Wednesday Morning Rant

The Normal Outcome

Y'know how every so often there will be some new "scientific" craze about something we all just have to do to save something? "To save the environment we must ..." or "to save lives we must ..." or "to save the whales we must ..." or whatever? The promised outcome is always grandiose, usually some kind of large-scale salvation, and the required change is almost always something that appears to be small but is actually very big, very difficult, very expensive, very complicated or very disruptive. It's almost a game at this point for something to come up and kick off a moral panic, then the state imposes a "small" solution that everyone ends up hating, then it turns out to be pointless at best or destructive at worst.

A recent and really big example of this was the "social distancing" push in the COVID era. "Keep your distance" was the small thing that was actually a monumental pain in the butt that would bring about salvation at scale in the form of infection reduction. The Science said so, the media softened up the public, the state imposed the solution, and it worked as well as these things always do. What they promised was infection control. What they delivered was reduced liberty, compliance costs, social destruction and loss of trust. This is what always happens, and it happens like clockwork. In that case, it even came out that the "scientific solution" was nothing of the sort, and there was never any real basis for it. Sometimes, that last piece is optional.

One example of the "scientific" part of it being optional is the moral panic over plastic drinking straws. You probably remember this one. In 2015, a video showing what was alleged to be a plastic drinking straw being removed from a sea turtle's nose spread on the internet. It was fairly unpleasant, the turtle was obviously suffering and the then-current boogeyman of "single-use plastics" was enthusiastically blamed. The normal cries of "SOMEBODY NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING" went out and then the special interests, virtue signalers, press organs and of course the state came to the rescue.

There was a "simple fix" for this "major problem:" eliminate plastic drinking straws. Don't stop to think about whether it's actually sensible. Don't consider any other consequences. Don't consider the public. Just implement the simple fix and save the :: spins wheel :: sea turtles. So we did. It started, as it usually does, with the virtue signalers and media organs. After all the stories of the horrors of drinking straws and the inevitable social media amplification, outfits like Starbucks and American Airlines loudly announced that they would eliminate the modern-day horror of plastic drinking straws. Countless other places followed suit, spurred on by social media, NGOs and lobbyists.

Then came the state actions. States like California and its little sister Colorado started prohibiting automatic distribution of plastic drinking straws (the customer must ask for one) and so helped the product to get crowded out, with Colorado going further more recently. Countless municipalities banned straws and often extended those bans to other "single-use plastics" like shopping bags. The little thing was in fact very big, had huge effects on the market and the substitute good - usually, paper straws or bags - was wildly inferior and people hated it.

It was only a matter of time before the revelation that this is all pointless at best came to the fore. As anti-straw fervor spread widely, including to Korea, that country's government commissioned a study on drinking straws. They commissioned the study after taking action, of course, but what they found will surprise nobody who has seen this wheel turn a time or two:

Conventional plastic straws had the smallest impact in 10 of the 16 categories, including climate change, acidification, particulate matter and human toxicity.
Bio-PE straws had the largest impact in 10 categories, including ozone depletion, acidification and smog.
Paper straws had the largest impact in three categories, while biodegradable plastic straws did so in two.

So, as usual, the response was worthless at best and destructive at worst - and disruptive and expensive regardless. The sea turtle incident was used to flog a global movement against "single-use plastics," with the turtle-maiming plastic straw as the whipping boy. They got their way. In many places - including places where it can never make sense, like landlocked Colorado - they are no more. All they did was forcibly exchange plastic straws for an inferior substitute that is no better and may be worse.

This is what always happens and this incident followed the normal progression. They achieved nothing but compliance for its own sake. Don't expect facts to get in the way or for the bans to be rolled back, though. It was the "right thing to do" and the right kind of busybody mini-tyrants feel far too good about it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 11:01 AM (8B4gm)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 28, 2026 11:01 AM (NcvvS)

3 Ty Nazdar.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 11:02 AM (8B4gm)

4 The normal cries of "SOMEBODY NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING" went out

... isn't that one of those traits spelled out as part of "Whiteness" ?

Posted by: SMOD at October 28, 2026 11:03 AM (RHGPo)

5 "somebody needs to do something" : the cry of NPCs everywhere

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 11:03 AM (jb8Ss)

6 This is what always happens and this incident followed the normal progression. They achieved nothing but compliance for its own sake. Don't expect facts to get in the way or for the bans to be rolled back, though. It was the "right thing to do" and the right kind of busybody mini-tyrants feel far too good about it.

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Maybe the real straws were the friends we made along the way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:03 AM (pfZGz)

7 Paper straws soak up some of the product I pay good money for.

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Hardest Hit at October 28, 2026 11:04 AM (EdP2u)

8 AT LEAST WE TRIED!!!

The usual cry from the "we have to do something" crowd, who never stops to analyze if the cure is worse than the disease. They judge their terrible policies by their intentions, not by their results.

Posted by: Martbell at October 28, 2026 11:04 AM (as6X5)

9 I wonder how much of this is designed to demonize plastic as part of a longer effort to demonize oil.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2026 11:05 AM (ExV1e)

10 Yw, Mr Aspirin Factory.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 28, 2026 11:05 AM (NcvvS)

11 To be honest, the six feet distance thing was the only thing I liked. I like my personal space COVID or no COVID. And also I've always practiced greater distance prior to COVID if I thought someone might be sick.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 11:05 AM (Ti9vn)

12 So, what is the status of the bio-degradable spork that Nancy Pelosi had put in the Capitol Vistor's Center then removed by Republicans ?

Posted by: SMOD at October 28, 2026 11:05 AM (RHGPo)

13 Enviro bullshit aside, using a straw to drink water or a soda from a glass is gay and no man should ever be seen doing so.

Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:05 AM (/ClFf)

14 What of the strawmen?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 28, 2026 11:05 AM (bFu5X)

15 You will be made to ~~comply~~ care, citizen!

Now throw AI into the mix and we are one step closer to the insane society from the Paranoia role-playing game.

Highly stratified, fully communist, where NOTHING makes a lick of sense.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2026 11:05 AM (FZ29D)

16 From the Guardian article decrying "psychopatriarchy":

"The president of the US is a civilly adjudicated sex abuser and has not only flippantly dismissed allegations of sexual violence made against others in his orbit, but made it fashionable and popular attitude for the men in his delusional cult.

He has created a suffocating atmosphere of misogyny and predation. We only have to look to the manosphere, or the rape academies online where millions of men exchange best practices for drugging and raping their wives, girlfriends, sisters or deepfake pornography which is destroying thousands of women’s lives or sex robots."

Is there *nothing* OrangeManBad can't do?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 28, 2026 11:06 AM (0sNs1)

17 I wonder how much of this is designed to demonize plastic as part of a longer effort to demonize oil.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2026 11:05 AM

All of it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 28, 2026 11:06 AM (bFu5X)

18 Enviro bullshit aside, using a straw to drink water or a soda from a glass is gay and no man should ever be seen doing so.
Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:05 AM (/ClFf

That and dancing with your hands above your shoulders.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 11:06 AM (Ti9vn)

19 Think of the children!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2026 11:06 AM (RORbl)

20 "somebody needs to do something" : the cry of NPCs everywhere
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 11:03 AM (jb8Ss)

I recall, before his brain turned completely to fat, none other than Jonah Goldberg pointed out that government "doing something" was almost always a bad idea.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2026 11:06 AM (ExV1e)

21 Great post.

As I sit here in Canada sipping coffee (to prevent staining) through one of the 500 or so remaining plastic straws I have left.

Plastic straws or 'wood + mystery stuff to simulate plastic straws.' Not a tough choice.

I also love when a few people get hurt in some random way and liberals and the news media cry out that there should be SOMETHING the government does to stop this horrible darwinian event from ever happening again.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 28, 2026 11:07 AM (Sco7b)

22 >>> 16
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Is there *nothing* OrangeManBad can't do?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 28, 2026 11:06 AM (0sNs1)

Was she wearing her red burka while writing this?

Was she using both hands to type?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 11:07 AM (jb8Ss)

23 Just try explaining to one of them that a landfill is the ultimate recycling center.

Posted by: DaveA at October 28, 2026 11:07 AM (FhXTo)

24 Paper straws soak up some of the product I pay good money for.
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Hardest Hit at October 28, 2026 11:04 AM (EdP2u)

Consider doing your lines off a frat guy's dick.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2026 11:07 AM (ExV1e)

25 13 Enviro bullshit aside, using a straw to drink water or a soda from a glass is gay and no man should ever be seen doing so.
Posted by: Fuck Em All

The sippy cup you are using doesn't come off as manly, Son.

Posted by: Heteronormative Henry at October 28, 2026 11:07 AM (EdP2u)

26
Best Karen episode ever was my former sister-in-law lecturing a 16 year old restaurant hostess over their use of plastic straws.

Posted by: Auspex at October 28, 2026 11:08 AM (Y8DZL)

27 26
Best Karen episode ever was my former sister-in-law lecturing a 16 year old restaurant hostess over their use of plastic straws.

Posted by: Auspex at October 28, 2026 11:08 AM (Y8DZL)

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Yelling at minimum wage workers about corporate policy is always the mark of someone who takes things seriously and keeps it real.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:09 AM (pfZGz)

28 I recall, before his brain turned completely to fat, none other than Jonah Goldberg pointed out that government "doing something" was almost always a bad idea.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2026 11:06 AM (ExV1e)

Ronald Reagan said it best. The nine most terrifying words in the English language is I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 11:09 AM (Ti9vn)

29 The whole jihad against plastic straws/bags amazed me.

I live on the east coast. I went to a town hall discussion on banning plastic bags. Why should we do that? Well the pro-banning side brought up the case of a whale in the Philippines that got bags stuck in its throat. Ok. I live on the east coast of the US - tell people in China/Philippines to stop littering and leave me alone.

The ban passed BTW. And I remember some Karen arguing that sure the non-disposable bags they were replaced with needed to be washed and were more expensive but everyone has time and money for that right?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:09 AM (sKqQm)

30 Now do recycling.

Posted by: Our National Religion at October 28, 2026 11:09 AM (UEqgJ)

31 Paper straws soak up some of the product I pay good money for.
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Hardest Hit at October 28, 2026 11:04 AM (EdP2u)

Consider doing your lines off a frat guy's dick.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I'm sure that ship has sailed.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 11:09 AM (8B4gm)

32 Paper straws soak up some of the product I pay good money for.
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Hardest Hit at October 28, 2026 11:04 AM (EdP2u)

Consider doing your lines off a frat guy's dick.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2026
****
This is about me, isn't it.

Posted by: B+rry Soetoro at October 28, 2026 11:10 AM (VPJGA)

33 I do like that Covid and this straw crap gave me permission to stop recycling and dump everything into the garbage bin.

Screw their concerns.

And oh, the Amazon boxes. Poor, poor Gaia....

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 28, 2026 11:10 AM (Sco7b)

34 >>> 26
Best Karen episode ever was my former sister-in-law lecturing a 16 year old restaurant hostess over their use of plastic straws.
Posted by: Auspex at October 28, 2026 11:08 AM (Y8DZL)

Did she later claim to have found some unappetizing thing in her food, after she'd eaten all of it, and demand to have it completely refunded?

She might have been (very briefly) a cow-orker.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 11:11 AM (jb8Ss)

35 A couple down the block has the whole lawn signage herd of local liberal politicians, state level politicians, and the "In This House...We believe in science". As usual, I'd bet these "science believers" have given precisely zero thought to the consequences of their previous leftist votes.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

36 He has created a suffocating atmosphere of misogyny and predation. We only have to look to the manosphere, or the rape academies online where millions of men exchange best practices for drugging and raping their wives, girlfriends, sisters or deepfake pornography which is destroying thousands of women’s lives or sex robots

There is a pretty big difference between someone drugging/raping a woman and someone else getting it on with a sex robot.

Of course the funny thing is Karen McKaren is probably more concerned about the latter because when Elon comes out with his line of Fembots, her husband is going to get three and she knows it...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:11 AM (sKqQm)

37 We are but sheep dépendent upon the watchul loving care of thé State.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 28, 2026 11:11 AM (2ap+5)

38 "In 2015, a video showing what was alleged to be a plastic drinking straw being removed from a sea turtle's nose spread on the internet."

The video was obviously staged. What are the odds that some rando activist against Demon Plastic just happens to find a sea turtle with a plastic straw that inexplicably got stuck in its nose?

The video gives the game away in two respects: One, when they somehow identify that it's a plastic straw at a time when nobody who is watching would think that's what it is. And two, the vid seems strategically edited, as if they cut around parts they didn't want you to see.

Then the true nature of the op was revealed when an obviously coordinated messenging campaign sprung up overnight.

I feel for the turtle, especially since it was these creeps that stuck the straw up its nose. But a little blood is much better than, you know, getting eaten alive by the 500 predators in the oceans that feed on these turtles.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 11:12 AM (iFTx/)

39 Remember how we had to get rid of paper bags because it was killing the planet?

So we had to switch to plastic bags.

And then we had to ban plastic bags because it was killing the planet.

And none of the "studies" those bans were based on ever accounted for the fact the every household reused paper and plastic bags

Anyway, the US could easily meet it's carbon reduction goals if we nuked one major city.
I say we put it to a vote.
The easy answer is Los Angeles--the biggest bang for our buck.

I mean, why slowly starve and impoverish the whole of America with ever-increasing regulations when we can rip the band-aid and all live happily ever after?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2026 11:12 AM (3cUTc)

40 >>> 27

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Yelling at minimum wage workers about corporate policy is always the mark of someone who takes things seriously and keeps it real.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:09 AM (pfZGz)

"Democrats are for the little guy!" -- actual quote from a leftard

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 11:12 AM (jb8Ss)

41 It is a kind of low-level anxiety, an ongoing foreshadowing or feeling of imminent destruction coming from multiple directions at once, and rather than reducing these threats (AI, nuclear weapons, climate catastrophes, pandemics), the psychopatriarchs are accelerating all these things. AI is charging forward with no regulation, escalating the nuclear arms race, increasing drilling of oil at breakneck speed, and paragraph after paragraph of psychobabble spreading fear of one's own shadow.

Posted by: SMOD at October 28, 2026 11:12 AM (RHGPo)

42 Trash is trash.
- something Forrest Gump's mom may have said

Posted by: Eromero at October 28, 2026 11:13 AM (LHPAg)

43 BTW a significant portion of the plastic waste comes from blue state's efforts to start recycling plastic.

See, plastic recycling is pretty terrible and no one wants a facility near them. So they starting shipping the stuff to China instead.

China found it was cheaper to just dump the stuff in the ocean rather then recycling it.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:13 AM (sKqQm)

44 Anytime fools promulgate some idea to save or that, or eat this or that or don't smoke this or that or the anal swabs can only go in one way, I do the opposite and enjoy watching the sheeple running back and forth in their enclosure.

Posted by: Obey or else at October 28, 2026 11:13 AM (8EQTH)

45 when Elon comes out with his line of Fembots, her husband is going to get three and she knows it...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:11 AM (sKqQm)

My Lori Lightfoot model is going to be lit!!

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 28, 2026 11:13 AM (Sco7b)

46 >>> 33
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And oh, the Amazon boxes. Poor, poor Gaia....
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 28, 2026 11:10 AM (Sco7b)

Don't you stupid monkeys DARE take those away.

Posted by: cats at October 28, 2026 11:13 AM (jb8Ss)

47 We did away with paper bags. Everything is now put in plastic bags. Thin bags. That tear with anything remotely heavy inside.

Like a bottle of Bourbon.

Sad.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2026 11:13 AM (RORbl)

48 And none of the "studies" those bans were based on ever accounted for the fact the every household reused paper and plastic bags

The bags I got at the grocery store became trash can bags at home.

Now I get paper bags at the grocery store and have to buy other plastic bags to put in my smaller trash bins in my house.

But we saved da Erf even though I'm using MORE materials now right?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:14 AM (sKqQm)

49 He has created a suffocating atmosphere of misogyny and predation. We only have to look to the manosphere, or the rape academies online where millions of men exchange best practices for drugging and raping their wives, girlfriends, sisters or deepfake pornography which is destroying thousands of women’s lives or sex robots

You almost have to admire someone who can still write and operate a keyboard while hyperventilating this way.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)

50 What's so bad about carbon?

Posted by: I gotta ask at October 28, 2026 11:14 AM (UEqgJ)

51 >>> 50 What's so bad about carbon?
Posted by: I gotta ask at October 28, 2026 11:14 AM (UEqgJ)

We hates it!

Posted by: silicon-based space aliens at October 28, 2026 11:15 AM (jb8Ss)

52 The Left has no ability to determine cause and effect. They even ignore it when it's proven to them. They keep going with ' Yeah but still....'

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 11:15 AM (Ti9vn)

53 There are two quick and easy ways to cut down on sex crimes in the US:

Bring back three strikes and long prison sentences for violent crimes

Send all the illegals home.

Most Karens tell me that's racist though. So apparently being raped by a swarthy guy is...ok?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:16 AM (sKqQm)

54 Best Karen episode ever was my former sister-in-law lecturing a 16 year old restaurant hostess over their use of plastic straws.
Posted by: Auspex at October 28, 2026 11:08 AM

To be fair, your SiL is on the front lines of the war against psychopatriarchy:

"We can try to block it (courts); we can starve it (strikes); we can remove it (vote and get them out office). We can name and shame it (speaking out, marches and rallies), refuse to normalize it (write about it, make art about it); we can prosecute it.

...

But what we cannot do is go to sleep, become small and still, with the childlike fantasy that they will not find us. What we cannot do is succumb to it or become them – numb, selfish, hollow and cruel.

Our feelings, our pain, our empathy, our rage, our love, our refusal to turn away will be our salvation. Psychosis is the inability to tell what is real from unreal. Our work is to say what we see and trust what we know, to keep speaking truth to power and go to any lengths to stay connected to reality and each other."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 28, 2026 11:16 AM (0sNs1)

55 "He has created a suffocating atmosphere of misogyny and predation. We only have to look to the manosphere, or the rape academies online where millions of men exchange best practices for drugging and raping their wives, girlfriends, sisters or deepfake pornography which is destroying thousands of women’s lives or sex robots."
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Eric Fartswell? Gay Maine Nazi? Andrew Cuomo? Reuben Gallego?

This could be any one of dozens of Democraps.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 11:16 AM (iFTx/)

56 We did away with paper bags. Everything is now put in plastic bags. Thin bags. That tear with anything remotely heavy inside.

Like a bottle of Bourbon.

Sad.

Credit where it's due; Fairfax Co. requires liquor be transported from the stores in an opaque plastic bag. The ones used by the liquor stores are all heavy and robust, with virtually no chance of a tragedy occurring.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

57 My weightlifting coach in HS was also the county coroner. He had all kinds of horror stories about freak deaths. One of them was about a guy who was smoking a big stogie, got in a fender bender, and the airbag choked him with it.

We need airbag-proof cigars, clearly.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 28, 2026 11:17 AM (BI5O2)

58 Karen episode ever was my former sister-in-law lecturing a 16 year old restaurant hostess over their use of plastic straws.

Posted by: Auspex at October 28, 2026 11:08 AM (Y8DZL)

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Yelling at minimum wage workers about corporate policy is always the mark of someone who takes things seriously and keeps it real.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:09 AM (pfZGz)

I used to travel a lot and marveled at people who would scream at gate agents because their flight was cancelled or delayed. Like lady what exactly do you want here. You expect this gate agent to override the FAA and Delta and fly you personally to your destination?

Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:17 AM (/ClFf)

59 >>This is what always happens and this incident followed the normal progression. They achieved nothing but compliance for its own sake. Don't expect facts to get in the way or for the bans to be rolled back, though. It was the "right thing to do" and the right kind of busybody mini-tyrants feel far too good about it.

And we're all still forced to remove our shoes at airports because ONE CRAZY GUY had a shoe bomb.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 28, 2026 11:18 AM (rOKnE)

60 "He has created a suffocating atmosphere of misogyny and predation."

Is this about me?

Posted by: Anthony Wiener at October 28, 2026 11:18 AM (UEqgJ)

61 And then we had to ban plastic bags because it was killing the planet.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
________

Those banned plastic grocery bags just led different plastic bags in the landfill, with the same dog poop in them.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 28, 2026 11:18 AM (JzUSu)

62 My Lori Lightfoot model is going to be lit!!
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 28, 2026 11:13 AM (Sco7b)

*Eyes pop out and neck stretches*

Posted by: ET at October 28, 2026 11:19 AM (8B4gm)

63 59
And we're all still forced to remove our shoes at airports because ONE CRAZY GUY had a shoe bomb.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 28, 2026 11:18 AM (rOKnE)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5AIgPyv8Lw

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:19 AM (pfZGz)

64 He has created a suffocating atmosphere of misogyny and predation. We only have to look to the manosphere, or the rape academies online where millions of men exchange best practices for drugging and raping their wives, girlfriends, sisters or deepfake pornography which is destroying thousands of women’s lives or sex robots

You almost have to admire someone who can still write and operate a keyboard while hyperventilating this way.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)
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Yea. What is this lunatic even talking about? "Rape academies" where "millions" of men teach each other how to "rape" their ... sisters? Really? Where do they get this from?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 11:19 AM (iFTx/)

65 millions of men exchange best practices for drugging and raping their wives, girlfriends, sisters
--
The only people who believe that is real are the type of women who wish they were attractive enough to rate being raped.

They ought to sojourn in some third-world shithole to satisfy their fantasy, not belch screeds online demanding artificial affection via "likes."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2026 11:19 AM (3cUTc)

66 64 Yea. What is this lunatic even talking about? "Rape academies" where "millions" of men teach each other how to "rape" their ... sisters? Really? Where do they get this from?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 11:19 AM (iFTx/)

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60% female colleges need more diversity and become 100% female colleges. Also, you can't have corresponding 100% male colleges because they'll just teach each other to rape women. All-male schools should be banned and filled with women instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:19 AM (pfZGz)

67 The Left has no ability to determine cause and effect. They even ignore it when it's proven to them. They keep going with ' Yeah but still....'

I worked in a blue city. There was a new environut mayor candidate. My cow-workers loved her. She ran on a platform of among other things making office parks reserve half their parking spots for compact cars.

So when she won she put in said rule and the office park I worked in dutifully repainted the spots so half were reserved for compact cars.

Those cow-workers generally drove big trucks/SUVs and were often overweight so you can imagine they were now constantly banging other cars with their doors. This created much anger...against the company that owned the office park.

I pointed out they were enacting a new rule that the mayor they liked had passed. "But they didn't have to do it this way!" and then when I pointed out didn't they agree SUVs/trucks were bad for da Erf anyway the stock answer was "I need mine though!". Note very few of them actually needed a truck for truck type things or had a big enough family to "need" a large SUV

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:20 AM (sKqQm)

68 Eric Fartswell? Gay Maine Nazi? Andrew Cuomo? Reuben Gallego?

This could be any one of dozens of Democraps.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 11:16 AM (iFT

Bill Clinton which is the proper comparison. The Left's history only began yesterday for them. That's how they can write this shit without a scintilla of self awareness.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 11:20 AM (Ti9vn)

69 >>He has created a suffocating atmosphere of misogyny and predation. We only have to look to the manosphere, or the rape academies online where millions of men exchange best practices for drugging and raping their wives, girlfriends, sisters or deepfake pornography which is destroying thousands of women’s lives or sex robots

All while ignoring the rape of an entire generation of girls in the UK.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 28, 2026 11:20 AM (rOKnE)

70 >>>It was the "right thing to do" and the right kind of busybody mini-tyrants feel far too good about it.

They're bad people.

Posted by: m at October 28, 2026 11:20 AM (odBC9)

71 Eric Fartswell? Gay Maine Nazi? Andrew Cuomo? Reuben Gallego?

This could be any one of dozens of Democraps.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 11:16 AM

Dude! Dude!!!!!!!

* shrieks *
* foot stomps *

It can only be The One! OrangeManBad! How can you not know this after all this time of us telling you???????

Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at October 28, 2026 11:21 AM (0sNs1)

72 If you used a Microsoft product, which would be using Authenticator for two-factor auth, in the past week or so: you might have got bungholed.
MS Teams allows apps with high privilege and low privilege. Low privilege apps are supposed not to be able to piggyback on the session tokens of something important. ... "supposed".
The bunghole is registered CVE_2026-80097 and was plugged yesterday.
Strongly recommended you update.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 11:21 AM (88C+u)

73 No we meant everyone else has to be inconvenienced not us

/ Cow-Workers

Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:21 AM (/ClFf)

74 >>One of them was about a guy who was smoking a big stogie, got in a fender bender, and the airbag choked him with it.

Heard about that happening about 10 years ago. Always been careful with any object that would be in the way of an airbag deploying ever since.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 28, 2026 11:21 AM (NcvvS)

75 Yea. What is this lunatic even talking about? "Rape academies" where "millions" of men teach each other how to "rape" their ... sisters? Really? Where do they get this from?

I vaguely recall the FNM found some website that had something about this. Yes, yes, I know obviously if there is a webpage on the internet it reflects the true views and actions of every man on earth

Now I could point out there are feminist websites calling for all men to be killed as well, but the answer would be "of course there are some oddballs on the internet"

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:22 AM (sKqQm)

76 >>. . . destroying thousands of women’s lives or sex robots."

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE SOON YOU AND YOUR FEMINIST PALS WILL BE REPLACED BY SEXBOTS AND WILL CRY ABOUT MEN IGNORING YOU.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at October 28, 2026 11:22 AM (rOKnE)

77 Now do recycling.
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I'm nearly convinced there's no such thing. I bet more times than not ALL of the trash ends up at the same location.

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 11:22 AM (TN0g+)

78 not belch screeds online demanding artificial affection via "likes."

And most of those "likes" are Chinese and Russian bots.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 28, 2026 11:22 AM (/TiS1)

79 I want to know what kind of degree you get from the Online Rape Academy.

Is it a Bachelor of Arts? Or a Bachelor of Science?

What are the grad school opportunities?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2026 11:22 AM (3cUTc)

80 The bags I got at the grocery store became trash can bags at home.

Now I get paper bags at the grocery store and have to buy other plastic bags to put in my smaller trash bins in my house.

But we saved da Erf even though I'm using MORE materials now right?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:14 AM

This is why I love sopping in NH when I can. They still use plastic bags.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 28, 2026 11:22 AM (bFu5X)

81 I roll up $100 bills for my straws.

Posted by: Reforger at October 28, 2026 11:22 AM (Ae6Br)

82 Thé airbag drowning me in a pécan pie old fashioned is thé way I want to go.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 28, 2026 11:23 AM (2ap+5)

83 If it saves just one sea turtle!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 28, 2026 11:23 AM (4Je4D)

84 Being told you have to follow the arrows in the grocery store. Nope, my thousand yard stare defied any comment about that.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 11:23 AM (8Uo7a)

85 The Left has no ability to determine cause and effect. They even ignore it when it's proven to them. They keep going with ' Yeah but still....'
Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 11:15 AM (Ti9vn)

Because it's all about how they feel.

Posted by: LASue at October 28, 2026 11:23 AM (lCppi)

86 The vitality important question that no one is asking:

How many holes does a straw actually have?

Posted by: Tonypete at October 28, 2026 11:23 AM (fO5H9)

87 I used to travel a lot and marveled at people who would scream at gate agents because their flight was cancelled or delayed. Like lady what exactly do you want here. You expect this gate agent to override the FAA and Delta and fly you personally to your destination?
Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:17 AM

Police bodycam videos are full of these people. Justice can be amusing sometimes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 28, 2026 11:24 AM (bFu5X)

88 86 The vitality important question that no one is asking:

How many holes does a straw actually have?

Posted by: Tonypete at October 28, 2026 11:23 AM (fO5H9)

=======

Infinite, if you slice it right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:24 AM (pfZGz)

89 The vitality important question that no one is asking:

How many holes does a straw actually have?
Posted by: Tonypete at October 28, 2026 11:23 AM

None. It has an inside and an outside.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 28, 2026 11:25 AM (bFu5X)

90 Remember Silly Straws as a kid?

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 11:25 AM (Ti9vn)

91

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro and his family arrived in Miami on Wednesday, where the United States government will grant them entry visas after he refused to comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court order to surrender his passports.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 11:25 AM (Cqx++)

92 Greatest “wait no what do you mean we voted for this” example was in Seattle.

King County had a ballot measure to increase car registration fees by something like 300% to fund public transportation boondoggles across the county. It easily passed of course.

Then the next year when it was implemented local news had stories about all these drivers outraged at the new cost of registering their cars. One guy interviewed literally said I voted for this but I didn’t think I would be affected by it.

It’s leftism in a nutshell.

Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:25 AM (/ClFf)

93 One of the most comical arguments I've seen from the feminist left recently was their furor over "men pressuring their wives over sex"

See if she doesn't want to and you ask you are literally a rapist.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:26 AM (sKqQm)

94 Our feelings, our pain, our empathy, our rage, our love, our refusal to turn away will be our salvation. Psychosis is the inability to tell what is real from unreal. Our work is to say what we see and trust what we know, to keep speaking truth to power and go to any lengths to stay connected to reality and each other."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 28, 2026 11:16 AM
There is iron in the words of Duncanthrax for all men to see.
- Ten Bears

Posted by: Eromero at October 28, 2026 11:26 AM (LHPAg)

95 If you used a Microsoft product...

There is your problem.

Microsoft's Co-Pilot hacked up a hairball a few hours ago and all of the AI wonder and productivity just went idle.

Moral of this story: Never single source anything in your critical supply chain.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 28, 2026 11:26 AM (NzX/y)

96 Yea. What is this lunatic even talking about? "Rape academies" where "millions" of men teach each other how to "rape" their ... sisters? Really? Where do they get this from?
***
He's obviously talking about mosques- aka R Academies. And maybe classes at the Learing Center.

Posted by: LASue at October 28, 2026 11:26 AM (lCppi)

97 One guy interviewed literally said I voted for this but I didn’t think I would be affected by it.

It’s leftism in a nutshell.
Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:25 AM

It's a mystery, right?

Posted by: The leopards Eating People's Faces Party at October 28, 2026 11:26 AM (bFu5X)

98 The vitality important question that no one is asking:

How many holes does a straw actually have?
Posted by: Tonypete at October 28, 2026 11:23 AM (fO5H9)

4000 ?

Posted by: Paul McCartney at October 28, 2026 11:26 AM (Ti9vn)

99 China found it was cheaper to just dump the stuff in the ocean rather then recycling it.
--
In Southern Idaho, they built a new grade into the Snake River Canyon.
They needed fill, as the old grade crept along the wall, this one was largely a straight cut.
And even with the thousands of tons of rock they blasted out, they needed more.

They turned to the local glass recycler who gladly off-loaded thousands of tons of glass--that they otherwise had no use for.

Anyway, they named it something dumb, like for some local dignitary.
Instead of the more poetic "Glassheart Grade."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2026 11:27 AM (3cUTc)

100 All shopping bags are plastic here. We repurpose them quite a bit. Useful things, really.

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 11:27 AM (Gqar8)

101 He has created a suffocating atmosphere of misogyny and predation. We only have to look to the manosphere, or the rape academies online where millions of men exchange best practices for drugging and raping their wives, girlfriends, sisters or deepfake pornography which is destroying thousands of women’s lives or sex robots

All while ignoring the rape of an entire generation of girls in the UK.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 28, 2026 11:20 AM (rOKnE)
_______

Yea, but they were low-class peasant girls of no status or consequence so who cares about them?

It's almost always higher-status girls who get all the attention when they accuse someone of raping them.

Like Train Hoe, a white sorority girl from an ivy league college, or Mattress Whore, a white-ish sorority girl from an ivy league college.

Nobody cares about -- or even mentions -- the poor girls in the ghetto or meth trailer park or indian reservation who get raped and abused. These girls simply do not matter.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 11:28 AM (iFTx/)

102 Ten Bears
Ten Beers

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 28, 2026 11:28 AM (s3O4c)

103 I use tge plastic bags to clean my cat's litter boxes. That is when they don't have holes in them which is 80% of the time.

Posted by: Paul McCartney at October 28, 2026 11:28 AM (Ti9vn)

104 I used to travel a lot and marveled at people who would scream at gate agents because their flight was cancelled or delayed. Like lady what exactly do you want here. You expect this gate agent to override the FAA and Delta and fly you personally to your destination?
Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:17 AM

Police bodycam videos are full of these people. Justice can be amusing sometimes.

It doesn't help that so many of the gate agents act like they're doing you a favor by even talking to you, and you know that once on the plane, the airline will treat you like a troublesome insect. There's plenty of blame to go around.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

105 New York communist keys Florida Man's car over sticker, catches felony charge:

https://tinyurl.com/mpu6dam5

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 28, 2026 11:29 AM (qlLNh)

106 Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro and his family arrived in Miami on Wednesday, where the United States government will grant them entry visas after he refused to comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court order to surrender his passports.

Definitely not a Turd World Banana Republic when its customary to exile your political opponent who you cheated out of an election.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 28, 2026 11:29 AM (NzX/y)

107 I use my empty 50lb feed sacks for large garbage bags.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 11:29 AM (8Uo7a)

108 The vitality important question that no one is asking:

How many holes does a straw actually have?
Posted by: Tonypete at October 28, 2026 11:23 AM (fO5H9)

4000 ?

This news was rather sad.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

109 I remember a movie called the gods must be crazy the premise of which was that a 1st worlder dropped a glass coke bottle out of his small plane window and a group of bushman find it and after realizing how useful it is have a bunch of strife with each other until one guys decides it should be returned to the gods because obviously mankind is not yet ready for such a gift...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:29 AM (sKqQm)

110 >>The bags I got at the grocery store became trash can bags at home.

Now I get paper bags at the grocery store and have to buy other plastic bags to put in my smaller trash bins in my house.

But we saved da Erf even though I'm using MORE materials now right?
- - - - -

Here in Colorado we "save" the earth by: businesses may still provide paper bags, but you are charged $.10 for each one. No, the business who supplied the bag doesn't get paid, this goes straight to the state.

Do we know how this bag ~~TAX~~ "fee" is spent? Do we know how much is collected? No, no we don't. But somehow, this fixed th bag pollution problem *wink*.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 28, 2026 11:30 AM (rOKnE)

111 13 Enviro bullshit aside, using a straw to drink water or a soda from a glass is gay and no man should ever be seen doing so.
Posted by: Fuck Em All

The original name for straws were sanitary straws because of crappy dishwashing leaving unclean glasses especially with residue along the rim. With the EPA interfering in dishwasher function to 'save' energy, dirty glasses are again an issue because the dishwashers are imperfect about removing residue nowadays due to limits on water and energy usage of dishwashers. So you might want to return to using straws to avoid 3rd World health issues.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:30 AM (E4rtv)

112 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:30 AM (CfKHZ)

113 All shopping bags are plastic here. We repurpose them quite a bit. Useful things, really.
Posted by: tubal

Yep. Trash can liners, dog shit bags, etc.

Posted by: ET at October 28, 2026 11:30 AM (8B4gm)

114 Always been careful with any object that would be in the way of an airbag deploying ever since.
Posted by: Nazdar at October 28, 2026 11:21 AM (NcvvS)

That's probably how "AOS Cope" will end up checking out.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 11:30 AM (88C+u)

115 104

It doesn't help that so many of the gate agents act like they're doing you a favor by even talking to you, and you know that once on the plane, the airline will treat you like a troublesome insect. There's plenty of blame to go around.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

Yes, flying is a miserable experience, pretty much. If the destination is a reasonable distance, prefer to drive.

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 11:30 AM (Gqar8)

116 I got bumped up to First Class once when I came to an agents defense from an overly aggressive ticket holder. Only time I've flown First Class and it's the best.

Posted by: Paul McCartney at October 28, 2026 11:30 AM (Ti9vn)

117 80 The bags I got at the grocery store became trash can bags at home.

Now I get paper bags at the grocery store and have to buy other plastic bags to put in my smaller trash bins in my house.

But we saved da Erf even though I'm using MORE materials now right?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:14 AM

This is why I love sopping in NH when I can. They still use plastic bags.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

We still have plastic bags here. They cost you .12 cents each.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 11:31 AM (W2Pud)

118 I'm nearly convinced there's no such thing. I bet more times than not ALL of the trash ends up at the same location.
---
Penn and Teller's "Bullshit" showed that and that was like 20 years ago--when the recycling scam was still all the rage.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2026 11:31 AM (3cUTc)

119 We use store bags on the doorknob for the pantry. Started when we were moving in and just became a thing. Haven't had to clean a kitchen garbage can in 25 years.

Posted by: Reforger at October 28, 2026 11:31 AM (Ae6Br)

120 > Mattress Whore, a white-ish sorority girl from an ivy league college.

Half Jewish, half Chinese, I think.

Definitely a roll of the dice with that combo. Sometimes you get Phoebe Cates. Sometimes you get the man-jawed Mattress Whore.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 28, 2026 11:31 AM (qlLNh)

121 Henceforth I will use Co-pilot as my primary supplier of blog comment wit:

The lifecycle of every modern crusade seems pretty reliable: find a photo, skip the cost-benefit analysis, ban something ordinary, replace it with a worse version, then act shocked when the unintended consequences turn out to be the only consequences. The paper straw dissolving halfway through my drink may be the most environmentally conscious way to consume disappointment.

A solid first effort, Co-pilot!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 28, 2026 11:31 AM (4Je4D)

122 Off sock

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 11:31 AM (8B4gm)

123 I use tge plastic bags to clean my cat's litter boxes. That is when they don't have holes in them which is 80% of the time.

It was Austin that banned plastic bags (unless you were a welfare recipient and you can have plastic bags). Shortly thereafter, the city had to install dog scat plastic bag stations along its walking paths in their city parks.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 28, 2026 11:31 AM (NzX/y)

124 When I heard about plastic bag bans my first thought was what will they use to pick up dog shit?

Then I remembered progressives don’t pick up after their dogs to begin with. So not an issue.

Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:31 AM (/ClFf)

125 Off Beatle sock

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 11:31 AM (Ti9vn)

126 How many holes does a straw actually have?

Posted by: Tonypete at October 28, 2026 11:23 AM (fO5H9)

=======

Infinite, if you slice it right.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:24 AM (pfZGz)
-----------
I have some ideas on that.

Posted by: Zeno of Elea at October 28, 2026 11:31 AM (amcLV)

127 118 I'm nearly convinced there's no such thing. I bet more times than not ALL of the trash ends up at the same location.
---
Penn and Teller's "Bullshit" showed that and that was like 20 years ago--when the recycling scam was still all the rage.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2026 11:31 AM (3cUTc)

====

Best part of that episode was when they were getting buy in from a San Fran resident to use like a dozen different bins for different kinds of trash. Well, not them. They just hosted. Their proxies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:31 AM (pfZGz)

128 One of m’y favorite vignettes from Mad Men is Sally Draper wearing a dry clearing bang over her had and Betty flipped out worried that she would find her freshly dry-cleaned dressed in a wrinkled pile on thé flood of her closet.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 28, 2026 11:32 AM (2ap+5)

129 Nobody cares about -- or even mentions -- the poor girls in the ghetto or meth trailer park or indian reservation who get raped and abused. These girls simply do not matter.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 11:28 AM (iFTx/)

Good news for us!

Posted by: Rotherham Muslims at October 28, 2026 11:32 AM (88C+u)

130 I used to travel a lot and marveled at people who would scream at gate agents because their flight was cancelled or delayed. Like lady what exactly do you want here. You expect this gate agent to override the FAA and Delta and fly you personally to your destination?
Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:17 AM

Police bodycam videos are full of these people. Justice can be amusing sometimes.

It doesn't help that so many of the gate agents act like they're doing you a favor by even talking to you, and you know that once on the plane, the airline will treat you like a troublesome insect. There's plenty of blame to go around.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:28 AM (Riz8t)
_________

This. There are some serious assholes out there manning the airline gates and check-ins. But recently, I've had nothing but good experiences, with the occasional "no, you can't put your personal bag in the overhead compartment, that's for the big carry-on bags only," which I just smile and ignore.

It may be that the airlines finally wised up and started cracking down on the worst offenders on their staffs.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 11:32 AM (iFTx/)

131 It doesn't help that so many of the gate agents act like they're doing you a favor by even talking to you, and you know that once on the plane, the airline will treat you like a troublesome insect. There's plenty of blame to go around.
Posted by: Archimedes
========
Travel by air is about as pleasant as a trip to the dentist without anesthesia except the dentist has more comfortable chairs.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:32 AM (E4rtv)

132 One thing that amuses me is that outside of the Obama years the feminist left has had a strict party line on sex crime claims:

1980-1992: Powerful men get away with rape and all rape claims are true

1993-2000: Meh, women lie about rape all the time.

2001-2008: Powerful men get away with rape and all rape claims are true

2009-2016: Isn't Michelle Obama dreamy?

2017-2020: Powerful men get away with rape and all rape claims are true

2021-2024: Meh, women lie about rape all the time. Also, its perfectly normal to shower with your daughter

2025- Powerful men get away with rape and all rape claims are true

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:32 AM (sKqQm)

133 Always been careful with any object that would be in the way of an airbag deploying ever since.
Posted by: Nazdar at October 28, 2026 11:21 AM (NcvvS)

That's probably how "AOS Cope" will end up checking out.

How would he be orally pleasuring a man while driving down the road?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t)

134 We are not charged for paper or plastic here in the free state of Texas.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 11:32 AM (8Uo7a)

135 Greatest “wait no what do you mean we voted for this” example was in Seattle.

King County had a ballot measure to increase car registration fees by something like 300% to fund public transportation boondoggles across the county. It easily passed of course.

Then the next year when it was implemented local news had stories about all these drivers outraged at the new cost of registering their cars. One guy interviewed literally said I voted for this but I didn’t think I would be affected by it.

It’s leftism in a nutshell.
Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:25 AM (/ClFf)

The kicker is even under the best case scenario, most of the trains won't be operational for another 20 plus years (which in government time means 40 years). So most of those paying for it will probably be dead.

Posted by: LASue at October 28, 2026 11:32 AM (lCppi)

136 "Democrats are for the little guy!" -- actual quote from a leftard
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Well it's true!

Posted by: Robert Reich at October 28, 2026 11:32 AM (Fv808)

137 You don't want plastic straws up turtle's noses?

Stop throwing shit in the ocean.

Every conservative I know cleans up after themselves and throws things away in the proper receptacle.

The likely liberal bitch that threw her trash out of her vehicle window right in front of me in the turn lane on the way in this morning is the problem.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:33 AM (CfKHZ)

138 They cost you .12 cents each.

8 bags for a penny? Not bad. Not bad at all.

Posted by: far cry at October 28, 2026 11:33 AM (Oh7rl)

139 Sponge, Amen.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 11:34 AM (8Uo7a)

140 The push for better personal hygiene and increased personal distance made sense and worked in reducing infections just as it did in Grandma's time. The enforced lock down result's? The results not worth the effort.

Common sense and humans often do not mix.

Posted by: James Lewis at October 28, 2026 11:34 AM (bsqKw)

141 The original name for straws were sanitary straws because of crappy dishwashing leaving unclean glasses especially with residue along the rim.
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Paper bags, and then plastic bags, were massive public health improvements.

Because, before them, people reused their grocery bags.
And they were nasty vectors for food-borne illness.

But shitting your brains out while vomiting is a small price to pay to "save the Earth"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2026 11:34 AM (3cUTc)

142 Sabine says "Plastic Isn’t The Problem You’ve Been Made To Believe"
youtu.be/JJste2I_sZQ

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 11:34 AM (88C+u)

143 That's probably how "AOS Cope" will end up checking out.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 11:30 AM

I'd have thought autoerotic asphyxia, but freak airbag disaster works, too.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 28, 2026 11:34 AM (bFu5X)

144 What happens when a word gets "tired" from overuse, the Left change it.

Racist stopped working. They moved to bigot. Bigot stopped working, they moved to White Supremacist. They're still on that but that even got tired, so they went to Fascist.

Now it's the same with Patriarchy. Worked for a while to an extent but now it's not enough so we get this nonsense. And yes it is what "they" do. It's all about feelz

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2026 11:34 AM (gtzLh)

145 I'm nearly convinced there's no such thing. I bet more times than not ALL of the trash ends up at the same location.
---
Penn and Teller's "Bullshit" showed that and that was like 20 years ago--when the recycling scam was still all the rage.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2026 11:31 AM (3cUTc)
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That was one episode where they said that they would have liked to have found that recycling wasn't bullshit. As it is, they thoroughly trashed recycling in that ep.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 28, 2026 11:35 AM (amcLV)

146 I quickly learned being nice to gate agents peppered with a few “man sorry about all these jerks you have to deal with” magically opens up space on oversold flights and sometimes even in first class.

Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:36 AM (/ClFf)

147 We occasionally have grocery shoppers in my AO who bring in their own cloth bags to put their groceries in. They are of a type, I have noticed. Mask wearing sometimes overlaps.

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 11:36 AM (Gqar8)

148 AOC Dope will have a new name by next Wednesday morning.

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2026 11:36 AM (gtzLh)

149 COVID was a bit different since it barely effected the young, but every year we get a wave of flu like illnesses from the public school system.

Of course we could mostly stop that by banning travel too and from China.

Turns out having hundreds of snot nosed kids in a building together is a bad idea as far as spreading disease is concerned...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:36 AM (sKqQm)

150 What happens when a word gets "tired" from overuse, the Left change it.

Racist stopped working. They moved to bigot. Bigot stopped working, they moved to White Supremacist. They're still on that but that even got tired, so they went to Fascist.

Now it's the same with Patriarchy. Worked for a while to an extent but now it's not enough so we get this nonsense. And yes it is what "they" do. It's all about feelz

They've even stopped using "woke" because it was so universally mocked and derided by everyone but the left. We were being mean, you see.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

151 >>One thing that amuses me is that outside of the Obama years the feminist left has had a strict party line on sex crime claims:

1980-1992: Powerful men get away with rape and all rape claims are true

1993-2000: Meh, women lie about rape all the time.

2001-2008: Powerful men get away with rape and all rape claims are true

2009-2016: Isn't Michelle Obama dreamy?

2017-2020: Powerful men get away with rape and all rape claims are true

2021-2024: Meh, women lie about rape all the time. Also, its perfectly normal to shower with your daughter

2025- Powerful men get away with rape and all rape claims are true
- - - -

Dang, so true!

Yeah, the Obama exception was his "Campus Rape Epidemic" crusade that got torpedoed by UVA rape hoaxer.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 28, 2026 11:37 AM (rOKnE)

152
How many holes does a straw actually have?
Posted by: Tonypete

4000 ?

This news was rather sad.
Posted by: Archimedes

I'd love to turn you on.

Posted by: Rape academy graduate at October 28, 2026 11:37 AM (Cqx++)

153 The 4" diameter PVC pipe I use to insert the gerbil is kind of a straw, I guess.

Posted by: Richard Gere at October 28, 2026 11:37 AM (EdP2u)

154 Racist stopped working. They moved to bigot. Bigot stopped working, they moved to White Supremacist. They're still on that but that even got tired, so they went to Fascist.

My favorite lefty neologism is "multi-racial white supremacist"

Now, David Chappelle had a pretty funny take on this with his blind black KKK member but other then that this idea is pretty stupid

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:37 AM (sKqQm)

155 Being told you have to follow the arrows in the grocery store. Nope, my thousand yard stare defied any comment about that.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 11:23 AM (8Uo7a)

Only time I was karened in a grocery store was for walking against the arrow. Young mom, masked, with an infant. She wasn't nasty about it, almost tentative. I smiled slightly (and visibly, as I was not masked) and turned my gaze back to the tortilla chips. There were others in the aisle, all masked. They remained silent while I made my selection and walked away..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 28, 2026 11:37 AM (08OqX)

156 What happens when a word gets "tired" from overuse, the Left change it.

Racist stopped working. They moved to bigot. Bigot stopped working, they moved to White Supremacist. They're still on that but that even got tired, so they went to Fascist.

Now it's the same with Patriarchy. Worked for a while to an extent but now it's not enough so we get this nonsense. And yes it is what "they" do. It's all about feelz
Posted by: ... at October 28, 2026 11:34 AM

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Extreme at October 28, 2026 11:38 AM (0sNs1)

157 Posted by: ... at October 28, 2026 11:36 AM (gtzLh)

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He'll be forgotten, and no one will care. And it will be good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:38 AM (pfZGz)

158 What is this lunatic even talking about? "Rape academies" where "millions" of men teach each other how to "rape" their ... sisters? Really? Where do they get this from?
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The irony is that if those existed at all (and they don't), they'd be far more likely to be found in the Middle East than anywhere else.

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 11:38 AM (TN0g+)

159 Being told you have to follow the arrows in the grocery store. Nope, my thousand yard stare defied any comment about that.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 11:23 AM (8Uo7a)

I didn't comply. Went to area I wanted in the best direction. It was still amazing how many people followed the arrows though. Like good little fearful robots.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 28, 2026 11:38 AM (rE3OA)

160 Re: AI...there was an interesting editorial by the publisher in a very specialized hobby magazine I subscribe to saying that secretive corporations are buying up huge amounts of books with seemingly no care for cost, scanning them into computers, and destroying them. He said one of those companies contacted him and bought all their back issues for hundreds of dollars. He had also contacted collector book sellers that said they have been getting orders like that. This magazine deals with aviation history mostly from the 70s and back so has almost no bearing on anything of current import, you would think. Why would AI be concerned with 1938 piston engined warbird technology? And why would the overlords care about that, or the relatively few people who are interested in that?

Posted by: Azjaeger at October 28, 2026 11:38 AM (3/XaG)

161 We occasionally have grocery shoppers in my AO who bring in their own cloth bags to put their groceries in.
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I bring my own bags for shopping. Mainly because I don't want to pay a nickel per store-provided bag.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 28, 2026 11:38 AM (amcLV)

162 "Plastic never goes away!!!!"

Tell that to the plastic bin that's been in my sunroom for a few years that absolutely disintegrates when you touch it and turns into a fine powder........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:39 AM (CfKHZ)

163 Thé Fed is expected to kéep rates where they are heading into thé mid-terms despite inflation raging far above the purported target rate.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 28, 2026 11:39 AM (2ap+5)

164 >>We are not charged for paper or plastic here in the free state of Texas.

Another reason to admire Texas!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 28, 2026 11:39 AM (rOKnE)

165 >>That's probably how "AOS Cope" will end up checking out.

Yep. Sad!

Posted by: Nazdar at October 28, 2026 11:39 AM (NcvvS)

166 154 Now, David Chappelle had a pretty funny take on this with his blind black KKK member but other then that this idea is pretty stupid

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:37 AM (sKqQm)

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"After discovering that he was black, the man has chosen to divorce his wife because she is a n*gger lover."
-very first episode of The Chappelle Show.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:39 AM (pfZGz)

167 "Keep your distance" was the small thing that was actually a monumental pain in the butt that would bring about salvation at scale in the form of infection reduction.

Yea, but I kinda miss the days when it was socially acceptable to say "get the fuck away from me" when some rando got too close.

I have an odd problem in that I hate people but they are somehow inexplicably drawn to me. My physical size and demeanor scream "keep the fuck away," but wherever I go or stand, some randos will always follow.

It's annoying as fuck.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 11:39 AM (iFTx/)

168 "Democrats are for the little guy!" -- actual quote from a leftard
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Well it's true!
Posted by: Robert Reich
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Maybe we need to get our own little guy.

Posted by: Junior O'Daniel at October 28, 2026 11:39 AM (JzUSu)

169 “They achieved nothing but compliance for its own sake.”

That is a perfect summation of how the nanny state torments us and projects its control over us.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at October 28, 2026 11:39 AM (P54I0)

170 I missed out on the retail aisle arrows. Must have been an amusing sight.

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 11:39 AM (Gqar8)

171 109 I remember a movie called the gods must be crazy the premise of which was that a 1st worlder dropped a glass coke bottle out of his small plane window and a group of bushman find it and after realizing how useful it is have a bunch of strife with each other until one guys decides it should be returned to the gods because obviously mankind is not yet ready for such a gift...
Posted by: 18-1

I love that movie.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 11:40 AM (W2Pud)

172 I bring my own bags for shopping. Mainly because I don't want to pay a nickel per store-provided bag.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

A nickle? I think they're a quarter here. Yeah, I bring my own.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 28, 2026 11:40 AM (Fv808)

173 Petco started charging for plastic bags so I kindly told the clerk to let the manager know that I will be going to Pet Smart from now on and the manager should let their supervisor know.

The clerk was sympathetic to the position as she heard the same multiple times. They finally quit charging when I went back out of convenience months later.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 11:40 AM (Ti9vn)

174 I have an odd problem in that I hate people but they are somehow inexplicably drawn to me. My physical size and demeanor scream "keep the fuck away," but wherever I go or stand, some randos will always follow.

It's annoying as fuck.

You too? I hate it when they always want to touch the hem of my garment.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

175 Re: AI...there was an interesting editorial by the publisher in a very specialized hobby magazine I subscribe to saying that secretive corporations are buying up huge amounts of books with seemingly no care for cost, scanning them into computers, and destroying them.

This is true and honestly not that secretive. Most of the big AI companies are doing variants on this because the more content you give your AI the smarter it will be.

This led me to suggest a while back that if the robot apocalypse comes it won't be robots killing people but instead making people write fan fiction all day...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:40 AM (sKqQm)

176 We occasionally have grocery shoppers in my AO who bring in their own cloth bags to put their groceries in.
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And studies have shown those bags to germ-ridden from re-use.

The alternative is to constantly wash them--which then undoes any of the "save the planet" rhetoric that you were using the cloth bags for in the 1st place.

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 11:40 AM (TN0g+)

177 It doesn't help that so many of the gate agents act like they're doing you a favor by even talking to you, and you know that once on the plane, the airline will treat you like a troublesome insect. There's plenty of blame to go around.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:28 AM (Riz8t)
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When you've been screamed at by eight consecutive customers, you tend to act coolly towards customer #9, regardless of their demeanor.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at October 28, 2026 11:40 AM (0bjKf)

178 Have you all seen the stories about the Great Plastic Island in the Pacific and how they're studying and keep getting shocked at all the marine life that's taking advantage of the free housing and easy food?

The other part I like is how they make it seem like it's some dense mass, when it's more like, if you're in the middle of it, you can count maybe a few dozen bottles and such at a time.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2026 11:41 AM (3cUTc)

179 GLOBULL WARMING!

Let's all just die off for the sake of Nature.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 28, 2026 11:41 AM (LOvBA)

180 143 That's probably how "AOS Cope" will end up checking out.
Posted by: 88C+u
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Eh, anal waste retention because AOS Cope is full of shit.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:41 AM (E4rtv)

181 And why would the overlords care about that, or the relatively few people who are interested in that?
Posted by: Azjaeger at October 28, 2026 11:38 AM (3/XaG)

Not true. Aviation history is huge.

Posted by: Reforger at October 28, 2026 11:42 AM (Ae6Br)

182 Bum turned to homeless turned to unhoused.

Slave is now enslaved person

Wife/Husband is now partner

BC is BCE

The list is endless

The left is always changing language. Part of their aim to destroy everything.

Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:42 AM (/ClFf)

183 When you've been screamed at by eight consecutive customers, you tend to act coolly towards customer #9, regardless of their demeanor.

I get that, but someone has to start being nice to get the virtuous circle going. It seems to me, that should be the people being paid to be nice.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

184 >>"After discovering that he was black, the man has chosen to divorce his wife because she is a n*gger lover."
-very first episode of The Chappelle Show.

Funny, and also kinda happened IRL where a white supremist who had been adopted discovered one of his birth parents was black, IIRC.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 28, 2026 11:42 AM (rOKnE)

185 After discovering that he was black, the man has chosen to divorce his wife because she is a n*gger lover."
-very first episode of The Chappelle Show.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:39 AM (pfZGz)

Not as controversial as his skit about the N*gga Family.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 11:42 AM (Ti9vn)

186 about the troll, You don't have to die to be dead to me.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 11:42 AM (8Uo7a)

187 > And why would the overlords care about that, or the relatively few people who are interested in that?
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It's all the books, magazines, etc. If you don't have physical access to the source materials, you are committed to use, and believe, what is fed to you online.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2026 11:43 AM (RORbl)

188 Here in SC, grocery stores still give out the thin plastic bags.

Everytime I go to Calif. to visit family, I cringe.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 28, 2026 11:43 AM (LOvBA)

189 @47 -- That's why you double-bag the heavy stuff. Just like your girlfriend...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 28, 2026 11:43 AM (xAP/Y)

190 186 about the troll, You don't have to die to be dead to me.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 11:42 AM (8Uo7a)

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I feel attacked.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:43 AM (pfZGz)

191 79 I want to know what kind of degree you get from the Online Rape Academy.

Is it a Bachelor of Arts? Or a Bachelor of Science?

What are the grad school opportunities?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2026 11:22 AM (3cUTc)

You don't get the labs in online coursework. So you lack the practical experience to be a good rapist on graduation. Take it from me: I got my degree from an online rape academy, and I don't even know where I'm supposed to put my wiener or for how long.

Posted by: Wish I'd Gone to HVAC School at October 28, 2026 11:43 AM (Xe6rn)

192 They've even stopped using "woke" because it was so universally mocked and derided by everyone but the left. We were being mean, you see.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

Before woke it was sjw. Then everyone hated sjw's. So they did woke but then everyone hated woke.

And remember at the beginning woke didn't exist it was all in your imagination. People forget that one even though it went on for two or more years.

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2026 11:43 AM (gtzLh)

193 What the heck happened to Chappelle? He went from a scrawny weakling to a bulked-up dude.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:43 AM (Riz8t)

194 Thought I read somewhere, once, that the US has more trees now than were there when the evil white people first settled the country. Could be a false memory, implanted by racists.

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 11:43 AM (Gqar8)

195 Funny, and also kinda happened IRL where a white supremist who had been adopted discovered one of his birth parents was black, IIRC.

One of the ways you can see old timey racism is dead is that back then black people that could get away with it pretended to be white, but in our modern era you see the reverse with Talcum X or Rachael Dozeal

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:44 AM (sKqQm)

196 "stop throwing shit in the ocean"

From AI:
Historically cited studies identified major river systems—such as the Yangtze, Yellow, Hai He, Pearl, Mekong, Indus, Ganges, Amur in Asia, and the Niger and Nile in Africa—as carrying the majority of land-based plastic into the sea. Newer field research shows that thousands of smaller, densely populated coastal and inland rivers also contribute heavily to total riverine plastic emissions.

So Asia and possibly our own coasts, where the typical liberal elites live.

Posted by: Rex B at October 28, 2026 11:44 AM (sdSI9)

197 Have you all seen the stories about the Great Plastic Island in the Pacific and how they're studying and keep getting shocked at all the marine life that's taking advantage of the free housing and easy food?

The other part I like is how they make it seem like it's some dense mass, when it's more like, if you're in the middle of it, you can count maybe a few dozen bottles and such at a time.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2026 11:41 AM (3cUTc)

I remember first hearing scare stories about that maybe ten or fifteen years ago. I spent a good amount of time trying to find pictures of it, and never did find any. I concluded it was probably 99 and 44/100ths percent bullshit.

Posted by: far cry at October 28, 2026 11:44 AM (Oh7rl)

198 Tell that to the plastic bin that's been in my sunroom for a few years that absolutely disintegrates when you touch it and turns into a fine powder........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:39 AM (CfKHZ)
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MICROPLASTICS!!!!!!

Also, SPONGE!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 28, 2026 11:44 AM (amcLV)

199 about the troll, You don't have to die to be dead to me.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 11:42 AM (8Uo7a)

Or to be braindead apparently

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2026 11:44 AM (gtzLh)

200 Tell that to the plastic bin that's been in my sunroom for a few years that absolutely disintegrates when you touch it and turns into a fine powder........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:39 AM (CfKHZ)

It becomes "micro plastic" and makes it's way into your nut sack where it causes low sperm count.

Posted by: Reforger at October 28, 2026 11:44 AM (Ae6Br)

201 I quickly learned being nice to gate agents peppered with a few “man sorry about all these jerks you have to deal with” magically opens up space on oversold flights and sometimes even in first class.

Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:36 AM (/ClFf)

NO!!! They should be yelled at every possible opportunity! It's THEIR FAULT the flight wasn't on time, I'm late and might MISS MY CONNECTOR!!!!!!

Posted by: Chunk Weegur at October 28, 2026 11:44 AM (CfKHZ)

202 Crazy people stick to me...

Posted by: Dee Dee Ramone, 1997 at October 28, 2026 11:45 AM (EdP2u)

203 Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:44 AM (sKqQm)

My favorite depressing movie and I hate depressing movies.

The Human Stain

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 11:45 AM (Ti9vn)

204
It becomes "micro plastic" and makes it's way into your nut sack where it causes low sperm count.
Posted by: Reforger at October 28, 2026 11:44 AM (Ae6Br)

My failed vasectomy doesn't understand those words in that order........

Posted by: Chunk Weegur at October 28, 2026 11:45 AM (CfKHZ)

205 I seriously doubt anyone in So. Cal. is throwing plastics into the rivers/sea.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 28, 2026 11:45 AM (LOvBA)

206 Shyte.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:45 AM (CfKHZ)

207 This is true and honestly not that secretive. Most of the big AI companies are doing variants on this because the more content you give your AI the smarter it will be.
Posted by: 18-1 a
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That is actually not proven. Basically Anthrope and Open AI are in a ridiculous death match to be the one that survives. Which means blowing billions of bucks they don't actually have as capital expenditures on equipment so they can create the latest frontier models. Meanwhile, under the radar screen, smaller such as installs on a single user computer and a bit slower multiuser AI models are adequate for most users.

Bleeding edge technology is always expensive and for many user cases, not worth the expense other than to claim First!

Frankly both leading AI companies are led by creeps so that like Iran-Iraq war, I hope they both lose in the future.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:46 AM (E4rtv)

208 >>I want to know what kind of degree you get from the Online Rape Academy.

Is it a Bachelor of Arts? Or a Bachelor of Science?

Women's Studies?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 28, 2026 11:46 AM (rOKnE)

209 Crazy people stick to me...

Posted by: Dee Dee Ramone, 1997 at October 28, 2026 11:45 AM (EdP2u)

They stick it IN me.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at October 28, 2026 11:46 AM (CfKHZ)

210 200 Tell that to the plastic bin that's been in my sunroom for a few years that absolutely disintegrates when you touch it and turns into a fine powder........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:39 AM (CfKHZ)

It becomes "micro plastic" and makes it's way into your nut sack where it causes low sperm count.
Posted by: Reforger at October 28, 2026 11:44 AM (Ae6Br)

Is there any scientific evidence to support this, or just internet hysteria pieces?

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 11:46 AM (Gqar8)

211 "wherever I go or stand, some randos will always follow."

"It's annoying as fuck."

You too? I hate it when they always want to touch the hem of my garment.
Posted by: Archimedes

Thanks. I laughed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2026 11:46 AM (JrHfD)

212 I seriously doubt anyone in So. Cal. is throwing plastics into the rivers/sea.

Well, it is the WC, so the water flows from the sea into the rivers.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:46 AM (Riz8t)

213 Ah, yes.

Rape Academy, the less-successful sequel to Police Academy. 2026, Miramax.

Bill Cosby, Rob Lowe, Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Screenplay: Woody Allen. Director: Roman Polanski. Producer: Harvey Weinstein. Score: R. Kelly

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 28, 2026 11:47 AM (qlLNh)

214 Except, you know, immigrants from Asia and the Middle East.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 28, 2026 11:47 AM (LOvBA)

215 The Human Stain
Posted by: polynikes
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That is a watch once movie.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:47 AM (E4rtv)

216
Also, SPONGE!!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 28, 2026 11:44 AM (amcLV)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:47 AM (CfKHZ)

217 seriously doubt anyone in So. Cal. is throwing plastics into the rivers/sea.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 28, 2026 11:45 AM (LOvBA)

They don't have to. Mexico does for them along with their sewage.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 11:47 AM (Ti9vn)

218 I applied for a job at Anthropic. Got an interview. As soon as I saw who it was with I knew I had no chance. Indian woman. I didn’t even bother.

Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:48 AM (/ClFf)

219 You had a hem?

We were so poor, we wore potato sacks without hems.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 28, 2026 11:48 AM (LOvBA)

220 Thought I read somewhere, once, that the US has more trees now than were there when the evil white people first settled the country. Could be a false memory, implanted by racists.
Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 11:43 AM (Gqar

It's true.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 28, 2026 11:48 AM (rE3OA)

221 217 seriously doubt anyone in So. Cal. is throwing plastics into the rivers/sea.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 28, 2026 11:45 AM (LOvBA)

They don't have to. Mexico does for them along with their sewage.
Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 11:47 AM (Ti9vn)

Pacific current runs north there, yes?

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 11:48 AM (Gqar8)

222 That is a watch once movie.
Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:47 AM (E4rtv)

Agreed but it was really well done and encapsulating. A car wreck you couldn't look away from. No pun intended.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 11:48 AM (Ti9vn)

223 Rape Academy, the less-successful sequel to Police Academy. 2026, Miramax.

Bill Cosby, Rob Lowe, Sean “Diddy” Combs.

I remember Rob Lowe got in trouble a while ago for having a threesome with an underaged girl (the two women were his hair dressers I think?) are you referencing the same thing or did he have other stuff come out?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:48 AM (sKqQm)

224 215 The Human Stain
Posted by: polynikes
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That is a watch once movie.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:47 AM (E4rtv)

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Hey! It's my older brother's nickname for me!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:49 AM (pfZGz)

225 I seriously doubt anyone in So. Cal. is throwing plastics into the rivers/sea.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 28, 2026 11:45 AM (LOvBA)

Your naiveite is showing.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:49 AM (CfKHZ)

226 Mexico is putting raw sewage into the sea.

Imperial Beach used to be a nice beach.

Not anymore.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 28, 2026 11:49 AM (LOvBA)

227 You had a hem?

We were so poor, we wore potato sacks without hems.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 28, 2026 11:48 AM (LOvBA)
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Luxury! We all had to share the same paper bag! At the same time!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 28, 2026 11:49 AM (amcLV)

228
Hey! It's my older brother's nickname for me!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:49 AM (pfZGz)

Wait.......there's more than one of you?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:49 AM (CfKHZ)

229 > 219 You had a hem?

We were so poor, we wore potato sacks without hems.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 28, 2026 11:48 AM (LOvBA)

You had potato sacks? My mother was forced to sew potato peelings together to clothe us.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 28, 2026 11:49 AM (qlLNh)

230 New York communist keys Florida Man's car over sticker, catches felony charge:
https://tinyurl.com/mpu6dam5
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 28, 2026 11:29 AM (qlLNh)

Typical yankee democrat scumbag. Glad he caught a felony. Fuck him.

Posted by: Seminole Wind at October 28, 2026 11:50 AM (8EQTH)

231 Thought I read somewhere, once, that the US has more trees now than were there when the evil white people first settled the country. Could be a false memory, implanted by racists.
Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 11:43 AM (Gqar

It's true.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
__________

I dont think that's true, but more than in 1900 is true.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 28, 2026 11:50 AM (JzUSu)

232 Yea. What is this lunatic even talking about? "Rape academies" where "millions" of men teach each other how to "rape" their ... sisters? Really? Where do they get this from?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 11:19 AM (iFTx/)
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I'm starting to believe more and more that the old-timey diagnosis of "hysteria" was a very real thing.

Chronically alone females that couldn't get laid in a men's prison with a fistful of pardons because nobody with a penis can stand to look at or smell them, much less listen to them talk long enough to actually fuck them.

Treated effectively with the ol' Hitachi Magic Wand.

Posted by: Mayor Pete at October 28, 2026 11:50 AM (oqH4h)

233 Is there any scientific evidence to support this, or just internet hysteria pieces?
Posted by: tubal

Tied to BPA from what I remember by epidemology studies but all of those suffer from the potential for an ecological fallacy.

We can't actually experiment ethically by controlled studies by giving some guys microplastics and others are kept pure. So we use large study groups using statistical controls rather than experimental designs. These can be good at showing correlation but not so much on causation.

The lower sperm quality could just as well be from the plethora of vaxxes given, industrial chemicals, tighty whitey underwear, etc.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:50 AM (E4rtv)

234 Mayor Pete knows wassup

Posted by: ballistic at October 28, 2026 11:50 AM (oqH4h)

235 Our air is cleaner than it was 100 years ago. We have more trees. Out medical system is exponentially better than even 50 years ago. We have more disposable income than we know what to do with. Life for the average American has never been better.

But according to the left capitalism has destroyed everyone’s life. And unfortunately a lot of people believe it.

Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:50 AM (/ClFf)

236 You can't go home again because it changed while you were gone.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 28, 2026 11:51 AM (LOvBA)

237 Pacific current runs north there, yes?
Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 11:48 AM (Gqar

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No, south. Gulf of Alaska water is why the water at L.A. beaches is so chilly.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 28, 2026 11:51 AM (amcLV)

238 > I remember Rob Lowe got in trouble a while ago for having a threesome with an underaged girl

Yeah, that was the incident I had in mind.

Looks like she was actually legal in Florida at the time.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 28, 2026 11:51 AM (qlLNh)

239 Go look at the drone footage of the area where Burning Man is held after they all leave...........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:51 AM (CfKHZ)

240 218 I applied for a job at Anthropic. Got an interview. As soon as I saw who it was with I knew I had no chance. Indian woman. I didn’t even bother.

Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:48 AM (/ClFf)

Should have told her you're willing to start shitting in the street, if that helps. Or maybe reassured her that, like Indians, you hate anyone browner than you too, so you have that in common.

Posted by: building bridges one interaction at a time at October 28, 2026 11:51 AM (hqQIL)

241 The polling hedging is...off the charts now:

"@gelliottmorris
Here's a final installment in my series on how polls could go wrong next week. This time, I show evidence that pollsters may not be reaching enough Trump voters from red, rural areas"

Morris led 538 through 2020 and got fired from it because he was so bad at polling analysis.

If he's saying that the polling could easily be wrong....well, we need to believe the polls from June as gospel.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:51 AM (pfZGz)

242 Since I started wearing seamless garments, people don't touch me as much.

Posted by: Money Is No Object at October 28, 2026 11:51 AM (EdP2u)

243 tates like California and its little sister Colorado started prohibiting automatic distribution of plastic drinking straws (the customer must ask for one) and so helped the product to get crowded out, with Colorado going further more recently. Countless municipalities banned straws and often extended those bans to other "single-use plastics" like shopping bags.

i remember when switching from paper bags to plastic bags was the little thing that was going to save the rain forests.

Posted by: anachronda at October 28, 2026 11:51 AM (oY6Yp)

244 Does Carnival Cruise stop at Great Plastic Island?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 11:51 AM (Cqx++)

245 Hey! It's my older brother's nickname for me!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Nice burn, put some salt on it and feel better.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:51 AM (E4rtv)

246 228
Hey! It's my older brother's nickname for me!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:49 AM (pfZGz)

Wait.......there's more than one of you?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:49 AM (CfKHZ)

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I am one of five!

The first to marry, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:52 AM (pfZGz)

247
Before this week, I was receiving a dozen text messages from politicians. Then I voted. The messages abruptly and completely stopped. Can I program my TV to do this as well?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 28, 2026 11:52 AM (eRlcH)

248 230 New York communist keys Florida Man's car over sticker, catches felony charge:

—

That’s why I never put any stickers on my cars or signs in my lawn.

Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:52 AM (/ClFf)

249 Morris led 538 through 2020 and got fired from it because he was so bad at polling analysis.

If he's saying that the polling could easily be wrong....well, we need to believe the polls from June as gospel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:51 AM (pfZGz)

That's it.

Polling should be illegal and all pollsters should be imprisoned until such time they figure out how to actually put someone to death.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:53 AM (CfKHZ)

250 > Treated effectively with the ol' Hitachi Magic Wand.
Posted by: Mayor Pete at October 28, 2026 11:50 AM (oqH4h)

The vibrator was actually invented to relieve doctors who were tired of performing "manipulations" on female patients to "relieve hysteria".

The cynic in me suspects that some patients still got the manual treatment.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 28, 2026 11:53 AM (qlLNh)

251 Rape Academy, the less-successful sequel to Police Academy. 2026, Miramax.

Bill Cosby, Rob Lowe, Sean “Diddy” Combs.

I remember Rob Lowe got in trouble a while ago for having a threesome with an underaged girl (the two women were his hair dressers I think?) are you referencing the same thing or did he have other stuff come out?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:48 AM (sKqQm)
______

IIRC, it was a very odd situation. The girl was of legal age to consent to sex at the time, but Lowe stupidly video-taped it, in a state where the age to consent to being videotaped having sex was older than she was.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

252 If he's saying that the polling could easily be wrong....well, we need to believe the polls from June as gospel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Eh, polling and its related prediction markets are about as useful as pulling entrails out of animals and making predictions. You can at least make chitlins out of pig guts after. Polls and prediction markets just are toxic waste.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:54 AM (E4rtv)

253
I am one of five!

The first to marry, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:52 AM (pfZGz)

Suddenly, the whole Prometheus picture becomes more clear........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:54 AM (CfKHZ)

254 We can't actually experiment ethically by controlled studies by giving some guys microplastics and others are kept pure. So we use large study groups using statistical controls rather than experimental designs. These can be good at showing correlation but not so much on causation.

Maybe they could use the Amish as a control group, but then there are lots of other differences between them and most populations, so probably not.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:54 AM (Riz8t)

255
Chronically alone females that couldn't get laid in a men's prison with a fistful of pardons because nobody with a penis can stand to look at or smell them, much less listen to them talk long enough to actually fuck them.

I've noticed there are a number of Karens in the immigration-complex that have trouble having a relationship with a western man that end up with a younger immigrant man - sometimes leading to death/rape.

I suspect the sexual aspect of some Karens' desire for open borders is being underreported, especially when you look at how much they HATE passport bros.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:54 AM (sKqQm)

256 I've got a sticker on my license plate. It says "Feb. 2026"

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 28, 2026 11:54 AM (Fv808)

257 GatewayPundit found people who require IDs.
In today's world, where a man's word should be enough.

According to the left, it is racist to require IDs to vote, but not when it comes to attending an event with radical leftist streamer Hasan Piker.

In order to get into his recent event with Ilhan Omar, attendees had to show their ID and go through ‘airport style’ security.

Also, organizers barred the press from entering. Isn’t that what authoritarians do? Isn’t that what we have been told by the left?

In the video below, you can see a security person explaining to people in line that they are going to have to present their IDs.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 28, 2026 11:54 AM (Sco7b)

258 The normal cries of "SOMEBODY NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING" went out

I love Jonah Goldberg's revised slogan for conservatives: "Don't just DO something, STAND there!"

Even if you think he's an idiot nowadays, that bit is so very true.

Posted by: GWB at October 28, 2026 11:54 AM (kU0PQ)

259 I remember Rob Lowe got in trouble a while ago for having a threesome with an underaged girl (the two women were his hair dressers I think?) are you referencing the same thing or did he have other stuff come out?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:48 AM (sKqQm)
______

IIRC, it was a very odd situation. The girl was of legal age to consent to sex at the time, but Lowe stupidly video-taped it, in a state where the age to consent to being videotaped having sex was older than she was.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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At the DNC Convention in Atlanta I think.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:54 AM (E4rtv)

260 And you chose to get married on MY birthday.

You're really not as bad as Doof says......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:54 AM (CfKHZ)

261 252 If he's saying that the polling could easily be wrong....well, we need to believe the polls from June as gospel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Eh, polling and its related prediction markets are about as useful as pulling entrails out of animals and making predictions. You can at least make chitlins out of pig guts after. Polls and prediction markets just are toxic waste.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:54 AM (E4rtv)

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It's funny, our trolls have stopped paying attention to polls as we've entered the final stage.

Democrats don't net 8 senate seats in a D+4 environment with this map.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:55 AM (pfZGz)

262 237 Pacific current runs north there, yes?
Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 11:48 AM (Gqar
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No, south. Gulf of Alaska water is why the water at L.A. beaches is so chilly.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 28, 2026 11:51 AM (amcLV)

Thanks, Captain. There is knowledge to be had at the HQ.

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 11:56 AM (Gqar8)

263 Remember Mapquest? Apparently it’s still around. They made a big deal about not renaming Lake Ontario or Gulf of Mexico.

Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:56 AM (/ClFf)

264 I remember Rob Lowe got in trouble a while ago for having a threesome with an underaged girl (the two women were his hair dressers I think?) are you referencing the same thing or did he have other stuff come out?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:48 AM (sKqQm)
______

IIRC, it was a very odd situation. The girl was of legal age to consent to sex at the time, but Lowe stupidly video-taped it, in a state where the age to consent to being videotaped having sex was older than she was.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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At the DNC Convention in Atlanta I think.
Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:54 AM (E4rtv)
________

Sounds about right. 1988 or so then.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

265 The vibrator was actually invented to relieve doctors who were tired of performing "manipulations" on female patients to "relieve hysteria".

The cynic in me suspects that some patients still got the manual treatment.

Somebody should notify Elon that there's a huge market opportunity for his Optimus robots.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 11:57 AM (Riz8t)

266
Thanks, Captain. There is knowledge to be had at the HQ.

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 11:56 AM

This place is FULL of it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:57 AM (CfKHZ)

267 I love Jonah Goldberg's revised slogan for conservatives: "Don't just DO something, STAND there!"

Even if you think he's an idiot nowadays, that bit is so very true.
Posted by: GWB

That is why conservatives lose. Static defenses always give way. Instead, the 2A advocates show the way instead of mealy mouthed bullshit. 2A advocates have the gun control idiots on the defensive and by pushing the envelope in court cases and legislatively with take no prisoners, have rolled back a lot of the left's victories in gun control despite being outfunded by all the usual ngos, foundations, Democrat donors, and Mikey Bloomberg.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:57 AM (E4rtv)

268 At the DNC Convention in Atlanta I think.
Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:54 AM (E4rtv)

I was canvassing the locals!

Posted by: Rob Lowe, standard Democrat at October 28, 2026 11:57 AM (Oh7rl)

269
It is highly agreeable to put on clothes right out of the dryer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 28, 2026 11:57 AM (eRlcH)

270 If he's saying that the polling could easily be wrong....well, we need to believe the polls from June as gospel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Eh, polling and its related prediction markets are about as useful as pulling entrails out of animals and making predictions. You can at least make chitlins out of pig guts after. Polls and prediction markets just are toxic waste.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:54 AM (E4rtv)

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It's funny, our trolls have stopped paying attention to polls as we've entered the final stage.

Democrats don't net 8 senate seats in a D+4 environment with this map.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:55 AM (pfZGz)
____

"No, they net 10 seats, you filthy hater!"

-- Karen K. Karene of San Francisco

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 11:57 AM (iFTx/)

271 Im going to make a bold prediction about the election.

The candidates with the most votes have a very good chance of winning.

Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:57 AM (/ClFf)

272 Thx Joe.
As I recall there was some little boy who was at the forefront of this straw nonsense in Oregon. He did some ridiculous "study" and the adults said "a child shall lead us". Their own Greta

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 28, 2026 11:57 AM (f8snw)

273 225 I seriously doubt anyone in So. Cal. is throwing plastics into the rivers/sea.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 28, 2026 11:45 AM (LOvBA)

Your naiveite is showing.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:49 AM (CfKHZ)

No kidding. Just take a gander at downtown LA near the LA "River" and Santa Monica and tell me these people who are shitting in the streets and throwing their needles in the storm drains are worried about the ocean.

Posted by: LASue at October 28, 2026 11:58 AM (lCppi)

274 ======
At the DNC Convention in Atlanta I think.
Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:54 AM (E4rtv)
________

Sounds about right. 1988 or so then.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

A famous actor f*cked up during the decade of excess. No way.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:58 AM (CfKHZ)

275 270 "No, they net 10 seats, you filthy hater!"

-- Karen K. Karene of San Francisco

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 11:57 AM (iFTx/)

=========

Pretty much.

If things go the way I think, I'm going to write a long post about the issues with polling itself and, mostly, its interpretations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 11:58 AM (pfZGz)

276 271 Im going to make a bold prediction about the election.

The candidates with the most votes have a very good chance of winning.
Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:57 AM (/ClFf)

Someone's an optimist this.....yep...still morning.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 28, 2026 11:58 AM (Sco7b)

277
I've got a sticker on my license plate. It says "Feb. 2026"
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal

Expired in February?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 11:59 AM (Cqx++)

278 It's funny, our trolls have stopped paying attention to polls as we've entered the final stage.

Democrats don't net 8 senate seats in a D+4 environment with this map.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Welp, your personal troll likes to do his thing mainly in the ONT posting while on drugs I guess. He called you TMJ in one post and confused me for you in another.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:59 AM (E4rtv)

279 Maybe they could use the Amish as a control group, but then there are lots of other differences between them and most populations, so probably not.
Posted by: Archimedes

The Amish pass on a few unique genetic diseases, because of inbreeding, as Jews and cousin marrying Mooslims do.

Posted by: Polly Purebread at October 28, 2026 11:59 AM (EdP2u)

280 Im going to make a bold prediction about the election.

The candidates with the most votes have a very good chance of winning.
Posted by: Fuck Em All at October 28, 2026 11:57 AM (/ClFf)

Ballots. Votes don't matter. It's he who counts the ballots who wins in the era of liberal cheat, you see.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 11:59 AM (CfKHZ)

281 If things go the way I think, I'm going to write a long post about the issues with polling itself and, mostly, its interpretations.

I mean, how long an article does it take to say "they're lying!"?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 12:00 PM (Riz8t)

282 Just had four flights in the last week.

All were on-time departures and arrivals. Connecting flights were tight, but I made them both with time to spare.

Ticketing agents were pleasant, as were the gate agents.

Flight attendants were also pleasant and attentive.

All passengers behaved themselves. No dirty, smelly, bare feet that I could see.

It was really a nice evolution.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 28, 2026 12:00 PM (J4Dwc)

283
He did some ridiculous "study" and the adults said "a child shall lead us". Their own Greta
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Hail hail fire and snow.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 12:01 PM (Cqx++)

284 Even the silly broad that was ranting about how she finally discovered how bad LA sucks after her trip to Miami called the homeless "unhoused."

The brainwashing. It's HARD to overcome........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 12:01 PM (CfKHZ)

285 Maybe they could use the Amish as a control group, but then there are lots of other differences between them and most populations, so probably not.
Posted by: Archimedes

The Amish pass on a few unique genetic diseases, because of inbreeding, as Jews and cousin marrying Mooslims do.
Posted by: Polly Purebread at October 28, 2026 11:59 AM (EdP2u)

Don't forget us!

Posted by: Cajuns at October 28, 2026 12:01 PM (YSUhf)

286 The vibrator was actually invented to relieve doctors who were tired of performing "manipulations" on female patients to "relieve hysteria".

The cynic in me suspects that some patients still got the manual treatment.

One thing that gets trotted out every now and then is the argument that people from that era didn't understand sex and orgasms.

I think most people did.

A woman going to get her hysteria treated almost certainly knew what she was going to get even if she was probably very vague in how she described the health issue to her husband. Sort of like the medical marijuana of its day...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 12:01 PM (sKqQm)

287 281 If things go the way I think, I'm going to write a long post about the issues with polling itself and, mostly, its interpretations.

I mean, how long an article does it take to say "they're lying!"?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 12:00 PM (Riz8t)

========

"The final aggregate of a curated selection of polls were 60% right, so that means that all polls are right all the time," is one of the dumbest lines of thinking in modern politics.

And people will not let go of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 12:01 PM (pfZGz)

288 278 It's funny, our trolls have stopped paying attention to polls as we've entered the final stage.

Democrats don't net 8 senate seats in a D+4 environment with this map.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Welp, your personal troll likes to do his thing mainly in the ONT posting while on drugs I guess. He called you TMJ in one post and confused me for you in another.
Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:59 AM (E4rtv)

TJM has his own personal Troll?? The privilege around this place!! What’s next, his own Nemesis??

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 12:01 PM (Gqar8)

289 --------
Welp, your personal troll likes to do his thing mainly in the ONT posting while on drugs I guess. He called you TMJ in one post and confused me for you in another.
Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:59 AM (E4rtv)

He's still working through Learing Center exams during the day......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 12:02 PM (CfKHZ)

290 288 TJM has his own personal Troll?? The privilege around this place!! What’s next, his own Nemesis??

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 12:01 PM (Gqar

==

My personal nemesis is Doof.

Though, we're kind of on a break.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 12:02 PM (pfZGz)

291 I've noticed there are a number of Karens in the immigration-complex that have trouble having a relationship with a western man that end up with a younger immigrant man - sometimes leading to death/rape.

I suspect the sexual aspect of some Karens' desire for open borders is being underreported, especially when you look at how much they HATE passport bros.
Posted by: 18-1
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Likely.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 12:02 PM (E4rtv)

292 281 If things go the way I think, I'm going to write a long post about the issues with polling itself and, mostly, its interpretations.

I mean, how long an article does it take to say "they're lying!"?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 12:00 PM (Riz8t)

It was somewhere explaining that conservatives don't like, trust or engage pollsters.

For good reasons. If I participate in my part of Canada, I'm a conservative who suddenly LOVES the liberal party. That's what they want to hear.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 28, 2026 12:02 PM (Sco7b)

293 TJM has his own personal Troll?? The privilege around this place!! What’s next, his own Nemesis??

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 12:01 PM

That would be Doof.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 12:02 PM (CfKHZ)

294 its little sister Colorado

Its little psychotic sister.

Posted by: GWB at October 28, 2026 12:03 PM (kU0PQ)

295 Now I want a personal troll too ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

296 If things go the way I think, I'm going to write a long post about the issues with polling itself and, mostly, its interpretations.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Shorter version, "It's Dead, Jim"

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 12:04 PM (E4rtv)

297 293 TJM has his own personal Troll?? The privilege around this place!! What’s next, his own Nemesis??

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 12:01 PM

That would be Doof.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 12:02 PM (CfKHZ)

Probably started with “ that” movie.

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 12:04 PM (Gqar8)

298 its little sister Colorado

Its little psychotic sister.

Posted by: GWB at October 28, 2026 12:03 PM (kU0PQ)

*insert little girl burning house meme here

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 12:04 PM (CfKHZ)

299 296 If things go the way I think, I'm going to write a long post about the issues with polling itself and, mostly, its interpretations.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Shorter version, "It's Dead, Jim"

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 12:04 PM (E4rtv)

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"If you want to cling to polling, you have like 4 pollsters to cling to. And they are struggling as much as anyone to reach certain demos. And even then, you pretty much have to wait until their final polls and can't pay attention to them before mid-October."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 12:05 PM (pfZGz)

300 Personal Troll was a pretty good Depeche Mode B-side.

Posted by: Internet Music factologist at October 28, 2026 12:05 PM (Oh7rl)

301 Also, whose ready for a movie based on the country music song, Ol' Red?

Because it's been green-lit. Pre-production begins early next year with filming to follow.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 28, 2026 12:05 PM (J4Dwc)

302 301 Also, whose ready for a movie based on the country music song, Ol' Red?

Because it's been green-lit. Pre-production begins early next year with filming to follow.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 28, 2026 12:05 PM (J4Dwc)

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John Frankenheimer made a movie based on a Johnny Cash song.

I Walk the Line.

It's really good!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 28, 2026 12:05 PM (pfZGz)

303 He's still working through Learing Center exams during the day......
Posted by: Sponge
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Lightbulb head is burned out?

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 12:05 PM (E4rtv)

304 Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 12:01 PM (sKqQm)

John Redcorn , healer of migraine headaches.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 12:06 PM (Ti9vn)

305 I've noticed there are a number of Karens in the immigration-complex that have trouble having a relationship with a western man that end up with a younger immigrant man - sometimes leading to death/rape.

I suspect the sexual aspect of some Karens' desire for open borders is being underreported, especially when you look at how much they HATE passport bros.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 11:54 AM (sKqQm)
_________

Well, Pedro the poolboy is kinda dreamy ...

They hate passport bros because they hate all men who figured out how to get what they want without them

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 28, 2026 12:06 PM (iFTx/)

306 Elric is a poopyhead.

Posted by: Yyrkoon at October 28, 2026 12:06 PM (Ae6Br)

307 Lightbulb head is burned out?

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 12:05 PM (E4rtv)

Inbreeding leads to diminished capacity........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2026 12:06 PM (CfKHZ)

308 "If you want to cling to polling, you have like 4 pollsters to cling to. And they are struggling as much as anyone to reach certain demos. And even then, you pretty much have to wait until their final polls and can't pay attention to them before mid-October."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Eh, to quote Steve Winwood, Wake Me Up on Judgment Day.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 12:07 PM (E4rtv)

309 C.S. Lewis called it on tyranny of the righteous. The dictator can be placated and stay his hand. The righteous will continue to oppress because they do so with the approval of their conscience.

Posted by: Hadsil at October 28, 2026 12:07 PM (/4OWh)

310 Nood. Boss is up.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 28, 2026 12:08 PM (NcvvS)

311 Inbreeding leads to diminished capacity........
Posted by: Sponge
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So the filament is burnt out is what you are telling me.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 12:08 PM (E4rtv)

312
Also, whose ready for a movie based on the country music song, Ol' Red?

There was a country music song about Stalin?

Huh.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 28, 2026 12:08 PM (YSUhf)

313 Another victim of this nonsense: The incandescent light bulb.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 28, 2026 12:08 PM (O7YUW)

314 114 Always been careful with any object that would be in the way of an airbag deploying ever since.
Posted by: Nazdar at October 28, 2026 11:21 AM (NcvvS)

That's probably how "AOS Cope" will end up checking out.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 11:30 AM (88C+u)

Wait, they put air bags in at the truck stop glory hole?!

Posted by: Polka will never die at October 28, 2026 12:08 PM (zuZpx)

315 Also, after all of that, the best thing to remember whenever this stuff comes up:

Chesterton's Fence

Posted by: GWB at October 28, 2026 12:16 PM (kU0PQ)

316 I want to know what kind of degree you get from the Online Rape Academy.

Updating our Course Catalog as we speak.

Posted by: Cornell University at October 28, 2026 12:16 PM (w9Wax)

317 Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 11:57 AM (E4rtv)

I think you really misunderstand the concept. It's about reaction to a tragedy or some supposed apocalypse.

Posted by: GWB at October 28, 2026 12:18 PM (kU0PQ)

318 The worst rock song that had success is Europe’s ‘The Final Countdown.’ It’s so bad it makes me laugh every time I hear it.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 28, 2026 12:22 PM (Wp1X1)

319 313 Another victim of this nonsense: The incandescent light bulb.

YES

and by extension, all humans

because LED light is destructive and incandescent is overall way better for us

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 28, 2026 12:28 PM (qBivk)

320 I pondered the idea of using a Bic pen for a straw. I could justify it as part of my Every Day Carry because I might need to do an emergency tracheotomy, right? Just pull the cap off, pull out the ink/nib bit, and I have a non-disposable straw. But it's plastic so I didn't.

Maybe if someone knows of a metal case Bic-style pen I can buy....

Posted by: GWB at October 28, 2026 12:31 PM (kU0PQ)

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