I'd get hornier about Burning Man if they held it at a Sheraton or Hyatt Regency or Quality Inn. Near a large airport by an Interstate.

from Ellis' News Items—

Thousands of Hong Kong protesters on Sunday chanted the U.S. national anthem and called on President​ ​Trump to "liberate" the Chinese-ruled city, the latest in a series of demonstrations that have gripped the territory for months. Police stood by as protesters, under a sea of umbrellas against the sub-tropical sun, waved the Stars and Stripes and placards appealing for democracy after another night of violence in the 14th week of unrest.

That is fuckin' amazing. It's very hard to smirk about American exceptionalism and the Indispensable Nation in such moments.

From the South China Morning Post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqaFdGWLKfw

It is "fuckin' amazing"!

Oh, most Hong Kongers protesting are covering their faces, not to get away with crimes like antifa, but, to keep China from using the cameras on the streets to capture their faces and later arrest them simply for speaking up.

Imagining that clicky-clack sound

> covering their faces

Oh, go ahead and follow through on your thought:

Adoration of the United States is the love that dare not speak its name.

Millennials are five times more likely than Boomers to lie on their resumes.

I caught a few of these when I was interviewing candidates for a new financial analyst position.

Me: Rate yourself from 1-10 on your ability to use Microsoft Excel with 1 being you've barely heard of it and 10 being you wrote the program.
Candidate: "Oh, I'm an 8 or a 9. I'm really good.
Me: Tell me about some models you've built, some functions you've used, or some formulas you've written. Tell me about macros.
Candidate: [crickets]

The thing is, that wasn't actually a lie. Those candidates really did think they excelled at Excel. They'd never seen any higher functions or complex formulae, so being able to enter data and sum columns was, to them, the height of expertise, especially when compared with coworkers or classmates who could not do even that. The ones that had used pivot tables really thought they were something special.

It was Dunning-Kruger on full display. They'd learned a little more than their compatriots, so they thought they'd learned it all.

I think that sometimes people who are lying on their resumes or in interviews don't think of it as lying. They're covering gaps or trying to make themselves sound like the expert the interviewer is looking for. And the interviewer isn't helping when he's looking for a new college graduate with 5 years experience in 2-year-old technology.

I'd get hornier about Burning Man if they held it at a Sheraton or Hyatt Regency or Quality Inn. Near a large airport by an Interstate. ~ Crid at September 8, 2019 4:18 AM

So, I imagine, would lots of people over the age of 30. But lighting a 12-foot high wooden structure on fire in a hotel lobby is frowned upon by most municipal fire codes.

> frowned upon

Pussies, SafespaceLibtards, I-thought-this-was-Amer… etc.

Meanwhile in Bavaria, this is (as noted in the link) perhaps not the best imaginable application of this remarkable 21st century technology.

> Those candidates really did
> think they excelled at Excel.

Yeah, I've seen that pattern as well.

> he's looking for a new college
> graduate with 5 years experience
> in 2-year-old technology.

Yes, and starting at $61,000 with shabby bennies.

$61K post-dic, mind you. Next:

When someone says this-or-that nation is so much better than the United States in some poignant way, it seems to go like this.

Typo. That was supposed to be post-dOc, like postgrad, like I can't afford a new laptop because of me school loans.

We're all dic'd.

Why communism/socialism failed

https://www.autotrader.com/car-video/the-trabant-was-an-awful-car-made-by-communists-258699

Now imagine millions of these running around in central europe for decades, along with its big brotha': the Wartburg.

...and people had to wait years for this sought after commodity

But lighting a 12-foot high wooden

isn't burning something now verboten?
ya know, creates carbon emissions

Why communism/socialism failed ~ Stinky the Clown at September 8, 2019 10:38 AM

The people advocating socialism don't think this will be their only car choice under socialism. As Camille Paglia pointed out in an artilce inked in an earlier thread, the country's socialism advocates think the capitalist-created Hondas and Volkswagens extant today will continue to exist under socialism; and that the safety and performance improvements happening today will continue under socialism as well. And that all workers will be able to afford them, even those workers who choose not to work.

And now, straight from Ionia, Michigan (Amy's home state):

5-Year-Old With Brain Cancer Finishes Kids’ Race at Bucket-List Event

An oldie but a goodie from 2016:

America Embraces the Tyranny its Founders Fought to Reject

(For those on here who think this is a boring redundancy post, because they already know how scrooooowed we are, feel free to skip this.)

Interesting post:

NIV Quest Study Bible: Is There Any “Secular” Evidence to Support the Bible’s Claims?

What a lovely place. You can even smell the creosote just by looking at the wood furnishing

https://twitter.com/andrewkeates/status/1170465014374961152

Meanwhile in Bavaria, this is (as noted in the link) perhaps not the best imaginable application of this remarkable 21st century technology.

Not even vampires would incinerate as fast as this car when the sunlight hits it.

Vegans in Spain.

https://nationalfile.com/vegans-storm-spanish-rabbit-farm-surprised-when-farmers-fight-back/

Further down in that post, a link to vegans segregating roosters from hens to prevent rape. I guess they've never seen hens and their rooster getting jiggy with it. Loud, noisy, looks violent, and is over in 30 seconds. But the hen assumes the position, so isn't that consent?

http://nationalfile.wpengine.com/vegan-activists-segregate-hens-from-roosters-so-the-hens-arent-raped/

If you think Star Trek: Discovery sucks because of the producers,

give some credit to the HR department.