I honestly don’t know where to post this.

JohnInCarolina

CPFC1905 said:

By good fortune I have completely forgotten how to embed a video.


Even our batsh*t crazy former leaders have not gone down the particular rabbit hole of bonkersness 

Here’s a Twitter thread with suggested names for the band.  Some of them are hilarious.

http://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1631731657962135565?s=20

lousubcap

A jaw dropper article:

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/jaw-surgery-men?utm_

JohnInCarolina

lousubcap said:

A jaw dropper article:

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/jaw-surgery-men?utm_

Crazy.

There was some show years ago that chronicled some questionable plastic surgery practices.  I’ll never forget this one guy who was so upset his calves were tiny.  He worked out every day, just couldn’t build up the muscle there at all, no matter what he did.

So he got implants.  In his lower legs, just to make his calves look bigger.  Walked into the gym after recovery and some guy shouts out “Look he’s got titties in his legs!” 

fishlessman

JohnInCarolina said:

lousubcap said:

A jaw dropper article:

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/jaw-surgery-men?utm_

Crazy.

There was some show years ago that chronicled some questionable plastic surgery practices.  I’ll never forget this one guy who was so upset his calves were tiny.  He worked out every day, just couldn’t build up the muscle there at all, no matter what he did.

So he got implants.  In his lower legs, just to make his calves look bigger.  Walked into the gym after recovery and some guy shouts out “Look he’s got titties in his legs!” 

He should of just bought of bought a lobster boat

nolaegghead

lousubcap said:

A jaw dropper article:

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/jaw-surgery-men?utm_

My god, that was like reading War and Peace

Botch

Both my 4-yr-old iPhone, and my 2-yr Macbook Pro, use "fingerprint ID" to unlock. This was a big advantage in my iPhone's early days, when COVID hit; I could unlock my phone with my finger, not having to remove my mask for face ID (since corrected, I understand). Pay for my groceries without touching anything. Nice.
Tonight I was again reminded that fingerprint ID doesn't work, after you've done dishes in the sink. Had to type in my password to open my laptop, and for shitzn-gigglz I checked, had to do the same thing on my phone. It's now 20 minutes later and I was able to open the phone with my un-puckered fingerprint, so I guess that's the "window".  
I don't know if this will become a factor somewhere in my Life, but it was interesting.

alaskanassasin

Botch said:

Both my 4-yr-old iPhone, and my 2-yr Macbook Pro, use "fingerprint ID" to unlock. This was a big advantage in my iPhone's early days, when COVID hit; I could unlock my phone with my finger, not having to remove my mask for face ID (since corrected, I understand). Pay for my groceries without touching anything. Nice.
Tonight I was again reminded that fingerprint ID doesn't work, after you've done dishes in the sink. Had to type in my password to open my laptop, and for shitzn-gigglz I checked, had to do the same thing on my phone. It's now 20 minutes later and I was able to open the phone with my un-puckered fingerprint, so I guess that's the "window".  
I don't know if this will become a factor somewhere in my Life, but it was interesting.

I set my phone security for the max allowable time so usually I unlock it in the morning and never have to mess with it again all day.

Canugghead

Botch said:

Both my 4-yr-old iPhone, and my 2-yr Macbook Pro, use "fingerprint ID" to unlock. This was a big advantage in my iPhone's early days, when COVID hit; I could unlock my phone with my finger, not having to remove my mask for face ID (since corrected, I understand). Pay for my groceries without touching anything. Nice.
Tonight I was again reminded that fingerprint ID doesn't work, after you've done dishes in the sink. Had to type in my password to open my laptop, and for shitzn-gigglz I checked, had to do the same thing on my phone. It's now 20 minutes later and I was able to open the phone with my un-puckered fingerprint, so I guess that's the "window".  
I don't know if this will become a factor somewhere in my Life, but it was interesting.

Reminds me of a story I was told when I joined the life insurance company many moons ago...
A company got suspicious of a guy living 'forever' cashing his monthly annuity cheque and launched an investigation; turned out his kids preserved his thumb  . Not sure if it was true.

lousubcap

@Botch - Way too many dishes or way too much time playing in the sink right there.

HeavyG

Simple solution for pruney-finger. Or, alternatively, gloves...

JohnInCarolina

alaskanassasin said:

Botch said:

Both my 4-yr-old iPhone, and my 2-yr Macbook Pro, use "fingerprint ID" to unlock. This was a big advantage in my iPhone's early days, when COVID hit; I could unlock my phone with my finger, not having to remove my mask for face ID (since corrected, I understand). Pay for my groceries without touching anything. Nice.
Tonight I was again reminded that fingerprint ID doesn't work, after you've done dishes in the sink. Had to type in my password to open my laptop, and for shitzn-gigglz I checked, had to do the same thing on my phone. It's now 20 minutes later and I was able to open the phone with my un-puckered fingerprint, so I guess that's the "window".  
I don't know if this will become a factor somewhere in my Life, but it was interesting.

I set my phone security for the max allowable time so usually I unlock it in the morning and never have to mess with it again all day.

For a lot of us, the use of a super fast screen lock  for security is overkill.  

nolaegghead

Botch said:

Both my 4-yr-old iPhone, and my 2-yr Macbook Pro, use "fingerprint ID" to unlock. This was a big advantage in my iPhone's early days, when COVID hit; I could unlock my phone with my finger, not having to remove my mask for face ID (since corrected, I understand). Pay for my groceries without touching anything. Nice.
Tonight I was again reminded that fingerprint ID doesn't work, after you've done dishes in the sink. Had to type in my password to open my laptop, and for shitzn-gigglz I checked, had to do the same thing on my phone. It's now 20 minutes later and I was able to open the phone with my un-puckered fingerprint, so I guess that's the "window".  
I don't know if this will become a factor somewhere in my Life, but it was interesting.

You can always add more fingerprints to your id vault.  Soak your hands first so it recognizes your prunes.

Canugghead

nolaegghead said:

Botch said:

Both my 4-yr-old iPhone, and my 2-yr Macbook Pro, use "fingerprint ID" to unlock. This was a big advantage in my iPhone's early days, when COVID hit; I could unlock my phone with my finger, not having to remove my mask for face ID (since corrected, I understand). Pay for my groceries without touching anything. Nice.
Tonight I was again reminded that fingerprint ID doesn't work, after you've done dishes in the sink. Had to type in my password to open my laptop, and for shitzn-gigglz I checked, had to do the same thing on my phone. It's now 20 minutes later and I was able to open the phone with my un-puckered fingerprint, so I guess that's the "window".  
I don't know if this will become a factor somewhere in my Life, but it was interesting.

You can always add more fingerprints to your id vault.  Soak your hands first so it recognizes your prunes.

Playing devil's advocate here, do you freeze and scald your fingers as well, just in case? 

Canugghead

Canugghead said:

nolaegghead said:

Botch said:

Both my 4-yr-old iPhone, and my 2-yr Macbook Pro, use "fingerprint ID" to unlock. This was a big advantage in my iPhone's early days, when COVID hit; I could unlock my phone with my finger, not having to remove my mask for face ID (since corrected, I understand). Pay for my groceries without touching anything. Nice.
Tonight I was again reminded that fingerprint ID doesn't work, after you've done dishes in the sink. Had to type in my password to open my laptop, and for shitzn-gigglz I checked, had to do the same thing on my phone. It's now 20 minutes later and I was able to open the phone with my un-puckered fingerprint, so I guess that's the "window".  
I don't know if this will become a factor somewhere in my Life, but it was interesting.

You can always add more fingerprints to your id vault.  Soak your hands first so it recognizes your prunes.

Playing devil's advocate here, do you freeze and scald your fingers as well, just in case? 

Seriously though, remember that in case of emergency you don't need to unlock the phone to call 911.

nolaegghead

Canugghead said:

nolaegghead said:

Botch said:

Both my 4-yr-old iPhone, and my 2-yr Macbook Pro, use "fingerprint ID" to unlock. This was a big advantage in my iPhone's early days, when COVID hit; I could unlock my phone with my finger, not having to remove my mask for face ID (since corrected, I understand). Pay for my groceries without touching anything. Nice.
Tonight I was again reminded that fingerprint ID doesn't work, after you've done dishes in the sink. Had to type in my password to open my laptop, and for shitzn-gigglz I checked, had to do the same thing on my phone. It's now 20 minutes later and I was able to open the phone with my un-puckered fingerprint, so I guess that's the "window".  
I don't know if this will become a factor somewhere in my Life, but it was interesting.

You can always add more fingerprints to your id vault.  Soak your hands first so it recognizes your prunes.

Playing devil's advocate here, do you freeze and scald your fingers as well, just in case? 

There’s always the password…. 

nolaegghead

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gun-culture-wellness-empowerment_n_5aa6c606e4b087e5aaecb6a5

Botch

From Robert Reich's newsletter this morning:
 

Former Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker sold $3.6 million worth of shares on Feb. 27, just days before the bank disclosed a large loss that triggered its stock slide and collapse. Over the previous two years, Becker sold nearly $30 million of stock.

But Becker won’t rake in the most from this mess. Jamie Dimon, chair and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the biggest Wall Street bank, will likely make much more.

That’s because depositors in small and medium-sized banks are now fleeing to the safety of JPMorgan and other giant banks that have been deemed “too big to fail” because the government bailed them out in 2008.

Last Friday afternoon, the deputy Treasury Secretary, Wally Adeyemo, met with Dimon at his office in New York. He asked Dimon whether the failure of Silicon Valley Bank could spread to other banks. “There’s a potential,” Dimon responded. Presumably, Dimon knew such contagion would mean vastly more business for J.P. Morgan. In a note to clients on Monday, bank analyst Mike Mayo wrote that JPMorgan in particular is "battle-tested" in volatile markets and "epitomizes" how the largest US banks have shed risk since the 2008 financial crisis. "Recent industry developments should further its ability to gather core funding and act as a source of strength." 

Recall that the 2008 financial crisis generated a gigantic shift of assets to the biggest Wall Street banks, with the result that JPMorgan and the other giants became far bigger. In the early 1990s, the five largest banks had accounted for only 12 percent of US bank deposits. After the crisis, they accounted for nearly half.

After this week, they’ll be even bigger.

Their giant size has already given them a huge but hidden federal subsidy estimated to be $83 billion annually — a premium that investors and depositors willingly pay to these enormous banks in the form of higher fees and lower returns, because they’re too big to fail. Some of this hidden federal subsidy goes into the pockets of bank executives. Last year alone, Dimon earned $34.5 million. (Greg Becker is a piker by comparison.)

Jamie Dimon was at the helm in 2008 when JPMorgan received $25 billion from the federal government to help stem the financial crisis which had been brought on largely by the careless and fraudulent lending practices of JPMorgan and other big banks. Dimon earned $20 million that year.

In March 2009 President Obama summoned Dimon and other top bank executives to the White House and warned them that “my administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.” But Obama never publicly rebuked Dimon or the other big bankers. When asked about the generous pay Dimon and other Wall Street CEOs continued to rake in, Obama defended them as “very savvy businessmen” and said he didn’t “begrudge peoples’ success or wealth. That’s part of the free market system.”

What free market system? Taxpayers had just bailed out the banks, and the bank CEOs were still raking in fat paychecks. Yet 8.7 million Americans lost their jobs, causing the unemployment rate to soar to 10 percent. Total U.S. household net worth dropped by $11.1 trillion. Housing prices dropped by a third nationwide from their 2006 peak, causing some 10 million people to lose their homes.

Rather than defend those CEO paychecks, Obama might have demanded, as a condition of getting bailed out, that the banks help underwater homeowners on Main Street.

Another sensible proposal would have been to let bankruptcy judges restructure shaky home mortgages so that borrowers didn’t owe as much and could remain in their homes. Yet the big banks, led by Dimon, opposed this. They thought they’d do better by squeezing as much as possible out of distressed homeowners, and then collecting as much as they could on foreclosed homes. In April 2008, Dimon and the banks succeeded: The Senate formally voted down a bill that would have allowed bankruptcy judges to modify mortgages to help financially distressed homeowners.

In the run-up to the 2020 election, Dimon warned against policies that Bernie Sanders and AOC were then advocating, including Medicare for all, paid sick leave, and free public higher education. Dimon said they amounted to “socialism.” “Socialism,” he wrote, “inevitably produces stagnation, corruption and often worse — such as authoritarian government officials who often have an increasing ability to interfere with both the economy and individual lives—which they frequently do to maintain power,” adding that socialism would be “a disaster for our country.”

Dimon also warned against “over-regulation” of banking, cautioning that in the next financial crisis, big institutions like J.P. Morgan won’t be able to provide the lending they did during the last crisis. “When the next real downturn begins, banks will be constrained – both psychologically and by new regulations – from lending freely into the marketplace, as many of us did in 2008 and 2009. New regulations mean that banks will have to maintain more liquidity going into a downturn, be prepared for the impacts of even tougher stress tests and hold more capital,” he wrote.

But as was demonstrated again this past week, American capitalism needs strict guardrails. Otherwise, it is subject to periodic crises that summon bailouts. The result is socialism for the rich while everyone else is subject to harsh penalties: Bankers get bailed out and the biggest banks and bankers do even better. Yet average people who cannot pay their mortgages lose their homes. Meanwhile, almost 30 million Americans still lack health insurance, most workers who lose their job aren’t eligible for unemployment insurance, most have no paid sick leave, child labor is on the rise, and nearly 51 million households can’t afford basic monthly expenses such as housing, food, child care, and transportation.

alaskanassasin

I am never planning to retire ^^

dmchicago

Window, Ice… what’s the difference?

lousubcap

That's quite a twist on the window exit from a hotel strategy as the preferred method.  I'm sure it was a complete accident. 

Not even the first floor is safe anymore. 

fishlessman

lousubcap said:

That's quite a twist on the window exit from a hotel strategy as the preferred method.  I'm sure it was a complete accident. 

Not even the first floor is safe anymore. 

maybe the drowning occurred in the bathroom sink and the body was moved

nolaegghead

The ice is a window one can see through but not pass, until it is broken….and the defenestration ensues.  

dmchicago

Botch

Last year M&Ms candies changed their advertising cartoon characters, and the anti-woke trumpladytes called for a boycott.  M&M responded with a clever SuperBowl ad, and further infuriated them.
Soon after, BotFC made fun of the anti-wokes in one of his clips, and ended it with, "You guys should really go after this  candy manufacturer, as their name has both personal pronouns, Her and She!  
At that point, I'm not sure which happened next.  Either a) Hershey's trumpeted the idea with their  new wrapper:

 ... or b) the trumpladytes called for a boycott and Hershey responded with a)!  I don't normally follow hate-based, traitor-type websites so this was news to me, but I didn't know whether to laugh or just shake my head.  The bottom 1/4 of this country has gone 100% looney-tune on us, wtf.
 
Beau ended his latest segment by re-baiting the hook: he said the really  Evil candy company they should go after is the maker of "Mike & Ike's", two guys together on the same box!!    

JohnInCarolina

Only in Florida would the David statue be considered pornography

https://www.yahoo.com/news/italian-art-experts-astonished-david-132445908.html

Botch

Botch said:

The bottom 1/4 of this country has gone 100% looney-tune on us, wtf.  

According to surveys tonight on PBS, its closer to "the bottom 2/5ths" of this country.  
My gawd, we've gotta restore proper education in this nation.  The bigoted, antisemitic, mysogynist trumplicans are gaining ground.     

StillH2OEgger

JohnInCarolina said:

Only in Florida would the David statue be considered pornography

https://www.yahoo.com/news/italian-art-experts-astonished-david-132445908.html

Did they already get rid of the National Geographics and Sears catalogs?

HeavyG

JohnInCarolina said:

Only in Florida would the David statue be considered pornography

https://www.yahoo.com/news/italian-art-experts-astonished-david-132445908.html

Kinda ironic since Florida is home to the Bang Bus.

But we shouldn't forget when US Attorney General John Ashcroft spent $8k taxpayer dollars to hang drapes to hide the art deco statue installed in the 1930's "Spirit of Justice"  cuz boob.

dbCooper

Some words from H. L. Mencken written in 1956...

https://cuencahighlife.com/down-with-the-uplifter/

JohnInCarolina

“The government is spending too much money, and also not enough on all the things we care about and that happen to comprise the majority of its budget!”

Cognitive dissonance for the win.