and the other is *clearly* suffering with a fairly-to-relatively profound mental deficiency. This is at 3am or so. He. Was. Busting. His. Ass. In the kitchen. Focused, troubled, yet getting the job done. No complaints. No bitching. Just. Fucking. Work.
I got reaaaaally emotional. To see someone who has to overcome that amount of deficit and still work that hard just made me ashamed for the snowflakes back home who refuse to be self-sufficient, when this man by all accounts had a very good excuse to be dependent and refused to not pull his weight….To me it was very much like a wounded soldier still doing his duty. Not because he had to– he had every reason to quit– but because it wasn’t honorable to stop struggling to do his best on his own.
I didn’t tip because it’s Japan, but also because I don’t think that he would’ve at all appreciated it. Man works. Man gets paid. I have more respect for that man that half of the people that I grew up with.
Very random and OT, but that memory just came flooding back.
At one time I used to volunteer with the Special Olympics. People and families who, by “normal” standards, got the short end of the stick. Yet there I met some of the happiest and most grateful people I’ve ever run across.
Life is hard for some people more than others, but only a victim mentality converts difficulty into suckiness.
This year’s Iceland Special Olympics will be held in the dumpster behind the Reykjavík General Hospital.
…Oof.
*laughs *
*gets sad*
A grocery chain here hires Downs employees as stockers and baggers. They’re nothing but genial and clearly seem to relish getting out of the home, even if it’s for menial work. (And I have to ask whether I’m any different in that regard: I’m not looking forward to mixing up concrete later, but the thought of spending the afternoon puttering around the house fills me with dread.)
One woman in her 40s throws a big hug around my dad because she recognizes him when he comes in. Who would prefer she be sitting at home earning nothing and seeing only her caretaker? And who would prefer the surly twenty-something burnouts who think the job is beneath him?
He’s only getting the hugs because the chain in question isn’t Trader Joe. You’d be a lot less charmed if he was getting looks of smug superiority from the hipster Down Syndromes.
The surly 20-something wouldn’t try to touch me.
I don’t care if you are mentally handicapped, don’t try to touch me!
*hugs UCS*
*bludgeons Commodious with the nearest chair*
I once spent a day in a small backwoods town in southern Upstate NY where the kid with Down Syndrome was the most popular kid in school. Like, legitimately the most popular kid like any other might have been; it just happened to be him, and that was all there was to it. Just walked around in his varsity jacket like any other alpha BMOC, shooting the shit and what not, and got treated like any ordinary BMOC by everyone else. If you didn’t know the unmistakable physical signs of Down Syndrome, it wouldn’t even occur to you that he had it. Actually made me a bit ashamed to be thinking about it as at all remarkable, because it seemed like the most natural thing in the world while you were there. Why the hell not?
https://twitter.com/sovietvisuals/status/999621667004575744
Now that’s a camper.
“I don’t think we should ban Father’s Day, but we should definitely think about the impact it has on young single mothers and those who have experienced toxic male behaviors. We don’t need a day to celebrate good fathers in my opinion since that’s what every father should be.”
https://twitter.com/PetiteNicoco/status/999632930816307200
https://twitter.com/laurasaur_roar
“She/Her Fat is BEAUTIFUL ❤️—Smash Hate ✊?—Spread Love And Acceptance ? — #RESIST — #BLM — Public Educator ? — Cat Collector ? — Vegan ? — EXO fan girl ?
San Francisco, CA”
Shocking.
She retweets a much more popular account.
It’s interesting to read up on the originator of Mother’s Day and how she turned against it once she saw her original intentions being perverted. She was an heiress who spent all her inheritance fighting against Mother’s Day and actually got arrested for disorderly protesting it more than once.
She wanted it to be a holiday where one writes a letter of appreciation to one’s own mother, period. Not a day for everyone to celebrate mothers in general or motherhood in abstraction, and certainly not a day for any form of commercialization whatsoever.
https://twitter.com/Barbara4u2/status/998296128364863488
I shouldn’t have laughed at this.
That depends entirely on your Outlook.
“Half-Asian, ultra-conservative father of fully-Asian looking sons named Pat Sullivan calls himself “(Pat)riarchy Sullivan” and uses his Asian wife and Asian son as a tool to justify and further his conservative agenda, proving how deranged many Half-Asians with White fathers are. Mocks her clothing and says “cultural appropriation feeds my white soul” – despite looking very Asian”
https://halfasian.org/2018/05/22/half-asian-ultra-conservative-father-of-fully-asian-looking-sons-named-pat-sullivan-calls-himself-patriarchy-sullivan-and-uses-his-asian-wife-and-asian-son-as-a-tool-to-justify-and-further-his/
WTF am I reading?
“”I’m not racist; my wife is Asian!” Why are there so many racist, conservative, alt-right, right wing, anti-black, anti-social, anti-feminist, white nationalist, creepy, weird, rejected, unattractive white men who fetishize and marry Asian women? How many times have you seen racist white men fetishize asian women as an alternative to “feminist” Western women? If the overwhelming majority of half Asians have white fathers, with white men fetishizing Asian women as “submissive and pro-white,” (and to take back power against blacks and ‘degeneracy’) and Asian women preferring white men for status and integration and to “feel beautiful” – what happens to the children of these race-based, white-supremacist fetishistic couples? a website written by half-asians tired of the sexpats, fetishists and lies.
Why does it seem that the men that pursue Asian women as a “last resort,” are generally the most racist, spiteful and hateful people – especially against Asian men, other minorities and white women? If Asian women prefer White men – why is this, and what happens to the children? Compiled by Asian-looking Eurasians and Hapas themselves. A community effort to explore the unintended consequences of “white fever” and “yellow fever”, racism, fetishes, power imbalances, stereotypes, and the effect it has on a staggeringly large, growing, and unexplored new demographic. Why does it seem the children of Asian men and White women fare better and are more successful? Why is there such a double standard against Asian men and white women, whereas Asian women essentially default to White men? What happens when Half Asian sons resemble Asian men? Why do so many White supremacists, alt-rightists, and White Nationalists have Asian partners?”
Ouch that design on that first screen before the scroll down! It is so awfully nice of insane people to make insane-people formatting choices, as they have since the dawn of printing, so that we may identify them at first glance.
Well, seeing as how the vast majority of self-described feminists are shrieking misandrist harpies (possibly due to daddy issues or a lack of romantic success earlier in life) who believe that men have a long list of obligations to women but women have no obligations whatsoever to men, I don’t see why it’s irrational to seek out women from cultures where traditional gender roles are more or less intact.
Also, as a half-Asian, that site is fucking embarrassing.
Which half are you? Have you seen this thing where people who are Asian Mother White Father believe that such people, for both genetic and social reasons, are an inferior and psychologically fucked up race of people? Obviously I don’t know which you are, so am not trying to insult (lord knows Puerto Ricans don’t go around condescending); I just find it fascinating that this is a whole community of people who like to talk about this, and I wondered how prominent it is.
My dad is Japanese (born in America) and my mom is wypipo. I rarely meet other half-Asians, but when I do, the discussion of race rarely goes beyond “Which one of your parents is Asian? Where are they from? Oh, cool.“.
… Although my brother and I have a running joke that we’re going to recruit all the half-Asians in America and found a half-Asian ethnostate someday.
We also crack jokes about the “cultural appropriation” crap. Are we allowed to do Asian stuff, but only half of the time? Do we have to alternate every day between Asian food and Western food? Or are we only allowed to have “fusion” cuisine?
Gut punch. Death will pop up and grab the weakest in the herd. He was a 15 and severely mentally and physically handicapped, so not entirely unexpected. Still, unexpected by me. I knew him for a couple years. Always smiling. Kid at the facility I work/volunteer at.
BTW, I’m not asking for “condolences“ or the like. He’s wasn’t my kid. Just a reminder for us to remember what’s important.