An artist’s depiction of last night’s game.
Columbus Day has me thrown off. I had to check three times to make sure I had the day of the week correct. No mind, its not like I ever have a normal work week or anything. But I could use a day off sometime. Not a lengthy layoff like the Yankees now have, but just a couple days in a row. But back to that…they gave game effort but they stuck with CC too long when he had average stuff last night. Boston will take on the defending world champion Houston Astros starting Saturday and the NLCS kicks off Friday in Milwaukee. Good luck to whoever you are rooting for (unless its the Dodgers or Red Sox).
Hockey winners last night were: Columbus, Carolina, San Jose, Calgary, Winnipeg and Toronto. Nothing else of note happened in the sports world.
The legend.
Italian composer Guiseppe Verdi was born on this day. As were: jazzman Thelonious Monk, eccentric filmmaker Ed Wood, actor Peter Coyote, rocker Alan Cartwright, accordionist James Fearnley, rocker David Lee Roth, singer Kirsty MacColl, politician and terrorist attack survivor Steve Scalise, actress Bai Ling, jeans pitchman Brett Favre, underachieving driver Dale Earnhardt Jr, and acting legend Mario Lopez.
Its also the day on which the cellulose billiard ball was patented, the Chicago fire was finally extinguished, the dinner jacket made its debut in Tuxedo Park, NY, Ho Chi Minh entered Hanoi, “Giant” (a better film than it gets credit for, in my opinion) made its debut, so did “From Russia With Love”, Fiji became an independent nation, Spiro Agnew resigned, Giants Stadium opened, Steve Perry joined Journey, Springsteen’s “Tunnel Of Love” album was released (it was garbage), Joseph Harris went postal, LT’s #56 was retired by the Giants, and the cornerstone for the Holocaust Museum in NY was laid.
That’s it. Now…the links!
Panhandle residents: GTFO!
Hurricane Michael is about to absolutely hammer the Florida panhandle. Fortunately its moving pretty quickly, but its still going to be devastating. My thoughts and prayers are with those in its path. I hope you’ve all gotten out of there In time.
Well, Sears is circling the drain and is preparing to file for bankruptcy protection. I mean, pretty much everybody not living under a rock saw this coming but that doesn’t make it any less sad. They were a retail titan for damn near a century.
What difference, at this point, does political violence make?
I’m not sure if this is a call for violence or not, but I don’t know how else to take someone who says you “cannot be civil” with your political opponents. Look for things to escalate in the sunup to the midterms and fully expect the left to resort to violence should they fail to capture the House. Well, I suppose I should say more violence.
Nikki Haley is stepping down from her post as ambassador to the United Nations. I think most everybody was caught off-guard with this one. We’ll see what happens next, but I really want to see John Bolton get the post based solely on the statements he’s made about the UN in the past. (And yes, I know he’s got a lot of assholish views, but he’s dead right about our involvement with the UN.)
Fresno woman shocked to find naked stranger masturbating in her living room. (Sometimes there’s no need to rewrite the headline. This is one of those times.)
Murderer Jason Van Dyke has been moved far away from Chicago as he awaits sentencing. I hope he doesn’t get a single good night’s sleep while there. Or after sentencing. Or once he’s in prison. Or ever.
The finger-pointing has already begun in the aftermath of the deadly limousine accident in New York. The limo operator can expect to be sued out of existence at a minimum, but if the latest claims are true, he’s probably facing a slew of criminal charges as well.
The DC Doxxer will not be granted release before trial. Prosecutors claim a potential flight risk. Looks like the judge learned something from the Awan family situation after all. The alleged Doxxer was employed by Shelia Jackson-Lee (D), Maggie Hassan (D) and others (D, D, D, D).
I’m sorry, I have to play two songs by two artists today. I was genuinely torn but didn’t want to disappoint anybody: This one is an obvious choice. You know, seeing as it is perhaps one of the best 80’s rock songs recorded. And here is the second song. Which has a level of brilliance only that band could exhibit.
Now go out there and give em hell today!
Eh, I just think Nikki’s tired of being broke. Kind of like me when I was considering a PhD and decided to get a job instead.
Agreed. She will get paid and then re-enter politics. Wash, rinse, repeat.
The lesson from Sears is to never underestimate how long some companies can hold out while dying from cancer.
They went the other way though. Rather than try to cure the cancer, they injected themselves with AIDS by buying K-Mart.
Let’s not forget diluting their brands Craftsman and Kenmore.
Sold them off, and helped them stay afloat for… not very long.
I honestly think the Sears purchase was an unannounced scene from “Other People’s Money”, but the owner was less honest about what he was doing than Danny Devito.
I remember reading somewhere that the guy who is the primary shareholder in Sears was doing some leverage to put Sears in debt while solidifying his hold on their real estate holdings (which is under a different company). At this point, the land may be the only thing that Sears has that’s worth anything.
Technically, K-Mart bought Sears.
The world was changing around them. Instead of adapting, they doubled down. I’m not at all sorry, they deserve to die (in a corporate sense).
On the bright side, they’re going to make for a nice b-school case study.
See my comment above. The B-school case study may turn out differently than you think.
The world was changing around them. Instead of adapting, they doubled down.
Basically, yeah. The oddity is that Sears was really well positioned to take advantage of the changes that wound up doing them in. They actually had a pretty good order fulfillment system and a legacy in public perception from the old Sears catalog days. A jump to an online presence would have been the logical extension of their skills. They just sat on their hands and missed it, doing nothing until Eddie Lampert decided to treat them like a REIT (just in time for the real estate crash and the secular decline in retails property).
Hasn’t there weirdo CEO been trying to buy there brands that are still worth something? Hard to imagine Craftsman and Kenmore going away, although I hear the quality of Craftsman tools has really nosedived over the past few years.
Apparently they just licensed the Craftsman line out to Lowes. They had some large displays there when I was shopping over the weekend.
“Made in China”
Funny enough I pulled out some Craftsman stuff made at the very end of the Made in USA period. Quality isn’t as good as some of the better made Chinese stuff now.
But the Craftsman stuff up to the mid 1980s was good stuff.
Thanks to the magic of the internet and Amazon and the like you can now get access to some really nice quality tools from all over the world.
Or you can play “tool Russian roulette” at Harbor Freight. Sometimes some really decent stuff can be had for a tool you don’t plan on using much or more than once. Other times they suck…
and you can also learn a lot about what to look for / avoid thanks to the youtuber AvE. Downside, you’ll start talking alike a Canadian with a 4th grade education that was kicked in the head by a horse (ironic because this guy obviously knows his shit).
Stanley Black & Decker now owns Craftsman.
Since they ruined their own name?
There once was a time those were good tools.
Yea, Lambert I think. He’s now trying to buy the Kenmore brand. It’s bizarre seeing a CEO trying to strip out the profitable components of a business into his own pocket while the board and shareholders sit complicit.
I would’ve shuttered all the main large stores and then opened Craftsman and Kenmore boutiques in high-traffic areas with much smaller footprints. Maybe kept the Auto Centers if they were showing any signs of profit. Everything else, liquidated.
How many times has Sears gone teats up? I think I remember one in the mid aughts (or thereaboits), one a year or two ago, and now this. I fully expect to read how Sears is buying the farm for good in another five years and then in ten.
As many times as Voyager has left the solar system.
Wife and I just bought our first home and we’re in the market for a drier (already got a washer for free from Curbmart). Is Sears a good option? I’m assuming they’re gonna have liquidation sales.
I got a great deal on a fridge from Sears Outlet when I moved into my current place. Scratch and dented floor model, half price. Worth considering if you don’t care about aesthetics.
Scratched and dented would fit the aesthetic of the house to be honest
If you don’t want me to destroy everything you believe in, stop believing in crazy shit.
HERETIC!
/prog off
SJWednesday: Projection Edition
I try not to get irritated by this love if attack, as in the scheme of things it means they have nothing, but it’s infuriated to have a group try to ruin a guys life over something and then be sanctimonious when he defends himself. Especially the group of people who have the least control of their emotions in American political life.
Especially when their own lack of emotional control is viewed as a net positive and an indicator of personal truth.
Postmodernism for me, but not for thee.
Does your postmodernism fit Gillespie’s definition of it?
LOL, Gillespie’s definition of post-modernism doesn’t even agree with Gillespie.
So your saying:
Nick Gillespie’s definition of postmodernism is the Nick Gillespie of definitions of postmodernism?
Nice!
I’M NOT HISTRIONIC, YOU’RE HISTRIONIC!
It’s like that scene in Old School where Frank the Tank loses it in the locker room. ‘We gotta keep our composure!’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oydv8lFPeIY
Criminally underrated movie
“But they weren’t the ones screaming about how badly the world had hurt their feelings.”
I mean, they were. Everybody saw them.
Socialised justice is nothing of the sort. Pretending that Kavanaugh shouldn’t have been upset at being accused of sexual assault and gang rape because other completely unconnected people are guilty of these things is eye-wateringly stupid. Pretending that the individual facts of case don’t matter because you want to see the world through a structuralist myth you’ve made up is positively wicked.
Encouraging genuine victims to identify with allegations that have nothing to do with their own cases is one of the many ways the left hurts those it pretends to be protecting.
The sheer gall required to criticize someone reacting angrily to being falsely accused of rape by half of Congress and the national media not two years after you were calling out bereaved from work, wailing and rending your garments in the streets because the person you voted for didn’t become president is staggering. On an individual level, you would consider someone so incapable of recognizing appropriate emotional responses to those two situations as mentally ill.
Pretending that Kavanaugh shouldn’t have been upset at being accused of sexual assault and gang rape because other completely unconnected people are guilty of these things is eye-wateringly stupid.
The way I imagine I’d try to explain it to a non-insane woman would be something like this
“Imagine someone said you liked to abuse your child. Not just a smack, here and there, but awful abuse. Now, imagine there was a bunch of people saying that, because they’d accused you, with no evidence, with gaping holes in their story and in contradiction to everything everyone knows about you and your child, your child should be taken away from you. And every time you deny torturing your child, they treat your denial as just more evidence that you’re a child abuser, insisting that every accusation of child abuse must be believed. Now, imagine they treated the anger you’d feel as result as indicative that you’re unbalanced.”
I think that would make sense to a non-insane woman. But, that excludes the vast majority of the women pushing the Kavanaugh narrative.
In another context, I believe those same women would refer to that as “gaslighting”.
Sady Doyle
Author of “Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… and Why”
Sure, why not.
Projection Edition
Isn’t that every edition?
credibly accused
Again, they keep using this word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
It applied to Christine Blasey Ford
More like Christine Ballsy Fraud, amirite?
whose voice trembled and cracked
Whose little girl innocent voice, cutesy glasses, and cutesy hair dangling in front of her eye was use to manipulate hyper-emotional morons such as yourself.
A week is an eternity, but I’m pretty sure I recall correctly that the wailing, screeching and raging wasn’t coming from Kavanaugh.
Re: Sears. While I don’t enjoy the pain that comes with a business failing, I do enjoy pointing it out to my friends who complain about Market Power. Amazon too powerful? People said the same about Walmart and now they are scrambling to compete.
I mentioned this to someone yesterday, every top firm is top firm for a while, and then something new comes along. Sears, Microsoft, IBM, Kodak, Atari, etc.
I like to point it out in contrast to politics and government. It’s been the same two parties for 140 years.
SJWednesday: Yet Another Awards Show
I’m going to start my own awards show for actors and virtue signaling business-people. Suggestions for names in the replies please.
The Actors for Social Sensibility award?
I assume no Jews were allowed if Sharpton was in charge.
Did Tawana Brawley get an award?
The Virties.
The Chippys?
You can only win once!
The Wokies.
The actual award should be a statue of a burning witch.
Maybe call it the Nutters or the Goodies after some people who were executed as witches?
“The alleged Doxxer was employed by Shelia Jackson-Lee (D), Maggie Hassan (D) and others (D, D, D, D).”
You’re saying he liked to work for the D?
*narrows gaze*
I’m not sure if this is a call for violence or not, but I don’t know how else to take someone who says you “cannot be civil” with your political opponents. Look for things to escalate in the sunup to the midterms and fully expect the left to resort to violence should they fail to capture the House. Well, I suppose I should say more violence.
They should do the mature thing and blame everything on libertarians
It would be a return to normalcy at least.
Why you wanna leave me alone, huh? *Pokes chest
I’m not sure if this is a call for violence or not, but I don’t know how else to take someone who says you “cannot be civil” with your political opponents.
Gennifer Flowers couldn’t be reached for comment…
October 10, 732 – the Battle of Tours. I remember learning about it in school, but when I looked at a map of France, I was shocked at how far north the caliphate had penetrated.
Martel was the first cognac I ever drank
“The Hammer”
WWCMD?
I was shocked at how far north the caliphate had penetrated.
Deep penetration…
But not much girth – and they couldn’t maintain it.
The finger-pointing has already begun in the aftermath of the deadly limousine accident in New York. The limo operator can expect to be sued out of existence at a minimum, but if the latest claims are true, he’s probably facing a slew of criminal charges as well. – if it were up to libertarians there would be no safety standards and this would happen every day.
the Chicago fire was finally extinguished
Too soon.
You’re right. They should have let it burn much, much longer.
Hey, it ain’t a tire fire in Gary-Hammond…
https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-intercepted-saudi-plans-to-capture-missing-journalist-report-says
Nominated for best in line quotation ever:
“It’s like ‘Pulp Fiction’ -a Turkish security official”
Also, I don’t trust the Saudis, but it looks like the Turks completely made up the claims of the body being dismembered.
I saw that limo around town several times. It was one of the more ridiculous stretch jobs I’ve seen.
Two of my co workers were on it, but I didn’t know them.
Damn, that’s shitty.
Ashers ‘gay cake’ row: Bakers win Supreme Court appeal
Britain will jail someone for teaching a dog how to do a nazi salute but this is ok?
What a fucked up place that’s become.
Thinks of potential joke… Passes as it’s to dark for me.
How is this an example of us being fucked up? If anything it’s an example of us getting something right for once.
Agreed. You’ve got one over on us, here, for sure. I’m frankly surprised they didn’t throw them in prison.
The inconsistency is baffling, but you take what you can get. It’s rather remarkable that our supreme court punted on the same question despite our first amendment.
Collectively they are a symbol of how fucked up things are there. You essentially have arbitrary enforcement of speech policies, and you can now throw anybody in jail at any time for pissing off the wrong group. This ruling is great, if looked at in a vacuum. But in the grand scheme of things all it does is show that they will arbitrarily change the rules on a whim. And that is always a bad thing.
Fair enough. Though it’s always worth pointing out that a lot of these ideas come from the USA – we just don’t have a constitution to protect us from them. And we can’t rely on Blue Labour to repeal the idiot laws the socialists pass.
Ultimately this was activist bullying that should never have come to court at all. That last paragraph from the hack writing the article is pathetic as well.
Judge: We’re just as surprised as anyone but there you go. We wanted the Christian bakers to be wrong so bad but the law is clear.
All I know is if Britain has 100 sharia courts as the article linked by Pie yesterday reports, that’s not good.
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/article/545051/World/Europe/Muslim-London-423-new-mosques-100-Shariah-courts
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Ahmed liked this.
Comment of the year.
And? Your point? Lol.
I’m guessing that this won’t be one of those international precedents that liberal justices like Breyer want to use when deciding a case?
Breitbart has a bunch of leaked video and internal memos from Google. It’s some real Orwellian shit.
Gee, the people who worked hand in glove with the Chinese government on censoring the internet for a billion and a half people? I’m surprised.
I feel bad for that last half a person.
I don’t get as worked up about Google’s execs politics because I already knew it, and I get more upset by them getting in bed with the Chinese Government.
Zuckerberg: But you told us we’d get free egg rolls if we cooperated! But we don’t see egg rolls. Where are egg rolls? We demand our egg rolls! And plum sauce!
Where you going to get a hoodie Zuckerberg? All the textile mills and clothing manufacturers in the US are closed now. WE ARE THE ONLY SUPPLIER OF HOODIES!!!!!
Extracting myself from Google is going to take a lot of work dammit.
Buy this
It has more to do with my business domain than anything else. My personal stuff will be fairly easy.
Neat, I’ve never heard of them. It’ll be nice to have an alternative to Apple, who has problems of their own, once they get going.
The phone won’t be shipping for another 6 months or so, and it’s anybody’s guess what the quality will be like out the box, but Purism does linux laptops as well, and they’re generally pretty good. Fortunately, any distro with ARM support can be installed as well, including (presumably, once they port it over) UBPorts, which is a community continuation of the Ubuntu Touch phone OS. So there should be at least a few options.
I’m very, very tempted. Right now I run my own email server and have a Lavabit account. I use Google Drive for some things, but nothing particularly important. I’m a big fan of redundancy; I use SpiderOak, Amazon Photos, and a scheduled backup to LAN storage for everything on my computer that I want to hold on to. I use Google Drive mainly to sync stuff across phones and for work crap I don’t really care about.
Mostly I’m Paul Sorvino in Goodfellas when it comes to cell phones. I text or email people if I must, but I generally don’t call them. Mostly I ask someone else if they’ve called so-and-so about X yet, and that gets it done.
I’d be on board if there were a version with no camera. Currently I have to have an application installed for work which disables the cameras while I’m clocked in, so if they’re going to be using some OS other than Android or iOS, I’m outta luck.
There’s actually a hardware killswitch for the camera, mic, wifi, bluetooth, and baseband.
i noticed that, but it doesn’t help me if i can turn it on at will.
i should clarify that privacy isn’t the issue; i work at a secure site where cameras are generally prohibited.
Yeah, that makes sense. The soft switch they install on your Android or iOS system is probably no more difficult to circumvent than a hardware toggle switch, but they have the illusion of control and a CYA for a security audit that way.
the annoying part is that it keeps me tied to a stock version of Android. /sigh
maybe i should try contacting the folks at Librem.
In the few phones I’ve taken apart, the camera module can physically be removed without de-soldering.
Just pop off the back, remove a screw, and disconnect the cable.
Of course you then need to find something to plug the hole up.
Switch your email to Runbox
Use LibreOffice and Dropbox for cloud documents
Change your default search to Startpage – you get the same Google results.
Or if you’d rather separate yourself from PageRank entirely, use DuckDuckGo.
Use Firefox or Falkon
This is my problem. I need to get The Monocle working on Firefox again. More difficult is my damn phone. I don’t want Apple, Microsoft probably no better and their phone system is dead, so what is the alternative. If somebody like Motorola offered a phone without Google crap on it, I would buy it immediately.
Buy an unlocked phone with official LineageOS builds or unofficial AOSP-based ROM support. Install F-Droid, Amazon App Store or use APKMirror for software management.
I know what some of those words mean.
Can I get on a major carrier’s network?
Unlocked phones will work on any GSM carrier. The entire Moto line is provider unlocked and Lineage-compatible, for example. All you have to do is follow the installation instructions. The only part that’s even slightly difficult is unlocking the bootloader if you have to. Worst case scenario you might need to plug your phone into a PC via USB, download a software package, and issue 3 or 4 CLI commands. Once the bootloader is unlocked, flashing a new ROM is simple.
The ROM is basically the OS image flashed to the phone. LineageOS is a continuation of the Android-based Cyanogenmod project. AOSP is the Android Open Source Project, which is the open-source part of Android where development occurs before Google or phone providers add their own touches (including proprietary drivers) for their devices.
F-Droid, Amazon App Store and APKMirror are alternatives to the Play Store software market for managing software on your phone.
Thanks!
I have the family on Sprint right now which is CDMA. Maybe I’ll do a switch next year.
I don’t suppose any of this work work on their damn iPhones?
You can find Lineage-compatible CDMA phones as well, but it’s usually more of a hassle unlocking their bootloaders. There’s more carrier-unlocked and bootloader-unlocked options on GSM.
None of this works on Apple hardware, unfortunately.
Another option would be the Librem 5 I linked above, if you’re in the market for a new phone. It’s pricey, but that’s what you get when the hardware isn’t subsidized by future ad revenue. That gets you out of the Android and iOS ecosystems entirely – it runs a mainstream linux distribution.
For the business, I’ll probably switch over to Microsoft because of the integrated environment. Convenience is a large part of the problem for me and I don’t have an IT staff to deal with all of the integration issues.
I will say that JumpCloud has been a blessing.
Michael Malice’s podcast on this issue. It was interesting and you can watch it over at good old Youtube:
https://youtu.be/zDFO8KWS7O0
I need to listen to his interview with Hoppe. If only because he doesn’t do interviews.
Officials warn of ‘worst storm in living memory’ to hit the region
This kind of crap grinds my gears. WeatherChannel had a headline say this was “unprecedented”. FL has never gotten a strong hurricane before? Enough with the hype.
Alright, so which one of you Floridians was this? I appreciate the attempt to fly into Cleveland, but Frontier?
At this point I seriously think HRC is mentally ill. I think the election broke her. You don’t recover easily from a big loss, and I imagine she had been assuming a win for months. That’s something hard to get over, and she didn’t have the support infrastructure to get over it.
What about all the Chardonnay?
Full of flies.
Like rain on your wedding day.
No!
She had big plans for us and we let her down.
All those cool camps she had planned for the deplorables…
I still remember these asshats telling everyone Trump better immediately accept her victory and tell the world how lucky it was to have her back when they were sure she would win the rigged election. Look at em now..
What?!? There was a Fun Belt Tuesday game last night. App St defeated Ark St.
Correcting your comments.
someone who says you “cannot be civil” with your political opponents.
It’s like you don’t even want to be on the right side of history.
When democrats win, they get to call the shots (elections have consequences). When republicans win, they better consult with the democrats before they do anything (so the democrats can call the shots then too)….
Mr. Lizard is sending scouts north…
Ya there’s nothing alligator-like about that thing up there.
Also yes we are always running experiments on both the local mammal and reptilian populations
Indians working for my company are not doing a good job representing the quality Indian engineer. All the stupid questions …
I blame the retirement of Chief Wahoo.
Traces of opiates found in ancient Cypriot vessel
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-opiates-ancient-cypriot-vessel.html
The man was taken into custody at a nearby home where he had stolen a towel.
At least he was going to clean up after.
Or he was a space traveler from another part of the galaxy who knows the importance of a towel.
Nothing left to cut? Or a shining example of leveling the playing field?
A heart touching story about Minnesota doling out govt grants to urban farmers.
So we are going to spend $10M to make sure urban farmers have the same opportunity to suck at the govt teat as their rural brothers.
“Such state funding, even a small amount, can usher in a shift toward seeing urban areas as potential farms and their residents as fellow food producers.”
But when we say, hey such artificial involvement affects the economic structure of production, we get called crazy.
Sorry, the bill’s author wanted $10M/year and all they got was a paltry $250K/year.
However, I also found out that this project was helped by the Agricultural Growth, Research, and Innovation program (known as AGRI) which gets about $13M/year. What does AGRI do?
I have to grant the proggies one thing, rural farmers are just as big leeches on the tax payers as any inner city welfare bum. They just get a better name for their programs.
If people can farm in an urban area, that speaks very poorly of the area’s vitality. If land within city limits is cheap enough to build profitable farms on, then your city has a problem. No wonder they need government support.
The Twin Cities are built on a plain. The Mississippi river separates the two cities, but there really isn’t much else constraining them. The result has been that there is no real reason for higher population density (especially since cars came along). You don’t see the sort of density here you see in a place like Chicago that has Lake Michigan as a border.
I don’t think that in our case it is a problem that we have enough space to allow farming.
The urban planners around here would love to implement your vision though and really pump up that density. Nothing upsets them more than people moving further and further away from the urban core (which here is pretty easy to do without taking much of a hit in commuting time.)
My view is probably biased since I currently live in a rapidly-growing car-friendly metro-area (Dallas-Ft. Worth). The farmers and ranchers at the fringes of the constantly-expanding suburbs are continuously selling off land as the property values increase, so I can’t even imagine how it would make economic sense to maintain farmland in an urban area (where property values typically are higher than in the suburbs). All the farmland gets gobbled up here in a prosperous area, so I naturally assumed that if farmland was being maintained in an urban setting the inverse of prosperity must be true.
I was under the impression that “Urban farming”, outside of places like Detroit, occurred on rooftops and balconies.
Pretty much. It’s really just another facet of certain yuppies’ infatuation with “organic” nonsense. It’s not a serious “movement” at all.
“Urban farming”
I hate that fucking term. If you ain’t plowing 40 acres, it’s gardening.
That may be what’s throwing me off, as my terms agree with yours. If a person can harvest their entire crop between coming home from work and eating dinner, they’re a gardener, not a farmer.
My wife’s family gardened a couple of acres when she was growing up. And then they spent weeks continuously canning stuff to get through the year. They also farmed about 20 acres of rented land.
Well, that’s an exaggeration.
The garden was about half an acre. The rest of was barns where they kept equipment and raised chickens and a shed where they kept a few hogs.
Green Bay has a few small farms that have now been surrounded by the city. It’s kind of a weird thing to see and I wonder if they are still actually profitable or or if it’s just some old guy clinging to the past.
This is happening in North Minneapolis, where property values are emphatically not higher than the suburbs. These are mostly empty lots that no one wants to develop, on account of the all the shootings, impromptu gatherings of 30 or 40 young men with 30 or 40 bottles in brown bags, etc.
lots of the storage sheds have signs saying things like “No cash or tools stored here” and many don’t even have locks installed.
yep: I remember Herefords grazing on three sides of DFW ignoring the planes coming and going.
Conversely, my fantasy of buying a spread in Hill Country sputtered out quickly when I saw what the land was going for; it’s all hobby turf for fatcats. I was willing to pay what the land could produce, but at 10 acres per cow the numbers don’t work, it was obvious that the land was being bought for something else (and I don’t mean oil).
In the 1950 movie “Union Station”, one of the characters gets trampled to death by the cattle in Chicago’s stockyards.
They don’t have urban stockyards any more, do they?
Most were displaced by the system of smaller yards that arose in the WW2 industrialization. I think Fort Worth closed around 1950.
Not worry. Phase 2 will be to empty out the cities to go to work in subsistence farming.
I made the mistake of engaging a bourgeois feminist on Facebook yesterday. I was met with like 5 blog-post length replies from her and her friends.
I wasn’t even going to attempt to address any of their nonsense. I eventually just said “I’d really love to get into this more, but I do have a company to run, and I do like to get home at a reasonable time and see my wife and three daughters before my Patriarchy Meeting at 8 PM”.
that is not funny
Yeah, it’s increasingly difficult to engage with partisans on either side. I find with a few conservatives, I can make them think. But the starting base for most progressives is too warped to even begin anything.
How was your local chapter meeting? We had a debrief of all the work our chapter was asked to do to illegally install Kavenaugh.
I gave a powerpoint presentation on how we can widen the gender wage gap. I really think we can do more.
I gave a powerpoint presentation on how we can widen the gender wage gap. I really think we can do more.
I hope you included suggestions of increased maternity leave and more scholarships for gender studies degrees. My chapter has found these tools highly effective at achieving the goal.
“Widening her gap” is always my favorite item on the agenda.
Our chapter voted to officially refer to keg stands from now on as Kav stands.
Then we did a shit ton of Kav stands and everything got blurry.
Sorry to be off-topic, but wanted to thank Sensei for his nice piece on the Contour watch and also offer my condolences to Rufus. Sorry to hear about your dad and I hope he’s in a much better place.
How can you be off-topic on the links?
Any time!
As I mentioned to straff – you’re in Japan. Grand Seiko is way cool. Of course way pricey too…
Huffpo Everyone:
Trevor Noah Bashes Brett Kavanaugh By Looking On The Bright Side Of Climate Change
Trevor Noah tried to put a positive spin on a new United Nations report predicting devastating consequences of climate change on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Daily Show.”
“The newest member of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court just got a lifetime appointment,” the host said, in reference to Brett Kavanaugh’s controversial swearing-in as a Supreme Court justice on Monday.
“But there is a bright side,” Noah pointed out. “If that climate change report is right, a lifetime appointment might be shorter than we think.”
That’s it. That’s the entire article of BASH.
Trevor Noah is not really funny.
But then again, bashes is I assume in this context like Shapiro DESTROYS students or something.
Also I fail to see any of these celebrities significantly downgrade their lifestyle after lamenting climate change. I assume this is for the plebs
” context like Shapiro DESTROYS students or something”
I think it’s funny because it’s common to make fun of Shapiro and his fans for those video titles, when he was not the first person to do it. I’ve seen those kinds of titles all over.
I know Shapiro just came to mind everyone is doing it
I wasn’t chiding you, I think the same thing, Shapiro had definitely taken a lead in that space.
It’s really a turn off this guy gets a pay check for such unfunny drivel.
They’re all about violent and death. It’s fricken unreal.
Have We All Gone Insane?
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/culture-civilization/winston-churchill-have-we-all-gone-insane/
Scott Kelly, a retired U.S. Navy Captain, NASA engineer, and veteran of four spaceflights, was brought low on Sunday by those possessed of neither his accomplishments nor talents for the crime of advocating Churchillian generosity of spirit. “Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill. My apologies,” the astronaut wrote after what must have been a withering assault on social media. “I will go and educate myself further on his atrocities, racist views which I do not support.”
Apologize all you want fella, it won’t save you.
They only employ this method because it works and in using it against those who have accomplished things or have social status, they gain in status themselves. The solution is to give them no credence. On this, I agree with Trump.
The guy needed to take a note from El Trumpo’s playbook, NEVER APOLOGIZE TO THESE GUYS.
But he’s not a dirty Trump lover. He’s a scientist who just wants to get on with his life and not care about politics. This is the ultimate problem with SJW’s their ideology and practices force people to polarize. If you think you can get on by being indifferent, you become a Target to them. Most people just want to be accepted and don’t want to be labeled as evil, so they go along to get along.
It really sucks and I do feel bad for the guy. It’s just upsetting every time this kind of stuff happens.
And they still get attacked for trying to get along. So they’re better off choosing a side because tying to be ‘neutral’ won’t work.
Being neutral only means being an eventual target. They have their wicked eyes on everyone.
Hey?!
Wicked, not narrowed.
I’m talking about people choosing sides in the culture war.
Not some mythical place with magical people like ‘Switzerland’ – wherever that is.
/Homer voice.
All I know is my gut says…maybe.
Churchill was unambiguously racist, even for the time. People (e.g Alanbrooke) reported what he initially said about the Bengal Famine because it was shocking. But it’s also clear that the famine has become a political football. Indians want to use it as a stick to beat Britain with (ignoring earlier famines that would serve better). Commies want to use it (ludicrously) to prove that ‘capitalist’ Britain was just as bad as Stalin’s Russia.
The reality is that Churchill and his advisors were trying to plan grain shipments centrally, which doesn’t work in peacetime, let alone when U-Boats are sinking large numbers of your ships. Once Burma was occupied by the Japanese the traditional source of food in times of famine was gone. There’s also clear evidence of Churchill at a later date planning to use political capital with Roosevelt to supply India with food.
Unfortunately, it’s now ‘internet fact’ that Churchill personally murdered a gorillion Indians.
Admittedly not a disinterested website, but the sources it cites are fairly solid:
https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/did-churchill-cause-the-bengal-famine/
I’m really glad I got to the real Van Halen.
Great song from a fun band.
No love for Van Hagar?
Zero.
I actually think 1984 was a good swan song. Solid album, but trending the wrong way. And as straffin says, they have held up better than many of the others.
I still like this.
I’m kidding. Van Hagar was a disaster. Roth made the band’s persona work.
They held up a lot better than Bob Jovi did. Never liked Bon Jovi, but heard Wanted today and wanted to kill.
These are my last links before surgery. Hopefully I will be back for more…
Good luck. ?
Good luck Pie. I hope the nurses are hot!
Hopefully I will be back for more…
Do you have a surgery addiction?
Hope it all goes well.
Good luck on your surgery!
Godspeed and a swift recovery!
Good luck.
Nothing serious I hope? Are Romanian nurses hot?
Nose job
Best wishes for a good result and swift recovery. Is this the septoplasty?
Yes
Hope your surgery goes well and that you have a speedy recovery!
Good luck. (I call dibs on his avatar if things go awry)
can’t wait to see the new boobs!
Is the surgery being done to you? Or are you the surgeon?
If the former, good luck and a speedy recovery.
If the latter, why not have a beer? It will steady your hands.
Hope all goes well for you.
Get well soon
J.K. Rowling Tries To Put Quidditch Scoring Debate To Rest For Good
It makes total sense. There’s glamour in chasing an elusive lucky break, but teamwork and persistence can still win the day. Everyone’s vulnerable to blows of fate and obstructive people, and success means rising above them. Quidditch is the human condition. You’re welcome.
Harry Potter is…fun. Not the greatest stories ever told like some people think, but it was alright. Quidditch however is stupid.
And she fails. Honestly, there is no debate, quidditch scoring is stupid.
I think it’s much more fun if you’re 15
You know what els… never mind.
I never got into any of the Harry Potter universe even as a kid. My friend, who is in his mid 30s, recently dated a woman, also in her mid 30s, who dragged him on vacation to Orlando just so she could play trading card games at Disney and visit the Harry Potter world at Universal. I think people like that should be sterilized. Fortunately, they split up. During the trip, actually.
I have been to Harry Potterworld twice — with a mice lady who wears walking shoes and her house Ravenclaw robe, with nothing on underneath it. I’ve enjoyed both trips.
How do you keep the fur from getting stuck in your teeth?
tooth wax
I will forever go to the mat for Harry Potter. As I’m older I realize that while they are (purposefully) derivative and not revolutionary in any way in and of themselves, but they are indeed page turners. It’s like writing a catchy song–it’s incredibly hard to catch that lightning. The pop songwriting teams bust their asses.
But I’ll be given a pass because I was literally the exact audience for HP. I was 11 when Harry was 11 when the first book was published. With how the books were released, I was his age until the 4th book or so then they started to take longer to get out. There was something magical (sorry) about reading each new book with my mental faculties mirroring the writing style becoming more mature.
I feel the same way, man. HP was something I grew up with and related to my sister with (we never had that much in common so the little things like this were special for us).
Agree on all of this. The movies (and books, yes, I read most of them) were an entertaining diversion. That is all. Same with Star Wars and Trek and all the other franchises that seem to attract a lot of weirdo larping.
1) Get rid of the snitch
2) use a game clock.
Hmm….
I remember reading a bit about this case at the beginning of it, but I hadn’t heard a peep since. Looks like it fizzled out before it got going. My guess is the judge looked at Indiana James Hansen with that doofus hat and decided he wanted nothing to do with the shit show.
I actually think that the eco-nuts dodged a bullet. NW Minnesoda probably isn’t going to be very receptive to a defense of “We had to blow up the pipeline to save Mother Gaia”.
I don’t like it. This ‘necessity defense’ foolishness needs to be slapped down hard. Because otherwise how is it not wrong to shoot someone trying to fuck up a pipeline?
Amazon scrapped ‘sexist AI’ tool
But it could be programend not to use gender as a factor right? What else is gender neutral?
I think the problem was it was being gender neutral, but the resumes they got from women were not compeditive, and they had to blame something other than the candidates.
My guess is that they weren’t feeding gender in. Nonetheless it was still selecting male candidates….
If A causes B 75% of the time, and
If A causes C 100% of the time,
When you look at the occasions where B occurs you’ll see that 75% of the time, C is true.
The problem is you can’t train an AI to do a good job if you want it to do a suboptimal job for political reasons.
Oh, you can do it, you just need to explicitly articulate the political goals from the outset. If they said they wanted the set of 5 applicants that maximizes quality with a constraint of a particular gender mix, and AI could be trained to produce that. And that’s the problem. The implicit, unspoken goals can’t ever be explicitly articulated because they are illegal. But if the AI doesn’t produce them, it’s “sexist.”
James Damore nods.
sophisticated pattern recognition machine recognizes pattern that doesn’t fit the narrative and is therefore unreliable. got it.
The alleged Doxxer was employed by Shelia Jackson-Lee
And she knew nothing about it.
The Sears situation makes me sad; I’m of an age to fondly remember the Christmas Wishbook and our once-every-couple-months trips to the Big City (Key West) to provision at Sears and Publix.
An astounding series of bad decisions comes home to roost (Buying Kmart?!? Really?). They liquidated their profitable brands (Craftsman and Kenmore) ages ago but I’m worried about Land’s End, the source for most of my clothes.
“You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about,” Clinton told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
I agree. Wholeheartedly.
Why should I be civil to people who have openly expressed their desire to do away with capitalism and meritocracy, smash the “patriarchy” and forcibly install women and minority candidates in positions they are unqualified for, and impose a version of “democracy” indistinguishable from lynch mobbery?
Agreed. I’m not going to make the first move, but I am going to keep this nightstick handy while I’m talking to the crazy people. I’ll be happy to put it back down once I’ve been convinced that the people arguing with me have decided to become civil, rational, calm adults.
The two parties were so indistinguishable for so long that when she finally faces fundamental opposition she cries foul. GFY.
I was reading the article posted in the links comments yesterday with Rand Paul talking about rhetoric like this driving people mad. Man, I am again extremely power she didn’t win and I hope for the sake of the country she never gets to be in the Oval Office again.
It is driving people mad. I’m thinking of that Krugman column from the other day. I swear he just took an old Alex Jones piece and substituted “Trump” for “Obama”.
Embrace the Truth that your will can be circumvented instantly by two shapely glands.
http://archive.is/bjzzt
I’m not picking favorites… except for 4, 18, 45, 48 and 56’s pussy.
53, 63, and 89, in no particular order.
4, 40, 68, maybe 22 if I could see more of her face. 4 had dat heart-stopping smile, 40 has that old-school charm, and 68 just looks comfy.
So why was the woman surprised? Because he was a stranger? Because he was naked? Or because he was in the living room (everyone knows the parlor is for rubbing one out)?
Random question with no answer:
Why on Earth would Lowes buy Craftsman when they already have the Kobalt tool brand?
I much prefer Kobalt, aesthetically and functionally.
Maybe to capture the legacy market? Craftsman’s reputation is still worth something, although now it seems like you’re more likely to hear something like, “Craftsman used to be great but now it’s all Chinese garbage”.
Kobalt’s purty. For hand tools I don’t see much difference in performance from any other big brand.
For power tools, I still have my dad’s 50yo Craftsman drill and circular saw. I cannot use the circ saw anymore because of my rotator cuffs, so my husband bought me a new saw.
I agree. Kobalt or Husky both seem fine. My Craftsman stuff is all early 90s or older. The shit never really wears out, so I haven’t had to buy any more.
I’m a Milwaukee fan for power tools. I have a couple 20 + yo corded drills that are ridiculously over-built and awesome.
Were I a pro, though, I would look damn hard at a complete Festool suite. Because that stuff is sweet.
Power tools I’m a Bosch man.
I had one of their miter saws. Heavy as hell, but a nice piece.
I dropped my truck tire on my little Bosch impact driver yesterday. Little sucker took it like a champ.
My brother in law…Milwaukee too.
The pro’s tool he calls it.
And Bosch he likes.
Rufus, please accept my condolences for the passing of your father. I’m very sorry for your loss.
Each line tends to have things they do better than others, but in general, you can’t go wrong with the German brands.
The only Milwaukee tool I have is a Sawzall. My air compressor and nailers are Porter-Cable. My sanders are Black & Decker, Craftsman, and some knock-off no-name brand that has outperformed the Craftsman.
I can’t be picky about my power tools because I don’t do enough of any one thing to compare them. I’m a dilettante DIYer.
If I were a woodworker, I’d want the Festool suite also.
I’m a fan of Facom when it comes to hand tools. The French can make a quality wrench.
Armstrong is also a great brand.
Price discrimination.
Does Craftsmen still have the lifetime guarantee? My dad use to go to garage sales and buy old Craftsmen tools and then take them to Sears where they would give him a new tool free of charge. Not sure if that guarantee is still around
Uffda. You guys are wasting your name on brand name tools.
When I am forced to, I just buy the cheapest pounder, gripper or twister I can find at the hardware store. I like my local mom and pop because they don’t snicker at me and try to explain that the real name for a pounder is a hammer. The elitists at the big box stores and their fancy names make me mad.
Since good ergonomic designs have been stolen and widely distributed, cheapo isn’t always stinko.
But if you’ve got a machine down that generates hundreds of dollars an hour in profit, you don’t need to add a trip to the store to replace a busted socket. I’m not the biggest guy here, but I still shouldn’t be able to break a 7/8″ deep well with an eight inch ratchet…..but that shit is for sell on every corner.
What toys you keep in a kitchen drawer is another matter, of course. I love Snap-On and deeply regret that none it is made in the US any more.
Um, if there is an important machine broken, you don’t want me any where near it.
I’m very good at troubleshooting things, but when it comes to actually touching them and fixing them, things have a tendency to go to shit.
honest man alert: your type is dying out
My dad was born into share-cropping, and even in their poverty they were addicted to Craftsman; Sears would sell on credit even in the Depression, essential since no one I’m related to has ten cents. Again, a tractor or implement has got to be fixed right now wherever it is; trips to the barn to replace a broken wrench aren’t in the schedule.
Best thing is, you can get it for 25 cents at that Scottish restaurant.
My Craftsman stuff is all early 90s or older. The shit never really wears out, so I haven’t had to buy any more.
I have some Craftsman stuff I got in the ’70s. Craftsman combination wrenches are ugly as sin, but they are almost(!) indestructible. I have returned a few things for replacement. “No questions asked,” is right. “Yeah, just leave it here and go grab one.” Speaking of declining quality- I returned a 1/4″ ratchet a few years ago, because the teeth were worn out, and the replacement is a piece of shit. I’m almost afraid to use it.
Wear out? Do you guys live alone?
All my tools “disappear” mysteriously right around the time my wife or kids are working on their own projects.
Nevada sues Tesla over unpaid taxes
According to the report, 25 percent of Americans are traditional or devoted conservatives, and their views are far outside the American mainstream. Some 8 percent of Americans are progressive activists, and their views are even less typical. By contrast, the two-thirds of Americans who don’t belong to either extreme constitute an “exhausted majority.” Their members “share a sense of fatigue with our polarized national conversation, a willingness to be flexible in their political viewpoints, and a lack of voice in the national conversation.”
MFing… the link was supposed to read, “Youth not a proxy for wokeness, minority status less so.”
When your views are shared by a quarter of the population, I’d argue they’re not really “far outside the American mainstream”.
Your betters will let you know what’s mainstream, Pat.
It gets worse later:
8% is left without a modifier, but 25% is a “small tribe”.
FTA:
What a shock. -_-
My 13 yo Kenmore appliances are still running like champs.
My 25 yo Maytag washer and drier are in great shape.
So who gets blamed for the destruction of such fine brands?
I hope Maytag or Whirpool buys the Kenmore brand. Sears was one of the best places to buy and pick up replacement parts and maintenance items. I also just bought a Kenmore washer and drier from them. I know Kenmore is typically re-branded from another manufacturer.
Maytag isn’t Maytag anymore. They are a piece of Whirlpool.
Kenmore appliances are typically made by 3 manufacturers. Frigidaire makes the cheap stuff, Whirlpool makes the mid-priced stuff, and LG makes the expensive stuff. This is just a general rule, and the model number includes a manufacturer code in the first three digits.
Studebaker
Schwinn
Winchester
IBM
General Electric
Sunbeam
I can’t buy any of the things I would like from any of these companies.
Half of the firms I’ve worked for are no longer remotely in any recognizable shape.
A huge share of firms that were in the Dow30 no longer exist at all.
Industrial supply? Don’t get me started.
They come and they go.
Studebaker…
*sigh*
Let me tell you about the 1964 Studebaker with a four speed and R2 that got away…
I just helped my neighbor load up his 35 year old Maytag drier to take it to the dump this summer. It rusted out before it gave out.
His new Maytag drier lasted 2 months before the circuit board went caput.
Splinter, lol:
The Supreme Court Just Upheld a Terrible Voter ID Law in North Dakota
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was sworn in to the court on Saturday, did not participate in the decision. Justices Ginsberg and Kagan dissented, but in votes like this, the full vote tally isn’t required to be disclosed — we just know that a majority of the eight justices involved voted to apply the law.
The new conservative majority is wreaking havoc even when it is a 6-2 decision.
Can you imagine seeing that title and thinking: “This article should be fair”?
From the first paragraph:
It took them to get to an update later to point out that this also would impact the homeless.
Totally unconstitutional for the government to require voters to prove they live within the jurisdiction that they try to vote in.
The court didn’t uphold anything, and it wasn’t a 6-2 decision. As far as I can tell, they declined an emergency injunction. Taking an injunction takes 5 votes in favor of it, and those votes aren’t made public (though justices can and do issue dissent, which happened here.) Its possible, and I’d say likely, that there were four votes to take up the appeal (Ginsberg, Kagan, Bryer, Soto) and four votes not to (Chief, Alito, Gorsuch, Thomas).
Ah thanks for that clarification.
Not sure if it’s been discussed (these goddamn stories are starting to bur together), but Robbie’s latest is getting a lot of links.
Two Students Hooked Up. It Was Clearly Consensual. He Still Spent $12,000 Defending Himself.
‘Don’t kill yourself’ is now legal advice. This is getting ridiculous.
That’s sad. College is supposed to be a great time in young adulthood. This kind of nonsense just makes me happy I mostly kept to myself in my college years.
No, no it is not. That flawed idea is part of the reason people didn’t push back against useless fluff degrees and the acceptance of people who really shouldn’t be in college.
What I meant by great time was that it should be at least a time that could be spent without cases like the above when a young adult is just getting out into the world/becoming independent.
If only she’d sat on her accusation for 30 years and if only James was being considered for a political appointment by a Republican then Robby could have taken her side.
He should be punished even if he didn’t do anything because other men have raped other women.
This is what the left actually believes.
Never forget: “Social justice” is just a euphemism for collective punishment.
*RTFA*
Becky is a first class piece of crazy, and her mother is too.
I have to assume that the university, in their orientations, also contributed to the mindset that normal adolescent fumbling during groping sessions is assault. Combined with the temptation to self-identify as a victim, this will only lead to more and more attorneys getting involved in normal dating scenarios. What a fucking mess.
What a fucking mess.
Exactly. As the father of a college freshman, it is difficult to know what to tell him. Obviously most chicks aren’t like this psycho, but there are enough to be concerned.
Besides, the process is the punishment, right?
If I had a college aged male kid, I would command him to institute workplace-style rules with girls; no being alone in the same room, minimize interactions in which there isn’t a written record and absolutely no dating/sex. I would seriously consider giving him a monthly allowance for prostitutes.
I’m lucky. My son has decided to skip college, with this craziness being about 25% of the decision.
I’ll tell you right now that if I were in college nowadays, I would not have escaped unscathed. Not because I actually did anything wrong, but my roommate/best friend was in a frat and we had a *lot* of fun with sorority girls in a very casual capacity (including things I’m not particularly proud of, but definitely not immoral/illegal). It’s almost a statistical certainty that at least one of them would have been crazy enough to try something like this in today’s environment.
Who will rescue the deplorables from their poor life decisions?
“Today, I have re-registered as a Democrat — I had been a member for most of my life — because we need Democrats to provide the checks and balance our nation so badly needs,” Bloomberg said.
———
The former mayor considered running for president as an independent in 2016 but ultimately endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton, who lost to Republican Donald Trump. Bloomberg told the New York Times in September he now believes that only a major-party candidate can win the presidency, and if he were to run in 2020, it would be as a Democrat.
The change in party affiliation comes after Bloomberg decided to spend millions in the 2018 election to help elect Democrats. According to the New York Times, he’s approved allocating at least $80 million, with the bulk supporting the Democratic campaign to take control of the U.S. House. His advisers told the Washington Post this month, amid the contentious fight over the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, that he would spend an additional $20 million to help Democrats retake the U.S. Senate.
Listen up, dummies. Mike Bloomberg will save you, and you’ll thank him.
Oh good! Because what the Democratic Party really needs to recover its fortunes is an outright racist billionaire from New York.
The soda jerk know’s what’s good for you.
Soda Jerk
He’s finally come home to the place where his authoritarian nanny statism will thrive.
So Mikey has stopped pretending? About time.
Bloomberg decided to spend millions in the 2018 election to help elect Democrats
Something something money in politics.
The change in party affiliation comes after Bloomberg….
This is absurd. Mike Bloomberg was a registered Democrat until exactly six months before his first run for mayor. He switched because the Democratic field was already too crowded. Within his first term, he switched from Republican to independent. There was never any meaningful party switch.
Who could possibly have seen this coming?
https://www.shrm.org/ResourcesAndTools/hr-topics/employee-relations/Pages/Sexual-Harassment-Workplace-Weinstein-Effect.aspx
‘Troubling’, moron?!? How about ‘obvious’ instead?
holy shit it gets worse..
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/employment-law/pages/male-mentorship-women-pence-rule.aspx
the Pence Rule is illegal:
“If men and women can’t work together as equals in the workplace, then one gender or the other will have to be excluded from consideration for many positions,” she said, which would be unlawful.
“If certain men avoid women in closed-door work settings, they presumably do so because they fear unfounded sexual harassment claims,” noted Elaine Herskowitz, principal with EEO Training & Consulting Services in Potomac, Md. “Clearly, such behavior is discriminatory, based on stereotyped attitudes. Rather than avoid women in closed-door work settings, men simply should treat female employees professionally and with respect.”
Fine. I respectfully refuse to hire a woman who isn’t a family member.
That work for you, Elaine?
Rather than avoid women in closed-door work settings, men simply should treat female employees professionally and with respect.
That worked out great for Brett Kavanaugh, huh?
Even an open-door, no one-on-one policy isn’t enough to protect you, it seems.
“We’d love to give you the promotion, Chip, but Stacy says you bit her neck in the elevator eight years ago.”
“But we only hired Stacy last year. I’d never seen her before.”
“Well, she says you did, and frankly, we find her very credible.”
“…”
They’re just trying to turn the Pence Rule on its head; instead of men not hiring women, they’re going to try and drive men out of the workplace altogether.
Yeah, and HR will totally have your back when the ensuing he said/she said turns into a lawsuit. You certainly won’t be fired and become radioactive to future employers.
Actually, Elaine, it’s clearly indiscriminate behavior, because it treats all women as capable of making false yet catastrophic accusations of sexual harassment in the workplace. Reap the whirlwind, Elaine.
“Men can’t be trusted to control themselves around women. They think they’re entitled to our bodies.”
“Well, let’s head it off at the pass and deny ourselves the opportunity to abuse your bodies.”
“OMFG, that’s, like, discrimination or something!!!”
I’m shocked that the management of an EEO compliance consultancy is advocating for the Sword of Damocles to hang over the heads of every single man.
Clearly, such behavior is discriminatory, based on stereotyped attitudes.
Yeah, sweetie. Try that one in court.
Human Resource Professionals. A synonym for “Absolutely Fu**ing Useless”.
They have a couple of basic jobs. Find competent candidates in the hiring process. Run the company’s benefit schemes. Maybe a couple of other minor tasks. Rarely do you find them even moderately worthwhile in doing those things. The candidates are usually wildly under-qualified or already making more than you’ve been budgeted. The benefits programs are often costly for only marginal benefits.
And yet, they think they’re competent to decide the composition of the company’s entire management structure.
They have a couple of basic jobs. Find competent candidates in the hiring process. Run the company’s benefit schemes. Maybe a couple of other minor tasks.
Maybe 30 years ago. The primary function of modern HR is regulatory and legal compliance. Everything else is a distant second.
Except the regulatory and legal compliance is stuff they’re pushing. At least the lawyers in the legal departments actually look at regulatory and legal compliance from a perspective of adding value. HR almost always seems actively hostile to the idea.
For similar reasons you’ll never catch FASB opposing financial reporting regulations.
Why, its almost like:
You get more of what you reward, and less of what you punish.
Unless you are stupid enough to make an announcement that you will be Pencing all the chicks in the office, I don’t see meaningful legal risk here.
There was also a more deadly fire going on that has become just a footnote because it wasn’t a big city.
That’s sad. College is supposed to be a great time in young adulthood. This kind of nonsense just makes me happy I mostly kept to myself in my college years.
It makes me glad I went to college in the ’70s, when “life experiments” were not only permissible, but expected of you.
Mistakes were made.
Yep, but they were important (and sometimes really fun) mistakes.
Gang-raping, alcoholic shitlord confirmed.
Report: US weapons systems are highly vulnerable to cyber attacks
You know, the smart thing to do would be to design a weapons system that looks vulnerable to cyber attack, but actually has hard coded targets in the weaponry so if someone tried to launch them they would hit a predetermined target. *doffs tinfoil helmet*
Or maybe you could just stop buying servers with motherboards made in China, just as a starting point.
You say that like there are motherboards with supply chains that don’t go through china.
You know how you get a secure computer?
Step 1: Acquire a bucket of ideal sand.
(it gets harder from there)
“You say that like there are motherboards with supply chains that don’t go through china”
This is part of the problem for sure. But hell, they print their own damn money, they could have a dedicated fabrication facility in the US just for them.
Maybe, but its a bigger problem than that. What are they going to fab the mobo with? All the components come from china. Silicone Valley hasn’t been Silicone Valley since JENCO’s had 40 in leg openings, everyone was sure that Brandon Lee was going to make a mint in a series of Crow movies, and adults were using glow sticks and baby passifiers to indicate their interest in not-particularly-creepy sexual activity..
I was not aware that was over.
*grabs trash bag, starts cleaning out drawers*
Oh I’m well aware.
But I think there is an argument for establishing a US based source of supply as a national security issue. And yeah, it’s going to be expensive.
And yeah, it’s going to be expensive.
Considering those hacked server boards from China were being sold at a profit margin of 70%, I’d imagine doing it in house is not going to be too much more expensive than buying at retail prices.
The DoD/IC procuring tech from adversaries is so stupid it boggles the mind.
I lost out on contracts for US/NATO equipment to the Chinese: not subtle situations where tier-five or so is Chinese….no, this: proud made-in-PRC equipment. It’s running on battle platforms right now like MRAP and its successors.
I also refused to sign any DFARS regulations. Really, Pentagon: in case of war, you’re going to take over that Shanghai plant?
Its a thing. Called a Honeypot.
Didn’t the Galactica already solve this problem, like, 150,000 years ago?
I graduated in 2009 from IU Bloomington. I was surrounded by proggie friends, on account of them being my friends from my senior year of high. I moved to my new circle of friends after the first year, for the most part. I never had to deal with any of this shit, and my initial circle were all gay and are now universally raving, intersectional Wokists. (Fun fact, a girl that I could’ve fucked if I wasn’t so fucking stupid is now married to a member of the upper, upper echelon at Facebook and is a billionaire. I remember doing coke with her and her puking on a stranger’s lawn in between cig drags.)
Many drugs were done. Frequently while driving. Sexual encounters were numerous. I was probably legit raped losing my virginity in a threesome. I regret nothing, except not making a move on Hannah when I had the chance.
Speaking of IUB, people were talking about their favorite roads. I’d say the ones around Monroe Lake in Btown would get my vote. Gorgeous, especially in the fall, and I had a system of routes depending on how much time I or the gang needed to finish whatever bowl/joint that we had. I was the only one with a car so we’d have to go on roadies when we lived in the dorms. Knew ’em all inside and out.
I could also recommend State HWY 50 from Bedford to Washington, IN. Very pretty twisty roads through the forest. I admit that I was always scared shitless to drive there at night. I don’t like driving at night to begin with, but that stretch had so many deer, which is something that terrifies me. Didn’t help that I can’t think of a single time I’ve driven that route without being George-Harrison-in-1966 stoned.
I think fellow Hoosier egould….who is also named Evan….(THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!) spoke of it, or at the least knows of what I speak.
From that Atlantic article linked above:
While 83 percent of respondents who make less than $50,000 dislike political correctness, just 70 percent of those who make more than $100,000 are skeptical about it. And while 87 percent who have never attended college think that political correctness has grown to be a problem, only 66 percent of those with a postgraduate degree share that sentiment.
What the everloving fuck? A large majority of people think “political correctness” is stupid and destructive? How can those morons be so far outside the mainstream of civilized American culture?
I love how each of those percentages is a Majority but they use words like “Just” and “Only” to make it seem like there is this big disagreement between the classes. No you mother fuckers, Most people think PC is a problem.
These numbers are quite encouraging. And they’re also a stark illustration of how the “normals” are being completely ignored in corridors of culture, commerce, and power.
normal people are shit
“I was probably legit raped losing my virginity in a threesome”
This is why you don’t do drugs in a room with two dudes.
/couldn’t help it
BROOKSED!
AYE!!!!!!!!
Hey, if I can’t tell until your pants are off, you win this round.
More Atlantic:
In the days before “Hidden Tribes” was published, I ran a little experiment on Twitter, asking my followers to guess what percentage of Americans believe that political correctness is a problem in this country. The results were striking: Nearly all of my followers underestimated the extent to which most Americans reject political correctness. Only 6 percent gave the right answer. (When I asked them how people of color regard political correctness, their guesses were, unsurprisingly, even more wildly off.)
*outright, prolonged laughter*
OFFS.
I know that I hang out in weird places online, but it’s almost shockingly hard to describe how fucking insane the US looks from the outside these days. Again, I know that the progs are a very loud minority…but it’s actually fucking scary.
My brother and SiL have pretty whole-heartedly swallowed the Flavor Aid (let us not wrongfully besmirch the Kool-Aid Man, anymore!). And he’s a successful computer programmer who owns his own business–the valuation of the company broke $1M just a month or so ago and he’s paying himself $180k. He’s a self-taught genius computer programmer; it’s not like he’s a college kid waiting tables 3 days a week looking to sponge off the masses. The States just look like a cultural wasteland. It makes it very hard to even think about moving back there after being gone for so long. The culture seemingly has changed so much since university. It’s like going to India or something. Just all backwards-feeling. The last time I went back I had to have a child show me how those new-fangled Coke machines in fast food joints worked. Why the fuck do I need a touchscreen for a soda fountain? Of what possible need was there to introduce such a thing?
I’m sure that–and tech advance bears this out–things are never better, but it sure as shit does not look like that from afar. I’m worried for y’all.
I think the problem is you are only seeing it from afar and online. Things are not as insane as they are being made out to be for the vast majority of the nation of 330 million people.
I think that is exactly true. But with the media all-in on this bullshit it’s all that I see. And I really do mean that. For some reason I still like places like the AVClub for entertainment reviews, etc (yes, that is my fault. Habits die hard.), and politics is shoehorned into absolutely everything, everywhere. This is the only place that provides me with a modicum of sanity–not to praise y’all degenerates.
My friends from high school/university have all moved on and all my friends are from over here. And when I do go back my family is also all-in. It’s depressing.
I think there are a few factors involved:
1. The media makes hay from turmoil and has been stoking discord ever since there were papers to print.
2. If DC is Hollywood for ugly people, politics is sport for the physically inept.
3. People love their tribes, and will associate themselves with everything from truck brands to musicians, but at the end of the day they keep that separate from the ordinary business of living. People who don’t are justly regarded as unhinged.
The US is usually years BEHIND on vending machine technology.
Why the fuck do I need a touchscreen for a soda fountain? Of what possible need was there to introduce such a thing?
Vanilla Coke. You never get vanilla Coke at a soda fountain unless it’s one of those touchscreen contraptions – since they offer the widest variety of options. Without a touchscreen soda fountain offering 100+ variations, you are stuck with the top 8 (or in some places 16) selling soft-drinks, which never includes vanilla Coke.
*Cough*
You, sir…need to get off my fucking lawn.
It’s that way.
Until they offer the original cocaine-in-Coke formula….yeaaaaaaaah. Me no likey.
(Also–unsweet tea for the win. Come fight me, yo. All of your sugar-addled minds and bodies can’t compete with this honed and toned beverage assassin!)
Unsweetened tea is as revolting as unsweetened coffee. It would be nice if these gizmos allowed one to control the level of sugar – I would prefer maybe 1/3 or 1/2 the regular amount – but I haven’t seen that. Only used one once or twice.
Unsweetened tea is as revolting as unsweetened coffee.
I only drink unsweetened tea. Coffee is revolting with or without additives.
I switched from diet sodas to unsweetened tea one time. A couple of months later, I had my first and only kidney stone. So back to the glorious high-acid, low-oxalate diet sodas.
Likewise
Hot, iced, or room temperature, it doesn’t matter to me, but add sugar and tea becomes undrinkable to me.
This is why there was a Civil War.
Only tequila will make me actively spit out a beverage more than
Demon Watersweet tea.It’s profoundly disgusting. You stay on that side of the Mason Dixon, and me on mind. Which is confusing because IIRC you’ve lived in NYC for decades+.
It’s poison!
Well, I don’t like over-sugared “southern” tea, that’s for sure. I mentioned above I like less sugar than the usual. But no sugar at all is madness.
There is one time that sweetener can be added to tea. IFF bourbon (or rye), a splash of lemon juice, and a touch of spice are also added. And that sweetener must be honey. Hot toddies are a boon when you’ve got a cold and it’s winter outside.
Evan, you may be wrong about some things. But unsweet iced tea is the way to go. The touchscreen selections have their place (and are relatively low maintenance for the workers, instead of the bags of syrup or the old kegs of syrup, they have little cartridges that slide in). My one complaint about them is they almost all have the ice dispenser in the back, past the nearly always dripping drink dispenser.
I’m fairly certain that after 4pm in this country no one over the age or 16 drinks anything that doesn’t have alcohol in it.
This is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
(Also–unsweet tea for the win. Come fight me, yo. All of your sugar-addled minds and bodies can’t compete with this honed and toned beverage assassin!)
Here I was starting to take a shine to you after your defense of Kool-Aid, but now the bloom is off the rose.
I’ve never seen a touchscreen on a soda fountain, but a lot of places near me have pen gouges on the card reader screens from where people have signed their names, so maybe that’s why.
I’ve long been hoping that touch screens are a fad. My hopes are not being realized.
ITS NOT A TRIAL ITS A JOB INTER.. wait what?
“However, removing criminal history information could increase statistical discrimination against demographic groups that include more ex-offenders.”
From the abstract. I’m not gonna read study, so can someone give me a spoiler?
Because, when employers are not allowed to ask about criminal history, they seem to simply not hire young black men at all.
But that means that there are more sex offenders…. Oh. That’s inconvenient.
Employers have been prevented from asking if a candidate has a criminal conviction in the past.
Employers have not be freed of the burden of ensuring that, for example, the person at the cash register isn’t stealing money.
Since they employers can’t ask directly, they now use a proxy to eliminate population groups that are more likely than the general population to have a criminal background.
Young black males are the most likely (statically speaking) to have a criminal background, and are thus being hired even less than before.
TLDR of the TLDR – A policy put in place to help ex-convicts is probably not helping ex-convicts and is really hurting young black men who have never done anything wrong.
Damn that’s depressing. Looks like the only solution to the problem is to not lock people up for victimless crimes.
My policy of not hiring women because some of them demand 3 years of maternity leave is paying off. *Does fist pump*
Would you hire a man who wants 3 years of beer leave? *totally not asking for himself*
Beer leave. I like it. Make it happen.
Employers have not be freed of the burden of ensuring that, for example, the person at the cash register isn’t stealing money.
Employers have also not been freed of liability for negligent hiring.
“Nobody I know thinks aggressively policing thoughtcrime is problematic.”
Axios inadvertently makes the case that Trump is really, really good at his job.
So… like any job?
Teaching our children to be productive citizens.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/north-carolina-middle-school-marquee-reads-f-kavanaugh/
It will be interesting to see if it was a teacher or student that did it. I think it’s 50/50 either way.
I’d put the odds substantially higher on it being a teacher.
Also:
If in doubt, just lie. Another good takeaway for the kids entering modern society.
Yeah, I doubt it was a student. What middle schooler gives a shit about the news?
Well, my 8th-grade daughter’s U.S. history teacher had them discussing the confirmation every day of the fucking circus.
My daughter is getting heavily indoctrinated with the proggie bullshit. It’s taking a great deal of slow patient answering of questions to initiate her cognitive immune system to start questioning the BS.
My 15-year-old son doesn’t like Trump (but he does a great impersonation of him) but loves Alex Jones (but does admit that Jones is merely an entertainer.)
If Republicans Can Confirm Kavanaugh, They Can Repeal Obamacare
From your pen to God’s eyes, pal.
They could’ve easily with a couple more senators who actually wanted to. They will get those senators, but possibly lose the House.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/10/10/donald-trump-democrats-open-borders-medicare-all-single-payer-column/1560533002/
Donald Trump wrote an Op-ed in USA Today….er….I mean someone on his staff wrote it and he put his name on it.
“The Democrats’ plan means that after a life of hard work and sacrifice, seniors would no longer be able to depend on the benefits they were promised. By eliminating Medicare as a program for seniors, and outlawing the ability of Americans to enroll in private and employer-based plans, the Democratic plan would inevitably lead to the massive rationing of health care. Doctors and hospitals would be put out of business. Seniors would lose access to their favorite doctors. There would be long wait lines for appointments and procedures. Previously covered care would effectively be denied.
In practice, the Democratic Party’s so-called Medicare for All would really be Medicare for None. Under the Democrats’ plan, today’s Medicare would be forced to die.”
He’s using a Democratic line of attack from circa 2006 to attack Democrats. He’s doubling down on populism.
That’s pretty much his entire platform.
Guess who votes in midterm elections? Old retired people with nothing else to do. Guess who doesn’t? Young campus activists who are chimping out at the local ICE office.
I remember when I was in college and everyone was all excited there was pot legalization on the ballot, the day after the election all the people talking about hadn’t voted. (I wasn’t registered in that state, keeping my residency in Wisconsin)
Why the fuck do I need a touchscreen for a soda fountain? Of what possible need was there to introduce such a thing?
Fight for fifteen, Bro!
*holds up sign saying, “Will jerk soda for food”*
I love those! I can get vanilla Coke.
And cherry sprite!
Yes, those machines are great!
I know a little about these. Who wouldn’t want to mix Root Beer with Powerade Grape?
The machines are connected to the internet so there is a shit-ton of data being collected besides which flavors are running low in the machine. Coca Cola is doing a lot of data warehousing/data mining projects off of them.
With the really short timeout on any given screen, I never have enough time to peruse what’s on offer. It bugs me.
I also love stabbing a selection three or four times because the menus are so pokey.
I hate the mix of touch screen and physical buttons.
So now that I have gone thru the touch screen and selected everything, I have to push a physical button to actually get my drink? Why?
Response time of the touchscreen is too slow. If they used it for dispensing the liquid, everyone would flood their cup because the machine would continue to dispense for a second after they take their finger off.
The best part is the line of people forming while one person decides among the 1,000 combinations. Some shops have caught on to this and cut way back on the options.
That makes a bit of sense, I suppose. It just seems the maintenance would be more trouble that it’s worth. I’m assuming Coke is subsidizing the machines in order to get that data.
I miss the ease of getting a Suicide after a little league game. *cssh cssh cssh cssh cssh…* Mix all of that shit together. We used to go to the McDonald’s afterwards. I wouldn’t even take my catcher’s gear off. I was a very ugly baby but a very cute child.
Nostalgia Attack.
But seriously. I know that I’m an idiot with tech, but that was a fairly demeaning experience having literally no idea how the machine worked. I feel the pain of my father, who simply wants *a car.* Four fucking seats, a wheel, radio and a/c. Power locks are good as a safety issue, but all these little gadgets are just more shit that can break. I lament that Saturn went out of business/shuttered catering to simple folk like us.
Try to find a new car with manual transmission and crank windows. I think there was one the last time I looked.
On the same car?
These days I was under the impression manual transmission was only on the midlife crisis models.
HaHA, you foolish man. I actually do know how to drive a stick, for the record. 1990 Saturn for $1400 bucks that…did not last that long. You had to thread that clutch in like a goddamn surgeon. When I drove my friend’s Audi in Dallas I was astonished how easy a good clutch was. But Austin is flatter than Shirley Temple in the 1930s. (Ok, now I feel dirty. OMWC moment.)
With the amount of money that I have, there is NO reason to have a manual. If it’s a high-end machine then OK. Absolutely. But the idea of a cheap get-you-there sedan to be automatic is really stupid. Anything below a Golf GTI is a waste of time to have a stick.
Controls are just so inexpensive now that integrated circuits are part of everything, and the interfaces and subroutine libraries make for quick programming. If an action can be achieved with an electric device (actuator, solenoid, etc), a little interface work and ladder logic can skip truck-loads of hardware: goodbye set-screws, bowden cables, rocker switches, pneumatic or vacuum circuits. So, in one way, it’s very attractive if you have the tech and the guy and an excellent operating algorightm.
I brand myself the “appropriate technology” guy, and for small or military jobs I like things that can be diagnosed and fixed easily in the field, so: relays, fuses, etc. But it’s getting to where I can’t buy equipment without a metric shit-ton of proprietary integration that Supplier X sells that is programmed by their Mr Disinterested in their “engineering” department. You don’t buy from those guys, you marry them, and good luck getting what you really want once the honeymoon is over.
I would also consider controls you can index without TAKING YOUR FUCKING EYES OFF THE ROAD appropriate.
Tactile radio controls > touchscreen horseshit
One of the things I like about my FJ Cruiser is that all the controls are apparently designed to be operated while wearing mittens in the dark.
“I was a very ugly baby but a very cute child.”
What a humblebrag.
Those machines are a monument to capitalism.
I haven’t been involved in the QSR world for at least 8 years, but I wonder if companies are adopting the same model as coffee companies.
The way it works, is you get a free fancy coffee machine (or soda machine) from a distributor. They stock it and maintain it. The only thing that they ask in return is that you buy all your coffee(soda) from them. Of course they build in the cost of that machine into their pricing, but it is pretty small.
We did a lot of work back in the day for Bunn and other coffee makers to put sensor into their machines that reported back all sorts of information. But the most important number was how many brews were done. That way, you could reconcile the number of brews the the amount of coffee they bought from you. This helped put a stop to some restaurant owner sneaking off to CostCo and buying cheaper coffee. They’d mix in some cheap coffee at a rate just enough to save money, but not be too suspicious to their suppliers.
It was amazing how prevalent that was when we were doing the pilot programs. By the time we were ready to roll it out as a real offering, word had gotten around and everyone had stopped cheating.
My guess is that the soda guys have taken the same approach.
It is my prediction that within ten years, soda fountains will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.
Military grade soda guns will be in common use. It will be a sticky, carbonated bloodbath.
Could it be used for
datingdrink mixing?Well, theoretically yes….but the computer matches would be SO perfect as to eliminate the thrill of
romantic conquestmaking your own nonsense drink.Bernie Sanders hates the Freestyle! Hates it!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6255865/Too-sugar-makes-children-violent-likely-drunk-smoke.html
Stealing sugar, telling lies.
Something something settled science, something something consensus.
Best variation on the Johnny Johnny meme
Also, is it 1998 again? All these “new” studies trying to revive the old sugar and video game scapegoats for every social malady.
Please repeat after me, especially in medical discussions:
Correlation is not the same thing as causation! If A causes B reducing A will likely reduce B. If A and B are correlated, but A does not cause B reducing A will likely not reduce B. All your damn studies show are correlations, stop giving advice that conflates the two!
I read Rocannon’s World last night and thought it odd that the titular character is dragging around a paper atlas and notebook in this distant-future sci-fi story. So I flipped to the copyright page: it’s 52 years old.
David Burge shoots and scores with Jon Tester, Cow Assassin
Good morning Fatima – or should I say Agent Clarabelle.
I’m dying over here.
Replying to @iowahawkblog
I don’t know if I could stomach stomach stomach stomach that.
Having two spanking blondes within a short scroll of Hilldawg seems like it violates some editorial standard, even by our standards.
Woe until those with micropenises.
http://healthland.time.com/2011/03/16/guys-are-right-size-matters-fertility-wise/
And more!
https://www.newsweek.com/penis-size-study-male-fertility-linked-size-genitals-1159490
My wife and I had a bunch of trouble because – being from Korea – she had a metric vagina and I had a good old fashioned Imperial penis.
Trying to find an adapter kit was really difficult.
I hope you didn’t have a Mars rover-like crash involving her cervix.
4″ >>>>>>> 100mm !!!!!111!!!!
I have to admit that her inability to convert inches to cms is one of the main reasons she consented to marriage.
“Hannibal Lecter, eat your heart out! Singer Poppy leads worst dressed at American Music Awards in bizarre mask”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6258681/American-Music-Awards-2018-worst-dressed-stars-red-carpet.html
She got her picture splashed all over the tabloids – how awful for her.
That mask really accentuates her eyebrows.
I really, really hope those become a fad in the entertainment industry. The nation could use a little more quiet from that sector.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/10/10/orlando-florida-flight-delayed-after-woman-brings-squirrel-plane/1587164002/
*facepalm*
Why in hell did we allow things to get so stupid? Yeah, the same question applies in so many areas of life but this shit is just world-historical levels of batshit.
Policy is to flush it down the toilet.
No love anymore…
My link had pictures, video, and no cutesy hiding of the url.
Just sayin…
Hiding? There was no URL shortener involved, I didn’t even strip all the bogus tracking shite that got added (which honestly entertained me since I pulled the story from Google).
Besides, don’t people just blindly click the links here?
Isn’t it illegal to keep a squirrel as a pet (or “service animal” or whatever the fuck) in a lot of jurisdictions?
Controls are just so inexpensive now that integrated circuits are part of everything, and the interfaces and subroutine libraries make for quick programming. If an action can be achieved with an electric device (actuator, solenoid, etc), a little interface work and ladder logic can skip truck-loads of hardware: goodbye set-screws, bowden cables, rocker switches, pneumatic or vacuum circuits. So, in one way, it’s very attractive if you have the tech and the guy and an excellent operating algorightm.
And say goodbye to “afro-engineering” your way home.
I would also consider controls you can index without TAKING YOUR FUCKING EYES OFF THE ROAD appropriate.
To answer Leap, I thought Denso (Toyota) had controls figured out in 1985. For HVAC you need: 0 – 4 fan speed, compressor “snowflake”, and maybe eight positions for temp.
“REDACTED-engineering” your way home.
That’s what I’m saying about military equipment: you ought to be able to hotwire yourself home with a coathanger and a penny if you’re expected to take fire in a vehicle. But I lost that argument for good in about 2000.
Yes, I’ve always thought, “hot, cold, a little in between” is a lot more intuitive than dialing in a temperature number.