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Biff Tannen

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  1. 3 hours ago, AnTiM said:

    Maybe just an idiot/savant who excels at conning people and knows jack shit about everything else.

    I think this is what galls me the most about everything. If he were running some Netflix-worthy heist/confidence scheme where there were multiple levels of intelligence and cunning then at least I would be able to say, yeah, well fucking done. 
     

    But no. He just found out how to appeal to all the dumb people. Like literally all of them. And none of us knew how many there were. So now we all get to die. 
     

    Which I guess is maybe how it was always supposed to be. All along. 

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  2. Ok, think I finally settled on my PCT section hike for this year.  My hiking buddy had to bail, so I'm cutting it down from 2 weeks to 1, as I don't want to go solo for that long.  

    Going to hopefully do a 2 day trail skills workshop starting July 13 (I'm waitlisted right now) in Truckee to start (intro to trail maintenance, basic stuff) and then hike south from Truckee, down the west side of Lake Tahoe on the PCT to Echo Lake, about 65 miles.  If I have time at the end, I can tack on some more miles on the Tahoe Rim Trail.

    Not as long as I wanted to go, but now I will also be home for my wife's bday and then our friend's 40th in Isla Mujeres.  So not a bad trade off.

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  3. 18 minutes ago, mchookem said:

    just hung out in Dublin for a few days and there's definitely a sense among the locals there of laughing at and/or shaking their heads at Brexit, as in:

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    the one thing that kept coming up was just what a boon it has been for Ireland in particular as they are the only remaining english-speaking country in the EU. apparently many international corps have or are in the process of moving from UK to Ireland, and the accompanying construction and growth boom is very visible in Dublin. 

    Ireland also has stupid tax laws that favor the shit out of corporations.

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  4. 6 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    It’s like the last couple of conservative PMs are actually double agents for Labour. You can’t make up the constant unforced errors they commit.

    Or maybe conservatives are just disrespectful, disingenuous, pieces of shit.  British, American, French...seems to be the case, over and over.

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  5. 2 hours ago, bolverk said:

    AP article says nothing about it being requested, but it is now required since they bailed.

    And, in the characteristic hypocrisy you should expect from the conservative Murdoch-owned, Brexit-backing tabloid, which lied to the British public about the queen endorsing Brexit, The Sun had a minor hissy fit:

    British tabloid The Sun called the incident "a ridiculous moment” and said paratroopers on a D-Day jump were “forced to show PASSPORTS to French border chiefs after anniversary drop.”

    They wanted a hard border, and they got it, much like all the British tourists who complain about all the new border controls when they go on holiday in Spain.

    It's not total Schadenfreude from my end, though. I do think the British public was hoodwinked by the Russian-backed Brexit campaign (many motivated racist and xenophobic sentiments), and it's clear now that a majority regret the stupid decision.

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    And America still sits here about to maybe reelect our moron choice. The Brits may be dumb and gullible, but we are SO much more so. 

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  6. 37 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Just don’t go too far in the trolling (I’ve only crossed the line once with a MAGA family member). 

    BIL at family bday celebration tonight made a crack about illegal immigrants. I told him, “yeah I know, I got killed by an illegal immigrant just last week. They’re everywhere!”

    He was utterly baffled and didn’t bring it up again. 

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  7. 51 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    You know that's a "conservative" shibboleth, right?  Don't do anything wrong, what do you have to worry about?

    Yeah, but I see this more as a fuck around, find out situation. 

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  8. On 6/1/2024 at 4:14 PM, nnm said:

     A couple of times I’ve come across bars named “Pinche’s.”  There used to be one in Webster. I know it’s an extremely versatile word, but basically a bar named that is called “F’ers.”  The English-speaking clerks at the business license obviously DGAF.  

    Here’s a good one for Spanish-speakers (my first language), particularly for Mexican Spanish speakers (accent):

     

    My college roommate and I died when we heard this. Still to this day I’ll randomly text him AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

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  9. On 6/1/2024 at 3:21 PM, Okie State said:

    The topic of people tossing bags of dog shit in random trash cans has been mentioned many times. Someone actually walked up to my trash can that was by my garage to deposit their baggie of dog shit. Haven't seen that one before.

    God fucking dammit. Came back from vacation and my trash can had been out for probably four days before my neighbor brought it in for me (thanks neighbor), but in that time it collected at least FIFTEEN bags of dog shit. Fuck. You. People. 
     

    I’m now going to be that guy that puts a sign on my trash can. And maybe a booby trap. 

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  10. 2 hours ago, kevwun said:

    Judge's shouldn't even be able to accept gifts.  It's so ripe for corruption that it's hard to believe it's taken so long for something like this to come to light.

    Every year I have to take corporate ethics training and one of the things they always bring up is how we aren’t allowed to accept gifts from clients. Somehow this doesn’t apply to SCOTUS. 

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  11. 11 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Also Somalia was a nominally communist country when she was growing up so, like Cubans and others, she is reflexively anti-communist, ignoring the autocrat part. 

    This was exactly my thought.  She's coming at it from her horrible experience as a child in a communist regime and is completely biased because of it.  I get why that would happen, but I don't think she should be looked at as a "centrist" in her views.

  12. 15 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    The feds love to build a case by incenting early pleas and the last to plead is often stuck with the worst sentence.  And that person often is not the "kingpin," but rather someone ignorant without counsel.  See, e.g. Alice Marie Johnson.

    And, while not all cooperators are liars, I think enough shading goes on that it's not really an honest accounting of facts much of the time, even if it's short of outright lies.

    Finally, its a substitute for investigation/police work.

    Remember, we think cooperators against Trump are cool as shit, but most often that scenario works to fuck little people hard.

    I can see the "someone ignorant without counsel" part I guess, but maybe they shouldn't have engaged in a criminal conspiracy to begin with?

  13. Ok, finished up the article, which was fairly short in the end, and she basically admitted that she doesn't really know how to tell who is doing the "subverting" she is talking about, though she does mention the usual suspects (Russia and China) and then "American Marxists".  She conveniently leaves out "American Fascists".  But she does say this about identifying subversion:

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    I regret to tell you that there is no easy way. One thing to pay attention to is your gut. Another is your mind: be discerning and skeptical of people recruiting you to their cause. Does their cause ask toleration of you or require compelled speech? Are you being recruited to fight for a cause you know nothing about? Is that cause maximalist and uncompromising; does it glorify violence?

    Hmm, sounds very much like what the GOP is doing.  Almost identical actually.  Shame she apparently can't see it.

  14. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    She's a mass of contradictions.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali

    Grew up under Sharia law, but despite a period of aggressive atheism, converted to Christianity.

    Oh my sweet summer child (aimed at her):

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    In a 2007 article in Reason, Hirsi Ali said that Islam, the religion, must be defeated and that "we are at war with Islam. And there's no middle ground in wars."[141] She said, "Islam, period. Once it's defeated, it can mutate into something peaceful. It's very difficult to even talk about peace now. They're not interested in peace ... There comes a moment when you crush your enemy. ... and if you don't do that, then you have to live with the consequence of being crushed." Adding: "the Christian powers have accepted the separation of the worldly and the divine. We don't interfere with their religion, and they don't interfere with the state. That hasn't happened in Islam."[141]

     

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  15. 1 hour ago, texasdago said:

    My regular reminder of why I have no interest in living in the hill country

     

    But Llano sure is pretty... nah!

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    It's a good thing the R legislature wants Llano and it's 3000 votes in 2020 to count the same as Travis and it's...checks notes...612,000 votes.  

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  16. 1 minute ago, DixonHur said:

    That wasn't for the Finale and the challenge was to work in tight quarters.

    I'd think you'd want the finals to be in a 1st class kitchen that isn't rolling with the waves.

    Hope none of these contestants suffer seas sickness.

    It seems to me like they may be taking a cruise to multiple locations and not doing everything on the cruise ship.  We shall see I guess.

  17. I figured this could go here.  FIL sent an op-ed article from The Free Press, which seems to be rated as Center or Right of Center by most media bias charts.  Ostensibly, it's about how "both sides" are being bamboozled from the inside and we are going to be destroyed by the process of "subversion".  This sounded initially to me very much like "active measures" @Hugo Stiglitz.  It's written by a woman who grew up in Somalia and then moved to the Netherlands and learned about liberal democracies and Westernization.

    However, when I got into the article, red flags jumped up EVERYWHERE just in the first section about "Demoralization".  I'm still working through it, but here are my initial notes on that first section that I'm going to send back to the FIL.

    https://www.thefp.com/p/ayaan-hirsi-ali-we-have-been-subverted

     

    Notes:

    Section 1:  Demoralization

    - spent 4 paragraphs talking about "left" issues and only 1 about "right" issues, with one weak and vague example

    - Also, a slam against "DINKS" as being selfish for not having kids because of wanting money for lattes or because of climate change - wow - and blaming them for the breakdown of the family unit

     

    - "Minor Attracted Persons" instead of pedophiles? What? Where the hell did this come from?

     

     - Another veiled slam at transgenders as well as DEI - all right wing talking points

     

    - The twitter link about the girl scouts being "brainwashed" is from a right wing think tank (CSPI):

    https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/center-for-study-of-partisanship-and-ideology-cspi/

    The Center for Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI) is a right-of-center think tank which studies biases in the media, universities, and the scientific community. The organization primarily reports on bias against conservatives. CSPI provides research grants of $2,000-$15,000 to applicants to study incidents or trends of bias against conservatives. 1

    The organization is also notable for its publication of research in opposition to COVID-19 lockdown policies. 2

     

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