Get our your guns and show that hurricane who’s boss! Any gun will do but something with a huge, manly caliber is better. Just stand in your yard, point your big long barrel southeast, and start flinging’ ammo downrange! That hurricane will turn tail in no time at all. Only Americans can show a hurricane what’s what, and what is more American than a hail of hot lead? Yeehaw!
But don’t waste any of that ammo on climate change, since it’s fake.
Children born in September 11, 2001 are 17. They are old enough to drive, and one year shy of being able to vote. The U.S. has been at war in Afghanistan for the entirety of their lives.
— Austin Gilkeson 🐙 🧛♀️ (@osutein) September 11, 2018
They are also old enough to fight and die in our forever wars. You can join the military at 17 with parental consent (I know because I did just that).
literally anyone who refers to girls as “human females” is a fucking freak i promise.
Yes! All in except one case. And this is the case when I was in the army and I’d hang out with my two women friends. Nearly every time I’d meet them to go out — in reaction to how strangely other male soldiers treated them — I’d walk up to them and say, “Greetings, human females.”
Florida man attacks neighbor with chainsaw over shrub dispute.
As is the Florida way. Always remember to bring your chainsaw to a Florida fight. I do, and I am still here.
I am currently undefeated in Florida chainsaw fighting.
I don’t care much about the New York State governor race, but I’ve seen a few times the same argument that I saw about Bernie Sanders (from the likes of Lance Mannion and Kevin Drum et al.): that Cynthia Nixon is not corrupt enough to be governor.
They said the same thing about Sanders — that if he didn’t take loads of corporate money, this showed he “didn’t know how to play the game,” and was therefore not a real political player.
This is how far gone centrists are.
The best thing about Nick’s thread was a young friend who said, “There used to be bookstores in malls?” https://t.co/TVNTY5A9rV pic.twitter.com/0pFToj7YyP
— Jill S. (@outseide) September 12, 2018
Yes, indeed, there used to be 2-3 bookstores in medium- to large-size malls, even.
Heck, my small town “mall” for at least a decade had a bookstore in it. It closed in the early 1990s, if I remember correctly.
Different world.
Hey ya’ll, I want to tell you about a great actress I discovered on a marginal television show. The show is The Gifted, and it does have some ok scenes and set pieces but is mostly unexceptional. Also, the two main characters are boring sops so that certainly does not help.
But then you have Emma Dumont. She’s got more screen presence and acting skills than nearly everyone else in the whole show put together. She plays Polaris and is not the main character but very much should be. I’d be far more content if the show were called Polaris and Some Other People, Who Cares, Emma Dumont Rules Show.
She’s one of the few that I’ve gone back and watched scenes a few times because she just rocks so much.
Bad audio and video I assume to get around YouTube’s copyright filters.
To their credit, I think the writers and showrunners realized midway through the show that the main characters were irritating schmucks because as the series went on it became much more about Polaris and much less about those two little snivelers.
In her personal life, Dumont is an engineering student and was team captain in a major robotics competition when she was in high school. I care far more about what I see on the screen, but nice to know that she doesn’t torture kittens in her spare time, etc.
She is just great in the show and the reason to watch it. I like her so much I am going to watch a show I am pretty sure I won’t like called Aquarius just because she’s in it.
Regarding my post about gains vs. the market earlier, that should not be the only benchmark. Every situation is different. My risk vs. return profile has already shifted from beating the market to capital protection, by the way. To paraphrase something Barry Ritholtz said a while ago, that you can make a lot of money when the market is doing well doesn’t mean a damn thing if you lose it all when the market goes south.
I have shifted to a lot of cash, in other words, both in and out of my investment portfolio. I am willing to wait years for the deals to appear, and in some respects I already have. There is no rush. I am not emotionally involved and I know the present insanity cannot continue. Something that can’t continue, won’t. Investing based on your own emotion is the quickest way to lose all your money, by the way, and that is how the vast majority of people do it (even algorithms programmed by people do this).
That you cannot time the market is only true in the sense that you can’t completely gauge when the market is at its highest high or lowest low. This is correct. However, it’s a limited point intended to frighten the peons into not pulling their money out at the worst possible time. (I was literally begging a woman at work in late 2008 to leave her 401K and other money in the stock market at the time, and to invest more, as much as she could afford. She sold everything at a 65% haircut and likely will never be able to retire. She’s eternally much poorer because of it.)
This time is not different. The market will crash. The bulls will stampede off the cliff. Everyone will think it’s the end of the world and I will be at the bottom of the cliff harvesting the fresh meat.
The first 10 on today’s playlist:
Given the title, I bet you thought I was going to be all highfalutin’ and stuff. You know, nearly no one reads those posts where I really bust out with some abstruse galaxy brain stuff. I can see you not reading them.
But this pretty lowfalutin’. I was thinking how in several Phillip K. Dick stories there are time loops that trap the protagonist in some situation where the very actions(s) they do to attempt to break the time loop are the ones that cause the loop to eternally repeat.
And in the absolutely bonkers American Horror Story: Coven my manic pixie dream witch, Misty Day, ends up in her version of hell, and her hell is an eternally-recurring experience of bullying and shame after she accidentally resurrects a frog she was supposed to be dissecting.
Hell as an eternally-recurring time loop has been used in other media, too. The “eternal recurrence” idea itself has a long history, of course, with variants going all the way back to the ancient Egyptians.
In more modern terms, the hellish time loop and variants has been used effectively in movies like Triangle and Before I Fall to more mainstream fare like Edge of Tomorrow.
See, very little falutin’ of any type in this post. I just wanted to mention some things I liked. In particular, Triangle is worth a watch because Melissa George is great in it, and there is one particularly effective scene where she comes upon a pile of…well, just watch it and see.
I guess I’ve never really thought about how pretty much every effort I’ve ever seen to get girls into tech focuses on writing code and not system administration?
— Tashas[E]v (@TashasEv) September 9, 2018
Yes, system admin and related needs more women and more diversity in general! Unlike what has been said, the field is not disappearing and we’re not all becoming programmers (only). I know very few read this blog, but if any woman, even if it’s your second career, would like any help in this area, give me a shout here:
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I’m very well-versed in wide areas of my own field and related fields (scripting/light programming, vendor management, project management), have multiple certs (VCP-DCV, CCNP, CCDP, ITIL, MCSE and an expired RHCE), and have been doing it professionally for over 15 years now. I’ve also successfully mentored a young woman who went into a variant of my field after she decided she hated programming full-time.
Since June 2008, when my parter and I started our stock investment account together, the S&P 500 (the benchmark I measure myself against) has returned 161% up the end of August 2018, including dividend reinvestment.
My returns in that same time period are 243%. (Neither adjusted for inflation.)
You can’t beat the market over the long term. Some people can. I think I could do it up to about $100 million. After that, I’d start moving the market myself too much and people would notice and copy my strategy.
We’ll see how the next 10 years play out. It’s going to be tougher than the past 10, which were cake, I can tell you that.
Was thinking about this point from an article I was reading today.
For example, how do we explain why, in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy in London, more conservative commentators were calling for more comfortable and home-like public housing, while left-wing writers staunchly defended the populist spirit of the high-rise apartment building, despite ample evidence that the majority of people would prefer not to be forced to live in or among such places?
The left is concerned with density for understandable reasons, but it is possible to have pretty good density without high-rises anywhere (see Paris for an example). But with people, subjects of deep concern tend to become a religion. The left’s religion in many areas is austerity whether it makes sense or not. To many of those on the left, if you’re not suffering, you’re not sufficiently committed to the cause of sustainability or helping the environment. It doesn’t matter if suffering is actually helpful, because the austerity and deprivation itself become the proof that you’re doing the right thing.
This is largely the explanation for the support of less-than-optimal living conditions like Grenfell over better ones like Paris or Barcelona.
I did push-ups so hard earlier that I somehow borked my hearing.
Cripes, I have to remember that I’m not a 20-year-old paratrooper anymore. The problem is, my hearing was already terrible. It should come back, though. Should.
I’m not usually one for long videos, but this is quite well-done and she is damn funny.
I like that she pointed out that as repellent as Jordan Peterson is to progressive sensibilities (including my own) that to incels, he is actually helpful and his advice is useful compared to what they actually believe and practice.
Incels, there is no one possibly more rejected than I used to be so it absolutely is not hopeless. Here’s how rejected by everyone I used to be: my own cousins would not talk to me or acknowledge I was related to them at school because of how despised I was. This was in about eighth grade.
After much self-improvement and life changes later (starting in high school), I am successful, I’ve had many girlfriends and relationships, and I pretty much do what I want with my life. (And I 
told those cousins to go fuck themselves in public at a family reunion. Oh yes that made me very popular.)
Anyway, I also like how she acknowledges that men face so very very very very much rejection. Because she’s been a man, she knows, and most women just have absolutely no idea at all. I liked that part a lot.
I had no idea about the “big head” thing in the trans community. That just doesn’t make sense. Lake Bell for instance is a woman with a just huge head (sorry, LB, but it’s true), quite pronouncedly masculine facial features, and she’s gorgeous.
The video is worth watching because it comes from a perspective that’s unique and has valid insights into both sides of the issue.
Incels are right about more than a few things and they are often truly bullied and looked down on. However, their methods of dealing with these problems are worse than counterproductive (as she points out) and their community is mostly harmful to them.