@George-K lol

@Mik said in Wolftrap: For those not familiar, this is where The Princess is managing productions this summer. Link to video Pikers... Give us 12 years and we will drive those idiots out of business. Don't worry! We'll give The Princess a job. I actually was very disappointed in the concert I went to on Memorial Day Weekend. The Park Rangers running the bag check and metal detectors were abysmally slow. I arrived at 6:15 for an 8:00 show and got in at 8:20. The worst part? Other lines did not have as much of a problem and were moving quickly, but they wouldn't let you switch lines. It was all based on which parking lot you came in. We arrived at 6:15, among the earliest arrivals, but there was not a single inch of lawn space left by time we got past security and taking a 2-year-old into the Filene Center and sitting in the actual seats? That isn't going to happen... Leaving was worse. They don't have parking lots, just fields. Now pulling in, they had probably a dozen parking attendants per field directing cars and creating lanes for cars and the pedestrians. Leaving? 1 person at the end of each field trying to create opportunities for cars to join the mayhem in the next field. It was like Mad Max. I saw 2 fights break out from a fender bender and somebody almost hitting a pedestrian. I will remind you, this was 2 fights in one field leaving a frigging Marine Corps Concert Band performance. This wasn't people leaving Slayer... Thank goodness it hadn't rained.

Fuck musicality. This piece is supposed to sound like a machine, so you can just as well play it by a machine and increase the tempo. Link to video

Hahah that is great! Reminds me of the chimp-like ape called a "bonobo" and their way of socially saying hello to a bonobo of the opposite gender (I'm being serious) is to go up and quickly have intercourse for 1-2 seconds. It's called a "bonobo handshake". I guess it's also called a Date with Jon's Sister.

It's the Cockroach In Your Pants Polka!

I wish. Riff-tracking off the most pompous piece of political bullshit since the McCarthy Hearings. Shucks, that dais with the big screen behind it reminded me of Apple's 1984 commercial. It's ripe for ridicule and parody. Just think of all the fun that could be, with the silhouettes of Fox's evening lineup cracking goofball jokes and cutting satire. Add in Laura and it could be The Four Horseman...

@Horace said in AWS training: Today I had an all-day online training for Amazon Web Services. @Klaus, if you need any help with the forum and cloud storage, please ask someone else because I paid no attention whatsoever. But the guy who gave the training is an author of science fiction books. I wonder if he's familiar to anybody here. Probably not. I guess he's not hugely successful, considering his side gig as an AWS trainer. https://www.amazon.com/Warren-Hammond/e/B001IXS1N6%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share I dunno, he's got more than a few titles under his belt there. I wouldn't knock him for having a day job—almost all writers do now. Only a few unicorns live completely off of their royalties.

@Jolly said in Seattle to pay $500K for CHOP death: $500,000 ain't enough. The cops should be able to do their jobs. The mainstream did not have the cops' backs at the time. There may be a trickle of cooler heads now looking back and lamenting what happened, but only "tribal righties" at the time were coming out and saying that something should be done about that mob. The fact that the cops retreated, was all but taken as a triumph by the mainstream. Now all the tax payers are expected to pay for those mistakes. That's nice.

@Axtremus said in Hay Cats! Your AOC post of the day!: @Catseye3 said in Hay Cats! Your AOC post of the day!: Can somebody explain the connection between the two paragraphs in her message? AOC was replying to a tweet accusing the House of doing prime time hearing for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot/insurrection but not for the supposedly rampant gun violence in Democratic-run cities. AOC’s reply rebuts on the point that gun violence is actually even more rampant in Republican-run cities, and chiding the tweet sender for having involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot/insurrection to the point of having to ask for Presidential pardon thereafter. In short, where the two points in AOC’s tweet may seem unrelated, they are both germane to tweet to which AOC’s tweet replies. Clear? No, you didn’t read it correctly.

@Aqua-Letifer said in Hay Cats! Your "I hate this" post of the day.: @George-K said in Hay Cats! Your "I hate this" post of the day.: https://twitter.com/cctv_idiots/status/1530981166932697096?s=20&t=Vpyjqr-omL_xlYDkcWJHjA That's exactly what our department's mandatory pizza parties are like. If you want to watch people pretending to like each other way more than they actually do, attend a work gathering.

@George-K said in "What's charging the battery right now?": @Aqua-Letifer said in "What's charging the battery right now?": Thorium, man. Thorium. That's nuclear, right? Basically, yeah. But a very different kind. There'd be a mountain of problems I'm sure but toxic waste likely wouldn't be one of them.

This is kinda a big deal on both fronts, the censorship issue AND the fact that the vaccine is failing that badly that quickly with kids. Vaxxed Tweens are more likely to get symptomatic cases than unvaxxed kids after a few months? That’s huge on multiple levels.

No shitsky?

It is not likely that all of the responders were cowards (I mean just statistically, that's unlikely), and it's not likely that the primary decision maker in the response that occurred, made his decision to save his own skin. What this facile social response of labeling them all cowards can achieve, is to implant the notion on future cops in future schools that they don't want to live the rest of their lives with that label. So it's fine, but I'm not behind the pile-on from any visceral perspective. And I'm not under the misperception that the majority of those piling on, would have acted differently than how these responders acted. With the possible exception of whichever decision maker was primarily responsible for the response. That person may have made particularly egregious decisions.

This has a bovine excremental odor. The sun does not shine on the bottom of the plane.

We hired a crazy guy about a year ago, as a lead software architect. He was fresh from involuntarily being committed to a mental hospital after a suicide attempt. He wrote an e-book about his experiences, more of a diatribe against the mental health professionals at the hospital, which is how I know. He wrote lots of mass emails after being hired about how garbage all the practices here were. At some point, he wanted to schedule some one-on-ones with various development and quality assurance leads to get on board with the systems he wanted to put in place. One of the leads, a female QA manager, just flat out refused to work with him. Soon after that, he left the job, for other opportunities. I thought maybe the male/female thing had a role in both of their attitudes, though the crazy/sane thing was probably a larger component. I had dinner with the guy once, because I thought he was amusing, and I felt bad because he was inviting everybody and I suspect not getting a lot of positive response. But I wasn't surprised to see him go.

I mentioned this in the "inexcusable" thread. Pelosi claims that they're hammering out a compromise because the Senate bill also affords protection to the clerks and staff of SCOTUS. 18 U.S. Code § 1507 - Picketing or parading Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such jjudge, juror, witness, or court officer, or with such intent uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Aren't clerks 'officers of the court'?