Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

We won’t go back.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

He really is that stupid.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Everybody saw this coming.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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  2. 2.

    Phylllis

    Watching the Braves. About to chow down on some freshly picked sweet corn from our neighbor’s garden.

  3. 3.

    LT

    ‘Tsingtao’ means ‘Coors’ in Chinese.

    And Coors is a piss beer, fit to drink only in the absence of good beer.

  7. 7.

    bago

    Woke up in my office. Concrete is terrible on bruised and broken bones. On the upside most explosions were at least a mile away, which is second only to a roof when it comes to the requirements of a sleeping situation. A Roof, ‘splosions far away, and water. Hallmarks of civilization I say.

  10. 10.

    Morbo

    @LT: Can’t beat 3 renminbi for 22 oz though.

    Dragon’s Milk Reserve from New Holland is a stout with chilies in it and is delicious.

  14. 14.

    Kropadope

    @gogol’s wife: Euggh, I can’t believe you got me to click on that. It’s just as silly and full of RW wishful thinking and over-interpreting as you may think.

  15. 15.

    LT

    @Cassidy: Sometime in your life, make a point of drinking a great draft beer from a fresh keg. You’ll sing a different tune after that.

  16. 16.

    gogol's wife

    @Kropadope:

    I didn’t say to click on it! I would never click on one of those if my life depended on it! But they are a form of humorous found poetry.

  19. 19.

    LT

    @efgoldman: Truth be told, I dig TsingTao beer well enough. “What it means in Chinese” is a stale wisecrack I’ve sometimes laid on bored check-out clerks.

    But I do despise Coors, for good reasons extending well beyond the horse piss they peddle.

  22. 22.

    bago

    @bago: It must be said that I enjoy being absurd, saying things that are in fact true, yet come out a little bit off.

    I had to take the night in Redmond in my office at Microsoft because the OneBusAway web service was using the regular schedule as opposed to the holiday schedule and I missed the last bus to Seattle. I wasn’t up for a 20 mile bike ride with a hill climb at the end so I crashed under my desk. While waiting for the non-existent bus I heard a constant din of explosions, which were nothing like the explosions that blew my brother up multiple times in Mosul, but still got me thinking about explosives in general. That and the mass shootings I narrowly avoided still have a special place in my brain.
    As for the bones, I had a bike wreck a few weeks back that injured my rib and made the night on the concrete a little bit rough, but at the same time I’m a white guy on the Microsoft campus whining about missing my bus.
    At least I have all the soda I can drink.
    And a roof.
    And ‘splosions kept at least a thousand feet away.
    And temperature control.
    And a series of tubes.
    And a warren of wild rabbits.
    And a bathroom or ten.
    And badass internet.
    And access into some of the greatest datacenters on the planet.
    And a vending machine.

    Still, explosions freak me right the fuck out.

  24. 24.

    Morzer

    @bago:

    On the other hand, you have to smile politely and writhe internally every time people remind you of The Fucking Paperclip and Fucking Vista and Steve Fucking Ballmer etc etc etc

  25. 25.

    bago

    It’s like saying that the guy who lost his heart, picked himself for the second most powerful position on the planet, legitimized torture, shot a guy in the face, declared himself a fourth branch of government, kept a man-sized safe that possibly held the apology of the guy he shot in the face wasn’t some kind of delusional fiction. Oh yeah, he got my brother blown up a few times half-way across the planet.

  27. 27.

    bago

    @Morzer: Ballmer is what happens when biz guys from the 80’s become billionaires. They release software in a box to make quarterly numbers, regardless of how ready the software is. They should have let Vista bake into 7, Hold off on 8 until 8.1, and Clippy… Well, I’m going to have to give that thing credit for contextual computing. Didn’t have the proper support of machine learned heuristics in its day, but I couldn’t live without Intellisense.

  28. 28.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Morzer: Except for Balmer, who may be soon owning one of the local sporting franchises(actually an improvement), I take slight issue with your other Fucking Comments. Respectively so, as always.

  29. 29.

    bago

    @Morzer: You sound almost as gleeful as a co-worker who was overjoyed that we literally shot Charles Simonyi into space.

  30. 30.

    Morzer

    @bago:

    Honestly, I am just funning with you. I think the Luis Suarez bottle opener is exciting my animal spirits unduly. That said, I still think of Ballmer as the Jack Welch of Microsoft.

  32. 32.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @bago: The problem with Vista was it was too far ahead of the hardware at the time. Aesthetically, it was better than Win7. Win8.x needed to make some allowances for desktop/laptops. They really tried to make tablet and desktop interfaces EXACTLY the same. There’s just too many applications for a flat start page, and even with 8.1 it still needs a floating status box(time, network status, etc). The idea is a good one and works really well on a touch screen(yes I have one on my desktop).

  34. 34.

    LT

    @Cassidy: Beer is just beer, but each serves a different purpose? Is that it?

    Don’t bother to reply– I’m sure it’ll make perfect sense after a few more brewskies.

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    bago

    You know how after win2k SLM got ditched for a gussied up Perforce? Too many dependencies. PPT here. Vista had that fate as well, where all of the teams were burning so much time refactoring that not too much was viewable consumer-side.

  38. 38.

    The Sailor

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    The problem with Vista was it was too far ahead of the hardware at the time.

    No, the problem was it sucked.
    Almost as bad as W8 sucks. M$ never cared about anything but more profits, so they forced people into OSs that they didn’t want. Then they charged extra to train people because they changed so much of the interface, deliberately, just so they could make more profit in another division.

  39. 39.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @The Sailor: Did you use Vista for any length of time? What kind of hardware did you use? Have you used Win8.x for any length of time? Again, what kind of hardware did you use? As far as what I mean in “any length of time”, I’m thinking several months.

    Please let me know of a company that’s not profit oriented.

  40. 40.

    The Sailor

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    As far as what I mean in “any length of time”, I’m thinking several months.

    No one spends months just trying to do the same job they did with better, older, tools.
    W7 doesn’t suck as much.
    Deliberately fucking up the interface just so you can force millions of people back to M$ schools is a travesty.
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Please let me know of a company that’s not profit oriented.

    That wasn’t the point. Deliberately breaking things to make a profit is.
    Apple gets away with it because they have a better product. Linux gets away with it because they have a better product. M$ doesn’t get away with it because their products suck.
    W8 was made for tablets/phones, not computers.
    There’s a reason that when Vista came out the “upgrade” was to downgrade to XP.

  41. 41.

    bago

    @efgoldman: I think the xbox is the first successful stab at consumer side that the company has ever done. Winders an Offits were the traditional moneymakers for the first few decades.

  43. 43.

    Cassidy

    @LT: I’m sure you’re recent dive into the fad of the week has been fun. Every beer snob is so original and all drink the same things. Get back to me when you mature past beer as fashion accessory phase.

  45. 45.

    PurpleGirl

    @bago: I still think the worst idea for a software product was Bob. I mean, a living room and a puppy dog to guide you to the “programs” to do things like write letters, etc. I was transfixed at the kiosk where it was loaded for people to try this great idea for a home package. I was using a computer at work, with several different programs. I didn’t exactly need a guide to show me how to write a letter and print it.

  46. 46.

    PurpleGirl

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Yes, companies are profit oriented. However, not everyone or every company can keep buying new software with every OS change. I’m still using WinXp. It’s been stable for me and let’s me continue to use my word processing software and the scanner and all the other stuff. I can’t afford to buy a new scanner or printer or new software. M$ doesn’t seem to understand that.

  47. 47.

    bago

    I never said consumer UI was their strong suit. In fact, the guy who lived downstairs and was forced to push the “duke” xbox controller into production wound up committing suicide. Bob was a Stanford thing that got some marketing from Melinda.

  49. 49.

    PurpleGirl

    @bago: At the time I was dating a guy who worked for IBM, doing OS research. We had driven from Westchester Cty to a the Roosevelt Field mall area to go to a CompUSA. I don’t remember what he was looking to buy that day but I stood there in front of the kiosk with Bob. Just kinda shaking my head — I was still working at the legal publisher and using a Wang system to copyedit/code the printer tapes. When hanging out at his place I was using a computer he had hooked to a computer at his office.

  50. 50.

    PurpleGirl

    @bago: Sometimes, a consumer can’t afford all new everything.

    ETA: I’ve been unemployed since 2008, living off of an inheritance that has to last me until I can collect SS.

  51. 51.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @The Sailor: You never answered my questions. If you’ve never used a product, how can you say it sucks? I’ve used Win8.x since it was released; there are problems with it’s implementation on desktops. I mentioned some in my original comment.

  52. 52.

    Craig

    Well, a Sriracha Pilsner would essentially just be a chile-flavored beer, which is an idea that’s been kicking around for years. References are found in Charlie Papazians “New Complete Joy of Homebrewing,” and even Rogue has done a limited-edition chile beer. I can’t say it’s much to my liking, but there are people out there who swear by it. Takes all kinds. Or, at least, we have all kinds, so why argue taste?

  54. 54.

    LT

    @Cassidy: You presume way too much. I’ve been drinking suds for neigh on 45 years, and don’t need no whippersnapper telling me anything about beer, dagnabbit.

    I also once earned my living maintaing draft beer lines in various saloons in San Francisco, from the tenderloin to the Nob Hill. I know beer, and fads do not concern me. I’ve recently discovered apple cider, too, which makes for a nice change of pace.

  55. 55.

    Mnemosyne

    @efgoldman:

    I did not hate Clippy, either. Though I would usually change it to the cat. At least those were the days when Word would ASK before changing things. Now it just assumes you’re stupid and changes things without checking.

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