Alas, Poor ONT. I Knew Him, Horatio

Hello Horde! Welcome to Thursday night. Little light on content tonight, I've been on vacation and just got back this afternoon. Yesterday I played a round of golf. It went well, considering I haven't played yet this year. I hit the first seven fairways, which means I didn't even lose a ball until I put one in the drink on 8. I finished the round 4 over. Over 18 holes, I found 9 balls and only lost 5, so I'm counting that as a good day. So how have things been going in the real world?

Oh.

Good Gag

I like this one. Harmless, and it's funny as hell.

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) July 29, 2022

Yankee Go Home

‘You’re A F*cking Plague’: Mexico City Residents Want Americans To Leave

This is a short Daily Caller story that links to a longer LA Times article, but the Times article is paywalled and I don't feel like spending the effort to get around the paywall, and I'm sure as hell not going to subscribe. The gist of it is that tens of thousands of Americans who can now work remotely are flooding Mexico City where their salaries allow them to live in a very grandiose style.

“We’re just seeing Americans flooding in. It’s people who maybe have their own business, or maybe they’re thinking of starting some consulting or freelance work. They don’t even know how long they’re going to stay. They’re completely picking up their entire lives and just moving down here,” The head of Welcome Home Mexico, an organization that helps with relocation, Alexandra Demou said, adding that she gets 50 calls a week from people considering making the move, the LA Times reported.

The locals are not happy.

Posters reading “New to the city? Working remotely? You’re a f—ing plague and the locals f—ing hate you. Leave.” were also recently posted around the city

I would say the shoe is on the other foot, but the majority of illegal aliens flooding our country are A ) not white collar folks who already have jobs and B ) pass throughs from south of Mexico, so screw 'em.

A Simpler Time

Not really. “Simpler times” are always as complex as current times, we just tend to look back on them with rose colored glasses and societal expectations and responses were different.

Looking at Distant Water and Thinking About What Kids Do

The author recalls a time when he took his father's car in the middle of the night and set out to “rescue” his girl friend. I'm guessing this happened sometime in the 80s. Anyhow, he got in a wreck (nobody was hurt) and the police left his fate up to his parents, who were not pleased. Frankly, I can't see the scenario playing out quite the same today, and that both is and isn't a shame. It's a shame because I think that's the right response in traditional American society. He did something foolish, was caught, and everyone knew the parents would take care of him appropriately. It's not a shame because we, unfortunately, don't live in that society anymore. These days it's no sure thing that “parent(s)” would show up, or that they would discipline the child if they did.

Table For Two, Please. Only One Of Us Will Be Eating

A Taste for Cannibalism?

Now, much of this article is the kind of crap that we had to endure in high school, waxing about the pathos of modern society and what the motivations of John Knowles' protagonist were in A Separate Peace (He was an asshole who pushed his friend out of a tree, end of story).

According to Ms. Summers, cannibalism is always symbolic. For her novel’s protagonist, eating human flesh can be seen as a way of holding on to a relationship that ended. For Ms. Summers herself, the plot of “A Certain Hunger” can’t be uncoupled “from my own personal experiences with disordered eating, with the tamping down of feminine appetites, the way the media chews up and spits out writers, bougie consumption — and bougie lady consumption,” she said.
More generally, Ms. Summers thinks that the recent spate of cannibalistic plots could also be commentaries on capitalism. “Cannibalism is about consumption and it’s about burning up from the inside in order to exist,” she said. “Burnout is essentially over-consuming yourself, your own energy, your own will to survive, your sleep schedule, your eating schedule, your body.”
Ms. Moshfegh said her theory was “that it might be an antidote to the actual horror of what’s happening to the planet.” Like Ms. Summers, Ms. Moshfegh at times couldn’t stomach her own work, describing the process of writing about cannibalism in “Lapvona” as “a bit disturbing.”
“I had to think about what part of the body would be an interesting place to start,” she said, “and how it would feel to hold someone’s severed hand in yours.”

Garbage. But taking a slightly wider view, beyond cannibalism as a plot device to titillate and horrify, I do wonder if this is just another symptom of a society that has decided that because there were some traditional mores that were wrong (primarily racism), that the solution is to get rid of all of them. The Twitter thread Ace posted a few days ago about the guy recounting how he got monkeypox from a homosexual piss orgy is not indicative of a healthy society. I wonder if future historians will recount the progression from Elmer Fudd's “Eat Bugs Bunny” to today's “eat the bugs” on the road to...what? Eat Bugs Meany? (Encyclopedia Brown And The Case Of The Barbecued Bully, Dante Press, © 2043)

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Did your city make it? Or do you have a nominee that was left off the list?

These Strange Products Had Us Asking “Why Would Anyone Invent This”?

“Spinal tape” is pretty funny, IMO.

Reddit Users Share Cautionary Tales of Incompetent Coworkers

I link this one because I want y'all to pitch in. In the comments, please tell us about the most incompetent person you ever worked with.

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Ted Roosevelt:

Have you heard the story of Ted Roosevelt on D-Day?

Not Teddy Roosevelt the president, his son Ted the brigadier general, who landed with the first wave at Utah Beach on June 6, 1944 and won the Medal of Honor?

If not, buckle in and read along; it’s a great one.

THREAD:

1/19 pic.twitter.com/KFJSEAa9CN
— Will Scharf (@willscharf) July 20, 2022

Click through and read the thread, it's worth it.

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Posted by: Zettai at July 28, 2022 09:59 PM (Qj9Hz)

2 OOga booga

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2022 10:00 PM (63Dwl)

3 Hi!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 28, 2022 10:00 PM (6cap8)

4 Those who are bringing back lockdowns are fucking monkeys.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 28, 2022 10:00 PM (Dc2NZ)

5 So, WD what you're saying is they all lie to us?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2022 10:00 PM (7bRMQ)

6 Spats

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2022 10:00 PM (a0N9U)

7 Those who are bringing back lockdowns are fucking monkeys.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 28, 2022 10:00 PM (Dc2NZ)

A true statement, regardless of how interpreted.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2022 10:01 PM (Jk07i)

8 Arf!

Posted by: Sandy at July 28, 2022 10:01 PM (XG2Fi)

9 4 Those who are bringing back lockdowns are fucking monkeys.
Posted by: All Hail Eris,

More ways than one.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2022 10:02 PM (a0N9U)

10 ONT!!!!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 28, 2022 10:02 PM (gbzeC)

11 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at July 28, 2022 10:02 PM (Bd6X8)

12 I hate fucking monkeys.

There. I said it.

Posted by: Jane Goodall at July 28, 2022 10:02 PM (XG2Fi)

13 Good evening.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2022 10:02 PM (4I/2K)

14 10? Now for comtent

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 28, 2022 10:03 PM (Y+l9t)

15 I thought Mexico was so strict on foreigners owning property?

Posted by: a dude in MI at July 28, 2022 10:03 PM (+I6Y/)

16 Well!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 28, 2022 10:03 PM (Mzdiz)

17 I hate fucking monkeys.

There. I said it.

Posted by: Jane Goodall

Geez, you must really need the money then.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at July 28, 2022 10:04 PM (Bd6X8)

18 Henry Fonda played Ted Roosevelt in The Longest Day.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2022 10:04 PM (63Dwl)

19 4 Those who are bringing back lockdowns are fucking monkeys.
Posted by: All Hail Eris,

Literally

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 28, 2022 10:04 PM (gbzeC)

20 Any sound on the prank, or is my audio not working?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2022 10:04 PM (7bRMQ)

21 I thought Mexico was so strict on foreigners owning property?
Posted by: a dude in MI at July 28, 2022 10:03 PM (+I6Y/)

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Only near the coast. Otherwise anything goes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 10:05 PM (XG2Fi)

22 20 No

Posted by: Weirddave at July 28, 2022 10:06 PM (oFI8g)

23 I am sure the "Spinal Tape" is a riff on Spinal Tap. I couldn't see the rest of the list, because, clickbait.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2022 10:06 PM (Jk07i)

24 I hate fucking monkeys.

There. I said it.

Posted by: Jane Goodall

Geez, you must really need the money then.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at July 28, 2022 10:04 PM (Bd6X

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She needs to try Sarah's guaranteed method of making ~~$92~~ ~~$85~~ $80/hour working from home, presumably NOT fucking monkeys...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2022 10:07 PM (K5n5d)

25 I have beef jerky.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 10:07 PM (XG2Fi)

26 No

Posted by: Weirddave at July 28, 2022 10:06 PM (oFI8g)

Too bad, I wonder what the other two said to the prankee?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2022 10:07 PM (7bRMQ)

27 I thought I'd read that Mexico City has THE worst air pollution in the world?

Do the cartels control the capital, or is it the last place where the govt still has some actual control?

I'm gonna give MC a pass.

Posted by: mnw at July 28, 2022 10:08 PM (NLIak)

28 Over 18 holes, I found 9 balls and only lost 5, so I'm counting that as a good day
________

In my day that's 4 under par.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2022 10:08 PM (BFigT)

29 Bucket head prank had me chortling.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 28, 2022 10:08 PM (PY/t0)

30 12 I hate fucking monkeys.

There. I said it.
Posted by: Jane Goodall at July 28, 2022 10:02 PM (XG2Fi

Not sure they are enjoying it much either.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 28, 2022 10:09 PM (PY/t0)

31 I find it truly astonishing that rich gringos think it's a good idea to go live in Mexico now. You might as well hand a "kidnap me" sign around your neck.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2022 10:09 PM (/NCI4)

32 Anyone watch Tucker tonight? I was really rooting for Adam Schiffilis for the new Monkeypox name. Schlong Covid is okay but the that one made me laugh out loud.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 28, 2022 10:10 PM (nxdel)

33 The Republicans are ahead 10-0 in the Congressional baseball game in the bottom of the 7th. During the 7th inning stretch the Democrats accepted a bribe from China, impeached Donald Trump, and now claim that 10 runs is a windfall and the runs will be confiscated by democrats and given to Ukraine, less one run for the Big Guy.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 28, 2022 10:12 PM (cupoy)

34 Adam Schiffilis
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BWAhaha! This is the best yet. Is anyone compiling a list?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 28, 2022 10:12 PM (Dc2NZ)

35 Pastor David Manning has a powerful word for America on monkeypox.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t9aW5fy5HSo

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2022 10:12 PM (sbleM)

36 I thought I'd read that Mexico City has THE worst air pollution in the world?

It was horrible 50 years ago, and is much worse now. However, China has been coming on strong, so I don't know if MC still has the crown.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2022 10:12 PM (/NCI4)

37 Wow, that Roosevelt story was inspiring. What a man!

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 28, 2022 10:12 PM (ftFVW)

38 The Ted Roosevelt story was a gooder. And Twatter is a shitty medium to present longer form matter like that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2022 10:12 PM (Jk07i)

39 Dave, I'll delegate all of my un-golfed golfing to you, if you don't mind?

Best I ever did, was broke 100.. once. And then they wouldn't let me play the 2nd nine.

Fuckin' windmill, gets me every time.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 28, 2022 10:12 PM (tkOps)

40 Anyone watch Tucker tonight? I was really rooting for Adam Schiffilis for the new Monkeypox name. Schlong Covid is okay but the that one made me laugh out loud.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 28, 2022 10:10 PM (nxdel)

I don't watch much of anything anymore, can't stand the talking head we're gonna do stuff just you wait and then nothing happens shows.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2022 10:13 PM (7bRMQ)

41 I gave up scrolling about a third of the way through the list of cities. Were there any cities in New Jersey that weren't on the list?

Posted by: Oddbob at July 28, 2022 10:13 PM (nfrXX)

42 I gave up scrolling about a third of the way through the list of cities. Were there any cities in New Jersey that weren't on the list?

I am told that Hoboken is now the spillover from Manhattan.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2022 10:14 PM (/NCI4)

43 From the worst cities list:

Harlingen TX rings a bell, but I don't recall the circumstances where its existence impacted my life. Hmmmmm.

Posted by: Emmie at July 28, 2022 10:14 PM (t62xj)

44 Not really. “Simpler times” are always as complex as current times, we just tend to look back on them with rose colored glasses and societal expectations and responses were different.

Also, we know how they dealt with their complexities, which makes them appear less complex than our currently unsolved ones.

Posted by: Methos at July 28, 2022 10:16 PM (kOpft)

45 BWAhaha! This is the best yet. Is anyone compiling a list?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 28, 2022 10:12 PM (Dc2NZ)

Democrat Donorrhea?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2022 10:16 PM (Jk07i)

46 Lost 5 balls and finished 4 over?

You have got to be the most hot-and-cold golfer on the planet!

Posted by: ballistic at July 28, 2022 10:17 PM (oXNqT)

47 The Twitter thread Ace posted a few days ago about the guy recounting how he got monkeypox from a homosexual piss orgy

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BabeThePigBoi. Gay America's poster boy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 28, 2022 10:17 PM (Zhwz2)

48 Hey, WTAF???

Posted by: Yorick at July 28, 2022 10:17 PM (XG2Fi)

49 33 The Republicans are ahead 10-0 in the Congressional baseball game in the bottom of the 7th. During the 7th inning stretch the Democrats accepted a bribe from China, impeached Donald Trump, and now claim that 10 runs is a windfall and the runs will be confiscated by democrats and given to Ukraine, less one run for the Big Guy.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 28, 2022 10:12 PM (cupoy)

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I heard there was a rain delay, and when they came back, the democrats were up by 200 runs.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 28, 2022 10:17 PM (CAJOC)

50 I guess there was some pretty heavy-duty flooding in Apache Junction today. Anyone heard from AZ Deplorable Moron?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2022 10:17 PM (Jk07i)

51 Not really. “Simpler times” are always as complex as current times, we just tend to look back on them with rose colored glasses and societal expectations and responses were different.

Also, we know how they dealt with their complexities, which makes them appear less complex than our currently unsolved ones.
Posted by: Methos

Telling between a man and woman was simpler back then.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 28, 2022 10:17 PM (ftFVW)

52 48 Hey, WTAF???
Posted by: Yorick at July 28, 2022 10:17 PM (XG2Fi)

Alas!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 28, 2022 10:18 PM (PY/t0)

53 Anyone watch Tucker tonight? I was really rooting for Adam Schiffilis for the new Monkeypox name. Schlong Covid is okay but the that one made me laugh out loud.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 28, 2022 10:10 PM (nxdel)
*******
Yes. It was hilarious.
Schlong Covid was trending on Twitter and he declared it the new name.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 10:18 PM (NpAcC)

54 Schlong Covid is okay but the that one made me laugh out loud.
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I like "fartclamydia."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 28, 2022 10:18 PM (Zhwz2)

55 My partner Karen and I used to have a list, we debated it for some time, of the ten most sullen towns in WA state.
Large cities, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia were not to be included.
We had a lot of fun with it.
I've been to a lot of the places on the worst city list and mostly agree.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at July 28, 2022 10:18 PM (zNcSj)

56 Alas!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 28, 2022 10:18 PM (PY/t0)

Don't be sad, he's still ahead.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2022 10:19 PM (7bRMQ)

57 Do you feel the America of hard work, red meat, barbecues, apple pie, rock and roll, caring for your neighbors, and free spirits shooting for the stars because it's good to be fucking great, has slipped away completely or only mostly...?

Every day I feel them sweeping more of it away and cackling their rich corny asses off at us for caring.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 10:20 PM (/Z8z2)

58 31 I find it truly astonishing that rich gringos think it's a good idea to go live in Mexico now. You might as well hand a "kidnap me" sign around your neck.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2022 10:09 PM (/NCI4)

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CDMX isn't dangerous. Hell, most of Mexico isn't dangerous if you're not living like an obnoxious bougie yank anywhere that isn't a cartel-controlled drug highway.

There are a shit-ton of American retirees in places like Oaxaca, PV, Zihua, etc. that don't get hassled at all and live high on the hog.

Posted by: ballistic at July 28, 2022 10:20 PM (oXNqT)

59 46 Lost 5 balls and finished 4 over?

You have got to be the most hot-and-cold golfer on the planet!

Posted by: ballistic at July 28, 2022 10:17 PM (oXNqT)

Maybe you should re-read the commentary, think about it, scratch your head, and then slowly think "ooooooooooooh......4 over......I get it."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2022 10:20 PM (sbleM)

60 I get a sense of quiet satisfaction that Americans are flooding into Mexico and pissing off all the locals.

Suck it, Mexico.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 10:21 PM (XG2Fi)

61

I like 'fartclamydia', too...

Posted by: Zettai at July 28, 2022 10:21 PM (I5OJh)

62 My Aunt and Uncle lived in Harlingen back in the '70s. Seemed okay. of course I was 13. Visited them for a spell on a long summer vacation. What I remember is that is what hot as fuck-all.

We took a day trip to Matamoros, and the first thing we saw when we crossed the border was a taxi hitting a pedestrian. Poor fooker rolled all the way to the roof of said taxi. We wandered through market areas. The smell of meat was strong. Lots of flies. Loud. Crowded.

My brief encounter with Mexico was, well, illuminating.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, A Pox on Your Minkey at July 28, 2022 10:22 PM (x8Wzq)

63 I like "fartclamydia."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 28, 2022 10:18 PM (Zhwz2)

Ballpox.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2022 10:22 PM (Jk07i)

64 Harlingen TX rings a bell, but I don't recall the circumstances where its existence impacted my life.

Used to be the home of the Confederate Air Force before they gave in to the scolds and renamed themselves the Commemorative Air Force. Otherwise, I got nothing.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 28, 2022 10:22 PM (nfrXX)

65 Over the weekend I saw that I made the prayer list. The people viewing our property decided it wouldn't work for them. Location was great, but they need a different bedroom arrangement. Plus, the house needs work and their active family doesn't have the time, energy, and resources to fix it up.

The house is now officially listed, so I would appreciate prayer that God would bring together the property and the people who can make good use of it. Sweet, conservative area in Colorado. Semi-rural, so agricultural pursuits (gardening, chickens, even a little livestock) are okay. Link in nic.

Posted by: Emmie at July 28, 2022 10:23 PM (t62xj)

66
Telling between a man and woman was simpler back then.
Posted by: She Hobbit

And you knew who you were then
Girls were girls, and men were men
Mister, we could use a man
Like Herbert Hoover again

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2022 10:23 PM (63Dwl)

67 I hate fucking monkeys.

There. I said it.

Posted by: Jane Goodall

Didja see that Where the Crawdads Sing author Delia Owens is a suspected murderer? She and her husband are big enviros and he is suspected of murdering poachers in Africa. She may have been involved.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 10:23 PM (FVME7)

68 George Patton 6'2"

TR Jr 5'8"

Just thought you might have had that in your minds after seeing the picture of the two.

Posted by: Great Lakes Residents EVERYWHERE at July 28, 2022 10:23 PM (BgMrQ)

69 The Mexico City invasion just adds more unarmed kidnap targets. Everything will work itself out. After all, it is Mexico

Posted by: bigG at July 28, 2022 10:23 PM (9tuKL)

70 I don't watch much of anything anymore, can't stand the talking head we're gonna do stuff just you wait and then nothing happens shows.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2022 10:13 PM (7bRMQ)

Not being funny in the least but I was there in like 2010. My wife loved Fox so I remember hearing idiot Dick Morris on TV every night lecturing about how ObamaCare was DOA while Hannity nodded along like a muppet. I never believed him because he's a fucking retarded coconuthead, but it was ridiculous nonetheless.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 10:24 PM (/Z8z2)

71 And C) those Americans moving to Mexico City to work remotely also most assuredly have 1) passports and 2) visas and thus are 3) legal residents.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 10:24 PM (CdZ4i)

72 /off Great Lakes sock

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 28, 2022 10:24 PM (BgMrQ)

73 Maybe you should re-read the commentary, think about it, scratch your head, and then slowly think "ooooooooooooh......4 over......I get it."
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2022 10:20 PM (sbleM)
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I've had a week. I've also had a couple. If you'll excuse me I'm going to go have a couple more.

Posted by: ballistic at July 28, 2022 10:24 PM (oXNqT)

74 U.S. Census Data Reveals the Most Miserable Cities In America

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That was depressing

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 28, 2022 10:24 PM (gbzeC)

75 Every day I feel them sweeping more of it away and cackling their rich corny asses off at us for caring.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 10:20 PM (/Z8z2)

I believe that this is what is behind the "trans" agenda. They are deliberately trying to fu*k up our society, and the liberals and democrats don't have the balls or the brains to say no to them, and they know it.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 28, 2022 10:25 PM (+lVUW)

76 Used to be the home of the Confederate Air Force before they gave in to the scolds and renamed themselves the Commemorative Air Force. Otherwise, I got nothing.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 28, 2022 10:22 PM (nfrXX

Interesting information. That's not the connection I have, though. I wonder if a college friend was from Harlingen.

Posted by: Emmie at July 28, 2022 10:25 PM (t62xj)

77
I like "fartclamydia."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Ballpox.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Ballpox Franks

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2022 10:25 PM (63Dwl)

78 Posted by: Emmie at July 28, 2022 10:23 PM (t62xj)

Done, Emmie.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 10:25 PM (/Z8z2)

79 If you're taking prayer requests, I really need that $1.1 billion Mega Millions jackpot.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 10:25 PM (FVME7)

80 There are a shit-ton of American retirees in places like Oaxaca, PV, Zihua, etc. that don't get hassled at all and live high on the hog.
Posted by: ballistic

There are a few gringos that learned the local judge can be paid off and got ass raped by locals. Also, there are these private security guys that can fucking slice off your fucking head.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 28, 2022 10:25 PM (IEa8U)

81 79 If you're taking prayer requests, I really need that $1.1 billion Mega Millions jackpot.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 10:25 PM (FVME7)

You take the next one. This one is mine.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 28, 2022 10:26 PM (PY/t0)

82 79 If you're taking prayer requests, I really need that $1.1 billion Mega Millions jackpot.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Hey!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 28, 2022 10:26 PM (gbzeC)

83 Not being funny in the least but I was there in like 2010. My wife loved Fox so I remember hearing idiot Dick Morris on TV every night lecturing about how ObamaCare was DOA while Hannity nodded along like a muppet. I never believed him because he's a fucking retarded coconuthead, but it was ridiculous nonetheless.
Posted by: ...

I hated Hannity the first time I heard him on the radio. He was all rah-rah and clearly a dimwit parroting what the more intelligent radio show hosts had already said.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 28, 2022 10:26 PM (ftFVW)

84 >>>In the comments, please tell us about the most incompetent person you ever worked with.

>Ha! In the article listed at #14 is electrical mishaps. I can thankfully say I've only seen two deaths during my 29 years in the field, but I've see a lot of dumbasses get launched and burned by electricity over the years.

Those journeymen should be doing residential and stick to romex.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 28, 2022 10:27 PM (0ocXn)

85 There are a few gringos that learned the local judge can be paid off and got ass raped by locals. Also, there are these private security guys that can fucking slice off your fucking head.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 28, 2022 10:25 PM (IEa8U)

Are these pros or cons?

Posted by: blaster at July 28, 2022 10:27 PM (6TxNR)

86 Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all) says, "Hello!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2022 10:28 PM (K5n5d)

87 I am a TX native, spending most of my life within 170 miles of the Mexican border. I have been all over the U.S., Canada, and a good portion of the world.

I have never been to Mexico.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 10:29 PM (CdZ4i)

88 Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson1h
What should we rename monkeypox?
@DrTedros
@CDCDirector
Hunter Hives
16.6%
Midterm Variant
24%
Adam Schiffilis
20.1%
Schlong Covid
39.3%

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 10:29 PM (NpAcC)

89 I can't begin to describe my AO, I can go for blocks and blocks and never hear a word of English.
I can hear Spanish, Chinese (mostly Cantonese), some occasional Tagalog and even some Russian.
But, Mexico for the Mexicans. OK, whatever.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 10:29 PM (jTmQV)

90 So the gays don't like SF's public health response to fartclamydia? Oh noes, LOL.

If I were mayor of SF, I'd have an aggressive response. Posters on every block with big letters saying

"Listen up, queers!

Stop going to orgies and butt-banging weirdos like BabeThePigBoi 38 at a time, if you don't want to catch this dirty asspox from each other, you nasty fucks. Or don't. See if I give a shit.

SPOILER ALERT: Nobody cares. Your gross butt parties aren't our problem.

Signed,
The Mayor"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 28, 2022 10:29 PM (Zhwz2)

91 I spent two weeks in Mexico City when I was 12 y/o, just months before the 68 Olympics.

I had permission to go out on my own, and visited the open air markets. I brought a shit load of comics with me, and traded them with the kids I met.

Not sure that I'd let a 12 y/o wander the streets alone these days.

Now ask me about the time I was propositioned by a street walker in Paris a year later.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 28, 2022 10:30 PM (BgMrQ)

92 I am a TX native, spending most of my life within 170 miles of the Mexican border. I have been all over the U.S., Canada, and a good portion of the world.

I have never been to Mexico.

I've visited Tijuana and Juarez. I'm done.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at July 28, 2022 10:30 PM (Bd6X8)

93
Now ask me about the time I was propositioned by a street walker in Paris a year later.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 28, 2022 10:30 PM (BgMrQ)

Tell me about how you were propositioned by a street walker in Paris a year later.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 28, 2022 10:31 PM (PY/t0)

94 I am a TX native, spending most of my life within 170 miles of the Mexican border. I have been all over the U.S., Canada, and a good portion of the world.

I have never been to Mexico.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 10:29 PM (CdZ4i)

Do you kinda like the music?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2022 10:31 PM (4I/2K)

95 Posted by: She Hobbit at July 28, 2022 10:26 PM (ftFVW)

Plus he treated that dummy Colmes with something more than disgust, contempt, revile and ridicule.

He should have thrown an egg at Colmes every time he opened his gaping maw to let the bugs out. Hard-boiled. *That* I would have watched.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 10:31 PM (/Z8z2)

96 Thank you, ellipses.

Posted by: Emmie at July 28, 2022 10:31 PM (t62xj)

97 4 Those who are bringing back lockdowns are fucking monkeys.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 28, 2022 10:00 PM (Dc2NZ)

I must be out of the loop. Who is bringing back the lockdowns?????

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - the ungrateful colonial at July 28, 2022 10:31 PM (gao0c)

98 60 Cicero

I was very impressed with Costa Rica & can see why so many Americans retire there-- but it hasn't been a bargain for a LONG time, the way Mexico City apparently is.

I always checked the cost of stuff, compared to prices in the U.S., back when I used to travel, just for fun.

In CR, a bag of groceries, or a 2-BR condo on the Pacific side, cost appx the same as they would here, from my observations.

American expats have put pressure on land prices, as you might expect, which hurts farmers-- coffee & pineapples.

Btw, Costa Ricans are always delighted to assist you in comparing their pineapples to the Hawaiian ones.

Posted by: mnw at July 28, 2022 10:32 PM (NLIak)

99 That list of miserable cities…

The information is far too short, especially if you are familiar with some of the towns.

I grew up in Albany, GA - still have relatives there.
I never liked the town, even as a kid.

It is so soul crushing to drive through town whenever I go visit.
Imagine seeing 7 car title loan places within a 2.5 mile drive.

Posted by: PMRich at July 28, 2022 10:32 PM (eh5ud)

100 When do you think we get revenge? The GOP just has no concept of tit for tat.

We need some tats for our tits.

I am now swing toward DeSantis because he understands this.

Posted by: blaster at July 28, 2022 10:33 PM (6TxNR)

101 36: when I was in Beijing in 2005 the smog was so bad on some days you couldn’t see the hand in front of your face.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 10:33 PM (CdZ4i)

102 We need some tats for our tits.

I am now swing toward DeSantis because he understands this.
Posted by: blaster at July 28, 2022 10:33 PM (6TxNR)

Probably not a good thing to search for...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2022 10:34 PM (Jk07i)

103 I must be out of the loop. Who is bringing back the lockdowns?????
Posted by: Bonnie Blue - the ungrateful colonial at July 28, 2022 10:31 PM (gao0c)

Apparently the monkey fuckers.

Posted by: blaster at July 28, 2022 10:35 PM (6TxNR)

104 Huntsville, Texas
Texas still supports the death penalty, and blah, blah, blah
--------------------

The most dangerous things about Huntsville are the college students.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2022 10:35 PM (a0N9U)

105 The author recalls a time when he took his father's car in the middle of the night and set out to "rescue" his girl friend. I'm guessing this happened sometime in the 80s. Anyhow, he got in a wreck (nobody was hurt) and the police left his fate up to his parents, who were not pleased. Frankly, I can't see the scenario playing out quite the same today, and that both is and isn't a shame.

Little got pulled over last week going 70 in a 45. She called to tell me on the phone, to which I said "Why were you speeding?".

The next voice I heard was Officer XXXXXX, telling me this situation, the speed, impressing on Little how there had just been a fatality wreck near there last week and then he told me, over the phone, that he was going to write her a warning ticket assuming that I was going to deal with it at home.
I told Little, when she got home, that she was lucky.

I also told her if she gets a ticket, I will be driving her to school every morning for a month in my beat-up pickup truck while wearing no shirt, blue jean shorts, a ball cap turned backwards, with Pantera playing at full volume, and that I would park in front of school and walk her to the door.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2022 10:35 PM (sbleM)

106 There are a few gringos that learned the local judge can be paid off and got ass raped by locals. Also, there are these private security guys that can fucking slice off your fucking head.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 28, 2022 10:25 PM

If I want to be surrounded by Mexicans, I'll just move back into my old neighborhood (or to my parent's old neighborhood)

Posted by: Chuck C at July 28, 2022 10:36 PM (xttsV)

107 Back when I was in law school, I was walking after dark in a pretty sketchy area when this pimp came up to me and tried to sell me a whore. I said no and he responded asking if I wanted to buy some drugs. Again I declined and he said how about a stereo?

One stop shopping

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 10:36 PM (FVME7)

108 I hated Hannity the first time I heard him on the radio. He was all rah-rah and clearly a dimwit parroting what the more intelligent radio show hosts had already said.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 28, 2022 10:26 PM (ftFVW)

I never liked him.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2022 10:36 PM (7bRMQ)

109 Judging the whole of Mexico by your experience in the shitty border towns is like judging all of California by your experience in the tenderloin in San Fran.

A lot of it is beautiful and filled with good people.

To be clear, I'd never live there because the government is corrupt and largely controlled by the cartels, the rule of law is not a thing, guns are illegal for normal people, and a host of other reasons.

Basically the reasons I won't want to live in the US in about 20 years.

Posted by: ballistic at July 28, 2022 10:36 PM (oXNqT)

110 I grew up in Albany, GA - still have relatives there.
I never liked the town, even as a kid.
___

It is a craphole.

Hubby is from Tifton, and when we lived there back in the 90s, Albany was always on the news for one reason or the other.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 28, 2022 10:37 PM (vBjG4)

111
"We'll start the war from right here!"

White Supremacy

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2022 10:37 PM (1Nxff)

112 What should we rename monkeypox?

*******

If you are in a taunting mood you could go with:

"Wiener neener neener!"

(Sorry, Grandma!)

Posted by: Two pregnant inmates at July 28, 2022 10:37 PM (kXYt5)

113 Back when I was in law school, I was walking after dark in a pretty sketchy area when this pimp came up to me and tried to sell me a whore. I said no and he responded asking if I wanted to buy some drugs. Again I declined and he said how about a stereo?

One stop shopping
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 10:36 PM (FVME7)
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I wonder if you could have negotiated for all three for the low, low price of $20, same as in town...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2022 10:38 PM (K5n5d)

114 It is so soul crushing to drive through town whenever I go visit.
Imagine seeing 7 car title loan places within a 2.5 mile drive.
___

That's pretty much every military gate town.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 28, 2022 10:38 PM (vBjG4)

115

Minkeypox is such a piddling disease... I expected the next plague to afflict homosexuals to be much more severe -- worse than AIDS...

Posted by: Zettai at July 28, 2022 10:38 PM (DQG9q)

116 Had friend who retired in Costa Rica, He had a prostate operation there. Don't retire in Costa Rica unless you can afford to fly to America when you need medical care.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2022 10:39 PM (a0N9U)

117 I was a copy editor at a mid-sized Midwestern newspaper. It was a good paper staffed by good people who may have leaned liberal but kept their politics out of the news columns. (It was a l-o-o-o-ng time ago.)

We once hired a reporter who was "laid off" from the Baltimore Sun. We were pretty geeked up about it because the Sun was a much larger paper with a national rep.

Well, that didn't last long. Not only was the guy lazy AF, but he had a literacy level that would have shamed a third grader. New hires had a 3-month probationary period, but everyone had seen enough after 2 months. He was sent packing.

In the aftermath, a fellow copy editor told me, "Man, I can't believe what a horrible writer he was."

"Yeah, but you gotta look at the bright side," I replied. "At least he didn't write very much stuff."

Posted by: Outside Adjitator at July 28, 2022 10:39 PM (NvFiZ)

118 I am having a hard time with the monkey pox havers being upset that the government didn't tell them that screwing tens of other random dudes in a night could have bad effects.

Posted by: blaster at July 28, 2022 10:39 PM (6TxNR)

119 Freshman year of college, a bunch of us went down to TJ from UC/SD. It was the night before my 18th birthday. At one of the last bars we went to, I got carded and had to wait outside for 15 minutes. I had to wizz so bad.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 28, 2022 10:39 PM (KAi1n)

120 Tell me about how you were propositioned by a street walker in Paris a year later.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 28, 2022 10:31 PM (PY/t0)

I fell behind the group of adults I was out walking with....

Next thing I know this relatively attractive woman is trying to start a conversation with me...and I spoke no French (Spanish yes, French no).

She's eyeing me up and down trying to slip her arm in with mine. Her broken English leading me to believe there were some sights I should see.

Next thing I know my dad appears out of nowhere, grabs my arm and whisks me away. I'm a little shocked, but say nothing until we get back with the larger group.

I asked why he acted the way he did, and he and the whole group started to laugh, as they had watched the proceedings from afar. Yeah...I was a little naïve.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 28, 2022 10:40 PM (BgMrQ)

121 Posted by: Emmie at July 28, 2022 10:23 PM (t62xj)

Emmie, you have seven shares of a ditch?! What if you have more than seven enemies?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2022 10:40 PM (7bRMQ)

122 99: wait til you see the TX town where I will be working. You don’t even see car title loan places there. There are few private businesses there.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 10:41 PM (CdZ4i)

123 I will be driving her to school every morning for a month in my beat-up pickup truck while wearing no shirt, blue jean shorts, a ball cap turned backwards, with Pantera playing at full volume, and that I would park in front of school and walk her to the door.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

******

''SOkay, I was planning to get a new keyboard anyway!

Posted by: Two pregnant inmates at July 28, 2022 10:41 PM (kXYt5)

124 76 Used to be the home of the Confederate Air Force before they gave in to the scolds and renamed themselves the Commemorative Air Force.

If you go back far enough, I think late 60s, the CAF marked their planes with USAF stars and bars insignia except the center circle had the Confederate battle flag. Imagine the wokie strokies if they did that now. This was in the era where warbirds generally had civilian style paint jobs.

Posted by: azjaeger at July 28, 2022 10:41 PM (3/XaG)

125 107 Back when I was in law school, I was walking after dark in a pretty sketchy area when this pimp came up to me and tried to sell me a whore. I said no and he responded asking if I wanted to buy some drugs. Again I declined and he said how about a stereo?

One stop shopping
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 10:36 PM (FVME7)

------------------------------

And that pimp's name was .... Sam Walton.

And now you know... the rest of the story...

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 28, 2022 10:41 PM (CAJOC)

126 U.S. Census Data Reveals the Most Miserable Cities In America

Did your city make it? Or do you have a nominee that was left off the list?

**

It's fascinating to go down the list and put

"Name of city' percent white (or black, hispanic, etc.)

in a search engine and look at the census results.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 28, 2022 10:42 PM (1uEb/)

127
And that pimp's name was .... Sam Walton.

And now you know... the rest of the story...
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 28, 2022 10:41 PM (CAJOC)A

What aisle are the whores in?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 28, 2022 10:42 PM (PY/t0)

128 "Mexico City Residents Want Americans To Leave"

I've seen other videos on this, where Americans move to Mexico (or other "Hispanic" Central American places) and they say ... "sure, they love our dollars, but they will never accept us as one of them".

No one has adopted the open border bullshit, just the DC globalists that are intent on destroying American liberty.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 28, 2022 10:42 PM (Cus5s)

129 I also told her if she gets a ticket, I will be driving her to school every morning for a month in my beat-up pickup truck while wearing no shirt, blue jean shorts, a ball cap turned backwards, with Pantera playing at full volume, and that I would park in front of school and walk her to the door.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2022 10:35 PM (sbleM)

You forgot the mullet.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2022 10:42 PM (7bRMQ)

130 That "most miserable cities" list was clearly written by a leftist.

That said, I spent the night in Trenton once and have no plans to ever, ever, do so again.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 28, 2022 10:43 PM (jGGMD)

131 Back when I was in law school, I was walking after dark in a pretty sketchy area when this pimp came up to me and tried to sell me a whore. I said no and he responded asking if I wanted to buy some drugs. Again I declined and he said how about a stereo?

One stop shopping
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 10:36 PM (FVME7)

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Disney+ subscription?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 10:43 PM (XG2Fi)

132 I won't say *most* incompetent but a long time ago in a galaxy far away when I was in the IT biz... I got blamed by a coworker in another department for a broken website because of a new server.

This was over the phone. We will call him Zachary. Zachary the Asshole. I told Zachary the Asshole, who apparently had eyes on replacing me one day with his own super-amazing self, that the broken website had ZERO to do with my new server, and it was actually likely because of something that was going on in his own department. I even gave him some helpful clues toward diagnosing it.

He refused to listen to me, and got louder and louder in his haughty foreign accent, and told me he KNEW it was my server, that he had seen a shipping notice that my new server had been delivered to me the day before, and that is obviously the culprit and that I needed to get moving and fix the website problem *immediately*.

I explained to Asshole that I knew the issue wasn't my server, which had indeed been delivered to me the day before because 1. I am psychic and 2. The new server was *still in the fucking box*. Then I told him to lose the attitude, stick his website problem up his ass, and hung up.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 10:43 PM (/Z8z2)

133 You forgot the mullet.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2022 10:42 PM (7bRMQ)

I can't grow a mullet on command, unfortunately.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2022 10:44 PM (sbleM)

134 [ii]At one of the last bars we went to, I got carded and had to wait outside for 15 minutes. I had to wizz so bad.

******

Void where prohibited

Posted by: Two pregnant inmates at July 28, 2022 10:44 PM (kXYt5)

135 Basically the reasons I won't want to live in the US in about 20 years.

Posted by: ballistic at July 28, 2022 10:36 PM (oXNqT)

20 years? You are a very optimistic person!

Posted by: 2030 at July 28, 2022 10:44 PM (7bRMQ)

136 What aisle are the whores in?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Just wait for the intercom to tell you where clean up is needed, and YAHTZEE!

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 28, 2022 10:44 PM (ftFVW)

137 127
And that pimp's name was .... Sam Walton.

And now you know... the rest of the story...
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 28, 2022 10:41 PM (CAJOC)A

What aisle are the whores in?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 28, 2022 10:42 PM (PY/t0)

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Aisle 69

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 28, 2022 10:44 PM (CAJOC)

138 "I heard there was a rain delay, and when they came back, the democrats were up by 200 runs.

Posted by: No One of Consequence "

MSM reports Dems won and the Republicans were, without evidence, making unfounded accusation of fraud. which have been debunked. .

Posted by: Ripley at July 28, 2022 10:45 PM (PTDkx)

139 /crap, how long have I been wearing that nasty sock?

Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2022 10:45 PM (kXYt5)

140 I am a TX native, spending most of my life within 170 miles of the Mexican border. I have been all over the U.S., Canada, and a good portion of the world.

I have never been to Mexico.

*

Here in North Carolina we have no need to visit Mexico.

Yay.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 28, 2022 10:45 PM (1uEb/)

141 I thought Mexico was so strict on foreigners owning property?
Posted by: a dude in MI at July 28, 2022 10:03 PM (+I6Y/)

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Only near the coast. Otherwise anything goes.
Posted by: Cicero

Property taxes are almost non-existent. I have an American citizen friend with a 4000+sq ft palace in the heart of downtown Guanajuato and pays $200 annually in property taxes, even less if he pays in cash.

https://www.houseinguanajuato.com/

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 10:45 PM (3hSHB)

142 I also told her if she gets a ticket, I will be driving her to school every morning for a month in my beat-up pickup truck while wearing no shirt, blue jean shorts, a ball cap turned backwards, with Pantera playing at full volume, and that I would park in front of school and walk her to the door.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2022 10:35 PM (sbleM)
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I'm about 10 years from this with my kids, but filing this away for future reference. ROFL

Posted by: ballistic at July 28, 2022 10:45 PM (oXNqT)

143 130: if you are talking NJ, the area immediately around the capitol is quite nice. Anything beyond that: crackhouses as far as the eye can see.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 10:46 PM (CdZ4i)

144 I had an anthropology prof who had worked on the calorie cost/benefit of cannibalism in New Guinea where there really was cannibalism.

There the cost of hunting enemies down and butchering them only made sense, calorie-wise in the middle heights, since the jungle and Highlands offered more readily available sources of calories in hunting and fishing and farming. It turns out that the main cannibal cultures came from the middle heights.

He actually did calcs on the calories expended v the calories gained. He was a neat guy and had lived with pygmies in the Congo as a field project

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2022 10:46 PM (xhaym)

145 I had an anthropology prof who had worked on the calorie cost/benefit of cannibalism in New Guinea where there really was cannibalism.

*

Next you're going to try and tell me that there's currently slavery in Africa, the middle east, and Asia.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 28, 2022 10:47 PM (1uEb/)

146 How did Jersey go downhill so quickly.

Did New York send all its criminals there like England did with Australia?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 28, 2022 10:47 PM (PY/t0)

147 100 When do you think we get revenge? The GOP just has no concept of tit for tat.

***

Boudicca understood revenge. Just ask the residents of Camulodonum

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 28, 2022 10:48 PM (gbzeC)

148 He had a prostate operation there.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2022 10:39 PM (a0N9U)

Apparently erections are overrated in third-world shitholes.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2022 10:48 PM (XIJ/X)

149 And that pimp's name was .... Sam Walton.

And now you know... the rest of the story...
Posted by: No One of Consequence

What aisle are the whores in?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Aisle 69
Posted by: No One of Consequence

Excellent! *air guitar riffs*

Posted by: Bill & Ted at July 28, 2022 10:48 PM (4I/2K)

150 Best I ever did, was broke 100.. once. And then they wouldn't let me play the 2nd nine.

Fuckin' windmill, gets me every time.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 28, 2022 10:12 PM (tkOps)

{snort}

The windmill got me...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 28, 2022 10:48 PM (v23vE)

151 141: IIRC Mexico prohibits foreign land ownership with 50 km of its coasts and borders. (For those of us who order quarter pounders with cheese at McDonald’s, that’s 31 miles.). And I believe that is in their Constitution.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 10:48 PM (CdZ4i)

152 We Are Going To See Energy Prices Go Absolutely Nuts This Winter As We Face A Global Economic Crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNtnputiEYs

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 28, 2022 10:48 PM (vBjG4)

153 I can't grow a mullet on command, unfortunately.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2022 10:44 PM (sbleM)

Someone call me?

Posted by: Lace Mullets for Sale at July 28, 2022 10:48 PM (7bRMQ)

154 127
And that pimp's name was .... Sam Walton.

And now you know... the rest of the story...
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 28, 2022 10:41 PM (CAJOC)A

What aisle are the whores in?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

I think that they are scattered throughout the store, particularly at odd hours of the night - but I'm pretty sure that they are independent contractors.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 10:49 PM (3hSHB)

155 Boudicca was da snizzle.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 10:49 PM (XG2Fi)

156 144 Kindltot

Cannibalism gives you some kind of brain disease, I've read-- in more than one article.

Posted by: mnw at July 28, 2022 10:49 PM (NLIak)

157 Also, the Cimbri.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 10:49 PM (XG2Fi)

158 /crap, how long have I been wearing that nasty sock?

Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2022 10:45 PM (kXYt5)

Less than nine months?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2022 10:50 PM (7bRMQ)

159 Cannibalism gives you some kind of brain disease, I've read-- in more than one article.
Posted by: mnw at July 28, 2022 10:49 PM (NLIak)
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Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease. Basically "mad cow" disease in humans.

The X-Files had a pretty creepy episode about it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2022 10:50 PM (K5n5d)

160 21 I thought Mexico was so strict on foreigners owning property?
Posted by: a dude in MI at July 28, 2022 10:03 PM (+I6Y/)

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Only near the coast. Otherwise anything goes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 10:05 PM (XG2Fi

Who wants to live on the coast..its going to be underwater in a few years anyways...right? RIGHT?

Posted by: a dude in MI at July 28, 2022 10:50 PM (+I6Y/)

161 Boudicca was da snizzle.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 10:49 PM

Boudicca? The famous Celtic warrior queen of yore?

Posted by: Zettai at July 28, 2022 10:51 PM (DQG9q)

162 crap, how long have I been wearing that nasty sock?

Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2022 10:45 PM (kXYt5)
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Dude. You should wash your socks more often when you are finished with them!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2022 10:51 PM (K5n5d)

163 156 144 Kindltot

Cannibalism gives you some kind of brain disease, I've read-- in more than one article.
Posted by: mnw at July 28, 2022 10:49 PM (NLIak

Kuru. It screws up prions.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 28, 2022 10:52 PM (PY/t0)

164 Oversaturation concern growing in pot industry in MI-ya think? Who could have seen that coming...

Posted by: a dude in MI at July 28, 2022 10:52 PM (+I6Y/)

165 Teddy Roosevelt in sculling gear while an undergraduate at Harvard, circa 1877.

https://bit.ly/3cD9hgn

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2022 10:52 PM (a0N9U)

166 Cannibalism gives you some kind of brain disease, I've read-- in more than one article.

Kuru, which is spread by prions (misfolded proteins). I believe it's a form of Jakob-Kreutzfeld disease.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2022 10:53 PM (/NCI4)

167 It's fascinating to go down the list and put

"Name of city' percent white (or black, hispanic, etc.)

in a search engine and look at the census results.

Joggers and illegal aliens.

I was surprised to see Irving, Texas (with Las Colinas) and San Jose, California. Both reasons for saying "miserable" are pure BS.

Also surprised to see Flint, Michigan way down the list.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 10:53 PM (3hSHB)

168 People from Mexico City are Chilangos

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2022 10:53 PM (xhaym)

169 OK just check the Most Miserable City article.
I call bullshit on Cleveland being listed like that.
Name me one major metropolitan area that isn't a shithole.

And when I think of Cleveland, having grown up there, I know great places a few miles from the Terminal Tower (fuck this Tower City bullshit) to the East or West side (again having lived on both side of the Cuyahoga divide).

Yeah, there are slums, bad bad slums, but no worse than you'll find in any metro area.

Cleveland means more than just the city proper. You may live in Rocky River; Shaker Heights; Solon; Gates Mills; Pepper Pike...you still live in Cleveland.

#harumph

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 28, 2022 10:53 PM (BgMrQ)

170 I explained to Asshole that I knew the issue wasn't my server, which had indeed been delivered to me the day before because 1. I am psychic and 2. The new server was *still in the fucking box*. Then I told him to lose the attitude, stick his website problem up his ass, and hung up.

The only way that could have been better is if asshole had escalated and embarrassed himself in front of his manager.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at July 28, 2022 10:54 PM (Bd6X8)

171 People from Mexico City are Chilangos

Whitebacks.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2022 10:54 PM (sbleM)

172 Boudicca? The famous Celtic warrior queen of yore?
Posted by: Zettai at July 28, 2022 10:51 PM (DQG9q)

Believe me you do not want to fight the Yorians. Those were some tough people.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 28, 2022 10:54 PM (cupoy)

173 Ugh. That list of miserable cities is depressing. I suspect that many others are on the same track. Government policies, unions, and poor leadership are killing the country.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 28, 2022 10:54 PM (dx9uU)

174 Rainy and cool all day today here at our place. The drought is broken, the heat wave is broken, but my retaining wall is intact. Yay us!

Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2022 10:55 PM (kXYt5)

175 That's pretty much every military gate town.

=========
I’ve never seen that many at any of the military bases I’ve been to. They are there I will admit, but this looked like the biggest business in town in Albany when I was there in March

Actually, the town wasn’t THAT bad when there was a Naval Air Station there.

Navy is how I originally escaped, as did many of my friends.

Posted by: PMRich at July 28, 2022 10:55 PM (eh5ud)

176 Oh hey "Perfessor" Squirrel, since you're here, there's some book related nooz.
You may know that Larry Correia does a podcast with Steve Diamond talking about the business & craft of writing called Writer Dojo (writerdojo.com)
The nooz is that he also put up a FB writer support group called (also) Writer Dojo.
Just wanted to pass it on in case any of the horde scribblers are interested

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 28, 2022 10:55 PM (gbzeC)

177 Cannibalism gives you some kind of brain disease, I've read-- in more than one article.

Kuru, which is spread by prions (misfolded proteins). I believe it's a form of Jakob-Kreutzfeld disease.
Posted by: Archimedes

I think I also read that some tribes that had faced Kuru due to cannibalism developed resistance to Mad Cow.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 28, 2022 10:55 PM (ftFVW)

178 It's a little scary we know so much about the dangers of eating brains.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 28, 2022 10:55 PM (PY/t0)

179 Kuru, which is spread by prions (misfolded proteins). I believe it's a form of Jakob-Kreutzfeld disease.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2022 10:53 PM (/NCI4)

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Prions. A curious misfolded protein that causes other proteins to misfold also, leading to disaster.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 10:55 PM (XG2Fi)

180 My Grandparents lived in Brownsville, and it was an easy walk across the bridge into Matamoros for a younger fellow. I used to enjoy the Old Market, the cabrito stalls, the cheap beer and food...

I took my then new wife over to have a lunch with some friends who lived in Harlingen and drove us over the "Free Trade" bridge. We dined at a wonderful joint with mounted bull heads on the walls, and then went into Old Matamoros to see the Market. My poor wife was horrified at the beggars: "Look at that poor crying child!"
"They rub crap in their eyes to make 'em cry. Save your money for the lepers."
"LEPERS?!?"

We never went back.

Posted by: Brewingfrog at July 28, 2022 10:55 PM (9tdGi)

181 Emmie, you have seven shares of a ditch?! What if you have more than seven enemies?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2022 10:40 PM (7bRMQ)

You don't need more than seven examples to get the rest to back off.

Posted by: Emmie at July 28, 2022 10:56 PM (t62xj)

182 Good news from Britain: the NHS has decided to shut down the Tavistock clinic, which is the one that has been carrying out sex-change procedures on children for the past decade or so.

It will be opening two new "treatment centers," of course; but this does come after an official government report that found the clinic had been irresponsibly pushing kids into gender transition and not paying attention to long-term effects, so this may at least warn other clinics not to get too enthusiastic in their barbarism.

I'm hopeful 2022 will go down as the beginning of the end for the trans craze.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 28, 2022 10:56 PM (jGGMD)

183 Ugh. That list of miserable cities is depressing. I suspect that many others are on the same track. Government policies, unions, and poor leadership are killing the country.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

*

I'd like to see a breakdown of the last time the cities had a Republican mayor.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 28, 2022 10:56 PM (1uEb/)

184 I think I also read that some tribes that had faced Kuru due to cannibalism developed resistance to Mad Cow.

Interesting, although I can't imagine that they ran into Hillary all that often.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2022 10:56 PM (/NCI4)

185 Oh hey "Perfessor" Squirrel, since you're here, there's some book related nooz.
You may know that Larry Correia does a podcast with Steve Diamond talking about the business & craft of writing called Writer Dojo (writerdojo.com)
The nooz is that he also put up a FB writer support group called (also) Writer Dojo.
Just wanted to pass it on in case any of the horde scribblers are interested
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 28, 2022 10:55 PM (gbzeC)
---
Thanks for the tip!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2022 10:56 PM (K5n5d)

186 Mad Cow!

Posted by: Denny Crane at July 28, 2022 10:57 PM (4I/2K)

187 WeirdDave,

I clicked through and read the thread. It was indeed worth it.

Ted Roosevelt was a great man.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 28, 2022 10:57 PM (mdjgu)

188 Most incompetent coworker? Well, he was technically my boss, but I repeatedly told him to fuck off, in those words, because it was a name-only thing. One day, he would have been my actual boss, except that I eventually quit before that came to pass. At the time, all he was to me (or anyone there) was the owner's borderline-retarded son.

It was a weird situation. His old man was incredibly smart. Tough, too. A Marine with four years in 'Nam. Also, a very kind man. And charismatic. A role model for me, especially. But this guy had none of those qualities. He was a crude, doltish, creepy asshole and all around buffoon who constantly made bad mistakes. Really bad ones. Million dollar mistakes.

He was also a pervert who repeatedly got caught jacking it in his office, and whose equally horrible and repulsively ugly troll-like wife once bragged in front of everyone about she liked shocking his butthole with an electrified glove.

But the old man was always "family first" and he gave this mutant an executive position and named him his heir apparent. That's when, with a heavy heart, I moved on.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 28, 2022 10:59 PM (Zhwz2)

189 There are certain investments I'm too risk-averse to consider, & using my life savings to buy real property in Mexico is one. I'm sure many thousands of Americans have made out like bandits, but...

one would be gambling on the future viability of Mexico.

The cartels now sometimes use the corpses of those they murder as a new kind of street art-- arrange them in lawn chairs alongside the highway, for example, as if the newly murdered were at a pool party.

You have to think a ways down the road.

In Shakespeare's play Richard III, Richard says to his men, "We camp here tonight!" (IIRC). Then, in an aside to the audience, "But where tomorrow?"

Posted by: mnw at July 28, 2022 11:00 PM (NLIak)

190 >>> I'm hopeful 2022 will go down as the beginning of the end for the trans craze.
Posted by: Dr. T a
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It's kind of a self limiting thing, I think.
Now, the Doctors who perform them will unnecessarily continue on.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2022 11:01 PM (a0N9U)

191 "Ted Roosevelt was a great man."

Gave a speech.
Was shot by a would-be assassin.
Finished the speech.
Considered it "normal".

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 11:01 PM (jTmQV)

192

It being Thursday in most jurisdictions, we may get to see some Boudicca clones if Our Dear KBdaBear shows up...

Posted by: Zettai at July 28, 2022 11:02 PM (A4jJ3)

193 If it hasn't been said already, losing five balls and finding nine does not count as finishing 4 over.

Just saying.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2022 11:03 PM (anj39)

194 Ted Roosevelt was a great man.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 28, 2022 10:57 PM (mdjgu)

-------

He was no Rothko.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 11:04 PM (XG2Fi)

195 Did your city make it? Or do you have a nominee that was left off the list?

Article was clickbait.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 28, 2022 11:04 PM (Xrfse)

196 We Are Going To See Energy Prices Go Absolutely Nuts This Winter As We Face A Global Economic Crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNtnputiEYs
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 28, 2022 10:48 PM (vBjG4)

Thank you. Would be nice to be able to bank some of this Texas Summer Heat for later on this winter.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2022 11:04 PM (4I/2K)

197 and whose equally horrible and repulsively ugly troll-like wife once bragged in front of everyone about she liked shocking his butthole with an electrified glove.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 28, 2022 10:59 PM (Zhwz2)

You don't happen to still have her number, do you?

Seriously though I think I've lead a very sheltered life, and actually prefer it that way. I'm deadly serious I didn't know this was a thing and was actually a much happier and more content carefree person about three minutes ago.

Besides it's always the ugly ones, isn't it. Pretty sure Karen Gillan doesn't shock buttholes. Damn woman doesn't need to.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 11:04 PM (/Z8z2)

198 Just stepped out for breath of fresh air. There is some creature over in the woods, making what sound like plaintive cries. Like nothing I've ever heard. It's too dark and too thick with trees and brush for me to go in there to investigate.

It isn't scary, it's distressing to hear.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 28, 2022 11:05 PM (tFWfv)

199 91 "Ted Roosevelt was a great man."

Gave a speech.
Was shot by a would-be assassin.
Finished the speech.
Considered it "normal".
Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 11:01 PM (jTmQV)

Perhaps something the current crop of politicians should think about.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2022 11:05 PM (anj39)

200 Mexico is strange right now.
If I was Mexican and could speak Spanish fluently, it could be a possibility.
But, I'm not. I'm a gringo with some command of Spanish.
The cartels control something like 80% of the geography of Mexico.
Their home, their rules.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 11:05 PM (jTmQV)

201 Regarding that first image, perhaps 50% of the population is really unaware of the deep hypocrisy of our elites. These are the LIVs.

And...they won't believe you that this is the way things are no matter how many examples you provide.

Oh sure *that* politician is a scum bag, but the rest of them are aren't.

To round out the other 50%, half of them are us, horrified, and the other half is the left hoping to be one of those hypocrites one day.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2022 11:05 PM (ESjRY)

202 > Thank you. Would be nice to be able to bank some of this Texas Summer Heat for later on this winter.
______

Second look at canning?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2022 11:06 PM (BFigT)

203 Gave a speech.
Was shot by a would-be assassin.
Finished the speech.
Considered it "normal".

Wrong Roosevelt

Posted by: Weirddave at July 28, 2022 11:06 PM (oFI8g)

204 I'd like to see a breakdown of the last time the cities had a Republican mayor.

Many of the cities listed were thriving industrial centers before the proto-WEF types moved the jobs overseas.

Making things made for a good income, but the people got a bit too bold and cocky, especially when the post WW2 world was still rebuilding from its smoldering ruins and offered no real competition.

Once the modernized factories in Europe and Asia started rocking, and the unions killed the job market in the former United States, it was all over for those cities and the decline would begin.

Doesn't matter what political party was in control, the city's fate was baked in.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 11:07 PM (3hSHB)

205 If it hasn't been said already, losing five balls and finding nine does not count as finishing 4 over.

Just saying.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2022 11:03 PM (anj39)

Close enough for me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2022 11:07 PM (Jk07i)

206 Just stepped out for breath of fresh air. There is some creature over in the woods, making what sound like plaintive cries. Like nothing I've ever heard. It's too dark and too thick with trees and brush for me to go in there to investigate.

It isn't scary, it's distressing to hear.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc.

Siren of the forest?

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 28, 2022 11:07 PM (ftFVW)

207 FDA releases warning the gonadotropin-releasing hormone drugs used as puberty blockers on kids may cause intracranial hypertension and lead to blindness.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8uf6c2

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2022 11:07 PM (sbleM)

208 Seriously though I think I've lead a very sheltered life, and actually prefer it that way.

Most people are odd, really odd, once you get to know them.

But, once upon a time people would keep their oddities to themselves and their closest circle now they all rush to twitter to scream it at the top of their lungs.

Better to get 15 minutes of fame for some horrible then to be forgotten right?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2022 11:08 PM (ESjRY)

209 Article was clickbait

Outrageous! Whoever wrote this piece of crap should have warned us somehow!

Posted by: Weirddave at July 28, 2022 11:08 PM (oFI8g)

210 Thank you. Would be nice to be able to bank some of this Texas Summer Heat for later on this winter.
______

Second look at canning?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2022 11:06 PM (BFigT)

Canned Heat!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2022 11:09 PM (4I/2K)

211 "Wrong Roosevelt"

There are, of course, 2 families, the Hyde Park Roosevelts and the Oyster Bay Roosevelts.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 11:09 PM (jTmQV)

212 Just stepped out for breath of fresh air. There is some creature over in the woods, making what sound like plaintive cries. Like nothing I've ever heard. It's too dark and too thick with trees and brush for me to go in there to investigate.

It isn't scary, it's distressing to hear.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 28, 2022 11:05 PM (tFWfv)

Will you stop choking me, Paw? I don't think we're going to lure him out.

Posted by: The baby bear at July 28, 2022 11:10 PM (Jk07i)

213 and whose equally horrible and repulsively ugly troll-like wife once bragged in front of everyone about she liked shocking his butthole with an electrified glove.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 28, 2022 10:59 PM (Zhwz2)

You don't happen to still have her number, do you?

Seriously though I think I've lead a very sheltered life, and actually prefer it that way. I'm deadly serious I didn't know this was a thing and was actually a much happier and more content carefree person about three minutes ago.

Besides it's always the ugly ones, isn't it. Pretty sure Karen Gillan doesn't shock buttholes. Damn woman doesn't need to.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 11:04 PM (/Z8z2)

I wish I didn't know now what I just learned 2 minutes ago. Who does this and enjoys it??

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2022 11:11 PM (4I/2K)

214

I've pre-paid for 1000 gallons of heating oil for the coming season at $5.19 a gallon...

If at the time of any delivery the market price is lower, I pay the lower price, and if I've any undelivered fuel at the end of the season, (May, I think) I get a refund...

Posted by: Zettai at July 28, 2022 11:11 PM (O6uxT)

215 The death of Detroit is instructive.

They were the third wealthiest city in America in the 50s. With a thriving middle class and a beautiful downtown.

What started the death cycle was politicians using city money to buy votes through handouts and gubmint jobs that didn't really do much.

Eventually a black crook replaced the white crooks and decided the best way to hold power was to pit blacks against whites. And it worked. The whites left.

Then without the tax base from all those people that left and now with incredibly expensive government workers that demanded to be paid first there was no way to save the city. And it became the shithole we all know and hate.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2022 11:12 PM (ESjRY)

216 Mexico was a fun place to vacation, the people were friendly, the food was good and the beaches were gorgeous.

Now, Mexico is more dangerous than Afghanistan or Iraq during the was. Kidnapping Americans for ransom is a sport and there are a lot of stray bullets.

Note: the only legal firearm in Mexico is a single shot 22.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2022 11:12 PM (a0N9U)

217 Article was clickbait

Outrageous! Whoever wrote this piece of crap should have warned us somehow!
Posted by: Weirddave at July 28, 2022 11:08 PM (oFI8g)

I must try not to gasp!

I know I'll be shocked!

Posted by: LASue at July 28, 2022 11:13 PM (Ed8Zd)

218 Most incompetent coworker?

*****

In the Army in Alaska, a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) asked me if I could help her see the eardrums of a toddler who had had low grade fever for 2-3 days. She carried the baby into my exam room holding him under his arms and his lower body swung back and forth as she walked. I asked where the parents were and it turns out they were both in the hospital after a car crash 3 days ago, this child had been with a friend of the family since. I informed her that I was much less interested in the eardrums than I was the flaccid paralysis of the child's lower body. I immediately immobilized the neck and notified our orthopedic surgeon. X-rays confirmed a cervical spine fracture. Fortunately we were able to get him air-evaced back stateside for definitive care with a good result. Sometimes knowing the right question to ask at the right time makes all the difference.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2022 11:14 PM (kXYt5)

219 What a poorly written article that was. All of the misery revolves around “poverty” and do people have medical insurance.

Once I read that Saginaw, MI was plagued with “gun violence”, I was done. What, the author is going to consider Saginaw to be Happyland when the gangbangers instead commit their crimes with knives?

Anyone who speaks of “gun violence” wholeheartedly endorses violence so long as guns aren’t used.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 11:14 PM (CdZ4i)

220 Ok we'll take back the 12 california hippies when Mexico picks up the 50 million plus illegals we have of theirs. No probs.

Posted by: NCKate at July 28, 2022 11:14 PM (2oJif)

221 "Boedacia Haranguing the Britons" is a famous Victorian painting-- bare-breasted, in the back of a chariot, shaking her fist, rallying her blue body-painted troops.

This is a true thing: there is a layer of earth beneath London called "the Boedacian layer." It's red!

Because Boedacia had a plan for Londinium-- she favored a 'Carthaginian-style solution' to the Roman problem, one might say.

Posted by: mnw at July 28, 2022 11:14 PM (NLIak)

222 Just stepped out for breath of fresh air. There is some creature over in the woods, making what sound like plaintive cries. Like nothing I've ever heard. It's too dark and too thick with trees and brush for me to go in there to investigate.

It isn't scary, it's distressing to hear.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc.

Siren of the forest?
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 28, 2022 11:07 PM (ftFVW)

Chupacabra. Or forest wiccan witches.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2022 11:15 PM (4I/2K)

223 Once heard what sounded like a woman being murdered outside our window at about 3am. Murdered in gurgling cold blood.

We have always surmised it was a red fox.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 11:15 PM (/Z8z2)

224 ABC News has a super scary story. The great salt lake is drying up. And the result will be arsenic falling on Salt Lake City. Kinda how Biden has to deal with oil falling, lol.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 28, 2022 11:15 PM (3vQN0)

225 223 Once heard what sounded like a woman being murdered outside our window at about 3am. Murdered in gurgling cold blood.

We have always surmised it was a red fox.

yes, likely a fox

we have a few of them around ... they torment the dogs. one of my previous dogs would befriend them - it was cute until she got mange.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 28, 2022 11:17 PM (w0NJk)

226 Most incompetent coworker?

The guy that told me changing file permissions would require a reboot. No, he could not explain why.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at July 28, 2022 11:17 PM (Bd6X8)

227 ...We have always surmised it was a red fox.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 11:15 PM

RONG!

Posted by: Kitty Genovese at July 28, 2022 11:18 PM (O6uxT)

228 ABC News has a super scary story. The great salt lake is drying up. And the result will be arsenic falling on Salt Lake City. Kinda how Biden has to deal with oil falling, lol.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 28, 2022 11:15 PM (3vQN0)

It's supposed to dry up. That's how it stays salty. It has to dry up, or the entire valley will be flooded. there are no rivers flowing out of it.

Posted by: The baby bear at July 28, 2022 11:18 PM (Jk07i)

229 211 "Wrong Roosevelt"

There are, of course, 2 families, the Hyde Park Roosevelts and the Oyster Bay Roosevelts.
Posted by: gourmand du jour
---------------------------

Teddy and Ted were much more closely related than the cousin loving, muff divers.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2022 11:19 PM (a0N9U)

230 It's supposed to dry up. That's how it stays salty. It has to dry up, or the entire valley will be flooded. there are no rivers flowing out of it.
Posted by: The baby bear

Climate denier!

Posted by: Scoldilocks at July 28, 2022 11:19 PM (ftFVW)

231 Just had a half-second power failure here. Just long enough to make the computer reboot. No T-storms in sight, but I will go take a look, just in case.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2022 11:20 PM (Jk07i)

232 From the sidebar: Hildegard von Blingin' has also done House of the Rising Sun as medieval. Came out pretty well.

Posted by: Lirio100 at July 28, 2022 11:20 PM (r0RRi)

233
We have always surmised it was a red fox.
Posted by: ..
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Yeah, pretty disconcerting if you've never heard it. But, this is different.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 28, 2022 11:20 PM (Go9h8)

234 Damn Muldoon!
That is some awesome doctoring!!!!
Thank you. On behalf of every parent who has been in the Military system, thank you!

And it's not a bad system. But God blessed us with the right doc at the right time.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2022 11:20 PM (anj39)

235 204: people refuse to grasp such things, especially those who insist that THE ONLY jobs that matter are manufacturing jobs. As an American I think we can and should do everything - service sector, ag, exploiting our natural resources, manufacturing - but pray tell, how is this done when unions price the labor they “represent” out of the market, when we keep voting for business-hostile government, and insist our schools churn out poorly educated kids who know their pronouns but cannot do math? For starters.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 11:20 PM (CdZ4i)

236 I'm deadly serious I didn't know this was a thing and was actually a much happier and more content carefree person about three minutes ago.
----

Found 'em:

https://tinyurl.com/49dx9awz

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 28, 2022 11:21 PM (Zhwz2)

237 It's supposed to dry up. That's how it stays salty.

Posted by: Scoldilocks at July 28, 2022 11:19 PM (ftFVW)

This is what I've been saying for 70 years!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at July 28, 2022 11:21 PM (/Z8z2)

238 The death of Detroit is instructive.

Eventually a black crook replaced the white crooks and decided the best way to hold power was to pit blacks against whites. And it worked. The whites left.

In fairness though, Detroit had a serious racism problem that started during WW2 when deep South blacks and Appalachian hill scoggin moved into Detroit in seek of work for the war machine.

The Pollocks and other Eastern European whites living there would discriminate against blacks and pushed them into cramped living in sub optimal housing.

The 70s oil crisis, the greedy and corrupt unions and Babylon DC's total ineptitude of strangling cars to death with highly restrictive pollution controls coming at the exact same time the Sauds turned off the oil killed Detroit 's fuel guzzlers while Japan introduced Americans to four-bangers.

The whites fled, the blacks stayed, grew in relative number and wanted corrupt leadership that looked like them. Throw in some deadly racial revenge riots and you have a perfect recipe for White Flight and the suicide of Detroit and similar industrial cities.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 11:22 PM (3hSHB)

239 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 28, 2022 11:21 PM (Zhwz2)

Sorry I have been around the clickblock way too many times my friend. Do I look like I just fell off the Intellimouse Truck?

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 11:22 PM (/Z8z2)

240 Manufacturing is important but saying non manufacturing jobs aren’t “real” jobs is silly.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 28, 2022 11:23 PM (3vQN0)

241 228: in 1984 I read newspaper articles in the Stars & Stripes (an Army brat) about how the Great Salt Lake was FLOODING and how water diversion schemes to essentially create a second Salt Lake to the west were being proposed.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 11:23 PM (CdZ4i)

242 Found 'em:

https://tinyurl.com/49dx9awz
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

You had that site bookmarked, didn't you?

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 28, 2022 11:23 PM (ftFVW)

243 Hulu's been recommending The Hound of the Baskervilles for the past several days. It's the 1959 version with Peter Cushing as Holmes, and Christopher Lee as Sir Henry. Settling in to watch it now.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 28, 2022 11:23 PM (CAJOC)

244 Christopher Lee is towering over everyone else.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 28, 2022 11:24 PM (CAJOC)

245 240: I agree. But for many, the ONLY jobs they care about is manufacturing. It is frustrating to hear about and read about. We can and should do…well, everything.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 11:24 PM (CdZ4i)

246 Mexico was a fun place to vacation, the people were friendly, the food was good and the beaches were gorgeous.

Now, Mexico is more dangerous than Afghanistan or Iraq during the was. Kidnapping Americans for ransom is a sport and there are a lot of stray bullets.

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My most dangerous trip was Nepal during a rural insurrection. We had to grease the palms of some scrawny rebels with a checkpoint to get from the Tibetan border to Kathmandu, but that was pretty much it. Not that big a deal.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 11:24 PM (XG2Fi)

247
Cannibalism gives you some kind of brain disease, I've read-- in more than one article.
Posted by: mnw at July 28, 2022 10:49 PM (NLIak)

It is a prion, the disease is called Kuru. It was the basis for using the data from New Guinea since the prevalence of a disease spread by eating brains is indication that there is brain eating going on

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2022 11:26 PM (xhaym)

248 Nice evening. Scattered stratus cloud, haze on the horizons, no wind at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2022 11:26 PM (Jk07i)

249 Christopher Lee is towering over everyone else.
Posted by: No One of Consequence

He really was a wizard of the big screen.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 28, 2022 11:26 PM (ftFVW)

250 The death of Detroit is instructive.

Eventually a black crook replaced the white crooks and decided the best way to hold power was to pit blacks against whites. And it worked. The whites left.
In fairness though, Detroit had a serious racism problem that started during WW2 when deep South blacks and Appalachian hill scoggin moved into Detroit in seek of work for the war machine.
The Pollocks and other Eastern European whites living there would discriminate against blacks and pushed them into cramped living in sub optimal housing.
The 70s oil crisis, the greedy and corrupt unions and Babylon DC's total ineptitude of strangling cars to death with highly restrictive pollution controls coming at the exact same time the Sauds turned off the oil killed Detroit 's fuel guzzlers while Japan introduced Americans to four-bangers.

The whites fled, the blacks stayed, grew in relative number and wanted corrupt leadership that looked like them. Throw in some deadly racial revenge riots and you have a perfect recipe for White Flight and the suicide of Detroit and similar industrial cities.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 11:22 PM (3hSHB)

Great summary!

Posted by: LASue at July 28, 2022 11:27 PM (Ed8Zd)

251 ZOD.

Posted by: ZOD at July 28, 2022 11:28 PM (Q/6pY)

252 222 Just stepped out for breath of fresh air. There is some creature over in the woods, making what sound like plaintive cries. Like nothing I've ever heard. It's too dark and too thick with trees and brush for me to go in there to investigate.

It isn't scary, it's distressing to hear.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc.

Siren of the forest?
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 28, 2022 11:07 PM (ftFVW)

Chupacabra. Or forest wiccan witches.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2022 11:15 PM (4I/2K)
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Probably Eris. She's a forest witch and Frogmancer. It is known.

Posted by: Gingy at July 28, 2022 11:28 PM (GpUUo)

253 249:
Never talking
Just keeps walking
Spreading his magic

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 11:28 PM (CdZ4i)

254 people refuse to grasp such things, especially those who insist that THE ONLY jobs that matter are manufacturing jobs.

Manufacturing in the former United States is no longer possible. There isn't enough and never will be enough energy for mining, industrialization and heavy manufacturing.

For example, China, even at the peak of CoViD, put 24GWs of coal power on-line (about one-third of what Texas uses) and Right Now is putting another 240GWs (four times Texas' electrical usage) on-line.

Furthermore, trade schools are dead, this generation is to stupid and lazy to handle machinery let alone not injuring themselves with basic hand tools. There will never be enough STEM grads with mechanical and electrical engineering degrees to staff a factory anyway.

So put away any dreams of a revitalized smoke-stack economic sector.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 11:28 PM (3hSHB)

255 speaking of which, the comment edited in Hamlet's Soliloquy for Shakespeare's final draft of Hamlet was: " Alas, poor Yorrick, I distinctly remember him being much taller, Horatio"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2022 11:29 PM (xhaym)

256 Theodore was, in many ways the originator of the Progressive party.
"Progress" to Teddy meant the human condition would improve, not like today, when Progressives think the best thing for the planet would be for the entire human race to die off, except for them.
He was right about the National Parks.
But for him, Disney would own all of them.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 11:29 PM (jTmQV)

257 250: and, as I understand it, Detroit was still OK, until the 1967 riots, from which it never recovered. Went from 2.5 million in population in 1950 to about 500,000 now, last I saw.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 11:30 PM (CdZ4i)

258 "Fortunately we were able to get him air-evaced back stateside for definitive care with a good result." Posted by: Muldoon

People that discipline their minds to real science, and act on that through their career, make all the difference.

Salute to you, sir.

(as opposed to our current destructive fake science and Wokism religion of hate)

Posted by: illiniwek at July 28, 2022 11:30 PM (Cus5s)

259 Neighbors should not stage their Mexican-pulled clump of ivy in such a way that it obstructs Zod's Bat-Cave-style exit from his driveway.

This is, in greater parts of the United States, known.

The situation has been remedied.

Posted by: ZOD at July 28, 2022 11:31 PM (Q/6pY)

260 Posted by: ZOD at July 28, 2022 11:28 PM (Q/6pY)

Zod it is good to see you.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 11:32 PM (/Z8z2)

261 White residents fled most big cities since 1950. St. Louis' (City) population was over a million in 1950, IIRC. (Too lazy to look up) Today it's around 300000.

Detroit: Strohs! Decided to go head-to-head with AB. Bad idea jeans.

Posted by: mnw at July 28, 2022 11:32 PM (NLIak)

262 And the Horde said Hail Zod!

And Zod said Hell Yes!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2022 11:32 PM (anj39)

263 About 1981, while en-route to a trip to Costa Rica (I was photographing a Church's crusade, there), the plane landed at every commercial runway South of the Rio Grande, along the way.

Including Nicaragua and El Salvador. In Managua, the military guards wanted one of our party to deplane for interrogation. (USAF Major, but his job was in military finance, he was *not* in a tip of the spear job, by any description!) The TACA Airlines pilot, wisely, physically blocked the door at the top of the stairs, and read 'em some International Travel Riot Act, and that settled that.

Some places are just downright unfriendly to us 'murricans.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 28, 2022 11:33 PM (tkOps)

264 Detroit does have some very nice burbs though.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 28, 2022 11:34 PM (3vQN0)

265 254: you bring up another good point. Oh, sure, we CAN produce insane amounts of energy. But we don’t WANT to and demonstrate this with the governments we elect.

Trade schools are dead because the ONLY way to succeed is to go to college, dont’cha know. And people don’t want to admit to their kids or perhaps themselves that there is nothing wrong with learning a trade, or…hell, just learning something and being damn good at it.

Your last sentence should be aimed at those who ache for an America whose only jobs are manufacturing and government.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 11:35 PM (CdZ4i)

266 Family's Christmas party includes a "White Elephant" gift drawing. Everyone brings a gag gift, or worse, and we pick wrapped ones. We average about 60 people (only immediate family), so it is a big deal. The Simulated-Pimple-Popper has been ordered.

Posted by: Javems at July 28, 2022 11:35 PM (AmoqO)

267 Hey, how's my Horde doing tonight?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 28, 2022 11:35 PM (a4EWo)

268 Le état c'est Zod. Or something French that means I rule)

(Taps egg gently, soft-boiled, three as are my habit. Sprinkles salt and pepper, signs death warrants, watches "Better Call Saul" from the soaking tub.)

Zod is the Sun King.

Posted by: ZOD at July 28, 2022 11:36 PM (Q/6pY)

269 Putting aside the politics of workers, is a software engineer at Google less of a job than someone working on an assembly line?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 28, 2022 11:36 PM (3vQN0)

270 I was just amazed that the key bit of information (being that both parents were hospitalized after a car accident, indicating a major accident) did not trigger any recognition, given that this 18 month old toddler was a floppy as a rag doll. The baby was in the vehicle at the time of the accident, screened and released from the small local clinic at Ft. Greeley. Extremely fortunate not to be fully paralyzed or even killed during that 48-72 hour window.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2022 11:37 PM (kXYt5)

271 Isn’t until Tuesday, lol. I guess retardomaindo doesn’t know about early voting.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 28, 2022 11:37 PM (3vQN0)

272 Speaking of kuru, Raimondo''s here. Everybody say "Hi Raimondo!"

Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2022 11:38 PM (kXYt5)

273 264: so does Youngstown, OH. You play your cards right, there are nice areas north of there. Youngstown itself for the most part looks like the aftermath of a nuclear war.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 11:38 PM (CdZ4i)

274 and, as I understand it, Detroit was still OK, until the 1967 riots, from which it never recovered. Went from 2.5 million in population in 1950 to about 500,000 now, last I saw.

But there also was the huge draw to Dallas, Houston and San Antonio that brought in people from all over the New England and Rust Belt states to cash in on the growing energy and insurance industry (the TV show "Dallas" being the analog to "Top Gun" as far as motivating people to move). The state bird of Texas, for a while was the Construction Crane.

Michigan is a shitty place where the sun is visible for only a few months each year, the cold is a damp cold, outside of hunting and agriculture, there is nothing redeeming about the Midwest. Entitled and lazy Union mentality everywhere pushed out the creatives and white-collar; why stay in a place where the people are awful too?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 11:39 PM (3hSHB)

275 Nicaraguan's were unhappy campers in the early 80's.
They had a little war going on I think. A fellow from Guatemala worked part time for me. Two of his brothers were impressed into service by the Nicaraguan's, he was working to gain enough money to by their release which he finally did.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2022 11:39 PM (a0N9U)

276 All the Rust Belt cities were all much bigger 60-70 years ago. Detroilet was the 4th largest in the late 50's. He'll even Pittsburgh was 9th.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2022 11:39 PM (89T5c)

277 Posted by: raimondo at July 28, 2022 11:36 PM (2FV0M)

How did you get a pass to get into the computer room at this time of night? If you used a forgery again, whoabudd, are you gonna get it from the staff.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 28, 2022 11:39 PM (1DgE4)

278 RaiMondoPox has entered the room. Disinfect as needed.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 28, 2022 11:40 PM (Xrfse)

279 Sometimes knowing the right question to ask at the right time makes all the difference.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2022 11:14 PM (kXYt5)

Folks...that's called "good medicine."

Fast forward a generation or two and Dr. Muldoon would have had his head buried in his laptop and wouldn't have bothered with observation of the patient.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2022 11:40 PM (XIJ/X)

280 273 Speaking of kuru, Raimondo''s here. Everybody say "Hi Raimondo!"
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2022 11:38 PM (kXYt5)

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High, Raimondo?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 28, 2022 11:40 PM (CAJOC)

281 I want to do a USA cross country car trip.
I feel like it's now or never.
Many places I wish to see, if could.
I have the vehicle, which I love, I have the money, I have the health, the stamina. I have the will.
I feel like if I don't do it now it will never happen.
I want to take a couple of months off and do it.
August and September.
Do the northern route, to Yellowstone and such.
Return on the southern route, I-10, Florida, New Orleans, Texas, Grand Canyon.
What say ye?

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 11:40 PM (jTmQV)

282 270: to me, no. Not at all. As long as you are working you contribute to society. That’s my take. And as we are a country of 330 million people, there can and should be room for everyone to do…whatever.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 11:40 PM (CdZ4i)

283 Speaking of kuru, Raimondo''s here. Everybody say "Hi Raimondo!"

Spewing bullshit like that, you must high raimondo!

Sorry, that's as close I could get.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at July 28, 2022 11:41 PM (Bd6X8)

284 Ironically, Raimondo enjoys getting it from the staff.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 11:41 PM (XG2Fi)

285 Do you like my monkey? Touch him, love him, liebe meine minkey. Now is the tiime on Sprockets when we dahnce!

Posted by: Deiter at July 28, 2022 11:41 PM (5Ruva)

286 Should I post images of the damage?

(Prisses around in David Bowie theatricality, chooses to tease)

"So babies, wanna see a hot screen of Zod's cancerous neck?"

(Mild applause)

"I know. it's gratuitous. But if anyone wants to know what a PET scan cancer neck looks lie...
(Cue Bowie "We can be heroes."
"How about this--I post a few. Or not"
(Kicks into Heroes)

Posted by: ZOD at July 28, 2022 11:41 PM (Q/6pY)

287 Retardo!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2022 11:41 PM (89T5c)

288 282: drive to AK as well. Zip through Canada fast, as its citizens are unfit to be free and are incapable of self government.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 11:42 PM (CdZ4i)

289 memo to self: Avoid getting sick or hurt in Ft. Greeley

Posted by: mnw at July 28, 2022 11:43 PM (NLIak)

290 I also think talking about a city’s population is skewed. Metro area is what matters not the city proper. Detroit’s population as a metro is 14th in the us via a quick Google search. Bigger than Seattle. So it’s not like the area just withered away into nothing.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 28, 2022 11:44 PM (3vQN0)

291 I've been preoccupied for some time. Is Trump going to run again?

Posted by: ZOD at July 28, 2022 11:44 PM (Q/6pY)

292 Posted by: gourmand du jour,

******

Sounds like a once in a lifetime trip. I say "Do it!"

Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2022 11:44 PM (kXYt5)

293 Return on the southern route, I-10, Florida, New Orleans, Texas, Grand Canyon.
What say ye?
Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 11:40 PM (jTmQV)
***

Just be sure to take time to stop, enjoy the food and take a shower.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2022 11:45 PM (anj39)

294 Your last sentence should be aimed at those who ache for an America whose only jobs are manufacturing and government.

I'm biased. I moved from a creative rich area (Austin) to an industrial area (ETX) because I wanted to be around people who made things with their hands. I'm a creative, I can work anywhere on planet earth that will allow me and can provide reliable electricity and broadband.

I would love to see America make things again. Manipulating bits has its place as a force multiplier (I often say my job is to eliminate other people's jobs through automation and digitalization) but someone needs to actually make aspirin, boots and refrigerators locally so that we don't care what China does to its neighbors and the market doesn't whip around frantically when some jackass House Leader wants to take a trip somewhere.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 11:45 PM (3hSHB)

295 Putting aside the politics of workers, is a software engineer at Google less of a job than someone working on an assembly line?
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 28, 2022 11:36 PM (3vQN0)

Well, the worker on the assembly line is probably making something useful.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2022 11:45 PM (Jk07i)

296 290: perhaps, but it is telling when the heart of that metro area loses 2 million over 70 years time. Imagine what that area would be like if Detroit at least maintained its 1950 population.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 11:46 PM (CdZ4i)

297 "Posters reading “New to the city? Working remotely? You’re a f—ing plague and the locals f—ing hate you. Leave.” were also recently posted around the city..."

But, but, but... we're sending them our best and our brightest! How could they complain about immigrants like that?

Posted by: Another Anon at July 28, 2022 11:46 PM (x8Ov3)

298 It isn't scary, it's distressing to hear.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc.

Rabbit screams can be distressing.

Posted by: Javems at July 28, 2022 11:47 PM (AmoqO)

299 Reuben,

You don’t think China has millions of developers as well? China would love to move into an information economy and let Vietnam and Indonesia do the cheap manufacturing. That’s how countries get rich, being the home of Google not making Walmart products.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 28, 2022 11:48 PM (3vQN0)

300 2 months will allow a nice leisurely pace, 200-300 miles a day or so.
I researched an AK trip by car, and I would bypass Canada altogether, take a car ferry out of Seattle.
Some places in AK have roads but no access other than ferry.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 11:49 PM (jTmQV)

301 Later all.

Endeavour to persevere.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2022 11:49 PM (kXYt5)

302 so does Youngstown, OH. You play your cards right, there are nice areas north of there. Youngstown itself for the most part looks like the aftermath of a nuclear war.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 11:38 PM (CdZ4i)

Youngstown Ohio. Wasn't that where Dean Martin was born?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2022 11:49 PM (7bRMQ)

303 Detroit / Motor City / MoTown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSXLOQPozOc

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2022 11:49 PM (a0N9U)

304 What say ye?

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 11:40 PM (jTmQV)

It's almost 900 mile across Texas on I-10, so plan ahead.

I toured the country for 5 years driving a truck. Didn't get to sight see much but still enjoyed the scenery.

Go for it.

Posted by: Javems at July 28, 2022 11:50 PM (AmoqO)

305 App you don’t think the ability to have the world at your fingertips is useful?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 28, 2022 11:50 PM (3vQN0)

306 I've been preoccupied for some time. Is Trump going to run again?

Posted by: ZOD at July 28, 2022 11:44 PM (Q/6pY)

Pretty sure he is. Guy doesn't like to lose. I think there's quite a bit more to it than that, but that's what makes it a certainty.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 11:52 PM (/Z8z2)

307 294: I’d like to see things made here again…because. Simple as that. The problem I have is that people don’t want to address some of the problems I brought up that are real obstacles to that. That, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with other forms of economic activity. Being in TX, I’m close to areas where people make a good living going after oil and natural gas - much of which is sold abroad. (The U.S. government says “Damnit!”

. Maybe we could crank out some kids who have a firm foundation in math and critical thinking again? Elect governments that WANT economic growth?

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 11:52 PM (CdZ4i)

308 Furthermore, trade schools are dead, this generation is to stupid and lazy to handle machinery let alone not injuring themselves with basic hand tools. There will never be enough STEM grads with mechanical and electrical engineering degrees to staff a factory anyway.
So put away any dreams of a revitalized smoke-stack economic sector.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 11:28 PM (3hSHB)

The service-and-banking economy that the elites have used to make us rich depends on having control of international banking and the petrodollar.
Those industries for the west are highly leveraged, and should the USD stop being the world reserve currency all the inflation we have exported to the world will come home on the dollars no one wants because they are trading in Yuan, Rubles, or some central bank crypto not denominated in USD

Some economic analysis indicates that though the Russian economy is smaller that the US, in actual making things, it is larger
The western economies are a house of cards made of fiat monies, and we need to make sure we have have something to fall back on.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2022 11:52 PM (xhaym)

309 Raimondo's Eve

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 11:52 PM (/Z8z2)

310 A waiter does something useful. As does an assembly line worker. As does a software engineer. Other than. Work in govt pretty much any job is useful to someone.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 28, 2022 11:52 PM (3vQN0)

311 App you don’t think the ability to have the world at your fingertips is useful?
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 28, 2022 11:50 PM (3vQN0)

Google is evil. full stop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2022 11:53 PM (Jk07i)

312 I also think talking about a city’s population is skewed. Metro area is what matters not the city proper. Detroit’s population as a metro is 14th in the us via a quick Google search. Bigger than Seattle. So it’s not like the area just withered away into nothing.

I'm going to go with Cow Demon here and focus on the core rather than the burbs. There is something magical about a vitalized downtown core. The burbs are sterile and cookie-cutter, differing very little from one suburb to the next other than vegetation and climate.

I can't imagine MoTown culture or musicians like Bob Seger whose Detroit identity as part of the magic and charm coming from the burbs. Looking at some of the hotels, flagship stores and theaters of thriving core cities even Memphis and New Orleans looks cool and owns its own vibe and character.

its all dead when the criminals run the cities and people want to be left alone.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 11:53 PM (3hSHB)

313 Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry

The PNW is beautiful. I can show you nature that you've never seen before. Especially the rain forest. And our coastline.

Please let me know if you make it our way.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 28, 2022 11:54 PM (U2p+3)

314 What say ye?

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 11:40 PM (jTmQV)

Do it before all hell breaks loose. Why not, if you have the time and the money.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2022 11:55 PM (7bRMQ)

315 >>>You don’t think China has millions of developers as well? China would love to move into an information economy and let Vietnam and Indonesia do the cheap manufacturing. That’s how countries get rich, being the home of Google not making Walmart products.
Posted by: Joe XiDen
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China has dreams.
China has developed nothing for Vietnam to manufacture.
China has no quality control.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2022 11:55 PM (a0N9U)

316 Go for it, Gourmand Du Jour. Gas prices are about as good as they get. It is a good time to store up memories.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 28, 2022 11:55 PM (YynYJ)

317 I said putting aside the politics of it. I like having the instant info available to me in seconds. That’s what Google and others do. And it has value despite what many seem to think. Google is evil sure, but I can’t imagine living without it.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 28, 2022 11:55 PM (3vQN0)

318 "Youngstown itself for the most part looks like the aftermath of a nuclear war."

Except for Mill Creek Park which is one of the most beautiful parks you will ever find in just about any sized city.

Posted by: pawn at July 28, 2022 11:56 PM (wsHtO)

319 I've been preoccupied for some time. Is Trump going to run again?

Posted by: ZOD at July 28, 2022 11:44 PM (Q/6p

I hope not.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 28, 2022 11:56 PM (U2p+3)

320 It’s frustrating because I for one wouldn’t object to buying, say, a fridge made in the USA. Hell, I got a truck made in MI. But we got to address how hostile governments run off businesses, how school turn out dummies, and how unions price the labor out of the market.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2022 11:56 PM (CdZ4i)

321 251 ZOD.
Posted by: ZOD at July 28, 2022 11:28 PM (Q/6pY)

Hail!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 28, 2022 11:57 PM (gbzeC)

322 Regarding the 50 worst cities in the US. Huntsville should not be on this list - they get rid of murderers and rapists. As for California, California is a state right?

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 28, 2022 11:57 PM (vv3hJ)

323 I’ve done several cross country road trips. Best way is to not have a plan. Just start driving.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 28, 2022 11:57 PM (3vQN0)

324 I said putting aside the politics of it. I like having the instant info available to me in seconds. That’s what Google and others do. And it has value despite what many seem to think. Google is evil sure, but I can’t imagine living without it.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 28, 2022 11:55 PM (3vQN0)

There are other search engines. I have principles.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2022 11:58 PM (Jk07i)

325 I said putting aside the politics of it. I like having the instant info available to me in seconds. That’s what Google and others do. And it has value despite what many seem to think. Google is evil sure, but I can’t imagine living without it.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 28, 2022 11:55 PM (3vQN0)

There are other browsers, like Quant and Yandex, that don't link to Gurgle

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2022 11:58 PM (xhaym)

326 "Please let me know if you make it our way."
I do know what you say is true. I worked in Seattle for several years. Got to know much of the area, it is so very beautiful, with such wonderful wildlife, so many waterfronts. I worked at the 5th Ave. Theater.
I also know that you have a big big heart, and for this you have my eternal respect. Thank you.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 11:59 PM (jTmQV)

327 Google: Do, Know, Evil

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2022 11:59 PM (xhaym)

328 I hope not.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 28, 2022 11:56 PM

Posted by: Zettai at July 28, 2022 11:59 PM (yLd6s)

329
The service-and-banking economy that the elites have used to make us rich depends on having control of international banking and the petrodollar.

Its also mainly a lot of grift too. People just don't invest in their uncle's business anymore. They have money taken out via the company payroll system, put into a managed retirement scheme (with its managers taking their vig) and not necessarily buying stocks, but trading indexes of stocks and ephemeral things such as contracts and options (which are just promises to do something in the future, nothing you can put in your hands). You don't own gold, you trade Gold ETFs. All of these derivatives come with its highly compensated manager and money handler all who get a piece of the dwindling profits. Much of the economy is ether and computer bits passing through a machine.

Your investments are fractions of a fraction of yet another fraction of something tangible maybe. I doubt that there are enough cards to make a house of cards.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 12:00 AM (3hSHB)

330 308: the Russian economy for about the past 300 years has been centered on one thing: exploiting natural resources. Whether that be wood, wheat, or oil. Everything else pales in comparison.

The Russian government’s budget is based on the price of oil for a reason. They do not care about manufactures at all.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 29, 2022 12:01 AM (CdZ4i)

331 Google is a catch all for tech.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 29, 2022 12:02 AM (3vQN0)

332 It’s frustrating because I for one wouldn’t object to buying, say, a fridge made in the USA.

I was told that GE makes their refrigerators in KY, so instead of buying a LG or Samsung, I bought something that said Made In China on the carton.

Yes I'm pissed off.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 12:02 AM (3hSHB)

333 >>> and should the USD stop being the world reserve currency all the inflation we have exported to the world will come home on the dollars no one wants because they are trading in Yuan, Rubles, or some central bank crypto not denominated in USD
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The US $100 bill is the coin of the relm, if we lose reserve currency status the govt will take a much closer look at those bills checking for counterfeits.
Expect many bills to be confiscated at the counter.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 29, 2022 12:04 AM (a0N9U)

334

I've read DuckDuckGo is censoring searches now in an effort to combat "Russian propaganda"...

Posted by: Zettai at July 29, 2022 12:04 AM (yLd6s)

335 nurse ratched, indeed one of the things that frustrates me about the political situation on the PNW is the fact that it is a gorgeous area. I’ve been to Seattle and Portland and point in between and understand the area’s appeal.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 29, 2022 12:04 AM (CdZ4i)

336 Zettai,
There are aspects of President Trump's tenure I was so very happy with and proud of. But. He also made some errors. And some of them he didn't learn from.

I will never regret voting for him twice. And if he is nominated again, I will support him. But I feel he would serve us better in a different role.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 29, 2022 12:05 AM (U2p+3)

337 Fortunately we were able to get him air-evaced back stateside for definitive care with a good result.

When I was first in the Air Force, it was at one of the most remote bases in the northeast. For some reason, the hospital OR was closed, so all pregnancies were referred to local OBs by about the sixth month, and deliveries were done in the local hospital.

Every now and then, the daily bulletin would have a reminder that, if a new born required evacuation to a larger hospital, you were to contact the wing command post, rather than let the doctor call his buddy with a Cessna. By the time the Cessna would reach a larger hospital down-state, the Wing could generate a tanker, with incubator, flight nurse and tech, and have the baby in a hospital in Boston, New York or DC. And probably had enough room on-board for a family member to ride along.

Posted by: Fox 2! at July 29, 2022 12:06 AM (qyH+l)

338 322: clearly the author has something against the death penalty.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 29, 2022 12:06 AM (CdZ4i)

339 but I can’t imagine living without it.
Posted by: Joe XiDen
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And there, IMHO, lies the danger.

I may be a luddite, but I resist dependence on such technology. I'm reminded of the Champion texters, who were outstripped by the old guys using Morse code.

At any rate, none of the search engines have done anything to affect my life in any measurable fashion. Google, of course is a fount of prejudiced information.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 29, 2022 12:07 AM (Mgbo4)

340 clearly the author has something against the death penalty.

Maybe its personal, someone in the family.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 12:07 AM (3hSHB)

341 Google is evil. full stop.

Agreed but that evil aside, many of us in the tech industry make it possible for others to enjoy things they often take for granted. This forum is an example. Hat tip to Pixy.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 29, 2022 12:08 AM (Xrfse)

342 I moved from a creative rich area (Austin) to an industrial area (ETX)

Oh??? Where in ETX?

Posted by: Weirddave at July 29, 2022 12:08 AM (oFI8g)

343 There are aspects of President Trump's tenure I was so very happy with and proud of. But. He also made some errors. And some of them he didn't learn from.

I will never regret voting for him twice. And if he is nominated again, I will support him. But I feel he would serve us better in a different role.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 29, 2022 12:05 AM

Well... That's reasonable and understandable, I suppose...

Posted by: Zettai at July 29, 2022 12:09 AM (yLd6s)

344
I noticed a change in Google. When it was new, it was indeed all about finding relevant information to search terms. You could easily find highly technical and arcane information. Scientific/engineering type references.

The system was created by people who thought that way. But then it begin to change, and the focus became "sell you shit based on the search terms". That change was obvious and stark.

And then, now, it's just pure political WEF/NWO garbage on top of the crass sell you shit model.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 12:10 AM (Mzdiz)

345 Agreed but that evil aside, many of us in the tech industry make it possible for others to enjoy things they often take for granted. This forum is an example. Hat tip to Pixy.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 29, 2022 12:08 AM (Xrfse)

I'm not slamming everyone in the tech industry. Just Google. Of course, Faceplant and Twatter are evil, too. But there are good people doing useful stuff in tech.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 29, 2022 12:10 AM (Jk07i)

346 25% of medical school admissions are set aside for "under-represented minorities". 55-65 % of classes admitted are female. White and Asian guys scrap over what is left. The schools assure us this will have no impact on quality of physicians produced.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at July 29, 2022 12:11 AM (mCh4j)

347 "You don’t think China has millions of developers as well? China would love to move into an information economy and let Vietnam and Indonesia do the cheap manufacturing. That’s how countries get rich, being the home of Google not making Walmart products."

last I heard (a few years ago?) China was outsourcing work to even cheaper labor locations (Vietnam I'm thinkin) ... or maybe it was partly to put a Vietnam label on the goods, while the profit and process was still controlled from China (CCP).

China even now has big issues ... all this fake money has caused global problems. King (US) dollar might be Humpty Dumpty, but the military and BigCorp maintain a lot of influence. And all currencies are inflating (free money for the mobster run governments) ... so it is all a crap shoot, as Biden (leader of the free world ... hahahahaha) craps his pants and fondles and sniffs.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 29, 2022 12:11 AM (Cus5s)

348 His brother, Quentin, an aviator, was KIA during WWI. When TR, Jr, was re-interred in the Normandy cemetery, his brother's body was moved to the grave next to his.

Posted by: Fox 2! at July 29, 2022 12:11 AM (qyH+l)

349 >>>I’ve done several cross country road trips. Best way is to not have a plan. Just start driving

>It's easy to get bogged down planning trips. Is it a day trip, is it a weekender? How much preparation and planning is too much? Not enough? Shit.

Fuck it, I'm single, I can always just bail and go fishing.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 29, 2022 12:11 AM (0ocXn)

350 Oh??? Where in ETX?
Posted by: Weirddave

You passed by me when you picked up the trailer.... if you only took US 80 to US 271 rather than 31 I would have waved at you from the peninsula.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 12:12 AM (3hSHB)

351 The Ted Roosevelt story was something else. A chip off the old block it seems.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 29, 2022 12:12 AM (VwHCD)

352 Goolag's foray into natural language processing is going to make surveillance and censorship so much easier for our masters. And sooner than we think.

You can always talk while avoiding keywords but good luck avoiding the expression of thoughts while trying to also communicate them.

Once computers understand what we are saying, it will make "flagging" and subsequent monitoring, altering, deletion and punishment a dawdle. No need for humans to pore through billions of hours of tape when a computer can hear *everything* and quickly categorize and summarize it for human consumption.

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2022 12:12 AM (dscaa)

353 I have been going on about this natural language processing for years. And it's what goolag recently fired that programmer for. He revealed exactly how far along they are in that endeavour. It had nothing to do with machine sentience. Nothing.

My shtick is usually I sound crazy until right around the time when I don't.

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2022 12:16 AM (dscaa)

354 Theodore Roosevelt also had a son, Quentin, who was a pilot in WWI. Killed in air combat over France.
The only child of a US President KIA.
Buried at Normandy.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 29, 2022 12:16 AM (jTmQV)

355 Took me a second to get your four over round. At first I thought you were Kim Jong by losing five balls and still finishing just 4 over.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 29, 2022 12:18 AM (HlgoT)

356 After years working in the tech sector, I have to admit that some of my best memories were of working my way through school in a manufacturing facility. I was making stuff and I could see and touch the end result. Having said that, third shift was kind of a bitch sometimes.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 29, 2022 12:18 AM (Xrfse)

357 Don't know if true, but someone said "recession" was no longer in Apple's autosuggest.

Well Goolag does one better - they fill in "recession" immediately as soon as you type in "What is a". No hiding there.

Real open and transparent right? But wait... they then take you to 10 or 50 results that all explain that we're not in a recession right now because recessions are tough to define and things are great, etc etc etc.

I'm not making this up. That's what's happening right now (as of Wednesday when I checked) on Goolag.

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2022 12:19 AM (dscaa)

358 "At any rate, none of the search engines have done anything to affect my life in any measurable fashion."

not directly, but propagandizing the world, plus censoring and more ... yeah, that is gonna leave a mark, on all of us. Google controls something like 95% of searches, and they bury real search results when they are not PC (PC is so old, but still the right term) ... no one goes to page three to find the real results.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 29, 2022 12:20 AM (Cus5s)

359 The schools assure us this will have no impact on quality of physicians produced.

Unadulterated bullshit.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 29, 2022 12:21 AM (Xrfse)

360 Ahh. Longview, more or less. I have to go there to get Iron Wolf Hotscotch whiskey. I love Tyler, but living in a moist county (carry out beer and wine only, can't sell liquor to go) does make for some interesting problems.

Posted by: Weirddave at July 29, 2022 12:22 AM (oFI8g)

361 Just be sure to take time to stop, enjoy the food and take a shower.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2022 11:45 PM (anj39)

And believe the signs that warn the next services are over a hundred miles away.

Scariest drive I ever had was on I-90 in either Montana or SoDak when all the refineries on the Gulf were shut down for a hurricane. Watching the gas gauge head down into the red, and coming across stations that had no gas, or no premium to feed a German six cylinder. Car was new to me, so i didn't feel like seeing if it could adapt to mid grade, or whatever the effective octane was at one place that had filled the premium tank with regular, to ensure he would at least have some product to sell.

Posted by: Fox 2! at July 29, 2022 12:23 AM (qyH+l)

362 Thanks for yet another great ONT, WD.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 29, 2022 12:24 AM (Xrfse)

363 " I have to admit that some of my best memories were of working my way through school in a manufacturing facility. I was making stuff and I could see and touch the end result. Having said that, third shift was kind of a bitch sometimes." Posted by: Notorious BFD

yeah, I worked third shift at Kraft, paste department. Mac and Cheese primarily ... it was quite the efficient (and noisy) process. ... Worked one summer second shift painting rims at Electric (Titan) Wheel where that CEO guy ran for president. Real production is kinda neat.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 29, 2022 12:26 AM (Cus5s)

364 Regarding the first picture of the previous post:

I'm guessing the Wimminz in 1918 were delivering the ice for the same reason the Wimminz in 1942 were driving the taxicabs. Namely, the MENZZ were fighting in the Warzz.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 29, 2022 12:26 AM (2RBkF)

365 not directly, but propagandizing the world, plus censoring and more ...
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I should have been more explicit, My use of search engines has done nothing to significantly affect my life.

That people have become dependent on search engines, as a critical element of their life, is pretty scary.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 29, 2022 12:26 AM (wwcKe)

366 I have been going on about this natural language processing for years. And it's what goolag recently fired that programmer for. He revealed exactly how far along they are in that endeavour. It had nothing to do with machine sentience. Nothing.

NLI/P has been around for quite a while. A decade ago they had bots writing sports articles that were better than a professional writer's version. Many companies now use the technology for everything from resume scanning to determining sentiment from social media postings to directing calls to a service line.

I'm waiting for the technology to be good enough to be carried on an iPad with a physician who lets the tablet listen while various personnel go about their duties around a patient. Listening to the patient talk, listening to a nurse read vitals, listening when the patient is asked questions. Not only processing the words, but the meta, the stress in the voice, all sorts of things that can be added to a growing analytical database to spot patterns, trends, to make recommendations, to augment physician intelligence (e.g. conflicts with existing scripts, dosages, allergic reactions, etc.)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 12:26 AM (3hSHB)

367 198 Just stepped out for breath of fresh air. There is some creature over in the woods, making what sound like plaintive cries. Like nothing I've ever heard. It's too dark and too thick with trees and brush for me to go in there to investigate.

It isn't scary, it's distressing to hear.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 28, 2022 11:05 PM (tFWfv)

Mike, it may be a fisher. I thought we had a crying young child in our corn field. Nope, it was a fisher.

Posted by: SnailRacer at July 29, 2022 12:30 AM (5WNpe)

368 Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 12:26 AM (3hSHB

I think that's called a tricorder not an I Pad.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 29, 2022 12:31 AM (HlgoT)

369 Is it possible to learn this power?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 29, 2022 12:32 AM (vuisn)

370 It isn't scary, it's distressing to hear.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 28, 2022 11:05 PM (tFWfv)

Mike, it may be a fisher. I thought we had a crying young child in our corn field. Nope, it was a fisher.
Posted by: SnailRacer at July 29, 2022 12:30 AM (5WNpe)

Wounded rabbit

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 29, 2022 12:32 AM (HlgoT)

371 " I have to admit that some of my best memories were of working my way through school in a manufacturing facility. I was making stuff and I could see and touch the end result." Posted by: Notorious BFD

yeah, I worked third shift at Kraft, paste department. Mac and Cheese primarily ... it was quite the efficient (and noisy) process. ... Worked one summer second shift painting rims at Electric (Titan) Wheel where that CEO guy ran for president. Real production is kinda neat.
Posted by: illiniwek
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In the industrial world, I was an R&D engineer, but really enjoyed going out on the floor and mixing with the production people. Exchanges were often mutually rewarding. They liked talking directly to me about production things, and I gained insights into the way that things were being done.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 29, 2022 12:33 AM (2e5RV)

372 The city list has San Jose for smog, but not San Fran for the poop on the ground... now that is BS

Posted by: sassy at July 29, 2022 12:33 AM (xSICi)

373 Ahh. Longview, more or less. I have to go there to get Iron Wolf Hotscotch whiskey. I love Tyler, but living in a moist county (carry out beer and wine only, can't sell liquor to go) does make for some interesting problems.

One would think that Gladewater would be closer. I'll have to check if they have Iron Wolf. Like your story, driving fifty plus miles is "local". I have friends "nearby" in Kilgore, Gilmer, Henderson, Carthage, etc. where we just spontaneously offer to "do lunch" or stop by for a chat.

I love this place. Went to get a haircut from this dude named Kevin east of me in White Oak, I learned a lot from the customers there, about trucking, ironworking, and then a spirited conversation on chicken raising and fishing.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 12:34 AM (3hSHB)

374 Man asks Republican masturbatory fantasy girl and MexiCon Mayra Flores why she voted for amnesty, expansion of H1B visas, and age limit restriction removal, gets thrown out of fundraiser he paid to attend and called White Nationalist by RepubliCon-artists.

Reason 8,374 I don't "Vote Republican".

https://tinyurl.com/2hyaakky

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 29, 2022 12:34 AM (sbleM)

375 Instant info isn't much use if (a) everything political is manipulated and dishonest; and (b) politics is expanded to include more and more and more.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 29, 2022 12:34 AM (KFhLj)

376 Mike, it may be a fisher. I thought we had a crying young child in our corn field. Nope, it was a fisher.
Posted by: SnailRacer
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No fishers here.
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Wounded rabbit
Posted by: Sebastian
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Possibly.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 29, 2022 12:35 AM (2e5RV)

377 Just now reading that comment friom.Sid. That is the dumbest comment in the history of AOS trolling.

If dumping a shit ton of money into the system will make the economy take off like a rocket, why aren't we all smoking $100 bills while watching our 401Ks grow every day? After dumping $3T into the system a bit over a year ago, we should be living the dream right now.

I know, preaching to the choir. Just had to say something because that was retarded.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 29, 2022 12:35 AM (5p7BC)

378 I think that's called a tricorder not an I Pad.

Does the tricorder then feed you ads that are suggested from the diagnosis or stray commentary made in the observation room like a smartphone in the room does?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 12:36 AM (3hSHB)

379 I toured the TDK plant in Oklahoma as a claims manager and I was singing the wicked witch of the west's army's song in my head the place was so depressing.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 29, 2022 12:36 AM (HlgoT)

380 If dumping a shit ton of money into the system will make the economy take off like a rocket, why aren't we all smoking $100 bills while watching our 401Ks grow every day? After dumping $3T into the system a bit over a year ago, we should be living the dream right now.

use your favorite search engine to look up: THE CANTILLION EFFECT.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 12:38 AM (3hSHB)

381 "I should have been more explicit, My use of search engines has done nothing to significantly affect my life.-- That people have become dependent on search engines, as a critical element of their life, is pretty scary." Posted by: Mike Hammer

yes, I understood, you were clear enough. I just wanted to make that point.

But on the other hand, I do think we are all heavily influenced, even if we fight the obvious points, they attack on so many subtle levels (all the commercials, the hidden messaging in all commercials and TV and everything, the demand that we accept diversity, etc.).

all that seeps into our brain, if we don't "prove all things, hold fast to that which is good".

Posted by: illiniwek at July 29, 2022 12:38 AM (Cus5s)

382 Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 12:26 AM (3hSHB)

It's certainly nice to know it will be used for good things too.

While reading texture, generalities and tone, I don't think the ability to fully comprehend meaning has been there. But I think it's clear they are getting close.

And I do expect it to be used against us, with viciousness.

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2022 12:38 AM (dscaa)

383 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 29, 2022 12:34 AM (sbleM)

She just got elected. They had all those votes already?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 29, 2022 12:40 AM (HlgoT)

384 In the industrial world, I was an R&D engineer, but really enjoyed going out on the floor and mixing with the production people. Exchanges were often mutually rewarding. They liked talking directly to me about production things, and I gained insights into the way that things were being done.

Its interesting that both the US and the UK dominated the auto making world at the close of WW2, but the two countries that were leveled, Germany and Japan, completely own the auto market now.

Why? One huge reason seems to be the difference in the relationship between labor and management. The defeated nations have a good symbiotic relationship whereas the US/UK clearly have a perpetually antagonistic model. White and Blue collar MUST cross-pollinate and mix or things just won't succeed.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 12:43 AM (3hSHB)

385 raccoons can also sound pretty eerie at times.

this is maybe not the best example, but it is interesting.
YouTube link.

https://tinyurl.com/yckfp7nx

Posted by: illiniwek at July 29, 2022 12:43 AM (Cus5s)

386 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 29, 2022 12:34 AM (sbleM)

They all take off and land on the same planet, don't they.

What really burns my tomatoes is that these creeps know *exactly* how to sound and what to say.

Similar to how the Left already "gets" all the things we waste our valuable lifeforce and hours voxplaining to them. They KNOW that spending trillions of dollars is theft. They KNOW it wrecks everything. They know it all. Few believe this because it makes more sense to just believe them to be pig ignorant.

I've explained it all before, as usual it's too fucking long-winded. Bottom line, fuck every politician. And yes DeSantis is probably another fuck, too.

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2022 12:44 AM (dscaa)

387 I know, preaching to the choir. Just had to say something because that was retarded.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 29, 2022 12:35 AM (5p7BC)

we need a better class of troll.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 12:45 AM (r46W7)

388 While reading texture, generalities and tone, I don't think the ability to fully comprehend meaning has been there. But I think it's clear they are getting close.

There are fairly good libraries free on github that tease out sentiment. Its an expanding art. With the rise of ESG, marketing and security groups desiring to be left of bang, the technology is progressing rapidly.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 12:45 AM (3hSHB)

389 toured the TDK plant in Oklahoma as a claims manager and I was singing the wicked witch of the west's army's song in my head the place was so depressing.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 29, 2022 12:36 AM (HlgoT)

Is that the “Woah Eeee Oh …” song?

Posted by: LASue at July 29, 2022 12:45 AM (Ed8Zd)

390 She just got elected. They had all those votes already?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 29, 2022 12:40 AM (HlgoT)

Was she a state senator?

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2022 12:46 AM (dscaa)

391 here are raccoons fighting ... I've heard them more like what might seem like crying babies

https://tinyurl.com/2p8s6tj9

Posted by: illiniwek at July 29, 2022 12:47 AM (Cus5s)

392
I hated Hannity the first time I heard him on the radio. He was all rah-rah and clearly a dimwit parroting what the more intelligent radio show hosts had already said.
Posted by: She Hobbit

But did you hear he used to do actual real blue collar work?!? If not, wait a few minutes. He'll tell you all about being a roofer or journeyman plummer. Man, I freaking dislike the jackass retard

Posted by: Skeptical Schnauzer at July 29, 2022 12:48 AM (lIDCz)

393 Well, I am getting a little dozy. Time for some sleep. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 29, 2022 12:48 AM (Jk07i)

394 >> THE CANTILLION EFFECT.

One of my favorite Substackers wrote a long piece about this a while back. And he notes that the Cantillon Effect is being downplayed, even purged. The Oligarchs don't want the proles to get wise to their game.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 12:48 AM (Mzdiz)

395 Posted by: LASue at July 29, 2022 12:45 AM (Ed8Zd)

Yeah that's the one. I thought I was in the witch's dungeon.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 29, 2022 12:50 AM (HlgoT)

396 I toured the TDK plant in Oklahoma as a claims manager and I was singing the wicked witch of the west's army's song in my head the place was so depressing.

Long time ago when I had a TV, there was a program "How Stuff Works" and they had a segment on how kevlar helmets were made. One scene they interviewed some hill scoggin standing in front of a press machine. He had three functions: put a stack of kevlar sheets on top of this head-sized orb. Press a green button so the press would slam down on it and form the helmet, then he would remove the form.
He would do this for eight hours a day five days a week, and has done this for years and enjoys his job. (well at least on camera).

That would drive me to full insanity within fifteen minutes. I praise God Almighty that he created some people who have the temperament for that job.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 12:51 AM (3hSHB)

397 Great. I'm experiencing, on a scale, the fact that consumer goods have ~20 year life. Two weeks ago it was the attic vent fan, the fuel pump on the lawn tractor died, a week later the fuel cut-off solenoid failed. Just now, I caught a whiff of something acrid, went into the kitchen, and the ceiling fan has overheated. The joys of home ownership continue unabated.

Stuff is failing faster than I can fix it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 29, 2022 12:52 AM (YsLD1)

398 Stuff is failing faster than I can fix it.

Just don't own anything. I have been assured by powerful people that you will be happier.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 12:54 AM (3hSHB)

399 here are raccoons fighting ... I've heard them more like what might seem like crying babies

https://tinyurl.com/2p8s6tj9
Posted by: illiniwek
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Close to it, but sounds like a single animal, and less frantic.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 29, 2022 12:54 AM (YsLD1)

400 I was able to stay in Guadalajara for a month a few years ago - fascinating city, good parts, terrible parts. The suburbs were very similar to any large American city. But on the drive in from the airport my host pointed out to me one big hill where 30,000 people lived in cardboard boxes (literally)

But I spent one entire Saturday walking from where is was to downtown (about 5 or 6 miles) and then walking around downtown all day. It actually felt much safer than most large American cities, but for a unique reason - no matter where I went, there were always about 500 - 1000 people on the street with me. Everywhere, that is one crowded city.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 12:57 AM (r46W7)

401 I heard a good one today on Instapundit.

Monkey Pox= Assthritis

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 29, 2022 12:59 AM (WF/xn)

402 "He would do this for eight hours a day five days a week, and has done this for years and enjoys his job. (well at least on camera). That would drive me to full insanity within fifteen minutes. I praise God Almighty that he created some people who have the temperament for that job."

the process becomes pretty automatic ... it may be that the mind is then free to wander and consider other thangs? ... I often play solitaire while listening to videos, because my mind is too bored just listening, even at 1.5x speed. ... maybe it is like that? (or maybe it is aadd for me?)

Or consider the time people spend playing stupid video games. At some point they are just going through the motions .. why is that satisfying?

idk, maybe the factory workers are only simpletons .. but I think they may be more than that.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 29, 2022 01:00 AM (Cus5s)

403
Well, absolute proof we are in a recession. Paul Krugman says we are definitely not in a recession.

The Krugmeister is the most reliable contrary indicator there is. If he says up, it's down. 100% all the time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 01:02 AM (Mzdiz)

404 The Krugmeister is the most reliable contrary indicator there is. If he says up, it's down. 100% all the time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 01:02 AM (Mzdiz)

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DickMorris will fight him for the title.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 29, 2022 01:03 AM (XG2Fi)

405 Scariest drive I ever had was on I-90 in either Montana or SoDak when all the refineries on the Gulf were shut down for a hurricane. Watching the gas gauge head down into the red, and coming across stations that had no gas, or no premium to feed a German six cylinder.

Posted by: Fox 2! at July 29, 2022 12:23 AM (qyH+l)

We would take I-90 straight across S. dakota when we used to go to the sturgis rally. Even without refinery problems it was scary as shit, because we usually hit the S dakota border around midnight. The first year we started looking when we hit 1/4 tank and it was some scary shit. Taking exits where the signs said gas, pissing away 5 miles worth of gas to go into oblivion and either find a closed station or a boarded up dead one. We came damn close to running out. From that point every year we went we started looking when we hit 1/2 tank. Of course every year some newbee chuckle head in the convoy would bitch. I would say we're stopping, end of story, keep going if you like, but don't think were gonna stop when we see you on the side of the road an hour from now.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 29, 2022 01:04 AM (VwHCD)

406 Repetitious jobs are perfect for robots.
Toll taker jobs, can you imagine being one of those?
Every car that comes by you have to service them, making change is the hardest part of your job.
Half of your customers are downright hostile. Gotta join a union. Breathing carbon monoxide all day.
Glad those jobs are gone, for the most part.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 29, 2022 01:04 AM (jTmQV)

407

I just typed the single word 'what' into Goolag and "what is a recession" immediately popped up first in the list of suggestions...

Posted by: Zettai at July 29, 2022 01:05 AM (ubVep)

408 Close to it, but sounds like a single animal, and less frantic.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 29, 2022 12:54 AM (YsLD1)

Did you try red fox screaming (Elizabeth)

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2022 01:06 AM (dscaa)

409 The Krugmeister is the most reliable contrary indicator there is. If he says up, it's down. 100% all the time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 01:02 AM (Mzdiz)

In my best Zuul voice- krugman..is..a..caaaaaahhhhk.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 29, 2022 01:07 AM (VwHCD)

410 The Krugmeister is the most reliable contrary indicator there is. If he says up, it's down. 100% all the time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 01:02 AM (Mzdiz)

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DickMorris will fight him for the title.
Posted by: Cicero
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Has Robert Reich weighed in yet?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 29, 2022 01:09 AM (Mgbo4)

411 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 29, 2022 01:04 AM (VwHCD)

You need to rig a drop tank like WW2 fighter planes.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 29, 2022 01:09 AM (HlgoT)

412 Does the white collar worker hate the blue collar worker?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hexn-wKcy3U

Posted by: Just throwing this out here at July 29, 2022 01:09 AM (E/NJa)

413 imo a lot of routine is also mental discipline. I recently started playing sudoku, evil level, to make sure I am keeping my brain disciplined. ... Much of life requires mundane attention to detail.

I think of this when I read of smart military bloggers doing boring things like reloading their own ammo. Good grief, how boring. heh

Posted by: illiniwek at July 29, 2022 01:10 AM (Cus5s)

414 RH, according to the Iron Wolf website, there were no stores in Gladewater that carry it. And I know what you mean about loving this place. I lived in Baltimore for 50 + years. I was just back there for a week, and aside from seeing friends and family (my folks are both almost 90, every second I get with them is precious beyond gold), it was WEIRD. I'm driving streets I know like the back of my hand, visiting places that figured LARGE in my life...and all I can think is "I wish I was HOME". I tell people who ask me why I moved "I wanted to live in America again", and I deflect the occasional carpetbagger response "hell, I was born in Lubbock, all I did was come home". It's not a lie though. ETX is home.

Posted by: Weirddave at July 29, 2022 01:12 AM (oFI8g)

415 Has Robert Reich weighed in yet?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 29, 2022 01:09 AM (Mgbo4)

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At 80 lbs. he would be in the bantamweight division.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 29, 2022 01:13 AM (XG2Fi)

416 Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 29, 2022 01:04 AM (jTmQV)

NYC toll collectors retire with a huge pension. Or at least they did. They make all the newbies call in sick so the guys that are about to retire can come in and get overtime. Their pension pay is based on their last year or two years payroll.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 29, 2022 01:14 AM (HlgoT)

417 >> I just typed the single word 'what' into Goolag and "what is a recession"

I just typed what, and "What is the Cantillon Effect" was the first. It bases what questions on the last few subjects you were searching for I think.

I don't have a Google account and never will. I wonder if it's storing based on cookies.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 01:15 AM (Mzdiz)

418 I am making a real GOOD MONEY (80$ to 92$ / hr. )online from my laptop. Last month I GOT a check of nearly 21,000$, this online work is simple and straightforward, I don't have to go to the OFFICE, Its home online job. At that point this work opportunity is for you. If you are interested. Simply give it a shot on the accompanying site... http://www.salarycash1.com

Posted by: Sarah at July 29, 2022 01:21 AM (o+bN/)

419 Great. I'm experiencing, on a scale, the fact that consumer goods have ~20 year life. Two weeks ago it was the attic vent fan, the fuel pump on the lawn tractor died, a week later the fuel cut-off solenoid failed. Just now, I caught a whiff of something acrid, went into the kitchen, and the ceiling fan has overheated. The joys of home ownership continue unabated.

Stuff is failing faster than I can fix it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 29, 2022 12:52 AM (YsLD1)

I hate that shit. 2 days ago I had epic power tool failures. Everything I touched, and they're all about the same age. When I moved to this house last year one of the first things I did was have a friend of mine replace the entire AC system. The old one worked good, but it was old. I had one outlet in one of the bathrooms that was tripping the breaker, so as I painted each room I changed all the outlets and switches just to start off new. The house is 38 years old. I'm probably going to replace the attic vent in the winter when it's not 10,000 degrees up there. I figured get it all over with now, or else it will rip it out of my ass a piece at a time.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 29, 2022 01:21 AM (VwHCD)

420 "NYC toll collectors retire with a huge pension."

Yeah, but, they worked as a toll collector, possibly the worst job ever. Anyway, toll collectors are a thing of the past in my AO. It's all automatic now. Sure, some cheaters get through. It's still cheaper in the long run than paying for pensions, health benefits, vacations, etc. for what is a job perfectly suited for automation.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 29, 2022 01:22 AM (jTmQV)

421
You need to rig a drop tank like WW2 fighter planes.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Oh, wait...I've got it! A bike pulling a tank trailer, with a transfer pump. A rolling tanker. Refuel on the roll. What could go wrong?

I can see the headline now: 'Bikers Simulate Small Nuclear Blast'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 29, 2022 01:23 AM (YsLD1)

422 Peacock?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 29, 2022 01:25 AM (xhaym)

423 Goodnight, all. If my posts become less frequent, you know I have lit out on my big adventure.
I like the idea of not planning, up to a point.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 29, 2022 01:26 AM (jTmQV)

424 ..I figured get it all over with now, or else it will rip it out of my ass a piece at a time. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 29, 2022 01:21 AM (VwHCD)

Monkeyhousepox.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 29, 2022 01:26 AM (tkOps)

425
Berserker, did you have any luck with the electric brake on the saw you were talking about the other night?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 01:26 AM (Mzdiz)

426
See the "Deacon's Masterpiece, or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay" by Oliver Wendall Holmes, Sr. He was the daddy of Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr, a very overrated Soopreme Court Justice.

The "deacon" got mad about shit breaking down one part at a time, so he endeavored to make every part as good as the rest.

The buggy just collapsed into dust after a long life of running perfectly with no failures. Everything broke down at once.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 01:29 AM (Mzdiz)

427
The buggy just collapsed into dust after a long life of running perfectly with no failures. Everything broke down at once.
Posted by: publius
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In many ways, this is the story of my body.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 29, 2022 01:31 AM (tFWfv)

428
Now, I closed the browser out, then restarted. Entering "what" in Goolag now changed. "What is Monkey Pox" was the first, followed by "what is a recession".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 01:31 AM (Mzdiz)

429 White House accuses Republicans of political games with migrants
https://mol.im/a/11059809
(apologies if this is old hat - I had a very long nap)

Posted by: Ciampino - whatever they accuse others, they are doing it themselves at July 29, 2022 01:31 AM (qfLjt)

430 Flying Monkey pox > Monkey pox

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 29, 2022 01:35 AM (wwcKe)

431
The buggy just collapsed into dust after a long life of running perfectly with no failures. Everything broke down at once.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 01:29 AM (Mzdiz)

When Grandma came down with her final illness, Dad reported that her MD mentioned that poem about the one horse shay, and the doctor followed up with, "and I think her wheels just fell off"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 29, 2022 01:38 AM (xhaym)

432 Berserker, did you have any luck with the electric brake on the saw you were talking about the other night?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 01:26 AM (Mzdiz)

I haven't touched it yet. I'll be doing some crazy trim on saturday, so I'll let it spin for a bit before using it. I'm so tempted to get a new one, but this one don't have a whole hell of a lot of time on it. At the very most it has maybe 2 houses worth of trim time on it, and I think thats even a stretch. Its just too new to abandon.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 29, 2022 01:38 AM (VwHCD)

433 Retarded fuckface joey's diseased crackhead whorefucker spawn will soon be Ft. Marcy-Epsteined.

As Yoko Ono's jagoff husband once "sang", call me a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 29, 2022 01:41 AM (VwD6u)

434 "This is a short Daily Caller story that links to a longer LA Times article, but the Times article is paywalled"

Here it is from the NY Post, no paywall.

Mexico City residents angered by influx of Americans speaking English, gentrifying area: report
https://trib.al/88duezq

Posted by: Ciampino - Press 1 for Spanish? at July 29, 2022 01:41 AM (qfLjt)

435 >> so I'll let it spin for a bit before using it.

Just let it run no-load for about 10 minutes. I'm going to bet that will fix it. I can't guarantee it will, but that's a common "failure mode". Slight resistance in the brush/commutator circuits will kill the braking action.

Running, with line voltage, no problem, but when you put it in braking mode, it will kill the current.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 01:44 AM (Mzdiz)

436 Columbia graduate student, 29, critically injured in 'subway attack'
https://mol.im/a/11058169

New York, New York?

Posted by: Ciampino - It's not Frankie's NY any longer at July 29, 2022 01:44 AM (qfLjt)

437 I just typed the single word 'what' into Goolag and "what is a recession" immediately popped up first in the list of suggestions...
Posted by: Zettai

Of course they did. The Memory Hole never sleeps. May it get a scorching case of monkeyfuckerpox.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 29, 2022 01:45 AM (VwD6u)

438 >> Mexico City residents angered by influx of Americans speaking English,

I saw that, and TUcker had a ball with it tonight. That is just Jedi Master level irony, there. God has a sense of humor.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 01:46 AM (Mzdiz)

439 Oh look, Sarah is here. Why don't I banhammer her you ask? Same reason I don't banhammer Raimondo. #1, it's probably a waste of time for someone so minimally invasive. No reason to get in an IP/VPN/bot war for something stupid. #2 Sarah is nice. She's consistent. Like that burning sensation I get when I pee three days after visiting the town whore, it's an indication that I'm living life to the fullest. It's comfortably normal. Enjoy Sarah, she's a lot better than Lace Wigs. #3, Y'all have a lot of fun batting her around like a cat with a laser pointer. I wouldn't want to deprive you of the amusement.

Oh, look. My tongue has burst through my cheek and there's blood all over the floor. Pity, that.

Posted by: Weirddave at July 29, 2022 01:52 AM (Qi8gN)

440 World's worst General Manager?

No, not the Boston GM who traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees. The worst is...

GM Joe Biden, who is about to 1) trade Viktor Bout, convicted of conspiring to murder Americans and aiding terrorists, for:

2) Brittney Griner, a woman so stupid she brought drugs & paraphernalia into Russia during the Ukraine war; and

3) Some dude who was kicked out of the USMC for criminal misconduct & was apparently trying to set up some sort of classified information sale... in Russia.

And I thought the Cubs trading Lou Brock was bad.

Posted by: mnw at July 29, 2022 01:55 AM (NLIak)

441 Just let it run no-load for about 10 minutes. I'm going to bet that will fix it. I can't guarantee it will, but that's a common "failure mode". Slight resistance in the brush/commutator circuits will kill the braking action.

Running, with line voltage, no problem, but when you put it in braking mode, it will kill the current.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 01:44 AM (Mzdiz)

Yeah thats the plan. I'll probably bring it out to the garage and let it spin for a while. I have my older makita miter as a back up which I just rebuilt a few months ago. It has a cast iron base so its one heavy mutha. It fell off a low shelf a couple years ago and broke the handle off of it, which is part of the motor case. I found a place online that sells new NOS parts and sure as shit they had a brand new NOS motor case for it for $65, so I grabbed it. Worked like a charm. I'll use that while the other one just spins away in the garage. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 29, 2022 01:57 AM (VwHCD)

442 "Mexico City residents angered by influx of Americans speaking English, gentrifying area"

My first reaction is GDIAF pendejos, but there is not a fire hot enough for them to die in...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 29, 2022 01:57 AM (VwD6u)

443
Re Cantillon Effect. Here's Matthew Crawford on that:

https://tinyurl.com/22z9mz6j

Crawford is good, but his writing style can be a bit obtuse, like he just can't get the point sometimes.

Anyway, he shows here the scam of the Cantillon Effect. If changes in money supply, the *information* about it, propagated instantaneously through the economy, money printing would benefit no one. Central bank or govt directly doubles the money supply, price level would double instantly. No one would benefit.

But, it takes time for that information to propagate. This benefits the govt, and in our case, those closest to the central bank. The "empire node" as Crawford calls it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 02:02 AM (Mzdiz)

444 "Mexico City residents angered by influx of Americans speaking English, gentrifying area"

My first reaction is GDIAF pendejos, but there is not a fire hot enough for them to die in...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 29, 2022 01:57 AM (VwD6u)

The core of the sun is pretty hot. 27 million degrees if I remember right. I can't even fathom that. Not a very good vacation destination, but makes for a great pendejo roast.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 29, 2022 02:02 AM (VwHCD)

445 When they create money, they get nearly all the benefit in purchasing power. As it propagates out, the farther nodes then lose. He presents a simple model. Everyone 2 nodes away looses. But those at Node 0, the empire node, and there immediate "buddies" benefit.

That's the scam of money printing, and it how it benefits the elite and oligarchs. They are adjacent to the empire node, and indeed, control that empire node.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 02:02 AM (Mzdiz)

446 I hate it when Genius Award-worthy Americans go to a foreign country that hates us; do something unbelievably stupid; and then stamp their feet & bawl for Uncle Sam to get them out of their own mess... immediately!

Posted by: mnw at July 29, 2022 02:04 AM (NLIak)

447 I hate it when Genius Award-worthy Americans go to a foreign country that hates us; do something unbelievably stupid; and then stamp their feet & bawl for Uncle Sam to get them out of their own mess... immediately!

Posted by: mnw at July 29, 2022 02:04 AM (NLIak)

And the kicker is they usually they hate the US as much as the country they're being held in.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 29, 2022 02:07 AM (VwHCD)

448 >> 27 million degrees if I remember right.

That's about it. Also the pressure is about 3.8 *trillion psi*.

Such a regime is so far from our experience that indeed we can't fathom it, and shouldn't even try. The numbers are just meaningless intuitively.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 02:15 AM (Mzdiz)

449
Sometimes, you can fathom astronomical numbers by what I called "chained scaling". You create an image on some human scale, then rescale, and several times. But that doesn't work well with things like temperature on pressure.

An example is "how big is the Milky Way Galaxy?" You just can't fathom that directly. One example to get you there is the 1000 yd model of the Solar System....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 02:20 AM (Mzdiz)

450 I'm too lazy to look up the exact figures of the 1000 yd. model, but it goes something like this.

Take a big beach ball and plop it down somewhere. That's Mr. Sun. Now, you walk out so many paces and plop down a little peppercorn sized object. That's the Earth. Then you walk so many paces and plop down something else and that's Jupiter, and finally you're putting a grain of sand down 1000 yards away from the beach ball, which represents Pluto.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 02:22 AM (Mzdiz)

451
With that 1000 yd model, you point out it takes light about 8 minutes to crawl from the beach ball to the Earth peppercorn, and however long to get out to the 1000 yd radius.

Now, the chained scaling. You wrap your head around that 1000 yd and the peppercorn. Now, how big is the Milky Way?

Let the radius of the Milky Way be the width of the continental US. You can picture the spiral pinwheel over the map of the US.

The solar system, that 1000 yd model is a quarter thrown on the ground somewhere in East Tennessee.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 02:24 AM (Mzdiz)

452 451 Hmm a Ray Bradbury number
Let the radius of the Milky Way be the width of the continental US. You can picture the spiral pinwheel over the map of the US.
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Do you mean RADIUS or DIAMETER?

Posted by: Ciampino - the size of the universe is unknown at July 29, 2022 02:33 AM (qfLjt)

453 >> Do you mean RADIUS or DIAMETER?

Diameter. It's late and I'm sloppy.

The thickness (z-axis), and don't hold me to it, would be about 10 miles plus and minus, IIRC. Diameter the width of the continental US, and thickness 10 miles below ground to 10 miles above ground.

The relative sparseness of the matter inside is also something. I think if you let each star be a marble or something, you can pack it all in so many cubic football fields or something. Again, I'm too lazy to look all that up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 02:37 AM (Mzdiz)

454 Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?

Where be your monkeypox?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 29, 2022 02:42 AM (0ocXn)

455
As per the Evening and Late Local News, Mayor London Breed and her Clown Posse have officially announced the Monkey Pox has gotten worse.

Breed says this is a public heath emergency, then her supporting clown states that some people are unable to urinate or defecate due to the ~~pox~~ Contagious Anal Colon Acne. I'm still chuckling about this development.

The next 2 clowns whined about homosexual men again being stigmatized ... about Contagious Anal Colon Acne.

I now denounce myself as, officially, a Bad Person.

Posted by: Arbalest at July 29, 2022 02:45 AM (FlRtG)

456 Obama ate a dog. End of story.

Posted by: torabora at July 29, 2022 02:47 AM (guWqA)

457
The Sun (and solar system), that little quarter in Tennessee's motion through the Galaxy is also interesting. The galactic gravitational field is not inverse square, it's the field of a thin disk, basically.

The Sun goes around in a roughly circular orbit around the center, but there is also a vertical oscillation, bouncing up and down the z-axis as it circles around.

The circular period is somewhere around 225 - 250 million years. Can't pin it down better than that with current precision. But, the period of the z-axis oscillation is about 25 million years. So, each circuit, the Sun is going to bob up and down 9 to 10 times.

There have been attempts to correlate that z-axis motion with various climate and extinction events in the geological records. They had though they found something, but more precise measurements killed the supposed correlation.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 02:49 AM (Mzdiz)

458
The next 2 clowns whined about homosexual men again being stigmatized ... about Contagious Anal Colon Acne.

I now denounce myself as, officially, a Bad Person.
Posted by: Arbalest
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Wait...it's CACA?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at July 29, 2022 03:03 AM (dx9uU)

459
Errata, the 25 Myr is the half-period, the period between plane crossing, and the error bars on that are wide. They make new measurements all the time, and the results vary.

The problem is there is no mirror to look at ourselves in the galaxy.

Imagine trying to visualize your own face without a mirror. That's basically what the size and shape of our own galaxy are like.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 03:07 AM (Mzdiz)

460
458 Mike Hammer, etc. etc.

Wait...it's CACA?

The Powers of SF said it 's bad.

Posted by: Arbalest at July 29, 2022 03:07 AM (FlRtG)

461 That 'gadgets inventions' article. The girlfriend pillow asked " And also, what’s with the yellow hand? "
Sheesh, so it can wash dishes, Dummy!

Posted by: Ciampino - Now we need ro combine some of those inventions - rumba sausage-maker for cats at July 29, 2022 03:09 AM (qfLjt)

462 Mornin'
(sips coffee)

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 29, 2022 03:19 AM (sAmhv)

463 460
458 Mike Hammer, etc. etc.

Wait...it's CACA?

The Powers of SF said it 's bad.

Posted by: Arbalest at July 29, 2022 03:07 AM (FlRtG)
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CACA= Contagious Anal Colon Acne
Is it the same as POOP?
POOP= pustule-occluded oblongate poop
(note the circular logic + new word typical of Leftists)

Posted by: Ciampino - gives new meaning to 'a pimple on your ass' at July 29, 2022 03:22 AM (qfLjt)

464

I've just read that the world's largest container ship is the Ever Ace! Its capacity is almost 24,000 TEU...

For comparison, the Ever Given, owned by the same company, and which famously closed the Suez Canal for a week last year, is rated at 20,000 TEU...

It's currently underway in the Bay of Biscay heading south-southwest at 21kts having left Rotterdam on 27 JUL 22, destination unknown, according to Vessel Finder...

Posted by: Zettai at July 29, 2022 03:24 AM (DQG9q)

465 >> eft Rotterdam on 27 JUL 22, destination unknown, according to Vessel Finder...

Nuke it from orbit?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 03:29 AM (Mzdiz)

466
Justice Alito snarks a bit a bit at Princess Harry and BoJo:

https://tinyurl.com/22g6bqdk

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 03:32 AM (Mzdiz)

467 Traveling a bit today so up earlier

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2022 03:32 AM (k8B25)

468 Nuke it from orbit?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 03:29 AM

No! We must commandeer it and make it the HQ's flagship!

*wonders how many Morons one might fit in 24,000 TEU...

Posted by: Zettai at July 29, 2022 03:32 AM (A4jJ3)

469

Some of us may have to make do in steerage...

Posted by: Zettai at July 29, 2022 03:35 AM (A4jJ3)

470
Justice Alito, when he made those remarks, is sporting a scraggly beard. He looks like he's just had enough of all this shit.

Alito is going Mad Max, I think. He's down for the Burning Times.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 03:35 AM (Mzdiz)

471

What an interesting time to be alive!

Posted by: Zettai at July 29, 2022 03:40 AM (A4jJ3)

472 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 29, 2022 03:43 AM (T4tVD)

473
Watch that Alito clip. He's showing high "judicial restraint" in snarking at all these idiots.

He remarks that he's an American judge, and don't know nuttin' 'bout no foreign law, and wouldn't presume to tell furriners about their own law, but he's had "the honor" of writing an opinion that has received the most criticism in history by foreign leaders who feel confident in commenting on American law.

He was "the most wounded" by the Duke of Sussex, he says, to much laughter.

He's telling them to suck his dick and lick his balls, but with proper judicial restraint.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 03:44 AM (Mzdiz)

474

Publius, you must be looking at the same piece I am at the DM...

Posted by: Zettai at July 29, 2022 03:46 AM (JtXDX)

475 https://tinyurl.com/yauk5xtx
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2022 03:47 AM (k8B25)

476
With that scraggly beard, Alito looks like some rednecks around here, sitting on the porch with a shotgun, telling you to get off his lawn.

Well, it's not really a "lawn", but the area around the house. He's telling you to get off his land, and don't ever come back.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 03:52 AM (Mzdiz)

477
"And don't you ever come back" is probably the most serious redneck warning there is. That's sayin' "You need killin'".

I can think of only one person, maybe two around here, who have reached the "don't ever come back" stage with me.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 04:02 AM (Mzdiz)

478 Morning, all! Shreveport made the list of most miserable cities, the only one in Lousy-ana. I can think of lots more choices, like, all of them -- including the one I'm stuck in. (Thanks, Creepy Joe, for an economy that makes it risky for me to retire.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 29, 2022 04:16 AM (c6xtn)

479 Small coffee parts are in dishwasher running so got big pot out and blew water to coffee, weak

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2022 04:18 AM (k8B25)

480 Seattle has declared a state of emergency over the lack of the monkey pox vaccine. Only enough for 7 percent of the population. I'm sure the officials will get their two shots first. The rest of the population is fucked for now.

Posted by: Colin at July 29, 2022 04:25 AM (gYWMK)

481
Unless you are in the "MSM" community, that is men who have buttfucking blowout orgies with other myns, you ain't in danger from any minkey pox.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 04:27 AM (Mzdiz)

482 The rest of the population is fucked for now.
Posted by: Colin

Won't that just cause more monkeypox?

Posted by: Bruce at July 29, 2022 04:28 AM (vd8XM)

483 480 Seattle has declared a state of emergency over the lack of the monkey pox vaccine. Only enough for 7 percent of the population. I'm sure the officials will get their two shots first. The rest of the population is fucked for now.
Posted by: Colin

The rest of the population will be fine unless they are gays who continue to have lots of buggery with multiple partners. Wanna play russian roulette with your cock, knock yourself out.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 29, 2022 04:29 AM (sAmhv)

484
To those who say I am "stigmatizing" the "MSM" "community". Yes, I am. Fuck you, the gay horse you rode in on, and all your genetic progeny (well, you ain't gonna have much, with the buttfucking, anyway). Get off my land, and don't you ever come back.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 29, 2022 04:31 AM (Mzdiz)

485 Umbrella, maybe %7 of Seattle needs the Buttpox vaccine but the other %93 will be fine

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2022 04:31 AM (k8B25)

486 Monkeypox outbreak right after Gay Pride Month?

Hmmmm....

Posted by: Bruce at July 29, 2022 04:33 AM (vd8XM)

487 Stupid tablet

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2022 04:36 AM (k8B25)

488 "You're a fucking plague. Go home!"

LOL.

Likewise.

One of my pet peeves is that there is a Spanish-language Mass at almost every Catholic Church in the U.S.

Go to Mexico and see how "easy" it is to find an English-language Mass.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 29, 2022 04:37 AM (C1rbv)

489 I hope it's really Friday, nothing on work Saturday so far.

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2022 04:45 AM (k8B25)

490 monkeypox that bad as far as illness goes? people dying?

Posted by: a dude in MI at July 29, 2022 04:46 AM (+I6Y/)

491 No, and if gotten vaccine will cure it.

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2022 04:50 AM (k8B25)

492 >>>monkeypox that bad as far as illness goes? people dying?

>Those pustules on your pee-pee? You're good to go!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 29, 2022 04:51 AM (0ocXn)

493 G'mornin' everyone !

I am so getting that V graphic up top put on a t-shirt, maybe with the names of the j6 martyrs on the back ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 29, 2022 05:00 AM (mjR/z)

494 PIXY IS UPSTAIRS

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2022 05:02 AM (k8B25)

495 huh, milwaukee made that list ... glad I live on the other side of the state !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 29, 2022 05:09 AM (mjR/z)

496 So much better them moving to Mexico than to nice States in the US. They can't vote in Mexico and screw it up even worse. They might even learn how much more restrictive Mexico is on immigration than the US...

Posted by: Lee Also at July 29, 2022 05:21 AM (f1I+1)

497 Oh if only there were men in the upper echelons of our military today like Ted Roosevelt. Alas, all we have are woke fraudsters more worried about sex change operations, pronouns and transgenders. Woe to our country when we are led by such charlatans and clowns.

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Posted by: Sarah at July 29, 2022 09:23 AM (xPgOp)

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