Wednesday Morning Rant

Second (Meta)verse, same as the first

Remember Google Glass? For those of you who don't, it was a product Google made back in the early teens. It was an "augmented reality" product. It was a pair of glasses that could project information in front of your eyes (a heads-up display, basically) and contained cameras and microphones. You could easily take pictures and videos with it and it integrated with your smartphone.

It was immediately rejected by the market, including in its home market of Silicon Valley. Even before the product was released, many public places - bars, nightclubs, etc. - preemptively banned it. It was seen, correctly, as a creepy and invasive privacy nightmare for people who happened to be around the product, but not in control of it. At least with a smartphone, you have to pull it out to take a picture. Way too many people found it way too creepy, for good reason. Google eventually made it into an "enterprise" product, and then discontinued it completely last year. They found the "creepy line."

So it should be utterly unsurprising that a couple of years ago, Meta - which owns Facebook, which uses the "creepy line" as an operational goal - decided to launch its own version of the product. Unlike Google Glass, Meta's "Metaverse" product doesn't have a heads-up display and so is much cheaper. It's just a pair of Ray-Bans with a couple of cameras, some microphones and speakers. So you can wander around and talk to your Meta apps to record the world around you. The product has been available for a little while, but I've recently seen a huge advertising push for it on multiple platforms. Now, apparently, is the time to flog it as hard as possible.

It solves precisely none of the privacy problems with Google Glass, and in fact makes them worse. Unlike its Silicon Valley cousin and most other "smartglasses," they don't look weird. It's not obvious that you're wearing them. Beyond being able to blend in effectively, they are also necessarily tied to Meta, which isn't exactly known for good privacy practices or being good stewards of user data.

Best of all, they can be used for live-streaming. The user can snap some pictures or 60-second videos, but the user can also use it as a real-time camera for live streams. It does apparently light up when in use, but the indicator is tiny and easily missed - especially if you don't know that it's a thing at all.

And it is also, of course, an extension of the "digital assistant" concept. There's no point if you have to fumble with buttons or pull out your phone to use it, and so it's voice-activated. Like any other "digital assistant," that means it's always listening. It isn't special in this regard, but it is among the worse expressions of the problem because it's mobile and public.

The Wikipedia page on it is funny in how similar it is to the page on Google Glass (linked above). Most of the same concerns are noted, with the same criticisms. None of it has been managed, none of it has been solved. The privacy problems are, in fact, unmanageable and unsolvable. The only reason it's not a significant problem in most places is that this is still, despite Meta's desires, a fairly niche product.

But a sexy, high-tech and invasive idea is rarely allowed to wither and die. "Smartglasses" are no different in this regard. The privacy-free, always-on, high-tech dystopia must be built. Be it "smartglasses" or always-listening digital assistants or Google's exhaustive dossiers on everyone on earth or Microsoft's Recall (old threads, etc.) or dreadful things not yet invented, you will be made to love the creepy line.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

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Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 11:01 AM (CIS44)

2 Hi

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 28, 2024 11:01 AM (+H2BX)

3 Not behind yet!

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 28, 2024 11:01 AM (JCLJi)

4 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2024 11:01 AM (WXNFJ)

5 But the Apple Vision headset is doing gangbusters, oh wait.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 11:01 AM (CIS44)

6
Metaverse 2:

Don't Believe Your Stupid Eyes, Believe Our Eyes!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2024 11:01 AM (eDfFs)

7 Not first. And good day all.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at August 28, 2024 11:02 AM (IBRKp)

8 But a sexy, high-tech and invasive idea is rarely allowed to wither and die. "Smartglasses" are no different in this regard. The privacy-free, always-on, high-tech dystopia must be built. Be it "smartglasses" or always-listening digital assistants or Google's exhaustive dossiers on everyone on earth or Microsoft's Recall (old threads, etc.) or dreadful things not yet invented, you will be made to love the creepy line.

They doubtless also intend that the data you collect be fed into their AI algorithm, without the need for any of those pesky consent issues.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:03 AM (xCA6C)

9 Quick transition or quick cissition?

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, volare nel blu dipinto di blu #56 at August 28, 2024 11:03 AM (qfLjt)

10 I just assume I'm on camera any time I'm in public.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 28, 2024 11:03 AM (2UnvF)

11 All I want is the x-ray glasses that used to be advertised in comic books.

But only when there are ladies around.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 11:04 AM (v6JzV)

12 They doubtless also intend that the data you collect be fed into their AI algorithm, without the need for any of those pesky consent issues.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:03 AM (xCA6C)
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Yup. They do this anyway, in other venues. When Zuckerberg told Congress that Meta doesn't collect data from or track non-users, he was flat-out lying. They do, and it's trivial to detect it. Social media buttons embedded in websites drop cookies, and those cookies have unique identifiers. Even if you're not a user, they still have a dossier on you.

Most Congressmen are too ignorant to know how to ask the questions properly, and the rest know full well what is going on but are in the club.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:04 AM (HnUIn)

13 Hey long until Google sells the “make everyone I look at nekkid” glasses?

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2024 11:04 AM (9loYT)

14 No matter how hard he tries, Zuckerberg can never fully conceal his alien origins.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2024 11:04 AM (jdHxK)

15 I just assume I'm on camera any time I'm in public.
Posted by: Duke Lowell a

Michigan State has turned their campus into basically a higher tech London with all their spy games and facial rec etc now.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 11:04 AM (CIS44)

16 But a sexy, high-tech and invasive idea is rarely allowed to wither and die. "Smartglasses" are no different in this regard. The privacy-free, always-on, high-tech dystopia must be built. Be it "smartglasses" or always-listening digital assistants or Google's exhaustive dossiers on everyone on earth or Microsoft's Recall (old threads, etc.) or dreadful things not yet invented, you will be made to love the creepy line.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

Thanks.
I'll be working the next vote and I'll watch for these as taking pictures in the voting area is against the law.
Side note: I wonder if the users will appreciate their voting being posted on FB.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 28, 2024 11:05 AM (RHeDx)

17 All I want is the x-ray glasses that used to be advertised in comic books.

But only when there are ladies around.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 11:04 AM (v6JzV)
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Well I'll be damned. It turns out she actually *is* big-boned.

Posted by: Bulgar, after getting the glasses at August 28, 2024 11:05 AM (HnUIn)

18 13 Hey long until Google sells the “make everyone I look at nekkid” glasses?
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2024 11:04 AM (9loYT)

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I just know the ones they sold in the back of comic books in the 60s were a huge disappointment.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2024 11:05 AM (jdHxK)

19 I just know the ones they sold in the back of comic books in the 60s were a huge disappointment.

We've all been there, my friend, we've all been there.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:06 AM (xCA6C)

20 I think that there can be a place for these smart glasses: manufacturing. For instance, if you have a trainee that needs training on a piece of equipment while they're in front of it, or if there is some on-the-spot troubleshooting that needs to be done on a machine in a factory or assembly line, it would be nice to get some feedback through your glasses and earpiece.

If you can compress a larger head's up display (HUD) to your glasses, that could be useful as well.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2024 11:06 AM (hqf3J)

21 So the takeaway is, if you see some douche wearing this thing, cry out, "Oh my God! A giant face hugging spider! I'll save you!" Then rip the glasses off their face, and stop them into rubble.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2024 11:07 AM (On+XH)

22 A must-have-not!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 28, 2024 11:07 AM (VgEdR)

23 Hey long until Google sells the “make everyone I look at nekkid” glasses?
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2024 11:04 AM (9loYT)
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LOL. Remember when Sony's first-generation night-vision system in camcorders could, under certain conditions, make people look naked (or, rather, like they were wrapped in thin gauze)?

They fixed that toot sweet. But it was also a different time. Now, it would probably be based on AI image generation/derivation to just generate an "unclothed" version of a normal picture...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:07 AM (HnUIn)

24 But only when there are ladies around.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Good morning, Big Boy, what ya got in mind?

Posted by: Ella Emhoff at August 28, 2024 11:07 AM (CV8a5)

25 I just know the ones they sold in the back of comic books in the 60s were a huge disappointment.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2024 11:05 AM (jdHxK)

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I dunno about that. I could see the sea monkeys in vivid detail.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 28, 2024 11:07 AM (2UnvF)

26 I just know the ones they sold in the back of comic books in the 60s were a huge disappointment.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Yeah, and the sea-monkey queen wasn't the hottie they showed in the ads, either.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 11:07 AM (v6JzV)

27
OUT: Man-Splaining

IN: Man-Splaining

The Coconut Harris/Stinky Whizzleteats Interview with Dana Bash may involve new heights of gaslighting and dancing!

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

Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2024 11:08 AM (eDfFs)

28 I just assume I'm on camera any time I'm in public.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Working at Bell Labs back in the late 70's I noticed there was an ongoing project to enable handsets to pick up (and transmit) conversations occurring in the room even when the set was not 'on'.

Don't know the status of that but I think we can safely assume 'they' have always been trying to spy on us mightily.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2024 11:08 AM (WXNFJ)

29 26 I just know the ones they sold in the back of comic books in the 60s were a huge disappointment.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Yeah, and the sea-monkey queen wasn't the hottie they showed in the ads, either.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 11:07 AM (v6JzV)

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I went such places in my submarine, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 11:08 AM (GBKbO)

30 I think that there can be a place for these smart glasses: manufacturing. For instance, if you have a trainee that needs training on a piece of equipment while they're in front of it, or if there is some on-the-spot troubleshooting that needs to be done on a machine in a factory or assembly line, it would be nice to get some feedback through your glasses and earpiece.

If you can compress a larger head's up display (HUD) to your glasses, that could be useful as well.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2024 11:06 AM (hqf3J)
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This was the premise behind the "Enterprise" version of Google Glass, per my understanding. And yes, it is a legitimate use for the technology.

A modern factory with tagged infrastructure could superimpose lots of useful information on a mobile HUD. Look up at the piping and see flow direction, valve locations, etc. "Augmented Reality" has some seriously interesting - and likely beneficial - operational implications for industry.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:09 AM (HnUIn)

31 As an output only device, a heads-up type display makes some sense. Having certain information always in your field of view makes sense. You no longer have to refocus on your wrist (a watch) or you hand (a phone) or even to the side (the map display on the dash).

But the idiots at Google had to put a camera on it, which changes it to an input device, and completely changes how it is used and perceived, hence the reaction to it.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at August 28, 2024 11:09 AM (7Lzky)

32 The product has been available for a little while, but I've recently seen a huge advertising push for it on multiple platforms. Now, apparently, is the time to flog it as hard as possible.

they're piling up in the warehouse and we'd like to use the space for something else.

Posted by: sugar mountain at August 28, 2024 11:09 AM (oY6Yp)

33 Willowed:

David French
@DavidAFrench
The next couple months are going to be full of accusations that a person can't be a Christian and vote how they're voting. Ignore those voices. There is no credible argument that our vote defines our walk with God.

That boy's got a good gig waiting at Our Sunday Visitor (a nominally Catholic newspaper). Reading between the lines, you can see it absolutely destroys them to admit Trump would be a better president for faithful Christians. They are not-so-secretly looking for another "pussy tape" to justify a Cackles vote.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 28, 2024 11:09 AM (Q0kLU)

34 Maybe a bit controversial take here, but I really like the idea of "augmented reality" pitched by Google glasses and such...I wouldn't purchase it now, though, because it's still clunky and limited.

Sure, there are privacy issues, but we're so digitally integrated, the privacy ship has sailed. But, if walking in another country, my glasses code translate signs in real time, highlight historical sites, guide me to my destination like a video game HUD? That would be awesome.

I'd even expect something like "private" or "stealth" mode. Alert me if a friend is nearby unless he's engaged the private mode to be left alone. To have a display identify someone talking to me would be great! I'm a fairly senior officer, and often have junior enlisted soldiers come up to talk to me that I served briefly with 15+ years ago. Instead of pretending to remember them, if their name and basic info was displayed, I might ACTUALLY remember them instead of awkwardly pretending.

Posted by: Military Moron at August 28, 2024 11:09 AM (JCZqz)

35 The same people freaking out about Glass and similar products as privacy concerns are the same ones celebrating government surveillance of political opponents. It's only a matter of whose ox is gored.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 11:10 AM (iFTx/)

36 Wasn't Newton a digital assistant?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2024 11:10 AM (63Dwl)

37 I went such places in my submarine, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 11:08 AM (GBKbO)

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Turns out that the ability of cardboard to resist high atmospheric pressure is for shit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2024 11:11 AM (jdHxK)

38 It's only a matter of whose ox is gored.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq.

Same as it ever was.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 11:11 AM (CIS44)

39 33 That boy's got a good gig waiting at Our Sunday Visitor (a nominally Catholic newspaper). Reading between the lines, you can see it absolutely destroys them to admit Trump would be a better president for faithful Christians. They are not-so-secretly looking for another "pussy tape" to justify a Cackles vote.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 28, 2024 11:09 AM (Q0kLU)

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My step-dad (since passed about 13 years ago) was an acquisitions editor for Our Sunday Visitor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

40 It's all a plot for Big Brother

Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2024 11:12 AM (Ep5Oo)

41 34 Maybe a bit controversial take here, but I really like the idea of "augmented reality" pitched by Google glasses and such...”

Does that come with augmented boobage?

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2024 11:12 AM (9loYT)

42 Sure, there are privacy issues, but we're so digitally integrated, the privacy ship has sailed. But, if walking in another country, my glasses code translate signs in real time, highlight historical sites, guide me to my destination like a video game HUD? That would be awesome.
Posted by: Military Moron

Yeah, that would be cool. Also, if it could identify the species of any animals you come across.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 11:12 AM (v6JzV)

43 Be it "smartglasses" or always-listening digital assistants or Google's exhaustive dossiers on everyone on earth or Microsoft's Recall (old threads, etc.) or dreadful things not yet invented, you will be made to love the creepy line.

For years, AT-and-T tried to force people to buy picture phone land lines, but nobody wanted them. A regular phone worked whereas a picture phone was wonky and could be abused for nefarious purposes.

But now everyone has a cell phone, which is a hand-held picture phone that can sext people.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 28, 2024 11:12 AM (Q0kLU)

44 I'm not making a judgement on the creep factor, in fact I agree with it.

That said, a little context in that recording people in public isn't illegal. There are many videos of people recording interactions with police out there, and they are all proper, after all.

What bothers most people though is the clandestine nature of it and I don't think was contemplated in the SCOTUS rulings on the subject. If I don't want to be recorded I can leave the area. But if I don't know that I'm being recorded then fuck the guy with the glasses sideways with a pineapple.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 28, 2024 11:12 AM (egtzA)

45 It’s all gay and stupid.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 28, 2024 11:13 AM (COYTF)

46 you will be made to love the creepy line.

C'mon, once everyone is brain stapled we'll be able to dial down the Sudden Jihadi Syndrome as needed.

Posted by: DaveA at August 28, 2024 11:13 AM (FhXTo)

47 The privacy-free, always-on, high-tech dystopia must be built.

The globalist aristocracy will permit nothing to escape the scrutiny of their joyful Gestapo. The Karen Kommissars are dripping in anticipation.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2024 11:13 AM (T7iTv)

48 ... Sure, there are privacy issues, but we're so digitally integrated, the privacy ship has sailed. But, if walking in another country, my glasses code translate signs in real time, highlight historical sites, guide me to my destination like a video game HUD? That would be awesome. ...
Posted by: Military Moron at August 28, 2024 11:09 AM (JCZqz)
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AR has potential, especially in industry. It could even be useful in the real world. "I'm looking for a restaurant" becomes easier when it gets a bright green halo around it as you're walking down the street, for example.

But that doesn't mean the device needs camera and microphone arrays that impose serious privacy breaches on everyone around them by definition. AR as a display technology may well be useful, but that doesn't mean AR devices need to be privacy nightmares.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:13 AM (HnUIn)

49 36 Wasn't Newton a digital assistant?

no, but he certainly could have used some of my digital assistance.

Posted by: charles babbage at August 28, 2024 11:13 AM (oY6Yp)

50 I'm a fairly senior officer, and often have junior enlisted soldiers come up to talk to me that I served briefly with 15+ years ago. Instead of pretending to remember them, if their name and basic info was displayed, I might ACTUALLY remember them instead of awkwardly pretending.

Huh, I hadn't considered that use. I'm almost retarded when it comes to remembering names and faces, so that would be very helpful.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:13 AM (xCA6C)

51
HOLY SH*T you all @TeamTrump has put out one of the most amazing & heart wrenching videos I HAVE SEEN.

https://t.ly/WBtFG

/ Have some tissue nearby

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 28, 2024 11:13 AM (RKVpM)

52 45 AR has potential

of all the ars, ar-15 is best.

Posted by: anachronda at August 28, 2024 11:14 AM (oY6Yp)

53 Well, since I believe both Google and Facebook have ties to the intelligence community, specifically the CIA, having them pump out gadgets that spies would use seems to check out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2024 11:14 AM (Q4IgG)

54 Posted by: WitchDoktor

Good to see you, Sir. How are you?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 11:14 AM (v6JzV)

55 They doubtless also intend that the data you collect be fed into their AI algorithm, without the need for any of those pesky consent issues.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:03 AM (xCA6C)

If you are in public then you have no reasonable expectation of privacy, comrade.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2024 11:14 AM (T7iTv)

56 Instead of pretending to remember them, if their name and basic info was displayed, I might ACTUALLY remember them instead of awkwardly pretending.
Posted by: Military Moron at August 28, 2024 11:09 AM (JCZqz)

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I ran into Al Gray, Commandant of the Marine Corps, at LeJuene in 88 after returning from deployment. He looked at me and said "didn't I meet you at 8th & I a while back?" I was impressed.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 28, 2024 11:14 AM (2UnvF)

57 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 11:14 AM (v6JzV)

Living the lurker lifestyle. How are you?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 28, 2024 11:14 AM (egtzA)

58 I had an idea for a dystopian short story or novel:

In the future, all individuals have an audio/video recording device implanted at birth that's connected to their and eyes and ears.

Many, missing the excitement and vitality of their youth, decide that when they're at midlife ... pretty much stop living anew and simply rewatch & relive the first X years of their lives.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 11:14 AM (G7Dfn)

59 But that doesn't mean the device needs camera and microphone arrays that impose serious privacy breaches on everyone around them by definition. AR as a display technology may well be useful, but that doesn't mean AR devices need to be privacy nightmares.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at

But how else will I catch all my Pokemon?

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 11:14 AM (CIS44)

60 One use for the Meta glass would be to record Antifa.

Antifa has established as a core principle that it is forbidden to record them in public, and they will assault anyone who tries to do so.

It would be useful to be able to have a device that could record them without their being aware of it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2024 11:14 AM (uxCna)

61 Shit just got real.

Beverly Hills Mansion Next Door To LeBron James's Home Is Overtaken By Squatters Hosting Nightly Raucous Raves

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 28, 2024 11:15 AM (L/fGl)

62 I’m wearing them now and live-streaming the comments. I already have 1 like and two lawsuits.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 28, 2024 11:15 AM (Aoykm)

63 So can we ask these smart sunglasses a question and get an instant reply, or they have to reflect on it.?

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, piove #57 at August 28, 2024 11:15 AM (qfLjt)

64 Cuckerberg apologized for censoring speech and being Biden’s bitch. Is it sincere? Who knows. But he did say it.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 28, 2024 11:15 AM (COYTF)

65 ProTip: The Giant Submarine isn't really all that and a bag of chips, either. Despite the glowing advertisement.

Space Patrol was a syndicated science fiction radio program in the 1950s. Sponsored by Ralston - Wheat Chex! Corn Chex!

The commercials sometimes featured genuine test pilots from Edwards, who would allow that if you want to be a rocket man, ya gotta eat a good healthy breakfast. I think the FCC stepped in at some point, and said this was taking it too far, something like that.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2024 11:15 AM (dq2qx)

66 That said, a little context in that recording people in public isn't illegal. There are many videos of people recording interactions with police out there, and they are all proper, after all.

What bothers most people though is the clandestine nature of it and I don't think was contemplated in the SCOTUS rulings on the subject. If I don't want to be recorded I can leave the area. But if I don't know that I'm being recorded then fuck the guy with the glasses sideways with a pineapple.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 28, 2024 11:12 AM (egtzA)
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"Public" depends on definition. On the street? Yeah, no restrictions. Inside a structure, be it a business or a home? No. You need permission.

Geofencing is one possible solution to that problem. Cameras and microphones shut off when you walk through the door. Some high-security enterprises do this today. You don't have to check your phone, but you do need an app that controls inputs. When you cross the virtual "fenceline," your camera and microphone are blocked by software until you leave. The systems don't work spectacularly well yet, but they're getting there.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:15 AM (HnUIn)

67 All I want is the x-ray glasses that used to be advertised in comic books.

But only when there are ladies around.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 11:04 AM (v6JzV)

1. Are you a biologist?
2. Think of some of the, theoretically female, creatures Akbar links. Would you like to reconsider your position?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2024 11:15 AM (T7iTv)

68 Funniest part about French’s whining is that he’s been calling people un-Christian for voting for Trump since 2016. Suddenly he doesn’t like it when his own attacks, with justification, come back at him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2024 11:16 AM (9loYT)

69 Living the lurker lifestyle. How are you?
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Fine. Still unemployed for over a year, but hope springs eternal.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 11:16 AM (v6JzV)

70 13
‘ Hey long until Google sells the “make everyone I look at nekkid” glasses?’
If Meta ever rolls Xray glasses into its snoop packages , they’ll fly off the shelf.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 28, 2024 11:16 AM (jbnUc)

71 it was said the portal for the dark web, was designed by the intel community, I forget what they are called

Posted by: no 6 at August 28, 2024 11:16 AM (PXvVL)

72 I ran into Al Gray, Commandant of the Marine Corps, at LeJuene in 88 after returning from deployment. He looked at me and said "didn't I meet you at 8th & I a while back?" I was impressed.

That is reportedly BJ Clinton's super power. He can remember everyone he ever met. That would be priceless for a political career.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:17 AM (xCA6C)

73 Just remember that everything you record will be beamed back to the mothership, and will be added to the voluminous file Meta has on you.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2024 11:17 AM (uxCna)

74 Antifa has established as a core principle that it is forbidden to record them in public, and they will assault anyone who tries to do so.

Is there an AR-15 with a camera attachment in addition to the thing that goes up?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 28, 2024 11:17 AM (FfSAJ)

75 I ran into Al Gray, Commandant of the Marine Corps, at LeJuene in 88 after returning from deployment. He looked at me and said "didn't I meet you at 8th & I a while back?" I was impressed.

That is reportedly BJ Clinton's super power. He can remember everyone he ever met. That would be priceless for a political career.

Well, except Monica Lewinsky.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:17 AM (xCA6C)

76 HOLY SH*T you all @TeamTrump has put out one of the most amazing & heart wrenching videos I HAVE SEEN.

https://t.ly/WBtFG

/ Have some tissue nearby
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Ugh. I only made it a minute in. . . .

*snif*

Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2024 11:17 AM (WXNFJ)

77 Michigan cheater Connor Stalions donned a pair of those Ray-Bans while playing dress up wearing Central Michigan coaching gear on the sideline in Spartan Stadium last fall. It was a night game.

Not a joke.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 28, 2024 11:17 AM (Y1sOo)

78 I always assume whenever I'm out in public I'm being recorded by something or other. At any kind of actual event? 100%

We had an exotic car event where the main guest was a very rich guy with a very rare and exotic car. He was to make a big entrance. He was of course going to be recorded.

Well, the guy is staged outside the event, waiting for the drive-in to start. He either didn't realize or forgot there were plenty of cameras on him even while stationary. The guy is just sitting there in the car . . . picking his nose like an animal. Like going real deep in there, like he was searching for the Holy Grail. All on video.

Luckily the guy was cool about it and just laughed with the rest of us.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

79 ah tor that was it,

Posted by: no 6 at August 28, 2024 11:18 AM (PXvVL)

80 The next couple months are going to be full of accusations that a person can't be a Christian and vote how they're voting.

The thing I love about this election is that morality can't be used against either candidate. Or rather, can be used against them in equal measure.

Our candidate cheated on his wife? Well, your candidate is the other woman in someone else cheating on his wife!

Our candidate said pussy in a locker room? Your candidate sucked cock to get all her political jobs!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2024 11:18 AM (hB7mE)

81 Well, since I believe both Google and Facebook have ties to the intelligence community, specifically the CIA, having them pump out gadgets that spies would use seems to check out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2024 11:14 AM (Q4IgG)

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Combined with undetectable #DeepFakes, imagine how easy it will be to frame people for crimes they never committed.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 11:18 AM (G7Dfn)

82 David French
@DavidAFrench
The next couple months are going to be full of accusations that a person can't be a Christian and vote how they're voting. Ignore those voices. There is no credible argument that our vote defines our walk with God.

Golden calf, golden bull, what's the difference?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 28, 2024 11:18 AM (cBhCZ)

83 Those will be a hit at strip clubs

Posted by: brak at August 28, 2024 11:18 AM (NGHTx)

84
53 Well, since I believe both Google and Facebook have ties to the intelligence community, specifically the CIA, having them pump out gadgets that spies would use seems to check out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2024 11:14 AM (Q4IgG)

Pretty sure spooks have had these for many years now. The new twist is putting Google, or Meta, in charge of everything they do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2024 11:18 AM (9loYT)

85 Well, the guy is staged outside the event, waiting for the drive-in to start. He either didn't realize or forgot there were plenty of cameras on him even while stationary. The guy is just sitting there in the car . . . picking his nose like an animal. Like going real deep in there, like he was searching for the Holy Grail. All on video.

Luckily the guy was cool about it and just laughed with the rest of us.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. a

*Lt Frank Drebin has entered the chat*

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 11:18 AM (CIS44)

86 AR has potential, especially in industry. It could even be useful in the real world. "I'm looking for a restaurant" becomes easier when it gets a bright green halo around it as you're walking down the street, for example.

But that doesn't mean the device needs camera and microphone arrays that impose serious privacy breaches on everyone around them by definition. AR as a display technology may well be useful, but that doesn't mean AR devices need to be privacy nightmares.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:13 AM (HnUIn)

Well to get your augmented reality, the device will have to have a camera that sees what your eyes see, and then relates it a database that fills in what your eyes cannot see. So you are working in an oil refinery, wearing the device, and you look at an overhead pipe, and it is shown to you in bright flashing red, because it carries H2S at 1200 PSI, and you don't want to be drilling into that to hang your "Work Safely" poster.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2024 11:19 AM (On+XH)

87 "Public" depends on definition. On the street? Yeah, no restrictions. Inside a structure, be it a business or a home? No. You need permission.

--

Well, inside a home isn't public. Agreed.

A business on the other hand can be a gray area I think. If it's open to the public then that has implications over a private club. Permission is likely implied in the former case barring a sign or notice to the contrary.

Another example - absolutely legal to record video when you walk into a police station. But agree that the rulings likely need to be looked at in the face of this technology.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 28, 2024 11:19 AM (egtzA)

88 34 Instead of pretending to remember them, if their name and basic info was displayed, I might ACTUALLY remember them instead of awkwardly pretending.

i hear ya. i'm the sort of person who has to be careful not to use sentences that require a person's name at family reunions.

Posted by: anachronda at August 28, 2024 11:19 AM (oY6Yp)

89 I went such places in my submarine, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

My homemade hovercraft was not full of eels.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 28, 2024 11:19 AM (cBhCZ)

90 That is reportedly BJ Clinton's super power. He can remember everyone he ever met. That would be priceless for a political career.

I have heard that Clinton could walk into a party full of people who he had never met, and by the end of the party would have convinced everyone at the party that they had made a new best friend.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2024 11:19 AM (uxCna)

91 ‘ Hey long until Google sells the “make everyone I look at nekkid” glasses?’
If Meta ever rolls Xray glasses into its snoop packages , they’ll fly off the shelf.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 28, 2024

***
Just what I want to see, Sofia Vergara's radius and ulna.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2024 11:19 AM (J2vNu)

92 If Meta ever rolls Xray glasses into its snoop packages , they’ll fly off the shelf.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 28, 2024 11:16 AM (jbnUc)

Have you looked around at people lately....?

Heh. There was a guy on 'The Price is Right.' He tells Drew he's a psychic medium. He won his prize....

Posted by: Stateless at August 28, 2024 11:19 AM (jvJvP)

93 Some high-security enterprises do this today. You don't have to check your phone, but you do need an app that controls inputs.

Back when I worked in a secure building, they had a wall full of cubbies / safes in which you were to put your phones and any other potential recording /broadcasting equipment. I imagine the penalties for forgetting would be Draconian.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:19 AM (xCA6C)

94 Dan Backer: The 2024 Election Is About Good Versus Evil. Which Side Are You On?

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Which side has cookies?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 28, 2024 11:21 AM (L/fGl)

95 ‘ Hey long until Google sells the “make everyone I look at nekkid” glasses?’

I was way ahead of the times, ordering X-ray glasses from the back of comic books when I was a kid!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 28, 2024 11:21 AM (w9Wax)

96 82 Golden calf, golden bull, what's the difference?

golden bull implies golden bullshit

Posted by: anachronda at August 28, 2024 11:21 AM (oY6Yp)

97 Ifn ya can't even light up a cigarette without being ejected or arrested, it ain't nohow a private place, near as I can figure out. A place of "Public Accommodation".

Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2024 11:21 AM (dq2qx)

98 Just remember that everything you record will be beamed back to the mothership, and will be added to the voluminous file Meta has on you.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2024 11:17 AM (uxCna)

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"Even all the data stored in the clouds above our heads?"

/Kommie-la Emhoff, genus

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 11:22 AM (G7Dfn)

99 Cuckerberg apologized for censoring speech and being Biden’s bitch. Is it sincere? Who knows. But he did say it.
Posted by: Write it off Jerry

Well... he admitted it at any rate. Don't know if he actually apologized.

The important part is "did he stop doing it?"

We all know the answer is no. Which means any apology means nothing, and the admission is just rubbing it in our faces.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2024 11:22 AM (hB7mE)

100 Lighten up, Francis. This has been going on since before literacy in general. And has the same results.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 28, 2024 11:22 AM (+xe6j)

101
Ugh. I only made it a minute in. . . .

*snif*

Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2024 11:17 AM

3:01 seconds for me. I know there's more then a few military folks here, so I should share, but damn... I can't imagine getting that knock at the door.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 28, 2024 11:22 AM (RKVpM)

102 Back when I worked in a secure building, they had a wall full of cubbies / safes in which you were to put your phones and any other potential recording /broadcasting equipment. I imagine the penalties for forgetting would be Draconian.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:19 AM (xCA6C)

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My building has several SCIFs, and yes if you don't abide by the rules then, no kidding, an extremely large man named Ray will pick you up by the hair and take you for a debriefing.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 28, 2024 11:22 AM (egtzA)

103 >>Not a joke

https://tinyurl.com/yc7b574r

Posted by: one hour sober at August 28, 2024 11:23 AM (Y1sOo)

104 94 Dan Backer: The 2024 Election Is About Good Versus Evil. Which Side Are You On?

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Which side has cookies?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 28, 2024 11:21 AM (L/fGl)

=======

So evil that it's justified to take a literal shot at Trump?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 11:23 AM (GBKbO)

105 Dan Backer: The 2024 Election Is About Good Versus Evil. Which Side Are You On?

-
Which side has cookies?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 28, 2024 11:21 AM (L/fGl)

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I know which side has all the babes.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 11:23 AM (G7Dfn)

106 "Even all the data stored in the clouds above our heads?"

/Kommie-la Emhoff, genus

I saw that clip, and wondered "she doesn't really think it's up there in the air, does she?". I'm sad to say I still don't know the answer.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:24 AM (xCA6C)

107 Listening in on hung-up landline phones was perfected long before the 1970s. Way before.

I read from some sort of reputable source years ago, that I sort of filed into memory as these things go, that every single phone call in the US that either originated or went overseas was recorded, on tape, and stored at some warehouse in Maryland or whatever.

They don't need to store anything on analog tape any longer, but they do build humongous computer servers where all the voice and video imagery goes through.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2024 11:24 AM (dq2qx)

108 we stop pretending that french's mustard is a thing, although there is that passage about the consequences of making a believer stumble,

Posted by: no 6 at August 28, 2024 11:24 AM (PXvVL)

109 Instead of pretending to remember them, if their name and basic info was displayed, I might ACTUALLY remember them instead of awkwardly pretending.
Posted by: Military Moron at August 28, 2024 11:09 AM (JCZqz)

Wait until you're an old grey-beard walking through the PX and some old bald dude walks up and starts yakking.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2024 11:25 AM (W/lyH)

110 https://t.ly/WBtFG

/ Have some tissue nearby
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Ugh. I only made it a minute in. . . .

*snif*
Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2024 11:17 AM (WXNFJ

It got dusty in here..

Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2024 11:25 AM (IyPmt)

111 Ifn ya can't even light up a cigarette without being ejected or arrested, it ain't nohow a private place, near as I can figure out. A place of "Public Accommodation".

Posted by: Common Tater

You come into my house and light up a cigarette, you'll be ejected and it mosdef ain't a place of public accommodation.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 28, 2024 11:25 AM (KAi1n)

112 One use for the Meta glass would be to record Antifa.

Antifa has established as a core principle that it is forbidden to record them in public, and they will assault anyone who tries to do so.

It would be useful to be able to have a device that could record them without their being aware of it.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2024 11:14 AM (uxCna)

You could, and should, use camera-equipped drones to monitor antifa. They cannot assault you if you are half a mile away, and out of sight.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2024 11:25 AM (On+XH)

113 My building has several SCIFs, and yes if you don't abide by the rules then, no kidding, an extremely large man named Ray will pick you up by the hair and take you for a debriefing.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 28, 2024 11:22 AM (egtzA)

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* Channeling Sponge socking Pete Bootygag *

"That's hot!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 11:25 AM (G7Dfn)

114 :Hey long until Google sells the “make everyone I look at nekkid” glasses?
Posted by: Tom Servo"

You would regret that. Maybe if they had a way to detect attractive bodies then activate.

Posted by: Ripley at August 28, 2024 11:26 AM (GUOwU)

115
David French
@DavidAFrench

He likes to watch

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 28, 2024 11:26 AM (xG4kz)

116 You could, and should, use camera-equipped drones to monitor antifa. They cannot assault you if you are half a mile away, and out of sight.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2024 11:25 AM (On+XH)

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The Secret Cervix was unavailable for comment ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 11:26 AM (G7Dfn)

117 64 Cuckerberg apologized for censoring speech and being Biden’s bitch. Is it sincere?

comes across to me as a sign that he thinks trump's gonna win.

Posted by: anachronda at August 28, 2024 11:27 AM (oY6Yp)

118 SFGoth, you're invited to read that again (as many times as it takes) for you to understand. We'll wait.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2024 11:27 AM (dq2qx)

119 76 HOLY SH*T you all @TeamTrump has put out one of the most amazing & heart wrenching videos I HAVE SEEN.

https://t.ly/WBtFG

/ Have some tissue nearby
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Ugh. I only made it a minute in. . . .

*snif*
Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2024 11:17 AM (WXNFJ)

It got misty, that's for sure. Team Trump did a great job tying Biden's actions to Kamala as well at the end.

Thank you, Elon for freeing up X for our side. 1.3 million views and 20K reposts since Monday. The message is getting out there.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2024 11:27 AM (sjkMN)

120 You would regret that. Maybe if they had a way to detect attractive bodies then activate.
Posted by: Ripley a

Only at SEC football games student sections.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 11:27 AM (CIS44)

121 :Hey long until Google sells the “make everyone I look at nekkid” glasses?
Posted by: Tom Servo"

You would regret that. Maybe if they had a way to detect attractive bodies then activate.

They'd have to have some built-in materials analysis software, so that you wouldn't be fooled by body parts shaped with modern materials. If a piece of spandex showed unusually large signs of stress, the software would warn you and turn off.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:28 AM (xCA6C)

122 The combination of the all powerful deep state, the ever encroaching government, endless social media, and cancel culture keeps killing this sort of tech...and bringing it back.

There is nothing the deep state wants more then individuals voluntarily uploading all of their information where it can use that information to advance its goals.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 11:28 AM (oZhjI)

123 121 :Hey long until Google sells the “make everyone I look at nekkid” glasses?
Posted by: Tom Servo"

You would regret that. Maybe if they had a way to detect attractive bodies then activate.

They'd have to have some built-in materials analysis software, so that you wouldn't be fooled by body parts shaped with modern materials. If a piece of spandex showed unusually large signs of stress, the software would warn you and turn off.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:28 AM (xCA6C)

Admiral Ackbar would find a workaround for that, I bet.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2024 11:29 AM (sjkMN)

124 >>>Only at SEC football games student sections.

You're not wrong.

Posted by: Brent Musburger at August 28, 2024 11:29 AM (Y1sOo)

125 Hey long until Google sells the “make everyone I look at nekkid” glasses?
Posted by: Tom Servo"

One of the complaints I see raised with AI art right now is that a lot of people are using it to make naked pictures of female celebrities. Which shouldn't surprise anyone but for some reason feminists are particularly upset about this even though, obviously, they aren't the people being pictured nude.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 11:29 AM (oZhjI)

126 Oh great. As someone who needs glasses to correct my vision having Zuckerberg make the world paranoid that anyone wearing glasses is spying on them is going to suck.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 28, 2024 11:30 AM (UKUm3)

127 Read up on gubmint. God himself consoled the prophet Samuel, “They are not rejecting you. That are rejecting me.”

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 28, 2024 11:30 AM (+xe6j)

128 There are going to be a lot of people pummeled for wearing these. And I hope the video of the beating is somewhere I can watch it.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 28, 2024 11:30 AM (OPGS/)

129 They'd have to have some built-in materials analysis software, so that you wouldn't be fooled by body parts shaped with modern materials. If a piece of spandex showed unusually large signs of stress, the software would warn you and turn off.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:28 AM (xCA6C)

Admiral Ackbar would find a workaround for that, I bet.

Posted by: Darrell Harris

This place is so damn cutting edge.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:30 AM (xCA6C)

130 @80

>>Our candidate said pussy in a locker room? Your candidate sucked cock to get all her political jobs!

Much like The Constitution isn't a suicide pact, some random dudes perception of Christian Morality, isn't either.

Or alternatively...

David French who?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2024 11:31 AM (XV/Pl)

131 During a news show, it was discussed if/when Harris should bless one and all with a public press gaggle. One side argued it was not necessary for she was of the Meta Universe.

(As of early 2024, Mark Zuckerberg, the company's founder and CEO, was the largest shareholder of Meta Platforms with about 13.5% of the outstanding shares, which was worth more than $120 billion.)

Yesterday, CBS News: Politics, Zuckerberg vows to resist federal efforts to influence Meta's content.

Two-faced b**tard.

2020 election, H's laptop, etc.

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 28, 2024 11:31 AM (NFX2v)

132
The glut of overstuffed yoga pants and the surfeit of plus-sized clothing on the market is argument enough that "view 'em nekkid" glasses would create emotional trauma well beyond our poor capacity to tolerate it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 28, 2024 11:31 AM (xG4kz)

133 David French likes to watch...

ladyballs

Posted by: I'm David French and I approved this message at August 28, 2024 11:32 AM (oZhjI)

134 It got dusty in here..
Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2024 11:25 AM (IyPmt)

Very powerful video.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2024 11:33 AM (On+XH)

135 In Illinois (and other states) it is illegal to record someone without telling them you are recording. Not sure if that is audio, but not video. My security cameras have some warning when turning on the microphones.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 28, 2024 11:33 AM (Cus5s)

136 Get this! You can remodel your Y2K bunker! I bet all that 9mm FMJ stashed down there will still go off!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 28, 2024 11:33 AM (+xe6j)

137 Oh, look!

Vermont's health dept. has a language police division:

https://tinyurl.com/5f9cw59m

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 28, 2024 11:33 AM (VgEdR)

138 I ran into Al Gray, Commandant of the Marine Corps, at LeJuene in 88 after returning from deployment. He looked at me and said "didn't I meet you at 8th & I a while back?" I was impressed.
=====

I know people like that! Darnitall, I can barely remember names of neighbors I have known for 40 years, and truly admire one of those people who can do it. BTW, I have taken memory classes to overcome this problem. Hasn't worked; my own childrens' names are sometimes a blank as well.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 28, 2024 11:33 AM (eRfHZ)

139 SFGoth, you're invited to read that again (as many times as it takes) for you to understand. We'll wait.
Posted by: Common Tater

You might wait. Everyone else probably has better things to do.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 28, 2024 11:33 AM (KAi1n)

140 She did it. She really did it. She wants to build the wall.

Kamala Harris Goes Full MAGA, Endorses This Signature Trump Policy

https://tinyurl.com/4tte7af8

Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:34 AM (xCA6C)

141
The glut of overstuffed yoga pants and the surfeit of plus-sized clothing on the market is argument enough that "view 'em nekkid" glasses would create emotional trauma well beyond our poor capacity to tolerate it.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 28, 2024 11:31 AM (xG4kz)

Seems you could program it like fps hotboxes, if it spills outside the lines..no bueno

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 28, 2024 11:34 AM (/6GbT)

142 Said this last night: Never has a candidate that is supposedly up 5-7 points in the polls spent so much energy adopting her opponent's policies.

Kamala coming out as being for a border wall is hilarious.

Trump is winning. Polls say he's not. Kamala's actions say he is

Posted by: Shenanigans at August 28, 2024 11:34 AM (pZ0Mr)

143 There are going to be a lot of people pummeled for wearing these. And I hope the video of the beating is somewhere I can watch it.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 28, 2024 11:30 AM (OPGS/)

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Now THAT right there is very meta ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 11:35 AM (R+cyg)

144 This is a Black Mirror episode in real life.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 28, 2024 11:35 AM (COYTF)

145 142 Said this last night: Never has a candidate that is supposedly up 5-7 points in the polls spent so much energy adopting her opponent's policies.

Kamala coming out as being for a border wall is hilarious.

Trump is winning. Polls say he's not. Kamala's actions say he is
Posted by: Shenanigans at August 28, 2024 11:34 AM (pZ0Mr)

========

Should I believe the polls saying Kamala is up by 7 more or less than the ones showing Biden up by 13-15 from 2020?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

146 Seems you could program it like fps hotboxes, if it spills outside the lines..no bueno

That's it! If a muffin top is detected, the photochromic glasses go completely opaque.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:35 AM (xCA6C)

147
Very powerful video.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2024 11:33 AM

And it's still *only* August. I wonder what's in store for September and especially October?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 28, 2024 11:35 AM (RKVpM)

148 @140

>>She did it. She really did it. She wants to build the wall.

It's like that scene in True Lies where Tom Arnold complains that the Bill Paxton character is stealing all of their moves.

And being that a majority of this country are drugged up lunatics, it just might work.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2024 11:35 AM (XV/Pl)

149 The glut of overstuffed yoga pants and the surfeit of plus-sized clothing on the market is argument enough that "view 'em nekkid" glasses would ~~create emotional trauma well beyond our poor capacity to tolerate it~~ make no effective difference.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 28, 2024 11:31 AM (xG4kz)
++++
FIFY

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:36 AM (HnUIn)

150
Only at SEC football games student sections.
Posted by: BruceWayne

One word: Trigglypuff.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 28, 2024 11:36 AM (VvhOn)

151 She did it. She really ~~did it. She~~wants to ~~build the wall~~ get elected.

Kamala Harris Goes Full MAGA, Endorses This Signature Trump Policy

https://tinyurl.com/4tte7af8
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024

***

Adjusted for clarity

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2024 11:36 AM (J2vNu)

152 >>She did it. She really did it. She wants to build the wall.

Nah, she's just going Full McCain, You never go Full McCain.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 11:36 AM (CIS44)

153 Kamala is finally going to do an interview, but only on the condition that Walz comes along as her chaperone when she does.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2024 11:37 AM (9loYT)

154 @142

>>Trump is winning. Polls say he's not. Kamala's actions say he is

Polls said there would be a Red Wave too, didn't end up happening.

Let's not get cocky kids.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2024 11:37 AM (XV/Pl)

155 You know who else built a wall

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 28, 2024 11:37 AM (/6GbT)

156 Here's a trick when you can't remember someone's name:
"What's your name?"
CASE 1
"John"
"No, I know that, what's you're last name?"

CASE 2
"Smith"
"No, I know that, what's you're first name?"

Now you know the full name and still seem as if you did remember him.
(for the dimwit trolls: it works for women too, just change First Name.)

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, piove #58 at August 28, 2024 11:38 AM (qfLjt)

157 Said this last night: Never has a candidate that is supposedly up 5-7 points in the polls spent so much energy adopting her opponent's policies.

Kamala coming out as being for a border wall is hilarious.

Trump is winning. Polls say he's not. Kamala's actions say he is
Posted by: Shenanigans

Or she’s winning because she’s fake adopting his positions. Trump’s policies are popular while he is not. It’s a good strategy on her part.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 28, 2024 11:38 AM (COYTF)

158 Kamala is finally going to do an interview, but only on the condition that Walz comes along ~~as her chaperone~~ to hold her hand and frighten off bullies when she does.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2024

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Adjusted for clarity

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2024 11:38 AM (J2vNu)

159 82 David French
@DavidAFrench
The next couple months are going to be full of accusations that a person can't be a Christian and vote how they're voting. Ignore those voices. There is no credible argument that our vote defines our walk with God.

Golden calf, golden bull, what's the difference?
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 28, 2024 11:18 AM (cBhCZ)

When you can instantly tell someone is not Catholic...or if he is, he's CINO...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2024 11:38 AM (exHjb)

160 146 Seems you could program it like fps hotboxes, if it spills outside the lines..no bueno

That's it! If a muffin top is detected, the photochromic glasses go completely opaque.

if it don't fit, you must ~~acquit~~ block it

Posted by: anachronda at August 28, 2024 11:39 AM (oY6Yp)

161 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 11:39 AM (+sD5M)

162 "She did it. She really did it. She wants to build the wall.

Except it would be 2' tall with lots of gates.

Posted by: Ripley at August 28, 2024 11:39 AM (GUOwU)

163 You might wait. Everyone else probably has better things to do.
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I'm just pointing out you interpreted what I completely wrong. I can explain it to you, I can't make you understand it.

Why would you think your house is a place of public accommodation?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2024 11:39 AM (dq2qx)

164
Should I believe the polls saying Kamala is up by 7 more or less than the ones showing Biden up by 13-15 from 2020?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024

Rasmussen has a graph of how accurate they were versus about 20 other polling outfits that were wrong. All in the same direction of overestimating Biden support. From 1.5% to more then 10%.

So let the trolls enjoy themselves, it will make their tears more enjoyable to behold in early November.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 28, 2024 11:39 AM (RKVpM)

165 > Kamala is finally going to do an interview, but only on the condition that Walz comes along as her chaperone when she does.
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He's her translator. After her word salad he'll pipe up and say; "what we mean is...."

Every time she opens her mouth.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2024 11:39 AM (Q4IgG)

166 You know who else built a wall
Posted by: A dude in MI at August 28, 2024

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The emperor Hadrian?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2024 11:39 AM (J2vNu)

167 Ah, there it is.

Driving the news: In her speech to the Democratic National Convention last week, Harris said she would sign the recent bipartisan border security bill — which Trump had ordered his allies to kill, fearing it would help Democrats in the November elections.

That bill, negotiated by senators such as James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), requires hundreds of millions of dollars of unspent funds to be used to continue building a wall on the border.
"It requires the Trump border wall," Lankford told Axios. "It is in the bill itself that it sets the standards that were set during the Trump administration: Here's where it will be built. Here's how it has to be built, the height, the type, everything during the Trump construction."
Harris' campaign says the border deal is a whole lot more than continuation of wall funding — and a tiny fraction of what Trump has proposed.

It's a Trojan horse to pass the Lankford abortion.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:40 AM (xCA6C)

168 165 > Kamala is finally going to do an interview, but only on the condition that Walz comes along as her chaperone when she does.
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He's her translator. After her word salad he'll pipe up and say; "what we mean is...."

Every time she opens her mouth.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2024 11:39 AM (Q4IgG)

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$5 says that Walz talks more in the final edit than Kamala does.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

169 @DavidAFrench
The next couple months are going to be full of accusations that a person can't be a Christian and vote how they're voting. Ignore those voices. There is no credible argument that our vote defines our walk with God.

To be fair, dumbshit, the open call for and celebration of murdering babies in utero is kind of a game changer.

That douche should be launched into the ocean via trebuchet to become shark shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 11:40 AM (+sD5M)

170 He's her translator. After her word salad he'll pipe up and say; "what we mean is...."

Every time she opens her mouth.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2024 11:39 AM (Q4IgG)
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I'll be interested to see the mechanics of that. It'll be a neat problem to try to solve in real time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:40 AM (HnUIn)

171 Polls said there would be a Red Wave too, didn't end up happening.

Which polls? The polls were right in 2022. Not in 2020 or 2016.

Posted by: mikeybates at August 28, 2024 11:40 AM (/4qWm)

172 David French
@DavidAFrench
The next couple months are going to be full of accusations that a person can't be a Christian and vote how they're voting. Ignore those voices. There is no credible argument that our vote defines our walk with God.

His cuckery knows no bounds. "Just because I voted for the Baphomet/Foucault ticket doesn't make me mess of a devout and super-pious (and very manly I might add) Christian!"

Posted by: French is filth at August 28, 2024 11:40 AM (tMq8W)

173 Golden calf, golden bull, what's the difference?
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings

The golden bull is the one French pays to, you know. The calf, you got me.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 28, 2024 11:41 AM (KAi1n)

174 170 I'll be interested to see the mechanics of that. It'll be a neat problem to try to solve in real time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:40 AM (HnUIn)

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It's not going to be live, I'm pretty sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 11:41 AM (GBKbO)

175 She wants to build the wall like McCain did.

Besides the problem we have wouldn’t be solved by a wall. The millions of illegals allowed in during the last 4 years didn’t sneak in. They walked in and were greeted by border patrol who then bought them a bus ticket. That’s the issue we have. A 20 ft tall wall doesn’t solve it.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 28, 2024 11:41 AM (COYTF)

176 76. Posted by: Divide by Zero

Wow. And beautifully done.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 28, 2024 11:42 AM (NFX2v)

177 123 121 :Hey long until Google sells the “make everyone I look at nekkid” glasses?
Posted by: Tom Servo"

You would regret that. Maybe if they had a way to detect attractive bodies then activate.”

I remember many years ago going with some college buddies to this nude beach we heard about, and we quickly realized “eww! It’s all ugly fat dudes here! (With a couple even fatter Wynn)”

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2024 11:42 AM (9loYT)

178 I know Kumswala's base is a bunch of brain free dipshits, but how much will her adopting Trump's policies piss some of them off?

I mean, I finally saw a Cruz commercial where he has Colin Allred stating "if they build the racist wall, our generation will be the ones to tear it down."

Now she wants to build the wall.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 11:42 AM (+sD5M)

179 She did it. She really did it. She wants to build the wall.

She has always wanted to build the wall.

Also, we have always been at war with *checks notes* Eastasia.

Posted by: The MFM at August 28, 2024 11:42 AM (4XbCD)

180 It's not going to be live, I'm pretty sure.

It's supposed to be recorded, obviously so they can edit out the crazy, nonsensical bits. It will make for a rather short interview.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:42 AM (xCA6C)

181 Trump is winning. Polls say he's not. Kamala's actions say he is
Posted by: Shenanigans at August 28, 2024 11:34 AM (pZ0Mr)

Best evidence of this is Bezos's disingenuous mea culpa.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 28, 2024 11:42 AM (pohLc)

182 Morning cuteness.

https://is.gd/Rzgjek

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 28, 2024 11:42 AM (L/fGl)

183 A 20 ft tall wall doesn’t solve it.
Posted by: Write it off Jerry

If we put the border patrol on the other side it might.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 28, 2024 11:43 AM (KAi1n)

184 Besides the problem we have wouldn’t be solved by a wall. The millions of illegals allowed in during the last 4 years didn’t sneak in. They walked in and were greeted by border patrol who then bought them a bus ticket. That’s the issue we have. A 20 ft tall wall doesn’t solve it.
Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 28, 2024 11:41 AM (COYTF)
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It helps to staunch the flow when combined with a reversal in Border Patrol policy. Both are within the power of the executive.

Then deportation has to begin in earnest, which will cause a lot of self-deportation. There are other effective "policy tools" as well, but the main point remains: Harris doesn't want to do any of that. Will she build a wall? Maybe. I doubt it, but maybe. If she does, though, the rest of it won't be there.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:43 AM (HnUIn)

185 @168

>>$5 says that Walz talks more in the final edit than Kamala does.

As noted, Walz role is to spout Mid-Western Cornpone Gibberish to cover for Kambala's Coastal Marxist Sing Song Gibberish.

The conversation will mostly be about vibing about White Guy Tacos and the proper usage of tabasco sauce.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2024 11:43 AM (XV/Pl)

186 Just because I rimmed a goat as part of a Satanic ritual doesn't make me any less of a pious, devout, faithful, obedient, and quite beefy Christian!

Posted by: David French at August 28, 2024 11:43 AM (tMq8W)

187 One word: Trigglypuff.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 28, 2024 11:36 AM (VvhOn)

The software in my third generation Meta 'NoSecrets' eyeglasses started to kick in. I fed Trigglypuff another shot of Rum and Coke, put the glass back on the bar, braced my legs and back and helped pull her to her feet.

The Sketchers were a smart footwear choice. As she stumbled towards the dance floor, my eyeglasses revealed every fold of flesh, collapsing and folding against other folds of flesh. As I held her sweaty palm, a quick glance revealed that Triggly was becoming turned on, VERY AROUSED!

Very aroused!!

Posted by: Stateless at August 28, 2024 11:43 AM (jvJvP)

188 Morning cuteness.

https://is.gd/Rzgjek
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 28, 2024

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If only they stayed that size into adulthood!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2024 11:44 AM (J2vNu)

189 I know Kumswala's base is a bunch of brain free dipshits, but how much will her adopting Trump's policies piss some of them off?

Is that what he's saying, that this was HIS policy?! The nerve of that man...

Posted by: Idiocracy is Impossible w/o TV at August 28, 2024 11:44 AM (4XbCD)

190 185
The conversation will mostly be about vibing about White Guy Tacos and the proper usage of tabasco sauce.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2024 11:43 AM (XV/Pl)

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They will be doing a cultural appropriation?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 11:44 AM (GBKbO)

191 Morning cuteness.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 28, 2024 11:42 AM (L/fGl)

The phrase reminds one of the clip where Shoresy is on the ice against the women:

"Hi cuteness. What's your favorite pizza? Mine's pizza ass."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 11:44 AM (+sD5M)

192
Besides the problem we have wouldn’t be solved by a wall. The millions of illegals allowed in during the last 4 years didn’t sneak in. They walked in and were greeted by border patrol who then bought them a bus ticket. That’s the issue we have. A 20 ft tall wall doesn’t solve it.

Nobody ever said a wall by itself solves the problem. Obviously you have to have CBP doing their jobs, but a wall makes their jobs dramatically easier.

Contrary to what that idiot Walz says, nobody comes to the border with a 30' ladder, to say nothing of how you get down on the other side. I doubt he could lift a 10' ladder.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:44 AM (xCA6C)

193 https://t.ly/WBtFG

/ Have some tissue nearby
Posted by: Divide by Zero

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However much you hate Biden you don't hate him enough

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 28, 2024 11:44 AM (1FWWQ)

194 This brunette in her underwear doesn't mind a selfie, but finds smartglasses to be pretty creepy:
http://tiny.cc/h7zjzz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:44 AM (HnUIn)

195 Now you know the full name and still seem as if you did remember him. (for the dimwit trolls: it works for women too, just change First Name.)
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Sorry, I'm even more dimwitted than most. Tried that one too.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 28, 2024 11:45 AM (eRfHZ)

196 Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 28, 2024 11:13 AM (RKVpM)

Thanks. A heartbreaking and infuriating video.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2024 11:45 AM (dTTBf)

197 The Harris/Walz "interview" will be so scripted. My only desire is know how many takes it took them to get a few minutes of non-insane bullshit from either of those two fucktards.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2024 11:45 AM (Q4IgG)

198 Besides the problem we have wouldn’t be solved by a wall. The millions of illegals allowed in during the last 4 years didn’t sneak in. They walked in and were greeted by border patrol who then bought them a bus ticket. That’s the issue we have. A 20 ft tall wall doesn’t solve it.
Posted by: Write it off Jerry

That and the fact that 40% illegals arrive via airplanes. Every airport is a border ungarded now.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 28, 2024 11:45 AM (IG4Id)

199 Should I believe the polls saying Kamala is up by 7 more or less than the ones showing Biden up by 13-15 from 2020?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

In MD, a poll came out today oversampling 50+ and blacks b/c supposedly they both will be most motivated to vote this election in MD...

Hogan is in a tie. (He wins 50-64 and loses 65+)
Trump is losing 64-32.

Just an interesting look at a very blue state and 2 voter sects...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2024 11:45 AM (exHjb)

200 Smith is appealing Cannon's judgment to the 11th Circuit.

If however, he is illegitimate, how does he have standing to appeal? The DOJ could appeal on his behalf., probably through the local Palm Beach area US Attorney, but Smith himself is not able to do so, one would think.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2024 11:46 AM (Wpade)

201 194 This brunette in her underwear doesn't mind a selfie, but finds smartglasses to be pretty creepy:
http://tiny.cc/h7zjzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:44 AM (HnUIn)

Thelma Thunderthighs!

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2024 11:46 AM (9loYT)

202 If however, he is illegitimate, how does he have standing to appeal? The DOJ could appeal on his behalf., probably through the local Palm Beach area US Attorney, but Smith himself is not able to do so, one would think.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2024 11:46 AM (Wpade)

You're implying that there are rules in play here they need to abide by.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 11:47 AM (+sD5M)

203 They can track a cow from start to finish, and recall a pound of hamburger with a bar code for salmonella.

We live in a police state, why is there so much crime? You can be sure if millions and millions pour across national boundaries year after year and get in state school tuition, somebody wants it that way. Ya think?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2024 11:47 AM (dq2qx)

204 "doesn't mind a selfie" That made me laugh; Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2024 11:47 AM (dTTBf)

205 199 In MD, a poll came out today oversampling 50+ and blacks b/c supposedly they both will be most motivated to vote this election in MD...

Hogan is in a tie. (He wins 50-64 and loses 65+)
Trump is losing 64-32.

Just an interesting look at a very blue state and 2 voter sects...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2024 11:45 AM (exHjb)

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I didn't dig into that poll, but I did not that Biden won MD by 33 in 2020.

If they have to oversample to get a similar result in 2024, that should tell you how accurate polls in August of 2024 are going to be.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

206 Nobody ever said a wall by itself solves the problem. Obviously you have to have CBP doing their jobs, but a wall makes their jobs dramatically easier.

Contrary to what that idiot Walz says, nobody comes to the border with a 30' ladder, to say nothing of how you get down on the other side. I doubt he could lift a 10' ladder.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 11:44 AM (xCA6C

It doesn’t matter if it’s 1000 feet tall. The illegals are walking in at border crossings. And it’s never really talked about but there are millions of illegals who overstay a visa. Something like 30% of all illegals get into the country legally.

The problem we have is the “once you’re in you’re in for life” policy. Nobody gets deported. That’s what fundamentally needs to change. Interior enforcement as well as turning back people at the border. If that doesn’t change a wall is meaningless.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 28, 2024 11:48 AM (COYTF)

207 One use for the Meta glass would be to record Antifa.

If you're in a deep-Blue metro area where Antifa violence is a concern, video recordings aren't going to protect you from violence, or result in any serious consequences for your attackers. Just ask Andy Ngo.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 28, 2024 11:48 AM (JCZqz)

208
> Kamala is finally going to do an interview, but only on the condition that Walz comes along as her chaperone when she does.

TweedleDumb and TweedleDumber

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 28, 2024 11:48 AM (xG4kz)

209 @190

>>They will be doing a cultural appropriation?

They're literally going to do a mutt and jeff routine as Dana "My Husband is one of the 51 Intelligence Officers That Said The Hunter Laptop was Russian Disinformation" Bash, gibbers and throws meatball after meatball at these two retards.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2024 11:48 AM (XV/Pl)

210 Kamala doing an interview with emotional support Timmy by her side should be a target rich environment. The minute he corrects her or interrupts her every Republican should yell "white privilege" and "mansplaining". Of course CNN will edit the crap out of it.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2024 11:48 AM (ByB3C)

211 209 @190

>>They will be doing a cultural appropriation?

They're literally going to do a mutt and jeff routine as Dana "My Husband is one of the 51 Intelligence Officers That Said The Hunter Laptop was Russian Disinformation" Bash, gibbers and throws meatball after meatball at these two retards.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2024 11:48 AM (XV/Pl)

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I remember when Biden's ABC interview was going to save his campaign because ABC was going to edit it favorably.

They did edit it favorably.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

212 193 https://t.ly/WBtFG

/ Have some tissue nearby
Posted by: Divide by Zero

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However much you hate Biden you don't hate him enough
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 28, 2024 11:44 AM (1FWWQ)

Didn't cry. Didn't get misty.

Got angry. Very, very angry.

God bless those kids and their families.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 28, 2024 11:49 AM (KbCG3)

213 I will NOT vote for Fat Boy Hogan under any circumstances... I don't care if it costs the worthless GOPe the senate.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 28, 2024 11:49 AM (1FWWQ)

214 If however, he is illegitimate, how does he have standing to appeal? The DOJ could appeal on his behalf., probably through the local Palm Beach area US Attorney, but Smith himself is not able to do so, one would think.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Whig probably knows federal civil procedure better than me, but until the appeal process is exhausted, the district court judgment is not final.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 28, 2024 11:50 AM (KAi1n)

215 Hey long until Google sells the “make everyone I look at nekkid” glasses?

a big problem at schools right now is boys using AI to make naked pics of their female classmates and sharing them

Posted by: brak at August 28, 2024 11:51 AM (NGHTx)

216 You'd have to think back to Hillary to find a dem presi nominee who could conduct an interview by themselves.

The Jill and Joe show was pathetic enough.

Now we get this ebony and ivory hilarity.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 28, 2024 11:51 AM (KbCG3)

217
This brunette in her underwear doesn't mind a selfie, but finds smartglasses to be pretty creepy

Kim Kardashiansesque

Pass

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 28, 2024 11:51 AM (xG4kz)

218 The Maryland scenario isn’t unique. West Virginia voted for Trump by 40% and also elected Manchin. Romney was the governor of MA the same time MA voted for Kerry over Gore by 25%. And many other examples.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 28, 2024 11:51 AM (COYTF)

219 213 I will NOT vote for Fat Boy Hogan under any circumstances... I don't care if it costs the worthless GOPe the senate.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 28, 2024 11:49 AM (1FWWQ)

If you have 1 vote majorities for Ds and Kamala cheats, it's all gonna fall apart...

Trump can't win without also having R majorities in the House and Senate, so he actually gets seated.

So, you probably should pull for Hogan vs madam DEI...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2024 11:51 AM (exHjb)

220 @211

>>They did edit it favorably.

At that point, all of the apparatchiks and NPC got their marching orders that Joe was going to be replaced and so the knives were out for The Turnip.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2024 11:52 AM (XV/Pl)

221 Smart glasses are very creepy. I see a world where some serial killer sitting in a bar on a busy Saturday night zeroes in on another patron, puts her through a facial recognition app., pulls her social media and contact info from the cloud, and, lying in wait at the address his glasses directed him to, turns her in an instant into his next victim.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2024 11:52 AM (J9GHS)

222 Kerry and Gore over Bush.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 28, 2024 11:52 AM (COYTF)

223 Do not trust James Lankford. He's developing a serious case of RINO.

Posted by: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at August 28, 2024 11:53 AM (M6moH)

224 Aggressive water buffalo on the run in Iowa

Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2024 11:53 AM (/7KEl)

225 @209 Thomas, Bash is the ex-wife of Jeremy Bash one of the intelligence scum who signed that letter. Her present hubby is John King another CNN scum

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2024 11:53 AM (ByB3C)

226 Off, feathered sock.

Posted by: creeper at August 28, 2024 11:53 AM (M6moH)

227 Aggressive water buffalo on the run in Iowa
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2024 11:53 AM (/7KEl)

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Pretty sure this is racist...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 28, 2024 11:54 AM (1FWWQ)

228 Aggressive water buffalo on the run in Iowa
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2024 11:53 AM (/7KEl)

Stacey Abrams left Georgia?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2024 11:54 AM (On+XH)

229 Kamala is finally going to do an interview, but only on the condition that Walz comes along as her chaperone when she does.

This can only end up being disastrously funny, so I'm all for it. They seem intent on gently awakening their slumbering supporters with electroshocks and marching bands.

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2024 11:54 AM (Av2Ad)

230 Do not trust James Lankford. He's developing a serious case of RINO.
Posted by: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

He isn't developing shit. Hes always been a squish. He only gets in because of his church camp bullshit. Very much hoping Ryan Walter's or Kevin stitt takes a run at him next time.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 11:55 AM (CIS44)

231 I bet if we make face cameras not only will people get them but they will pay us for it!

-CIA

Posted by: Inogame at August 28, 2024 11:55 AM (53oGX)

232 Zuckerberg may have apologized for his role in government censorship, but he hasn't apologized for personally bankrolling Democrat election fraud and continuing to do so. F#ck him.

Posted by: Judy Collins at August 28, 2024 11:55 AM (1Au9i)

233 Aggressive water buffalo on the run in Iowa

It isn't me. I hate the water.

Posted by: Lizzo at August 28, 2024 11:55 AM (Y1sOo)

234 221 Smart glasses are very creepy. I see a world where some serial killer sitting in a bar on a busy Saturday night zeroes in on another patron, puts her through a facial recognition app., pulls her social media and contact info from the cloud, and, lying in wait at the address his glasses directed him to, turns her in an instant into his next victim.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2024 11:52 AM (J9GHS)

Turn that into a script, sell it to the Lifetime movie channel.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2024 11:55 AM (9loYT)

235

Creepy and invasive: the story of Socialism and Biden's fingers.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 28, 2024 11:55 AM (x0n13)

236 Turn that into a script, sell it to the Lifetime movie channel.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2024 11:55 AM (9loYT)
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You'd make bank.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:56 AM (HnUIn)

237 The serial killer scenario exists now just with a phone.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 28, 2024 11:56 AM (COYTF)

238
Kammie and her emotional support tampon, Timmy

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 28, 2024 11:56 AM (xG4kz)

239 The next couple months are going to be full of accusations that a person can't be a Christian and vote how they're voting. Ignore those voices. There is no credible argument that our vote defines our walk with God.

Yes voting for the party that is rounding up Christian pro-lifers to send them to jail is obviously a-ok for Christians.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 11:56 AM (oZhjI)

240 The conversation will mostly be about vibing about White Guy Tacos and the proper usage of tabasco sauce.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2024 11:43 AM (XV/Pl)

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They will be doing a cultural appropriation?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 11:44 AM (GBKbO)
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It doesn't matter if the interview is scripted or not (it will be). As stupid as these two are, and as odious as their policies are, the real reason the DNC keeps them mostly locked up in the basement next to the dripping sex doll is that they are just physically repugnant.

I don't mean necessarily physically ugly -- although Walz is very unattractive -- but that they are highly uncharismatic and annoying. Kumswala is the drunken aunt that picks her nose at parties. Walz has the face I'd like to punch with so many rights he'd beg for a left.

The more people see of them, the less they like. It almost doesn't matter what they say.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

241 The serial killer scenario exists now just with a phone.
Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 28, 2024 11:56 AM (COYTF)
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Sure, but that doesn't make for a compelling movie script. The smartglasses give it the "hook."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:56 AM (HnUIn)

242 232 Zuckerberg may have apologized for his role in government censorship, but he hasn't apologized for personally bankrolling Democrat election fraud and continuing to do so. F#ck him.
Posted by: Judy Collins at August 28, 2024 11:55 AM (1Au9i)

He's only sorry he got caught!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 28, 2024 11:57 AM (x0n13)

243 If Kamaltoe wants to build a wall, how come construction on it hasn't already began. Everything is in place. All she has to do is give the word.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2024 11:57 AM (g8Ew8)

244 243 If Kamaltoe wants to build a wall, how come construction on it hasn't already began. Everything is in place. All she has to do is give the word.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2024 11:57 AM (g8Ew

========

Unlike sending money to Ukraine, wall construction requires a very clear line in an appropriations bill, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

245 238
Kammie and her emotional support tampon, Timmy
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 28, 2024 11:56 AM (xG4kz)

Willie Brown can floss his teeth at long last!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 28, 2024 11:58 AM (x0n13)

246 If Kamaltoe wants to build a wall, how come construction on it hasn't already began. Everything is in place. All she has to do is give the word.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2024 11:57 AM (g8Ew

She's had 3 and a half years to build it, and hasn't laid Brick One.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2024 11:58 AM (On+XH)

247 Kamaltoe wants to build a wall, how come construction on it hasn't already began. Everything is in place. All she has to do is give the word.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops

Why'd they'd sell already purchased materials for scrap?

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 11:58 AM (CIS44)

248 She's had 3 and a half years to build it, and hasn't laid Brick One.

In fact on of the few things she hasn't laid in DC...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 11:58 AM (oZhjI)

249 Pitch to Hallmark, too.

Make sure the not-murderer guy is extremely wealthy (or about to become extremely wealthy with the release of the glasses) and handsome, though.

"Oh, I didn't know how to meet you, but I invented these glasses..."

Remember the only rule for males regarding sexual harassment: Be attractive. Don't be unattractive.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - What is WWW short for? at August 28, 2024 11:59 AM (dnuTg)

250 249 Remember the only rule for males regarding sexual harassment: Be attractive. Don't be unattractive.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - What is WWW short for? at August 28, 2024 11:59 AM (dnuTg)

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The Tom Brady Rule.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

251
... they are highly uncharismatic and annoying. Kumswala is the drunken aunt that picks her nose at parties. Walz has the face I'd like to punch with so many rights he'd beg for a left.

They are an Al Gore duopoly.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 28, 2024 11:59 AM (xG4kz)

252 In fact on of the few things she hasn't laid in DC...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 11:58 AM (oZhjI)

Heh. Maybe we should name all the building blocks "Willie Brown".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2024 11:59 AM (On+XH)

253 He only gets in because of his church camp bullshit.

I don't know this person. What is his "church camp bullshit?"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2024 12:00 PM (dTTBf)

254 Do not trust James Lankford. He's developing a serious case of RINO.
Posted by: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

He isn't developing shit. Hes always been a squish. He only gets in because of his church camp bullshit. Very much hoping Ryan Walter's or Kevin stitt takes a run at him next time.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 11:55 AM (CIS44)

Yup. Lankford is a big mistake that needs correction.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2024 12:00 PM (g8Ew8)

255 194 This brunette in her underwear doesn't mind a selfie, but finds smartglasses to be pretty creepy:
http://tiny.cc/h7zjzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:44 AM (HnUIn)

Fat bottom girls you make the rockin' world go round!

Posted by: Cushion for the pushin' at August 28, 2024 12:01 PM (tMq8W)

256 255 194 This brunette in her underwear doesn't mind a selfie, but finds smartglasses to be pretty creepy:
http://tiny.cc/h7zjzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:44 AM (HnUIn)

Fat bottom girls you make the rockin' world go round!
Posted by: Cushion for the pushin' at August 28, 2024 12:01 PM (tMq8W)

Words so true that even a gay man had to acknowledge the fact.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 28, 2024 12:01 PM (KbCG3)

257 Kumswala is the drunken aunt that picks her nose at parties.

I never had an aunt who got drunk and picked her nose at parties. I find Kamala's smile and fake laugh annoying enough.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2024 12:01 PM (dTTBf)

258 I don't know this person. What is his "church camp bullshit?"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

He and his family own and run the large baptist church camps and the people here vote for him cause oh look he runs the camps we send our kids too

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 12:02 PM (CIS44)

259 I learned yesterday that Starliner can't return autonomously because the software allowing that wasn't loaded onto this version of the craft. The software will have to be uploaded, taking several weeks. Then it will have to be used in one take--live--without testing. No one seems to know if the software has been updated for the changes made to Starliner since it was last used in 2022.

This shit has disaster written all over it.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 28, 2024 12:02 PM (paSBy)

260 We live in a police state, why is there so much crime? You can be sure if millions and millions pour across national boundaries year after year and get in state school tuition, somebody wants it that way. Ya think?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2024 11:47 AM (dq2qx)

All police states have huge crime problems. It is both because the state needs a justification for its actions, and because it profits from the chaos.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2024 12:03 PM (D7oie)

261 I learned yesterday that Starliner can't return autonomously because the software allowing that wasn't loaded onto this version of the craft.

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Weight savings.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - What is WWW short for? at August 28, 2024 12:03 PM (dnuTg)

262 Remember the only rule for males regarding sexual harassment: Be attractive. Don't be unattractive.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - What is WWW short for? at August 28, 2024 11:59 AM (dnuTg)

=======

The Tom Brady Rule.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 11:59 AM (GBKbO)
___________

[Slaps own forehead]

-- Dustin Hoffman

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 12:03 PM (iFTx/)

263 This brunette in her underwear doesn't mind a selfie, but finds smartglasses to be pretty creepy:
http://tiny.cc/h7zjzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:44 AM (HnUIn)

Don't need glasses.for her. Braille will work fine.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2024 12:03 PM (W/lyH)

264 I learned yesterday that Starliner can't return autonomously because the software allowing that wasn't loaded onto this version of the craft. The software will have to be uploaded, taking several weeks. Then it will have to be used in one take--live--without testing. No one seems to know if the software has been updated for the changes made to Starliner since it was last used in 2022.

This shit has disaster written all over it.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 28, 2024 12:02 PM (paSBy)
++++
And the *only* way for Boeing to salvage anything of this slow-motion disaster is to bring the capsule back safely. They've been publicly saying, "we got this, the astronauts are safe, we're good, we can do it. This is overly-cautious panic at NASA."

If they don't bring that capsule back safely, the counter-punching on those claims are going to be a serious problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 12:04 PM (HnUIn)

265 and because it profits from the chaos.

I suspect most Dem politicians and powerbrokers are working with organized crime pretty closely.

Kamala, for example, was almost certainly getting paid by the human trafficking and drug cartels while AG. And as soon as SF legalized shoplifting did you notice there were groups ready to send people in to each individually steal a value below where it becomes a crime? Hand and glove...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 12:05 PM (oZhjI)

266 208
> Kamala is finally going to do an interview, but only on the condition that Walz comes along as her chaperone when she does.

TweedleDumb and TweedleDumber
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 28, 2024 11:48 AM (xG4kz)

No live speaking will be done.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 28, 2024 12:06 PM (pnrsN)

267 Heh. Maybe we should name all the building blocks "Willie Brown".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2024 11:59 AM (On+XH)

Expanding on that: how about a Trump ad with a CGI Kamala, splattered with mortar, and spraying droplets of sweat, furiously laying block on the border at a mile a minute. Cut to Trump and Vance, standing by watching. Vance: "How did you get her to build the wall, Don?" Trump: "I just renamed the blocks." Camera zooms in on stack of blocks, all labeled "Willie Brown".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2024 12:06 PM (On+XH)

268 264
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And the *only* way for Boeing to salvage anything of this slow-motion disaster is to bring the capsule back safely. They've been publicly saying, "we got this, the astronauts are safe, we're good, we can do it. This is overly-cautious panic at NASA."

If they don't bring that capsule back safely, the counter-punching on those claims are going to be a serious problem.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 12:04 PM (HnUIn)

If the capsule doesn't return successfully, Boeing will have a long road ahead of them to recover any credibility.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 28, 2024 12:06 PM (N39Ws)

269 266
No live speaking will be done.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 28, 2024 12:06 PM (pnrsN)

Will we hear of how many edits/cuts of this video?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 28, 2024 12:07 PM (N39Ws)

270 Remember the only rule for males regarding sexual harassment: Be attractive. Don't be unattractive.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - What is WWW short for? at August 28, 2024 11:59 AM (dnuTg)
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Coincidence that I'm right now being forced to learn how not to "sexually harass" according to Trudeau's Fascist-land "standards".

Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2024 12:07 PM (krQz2)

271 the problem with walls is that they also Keep Us In.

If Americans are no longer allowed to leave the country without special visas, and, for example, only allowed to carry a certain amount of cash, and then only return under intense scrutiny, the whole thing starts to look not like an anti-immigrant wall, and more like an Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2024 12:07 PM (D7oie)

272 Wait, Boeing still has credibility after the current failure?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - What is WWW short for? at August 28, 2024 12:07 PM (dnuTg)

273 I learned yesterday that Starliner can't return autonomously because the software allowing that wasn't loaded onto this version of the craft. The software will have to be uploaded, taking several weeks. Then it will have to be used in one take--live--without testing. No one seems to know if the software has been updated for the changes made to Starliner since it was last used in 2022.

This shit has disaster written all over it.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis

Two astronauts are going to die thanks to DEI.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 28, 2024 12:08 PM (iqPkc)

274 If the capsule doesn't return successfully, Boeing will have a long road ahead of them to recover any credibility.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 28, 2024 12:06 PM (N39Ws)
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Yeah. The entire program might be riding on it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 12:08 PM (HnUIn)

275 If Americans are no longer allowed to leave the country without special visas, and, for example, only allowed to carry a certain amount of cash, and then only return under intense scrutiny
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Wait...

Posted by: Moron Robbie - What is WWW short for? at August 28, 2024 12:08 PM (dnuTg)

276 Two astronauts are going to die thanks to DEI.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 28, 2024 12:08 PM (iqPkc)
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Probably not. They're coming home on a SpaceX Dragon after the relief crew (half-strength to make room - the two Starliner test pilots just joined the ISS mission) going up next month finishes its mission in February.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 12:09 PM (HnUIn)

277 I miss back when the border agents reviewing your passport would tell Americans "Welcome home."

I suspect it went away around the same time dressing up for a flight did.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - What is WWW short for? at August 28, 2024 12:09 PM (dnuTg)

278 This brunette in her underwear doesn't mind a selfie, but finds smartglasses to be pretty creepy:
http://tiny.cc/h7zjzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:44 AM (HnUIn)

She's a donut away from being fat. Would not bang.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2024 12:09 PM (g8Ew8)

279 The degenerates upstairs didn't call it, so
NOOD PHONY HARRIS INTERVIEW

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 12:10 PM (HnUIn)

280 Coincidence that I'm right now being forced to learn how not to "sexually harass" according to Trudeau's Fascist-land "standards".
Posted by: Axeman

--

Be more handsome.

If you can't do that, be rich.

There. What a time savings that would be.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - What is WWW short for? at August 28, 2024 12:10 PM (dnuTg)

281 Why'd they'd sell already purchased materials for scrap?
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 11:58 AM (CIS44)

Because that was the fastest and easiest way for that tower of public relations we mortals know as Joe Biden could tell all the Trump Supporters, "F*ck you especially"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2024 12:10 PM (D7oie)

282
If the capsule doesn't return successfully, Boeing will have a long road ahead of them to recover any credibility.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

No, Boeing will be mortally wounded, and not long thereafter, finished.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 28, 2024 12:11 PM (xG4kz)

283 No, Boeing will be mortally wounded, and not long thereafter, finished.
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Let's don't talk about who the prime contractor for SLS is.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 28, 2024 12:12 PM (paSBy)

284 Attitude control thrusters are tough, space is hard. I was reading one of the NASA Oral History project interviews, or maybe it was elsewhere. They talked to a guy named Jerry Pfeiffer who was at Marquardt, and they made thrusters. They had a lot of problems with them.

He went into a lot of specifics, and it sounded exactly like what the problems they are witnessing with Starliner. They overheat, and teflon seals swell, restricting flow or somesuch. Almost verbatim, I thought it was "interesting" in kind of a sad way, from an engineering standpoint.

Eisenhower decided to start a civilian agency, separate from the military, called NASA. But they cherry picked about half of the top test pilots from the Air Force and Navy, and a crapload of senior generals. In hindsight, maybe making the space program a wing of the military might have been a better choice.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2024 12:14 PM (dq2qx)

285 Since their engineering sucks, this is now as much a PR problem for Boeing as anything else.

Boeing should preemptively announce it intends to send StarCrossedLiner to some interstellar destination. That simplifies their problem (reducing the tasks to undocking and pulling away from ISS without wrecking it), eliminating the whole "return to earth" problem, and conveniently sends the evidence far, far away. They could keep broadcast video and pictures from the vehicle for years. Maybe swing by Mars.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2024 12:14 PM (sHOMx)

286 And the *only* way for Boeing to salvage anything of this slow-motion disaster is to bring the capsule back safely.

Their best chance is to train the highest-ranking executive to pilot the thing back, because software never works the first time.

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2024 12:15 PM (33Cgj)

287 With "smart glasses" the gargoyles of Stephenson's Snow Crash start to step out of the book and into real life.

Posted by: geoffb at August 28, 2024 12:16 PM (r//c2)

288 Kumswala is the drunken aunt that picks her nose at parties.

I never had an aunt who got drunk and picked her nose at parties. I find Kamala's smile and fake laugh annoying enough.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2024 1

***
"I sit on the floor and pick my nose
And think of many things . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2024 12:16 PM (J2vNu)

289 Just heard that Michigan and Wisconsin (and possibly NV and NC) refuse to remove RFK, Jr. from their Presidential ballots.
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 12:28 PM (j6GWt)

I think this is an unforced error by the state elections. This is not much of a good news thing, but imagine that Harris pulls a Biden in the debate, the ballots are already being sent out . . . And the average dem says "Hell no"
Kennedy is a good democrat name, for all the baggage, and it is a valid protest vote.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2024 12:38 PM (D7oie)

290 We are repeatedly told that out in public we have no expectation of privacy. Our public persona is open to anyone and everyone, including law enforcement [grin] authorities.

I think that that's a gross violation of the 4th Amendment. Out in public I should have every expectation of privacy - that under no circumstances, save in imminent commission of a crime, the public authority has zero right to take in interest in me, nor to take any cognizant notice of my person. This Meta-glass further establishes this point.

This is an arm of jurisprudence, this "no expectation of privacy" which needs to be overthrown.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at August 28, 2024 01:00 PM (TOe+Q)

291 Google Glass was one of Google's few failures.

In addition to all the bad things listed above, it also was a way for Google to use facial recognition to recognize individuals, to determine what businesses were popular/crowded, and to determine what the mood was in certain spaces.

Or was it really a failure?

The technology was repurposed as Pokemon Go, the faddish game of the same time. Now all the facial recognition, business monitoring and mood judging could continue, with the added bonus that the developers could induce people to scan particular locations with their smartphones, instead of waiting for Google Glass people to wander into those locations.

Posted by: late to the party at August 28, 2024 01:09 PM (PMcx/)

292 Sure, but that doesn't make for a compelling movie script. The smartglasses give it the "hook."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 11:56 AM (HnUIn)

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hook+...programmable parameters within the facial recognition s/w of the glasses - age range x, height y, weight z - glasses will find acceptable targets faster. Your target, should you choose to accept it...mission impossible: serial killer

Posted by: FXDWG at August 28, 2024 01:09 PM (xfTc5)

293 Perfect for recording Grateful Dead concerts.

There as a guy back in the 90s who must have had a home-made pair. He would be down by the stage, dancing without moving his head in order to get a consistent sound.

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