Mid-Morning Art Thread

Young Man with a Book
Ernest Meissonier

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 09, 2026 09:36 AM (SN8r1)

2 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at November 09, 2026 09:36 AM (Bep7s)

3 Must be a boring book.

Posted by: Delurker at November 09, 2026 09:37 AM (2Drhq)

4 Always wondered how those hats stayed on their heads, CBD. They are kite shaped.

Posted by: tubal at November 09, 2026 09:37 AM (Gqar8)

5 He should open it and see what's in it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 09, 2026 09:38 AM (RORbl)

6 Painting has some damage.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 09, 2026 09:38 AM (SN8r1)

7 Dash my lace...shirtcuffs.

Posted by: Delurker at November 09, 2026 09:38 AM (2Drhq)

8 The young man was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at November 09, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

9 That's not a book. It's a squeezebox! Some kind of covert concertina. I hate those things.

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 09:39 AM (Jr5Lq)

10 How very nice!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2026 09:39 AM (JrHfD)

11 Title checks out.

Posted by: Person who checks out titles at November 09, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

12 The book must be boring. I think he's fallen asleep.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 09, 2026 09:40 AM (wzaBj)

13 Must not be a very good book.

He looks like he's about ready to fall asleep on that bench.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 09, 2026 09:41 AM (s2iZv)

14 Must be philosophy, he is in deeeeep thought.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 09, 2026 09:42 AM (rOKnE)

15 Young Man with a Book

"Fun with Puns"

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2026 09:42 AM (dylrg)

16 Looks like he's about to fall over.
Would hang, after cleaning
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 09, 2026 09:42 AM (FroOw)

17 Alternate title:

"Caleb Is Excited to Read the New Biography,

"The Life and Accomplishments of John Thune"

Only to Find That It Has One Page of Writing and the Rest of the Pages Are Filled With Kitty Cat Pictures Drawn In Crayon"

Posted by: naturalfake at November 09, 2026 09:42 AM (YSUhf)

18 Kind of interesting: Nobody called them "tricorn(e)" hats until long after they had gone out of fashion. In their own time they were called "cocked" hats.

Posted by: Delurker at November 09, 2026 09:42 AM (2Drhq)

19 Thanks CBD. Good morning Horde. Pray, hope, don't worry, buy ammo and have a plan.

Posted by: Buck (Ofama) at November 09, 2026 09:42 AM (hXmGs)

20 He's only got an hour until the test! Why, oh why didn't he read the book ahead of time?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 09, 2026 09:42 AM (CU8o1)

21 The school he attends has a mandatory summer reading list.
He's halfway through Pride And Prejudice.
It's killing him.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 09, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)

22 I'm about to fall asleep also looking at the painting.

Posted by: polynikes at November 09, 2026 09:42 AM (OXhw3)

23 The painter obviously had a wry sense of humor.

Posted by: Axeman at November 09, 2026 09:43 AM (Fi81e)

24 What's a book?

Posted by: A young man at November 09, 2026 09:43 AM (MWfyi)

25 He's just looking for the sexy parts.

Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

26 Kind of interesting: Nobody called them "tricorn(e)" hats until long after they had gone out of fashion. In their own time they were called "cocked" hats.

Posted by: Delurker

Trying to come up with something clean.
Got nothing.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2026 09:44 AM (dylrg)

27 stromboli, panzerotti or calzone?

Posted by: cmeat at November 09, 2026 09:44 AM (Bep7s)

28
*sings*

My hat is has three corners
Three Corners has my hat
And if it didn't have three corners
I would not be my hat

*jazz hands*

Posted by: naturalfake at November 09, 2026 09:44 AM (YSUhf)

29 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 09, 2026 09:44 AM (QX6xo)

30 That doesn't look like a happy little bush next to him.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 09, 2026 09:45 AM (ViCCR)

31 Sleeping right after cramming is supposed to be a positive thing though. The faster you get in to REM, the faster your short term gets dumped to long term. IIRC.

Posted by: Axeman at November 09, 2026 09:45 AM (Fi81e)

32 Young man agreed to participate in his beloved's book club only to discover this month's pick was something referred to as "romatasy." There's only so many times a man can read a detailed description of the magical fairy-elf's marble-like muscles as he -- oh forget this!!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 09, 2026 09:45 AM (rOKnE)

33 The book is about the history of glue.
He can't put it down.

Posted by: Oh, no... at November 09, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)

34
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 09, 2026 09:45 AM (eRlcH)

35 PILGRIM!!!!!!!

STOLEN LAND!!!!

HE MUST BE KILLED BEFORE HE COMMITS GENOCIDE!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 09, 2026 09:45 AM (QX6xo)

36 Oh wow, getting spammed up with fundraising texts from NRSC and other grifters this morning.

Oh, hi guys, where the fvck were you the last year? You get blown out and try to use that as a fundraising op?

Welcome to the party, pal. Now fuck off.

Posted by: McLurkerson at November 09, 2026 09:45 AM (AZDyS)

37 It's a better painting if it was titled ' Young Man at the Bus Stop Going to a Costume Party'

Posted by: polynikes at November 09, 2026 09:45 AM (OXhw3)

38 Hey, I've read that first page before!

Posted by: LeBron James at November 09, 2026 09:45 AM (bkqk1)

39 Sorry. I don't know what came over me. It must be the Talarico Virus spreading in Texas..........

That is a silly hat, tho.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 09, 2026 09:46 AM (QX6xo)

40 34 Ha!

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 09:46 AM (Jr5Lq)

41 That doesn't look like a happy little bush next to him.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 09, 2026 09:45 AM (ViCCR)
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That's a smudge, so ....

Posted by: Axeman at November 09, 2026 09:46 AM (Fi81e)

42 Posted by: Paul at November 09, 2026 09:37 AM (w0bbt)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at November 09, 2026 09:46 AM (QX6xo)

43 Obviously there are no pictures in his book.

Sad.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 09, 2026 09:46 AM (RORbl)

44 Caption:

"Apes Crunching Figs....What the hell!!!!"

Posted by: naturalfake at November 09, 2026 09:47 AM (YSUhf)

45 He's waiting on Tricorn Hat Girl to stroll on by.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Ars Gratia Artis at November 09, 2026 09:47 AM (wVcYX)

46 It's a book about procrastination.
He'll start it tomorrow.

Posted by: Groan at November 09, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)

47 Can we please observe the 100-comment rule and lay off politics for a little while? We all need to take a break from that crap.

Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

48 The book is about the history of glue.
He can't put it down.
Posted by: Oh, no... at November 09, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)

*SSSNNNNNNIIIIIIFFFFFFFFF*

Posted by: Steve McCroskey at November 09, 2026 09:48 AM (QX6xo)

49
And I Ain't Never Caught a Rabbit - a limerick

There once was a young man named Lance
Who launched into one of his rants
"I swear, my good sir
I am just like a cur
'Cause my breathing it comes in short pants!"

Posted by: muldoon at November 09, 2026 09:49 AM (qgHp7)

50 PILGRIM!!!!!!!

STOLEN LAND!!!!

HE MUST BE KILLED BEFORE HE COMMITS GENOCIDE!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 09, 2026 09:45 AM (QX6xo)
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All for the Affordability of it.

How can we afford not bringing back "Madame Guillotine"??

Posted by: Axeman at November 09, 2026 09:49 AM (Fi81e)

51 There once was a young man named Lance
Who launched into one of his rants
"I swear, my good sir
I am just like a cur
'Cause my breathing it comes in short pants!"
Posted by: muldoon at November 09, 2026 09:49 AM (qgHp7)

Short pants? Will that qualify for access to the Sunday Book Thread?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 09, 2026 09:50 AM (QX6xo)

52 Join a book club, they said.
It'll be fun, they said.

Posted by: Bored young man at November 09, 2026 09:50 AM (2Ez/1)

53 He needs a feather stuck in his cap.

Posted by: Yankee Doodle Dandy at November 09, 2026 09:50 AM (wVcYX)

54
The book is about the history of glue.
He can't put it down.
Posted by: Oh, no... at November 09, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)\

Worse, he can't hear them paging him for a phone call!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 09, 2026 09:50 AM (YSUhf)

55 'Tis a trigonometry text:

#17- "Calculate the hypotenuse of your hat."

Posted by: muldoon at November 09, 2026 09:51 AM (qgHp7)

56 There once was a young man named Lance
Who launched into one of his rants
"I swear, my good sir
I am just like a cur
'Cause my breathing it comes in short pants!"
Posted by: muldoon at November 09, 2026 09:49 AM (qgHp7)

Short pants? Will that qualify for access to the Sunday Book Thread?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

No need!!! Bwahahahahahahaha!!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2026 09:51 AM (dylrg)

57 I've said it before but at that time, who would buy this from the artist? Rich guy who had a library in his home ?

Posted by: polynikes at November 09, 2026 09:51 AM (OXhw3)

58 It's def a challenge to read a book when you have no face.

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 09:51 AM (Jr5Lq)

59
Well, people were bound to start book punning.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 09, 2026 09:51 AM (YSUhf)

60 'Tis a trigonometry text:

#17- "Calculate the hypotenuse of your hat."
Posted by: muldoon at November 09, 2026 09:51 AM (qgHp7)

I study triggernometry!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 09, 2026 09:52 AM (QX6xo)

61 Corresponding sides of congruent hats are congruent.

Posted by: Delurker at November 09, 2026 09:52 AM (2Drhq)

62 Book titled”Living in Libtardia”

Chapter one
Practical Applications for living with Progtards.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 09:52 AM (rs0j7)

63 I think he's showing the contents of the book to his groin.

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 09:52 AM (Jr5Lq)

64
No need!!! Bwahahahahahahaha!!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2026 09:51 AM (dylrg)

Braggart........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 09, 2026 09:52 AM (QX6xo)

65 53 mmm... book club.
https://tinyurl.com/mraxamk6

Posted by: cmeat at November 09, 2026 09:53 AM (Bep7s)

66 Maybe the book is Fanny Hill.

Posted by: polynikes at November 09, 2026 09:53 AM (OXhw3)

67 60
Well, people were bound to start book punning.

Author people can do that. Not me.

Posted by: Delurker at November 09, 2026 09:53 AM (2Drhq)

68 It's def a challenge to read a book when you have no face.
Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 09:51 AM (Jr5Lq)

What about the eyes?

Posted by: Billy Idol at November 09, 2026 09:53 AM (QX6xo)

69 Hexacorne is 2x > Tricorne.

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 09:53 AM (Jr5Lq)

70 I think he's showing the contents of the book to his groin.
Posted by: gp

That's not how skin mags work.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2026 09:54 AM (dylrg)

71 It's def a challenge to read a book when you have no face.

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 09:51 AM (Jr5Lq)

What if you have a face without an eye?

Posted by: Dan Crenshaw at November 09, 2026 09:54 AM (QX6xo)

72 It's a book about reverse psychology.
His friend told him not to read it.

Posted by: Make it stop... at November 09, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)

73 Octocorne > Hexacorne > Pentacorne > Tricorne

Posted by: Count de Monet, Ars Gratia Artis at November 09, 2026 09:55 AM (wVcYX)

74 Octocorne > Hexacorne > Pentacorne > Tricorne
Posted by: Count de Monet, Ars Gratia Artis at November 09, 2026 09:55 AM (wVcYX)

Lena Horne >

Posted by: Dan Crenshaw at November 09, 2026 09:55 AM (QX6xo)

75 Well, people were bound to start book punning.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 09, 2026 09:51 AM (YSUhf)
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It's not binding.

Posted by: Axeman at November 09, 2026 09:55 AM (Fi81e)

76 Shyte......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 09, 2026 09:55 AM (QX6xo)

77 Young Man with a Book...

...and a tri-corner hat
...and a cloak
...and a bench
...and a flower pot
...and a sweet pair of knickers
...and a cloak
...and fine leather shoes

Do I nneed to go on?

Posted by: muldoon at November 09, 2026 09:56 AM (qgHp7)

78 "Young man with a book."

It's either a young conservative with Atlas Shrugged or a 30 year old lib with a well-worn copy of Harry Potter.

I'm going with young conservative, and he's just dreading opening it again, knowing how dystopia his future is shaping up.

Posted by: red speck at November 09, 2026 09:56 AM (Ve/HL)

79 It's an eazzzzzzzzzzy read.

Posted by: Axeman at November 09, 2026 09:56 AM (Fi81e)

80 Fanny Hill of course is considered the first published 'porn' literature. Mid 1700's iirc.

Posted by: polynikes at November 09, 2026 09:56 AM (OXhw3)

81 Perfect... No controversy.. Just what I need

Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2026 09:56 AM (+gK6I)

82 I stopped reading at "Spotted Dick".

Posted by: A young man at November 09, 2026 09:56 AM (MWfyi)

83 Tome, book puns are pretty inoffensive.

Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

84
If you're allergic to Dodecacorne, don't take Dodecacorne.

Talk to your physician about eating your hat.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 09, 2026 09:57 AM (BI5O2)

85 Yay! I managed to wear matching shoes today!

Winning

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 09:57 AM (Dnq7b)

86 Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2026 09:56 AM (+gK6I)

You should removed the text in the URL: field when you post.......That's quite the link.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 09, 2026 09:58 AM (QX6xo)

87 At harvest day, the men celebrated by joyously detonating their popcorne hats.

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 09:58 AM (Jr5Lq)

88 Tome, book puns are pretty inoffensive.
Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

(Jump to top of page)
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They cover a wide range.

Posted by: Axeman at November 09, 2026 09:58 AM (Fi81e)

89 Letters to Penthouse forum...

Posted by: The early years at November 09, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)

90 Yay! I managed to wear matching shoes today!

Winning

Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 09:57 AM (Dnq7b)

Sometimes, it's the little things.

I try to convince the wife all the time.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 09, 2026 09:58 AM (QX6xo)

91 Takes a lot of spine to do book puns.

Posted by: Oof at November 09, 2026 09:59 AM (2Ez/1)

92 Tome, book puns are pretty inoffensive.
Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

I note that.

Posted by: Cliff at November 09, 2026 09:59 AM (OXhw3)

93 Let's do book puns , that's a novel idea. /s

Posted by: polynikes at November 09, 2026 10:01 AM (OXhw3)

94 Just as we have bathroom books, they had outhouse books. That looks like one of them.

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 10:01 AM (Jr5Lq)

95 Yay! I managed to wear matching shoes today!

Winning

Posted by: nurse ratched.

https://tinyurl.com/2jbed462

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 09, 2026 10:01 AM (ndZc7)

96 I think he's showing the contents of the book to his groin.

Posted by: gp

"Look here. She her beautiful breasts. And her smooth, round buttocks- That's what you're supposed to be excited about.

Stop getting erect at turtles!!!"

Posted by: naturalfake at November 09, 2026 10:02 AM (YSUhf)

97 Takes a lot of spine to do book puns.
Posted by: Oof

It's a cheap cover for fish puns.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2026 10:02 AM (dylrg)

98 Just as we have bathroom books, they had outhouse books. That looks like one of them.
Posted by: gp

I think reading on the toilet is disgusting. Very unsanitary.

Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

99 willowed from Morning Report -
287 Sitting at the kitchen table finishing my coffee. I wonder how many laws I've already broken today?
Posted by: Eromero at November 09, 2026 09:59 AM

Posted by: Eromero at November 09, 2026 10:02 AM (LHPAg)

100 Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (174

Morning Glory Milking Farm (2021)

273 years of literary refinement and progress!

Posted by: Count de Monet, Ars Gratia Artis at November 09, 2026 10:03 AM (wVcYX)

101 Takes a lot of spine to do book puns.
Posted by: Oof at November 09, 2026 09:59 AM (2Ez/1)
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Well, there is some margin, there.

Posted by: Axeman at November 09, 2026 10:03 AM (Fi81e)

102 Yay! I managed to wear matching shoes today!

Winning
Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 09:57 AM (Dnq7b)

The weekend before Halloween, I was in a huge hurry to get out the door and meet my brother and his daughter at this cave where they do a haunted house.

I told my daughter to go find her own shoes and put them on, because I didn't have time.

As I was sitting in the interminable line of traffic to get in, I finally noticed that she was wearing two different shoes. And they weren't even close. One was a tennis shoe, and the other was a paw patrol slipper with little ears hanging off it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 09, 2026 10:03 AM (BI5O2)

103 Yay! I managed to wear matching shoes today!

Winning

Posted by: nurse ratched.

You have no idea how scary that actually is.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2026 10:03 AM (dylrg)

104 He feels guilty because it's overdue at the New York Public Library. Lieutenant Bookman is just out of frame.

Posted by: Listen, Joyboy... at November 09, 2026 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)

105 Nurse, you have shoes? Lucky!
Missed you at MOME.

Posted by: JSpicy at November 09, 2026 10:04 AM (PTJ94)

106 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6bCe-uT6wVQ&pp

Ned Beatty

Posted by: Kittens! at November 09, 2026 10:04 AM (LOZbR)

107
"Look here. She her beautiful breasts. And her smooth, round buttocks- That's what you're supposed to be excited about.

Stop getting erect at turtles!!!"

Posted by: naturalfake at November 09, 2026 10:02 AM (YSUhf)

Is this a quote from one of Stacy Abrams' romance novels?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 09, 2026 10:05 AM (QX6xo)

108 Wearing matching shoes is an accomplishment relative to how many pairs you own.

If you only have 3, it's not that impressive.

Posted by: Axeman at November 09, 2026 10:05 AM (Fi81e)

109 Lame troll is lame at Aisle 3.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2026 10:07 AM (yky4J)

110 He's upset because he can't return the book.
He took it into the outhouse and now it's been flagged.

Posted by: Brentano's at November 09, 2026 10:07 AM (2Ez/1)

111 Business adjusts to the new reality.

https://tinyurl.com/95bx7ume

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 09, 2026 10:08 AM (ndZc7)

112

Nvidia's CEO is named Huang,
Who got in big trouble with his wang,
He's a maker of chips,
And his mind really flips,
For that sweet, honeypot pootang.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 09, 2026 10:08 AM (SN8r1)

113 "How To Pick Up Girls"

Posted by: Count de Monet, Ars Gratia Artis at November 09, 2026 10:09 AM (wVcYX)

114 Kind of interesting: Nobody called them "tricorn(e)" hats until long after they had gone out of fashion. In their own time they were called "cocked" hats.

Posted by: Delurker at November 09, 2026 09:42 AM (2Drhq)

They are kind of cool, though. Would like to see them return to use.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2026 10:09 AM (yky4J)

115 "Nvidia's CEO is named Huang"

His gf is also named Huang. No relation. Not quite as pretty as Fang Fang, IMHO.

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 10:10 AM (Jr5Lq)

116 They are kind of cool, though. Would like to see them return to use.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I have one, somewhere. Got it at Colonial Williamsburg.

Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

117 Sticking it to the Man!

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Scott Galloway says he owned a Tesla, but sold it because of Elon.
"Not before taking a giant dump in the passenger seat. True story."
He's gone from suggesting Elon be executed to telling stories of taking dumps in a car he owned because it was made by Elon's company.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 09, 2026 10:11 AM (ndZc7)

118 We've seen at least a couple of Ernest Meissonier's historical works on the thread, they are typically realistic, dramatic, and detailed. This one is different. The details are soft, the man is relaxed not facing some battle, the light is natural and exudes soft, comfortable warmth. It is altogether pleasant and would appeal to anyone who enjoys reading while out of the house. I'm not sure if the way he is holding the book, half closed and a finger marking his place, is contemplating what he read or if he is starting to nod off in the warm sunlight. It could go either way. But the overall feeling is peaceful. I can imagine a similar scene by Carl Larsson. That's a good thing.

Posted by: JTB at November 09, 2026 10:11 AM (yTvNw)

119 Yay! I managed to wear matching shoes today!

Winning
Posted by: nurse ratched. at November 09, 2026 09:57 AM

Sometimes on a Monday morning, it's the little things.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 09, 2026 10:11 AM (bFu5X)

120 As I was sitting in the interminable line of traffic to get in, I finally noticed that she was wearing two different shoes. And they weren't even close. One was a tennis shoe, and the other was a paw patrol slipper with little ears hanging off it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Aw. Maybe she did it for Halloween?

Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

121 "Nvidia's CEO is named Huang"

-
Is he well Huang?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 09, 2026 10:12 AM (ndZc7)

122 95 with fewer and fewer pages...

Posted by: cmeat at November 09, 2026 10:12 AM (Bep7s)

123 The fashion era of the unicorne hat faded very quickly, too rapidly for any painter to capture it, depriving future generations of uncountable laughs.

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 10:12 AM (Jr5Lq)

124 Gonna make a big comeback.

Posted by: Coonskin Hat at November 09, 2026 10:13 AM (wVcYX)

125 99 plus, you can't return them.

Posted by: cmeat at November 09, 2026 10:13 AM (Bep7s)

126 103 "and i have a pair just like them at home!"

Posted by: cmeat at November 09, 2026 10:14 AM (Bep7s)

127 I don't know who owns Mitsubishi. Jack Mitsubishi, is my guess.

If Jack Mitsubishi pissed me off, I wouldn't sell my wife's car, even though I bought it. She'd be super pissed at me, way more than I was pissed at Jack. That thing is paid off, and low-mileage.

But if I deliberately shit in it first? Divorce. Because of the mental illness, you see.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 09, 2026 10:15 AM (BI5O2)

128 118 Sticking it to the Man!

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Scott Galloway says he owned a Tesla, but sold it because of Elon.
"Not before taking a giant dump in the passenger seat. True story."
He's gone from suggesting Elon be executed to telling stories of taking dumps in a car he owned because it was made by Elon's company.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 09, 2026 10:11 AM (ndZc7)

Do like the pee-pee hookers story. But without hookers. And with poop. On his own stuff.

This is a plea for institutionalization.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 09, 2026 10:15 AM (HFrEr)

129 I think reading on the toilet is disgusting. Very unsanitary.
Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

Not really. You are sitting down doing your business and reading your book. When you are done with your business, you set the book down and get to the unsanitary cleanup. When you are done with that, you do not go back to reading the book. You get up and wash your hands. The book is never touched with unclean hands.

Posted by: No Name Today at November 09, 2026 10:18 AM (8mulE)

130 Sticking it to the Man!

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Scott Galloway says he owned a Tesla, but sold it because of Elon.
"Not before taking a giant dump in the passenger seat. True story."
He's gone from suggesting Elon be executed to telling stories of taking dumps in a car he owned because it was made by Elon's company.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 09, 2026 10:11 AM (ndZc7)

Who exactly is this story supposed to impress?

I guess he has the Amber Heard demographic sewn up.

Democrat wins bring Democrat values.

Yay!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 09, 2026 10:18 AM (YSUhf)

131 105 mazin's bookstore.

Posted by: cmeat at November 09, 2026 10:19 AM (Bep7s)

132 118 Sticking it to the Man!

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Scott Galloway says he owned a Tesla, but sold it because of Elon.
"Not before taking a giant dump in the passenger seat. True story."
He's gone from suggesting Elon be executed to telling stories of taking dumps in a car he owned because it was made by Elon's company.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 09, 2026 10:11 AM (ndZc7)

*Makes 'call me' gesture to Scott Galloway*

Posted by: Amber Heard at November 09, 2026 10:19 AM (wVcYX)

133 Page 1! Go to page 1!!

Posted by: LeBron James, expert reader at November 09, 2026 10:19 AM (xg/DD)

134 Scott Galloway says he owned a Tesla, but sold it because of Elon.
"Not before taking a giant dump in the passenger seat. True story."
He's gone from suggesting Elon be executed to telling stories of taking dumps in a car he owned because it was made by Elon's company.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 09, 2026 10:11 AM (ndZc7)

He probably could have gotten a better price for it, if it didn't smell like shit inside.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2026 10:20 AM (yky4J)

135 🚨BREAKING NEWS: Russell Brand sentenced to 10.5 years for r*pe and sexual assault.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2026 10:20 AM (dylrg)

136 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. A great painting for the library.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 09, 2026 10:21 AM (2WIwB)

137 The book is never touched with unclean hands.
Posted by: No Name Today

Doesn't matter. It's still in the bathroom.

I'm a germaphobe, and the bathroom is ground zero for that phobia. I never take books or food into a bathroom, even if I'm not there to poop.

Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

138 I don't know who owns Mitsubishi. Jack Mitsubishi, is my guess.

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Fred...it's Fred Mitsubishi.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 09, 2026 10:21 AM (XeU6L)

139 I don't know who owns Mitsubishi. Jack Mitsubishi, is my guess.

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Fred...it's Fred Mitsubishi.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 09, 2026 10:21 AM (XeU6L)

Wankers!

Posted by: Joe Isuzu at November 09, 2026 10:23 AM (wVcYX)

140 I don't know who owns Mitsubishi. Jack Mitsubishi, is my guess.

It's not Joe Isuzu. Or is it?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2026 10:23 AM (2GVsD)

141 I think reading on the toilet is disgusting. Very unsanitary.
Posted by: Bulg
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The Sears catalog was commonly read in outhouses.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 09, 2026 10:24 AM (XeU6L)

142 140, 141

Hordemind...beautiful and terrible.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 09, 2026 10:24 AM (bFu5X)

143 Advanced Geometry Book puns:

#18- Calculate the volume of a volume...

Posted by: muldoon at November 09, 2026 10:24 AM (qgHp7)

144 Looks like the great tech crash of 2026 was a bit premature.

Investors know Dems can be bought off and AI will be fine.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 09, 2026 10:24 AM (JQfkC)

145 I'm a germaphobe, and the bathroom is ground zero for that phobia. I never take books or food into a bathroom, even if I'm not there to poop.
Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 10:21 AM

You can wash your dishes in the shower.

https://youtu.be/NMQTg4Y0YT0

Posted by: Kramer at November 09, 2026 10:24 AM (2Ez/1)

146 Investors know Dems can be bought off and AI will be fine.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 09, 2026 10:24 AM (JQfkC)

That's comforting.

Posted by: Pete Bootygag at November 09, 2026 10:26 AM (yky4J)

147 Your phone has more germs on it than a toilet seat.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 09, 2026 10:26 AM (JQfkC)

148 A just received a Community Alert in my inbox:

A security lockdown was initiated at the White House following an incident where a vehicle struck the north end of Lafayette Park. The Secret Service detained an individual, and the area remains under investigation.

Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

149 119- Thanks, JTB, for your interesting and appreciative commentary on the various paintings.

I tend to like ones by this artist which have more relaxed settings, such as this one or two men talking over a meal outside at a cafe, rather than the martial ones with groups of soldiers.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 09, 2026 10:27 AM (JrHfD)

150 Your phone has more germs on it than a toilet seat.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

Not butt germs, presumably.

Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

151 "Very unsanitary."

I thought about it, and I must concur. Now I'm worried about commenters who post while sitting on the toilet.

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 10:27 AM (Jr5Lq)

152 Math book word problem:

A boy in a tri-corner hat is trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. How does he square that circle?

Posted by: muldoon at November 09, 2026 10:28 AM (qgHp7)

153 phone has more germs on it than a toilet seat.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

Not butt germs, presumably.
Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

You’d be surprised.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 09, 2026 10:28 AM (JQfkC)

154 It's not Joe Isuzu. Or is it?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2026 10:23 AM

Panomelli kiki bobo!

https://youtu.be/oDK8BYS2d9s

Posted by: Joe Isuzu at November 09, 2026 10:29 AM (2Ez/1)

155 A security lockdown was initiated at the White House following an incident where a vehicle struck the north end of Lafayette Park. The Secret Service detained an individual, and the area remains under investigation.
Posted by: Bulg

We'll see more of this.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 09, 2026 10:29 AM (SN8r1)

156 I thought about it, and I must concur. Now I'm worried about commenters who post while sitting on the toilet.
Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 10:27 AM (Jr5Lq)

#2 cause of blown margins.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2026 10:30 AM (yky4J)

157 We'll see more of this.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Yep.

Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

158 138 corncobs creating anxiety.

Posted by: cmeat at November 09, 2026 10:30 AM (Bep7s)

159 A security lockdown was initiated at the White House

Another Democrat wanting to share their 'love'???

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2026 10:30 AM (2GVsD)

160 Math book word problem:

A boy in a tri-corner hat is trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. How does he square that circle?
Posted by: muldoon at November 09, 2026 10:28 AM

That's a fargin' trick question!

Posted by: Roman Moroni at November 09, 2026 10:30 AM (bFu5X)

161 I think there's going to be nothing but turmoil in the capitol city for the next several months.

God help us once January rolls around. They're already planning mass impeachments. Several of Trump's cabinet members have already been targeted.

If I were in the administration I'd tell the Socialists and Democrats to go pound sand. This is the polite version. And above all else, do not give in.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 09, 2026 10:34 AM (RORbl)

162 Pretty hard to sell a car with a steaming pile of shit in the front seat. So he would have had to take a shit in it and the cleaned it up himself.

So either a) he’s lying or b) he purposely took a shot in his car knowing he’d have to clean it up himself.

The dude is a lunatic either way.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 09, 2026 10:34 AM (JQfkC)

163 OK, I got rid of the cats' litter box library. They never read any of those books anyway, just clawed them up some.

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 10:34 AM (Jr5Lq)

164 I just spent a few minutes in an odd discussion.

After the Dems announced their plans to restrict data centers tech stocks tanked but today they are back up with not updates from the Dem's legislative agenda.

So I asked an AI agent why and there was a bit of "no one believes the Dems will actually do anything, certainly not in the short term" which is reasonable but then it further extended "also inflation is probably going down because they'll move against tariffs"

And I spent too much time arguing with it because by definition tariffs as a tax cannot cause inflation. "But prices on some goods will go up with tariffs" sure but that's not inflation any more then if the government put a tax on say bread and the price of bread went up, while meanwhile increased revenues LOWER inflation since the government has to print fewer dollars.

And I ended up with the normal sort of thing you see when AI has been trained to give some lefty narrative answer. "Yes you are right taxes are inherently deflationary but the narrative says that tariffs specifically are inflationary"

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2026 10:34 AM (sKqQm)

165 Brown's Velvet used to be a dairy in New Orleans and made great ice cream. Lemon custard was the GOAT.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 09, 2026 10:36 AM (MDua2)

166
130 I think reading on the toilet is disgusting. Very unsanitary.
Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

What about posting on AoSHQ while sitting on the terlitt? Not, um, that I’ve ever done that or anything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2026 10:37 AM (dJgiD)

167 The fashion era of the unicorne hat faded very quickly, too rapidly for any painter to capture it, depriving future generations of uncountable laughs.
Posted by: gp

********

There was a haberdasher named Luntz
Made a unicorne hat, but just once
He wore it into town
And never lived it down
They all thought he was some kind of dunce

Posted by: muldoon at November 09, 2026 10:38 AM (qgHp7)

168 OK, I got rid of the cats' litter box library. They never read any of those books anyway, just clawed them up some.
Posted by: gp

No cookbooks with recipes for recipes for preparing hoomans.
-- the cats

Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

169 Thanks CBD. Would hang.
Looks like he is thumbing through pages to find the centerfold. Young man indeed.

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2026 10:38 AM (2bFN5)

170 Young man who is realizing why those books in The Little Free Library are free.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 09, 2026 10:39 AM (2Ez/1)

171 Math book word problem:

A boy in a tri-corner hat is trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. How does he square that circle?
Posted by: muldoon

The x-y axis of the square peg is smaller than the hypotenuse of the circle.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2026 10:39 AM (dylrg)

172 ""But prices on some goods will go up with tariffs" sure but that's not inflation any more then if the government put a tax on say bread and the price of bread went up"

Most people don't distinguish between price inflation and monetary inflation. It feels the same to them. And yes, tariffs are a tax on those consuming foreign goods.

In any event, the money supply is increasing:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/m1sl
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/m2sl

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 10:39 AM (Jr5Lq)

173 No cookbooks with recipes for recipes for preparing hoomans.
-- the cats
Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

Recipes? You eat 'em rawr!

Posted by: The Tiger at November 09, 2026 10:39 AM (yky4J)

174 I argued with Ai about gop senate screwing Trump with recess appts. It just spews bullshit unless you keep asking for clarification. Totally bogus.

Posted by: NCKate at November 09, 2026 10:40 AM (enNUy)

175 The data center thing has me puzzled.

sra blaster and I live in NoVa and both of our livelihoods are based in data center alley here.

I am very pro data center.

But she is not.

She is probably more conservative than I am as we measure things. But she believes all the stuff about data centers.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at November 09, 2026 10:40 AM (NlEaG)

176 Do like the pee-pee hookers story. But without hookers. And with poop. On his own stuff.

He Heard it through the grapevine.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 09, 2026 10:40 AM (MDua2)

177 sra blaster and I live in NoVa and both of our livelihoods are based in data center alley here.

I hate them for their ugliness.

Plus, the fact that we have so many of them close to DC makes me very suspicious of what they're being used for.

I don't care about the water and energy use stuff. I just don't trust big tech.

Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

178 Some of you might not understand this Memorial Day ceremony tomorrow, or even get offended, but I don't care.

Henry Wirz Memorial – Andersonville
2 PM
Visit the Civil War Village of Andersonville for the annual memorial to southern martyr and hero Capt. Henry Wirz. All SCV camps and UDC, CoC and OCR chapters are encouraged to bring a wreath to present at the monument. Guest speaker will be Julie Hardaway, former president general of United Daughters of the Confederacy. A fried chicken dinner plate will be served at noon. Artillery crews and infantry reenactors for the artillery and rifle salutes also are invited.

Posted by: A young man at November 09, 2026 10:43 AM (MWfyi)

179 damn, off sock

Posted by: fd at November 09, 2026 10:43 AM (MWfyi)

180 Most people don't distinguish between price inflation and monetary inflation. It feels the same to them. And yes, tariffs are a tax on those consuming foreign goods.

In any event, the money supply is increasing:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/m1sl
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/m2sl
Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 10:39 AM (Jr5Lq)

Want to tame both?

Fat chance, but reduce the size of government.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 09, 2026 10:44 AM (XTrBf)

181 130 I think reading on the toilet is disgusting. Very unsanitary.
Posted by: Bulg at November 09, 2026 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

What about posting on AoSHQ while sitting on the terlitt? Not, um, that I’ve ever done that or anything.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2026 10:37 AM (dJgiD)
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Hold on a sec...

*flushes*

Wut?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 09, 2026 10:44 AM (RIvkX)

182 179 Some of you might not understand this Memorial Day ceremony tomorrow, or even get offended, but I don't care.

Henry Wirz Memorial – Andersonville
2 PM
Visit the Civil War Village of Andersonville for the annual memorial to southern martyr and hero Capt. Henry Wirz. All SCV camps and UDC, CoC and OCR chapters are encouraged to bring a wreath to present at the monument. Guest speaker will be Julie Hardaway, former president general of United Daughters of the Confederacy. A fried chicken dinner plate will be served at noon. Artillery crews and infantry reenactors for the artillery and rifle salutes also are invited.
Posted by: A young man at November 09, 2026 10:43 AM (MWfyi)

It’s May already?

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 09, 2026 10:45 AM (XTrBf)

183 Young Man with a Book
Ernest Meissonier, 1815 - 1891

A great detail painting; very nice & so very different from a great deal of his art (Napoleonic military epics).

Today's painting was summarized by one site as: Aa small-scale, intimate genre scene typical of Meissonier's meticulous technical precision. It depicts a young man absorbed in quiet contemplation or reading, reflecting 19th-century bourgeois values centered on education, refinement, and intellectual pursuit. 🙄

Wikipedia, in part, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier was a French academic painter & sculptor who became famous for his depictions of Napoleon and his military sieges and maneuvers in paintings acclaimed both for the artist's mastery of fine detail and his assiduous craftsmanship.

He also had a son, Jean Charles Meissonier
(French, 1848–1917), who was an excellent painter and, unlike his father, focused heavily on domestic and naturalistic scenes.

Interesting. Thank you.

Posted by: L - No nic... at November 09, 2026 10:45 AM (NFX2v)

184 "reduce the size of government." Concur.

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 10:45 AM (Jr5Lq)

185 Age of candidates played a role I think. Talarico is in his 30s. The new gov of Wisconsin is 40. Annie Andrews is 46. Abdul el Hamas is 42.

They were all running against much older Republicans opponents.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 09, 2026 10:45 AM (JQfkC)

186 Data centers are a tremendous source of tax revenue for your municipality and they can afford to fill the potholes with platinum, and every high school football field will be artificial turf.
However they really hurt nearby property values.

So the key is to have them in your town or county but live as far from them as possible.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 09, 2026 10:46 AM (2Ez/1)

187 My GG grandfather was held at Andersonville. We visited the site a few years ago. Interesting to walk the grounds.

Posted by: NCKate at November 09, 2026 10:46 AM (enNUy)

188 She is probably more conservative than I am as we measure things. But she believes all the stuff about data centers.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at November 09, 2026 10:40 AM (NlEaG)

Simple enough:

Data centers used to facilitate posting cute cat videos to the Internet - good.

Data centers used for all other purposes - evil.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2026 10:46 AM (yky4J)

189 Here is the thing with data centers...

Our domestic oligarchs and people like Musk generally believe they will generate a lot of $$$ as people use AI services.

The domestic oligarchs and their allied politicians also think they can be used for enhanced surveillance of the populace.

Meanwhile Chinese oligarchs want a technical edge on America so they want to stop AI investigation and development as much as they can.

So it is really a mixed bag as I think there is logic in all three sets of arguments. I'm already seeing real growth in the use of AI to generate value, I suspect it is already massively party of the surveillance state, and finally China really does want to get the edge in its development.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2026 10:47 AM (sKqQm)

190 Oops I'm a dummy Veterans Day

Posted by: fd at November 09, 2026 10:47 AM (MWfyi)

191 Data centers are the new fracking. Nobody had any clue what it was until CCp propaganda started fear mongering. It was very effective.

Data centers have been around for decades. But suddenly in 2026 they raised water and electricity bills and became very noisy. Sounds right.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 09, 2026 10:48 AM (JQfkC)

192 duh

Posted by: fd at November 09, 2026 10:48 AM (MWfyi)

193 Enjoying a flashback to Hurricane Helene. City is doing water main work. No water here until 5:00 pm.

Learned First Rule: Do Not Flush The Toilet!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 09, 2026 10:48 AM (XeU6L)

194 I guess this week's SS payments come tomorrow instead of Wednesday because of the holiday.

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 10:48 AM (Jr5Lq)

195 I've been at the dentist. That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.

Posted by: fd at November 09, 2026 10:49 AM (MWfyi)

196 I am very pro data center.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at November 09, 2026 10:40 AM (NlEaG)

I am neither for nor against them. If they are built according to existing laws and zoning regulations, and they abide by the quality-of-life laws on the books, I simply don't care.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 09, 2026 10:49 AM (k5CNB)

197 150 ... "I tend to like ones by this artist which have more relaxed settings, such as this one or two men talking over a meal outside at a cafe, rather than the martial ones with groups of soldiers."

Fenelon,
Agreed. Meissonier's battle scenes are effective but I prefer the gentle images like today's example. This one is especially appealing to me because I've spent a lot of time reading outdoors. Started with picture books on our front porch. The places have changed but the activity continues. I am amused/irritated by people who are surprised when they see me reading a physical book in a waiting room instead of staring at a screen.

Thanks for your kind remarks about my meandering art comments. Sincere but not highly informed. LOL!

Posted by: JTB at November 09, 2026 10:49 AM (yTvNw)

198 You can Whip Inflation Now! with a simple lapel button.

Posted by: Gerald Ford at November 09, 2026 10:49 AM (2Ez/1)

199 Dems are going to give us UBI. We are all set for life.

Posted by: fd at November 09, 2026 10:50 AM (MWfyi)

200
Want to tame both?

Fat chance, but reduce the size of government.

Every government bureaucrat is being paid for by some working man's salary.

As is every "free hot lunch" or "refugee seeker hotel room"

The right has largely failed to get this through into the LIVs heads that there is no free lunch.

And the interesting thing is earlier incarnations of the left ran afoul of this because LIVs finally started to notice all those "free" things the left offered were coming with tax increases.

Since the left has dropped the idea of tax increases and just prints the money now the LIVs don't see tax increases and is confused as to why the cost of everything increases instead...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2026 10:50 AM (sKqQm)

201 On last nite's interview, DJT suggested that he wanted all data centers to provide their own power generation, and to feed their excess power to the grid.

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 10:50 AM (Jr5Lq)

202 I've been at the dentist.

Posted by: fd at November 09, 2026 10:49 AM (MWfyi)

On a horse with no name?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 09, 2026 10:50 AM (k5CNB)

203 Using Reddit and Instagram to fight against data centers is an all time great in “you really dont understand how things work”

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 09, 2026 10:50 AM (JQfkC)

204 What about posting on AoSHQ while sitting on the terlitt? Not, um, that I’ve ever done that or anything.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2026 10:37 AM

Has our Terlitt Hobo weighed in on this yet?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 09, 2026 10:52 AM (bFu5X)

205 Using Reddit and Instagram to fight against data centers is an all time great in “you really dont understand how things work”

In New England they have the populace demanding the end of gas pipelines while at the same time demanding people reduce the cost to heating their homes via gas.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2026 10:52 AM (sKqQm)

206 My VISA bill this month is 2112 dollars. I'm in no rush to pay it.

Posted by: fd at November 09, 2026 10:52 AM (MWfyi)

207 Data centers are critical to most every sector of the US economy now. Modeling all sorts of things from buildings and medical drugs to high performance aircraft and enhanced surveillance systems.

Not all of that's "good" but it's there and people will rally behind whatever has their interests at heart.

Plus... the only other country right now that can pace the US is... China. And I wild presume they do not have our best interests in mind with their version of data centers.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 09, 2026 10:52 AM (RORbl)

208 I argued with Ai about gop senate screwing Trump with recess appts. It just spews bullshit unless you keep asking for clarification. Totally bogus.
Posted by: NCKate
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The old programmer's adage: 'Garbage in, garbage out'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 09, 2026 10:52 AM (XeU6L)

209 I love YouTube. Right now it hosts an estimated 10 exabytes of content. That's prolly a couple of data centers right there.

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 10:52 AM (Jr5Lq)

210 On last nite's interview, DJT suggested that he wanted all data centers to provide their own power generation, and to feed their excess power to the grid.
Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 10:50 AM (Jr5Lq)

Each data center with a small modular reactor?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2026 10:52 AM (yky4J)

211 At some point in the future will all those big ugly data center behemoths suffer the same fate that befell shopping malls?

Posted by: I gotta ask at November 09, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1)

212 the interesting thing is earlier incarnations of the left ran afoul of this because LIVs finally started to notice all those "free" things the left offered were coming with tax increases.

Since the left has dropped the idea of tax increases and just prints the money now the LIVs don't see tax increases and is confused as to why the cost of everything increases instead...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2026 10:50 AM (sKqQm)

LIVs don’t pay taxes. Remember Romneys 47%? That crossed 50% long ago. 25% of people pay almost all taxes. More than 50% pay nothing.

It’s easy to promise free shit for everyone when the vast majority won’t have to pay for any of it.

Republicans are to blame for this. Starting with Bush who took millions of people off the tax rolls completely.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 09, 2026 10:54 AM (JQfkC)

213 At some point in the future will all those big ugly data center behemoths suffer the same fate that befell shopping malls?
Posted by: I gotta ask at November 09, 2026 10:53 AM

They'll be overrun by yutes in saggy pants?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 09, 2026 10:55 AM (bFu5X)

214 "Each data center with a small modular reactor?" He didn't get into any further detail.

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 10:55 AM (Jr5Lq)

215 At some point in the future will all those big ugly data center behemoths suffer the same fate that befell shopping malls?

Datacenters are built that way to house a large number of CPUs. Since CPUs are expensive there is economic pressure to find a different way but at least now there is no one that can see how to do it.

Of course the same was true if you asked a mall owner in 1980 if the internet business model would replace him..."What's the internet?"

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2026 10:55 AM (sKqQm)

216 My VISA bill this month is 2112 dollars. I'm in no rush to pay it.
Posted by: fd at November 09, 2026 10:52 AM (MWfyi)

I don't like to telegraph Comment of the Week candidates, but let's just say I'm glad I was lurking when that one showed up!

Posted by: Doof at November 09, 2026 10:55 AM (kuZER)

217 Where my EBT card at?

Posted by: La'Shondra at November 09, 2026 10:55 AM (2Ez/1)

218
188 My GG grandfather was held at Andersonville. We visited the site a few years ago. Interesting to walk the grounds.
Posted by: NCKate at November 09, 2026 10:46 AM (enNUy)

I had an ancestor, a Colonel who was part of the Great Escape from Libby Prison in Richmond, 1864. Involved a months long digging of a tunnel from the basement to outside the walls, over 100 prisoners escaped. My ancestor made it back to Federal lines by walking through Richmond and he and three others pretending to be drunks at night singing confederate songs loudly. The sentries paid no attention to them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2026 10:56 AM (dJgiD)

219 What kinda book IS that? Look where that left hand is …

Posted by: Dr_No at November 09, 2026 10:56 AM (ayRl+)

220 French riots are because, 'Russia.'

EXCLUSIVE: Reuters, Covert Russian network exploited French riots on social media, EU report says

France 24, 11 minutes ago
Russian network used social media to blame French riots on immigration, EU report

UA News, EU assessment: Operation Overload tried to exploit unrest in France — Cyprus Mail

60 minutes would bite.
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marketscreener.com; 38 minutes ago
IBM Among Companies Sued by EU Over Delays in Border System Rollout

Ha!

BS, imho.

Posted by: L - No nic... at November 09, 2026 10:57 AM (NFX2v)

221 191 Data centers have been around for decades. But suddenly in 2026 ~~they raised water and electricity bills and became very noisy~~ decided to build one next to my hometown in rural utah that is larger than the town itself. Sounds right.

fixt. last time i went through (45 year high school reunion last summer), there were workers putting in fiber alongside the roads all over the state.

Posted by: anachronda at November 09, 2026 10:58 AM (v3pYe)

222 I argued with Ai about gop senate screwing Trump with recess appts. It just spews bullshit unless you keep asking for clarification. Totally bogus.

The first computer Bullshit Artist was called Eliza, from 1966.

(I remember playing with it at a mall at a Radio Shack in the late 70s. I've got a copy of the program for an Atari 8-bit that I've never got around to booting up yet.)

And yes, it's totally bogus. It's amazing how much this 'chatbot' nonsense manages to fool people.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 09, 2026 10:58 AM (Hgt7l)

223 198 no immediate miracles

Posted by: cmeat at November 09, 2026 10:58 AM (Bep7s)

224 You can Whip Inflation Now! with a simple lapel button.
Posted by: Gerald Ford at November 09, 2026 10:49 AM (2Ez/1)
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And the city will be friendlier if everyone would wear a nametag.

Posted by: Lloyd Braun at November 09, 2026 10:58 AM (RIvkX)

225 Republicans are to blame for this. Starting with Bush who took millions of people off the tax rolls completely.

Shrub could have probably made major revisions in the tax code after 2002 to simplify it and make it fairer - get rid of indexing and just have everyone pay the same amount.

But he was no conservative and had no interest in such changes and even if he was his attempts to partially privatize SS failed due to his inability to sell a program he did want.

And speaking of which over that time period the stock market is up 400-500%. Good think we didn't let people put part of their SS money in that right?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2026 10:58 AM (sKqQm)

226 I've been to Andersonville many times. They have a fascinating POW museum there. Not just Civil War POWS, the WWs, Korea, Vietnam, etc.

Posted by: fd at November 09, 2026 10:58 AM (MWfyi)

227 "At some point in the future will all those big ugly data center behemoths suffer the same fate that befell shopping malls?"

I anticipate some sudden tech breakthrough that reduces the amount of compute required per AI token 100X, making all that hardware obsolete. Something beyond the excruciatingly CPU-hungry neural net paradigm.

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 10:59 AM (Jr5Lq)

228 >>@EricLDaugh
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>>🚨 JUST IN: Armed SECRET SERVICE and NATIONAL GUARD spotted near the White House after an absolute psycho RAMMED his car into a sign nearby, then battled with Secret Service before being subdued

>>The press was RUSHED inside, but the all-clear has been given. Good 🙏🏻

Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2026 10:59 AM (viF8m)

229 LOL, CBD.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 09, 2026 10:59 AM (ibDUx)

230
201 On last nite's interview, DJT suggested that he wanted all data centers to provide their own power generation, and to feed their excess power to the grid.
Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 10:50 AM (Jr5Lq)

I think the ideal solution is for every data center to have its own dedicated SMR (small modular reactor) and to provide any extra power available to the local community.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2026 10:59 AM (dJgiD)

231 The electricity thing is so dumb. Every industrial entity uses a lot of electricity. I don’t see Dems rushing to force a factory to provide its own electricity. But data centers have to?

It’s all CCP propaganda.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 09, 2026 11:00 AM (JQfkC)

232 I am the man in the box.
/s/ Alice in Chains

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 09, 2026 11:00 AM (Cw3N8)

233 Removing lower cohorts from the federal tax rolls started with Reagan tax cuts, not Bush. It's a recipe for whatever you call the country today. Disconnect between the population and basic civic issues like funding public activities. Sort of like the gulf between the public and the military with a very small professional military, but worse and more basic.

Opposing data centers and refineries is pretty much the same phenomenon. Guessing the idiocy that has created the refining bottlenecks/insufficiency will fail in the data center case, as the economic interests behind data centers (those directly involved) are a huge part of the economy, and not demonized and marginalized as much as those who make the entire modern economy possible (real energy producers).

Posted by: rhomboid at November 09, 2026 11:01 AM (U/Byj)

234 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 09, 2026 11:01 AM (NcvvS)

235 Data centers. He runs. He leaps. He shoots! Score one for 'Star Trek'.

'Data centers' is such a malleable term … and I really DGAF about them. Whether 'We, The Sheeple' want them or not, our 'gouvernment bettors' (yes, the mis-spell is intentional) will force them on us and we'll see none of the 'benefits' they promise with a 'pinky-swear' will be coming our way. Don't hold your breath.

Posted by: Dr_No at November 09, 2026 11:01 AM (ayRl+)

236 Nood. Cyber Trucks.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 09, 2026 11:02 AM (bFu5X)

237 On last nite's interview, DJT suggested that he wanted all data centers to provide their own power generation, and to feed their excess power to the grid.
Posted by: gp at November 09, 2026 10:50 AM (Jr5Lq)

Each data center with a small modular reactor?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2026 10:52 AM (yky4J)
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I think almost all datacenters were gonna end up with their own power, rather than rely on fickle and unreliable public power. They would generate their own power and recycle their own water.

There are arguments against massive data centers, but the power and water issues aren't among them.

I'm 99% sure that was a Chinese op.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 09, 2026 11:02 AM (iFTx/)

238 SS is a giant slush fund for the left. They were never going to allow Bush or anyone to fuck with it.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 09, 2026 11:03 AM (JQfkC)

239 >>The electricity thing is so dumb. Every industrial entity uses a lot of electricity. I don’t see Dems rushing to force a factory to provide its own electricity. But data centers have to?

>>It’s all CCP propaganda.

The reason electricity rates have gone up is largely because we are still dealing with the effects of Democrats Green New Deal that shuttered conventional power plants and replaced them with wind and solar. Also largely pushed by the CCP.

A good portion of our country is dumber than a bag of hammers and will believe what they are told to believe.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 09, 2026 11:03 AM (viF8m)

240
231 The electricity thing is so dumb. Every industrial entity uses a lot of electricity. I don’t see Dems rushing to force a factory to provide its own electricity. But data centers have to?”

I actually get it. Old school factories that used a lot of power also provided a lot of jobs for the community. Data centers don’t, so no one local is invested in seeing them be successful.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2026 11:03 AM (dJgiD)

241 Saw someone whining about the horrid, no-good, evil 99-year lease given to some data center in TX.

"no one alive today will ever see the end of that lease."

So many levels of stupidity in that.
1) absolute guarantee data centers will be obsolete in 10 years
2) governments revoke leases all the time; ask the Bundys
3) it's f'ing useless desert land, but please keep whining
4) $10 says that's a standard lease term on all commercial developments on state land and has nothing to do with data centers

Whatever.
We lost the debate on data centers--it's pure retard rage now not logic or reason.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 09, 2026 11:05 AM (Cw3N8)

242 I like the benefits of AI. I understand the need for data centers.

The utter contempt shown by our "betters" at any regular citizen expressing quite rational and logical concerns or questions about them has been staggering.

Things said or implied: The average person complaining is really a Chinese psyop! They're idiots who won't willingly shovel the garbage we're feeding them! Pay no attention to the backroom deals and graft we are lining our pockets with, citizens! You'll shut up and you'll like it.

The Utah county commissioners and even Governor Cox behaved this way. It was disgusting. It turns people off. If this is why so many races in Utah swung blue -- in addition to gas and food prices, the war, and new immigrants and Cali tech bros voting blue -- I don't really blame them.

Posted by: Wonder Woman at November 09, 2026 11:10 AM (Toos7)

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