Pretty much sums it up
The poor Atlanta Braves. I don’t know if they could have put anybody on the mound to stop what happened to them in the first inning.The same can not be said for the Dodgers and the 8th though.Why Kershaw came out of that dugout for that inning will be a question asked endlessly until the idiot that sent him is fired. So now we’re down to the Astros-Rays to determine the LCS matchups. I hope the ‘Stros buck the trend of road teams clinching.
Your hockey winners last night were Buffalo, Philly, and Vancouver. And across the Pacific, they decided a typhoon was more important than rugby matches. We’ll see what happens with the games scheduled for late tonight, as there are some more serious consequences if that match gets called. Especially since its effectively a knockout match.
The legendary AC Slater
Composer Giuseppe Verdi was born on this day. jazzman Thelonious Monk, actor Peter Coyote, underrated singer John Prine, rock legend David Lee Roth, extremely underrated singer Kirsty MacColl, murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, almost-murdered politician Steve Scalise, and Hollywood heartthrob Mario Lopez.
Meh, that wasn’t so great a day. Oh well, there’s aways a chance to make up for it with a solid set of…the links!
I never like posting this kind of shit. But I feel like I have to once in a while. Just in case there are a few of you out there that forget the courts are full of idiots and there are bad people in the world going unpunished. Seriously, UK? Seriously?!?!?!?!
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!
Global Warming is about to fuck shit up. So be sure to stock up on firewood and keep your coat handy. This warming is gonna be especially cold and dangerous.
I guess this is the kind of stuff Philly cops can work on since they’ve solved all the serious crimes. Shouldn’t this have been handled internally by, you know, removing the offenders?
“Still my day, bitches!”
And the DC City Council has apparently fixed all the shitty things about the city so they can focus on pressing issues. Just kidding. Traffic is still a mess, the crime rate is still relatively high. And its still full of government workers.
Sorry these links are a bit on the harsh side today. This is not the link that will buck that trend. And I mean, this might be the worst of the bunch as far as rage-inducement goes. Tread lightly.
I guess this will become a “greedy corporations” story now. Instead of a “this is what happens when the market is manipulated and a government-enforced monopoly is created” story.
I’m sure there’s no possible way this is an overreaction. Oh well, he gets to have his life ruined so the SRO can get a medal for being such a hero. Eggs, omelets, amirite?
I assume many of you knew this was coming. The video is probably better than the song. Nah, it’s not.
Anyway, go have a great day. Fingers crossed for an Astros victory.
LA-area Democrats: Wait a minute, the Dodgers scored 22 runs in the NLDS series, and the Nationals only had 21. How can you say the Nationals won?
I know!
– Hillary
The Dodgers say they will beat the Nationals again next year.
Nats finally did it. Fucking a. I’m looking forward to the Rays vs Astros tonight. I want the Stros to lose but really don’t want the Yankees to be fucking gifted the path of least resistance. What a fucking touched by god franchise.
It’s funny how building an excellent farm system and making good trades helps you get touched by God.
Of course they are an incredibly well run team.
Wait I’m talking about the Yankees just so we are on the same page.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
it also helps to have enough revenue to not care about the luxury tax so when you do make a bad free agent signing it doesn’t kill your ability to have a decent team for the next 5 – 10 years and you can actually afford to keep all of your homegrown stars once the hit free agency.
I’m a Red Sox fan so that same line applies to my team, just saying lets not get too carried away with giving either of them credit for being well run because of the markets and national fanbases both of those teams along with the Dodgers are basically playing with cheat codes on compared to the rest league.
If you really want to talk about a well run team it’s got to be the Cardinals. Small market team with only a regional fanbase centered around the Rust Belt and Mississippi valley has the second best win percentage of the last decade behind only the Yankees
This^^ Cardinals have 2nd most WS wins.
STL is a great baseball town, much like KC or Green Bay are great football towns.
The poor Atlanta Braves. I don’t know if they could have put anybody on the mound to stop what happened to them in the first inning.The same can not be said for the Dodgers and the 8th though.Why Kershaw came out of that dugout for that inning will be a question asked endlessly until the idiot that sent him is fired. So now we’re down to the Astros-Rays to determine the LCS matchups. I hope the ‘Stros buck the trend of road teams clinching. – ehm go dodgers I guess?
You have to go down with your best he’s one of your best. But seriously though, Roberts should be absolutley killed for Kelly when he had Ryu/Jansen in the pen. The Nats didn’t get the lead off Kershaw. It’s also not like he left him in for too long either, freaking 6 pitches and got the hook. Kershaw is a first ballot hof in my opinion. You let him take the mound in a elimination game. IF Kershaw hadn’t come in and they lost he would have been crucified by the same people killing him for letting him pitch. Baseball.
I understand nothing you just said
“Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t.”
lol. I didn’t get it either.
Exactly. No manager with a brain would let Joe Kelly face nine batters. Joe Kelly did what Joe Kelly has done his entire career – walk batters.
But the GM should be killed for signing Kelly in the first place. I mean, I could see trying him out as a minimum-salary type roster filler to give the good relievers rest in meaningless games, but fer crissakes they signed him to a 3-year contract two months before spring training began! Reap what you sow. LA = Lost Again.
“Meh, that wasn’t so great a day.”
Verdi, Thelonious Monk, and David Lee Roth isn’t a great day?
Those three are solid, don’t get me wrong. But there was a lot of filler in there too.
He forgot everybody’s favorite sexter turning 50 today.
Brett Favre? Carlos Danger?
It’s the day that Che became a good commie.
Global Warming is about to fuck shit up. So be sure to stock up on firewood and keep your coat handy. This warming is gonna be especially cold and dangerous.
Is the harvest over in those areas? And the fall agricultural works or is that not a thing in the US?
A mid-October blizzard in the Dakotas and Nebraska? Shit, they’re grateful fall lasted so long this year. My grandparents in Omaha used to refuse to travel after Labor Day because of the chance they’d get caught in a blizzard.
There’s usually at least one snow storm here in northern Ohio through October (and we’re usually protected for a while with Lake Erie to the north of us).
in Romania we had some drought in August and September and the issue was they could not plow the ground as it was too dry. Wheat is planted in the fall round here…
We do ‘winter wheat’, which gets planted in the fall so that it springs up early in the spring and gets cultivated.
Winter wheat is grown here also.
Chris Christie just doesn’t give AF anymore does he?
::golf clap::
Sheet, I have to ramp up my cultural appropriation for Columbus day.
I’ll just give out blankets and whiskey to celebrate the new holiday.
I guess this is the kind of stuff Philly cops can work on since they’ve solved all the serious crimes. Shouldn’t this have been handles internally by, you know, removing the offenders?- Philosophical topic of the day: if there was a God you could not cheat at church bingo. Discuss.
But God provided us free will so we can make our own choices and be truly independent beings. When the Bible says we were made in his image, it doesn’t mean we physically look like him, it means we’re capable of making moral decisions like him. He weeps when we choose to do something wrong, like cheating on bingo in the freaking church, but it wouldn’t truly be our choice if he interfered.
^^this^^
Hi JATNAS
“…it means we’re capable of making moral decisions like him.” And yet we weren’t supposed to eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Free will and god’s omniscience don’t mix.
Sure thing.
And God disappeared in a puff of logic.
Be careful proving black is white and then disregarding the crossing zone on the street.
Not god.
That particular conception of god.
I cannot prove there is no god, I can however prove that most claims of the nature of god are false
I’m not trying to prove anything. See Rasilio’s comment below.
…above :/
Nobody got my Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy bit… 🙁
I’ve been going to sleep to the miniseries version recently, so I got it.
“Oh, I hadn’t thought of that, says God…”, gets me everytime.
God is a Terrible Matchmaker
Doh!
“And yet we weren’t supposed to eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Free will and god’s omniscience don’t mix.”
Right, an no parent has ever slowly, patiently explained to their child about why a choice the child will be making is stupid and harmful, but stood aside and let the child make their own mistake, bear the consequence for a while, and then took an action to lift some, but not all, of the burden of the consequence.
That, like, never happens.
There’s a big difference between a parent having a highly probable idea of a child’s decision and its consequences, and an omniscient creator who absolutely knows everything that will happen to its creation.
I’m not an atheist. I just don’t believe in the god that is typically described.
What is the operable difference between the two?
Is it that I have a “highly probable idea” that if my 10 year old stays up an hour later, he’s going o be sleepy and grumpy in the morning when he needs to focus on his piano and drum practice whereas God has perfect knowledge of the outcome? That might be mathematically true, but but it’s not operable.
I think you are implying that if we humans make a choice at time T, its logically impossible for God to have foreknowledge of that choice at time T-1. But this assumes that God is constrained by space and time, which is not a supposition with any grounding in the Bible as I read it.
The operable difference is, if god knew everything you would ever do when he created you, then you don’t have free will.
You did not have that omniscience when you conceived your child, therefore to you, your child does have free will, outside of your ability to use experience/probability to predict what xe will do.
if god knew everything you would ever do when he created you, then you don’t have free will.
This reads an awful lot like “I can’t conceive of existence outside of spacetime, therefore nothing can exist outside of spacetime”
As I said above, this assumes that God is constrained by our perception of time. Why do you think this is the case?
We already know he isn’t constrained by causality as we are (IE I can’t breath life into a rib bone). Why is he constrained by time like we are when he isn’t constrained in other ways?
Could you two explain why what I’m saying is dependent on time? /not being facetious
Either he’s omniscient about his creation or he’s not, whether or not time exists, has a direction…
Correct.
Christianity accepts God’s omniscience without qualification.
I’ve gotta split for awhile. It’s been fun 🙂 I’ll check back to see if there’s more to this thread another *time* 😉
We experience time only in the present. I assume you get that and I won’t belabor the point.
We do not experience all points in the past + the present simultaneously. You remember perceiving the then-present a minute ago, but you don’t perceive them simultaneously.
You will, a minute from now, perceive the then present time that is a minute from now. But you won’t perceive that simultaneously with your perception of the present time or the past.
In the next 30 seconds, I may or may not click my pen. Its a choice I make via free will. The present you won’t have knowledge of what choice I make. The future you will. Because you do not perceive the present and the future simultaneously, you have a state that doesn’t know my choice and a state that does.
Now, we move from you to an unconstrained observer that is not constrained by time. They have multiple (infinite) senses that work simultaneously. They *do* perceive the past, the present, and the future simultaneously.
In the next 30 seconds, I may or may not click my pen. Its a choice I make via free will. The present perception of the unconstrained observer won’t have knowledge of what choice I make. The future unconstrained observer will. Because the unconstrained observer does perceive the present and the future simultaneously, it will have perfect knowledge of my choice to click a pen. There is no state in which the entity doesn’t know if I click, only datastreams that provide that info, and some datastreams that don’t.
Is this *the* way that divine omniscience works? I have no idea. But its a model of what it *could* be like.
An interesting take. I’m digesting it. Thanks for taking the time to spell that out 🙂
Unless the child is a teenager, ’cause then they are always right.
Free will and god’s omniscience don’t mix.
Que? If you had said omnipotence, I’d understand this argument more.
I think that the only way that free will and God’s omniscience wouldn’t mix is if you assume that good doesn’t require tradeoffs (which it obviously does due to the existence of evil).
Perhaps the timeline with the greatest good is not the timeline with the least evil.
It’s just a logic thing, not good v evil. See my reply to Leap above.
Right, which is why I’m confused. “God knows everything that will happen, therefore nobody has free will” is a simplified version of Calvinism (irresistible grace). It has been rebutted many times by the Arminians over the years to the point that even the Calvinists wouldn’t go so far as to say “God has to exist within the confines of space and time”. I’m not sure how the complex theological argument that is free will v. pre-destination could be neutered into “just a logic thing” in good faith, thus why I was giving you the benefit of the doubt that you meant something deeper.
The idea that God’s ‘foreknowledge’ defeats freewill depends on God being bound by time because unless God is bound by time you cannot distinguish foreknowledge from contemporaneous knowledge or hindsight, as the distinction is solely the product of the flow of time.
No one would claim that hindsight or observation defeats free will, it is only the advance knowledge of how a person will choose (coupled with his creation of the chooser and the situation) that seems to ‘determine’ the choice. If God is unbound by time, his knowledge is not actually advance knowledge. It is a distinct form of knowledge more akin to contemporaneous observation because he is observing everywhen as though it were contemporary.
Even this concept is not strictly necessary to allow free will and God to coexist. There is a difference between knowing what someone will choose and determining their choice.
A simpler version of calvinism is that chosen grace isn’t really grace.
But, I think Plisades point is that if God has the ability to create(or not create) whatever he wants human will is an illusion.
This is not a version of calvinism.
That’s literally a sermon dude. Also, correct.
-1 Calvin.
Calvinism is awesome. “Did you go to church today?” “Nope. I wasn’t called.”
God doesn’t want you to play bingo, that’s why he allows cheaters.
Also. I’m not your bitch.
You say that now but wait until they send the libertarians to reeducation camp. We may be cellmates.
We should be so lucky. I expect to be bound and flung into STEVE SMITH’s cave.
STEVE SMITH NOT NEED BONDAGE! HE OLD SCHOOL, LIKE RAPE WITH CHASE.
Great, tired AND raped to death by a cryptid. Can I haz Gulag instead?
SOVIET SMITH SAY SURE, COME ON IN!
SOVIET SMITH… hmmm. Interesting.
IN SOVIET SMITH, RAPE RAPES YOU!
errr…
There’s only one song for Verdi’s b-day.
Hey blackjack! You mentioned going to see Samantha Fish at the Troubador and guess what popped up in my feed last night https://youtu.be/0hFcEZ3p7gw
Right on. That was the night before, on Thursday. I enjoyed the hell out it in any case.
Please tell me she was wearing a mini-dress on the night you saw her! That Gal has gams to die for…
Shimmery short skirt and a diamond shape painted over her eye.
I’ll be in my bunk.
Yeah, I got to high five her out front of the club and, if I wasn’t a mechanic, I still wouldn’t have washed my hand. My knuckles got hard.
Legit LOL! and a second-hand chub, to boot!
108 years ago today was the end of the Qing dynasty at which point Great Britain should have announced that their lease of Hong Kong was now null and void since the other party of that agreement no longer had sovereignty. That could have spared us all a lot of trouble.
Lots of things could have spared trouble …
Yeah, they could have left Korea and Taiwan as part of Japan as those were “annexed” long before WWII. That might have kept the Korean conflict from ever starting.
I’ve heard that there’s some nostalgia in Taiwan among the native population for the era they were ruled by Japan.
A buddy of mine who married a Taiwanese and lived on that island for a decade after that told me his wife had an Uncle who fought as a Japanese soldier and seemed very nationalistic for the nation he grew up in and fought for.
By Japanese colonial standards Taiwan was relatively well treated. But that’s a heck of a qualification!
I’ve had some interesting discussions about this with my Taiwanese neighbors.
PRC would have rolled over HK like India did with Goa.
Mao did not take HK because he wanted to keep it as a pipeline through which he could smuggle key items like hard currency and gold. It was like a wormhole to the west and he wanted to keep it open. Had it been long since declared a part of the UK I doubt that would have changed much.
Oh, sorry. I assumed you meant the UK should have grabbed it circa expiration talks.
I assume Britain considers communist China to be the legitimate successor state
to the Qing dynasty. On that basis, they would be the proper lessor.
I agree that Britain most probably did consider communist China to be the successor state however as the Qing emperor was deposed in 1911 and the PRC did not run the Nationalists out of the country until 1949 that left 38 years of “Who The F Owns HK?” during which I submit that the UK could have legitimately said they would only return it to the Qing emperor or his appointed heir.
Speaking of sucessorships, the US screwed the pooch by unrecognizing ROC. They should have conditioned PRC recognition with recognizing Taiwan as an independent country. Of course, Chiang Kaishek probably wouldn’t have accepted that either.
The PRC should not be recognized by anyone. It is an illegitimate rebellion against China.
That was our position until Nixon. Hard to hold that when the reality is the PRC controls China and the ROC isn’t getting off Taiwan.
Naw, it would have been easy to keep going.
Doing no research at all, I assume that the Republic of China was considered the successor state
to the Qing dynasty, and the the PRC was the successor to the Republic of China. So, the lessor,
from a legal standpoint, as far as Britain was concerned was the Qing dynasty, then the RoC,
and then the PRC when Britain recognized them.
I’m not sure how other contracts and obligations were handled. When countries switched
recognition from the RoC to the PRC, did the PRC assume the debts and obligations of
any other contracts or treaties?
The way Great Britain went, HK would be forced into socialism either way.
Well, yeah. There’s that. Either the PRC is going to make you be their bitch or the UK will teach you the joys of being a bitch.
The niece lives up in the stone aged zone. I gotta check how they’re doing up there. Somebody took a pot shot at a PGE worker, apparently.
Can’t wait for the first North Korea/south Korea style satellite pics of California. Good job, Sacremento!
“And the DC City Council has apparently fixed all the shitty things about the city so they can focus on pressing issues. Just kidding. Traffic is still a mess, the crime rate is still relatively high. And its still full of government workers.”
Will they change the name of the City too?
Like they know what it stands for.
“Washington” has to go – old, dead, white, slavery, etc.
“District” can stay – has a good old East Bloc feel to it.
“Columbia” – that is right out.
So…Wokington, District of Indigenous here we come!
People’s City, District Of Rulers
Oh come on you know they are just going to name it Panem.
“government workers”
Contradiction in terms
There going to change it to Wakanda. Or would that be like wearing black face?
Seeing as wakanda is a fictionalized version of African Tribal culture… I think it is blackface.
It’s almost as easy to find proof of the NHS’s evil as it is to find muderous cops.
Still, “Nothing I have said should be interpreted as suggesting that the birth of a child with Down syndrome must be seen as unwelcome,” the judge added.
“I’m not saying you “must” see it as unwelcome. You probably should, though.”
“Wrongful birth?!?!?!” What the flying fuck? People can be so evil.
There are a few people in that story who deserve the woodchipper treatment, and the down syndrome baby ain’t one of them.
/not serious, preet
I almost agree.
There are multiple people that deserve to be chucked into a wood chipper. And the Down Syndrome kid ain’t one of them.
/dead-serious
That bingo-cheating story is bogus. Nobody needed to call the cops. Have you ever witnessed what broody hens do to one of their own when it gets sickly?
The Bee delivers again.
https://babylonbee.com/news/senators-on-left-right-come-together-to-fight-for-only-thing-they-agree-on-endless-war
Everything on their “Latest” is on point.
The D.C. Council has voted to change the name of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day — at least for this year.
Championed for the past five years by Councilmember David Grosso, the Council voted to support the “Indigenous Peoples’ Day Emergency Declaration Act of 2019.”
Emergency?
“Columbus Day was officially designated as a federal holiday in 1937, despite the fact Columbus did not discover North America, despite the fact millions of people were already living in North America upon his arrival to the Americas, and despite the fact Columbus never set foot on the shores of the current United States,” Grosso said before the council’s vote Tuesday.
I see that we are still pretending the natives weren’t already doing that to each other (like everyone else in the world throughout human history).
+1 Starved Rock
-1 Illini tribe
That’s a beautiful part of the country.
Fuck it, it’s done. Up here every public announcement comes with a scorpion’s tail that they are broadcasting from the unceded territory of argle-bargle, unpronounceable Indigenous tribe. It’s sickening.
And they insist on making the modern pronunciation as Arabic as possible.
“millions of people were already living in North America upon his arrival to the Americas,”
They should have built a wall.
“millions of people were already living in North America upon his arrival to the Americas,”
Yeah, we know. The people who arrived in NA that had mastered the written word and trans-oceanic travel put that down in history books.
and despite the fact Columbus never set foot on the shores of the current United States,
He has a point. Just get rid of the holiday altogether. Nobody needs 11 federal holidays.
Do you even get the day off?
I do.
I don’t.
Fine, let’s have Amerigo Vespucci Day.
The map maker? why?
::burp::
Why not!
-John -“Bluto” Blutarshy
Not just a map maker:
Well, at the time it was a little hard to make maps of any accuracy from a distance.
He was sexy AF, too.
He didn’t get to America Either.
Clearly it needs to be Karl Marx Day.
Or “Day after No-Che Day”
I’m holding out for Leif Erikson day.
Solutrean Day or GTFO
That was yesterday.
Lol, coincidence.
“DC will now be open October 14th, despite the Federal Holiday” would have been a lot more impressive.
It’s been indigo people day here in Los Angeles for a few years now. We apparent love all the colors in the crayon box.
The District’s Charter allows the Council to enact special “emergency” legislation without the need for a second reading and without the need for congressional review.
That’s why.
That, and nobody remembers Columbus Day exists until right before it happens.
Columbus Day was always just a sop to buy votes from Italians. Makes more sense mathematically to curry favor with woketards since they outnumber Italians.
Citation?
Columbus day was original celebrated by early 19th century Boston Brahmans, who where not exactly big fans of dirty Catholics.
Wokes > Wops
I’m not sure. Wokes just wander around screaming a lot.
How I celebrate Indigenous People’s Day.
1. Rent a U-HAUL van.
2. Gather several of my friends together with me.
3. Drive van to neighboring town.
4. Kidnap several of their most able men.
5. Drive back to my town.
6. Go to City Hall
7. Cut out the hearts of the kidnapped men.
8. Eat part of the heart to gain their strength.
9. Cut off their heads (for later, basketball)
10. Kick their still spasming bodies down the steps.
11. Repeat steps 7-10 until all of the men are dead.
Chilly Down
Well, back from Florida. I was at a conference for chemical manufacturers, mostly solid, conservative, Midwestern big business types. Suits and ties.
Every single meeting began with dark musings on how badly everyone is being hurt by the Trump tariffs. And how the regulatory burden is getting worse and worse. Tell me again about how this asshole is the Most Libertarian President Ever.
Well I though massive deregulation has been happening every year since 2000
Since the Reagan administration. Get with the program.
Can you share an example or two from the new regulations? I don’t think it’s possible to keep up with them.
I have to be a bit careful not to out people and get too specific. But let’s just say that Global Warming Potential and “ozone depletion” are big deals in the regs.
Neither of those are even real!
Where did reality have to come in?
That shit sounds like carry-over from the permanent bureaucracy rather than Trump.
The current standard is to credit or blame the sitting executive for the actions of the bureaucracy during their tenure. If we applied to to Barry, we have to apply it now.
I think it’s also relevant as to whether those actions reflect the desires and philosophy of the executive. Is the action of the bureaucracy in opposition to or in line with the executive’s thinking?
#Resistance
One stroke of the pen and it’s over. And it’s his appointees who oversee the agencies enforcing the increasing regs. Oddly enough, the regs favor certain well-connected manufacturers with patent positions, keeping others out of that market. Huh, that’s an odd coincidence…
“Divert the Swamp!”
:slow clap:
Working as intended. If you want a better deal be born to better parents next time!
Cronytastic!
One stroke of the pen and it’s over.
Only if the civil service and judiciary are aligned with the result. Otherwise, it’s didn’t follow the rule making procedure, or the intent was wrong, or whatever. See adding the citizenship question to the census.
“conference for chemical manufacturers”
Is there gas in the car? Yes, there’s gas in the car.
You know, tallest midget and all that. Given his reluctance to engage in wars and his efforts to roll back regulations to the extent he can with executive orders, and given the tax cut, he, sadly, really is the most libertarian president in my lifetime, anyway.
Oddly, the single federal government decision ever that most immediately and directly benefited me was under Clinton (although it was thanks to the Republican congress at the time). I think it was 1994 when the feds revoked the nationally-set speed limit, and within days the interstate in Tennessee between my college and my parents house had new signs with a 75 mph limit.
I can’t drive! 55!
Worst Van Halen frontman ever.
Keyboards and Sammy. *shudders*
Eddie played the keyboards pre-Sammy.
Wrong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Cherone
I kinda like this ONE song.
Oops. https://youtu.be/a_C-QyKVFfc
They were okay.
If you don’t vote for him socialism wins.
Or something.
Elizabeth Warren agrees!
With advisors such as Navarro and Lighthizer tariffs are never a problem. When the dust settles the US will be slightly worse off than at the start of Trump’s presidency and lost 4 years of growth/opportunity.
This was settled 200 years ago by Adam Smith but some people are slow learners.
What could some white guy from 200 years ago know about such a complex economy.
Adam Smith laid out several instances in which he supported tariffs, including retaliatory tariffs to equalize the production costs of domestic and foreign producers to put them on an even footing. If you want to celebrate an 18th century economist for his enlightened view of global trade stick to Ricardo.
Didn’t Adam Smith also believe in the Labor Theory of Value? I wouldn’t take everything he claimed uncritically.
Meh… I think it’s a bit harsh to fault him for that. There were no alternative hypothesis at the time, and he did quite a bit to argue for the free market in a mercantilsts world.
We went from 500 new rules a year from the EPA alone, to a major slowdown in new rules, and a 2:1 ratio of repeal vs. new regulations:
EPA Exceeded Trump’s Deregulatory Expectations
And yet, here on the ground, EVERYTHING is about tariffs and new regulations. So I’m not going to fact-check that link, I’ll just report what’s holding back our businesses. And it’s tariffs and new regs, and that view is universal among the hundreds of industry people we met with.
Of course. My wife worked in banking compliance. Under Obama they would literally get at least one new rule a day, often more. There’s been a massive slowdown, and a large number of the employees dealing with that have had their jobs eliminated. And yet I’m sure there’s still lots of complaints by management about new rules holding them back, even though things are massively better than they would have been.
Trump 100% owns the tarriffs and deserves any and all blame for that. It’s one of his signature issues and he can’t shirk any blame for it (even if it gets implemented poorly on purpose).
However, the courts have almost literally ruled that the bureaucracy can’t be rolled back unilaterally by the President or his appointees, that if the civil service determines a regulation is good and follows its own cooked up process to produce the regulation, the appointees can’t ax it without jumping through the hoops their own underlings have erected.
It would take an act of Congress to reign in the civil service, a fact which really ought to raise separation of powers concerns but doesn’t because OrangeManBad.
So they’re just conveniently ignore the lower corporate tax rates because they have to bitch about something “from without” being the cause of all their mismanagement.
If a significant enough share of their inputs are imported, the increased tariffs might cost more than the income tax reduction saves.
Interesting. In my sphere, I’ve been hearing that the regulatory burden outside of international shipping is going down or staying level (and since the historic trajectory is an increase…)
Next time you are in town we should get a drink and compare notes.
Since GHWB (aka since I was a child) who would you consider more libertarian? Clinton?
Clinton gets the title only because 1) he was too busy getting laid to care and 2) the GOP in Congress from 1994-1996 did a mostly good job. Unfortunately, derangement over 1 led to 2 getting fucked up.
Shift those years forward by 1, the GOP didn’t control Congress until after they won the 1994 election.
Clinton was also moved us in a more-trade direction (but probably not in the direction of free-trade), and his regulatory apparatus moved us toward a more market-oriented (but probably not in the direction of free-market) regulation.
The argument for Orange Man is no new wars and, apparently arguably, a reduction or slow-down-in-the-increase-in-rate-of new regulation. And Because Goresuch.
Clinton’s NAFTA was at least marginally better than Obama’s TPP, it allowed more trade than it restricted (although it had “fun” interactions within the context of the U.S.’s existing regulatory framework).
I think the biggest problem free(r) trade currently faces is that the worldwide division of labor is being driven by capital controls, taxes, regulatory burdens, and cost of living moreso than labor, talent, intellect, natural resources, information, or other factors of production. It feels like a finance game, which gets iterated every time a rule changes in one country or another, rather than a solution to the problem of matching up willing buyers with willing sellers.
Until he can go back in time and get rid of Coolidge and Cleveland, he’s not getting anywhere near that title. He’s closer to Reagan than Bush was, at least. Although, he’s got 1-5 more years to enact some grand new welfare program “compromise”, so who knows.
Your hockey winners last night were Buffalo, Philly, and Vancouver.
Former goalkeeper Petr Cech to play ice hockey for Guildford Phoenix
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/oct/09/petr-cech-joins-guildford-phoenix-ice-hockey-team
I did not know goal-tending had carry over from Real Football to stick figure-skating
Well, they “real footballers” are used to flopping around on the ground like a landed fish when an opponent comes near them.
Soccer, one of the few men’s sports where the fans are tougher than the players.
Sigh.
The game is extremely physical. A lot of that goes unseen by audiences due to the long camera angles. My son plays high school club soccer and there is a TON of CONTACT without any kind of pads. Heck, I have played 7-on-7 and been blindsided and taken out. There’s pushing, pulling, elbowing, etc.
I’ve also taken a soccer ball (about 45 MPH) to the jawline and that hurt like hell.
Sure, there’s flopping — but it’s mostly to try to instigate penalties, not because the players are necessarily soft.
And that does not negate the fact that the Soccer Hooligans would still crush the players.
John Prine is an underrated lyricist and songwriter but I’ve never heard him described as an underrated singer. He makes Dylan sound good.
He was more a story teller than a great vocal talent. Cancer robbed him of his limited range. I’ll give him a pass for gems like “Angel From Montgomery” and “Paradise”.
Spanish Pipe Dream and Dear Abby are two of my favorite Prine songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BofvfVPFbiM
Blow up your t.v. throw away your paper
Go to the country, build you a home
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches
Try an find jesus on your own
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJVFY_LX9Ik
Dear Abby, Dear Abby…
Well I never thought
That me and my girlfriend would ever get caught
We were sitting in the back seat just shooting the breeze
With her hair up in curlers and her pants to her knees
Signed Just Married
Also “In Spite of Ourselves”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8tTwXv4glY
He ain’t got laid in a month of Sundays
I caught him once and he was sniffin’ my undies
He ain’t too sharp but he gets things done
Drinks his beer like it’s oxygen
He’s my baby
And I’m his honey
Never gonna let him go
I saw him and Todd Snider this summer, They still rock out for being old fogies.
Woman suing NHS for wrongful birth” of her son.
Close it up. I’m done. I don’t want to be in this planet anymore.
The Camden residents were charged with improper behavior under a borough ordinance. A parish official says it’s the first issue in 20-plus years of bingo games at the church.
Digging deep for that one. “Improper behavior” could be anything.
That’s why it’s on the books. Catch-all laws will always be in style as long as police departments have budgets to meet through fines.
(CNN)Streaming live from a camera mounted on his helmet, a gunman pushed on the doors of a synagogue, fired several shots at a lock on the door, stuck an explosive in a door jam and lit it.
But he couldn’t get in.
The fact that the door held likely spared the lives of the dozens of people inside the synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
Police say the gunman killed two people Wednesday in the eastern German town of Halle — one directly outside the synagogue, and one at a nearby kebab shop. Police have arrested the suspected gunman.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/09/us/halle-germany-synagogue-attack-video/index.html
If it would have happened in northern CA, there would have been no electricity to upload it with.
Fucking Indiana is selling guns to the Germans now?
My synagogue had 4 armed private security guards and San Diego posted 2 cops for Yom Kippur. The threat has to be taken seriously.
For a second I thought CNN had mounted the camera to his helmet. And, oddly, I wasn’t surprised.
Tell me again about how this asshole is the Most Libertarian President Ever.
I’m just here for the lulz.
and are you entertained?
: thumbs up:
John’s looking pretty good there for a dead guy.
This is where I am at. This theater is almost better than anything on TV.
I’m a Stoke City fan, and I have to say, the drama surrounding the shit performance of the club is almost as interesting as winning would be.
Edyta Mordel, 33, who is Polish-born and lives in Reading, Berkshire, sued the national health care system over the “wrongful birth” of her son Aleksander, who is now 4, the Mirror reported Tuesday.
The UK is through the looking glass.
If abortion is just health care then this would easily qualify is a failure to treat.
Failure to Treat never bothered the NHS.
Pregnancy is a disease. The NHS failed to treat it.
Wait, you can sue the NHS?
You can sue, but you aren’t allowed to win.
How do you tell a 4-year-old he was wrongfully born?
“You were a mistake.”
Badger’s ass toilet paper, made from recycled sandpaper
https://twitter.com/PaulNCov/status/1180095133385216001
Or “toilet paper currently in use in Central Asia”?
It reminds me of the torture paper they used to use in East Germany.
A highschool friend brought back a roll of toilet paper from rural Russia. It had honest wood chips in it.
That way you know is authentic Russian paper, not American imitation.
“Roughage”
No wonder the Russians drink so much.
They’re lucky to have something at all.
–Venezuela
at least there four thousand million billion man-hours of work are not lost yearly due to shitting
Given the common ancestry of indigenous Americans and Western Europeans, the DC Council are clearly White Supremacists. They need to check their privilege.
La Porte police arrested a 12-year-old student today on a misdemeanor charge of making a terroristic threat in an incident they say occurred while he was riding a school bus in the morning.
He showed off the clock he built?
But seriously the article doesn’t even say what the kid supposedly did/said.
He threatened…terroristically!
He made a terroristic threat, what else do you need to know?
/Spokescop
He sang America the Beautiful.
He smirked.
It does mention that his threat did not involve a weapon. I admit I am unsure how a threat that does not involve a weapon rises to the level of a terroristic threat, but then I am kind of slow this morning. You can now be prosecuted for threatening to bop someone in the nose?
“Imma going take this bus and drive through the crowd in front of the school while screaming ‘aloha snackbar’.”
– Terroristic threat not involving a weapon. (By the legal standard of weapon)
I think we are supposed to be shocked at the age of the student getting arrested. And if there was a history of lots of 12 year olds getting handcuffed that would raise some eyebrows. But 12 years old is potentially old enough for someone to have demonstrated an ability and propensity for violence. A kid I grew up with stabbed his weed dealer in the gut when he was 13 years old. I know another 10 or 11 year old kid that’s bounced between juvie and foster care because he keeps cutting his foster parents every time he gets out.
Its incredibly sad, but if either one of them tells a bunch of kids on their bus that they are going to kill the other kids, they need to be removed from polite society.
Its incredibly sad, but if either one of them tells a bunch of kids on their bus that they are going to kill the other kids, they need to be removed from polite society.
But 12 years old is potentially old enough for someone to have demonstrated an ability and propensity for violence.
You are stealing a base here. saying something is not enough to demonstrate either ability or propensity.
Yes, I’m doing it to demonstrate that the article is stealing bases in the other direction.
I’m saying we don’t have enough information to draw any conclusion. If we don’t have enough information to draw any conclusion, we should default to not getting worked up. Wanting to know more makes sense. Outrage based on this information doesn’t.
Badger’s ass toilet paper, made from recycled sandpaper
John Wayne Toilet Paper: it won’t take shit off nobody.
Blizzard done fucked up:
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/hong-kong-activision-blizzard-china-censor-free-speech-ban-10000-prize-blitzchung-hearthstone
And nothing will happen. Gamers will not give a shit.
Not that I really follow any of the streamers, but I’ve seen a couple of articles come across my newsfeed with the headlines talking about streamers quitting Hearthstone due to this decision.
What they should care about is the tariffs on China. Human decency is fine when we’re talking about Iran and Russia and Venezuela. But China is different, beyond the fact that it’s more murderous than the other three
I have been noticing several companies announcing they were shifting their production out of China to avoid the tariffs.
I also hear that there was some sort of net of traps the Chinese government set up to make it difficult for companies to do so and before the tariffs, the costs of ripping free were higher than could be justified. In the long run, this could actually result in freer trade, but that depends on where they land and whether it’s another tarpit.
Like, the harder you pull, the tighter it gets?
*narrows gaze*
The one streamer i really follow canceled all his Blizzard accounts.
NBA threw out some fans for wearing “Free Hong Kong” shirts and holding a sign that reads “Google Ughyer”. They get kicked out right as the National anthem is playing.
I watched last week’s South Park episode last night. Very funny and spot on.
say what now?
Keep digging assholes.
They won’t pay a single price. I don’t get the impression NBA fans are like NFL or even MLB fans.
What have you seen in the last five years that gives you any confidence at all that any major American company wouldn’t sell out your liberty for a 1% bump to their bottom line?
Define “Major company”
or “American” company
Weren’t we just having one of those “national conversations” about how it’s important to stand up for what you believe in, even if it hurts the bottom line? Something about kneeling, and protesting, and whatnot. Must have been my imagination.
Destroying $millions worth of rifles in your inventory.
I am, however, curious, if other “political” signs would be allowed at an NBA game. I wish I could test the theory with a TRUMP 2020 or SOAK THE RICH sign but I don’t attend NBA games because the professional basketball is awful.
Well it finally happened yesterday. I went to linked article and down at the bottom in the spam “recommended for you” section was an ad for “Sexy single seniors in Prince George”. I won’t turn 55 until December. Fuck Facebook and fuck Google.
The question is not one of age. It is whether you can afford a 25 year old or not. This must mean you are just not rich enough.
They know everything about me… *stubs out another ciggy and goes to bed*
Did you get your AARP card yet?
*ducks*
I’m sure the clock is ticking down to December 10 at whatever agency we have in Canada that mirrors that. They’ve been pushing boner pills and cheating sites on me for fifteen years so why stop now?
Needs and “L” at the beginning.
go on…
13 year-old girl Eeeeewww!
Owning a dog tied to lowering your risk of dying early by 24%, says science
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/08/health/dogs-help-us-live-longer-wellness/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=link&utm_content=2019-10-09T09%3A42%3A40&utm_medium=social
Pets make you do stuff that you wouldn’t otherwise do. I can be in the deepest funk and still make the effort to take care of my friends, no matter how bad I feel.
Yeah, but the benefits are lost when you lose your dog, and increase your alcohol intake to compensate.
Sorry about your pup. They come and go and it never gets any goddamned easier. “Groin to the grindstone, though!”
Thx.
Hey Joe, where you going with that money in your hand?
Curiouser and curiouser. I hope that this shit blows up good. Real good!
“That’s been debunked!!”
– NYT
Do you not Trust the FBI? Do you not Trust the CIA? :Incredulous and Condescending sigh: / Chuck Todd
No, Mr Todd, I do not.
Don’t listen to UCS he is part of the deep state
The parties! They switched!
$900,000 ? Those are rookie numbers
That’s just the Ukrainians.
Imagine what he got from China. Hell, imagine what we lost for it!
Missile tech?
/Bill Clinton
Not too shabby for a side-kick, an “also-ran” if you will…
I mean… He’s more successful at Presidential elections than HRC.
:Wipes coke from nose: you gotta pump those numbers up.
A B C! Always Be Colluding! Poor old Joe got the steak knives.
Yeah…. My mayor gave his wife $850,000,000 to play around with, and nobody knows where it went.
Need I say it? “…asserted without evidence…”
It’s scandalous that Trump is pressuring the Ukrainian government to investigate these kind of obviously legitimate and 100% above-board deals.
These debunked conspiracy theories keep getting more and more information that agrees with them.
Who in their right mind would hire Hunter Biden to do anything for $50,000 per month unless it wasn’t for access to Joe?
It’s not a political stunt.
Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, threatened to call Volker to testify before his panel if Democrats did not meet his demand.
Volker is at the center of the impeachment investigation. He resigned as the special envoy to Ukraine at the end of last month as the inquiry began to heat up.
Sen. Graham described the House Democrats’ refusal to make the full transcript of Volker’s deposition last Thursday public as “an abuse of power.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and other Republican congressmen who witnessed Volker’s testimony have called on Democrats to release the transcript.
Jordan is the top Republican of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. The Democrat-led House Committees on Oversight and Reform, Intelligence, and Foreign Affairs are pursuing the impeachment inquiry.
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) said the full transcript of Volker’s testimony “obliterated” the “whistleblower’s” claim fueling the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
The comments from Zeldin, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who also witnessed Volker’s testimony, came while he was briefing reporters alongside Jordan.
Citing a Fox News story highlighting the Democrats’ refusal to releae the transcript, Sen. Graham wrote on Twitter Wednesday, “If this continues, I will call Volker before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify publicly to ensure the full story is told.”
Lindsey’s balls are like a kid playing with a yo-yo. He makes you hate him for his neo-con antics and then “Bloomph!” he grows a pair again. PTSD from being McCain’s bottom for so many years?
Yea that stuff makes me want to like the guy. But then he gets his neo-con hard-on and I’m out again.
There is hardly any cannibalism in the
Royal NavyDemocratic PartyUnder the headline, “Uncertainty Takes Over the Lead in the Democratic Presidential Race,” the Washington Post’s Michael Scherer and Matt Viser (10/6/19) report that recent events “have created huge uncertainty for the candidates who have dominated the Democratic nomination race.” Those recent events? For Sanders, a heart attack; for Biden, an uncomfortable role in the impeachment inquiry; and for Warren, the curiously un-event-like “persistent doubts among some party leaders that she is too liberal to win the general election.”
The Democratic Party has many leaders from both its left and right wings; for the Post, the adjective “some” serves to obscure the fact that its sources expressing those doubts are almost exclusively from the right.
People like former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, who lost her 2018 re-election campaign (in which she emphasized how often she voted with Trump) by more than 10 percentage points — who better to turn to for an opinion about how to win an election?
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The best bits come from anonymous donors, though, who are given cover to sow fear about a candidate whose policy proposals (like a wealth tax and a lobbying tax) would directly impact their own finances and political influence:
As Warren has steadily marched upward in the polls, the reality that she could become the nominee has unsettled some of the party’s top donors, who worry that she would hand the race to Trump. If it starts to look like Warren will win the party’s nomination, a longtime Democratic bundler said, “there will be efforts to stop that.”
Elizabeth Warren is the best central planner for the job. Anybody who questions her electability is just an old misogynist cracker.
Save us, Big-Nanny-Walks-on-Water!
and for Warren, the curiously un-event-like “persistent doubts among some party leaders that she is too liberal to win the general election.”
Good thing they forgot about the whole “Serial Liar” thing about being fired and being an Indian. She clearly has no problem besmirching people for her own gain. Does she even have a Law Degree? I don’t know what to believe anymore.
Longish but apropos https://youtu.be/9-SLqdhkvJo
Good lunchtime rant.
Can i say i’m a bit surprised that the DNC is trotting out the “If you don’t like [Female Politician] You must be a Sexist” trope. It worked so well for Clinton.
Most qualified candidate ever! Race 2, Cherokee Boogaloo
Does anyone else find Fauxcahontas’s voice and demeanor particularly grating?
Yes, but that’s not abnormal, I hate most human voices.
Not recently. But that’s mostly because I don’t click anything about her, don’t have access to US TV programing, and haven’t heard her voice in ages… and intend to keep it that way.
You mean you don’t like the feeling of being harangued by a strident old biddy?
Mentioned this before. She has no control over herself when she feels the crowd agreeing with her. Total spiral into batshit crazy pitch. That is what is going to kill her campaign. The scalping war cry memes are already made.
She reminds me of a bossy, nagging schoolteacher – forcing something on me that I don’t like while insisting that it’s in my best interest.
The new green era dawns in California
Beginning early yesterday morning, a series of total power shutoffs by Pacific Gas & Electric began in every county of the Bay Area, along with a number of others to the north (the number of counties involved total 34). The sole exception — as you might have guessed — is San Francisco.
The power cutoffs are complete, with no exceptions for hospitals, emergency services, phone networks, etc., the purpose being to eliminate all power flowing through overhead power lines in the affected areas in a clumsy, ill-considered effort to prevent wildfires. Vast areas of central California will be returned by fiat to the conditions of the 19th century. Something like 800,000 PG&E customers will be affected. The duration of the shutoff is effectively arbitrary, and may extend up to five days or more. (I would guess that it depends on particular conditions of humidity, dryness, and windiness, but it may not be even that logical. It seldom is with environmentalists.)
The reason that this is “necessary” is due to yet other environmental laws preventing California power companies from adequately trimming back brush and undergrowth near their power lines, for fear that this may annoy a rare species of mountain toad or something similar. As a result, brush grows adjacent and under active power lines, where it is believed that sparking from the lines can set it ablaze, though to my knowledge, this has never been definitely determined either.
So…proper forest management would fix the problem…?
Ecoblasphemy! The only solution is to remove the people!
While simultaneously complaining that they’re not getting their fair share of the electoral vote.
Roberts is truly a mystery. You had ONE pitcher in the pen that was reliable and pitching well in Maeda and you had a quick hook for him. I was surprised he didn’t come in next inning. But you kept a long leash for fricken Joe frickin Kelly?! Wtf?
He misplayed his moves badly. At 3-3 you leave Maeda in there in case you go extra. He was smoking and fired up. It was an arrogant move thinking he can win in the 9th or something. Not with those dead bats he was gonna win. The lineup had one hitter: Muncy. They were swinging at low and away as if they were drunkards. Seager especially.
Anyway. I called it in September that the Dodgers were being over rated. Bellinger slowed down big time and never recovered by September. I just didn’t see how that pitching staff was going to stop, say, the Yankees or Astros. I actually had them losing the NLCS to Atlanta. But then Atlanta shit the bed in record setting fashion.
I have an article request. I know some Glibs are musically knowledgeable. How about a few very basic articles on music theory, like what modes are, the ‘circle of fifths’, (NOT circle of filths, thanks), that sort of thing. I’m working at learning the guitar and I have almost zero knowledge about that stuff, but would like to learn. Thanks.
I’m afraid I don’t even understand that request. I’m probably a poor choice to write it unless you’re looking for a farce.
I think it’s a solid idea. Plenty of the Glibertariat are musically gifted. I for one am musically dyslexic.
Obligatory
I love request ideas like this; I love this forum in general.
I’d be less lazy and launch into writing it except that every fiber of me (including the academic) thinks it doesn’t matter to 99% of guitarists. Here’s why:
a/ Most people just want to play around the campfire or along with their favorite tunes, and this stuff doesn’t get you there.
b/ You’ve already got the circle of fifths in your head; the nomenclature doesn’t add anything to your playing. If the first time you hear most pop tunes you don’t know where it’s going after the first chord change, a chart isn’t going to save you.
c/ I’m not going to argue that I understand modes perfectly, but how does learning the Greek name attributed to which note in a scale you utilize as the root of your solo help?
Here’s what really happens on your way to becoming one with the fretboard:
1/ You learn all the three chord progressions that go with all your favorite tunes by rote until you can get to (b) above. Mel Bay’s dead: just find it on the webs and follow along with the free lessons on youtube that I didn’t have four decades ago (/sour face).
2/ You learn that the notes in those scales are all over the fretboard, and you learn that you can solo by picking yummy intervals from amongst them. Slides and hammer-ons and bends and pull-offs come later, but you’re basically going over plowed ground comforted by the notion that nothing you ever do will be remotely original.
3/ You try to figure out some Steely Dan tunes and realize that some scales are much different from China Grove and you get a tingly feeling when you hear them that you can’t explain. You get used to guys who can’t play those tunes telling you how awful they are.
blues scale
Hmm, I thought writing a quick note on the circle of fifths would be fairly easy, but I’ve started over several times.
Let’s go with this:
The human ear finds it natural and pleasant to hear a chord change from the tonic to the fifth. The tonic here means the major chord built on the tonic, or first, note in the key. So if you’re playing in the key of C, the first chord is a C major. The fifth in the key of C is a G major.
So, if you’re in the key of C, in the cycle of fifths, the first change would be C major to G major.
The next fifth is also easy, G major to D major. However, note that D major is not in the key of C. So we’ve also shifted keys, to the key of G.
Similarly, the fifth of D major is A major. And now we’ve shifted keys again, to D major.
The fifth of A major is E major. Another key change
And actually, the way the math works out, we’re going to go all the way through until we arrive back at C.
The overall effect is a sort of pleasant, rolling feel. Each change of fifths sounds nice to us individually, but the constant key change shifts provide the rolling feel.
Most notably used, at least in rock music, in Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix. (Not sure if the original version of Hey Joe also used the cycle of fifths.)
There are probably other songs that use it too, though I can’t think of any off the top of my head. The problem probably is, if you use it, your song will sound exactly like “Hey Joe.”
To me, the cycle of fifths is not exactly basic theory, it’s more of a cool trick that works due to the weird 12-base math the western tuning system is based on.
the key of
I’m sure all this stuff is correct. To bad for me none of this was ever written out “in the fret of.” Medieval notions about which keys should be white or black are a weird way to document the cool little intervals in your heart. Moving on:
An easy way to see progressions and keys on the fretboard is with “power chords.” That way you learn what the root chord (I) is, and then it’s obvious what key you’re in and where II, IV, and V are (you’ll find all this stuff on youtube and it’s easy). Then you’ll start to associate your first position chords with these other ways of playing the same chords which, ta da!, are exact same notes you use to solo over the first position chords. So, in “second position” we have A, B, D, and E; those chords just go together in your head if you grew up on blues-based (pentatonic minor) music.
You can have a very rich life and make billions of dollars knowing nothing more about music than this.
You might dig Rick Beato’s YouTube channel.
But how does this improve my speaker cables?
Is it written in Javascript or Python?
No problem too small for a new grant program.
How many were killed by themselves? How many were killed because of instead of regardless of those traits? I’d wager the first number is higher than 19, and the second is closer to zero.
If we can employee at least 1 bureaucrat, isn’t it worth it?
No.
Office of 1000 bureaucrats for 19 deaths….of which probably none because of white supremacy.
Sounds totes legit.
Sure there is – the individual.
I will create a new grant program within the Office of Violence Against Women
So creating a carve out from a federal office for Women, to support men, who say they are women.
Gives a whole new meaning to “Hands up, don’t shoot!”
Office of Violence Against Women
So fuck the trans man, I guess?
Also, WTF is this office? Is it a real thing?
Yes, with an annual budget over $400M.
So, there’s an agancy devoted entirely to inflicting violence on women in particular?
Assuming you think of the NFL as an agency, then yes.
AAAhh. Couldn’t find and then SF nails it like he’s in the elevator with his girlfriend.
Welcome to Trump’s Amerikkka!
Andy Ngo already did a tweet-a-thon about them and all of them were either domestic violence, drug deals gone wrong, or cause unknown but no evidence of a “hate crime”.
And that’s why he got milkshaked.
She has a blanket bureaucracy proposal for everything.
Why do I strongly doubt the conclusions of this article?
LOL
Slobbering drunk is totes attractive.
You gotta assert your dominance by drinking so much you can’t get it up and pass out in your own vomit.
Sexy as hell
Re that UK ‘wrongful birth’ story.
I feel baaaaad for that kid with DS.
“You were a mistake!” (actual words heard by Festus at 7 years old)
Dayum! At least my mom was kind enough to call me “a pleasant surprise.” #3rdof3
Hmmm. I just got, “Well, we’re Catholic.”
Were you sold to a Japanese scientist at that point?
Unit 731 was my biological father.
Cool! Did you get super powers?
I can install puppet rulers. They melt down, however.
Fox Mulder, is that you?
I was the one meant to “keep the marriage together”. #4of4
It didn’t work.
Wow. At least my mom waited until I was 22 to tell me if she could do things over, she wouldn’t have had kids.
To be fair, she was piss faced drunk, and in the 3rd year of disowning my brother.
Being an unwanted retard isn’t really that much worse than being a retard. There’s not really any good outcome with that sort of thing. It’s sad.
How is it not eugenics?
Eugenics is when foes of communism kill people to improve the race. Planned Parenthood is when loving socialists end the suffering of defective organisms to speed the arrival of New Soviet Man.
This is CNN
Dorsey Nelson, 67, who was born and raised in Montgomery, said he hopes the new mayor will continue to build on the progress made by the previous one.
“Not only that, he’s gonna bring this town together, black and white people. I mean it’s like – know I use the term black simply because he’s black, but we’re not gonna measure him by his color. We’re going to measure him by what he does for the city of Montgomery,” he said.
The sentiment was not just limited to African-Americans
.
“I am a woman. I am white. I live in Montgomery, Alabama and I voted for Steven Reed,” said Elizabeth Woodson, 26. ” … I grew up in Connecticut. I’ve lived in Montgomery since the beginning of last year. It was an obvious logical and correct choice. Reed’s extremely experienced, but more importantly … he represents the majority of the city and democracy is about majority. So that I think is very important.”
Nice non sequitur, there, buddy. You quote a back man who says, “We will judge him not by the color of his skin, but rather by his policies and what he does for the city,” and the quote some white chick from Connecticut who says, “YAY HIM BLACK!” Who gives a shit what his ideas are? Him have right color skin.
Those “sentiments” are not the same, dummy. They are exactly opposite.
he represents the majority of the city and democracy is about majority. So that I think is very important.</em
Democracy's greatest flaw is it's entire premise.
The only argument for democracy is that unless the people have some say in governance an elite minority will deprive them of their rights. Democracy is only valuable insofar as it acts as a brake on Leviathan. It can only do this if it is coupled with non-democratic institutions that stop the people from depriving minority groups of their rights. The founders set up both these systems; the Progressives have dismantled them both in favor of window dressing elections and ‘reformed’ civil service rules that create a Mandarin class.
The strongest argument for democracy is that every other system of government (granted, these are broad categories) depends upon another method of selecting the leaders besides voting. And if history is any guide, while monarchy is more stable than democracy in the loosest sense (see: usurpers, pretenders, interregna, etc.), “a member of the current leader’s family”, or “somebody the current leader likes” have proven to be less than reliable ways of selecting the next leader.
You’re going to have to define “leaders” a little better. Before FDR a person who won elective office could fire every job holder that reported to his office if he wanted. We simply replaced nepotism with lifetime bureaucrats. It’s only a distinction without a difference where machine politics was entrenched, otherwise nepotism is the lesser of the two evils by virtue of its transience.
My point being the “leader” is seldom the elective office winner, he is only a figurehead; the leader is usually the permanent civil servant.
I was pretty sure the civil service was moved out of the spoils system under Chester A Arthur, unless there was another shift to decouple the bureaucracy from executive control I forgot about.
You’re right about the feds, but I think it was sometime later where this was expanded to cover state and local.
What makes voting a better choice than any other? The track record certainly does not seem to demonstrate superiority. You have occasional talented and decent Presidents and congress critters, but most are venial idiots. you had occasional talented and decent Kings, Chiefs, and Emperors, but most were venial idiots. We don’t pick leaders well because most of us don’t lead well, and those who do tend to become tyrannical. Yep, I’m kind of fatalistic.
Conservative Journalist Tries to Shame AOC for Participating in Society
The Washington Times’ legal affairs reporter Alex Swoyer reported in an “EXCLUSIVE” piece Wednesday that New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently visited a salon in downtown Washington, D.C.
Apparently Ocasio-Cortez apparently visited Last Tangle Salon last month for a haircut and lowlights ($80 and $180 respectively). That’s it, that’s the whole scoop.
The Times even asked the stylist about how much Ocasio-Cortez left on the tip. The stylist did not respond.
I agree, a weak story…
And then this:
It’s stupid all around.
I have a problem…but check out this comment:
You know what, ghouls at the Washington Times (owned by the Moonies the last time I checked)? I have a girlfriend who is in the fifth out of seven years of discharging personal bankruptcy (unpaid medical bills from before she was full-time, of course.) Do you know what is included in her fixed expenses budget every year, worked out with her attorney and approved by a judge as part of her payment plan? Manicures every two weeks and a haircut and color every two months. Because she works for a living and the judge told her not to cut back on necessary expenses.
Um, if my girlfriend going through bankruptcy has a judge sign off on her manicures and hair treatments, AOC, who is financially savvy and certainly solvent, is entitled to a cut and color at a salon.
Haircolor and manicures are necessary expenses.
I’ll remember to include rub and tugs as a necessary expense if I ever go bankrupt.
AOC, who is financially savvy
Grifting is savvy I guess.
See GND for financial advice.
The same girl who’s unable to make $174k/yr work?
And that’s just salary. I’d be shocked if she’s pulling down less than 7 figures from all the political sugar daddies she’s accumulated.
The same girl who can’t calculate simple interest on a credit card.
Unless she was pretending to not know how to make a cheap political point.
The manicure part is a bit much, but the hair care part is not exactly indulgent.
Correct. If she is in a public-facing job or euphemistally known as “FOA” (front office appearance), she would be required to look her best, which probably requires manicures and hair maintenance.
*grumbles*
So I can budget in these ties and tie bars since I’m now expected to look Managerial despite having no direct reports?
AOC, who is financially savvy and certainly solvent,
Has she cleared that whole unpaid taxes thing up yet?
Funfact – the main force pushing bueaty standards is other women. However appreciative men get, they are not the ones who nag and needle and heckle women who don’t jump through the hoops.
Can confirm. “The girls walk by dressed up for each other.”
No kidding, aside from liking women to be relatively clean and their hair not to be a tangled mess, I believe less is more when it comes to women making themselves up. To me excessive make-up is off-putting and creates a barrier.
Hmm, maybe that’s the idea…
Brazilian wax.
That doesn’t go on your face, unless you’re saying Hitler had a Brazilian.
I do like when they wear eye makeup.
I can’t tell you how many times my reaction to some new female fashion trend has been somewhere between “I wish they’d stop that” to “If I could find the freak who hoisted that idea on us I’d gut him like a fish”. I mean, really? – a skirt OVER a pair of jeans?
I must have missed the skirt over jeans trend.
Rompers for me are the dumbest fashion trend.
Maybe the skirt over jeans was a Japanese thing. It was the perfect mistake – cover up the legs from the ankle up and then cover the only part of the jeans that makes them attractive.
High waisted anything.
“I’m sorry, but I was looking for a pair of pants to really emphasize my gunt.”
For the last 2 Summers, the fashion trend here on NYC beaches is high-waisted ‘mom jeans’ cut off into short-shorts (the kind so short you see the bottoms of the pockets hanging out below the hem). Bloody disgusting.
Harajuku Fashion. Full stop. So much so that foreigners in Japan wear it.
I’ve selected this one to reel in Rhywun
Japanese vs Germans: Top 5 Weird Differences
As a native German speaker her English is unsurprisingly good, but she also has an amazingly good Japanese accent. I can only dream of achieving her level.
You could replace “German” with most any Western country there and not have to change a thing.
Funny that she’s obviously been living in Japan for quite a while but still believes that Japanese are into recycling. Nope. Japanese are required to separate their garbage and thus do so as they follow any other rules. But only the metal and some glass get recycled. The rest of the garbage just goes to different disposal sites.
Burn v no-burn!
Same issue in virtue signalling in metro-NYC area. China is no longer accepting lots of “recyclables” and lots of our trash is going to landfill. But the greens here would prefer not to be aware about this.
I was going to comment roughly the same thing., Men’s standard of women’s beauty is pretty much “Not ugly? Cool!” It’s not like we live in a world where the women’s fashion, cosmetics, or hair care industry is dominated by straight men.
Jessica Valenti was sent here by the Devil to nag people into Perdition.
It doesn’t take most women thousands of dollars to look presentable, babe. Maybe that’s on you.
Of course not, women already did that for themselves
She paid 13 times as much as I do for a haircut.
I went big a couple years ago and got these for haircuts.
Use the 1/4″ all around sweetie.
I was hoping you were a flowbee guy.
My wife cuts mine. Sure, I had a few bad cuts when she first started doing it, but now she has the hang of it.
I wish I was a flowbee guy to. My hair growing abilities do not require such fancy hair trimming equipment.
I’ve been buzzing my head since I was 9. I started bugging my parents to do it when I was 5 but they still had delusions that I would someday fit into society.
Where did you find a $6 haircut? I mean, I don’t doubt it, but the cheapest I can find is $10.
$15 and a tip. I included her total spent ($260)
PINK TAX!
Women’s hair is different and takes more time to do color, etc. so obviously it costs more. It’s apples to oranges.
The issue with cheap haircuts is that they often look cheap. I pay a little more because I think it actually shows.
I haven’t paid for a haircut in over 20 years (unless you count the clippers I bought ~10 years ago). Long hair before that, 1/2 guard now.
Yeah, that’s a shitty story.
Thot Thursday endures SNOWPOCALYPSE!
http://archive.is/Y1gmH
(NB: my stupid computer did *not* red underline snowpocalypse. The world is run by idiots.)
My computer does not red underline anything.
I turn that shit off and own my spelling mistakes.
I am double letter tarded. If a word has double letters, especially if it has more than one pair I have to try it multiple ways to get it right, the red underlining would be useful for that except it seems to have an 800 word vocabulary.
sudo pacman -S hunspell-en_US
Ah, Arch Linux. A rough transcript:
sudo pacman -S package-a
error: cannot find http://mirror.example.com/package-a-1.2.3.pkg: file not found
sudo pacman -Sy package-a
do you want to replace unrelated-package-b with unrelated-package-c? no
error: cannot satisfy dependency for package-c
sudo pacman -Sy package-a
do you want to replace unrelated-package-b with unrelated-package-c? yes, it’s not like I have a choice
warning: installed byzantine config file for arcane package as who-even-knows-what-this-does-lol.conf.pacnew
optional dependencies: kitchen-sink, junk-drawer, everything-under-the-sun
error: untrusted signing key for yet-another-unrelated-package-d
(thinks to self: this is why we use Red Hat/CentOS at work)
Listen, if you can’t be arsed to set your locale and rank your mirrors there’s always Manjaro xD
Great news for Glibs: After 5 Years Of Trials, Doctors Create Human Liver From Scratch
Thanks for reminding me, I have to check to see if there’s an update on a relative who needs a new liver. Last I heard he had a live donor lined up but they hadn’t scheduled the surgery.
He would never have lived long enough for the FDA to approve lab grown livers for implant.
Disposable Liver is the name of my new album.
Follow up to Detachable Penis?
Research sponsored by the Kennedy foundation for the sciences.
Sucks to be Scratch.
Is that slang for a Chinese political prisoner?
My first scan of that was “Doctors create human liver from Scotch”.
Cool.
What’s up next, Fava beans or Chianti?
Isn’t this basically a honey pot trap?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/09/intelligence-employee-leaked-classified-info-journalist-feds-say/3918464002/
Well, that dudes pretty dumb.
Moron might be a better term.
He’s merely a whistleblower. It’s all the rage these days.
Legit question:
Is anyone outside of political junkies and TDS-afflicted retards actually paying attention to the impeachment farce?
I have a pretty apolitical workplace, but people usually discuss big events at least a little bit. Conversing with my coworkers you’d never even know it’s going on.
The only guy I ever listen to at the water cooler is Bill Cosby.
That explains your frequent blackouts at work.
*Shrugs* I got a raise.
well played
“What’s a
cubitqualuude ?”So did Bill.
I don’t get it.
😉
Oh you got it, you just weren’t conscious.
I have pretty lefty-leaning co-workers, and no one’s talking about it one jot.
I know a group of Democrats who discuss it every day excitedly. They think it’s gonna happen, and are excited that polls in support of impeachment are ticking up.
So, they are blissfully unaware of push polls?
Also, the highest they’ve gotten are 51% and it’s all Democrats. Independents and Republicans aren’t buying it currently.
I think it came up once, during the Ukraine transcript kerfuffle. My only comment was that whether or not this turned into an impeachment of Trump, it was probably going to take down Biden.
Reading about this big LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ++ Supreme Court case, I am befuddled.
Is it really that hard to operate under the “Don’t be an asshole” rule? And that works both ways. Firing somebody for non-job-related reasons is stupid. Claiming a “right” to inflict a disruptive presence on the workplace (and claim absolute immunity from removal) is also stupid.
I’d love for someone to remember that freedom of association is a thing, and dust off that part of the first amendment.
Annoying HR types hardest hit
According to the news it’s about the ability to fire a gay person, but I haven’t researched. Is it really about that?
No. The funeral home dress code required biological males to wear suits, guy worked there for five or six years, then decided he wanted to show up in dresses instead. Employer says “You’re disruptive to the grieving customers, follow the dress code” dude refuses, gets fired, sues.
Oh I was thinking of the one about the skydiver who was fired after saying he was gay. Not that one.
First I’ve heard of this skydiver.
Yes, of course, he should be able to turn someone else’s personal moment of tragedy into an opportunity for him to express his kink.
Am I the only one bugged by the fact that a dude got his house and computer raided because he accidentally uploaded one pic to Pinterest?
Now, look, child porn is bad. BAD BAD BAD. I’m not arguing that. Clearly they had a reason to suspect/know the dude was a sick perv because if you’ve got one, you’ve got 54,000.
I’m just thinking about how easily it would be to upload something from someone’s unapproved list and get your home and computer raided. People laugh at the “slippery-slope” fallacy, but they also said “nobody’s coming to take your guns away from you.” I’m specifically thinking about my FUCK YEAH ‘MURCA memes and my Pinterest board of “Girls with Guns.”
Who is going to go to bat for suspected child pervs? Only child pervs, obviously. Annnnd we descend further into insanity.
From a legal standpoint, I can see how “suspect uploaded illegal content” is sufficient probable cause to search for more.
I guess the tipping point of the slope hinges on what “illegal content” can be classed as illegal. The justification for outlawing possession is based upon some theory that demand drives additional abuses of actual children. When you ask if this is going to lead to the same justification being used to argue for illegalizing other content, you face the issue of being seen as defending pedophiles.
But I’m also convinced that the people who’d police your ‘Murica memes are not going to care if it’s legal or moral to abuse someone for having them.
I’m rambling a bit, because my mind got stuck on processing the moral arguments on whether mere possession is justifiably criminal, and that defense of posessors ends up conflated with defense of abusers, and all that muddy moral water.
I have no problem with it. It’s akin to him being spotted with a human head bouncing out of his car trunk after a rash of people disappeared.
He published evidence of a most heinous crime that’s committed against completely defenseless victims. That’s probable cause for a search warrant. And that means scouring his house for electronic devices.
I saw nothing in the article that indicated he had molested any children.
OK, and?
You said :
It’s akin to him being spotted with a human head bouncing out of his car trunk after a rash of people disappeared.
So since they searched his house and found no evidence that he had molested anyone why:
I never like posting this kind of shit. But I feel like I have to once in a while. Just in case there are a few of you out there that forget the courts are full of idiots and there are bad people in the world going unpunished. Seriously, UK? Seriously?!?!?!?!
He had pictures. He did not directly harm anyone.
He had evidence of a crime. Same as if a human head fell out of your trunk while driving down the road. That justifies a search warrant. That’s all I was answering.
You are not the only one. I think people who rape children should be executed. Also possession of any image whatsoever cannot rightly be a crime. This is animist fetishism. Thing looks like something evil therefore touching thing makes you evil. It’s crap! Harming the kid was the crime, a picture of that harm is not, and if it weren’t for the emotional disgust we feel this would not be controversial.
If you disagree answer this: Have you ever watched footage of a shooting? How is that different? You possessed images of a murder. Murder is a heinous crime.
Murder is not committed in order to produce images of such for profit. Murder is not driven by demand for such images. The same is not true for child porn, where the images for profit are the entire point of the crime, and demand for the images provides incentive for the crime.
This is the same argument used to outlaw drug possession.
The difference is that in one instance there is a victim to the underlying crime.
Bingo
The argument you are making is that someone possessing an image of child porn somehow caused the rape of a child. In the case of a commissioned image or live stream for profit I think that would be a persuasive argument and I have no issue with the prosecution of any scum that are involved in something like that.
But I think there needs to be a direct nexus between the ‘consumer’ and the crime. Strict liability possession offenses are morally wrong. The argument that by outlawing the ‘product’ you reduce the supply is bullshit in the world of drugs, it was bullshit in the world of prohibition, and I see no reason to believe it is not bullshit in the realm of child pornography. Further, unlike drugs for the most part, producers of child pornography are not motivated primarily by profit. I would be surprised if anyone has ever raped a child purely to make money, and you’ll never convince me that that is a common event.
Ummm,
Apparently you missed the entire fucking Saw series.
There is also little to no evidence that much of any child porn is produced with a profit motive in mind because it is basically impossible to sell and like any other porn almost no one actually pays for it
So by your logic, shoplifting some jewelry should be a crime, but a fence purchasing it *shouldn’t be* held to any criminal or civil liability?
I don’t want to live in your world if that’s the case.
And this also illustrates why its morally bankrupt when a prosecutor charges a teenager with child porn for taking a picture of his dong and sending it to his requesting girlfriend. They aren’t trafficking in the products of a crime. They are trafficking in the products of an action that (i think) society considers stupid, but not criminal.
The fence is purchasing the actual stolen good. If the fence purchased a picture of the theft I would not think that was a crime
But the stolen goods and the child pornography are both the products of the crime, and the reasons they are both outlawed for the fence/CP receiver is because they are both trafficking in the products of a crime. Yes, one is a physical good and one may be digital (or not) but that doesn’t make them not the product of a crime.
And child porn is the generation of sexualized images of children. It might also be a documentation of an assault, but the assault is necessary. An adult asking a child to remove their clothing and then photographing it is CP creation, and we aren’t talking about a third person taking a picture of the adult taking a picture of the child.
Trafficking in stolen goods is properly illegal, because the goods still belong to the owner because ownership cannot be extinguished by theft, although even in this case I do not think strict liability is appropriate, the fence should be held to a standard of actual knowledge or constructive knowledge (ie that he should have known that Guido’s bundle of furs did not iun fact fall off the back of a truck). There is not an analogous situation in child porn.
I am not arguing what the law is in any of this. The law manifestly outlaws possession of child porn as well as many other things. I am arguing what I believe is the proper libertarian approach to criminal law. Direct, deliberate, unjustified harms against another can be crimes, nothing else can be. And under that standard possession of child porn should not be a crime. Production of it should be.
and with that I will retire from this field, since this is a purely philosophical point I am making and dudes spanking it to pictures of child rape disgust me and I am tired of defending them.
And there is the problem. You are not defending anyone, you are defending a principle, only acts which cause actual measurable harm to another can be crimes. And everyone, even those who hold that principle in ever other case bends over backwards to turn it into your defending the icky people who do the bad thing.
For the record I never assumed that you were actually defending dudes spanking it to pictures of child rape, but were arguing against the construction and application of the law regarding possession of CP images. And I will concede that you make some good points.
I’m just thinking about how easily it would be to upload something from someone’s unapproved list and get your home and computer raided.
Not idle speculation. Silghty different, but wasn’t there some kid in Texas whose “scary offensive terrorism joke” so mortified some old biddy somewhere that she ratted him out to the cops?
Or, let’s say, you post some pics of your sweetie sunbathing on the bow of your ski boat, and somebody somewhere says, “That girl looks underage, to me. I had better notify the authorities of this grievous exploitation.”
Who is going to go to bat for suspected child pervs?
You go to bat for the pervs you have, not the pervs you want.
Can I just pull a Steve Kerr and say that I got to plead ignorance on this. I think my brother-in-law works to prosecute child molesters so maybe I’ll ask him his opinion on that.
The Jacksonville Jaguar owner just compared not taking a stance on Brexit to not saying anything about Hong Kong. Which is perhaps one of the more morally bankrupt answers to a question about Hong Kong. At least play dumb, jackass.
“Leaving the EU is just like killing people. I’m woke”
Liberating a State from a foreign oppressor is the same thing as conquering a neighbor, all that changes is the timeline.
Just imagine, if the Soviet Union had allowed American businesses to open up shop there we would have conceded to the Soviets in 1981
Are you sure that wasn’t Sadiq Khan? He was reported a short while back as saying something similar. The Jaguars owner is Shahid “Shad” Khan.
Have you ever watched footage of a shooting? How is that different? You possessed images of a murder. Murder is a heinous crime.
If you watch it in New Zealand, you’ve got a problem.
And that is where this logic leads, and why I oppose it.
Agreed. But, the person who initially took the pictures should be prosecuted.
I’ve always been afraid that looking at some nudie pic online might actually incidentally be someone who is underage, but how would you know unless they were holding their license during the photo
“Giuseppe Verdi”
Giuseppe Verdi translates as Joe Green in English.
Was he mean?
I knew someone whose original last name translated as “White Bread”. They anglicized it about a decade ago
There used to be a relief pitcher named Jose Paniagua – Joe Bread and Water
Former Bears running back Matt Forte’s name literally just means “strong” in Italian. When Forte was first drafted, I had a friend insist that he was Italian because of his last name. He changed his mind after he saw a picture of Forte.
Are there no black Italians?
Don’t be Mean.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7557739/Bride-asks-cousins-bodycon-dress-edited-wedding-photos.html
“Angry bride begs for an expert to Photoshop her cousin’s VERY short dress so it ‘covers her cleavage and flattens her stomach’ in the wedding photos”
SPOILER: You will not be impressed by the cousin
They didn’t even cover the ink while they were at it?
Duh. Just crop her out for free when you frame the pic.
@JATNAS Welcome back!
@Plisades
Will you guys please freaking wait until my article publishes tonight?! Sheesh. Talk about jumping the gun.
@WTF
Scott Adams wrote a novella called God’s Debris, which was a thought experiment. In it, he said something along the lines of “We have maps because the mapmakers survived the trip.” I’ll look it up later because he said it more elegantly than that.
@Don Escaped Texas
As a lapsed musician, I think knowing the nomenclature IS important. How can you learn from people (lookin’ at you, YouTube music instructors) who use the terminology all the time but don’t clarify?
You want and need to be part of the conversation, so what you know is less important than that you know what everyone else calls it so you can get a baseline measurement of where you are in the process of learning.
Yeah, but he’s not asking how to make it big on the Sunset Strip. He’s asking for an explanation of something he wants to understand.
@UCS
Me too, but it’s also a question of supply and demand. The demanders incentivize the suppliers.
@Jarflax
See above. It’s like, why arrest prostitutes? Most of them are in untenable positions and need the law to protect them. Go after the johns who create the demand. (No, the analogy doesn’t work if I say legalize prostitution.)
@Brooks
Yes to your whole post re “That girl looks underage; I’ll report it.”
Duelling headlines:
1) Planned parenthood’s political arm to spend 45 million dollars on electing candidates backing reproductive rights- CNN
2) Planned Parenthood announces 45 million campaign to defeat Trump, flip Senate- The Hill
CNN- fact based journalism, at it’s best.
https://reason.com/2015/07/30/will-planned-parenthood-be-defunded/
I don’t know, I think Planned Parenthood has a natural right to your money. So just shut-up about it, bigot
How this one even gets contentious is beyond me. Yes, we fund a bunch of other stupid shit for inane reasons. Start here, and work our way down the list.
How about we start from Funding nothing, pay down our debt, then look at what the actual absolute minimum required function is, fund that, and nothing more.
But somebody, somewhere, will have their feelings hurt. And they’re not even an icky badthinker whose feelings are supposed to be hurt!
If they were threatening to cut off funding for your church wouldn’t you be upset? I mean separation of church and state and all that, but abortion is God
I got about three paragraphs into this article aboutTrustafarians and I wanted to fucking hang myself.
Being a guilt-ridden Marxist is such a chore!
Just fucking spend it. That would be more economically productive than pouring it down some non-profit shithole or giving it to the government.
Or you know, you could make investments with it and put that capital to productive use.
Fucking assholes.
[insert weeping crocodile]
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on member states to pay their outstanding contributions, as the organization faces such a “severe financial crisis” that staff salaries risk not being paid next month.
The organization is suffering its worst deficit in a decade, Guterres said Tuesday, as he addressed the UN General Assembly to introduce a proposed budget for 2020.
The UN might start November “without enough cash to cover payrolls,” Guterres warned. “Our work and our reforms are at risk.”
Heading into its 75th anniversary year, the UN is facing multiple challenges as it grapples with a shifting world order, and the funding crisis has been intensified by a push from US President Donald Trump to cut his nation’s contribution to the UN budget.
Guterres said efforts have been made since January to curtail spending. Without such steps, the UN would not have had the funds to open the General Assembly in September, he added.
Job vacancies remain unfilled and staff are limited to essential travel only.
Oh, woe. Our very important work is at risk, he says.
It’s a dadgum tragedy. I don’t know how I will make it through the day.
Guterres said efforts have been made since January to curtail spending.
They stopped buying condoms for their rape parties.
The U.N. leases space in the building I work in either because they still haven’t finished renovations or because they have more staff than even their renovated space can handle. Most of them seem nice enough. But, just a few weeks ago they had a big conference with the World Economic Forum on sustainable development. Even for the side show that was, you could tell no expense was spared.
1) cut the UN’s budget
2) end tax exemption for UN and other international orgs
3) require them to follow the same work rules as any other employer in the US, including work permits by foreign nationals
4) cut UN’s budget and org further so that it’s a powerless Secretary General and useless diplomats giving speeches to cameras that aren’t turned on
Tl;dr: kill, skin suit it, demand respect
Last thing I’d do is kick those bums out entirely. That would just allow them to use the UN as cover, without any sort of brake, for all of their socialist and authoritarian fantasies.
staff are limited to essential travel only.
Shouldn’t that be the case regardless of how much cash they have on hand?
https://twitter.com/gifdsports/status/1182290925109891073
James Harden and Russell Westbrook suddenly don’t have a hot take when a reporter asks them if they think they’re going to shut-up now that they clearly showed their moral cowardice with regards to China.
Jame Harden: We need to speak out against police abuse
Decent person: Agreed
*Chinese cops shoot Hong Kong protesters after a long day of dragging people to reeducation camps*
Decent person: Hey James- look, police abuse where you guys practice in the shadow of reeducation camps. Now is the time to speak out!
James Harden: Orange man bad
That’s different you see because China can actually get them fired.
There was good money to be made by talking shit about Trump.
How you know the U.S. is not actually most of the bad things people have been saying lately: they are still alive, they have never been sent to reeducation camps, they can still say the same things, and they often don’t even suffer any material consequences.
How you know China probably is most of the bad things have been saying lately: negate all of the previous statements.
Nothing but a bunch of greedy, craven pussies.
At a press conference in Japan.
I’m sure that the NBA’s rank cowardice before China has really earned them goodwill with Japan.
“The Japanese imperialists have ill intent for good and righteous people of China. And the people of Hong Kong are traitors to the revolution!”
– James Harden in about a year
i’m having trouble reconciling these two sentences from the Synagogue shooting:
#1: “We were very, very, very afraid,” Privorozky told CNN. The group could see that “somebody was killed,” he added, referring to the body of a woman who was the attacker’s first victim.
#2: It took around 10 minutes for police to arrive, said Privorozky. Thankfully, the building had “good doors” that were “better than weapons,” he added.
10 minute response time and a good door is “better than weapons”. let’s go to our reporter outside to interview the woman on the street for her opinion..
“good doors” that were “better than weapons,” he added
This is how bad we are where politics has infected everything. I cannot believe a rational person could go through that experience and then say: “Gee I’m glad that door stuck, and I wouldn’t want a weapon”. But because we all have become infected with the political tribe virus we have to make stupid remarks to show we are good thinking.
Had the shooter sat outside and planned ambuscade.. would you want a weapon then?
“I hid under all the bodies. It was better than any weapon.”
I don’t know if I missed this in another thread where I was absent. I was kind of hoping that the statement on mootness would be more definitive “It’s not moot if you can just as easily re-implement the rule in dispute”, but going to argument is still progress.
I think one of the justices is going to ask NY’s attorney on-the-record if they are ever going to implement the ban again (and I *think* they would be constrained in the future to such an admission, but I Am Not A Lawyer and I don’t know for sure), and then if they say yes or no, press them on why.
I don’t think the parties are constrained by what their lawyers say in response to such inquiry. You’d need an actual order by the court to have something enforcable against them.
They rejected the city’s request to dismiss the case as moot immediately, instead announcing that the “question of mootness will be subject to further consideration, and the parties should be prepared to discuss it.”
Still doesn’t seem like the answer i would like from them. Them removing the law but still claiming the power to make such a law should settle the question of mootness in my opinion. IANAL but it seems to me like the city wants to have it both ways. They want to claim that the question is moot because they changed the law (indicating that they themselves are afraid that they would loose in court) but also they want to claim that the law was totally legit and that they are able to make such laws.
I think we’re in agreement on that. You shouldn’t be able to abort any lawsuit just by switching off a law for a few months, then reverting back once the court says “Oh, the law’s gone, moot.”
The term you are looking for is “Conduct Capable of Repetition, Yet Evading Review” which has a long history in civil rights litigation, like in Roe v Wade and City of Los Angeles v. Lyons.
Here’s a story about an alleged (but it’s almost guaranteed) poker cheat. I’ve been following it for the past few weeks just because it’s amazing how the poker community, especially on YouTube, to present a damning indictment of the guy. TL;DR version: Guy creates a legend by making the correct call against all statistical commen sense. Turns out the guy most likely was wearing tech in his hat that conveyed other players hole cards and having the info sent to his phone which he checks repeatedly over the games.
Wow. Time for bed. Ignore the speling and grammer problmes..
I understood your righting
It is incomprehensible to me that either phones or headgear are allowed at those tables.
The headgear one is wild because there is a thing called bone conduction headphones which don’t need to fit in your ears.
https://www.everydayhearing.com/hearing-technology/articles/bone-conduction-headphones/
I wanted a Bone Phone SOOO badly when I was a lad. My father was both skeptical and loathe to spend that kind of money on just about anything ($70 in 1979 was an astronomical sum to a family of wandering sailboat hippies). Later, in the Army, my Stinger missile used a Cheek-To-Bone Vibrator to growl at me if the seeker head locked on to a target.
https://youtu.be/0i3gRFekbt0
That’s a lot of euphemisms.
One of the reasons that every casino that I’ve ever been to bans items if you’re sitting at the tables.
You’d have to ban baseball caps or do some kind of TSA head search. The problem is the live-streams of hands. The fans love it, but it’s hard to stop cheating.
Some of the live streams are not actually live, there is a delay (15 or 30 minutes).
I don’t have to worry, my poker home game doesn’t have live streaming!
POTUS continues former-POTUS tactic of using the Espionage Act to target leakers/WBers.
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/09/the-espionage-act-is-again-deployed-against-a-government-official-leaking-to-the-media/
Criminal probes into media leaks were extremely rare before 2009, but the Obama administration launched an unprecedented crackdown using the 1917 Espionage Act.
B-b-but that’s just whataboutism! ORANGE MAN BAD!!
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/NstsgDwiuqLlfvwDYYbJSB0h2KzFbZbI16sWKgFe9EYPSsfZOyhDSJQwAgJB_EoVlzcce7VlQN2qOaeHjNHbW5kq=w5000-h5000
They should make t-shirts of this and hand it out for free at NBA games.
Got to earn your ticket to the gulag now, before it’s cool.
How dare they sully the legacy of Pooh Bear by associating him with that monster!! ::bursts into tears, hates herself for doing so::
Did Pooh Bear pay for his hunny or did he seize it! What color was Pooh Bear’s shirt? That’s right it was RED! Piglet was a Chekist! Eeyore was sad because he was bound for the gulag!
#worldshattered ::climbs under desk, assumes fetal position & whimpers::
Come, there’s a SNP thread, recouperate there.
and that isn’t even the most controversial thing i said in these links.
I started reading that trustafarian llink from above.
Wow, those people are special.
In recent meetings the committee has been implementing something called sociocracy. “It’s dynamic governance that allows for everyone to be heard and to make decisions efficiently,” Jessie says, pointing to a worn copy of the manual Many Voices, One Song on the table. She calls the meeting to order. “Okay, first round. Sam, you start.”
That sounds like a highly efficient method of decisionmaking.
Clicked too soon. These people are the supposed creme de la creme of America, with every advantage (privilege!) imagineable. The best schools.
And yet, they have no comprehension of what created the wealth which allows them the freedom and leisure to destroy that very wealth which sustains them. Imagine how long these people would surviver.e, living on the street in San Francisco or Portland. They are as dumb as chickens. Maybe dumber.