Honestly my preference would just be to have some pork shoulder or brisket that's been cooked in the can in its own juices, or some chili; but it's something of a miracle that they can figure out how to produce a shelf-stable pizza.
Up in my neck of the woods we've had the first nice weather in months, so I've been enjoying drinking Guinness on the porch while smoking a corned beef.
Where I am in WA they made open carry a "right" in a lot of places because too many property owners where banning the clean-cut men out with their wives and kids from carrying. But that also comes with the "youths" also having the "right" to open-carry.
I like the idea of clean-cut men having the inalienable right to carry into a store since if the store bans it they don't have the reciprocal obligation to ensure the safety of their customers, but I also don't want gangbangers to have that inalienable right.
I think I'm just not an egalitarian: I think one's rights to a certain extent should be in proportion to one's obligations and contributions to society. And I don't like the idea that decent people are forbidden from doing a thing because to allow it means the dregs of society must also be allowed to do it.
I dunno, I've watched a lot of Steve1989 videos, and the US MREs are usually among the better ones in the world. Especially considering our military actually does stuff (the Western Euros sometimes will have better rations, but their militaries don't really do anything real aside from maybe play for time until they can convince the US to send in troops)
My (ex military) parents have bought me a few, and I would say the ones I've had are probably better than you would get buying an equivalent shelf-stable meal at a grocery store.
I think one of the only times Steve1989 got seriously ill from eating an MRE was from eating an unexpired Chinese MRE. And this is a guy who's eaten Civil War hardtack, WWI and WWII rations, etc...
Some of the meat in the entre was green, IIRC...
I think people should be able to open a coffee stand or a bar without having to study/memorize thousands of pages of regulations and get a bunch of licenses and permits. But if you make your customers sick you should be punished quite severely for it, more so if you're making your customers sick out of negligence or are trying to cover up the fact you're doing it.
I also think bums should be "out of sight; out of mind" but also think that if a man in a suit and tie wants to drink a beer while on his way back from work that should be OK provided he isn't causing trouble.
Similarly, "youths" wearing gang colors and flashing gang signs shouldn't be allowed to carry a gun into a store, but a clean-cut man with a his wife and children ought to.
I don't know what that makes me politically.
Gary wasn't confident that the Law and the State would do this on his behalf. And he was probably right. Certainly the perpetrator's expression isn't that of someone expecting a swift trial and summary execution after an inevitable "guilty" verdict.
For all those thinking the rot set in sometime around 2014, perhaps it set it in a great deal earlier...
I only know of this movie because John Travolta's character references it in the first scene of Swordfish. Never seen it.
I just think he's kinda a slimy guy.
Read his old NeverTrump articles from 2016. He was "concerned" about Trump's "misogyny" and "sexism" and "racism" and all those "sensitive male" views that went along with how he looked in that photo. Now he looks like a lumberjack and acts in the exact "misogynistic" and "sexist" manner he used to lambast Trump for.
Alex Jones OTOH...love him or hate him but you can watch his videos from 20+ years ago, and he hasn't really changed much aside from getting older.
Matt Walsh isn't even 40. He grew up in the Golden Age of video games, so it is highly unlikely he doesn't understand them even if he doesn't (or didn't) play them. I'm older than Matt Walsh, and I played a shitload of video games when I was a kid. Even if I don't like the games they make today, I understand why they appeal to people/kids.
I find it hard to believe that someone who looked like this in 2016 has never played video games. More likely, he's playing a part for his Boomer audience who watched their kids play video games and were kinda confused why they spent so much time playing them instead of playing outside.
I guess Benji hasn't gotten around to translating his "there's an intrinsic dignity to working on a roofing crew until the day you drop dead of a heart attack" speech to Hebrew.
I know I like to be lectured by someone younger than me who makes a living ranting about politics on camera.
Dude looked like a Portland hipster back in 2016 and now wants people to think he's a lumberjack. I'm not buying it.
I wonder what Israel's retirement age is. Do they have Social Security?
Maybe we should demand any recipient of foreign aid has the same retirement/Social Security policy as we have.
True and I've seen indications of GG2 going that way too. Leftists realizing they might have to ally with a "conservative" then instantly doing everything they can to hyper-limit the scope of their disagreement with the mainstream left in the hope they can start attending the "respectable" cocktail parties again.
Not that it'll work, but they certainly will try.
The game I never knew I needed until I saw it was the one where you go back in time to fight medieval battles in like a Toyota Technical.
I saw that and my immediate thought was "I remember writing that short story in high school English". Apparently I wasn't the only one.
Most techies think the porn age laws are antiquated and aren't particularly interested in taking the problem seriously. So when the government decides to get involved, the only "solution" is a draconian one.
The classic pattern: "reasonable" people declare a problem to be "unsolvable", so the only people offering solutions are "unreasonable".
You go on some of these porn sites, and they practically brag about how young the median person is the first time they watch porn. So I don't take the industry at its word that they care about the "rights" of their users.
That said, it'd be nice if the industry and/or governments actually put some thought into solutions other than "you have to snap a photo of yourself holding your driver's license" or "we're just shutting off the site in this jurisdiction". And I think a big part of the problem is that the tech industry as a whole doesn't see this as a problem, so they aren't particularly incentivized to think very hard about a solution.
Here's one possible solution I spent 30 seconds thinking about: a "trusted certificate authority" issues "proof of age of majority" certificates the same way they would issue an email cert, a PDF signing cert, or an SSL cert for a web site. All it attests is the person to whom the cert was issued is over 18. Issue it on a secure dongle or smart card so it's harder to put them online, add browser support for the things, and you're off.
Is it perfect? No. Is it better than an "are you over 18?" prompt that gives you unlimited chances to click "yes" if you're stupid enough to click "no" the first time? Yes. Could someone come up with a better solution if they had a team of engineers spend a bunch of time and money taking the problem actually seriously (at least as serious as they treated the "problem" of "online 'disinformation'")? Almost certainly.
You guys didn't even have dial-up in the Midwest until the mid-late 00s? Considering the ubiquity of the AOL floppies in the mid-90s I find that hard to believe (unless it was all long-distance numbers, which I remember could be a problem).
That IMO is the true dividing line between Gen X and Millennial: do you remember a time before the internet?
None of us realized that the internet at the time was due to selection effect and pressures acting as gatekeeping.
True. In another thread I brought up the old Jargon File and had a good laugh at the (quaintly outdated) "Politics" section where it describes hackers as "vaguely liberal-moderate, with a strong libertarian contingent".
When in reality the fact that document existed at all and then was given to people coming online with a strong encouragement to follow those pre-existing conventions suggest their political leanings were in fact something far more deeply conservative. But since they didn't want to identify themselves as icky "conservatives" they had no defense against people choosing to ignore those conventions.
When you get down to it, would an actual "liberal" or non-Hoppean libertarian care about Eternal September at all? Given their views on immigration and border security, not really.
Boy were we naïve in the late 90s/early 00s, thinking all this technology was going to "help humanity".
Hell we even thought by making computers cheap enough and distributing them widely enough we were going to make African societies functional. I have a good laugh about that every time I think about it.
It's been extremely flaky for me when reading replies to threads. Hitting refresh multiple times is common, and some threads just plain don't load at all.
Better than nothing, though. And I refuse to make a twitter account on principle.
"I'm going to encourage my teammates to pass the ball to the players on the other team (which is owned by my relative), who I will then encourage to score; and if you criticize the logic of that then you just don't understand basketball as well as I do."
This is all true, but the reason I had to be a "RACIST white savior" in the first place was my anti-racist management thought the Indians could do the job they claimed to be able to do. Then when it turned out they couldn't, I was still on the hook to make sure the work was done.
A friend got a DUI once, and he described it as "if you get a lawyer the DA will make sure you pay your lawyer $10k. If you don't get a lawyer the fines and everything will end up being about $10k. Regardless of what you do, it will cost you $10k".
Same idea.