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- Yesterday, 16:30
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Worthwhile Image Finds
- Replies: 264
- Views: 47048
- Yesterday, 14:29
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Twitter!
- Replies: 3741
- Views: 363577
- Yesterday, 12:06
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Petty annoyances
- Replies: 10126
- Views: 685931
- Yesterday, 11:37
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Petty annoyances
- Replies: 10126
- Views: 685931
Re: Petty annoyances
And a circuit breaker in the apartment tripped for no particular reason that I can tell Always worrisome, but often inconsequential. I hope that the insulation on the wiring is not shot like it is on one of our other circuits. Wait, what? A while back one of our circuit breakers tripped (not the sa...
- Yesterday, 10:36
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: A Gerald Ford for the 21st Century
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1162
Re: A Gerald Ford for the 21st Century
We already had a "No sandwich is safe" thread! (That's Biden bitching, BTW)
- 20 Jan 2021, 16:54
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The capitol insurrection and its aftermath
- Replies: 129
- Views: 2061
Re: The capitol insurrection and its aftermath
Thankfully, it looks like today was pretty quiet for the most part. Small numbers of demonstrators. Although there was this:
I'm pretty sure that flag is some kind of crime against graphic design.
I'm pretty sure that flag is some kind of crime against graphic design.
- 20 Jan 2021, 15:26
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Petty annoyances
- Replies: 10126
- Views: 685931
Re: Petty annoyances
It has been a day full of petty annoyances. It's cold and windy today, and the cheap, shitty windows our landlord installed leak air like crazy. A package I was expecting did not arrive, and the USPS tracking says "delivery attempted - no access to delivery location", which I know is bullshit, becau...
- 20 Jan 2021, 14:13
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Orange is the new President
- Replies: 8344
- Views: 616891
Re: Orange is the new President
Apparently Qanon adherents are fragmenting in the wake of the non-occurrence of "The Storm". Some are starting to realize they got played, but the majority are taking the "Me get fooled? That's unpossible!" tack and holding that Biden is actually Q , or that somehow Trump was unable to overcome the...
- 19 Jan 2021, 17:08
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Winnie the Pooh and Silk Road 2: The China Thread
- Replies: 53
- Views: 6275
Re: Winnie the Pooh and Silk Road 2: The China Thread
It's not a good time to be a banker in China.
China doesn’t fool around when it comes to financial regulation. On January 5, a Chinese court sentenced a senior finance industry executive to death. He was guilty – in the words of the court –of being “extremely greedy.”
- 18 Jan 2021, 12:50
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Worthwhile Image Finds
- Replies: 264
- Views: 47048
Re: Worthwhile Image Finds
I would actually go to that theme restaurant. Given how well my tastes map to the average American's, that's probably why it closed.
- 15 Jan 2021, 15:30
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Massive brawn to go with our massive brains
- Replies: 505
- Views: 51036
Re: Massive brawn to go with our massive brains
The one good thing about lockdown and having to be at home is that I've been going to the gym a lot more and longer (since I no longer have a commute to eat up two hours of my day). I can't be 100% sure, but I think may be able do more pullups now than at any time ever in my life. I've also been enj...
- 15 Jan 2021, 11:28
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: msinaisuhtlaM
- Replies: 200
- Views: 24984
Re: msinaisuhtlaM
Hmm...why am I reminded of PJ O'Rourke's old quip about population complaints, "Just enough of me, way too much of you"?
- 15 Jan 2021, 10:59
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Lost sheep returned
- Replies: 47
- Views: 545
- 15 Jan 2021, 07:44
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: This is the thread for people who died, died.
- Replies: 2810
- Views: 265270
- 15 Jan 2021, 07:37
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: This is the thread for people who died, died.
- Replies: 2810
- Views: 265270
- 14 Jan 2021, 17:04
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: This is the thread for people who died, died.
- Replies: 2810
- Views: 265270
Re: This is the thread for people who died, died.
Consumed by a crab, so to speak.lunchstealer wrote: ↑14 Jan 2021, 16:56Eaten by tiger? Crossposting with the Tasteless Comments thread.
- 14 Jan 2021, 15:32
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Worthwhile intertubez finds
- Replies: 12499
- Views: 1021081
Re: Worthwhile intertubez finds
An interesting, if very short, video on Sweden's high taxes and why the Swedes don't mind paying them. As usual, there is some implication that when you hear "Everybody loves _____!", what that really means is "All of the people who we think actually count love ______." For example, they mention th...
- 14 Jan 2021, 12:36
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Heroes and zeroes of the animal kingdom
- Replies: 440
- Views: 72057
Re: Heroes and zeroes of the animal kingdom
Hero: Pigeon makes it all the way across the Pacific Ocean from the US to Australia
Zero: and gets the death penalty for its efforts
Zero: and gets the death penalty for its efforts
- 14 Jan 2021, 11:15
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Money for Nothing: the Universal Basic Income
- Replies: 732
- Views: 47827
Re: Money for Nothing: the Universal Basic Income
Andrew Yang is now running for Mayor of NYC, and he's pushing his UBI idea again ; he hasn't mentioned exact numbers lately AFAICT but he's usually tossed around the $1000/month figure. We've done this math before, of course, but there are about 8.4 million residents of NYC: $12000/year * 8.4 milli...
- 14 Jan 2021, 10:36
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Orange is the new President
- Replies: 8344
- Views: 616891
Re: Orange is the new President
I mean, it really couldn't have happened to a nicer guy... Commenting on the report, Ken Frydman, who worked as Giuliani’s press secretary in the 1990s, said: “Lay down with dogs. Wake up with fleas and without $20,000 a day”. I do wonder what happened to Giuliani, though. He was never a good guy, b...
- 13 Jan 2021, 19:45
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 3210
- Views: 263404
Re: What are you reading?
I started The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin last night. Pretty good so far; I will definitely say she is a punchy, impactful writer. Having read two things by her now, one thing that really stands out is her habit of using the second person in her writing (although I will certainly admit that could be ...
- 13 Jan 2021, 16:54
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The capitol insurrection and its aftermath
- Replies: 129
- Views: 2061
Re: The capitol insurrection and its aftermath
The Capitol Police were seriously understaffed that day, compared to just about any other time ANY sort of public protest was planned there. Something definitely stinks about this. The police I am not usually one to believe in capital-c "conspiracies," but -- I really think that in time we'll find ...
- 13 Jan 2021, 15:40
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The capitol insurrection and its aftermath
- Replies: 129
- Views: 2061
Re: The capitol insurrection and its aftermath
"We were doing routine maintenance and since the replacement parts were caught in a black hole of paperwork overseen by a median federal worker we decided to just delay installation for six to eight months" is something I could totally see. It would also leave a paper trail. If it's something else....
- 13 Jan 2021, 13:24
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The capitol insurrection and its aftermath
- Replies: 129
- Views: 2061
Re: The capitol insurrection and its aftermath
That is extremely disturbing if it's true and if there isn't some decent explanation (I mean, it's still disturbing even if there is some explanation like "we were doing maintenance on the system", but at least there is some reason). I would hope there's some documentation of this one way or another.
- 13 Jan 2021, 12:26
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Petty annoyances
- Replies: 10126
- Views: 685931
Re: Petty annoyances
I found two monitors on the street, and they're both in working condition, so I wanted to use them for setting up my home office. I even have a port expander for my laptop that has two video outputs. ...but the video outputs are too close together for cables to be plugged into both at once. /sad tro...