Those that enter the ring at WrestleMania do so in the footprints of legends. Set to Freddie Blassie’s intro to WrestleMania XV
This week The Tramp takes a quick look at the Enzo and XFL news, but also previews this weekend’s big shows including the big East Coast Indie shows - #Spiritof76 from Beyond and WWR’s Five Year Plan - and of course NXT TakeOver and WWE’s Royal Rumble!
It’s way too late for this, but it’s important to note that NASA didn’t discover the new earth-like planets. It was a group of astronomers lead by a dude name Michaël Gillon from the University of Liège in Belgium. Giving NASA credit for this gives the United States credit for something they didn’t do, and we already have a problem with making things about ourselves so. just like…be mindful. I’d be pissed if I discovered a small solar system and credit was wrongfully given to someone else.
This is valid. NASA’s involvement in this was predominantly in the use of of Spitzer data to validate findings from a primarily European funded program (TRAPPIST). There were Americans (or at least, an American) on the team, but beyond it being a collaborative and data-sharing arrangement this isn’t primarily an Agency achievement.
I’m here for the Belgians in the tags and also…totally didn’t know trappist was the name of a beer, I fucking love learning shit on my own posts.
Yay for Belgians! And yeah, it totally explains the name. I thought I was being an obnoxious beer nerd by thinking that, but nope.
As another obnoxious beer nerd, I feel the need to clarify that it’s not a beer made only by Belgians. A couple years ago America actually started brewing Trappist beer.
Trappist refers to beer made in a monastery, either by the monks or under their supervision, must be non-disruptive towards the worshipful primary purpose of the monastery, and the venture must be non-profit.
The beers made by Trappist breweries tend to be Dubbels or Trippels, but there doesn’t seem to be any requirement for this to be the case to maintain the Trappist qualification. Breweries making the same style beers often call them “Abbey ales” to evoke the idea of a Trappist monastery without infringing upon the International Trappist Association’s trademark.
But to bring it back to “YAY BELGIUM!” it should be noted that, while “Trappist” isn’t exclusive to the Belgians, they do have more Trappist breweries than all other nations put together do.
“The online alt-right is built on lulz, and on an insulated privilege enjoyed by people without any personal context for or historical understanding of the things their privilege lets them say. Rewriting Felix Kjellberg’s history to make him a monster — pulled along by the gravity of recent high-impact cautionary tales like those of Milo Yiannopolous and Richard Spencer — is investigative laziness that obscures a much more important fact: that “edgelords,” the boys and men who group together online for the explicit proliferation of hate speech and misogyny, will almost inevitably keep pushing the line until they end up in a truly dark place.
Because PewDiePie’s relationship to his following, like that of Milo to his own fans, is both a reciprocal system of validation and a male personality cult, we don’t diagnose it as anything out of the ordinary: We take it at face value, because “men are men.” We can demonize “them” (the ones who go too far) as an idea, continue to ignore them in reality, and then act shocked when their need for attention finally intersects with their ability to make themselves heard.
This isn’t about being right. Of course joke-racists, trolls, and budding fascists are wrong; of course they’re out of control, abetted by corporations who provide them with platforms to organize and speak. This is about understanding what lies beneath this dark side of the internet, and how to stop it.”
This is some bullshit, @buzzfeed. You need to be better than this.
Trying, multiple times, to tie Pewdiepie to Milo doesn’t serve anybody. Milo is not an entertainer. He has built his empire on hatred - on being the token minority in a movement that hates people like him by proclaiming his hatred for other groups they hate as well.
Pewdiepie is an entertainer and hatred has never been his goal. Entertainment was.
The “Death to Jews” video was a stupid fucking video and the joke wasn’t funny.
That doesn’t mean that it was meant in bad faith.
The entire point was to try to see just what horrible things they were willing to to for $5. It’s not a very original premise, but the joke rested on the idea that “Death to Jews” is a horrible thing to write and display.
It was a horrible joke but it wouldn’t be a joke if he really felt that way.
Pewdiepie has gone out of his way to distance himself from the alt-right that has endorsed him, while Milo embraces the hatred spewed by the vast majority of his fans.
Say Pewdiepie’s not funny. Say his videos are dumb as shit. Say most of his fans are mindless children with horrible taste. But don’t say that, other than a passing physical resemblance, that he has anything in common with Milo.
That’s some bullshit.
Brian Cash can put a figure to the cost of Alabama’s new immigration law: at least $100,000. That’s the value of the tomatoes he has personally ripening out in his fields and that are going unpicked because his Hispanic workforce vanished literally overnight.
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Cash gets angry when people tell him that his Hispanic workforce was
taking jobs away from Americans. Since the new law began two weeks ago
only two American citizens have come by his farm asking for work.
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Wish me luck
I’ve got a job interview in a few hours - only the third one I’ve had since leaving my old job almost a year ago.
A lot of that is because I haven’t been trying as hard as I should, but part of the reason I haven’t been trying is because only getting three interviews is pretty defeating.
It’s a vicious cycle.
I’m very nervous because the job would pay excellently, especially relative to the area I live in. The schedule would likely be very inconsistent, but that’s not something I haven’t had to work around in the past.
It would likely throw my schedule for wrestling stuff into disarray, but whatever. That’s spare time work anyway. Having cash in my pocket would give me more time with friends, which I’ve been missing out on lately.
