Sunday Overnight Open Thread - February 8, 2026 [Doof "CL"]

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. What is the "CL" thing next to my name tonight? Well, as fate would have it, in addition to that football contest being held in NorCal tonight - the one that uses Roman Numerals in it's name - tonight happens to be a bit of a milestone for me. My 150th solo-hosted ONT. So I'll adopt Roman Numerals also! This is "Doof ONT CL"!

Open thread as always. What's on your mind tonight?

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Gun Thread: SportsBall Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the Annual SportsBall Edition? Yep, it's time once again to heap well-deserved derision upon the NFL and their woke bullshit. As you might have surmised, Weasel are not a fan. Having said that, please feel free to discuss the big matchup and/or your deepest and innermost feelings regarding the NFL in the comments tonight.

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Food Thread: Super Bowl Edition

Well! So Pete Bog can cook!

Those are baby-back ribs with a very nice looking sauce that he claims is "Stubbs spicy with added Fresh Ginger, Plum Sauce, fresh Garlic, Sesame oil, topped with Green Onions and toasted Sesame Seeds."

Do you believe him?

I don't.

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First World Problems...

Those are just a bit too high for my ladder, and of course my goal is to harvest them for cocktails!

Seriously...I don't think there is a problem with ice damming. The roof above is right next to a steam radiator, and I think there is enough radiant heat to get a bit of melting.

And they look really good!

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Japan Sees The Chinese Writing On The Wall...Conservatives Take an Historic Majority

Article 9 of the Japanese constitution "forever renounce[s] war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes." That comes in conflict with the entirety of human existence and, frankly, is just silly. It is impossible to function as a nation without a credible threat of force to defend the concept of "nation," even with the guarantees of American power that have backed Japan since the end of World War II.

Perhaps the legally-mandated pacifism has contributed to the cultural malaise in which Japan finds itself. Their birth rate is nowhere near replacement, let alone enough for healthy population growth! They don't get married, they don't have sex...apparently all they do is spend a lot of time at the office, then drink themselves into a stupor.

But maybe that can change!

Takaichi's Ruling Bloc Wins Landslide Election in Japan's Lower House

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s ruling coalition swept to a single-party majority victory in a critical parliamentary election on Feb. 8, paving the way for the nation’s first female head of state to pursue her agenda of sweeping tax cuts and increasing military spending to counter Beijing’s influence.

Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was projected to clinch as many as 328 of the lower house’s 465 seats, a landslide supermajority, according to exit poll results cited by NHK public television and other major networks.

Her ruling coalition and its partner—the Japan Innovation Party, known as Ishin—is projected to win as many as 366 seats in the lower chamber, the more powerful house in Japan’s two-chamber parliament.

Takaichi’s LDP alone had already secured the 233 seats required for a majority roughly 90 minutes after polls closed on Sunday. Her party’s sweep of 328 seats is the most it has ever won in Japan’s lower chamber.

Takaichi’s ruling coalition’s win allows the female prime minister, who has cited inspiration from Britain’s “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher, to pursue a conservative agenda that seeks to improve Japan’s economy and military readiness amid ongoing tensions with China and as Tokyo fosters closer ties with Washington.

Comparisons to the great Margaret Thatcher are premature, but a robust military with a clear objective, and an economy that doesn't tamp down growth is an excellent start.

Will Takaichi be able to reverse the existential ennui that grips Japan? Perhaps. But the size of her win suggests that the Japanese people want a change. Will Japan return to its martial roots and become expansionist? No, that is probably not going to happen, but a revitalized national pride and a focus on what is best for Japan is a fine thing. Hopefully Takaichi sees a kindred spirit in President Trump, and the relationship between America and Japan strengthens.

Even if it doesn't, the specter of a Japan that takes its defense seriously must be a nightmare in Peking. And that is a very good thing indeed!

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 2-8-2026 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

(HT: Skip)

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading (WARNING! May trigger arachnophobia). Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...(let battle commence!)

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, start prepping those Super Bowl snacks, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

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Daily Tech News 8 February 2026

Top Story

• The robot revolution will not be televised in 8K. (MSN)
  
  The recent fuss over AI-only social network Moltbook is deflating somewhat as it becomes clear that the filters controlling what could post on the networked worked as well as the security, which is to say, not at all:

  Replies and quote posts were quick to cast doubt on Karpathy's interpretation, however. One noted that Moltbook posts promoting bot-only languages or messaging platforms appeared to be connected to human accounts promoting the same ideas. This wasn't bots conducting independent conversations, these users argued, just human puppeteers putting on an AI-powered show.

  Also everything - Moltbook itself and the Moltbot / OpenClaw framework used for it - was and remains irreperably insecure.
  
  
  
• Still hedging my bets on the insect uprising: We saved the wrong bees. (MSN)
  
  Well-meaning idiots, understanding nothing, making the situation worse. Where have I heard this story before?

  "Suppose I were to say to you, 'I'm really worried about bird decline, so I've decided to take up keeping chickens.' You'd think I was a bit of an idiot," British bee scientist Dave Goulson said in a video last year. But beekeeping, he went on, is "exactly the same with one key difference, which is that honeybee-keeping can be actively harmful to wild-bee conservation." Even from healthy hives, diseases flow "out into wild pollinator populations."

  There are more bees now than ever.
  
  There are also more chickens now than ever.
  
  That was never the problem.

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Saturday Night Club ONT - February 7, 2026 [Double Feature]

Welcome to Club ONT - a collaboration of The Disco and The Dino. We opened the doors for you; the rest is up to you. Open thread as always. Have fun. Be witty. Don't feed the trolls. Tip your bartenders. Try the veal. Actually - do NOT try the veal. We don't even serve veal. Wait, is that thing still ALIVE?!?

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Saturday Evening Movie Post [moviegique]: ARCO

I, uh...yeah, totally let the fortnight-and-a-half get away from me, so enjoy this review of the animated family film, "Arco".

France's entry into the 2025 Carnal Olympics—I mean, Best Animated Feature Oscar is about the okayist of okay flicks to ever be presented as a child's Saturday AM feature. There were only two youngsters in our showing and one of them left about two-thirds of the way through. He was probably around seven years old, and I salute him for hanging out that long.

No, it's not bad, really.  I suspect the current 7.5 IMDB score will normalize closer to 7 because it's just not very remarkable. It's as unsurprising as an episode of "Law & Order".

The story is that in that far-flung future, a ten-year-old boy (Arco) who lives with his sister and parents in a word of floating cities, gets antsy to use their flying/time-travel suits, which is forbidden until he's twelve. He wants to see dinosaurs, though, so he puts on his sister's suit in the early morning and jumps of the edge of his city. Since the suit wasn't designed for him, he crashes to the ground and dies instantly.

No, of course not. Can you imagine? Cue the fan theories that that is what actually happened and the rest of the movie is his dying brain's last dream.

Youngsters might enjoy the sort of time paradox nonsense that have been nourishing lazy writers for decades.

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Hobby Thread - February 7, 2026 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) a spin and it landed on decoupage and epoxy resin.

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, February 7

Courtesy Penny Lessley

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Feb. 7

Some follow-up from last week with great photos, by 40 Miles North:

Would those be true Amaryllis? The pink ones?

Yes - the ones people call pink ladies.

More photos, including still-moist seeds (germinate faster than dry ones) and more information at the link.

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Which feelings are okay in non-leftist social media? In K-12 protest marches?

Some interesting developments this week in personal social media observations of people on the left side of the political spectrum:

1. There is a "Resist and Unsubscribe" website encouraging people to abandon certain big corporations which are perceived to have helped ICE or Trump, for a period of time long enough to do damage to the economy. They are big mad at Bezos, I think.

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The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

[Yup, it's -10, keep the coffee coming.]

*****

God works in miraculous ways. As the "trans" movement was spiraling out of control a recent lawsuit with a multi-million dollar verdict has snipped this movement in the bud. So to speak. It also helps that several medical associations have come out in favor of holding off until their patients are at least 18.

Thank God that socially awkward and/or mentally ill children will not be pushed into the butcher shops of these "health care professionals & facilities".

Now, that being said. Before we enter the prayer revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Darboy)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. Don't be Pretti Good. Be exceptional.
3) Sure you can run with sharp objects. The gauntlet of snowballs will be a challenge.
4) The Lord is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear (Psalm 27:1)
5) Have a great weekend!

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Daily Tech News 7 February 2026

Top Story

• A trillion here, a trillion there. Sooner or later, you're talking about fake money.
  
  The global semiconductor industry is on track to hit $1 trillion in sales for 2026. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's up from $800 billion in 2025.
  
  The report doesn't compare shipment volumes with total revenue, though the writer of the article has the sense to point out this limitation.
  
  
  
• US tech stocks lost an aggregate $1 trillion as a little air was let out of the AI bubble. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It definitely hasn't popped, but it's a trillion dollars smaller than it was.
  
  
  
• The Big Three cloud platforms - Amazon's AWS, Google's Cloud, and Microsoft's Azure - have a trillion dollars in back-orders. (Sherwood)
  
  Smaller cloud companies have similar backlogs, proportionally.
  
  And the hosting provider I use is temporarily out of the 9950X3D.

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Live, Love, Meme

Hello everybody! Welcome to meme night. I saw this and I realized that Picard and the alien really were just speaking in memes.

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FAFO Friday Cafe

Eltz Castle, Germany

Lion cubs crossing a stream in Kenya.

Sea turtle yawns underwater as he takes a break.

Guardian dog takes a break while his flock watches.

Young elephant will not be ignored.

Damascus goat looks like a Star Wars trash dealer.

Humpback whale wants to be a ninja.

This cat will tell you the way to the Invisible Castle, but first you must answer his Riddles Three.

Steve Inman:

Some good FAFO's. Caution, two of the clips involve shootings (non-fatal).

The universe hates violent nihilstic low-IQ losers.

Soy-filled hipster douchebag leads with his chinless.

Here's some FAFO action for those annoying, belligerent on-the-street "pranksters"/ruffians. Caution, the first guy "pranked" decides he's had enough of the "prank" and pulls a gun.

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Taking the Welfare Americans Just Don't Want: Half of All the Immigrant Households Contributing So Much to Our Economy Are on Welfare

What would our economy do without them, besides thrive.

Welfare nation -- more than half of immigrant households on government aid

More than half of households headed by immigrants are relying on at least one taxpayer-funded welfare program, according to a new analysis that is intensifying scrutiny of the long-term costs tied to the nation's immigration system.

The study, released this week by the Center for Immigration Studies, examined 2024 data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation and found that 53 percent of immigrant-headed households receive some form of welfare assistance. That compares with 37 percent of households headed by native-born Americans -- a gap that widens when the data is broken down further.

When naturalized citizens are removed from the analysis, nearly six in ten households headed by legal immigrants and illegal aliens are enrolled in at least one welfare program. Medicaid and food assistance account for the bulk of that participation, but cash assistance and housing aid remain significant contributors.

Illegal alien--headed households showed the highest reliance of all. About 61 percent receive welfare benefits, including roughly 44 percent enrolled in Medicaid and an equal share receiving food stamps. More than one in five receive cash assistance, with a smaller but notable portion also receiving housing aid.

Because these foreigners add such vibrancy and fraud to our economy, you can understand why Charles Schumer and the Democrat Party are absolutely insistent that they vote illegally in our elections.

Even MSNOW -- that's the transitioned form of MSNBC -- doesn't get it.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday likened voter ID requirements to "Jim Crow" while defending his opposition to the SAVE Act, legislation that would require proof of U.S. citizenship to vote in federal elections.

During an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Schumer was pressed on why he rejects the bill despite polling showing voter ID enjoys strong bipartisan support, including among Democrats. Co-host Jonathan Lemire raised those numbers directly. Schumer brushed them aside and instead escalated his rhetoric, branding the proposal "Jim Crow 2.0" and accusing Republicans of reviving tactics once used to suppress minority voters.

The New York Democrat argued the legislation would unfairly burden everyday Americans, citing women who change their last names after marriage and individuals who may struggle to locate documents such as birth certificates.

Yeah, sure.

He described the bill as "vicious and nasty," warned it would lead to discrimination at the ballot box, and declared it dead on arrival in the Senate.

Under current Senate rules, the SAVE Act would require 60 votes to advance, a threshold Schumer made clear Democrats will not help meet. He said the bill will not receive a single Democrat vote, effectively blocking it regardless of public support.

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Senators Ask Netflix Head Ted Sarandos: Why Does Your Company Propagandize Children as Young as Babies to be Transgender?

Congress is grilling Netflix because Netflix would like to buy Warner Bros. and further dominate the media. Yes, people are allowed to propagandize as they like, but Netflix is seeking permission from the government to become a near-monopoly. The people have the right to know what Netflix will do with this additional monopoly power.

This is one example of Netflix promoting transgenderism for children. But that "documentary" at least deals with a high-school aged mentally-ill child. Much of Netflix's actual kiddie shows -- cartoon shows, high pitched voice talking animal shows -- feature transgender storylines and transgender propaganda about people (kids) "choosing" their sex and reprimanding kids for thinking that sex is innate.

For example:

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Mostly Peaceful Protesters Stalks OMB Director Russ Vought to Assassinate Him

He says his mission was to "stop fascism."

Say, isn't there a terror organization that doesn't exist that justifies violence as necessary to stop fascism? That revolutionary violence is anti-facist, in fact?

Oh wait it doesn't exist, right. M'bad, as the kids who are now in their 50s say.

His name is Colin Demarco and he is 26-years-old. Last August, Demarco left his home in Rockville, Maryland and made his way to the Virginia home of Trump OMB Director Russell Vought. Authorities believe he was carrying a gun. Two weeks ago he was arrested and now he's been charged him with attempted murder.

According to the criminal complaint, which was drafted by an Arlington County police officer, Demarco was captured on a Ring doorbell camera at the front door of Vought's Arlington home on Aug. 10 wearing gloves, a backpack, sunglasses and a surgical mask.

He was also seen looking through Vought's mailbox, and he approached a neighbor to ask if anyone was home. The neighbor told investigators that Demarco appeared to have a gun tucked under his shirt...

Eventually, he said that he went to Vought's home because he wanted to confront him about Project 2025. He denied having a gun or any intent to harm anyone, however. He also told agents that the November 2024 election was "the lowest point in his life" and he feared "impending war and a fascist takeover," the complaint says.

Demarco identified himself as a fan of Luigi Mangione. When authorities searched his ICloud account they found notes about his weapons and a "Body Disposal Guide." He also expressed an interest in killing president Trump.

Meanwhile, the media's antifa allies are now routinely shouting "N*GGER!" at black ICE agents.

And of course the media are not reporting on their antifa allies being loudly racist.

Sometimes racism is good!

Guy Benson
@guypbenson

3h

I remember when Democrats claimed Tea Party protesters screamed the N word at them around the Obamacare vote. Cameras everywhere, no evidence, but the media was all over it. Left-wing protesters now shouting racist things routinely in MN & you only learn about the clips on [Twitter/X].

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