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"I suppose you've all heard by now that one of Google's engineers anonymously released a 10-page memo criticizing Google's corporate culture where contrary opinions are silenced. So how did Google management respond? They first proclaimed their commitment to 'diversity of opinion' -- and then they tracked down and fired the guy. I guess one of the job requirements for positions in Google management is a completely atrophied sense of irony."
Latest Item Added To Google's New Employee Package
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— Orwell & Goode 🇨🇱 (@OrwellNGoode) August 6, 2017
47 I wonder how many other animals look like various baked goods.I don't know, but here's one you may not have thought of: Corgi butts or loaves of bread?
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 07, 2017 11:54 AM (UBklk)
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 08, 2017 11:20 AM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 08, 2017 11:20 AM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 08, 2017 11:20 AM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 08, 2017 11:21 AM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 08, 2017 11:21 AM (QQ+il)
Google's motto today "Well, when you think about it, words like 'good' and 'evil' are really relative terms that don't exist in any objective space."
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 08, 2017 11:22 AM (KUaJL)
Stunned, I was, to see no comments, and in my confusion, I didn't know what to do.
I coulda been first, and totally blanked out.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at August 08, 2017 11:22 AM (m9X4Y)
Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at August 08, 2017 11:23 AM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at August 08, 2017 11:24 AM (m9X4Y)
Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at August 08, 2017 11:23 AM (QQ+il)
No. Now it ends.
Posted by: that other guy who's about to get into a fight with the first guy at August 08, 2017 11:24 AM (KUaJL)
delete space
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/08/07/ the-google-rebels-diversity-first-technology-second/
Posted by: votermom pimping great books! at August 08, 2017 11:24 AM (hMwEB)
Posted by: LASue at August 08, 2017 11:24 AM (hZ+us)
Posted by: Under Fire at August 08, 2017 11:24 AM (mcI77)
Posted by: votermom pimping great books! at August 08, 2017 11:25 AM (hMwEB)
422 I'm sure it been mentioned already (this should become my standard disclaimer) but they got him.
Yep, they got that bastard!
Who?
Why the rotten basket of deplorables hiding in the midst of the Google, who had the temerity to express an opinion based on facts and logic, and above all, HATE!
Fired, he was. Another scalp for the sjw posse.
Another reason for them to not stop. To never stop, until Truth, Justice, and the American Way are stomped out forever.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 08, 2017 11:23 AM (z79tQ)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 08, 2017 11:25 AM (z79tQ)
I coulda been first, and totally blanked out.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse
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The dreaded "surprised choke".
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2017 11:25 AM (U76Nz)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at August 08, 2017 11:25 AM (MINbv)
But then you have to remember that the left in the US has gone so totally insane as to be beyond parody.
We laugh, to keep from crying.
Posted by: DocJ at August 08, 2017 11:25 AM (NYS7S)
Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at August 08, 2017 11:23 AM (QQ+il)
No. Now it ends.
Posted by: that other guy who's about to get into a fight with the first guy at August 08, 2017 11:24 AM (KUaJL)
So, it's kinda like in the middle then?
Posted by: IP at August 08, 2017 11:25 AM (UmSfZ)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 08, 2017 11:26 AM (v5iqM)
Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2017 11:26 AM (OvldT)
Well, that plus "let's make Microsoft look good"
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at August 08, 2017 11:27 AM (MINbv)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 08, 2017 11:27 AM (rp9xB)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 08, 2017 11:26 AM (v5iqM)
They probably phrased it as "do as thou wilt."
But it's a distinction without a difference, really.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 08, 2017 11:27 AM (KUaJL)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2017 11:27 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2017 11:28 AM (hcyUh)
I was thinking maybe they could self-identify by wearing a star of some kind...maybe yellow, cuz it's so cheery?
Posted by: LASue at August 08, 2017 11:28 AM (hZ+us)
IP- Proud papa of a beautiful daughter, going to a private college on her own dime, majoring in bio-psychology, who baits her own hooks when she and dad go fishun.
Posted by: IP at August 08, 2017 11:29 AM (UmSfZ)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 08, 2017 11:27 AM (rp9xB)
True, but I meant that he "erstwhile" did the AoSHQ gaming thread. I prolly should've made that clear.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 11:29 AM (bmzqy)
Nah. Needs a bit more permanence. Tattoo, perhaps?
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at August 08, 2017 11:29 AM (MINbv)
Posted by: LASue at August 08, 2017 11:28 AM (hZ+us)
That's in the past. Clearly they've moved to the Final Solution stage.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 08, 2017 11:30 AM (z79tQ)
Posted by: votermom pimping great books! at August 08, 2017 11:30 AM (hMwEB)
Blacklists in the McCarthy era: bad, evil, oppressive.
Blacklists in the SJW era: ensuring the right diversity and climate.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2017 11:30 AM (BWL+E)
Posted by: David Carradine at August 08, 2017 11:30 AM (QQ+il)
Posted by: LASue at August 08, 2017 11:30 AM (hZ+us)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 08, 2017 11:30 AM (4ErVI)
Nothing like the lighthouse transfer but here is an every day transfer in the oilfield, offshore.
https://tinyurl.com/yasftxhs
If it gets too rough you get to do the Tarzan routine on the rope swing.
https://tinyurl.com/y8u9qnuy
Posted by: Javems at August 08, 2017 11:31 AM (yOqwj)
Posted by: willow at August 08, 2017 11:31 AM (FKrah)
Posted by: Under Fire at August 08, 2017 11:31 AM (mcI77)
Damnit, I was just about to go to lunch, too. Maybe thoughts like this are how Ace can manage 4-5 day fasts.
Posted by: Grimaldi at August 08, 2017 11:32 AM (V/f/L)
Posted by: Tentotwo at August 08, 2017 11:32 AM (yhf6w)
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 08, 2017 11:32 AM (6jaju)
I mean, we here have known that Gurgle is evil long before 2013, when he started there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2017 11:33 AM (uBoz0)
Waaaaaaaay past time to break up these fascist dorks.
Into little tiny pieces.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 08, 2017 11:33 AM (5SCmO)
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 11:33 AM (no/Pv)
Ok now I feel triggered somehow.
Posted by: Zombie MikeDouglas at August 08, 2017 11:33 AM (XbHzd)
16% of blacks met the college-readiness benchmarks on the SAT.
6% on the ACT.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/
09/2015-sat-act-scores-suggest-many-students.html
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And the weird part is that when we talk about this sort of thing and how it has to stop because WE want them to succeed, we're racists.
Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 08, 2017 11:34 AM (+fLLK)
Posted by: mpfs at August 08, 2017 11:34 AM (s94ps)
Posted by: willow at August 08, 2017 11:34 AM (FKrah)
You may smell the farts of your Female, Trans, or Person of Color Section Chief when emitted.
However, you are not required to.
But, that is part of your Annual Employee Review.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 08, 2017 11:34 AM (NyJwR)
Posted by: Tami at August 08, 2017 11:34 AM (Enq6K)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 08, 2017 11:35 AM (BC5E+)
Posted by: bluebell at August 08, 2017 11:35 AM (UoSKV)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 08, 2017 11:35 AM (dueIV)
I believe her or xher's full title is the Commissar of Diversity, Inclusion, and Hunting Down and Firing Anyone Who Disagrees with Them. And you can't create an utopia without filling up a few gulags and mass graves comrade
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 08, 2017 11:35 AM (493sH)
That Twitter exchange speaks volumes. The fuck you is especially thoughtful.
She probably couldn't get in a STEM program.
Posted by: mpfs at August 08, 2017 11:36 AM (s94ps)
Posted by: original jake at August 08, 2017 11:36 AM (QvI/V)
I guess I'll buy that. I did mean to put a smiley face on my first post since I was just yanking your chain.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 08, 2017 11:36 AM (rp9xB)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at August 08, 2017 11:36 AM (MINbv)
By evil they meant conservative
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 08, 2017 11:36 AM (493sH)
Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2017 11:36 AM (OvldT)
I love my dog but no one prepares you for poop butt!!!
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 08, 2017 11:36 AM (dueIV)
1. Punish male STEM guys
2. Fawn over females cuz females
3. Something
4. Profit
O Tay.
Posted by: Puddin Head at August 08, 2017 11:36 AM (YV+SU)
Posted by: mpfs at August 08, 2017 11:34 AM (s94ps)
Starring zombies Bob Hope and Bing Crosby
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 08, 2017 11:37 AM (493sH)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2017 11:37 AM (U76Nz)
Posted by: original jake at August 08, 2017 11:37 AM (QvI/V)
No, it doesn't. In 1984 I was a college student, trudging daily up the hill to USU (gwaggies!) into the teeth of the brutally cold winds rushing out of Logan Canyon.
Doesn't feel at all like living the high desert with triple-digit temperatures and a stunning lack of cold tap water.
Posted by: Anachronda at August 08, 2017 11:38 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 08, 2017 11:38 AM (ul9CR)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 08, 2017 11:38 AM (dueIV)
Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2017 11:38 AM (OvldT)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 08, 2017 11:36 AM (dueIV)
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For me, discovering that he likes to raid the cat's litter box for snacks was worse. Much worse.
Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 08, 2017 11:38 AM (+fLLK)
Ok now I feel triggered somehow.
Posted by: Zombie MikeDouglas at August 08, 2017 11:33 AM (XbHzd)
Now you're stealing my glory.
Posted by: Zombie KirkDouglas at August 08, 2017 11:38 AM (XbHzd)
Posted by: bluebell at August 08, 2017 11:39 AM (UoSKV)
https://tinyurl.com/yasftxhs
If it gets too rough you get to do the Tarzan routine on the rope swing.
https://tinyurl.com/y8u9qnuy
Posted by: Javems at August 08, 2017 11:31 AM (yOqwj)
I have done the man basket thing a few times.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2017 11:39 AM (uBoz0)
Regarding the Google guy, yeah called it about him being fired. I hope he has a good lawyer and has money saved.
Jeez, I could write a wall of text about this topic as it is near and dear to my heart...and because I run into it almost every work day.
Short versions, Progressives came into tech via management and HR. They don't care about making good products or making customers happy, they care about saying the right things. Very Orwellian, very Marxist.
That said, there are Conservatives in tech. Maybe even a lot of them. Just about anyone in a company who's focused on results or what works is likely a good guy. But the Conservatives rarely have power. If they're managers, they're usually lower level managers. Which is still useful, but it doesn't change corporate policy.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 11:39 AM (xJa6I)
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 08, 2017 11:39 AM (/LX46)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 08, 2017 11:35 AM (493sH)
VP Chair of the Committee of Public Safety. All she needs now is to set up the guillotines.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 11:39 AM (bmzqy)
Posted by: Dr Spank at August 08, 2017 11:39 AM (nKbPK)
I love my dog but no one prepares you for poop butt!!!
True story. MiniChronda went through a phase when he was about 8 or so of drawing animal butts. Whenever he'd draw an animal, it would be viewed from the rear.
Asked him about it one day. His response "butts are easier to draw than faces."
Posted by: Anachronda at August 08, 2017 11:39 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Your Dog at August 08, 2017 11:39 AM (ul9CR)
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at August 08, 2017 11:39 AM (4hIeD)
Posted by: The Suits at Google at August 08, 2017 11:39 AM (qJhUV)
==
I wash puppy's butt with the garden hose after he poops.
Dunno what I'll do in winter.
Posted by: votermom pimping great books! at August 08, 2017 11:40 AM (hMwEB)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2017 11:40 AM (/tuJf)
AHEM.
Look - for those of us who've been around the gulf and O&G, we get it.
The rest of the world will read that line and go "sure, sure..."
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at August 08, 2017 11:40 AM (MINbv)
Posted by: Marcus T, Mocking the Human Race at August 08, 2017 11:40 AM (7XQES)
In 1997, Chelsea made the decision to attend Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, with the intention of studying pre-med.
(Biography.com)
Dr. Chubbles will see you now.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 08, 2017 11:41 AM (6jaju)
One of these corgis is not quite the same...
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 08, 2017 11:41 AM (ul9CR)
Blacklists in the McCarthy era: bad, evil, oppressive.
Blacklists in the SJW era: ensuring the right diversity and climate.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2017 11:30 AM (BWL+E)
SJWs believe: Because some people were treated unfairly by other people in the past, I'm justified in treating you unfairly now.
Posted by: zmdavid at August 08, 2017 11:41 AM (xqRaG)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 08, 2017 11:41 AM (fA1SL)
They want people to be smothered by enormous warm, damp pvc bags full of cottage cheese and over-ripe Esrom?
I mean, if it was just a bondage kink I could maybe understand, but....
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at August 08, 2017 11:42 AM (CPk08)
That's me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 08, 2017 11:42 AM (X6fMO)
"White Men are Evil. Unless you decide to cut off your penis or fornicate with another man".
Or maybe, vote for Democrats and the liberal social agenda.
Posted by: Marcus T, Mocking the Human Race at August 08, 2017 11:42 AM (7XQES)
Posted by: Roy at August 08, 2017 11:42 AM (7n4KQ)
I am shocked.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 08, 2017 11:42 AM (ul9CR)
I'd add Amazon to that too. I don't trust Bezos as far as I can bowl his bald head
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 08, 2017 11:42 AM (493sH)
Posted by: Pyrocles at August 08, 2017 11:43 AM (TGw8/)
Well, I "intended" to play basketball, but at 5'11"...
snort.
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at August 08, 2017 11:43 AM (MINbv)
Posted by: mercenary13 at August 08, 2017 11:43 AM (Ro1Qa)
http://tinyurl.com/y8pwpwbq
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2017 11:43 AM (iVOAv)
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 11:43 AM (no/Pv)
Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2017 11:44 AM (OvldT)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 08, 2017 11:44 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: RioBravo at August 08, 2017 11:44 AM (SsblQ)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 08, 2017 11:44 AM (jxbfJ)
Google's motto today "Well, when you think about it, words like 'good' and 'evil' are really relative terms that don't exist in any objective space."
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 08, 2017 11:22 AM (KUaJL)
I was at Google when they kowtowed to the Chinese to help them with their Great Firewall. There was a shit storm among the lower employees who truly believed that 'Don't Be Evil' was their corporate policy.
It didn't help.
None of the guys who objected were pulling the levers of power.
Want to fix this? Go to work at one of these places, climb the ladder, hire conservatives or at least people who understand logic. Then, maybe, you can start pushing out the worthless Commissars. But that will be a multi-decade effort, folks.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 11:45 AM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Pyrocles at August 08, 2017 11:43 AM (TGw8/
Progs don't understand that '1984' is a cautionary tale. They think it's a how-to manual.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 11:45 AM (bmzqy)
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Well on the bright side, I'll only be suffering for about 2 minutes of it.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 08, 2017 11:45 AM (KUaJL)
So Google's business plan is
1. Punish male STEM guys
2. Fawn over females cuz females
3. Something
4. Profit
O Tay.
Posted by: Puddin Head at August 08, 2017 11:36 AM
Well, it seems to be working for them.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2017 11:46 AM (IqV8l)
Tech companies could employ a lot more women if they didn't outsource all the custodial and cafeteria work.
Posted by: RioBravo
____________________________
Hmmmm,, *scribbles notes on pad*
Posted by: Bob from NSA at August 08, 2017 11:46 AM (UMWic)
But it's a distinction without a difference, really.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 08, 2017 11:27 AM (KUaJL)
Even the Wiccans preface that with "harming none."
Posted by: Insomniac at August 08, 2017 11:46 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2017 11:27 AM (IqV8l)
Herbert!
Posted by: Space Hippy, who is now employed at Google at August 08, 2017 11:47 AM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 11:45 AM (xJa6I)
Right. That's how the SJWs do it. They worm their way into positions of authority, then they hire their SJW friends, and then they rewrite the hiring rules so that only SJWs are eligible for hire.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 11:47 AM (bmzqy)
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Boo! Booooooo!
Posted by: Crone from The Princess Bride at August 08, 2017 11:47 AM (10LGw)
Two minutes. An eternity. What's the difference.
Posted by: Zod at August 08, 2017 11:48 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Under Fire at August 08, 2017 11:48 AM (mcI77)
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. What was her actual degree, I wonder. And did they give her an Honorary Doctorate?
Posted by: grammie winger - experimental dunce at August 08, 2017 11:48 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Javems at August 08, 2017 11:48 AM (yOqwj)
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I thought we agreed that "diversity" means no white, heterosexual Christian males?
Posted by: bicentennialguy at August 08, 2017 11:49 AM (vg8iE)
Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2017 11:44 AM (OvldT)
I think I'm just going through another depressive slump. Nothing tastes good any more, even things that I like to eat. It's just Play-Doh on a plate.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 08, 2017 11:49 AM (X6fMO)
Posted by: Under Fire at August 08, 2017 11:48 AM (mcI77)
Any organization sufficiently infiltrated by Leftists becomes a cheap Politburo knock-off.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 08, 2017 11:50 AM (X52ZZ)
These tech firms wield a lot of power and are using it in every way possible.
The business titans way back when just wanted to sell oil and steel and have government out of the way. The new oligarchs want to control our culture.
Posted by: Maritime at August 08, 2017 11:50 AM (VDVsF)
Revive & repeat. Revive and repeat.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 08, 2017 11:50 AM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 08, 2017 11:50 AM (+fLLK)
slump. Nothing tastes good any more, even things that I like to eat.
It's just Play-Doh on a plate.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 08, 2017 11:49 AM (X6fMO)
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Try the tofu.
Posted by: RioBravo at August 08, 2017 11:51 AM (SsblQ)
Posted by: bicentennialguy at August 08, 2017 11:49 AM (vg8iE)
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Unless you're a plumber.
Posted by: grammie winger - experimental dunce at August 08, 2017 11:51 AM (lwiT4)
And corgi butts...
Posted by: LASue at August 08, 2017 11:24 AM (hZ+us)
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OK, now i want a corgi butt sandwich
Posted by: Barack O bama at August 08, 2017 11:51 AM (PNcou)
Makes me wonder what the hell I actually can do to improve my lot, without selling my soul. If anything.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at August 08, 2017 11:51 AM (AM1GF)
Posted by: DR. Jill Biden at August 08, 2017 11:51 AM (vg8iE)
Intel CEO said how cool driverless cars would be because with amber alert, they could activate cameras on all their cars to find the kid. He waved away privacy concerns as the "social good" outweighing any of those concerns.
Now do the math: firing this Google employee and ruining his chances of ever being employed in Silicon Valley is considered a "social good" to these people - do you really want them controlling (or disabling) your free movement?!?
*Also, Airbnb was just caught cancelling reservations AND membership of people attending Robert E Lee statue removal because their thoughtcrimes violated the members' non-discrimination policy. This is who they are, this is how they think: must banish anyone who disagrees from polite society; no employment, no services, no nothing!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2017 11:51 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: V the K at August 08, 2017 11:51 AM (O7MnT)
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 11:47 AM (bmzqy)
Which means that one would have to live a lie for a decade or more, pretending to be an SJW as one slowly climbs through the ranks at Gurgle (or whatever).
Easier to burn the fucker down with an antitrust suit.
Or found an explicitly right-wing alternative to Gurgle, that simply works, better.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2017 11:51 AM (uBoz0)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 08, 2017 11:52 AM (fA1SL)
Want to fix this? Go to work at one of these places, climb the ladder, hire conservatives or at least people who understand logic. Then, maybe, you can start pushing out the worthless Commissars. But that will be a multi-decade effort, folks.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 11:45 AM (xJa6I)
Leftists have been doing this forever. Join an organization you disagree with and change or ruin it.
Conservatives are unwilling to do this, they'd rather start a new company, which if successful, would be infiltrated and corrupted by leftists.
The other thing is leftists are on guard against this tactic, conservatives aren't.
Posted by: zmdavid at August 08, 2017 11:52 AM (xqRaG)
Mmmmmm. Play-doh
Posted by: Slow Joe at August 08, 2017 11:53 AM (8ikIW)
slump. Nothing tastes good any more, even things that I like to eat.
It's just Play-Doh on a plate.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 08, 2017 11:49 AM (X6fMO)
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I'm sorry MP. I know what that feels like. If you are having eating and sleeping problems, do you have a doctor you trust?
Posted by: grammie winger - experimental dunce at August 08, 2017 11:53 AM (lwiT4)
Which means that one would have to live a lie for a decade or more, pretending to be an SJW as one slowly climbs through the ranks at Gurgle (or whatever).
Easier to burn the fucker down with an antitrust suit.
Or found an explicitly right-wing alternative to Gurgle, that simply works, better.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2017 11:51 AM (uBoz0)
Pretty much what I was thinking.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2017 11:53 AM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 08, 2017 11:44 AM (0mRoj)
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ummm, well, ya see...
*** dissolves into tears ****
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at August 08, 2017 11:53 AM (PNcou)
Posted by: original jake at August 08, 2017 11:53 AM (QvI/V)
Posted by: grammie winger - experimental dunce
Look, I already suffered brain damage skimming thru her bio to pull that quote. You want me to lose the rest of my mind?
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 08, 2017 11:53 AM (6jaju)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2017 11:53 AM (iVOAv)
Polite society is overrated. It's built on lies, and lies beget lies until you live in a cesspool of corruption and hypocrisy, which is where we're at now.
Impolite society, at least, is honest.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 08, 2017 11:54 AM (X52ZZ)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan!
HQ!Name or meatspace!name? Because the second is a perfectly good one that I don't use here (but I wouldn't be shocked if someone ferreted it out anyway).
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at August 08, 2017 11:54 AM (AM1GF)
Posted by: V the K at August 08, 2017 11:51 AM (O7MnT)
Google: Could you say that a little slower? We're trying to write this all down
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 08, 2017 11:54 AM (493sH)
Posted by: RioBravo at August 08, 2017 11:44 AM (SsblQ)
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the company motto may have also been a roadblock
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 08, 2017 11:55 AM (PNcou)
Too much power in the hands of the few is always dangerous to a nation. We tend to think of big government, but we forget that the same applies to religion and business.
Posted by: William Eaton at August 08, 2017 11:55 AM (MuTTO)
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I used to wear Oxfords. I didn't have relations with them though.
Posted by: grammie winger - experimental dunce at August 08, 2017 11:56 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Under Fire at August 08, 2017 11:56 AM (mcI77)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2017 11:51 AM (uBoz0)
Pretty much what I was thinking.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2017 11:53 AM (aMlLZ)
For web searches, I recommend DuckDuckGo. They may not be as precise as the many-tentacled monster, but that's because they're not sniffing out your personal data to try to sell you stuff.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 08, 2017 11:56 AM (X52ZZ)
pretending to be an SJW as one slowly climbs through the ranks at Gurgle
(or whatever).
Or, you know, have worked in the Obama WH. That's where so many of his former team went: they are now executives at tech companies, making policies and lobbying to make their companies partners w/federal government.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2017 11:56 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Under Fire at August 08, 2017 11:48 AM (mcI77)
Google's HR Department = NKVD
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2017 11:56 AM (BWL+E)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 08, 2017 11:56 AM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 08, 2017 11:56 AM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Just call me Deplorable Texican gal at August 08, 2017 11:56 AM (jVlNS)
Why bother? As long as companies continue to hire based on some made up criteria of diversity instead of on merit their fate is assured.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2017 11:57 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 08, 2017 11:56 AM (X52ZZ)
I've started to use them too. I won't use Chrome either. Fark them all
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 08, 2017 11:57 AM (493sH)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2017 11:53 AM (iVOAv)
Fixed it for you, Fen!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2017 11:57 AM (uBoz0)
Conservatives are unwilling to do this, they'd rather start a new company, which if successful, would be infiltrated and corrupted by leftists.
The other thing is leftists are on guard against this tactic, conservatives aren't.
Posted by: zmdavid at August 08, 2017 11:52 AM (xqRaG)
Nope.... its simpler.
Leftists have no real morality. They will do whatever it takes to get ahead.... lie, cheat steal, take other people privacy away (Google hello)....
Conservatives are at a competitive disadvantage in todays crappy world... because honesty and honor are not valued anymore....
It used to be if you lied, it got around, and people wouldn't do business with you.... now its so 'normal' that people don't even think about it anymore.
And I say this as someone who has both worked, and owned businesses in the Tech Sector for decades....
Posted by: Don Q. at August 08, 2017 11:57 AM (NgKpN)
Makes me wonder what the hell I actually can do to improve my lot, without selling my soul. If anything.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at August 08, 2017 11:51 AM (AM1GF)
There's work in the tech field without having to work for The Beast.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 08, 2017 11:57 AM (X52ZZ)
Degree in International Relations: How to shake down Saudi Arabia for more cash
Posted by: grammie winger - experimental dunce at August 08, 2017 11:58 AM (lwiT4)
Where else can one see such economy of action?
Twitter should start an ad campaign, such as "You too, for 140 characters or less, can make liberal heads explode across the nation."
Posted by: Blake at August 08, 2017 11:59 AM (qC1Sy)
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And they'll never stop to ask for directions
Posted by: SJW - who almost went into Stem at August 08, 2017 11:59 AM (PNcou)
Posted by: Tami at August 08, 2017 11:59 AM (Enq6K)
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 08, 2017 11:59 AM (UBzPO)
Posted by: Under Fire at August 08, 2017 11:48 AM (mcI77)
Google's HR Department = NKVD
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2017 11:56 AM (BWL+E)
That's MS. Commissar Lavrentiy Beria to you!
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 08, 2017 11:59 AM (493sH)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 08, 2017 11:56 AM (X52ZZ)
That's been set as my search engine for several years. I have also used Dogpile, which is a search engine aggregator.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2017 11:59 AM (uBoz0)
I get that, but their impulse is to bar access to anything they can.
They want to blacklist conservatives so they can't get jobs, deny them services like lodging, online fundraising, tweeting, birthday cakes, whatever. May not be a big deal yet, but give it a decade or so and it will be amazing how hard it is to get along without some tech. You will be forced to minimally engage or completely go off the grid, which is not always a viable option.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2017 11:59 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 08, 2017 11:49 AM (X6fMO)
Yeah, I've heard that food being tasteless can be a sign of depression.
If you suffer from depressive symptoms most or all of the time, that suggests something biochemical rather than situational.
In which case medications might help. Have you considered going that route?
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 11:59 AM (bmzqy)
Posted by: willow at August 08, 2017 11:59 AM (FKrah)
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 11:59 AM (ujg0T)
But it's a distinction without a difference, really.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 08, 2017 11:27 AM (KUaJL)
Even the Wiccans preface that with "harming none."
Posted by: Insomniac at August 08, 2017 11:46 AM (0mRoj)
Heh. I knew Wiccans back in the day. Ask them what constitutes 'harm'.
Good times, good times.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 11:59 AM (xJa6I)
Easier to burn the fucker down with an antitrust suit.
Or found an explicitly right-wing alternative to Gurgle, that simply works, better.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2017 11:51 AM (uBoz0)
Pretty much what I was thinking.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2017 11:53 AM (aMlLZ)
Yup.
If I was a white guy in Google, etc or a conservative or just someone who valued freedom of speech and the American way,
I would realize that my future was limited strictly by whatever silly shit some leftard comes up with.
And start looking to create my own company with top people who's futures were similarly and unfairly limited.
I suspect that you could unseat Google in just a few years, cuz-
there is a lot, a lot of first rate talent out there and there's no reason to put up with Googlesque Fascism.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 08, 2017 12:00 PM (NyJwR)
Posted by: willow at August 08, 2017 12:01 PM (FKrah)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at August 08, 2017 12:01 PM (PNcou)
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Ha. Bill went to Oxford, didn't he? So Grrl Power Chubbles was a legacy admit.
That's hilarious.
Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 08, 2017 12:02 PM (+fLLK)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 08, 2017 11:54 AM (X52ZZ)
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the fat bastard is right!
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at August 08, 2017 12:02 PM (PNcou)
The James Boys had much the same problem, circa 1866. Their solution looks better and better each day. (And they never took a dime from anyone who had been on their side)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2017 12:02 PM (k1TUh)
Now they're HR Departments, run by social-justice bits of fluff who robotically recite their PC lines and ruin people's careers. I hate them with the heat of a million supernovas.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2017 12:02 PM (BWL+E)
Posted by: willow at August 08, 2017 11:59 AM (FKrah)
Exactly. Competence and skill even is no guarantee. It takes power and willingness to use it to protect yourself.
I would love to only do merit-based hires. I think Google is demonstrating that you can't rely on it. They want to make everything ideological. Which means either we do the same, or we lose the primary means of communication and organizing in the world.
Yep. That's the stakes.
No Google. No Youtube. No Gmail. No Bing. No Apple. No frelling Office or Windows, even.
MAYBE some sunlight here and some pushback and maybe Jeff Sessions will wake up and send some half-assed or maybe full-assed prosecutors after Google. Maybe. But don't count on it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 12:03 PM (xJa6I)
I wonder if that's Fearless Girl?
Posted by: tu3031 at August 08, 2017 12:03 PM (qJhUV)
Posted by: Google at August 08, 2017 12:03 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 08, 2017 12:03 PM (fA1SL)
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I wonder how the average male/female salaries compare
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at August 08, 2017 12:04 PM (PNcou)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at August 08, 2017 12:01 PM (PNcou)
Send her to the Montana School of Mines. She will learn something useful, and might even snag a miner.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2017 12:04 PM (uBoz0)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 08, 2017 12:04 PM (nlbfN)
Posted by: J. Sessions at August 08, 2017 12:04 PM (mcI77)
Posted by: Tami at August 08, 2017 11:59 AM
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I don't know the name either, but I Binged "fist bump baby" and came up with the image.
Posted by: Just call me Deplorable Texican gal at August 08, 2017 12:05 PM (jVlNS)
We're not going to win by playing by their rules, or by shying away from fights. When we hold back, they win.
It'll only be a matter of time before their unwritten social codes become written ones, if we do nothing.
The only way out is to offend people. We have to become a nation of Trumps, and with such a uniformity that they can't fire everyone.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 08, 2017 12:05 PM (X52ZZ)
Posted by: Tami at August 08, 2017 11:59 AM (Enq6K)
Tami, that's the 'yes, nailed it' meme image. It pops up here and there. You can find it on knowyourmeme dot com.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 12:05 PM (xJa6I)
16% of blacks met the college-readiness benchmarks on the SAT.
6% on the ACT.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/
09/2015-sat-act-scores-suggest-many-students.html
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And the weird part is that when we talk about this sort of thing and how it has to stop because WE want them to succeed, we're racists.
Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 08, 2017 11:34 AM (+fLLK)
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And the answer of course is to do AWAY with the ACT/SAT requirement across the land... and now we no longer have to met the benchmarks - see magic right? sarc/
Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at August 08, 2017 12:05 PM (lwKRt)
177. Pfft! Every day, I gotta tell you people - armoured trains, Cossack and Mongol cavalry, and you're good to go. Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor Glory to Kekistan! at August 08, 2017 12:03 PM (fA1SL)
With open boxcars of lamenting innocents as human shields. Don't forget the open boxcars of lamenting innocents as human shields.
Posted by: Zod at August 08, 2017 12:06 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 08, 2017 11:49 AM (X6fMO)
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then i'll trade you your steak for my turnips
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at August 08, 2017 12:06 PM (PNcou)
Stunned, I was, to see no comments, and in my confusion, I didn't know what to do.
I coulda been first, and totally blanked out.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at August 08, 2017 11:22 AM (m9X4Y)
You were temporarily in Google?Someone probably already said that.
Time to read teh comments.Oh, and fvck Google.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 08, 2017 12:06 PM (8snMi)
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No Google. No Youtube. No Gmail. No Bing. No Apple. No frelling Office or Windows, even.
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Close.
Posted by: RioBravo at August 08, 2017 12:06 PM (SsblQ)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 08, 2017 12:03 PM (fA1SL)
LOL.
I love how you think, Palpy.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 12:07 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2017 12:07 PM (HgMAr)
Perhaps write a Bollywood style musical called The Taming of MaGoggle to win the $22,000 prize from Amazon India?
http://www.amazon.in/b?ie=UTF8node=13819037031
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:07 PM (bTvCK)
Ladyboi-is-a-guy land!
Once your schlong's discarded
It can never be reattached again.
Posted by: Stanley Ann Laurel and Olivia Hardy at August 08, 2017 12:07 PM (P4UqR)
I do need to find a new doctor, since mine is retiring.
It's not that I'm having any "problems," per se, certainly no more than usual or nothing that can't be chalked up to middle age. I'm just in a funk right now, so I can't really concentrate on reading, can't write a thing and don't want to do much more than go to bed.
I always get like this; sometimes it's really bad and sometimes it's not. Right now it's all shades of grey.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 08, 2017 12:07 PM (X6fMO)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 08, 2017 12:07 PM (fA1SL)
cut. jib. newsletter.
Posted by: !jeb at August 08, 2017 12:07 PM (mcI77)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 08, 2017 11:49 AM (X6fMO)
Ugh. Anhedonia. It sucks.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 08, 2017 12:07 PM (0mRoj)
/pol/has another approach:
https://twitter.com/polNewsForever/status/894769565325860867
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2017 12:08 PM (NOIQH)
Ooh, do they teach that "trapped in a glass box" thing?
Oh...miNes.
Never mind.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 08, 2017 12:08 PM (ul9CR)
Just don't show any emotion, no matter what the pod people do or say. Keep your face blank and eyes vacant. Don't even sweat.
And for God's sake, don't fall for a dame in high heels (Dana Wynter) who is going to run and trip and fall so you'll have to carry her into a cave but then she will fall asleep anyways and start to become a pod person when you return from getting supplies and she will lead them right to you and you'll have to run thru the hills until you find a highway and then run into traffic trying to warn the people in their cars like a madman.
Posted by: Kevin McCarthy at August 08, 2017 12:08 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis
Their stock should soar if that happens. Their labor costs will drop to about 3/4 of current.
Posted by: Roy at August 08, 2017 12:10 PM (7n4KQ)
MAYBE some sunlight here and some pushback and maybe Jeff Sessions will wake up and send some half-assed or maybe full-assed prosecutors after Google. Maybe. But don't count on it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 12:03 PM (xJa6I)
Can someone please let me know what new desktop computer software and / or samsung phone apps I can use? I want to cut the cord.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 12:10 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 08, 2017 12:03 PM (fA1SL)
Unfortunately saying that the wrong way gets you banned around here.
See "cleanup on aisle 279" yesterday.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 08, 2017 12:10 PM (Jcg9Q)
/pol/has another approach:
https://twitter.com/polNewsForever/status/894769565325860867
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2017 12:08 PM (NOIQH)
That's not a terrible prank. But storage, though it costs, keeps getting cheaper. I can buy a 64gb thumb drive for $17 (ironically, on the Microsoft Store)
Google buys storage by the petabyte or maybe exabyte by now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 12:10 PM (xJa6I)
So, if I choose to use Tech, of any sort, I am feeding the Beast.
And here I sit, using Tech...
Posted by: kraken at August 08, 2017 12:11 PM (zSVEm)
Posted by: V the K at August 08, 2017 11:51 AM (O7MnT)
Google: Could you say that a little slower? We're trying to write this all down
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 08, 2017 11:54 AM (493sH)
THAT'S FUNNY BECAUSE ALL GOOGLE HAS TO DO IS COPY AND PASTE.
Posted by: BEN ROTHLESBERGER at August 08, 2017 12:11 PM (Fmupd)
cut. jib. newsletter.
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I gonna invent the B.A.T. for college admission
The Black Aptitude Test.
Posted by: Maxine Waters at August 08, 2017 12:11 PM (PNcou)
Posted by: Advo at August 08, 2017 12:11 PM (Ms4Um)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at August 08, 2017 12:01 PM (PNcou)
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What's her plan? Chubbles could do it because she didn't have to worry about earning a living later.
Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 08, 2017 12:11 PM (+fLLK)
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 11:59 AM (bmzqy)
I have and now I don't, the reasons for which make too long a story for right now. Suffice it that I simply came to the conclusion that I've been unhappy for fifty-odd years, and I'm used to it now.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 08, 2017 12:11 PM (X6fMO)
Posted by: Zombie Uncle Joe Stalin at August 08, 2017 12:11 PM (vtcmf)
The public deserves to know the truth. That is what the progs say about the leaks in government and business when it helps their cause.
We are in a cold civil war now and all is fair game until that war ends.
Posted by: William Eaton at August 08, 2017 12:12 PM (MuTTO)
Fake news, as usual. Fake, fake, fake.
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2017 12:12 PM (DQ4Fv)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 08, 2017 12:03 PM (fA1SL)
Unfortunately saying that the wrong way gets you banned around here.
See "cleanup on aisle 279" yesterday.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 08, 2017 12:10 PM (Jcg9Q)
Style sheet, it's about style, and there is a modus operandi at AoS..
Posted by: kraken at August 08, 2017 12:12 PM (zSVEm)
But if she's a STEM genius, shouldn't she have given Hillary better advice on internet security?
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 08, 2017 12:13 PM (P4UqR)
The Commiecrats have been working on this....
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 12:13 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 08, 2017 12:13 PM (+fLLK)
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and whatever you do, don't google
"How to survive inside the Google Bubble"
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at August 08, 2017 12:13 PM (PNcou)
The Black Aptitude Test.
Posted by: Maxine Waters
"Yes stewardess, I speak jive." As judged by Shaun 'Talcum X' King.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:13 PM (bTvCK)
Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at August 08, 2017 12:14 PM (FQKBL)
Posted by: Tami at August 08, 2017 11:59 AM
That fist-bump baby gets used a lot. Heck, that was ace's avatar on Twitter for awhile there.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 12:14 PM (bmzqy)
So, if I choose to use Tech, of any sort, I am feeding the Beast.
And here I sit, using Tech...
Posted by: kraken at August 08, 2017 12:11 PM (zSVEm)
I work for a tech company where, as far as I know, my views are not in the minority, but then again...
Texas.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 08, 2017 12:14 PM (X52ZZ)
6 Google's motto 10 years ago "Don't be evil."
Google's motto today "Well, when you think about it, words like 'good' and 'evil' are really relative terms that don't exist in any objective space."
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 08, 2017 11:22 AM (KUaJL)
No, the motto today is "Fear Me!"
Posted by: Advo at August 08, 2017 12:14 PM (Ms4Um)
Posted by: Google, Inc. at August 08, 2017 12:14 PM (7uC5o)
They can probably identify anyone.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 08, 2017 12:14 PM (znLI8)
MAYBE some sunlight here and some pushback and maybe Jeff Sessions will wake up and send some half-assed or maybe full-assed prosecutors after Google. Maybe. But don't count on it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 12:03 PM (xJa6I)
Can someone please let me know what new desktop computer software and / or samsung phone apps I can use? I want to cut the cord.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 12:10 PM (ujg0T)
I'm not a phone app guy, but there are some cheap UNIX Ubuntu computers around now that are more user-friendly than they used to be. Or most big mfgs sell UNIX-ready laptops: Dell, Lenovo, etc. Mind you, that means living the UNIX world, it's cold and lonely there....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 12:14 PM (xJa6I)
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you're giving me The Vapors
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at August 08, 2017 12:14 PM (PNcou)
Posted by: Ted Kaczynsky at August 08, 2017 12:15 PM (mcI77)
Posted by: Maxine Waters at August 08, 2017 12:11 PM (PNcou)
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Will it involve birds?
Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 08, 2017 12:15 PM (+fLLK)
The guy already had a NLRB complaint pending for hostile work environment. CA law prohibits firing someone for political views (that's a paraphrase). Retaliation of someone with a pending NLRB case is a major no no.
So. You have someone smart enough to be an engineer at Google who viewed the system and saw the weak point and attacked.
On top of that, there are people in management at Google proudly proclaiming that they are going to blacklist people for supporting the memo.
He could not have manufactured better evidence of bias.
Posted by: alexthechick - a manatee life for me at August 08, 2017 12:15 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:15 PM (no/Pv)
That's why it's pronounced eunuchs.
Posted by: Roy at August 08, 2017 12:16 PM (7n4KQ)
Maybe not overtly but John Chambers was a pretty strong Republican supporter when he was running Cisco and since Cisco gear makes up the vast majority of internet backbone technology your probably using it right now.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2017 12:16 PM (/tuJf)
The public deserves to know the truth. That is what the progs say about the leaks in government and business when it helps their cause.
We are in a cold civil war now and all is fair game until that war ends.
Posted by: William Eaton at August 08, 2017 12:12 PM (MuTTO)
Anonymous leaks appear to be the order of the day. Just leak their biased policy docs, internal memos, and other evidence to interested parties.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 08, 2017 12:16 PM (X52ZZ)
Fake news, as usual. Fake, fake, fake.
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2017 12:12 PM (DQ4Fv)
Sex and drama....candy everybody wants.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 12:16 PM (xJa6I)
Just so you know, there will be a place for conservatives in the "brave new world" performing "drudgery" and "maintenance work." Oh, thank goodness for that! I can't wait to get my new job in District 12.
Posted by: Zon Toro at August 08, 2017 12:16 PM (V0pGL)
Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not
as Smart as Some Birds at August 08, 2017 12:15 PM (+fLLK)
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Jailbirds
Posted by: RioBravo at August 08, 2017 12:16 PM (SsblQ)
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 12:10 PM (ujg0T)
I'm not a phone app guy, but there are some cheap UNIX Ubuntu computers around now that are more user-friendly than they used to be. Or most big mfgs sell UNIX-ready laptops: Dell, Lenovo, etc. Mind you, that means living the UNIX world, it's cold and lonely there....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 12:14 PM (xJa6I)
Ack. I always thought someone should have created a E.U.N.U.C.H.S. acronym for U.N.I.X.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 12:16 PM (ujg0T)
The guy already had a NLRB complaint pending for hostile work environment. CA law prohibits firing someone for political views (that's a paraphrase). Retaliation of someone with a pending NLRB case is a major no no.
So. You have someone smart enough to be an engineer at Google who viewed the system and saw the weak point and attacked.
On top of that, there are people in management at Google proudly proclaiming that they are going to blacklist people for supporting the memo.
He could not have manufactured better evidence of bias.
Posted by: alexthechick - a manatee life for me at August 08, 2017 12:15 PM (mf5HN)
Yes, I hope he gets a huge, disgusting, risk-factor cash prize. And a book deal.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 12:17 PM (xJa6I)
In my forty years in the workforce I can categorically say that I've
never seen gender pay inequality. If it exist it is a rare exception
imo.
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:15 PM (no/Pv)
You need to work for a Democrat politician to see it. They always pay men more.
Posted by: zmdavid at August 08, 2017 12:17 PM (xqRaG)
Kapo or Sonderkommando, you get to choose.
Posted by: Roy at August 08, 2017 12:17 PM (7n4KQ)
Fox Business - Hackers demand millions in ransom for stolen HBO data.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 08, 2017 12:18 PM (493sH)
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 12:10 PM (ujg0T)
Linux runs fine on desktops and laptops. Not being a smartphone user, I will pass on that.
There are many different Linux distros, and they look different on screen, but the main engines are mostly similar. I use Linux Mint, because it was recommended as being an easy transition for a Windows user, and I rate that statement as true. Mint comes pre-loaded with office tools, a browser, e-mail client, media players, etc.
Now, apparently the guy behind Mint is a big Lefty, but what the Hell, I'm not paying for it!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2017 12:18 PM (uBoz0)
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 12:10 PM (ujg0T)
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Desktop-wise, Linux Mint is very friendly. It can be booted from a USB thumb drive, too.
Phone-wise I'm not sure, but rooting and installing something like a cyanogenmod ROM is probably the first step.
Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 08, 2017 12:18 PM (+fLLK)
However, the updated definition of evil is anybody with conservative/traditional beliefs. You can Google it.
Posted by: Google at August 08, 2017 12:18 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Zon Toro at August 08, 2017 12:16 PM (V0pGL)
Sigh.
Yep, that's...familiar-sounding.
Eh. It's work, not fun.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 12:18 PM (xJa6I)
The Black
Posted by: Maxine Waters at August 08, 2017 12:11 PM (PNcou)
FIFY. I pity the fool!
Posted by: B.A. Baracus at August 08, 2017 12:19 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at August 08, 2017 12:19 PM (PNcou)
On top of that, there are people in management at Google proudly proclaiming that they are going to blacklist people for supporting the memo.
He could not have manufactured better evidence of bias.
Posted by: alexthechick - a manatee life for me at August 08, 2017 12:15 PM (mf5HN)
These scum don't care about the law. They are the law. Their people enforce the laws now. Their people control the wheels of commerce. Their people have overrun the system.
Nothing will happen to them.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 08, 2017 12:19 PM (Jcg9Q)
Perhaps write a Bollywood style musical called The Taming of MaGoggle to win the $22,000 prize from Amazon India?
http://www.amazon.in/b?ie=UTF8node=13819037031
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:07 PM (bTvCK)
Format:
I. Backstory (30 seconds--one minute)
II. Dance number
III. Story development (5 minutes)
IV. Dance number
V. Comic relief
VI. Dance number
VII. Hero seduces improbably beautiful woman
VIII. Dance number
Posted by: joncelli, A Really Weird Guy at August 08, 2017 12:19 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 08, 2017 11:49 AM (X6fMO)
Ugh. Anhedonia. It sucks.
Posted by: Insomniac
I've been having bouts of that for a while. I've been telling myself it was the stress of events over the last couple of years but I'm starting to wonder.
But then again, it seems like it's always something these days, so it's kind of hard to say.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at August 08, 2017 12:19 PM (AM1GF)
Kapo or Sonderkommando, you get to choose.
Posted by: Roy at August 08, 2017 12:17 PM (7n4KQ)
Which, in my view, is what the pasty sociopaths of the Antifa group aspire to be, after the Glorious Revolution...
Posted by: kraken at August 08, 2017 12:19 PM (zSVEm)
On top of that, there are people in management at Google proudly proclaiming that they are going to blacklist people for supporting the memo.
He could not have manufactured better evidence of bias.
Posted by: alexthechick
Whut? Law? What's that?
Posted by: Google Management
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2017 12:20 PM (U76Nz)
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:15 PM (no/Pv)
Study after study has failed to find evidence of inequality. The last one I'm aware of was an Obama Department of Labor study that found women earned $0.97 for every $1 that men earned, and even it admitted that the discrepancy was likely due to unmeasured effects.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 08, 2017 12:20 PM (Tnhbr)
Like revoke the cushy use Google has of a NASA owned airport in California? Fines, investigations, and generally making the Hillary supporting twits lives uncomfortable?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:20 PM (bTvCK)
Posted by: Jackal at August 08, 2017 12:20 PM (pnxnh)
instead work on the inside and leak information on the company.
Seems like the Google manifesto guy may have wanted to instigate a change, either by starting a conversation that could lead to tweaks in policies (optimistic option) or by publicly outing Google and suing (current option).
He filed a complaint with the NLRB about Google's HR practices, and will likely now sue Google, so he does intend to push them on this. Sure looks like he gamed out what might happen and planned accordingly.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2017 12:20 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Fritz at August 08, 2017 12:20 PM (2Mnv1)
II. Dance number
III. Story development (5 minutes)
IV. Dance number
V. Comic relief
VI. Dance number
VII. Hero seduces improbably beautiful woman
VIII. Dance number
Posted by: joncelli, A Really Weird Guy
Objection, your outline is missing the required cray-cray action sequence. Which naturally morphs into a dance number.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at August 08, 2017 12:21 PM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Roy at August 08, 2017 12:17 PM (7n4KQ)
Which, in my view, is what the pasty sociopaths of the Antifa group aspire to be, after the Glorious Revolution...
Posted by: kraken
They want snipers? Because that's how you get snipers.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2017 12:21 PM (U76Nz)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 08, 2017 12:21 PM (fA1SL)
But then again, it seems like it's always something these days, so it's kind of hard to say.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at August 08, 2017 12:19 PM (AM1GF)
maybe, just maybe, seeing what the Left has done and is doing to our nation and our world is causing this depression?
I used to entertain thoughts of checking out permanently myself.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 12:21 PM (ujg0T)
What's next for Google? An active shooter drill.
Posted by: Wendy at August 08, 2017 12:21 PM (bpemY)
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:15 PM (no/Pv)
If employers could get away with paying women 70% less for the same position as men, there would be no unemployed women anywhere.
Why do progressives have such a hard time comprehending the difference between "aggregate" and "indvidual"?
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 12:21 PM (bmzqy)
Posted by: kallisto at August 08, 2017 12:22 PM (AAbgH)
Posted by: kraken
They didn't read history, where they get "processed" too.
Posted by: Roy at August 08, 2017 12:22 PM (7n4KQ)
They can probably identify anyone.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 08, 2017 12:14 PM (znLI
Uncle Joe: I could have used those guys...err..gals..errr..whatevers
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 08, 2017 12:22 PM (493sH)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 12:05 PM (xJa6I)
Ah ok.....
That fist-bump baby gets used a lot. Heck, that was ace's avatar on Twitter for awhile there.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 12:14 PM (bmzqy)
Ok, I thought it was someone I followed!
Posted by: Tami at August 08, 2017 12:22 PM (Enq6K)
Just so you know, there will be a place for conservatives in the "brave new world" performing "drudgery" and "maintenance work." Oh, thank goodness for that! I can't wait to get my new job in District 12.
Posted by: Zon Toro at August 08, 2017 12:16 PM (V0pGL)
Actually I fully agree with that quote. It is a characteristic of conservatives to bear burdens from a sense of responsibility.
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:22 PM (no/Pv)
The Black Aptitude Attitude Test.
Posted by: Maxine Waters at August 08, 2017 12:11 PM (PNcou)
FIFY. I pity the fool!
Posted by: B.A. Baracus at August 08, 2017 12:19 PM (JO9+V)
---
And i also gonna invent the ACTUP test!
Posted by: Maxine Waters at August 08, 2017 12:23 PM (PNcou)
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 12:21 PM (bmzqy)
The individual doesn't fit with their particular...idiom.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 08, 2017 12:23 PM (0mRoj)
Prove to the world what a bunch of scumbags they really are.
Hey. They'd do it to us.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 08, 2017 12:23 PM (X52ZZ)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 12:05 PM (xJa6I)
Ah ok.....
That fist-bump baby gets used a lot. Heck, that was ace's avatar on Twitter for awhile there.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 12:14 PM (bmzqy)
Ok, I thought it was someone I followed!
Posted by: Tami at August 08, 2017 12:22 PM (Enq6K)
It's called "success kid."
Posted by: Insomniac at August 08, 2017 12:24 PM (0mRoj)
---
And we'll get to go to the camps in self-driving cars
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 08, 2017 12:24 PM (PNcou)
Google Diversity Policy: If you don't agree with us you're free to express yourself and then get fired for it
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 08, 2017 12:24 PM (493sH)
I think the explanation for their success is the cute name. They are fucktards whose main contribution to computer science is "sitemaps.xml". Hardly earth shattering stuff.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 08, 2017 12:24 PM (P4UqR)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 08, 2017 12:24 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Maxine Waters at August 08, 2017 12:23 PM (PNcou)
That's for teh gheyz.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 08, 2017 12:24 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2017 12:24 PM (U76Nz)
Also known as "trains".
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2017 12:24 PM (U76Nz)
High speed rail
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 08, 2017 12:25 PM (493sH)
Anonymous leaks appear to be the order of the day. Just leak their biased policy docs, internal memos, and other evidence to interested parties.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 08, 2017 12:16 PM (X52ZZ)
Breitbart is doing a series called Rebels of Google which consists of screen shots and the like of Google management openly blacklisting people.
Posted by: alexthechick - a manatee life for me at August 08, 2017 12:26 PM (mf5HN)
Would it surprise you to know the guy was a chess champion when he was still a kid?
http://heavy.com/tech/2017/08/james-damore-google-diversity-memo/
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2017 12:26 PM (NOIQH)
I've seen "chihuahua or blueberry muffin?" before, it's pretty good.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at August 08, 2017 12:26 PM (GiRFl)
I used to entertain thoughts of checking out permanently myself.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 12:21 PM (ujg0T)
Another ugh. That's a cloud that's followed me for a very long time.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 08, 2017 12:26 PM (0mRoj)
Also known as "trains".
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2017 12:24 PM (U76Nz)
Cattle cars?
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 12:27 PM (bmzqy)
So the dancing action sequence... machines and emus plus explosions? Manatees might be unusual but they don't dance unless we want to invest in a google's worth of CGI.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:27 PM (/eeUo)
Would it surprise you to know the guy was a chess champion when he was still a kid?
Guy really is playing 11 dimensional chess. Googs is fucked if that's true.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2017 12:28 PM (U76Nz)
So the dancing action sequence... machines and emus plus explosions? Manatees might be unusual but they don't dance unless we want to invest in a google's worth of CGI.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:27 PM (/eeUo)
Slow motion water ballet
Posted by: Insomniac at August 08, 2017 12:28 PM (0mRoj)
I used to entertain thoughts of checking out permanently myself.
Posted by: Curmudgeon
I was there after the '12 election. Honestly, the past couple of years dad was all that was keeping me going, that responsibility. Now it's just me, it's...different. I just want to find somewhere to go hermit now, if I could survive that way.
Feels like not much left for me in this world, but that makes me wonder...since I'm still here, might there be something I'm missing?
Though if there is, I'd appreciate a hint down here!
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at August 08, 2017 12:28 PM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2017 12:29 PM (uBoz0)
________________________________
...and hilarious.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2017 12:29 PM (R3ZR3)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 08, 2017 12:29 PM (fA1SL)
My father-in-law has been there for about 3 years now. In his prime, he weighed in at 190. Now he's done to 115. All of his family and the nurses at the facility try to get him to eat, but he says "why bother? I'm sick of being here."
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2017 12:29 PM (k1TUh)
We are doomed.
Posted by: JoeF. at August 08, 2017 12:29 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:22 PM (no/Pv)
Bear Burdens and Follow Laws ... they're Enablers of the First Order.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 08, 2017 12:30 PM (/LX46)
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:30 PM (no/Pv)
Would it surprise you to know the guy was a chess champion when he was still a kid?
http://heavy.com/tech/2017/08/james-damore-google-diversity-memo/
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2017 12:26 PM (NOIQH)
Of course he was.
Posted by: alexthechick - a manatee life for me at August 08, 2017 12:30 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:31 PM (/eeUo)
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:22 PM (no/Pv)
Bear Burdens and Follow Laws ... they're Enablers of the First Order.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 08, 2017 12:30 PM (/LX46)
Until they don't.
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:31 PM (no/Pv)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:27 PM (/eeUo)
Disney did dancing hippos, back when animation was actually art.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2017 12:31 PM (uBoz0)
Posted by: Curmudgeon
I was there after the '12 election. Honestly, the past couple of years dad was all that was keeping me going, that responsibility. Now it's just me, it's...different. I just want to find somewhere to go hermit now, if I could survive that way.
Feels like not much left for me in this world, but that makes me wonder...since I'm still here, might there be something I'm missing?
Though if there is, I'd appreciate a hint down here!
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at August 08, 2017 12:28 PM (AM1GF)
Been there, done that, tasted the gun barrel.
Focus on stuff you like. Eat a steak now and then. Read or watch a movie you like. Play. Own a dog and love him/her back. DO things you like to do, not just stuff you have to.
Eventually the impulse goes away but you have to wait it out sometimes. Going to bed early sometimes does it. Or getting a rub and tug at the asian massage parlor.
Whatever makes you happy, scoop out some time to do that.
Hang in there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 12:31 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 08, 2017 12:32 PM (fA1SL)
The Black Aptitude Attitude Test.
Posted by: Maxine Waters at August 08, 2017 12:11 PM (PNcou)
FIFY. I pity the fool!
Posted by: B.A. Baracus at August 08, 2017 12:19 PM (JO9+V)
---
And i also gonna invent the ACTUP test!
Posted by: Maxine Waters
Just switch over to the Democrat Urban Measured Fully Universal Knowledge standard!
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at August 08, 2017 12:32 PM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:31 PM (/eeUo)
I'll allow it.
Posted by: alexthechick - a manatee life for me at August 08, 2017 12:32 PM (mf5HN)
Maybe it's a collective foreboding that something terrible is going to happen soon.
Posted by: JoeF. at August 08, 2017 12:32 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2017 12:32 PM (U76Nz)
Posted by: Maritime at August 08, 2017 12:32 PM (VDVsF)
Posted by: Max Power at August 08, 2017 12:32 PM (QCc6B)
I used to entertain thoughts of checking out permanently myself.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 12:21 PM (ujg0T)
Although this place is where I go to vent and share my sorrows (since I have no one for that IRL and the one friend I do have has become completely infected with TDS), I really, really some days desperately wish I'd never found the HQ or Insty, just because of the soul-crushing desolation in the headlines and associated links.
And if it weren't for the chilling fact that there's no way to really know what, if anything, is beyond this world and whether it's better or, more likely, worse, I'd check out permanently, myself.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 08, 2017 12:33 PM (X6fMO)
He's a gamer.
As Larry Correia remarked re: Gamer Gate (paraphrasing from memory): You want to pick a fight with people who spend all their free time developing strategies to win? Good luck!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2017 12:33 PM (NOIQH)
I used to entertain thoughts of checking out permanently myself.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 12:21 PM (ujg0T)
Another ugh. That's a cloud that's followed me for a very long time.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 08, 2017 12:26 PM (0mRoj)
I recently exercised the " flight" option, of the classic " fight or flight" response.
I moved away from Illinois, because it was just too toxic for missus kraken and I.
The fight option was not going to work anymore... example.. my " tru- con " state rep voted for a tax increase for the state, a state that is bankrupt.
The straw, camel's back.
If by " checking out" means offing myself, then never an option for me.
There are other ways to check out.
Posted by: kraken at August 08, 2017 12:33 PM (zSVEm)
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:30 PM (no/Pv)
And he hits MONSTER home runs on top of all that....
Posted by: JoeF. at August 08, 2017 12:34 PM (7uYFy)
Instapundit has one featured as "Goolag".
Posted by: andycanuck at August 08, 2017 12:34 PM (nlbfN)
So the dancing action sequence... machines and emus plus explosions? Manatees might be unusual but they don't dance unless we want to invest in a google's worth of CGI.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:27 PM (/eeUo)
...
Apparently we don't know about Barbara Manatee?
Posted by: TexasDan at August 08, 2017 12:34 PM (yL25O)
Which is probably the number two movie, ever. Behind Casablanca.
Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2017 12:34 PM (OvldT)
Hang in there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
I can honestly say I've not had the impulse to check out early. Probably because I have plenty of incentive to want to see the folks I'm missing again, and I know that doesn't happen if I do it that way!
Guess I'd just like to feel like I'm not wasting my time down here.
Monasteries are looking real good these days...oh wait, those are dying out.
I swear, I was born a century late, at least.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at August 08, 2017 12:35 PM (AM1GF)
Bollywood meets Esther Williams. Science fiction. Sentient manatees versus devil sharks with laser beams. See this dude manatee gets the hots for the girl devil shark who's father despairs of ever marrying her off...
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:35 PM (/eeUo)
Or it could just be wallowing in the most depressing news of the day, day after day. This place is not known for it's constant stories of puppies and rainbows.
Logging off and going out and enjoying the world every now and then is a good thing. Our politics is pretty shitty right now but there is still a lot of good stuff happening, at least in my part of the world.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2017 12:35 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Didn't Walt Disney do that with hippos and...something in Fantasia?
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at August 08, 2017 12:35 PM (AM1GF)
Posted by: TexasDan at August 08, 2017 12:36 PM (yL25O)
Posted by: JoeF. at August 08, 2017 12:37 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:31 PM (no/Pv)
How many of 'em can break that cycle, Jack ? I don't know. Hell ... I don't know what Conservative even is anymore - besides the fact that I'm probably not one.
I know this - Most of the Republicans I've personally known can't break that cycle. Won't. Abeyance is just Who They Are. If lines to the camps are called for - well, they'll form lines. And hate me for being too uppity to join in.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 08, 2017 12:37 PM (/LX46)
http://babylonbee.com/news/google-unveils-new-slogan/
Posted by: grammie winger - experimental dunce at August 08, 2017 12:37 PM (lwiT4)
Bollywood meets Esther Williams. Science fiction. Sentient manatees versus devil sharks with laser beams. See this dude manatee gets the hots for the girl devil shark who's father despairs of ever marrying her off...
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:35 PM (/eeUo)
Go on . . ..
Posted by: alexthechick - a manatee life for me at August 08, 2017 12:38 PM (mf5HN)
Google's motto today "Well, when you think about it, words like 'good' and 'evil' are really relative terms that don't exist in any objective space."
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 08, 2017 11:22 AM (KUaJL)
What I like is good; everything else is evil.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Are You Goth? The AoSHQ Guide to Gloom available at The Outrage Outlet! at August 08, 2017 12:38 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: JoeF. at August 08, 2017 12:37 PM (7uYFy)
Which is why we need to Horde-source a space program, get off of this world, colonize another, and then quarantine this one so its stupid can't infect the rest of the cosmos.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 08, 2017 12:38 PM (X52ZZ)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 08, 2017 12:38 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 08, 2017 12:38 PM (oAY8z)
I used to entertain thoughts of checking out permanently myself.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 12:21 PM (ujg0T)
Another ugh. That's a cloud that's followed me for a very long time.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 08, 2017 12:26 PM (0mRoj)
I haven't gotten that far, but the antics of the Prog scum, including a certain ethnic group I have to deal with regularly, are putting me in pretty much permanent rage mode.
Glad I'm getting out of town next week.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 08, 2017 12:38 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 08, 2017 12:38 PM (nlbfN)
I used to entertain thoughts of checking out permanently myself.
Posted by: Curmudgeon
I was there after the '12 election. Honestly, the past couple of years dad was all that was keeping me going, that responsibility. Now it's just me, it's...different. I just want to find somewhere to go hermit now, if I could survive that way.
Feels like not much left for me in this world, but that makes me wonder...since I'm still here, might there be something I'm missing?
Though if there is, I'd appreciate a hint down here!
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at August 08, 2017 12:28 PM (AM1GF)
I think that has caused me to become a Trump disciple. I doubted him at first, but by gum, he did win, and he is showing more fortitude at fighting than all too many so-called and self-anointed 'Conservatives' who demeaned him.
I have to admit, just living in a country and a time where a guy like Donald Trump can get elected President, in the face of near total opposition, is enough to make me stick around.
Or, remember the words researcher Stanley Millgram prompted to his test subjects in his "Obedience To Authority" experiments back in the 1950s:
"The experiment requires that you continue...."
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 12:38 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:38 PM (/eeUo)
Posted by: kraken at August 08, 2017 12:38 PM (zSVEm)
Doing it on Skype just isn't the same.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 08, 2017 12:39 PM (ul9CR)
Or it could just be wallowing in the most depressing news of the day, day after day. This place is not known for it's constant stories of puppies and rainbows.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2017 12:35 PM (/tuJf)
What? Every time I come here there are are pictures comparing puppies to baked goods. And then there's the cats in costumes and the Pet Thread....
Posted by: JoeF. at August 08, 2017 12:39 PM (7uYFy)
I think they have a few in the Hudson Valley just north of Kingston. Don't forget to bring your laptop.
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:39 PM (no/Pv)
Would it surprise you to know the guy was a chess champion when he was still a kid?
Guy really is playing 11 dimensional chess. Googs is fucked if that's true.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2017 12:28 PM (U76Nz)
==============
Y'know, if I had this guy's skills and I wanted to strike a blow against Big Data, I'd do exactly what he's doing. The rest of the tech industry is likely shot through with guys like him...
Google had best pay him whatever he wants to make this go away, otherwise, his example might inspire other disgruntled guys to strike back via lawfare...
Posted by: Jackal at August 08, 2017 12:39 PM (pnxnh)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2017 12:28 PM (U76Nz)
Champion of what, exactly?
I looked for him in the USCF ratings list. There is a James Damore whose membership lapsed in 2006. If that's our Google engineer, his rating at that time was 1817. While that's pretty good, the "Master" level is 2200 and above.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 12:39 PM (bmzqy)
news of the day, day after day. This place is not known for it's
constant stories of puppies and rainbows.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2017 12:35 PM (/tuJf)
That and people not eating for days on end.....makes ya cranky.
Posted by: Tami at August 08, 2017 12:39 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: TexasDan
I never got why BigIdea made Larry the Cucumber such a retard.
There is nothing virtuous about being a retard.
If they think that 1 Co passage justifies that because of the "become fools" they are imbeciles.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 08, 2017 12:39 PM (P4UqR)
Posted by: IanDeal at August 08, 2017 12:39 PM (JhHPx)
ready to go for A+/Network+/Security+ certs and now I'm getting every
indication that, as a middle aged white guy, I'm screwed before I start.
Just start cross-dressing. You will be fine.
Posted by: Paladin at August 08, 2017 12:40 PM (E1aoU)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 08, 2017 12:38 PM (fA1SL)
Unfortunately, I work with people who would be considered by most to be decent who believe that shit lock, stock and barrel.
They may indeed be fake, but they're all in.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 08, 2017 12:40 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: JoeF. at August 08, 2017 12:37 PM (7uYFy)
Does she grab her groupies by the mish?
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Are You Goth? The AoSHQ Guide to Gloom available at The Outrage Outlet! at August 08, 2017 12:40 PM (hLRSq)
Logging off and going out and enjoying the world every now and then is a good thing. Our politics is pretty shitty right now but there is still a lot of good stuff happening, at least in my part of the world.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2017 12:35 PM (/tuJf)
I keep asking for a happy thread. Something with no whinging in the comments (enforced by group Horde mockery and disemvoweling).
Posted by: alexthechick - a manatee life for me at August 08, 2017 12:40 PM (mf5HN)
Even during my Perry and Cruz phases, I always kind of knew, deep down inside, that Trump was right when he said he was the only one of the GOP nominees who could beat Hillary. It made finally throwing in with him a lot easier.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 08, 2017 12:41 PM (ul9CR)
Bollywood meets Esther Williams. Science fiction. Sentient manatees versus devil sharks with laser beams. See this dude manatee gets the hots for the girl devil shark who's father despairs of ever marrying her off...
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:35 PM (/eeUo)
Go on . . ..
Posted by: alexthechick - a manatee life for me at August 08, 2017 12:38 PM (mf5HN)
Not to bring this further down but did you read about what they determined killed Snooty?
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:42 PM (no/Pv)
Posted by: JoeF. at August 08, 2017 12:39 PM (7uYFy)
Ace is just trying to broaden his appeal. I approve!!
Posted by: Barack O. at August 08, 2017 12:42 PM (Jcg9Q)
news of the day, day after day. This place is not known for it's
constant stories of puppies and rainbows.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2017 12:35 PM (/tuJf)
That and people not eating for days on end.....makes ya cranky.
Posted by: Tami at August 08, 2017 12:39 PM (
Yeppers... a little strategic eating always cheers me up... funny what calories can do for a mood..
Posted by: kraken at August 08, 2017 12:42 PM (zSVEm)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 08, 2017 12:43 PM (P4UqR)
Or it could just be wallowing in the most depressing news of the day, day after day. This place is not known for it's constant stories of puppies and rainbows.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2017 12:35 PM (/tuJf)
Fact: dead puppies turn all the colors of the rainbow before decomposing completely.
(just trying to help out, here)
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at August 08, 2017 12:43 PM (CPk08)
Remember: "Only the Sith think in absolutes."
The stupidest line of dialog in 3 stupid movies. Oh, and Google too.
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at August 08, 2017 12:44 PM (T71PA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2017 12:44 PM (k1TUh)
Posted by: Zod at August 08, 2017 12:44 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2017 12:35 PM (/tuJf)
I'm stuck sitting in a parking lot 6 days a week. Not much chance to go out and do much of anything.
Posted by: Barack O. at August 08, 2017 12:44 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: JoeF. at August 08, 2017 12:37 PM (7uYFy)
Does she grab her groupies by the mish?
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Are You Goth? The AoSHQ Guide to Gloom available at The Outrage Outlet! at August 08, 2017 12:40 PM (hLRSq)
We joke about her , but woman is a piece of garbage. We take it for granted that she's so obviously a piece of garbage that anyone could see it, but no--they don't see it.
They think she's rocking it. And no one will touch her with a ten-foot pole because she's black.
And don't get me started on blacks today. I was raised right, but sometimes.....
Posted by: JoeF. at August 08, 2017 12:44 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: Country Boy at August 08, 2017 12:44 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:42 PM (no/Pv)
Yup.
Posted by: alexthechick - a manatee life for me at August 08, 2017 12:44 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2017 12:44 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Soona at August 08, 2017 12:45 PM (Fmupd)
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If you read between the lines, even the SJWs admit that it's usually the result of things like women taking time off for kids and the various things that arise from that. Coincidentally, there's now the push to force companies to give men months of "paternity leave" when the wife has a baby.
Posted by: junior at August 08, 2017 12:45 PM (Q6qiA)
Whatever makes you happy, scoop out some time to do that.
Hang in there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 12:31 PM (xJa6I)
Is it one of those places that gives men "happy endings"?
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 12:45 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:42 PM (no/Pv)
Yup.
Posted by: alexthechick - a manatee life for me at August 08, 2017 12:44 PM (mf5HN)
Would have been my last guess.
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:45 PM (no/Pv)
So the dude decides to disguise himself as a devil shark. Really a bad job of it since all he has is a fake fin and a couple waterproof laser pointers. But Papa Shark sees through the disguise and bets Mama Shark that their head strong willful daughter will invent all kinds of ways to saying no while not even noticing her newest suitor is in fact a manatee.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:45 PM (/eeUo)
Posted by: JoeF. at August 08, 2017 12:44 PM (7uYFy)
Somebody here last week mentioned Negro Fatigue. It's real.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 08, 2017 12:46 PM (Jcg9Q)
I know, right? I started with Trump out of frustration, but I admit, I'm pleased with how it's gone. (Though I expected the GOPe to self-immolate a year ago. Shows what I know.)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at August 08, 2017 12:46 PM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 08, 2017 12:43 PM (P4UqR)
You're going to nail a list of theses to the guy?
Posted by: joncelli, A Really Weird Guy at August 08, 2017 12:46 PM (RD7QR)
http://babylonbee.com/news/google-unveils-new-slogan/
Posted by: grammie winger - experimental dunce at August 08, 2017 12:37 PM (lwiT
Ha!
I like this one, too:
John MacArthur Soars Out Of Lakewood Church Rafters To Elbow Drop Joel Osteen
http://bit.ly/2vgvxom
The photo is hilarious
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 12:46 PM (bmzqy)
Anthem insurance I believe. Ocare is now completely cratered.
Posted by: Under Fire at August 08, 2017 12:46 PM (mcI77)
Posted by: kraken at August 08, 2017 12:46 PM (zSVEm)
Posted by: Kristophr at August 08, 2017 12:46 PM (Vkf+s)
I think I know where you guys are coming from. It's very difficult for even strong with-it people to look at our alien world and not feel a wave of despair. I think we're in the same generation and comparing our childhoods to what's going on today is simply frightening, and not in a good way.
Try and stay strong. I'm not the best example because of various reasons, but in my treatment some of my docs have told me to focus energy on what makes you happy. The world may be messy but that doesn't mean your area of it must be. It's very vague advice, I know, but perhaps it's also helpful to know that you aren't alone in feeling like this? When the world is going insane, it's often helpful to meet at least one other sane person with whom you can get mutual support.
At the least, I often wonder if the hard Left really WANTS us to go insane..... Why give them what they want?
Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at August 08, 2017 12:47 PM (eytER)
Fuck. So have I. Being that low is like being in hell.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 08, 2017 12:47 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 08, 2017 12:47 PM (ul9CR)
I went Walker and then Cruz, but Trump fascinated me. He wasn't following the worn-out, stale, formulas and the prescriptions of the same loser ass-clowns we had seen again and again. He wouldn't curl up and apologize when the usual accusations came out.
Instead, he seemed to look forward to them, relishing punching back right in the teeth. It was refreshing - exhilarating even - to see a Republican candidate state that the American government works for the good of the American citizen and no one else.
If we are good little 'Rons and 'Ettes and keep our pelts groomed, our hobo culls sharp, and our Val-U-Rite chilled, we may even see a time when stating that citizens come first would be seen as a "no duh" moment and not an act of political arson.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Are You Goth? The AoSHQ Guide to Gloom available at The Outrage Outlet! at August 08, 2017 12:48 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2017 12:48 PM (k1TUh)
http://babylonbee.com/news/google-unveils-new-slogan/
Posted by: grammie winger - experimental dunce at August 08, 2017 12:37 PM (lwiT
Ha!
I like this one, too:
John MacArthur Soars Out Of Lakewood Church Rafters To Elbow Drop Joel Osteen
http://bit.ly/2vgvxom
The photo is hilarious
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 12:46 PM (bmzqy)
I laughed my ass off when I saw that.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 08, 2017 12:48 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Pedantry, Inc. at August 08, 2017 12:48 PM (ob5xJ)
Posted by: Tami at August 08, 2017 12:39 PM (
Yeppers... a little strategic eating always cheers me up... funny what calories can do for a mood..
Posted by: kraken
When you're broke and trying to keep from going full-blown diabetic, and your historical coping strategies include stress eating...well, let's just say it doesn't help.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at August 08, 2017 12:49 PM (AM1GF)
"Why it may be illegal for Google to punish that engineer over his viral memo" http://preview.tinyurl.com/y8no8ka2
Posted by: Lester at August 08, 2017 12:49 PM (LfJIn)
So the dancing action sequence... machines and emus plus explosions? Manatees might be unusual but they don't dance unless we want to invest in a google's worth of CGI.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:27 PM (/eeUo)
Para-llamas. And improbably beautiful Indian women. But mostly para-llamas.
Posted by: joncelli, A Really Weird Guy at August 08, 2017 12:49 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Barack O.
______
We're going to have to terminate you, Barry. We've decided that we're going to strive for more knowledgeable and ambitious attendants for all of our lots.
Posted by: Parking Lot Owner Guy at August 08, 2017 12:49 PM (j+dfT)
Not to bring this further down but did you read about what they determined killed Snooty?
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:42 PM (no/Pv)
At the risk of being ridiculed (day ending in y)....who or what is Snooty?
Posted by: Tami at August 08, 2017 12:49 PM (Enq6K)
day after day. This place is not known for it's constant stories of
puppies and rainbows.
Cute emergency!!!
https://twitter.com/CuteEmergency/status/894414066839674880
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2017 12:49 PM (NOIQH)
Talking?
Taking works too. That's what progressives do, they take. Freedom, property, even lives.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 08, 2017 12:49 PM (0mRoj)
I laughed at that I did.
Posted by: Under Fire at August 08, 2017 12:49 PM (mcI77)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yalchuy4
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 08, 2017 12:47 PM (ul9CR)
It's the old "declare yourself a church and no longer have to pay taxes" gambit.
Hey, if you can be whatever you want to be, and the rest of the world has to humor your delusions, as per Leftist rules on genders...
Why don't we all declare ourselves gods?
Hell, we can be our own pantheon.
And of course, as a religion (the principal actors thereof), we'd be tax-exempt.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 08, 2017 12:50 PM (X52ZZ)
I don't have a whole lot of experience traveling to or living in any other states, but the few times that my husband and I have gone out of state in the last 5 years or so -- doesn't have to be very far, it can be just over the border to Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin or Indiana -- we sense a distinct difference in attitude... people seem more friendly, less uptight, and dare I say, happier than our fellow Sucker Staters (yes, that is an historic nickname for IL). Is this just our imagination, i.e., a "grass is greener" effect, or is living in IL really that bad?
Posted by: Secret Square at August 08, 2017 12:50 PM (+HoK2)
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I'll have you guys know, alexthechick sent me an email link to the Babylon Bee and said POST THIS or it's spiders. And no dancing. But mostly the spiders.
Speaking of things that help depression (nice change of topic there grammie) I have found dancing to be quite the pick-me-up. I'm talking about the "dance in the rain to Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog" kind of dancing. It makes me happy like nobody's business. Neighbor next door is an old hippie what smokes pot in the backyard so he don't care.
Posted by: grammie winger - experimental dunce at August 08, 2017 12:50 PM (lwiT4)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yalchuy4
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 08, 2017 12:47 PM (ul9CR)
Skankles may claim to be a Christian. I guess I could claim to be a prima ballerina.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2017 12:50 PM (uBoz0)
Posted by: Country Boy at August 08, 2017 12:46 PM (Jcg9Q)
They are encouraged by the powers that be to say whatever the fuck they want no matter how stupid and illogical and damaging --while they are protected from the same. it's disgusting. I'm 55 years old, and I swear it wasn't like this when I was coming up in the '70's. People actually got along better then--and this was not to far from the days of segregation.
Posted by: JoeF. at August 08, 2017 12:50 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 12:46 PM (bmzqy)
I laughed my ass off when I saw that.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 08, 2017 12:48 PM (0mRoj)
That is awesome.
The security team finding the tamborine is great too.
Posted by: alexthechick - a manatee life for me at August 08, 2017 12:50 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Jack Sock
No. What?
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2017 12:50 PM (U76Nz)
Posted by: IP at August 08, 2017 12:50 PM (UmSfZ)
Posted by: Under Fire at August 08, 2017 12:51 PM (mcI77)
I look forward to her Sermon on the Mount.
"Blessed are the abortionists, for they shall be called children of Gaia."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 08, 2017 12:51 PM (X6fMO)
Posted by: joncelli, A Really Weird Guy at August 08, 2017 12:51 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at August 08, 2017 12:49 PM (AM1GF)
Oh, I agree with that, just saying that barring some form of physical ailment, or lack of funds, trying to self- perfect by denial of creature comforts seems like a self- inflicted wound.
Posted by: kraken at August 08, 2017 12:51 PM (zSVEm)
get this, a big time progressive activist who worked hugely for Hillary in the 2016 elections."
Eric Schmidt quietly owns an entire company on the side which specializes in using Google's big-data methods to get Democrats elected.
(Rather as David Axelrod owns his own not-publicly-advertised firm that specifically handles Astroturfing. Except Schmidt's side venture presumably has access to the vast Google databases.)
Schmidt was also at Hillary HQ wearing a STAFF badge around his neck. So that makes things pretty clear. Insofar as Schmidt's firm may be getting to use Google data for free to advise its Democratic political clientele, that's getting into unacknowledged in-kind campaign contribution territory by Big G.
Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of the FEC. Also, yes, the modern Republican party has drifted far from it, but Teddy Roosevelt created the modern era of antitrust, and it's time for the GOP to get back to its roots on that stuff.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 08, 2017 12:51 PM (ujwCG)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 08, 2017 12:51 PM (oAY8z)
(And I have, once or twice, called out the customer and informed her that in this day and age, women do technical support too.)
Posted by: notsothoreau at August 08, 2017 12:51 PM (JKNZq)
Did you know that fapping is a form of low-impact tension-relieving mild cardio ?
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 08, 2017 12:51 PM (/LX46)
http://bit.ly/2vgvxom
The photo is hilarious
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
My disdain for smiler Prosperity Gospel scum like Osteen is well known here...that added some cheer to my day!
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at August 08, 2017 12:51 PM (AM1GF)
The 69 year old Manatee that died the day after his birthday. He drowned. ( got caught in an access tunnel. Negligence on his keepers part)
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 08, 2017 12:51 PM (4ugnK)
Posted by: Secret Square at August 08, 2017 12:50 PM (+HoK2)
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Illinois is just that bad. Cross over the border. We have cheese. And Leinie's.
Posted by: grammie winger - experimental dunce at August 08, 2017 12:52 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:52 PM (/eeUo)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yalchuy4
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 08, 2017 12:47 PM (ul9CR)
Skankles may claim to be a Christian. I guess I could claim to be a prima ballerina.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Tax free scam artist. Billions of dollars.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2017 12:52 PM (U76Nz)
Posted by: alexthechick - a manatee life for me at August 08, 2017 12:40 PM
spprt ths whlhrtdly xcpt fr th dsmvwlng prt.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2017 12:52 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: NCKate at August 08, 2017 12:52 PM (s4tzN)
"Hell Prepares For Deep Freeze Ahead of Possible Chicago Cubs World Series Run."
Lol
Posted by: Country Boy at August 08, 2017 12:52 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: Kristophr at August 08, 2017 12:52 PM (Vkf+s)
Sounds more like Sewercide.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2017 12:53 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: junior at August 08, 2017 12:45 PM (Q6qiA)
And you will see men say "thanks" and cash that in as a paycheck bonus and continue working because now that you have a child or another child, a little bit extra money is useful.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Are You Goth? The AoSHQ Guide to Gloom available at The Outrage Outlet! at August 08, 2017 12:53 PM (hLRSq)
I don't have a whole lot of experience traveling to or living in any other states, but the few times that my husband and I have gone out of state in the last 5 years or so -- doesn't have to be very far, it can be just over the border to Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin or Indiana -- we sense a distinct difference in attitude... people seem more friendly, less uptight, and dare I say, happier than our fellow Sucker Staters (yes, that is an historic nickname for IL). Is this just our imagination, i.e., a "grass is greener" effect, or is living in IL really that bad?
Posted by: Secret Square at August 08, 2017 12:50 PM (+HoK2)
No. Things really ARE better in Missouri...
Posted by: kraken at August 08, 2017 12:53 PM (zSVEm)
Posted by: Under Fire at August 08, 2017 12:51 PM (mcI77)
That was no earthquake and it wasn't China....
#Winning
Posted by: JoeF. at August 08, 2017 12:53 PM (7uYFy)
A local organization announced a viewing party for the Aug 21 eclipse. They put out ads on Facebook among other places.
One parent replied on Facebook, to wit: "Many kids will be in school on the 21st. Can this be rescheduled so our children can attend?"
Given where I live, yeah that sounds about par for the course.
Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at August 08, 2017 12:53 PM (eytER)
Posted by: The Gliomas in Maxine Waters' brainstem at August 08, 2017 12:53 PM (LTHVh)
Posted by: NCKate at August 08, 2017 12:53 PM (s4tzN)
google fired that guy for telling the truth. fuck google. hit them where it hurts: their shekelsthe anon who said to fuck with their data and ad business had it right. here's how you do it:install the browser plugin ad nauseamAs online advertising becomes ever more ubiquitous and unsanctioned, AdNauseam works to complete the cycle by automating Ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users. Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.ad nauseam is effective enough that google banned it from the chrome store. fortunately you can still install it in under 2 minutes
https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/Install-AdNauseam-on-Chrome-Without-Google%27s-Permissionhttps://adnauseam.io/install this fucking addon. install it on all of your family's machines. get your friends to to the samePosted by: shibumi at August 08, 2017 12:54 PM (aT+Bx)
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I know the feeling. For me, it's fueled by a sense of frustration. I do low level IT support, which pretty much requires you to survive as a temporary contract employee until one of your employers decides they have the budget and interest in hiring you directly before your contract runs out. I spend almost as much time looking for work as I do actually working.
Posted by: junior at August 08, 2017 12:54 PM (Q6qiA)
Posted by: steevy at August 08, 2017 12:54 PM (rmVvL)
I laughed at that I did.
Posted by: Under Fire at August 08, 2017 12:49 PM (mcI77)
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LOL me too. I saw that the other day and laughed my head off. I listen to John MacArthur nearly every evening. I can imagine him using the Cluebat of Christ on ol' Joel with holy glee.
Posted by: grammie winger - experimental dunce at August 08, 2017 12:54 PM (lwiT4)
Because if you read it all the way through, you see that although the guy is finally starting to see through the veil, he STILL so wrapped up in the progressive BS that he remains a true believer even though he can now clearly see that the emperor is naked.
His letter is reminiscent of some medieval critic of the catholic church, who ever so gently, and in the most careful words remonstrates the holy see, but dares not go too far for fear of the stake - all the while proclaiming his total devotion to the faith.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at August 08, 2017 12:54 PM (INRVS)
None of the jews who left Germany in the early 30's ever regretted the move. Not even the old ones.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2017 12:54 PM (k1TUh)
Talking?
Posted by: Pedantry, Inc. at August 08, 2017 12:48 PM (ob5xJ)
Well, we can't beat on 'em......yet
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 08, 2017 12:54 PM (oAY8z)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 08, 2017 12:54 PM (ul9CR)
He drownded.
Posted by: IP at August 08, 2017 12:50 PM (UmSfZ)
And here I figured they had mad skillz at swimming?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2017 12:55 PM (uBoz0)
Posted by: Dunkin' Klassenfeind at August 08, 2017 12:55 PM (7Ch9S)
Whatever makes you happy, scoop out some time to do that.
Hang in there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 12:31 PM (xJa6I)
Is it one of those places that gives men "happy endings"?
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 12:45 PM (ujg0T)
*looks to make sure no 'ettes are listening*
*whispers*
Oh hell yes.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 12:55 PM (xJa6I)
I'll have you guys know, alexthechick sent me an email link to the Babylon Bee and said POST THIS or it's spiders. And no dancing. But mostly the spiders.
Posted by: grammie winger - experimental dunce at August 08, 2017 12:50 PM (lwiT4)
That doesn't sound like something that I, paragon of delicate flower of innocent virtue that I am, would ever do.
Posted by: alexthechick - a manatee life for me at August 08, 2017 12:55 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:55 PM (/eeUo)
"Hell Prepares For Deep Freeze Ahead of Possible Chicago Cubs World Series Run."
Lol
Posted by: Country Boy at August 08, 2017 12:52 PM (Jcg9Q)
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I did NOT! Oh Oh I will have to look that one up!
Posted by: grammie winger - experimental dunce at August 08, 2017 12:55 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: mindful webworker - roll out the barrel at August 08, 2017 12:56 PM (ob5xJ)
And Jackstraw....you're officially in Muldoon territory!
Posted by: Tami at August 08, 2017 12:56 PM (Enq6K)
Ryan and McConnell are no doubt getting the federal rescue operation spun up as we speak.
I've posted this a couple of times now: Michael Ramirez captures in one panel the GOP establishment's fundamental view on Obamacare. It's evergreen.
http://tinyurl.com/zrovzk5
Posted by: torquewrench at August 08, 2017 12:56 PM (ujwCG)
Posted by: shibumi at August 08, 2017 12:56 PM (aT+Bx)
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Actually, I think Bollywood has more body type diversity. Yes, they are all impossibly beautiful, but some of the ladies are shall we say, healthier, than the usual Hollywood anorexic types.
Posted by: mustbequantum at August 08, 2017 12:56 PM (MIKMs)
Posted by: Country Boy at August 08, 2017 12:46 PM (Jcg9Q)
They are encouraged by the powers that be to say whatever the fuck they want no matter how stupid and illogical and damaging --while they are protected from the same. it's disgusting. I'm 55 years old, and I swear it wasn't like this when I was coming up in the '70's. People actually got along better then--and this was not to far from the days of segregation.
Posted by: JoeF. at August 08, 2017 12:50 PM (7uYFy)
Sadly, I have noticed this. Race relations have worsened since the 1980s. I think the Left shifted gambits when it became clear that the wheels were coming off of their Soviet Model Vehicle.
I increasingly do find myself saying "Deportation" to myself when dealing with what the less polite call "TNB", sometimes even under my breath, hopefully not out loud.
While the illegal aliens are a serious problem--a nation with "open borders" is one that we call INVADED, and the more thoughtful African Americans do have a point that they have been dislodged in construction and certain other occupations where they once worked by said illegals--I DO have a grudging respect for the "day laborers" I see waiting in front of the Home Depots early in the morning on the way to the office, especially when I contrast their behavior to that of the local "inner city" denizens near my office.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 12:56 PM (ujg0T)
It's not all drugery and maintenance. Liberals didn't built the stealth bomber.
Posted by: Semper Why at August 08, 2017 12:57 PM (L8TEz)
I guess this line triggered me: "Thankfully,
climate scientists and evolutionary biologists generally aren't on the right."
Why would I be thankful about that? That climate "scientists" are ignoring the scientific method and promoting a political agenda disguised as science?
Makes me wonder how technical this guy is and if he's actually good at his job.
Saw where Gab make him a job offer. Might be a mistake.
Posted by: lymond at August 08, 2017 12:58 PM (FNa/B)
That's hilarious.
Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 08, 2017 12:02 PM (+fLLK)
It doesn't work that way. The structure of Oxford is totally different from an American university.
Admissions to Oxford are on a college by college basis (there are something like 33 colleges that comprise the university),* not central to the university as a whole. They doubtless recognized her name, and who she was, but more likely than not she applied to a different college than Bill attended. If so, and the faculty of that college did not recognize her name, she would not receive any preference.
*Oxford University is more like a federation than a unified whole. Think "states" under the Articles of Federation. Students in some subjects (mostly the arts, and some social sciences) have little or no contact with the university per se.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 08, 2017 12:58 PM (SRKgf)
Babylon Bee and said POST THIS or it's spiders. And no dancing. But
mostly the spiders.
Oh man, that reminds me of this - do not look if you hate spiders!!
https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/893775582445674496
*Have to watch thru the end.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2017 12:59 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: mercenary13 at August 08, 2017 11:43 AM (Ro1Qa)
Indeed. He might have actually persuaded Google that they could hire conservatives in low-level positions. Like pets that can be taught useful tricks.
Posted by: Semper Why at August 08, 2017 01:00 PM (L8TEz)
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Thanks.
Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 08, 2017 01:01 PM (+fLLK)
It's not all drugery and maintenance. Liberals didn't built the stealth bomber.
Posted by: Semper Why at August 08, 2017 12:57 PM (L8TEz)
Alas, that sector is not is big as it used to be. Especially in CA. And THAT is why CA went leftward in the 1990s. We won the Cold War, and so the industries that once gave CA its conservative and patriotic voters, well, they folded up.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 08, 2017 01:01 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: alexthechick - a manatee life for me at August 08, 2017 12:55 PM
Contextually, those words, in that order, do not compute.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2017 01:01 PM (ctuyM)
It's not all drugery and maintenance. Liberals didn't built the stealth bomber.
Posted by: Semper Why at August 08, 2017 12:57 PM (L8TEz)
You know...I've been thinking about leaving MSFT. Maybe I'll see what defense contractors are hiring QA. Good suggestion, thank you.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 08, 2017 01:02 PM (xJa6I)
Taking works too. That's what progressives do, they take. Freedom, property, even lives.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 08, 2017 12:49 PM (0mRoj)
Sigh. Apparently, I can't type for sh*. I fixed it.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 01:03 PM (bmzqy)
If Hillary was forced to pay taxes on her extorted money the deficit would be a surplus for that year.
The reason Bill Clinton had a small surplus when he left office is that the Clintons had to pay taxes on the rent they collected from the Lincoln bedroom. Obama was the first Democrat to bring the IRS totally under Democrat control.
Posted by: Mudd at August 08, 2017 01:03 PM (cfHE9)
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I've also heard that men just prefer to be back at work fairly quickly instead of spending months at home.
Posted by: junior at August 08, 2017 01:05 PM (Q6qiA)
*Have to watch thru the end.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2017 12:59 PM (NOIQH)
That's bloody awesome! I jumped about a foot in the air!
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 08, 2017 01:07 PM (bmzqy)
Living in Springfield or Champaign is just as bad as living in Chicago.
Living in Mason City or Farmer City is almost like being in another state. I have relatives in Manito that have never been hooked up for a telephone much less ever seen a soap opera.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at August 08, 2017 01:07 PM (sf2BM)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 08, 2017 12:58 PM (SRKgf)
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Interesting. Thanks.
Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 08, 2017 01:09 PM (+fLLK)
It's not all drugery and maintenance. Liberals didn't built the stealth bomber.
Posted by: Semper Why at August 08, 2017 12:57 PM (L8TEz)
Eh, not so sure about that anymore. The defense contractor I work for has been sending out emails lately to make sure I register my preferred pronoun - so HR won't offend me, I guess. I've been thinking of stealing the UM guy's idea and go with "Your Majesty".
Posted by: lymond at August 08, 2017 01:09 PM (FNa/B)
So the dude decides to
disguise himself as a devil shark. Really a bad job of it since all he
has is a fake fin and a couple waterproof laser pointers. But Papa Shark
sees through the disguise and bets Mama Shark that their head strong
willful daughter will invent all kinds of ways to saying no while not
even noticing her newest suitor is in fact a manatee.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 08, 2017 12:45 PM
It's Tuesday. Needs some rapey dolphins.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2017 01:12 PM (p+Wdc)
"Gosh, yes, that's my dad!"
Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 08, 2017 01:13 PM (+fLLK)
than not she applied to a different college than Bill attended."
Billy Jeff is rumored to have left Oxford between days, following reports of forcible sexual attention to another student.
Shocking, I know, and entirely inconsistent with everything we know about the man's character and beliefs.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 08, 2017 01:14 PM (ujwCG)
Posted by: Big V at August 08, 2017 01:32 PM (qnAGA)
Posted by: m at August 08, 2017 02:21 PM (LRfkc)
Noone without a drinking problem looks in the mirror and says "I will stay sober today".
Google looks in the mirror and says "Don't be Evil"
Posted by: Old Toby at August 08, 2017 02:22 PM (BNnNO)
Posted by: Mudd at August 08, 2017 01:03 PM
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I wish that didn't make sense to me.
Posted by: Just call me Deplorable Texican gal at August 08, 2017 02:41 PM (jVlNS)
Now, I shall try and wade thru comments.
And to whomever put up the 4chan link last night...thanks!
Posted by: Mel at August 08, 2017 03:19 PM (YIUYX)
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