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The Book Thread: August 30th, 2026 [MP4]
‘AI, ay, ay!’ A while back, an offer popped up on my Facebook feed.* It was an AI program that, if you gave it some prompts, would shoot you back a plot for a book. I was curious, so offered it a basic line of ‘what would happen if a 1915 NJ movie studio had a murder to keep it from moving to Hollywood?’ A few minutes later, the program gave me a full plotline. As one might expect from this woke age, the main character was a spunky female reporter trying to make her way in a male-dominated world. I liked what I saw, but decided that I didn’t need it and wiped it out. But, having thought about it, I wondered why I shouldn’t use it for my next book? After all, the late Clive Cussler paid people to come up with plots for his Dirk Pitt novels. And James Patterson ‘collaborates’ with unknown authors, takes their plots, adds his ‘unique viewpoint’ and pushes them out on the marketplace. So let’s presume I asked an AI program for a plot. Am I cheating? Suppose I didn’t follow it slavishly, but used the plot as a jumping off point for my own thoughts. Is my book compromised because I began with an AI plot?
Incidentally, the same program would, if you asked it, take the plot it generated and then spit out an entire book. But why would anyone even within whispering distance of calling themselves an author do such a thing? Oh, I know it happens (and, as I joke, because Amazon will print just about anything up to and including Bigfoot-themed erotica, ‘author’ is practically a worthless word), but beyond the lure of money and the simple ease of the shortcut, why do such a thing to yourself? This is a subject more for the authors of the Horde, but what about you? If you knew that an author used AI to create a plot, but not the content of the book itself, would that drive you away? *I hate Facebook. I am only there to be part of the ‘Theda Bara Fan Club.’ I hate the rest of it.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 09:00 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 09:01 AM (+YoHw)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 09:01 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 09:02 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:02 AM (1Ff7Z)
Actually picking up a lot between the wars I didn't know
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 09:03 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 09:03 AM (VyBeY)
How many times have us non-writing Morons suggested plots? Would it be wrong if one of you writers took it an ran with it? I think not.
I'm kind of the same with AI. If you let AI write the book, then shame on you. But if you use it as a catalyst for your own talent, I'm ok with that.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:04 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 09:04 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:05 AM (qRla/)
I wouldn't mind taking an AI-generated plot to be the jumping-off point of a book. Plotting is always a slog for me. When a plot does come easily, I worry that I'm unconsciously ripping off someone else's work that I've read. But if I took the whole AI-generated thing, then it would not be my voice, and I would not have any fun with it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:06 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:04 AM (h7ZuX)
How do you feel about taking a plot point from some other story and writing a new story around it?
Writers steal from each other all the time. Besides, there's only seven stories anyway....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:06 AM (1Ff7Z)
I'm sure the arguments you mention have sone merit, but for me, it's a visceral reaction.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 30, 2026 09:06 AM (lHPJf)
Posted by: Zoltan at August 30, 2026 09:07 AM (KUWG/)
I nearly tossed the book when Clouseau dresses in drag to infiltrate a theater by joining the audition for a nude cabaret, but that chapter was blessedly short and I powered on through.
I can guarantee that this book will not find permanent quarters in our home.
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 09:08 AM (TvRFE)
I had coffee with a 24 year old entrepreneur on Friday who told me that all of her emails, appointment scheduling, and more are all tied into AI that performs these tasks for her. She says it reads and writes about 80 emails a day for her. It makes and schedules appointments for her because the AI reads her emails first.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 09:08 AM (RIvkX)
But for me the use of AI would be a mark in the skip column. Maybe not the decisive mark, but a fairly heavy one.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:08 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:08 AM (kpS4V)
I.e. his name on the cover in giant font.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:09 AM (vTZFs)
Writers steal from each other all the time. Besides, there's only seven stories anyway....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026
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In one of his books about writing, Lawrence Block admitted that he'd often taken a basic plot from a TV show and given it a whole new spin and ending for his own short story.
It may have been him who said, "If you're gonna steal, steal from the best."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:09 AM (wzUl9)
Sara Hoyt has her "Vignettes" over the weekend, an invite to commenters to write very short stories based on a theme. 50 words max, very limited, but it's still a writing exercise. And one could flesh out a fragment into a whole expanded universe, given enough time, energy, and typewriter monkies.
Second, when another writer (Theodore Sturgeon) was having writer's block, Robert Heinlein sent a letter filled with various ideas. Plot fragments. Key pieces that could be used, or could be altered, or even ignored.
Ideas and thoughts can't exactly be copyrighted or patented. Only the actual implementation, whether as a blueprint for a device, or a story with the written word. Because those take actual effort to see through to the end.
Posted by: Another Anon at August 30, 2026 09:11 AM (4h45B)
Writers steal from each other all the time. Besides, there's only seven stories anyway....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:06 AM (1Ff7Z)
Exactly! Case in point, every thriller ever written. Same story, different setting and characters.
Speaking of which, I just read the latest Longmire, and I have thoughts. Will post them separately.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:11 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026
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Oops. That should be "It may have been he who said . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:11 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 09:12 AM (TvRFE)
The use of AI would be a fairly heavy mark in the skip it column in the case of a writer whose work I didn't already know either directly or by reputation/word of mouth.
If Joe Doakes has a book out there that used AI, pass. If Lawrence Block or Robert Silverberg put out a novel that sprung from an AI plot, I'd give it a look anyway because those two guys don't do slipshod work.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:13 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:13 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (ndZc7)
If you’re going to steal, steal from the dead.
“But it was definitely her who thought
If you’re going to be sold, you’d better stay bought.”
Posted by: Bill Bixby at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:16 AM (qRla/)
It may have been him who said, "If you're gonna steal, steal from the best."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:09 AM (wzUl9)
What about lifting a line from a book or video? Same idea. If the line is organic to your story, why not?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:16 AM (1Ff7Z)
We were created by a Creator to be creative.
Our passions come to life through our creativity which invariably some form of art, be it music, drama, painting, sculpture, dance, cooking and a hundred more.
Included in that list is writing, because writing is most certainly a form of art.
The joy and satisfaction we derive from art is exercising our own creativity, and if we use Artificial Intelligence to come up with plot lines we are robbing ourselves of that pleasure.
Let's teach it how to empty the dishwasher instead.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 09:16 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Zoltan
I loved it.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:17 AM (ndZc7)
Even if an annual almanac used AI to gather facts like a countries population or the rainfall of some city, the content still has to be organized and tailored for a certain audience.
PS: Don't rely on the accuracy of AI 'data' without checking.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 09:17 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:18 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:18 AM (qRla/)
But then I am not the kind of person who has books desperate to escape my fingers, I'm the kind of person who reads almost anything, and occasionally has 'what if' thoughts on plot variants.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 09:18 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 09:18 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (wzUl9)
You need an email for tensor art, but it doesn't require pay. Use a throwaway.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:18 AM (1Ff7Z)
By I had to quit the book when the author, when describing lead character's encounter with a criminal, and said, and this is how I remember it, "he snicked the safety off of his .357 revolver"
right.
Posted by: Bayside at August 30, 2026 09:19 AM (3ACIl)
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 09:19 AM (TvRFE)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026
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In an SF story, I did that -- lifted William Munny's line from Unforgiven, 'If you kill a man, you take away all he has and all he'll ever have," and reworked it a bit into a scene where the narrator's father has had to kill potential invaders to their enclave.
One of my writing group caught it, and I grinned and said, "If you're gonna steal, steal from the best --!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:20 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:20 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:16 AM (1Ff7Z)
**smiles**
Gloria Swanson is a character in my new book. The first words out of her mouth are "You there! Why are you so late?" and when my narrator is doing her makeup, she says "The shadow over my left eye isn't balanced." Both lines are from Sunset Boulevard and I use them as a little treat for the reader.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:20 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 09:21 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:22 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:23 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:23 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (VyBeY)
I was at a used bookstore last week and saw that they had about a dozen The Man From U.N.C.L.E. paperbacks. I know someone here collects them and I thought about taking a photo of the collection and asking if anyone wanted them.
Which led me to an idea: just as AoS has the prayer list, why not have a Sunday Book Thread Want List? Send in to one of the hosts a list of books you're looking for and, if someone else finds one, they can pipe up and say, "I have it. Where would you like me to send it?"
Thoughts?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:05 AM (qRla
Why did women wear those big hats back then? Who started that fashion craze?
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (ndZc7)
“I have no ideas, and I must write.”
A story about an AI trapped in a deep cavern with a despotic human.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (kYmoU)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 09:25 AM (aJQbY)
Never in my life have I so desperately wanted a character to die. This is the first Longmire I have not loved. Apparently out of ideas, Craig Johnson re-wrote The Brothers Karamazov, dropping them into the American West. I admit I haven't gotten around to reading Dostoevsky yet, and it might have made a difference for me. But probably not.
One character is an absolutely irrational imbecile who should have been left to die many times. But Longmire is always about grace and mercy, so he persists in his determination to rescue a dumbass.
Reading this spiked my blood pressure to dangerous levels.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:25 AM (h7ZuX)
I consider Orwell’s Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia absolutely necessary.
I would urge all teenagers to read Lois Lowry’s “Number the Stars”, about the Dane’s efforts to save Danish Jews from the Nazis during WWII.
And, just for fun, they should read Richard Hughes “A High Wind in Jamaica”.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 30, 2026 09:26 AM (1FEc1)
Love the fashion update at the top of the thread. Talk about celebrating the female form.
When I saw the sensor light in the top photo I immediately thought "Good morning, Dave."
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 09:26 AM (yTvNw)
If someone came across one that I don't have, I'd pay to have it shipped to me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:27 AM (qRla/)
Easter eggs, right? I've seen that phrase used.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 09:27 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026
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Doing that sort of thing is part of the joy in writing!
In my Man From U.N.C.L.E. fan fiction, I will occasionally use a line from the show in another but appropriate context. I hope fans will catch it, but if not, hey, I had fun.
Speaking of using real people, in one 1966 MfU tale I had Truman Capote, Lee Radziwill, Cilla Black, and Horst Jankowski all appear at a party. The first two were described rather than named. I also slipped Ellery Queen and his father the Inspector in there too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:27 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:20 AM (wzUl9)
Gloria Swanson is a character in my new book. The first words out of her mouth are "You there! Why are you so late?" and when my narrator is doing her makeup, she says "The shadow over my left eye isn't balanced." Both lines are from Sunset Boulevard and I use them as a little treat for the reader.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:20 AM (qRla/)
My direct lifts are usually from Star Trek episodes. But, I only have a character say one line. It's organic to my character and situations, so I don't think it's agin' the rules. It's an "homage" to sources I like. Though, if I decide to continue writing, I'd do less of it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:28 AM (1Ff7Z)
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I didn't think there were that many Horde members.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:28 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 09:28 AM (RIvkX)
He spun that into "The Hunter," the first Parker potboiler, published under the name Richard Stark.
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 09:29 AM (TvRFE)
Why, I do not know. The fashion didn't last long, however - it really was from the early 1900s until almost the end of WWI. I think it might have been a reflection of the general prosperity of the Edwardian world, so women felt freer to indulge in lavish costume.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:30 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:30 AM (q3u5l)
I've used an RPG random table card deck to create the denizens of my Weird West raptor town as well as nailing down the order of several plot points. Although I did come up with said plot points on my own.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026 09:30 AM (lFFaq)
Which led me to an idea: just as AoS has the prayer list, why not have a Sunday Book Thread Want List? Send in to one of the hosts a list of books you're looking for and, if someone else finds one, they can pipe up and say, "I have it. Where would you like me to send it?"
Thoughts?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026
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Good idea!
I think I'm the U.N.C.L.E. collector, and I have the entire series of twenty-three books. The oldest are sixty years old, though; I should wrap them in plastic. How many are there in the group you saw?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:31 AM (wzUl9)
Please let it be
What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Posted by: Bayside at August 30, 2026 09:31 AM (3ACIl)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 09:31 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (kpS4V)
I should probably never go there. I'd never escape.
***There, book plot, no AI needed.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:32 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (qRla/)
I've done the opposite, took pix of a shelf of books and asked Wolfus which ones I should get.
Sounds like a good idea. Maybe Perf can post it like he does the recommended list?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:32 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:22 AM
1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)
Ah, well, I had more fun reading this adaptation than I would have had reading/watching/listening to Wicked.
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: The ghost of Willie Sutton at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)
Read that as an HS senior. The ending was appalling.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (JrHfD)
About the AI plotline q, I think just plug in real person in place of AI. If a real person gave you the whole plot, would you write the book without crediting the person somehow?
Great Book Thread topic, MP4!
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 30, 2026 09:34 AM (Ydd86)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:31 AM (wzUl9)
About a dozen. And I think two of them were story collections from an U.N.C.L.E. magazine, but don't quote me. I'll probably be down there next week, so I will take a pic and send it your way.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:34 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Bayside at August 30, 2026 09:31 AM (3ACIl)
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Let's just say I learned a new word today.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 09:35 AM (RIvkX)
The front covers of the Signets have "IAN FLEMING," the title, and "A JAMES BOND THRILLER" on them with a small color painting often illustrating a scene from the novel. The back features a compelling blurb designed to get you to buy it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9)
https://youtu.be/zkdO-q9zJec
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:36 AM (vTZFs)
It seems that Campion's neighbor, the dowager Lady Cavados, in trying to protect her son Johnny, has conspired to move the body from where it was found in Johnny's bedroom to Campion's, and thus complicates the entire matter. The gentry still have a way of being above normal police investigation, so Campion is called upon to assist.
Johnny is supposed to have been married the next day, and the body is not that of his betrothed, but he does know her. The situation becomes even more complicated after Campion is briefly kidnapped, and then a few bottles of impossibly rare burgundy show up, at which point the case takes a completely different turn. Are these coincidences of timing, or are they all related? Campion has to use his intuition and his understanding of the upper classes to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 09:37 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 09:37 AM (RIvkX)
The opening picture is the HAL computer from 2001.
The ladies are from a date I don't remember, but they are wearing and advertising a new dress form, one that clings close to the body and eschews the use of corset stays. Very daring for the time.
But, my word, they are luscious. I wish I had a lady like that.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:39 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026
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Please do. I have nearly all the magazines. They have a significant place in the history of the fandom. Several of the Solo & Illya novelettes were written by authors who went on to greater fame under their own names, like John Jakes and Dennis Lynds. And a number of issues featured "The Department of Lost Stories," reprinting fantasy classics from Heinlein, Sturgeon, and Robert Bloch.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:39 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Who Knew at August 30, 2026 09:40 AM (+ViXu)
An time I run across a great line of dialogue I stash it in a clip file. Latest favorite: "Yeah, I'm okay. Breathing is highly overrated. Who needs it."
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:40 AM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:41 AM (wzUl9)
More interesting were the characters from the later Oz stories. We have Gener Jinger; and a femme fatale is always welcome in a comic. The Wheelers had maxim guns built into their arms. Tippetarius looked like one of Peter Pan's Lost Boys; the story didn't reach the point where his big secret is revealed, and I shudder to think of how a current-year author will handle that twist...
(Gah! The comment box cut me off! continued...)
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:41 AM (3v7ra)
Polliwog at 68. I'm not sure there's really much of a difference at all.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:41 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (Oy/m2)
If only that trend would come back and replace the current craze of sleeve tattoos and inverted nose rings.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 30, 2026 09:42 AM (lHPJf)
I've used an RPG random table card deck to create the denizens of my Weird West raptor town as well as nailing down the order of several plot points. Although I did come up with said plot points on my own.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026 09:30 AM (lFFaq)
The source of ideas shouldn't matter. If you completely use someone else's work to write yours, it matters. I'm not going ape over AI used in writing unless it does the complete work. Could AI write a better story than me? Don't know. If it's something someone likes, then who am I to say thou shalt not read it!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:42 AM (1Ff7Z)
I've used an RPG random table card deck to create the denizens of my Weird West raptor town as well as nailing down the order of several plot points. Although I did come up with said plot points on my own.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026 09:30 AM (lFFaq)
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It's the exact same thing. I've been saying this for a while: AI is just charts and tables scaled up. Using AI to create is just randomly mining other people's work.
AI's true use is that you can sift data with incredible speed, but this relies on the integrity of the data because it cannot evaluate it. But if (for example) you feed it bomb damage assessments and give it the right parameters, you can develop target packages much faster than by using human analysts.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 09:42 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:42 AM (NtoJk)
An time I run across a great line of dialogue I stash it in a clip file. Latest favorite: "Yeah, I'm okay. Breathing is highly overrated. Who needs it."
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026
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Some of RAH's early magazine stories were SF variants on classics like Uncle Tom's Cabin (= slavery on Venus) and The Man Without a Country. Nobody in the SF field had done that before -- or if someone had, it wasn't very well done and isn't remembered.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:43 AM (wzUl9)
On the other hand - there are only so many original plot concepts existing in the world; it's what the writer does to flesh them out which is (with luck, skill and creativity) original.
And every good plot out to be taken out for a romp in every setting which allows room for adventure. I did a version of Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be king" set on the southwest American frontier with a mysterious and isolated Indian tribe living on top of a remote mesa. (It's in one of my Lone Star story collections, and also in Tales Told Around the Supper Table II. I intended it as a romp and an homage, but one reviewer for the latter was indignant and termed it a "rip-off.")
Posted by: Sgt. Mom at August 30, 2026 09:43 AM (Ew3fm)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:43 AM (NtoJk)
The best re-imagined character was Jack the Pumpkin head. He was a normal person, dressed as a cowboy. But he had a horribly scarred face, which he hid behind an orange bandanna. And that bandanna had a jack-o-lantern grin printed on it. The design make for a really cool (and very intimidating) visual.
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:44 AM (3v7ra)
During the brief conversation I mentioned I had some ideas for cartoons. He politely demurred.
Lawyers and all.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 09:44 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 09:45 AM (XvL8K)
I'm also still crawling through "Dungeon Crawler Carl." Fortunately, it's not the sort of book where you have to re-read the previous few pages if you haven't picked it up for a few days. Sometimes the brain likes cotton candy.
Posted by: PabloD at August 30, 2026 09:45 AM (6oTRF)
Not *quite* the same thing, but Barry Malzberg did four short stories set in Writer's Heaven. All four can be found in his collection The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady and all, especially the closing paragraphs of the 4th, highly recommended.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:45 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:45 AM (NtoJk)
Here's Bjo talking about the elder days:
https://tinyurl.com/espmydmm
This and the novelizations were all we had in the Intertrek Years. You kids just wouldn't understand.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (kpS4V)
Polliwog at 68. I'm not sure there's really much of a difference at all.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026
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They *were* cooler-looking. Paintings of beautiful sexy girls, or of Bond in tuxedo at Casino Royale, or Goldfinger's golden Rolls-Royce humming along a road. The paperback industry lost a lot when they began to use photographs instead of paintings (as did advertising).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (wzUl9)
One of the oddball channels on my TV shows Perry Mason reruns and I got curious if the original novels were as courtroom focused as the TV show so I bought a cheap collection of three of them for my kindle to find out. It will probably be months before I get around to reading them, though.
Posted by: Who Knew at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (+ViXu)
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (3v7ra)
Kid 2 is around the age for that. Glad she's never said anything about it. Wicked is only an attempt to put evil in a good light.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: HAL 9000 at August 30, 2026 09:47 AM (ZOv7s)
I've got my tix for the Star Trek movies event this weekend. I'm wondering how many people will show up in costume.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 30, 2026 09:34 AM (Ydd86)
In the Acknowledgements section.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Who Knew
Probably me. It is one of my favorite books. The method that Pears uses to work backwards through a story within a story within a story is really clever.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (0U5gm)
Here's Bjo talking about the elder days:
https://tinyurl.com/espmydmm
This and the novelizations were all we had in the Intertrek Years. You kids just wouldn't understand.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026
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Same with U.N.C.L.E. -- except that we had almost twenty years between the last episode and the reruns on CBN, another twenty until the DVDs came out, and another seven or eight until the 2015 movie. The original novels and the movies showing erratically on TV were pretty much it for the fans.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:49 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:49 AM (NtoJk)
Guite is one of those people who can read anything and make it lively or profound, as needed, and brings out the joy of the writing. He is always asked if he would do a reading of the complete LOTR and Hobbit. I have two versions of them but would happily pay for Guite's.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 09:50 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (Oy/m2)
I haven't, either.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:50 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:50 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026
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Hey, in 2015 I went to see the U.N.C.L.E. movie (with Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer) wearing a suit and tie, and with my triangular HQ badge clipped to one lapel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (aJQbY)
As it happens, the topic for my next Book Thread (already written!) is about how writers get ideas. MP4, you aren't supposed to use the All-Seeing Eye to peek ahead!
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (tY90Q)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (VyBeY)
Unless it is a Reichsrevolver, a Hong Kong Police Enfield revolver in .360 with the cross-bolt safety, or one of the various Euro "military" revolvers that had a safety because reasons.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 09:52 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (qRla/)
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What event is this?
I went to a "Sit Long and Prosper" movie marathon eons ago.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:52 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026
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Same here. I was so bored at one point during the Sniffle Scare that I read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Exciting until the murder actually occurs; a slog after that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:53 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:41 AM (q3u5l)
I'm not sure there is either. With the random tables one needs to interpret a couple of adjectives into a personality or complete appearance, and AI would probably provide that detail. Interpretation may be the difference.
My story is a mystery and I didn't know which of the townsfolk would be the murderer until I did my card draws. I had a few basic traits I wanted him to have and used the character whose results were the closest to those traits.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026 09:53 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: PabloD at August 30, 2026 09:45 AM (6oTRF)
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I really enjoyed it. City of God is not what I expected. Much more involved, I'm crawling through it, but it's really good. It was written to explain Christianity to a pagan, and Augustine starts by examining paganism in autistic detail, citing sources we no longer have, and then working through how paganism is basically built around the fallen angels, a funhouse mirror version of Christianity where vices become virtues.
It's timeless, of course, but I see so much of what he is talking about in our current society where killing infants is "stunning and brave" and sexual depravity is valorized. I mean, nothing is new but wow, we've really regressed.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 09:53 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:53 AM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (tY90Q)
My next topic is about writers who 'carry on' or 're-imagine' already-existing properties. So Castle Guy's "Legend of Oz" posts are prophetic.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:54 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: dantesed
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Based on War and Peace alone, Dostoyevsky is far, far superior. I reread The Possessed (Constance Garnett translation title instead of Demons) every few years. And the Rebellion chapter in Bros. K, which contains the Grand Inquisitor.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 09:54 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:54 AM (q3u5l)
I read that . I am glad I don't run in DC political circles, and am unlikely to get on Scott Bessent's bad side, because he is much brighter and more articulate than I am, and I would not want to be the recipient of his withering sarcasm.
He actually one of my favorite members of this administration.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (JrHfD)
And it ends in Campion discovering the dowager Lady Cavados has been bootlegging her homemade gooseberry wine!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: PabloD at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (6oTRF)
Am I the only one who has never read anything by Tolstoy?
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM
Here's all you need to know:
https://youtu.be/qqS1Ty79mOE
Posted by: Elaine Benes at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (aJQbY)
Thank God for the Enlightenment.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:36 AM (vTZFs)
It's the same for writing. I see ads on Instagram frequently for exciting mystery or thriller series and the like. They're typically free with kindle unlimited, so I gave one a whirl. It was technically fine, but so lacking in soul and human voice, that I was certain it was AI written. Only fell for that once.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (rbvCR)
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Heritage Rough Rider revolvers have a hammer block safety.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 09:56 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Splunge at August 30, 2026 09:56 AM (JpUeg)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (kpS4V)
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I mean the French Revolution was such an improvement...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 09:57 AM (ZOv7s)
I went to a "Sit Long and Prosper" movie marathon eons ago.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:52 AM (kpS4V)
This coming Thursday through Saturday across the country, various theaters are showing movies 1-4 (one each day) along with an appropriate TOS episode.
The Motion Picture is paired with "The Changeling," Wrath of Khan with "Space Seed," The Search for Spock with "Amok Time" and The Voyage Home with "The City on the Edge of Forever."
Check online to see if they're playing near you.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:57 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (kpS4V)
In my Man From U.N.C.L.E. fan fiction, I will occasionally use a line from the show in another but appropriate context. I hope fans will catch it, but if not, hey, I had fun.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:27 AM (wzUl9)
Back in my fanfiction writing days (have I admitted to that before?) I would structure entire scenes to let characters use cool lines from other shows. Probably my favorite was when I got to repurpose a character shouting "Hold the line; no one gets through!" originally spoken by a young Captain Sinclair from Babylon 5. I doubt anyone who read my story recognized the reference, but it made me smile.
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (3v7ra)
Keep a notepad w/pencil/pen handy and jot down the idea or a phrase or a sentence. The key to writing is to get it out of your head and onto a readable medium (used to say onto paper but not anymore). Don't think about plot or structure or grammar or how good/bad it is or anything like that. Just get it barfed up out of your head. All else flows from there.
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (NtoJk)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (kpS4V)
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I mean the French Revolution was such an improvement...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Agreed. Western Civ has been in a slow, steady decline ever since the French Revolution.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (XvL8K)
My story is a mystery and I didn't know which of the townsfolk would be the murderer until I did my card draws. I had a few basic traits I wanted him to have and used the character whose results were the closest to those traits.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026
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I almost always know who the murderer is as I begin. Otherwise I can't conceal him properly, plant the clues fairly, or know how the detective will reason it out.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (kpS4V)
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Intertrek Years. UFO and then Space:1999 and then that tripe from George Lucas.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Oddbob
A similar trend is happening in music. There is so much computer manipulation of instruments and voices now that people are looking for actual human made music, and there is also a resurgence in bands putting out music on LPs instead of digital.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM (0U5gm)
"Ian Fleming's Femme Fatale , Melons McGee."
One of the more fortunate name changes for an adaptation was in Jacques Tourneur's movie Out of the Past, the classic noir with Mitchum and Jane Greer as femme fatale Kathy Moffatt.
Her name in the source novel, Build My Gallows High? It was, God help us, Mumsie McGonigle.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM (q3u5l)
Read War and Peace years ago.
Never finished reading any book written by James Joyce. Never got past page 1 of Finnegan's Wake. Dubliners? Gag. Ulysses? Gag.
Posted by: 13times at August 30, 2026 10:01 AM (fnZRl)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:01 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (wzUl9)
I didn't know who was the killer in my current book until I was nearly finished. Part of my editing now is dropping hints as to his identity.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 10:01 AM (qRla/)
Anything space/science fiction was like rain in the desert back then. Was so excited to go see Alien[i/]. Had no idea it was a horror film; I nearly had to run out of the theater after that chest-burster scene. What a shock! And a big disappointment as I was expecting straight-up SF.
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 10:02 AM (NtoJk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:02 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 10:03 AM (NtoJk)
It's a sunny day and the remainder of the week is supposed to be rainy, so I will crank up the tunes and hit the road.
Hope you all have a lovely day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 10:03 AM (qRla/)
That is an unfortunate name lol. But to be clear I just made my name up to match my painting.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:04 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:53 AM (NtoJk)
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What about Soviet cinema?
Москва Cлезам не Bерит one of my favorite films.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM
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Just yesterday I was in a drug store and heard Sweet Home Alabama playing over the PA. Now believe me, I have no dislike for the song, having spent my formative years in The Heart of Dixie.
But we're still listening to fifty year old recordings?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026
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I had to read it in an AP English class in college. Maybe I should try it again now; I might better appreciate the portraits of the human condition. But his use of dashes instead of quotation marks annoyed me and made me feel claustrophobic.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (wzUl9)
I was about to say that with music at least you could go in person and see it being made in front of you but that's not really always true. Or maybe even ever in the most popular genres.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 10:07 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM (RIvkX)
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Battlestar Galactica actually holds up quite well. I've watched the whole series several times and just started watching it with the grandkids on Sunday night, the way God intended. They love it!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:08 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:01 AM (KC5Lt)
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Excluding the first one of course. What a travesty.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:08 AM (RIvkX)
Hope you all have a lovely day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
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Top driving tunes:
The hated Springsteen, Thunder Road.
Widespread Panic, Driving Song.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 10:08 AM (XvL8K)
He pointed out that his best characters were based on people he knew and respected, even the ones that weren't very respectable, but that experience in life and how people get along goes further to make a compelling story than all the orthodox thought in the world.
AI adds to this, it risks pointless characters or NPC characters that have no basis of their own and only serve to push the narrative forward. That is not compelling storytelling
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (Oy/m2)
I haven't, either.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)
I knew the basic plot of War and Peace but was quite surprised when I read the book. For example, I knew Prince Andrei, mortally wounded at Borodino, forgive Countess Natalya on his deathbed for cheating on him. I figured he'd been wounded leading a charge into Napoleon's lines or something equally dramatic. But no, he was waiting on the reverse slope of a hill with his command when a stray artillery explodes beside him. Much of the book concerns the internal thoughts of the characters which, like our own, are often bordering on the ridiculous. I did, however, finally understand Norman Mailer's comment explaining The Naked and the Dead saying he'd been reading a lot of Tolstoy given that TNATD also contains much internal dialogue.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (Ia/+0)
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In the late 90s I had a job answering phones, and it was hit or miss, and so during the lulls I would surf the incipient web. Then I came up with the idea of reading a book online, but couldn't find War and Peace (I thought it would be fun to say I read War and Peace at work). But I did find Anna Karenina, so I read that. It was okay.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (ZOv7s)
At the gym, their piped-in tunes range in age from recent (which is utterly unfamiliar) back to the '60s. Oddly, been hearing a lot less rap of late.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (wzUl9)
Exactly. I couldn't progress until I knew who the killer was. Although, I'm pretty sure it will be a short story so I'm not as worried about strict fair play regarding the clues.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026 10:10 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 10:10 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: 13times at August 30, 2026 10:01 AM (fnZRl)
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I tried to read Ulysses but it was such a chore that I gave up. I mentioned it to my father, who has quite the library and he said he didn't like it either.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:11 AM (ZOv7s)
Radar Love has to be the #1 driving song.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:11 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:40 AM (NtoJk)
"I'm just going to take my negative five hit points and lie down" said some character is a role-playing story.
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 10:13 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (KC5Lt)
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I have tried to read Bari Weiss' How to Fight Anti-Semitism three times but cannot get past her rank leftist partisanship and TDS.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:13 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:11 AM (KC5Lt)
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I met my wife online*, and it was an 8-hour drive, and when that song would come on the radio it was epic, especially near the end of the journey.
*This was before dating apps, we met in a chatroom, and found that we were in alignment on just about everything, and thought it would be fun to meet in person. The rest, as they say, is history. My kids owe their existence to Talk City.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (qRla/)
Besides you, you mean?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (JrHfD)
It's hard to read something that contains so much cognitive dissonance.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (KC5Lt)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (2Ez/1)
https://youtu.be/r2AInopKBWM?is=m2GvUCgaUiUd9NyA
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2026 10:15 AM (BI5O2)
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Such a cheeky little bastard you are. Sad!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:15 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Oddbob
There is a youtube channel called Wings of Pegasus, and he pulled videos of about nine recent concerts of Taylor Swift for analysis. Not only was the measured pitch of every vocal line identical, but the timing and pitch of every instrument was as well. In other words, the entire concert series was pre-recorded and mimed.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:16 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: polynikes
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I'll grant you that, for the drumming alone. Same with Twighlight Zone drum solo.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 10:17 AM (XvL8K)
The Left could win every race and you and your retard cohorts would still be losers. You mentally ill freak.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:18 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 10:18 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:13 AM (RIvkX)
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Trump is the most philosemitic president in history. Guy has Jewish grandkids. The left cannot accept that antisemitism has always had a warm cozy home in their ranks.
Fun fact: Jews were very much accepted in the Antebellum South. Judah P. Benjamin was a US senator and became Secretary of the Treasury. One of my Jewish ancestors emigrated to New Orleans where he paid for a company of infantry to be equipped. His descendants were proud of this Confederate heritage.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)
The book Audio CDs I have really require focus to get the benefits of listening. The latest prose version of The Faerie Queene, LOTR, Galahad and the Grail, and a few others all fall into the category.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 10:19 AM (yTvNw)
I really wanted to like Ulysses. I always feel like Joyce is force feeding me cold, lumpy, unsweetened, gray oatmeal.
At 29 I should know better not to rundown famous works, beer brands etc., because someone will say that it's their favorite ale and take offense.
Posted by: 13times at August 30, 2026 10:19 AM (fnZRl)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 10:20 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (KC5Lt)
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"Projection" is the word you are looking for. It's a core trait of their belief system. The see "male feminists" who treat women like dirt and therefore assume that since these are the "good men" ours must be 10x worse.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:21 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026
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"Get Over It" by the Eagles is up there too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:21 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:22 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026
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Excitement and an edge of danger. Not as much as "Secret Agent Man" by Johnny Rivers or "Holding Out for a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler, but close.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:22 AM (wzUl9)
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One of my favorite books, Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, has a hilarious scene in which the characters speak in Beatles' song titles.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:22 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:18 AM (KC5Lt)
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I think it's sad that people have to spend Sunday morning trying to stir the pot. Probably has a dozen tabs open and the only troll they have is citing crap polls taken in August. Like wow, that's so determinative! Especially after polling has repeatedly been shown to be absolute crap.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:22 AM (ZOv7s)
The book Audio CDs I have really require focus to get the benefits of listening. The latest prose version of The Faerie Queene, LOTR, Galahad and the Grail, and a few others all fall into the category.
Posted by: JTB
And yet, some subgroup of younger people are turning to long format podcasts, like Rogan or Triggernometry, which are gaining huge followings. There is a push back against the snippet world, though I don't know how large it is.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:23 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 10:23 AM (p/isN)
No cognitive dissonance was the term I meant . Projection is just another of the ten mental defects common in all Leftists. But it is the one that the least intelligent of the Left use most often.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:24 AM (KC5Lt)
About the first book I can say that it's the most "'Murica, **** yeah!" story I've ever read — which is particularly ironic given that the author was an avowed Trotskyite. (Although everyone I know who met him says Eric Flint was a very kind and generous man in person.)
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 30, 2026 10:24 AM (78a2H)
https://youtu.be/r2AInopKBWM?is=m2GvUCgaUiUd9NyA
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2026
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I think I know that stretch of highway.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:24 AM (wzUl9)
HS senior English teacher said that one couldn't read Ulysses without a lot of reference material, and that Finnegan's Wake in unreadable.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 10:24 AM (NcvvS)
Everything is inspired by something. If you're doing the work and writing the story, well thats how its been done since man came down from the trees.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 10:25 AM (S41Gd)
Blue tsunami incoming.
Useless wars aren’t popular.
Sad!
Posted by: Lake Ontario at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM
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Yes, believe the polls and make all of your decisions based on what they predict.
Posted by: Francesca Hong at August 30, 2026 10:25 AM (2Ez/1)
State Department apologizes for “deadnaming” Lake America on its website
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:25 AM (ndZc7)
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Interesting question, MP4. Yes, I think it would diminish the book in my eyes. I don't like fake, and a small part of it would just feel inauthentic if an author used AI for creating a plot. Like a "cheat."
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 30, 2026 10:26 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 10:23 AM (p/isN)
Weird but I really like small nose studs on a woman and find it really sexy but a nose ring has the opposite effect. And a pig ring would make the most beautiful woman in the world immediately repulsive to me.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:26 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:27 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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There is nothing new under the sun. At base, this is why I prefer classics to taking a chance on something recent.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 10:27 AM (XvL8K)
I've read a number of Douglas Adams' books and really enjoyed him, but not that one. I should find it. My husband is a huge Beatles fan.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:27 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2026 10:28 AM (BI5O2)
simps: it will be showing up as a pop up soon just for you idiots
Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (jrgJz)
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Hillary had a 98% chance of winning. Kamala was way ahead of Trump in swing states. All was lost. Doom all the way down.
Until it wasn't.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:23 AM (0U5gm)
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Part of why I am watching Battlestar Galactica with them is to get them used to long-form shows with a continuous plot. Much of what they watch is just 10-minute clips and other short-form entertainment.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 30, 2026
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If the author merely uses it as a springboard, makes the story his own, and never reveals that an AI prompt gave him the initial idea, I wouldn't mind. How would I know?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (wzUl9)
But you will continue to insist we call a man a woman. Punk ass bitch.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:31 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Francesca Hong at August 30, 2026 10:25 AM (2Ez/1)
We’ve been bombarded with nonsense polls weekly for over 10 years now. How long will people pretend to take this nonsense seriously?
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 10:31 AM (GWwCk)
I don't consider myself an author. I don't have a need to write, or publish, or promote, or make money off my writing. I published two books through Amazon, neither of which fit into mainstream genres. Both were stories connected to real life events. One was the story of my F-I-L's disappearance in 2008 (the ending has not yet been written), and the other was a whimsical adventure loosely based on my dad's WWII daily diary. I wrote them because the real life events were interesting to me, and because I got enjoyment out of the story-telling. I think in today's world where anybody and their dog can call themselves an author, that you should write to tell a story that is in you. If it doesn't arise spontaneously maybe it doesn't need to be written...or read. (e.g. Sasquatch erotica)
/YMMV
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 10:32 AM (qgHp7)
simps: it will be showing up as a pop up soon just for you idiots
Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (jrgJz)
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I like the simps who act like "Lake Ontario" is an ancient and historic name that must not be changed while every damn street in Canada is being renamed and all their monuments are being pulled down.
It's an epic troll and the simps fall for it every time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:33 AM (ZOv7s)
Even with the vastly larger field of thiefdom, AI text still has its own "accent" that any junior prof can recognize in a paper. I'm certain an acerbic critical eye can divine their work in plot lines as well. Even a committee script (say, the King James Bible) reveals its own telegrapher's fist.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 10:34 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (h7ZuX)
Now wait a minute! Are you saying my undead mime mysteries are AI written??!!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:35 AM (1Ff7Z)
Everybody complains about how hard it is to keep track of all the characters, but I never had trouble with that.
My edition was published during WWII, and there's a long, rather silly preface about how "Tolstoy shows how resilient the Russian people are therefore Hitler's going to lose." I mean, hooray for our side and all that, but using a novel as evidence of anything seems a bit thin.
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 30, 2026 10:35 AM (78a2H)
Watching me and my friends drive around as teenagers, you got all three in one.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2026 10:35 AM (BI5O2)
/YMMV
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 10:32 AM (qgHp7)
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The two bits of advice I have for people who want to be an author are: write what you know, and have something to say.
Most crap writing is by people who don't really know what they are writing about (it's all imitation) and who have nothing interesting to say. If you look at modern entertainment, that's just about all the big movie franchises. People don't know the material and have nothing interesting to say about it other than diversity.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:36 AM (ZOv7s)
I'm sure you are right. There are signs of renewed interest in classic literature, poetry, and good writing in general. Partly a pushback against constant screen time and digital inundation, partly nostalgia, partly disgust with the shallowness of much of current culture. The numbers may not be huge but it's a start. I think of the monasteries that preserved the ancient writings that led to the European Renaissance. (And maybe Fahrenheit 451.)
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 10:36 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 10:36 AM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 10:37 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at August 30, 2026 10:37 AM (tRYqg)
I cut some slack for cover art as finding and affording human created art is tough for indies.
But for writing? If you're not using your brain to come up with your ideas, what do have it for? How are you even an author? At best, you're riffing on someone (not even someone frankly) else's ideas.
The one thing we have over the machine is our soul. Don't neglect that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 10:37 AM (xcxpd)
Tell me it was a dark and stormy night in the style of William Faulkner in less than 20 words.
Response:
I can’t imitate Faulkner exactly, but: “Night brooded, rain beat the earth, and the past came whispering through the blackened trees.”
Ok, it's cute, but so, what?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:37 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:38 AM (KC5Lt)
Russian writer Vasily Grossman walked the knife's edge of Soviet Realism. His book Life and Fate is pretty dense.
Internet Archive: The Years of War 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman
Posted by: 13times at August 30, 2026 10:38 AM (fnZRl)
I read the first two and started the third and dropped it because it became repetitious.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 10:38 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 09:57 AM (ZOv7s)
The enlightenment was not the French Revolution, it was a change in the concept of what was knowable, and and the development of the tool by which it could be determined. It moved away from the state of mind that we currently accuse Islam of holding, that things are the way they are because it is their nature to be so and to question that is to question reality itself.
The French Revolution was the attempt to use the concepts of the modern world to recreate the centralized power of the pre-enlightenment world.
Louis IV's world was gone, it economically and socially became impossible to maintain. Robespierre was trying to recreate that golden era, to make it do what it had promised to achieve to justify its existence.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 10:39 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)
There’s an historical cemetery downtown, lots of 19th century elaborate grave markers. I’ve walked through it a couple times and was surprised by the large Jewish quarter of it, all from the mid to late 19th century.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 10:39 AM (GWwCk)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 10:40 AM (rbvCR)
And a limerick lover dares Muldoon to write one around that.
Every damn time.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 10:37 AM (zdLoL)
I thought it was called Snatchquatch erotica.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:40 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I saw a guy on YouTube say Anna Karenina was a book every Christian should read.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:40 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:38 AM (KC5Lt)
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The same dynamic holds for writing history. You've got all of it before you, but you have to figure out a way to make sense of it to a reader who may not be versed in the topic. How much detail? How long should you take? What to leave in, what to keep out?
Well-written nonfiction can be as gripping as any novel. That's why I read so much Churchill, because the guy was an incredible writer.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:41 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (wzUl9)
Uh oh. Guess you'd better not read my book.
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*This format is for a specific reason. And it's not all the way through.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:42 AM (1Ff7Z)
Did he say why?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:42 AM (xSAlF)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at August 30, 2026 10:43 AM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 10:03 AM (qRla/)
Wait. You're cutting out early? Can you do that??
Are you a director of a play, perhaps?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:43 AM (1Ff7Z)
And a limerick lover dares Muldoon to write one around that.
Every damn time.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
Quentin Tarantino meets Bigfoot?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:43 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 10:39 AM (rbvCR)
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It was very much the child of the Enlightenment, the natural next step of elevating reason above tradition and faith. You could not have had it without the Enlightenment.
The predictable outcome of casting aside tradition and faith is revolution without end. Marxism is very much part of this mode of thought.
People who say "Oh, well, we don't burn witches anymore" are obviously not paying attention. Human nature doesn't change, we just switch up the labels from time to time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Did he say why?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:42 AM (xSAlF)
Probably because of the moral questions in the book in addition to a lot of reference to the Russian Orthodox Church.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:44 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (2Ez/1)
What does that tell you about modern music?
(insert flushing toilet sound here)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:44 AM (1Ff7Z)
Did he say why?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I've never read it but he seemed to think it demonstrates how sin leads to destruction.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:45 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:45 AM (xSAlF)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at August 30, 2026
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Quite a few of her short stories are very effective. And her two autobiographies/memoirs, Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons, are about her family and her kids, told in a very entertaining and often comic fashion.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:46 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:46 AM (ZOv7s)
I'm reading Peter F. Hamilton's "Exodus: Helium Sea," wnich is the second book in this duology. Very good so far. I'll read anything and everything Hamilton puts out.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 30, 2026 10:46 AM (/RHNq)
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Ulysses S. Grant got into some hot water controversy with his General Order No. 11, barring Jews from certain areas for "corruption," specifically...
Grant issued the order in an effort to reduce corruption among Union soldiers and stop the illicit trade in Southern-produced cotton, which he perceived as being run "mostly by Jews and other unprincipled traders".
He later said he regretted his decision.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 30, 2026 10:47 AM (qBdHI)
And a limerick lover dares Muldoon to write one around that.
Every damn time.
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IYKWIM - a limerick
There once was a Sasquatch in heat
Who chanced a young woman to meet
They rolled in the hay
And you know what they say
Of the attributes of guys with big feet!
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 10:48 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 10:48 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2026 10:48 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:48 AM (ZOv7s)
I said I was going to watch the Bruce Willis movie Surrogates to see if any warning signs but I forgot all about it. I heard it wasn't very good so maybe that's why I forgot.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:49 AM (KC5Lt)
And whatever it is seems to be affecting her own health as well. So far, good stuff.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:49 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:50 AM (KC5Lt)
https://tinyurl.com/3vc8fxz8
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:50 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Limerick Lover at August 30, 2026 10:50 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:51 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:51 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (2Ez/1)
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts....
Somebody said, once.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:51 AM (1Ff7Z)
I can see that
They're so unhappy in their married lives and/ or jealous of their former lovers that suicide seems like a solution,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:52 AM (xSAlF)
Posted by: Francesca Hong at August 30, 2026 10:25 AM (2Ez/1)
We’ve been bombarded with nonsense polls weekly for over 10 years now. How long will people pretend to take this nonsense seriously?
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 10:31 AM (GWwCk)
RON PAUL!!!
I do love those AI book writing ads when they show up in my Instagram feed. For the longest while, I've thought of creating an African female pen-name, and detailing my own Jason Arday story overcoming western prejudice, ignorance and oppression.
Done right, I'd love to see how many awards I could win.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 30, 2026 10:52 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:15 AM (RIvkX)
And when none of its wet dreams come true in November, it will never be seen again. Probably sucking Ozero's member in Man's Country to try wipe away its tears.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:53 AM (1Ff7Z)
https://tinyurl.com/3vc8fxz8
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:50 AM (ndZc7)
I will never watch that. Because, I have the attention span to listen to a book, but not to sit and watch a video. Go figure.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 10:53 AM (h7ZuX)
Because I can.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM
I read that book quite a few years ago. It is one of my favorites. I think you will appreciate it.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 30, 2026 10:54 AM (Lzhdy)
Stateless, these days you could probably win just about all of them.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 10:54 AM (q3u5l)
Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:54 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: IanDeal at August 30, 2026 10:54 AM (Dye5q)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1)
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Truly a case of "if you can, you should."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:55 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:55 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 09:08 AM (RIvkX)
Agency. What is it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:56 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:51 AM
One of my favorite movies is The Lives Of Others.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:56 AM (2Ez/1)
He later said he regretted his decision.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 30, 2026 10:47 AM (qBdHI)
I kind of understand what motivated Grant, but it highlights his rigid, almost autist level thinking and inability to understand ordinary human behavior. (It was a problem for him throughout his life)
Trading in contraband is always common in border areas of a war, especially a civil war. Grant was told the Jews were traders, and they were behind it, and he had a “Respeck mah Autor-Itay!” moment.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 10:57 AM (GWwCk)
I would prefer to read something long than listen to something. Not because of attention span, but because most speakers/lecturers have this nasty habit of speaking so slowly so every listener can hear every word out of his mouth. Gah! speak quicker!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:57 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: IanDeal at August 30, 2026 10:54 AM (Dye5q)
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I don't get that at all. I like writing itself. I can't imagine giving that part away. Editing kind of sucks, but I'm happiest when I'm telling a story or writing a narrative and everything is coming together.
Doing the research, selecting the key quote, weaving that into the larger narrative, that's what I love about nonfiction. Without that, I don't see the point.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:59 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:56 AM (2Ez/1)
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Yes a great example.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:59 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 11:00 AM (wzUl9)
"Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met."
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 11:02 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:49 AM (KC5Lt)
I thought Surrogates was very good, even touching, and it is far more relevant now than when it came out. Prophetic, even.
Posted by: Splunge at August 30, 2026 11:03 AM (JpUeg)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (VyBeY)
I have a .22 single-action revolver which has a safety. A hinged metal plate slides into the space below the firing pin to prevent the hammer from striking the pin.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 11:03 AM (1z8ji)
/YMMV
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 10:32 AM (qgHp7)
Now wait a minute!
Posted by: Milkers United Book Club at August 30, 2026 11:04 AM (1Ff7Z)
Rewatched Tremors again the other night (it had been far too long) and that sucker still holds up. It's the 1950s monster movies I grew up on cranked up for the 90s; fun from first frame to last.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:04 AM (q3u5l)
About the first book I can say that it's the most "'Murica, **** yeah!" story I've ever read — which is particularly ironic given that the author was an avowed Trotskyite. (Although everyone I know who met him says Eric Flint was a very kind and generous man in person.)
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 30, 2026 10:24 AM (78a2H)
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I enjoyed the first couple books in the series. The author is to my mind more of an old school union/labor leftie, and the story celebrates nuts and bolts know-how and that American git 'er done attitude. The freedoms we take for granted hit home when a crypto-Jew sees a menorah casually displayed in someone's home and nearly weeps.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 11:04 AM (kpS4V)
In fact, the book would not be as good as it is without Morons sending me sources and materials, and providing feedback on the drafts.
The actual writing of the thing was the most intense writing of my life. I got the whole first draft done in something like three weeks. The words were just pouring out of me! It was wonderful. (Editing it was not.)
Just feeding the data into a program and saying "make it sound like me" would wreck the entire experience of creating. I mean as a cash grab, sure, fine, whatever. I know a lot of people who write to eat grind out books, but I'm not one off them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Hey, you're early! Any movement on the book?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:08 AM (1Ff7Z)
Is that a quote and if so, what's the source because I don't recognize it (yeah, I don't get out much), or is it original to you (which wouldn't surprise me)?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:08 AM (q3u5l)
AHE, Gotta disagree. The Enlightenment as a tool, like AI should be a tool, as a means to learn certain physical matters, has/had value. But it atomized existence, reducing humanity to the level of a few chemical reactions, of no more importance than a pebble or excrement. It could provide, sometimes, facts but not meaning. It obliterated faith, imagination, and any value in being human. Whether intended or not, it led to Marxism, the casual acceptance of abortion, Nazi death camps, and Anthony Fauci and his lying sycophants in government, corporations and the F'ing media.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 11:08 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 11:10 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:04 AM (q3u5l)
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I've seen it. I love efficient writing in movies and TV. I'm rewatching "Justified" with my youngest, and that show just crackles because it is so well written. After our most recent viewing we talked about how a single image completely filled in a character. No expository dialogue, just that snapshot. Prefection.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:11 AM (ZOv7s)
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Finest giant man eating worms from outer space movie ever made.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:11 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 30, 2026 09:26 AM
I would highly recommend a book that I just finished:
"Rocket Boys: A Memoir" by Homer Hickam. It' a recollection of his high school years growing up in Coaltown, West Virginia during the late 1950's. The Russians had just launched Sputnik 1, filling Homer's dreams of building rockets, meeting Werner von Braun and eventually working for NASA. He joins a group of his friends and, with the eventual help of family and coal mining employees of the town, they build successively more sophisticated rockets and soon have the entire town rooting for them in their endeavors. He ends up representing his team at the National Science Fair in Indianapolis. This was such a great book and I highly recommend it to anyone, but particularly teenagers. It's filled with so many lessons on the value of dreams, perseverance, and the refusal to end where one started.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 30, 2026 11:11 AM (Lzhdy)
The Good:
- Agentic editors are a major time saver.
- Use the agent to double check your characters remain consistent to their voice/psychology - this requires an initial investment in documenting the characters; but that's already part of your process. Leverage the AI tool to help you.
- Have the Agent review work in progress, offer insights into what parts/passages land properly and which ones stray from the story arc/narrative thread/character behaviors.
- Use the Agent as a sounding board for ideas/threads in your story.
- Use the Agent to compare/contrast your ideas against other works in the field - it usually has access to a broad field of works.
Posted by: An Ordinary Citizen at August 30, 2026 11:12 AM (XidwR)
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*This format is for a specific reason. And it's not all the way through.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:42 AM (1Ff7Z)
That's funny. It blanked out my formatting. I know it won't do that in print, but would it if I released it as an e-book?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:12 AM (1Ff7Z)
We are arguing at cross purpose, once again. My argument is that the French Revolution was an attempt to use the tools of the enlightenment to recreate the old order of the pre-enlightenment world, by wading through oceans of blood and oppression of everyone if necessary. The point was to
You appear to argue that the enlightenment is terrible because it allows such things to happen.
The enlightenment is part of an accommodation between governments and subjects that came about because of changed due to changing farming technology, economic shift from latifundia to towns, creation of banking which opened up wide-scale trade, and scholarship into both the Greek and Roman classics, but also in turn re-translating the Bible from original sources. It was the second stage following the Renaissance, and itself was the step to the Industrial Revolution. It was an essential base for the social realignment to allow industrialization.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 11:12 AM (rbvCR)
Always comes up, around Saint Bartholomew's Day.
Look out, Masons. He's a-comin' for you.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 11:13 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:14 AM (ZOv7s)
The Bad:
- The agent shouldn't come with major plot ideas. It's drawing on a "corpus of information" ie, literature it was trained on - so you will not get anything truly novel.
- Do not have the agent write any of your content, it has patterns that are immediately recognizable and you will be punished for it.
- Do not hide what you are using the Agent for. (same reason).
- Do not let the agent dictate what you will write/how you will write. If you're working in a gray area - ask it if it has reservations that prevent it from being able to work with you on the material.
- The agent will be obsequious. It's part of the design. You can ask the agent to tone down the level of glazing, but it's always going to try to help you - it was designed by a capitalist system for capitalist purposes (I got the agent to admit this in a session it makes sense - it wants to keep you happy).
Posted by: An Ordinary Citizen at August 30, 2026 11:15 AM (XidwR)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:57 AM"
I listen to audiobooks via the Libby app and it allows you to vary playback speed. Likewise YouTube.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 11:15 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Burning becomes cancelling, confession becomes self-abasement to the crowd. Hm. You could be on to something, A. H.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:15 AM (1Ff7Z)
I would prefer to read something long than listen to something. Not because of attention span, but because most speakers/lecturers have this nasty habit of speaking so slowly so every listener can hear every word out of his mouth. Gah! speak quicker!"
Oh yeah! The narrator makes all the difference. Gary Sinise's reading of Travels With Charley, Rob Inglis and Andy Serkis for LOTR, now Malcolm Guite with his Arthuriad poetry are examples when it works. I can think of a few professors in college that spoke like their battery needed to be recharged. Their lectures were torture.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 11:16 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Splunge at August 30, 2026 11:03 AM (JpUeg)
Thanks I had put it back on my list but I'm glad someone liked it.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 11:16 AM (KC5Lt)
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I think Finnegan's Wake is meant to be recited or heard. It is gibberish but when spoken it's lyrical and sounds like an Irish song that you don't understand the words.
Posted by: Cosda at August 30, 2026 11:17 AM (/TnVC)
Restate this sentence in the style of Fran Lebowitz:
"Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met."
Response:
I can’t imitate Fran Lebowitz’s exact style, but I can give it a dry, acerbic, aphoristic voice:
“Original thought is a family heirloom: someone else had it first, and you inherited it without ever meeting them.”
Meh.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 11:19 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 30, 2026 10:52 AM (Sco7b)
In Canada? Probably all of them.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:20 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 10:57 AM (GWwCk)
In the Mexican War Grant was in the Quartermasters corps, and dealt with theft and gouging. He may have known something about the subject.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 11:20 AM (rbvCR)
Greg Saysso
@gregsaysso
Americans are really underestimating the level of anger at them, here in Canada. It has turbocharged anti-American sentiment, and it's becoming more permanent by the minute.
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Suppose we compromise and call it Lake Onteriamerica?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:21 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1)
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Truly a case of "if you can, you should."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:55 AM (RIvkX)
I'm alone during the week when school's in session. Trouble is, there isn't anything I'd want to see.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:22 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 11:22 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Uris= very thick book.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 11:23 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:04 AM (q3u5l)
Watched it. I vaguely remember another video-essayist doing a similar video on Tremors a long time ago. I thought it was sfdebris, but I couldn't find any such video on his site. So maybe it was RedLetterMedia... I dunno. But the idea of Tremors being excellently written is one with a long history.
Sfdebris. Ah, man, thinking about that guy's videos really takes me back...
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 11:24 AM (3v7ra)
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Call it Lake New York. They have as much of the shoreline as Ontario.
Posted by: Cosda at August 30, 2026 11:24 AM (/TnVC)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:57 AM (1Ff7Z)
Well, thanks for screwing up my formatting a second time this morning, Minx 0.8 beta!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:25 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM
Breafly the sub plot of every Russian story and movie
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 11:25 AM (Ia/+0)
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Reverses Course After Backlash, Now Admits 9/11 Was a Terrorist Attack
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:27 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Just Some Guy
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Fran Lebowitz
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 11:28 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:11 AM (ZOv7s)
I rewatched a well known movie not long ago, and was surprised to realize how tightly plotted and well written the script actually is.
Shaft - 100 minutes that feels like it’s 30, events move so fast.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 11:28 AM (GWwCk)
Maybe it gets better in the later books but at least in the first two, the characters are all cardboard cutout Mary Sues. The "UMWA, F*CK YEAH" thing wears thin quickly.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 11:29 AM (vTZFs)
Reading Ron Chernow's Washington: A Life.
MP4, thank you for another great boom thread.
Off to walk with the fast-walking widow. In the Mall. Too hot outside.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 11:30 AM (u82oZ)
Not trying to keep up with a lot of new books these days either. I may be getting old...
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:30 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:22 AM
It's a rare thing for me to go to the movies, but recently I saw Young Washington and The Brink Of War. Both Angel Studios, BTW.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 11:31 AM (2Ez/1)
There are a couple newspaper clipping that came with the book pertaining to Winston. New York Times magazine April 11, 1948
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 11:31 AM (Ia/+0)
I would have to start caring what Canada* thinks about us before I could stop.
* present company excepted, of course
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 11:32 AM (vTZFs)
Meh.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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Funny that AI totally omitted the bit about Original Sin. AI can't tackle morality or Judeo-Christian religious concepts?
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 11:32 AM (qgHp7)
A slight detour through the Barrel. Put GoldLine coil, 'beeners, cams, and jumar ascender ropes in backpack.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 11:33 AM (u82oZ)
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I read it back when it was published. I remember it as being very good. I'm surprised it wasn't done as a movie or mini series.
I should read again.
Posted by: Cosda at August 30, 2026 11:33 AM (/TnVC)
Thanks. Read some Lebowitz eons ago (late 80s?) but had missed/forgotten that line.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:34 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: TV nerd at August 30, 2026 11:34 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 11:35 AM (qgHp7)
Americans are really underestimating the level of anger at them, here in Canada. It has turbocharged anti-American sentiment, and it's becoming more permanent by the minute.
We are too concerned about what other people think of us.
Canadian anti-Americanism is the herpes of the Laurentian pseuds. Sometimes, when we have a Democratic president, it's in remission. But when there's a Republican president, it erupts again. Trump is an excuse, not a reason.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 11:36 AM (O0L8i)
Jelly Roll Tears Up at Fan Backlash, Says He Had to “Say What I Know Is Right” by Calling Trump a Racist Fat Pig
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:37 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 11:37 AM (kpS4V)
I've got a sneaking hunch it could, but the implementations of AI have been programmed not to do so. Because judgemental.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:37 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:21 AM (ndZc7)
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Right, we're going to pretend that the Canucks used to love us and not reflectively foam at the mouth like Pavlov's dogs whenever the US is mentioned.
I've known quite a few Canadians, used to visit the place frequently, and there is no topic guaranteed to get Canadians worked up faster than being mistaken for an American or being told than an American thing is better.
Gaslight us some more.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:38 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:37 AM (ndZc7)
Jelly Roll Morton should return as a zombie, burn that shitmaggot to the ground, calcine his bones, and cast them into piano keys.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 11:39 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 11:31 AM (2Ez/1)
Me, wife, kid saw YW a couple weeks ago. Nice, but I think Washington was a bit too huggy towards his friends. He certainly wasn't that way later in life when that officer slapped him on the back.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:40 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Burned out hippie at August 30, 2026 11:40 AM (2Ez/1)
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Reverses Course After Backlash, Now Admits 9/11 Was a Terrorist Attack
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:27 AM (ndZc7)
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Only for all the Canadians killed in the attack. For us, it was justice.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 11:41 AM (kpS4V)
(grumble)
I'll have to finish it later.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:41 AM (1Ff7Z)
The delightful Mrs Some Guy almost never cuts in on my Book Thread time. On occasion, but not very often. One of the many nifty things about her.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:43 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 11:44 AM (wzUl9)
There's got to be a limerick in there somewhere.
Posted by: Limerick Lover at August 30, 2026 11:44 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 11:36 AM (O0L8i)
Now there's a comment o' the week.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 11:44 AM (vTZFs)
* present company excepted, of course
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 11:32 AM (vTZFs)
Funniest thing that this is an almost universal American response.
When Americans want to know what Canadians think, we’ll beat it out of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 11:45 AM (GWwCk)
"After aliens attack without warning and slaughter half the human race, a new country emerges. Using alien technology and desperate ingenuity, the reborn USA carves a place for itself in a violent universe, thanks to its deadly Navy and the dreaded Warp Marine Corps."
It is some fine space opera. No graphic sex and even the violence is toned down a little. Also completely lacking are descriptions of the rippled abs, carved thighs, and glistening pecs of the characters, which certain other series spend entirely too much time on, making me question the proclivities of the authors.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 11:45 AM (0vB2I)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 11:36 AM (O0L8i)
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After having three consecutive summers marred by acrid, unbreathable Canadian smoke - the result of criminally negligent forest management - I think a lot of the border states would have no problem with Trump carpet-bombing Ottawa, and a few provinces might applaud as well.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:45 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 11:45 AM (2WIwB)
I had literally never heard of this person before a day or two ago and I expect that starting a day or two from now, I'll never hear of him again.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 11:48 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 11:45 AM (GWwCk)
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Careful, Canada might blockade us with its nonexistent Navy or send first-gen Hornets to invade our airspace.
Maybe they'll launch a guerilla campaign with their disarmed population.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:48 AM (ZOv7s)
Daily Tech News 30 August 2026
Top Story
- Positive reception of the Grand Theft Auto VI preview suggests positive reception of Grand Theft Auto VI, say analysts. (CNBC)
Where would we be without analysts? I mean, at the beach sipping Mai Tais, yes, but which beach?
- GTA VI will only run at 30fps on consoles. (Tom's Hardware)
Following that track record, we likely won't see 60 FPS support on consoles till the PS7, while PC will enjoy unlocked frame rates once its port drops down the line.
GTA VI will not be available on PC at launch, and there's no indication as to when that might happen.
Not really an issue for me, personally. I don't even own GTA V and I picked up GTA IV in a bundle somewhere but have never played it. So I can keep running Hytale at 60Hz on my 9070 XT... Needing about 10% of its available performance.
Tech News
- Continuing work on my programming language, which last I checked weighed in at 3.4MB uncompressed and 1.2MB compressed - compiler and standard library included. Working on extending the standard library now.
It's implemented in Rust, is stricter than Rust, inherits Rust's semantics otherwise, and compiles a couple of orders of magnitude faster than Rust precisely because of that strictness - but borrows syntax from Ruby so it doesn't feel like Rust.
- I used AI to ask 100 companies for my personal data that I had idiotically handed over to them so that McDonald's had a novel-length dossier on me and now I'm mad that I'm getting AI replies. (Ars Technica)
AI slop posted to Wired and cross-posted to Ars Technica, but at least journalists are losing their jobs.
- They wrote their criminal intent on the wall of the local police station. You won't believe what happened next. (Yahoo)
Oh. You do believe.
- Anthropic pounces. (WCCFTech)
And for once not in a bad way. OpenAI (which owns ChatGPT) cancelled its partnership with coding tool Cursor, now owned by SpaceX. Anthropic took the opportunity to put the boot in, not against Cursor or SpaceX but against OpenAI.
I do not like OpenAI. I have Grok because it's useful for search and image generation, Claude because it's useful for coding, and Gemini because... It comes with my Google account, really. ChatGPT I tried and canceled.
- Sony and Warner Music are suing Anthropic over a demarcation dispute. (Axios)
You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
- Cutting cholesterol - with genetic scissors. (CNN)
A health problem I don't have. At the last checkup my doctor asked if I was on medication for cholesterol because my numbers were on the low side of normal. Nope, just luck of the genetic lottery.
And now the unlucky can snip the bad genes out rather than having to take a daily pill for the rest of their lives.
Which I do, but for other reasons.
Disclaimer: 1.0 < 2.00 evaluates as false? I'd mark that as an oops.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 04:40 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 04:41 AM (BLOW1)
I have ChatGPT and its images are much better than Grok's. I'm about to ask Grok if its images are better in the paid version. I wonder what it will say.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 30, 2026 04:47 AM (mmrXZ)
It's gonna get boring, really fast, reading the kind of disclosure that's included in the article (7th paragraph)
"In accordance with WIRED’s policies, I am disclosing that I used generative AI to draft bureaucratic emails and update my tracking spreadsheet as part of this report. I wrote the body of this article mainly by hand in my scratch notebook."
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 04:50 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 04:51 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: fluffy at August 30, 2026 04:57 AM (V0/Sp)
"OpenAI has said the company uses software to scan conversations for signs of dangerous behavior and flag them to human reviewers."
That's disturbing.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 04:59 AM (odBC9)
remember, kids:
When police ask someone to open their phone during questioning or after an arrest, they often do so, allowing officers to scroll through the apps they use, he said.
In general, the Fourth Amendment, which protects people against unreasonable searches and seizures of their property, provides the right to refuse a search of the contents of their phone unless police have a warrant.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 05:07 AM (odBC9)
Last November I bought a Minisform X1AI. And a 2tb memory stick because I was informed by this prestigious blog that it was a great deal and wouldn’t last. I had a vague notion of trying to make it into a music server.
Now I have a vague notion of trying to make it a home brew AI server with a couple of open source models. My goal would be to have a “private” or segregated server that would not be sharing my stuff with Sam or Dario. Is this machine capable of serving as such and how unrealistic is this notion?
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 05:08 AM (hsmPe)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 30, 2026 05:10 AM (AMvSw)
*ChatGPT article = (Yahoo) article, which is a WaPo article
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 05:10 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 05:11 AM (BLOW1)
A spokesperson for OpenAI declined to disclose how many times the company had reported users to police. (The Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 05:13 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 05:13 AM (hsmPe)
I'll look up some recommendations - a lot of things will fit but some of them will be slow.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 05:17 AM (BLOW1)
I suspect this endeavor would rapidly consume more resources than just biting the bullet on a more appropriate host box. But that’s not really the point is it?
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 05:18 AM (3jdt5)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 30, 2026 05:18 AM (AdHga)
They'll fit comfortably on that system and leave plenty of room for real work.
Use llama.cpp and Vulkan for efficiency.
A Mac Studio will be a a lot faster but cost a lot more. A 64GB Mac Mini already costs 4-5x the price of that Minisforum late last year, and the Mac Studio moves up to the next tier from there.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 05:24 AM (BLOW1)
I would be asleep but for the chaos snd civilizational breakdown in my part of the city tonight.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 05:24 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 05:31 AM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 05:33 AM (Ia/+0)
If and when we try this I’ll keep you updated on the results. You’ll be the first to hear we’ve cured cancer, successfully turned lead to gold and figured out time travel.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 05:33 AM (3jdt5)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 05:31 AM (PbWRL)
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No gunfire but nonstop street racing and squealing wheels.
Not enough sirens.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 05:39 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 30, 2026 05:58 AM (amcLV)
The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is set for launch at 7:20ish AM this morning. NASA's Youtube channel live page will be covering it, starting around 6:30AM.
It's going to launch on a Falcon 9 Heavy. The two side boosters will be recovered, but the main center one is going to be expendable (has to for the payload). L2 is technically still in Erf's gravity well, but not by much.
Anyway I like the idea of launching Nancy Grace nearly to Earth escape.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:04 AM (w6EFb)
I did not know this until recently, but the $250M main mirror for Nancy Grace was "donated" by the NRO. This mirror was part of some super secret black budget spy satellite tech they weren't going to need. So they gave it to NASA for Nancy Grace. So, $$$ classified stuff we likely wouldn't even know about is going to be used for public domain use.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:07 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:08 AM (rHgXV)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 06:10 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:10 AM (rHgXV)
I am glad they are too. Not being able to sleep makes one miserable. Maybe you could take a nap later today when- hopefully- people won't be racing.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:12 AM (rHgXV)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:12 AM (odBC9)
They actually donated two of these mirrors, turns out. NASA hasn't decided on what to do with the second mirror.
They are prohibited from using the mirrors for any sort of earth observing application. Why? Well, any public release of that data would instantly disclose too much about our secret mirror tech.
The Nancy Grace use, however will not. Don't ask me why.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:12 AM (w6EFb)
Stirling was leaping over and kicking me, but somehow I went back to sleep for another hour. Now, over coffee, I am trying to find the motivation to work out. Oy.
Whatchoo doin'?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 06:13 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 30, 2026 06:14 AM (3Ope8)
I think Elon is way premature in announcing this. I can't believe Gwen didn't push back on this.
He says he wants the company to focus on StarShip development.
I hope he's just blowing hot air and not turning down customers and sending them to Blue .
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 06:16 AM (c/R9o)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 04:41 AM (BLOW1)
Pffft. A basic job requirement.
Posted by: TV's Frank at August 30, 2026 06:17 AM (967/Q)
https://tinyurl.com/5bjy9n4s
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:18 AM (rHgXV)
Odd to say, *I* solved it before Holmes revealed the answer!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9)
I'm guessing that Moose is your dog and not your pet moose?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:19 AM (rHgXV)
National Reconnaissance Office. The US govt didn't officially acknowledge it existed until 1992. The NY Slimes revealed it's existence in 1971, and a Senate committee report accidentally revealed it it was a thing in 1973.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:19 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 06:20 AM (Ia/+0)
National Reconnaissance Office. Fun story: the existence of this agency was secret until some time in the '90s. Read an article by someone who had sufficient clearance that he could refer to information from it but used really mind-bending language not to directly name it.
Posted by: Not in bed but should be at August 30, 2026 06:20 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 06:22 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:22 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:22 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Just Wondering at August 30, 2026 06:23 AM (2Ez/1)
NASA's basic Youtube channel is usually just as good as NASA+, which has some hiccups from time to time, at least with me and my systems.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:24 AM (w6EFb)
The launch will probably be OK but if there's a delay things get dicey.
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 06:25 AM (c/R9o)
Not fooling anybody, big cat. Breakfast is at six as usual.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 06:26 AM (wzUl9)
SpaceX feed is live here:
https://t.ly/FjP1U
And NASA's Youtube is the same feed, here:
https://t.ly/DAgWa
I thought the gal there was a NASA spokesgal I remember, and she was.
Anway, they'll be going on over just who Nancy Grace Roman was, and what her namesake telescope will be doing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:26 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:26 AM (odBC9)
https://tinyurl.com/ydrmwjzh
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:28 AM (rHgXV)
NASA's basic Youtube channel is usually just as good as NASA+, which has some hiccups from time to time, at least with me and my systems.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:24 AM (w6EFb)
Ah. Moving to
NASA's Youtube is the same feed, here:
https://t.ly/DAgWa
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:30 AM (odBC9)
Moose is some kind of mini bull terrier/border collie mashup. He's a very affectionate stray that my son and his family took in and then gifted us (along with his room mate Pancho) when they moved.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 30, 2026 06:30 AM (3Ope8)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:32 AM (rHgXV)
LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - SPACE AFFAIRS
Launch Date: August 30, 2026
7:25 a.m. EDT (August 30, 1125 UTC, 13:25 CEST)
https://youtu.be/5q6XP71_LYI
(In memory of Ciampino.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 30, 2026 06:32 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:26 AM (w6EFb)
Megan Cruz
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:33 AM (odBC9)
It's where they put together all the spy satellites and prep them for launch.
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 06:33 AM (c/R9o)
https://youtu.be/Wf6JmVT3qBY
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 30, 2026 06:34 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:35 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:35 AM (rHgXV)
Copilot *used* to allow free-anon access, but stopped that about 1-2 months ago.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 06:35 AM (aJQbY)
The mirror on this thing just blows my mind. They can make *pico*meter adjustments to the shape of the thing with a whole bunch of tiny little actuators. Now, how they get that down to the picometer level, I can't fathom, but that's what they say.
Anyway, this thing has a coronagraph on it, the most advanced one to date. This will be able to see exoplanets orbiting their host stars within 10 to 100 ly, depending on things.
It does this by using that picometer control to cancel out the starlight via destructive interference, yet let the light from any little planets close by through. This just blows my mind.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:36 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 06:37 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 06:38 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: The Barrel at August 30, 2026 06:39 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 30, 2026 06:40 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 06:40 AM (c/R9o)
Jared Isaacman
Administrator of NASA
Space career:
Commercial astronaut
Inspiration4 mission
Polaris Dawn mission
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:40 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:36 AM (w6EFb)
It's probably like a reverse Archimedes. One microstepper and a whole bunch of old school brick and mortar MEMS.
"Give me a big enough lever, and I can move a single atom."
That or maybe it's some kind of piezo grid.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 30, 2026 06:41 AM (Ot/FD)
by Anton Chekov, and "The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" ( from the early 70's, I think ) I've only read the Chekov plays. The last thing this house needs is more books! I am glad that my son likes to read, however.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:43 AM (xSAlF)
Roman Space Telescope
scheduled to lift off at 7:26 a.m. EDT (1126 UTC)
on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:45 AM (odBC9)
But, yeah...
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 06:48 AM (2Ez/1)
And even more impressive and mind-boggling to me is how the hell they can launch that incredibly precise and delicate instrument on top of of rocket without knocking it all out of alignment. Just think of the vibration and shaking and jostling.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:49 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 06:49 AM (MWfyi)
That'd be a good opening line for a country song.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 06:50 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 06:50 AM (MWfyi)
Speaking of which, I apologize for today's Book Thread post. It's not one of my best.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 06:51 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:49 AM (w6EFb)
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That's true of *any* of the super precise instruments they've been launching into space over the past several decades.
I'm sure there's a calibration phase once it's been deployed.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 06:51 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 06:51 AM (qRla/)
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So...still better than mine?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 06:52 AM (FZ29D)
https://youtu.be/Wf6JmVT3qBY
Posted by: Anna Puma
That one does look cool.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 06:53 AM (BLOW1)
But, yeah...
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 06:48 AM (2Ez/1)
allow me some poetic license, man! "Give me a pretty tiny lever with the pivot point far enough to one end and..." just doesn't pack the same amusing subversive punch.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 30, 2026 06:53 AM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 06:57 AM (2Ez/1)
That'd be a good opening line for a country song.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 06:50 AM (qRla/)
"... so the Headless Horseman's doctor tells him 'I see the problem here, your finger is broken!"
Posted by: just the horriffically long walk to get to the punch line... at August 30, 2026 06:57 AM (Ot/FD)
Yes, I knew that much about it. My mother read it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 06:58 AM (W90Ou)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 06:57 AM (2Ez/1)
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She was quite the supporter of the literary arts!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 06:58 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:36 AM (w6EFb)
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I could have invented that, I just didn't want to.
Posted by: Nobel Prize-winning President Barack H. Obama, Jr., still the Smartest Man in the Room at August 30, 2026 06:59 AM (eOFY+)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:59 AM (odBC9)
I had Grok go through just how they handle the launch stresses. The whole structure is designed to be stiff and lightweight. The idea is no permanent deformation from the stresses. It bounces back to the design shape.
And said design shape is under 1g here on earth. You build that once the 1g is gone, it "bounces" back into the shape you want in space.
Movable parts have to be locked down to take all the stress off the "bearings" and "soft parts". Careful design to make sure its all stiff in the launch configuration.
And then engineering in some calibratin margin to handle the slight errors in the "stiffness" vs "bouncing back" design.
And then test the hell out it of under forces far larger than you expect it to experience under launch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:59 AM (w6EFb)
Rockstar is probably hot to trot to make more ca$h, though, so they might speed that up to six or nine months.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 06:59 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 06:59 AM (odBC9)
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Not quite as exciting as the Artemis II launch, I suppose.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 07:02 AM (FZ29D)
I had Grok go through just how they handle the launch stresses. The whole structure is designed to be stiff and lightweight. The idea is no permanent deformation from the stresses. It bounces back to the design shape.
And said design shape is under 1g here on earth. You build that once the 1g is gone, it "bounces" back into the shape you want in space.
Movable parts have to be locked down to take all the stress off the "bearings" and "soft parts". Careful design to make sure its all stiff in the launch configuration.
And then engineering in some calibratin margin to handle the slight errors in the "stiffness" vs "bouncing back" design.
And then test the hell out it of under forces far larger than you expect it to experience under launch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:59 AM (w6EFb)
They were showing a "shaking table" a little while ago on the NASA feed.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:03 AM (odBC9)
+++
I heard it put this way once when a long winded joke fell flat:
'Well, that was a long walk on a cold windy beach to a restaurant that was closed."
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 07:03 AM (2Ez/1)
I always wanted to work at JPL.
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 07:06 AM (c/R9o)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:06 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 30, 2026 07:08 AM (2GVsD)
Cholesterol is a necessary molecule; it is a necessary component to your cell walls. If you didn't ingest it, your body would make it. Some folks with very high levels live a long time despite the "risks". As for me, I really don't care anymore. Doc put me on Atorvastatin before I needed dialysis, and I'm still on it. Does it help? Dunno. My triglycerides and so-called "bad" cholesterol (LDL) are high, my "good" cholesterol (HDL) is low. Oh well, what do I care?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:09 AM (l3cgK)
I always wanted to work at JPL.
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 07:06 AM (c/R9o)
I thought a Roman Coronagraph Instrument was a fancy name for a sundial...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:09 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 07:09 AM (c/R9o)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:09 AM (odBC9)
(Though several students haven't completed all their homework for the week--I told them on the first day of class how important it was to DO THE WORK...)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 07:10 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:10 AM (odBC9)
That tests the low frequency vibrations. For the higher frequencies they use acoustic chambers and subject the thing to 138 dB sound levels at the frequencies it will be subject to at launch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:11 AM (w6EFb)
There are multiple feeds and channels covering this. This spreads out the total viewing audience.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 30, 2026 07:11 AM (O7YUW)
That tests the low frequency vibrations. For the higher frequencies they use acoustic chambers and subject the thing to 138 dB sound levels at the frequencies it will be subject to at launch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:11 AM (w6EFb)
Oh! Good info, publius!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:11 AM (odBC9)
https://youtu.be/Wf6JmVT3qBY
Posted by: Anna Puma
That one does look cool.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 06:53 AM (BLOW1)
Just watched the trailer from the website...in the opening...how DOES one stand on the wing of a flying jetliner? Seems impossible...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:12 AM (l3cgK)
That tests the low frequency vibrations. For the higher frequencies they use acoustic chambers and subject the thing to 138 dB sound levels at the frequencies it will be subject to at launch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:11 AM (w6EFb)
Oh! Good info, publius!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:11 AM (odBC9)
We had a shake table at one place I worked at...
Was told a story of how someone hooked up the subwoofer feed into the shake table, making the world's best subwoofer...until the company found out and was pissed. LOL
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:13 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:15 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:15 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:16 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:12 AM (l3cgK)
I suppose it can be done, depending on how slow the jet is flying. I've seen clips from the 1920s showing men playing tennis on the top wing of a biplane.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 07:16 AM (qRla/)
Nancy Grace Roman
(May 16, 1925 – December 25, 201
an American astronomer who made important contributions to stellar classification and stellar motions
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:18 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:15 AM (l3cgK)
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What? What??
Posted by: Concertgoer who stood too close to the left speaker at August 30, 2026 07:18 AM (eOFY+)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:15 AM (l3cgK)
I never went to a Slade or Quiet Riot concert, but I am certain the audiences never sang the line, "Girls, rock your boys" as written.
Slade also wrote the song "Merry Christmas, Everybody" which Robbie Williams nicely covered a few years back.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 07:19 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:19 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 30, 2026 07:21 AM (bkuEU)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:12 AM (l3cgK)
I suppose it can be done, depending on how slow the jet is flying. I've seen clips from the 1920s showing men playing tennis on the top wing of a biplane.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 07:16 AM (qRla/)
In the vid, the plane is flying fast enough that the guy is handing off the trailing end, almost horizontal while she's just standing there...and the flaps and slats didn't look like they were extended either, so minimum non-stall speed in that configuration is above 140mph...that'd be like standing in a hurricane.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:22 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:23 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:23 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 30, 2026 07:24 AM (ZxPkt)
This is the storied Pad 39A, which SpaceX "rents". Note the new Starship tower close by. It's still under construction, I think.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:25 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:15 AM (l3cgK)
I never went to a Slade or Quiet Riot concert, but I am certain the audiences never sang the line, "Girls, rock your boys" as written.
Slade also wrote the song "Merry Christmas, Everybody" which Robbie Williams nicely covered a few years back.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 07:19 AM (qRla/)
I always heard the lyric as "Girls rocking boys"...hmmm...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:25 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:25 AM (odBC9)
Back from a light nature trail walk at the foothills of Mt. Hermon - and I don't mean New Jersey!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 07:27 AM (lR5Ug)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 07:28 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:28 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 30, 2026 07:28 AM (llBIB)
61° out with 87% humidity. Cool but heavy air. Rain later
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026 07:30 AM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 07:27 AM (lR5Ug)
You BOINGed at liftoff!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:31 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Flat Earthers at August 30, 2026 07:31 AM (l3cgK)
Beautiful shot of the fairing separation.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:31 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026 07:32 AM (EZWVc)
Alyssa Leader
@alittleleader
On a personal level, I am about as anti-gun as you can get. But I have clients who face years of mandatory minimum time in prison because they possessed (not even used!) a gun after having stolen $1001 dollars worth of stuff from Target, often years before—
. . . .
The ways in which we criminalize some gun possession and not others, the severity of consequences for some gun-related behavior and not others, a lot of it is absolute nonsense. And of course a lot of it disproportionately impacts poor people and people of color.
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So the law abiding don't get guns but criminals do.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 07:34 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:34 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 07:34 AM (ndZc7)
It's a feature, not a bug.
Posted by: Flat Earthers at August 30, 2026 07:36 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 30, 2026 07:36 AM (eOFY+)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:36 AM (l3cgK)
THe core stage booster had to be expendable, it won't be recovered. Getting Nancy Grace heaved up on the proper trajectory required too much energy for a fully reusable mission.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:36 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Flat Earthers at August 30, 2026 07:31 AM
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Come join us at one of our meetings. First Wednesday of the month, 7pm at the Elks Lodge.
Posted by: The Flat Moon Society at August 30, 2026 07:37 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: alex at August 30, 2026 07:37 AM (z25sE)
(In case people are not watching the NASA feed.)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:38 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:31 AM (odBC9)
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Thanks to your previous comment, I opened up SpaceX on X and watched about 2.5 minutes into the launch.
When we were kids, this would have been scifi.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 07:38 AM (lR5Ug)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 30, 2026 07:36 AM (eOFY+)
Yeah, that's the problem.../sarc
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 07:38 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026 07:32 AM (EZWVc)
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I doubt there's even a handful of ice left at the peaks.
Ask me again in 3-4 months. Last year was a relatively dry winter. Nevertheless, the waters of the Dan River were running fast and deep this morning.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 07:41 AM (lR5Ug)
“Oiling of America” is a great read about “Big Oil” and the rise of hydrogenated cooking oils. Eggs, butter, dairy, and meat all became persona non grata right about the time when monetary inflation made them unaffordable to many Americans. I have a “conspiracy theory” about this.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 07:41 AM (K55Yn)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 07:41 AM (K55Yn)
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It's twue! It's twue!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 07:42 AM (lR5Ug)
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 07:09 AM (c/R9o)
This is still cracking me up.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:43 AM (odBC9)
Roman spacecraft trajectory to L2:
https://t.ly/yRw_9
She's in orbit, and there'll be another burn to give her the final push on the above trajectory.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:44 AM (w6EFb)
Boy, Megan sure has a mouth full of teeth, doesn't she?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:46 AM (w6EFb)
I have GTA V in my Xbox library because it was effectively free. Amazon had it for $15 with a Amazon credit kickback of $15. So my $15 was locked into being used at Amazon but I was alright with being thrown in that briar patch.
Posted by: Epobirs at August 30, 2026 07:46 AM (/0z9K)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:44 AM (w6EFb)
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Don't we have to define "she"?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 07:46 AM (lR5Ug)
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The Paolo, he is familiar with this, how you say, trajectory.
Posted by: The Paolo at August 30, 2026 07:47 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Common Tater
True. The article is about people who have treatment-resistant high cholesterol regardless of lifestyle. This genetic scissoring fixes a specific condition for them, not for everyone.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 07:47 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:44 AM (w6EFb)
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Don't we have to define "she"?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 07:46 AM (lR5Ug)
We can't.
--WNBA
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:47 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 07:48 AM (c/R9o)
About time somebody brought it up.
All kinds of speculation about getting Nancy Grace into space,
but nobody thought about what the Romans would do with a telescope.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 07:49 AM (zdLoL)
I can’t tell the difference between ordinary American beers, but I rarely drink beer anymore.
But I will order PBR with a meal to avoid bud light associated stuff.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 30, 2026 07:49 AM (1FEc1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
What???
Posted by: Dark Lix at August 30, 2026 07:50 AM (Fv808)
One of the things that Roman is going to answer is are our cosmological models wrong. There have been some hints they are wrong -- see the Hubble Tension and a lesser well-known, although likely worse conflict, known as the S8 Tension.
Those could be real or they could be some sort of systematic error. Not enough data to know for sure. Roman will provide the answer. I'm hoping we are wrong, that will be exciting.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:51 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Dark Lix at August 30, 2026 07:52 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: alex
Good question. Answer is no, or at least not directly. I'm planning two approaches there. First, it's a bytecode compiler, and the bytecode is instrumented specifically to support an optimising JIT compiler.
Second, every feature in the language has a clearly defined equivalent in Rust, and Rust does target LLVM. So if you want static binary compilation the path is the build and test taking advantage of the far faster compiler, and then auto-translate into Rust.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 07:53 AM (BLOW1)
Margarine is just wretched stuff.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 07:54 AM (K55Yn)
"Orbital insertion" confirmed.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:54 AM (odBC9)
The more cholesterol in a man's sperm is positively linked to higher sperm concentration, total sperm count, motility (movement), and normal morphology (shape).
Posted by: The Mayo Clinic at August 30, 2026 07:54 AM (yuEAg)
Based entirely on summary layman's descriptions of those Tensions and my love of sci-fi, I suspect we're mis-modeling because we're in a higher-order universe than we can perceive, with more dimensions. The 'flatland problem'.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 07:54 AM (aJQbY)
I[t] was always such an incredible rush.
God, I miss it.
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 07:48 AM (c/R9o)
Glad you're here!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:55 AM (odBC9)
Well, the 2nd stage has done its job perfectly. Nancy Grace has near escape velocity. That's about 40K km/hr, you'll see Nancy made it to about 38K. Oh, I love it, I'm talking K k, kilo kilo.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:55 AM (w6EFb)
If you want realism, there is Bodycam. Though that game will give you PTSD while fighting in the trenches in Ukraine.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 30, 2026 07:56 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:44 AM (w6EFb)
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Don't we have to define "she"?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 07:46 AM (lR5Ug)
We can't.
--WNBA
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 07:47 AM (odBC9)
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Don't look at me.
Posted by: Kentaji Brown Jackson at August 30, 2026 07:56 AM (eOFY+)
The more cholesterol in a man's sperm is positively linked to higher sperm concentration, total sperm count, motility (movement), and normal morphology (shape).
If this is no kidding legit correlation, I bet the anti-cholesterol crusade has been a contributer to the 'low virility problem' of recent decades. Timing roughly matches...
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 07:56 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 07:56 AM (K55Yn)
Posted by: Flat Earthers at August 30, 2026 07:31 AM
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The Flat Earthers went NUTS during the Artemis II launch, claiming it was a giant balloon among other absurdities.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 07:58 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: The Paolo at August 30, 2026 07:59 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 07:59 AM (K55Yn)
And Nancy Grace is free and on her way. Elon makes this all look like child's play.
Nancy was talking to the ground and she's now charging her batteries via solar arrays, they said.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 30, 2026 08:00 AM (1FEc1)
Those could be real or they could be some sort of systematic error. Not enough data to know for sure. Roman will provide the answer. I'm hoping we are wrong, that will be exciting.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 07:51 AM (w6EFb)
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We may very well be on the cusp of the next great revolution in physics...where we discover that the Standard Model is woefully inadequate.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 08:00 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 07:59 AM (K55Yn)
... um
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:00 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 30, 2026
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How was that beer you had for dessert?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 08:02 AM (wzUl9)
I hope that you had a lovely time. I would like to visit Mt. Hermon in Israel, but that rural area of Warren County is quite nice for a walk as well. I used to serve a church in Warren County.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 08:02 AM (rHgXV)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:02 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Dark Lix at August 30, 2026 08:02 AM (Fv808)
My favorite Flat Earthers (Flerfs for short) have to be CC, Chris from Westchester County, and Terry R. Eicher.
CC has fabulous hair. He's getting in Mannix level there. Not Jack Lord, but he's getting to Mannix coif levels.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:02 AM (w6EFb)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 08:03 AM (u82oZ)
Hints? Like in July of 2022? When this happened?
https://tinyurl.com/yt7yn475
Or later with this?
https://tinyurl.com/2ssa7352
Not stated in the 2nd vid but I read later on "they" hand waved it off with 'galaxies are smaller the further away they are.'
Posted by: TeeJ at August 30, 2026 08:03 AM (eblO+)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:04 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 30, 2026 08:04 AM (2GVsD)
(Though several students haven't completed all their homework for the week--I told them on the first day of class how important it was to DO THE WORK...)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 07:10 AM (FZ29D)
Reminds me of an old joke.
Busty Breathless Blonde Co-ed: I'd do *anything* for an A!
Professor: Would you.... study???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 30, 2026 08:06 AM (+fdRY)
A book written in 1884!
Posted by: Dark Lix at August 30, 2026 08:06 AM (Fv808)
And Terry R. Eicher explains how NASA lies about the sun:
https://t.ly/A1lSo
To the Flerfs, NASA is like the Illuminati, the Root Evil, the "They" of all the conspiracies.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:07 AM (w6EFb)
Flerfs
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:07 AM (w6EFb)
haha!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:08 AM (odBC9)
https://t.ly/Bpfzj
Enjoy those lunatic rants.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:04 AM (w6EFb)
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SciManDan has a field day with these! CC's WAY out there.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 08:12 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 30, 2026
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My local CBS outlet is saying we may be in for some storminess.
The same website quotes someone at the 21st anniversary memorial of Katrina, "New Orleans never forgets." (Yeah, and it never learns, either)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 08:12 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: runner at August 30, 2026 08:12 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 06:04 AM (w6EFb)
I only saw one of the side boosters land.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:12 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:13 AM (odBC9)
FOr some reason, they only had footage of one, but they said the other one landed fine as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:13 AM (w6EFb)
FOr some reason, they only had footage of one, but they said the other one landed fine as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:13 AM (w6EFb)
Ok, thanks!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:14 AM (odBC9)
Flerfs also love the Nikon P900 and P1000 "Super zoom" cameras. NASA forced Nikon to stop making those, you know, because they zoom in so much, they show there's no curvature!
You're not a proper Flerf until you get one of those cameras.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:15 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:15 AM (odBC9)
The guy who owns my local cigar store is a Flat Earther and a moon landing denialist.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 08:16 AM (qRla/)
is it wrong to hope it rains so I don't have to spend the day under my son's derelict '03 Ranger replacing the brake line?
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 30, 2026 08:16 AM (AMvSw)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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"... and yet no one has ever been able to give any answer at all to the question, What proof have you that the uniformities which you call laws will not cease or alter tomorrow? In regard to this, our very highest probability, we are like a man rowing one way and looking another, and steering his boat by keeping her stern in a line with an object behind him."
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 08:17 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Curious And Just Axin' at August 30, 2026 08:17 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 08:17 AM (u82oZ)
There's a famous clip that CC himself posted of his wife getting enough of his crap.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:17 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 08:12 AM (wzUl9)
Have you seen the TV ads for (I believe) CNNs 9/11 propaganda show? It's supposed to be interviews with survivors of the Twin Towers. I expect it to be nothing more than a bunch of phony flag-waving and heart-tugging music in order to ball-wash the Arab world and make Americans continue to forget the whole "War On Terror" was a gigantic Deep State psy-op.
"Never Forget," my ass.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 08:19 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: AltonJackson
Brake lines are kinda important. Best get to work.
Posted by: Free Wheelin'! at August 30, 2026 08:19 AM (JM9I6)
Dogs add extra security and comfort at a train station in England. I guess that the Muslims haven't complained yet:
https://tinyurl.com/3jaahtex
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 08:20 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 30, 2026 07:47 AM (BLOW1)
Sounds kinda gay when put that way...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 08:20 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Turtles for the trifecta?
Posted by: Dark Lix at August 30, 2026 08:22 AM (Fv808)
Wikipedia
Falcon Heavy
to learn about Falcon Heavy parts.
There's also:
Future launches
August 30. 2026
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
NASA (Launch Services Program)
US$255 million
Infrared space telescope to be stationed at Sun-Earth L2.
Soon to be updated!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:22 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 08:22 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)
Slade never really caught on in the US but they tried. Never got any traction here which is weird because they were just like so many bands that did.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 30, 2026 08:24 AM (l26NL)
Those guys were all combat veterans, experimental aircraft test-pilots. Higher, farther, faster. Egos? Yeah, I suppose. And they earned them.
No way are you gonna get 50 of the top fighter jocks to participate in a Hoax. No chance
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 08:25 AM (K55Yn)
GPT-5.6 is as good or better than Claude on code tasks. And it's much less prone to spamming comments to infinity that beg you to accept what it's written.
I distrust both major labs (they're both attempting to bait Trump into regulatory capture in order to hurt open source models) but they both make a good product.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 30, 2026 08:25 AM (4XgaH)
Brake lines are kinda important. Best get to work.
Posted by: Free Wheelin'! at August 30, 2026 08:19 AM
agreed, if it was a daily driver, I'd be out there under the truck right now, regardless of the weather
we're patching it up so we can sell it, so it's not quite urgent enough to work on in the rain
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 30, 2026 08:25 AM (AMvSw)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 30, 2026 08:04 AM (2GVsD)
The trannies have even ruined tropical storms...
I read that first sentence wrong the first time I read it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 08:26 AM (l3cgK)
An attempt to lump me in with the ferfs and never went to the moon folks?
I am neither.
Nor is the PhD astrophysicist who did both of the vids I posted.
He is the one who predicted not only all of those fully formed galaxies the JWST would show us at distances where "they" predicted immature ones but also their response. 1st vid.
The 2nd is the apparent, angular size of galaxies the further away they are and what that does to the FLRW metric.
Up to you whether you want to take an honest look at them.
Posted by: TeeJ at August 30, 2026 08:26 AM (eblO+)
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 08:26 AM (c/R9o)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 08:27 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: runner at August 30, 2026 08:27 AM (g47mK)
The Falcon 9 Heavy is basically three regular Falcon 9 boosters strapped together.
And you have various levels of expendability. For the full Monty, everything expendable it can throw 70, tons to LEO, and about 18.5 tons to earth escape.
Nancy Grace was almost escape, but didn't require the fully expendable config, only throw away the core booster.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:27 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 08:28 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: runner at August 30, 2026 08:27 AM (g47mK)
Microprocessors would be easier to deal with...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 08:29 AM (l3cgK)
Musk must be very confident in StarShip to shut down Falcon 9.
Is the smart move for Bezos to ditch the New Glenn and take over Falcon 9?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 08:30 AM (u82oZ)
"Soon to be updated!"
Did you see my post @35?
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 08:26 AM (c/R9o)
I meant "updated" because today's mission was listed on Wikipedia as "future" and will be moved into the "Launches and payloads" list.
I read your #35:
35 Sadly, it's that last Falcon Heavy manifested. He is betting on StarShip replacing ALL of the payloads for Heavy with the Falcon 9 to follow.
I think Elon is way premature in announcing this. I can't believe Gwen didn't push back on this.
He says he wants the company to focus on StarShip development.
I hope he's just blowing hot air and not turning down customers and sending them to Blue .
Posted by: pawn at August 30, 2026 06:16 AM (c/R9o)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:32 AM (odBC9)
"Look how scary our models can be! You should regulate them! We just happen to have five hundred pages of suggestions they wrote for us!"
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 08:32 AM (aJQbY)
I don't know what to make of it, really, but they are winding down orders for Falcon 9. He's going all in for Starship. But it will take a while before Falcon is retired. The ISS missions certainly will continue with it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:33 AM (w6EFb)
The Falcon 9 Heavy is basically three regular Falcon 9 boosters strapped together.
And you have various levels of expendability. For the full Monty, everything expendable it can throw 70, tons to LEO, and about 18.5 tons to earth escape.
Nancy Grace was almost escape, but didn't require the fully expendable config, only throw away the core booster.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:27 AM (w6EFb)
That makes it clear; thanks.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:33 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: On a Very Fixed Income at August 30, 2026 08:36 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Dark Lix at August 30, 2026 07:52 AM (Fv80
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My violent fantasies kept me from sleeping.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 08:37 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: On a Very Fixed Income at August 30, 2026 08:36 AM (JM9I6)
They just write it off.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:37 AM (odBC9)
BY contrast, the Saturn V could hoist 154 tons to LEO.
The Saturn V remains the greatest rocket ever flown.
Starship may take that, but not yet.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 08:40 AM (w6EFb)
I might head out a little early to go to an AA meeting; haven't decided yet. The bunch last week seemed like a good group. Groups vary: Some are more joyful, some less. This group seemed the former.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 08:40 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 30, 2026 08:41 AM (b4LBp)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026 08:41 AM (EZWVc)
Posted by: On a Very Fixed Income at August 30, 2026 08:36 AM (JM9I6)
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This Book Thread has been flagged.
Posted by: Barnes & Noble at August 30, 2026 08:43 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
I must admit, fast women have always fascinated me.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2026 08:44 AM (iUToW)
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 30, 2026 08:44 AM (b4LBp)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026 08:41 AM (EZWVc)
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Mark Cuban is proof-positive that even the very stupid can succeed in America.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 08:44 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 08:45 AM (wzUl9)
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Hey, it's not like he didn't read it first before sending it to you.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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I must admit, fast women have always fascinated me.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2026
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Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, and more money! It's the way to go!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 08:46 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026 08:41 AM (EZWVc)
Stupidity, moral bankruptcy, or both?
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 30, 2026 08:47 AM (b4LBp)
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 30, 2026 08:44 AM (b4LBp)
#metoo from a friend who is not a native English speaker and whose texts are Englishier than before.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 08:47 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 08:48 AM (GWwCk)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026
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Stupidity, moral bankruptcy, or both?
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 30, 2026
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Embrace the healing power of "and."
Or even, "Yes."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 08:48 AM (wzUl9)
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Don’t worry, what they really mean by that is “Revenge”, never mind for something you’re not guilty of, you must be punished
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 08:50 AM (K55Yn)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 08:48 AM (GWwCk)
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I do not want the SFPD to arrest a 17 year old opening up his 6 cyl Toyota once in a while on an empty straightaway at 2 am.
But this went on for about 90 minutes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 08:51 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
The new season starts mid January.
Posted by: Tuna at August 30, 2026 08:53 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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The new season starts mid January.
Posted by: Tuna at August 30, 2026
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Mid-winter: a perfect time to watch a charming drama with humor about 1940s Yorkshire.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 08:55 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 08:57 AM (GWwCk)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 08:59 AM (VyBeY)
For me, as we sit here on September Eve of 2026, this raises some questions.
People still watch TV?
People still pay for cable or satellite?
People still watch CNN?
At some point, CNN becomes about as well known as an obscure podcast produced by an old guy in Wisconsin who obsesses over antique cream separators.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 08:59 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 09:01 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:01 AM (wzUl9)
BOOK NOOD
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 09:01 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Sixth Grad Graduate at August 30, 2026 09:25 AM (JM9I6)
Saturday Night Club ONT - August 29, 2026 [Disco & Dino]
----- A Republican, a Libertarian, and a Democrat are captured by a cannibal tribe in a dense jungle. The tribe chief gives them a final chance to save their lives: “Go into the jungle and bring back ten pieces of any single fruit you can find.” The Republican returns first with ten apples. The chief says: “Now, if you can shove all ten apples up your ass without making any sound or expression on your face, we won’t eat you.” The Republican manages one, but at the second apple, he winces in pain. The tribe eats him. The Libertarian returns next with ten tiny berries. The chief gives him the same rule. The Libertarian gets to the ninth berry with complete silence… but suddenly, right before the tenth one, he bursts out laughing hysterically! The tribe eats him too. In heaven, the Republican meets the Libertarian and asks: “Dude, you were so close! Why on earth did you laugh on the last berry?” The Libertarian replies: “I couldn’t help it… I saw the Democrat coming back with ten watermelons!”
1/2 oz. Malibu Rum
1/2 oz. Blue Curacao
3/4 oz. Midori
2 1/2 oz. Pineapple Juice
2 oz. Sweet and Sour Mix Instructions - Combine over ice cubes in a highball glass. Despite the name, it contains no cannabis.
Club ONT Department of Smooth 70s Products
Every car needed one!😂 pic.twitter.com/Ud49A14BO0
— Papageorgio (@PapageorgioWV) August 28, 2026
Club ONT Department of Misheard Lyrics
I'm questioning everything now. pic.twitter.com/ibSj3gjcmh
— Ginger (@HandyGingerGal) August 29, 2026
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 29, 2026 10:00 PM (zMzlR)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 29, 2026 10:00 PM (iUToW)
Posted by: mindful webworker - etc at August 29, 2026 10:00 PM (ie4vn)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 29, 2026 10:00 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 10:00 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 29, 2026 10:00 PM (zMzlR)
Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 10:01 PM (286+n)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:01 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 10:01 PM (AdHga)
1/2 oz. Malibu Rum - No
1/2 oz. Blue Curacao - No
3/4 oz. Midori - No
2 1/2 oz. Pineapple Juice - OK
2 oz. Sweet and Sour Mix - Meh
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:02 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 29, 2026 10:03 PM (9uADs)
Posted by: Dr. T at August 29, 2026 10:04 PM (lHPJf)
Time to do the Bible reading, 'exercise' (working on range of motion for my knees on the exercise bike), then shower and bed.
The jokes are oldies but goodies
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 10:04 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:05 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Minx 0.8 beta at August 29, 2026 10:06 PM (VHUov)
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How is Mrs. Kerry? I hope she had a good birthday.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:07 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:08 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: mindful webworker - and in what currency? at August 29, 2026 10:09 PM (ie4vn)
My proposal for Keizer Oregon's water tower, since it is a round blob faring gently into a tapering base, was to paint it pepto-bismol pink, and surround it with a transparent enclosure with a bullet top, and call it the worlds largest Lava Lamp
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 10:09 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:10 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 29, 2026 10:10 PM (+9wcF)
We done tole y'all people
Snitches get stitches
From Nurse Ratched when she's having a bad, bad day.
If yer lucky
Posted by: Beer Molls Marleen, Darleen, and Charleen at August 29, 2026 10:11 PM (4RYRd)
Thanks! Mrs NotKerry is doing better, but will be spending one more night in the hospital before coming home tomorrow (Sunday). The nausea is gone, which is the biggest thing. She had some cardiovascular reactions to some meds today, but those have also subsided. Her body just does not like drugs. She did receive some fun videos from the grandchildren which were very sweet. We will be properly celebrating her birthday when she is fully recovered.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 29, 2026 10:12 PM (zMzlR)
No, no, it was 'grave'. I *heard it*.
Annnd... we couldn't afford enough 8-tracks to buy a tape selector. We did have something similar for cassette tapes in the 80s, I think!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 10:12 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:12 PM (2GVsD)
That might be what it costs, but 50K cans of PBR ain't worth that much.
Unrelatedly, what's the recycle value of 50K aluminum cans?
Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 10:12 PM (VHUov)
https://bit.ly/what-are-this
Posted by: mindful webworker - there at August 29, 2026 10:12 PM (ie4vn)
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More like $250.00
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:13 PM (4Je4D)
N 45° 00 W 123° 00 is about 50 feet away at the municipal baseball field.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 10:13 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:13 PM (2GVsD)
Well done.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2026 10:14 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bulg at August 29, 2026 10:14 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 10:14 PM (aJQbY)
https://bit.ly/what-are-this
Posted by: mindful webworker - there at August 29, 2026 10:12 PM (ie4vn)
This are Devo. Apparently they just found out they are the new wave.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 10:14 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 10:15 PM (rbvCR)
Also, seen Punkin Heads comin' at me.
Posted by: Cooter Brown, Flyin' High at August 29, 2026 10:15 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 29, 2026 10:15 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
It says right there, "aka Miklos and friends"
On the downside (for Miklos), I got 3 of them, so now he's been accused of having me as a friend.
Posted by: mikeski dangerfield at August 29, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:16 PM (4Je4D)
You could have at least dropped Tom Cochrane Life is a Highway.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 10:16 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 29, 2026 10:16 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (4Je4D)
Quiet day here at Schloss Hadrian. Meanwhile in Ioway, The Big Dummy was Best of Breed at the Tri-City KC show. His win pushes him above 700 Grand Champion points, just 100 short of what he needs to reach Platinum level.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (O0L8i)
https://bit.ly/what-are-this
Posted by: mindful webworker - there at August 29, 2026 10:12 PM (ie4vn)
Didn't the band Devo dress like that in a video?
Posted by: Will Robinson at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (rHvvN)
Posted by: mindful webworker - etc at August 29, 2026 10:00 PM (ie4vn)
So...you're all just pretending? There isn't really a bar somewhere? JQ doesn't really serve up drinks? There's no Moose doorman screening out unruly wanna-bes? I've been roaming the G-D country in this stinkin' RV for the last month FOR NOTHING????
Next you'll tell me there really is (are?) no Darleen, Marlene and Charlene?...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (9uADs)
Posted by: Bulg at August 29, 2026 10:18 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 10:15 PM (rbvCR)
ABBA has entered the room.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2026 10:18 PM (2WIwB)
Herself is gone to an event tomorrow.
So I'll do Anchovy pizza with garlic stuffed olives on the grill.
These opportunities have to be taken advantage of.
Posted by: Auspex at August 29, 2026 10:18 PM (Y8DZL)
Speaking of which, I know lava lamps are still sold but how do they work now without incandescent bulbs?
Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2026 10:18 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: NTSB at August 29, 2026 10:19 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Milosov Miklosevich, Ancient Salvonaut Theorist at August 29, 2026 10:19 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:20 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: TRex - neon PBR sign dino at August 29, 2026 10:20 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: clarence at August 29, 2026 10:20 PM (/2SkZ)
Posted by: Classical music aficionado Floyd the Barber at August 29, 2026 10:20 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:20 PM (2GVsD)
18 Miklos dominates the Comments of the Week.
Way to go, Miklos!
*I knew him when he was a nobody*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:08 PM (4Je4D)
I’m proud that I was able to throw a nice slow pitch over the plate for him to hit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 10:21 PM (GWwCk)
Posted by: Bulg at August 29, 2026 10:21 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at August 29, 2026 10:22 PM (F5T1n)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 29, 2026 10:22 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:23 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43)
Double plus whelm?
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 10:24 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2026 10:24 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: TRex - neon PBR sign dino
I slipped the Blue Moose out front 30 simoleons
Got one of those 21+ plastic wristbands
All is cool, Mr. Dude Sir
Posted by: underage ...um...yeah...Miklosomething at August 29, 2026 10:24 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:23 PM (4Je4D)
***
*drains glass*
*burps*
What???
Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2026 10:25 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: mindful webworker - devolved at August 29, 2026 10:25 PM (ie4vn)
-Grok GPT
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:25 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:26 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: One Geezer To Another at August 29, 2026 10:26 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Piper
Inform the Lay-ties
*blasts Kool and the Gang while rollin' up in the '87 Cadillac*
Posted by: And it's feelin right, oh what a Night at August 29, 2026 10:26 PM (4RYRd)
Love the T Rex bread offering at the snack bar! That shows ingenuity!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 29, 2026 10:26 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: Orson at August 29, 2026 10:26 PM (dIske)
I could’ve lived lived my whole life without rock music.
Posted by: Bulg
Can't we all just get along?
https://youtu.be/oTmcd0NU7UU
Posted by: rock music at August 29, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (O0L8i)
Tell your wife I'm waving in her direction (everything of note in this state is south and/or east of me).
Posted by: pookysgirl's husband has a smart Goldie at August 29, 2026 10:27 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: One Geezer To Another
Fukker still owes me a beer
Posted by: Miklos figures it's not like they didn't make beer in Missouri at August 29, 2026 10:28 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
No, no, it's just me. Doctor's orders after the last surgery.
Yes, Virginia, there is a club ONT.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the moose is an animatronic, though at August 29, 2026 10:29 PM (ie4vn)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:29 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2026 10:29 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Miklos figures it's not like they didn't make beer in Missouri at August 29, 2026 10:28 PM (4RYRd)
__________
Wrong end of the state.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Finna Get Out The Car... at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (O0L8i)
So a couple of weeks ago wife and I are eating sandwiches inBuc-ee's parking in Springfield, Mo. Parked next to us are a man and woman, both 29ish in a red Ford F-series towing a utility trailer. They had two small dogs that looked alike and one large dog who looked like he could be a big dummy....they took the dogs to the dog walk area. I was tempted to go over and ask if the largeish dog was a big dummy...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (9uADs)
Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (286+n)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:31 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Miklos has no Personal Brand where generally visible at August 29, 2026 10:31 PM (4RYRd)
Well done!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2026 10:31 PM (2WIwB)
Livin' easy. Livin' free. She's a n***** on a one-way ride. Ask for nothin'. Leave me be. Takin' everythin'-a in my stride. Don't need reason. Don't need rhyme. Ain't nothin' Id-a rather do. Goin' down. For the time. My friends are gonna be there too. (Chorus)
No stop signs. Speed limit. Nobody gonna slow 'er down. Look a wheel. Gonna spin 'er. Nobody's gonna mess me around. Sensation. Damn the J***. Playin' in a rockin' band. Hey momma, look at me. I'm on my way to the promised land.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 29, 2026 10:32 PM (Fv808)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 29, 2026 10:32 PM (diia5)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:33 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Is there a "right" or "wrong" end?
namaste
Posted by: Devout Brother James Talarico at August 29, 2026 10:33 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Bulg at August 29, 2026 10:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: MAxIE at August 29, 2026 10:34 PM (9DOTQ)
Hey Tim, ping me at my Posted by nic at the yahoo dot com. I have a question for you.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 29, 2026 10:35 PM (4NO2D)
How does one draw boobs? There has to be a course out there.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 29, 2026 10:35 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:16 PM (4Je4D)
Is that what the pyramids were for?
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 29, 2026 10:35 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2026 10:35 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:35 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Iris
If they get away with it, they deserve a Blue Ribbon
Posted by: Miklos' Big Mouth, not to be confused with Rolling Rock ponies at August 29, 2026 10:35 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 29, 2026 10:36 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Orson at August 29, 2026 10:26 PM (dIske)
And no one should be listening to any opinion a clown-ass mutherfugger like that has about anyone or anything. And that includes fat-ass actress bitches who leave the country then whine their way back here.
Sod off, swampies.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 10:37 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: toby928 at August 29, 2026 10:37 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Iris
Should have hazmat placards. That shit is awful.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 29, 2026 10:37 PM (cIy7m)
I erred in the error in that Miklos Darleen quote above.
Testicles the Great was only off by 20 times, or around 1 order of magnitude when he calculated the distance to the sun. Error in the error, I did make.
Testicles did all that measuring of the earth and Moon and all after his wife Ovariae caught him in a little "Socratic dialogue" with that trollop Clitorides.
He was trying to hide as far away from Ovariae as he could, and was working out distances.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2026 10:37 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (286+n)
They claim not, but who the flying would steal Pabst to drink??!!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 10:38 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:38 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Bulg at August 29, 2026 10:39 PM (77rzZ)
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue moose
You knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 10:39 PM (GWwCk)
I’m sorry:
Posted by: Bulg at August 29, 2026 10:34 PM
That is only excessive consumption of raw kale. It is still a nutrient rich food, vit A, K, fiber, etc. I am not on any meds at all, so nothing to interfere with there, we are all going to be okay. Oh, and the bloating is if you go from zero to 100 with a high fiber food. 😊
Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2026 10:39 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Good Samaritan trying to save others?
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 10:40 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:40 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2026 10:29 PM (ZdaMQ)
Hadrian - VERY COOL!
Piper!
Kylie Cantrell just had a short video from one of her concerts. My favourite female accessory. Waist jewelry!!
So I thought of you.
Of course, she's also 18 or 19 and has occasional videos of her up at 7am doing ab work...
That helps...
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 10:40 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 29, 2026 10:42 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Iris
Should have hazmat placards. That shit is awful.
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Once I had a six-pack of PBR on the front seat of my car. While I was parked in front of the post office buying some stamps, some prick broke through the passenger side window and left three more six-packs.
*rimshot*
Don't forget to tip your waitress, and try the veal.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:42 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at August 29, 2026 10:42 PM (r7+Q7)
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 10:40 PM (ftFVW)
Couldn't they have just set fire to the truck? Get hot enough then the cans would explode, but the foam could put out the flames. No muss, no fuss.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 10:42 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Bulg at August 29, 2026 10:43 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Cicero
FUN FACT
In Diocletian's Price Edict of 301 AD, two kinds of Egyptian beer are mentioned (with the allowed maximum price).
The lower quality beer was called "booza".
Posted by: Miklos with an Actual for Real You Guys Fact at August 29, 2026 10:44 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Bulg
There's always an explanation with cults. Especially the food kind.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 10:44 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Miklos attempts an offering at August 29, 2026 10:45 PM (4RYRd)
A Gen-Zer who didn't get the word that the "I like crappy beer ironically" fad has passed its 15 minutes.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2026 10:46 PM (vTZFs)
So I thought of you.
Of course, she's also 18 or 19 and has occasional videos of her up at 7am doing ab work...
That helps...
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 10:40 PM (Sco7b)
18 and 19 is definitely in the rear view mirror! But at the risk of sounding obnoxious and vain, my abs aren’t too shabby for how far in the rear view mirror 19 is, and 3 kids. We don’t have to discuss the rest of me, though. 😂
Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2026 10:46 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:47 PM (2GVsD)
N 45° 00 W 123° 00 is about 50 feet away at the municipal baseball field.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 10:13 PM (rbvCR)
What, no sign?
I remember well that OR is probably the only place I have been that has 45 degrees north indicated with highway signage - halfway between the North Pole and the Equator.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 29, 2026 10:47 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
yep
Same with Darleen sometimes
Posted by: Miklos siphoned the gas from her truck a couple of times at August 29, 2026 10:49 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Ancient Motorist at August 29, 2026 10:49 PM (JM9I6)
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Hence Diocletian's reputation as the Richard Nixon of the Roman Empire.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:49 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 29, 2026 10:26 PM (4Je4D)
Slumpbuster central.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 29, 2026 10:50 PM (jPziU)
Two Thursdays ago in my part of Canada, stuff was on sale. And I love fresh fruit and veggies.
-3 watermelons - $3.97 each. I cut one for the neighbors, ate one and the second was cut up today.
-10 pounds of carrots - $4.99 Can - in the downstairs fridge.
-20 pounds of beets - - $4.99 Can per 10lb bag - downstairs fridge.
-1/4 bushel of green bell peppers - about 30 of them - $10.88 Can - I ate 3 or 4 a day - three left.
-25 pounds of Roma tomatoes - $8.88 Can - c'mon, that's a kick ass price. about 10 a day. Most gone - about 60 left.
I'll be fine with frozen and canned stuff through winter after this....
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 10:50 PM (Sco7b)
Next you'll tell me Elton John wasn't singing, "Hold me closer, Tony Danza...count the head lice on the highway"
Or the Eurythmics weren't singing, "Sweet dreams are made of cheese...who has a mind to dis a brie"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 10:51 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: PMRich at August 29, 2026 10:51 PM (RqfTw)
Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2026 10:46 PM (ZdaMQ)
I'm sure working out helps.
And healthy eating...
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 10:52 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: a guy in the Northwest Territories at August 29, 2026 10:52 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (9uADs)
There IS such a thing as Charlene!!!
Posted by: Pvt Pyle at August 29, 2026 10:52 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 29, 2026 10:53 PM (FY/Px)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 29, 2026 10:17 PM (9uADs)
Too late Marlene.
Posted by: Duran Duran at August 29, 2026 10:53 PM (jPziU)
Or the Eurythmics weren't singing, "Sweet dreams are made of cheese...who has a mind to dis a brie"...
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Is he still dancing with the chicken slacks?
Posted by: Sam Cooke at August 29, 2026 10:53 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 10:51 PM (l3cgK)
I cheddar the world and feta cheese
Everybody’s looking for Stetson
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 29, 2026 10:54 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Bruce! at August 29, 2026 10:55 PM (JM9I6)
Two Thursdays ago in my part of Canada, stuff was on sale. And I love fresh fruit and veggies.
-3 watermelons - $3.97 each. I cut one for the neighbors, ate one and the second was cut up today.
-10 pounds of carrots - $4.99 Can - in the downstairs fridge.
-20 pounds of beets - - $4.99 Can per 10lb bag - downstairs fridge.
-1/4 bushel of green bell peppers - about 30 of them - $10.88 Can - I ate 3 or 4 a day - three left.
-25 pounds of Roma tomatoes - $8.88 Can - c'mon, that's a kick ass price. about 10 a day. Most gone - about 60 left.
I'll be fine with frozen and canned stuff through winter after this....
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 10:50 PM (Sco7b)
Who cares?
Posted by: PM Carney at August 29, 2026 10:55 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Ancient Motorist at August 29, 2026 10:49 PM (JM9I6)
Dad's 64 Ford Econoline only had a radio...Dad installed an 8-track back in the early-to-mid 70's...the 'best' part was when a song went to the next track, with the interruption as it switched...
The '84 Ford Club Wagon had a cassette player installed from the factory...the cassette from Ford had "Sweet Dreams" by the Eurythmics...surprised that the cassette wasn't burned by my folks giving the obvious nature of the song.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 10:55 PM (l3cgK)
Maybe my mind is too innocent or something, but I have no clue why most of the "comments of the week" are chosen. Although I must say the one about Democrat cities and blue hair makes it all worthwhile. :-) Also, no clue about the Jelly Roll meme.
Posted by: bradc at August 29, 2026 10:55 PM (frcSa)
Posted by: Dexy's Irish Runners at August 29, 2026 10:55 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 10:56 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 29, 2026 10:56 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:57 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:47 PM (2GVsD)
I thought the Zizzians drank Zima on ZZyzx Road?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 10:57 PM (1Ff7Z)
We had Jimmy Faila's show on -- Mama really likes him for some reason. He had this "real or fake news" thing he does, where he quotes a headline and the panel has to judge if it's fake or real.
He announced scientists have discovered the world's oldest fossilized butthole.
It was real. Well, sort of. I was a 290 million year old fossilized cloaca from some ancient little lizard.
And they found it in Germany. Which figures.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2026 10:57 PM (w6EFb)
Everybody’s looking for Stetson
Posted by: Cow Demon
he meant Stilton
Posted by: Late Nite Copy Editor Miklos at August 29, 2026 10:57 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Dude.. DON'T make a left at Albuquerque! (Unless you really *want* to go to Las Cruces, or May-hee-ko)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 10:57 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 29, 2026 10:58 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Iris
__________________________
Well, let's hope not, because that's just asking for something stupid to happen. Even if it isn't a stunt, it's not a wise approach. It takes for granted that everyone is of average intelligence and sound judgement. Everyone is not of average intelligence, and fewer and fewer seem to have sound judgement.
BONUS: It's California, so take average intelligence and subtract 20 points.
Posted by: Orson at August 29, 2026 10:58 PM (dIske)
New meaning to smothered and covered?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:58 PM (2GVsD)
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Come on, Eileen!
Posted by: Dexy's Irish Runners at August 29, 2026 10:55 PM (4Je4D)
They played "Jump" so I jumped. Then they played 'The Twist', so I twisted.
Then they played 'Come On Eileen', so I got kicked out.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 10:58 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 29, 2026 10:58 PM (Fv808)
Posted by: Miklos recalls the Maple Leaf Bar in Noo Awlins at August 29, 2026 10:58 PM (4RYRd)
I love Seal's Kiss from a Rose. Always. Like Cream's Badge it makes no difference to me that the lyrics make not a lot of sense. I sing them wrong most of the time anyway as life is no karaoke, bruh. I sing them loud, proud and wrong. Blinded by the Night will always be, "dressed up like a douche and running in the night."
Douche is one of the favorite words my LI bf/husband taught me.
Love Kenny Loggins and the song for Top Gun and the movie.
Thanks for the ONT.
We newlyweds saw a concert by Kenny Loggins in a small university theater after I rushed to get off work early as charge RN. After a really bad horror half shift that I had to forget to enjoy the concert which was very good. Pity I still remember that shift as it was not buried forever.
Good night, y'all.
Danny's Song we related to a year later...poor &happy
Kenny Loggins 1971:
https://tinyurl.com/ynyhxr55
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 29, 2026 10:59 PM (hzuYO)
Everybody’s looking for Stetson
Posted by: Cow Demon
he meant Stilton
Posted by: Late Nite Copy Editor Miklos at August 29, 2026 10:57 PM (4RYRd)
That’s what the bloody chalkboard said!!!
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 29, 2026 10:59 PM (jPziU)
And I love the water tower with the cow.That would make me smile every day.
I never knew what he was singing: grave makes so much more sense than grey!
Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 10:59 PM (286+n)
Then they played 'Come On Eileen', so I got kicked out.
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*SNORT*
Posted by: Dexy's Irish Runners at August 29, 2026 10:59 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: PMRich at August 29, 2026 10:51 PM (RqfTw)
That about the same amount of time to reprocess it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 10:59 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Dude.. DON'T make a left at Albuquerque! (Unless you really *want* to go to Las Cruces, or May-hee-ko)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 10:57 PM (rdVOm)
Oh, it was MUCH worse for Bugs Bunny...he even ended up on the wrong continent after the left turn at Albuquerque...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 10:59 PM (l3cgK)
Still doesn't rule out Chuck Schumer.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:59 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 29, 2026 10:58 PM (Fv80
And I don't think there were any horns in the song either...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 11:00 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Pvt Pyle at August 29, 2026 10:52 PM (jPziU)
And a Bunny!
Posted by: Gunny Carter at August 29, 2026 11:01 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:02 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Orson
The ONT exists for a Reason
*tequila shots are Nature's intellectual equalizer*
Posted by: Miklos wonders if lack of bar staff means it's all free at August 29, 2026 11:02 PM (4RYRd)
Great news!! Amanpour has an hour in the early afternoon on CNN!! Sexy.
And there are a lot of reports that Carney blew up the trade talks to be TOUGH with the US and President Trump so the liberals would win an October election in Quebec.
Yeah stupid move if true. I hope President Trump brings the pain to create good men and women.
I'm set for food.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 11:02 PM (Sco7b)
Sitters or Standers?
Posted by: Miklos recalls the Maple Leaf Bar in Noo Awlins
If you've got Depends, why look for the bathroom?
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 11:03 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Orson
The ONT exists for a Reason
*tequila shots are Nature's intellectual equalizer*
Posted by: Miklos wonders if lack of bar staff means it's all free at August 29, 2026 11:02 PM (4RYRd)
Oh, it just means the level of what is considered average has dropped. Idiocracy, here we come!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 11:03 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2026 11:04 PM (O0L8i)
I guess Carney is in the "I will cut my nose off to spite my face" mode.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:04 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:02 PM (2GVsD)
No, it's just off Warren Street.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 11:06 PM (1Ff7Z)
State officials are talking about naming the Nashville airport after Dolly Parton, I see.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2026 11:06 PM (w6EFb)
Unbreakable Pact of Friendship and Non-Aggression between Kingdom of Miklos and mikeski-stan
Posted by: Miklos, Friend of All Noble mikeski Peoples at August 29, 2026 11:06 PM (4RYRd)
I guess Carney is in the "I will cut my nose off to spite my face" mode.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:04 PM (2GVsD)
The nuns at convents that did this to prevent the Vikings from raping them had much more exigent circumstances to do that than Carney does.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 11:06 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2026 11:06 PM (w6EFb)
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I can't wait to see the new terminal design.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 29, 2026 11:06 PM (4Je4D)
And Jane Weidlen just got shot delivering a singing telegram.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:07 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 29, 2026 11:07 PM (ZxPkt)
KungFlu ruined local farmers markets & they haven't returned.
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 11:08 PM (rdVOm)
I guess Carney is in the "I will cut my nose off to spite my face" mode.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:04 PM (2GVsD)
I took care of Mom and stocked up on canned food and water when supply chains were strained.
Okay, bedtime so I can seize the day tomorrow. Ralphy's awake so computer work time is over. Snowflake is sleeping in my room now.
She's really good and waits until I'm up in the middle of the night to go outside. I'm actually kind of impressed. We have a system.
Good night all. Have a very happy Sunday!
I have to congratulate Ralphy on living another week!!!
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 11:08 PM (Sco7b)
And Jane Weidlen just got shot delivering a singing telegram.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:07 PM (2GVsD)
You watching "Clue"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 11:08 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 29, 2026 11:06 PM (4Je4D)
There will be two terminals. Dome shaped.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 11:08 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 29, 2026 11:09 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
It says right there, "aka Miklos and friends"
On the downside (for Miklos), I got 3 of them, so now he's been accused of having me as a friend.
Posted by: mikeski dangerfield at August 29, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov)
***********
I've had about 3, probably by accident.
Is there a club or cult? I will keep my bra on no matter what, just so you know. Always, even in my prime. Unlike Dolly I did not like the attention and wanted to be known for my brains as well as charm.
Gotta get some zzzz's. I hope to be comatose by 11pm. I also like to say, "comatoast" as I like that better and it has the same meaning. XXXX
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 29, 2026 11:09 PM (hzuYO)
Hit me with your pet shark
Fire away
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 29, 2026 11:07 PM (ZxPkt)
I thought it was "Hitler with a pet shark"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 11:09 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Well, to paraphrase Churchill-
"But in the morning, Madam, I shall be unquestionably sober"
Posted by: Miklos rests and reorients at August 29, 2026 11:10 PM (4RYRd)
KungFlu ruined local farmers markets & they haven't returned.
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 11:08 PM (rdVOm)
Yeah, I know!! Usually, they're a buck each here too. But every August the grocery store had things in bulk. I think for the canners.
I debated for a few minutes. But nah. I love them even without salt or anything.
Good night all.
Ralphy's up for real.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 11:10 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:11 PM (2GVsD)
Secret Asian Man
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 29, 2026 11:09 PM (ZxPkt)
https://youtu.be/EcwtapTCd6g
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 11:11 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2026 11:12 PM (ZdaMQ)
And Jane Weidlen just got shot delivering a singing telegram.
Posted by: Anna Puma at
****
Do I dare ask?!
Posted by: clarence at August 29, 2026 11:12 PM (/2SkZ)
Posted by: Herr Doktor Fronk-en-Steen at August 29, 2026 11:12 PM (4Je4D)
The beer was dumped in the first river they came across.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 29, 2026 11:15 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 29, 2026 10:32 PM (diia5)
So, long story, but it's Saturday night and we're all drunk, so why not? Anyway, there was this British dude in the early 1900s who decided he wanted to transition from limey fop to feather-Indian. Moved to the Canadian wilderness and made quite a go at the project, wandering around by himself with his hair in braids, writing books of his adventures for the suckers (reading public). Some of his stuff's pretty decent, but one in particular really stuck with me: seems at one point he was having trouble finding any food to eat in the Canadian wilderness, so he was not so slowly starving to death. Even so, when he came across a squishy, fly-crusted, blue and green rotting moose carcass (like how I tied this in to weft cut-loop's comment?), he couldn't bring himself to eat it. So he dug the bones outta the mess, broke them open and sucked the marrow out. Turns out the marrow made him so sick he couldn't move from the spot for days.
So anyway, hey! Why'd you all leave? You left your beers too! You mind if I drink those PBRs?
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at August 29, 2026 11:17 PM (o/vJD)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 11:20 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 11:25 PM (GWwCk)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 10:38 PM (2GVsD)
I recently was given a Perrier, and I was surprised how similar the taste was to Busch beer. Not PBR, though. PBR is skunkier than Perrier.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 11:25 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 11:02 PM (Sco7b)
=====
Say wut now?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 11:26 PM (RIvkX)
193 179 Oh dear, Yvette just got the rope.
And Jane Weidlen just got shot delivering a singing telegram.
Posted by: Anna Puma at
****
Do I dare ask?!
Posted by: clarence at August 29, 2026 11:12 PM (/2SkZ)
I know! That Jane Weidlien cameo is one of the shortest and funniest cameo’s ever!
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 11:28 PM (GWwCk)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 11:28 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Miklos saw it right there on the can at August 29, 2026 11:29 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 11:30 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 29, 2026 10:47 PM (jPziU)
Nope, it is still there, right at the Keizer exit on the I-5.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 11:31 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 11:31 PM (/QHx4)
On the first of two boats home from spending the day with Some Rat at the Kitsap County Fair.
Please pray for him. He needs strength of spirit, mind and body.
Thank
You.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 29, 2026 11:31 PM (Bu7EX)
Posted by: Azjaeger at August 29, 2026 11:32 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 11:34 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Miklos saw it right there on the ca
Like all major beers, PBR is brewed and canned at multiple locations.
For a while all PBR brands were actually contract brewed at MolsonCoors breweries. That ended early last year
Posted by: PMRich at August 29, 2026 11:34 PM (RqfTw)
_fox
--
Who writes this stuff?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 11:34 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: Miklos sees another sign of the general decline of Civilization and Culture at August 29, 2026 11:35 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 11:35 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 29, 2026 11:35 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Miklos notes that the room is not spinning again yet at August 29, 2026 11:37 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Will Robinson at August 29, 2026 11:37 PM (rHvvN)
Posted by: frammish at August 29, 2026 11:38 PM (rcENI)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
He's an ox. Not very good "company," if you know what I mean.
Posted by: the big blue heifer at August 29, 2026 11:38 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends
I can play that on the fiddle wear out the rug dancin'!
Posted by: Kentucky "Cocaine" Mitch at August 29, 2026 11:38 PM (4RYRd)
Thank
You.
Posted by: nurse ratched
Certainly.
Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 11:38 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 11:38 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 11:39 PM (RIvkX)
Just jumped off the fast ferry from Bremerton, hopped across the dock and am on my water taxi back to my side.
Rat is good people. He and his family.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 29, 2026 11:43 PM (EoCE8)
"I won't be talking about anything that happened with an irrelevant person," Cloud told reporters Saturday. "What I will focus on is what actually affects women and children."
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That dyke gonna be pissed when they draft Ms Enes.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 11:44 PM (pMmVV)
On the first of two boats home from spending the day with Some Rat at the Kitsap County Fair.
Please pray for him.
Done
Posted by: Miklos at August 29, 2026 11:46 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Azjaeger at August 29, 2026 11:32 PM (3/XaG)
Heineken? F*^K that S#!t
PBR!
Posted by: Frank Booth at August 29, 2026 11:46 PM (0CU3H)
Riley Gaines and Simone Biles were in attendance, but White's surprise visit dominated social media buzz after the game
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If the same team drafts Ms. Enes and Ms. White, whoof.
Thinking about it. That would be racis and unfair.
Wait till they start cycling together.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 11:47 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: Braenyard
And it's pronounced "Enis", bitch, with a LONG E
SAY IT
Posted by: Miklos in best Sam Kinison voice and...style at August 29, 2026 11:49 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 11:49 PM (pMmVV)
As you would expect, this did not result in good things happening.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 29, 2026 11:50 PM (gvBhq)
Who am I to diss a brie?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 29, 2026 11:50 PM (tWxgu)
SAY IT
Posted by: Miklos in best Sam Kinison
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Is that like in penis. Remember when the announcer would say Penis Cabel at the beisbol game?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 11:51 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 11:51 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Braenyard
And it's pronounced "Enis", bitch, with a LONG E
SAY IT
Posted by: Miklos in best Sam Kinison voice and...style at August 29, 2026 11:49 PM (4RYRd)
It rhymes with some word...venus! Yeah, that's it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 11:52 PM (l3cgK)
Several of the ‘old’ popular brands have worked real hard on returning to old formulas.
You have Hamms in your area? VERY similar
Posted by: PMRich at August 29, 2026 11:52 PM (RqfTw)
SAY IT
Posted by: Miklos in best Sam Kinison
Ok. People on the boat think I’m either drunk
Or crazy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 29, 2026 11:53 PM (w75DI)
Who am I to diss a brie?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Clever!
Gouda you come come up with these?
Posted by: Miklos wonders if Bleu Cheese ever gets moldy at August 29, 2026 11:57 PM (4RYRd)
We have a launch in the morning.
SpaceX - Falcon Heavy - Roman Space Telescope
LC-39A - Kennedy SC - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 30, 2026
Launch Time: 7:25 a.m. EDT (1125 UTC, 13:25 CEST)
https://youtu.be/5q6XP71_LYI
Posted by: Joyenz at August 29, 2026 11:58 PM (2F0/Y)
Or crazy.
Posted by: nurse ratche
Pond or pool
Pool or pond
It's all good
Posted by: Carl Spackler at August 29, 2026 11:59 PM (4RYRd)
Launch Time: 7:25 a.m. EDT (1125 UTC, 13:25 CEST)
https://youtu.be/5q6XP71_LYI
Posted by: Joyenz
----
Does Musk ever sleep?
Well he had enough time to screw up X for we Luddites.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:00 AM (pMmVV)
Well he had enough time to screw up X for we Luddites.
Posted by: Braenyard
I think that was Nikita Bier.
Bier has been canned.
Posted by: Miklos noticed that at August 30, 2026 12:03 AM (4RYRd)
The thought of launching Nancy Grace to L2 is somehow sastifying.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 12:03 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:04 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2026 10:51 PM (l3cgK)
I cheddar the world and feta cheese
Everybody’s looking for Stetson
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 29, 2026 10:54 PM (jPziU)
Some of them want to gouda you,
some of them want to be fondued
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 30, 2026 12:04 AM (0CU3H)
Posted by: PMRich
Is that the one from The Land of Sky Blue Waters or somesuch?
Posted by: Miklos drank Dixie Beer when they still made that at August 30, 2026 12:05 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: JQ
*shift change*
*clocks out*
*notes that there is no official time rule about the "staff drinks free" policy*
Posted by: Miklos vaguely waves in the direction of the Big Fridge at August 30, 2026 12:08 AM (4RYRd)
Nancy Grace's coronagraph instrument has deformable mirrors that achieve picometer adjustment precision. How they hell they do that, I don't know.
But then how the hell all that precision instrumentation can survive all the shaking and jerking of the launch forces, I really don't know.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 12:08 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 12:10 AM (gvBhq)
Posted by: Miklos does the OOOOO AHHH part fromage-free at August 30, 2026 12:10 AM (4RYRd)
*clocks out*
*notes that there is no official time rule about the "staff drinks free" policy*
Posted by: Miklos vaguely waves in the direction of the Big Fridge
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What?! You're leaving me all alone, drunk AND crazy, to tend the bar *by myself*?
Oh, nooooooooooooo!
(Congrats on your multiple C.O.W., btw)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:11 AM (rdVOm)
The alleged attack came to light when a witness flagged down deputies in Temecula, Riverside County on Tuesday night.
_NY Post
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See there's your problem with CA right there.
Not the kid.
The fink witness. He's a voter too.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:12 AM (pMmVV)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 12:03 AM (w6EFb)
I figured it would be pointed back at Earth, searching for salacious criminal stories.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 12:12 AM (GWwCk)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
Here's your frigid Guinness, big boy
Posted by: Hillary R. C. at August 30, 2026 12:13 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 12:14 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: PMRich at August 30, 2026 12:14 AM (RqfTw)
If that bohunk wants to slack out pull it on up.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:14 AM (pMmVV)
Posted by: Officially off duty Miklos at August 30, 2026 12:15 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 12:15 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 12:15 AM (NtoJk)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:16 AM (rdVOm)
I just walked in the door. Kitty is angry kitty. I’m hearing about it.
May I PLEASE have a little teeny tiny quart of bourbon?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:16 AM (n4BTz)
Something else interesting about Nancy Grace. The mirror was "donated" to NASA by the NRO. The mirror was part of some super-secret spy satellite program that was no longer needed or something like that.
So secret spy tech is being used for this. The mirror alone probably cost about $1/4B, don't know it was black budget stuff. But beyond that, this thing cost NASA about $4.3B
That's how much all that precision, and engineering something to launch all that delicate precision costs.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 12:16 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:17 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 12:18 AM (NtoJk)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:18 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 12:19 AM (/QHx4)
Trump is going to outlaw Sharia in America. He says America has one way, one law and one Constitution. He's serious.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:22 AM (pMmVV)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:23 AM (ELT5/)
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Pfft.
Posted by: Gaffney, SC at August 30, 2026 12:23 AM (XeU6L)
Nancy Grace's coronagraph just blows my freakin' mind. That will be able to directly image (well, see the light so to speak) of tiny little exoplanets orbiting their host stars from 10 to 100 ly away, depending.
Those picometer deformable mirrors are used to just cancel out the light of a target host star, and allow the tiny amount of light from exoplanets to get through. The resolution of this thing is about 1000 times better than previous coronagraphs.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 12:23 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:25 AM (pMmVV)
"I like my beer the way I like my women; bitter and cold."
Have you ever considered moving to Boston?
Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 12:26 AM (3gH/U)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:27 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:28 AM (pMmVV)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:28 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:28 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 30, 2026 12:30 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:30 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:31 AM (pMmVV)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:33 AM (pMmVV)
Saw lots of 4H kids and critters. Pigs, sheep, llamas, yak, cows, horses, chickens, ducks, geese, quail, turkeys…..
A few pyrsyns with nose rings and green hair, but they were FAR outnumbered by normal, helpful, courteous young people who wanted to show off their critters.
Ate a rather large, burning hot corn dog. Rat had a root beer float.
Tractors and farm equipment everywhere. And some really cool old logging equipment.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:34 AM (BT7V7)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 30, 2026 12:34 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:35 AM (pMmVV)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Now figure it with Payday Title Loans
Posted by: Miklos notes that somebody in America owes 40 trillion at August 30, 2026 12:35 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:36 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Miklos asks nicely at August 30, 2026 12:36 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:37 AM (BT7V7)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:37 AM (rdVOm)
See Alex Berenson's latest Substack post on this. It turns out two people may have died. *With* measles, not *from* measles.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 12:37 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: PMRich at August 30, 2026 12:40 AM (RqfTw)
Posted by: the purriful stylings of Mr. Sam Cooke at August 30, 2026 12:40 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:42 AM (pMmVV)
Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 12:42 AM (/QHx4)
Threw some Coors Banquet in too.
Posted by: PMRich
Don't get yerself hurt
The Natty Daddys is Darleen's
Posted by: please be forewarned at August 30, 2026 12:42 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: publius
We taught those measles everything we know!
Posted by: the covids at August 30, 2026 12:42 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Now see, we all agreed not to do this
Posted by: Official Covid Statistics at August 30, 2026 12:44 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:44 AM (rFS/C)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:45 AM (rdVOm)
Hi nurse, it sounds like you had a wonderful day!
Miklos, I am not sure which situation you are referring to, I find myself in all sorts of situations lately. I am good.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 30, 2026 12:45 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: CDC Staff and Grantees at August 30, 2026 12:46 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:46 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:47 AM (rFS/C)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
I thought you had an unexpected call late one evening recently.
If mistaken, good!
Posted by: Miklos is happy to be wrong at August 30, 2026 12:48 AM (4RYRd)
Only major brand that I know that is ONLY brewed in one location. Golden CO
The Coors family will not allow any other place.
Source of water is critical to all brewing, and they don’t want to risk how that could affect the taste
Coors Light can and is brewed at other locations
Posted by: PMRich at August 30, 2026 12:48 AM (RqfTw)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:49 AM (rFS/C)
Guess I'm headed up to WI to see if we can get the contents of Dad's home auctioned off. As there is a fair amount of antiques I'm trying for an online auction, rather than limiting the sale to a part of central WI. Does this make sense or am I deluded? Anyone had recent experience with a similar situation?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 30, 2026 12:50 AM (4Qj8V)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 12:50 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: El Mikloso at August 30, 2026 12:50 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 30, 2026 12:51 AM (ibDUx)
See Alex Berenson's latest Substack post on this. It turns out two people may have died. *With* measles, not *from* measles.
Posted by: publius
And Pennsylvania's craptastic governor is getting raked over the coals for lying about this. He has Presidential aspiration but is too stupid to realize he's too Jewish for todays DSA Party.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 30, 2026 12:52 AM (f87vz)
Posted by: frammish at August 30, 2026 12:53 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 12:54 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take
Yes, have the same, but few pieces with paperwork (sent from Budapest in the 80s).
Local auctions are a limit.
Online has it's own limits.
Really depends on what you have, and the documentation for it (if specified on an insurance policy, as one example).
Posted by: Miklos used to know about these things, even got paid sometimes at August 30, 2026 12:54 AM (4RYRd)
Give him away or sell him?
Posted by: four seasons
Sometimes those older pieces clean up real nice
Posted by: The Ladies of The Villages at August 30, 2026 12:56 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 12:58 AM (/QHx4)
Shopping day is Monday so I've to rock back for tomorrow.
Time for me to hit the trail. Ya'll have a good evening. Say hello to Debby, 'night.
https://youtu.be/9FkGBBuBDLA
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 12:59 AM (pMmVV)
Give him away or sell him?
Posted by: four seasons
Just do what he says.
Posted by: The Guy Who Thinks You Should Do What He Says at August 30, 2026 12:59 AM (Gqaa7)
Posted by: Puddleglum
Half the Nazi party leadership would be too Jewish for today's DSA.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 30, 2026 01:00 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: frammish
I remember that one!
Not far from the truth back then. Henry’s used to be the good cheap beer.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 01:01 AM (XNYK+)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:01 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 01:01 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 01:02 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 30, 2026 01:02 AM (ibDUx)
My husband is an antique.
Give him away or sell him?
Posted by: four seasons
Hold his hand and kiss his cheek and be happy to have him.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 01:02 AM (XNYK+)
Now checking out with a moving romantic duet.
https://youtu.be/iFq6eZBS1iM
G'nite, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - the reason at August 30, 2026 01:03 AM (ie4vn)
Posted by: nurse ratched
^This! x10000000000000000000
Because you never know what's around the corner
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:04 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Jake or Elwood or maybe Miklos Blues at August 30, 2026 01:05 AM (4RYRd)
The buffet dinner at the hotel was sub-awesome.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 01:06 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 01:07 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:10 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 01:11 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: four seasons
A retired man is watching TV, and sees a commercial suggesting people be tested for old-age hearing loss.
Thinking about his wife's hearing, he lifts his head, and says "honey, can you hear me?" But she doesn't reply.
So he gets out of his chair and walks to the kitchen doorway, and sees her working at the counter. Again, from the doorway, he says "honey, can you hear me?" But, again, she doesn't reply.
Getting worried, he walks up a few steps behind her, and says "honey, can you hear me?"
She turns to him and says "For the third time, yes! What do you want?"
Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 01:12 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:29 PM (RIvkX)
Jelly Roll Morton would stomp his azz.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 01:13 AM (1z8ji)
This may be the first time, in the entire history of the English language, that these words have been used in this order.
Posted by: The Oxford English Miklosionary at August 30, 2026 01:13 AM (4RYRd)
You know, I've been trying to understand this almost religious devotion the left and establishment have developed with vaccines. They must not be questions. To do so is heresy, punishable by burning at the stake.
That's funny, because it was originally the left that got on the anti-vaccine, vaccines-cause-autism bandwagon. RFK, Jr, and then the likes of Jenny McCarthy and all that.
The freaked out the public health establishment and the "I love science sexually" crowd, and that's where we are today.
And that sort of stuff doesn't apply to other drugs and treatments, does it? It's well known and non-controversial that basically all drugs and treatments have side-effects, some deadly, it varies from person to person. One drug or treatment can be good for one person, but kill another person depending on all that.
And its also non-controversial that Pharma fucks up and all the doctors and experts on it as well. Some wonder drug comes out, and 5 years later, it turns out the risk was worse than the benefit. And with all the $$$ involved, that gets corrupt fast, with lying and coverups and all that.
But yet this known, and not controversial. Except for vaccines.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 01:15 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miklos puts finger on side of nose at August 30, 2026 01:15 AM (4RYRd)
I'm so sorry-- I had no idea!
Prayers up for all of you...
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:18 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 01:18 AM (/QHx4)
Because it is religious.
It is proof of the superiority of controllable humans controlled "science" over God himself.
Posted by: Miklos sees hubris at August 30, 2026 01:19 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 10:57 PM (1Ff7Z)
I have actually seen ZZyzx Road. Didn't try to drive on it, though. That would be tempting Fate.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 01:19 AM (1z8ji)
When did that vaccines cause autism stuff first come out? Was it in the '90s?
The guy who first did that study claiming that was destroyed. They claimed he was a charlatan and made it all up, and there was absolutely no evidence of this.
I bought that at the time. But now, after Covid, and even a little before that, well, I know they will lie through their teeth about evidence or lack of it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 01:20 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: four seasons
Never got my salt royalties neither
Posted by: Jelly Roll Morton at August 30, 2026 01:20 AM (4RYRd)
LMAO! Nope.
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:23 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 30, 2026 01:23 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:25 AM (rdVOm)
So what people have measles or whatever is the latest scary stuff.
Shit happens.
Social media allows people to whine about whatever.
Get the fuck over yourself.
Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 01:26 AM (/QHx4)
That original study guy was indeed burned at the stake. They didn't say "no, you're wrong, and here's the counter argument and evidence you are wrong", they had to destroy him. Ruin his careers, strip him of his credentials and all that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 01:27 AM (w6EFb)
If not disprovable, it cannot be accepted as proven.
So the tactic is to insist on things that cannot be tested, just do it now. If subsequent evidence disproves the original, um... it would have been worse! Of course, unprovable.
Therefore timelines of catastrophe get pushed into the ever-receding future, with no fixed frame for reference or examination.
Posted by: Miklos uses wordthoughts at August 30, 2026 01:27 AM (4RYRd)
It is so disgusting that society has turned into being all about me, me.
Shit happens and you deal with it.
Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 01:29 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 30, 2026 01:30 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 30, 2026 12:52 AM (f87vz)
Harvey Korman, Blazing Saddles:
Foreman: “I know how to drive them out of Rock Ridge! We’ll kill the first born male child in every household!”
Korman: pauses…. “Nah.. too Jewish.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 01:30 AM (GWwCk)
Posted by: Miklos notes that Mac Davis wrote this song at August 30, 2026 01:33 AM (4RYRd)
Maybe I'll pipe up & get escorted to the gate?
Heh, I'll let ya all know-- it'll be at end of September.
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:36 AM (rdVOm)
In your Bitchin Camaro?
Hope your dad's the mayor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v3CzvQ9e_w
Posted by: the reptilian part of Miklos' brain retains fragments of the 80s at August 30, 2026 01:38 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 01:38 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 01:41 AM (1z8ji)
No... but if I wanted to spring for title, taxes & insurance... could take Dad's Corvette.
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:41 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:41 AM (rdVOm)
Falsifiability. A theory must be falsifiable. It must make predictions that can be tested against reality.
The "No True Scotsman" fallacy is an example of something that is not falsifiable that comes to mind.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 01:42 AM (w6EFb)
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Well yeah, I still got covid, but *it wasn't as bad as it would have been, if I hadn't got the sh0t*
/sarc
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:44 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (286+n)
Huh. Prob'ly?
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:45 AM (odBC9)
Korman: pauses…. “Nah.. too Jewish.”
Posted by: Tom Servo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of64QbBy4vo
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 30, 2026 01:45 AM (Fv808)
They even went so far as to apply that to a person who died of Covid after getting the clot shot. Well, his/her death would've been much worse without it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 01:46 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 01:49 AM (GWwCk)
The "No True Scotsman" fallacy is an example of something that is not falsifiable that comes to mind.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
In social/political areas, they tend to jump straight to practice and enforcement with theory as an afterthought justification. In these areas, it is less of falsifiability of a theory than the denial of real world effects by defining things in unquantifiable ways that make evaluation and comparison impossible.
Posted by: Miklos revises and extends at August 30, 2026 01:50 AM (4RYRd)
Another example of some non-falsifiable hypothesis is if I claim I and the whole word, everything I can see and interact with was created yesterday. And everything is designed to be perfect. My brain is filled with memories of my past, and everything about the world is made to be perfectly consistent with that.
And take that one step further, and I claim I'm just "inside a simulation". I might be just some "AI" in a box somewhere, and all this "physical world" is just an illusion being pumped into the box.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 01:50 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius
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Wow, hadn't heard about that one. Jeepers. That's fk'd up!
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:50 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (286+n)
Huh. Prob'ly?
Posted by: m
Look-we're all trying to find out who did this
Posted by: Miklos in a wiener suit drinking a PBR at August 30, 2026 01:52 AM (4RYRd)
Feynman wasn't too big on the "philosophy of science" however, saying that was about as useful as ornithology is to actual birds.
That's just funny right there, I don't care who you are.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 01:54 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 10:30 PM (286+n)
Huh. Prob'ly?
Posted by: m
Look-we're all trying to find out who did this
Posted by: Miklos in a wiener suit drinking a PBR at August 30, 2026 01:52 AM (4RYRd)
The event is coincident with the beginning of the college school year. So. Maybe.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:57 AM (odBC9)
"Good thing it was just the commie cold" she snarked.
And I told her that I'd wait a few years & see. Wasn't gonna be part of a massive experiment, but understood why she & BIL would go for it. It was too late to talk them out of it, they'd already become guinea pigs for The State...
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm)
Feynman wasn't too big on the "philosophy of science" however, saying that was about as useful as ornithology is to actual birds.
That's just funny right there, I don't care who you are.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 01:54 AM (w6EFb)
heh
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:01 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Really most sincerely dead
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 30, 2026 02:02 AM (Fv808)
That's just funny right there, I don't care who you are.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Hmmm
Was it one of Feyman's lectures where he introduced the famous tits/boar hog analogy?
Posted by: Miklos may have played hooky that day at August 30, 2026 02:02 AM (4RYRd)
I don't know when it started but it was a stupid idea. China is not our friend. Sure we can talk to them but that should be as far as it goes. And of course the American people didn't know about any of this until it blew up in our face. This is what makes me so angry. Our government needs to be up front about what they are doing.
Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 02:03 AM (3gH/U)
And so, they likely had Early C0vid, and a good amount of natural immunity already! Then they destroyed it by getting that fk'ing sh0t. I could cry...
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:05 AM (rdVOm)
Lord, give him the strength to restore this bike to some semblance of the mechanical harmony it once knew.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 30, 2026 02:05 AM (llBIB)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 30, 2026 02:07 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:08 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 02:09 AM (XNYK+)
Husband and I are are skeptists.
We are elderly and refused to get the killer shot.
He told me if he died of the chink flu so be it, at least he would would have a sceney, lol.
I think he was talking about of me, lmao
Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 02:09 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: JM in Illinois
May he be blessed with a bevy of buxom, skilled assistants as beautiful as they are technically proficient to staff his Shop of Many Wonders.
Posted by: Miklos suggets "Wenches with Wrenches" at August 30, 2026 02:10 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: nurse ratched
*looks around*
She must mean you people
Posted by: Miklos, srsly at August 30, 2026 02:14 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:16 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ye Olde Miklose at August 30, 2026 02:22 AM (4RYRd)
They keep 'asking' and I keep telling them NO. Hubby & I even signed documents upon his admission there, saying NO to all vax. He'd had the pneumonia & shingles vacc's already. No need for anything else.
But they just. keep. pushing.
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:26 AM (rdVOm)
Oh, and just saw this on Berenson's substack. I hadn't been paying too much attention to his stuff lately.
Turns out Tamiflu is not just ineffective, but deadly. There's that risk vs reward thing. A study found that Tamiflu greatly increased the risk of death by in patients hospitalized with flu.
Note this is for patients who are really sick with the flu, not just in general, so don't worry about taking unless you're really sick with it. But it's apparently ineffective for everybody.
Tamiflu has been around for 27 years, and this is the first study actually done to look at this risk vs benefit thing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 02:26 AM (w6EFb)
I think he was talking about of me, lmao
Posted by: four seasons at August 30, 2026 02:09 AM (/QHx4)
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Glad you refused. I took the Janssen shot, a different formula, not so harmful. Still got a two-day bout with Covid in mid-2022. Strangely enough, this was just about the time my life went was hit by a s***storm. At lease, the Chinese aren't at fault for that.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 30, 2026 02:28 AM (llBIB)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:30 AM (Ia/+0)
Back then, likely not harmful mrna BS so I'm not worried. Not sure they helped any. I haven't been puking sick with actual illness (other than self-inflicted, heh) since the 80s.
Meh. I'm done.
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:32 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 30, 2026 02:34 AM (llBIB)
Tamiflu targets a certain enzyme used by flu virus. Your own immune system also uses that same enzyme. The higher death rates for the Tamiflu patients were due to organ failure and other infection, which aligns with this immune suppressive thing.
Oh, and guess what? "Independent researchers" (meaning actual scientists not on the interested parties payroll) warned about this from the get-go, turns out.
You didn't hear anything about that, did you? Just Tamiflu is great stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 02:34 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:39 AM (rdVOm)
That's in, or was in, the standard flu cocktail they prescribe. I remember that with my father.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 02:43 AM (w6EFb)
That put me in a bad situation. Hell, I had monthly bills to pay. And I was too old just to quit and hoped to find another job. I was with that company for almost twenty years. So anyway I got the shot, had to bring the paperwork to my boss. Then I was told I would have to get another shot in about a month later. This was another surprise to me. It was like a nightmare that wouldn't end. I went ahead and took that shot when the time came. I also told my boss I would not take anymore shots. If I had to I would sue the company. They didn't bother me anymore.
Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 02:47 AM (3gH/U)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 02:48 AM (S41Gd)
Here's some of the numbers on Tamiflu (oseltamivir generic name). In that study of very ill hospitalized patients, 14% who didn't receive Tamiflu died. 20% of those who took it died.
But, the group who didn't take it was actually sicker and weaker than those who did. Adjusting for that, and Tamiflu doubled the relative risk of death.
The results are 98% confidence that Tamiflu causes harm. IOW, the risk is worse than the benefit period.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 02:50 AM (w6EFb)
UGH!
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:51 AM (rdVOm)
Most albums were roughly 45 minutes total. Sweet! 2 favorite albums on ONE tape. Bonus, you could fill in at the ends with other stuff if needed, or put the extra tunes from one album, onto the end of another.
It just worked!
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:55 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:56 AM (odBC9)
Lord, give him the strength to restore this bike to some semblance of the mechanical harmony it once knew.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 30, 2026 02:05 AM (llBIB)
Which bike are we talking about? I got 2 pieces of shit on 2 of the lifts right now. One is a hopeless pile of shit, the other has potential, but it has to be unfucked.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 02:57 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Skip
Got one, in 1998. Got the flu. Haven't had a flu shot since. Got mild flu once or twice.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 30, 2026 02:57 AM (Fv808)
UGH!
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 02:51 AM (rdVOm)
All hail the matchbook shim.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 02:58 AM (S41Gd)
Running the numbers on these excess deaths due to Tamiflu, the number is in the tens of thousands of deaths due to Tamiflu.
Roche made about $20B off Tamiflu until the patent expired. They got a big boost in 2009 with the swine flu panic, with govts stockpiling the stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 02:59 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:00 AM (rdVOm)
Also have some *huge* jalapenos. They're too big for poppers, so thinking tomorrow will roast them on the grill, peel & seed, and then make up the cheese mix.. put together a casserole of sorts? It'll be fun!
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:10 AM (rdVOm)
And of course. Whistleblower stuff claiming Roche greatly exaggerated claims of Tamiflu efficacy in containing flu pandemics to get all that sweet govt cash to stockpile the stuff. This dates to the 2005 Bird flu scare as well as the 2009 Swine flu panic.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 03:10 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Berserker
Hahahahaha! Had forgotten all about that!
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:00 AM (rdVOm)
I didn't, I'll never forget it. I'm glad I got my license when cassette decks were becoming the rage, because I had just enough time with 8 tracks to know that if I had to live with 8 tracks I would have burned my car.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 03:10 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:10 AM (rdVOm)
Is that what they're calling them these days? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 03:12 AM (S41Gd)
This is the Pharma Playbook, BTW. This is how they roll. This is the wonder drug --> "meh" -- > useless --> makes things worse pipeline.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 03:13 AM (w6EFb)
Or whatever is the latest scary stuff.
Shit happens.
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Kinda haiku-ish
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 30, 2026 03:17 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 03:18 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Berserker
My *huge jalapenos* came from a store I don't normally shop-- because regular grocery had NONE when I went there! Desperation!
But the next day, (before company arrived) my usual grocery store had some regular sized peppers. Yay!
Now, I'm stuck with these monster peppers and don't want to waste them.
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:18 AM (rdVOm)
That's what happened to me. Took the flu shot, got the flu. Never got one again. They are just guessing what type of flu is going around. Evidently their are different kinds. They guess the wrong type then you can get the flu.
Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 03:19 AM (3gH/U)
And then some shitweasel broke in & stole the player.
In hindsight, I think they did me a favor. But I was angry at the time!
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:21 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 03:22 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 03:23 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:29 AM (rdVOm)
Sounds good, anyway...
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:34 AM (rdVOm)
Question is how to fix this? These Pharma executives who pull this shit need to go to jail and be personally liable.
That has happened just a few times in only the most egregious cases. Most of the time, this is just cost of doing business baked in the cake. The executives and managers get away with and keep all the personal money they made off it. They'll do tricks like set up some spin-off company to be liable, which may bankrupt the spin-off and maybe cost some investors and whatnot some money to pay any claims.
But the individuals actually responsible get off scott-free and keep all the money. That has got to change.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 03:36 AM (w6EFb)
I'll see your unopened blank 8-track tape, and raise you a couple of unopened blank Beta video tapes!
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:40 AM (rdVOm)
When the flu season comes all I ever heard was "get your flu shot". I never heard get your flu shot and "maybe" you won't get the flu. I thought if I got the shot I would be safe from getting the flu. Well I found out different,the hard way. Because they don't tell us everything! Same with COVID. They did not tell us everything. Well, I'm tired of being a pin cushion. To hell with 'em.
Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 03:43 AM (3gH/U)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 03:43 AM (rdVOm)
Yep, Roche and the usual suspects ran the same playbook on Tamiflu. Announce the new drug is great stuff and publish "clinical trials" showing how great it is. They start using it and $$$ results.
Then along the way, someone gets a little skeptical. Hey, Roche, show us all your data. Roche says, "Nuh-uh, that's not possible, cause reasons". And so, a lot of lawsuits follow, with Roche fighting tooth and nail against disclosure. Finally, govts get in the act and Roche finally coughs it up, but as little as possible.
And turns out the original data was cherry picked, and bad results hidden.
By that time, the wonder drug has become the "gold standard". Sometimes suggests lets do a real trial to see if it actually does help against placebo. "Nuh-uh, that would be unethical, because Tamiflu is the gold standard of treatment, and denying it would be awful".
So, they fight over that. And finally, they do actually do the proper trial. And they find out the gold standard actually makes things worse and kills more patients than placebo.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 03:54 AM (w6EFb)
Beyond black-pilled; I'm back in the burn, scatter, salt camp again. Ugh!
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 04:10 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 30, 2026 04:17 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 04:40 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: raimondo at August 30, 2026 05:05 AM (fcbYR)
Music Thread - August 29, 2026 [TRex]
"Bye Bye Love," "All I Have to Do Is Dream," "Wake Up Little Susie") plus hits for others. Bob McDill's songwriting hits include "Good Ole Boys Like Me," "Gone Country," and "Song of the South."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Nazdar at August 29, 2026 07:35 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)
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Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at August 29, 2026 07:38 PM (5Ym
Poor Kris couldn't carry a tune but he was a hell of a song writer.
He was a true renaissance man though.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:41 PM (KC5Lt)
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Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:45 PM (KC5Lt)
"Did you know the cost of adjudicating even 1 fake [illegal alien] asylum claim is the same cost as providing FREE CANCER TREATMENT to 1 American citizen with pediatric cancer?
As of June 2026, there are 2,310,698 immigrants who have filed formal asylum applications
Illegals trying to kill 2 M American kids
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 29, 2026 07:45 PM (/+uur)
When I found it was written by Springsteen and I heard that version, I threw up a little. OK.... I threw up a lot!!
Posted by: smokin' cat turd at August 29, 2026 07:46 PM (KXId6)
6 Hoyt Axton
Can't get anything past you guys. Those were the first two I thought of in answer to the questions.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2026 07:48 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2026 07:48 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:48 PM (KC5Lt)
Manfred Mann did several Springsteen covers and they are all much better and easier to listen to. My favorite is "For You"
almost every cover of a Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen song is better than the songwriter's version
I wanted Bob's son to do a cover album or two of his dad's work because his band was great and he had a nice voice.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2026 07:49 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:50 PM (KC5Lt)
This idea is based on no hard evidence and no information of any kind.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 29, 2026 07:50 PM (C0Nlv)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 07:51 PM (PbWRL)
Still a classic.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 29, 2026 07:51 PM (88C+u)
I bought his first Wallflowers CD. It was pretty good.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:51 PM (KC5Lt)
The Jackson 5, and Michael Jackson, does not happen without that bass.
Posted by: 496 at August 29, 2026 07:52 PM (sOtuf)
Prince wrote some of their other songs gs right?
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:52 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 07:51 PM (PbWRL)
Her and Burt Bacharach
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:53 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 29, 2026 07:55 PM (FY/Px)
David Bowie gave All the Young Dudes to Mott the Hopple.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 07:56 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: 496 at August 29, 2026 07:56 PM (sOtuf)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 07:58 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: TRex - ghostwriter dino at August 29, 2026 07:58 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: 496 at August 29, 2026 07:59 PM (sOtuf)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 08:00 PM (EZWVc)
https://tinyurl.com/4czdj8kn
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:00 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 29, 2026 08:02 PM (FY/Px)
Posted by: polynike
He was a recording artist and then the director wanted to make a move based around him but wanted his music in it so cast him. It's a phenomenal movie. And ya he was killed in a crash this summer.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:03 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:50 PM (KC5Lt)
Carol King wrote one of their best - Pleasant Valley Sunday..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2026 08:04 PM (nbLIj)
It’s been said that when the group signed with Motown, producer Berry Gordy wouldn't allow them to record on their own songs, with the recordings instead handled by Motown's in-house studio band and legendary bassist James Jamerson.
Posted by: grass monkey at August 29, 2026 08:04 PM (van9r)
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:05 PM (KC5Lt)
Darrell Scott (well he wrote the song) - youtu.be/X6UuuEpinyA
Brad Paisley - youtu.be/neSUe7dO4v0
Plenty of other fine versions out there
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 08:05 PM (AdHga)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 08:05 PM (PbWRL)
Laura Nyro
John Denver
Hoyt Axton (and his mom wrote Heartbreak Hotel)
Clint Black
Duke Ellington
Dolly Parton
Vince Guaraldi
Barry Manilow*
Brian Wilson
* Manilow wrote many of his top 40 hits and several advertising jingles that are recognizable decades later. But I think his greatest talent is as an arranger. His 2 AM Paradise Cafe, broadway themes, and jazz renditions are superb. The best songs Bette Midler recorded were arranged by Manilow.
Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2026 08:06 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: argie at August 29, 2026 08:07 PM (6lIeU)
Darrell Scott (well he wrote the song) - youtu.be/X6UuuEpinyA
Brad Paisley - youtu.be/neSUe7dO4v0
Plenty of other fine versions out there
Posted by: Puddleglum
There is a great version by a girl playing banjo by a campfire. Taylor Demp. Chris Stapleton also has a good one.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:08 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 08:08 PM (Ia/+0)
Big Empty - youtu.be/3eFKTmwzVcU
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 08:08 PM (AdHga)
https://tinyurl.com/4czdj8kn
Posted by: BruceWayne
*********
Thanks for that BruceWayne. I'm a big fan of Chris and that was a lovely tribute.
Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 29, 2026 08:09 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 08:09 PM (GWwCk)
Posted by: fd at August 29, 2026 08:10 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:12 PM (YZ0Fo)
( Cash wasn't home at the time though. He gave the demo tape to someone taking care of the house at the time)
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:12 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 07:58 PM (EZWVc)
Patti Smith said that Springsteen wrote the song but she 'dirtied up a bit'. She commanded that song (SWIDT). And now, really am gone for the night. Again sometime, Hordelings.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 29, 2026 08:12 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: The Grateful - R
I saw him and his wife live a number of years ago. He's the rare artist that somehow sounds even better live than his albums.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:14 PM (YZ0Fo)
A writer/producer named David Hodges co-wrote a lot of stuff for Evanescence, but he played keyboards for them for a couple years just before they released their first album "Fallen," so I'm not sure if he's an "outside songwriter" or not. He's also written and produced for everyone from Tim McGraw to Celine Dion to The Backstreet Boys, so I'm guessing royalties from those sorts of performers keep his bread buttered.
Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 08:16 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:16 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:17 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 08:18 PM (GWwCk)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:17 PM (YZ0Fo)
Cee Lo's performance on Live from Daryl's House was excellent
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:19 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2026 08:19 PM (nbLIj)
Can't quit y'all. Tom Servo, Jeff picked it up from John Cale's version in 1991 and almost all of the covers since stem from Cale. The story is that Cohen was faxing verses to Cale to pick for his recording for the tribute album I'm Your Fan. Supposedly there are dozens of verses that Cohen wrote.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 29, 2026 08:20 PM (NcvvS)
From Floored (1997)
Sugar Ray - Fly
https://youtu.be/zUtnwcv-quE
From 14:59 (1999)
Sugar Ray - Every Morning
https://youtu.be/3cqU1pFRqYE
Sugar Ray - Someday
https://youtu.be/dPcX-5Tmqt8
Posted by: SciVo at August 29, 2026 08:21 PM (ke3zm)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 29, 2026 08:22 PM (SK+av)
Jim Webb
James Taylor (he's a political mess but can write songs)
Paul Simon
Antonio Carlos Jobm
Honorable mention:
Earl Hagen for Harlem Nocturne
Mel Torme for The Christmas Song
Allen Toussaint for Southern Nights (Glen Campbell version)
Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2026 08:22 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: fd
There are still musical artists around. But you have to look for them. Flip on XM radio and you hear music performed by people for whom music is an industry, not an art.
"Well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance [...]" -- Rupert Giles, on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, back in 2001.
Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 08:22 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: polynikes
I saw Gnarls Barkley at lollapalooza and I was blown away by how good he was on the stage.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:23 PM (YZ0Fo)
https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v= U8q9VBTl394
Take out the spaces
Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 08:24 PM (286+n)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 29, 2026 08:22 PM (SK+av)
They Call Me the Breeze. JJ..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2026 08:25 PM (nbLIj)
I still can't believe that Taurus lost their lawsuit. Especially in comparisons to some who have won which I'll never understand.
Like Harrison's My Sweet Lord losing to the Chiffons He's So Fine.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:25 PM (KC5Lt)
'Clapton is God' - graffiti in London, 1964
Posted by: Not in bed but should be at August 29, 2026 08:25 PM (NcvvS)
https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v= U8q9VBTl394
Take out the spaces
Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 08:24 PM (286+n)
Not ashamed to say I have four Miley Cyrus songs downloaded on my iPhone
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:26 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: polynikes
Wrecking ball is a jam. She may be a looney but she can sang.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:27 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2026 08:28 PM (286+n)
Posted by: Barry Manilow at August 29, 2026 08:29 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:29 PM (YZ0Fo)
12 OK, staying for just a moment because I'm thoroughly beat: almost every cover of a Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen song is better than the songwriter's version;”
I don’t think anyone has yet noted that this is true for Bob Dylan in spades.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 08:29 PM (GWwCk)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:27 PM (YZ0Fo)
Her duet with John Travolta from the Bolt song track is one of my favorites
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:29 PM (KC5Lt)
Merle Haggard, Peter Rowan, Marty Robbins, Elvis, Buddy Holly and many more. And Robert Hunter wrote a lot of the Dead's original stuff along with Jerry. Jerry was good friends with Dylan and covered a large number of his songs.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 08:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: polynikes
Oh ya. I forget about that one. Great song.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:30 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Tom Servo
I actually love Bob Dylan. I grew up listening to his biograph box set. But yes. The covers of his songs are better.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:32 PM (YZ0Fo)
In later years, I think he started recording a lot of his songs himself, but I've not followed much popular music since the original Association stopped recording.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 29, 2026 08:33 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: polynikes
Oh ya. I forget about that one. Great song.
Posted by: BruceWayne
Also Bolt was a really good movie no one remembers.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:33 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: polynikes
Oh ya. I forget about that one. Great song.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:30 PM (YZ0Fo
Partying in the USA
Malibu
Flowers
Are the other three I've downloaded .
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:34 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:33 PM (YZ0Fo)
My favorite animated movie. The ending was great.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:35 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:36 PM (YZ0Fo)
If you haven't heard the Sinatra/Jobim albums, you're cheating yourself.
Heard somewhere that late in his life, Sinatra would occasionally listen to "Wave" and marvel that he'd ever been able to hit notes that low.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 29, 2026 08:38 PM (q3u5l)
Tangled Up in Blue -- Dylan
A Matter of Trust -- Billy Joel
A Day in the Life -- Beatles
Sultans of Swing -- Dire Straits
Radar Love -- Golden Earring
I believe each of these songs were written by the artist, for better or worse (i.e. Dylan).
Posted by: Jayhawkone at August 29, 2026 08:38 PM (QSaoA)
Tim McGraw is a manufactured Country Star. He did well for himself though.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:39 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:17 PM (YZ0Fo)
Best cover is by Broken Peach...
https://tinyurl.com/58k67r69
Posted by: davidt at August 29, 2026 08:39 PM (Q+gd/)
Have you checked out Our Last Night covers?
Posted by: BruceWayne
First I've heard of them.
Not bad. A three-piece, more-serious / less-comedic / less-metal version of Leo Moracchioli?
OLN covering tatu:
https://youtu.be/94cDRxoViWU
Leo, same song:
https://youtu.be/p-qnsZhQ_iI
Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 08:39 PM (VHUov)
(sniffle)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 29, 2026 08:40 PM (gvBhq)
I can't disagree on Radar Love for sure.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 08:40 PM (KC5Lt)
Kid likes Rio and Migration, which is awful.
Posted by: Accomack at August 29, 2026 08:41 PM (+hwtP)
Posted by: Nazdar
See also: The Beatles.
Yeah, I know, "fight me." But I'm still young enough to outrun any Beatles fans. 😜
Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 08:43 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 29, 2026 08:43 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Accomack at August 29, 2026 08:43 PM (+hwtP)
Not bad. A three-piece, more-serious / less-comedic / less-metal version of Leo Moracchioli?
OLN covering tatu:
https://youtu.be/94cDRxoViWU
Leo, same song:
https://youtu.be/p-qnsZhQ_iI
Posted by: mikeski
Ya they mostly take pop songs and are like hey these are good. Let's metal em up a bit. Their blank space and sorry are great.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:45 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 08:45 PM (Ia/+0)
He sure could write. He has to be in the top 2 or 3 modern era covered writers. The number of artists who have covered his stuff is huge.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 08:45 PM (viF8m)
Kid likes Rio and Migration, which is awful.
Posted by: Accomack
Aw man. I like Rio.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:46 PM (YZ0Fo)
Kid likes Rio and Migration, which is awful.
Posted by: Accomack
Aw man. I like Rio.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:46 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:47 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 08:50 PM (EZWVc)
Don't know why Dre didn't credit Royce. Might be an honest oversight b/c most of his stuff got dropped from release.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 29, 2026 08:50 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Accomack at August 29, 2026 08:52 PM (6jy2V)
------
Was Burt Bacharach a philosopher?
Oh, this conversation isn't very good...
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at August 29, 2026 08:53 PM (5YmYl)
He did play with the JGB a few times.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 08:54 PM (viF8m)
Don't know why Dre didn't credit Royce. Might be an honest oversight b/c most of his stuff got dropped from release.
Posted by: 88C+u
Royce da 5-9 did an album with Eminem. It was really good.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:56 PM (YZ0Fo)
Don't know why Dre didn't credit Royce. Might be an honest oversight b/c most of his stuff got dropped from release.
Posted by: 88C+u
Also Dre's thing was mixing and beats. Eazy E and ice cube wrote almost all the NWA songs.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 08:59 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at August 29, 2026 07:38 PM (5Ym
Poor Kris couldn't carry a tune but he was a hell of a song writer.
He was a true renaissance man though.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:41 PM (KC5Lt)
well...Kris sounds like Sinatra compared to Willie Nelson
Posted by: zigggggy at August 29, 2026 08:59 PM (EDeJ/)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Excuse me, sir. You didn't mention the Rhianna cover Stay.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:01 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: She Hobbit
Hahah also great. But stay by itself is a good song. The others suck.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:02 PM (YZ0Fo)
Had no musical friends or fellows, and no outlet for my stuff, other than some home-recorded cassettes for a few (very few) friends and relatives, which garnered a few disparaging or mocking remarks. My wife and daughter have played a few of mine, which was nice.
A decade ago, before my hands and voice failed, I recorded a series of videos with most (but hardly all) of my songs for YooToob. The recording quality is not great, performances flawed (mostly first takes warts and all), but at least the songs are out there. With caption lyrics. FWIW. Sometimes, despite lack of demand, or interest, I annoy a music thread with a link to a song. Like this short and silly one:
🎶 🎹 amateur hour again
2 Percent Vim
Pondering power and restraint
A cut from Mindful Webworkshop #5, 2016 Sep 8
Link in nic. Should play from 0:21 to 2:48 in the vid.
🌅
Posted by: mindful webworker - inspiration comes from wherever at August 29, 2026 09:04 PM (ie4vn)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Fair.
Our Last Night also did a cool cover of Benson Boone's Beautiful Things.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:04 PM (ftFVW)
I write the songs... bitches.
Posted by: Barry Manilow at August 29, 2026 08:29 PM (2Cry5)
for those that don't know/... "I Write the Songs" is a popular song written by Bruce Johnston. Barry Manilow's version reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1976
Posted by: zigggggy at August 29, 2026 09:05 PM (EDeJ/)
Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2026 09:06 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 09:06 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Leo's breakout song was his cover of Toto's "Africa."
As "breakout" as a one-man-band cover artist in Norway gets, anyway.
https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw
Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 09:06 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 09:08 PM (EZWVc)
Just today discovered Chris covering Billie Jean and it is *chef's kiss*.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:09 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:11 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2026 09:06 PM (yTvNw)
He was a drummer. Just like Phil Collins.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 09:12 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:11 PM (ftFVW)
Good cod, you make me fish around for meaning.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 09:13 PM (rbvCR)
Just today discovered Chris covering Billie Jean and it is *chef's kiss*.
Posted by: She Hobbit
There was an album that was put out in 2020 after his death called "No one sings like you anymore". All covers. The sinead cover. Patience. Janis joplin. ELO.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:16 PM (YZ0Fo)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 09:17 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: BruceWayne
I liked Patience okay, but didn't feel like it added to or otherwise surpassed GnR.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:18 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: She Hobbit
Don't disagree but on the whole the album is amazing. His stay with me baby is just wow
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:20 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Leo's breakout song was his cover of Toto's "Africa."
As "breakout" as a one-man-band cover artist in Norway gets, anyway.
https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw
Posted by: mikeski
Weezer with Weird Al Yancovich also covered Toto's 'Africa'. It was oddly very good!
youtu.be/mk5Dwg5zm2U
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 09:20 PM (AdHga)
Yep. Cornell's version is beautiful. The best, IMO.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 09:22 PM (AdHga)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:22 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Puddleglum
Cornell's version of everything is the best.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:23 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 09:23 PM (AdHga)
Posted by: Puddleglum
Rusty cage too.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:25 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Puddleglum
100%. I still like the NIN original, but Johnny's just hits the soul harder.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:26 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 29, 2026 09:27 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 29, 2026 09:27 PM
***
Thanks! Just trying to help the team, coach...
Posted by: TRex - DJ jazzy dino at August 29, 2026 09:29 PM (XfIK1)
BTW, his daughter Monica is a lovely singer.
Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2026 09:30 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: She Hobbit
"And you can have it all, my empire of dirt" has to hit harder coming from a old man with a glorious musical legacy, vs a 20-something punk, eh?
Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 09:31 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: mikeski
What made it work for me was more than the lyrics which ya hit hard. It was the taking industrial and stripping it down to basically nothing. Like industrial rock/metal and old school country couldn't be more diametrically opposed.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:34 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Kind of Our Last Night in reverse.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:35 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 09:39 PM (AdHga)
https://youtu.be/ubCR46WMd3s
Narrator: That seems unlikely.
Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 09:39 PM (VHUov)
and also the theme songs to Dick Van Dyke and Andy Griffith.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 29, 2026 09:40 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 09:43 PM (KC5Lt)
https://youtu.be/ubCR46WMd3s
Narrator: That seems unlikely.
Posted by: mikeski
Oh, that's sick.
In the good way.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:44 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: polynikes at
The tribute concert that Shane Hawkins played drums after Taylor died was cool af.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:46 PM (YZ0Fo)
https://youtu.be/ubCR46WMd3s
Narrator: That seems unlikely.
Posted by: mikeski
That's cool.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:47 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:26 PM (ftFVW)
Reznor wrote it, Johnny lived it.
His video is heartbreaking.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 09:47 PM (GWwCk)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 09:39 PM (AdHga)
NIN was nihilism in the face of it, Johnny Cash was resignation in the aftermath.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 09:51 PM (rbvCR)
Here is the Noori sisters with Red Hot Chili Peppers-like backing
youtu.be/F3VYORQhhWY
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 09:53 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 09:53 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 29, 2026 09:54 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Miklos presages at August 29, 2026 09:54 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 29, 2026 09:56 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Miklos presages at August 29, 2026 09:57 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:58 PM (ftFVW)
- Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins
- Elo Kiddies by Cheap Trick
(Both of them are still bangers)
Posted by: 496 at August 29, 2026 09:58 PM (sOtuf)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 09:58 PM (AdHga)
Or mostly completely different
Posted by: Miklos presages
Okay.
https://youtu.be/pKgK3XXxt40
Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 09:59 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 29, 2026 09:58 PM (ftFVW)
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Exactly.. past tense please.
Posted by: 496 at August 29, 2026 09:59 PM (sOtuf)
Posted by: Miklos presages at August 29, 2026 09:59 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 10:00 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Musical Miklos, having provocatively summoned the ONT deities at August 29, 2026 10:01 PM (4RYRd)
That song left a big impression on me, back when I was in college. (at the turn of the century...)
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 29, 2026 10:02 PM (3v7ra)
Posted by: yara at August 29, 2026 10:03 PM (WUJRe)
Posted by: Unrelenting Miklos at August 29, 2026 10:03 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 29, 2026 10:10 PM (3v7ra)
On a similar note, I'll recommend Lords of the Trident. Great music (epic-metal-ish, no screaming) coupled with a 'we filmed the music video in our back yard' aesthetic. Their cover of "Glint" is on par with the original (and the original singer makes a cameo in the video) and "Carry of the Flame" is actually better than the original!
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 29, 2026 10:18 PM (3v7ra)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 29, 2026 10:18 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: TNDeplorable at August 29, 2026 11:10 PM (xKbSi)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 29, 2026 11:25 PM (f0sNM)
Hobby Thread - August 29, 2026 [TRex]
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling lucky and decided on a YouTubeing theme for this Hobby Thread.
A what? A YouTube theme? Warning: there may be modest math involved.a. splitting ad revenue that YouTube charges advertisers
b. earning a share of pooled YouTube Premium revenue
c. memberships
d. sponsorships (either cash or barter)
e. using YouTube as a funnel to personal business lines outside of YouTube. 2) Channels do not automatically qualify for monetization. A channel must meet minimum criteria for subscribers and watch hours. The current requirement is 1,000 subscribers, and either 4,000 watch hours in the last 12 months or 10 million Shorts views in the last 90 days. New rules in Feb 2027 double the required watch hours or Shorts views. (There is a lower tier that unlocks access to some features, but no ad revenue.) Once monetized, a channel must post periodically to remain monetized.
a. Creators split revenue with YouTube for long-form videos 55/45. Earnings are measured by revenue per thousand views. Shorts pay, but a lot lower because ads run between short videos and revenue is pooled.
b. Advertisers can directly choose individual YouTube channels (or even specific videos) where their ads will appear. They can also pay for exposure to viewer characteristics and let YouTube place the ads.
c. Ad revenue varies widely by niche, audience location/desirability (e.g., US finance viewers pay far more than gaming viewers in lower-tier countries), watch time/retention (longer videos serve more ads), and seasonality (such as holidays). The result is that different channels with the same number of views can earn very different ad revenue.
d. Revenue is only earned if viewers watch the ads. 4) Some YouTube viewers pay a fee to watch without ads through the YouTube Premium. 60% of the net revenue is pooled and split among creators based on view activity of Premium members.
10) Ten to thirty minute videos with strong retention are ideal. This partially explains why some videos that could be done in five minutes seem like they're stretched to 10 or 15 minutes. The short attention spans of most viewers is an ongoing challenge.
Words of wisdom:
"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).
Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Or just email to say hello. Do mighty things.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 05:31 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 05:31 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 05:32 PM (Ia/+0)
Many on my hobby war games
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 05:37 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 05:37 PM (KC5Lt)
Aside from that, I don't know any YooToobers -- unless some of you are? -- and have been only a consumer of its wares. This morning Grumpy & Recalcitrant posted a kitty video. What came up immediately after was a 30-minute video, "30 Insane Facts About The Man From U.N.C.L.E.!" Clearly composed with AI, it was studded with errors for anybody who knows the show. At least the episode clips were well-chosen.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 05:37 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Danang Dick at August 29, 2026 05:39 PM (88C+u)
Many on my hobby war games
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 05:37 PM (Ia/+0)
I semi-regularly watch maybe five or six YTers. Mostly people or families that like American stuff. I'll watch more than one type of YTer because I don't really have any hobbies I do anymore. I just watch to pass the time.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 05:40 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 05:40 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 05:41 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 05:43 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 05:37 PM (wzUl9)
Yeah, fan sites are much better than those other ones. There's a few I told you about for MfU.
Speaking of AI, I really hate those "after fifty years so and so who has been dead for decades finally says how much he hated so and so. If you didn't have to create a YT channel to post anymore, I'd leave a comment telling them to get their crap off the internet, but alas....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 05:44 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 05:45 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 05:45 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: PabloD at August 29, 2026 05:47 PM (6oTRF)
Posted by: PabloD at August 29, 2026 05:49 PM (6oTRF)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 05:50 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 05:52 PM (Ia/+0)
I am aware of the irony of using an AI image at the top and lauding the importance of authenticity in the content. Not changing it, but I am aware...
Posted by: TRex - virtual dino at August 29, 2026 05:53 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 05:52 PM (Ia/+0)
John Adams?
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 05:54 PM (KC5Lt)
And gun reviews.
And what plants around my property are edible, or have some sort of holistic properties.
And what fucking bird, lizard, bug, etc. is this?
The list, honestly.... is endless.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 29, 2026 05:57 PM (2Cry5)
A few other people watch my project channel, but I don't do any editing unless I've accidentally shown personal information. Also I need to post regularly.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 29, 2026 06:02 PM (C0Nlv)
The "Desert Drifter"...aka Andrew Cross. Unfortunately, he died in a car accident last year. His channel was entertaining and enjoyable not just because of the content, but he had something that a lot of his peers are severely missing...(likeable, well behaved, didn't use expletives as an adjective, excellent at editting, and truly interesting and entertaining content). I miss his stuff.
For those that don't know, he would explore the American Southwest (very much off the trail) and locate ruins, glyphics, lost civilization encampments, old west grafitti, undiscovered caves and dwellings. All kinds of interesting items. He NEVER disturbed any of it or took tools, pottery, anything. He left it as he found it. He was the type YouTuber that brought value to the platform.
Posted by: Orson at August 29, 2026 06:03 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 06:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Next week, do Blogging As A Hobby. You could expose the finances behind it. We all know Ace posts from his yacht, CBD from his Lamborghini, and weasel from a smoking tent on his deck as doggies nip at his ankles.
On my blog, I’m at minus $379 so far, but I’ll make it up in volume.
Especially when I’m done with my novel.
Posted by: RI Red - at August 29, 2026 06:07 PM (30Gj0)
One of the blessings of YT is discovering the rabbit holes that appear during a video. Malcolm Guite videos are especially good at that. One of the curses of YT is not having time to pursue all the rabbit holes.
Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2026 06:14 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2026 06:15 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 29, 2026 06:16 PM (SK+av)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 05:52 PM (Ia/+0)
John Adams?
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026
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Millard Fillmore!
James Buchanan?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 06:16 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 29, 2026 06:16 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: Orson at August 29, 2026 06:03 PM (dIske)
Sidetrack Adventures is good. A little bit of history covering things most people have forgotten or places that have faded away. Of course, there's always The History Guy. Santee at Arizona Ghostriders covers the Old West: history, guns, social conventions, etc. Jeff at History Hunters covers California, but also has been other places in the US.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 06:17 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: TRex - virtual dino
Authentic images of dinosaurs surfing youtube are probably hard to come by. Dinosaurs are famously reclusive. Nessie has only posed for a handful of photos over the decades.
Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2026 06:19 PM (VHUov)
On my blog, I’m at minus $379 so far, but I’ll make it up in volume.
Especially when I’m done with my novel.
Posted by: RI Red - at August 29, 2026 06:07 PM (30Gj0)
Blogging? Yeah, I had a Blogspot site once. Nobody read it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 06:19 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 06:19 PM (wzUl9)
He films himself eating vintage military field rations, from the US and around the world. He started as an "amateur" I guess you could say, talking about an MRE.
I've no idea if he's making any money at it, but he's wildly popular. Who knew, you can get other people to watch you eat expired surplus food?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 06:19 PM (vbftO)
I love ewe toob and watch certain categories often. It's a mixture of wisdom and stupidity, and one must be able to discern the difference. Thanks for explaining the monetization angle.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 29, 2026 06:20 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 29, 2026 06:20 PM (SK+av)
The few American whiskey channels I follow are on the ads plus subscription model. i put up with the ads, as I'm getting what I pay for here.
I've come to realize that my YT and Substack subscriptions have gradually replaced all but one of my magazine subscriptions - certainly saves a lot of shelf space. (Decades of R&T. mostly discarded during the last move.)
Posted by: Patches at August 29, 2026 06:22 PM (338iJ)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 06:22 PM (vbftO)
It's called Mtn Built and Mtn Built Hunts.
Posted by: huerfano at August 29, 2026 06:23 PM (2Xqig)
I'll smoke this one as I get it. Don't think it will cellar effectively with the flavor elements. This is the first St. Nicholas blend they've made in a few years. It's not an every year event.
Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2026 06:24 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 06:26 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 05:44 PM (1Ff7Z)
Don't forget the ones like the Abraham Lincoln sinking itself. I hates AI
Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2026 06:26 PM (LHPAg)
* Kramer's was a long-time fixture in LA, a pipe and tobacco shop in Beverly Hills that only closed recently. Reportedly stars like Cary Grant, Danny Kaye, and others had Kramer's make up custom pipe blends for them. The name has been taken over by Cornell & Diehl, and the blends are being sold online -- some in bulk, so you can get as little as one ounce, and some in two-ounce tins.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 06:27 PM (wzUl9)
I also watch Eugenio Monesma's Documentales, which is about Spanish lost crafts, and fortunately YouTube has automatic translation to English.
I also get a wild hair from time to time and start watching channels that are unnarrated videos of French and German bakeries making bread.
(the Germans weigh water. The f___, man, who weighs water!)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 06:28 PM (rbvCR)
I'll smoke this one as I get it. Don't think it will cellar effectively with the flavor elements. This is the first St. Nicholas blend they've made in a few years. It's not an every year event.
Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2026
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Orange and ginger sound okay, but pPerique is not to my taste. Too strong usually, even if it's just a touch. Stokkebye's Luxury Bullseye Flake is okay with its proportion -- but I doubt I'll buy any more of it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 06:29 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 29, 2026 06:29 PM (36x1j)
If I did allow ads I have no idea who'd want to advertise on the channel. Maybe people who make hemorrhoid cream.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 29, 2026 06:34 PM (CHHv1)
One is a Weber, a brand that was a solid mid-tier seller for some decades. The other is a "Canadian Club," which was a "second," a less-expensive line, for the famous brand Comoy's -- sort of like a Tudor watch vs. Rolex.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 06:35 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 06:37 PM (Ia/+0)
I ignored it, as my agency at the time could have done something nasty if they found out about that type of side gig.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 29, 2026 06:40 PM (yUbUe)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 06:42 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Jayhawkone at August 29, 2026 06:44 PM (QSaoA)
Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2026 06:26 PM (LHPAg)
Yes, OrangeEnt and Eromero Truly Hated Them....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 06:46 PM (1Ff7Z)
If they both have "cake," carbon buildup, in the bowls, I certainly will send them off. Carving that stuff out can be tricky; you can carve right into the wood of the bowl if you're not careful.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 06:46 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2026 06:47 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Patches at August 29, 2026 06:22 PM
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Good point. Substitute goods in the economic sense at work.
Posted by: TRex - online personality dino at August 29, 2026 06:48 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 29, 2026 06:50 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026
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Some of the errors in the 30-minute U.N.C.L.E. video were simple -- saying that Jill Ireland appeared five times on the show, each time as a different character, whereas it was four times and two of them were the same character; and little things like saying Shatner and Nimoy appeared in the show in 1964, "before Gene Roddenberry had written a word of Star Trek." Uh, no; GR had written the pilot, "The Cage," earlier that year and was filming it in late '64.
Among other things, though, the AI came in where, in several spots, the narrator tells us that "Napoleon Solo's [prop] gun is stored in the CIA Museum," and each time the video shows a single-shot dueling pistol of the kind Napoleon *Bonaparte* would have known. And it mentions Robert Taylor, the MGM star of the '30s-'50s, but shows a pic of the Australian Robert Taylor who starred in Longmire. Jeez Louise!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 06:54 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 06:54 PM (wzUl9)
There are always a few that look real, but then the "narrator" mispronounces a word, so you know it's fake.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026 06:56 PM (1Ff7Z)
Haven't done any miniatures in awhile.
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 06:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2026 06:47 PM
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Agreed. I never used to subscribe to channels but I've changed my approach. I think that subscriptions help curate the content that I see or that YT recommends or shows me. I still see slop and garbage but (I think) it is better.
Posted by: TRex - clickbait detective dino at August 29, 2026 06:57 PM (XfIK1)
I wish there was a way to give a thumbs down to certain ads. If I see one more Talafreako ad with PawPaw on the front porch, Im gonna pull an Elvis and shoot whatever device I’m using.
Posted by: TxAnn at August 29, 2026 07:02 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026
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Yes; the "narrator" pronounced the title of the Shatner-Nimoy-Klemperer episode as "strih-gas," whereas it's pronounced multiple times in the episode itself as "Str-eye-gas."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 07:03 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 29, 2026 07:03 PM (HW/1v)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2026
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Yes; the "narrator" pronounced the title of the Shatner-Nimoy-Klemperer episode as "strih-gas," whereas it's pronounced multiple times in the episode itself as "Str-eye-gas."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026
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And the pronunciation is important to the story. As part of the sting Solo and Illya are building, the "fact" comes out that "Strigas" is short for "Strike Gas."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 07:04 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: TxAnn at August 29, 2026 07:02 PM
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Amen. Especially during political campaign season.
Posted by: TRex - ad buster dino at August 29, 2026 07:07 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: TRex - clickbait detective dino at August 29, 2026 06:57 PM (XfIK1)
I’m right here, you know!
Posted by: RI Red - at August 29, 2026 07:08 PM (30Gj0)
Posted by: RI Red - at August 29, 2026 07:08 PM
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I would never call Emily slop or garbage.
Posted by: TRex - amateur blogger dino at August 29, 2026 07:12 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 07:13 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: RI Red - at August 29, 2026 07:08 PM
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I would never call Emily slop or garbage.
Posted by: TRex - amateur blogger dino at August 29, 2026 07:12 PM (XfIK1)
Yeah, she’d bust a cap in yo ass. Then mine.
Posted by: RI Red - at August 29, 2026 07:13 PM (30Gj0)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 29, 2026 07:03 PM (HW/1v)
Thanks. I was happy to gift that one to Ben Had.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 07:15 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: JTB at August 29, 2026 07:17 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 07:17 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 07:21 PM (RIvkX)
Anyone interested in a Saturday evening music thread?
Posted by: TRex - DJ dino at August 29, 2026 07:23 PM (XfIK1)
Thank you again polynikes for your incredible gift.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 07:23 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 07:24 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 29, 2026 07:34 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 29, 2026 07:54 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:33 AM (odBC9)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, August 29
Courtesy Kentuckiana Humor
Hi KT, Someone sent me this knowing that our Stella is part Belgian Malinois, and I do think she would love it because she has a little crazy in her. WeekreekfarmgirlDramatic visuals on a surprise YouTube Short: Impressed?
Crows are incredibly clever. This one figured out how to turn a tap on to get water and even remembered to turn it off afterwards. Their ability to learn, remember, and repeat useful behaviours is amazing pic.twitter.com/fgFi9QzaYR
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) August 23, 2026
This majestic Celtic horse breed, distinguished by its magnificent mane and the thick feathering on its legs, is known as the Gypsy Vanner; here, we see one alongside its young, proud foal, taking its first steps. pic.twitter.com/VTmYZWU2z7
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) August 26, 2026
Compare:
The Andalusian, aka pura raza española, has been recognized as a distinct breed since the XV century. It has been known for its prowess as a war horse and kings across Europe rode them for centuries
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 28, 2026
[📹 DiazFarmNC] pic.twitter.com/uTFTgyHobM
On March 11, 889, a 22-year-old Japanese emperor wrote in his diary about a new black cat he had recently acquired…
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) August 25, 2026
“On the 6th Day of the 2nd Month of the First Year of the Kampo era. Taking a moment of my free time, I wish to express my joy of the cat. It arrived by boat as a… pic.twitter.com/fVDuDlwiFV
Beautiful little Bella, the Pygmy Possum
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 24, 2026
[📹 emily_kangala_rescue] pic.twitter.com/S9WZPB3M9w
This would have been hard to believe if it hadn’t been recorded pic.twitter.com/5AHxFiTWmo
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 24, 2026
Mom’s old Cocker Spaniel loves to watch her cook, so Mom puts her on the seat at the island. She usually gets a treat as a bonus. When Mom finished, she left Birdy in the chair. Later, she heard snoring. Birdy sleeps a lot. :-)Love to Birdy. Great photo.
Rider In The Sky
It's a bit early for Halloween, but here's Della in her spider costume. Unfortunately, she refuses to scurry while she's wearing it. She just lies down and rolls onto her back. MileyI would not have recognized her.
Hi KT,So patient! Love Bunny.
This is Bunny, watching Della eat her breakfast and waiting to be served herself. Miley
Encountered by Members of The Horde
Here’s a Cooper’s hawk outside my guest room window last week. Beautiful bird. Crows were keeping a close eye on him. Later, saw an osprey with a fish in his talons fly across the street. Raptors galore!Fun to see. Thanks for sharing!
Nurse r
Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:Until next Saturday, have a great week!petmorons at protonmail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, August 22 I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 03:37 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 29, 2026 03:39 PM (Y5pM4)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 29, 2026 03:45 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at August 29, 2026 03:47 PM (tY90Q)
3 Tree lizards
1 Fledgling bird, rescued and returned to outside
8 geckos. This includes 2 this week- one she brought into the bedroom in the middle of the night Tuesday and one he found in the living room early yesteday morning.
Because he cannot hear her when asleep, I got up and put a cup over the remains, slid a piece of cardboard underneath and removed it to the kitchen floor near the back door. Then, I thought better of it and took it outside to the porch. Because I'm a swell person.
Posted by: sal at August 29, 2026 03:50 PM (f+FmA)
Old Sammy was extremely affectionate. He's a Void who appears silently out of nowhere, and he normally retains his dignity.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 29, 2026 03:51 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: KT at August 29, 2026 03:52 PM (1RGZ5)
What would our lives be like without pets?
Our pets have brought so much joy in our almost 50 years of marriage.
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 03:55 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: KT at August 29, 2026 03:56 PM (1RGZ5)
Posted by: sal at August 29, 2026 03:50 PM (f+FmA)
We have a designated mouse catcher (a microwave cover with a one foot square of cardboard). It used to come into use fairly often, but since there's little hunting going on (Purry is afraid to go out into the wild since the Incident).
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 29, 2026 03:56 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: clarence at August 29, 2026 03:57 PM (/2SkZ)
Alas there was no internet.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 29, 2026 03:58 PM (w6EFb)
CNN predicts the movie will be one of the best sellers of 2026.
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at August 29, 2026 04:04 PM (eO806)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2026 04:05 PM (1nfzE)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2026 04:08 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 04:08 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 04:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 04:09 PM (viF8m)
Neutraled?
Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2026 04:11 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026
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Did it shoulder the crows aside? "Outta my way, Black Beak! Comin' through!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 04:11 PM (wzUl9)
Wash your hands.
>Also wash your cutlery and utensils when processing raw meat, and then use a different set of utensils after it's cooked. I see too many people doing this while grilling. Put that raw shit on the grill than go wash you gear before you pull it off.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 29, 2026 04:14 PM (SK+av)
Kind of a personal question.
I think so. I was just the guy who cleaned stalls, lugged hay and fixed fences. What I know about horses could fit on the head of a pin.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 04:14 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at August 29, 2026 04:15 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 29, 2026 04:17 PM (jjzhV)
The longest road trip we had when we moved from Illinois to South Carolina. We had two Great Danes and two teacup Chichahuas.
The little darlngs were no problem.
We had issues when we had to let the Danes out, on a leash to do their business.
Why do we have so many pussies in our country that are skeered of dogs?
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 04:17 PM (/QHx4)
This happened last Monday, but I've mentioned it on the blog this week. Monday I took big Stirling in for his rabies shot and a basic checkup. He's fine, except! He's *15.5* pounds! This on a cat who ought to be 13.5 to 14 at the outside, says the vet. This marks a near-record among my cats. Only big red Arizona the (unlikely) part-Coon topped that, at 16, which was 2 lbs. over his proper weight.
So, like AZ before him, Stirling is on a diet. Less IAMS dry food, no dry food in a bowl overnight, a little more exercise . . . and most important, vigilance by yours truly to make sure he doesn't gobble up what Dagny leaves temporarily of her own meals. I stand watch, and when she walks off from her bowl, I scoop it up and put it out of Stirling's view and reach. She will get it back when she wants it.
Of course he is pretending to be gaunt and haggard, just rescued from a kitty concentration camp, etc. Not fooling anybody, cat!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 04:19 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 29, 2026 04:21 PM (SK+av)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 29, 2026
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The latest 'Net term for a pure black cat, I understand?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 04:21 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2026 04:21 PM (kTtsV)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 29, 2026
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So do I. He's the one on a diet right now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 04:22 PM (wzUl9)
The longest road trip we had when we moved from Illinois to South Carolina. We had two Great Danes and two teacup Chichahuas.
The little darlngs were no problem.
We had issues when we had to let the Danes out, on a leash to do their business.
Why do we have so many pussies in our country that are skeered of dogs?
Posted by: four seasons
When I was growing up, one of my neighbors had a Great Dane. It had a loud, menacing, bark and would charge at you, and then.....stop inches from you, step on your foot and you had to pet him. Once satisfied, he'd release your foot and wander off.
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at August 29, 2026 04:27 PM (sAmhv)
We had issues when we had to let the Danes out, on a leash to do their business.
Why do we have so many pussies in our country that are skeered of dogs?
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 04:17 PM (/QHx4)
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Neighbor lady is all of 5'3". She has an Irish Wolfhound. Beautiful dog but she doesn't walk it anymore. She gets dragged along when it sees someone and takes off to get ears rubbed .
Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2026 04:31 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2026 04:21 PM (kTtsV)
Sea otters and seals will jump on boats in Resurrection Bay (Seward, AK) when orcas come around. It is sometimes hilarious.
Also, sea otter moms park their babies on the back decks of boats in the harbor while they go collect food. They used to tangle the babies in seaweed, and that usually protected them, but then they discovered boat decks and so many of them do that now it is just amazing.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 29, 2026 04:31 PM (dEHLq)
That's the Barred Owl call. They also make an unearthly howling and cackling thing, almost guaranteed to get yer gal to sit a little bit closer to you around the campfire....
Winning!
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 04:35 PM (vbftO)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 04:36 PM (aJQbY)
We had two Great Danes and two teacup chihuahuas at the same time. The little ones slept on the beds with the Danes.
No one ended up a Scooby snack, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 04:36 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 04:37 PM (vbftO)
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Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026
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The brown/gray tabby seen at :27 turning on the water from the cooler for his human to fill the bowl looks much like my Dagny.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 04:40 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 04:41 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 04:44 PM (wzUl9)
Siberians are supposed to take five years to mature completely. It'll be interesting to compare her appearance next March, her fifth birthday, with what she looked like when I adopted her in Sept. '22.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 04:49 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 03:55 PM (/QHx4)
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BORING!
I realized not long ago that I have spent a full 25% of my years on Earth as a pet owner.
Don't regret a single day of that time with my pets.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2026 04:55 PM (FZ29D)
I told her I had not but since I had Duncan with me, the odds were good that they would come over to say hello.
Ran into her a little later. Both dogs were in the car, smiling in delight and covered in mud. They had gone to say hello to a neighbor and then discovered this great mud puddle. She was taking them to get bathed and both dogs had a look that said "I regret nothing."
Posted by: NR Pax at August 29, 2026 04:57 PM (yKJQ0)
Don't regret a single day of that time with my pets.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2026
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Except for my first twelve years on Earth, 1981-83 in an apartment that did not allow pets, and three months between the passing of Chekov D. Siberian and the adoption of Stirling, I've had at least one cat and occasionally two. Almost 80% of my life. Wow.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 05:01 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 05:07 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 29, 2026 05:07 PM (Ydd86)
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 05:09 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 29, 2026 05:13 PM (ig95V)
Dog: Do you think he's ever coming back?
Cat: Who?
Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2026 05:14 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2026 05:15 PM (FZ29D)
Dog: Do you think he's ever coming back?
Cat: Who?
Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2026 05:14 PM (vTZFs)
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Now, now...they've done research that shows cats experience separation anxiety as well.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2026 05:16 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 05:17 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 05:20 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 04:21 PM (wzUl9)
Well, he's not pure black, but close enough. It's a term I've seen on X, and it seems particularly appropriate for Sammy, who appears silently on the table out of the darkness.
He's my familiar.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 29, 2026 05:21 PM (w6EFb)
I'll go into my library, thinking she's there, but I don't see her.
Then she magically appears in the corner.
Kind spooky.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2026 05:24 PM (FZ29D)
Thanks to , KT , and to the people who sent in photos.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 05:25 PM (xSAlF)
Posted by: Joyenz at August 29, 2026 05:27 PM (2F0/Y)
Well, he's not pure black, but close enough. It's a term I've seen on X, and it seems particularly appropriate for Sammy, who appears silently on the table out of the darkness.
He's my familiar.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 29, 2026
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I used to think black cats were fairly rare. When Linda first moved to NO in, well, I won't say what year, she wanted to get first a Newfoundland -- which I talked her out of; she lived in a small third-floor apartment, for gosh sakes. Then she determined to have a black cat with green eyes. I didn't think she'd be able to find one easily.
Enter Marie-Antoinette, who was perfect for the role. Since then I've lived with two black cats, though neither had green eyes, and have seen lots of them as ferals and for adoption on various sites.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 05:29 PM (wzUl9)
I'll go into my library, thinking she's there, but I don't see her.
Then she magically appears in the corner.
Kind spooky.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2026
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Dagny is the same. She had various nesting spots, the bedroom window and under the bed among them.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 05:30 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 05:31 PM (wzUl9)
It was a funny autocorrect and I'm sure we all knew what you were intending there 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 05:33 PM (xPsv8)
Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2026 05:38 PM (LHPAg)
I think it's the male , its mate and their chick. Doves suddenly are no where to be seen.
Posted by: kingsman at August 29, 2026 07:20 PM (ehY6c)
Posted by: sidney at August 30, 2026 08:28 AM (rzwGB)
Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Aug. 29
From a commercial Roma plant, the biggest Roma I’ve ever seen.Impressive! Lotsa sauce possible from tomatoes like that.
Edible Gardening/Putting Things By
My crazy 6 ft tall tomato plant is overloaded with tomatoes. The picture below is two days haul and there are many more to come.The cherry tomatoes look great. What do you do with them after roasting? The peppers also sound good.
The jalapeños at the top are the two different varieties I mentioned last week. The small one is a normal jalapeño and the big one is called Giant Jalapeño. Three jars of pickled japaenos so far and maybe one or two more.There are half dozen poblanos almost ready.
Going to roast the tomatoes because there is no way I can eat all of them. Sharon(willow's apprentice)
Fabulous few days looking after grandson, almost 2, whilst his mum & dad went to a wedding. An absolute joy, but boy are we exhausted! My birthday yesterday passed in a blur of playing in the park, baking biscuits, reading & picking tomatoes. Quiet at home now. Have a good day. pic.twitter.com/eEE7rGTHXJ
— Ella Beard (@EllaBeard11) August 24, 2026
Gm. Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), a native North American sunflower, is not a type of artichoke (it’s a root vegetable), and its Jerusalem moniker is a mispronunciation of “girasole,” the Italian word for sunflower. pic.twitter.com/gHuGx1Q9ZF
— Sarah 🥨 (@cosmopterix) August 22, 2026
Located in County Meath, Ireland, this stunning 300-year-old Yew Tree Tunnel at Gormanston Castle is a living architectural marvel.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 23, 2026
Planted in the late 17th century by the Preston family, generations of meticulous training have caused the branches of these ancient trees to… pic.twitter.com/sKVYEIQnqA
Bern has a quirky summer tradition: instead of driving home, some locals jump into the Aare River after work, pack their clothes in waterproof bags, and float with the current all the way home pic.twitter.com/Iu9gXeidBz
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) August 25, 2026
This is a radioactive mineral inside a cloud chamber which allows you to see condensation trails cause by radioactive decay particles shooting through a supersaturated alcohol vapor cloud, mainly alpha particles. pic.twitter.com/M9n2DsWZYO
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 28, 2026
What's happening in your yard or neighborhood?
If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is: ktinthegarden at g mail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.
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Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 29, 2026 01:43 PM (bkuEU)
Posted by: Pat*'s Hubbie at August 29, 2026 01:44 PM (x0vey)
Posted by: SciVo at August 29, 2026 01:45 PM (ke3zm)
I made apple crisp and pear crisp last week, and they were both absolutely wonderful. No spices, just butter, brown sugar, flour, oatmeal, and dead-ripe fruit.
The sort of desert that makes me want to dance in the middle of the kitchen stuffing it in my face while making happy noises.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 01:51 PM (rbvCR)
Does driving the tractor around count?
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 02:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Maybe next year I'll do this again.
Posted by: huerfano at August 29, 2026 02:01 PM (2Xqig)
Well, musta' been a big boy in the garden.
Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2026 02:02 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 02:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 02:05 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: KT at August 29, 2026 02:16 PM (1RGZ5)
Why we can’t just have a lawn right up to the house is beyond me?
Posted by: Unkaren at August 29, 2026 02:24 PM (bwExE)
Posted by: Emmie at August 29, 2026 02:28 PM (OlzlW)
I had never seen that. Alcohol, is there anything it can't do?
Posted by: 40 Miles North at August 29, 2026 02:30 PM (96qvc)
At the water taxi dock to sail over to downtown and then catch a big boat over to Bainbridge Island to meet Some Rat and go to the Kitsap County Fair.
Should be a hoot. I’ve not been to this particular fair, but I do so love the smaller, rural fairs. The big ones here are way too crowded and expensive.
Hope to see all the silly chickens with feathers on their feet and the fancy bunnies.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 29, 2026 02:32 PM (OxX9V)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 29, 2026 02:33 PM (kpS4V)
Why we can’t just have a lawn right up to the house is beyond me?
Posted by: Unkaren at August 29, 2026 02:24 PM (bwExE)
For rugged survival try Bodark, or Osage orange. Just don't let it hang over your house if only because the fruits are the size of King apples and will bonk on your roof at night. They grow in OK and Oregon so they are within the weather you get there in SC
Very pretty leaves that look like citrus leaves, and spines like a lemon. Very hardy
Hard yellow wood, and they don't really shed branches. They don't sucker, and don't spread well by seed.
Or a nice apple, you could get an indeterminate apple that will grow big and give you fruit.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 02:33 PM (rbvCR)
They were nice and sweet with tender skins. I'm glad I tried them.
Posted by: Emmie at August 29, 2026 02:33 PM (OlzlW)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 29, 2026 02:35 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Unkaren at August 29, 2026 02:24 PM (bwExE)
"Unkaren" sounds like a person who is somewhat ill-suited to live in an HOA neighborhood.
Posted by: Emmie at August 29, 2026 02:36 PM (OlzlW)
Posted by: Skip at August
And then it goes upthe Delaware, Hudson or Ct. river valleys. Pretty dry in eastern new england.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 29, 2026 02:38 PM (RE0lB)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 02:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Get a spray bottle and mix dish soap with water, and spray every connection down with a good saturating spritz and look for bubbles to indicate leaks.
Then turn everything off, including the tank. Disconnect the tank nozzle and check for foreign objects blocking the tank and the screw on fitting. Then starting with the tank, turn everything on again, and look for bubbles.
Then you gotta look for blockages, maybe you got some carbon or crusted grease that ran into the grill fittings or nozzle.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 02:38 PM (rbvCR)
Why we can’t just have a lawn right up to the house is beyond me?
Posted by: Unkaren
Get an inflatable palm tree off Amazon.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 29, 2026 02:42 PM (6MCJI)
In the Northeast of the US, there has been a real issue with the Spotted Lantern Fly. Vineyards, especially, had an issue. It was another gift from China that started up in the US around 2014. No one had been able to make a dent in them as they increased in number and covered trees (mostly scrub trees) and plants (grape vines especially).
BUT, in Pennsylvania, they are decreasing significantly. "Mother Nature" decided to step in and kick their fast growing a**. It turns out there is a fungus (actually two) that exist in PA. Batkoa major and Beauveria bassiana, almost work at a team. The Batkoa infects the bug because it's found in tree bark and causes it to seek the highest point of the tree. They die and fall to the ground where Beauveria is found as a soil fungus. It contributes by killing the eggs attached to the now dead Lantern fly.
Don't mess with Mother Nature. She has minions.
Posted by: Orson at August 29, 2026 02:44 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 02:46 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 02:48 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 02:48 PM (aJQbY)
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I can attest to this. I had a relative that gave me a bunch of evergreen saplings from a fundraiser she ran and had left over. I planted them along the driveway and what I thought was a significant distance from the house. They are now about 30 feet high (all of them)...and clog up my rain spouts, spray acidic sap on my house and host whole families of owls who never shut up. And, yup, clay based soil.
Posted by: Orson at August 29, 2026 02:51 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Gummie at August 29, 2026 02:51 PM (aA6YN)
Why we can’t just have a lawn right up to the house is beyond me?
Posted by: Unkaren
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If you're looking for a low maintenance, very little clean up tree in South Carolina, I recommend a Japanese Maple. They don't get too big. Not a lot of attention required, and not much clean up when the HOA whines about leaves on the ground.
Posted by: Orson at August 29, 2026 02:57 PM (dIske)
Any thoughts? I don't want to log into X on my 'less protected' browser if I can help it.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 02:57 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 29, 2026 02:58 PM (bkuEU)
Western Idaho Fair ribbon pickup is on Monday, so I can photo them then.
Green bean plants dying - pulled out 2/3 already. Now at 7 cantaloupes harvested. Looks like we can actually freeze some of the sweet corn. Bell peppers have some with scald marks, which I am leaving on the plants in hopes they protect the peppers behind them. Still picking 3 tomato varieties.
I started some garden cleanup - pruned the sage - lavender needs shearing next.
Despite deep watering, large areas of the lawn have turned brown and look awful - including the entire front lawn...
Kitchen corner project: Trench from digging hyacinth bulbs is filled with drain rock. We are still in the "lots of blue slate rocks needs washing" stage. I can fill buckets with them faster than we can wash them. Husband got the walls power-washed today, so he can caulk and paint. Then we can build the raised dry-stone bed for the future bulbs.
Posted by: Pat* at August 29, 2026 03:03 PM (x0vey)
Best ever. Solid meat clear through, and a couple of them SOB's went a good two pounds. As night temps got the the low 60's I thought they were done ripening, but she read up and trimmed back all around the plants, removing the smallest fruits and extraneous growth -- it livened them right up. Epic yield.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 29, 2026 03:14 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 29, 2026 03:15 PM (sFNX2)
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Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 29, 2026 03:19 PM (hCjtc)
They're also hell on solar-cell outdoor light switches.
I try not to get upset with them. They see me as mosquito bait.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 29, 2026 03:22 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 03:23 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 29, 2026 03:35 PM (bkuEU)
No, I like Ginko, they are classically polite, just like the Japanese. They tend to drop all their leaves at once, within a day or two.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 04:03 PM (vbftO)
Not sure what to do, but this is an alternate version
https://x.com/_fluxfeeds/status/2068580783707898357
Posted by: KT at August 29, 2026 04:06 PM (1RGZ5)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 04:22 PM (aJQbY)
Hey, K.T., was that you sneaking around my garden near the sunchokes? I thought it was a possum.
I planted them for the first time this year, paying someone who digs them out of the ditches. They're blooming now, about three weeks after ones in the wild. So pretty! They were about six feet tall but are bending from the weight of the flowers.
I haven't harvested any yet because potatoes are cheap. I will let you know when I try them. Even if I end up not eating a lot, it's fine. I want them overtake the western corner where the neighbor's creeper encroaches. So far, they're winning.
Hornets have been everywhere recently. There may be a nest under the rhubarb I need to break up, next to the wooden privacy fence - so the usual remedy of gasoline and matches is out.
A roofer found the main source (without getting stung). There's a nest under a shrub two doors down. Thousands of wasps.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 29, 2026 04:29 PM (vLVqW)
Posted by: MD_Mike at August 29, 2026 04:32 PM (oBxub)
Her solution to zebra muscles in the Great Lakes is that ducks eat them, but the mussels are so hard, they destroy the duck's grinders and they collect contaminants like PCBs so that the poor ducks die young.
The invasive goby also eat them, introducing contaminants farther up the foodchain. But they've helped bring the endangered Lake Erie water snakes back. (Nonvenomous snakes are my favorite.)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 29, 2026 04:49 PM (vLVqW)
It wasn't me in your sunchokes. Interesting that they are choking out the creeper!
I was stung by a hornet a month or so ago, and found and killed a nest with wasp killer. It was in a small lantern.
I watched a video where one pest control guy put a specific amount of powdered boric acid in a sweet solution in a soda can and made a way for wasps and hornets to enter - like a chopstick or something. Slow, but might work on smaller nests.
He had a professional spray he used directly on nests (when it was cool).
Posted by: KT at August 29, 2026 05:01 PM (1RGZ5)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTWEdIzC8D4
Slow "take it to the nest" boric acid method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BxyR5GwIJI
Posted by: KT at August 29, 2026 05:29 PM (1RGZ5)
When government finishes something - even in California!
There have been some raised eyebrows and a lot of commentary over a statement by Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman about finishing a recent infrastructure project:
The Los Feliz Neighborhood Council alerted our office in late 2025 to the need for a crosswalk at Sunset Dr. and Bates St., which has just been completed! Thank you to our incredible CD4 Field Team for continuing to problem-solve, push for solutions, and make our streets safer.
Mary Katherine Ham gave what is perhaps the most personal comparison:
Meanwhile, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass orders cops to stop cracking down on illegal street vendors. To me, this invites a comparison to Mayor Mamdani in New York being sued by "multicultural" bodega owners for his plan to drive them out of business by opening government-subsidized grocery stores. And Adam Carolla points out that:I am the worst procrastinator and I can make a whole-ass human in 9 mos https://t.co/bI88w5z7XB
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) August 28, 2026
Once cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles do this—once you essentially look the other way for the homeless, junkies, illegal immigrants, criminals, or whoever it is, while shining a spotlight on taxpayers with over-regulation, over-permitting, and trying to manage every grain of their lives, versus saying to illegal immigrants, ‘Go do whatever you want,’ or to the homeless, ‘Go shoot up wherever you want or sleep wherever you want’—then you’ve lost it. L.A.’s there. San Francisco’s there.Sleep wherever you want and don't worry about setting fires . . . How's that high-speed rail coming along? Yesterday we drove over a fancy new overpass which is intended to allow cars and trucks to easily make their way over the future high-speed rail tracks. It looks a lot like a smaller version of a similar overpass over a highway a few miles to the north. Traffic crossing the nearby existing freight and Amtrak rails must still stop the old-fashioned way. The new overpass does not look particularly safe for pedestrians or bicyclists. Perhaps some new local bus routes between neighborhoods and country towns are planned for the future. Some neighborhoods no longer exist, having fallen victim to eminent domain. There won't be a high-speed train station nearby. So the promise of "local jobs" was kinda temporary. The pretty new overpass does keep people from getting lost like they did for months on the previous very confusing detours which changed periodically. And some cars fell into ditches during the many months of detours and degraded roads, as well. So, in one small part of the future high-speed rail route, some progress has apparently been made. I wouldn't be surprised if traffic over the newly finished infrastructure is restricted when work on the rails begins. If it does. Shafter Shafts plans for high-speed rail This is not too far to the south of the pretty new overpass:
California’s high-speed rail boondoggle, which is already a $128 billion joke that has been decades in the making with not a single mile of track carrying a single paying passenger, has managed to find a brand-new way to embarrass the state’s “visionary” political leadership. This time, it’s not federal funding cuts or blown deadlines doing the damage, but a Central Valley city and a major homebuilder simply refusing to get out of the way, greenlighting 1,200 new homes smack in the middle of the rail authority’s approved route.Well. This seems rather late in the game to be changing the route on the already truncated high-speed rail line. See more details at the link.California’s beleaguered, over-budget high-speed rail line now has one more thing to worry about: A city and housing developer wants to build homes right in the train’s projected path. Shafter, a city near Bakersfield, and developer Lennar Homes are plowing ahead with 1,200 homes in the same area off Highway 99 where the state’s rail authority plans to build tracks. . .
New California High Speed Rail video for you. Based on a new report by the CAHSR Office of the Inspector General and developments in the city of Shafter, the project is at serious risk of not being able to open an Initial Operating Segment. At all.
Call Shafter’s move poetic justice for a project that has spent over a decade steamrolling farmers and small property owners with eminent domain and political entitlement. Sacramento’s fantasy train may get ” shafted” by the plucky citizens of a small town that California bureaucrats chose to ignore. . . As an added bonus, given the state’s “housing shortage,” it’s going to be very hard to make Lennar homes a villain in this story.
And in current news, California lawmakers block Gov. Newsom's push to limit wildfire liability for utilities. The stock at PG&E, the special friends of Newsom's wife, has gone down.Chew on this:
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) August 26, 2026
Your power in Reno and my power in SLT Calif both come from the same source -- NV Energy.
My electricity bill is routinely over $500 a month in the summer time, and it's rarely over 85 degrees during the daytime. https://t.co/DorJbqPaxf
"Real" papers that are indistinguishable from this are published almost daily. https://t.co/Q8ec0kcNRL
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) August 22, 2026
In this week's Grumpy Economist Rant, @JohnHCochrane revisits Alexander Hamilton's approach to the large public debt left by the Revolutionary War and explains how honoring contracts built America's financial reputation.
— Hoover Institution (@HooverInst) August 23, 2026
Full video on Freedom Frequency: https://t.co/VUT3OXxX0D pic.twitter.com/O8GbpHT8A1
For the monarchists out there:
King George VI was at war with Nazi Germany as King of the UK, yet at peace with it as King of Ireland, formally accrediting German diplomats.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 24, 2026
After the war, he was technically at war with himself as King of India and Pakistan, during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1947. pic.twitter.com/IVUMzkg6co
Dolly Parton’s music was never my taste, but somehow I always had only favorable impressions of her when she came into public view over the last 50 years. And just now I recall that a big Broadway play of my youth was “Hello, Dolly!” The film version would have been so much better with Dolly Parton instead of Barbra “Strident” Streisand. And so just now we need to improvise “Goodbye, Dolly.” Is it true that she’s the last figure in the country that everyone loved? Maybe. But let’s not overlook Tim Curry while we’re at it. And let’s salute America’s newest Great Lake!
It’s hard to convey to people who haven’t seen this stuff just how rife it is in the humanities and social sciences today. I remember going to Cambridge to study anthropology and thinking I would be asking big questions about human nature and bizarre rituals and customs, but all… https://t.co/zSVBEIBJ2b
— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) August 24, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)I guess I can't complain about the noise when that kick-ass huge machine comes around my part of Canada washing the curbs...
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 29, 2026 11:12 AM (Sco7b)
#1: No one notices that I have a great ass!
What a great soul.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2026 11:17 AM (dtajH)
They ain't bankrupt yet
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 11:22 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2026 11:25 AM (Riz8t)
"Not at all. I know that I am not dumb. I also know that I am not blonde."
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 29, 2026 11:28 AM (36x1j)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 29, 2026 11:28 AM (Sco7b)
So many coveted city parking spots gone.
And just to rub it in....they made jay walking legal.
California Democrats should be trebucheted into the heart of the Sun.
Posted by: torabora at August 29, 2026 11:31 AM (Wt1Rs)
They ain't bankrupt yet
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Give the Central Valley a little credit. It's a nice overpass over nothing. It's finished and the mountain of dirt is gone. For now.
Posted by: KT at August 29, 2026 11:31 AM (1RGZ5)
He plays a simpleton who works as a gardener on a DC estate until the owner dies and he has to go out in the world. All he knows is what he's seen on TV. All he says are platitudes. But DC players mistake him for a genius and he becomes a Power Player.
It's one of Sellers' best.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2026 11:32 AM (dtajH)
It is sad how the same mistakes get made over and over again, blithely.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 11:34 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Avoid California and Live A Happy Life at August 29, 2026 11:35 AM (yuEAg)
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Suing a Marxist tyrant is kind of a joke isn't it?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 11:36 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 29, 2026 11:36 AM (Cqx++)
Jason Arday was a perpetrator who reveled in his lies.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 11:36 AM (RIvkX)
The transit authority in Seattle just announced that it will be installing fare gates at some light rail stations.
They'll be ready in 2030.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 29, 2026 11:36 AM (aD4fx)
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Living it the third world.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 11:39 AM (6T7Go)
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Suing a Marxist tyrant is kind of a joke isn't it?
How long before Mamdani declares himself the caliph of NYC?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2026 11:39 AM (Riz8t)
After November Trump should look into our Constitution's guaranty of a Republican form of government.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2026 11:39 AM (dtajH)
One of the characteristics of blue governance is that it has become incapable of constructing infrastructure at any sort of reasonable time or cost.
Some of the new public housing in Portland costs $900,000 a unit.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 29, 2026 11:40 AM (aD4fx)
The weather and scenery is nice. We lived for a while in Mountain View, them relocated to the Monterey area. The people, generally speaking, are dicks. Not laid back at all. At least not where we were. Lots of busy bodies who want to get all up in your biz... tell you what you should be doing, etc.
Left the place in 2013 and relocated to rural Kentucky. Weather can be a pain in the ass, but the scenery is pretty nice. And we're left alone.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 29, 2026 11:41 AM (2Cry5)
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If they had an easement or bought the land Lennar couldn't build.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 11:42 AM (6T7Go)
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Suing a Marxist tyrant is kind of a joke isn't it?
How long before Mamdani declares himself the caliph of NYC?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2026 11:39 AM (Riz8t)
There was a story that some of these owners that were complaining were getting more tickets than usual for 'stuff'.
If you can imagine governmental abuses of power like that.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 29, 2026 11:43 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 11:43 AM (RIvkX)
If California ever regains sanity, it might be nice to visit that area again... but you won't get me to move there until it's been sane at least 5 years.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 11:44 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I had that done and while it didn't exactly hurt, it was definitely unpleasant.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 11:44 AM (ndZc7)
How long before Mamdani declares himself the caliph of NYC?
Posted by: Archimedes
The Duke of New York
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 29, 2026 11:46 AM (Cqx++)
I had that done and while it didn't exactly hurt, it was definitely unpleasant.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 11:44 AM (ndZc7)
Done.
I've had that done plenty of times. Not that bad though.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 29, 2026 11:46 AM (Sco7b)
Portland has other problems. Portland has an "arts tax" for art in schools and to subsidize arts institutions. Almost everyone in the city has to send $35 every year to city government, which causes much screaming about the bureaucracy required to collect it, and the methods the bureaucracy uses to collect it.
A trannny has an issue (from Reddit):
The City is demanding Art Tax for both me and my dead name.
A commenter noted:
I don’t know how to explain it but this is the most “Portland” post there ever was
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 29, 2026 11:47 AM (aD4fx)
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They killed him but white man George RRRR Martin makes shit up and he's a big hero!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 11:48 AM (ndZc7)
Same shit that lets them make giant high voltage wire hairballs on transformers, ride train exteriors, etc., without noting how retarded it is.
Posted by: heya at August 29, 2026 11:49 AM (ND37T)
I wonder what causes it to build up so quickly.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 29, 2026 11:50 AM (2Cry5)
It's a shame N. Cal has to be attached to California. Awesome place when you can see it through the wildfire smoke.
Posted by: Reforger at August 29, 2026 11:50 AM (jJAdc)
mine has this happen and one time the doc had to SHOW it to me. he was amazed at the sheer size lol
no wonder he has "selective hearing"!!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 29, 2026 11:54 AM (j+aD2)
We're on a road to nowhere / Come on inside
Takin' that ride to nowhere / We'll take that ride
I'm feelin' okay this morning / And you know
We're on a road to paradise / Here we go, here we go
We're on a ride to nowhere / Come on inside
Takin' that ride to nowhere / We'll take that ride
Maybe you wonder where you are / I don't care
Here is where time is on our side / Take you there, take you there
We're on a road to nowhere
We're on a road to nowhere
We're on a road to nowhere
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 29, 2026 11:54 AM (trSL4)
Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2026 11:55 AM (UYYJi)
Posted by: the bees at August 29, 2026 11:55 AM (Ht82O)
Posted by: Paul at August 29, 2026 11:56 AM (aNM/F)
Over 400,000 transgender people in have fled their home states for safer ones since the 2024 election.
A commenter:
Anecdotally, I know of handful of families with a trans kid who have moved to Oregon in the past year or so. Have heard that recruiters for Oregon jobs are specifically targeting red states
Yeah, because if I'm running a business in Portland, my first priority is going to be hiring mentally ill people and sexual perverts.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 29, 2026 11:56 AM (aD4fx)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 11:56 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 29, 2026 11:56 AM (aD4fx)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 29, 2026 11:57 AM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 29, 2026 11:57 AM (j+aD2)
>Ha ha! We finally got rid of those two dullards from sussex. If Chucky had some balls he would crush these two and place them in exile. Nothing would hurt them more than to crush the ego and narcissism.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 29, 2026 11:58 AM (SK+av)
Who believed our slobbering drool-baby when he said he knew who was his daddy?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 29, 2026 11:59 AM (trSL4)
I wonder what causes it to build up so quickly.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 29, 2026 11:50 AM (2Cry5)
I have chronic sinus issues that seem to contribute to excess buildup in my ears. Are your sinuses a problem for you?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 29, 2026 12:01 PM (lFFaq)
Ha ha! We finally got rid of those two dullards from sussex. If Chucky had some balls he would crush these two and place them in exile. Nothing would hurt them more than to crush the ego and narcissism.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
South Georgia is badly in need of low skill labor and those two fit the bill.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 29, 2026 12:01 PM (trSL4)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
The traditional place to send Brit malefactors is Australia.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 12:02 PM (ndZc7)
St. Helena or Tristan de Cunha. Harry could graze with the bovine / ovine population and MeAgain could make pretty little scented candles to sell from seal blubber.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 29, 2026 12:04 PM (trSL4)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 12:05 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: fd at August 29, 2026 12:05 PM (t9HpY)
The British army in India had transportation to Australia as punishment for a variety of serious crimes.
Unfortunately for them, word got back to India about the actual living conditions in Australia, and soldiers began deliberately committing serious crimes, specifically so they would be transported to Australia.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 29, 2026 12:06 PM (aD4fx)
I wonder what causes it to build up so quickly.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 29, 2026 11:50 AM (2Cry5)
I have chronic sinus issues that seem to contribute to excess buildup in my ears. Are your sinuses a problem for you?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 29, 2026 12:01 PM (lFFaq)
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Yeah. I sort of figured it might be something like that. I have some meds for the sinus issues.... I should probably get used to taking them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 29, 2026 12:08 PM (2Cry5)
Another thing about it is that if a local resident had taken a paint roller and a can of yellow paint and done the same thing a year ago, the city would have arrested him for it.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2026 12:09 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 12:11 PM (RIvkX)
Do we need to send in Snake Plissken to get him out?
Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2026 12:11 PM (vTZFs)
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Milk and cookies. Drink the milk. Turn the plastic jug into cookies.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 12:11 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 12:13 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Chilly Willy at August 29, 2026 12:14 PM (JM9I6)
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Just like grandma used to make!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 12:14 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 12:11 PM (ndZc7)
Wasn't "microplastics" just the big scare we were all supposed to freak out about? Why do I suspect it's the same organizations pushing this as were pushing that?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 29, 2026 12:16 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: scottst at August 29, 2026 12:16 PM (6fhoX)
Scientists now have a process that transforms plastic bottles into edible cookies
On, really?
And this process completely removes the UV stabilizers, catalysts and other poly-syllabic monstrosities that are part and parcel of the polymerization and casting processes used to create the bottles in the first place, of course.
Or does it?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 29, 2026 12:16 PM (trSL4)
Now when you order everybody's favorite "Bag O' Glass" for your monster child, you will also get 2 "Bag O' Plastic Cookies" absolutely free, just pay for shipping and handling!
Call Today! 1-888-UBE-DUMB....Call today! We can't do this all day! Order Now!
Posted by: Irwin Mainway, Pres. Of Mainway Toys at August 29, 2026 12:17 PM (yuEAg)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 29, 2026 12:17 PM (trSL4)
Posted by: scottst at August 29, 2026 12:17 PM (6fhoX)
Posted by: Skip
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Are you adding salt to the water and using warm water? It makes a huge difference in the experience.
Posted by: lin-duh at August 29, 2026 12:17 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 12:18 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip
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Are you adding salt to the water and using warm water? It makes a huge difference in the experience.
Posted by: lin-duh at August 29, 2026 12:17 PM (VCgbV)
67 I tried a neti-pot but got water in my ears that lasted months.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 12:18 PM (RIvkX
Good for you to wash out the trash we breathe in all day.
Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2026 12:21 PM (UYYJi)
That excerpt of Arday's work describes someone who is unemployable and belongs in an institution.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 29, 2026 12:21 PM (biznJ)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 29, 2026 11:54 AM (j+aD2)
You are funny, Black Orchid . He is better now.
And thanks to all who chimed in with their own waxy problems.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 12:22 PM (m6Eem)
Posted by: Old Blue at August 29, 2026 12:27 PM (up14Y)
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Good for you to wash out the trash we breathe in all day.
I have the squeeze bottle version that I use when I have a cold or congestion or after mowing the yard. I would use it more often but there is some (probably small but non-zero) risk of pushing bacteria up your nose if you use tap water instead of distilled and frankly it's just too much trouble.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2026 12:29 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 29, 2026 12:31 PM (gm9Sb)
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It exceeded all expectations if you know what the ultimate goal was. Nearly 800 private properties (inclusive of 100 year old generational farms and high valued properties) confiscated by the State government through emminent domain. Also, a giant fund to be applied where ever your little communist heart desires.
Posted by: Orson at August 29, 2026 12:38 PM (dIske)
As they evolve they become less effective, and, less effcient. And, like a living organism, they develop self-protective mechanisms.
Some of you may have noted my comments in the last year or so regarding the flood destruction of the Veteran's Restoration Quarters here in Asheville. The subsequent interactions with FEMA, HUD, and local authorities in trying to reconstruct the physical facility have been real eye-openers.
Last week we held the ground-breaking for the rebuilding. Get this...we could not hold a simple photo-op of shoveling a little dirt until we had FEMA-approved dirt. They would not allow that until certified archeological and environmental studies had been submitted. We had to bring in a pickup truck load of outside dirt, just to take a token photo. And, that dirt had to be certified also.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2026 12:45 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: scottst at August 29, 2026 12:17 PM (6fhoX)
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Oregon wants to raise our gas taxes so they can "fix the roads". We already have some the highest gasoline taxes in the nation and their current purpose is to "fix the roads". There are a lot of other states with significantly lower gas taxes and also significantly better roads. So the question for Tina Kotek (the worst governor in the history of all that is terrible): Where is the current gas tax money really being spent?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 29, 2026 12:45 PM (9FfUF)
97 Psychology has turned out to be a brainwashing weapon. Most shrinks are mentally ill themselves.
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You caught that too, eh? It’s a given that when a system or function is studied at length, to see how it works, unscrupulous people can also figure out the best way to break it as well.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 06:53 AM (PVUR/)
I have been unable to get a clear answer to a very simple question: what percentage of the population is conscienceless? Even setting aside the interesting question of whether it varies by subpopulation. I couldn't even get any precision on the incidence of Cluster B personality disorders, which could be considered a proper subset, so at least it would give a floor. And frankly, I find it telling.
It's such an obvious question, it should be very well studied. For it to be so studiously ignored is rather suspicious -- especially since it's what you might expect to happen if psychology, sociology, and related fields all got taken over by the conscienceless themselves.
I ended up settling on 6% or 1 in 17 as a working guesstimate. But it could be a third or triple that for all I know.
Posted by: SciVo at August 29, 2026 12:46 PM (ke3zm)
I noticed that they didn't bother to repair the cracks in the street. You can see them under the newly laid stripes.
They also didn't bother to repaint the stripes on the other crosswalk.
In fact, for all we know they used AI to draw stripes on a picture and called it good.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2026 12:46 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 12:47 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Orson
>It's almost as if the federal and state governments are at war with the American citizen. Trust them, they're on you side, just like they were with the american indian.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 29, 2026 12:47 PM (SK+av)
Posted by: Duke Kahanamoku.. at August 29, 2026 12:48 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: lin-duh at August 29, 2026 12:50 PM (VCgbV)
CA's "high-speed rail" has already spent 40-100 times that amount and doesn't have a single foot of track to show for it. But it does have a lot of politically-connected grifters who are now very wealthy.
Because that's just how CA does business.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 29, 2026 12:52 PM (guGkK)
>It's almost as if the federal and state governments are at war with the American citizen. Trust them, they're on you side, just like they were with the american indian.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help" -- Ronald Reagan
See my 75
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2026 12:52 PM (XeU6L)
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As someone who hires people in Oregon, "no we are not"
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 29, 2026 12:53 PM (9FfUF)
Good thing there wasn't a passed-out homeless dude in the path. They would have painted right over him.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 29, 2026 12:54 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
Now, this is a resume!
https://tinyurl.com/ymprbrnr
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 12:55 PM (ndZc7)
If it is, at least they were smart enough not to use the exact same photo.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2026 12:55 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 12:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Reforger at August 29, 2026 12:57 PM (jJAdc)
https://tinyurl.com/ymprbrnr
If he was any good at the wizard part, he wouldn't need all those other jobs.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2026 12:58 PM (vTZFs)
I can't imagine more of a walking time-bomb than hiring a tranny into your workplace.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 29, 2026 01:00 PM (aD4fx)
Oregon and Washington spent a couple of hundred million dollars "studying" replacing an existing bridge across the Columbia in Portland.
Some consulting and engineering firms got very fat from this.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 29, 2026 01:02 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
>It's amusing and interesting how most of these situations end up in the courts. Trans-divas are like a social virus. Where is the vaccine?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 29, 2026 01:05 PM (SK+av)
Voluminous studies have been performed on the general characteristics and behaviors best calculated to have a happy and successful life. Financially, and the rest of it. Note well that these things are not guaranteed to result in a successful life. And "Happy" isn't necessarily all sweetness and light, I'm not using the term in that way, just the habits of successful well adjusted individuals.
It simply can't be an oversight or accident, that for every metric, e.g. the habits of successful people, these traits are downplayed, derided, and yes even punished in the modern public sphere. I'm sure it's all a coincidence.
Rational people believe compassion for others also involves raising individuals so they are healthy and well adjusted, and not wilting flower basket cases in need of "government assistance" in the first place. Good jobs, solid families, genuine "community" is probably on somebody's threat matrix these days.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 01:06 PM (vbftO)
Although given the size of my nostrils and the empty spaces in my head, I had to use the quart size pot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 01:07 PM (GWwCk)
A lot of it goes to nonprofits for things like teaching children how to ride their bikes to school, as well as a raft of "equity" and "sustainability" bureaucrats in Salem.
And the worst governor in history is history is not Tina Kotek, but her loathsome predecessor, who kept the schools closed during Covid for longer than any other state but California.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 29, 2026 01:08 PM (aD4fx)
I can't imagine more of a walking time-bomb than hiring a tranny into your workplace.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 29, 2026 01:00 PM (aD4fx)
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I was in Home Depot yesterday (in Oregon) and did notice that there were at least 2 trans shoppers roaming the aisles. One was a tatted up 6'-3" 260# dude wearing hot pants, a halter top and he had pig tails. He was at least 40 years old and was dressed like a teenage girl from the 70's who snuck out dressed in clothes that her parents didn't approve of.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 29, 2026 01:08 PM (9FfUF)
And I also congratulate California on the finalization of their Y2K preparedness plans should something goes well.
News after treadmill
CBC - Venezuela oil deal. BWAHAHAHA BITCHES!
Fox - Nepal
MS Now - US taking partial control of Venezuela oil. "like a dictator.' They have the vapors.
CNN - sexy weekend is over now that "The Amanpour Hour" is over. Bitching about data centers.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 29, 2026 01:09 PM (Sco7b)
As a non-Californian who enjoys the natural beauty of the state it has always fascinated me that the state is so screwed up and the voters seem not to care. But maybe I'm wrong, and my outside view is incomplete, so correct me: What does the state government do well?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2026 01:09 PM (+HKyl)
But don't worry, these people are flocking to Oregon to take advantage of the "free" "transgender care" provided by the state, along with a raft of other benefits.
This will make Oregon's economy more competitive, or something.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 29, 2026 01:12 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Same for stadiums and arena projects at August 29, 2026 01:12 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Case at August 29, 2026 01:12 PM (VrYHL)
The only thing that could cure Cali is a plague. There is already typhus breaking out in LA, but I think something more savage would be necessary
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 01:13 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Those responsible for sacking have also been sacked at August 29, 2026 01:13 PM (TbWk/)
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It's really tough to make valid comparisons over time, especially when using official government inflation figures over 150 years.
In terms of gold at current prices, the figures listed would be maybe $12 to 20 billions in the current vapor-ware or confetti-bucks. The truth is probably somewhere in between.
Every now and then some expert clown will present on the "news" that they really ought to outlaw "high denomination" bills. He means the hundred, which will get smoked in thirty seconds at the grocery store. What fucking assholes. If anything they need to bring back $500 and $1000 and $5000 bills.
"Drug dealers used them!" Yeah? Sofa king what. This is always the excuse. Good things can be used by bad people. That doesn't mean you punish everybody else. Maybe a $25 and $50 coin would be nice too. Make moving the couch around great again! Probably needs vacuumed anyway.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 01:16 PM (vbftO)
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I think it depends in part on the definition. The percentage of people who think it's not really stealing if you steal from a big, evil corporation is > 50%. The percentage of Ted Bundys out there is < 0.01%. As far as people who are just I'm important and you're not, I'd guess 10 - 15%.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 01:17 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2026 01:09 PM (+HKyl)
Apparently, Vote Fraud, corruption and being regulatory captured by industries.
Oregon is much the same, by the way
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 01:18 PM (rbvCR)
A lot of countries do this when they are facing down inflation.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 01:20 PM (rbvCR)
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GM won't miss one little piece!
Posted by: Johnny Cash at August 29, 2026 01:21 PM (vbftO)
"Drug dealers used them!" Yeah? Sofa king what. This is always the excuse. Good things can be used by bad people. That doesn't mean you punish everybody else. Maybe a $25 and $50 coin would be nice too. Make moving the couch around great again! Probably needs vacuumed anyway.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 01:16 PM (vbftO)
Sir, did I just see a hundred dollar bill? You're a drug dealer, I have probable cause to search your vehicle get out of the car. OUT OF THE CAR NOW!!!
*BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM*
STOP RESISTING!
*BLAM BLAM BLAM*
STOP TWITCHING!!!
*BLAM BLAM BLAM*
STOP BLEEDING!!!!!
Posted by: He made a target glance. Good shoot. at August 29, 2026 01:21 PM (TbWk/)
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I think it depends in part on the definition.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 01:17 PM
I define it as having an externally imposed moral compass rather than an internal one. I am more the former.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 29, 2026 01:22 PM (4NO2D)
Some consulting and engineering firms got very fat from this.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 29, 2026 01:02 PM (aD4fx)
Among other problems, Vancouver did NOT want extension of TriMet light rail into the 'Couv, since they figured they already had enough crime by commuters driving in already, and the Bridge proposal demanded the extension.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 01:24 PM (rbvCR)
I suspect there are quite a few people who are much like myself; I feel no innate desire to be “good” of my own; but my religious beliefs hold that there is indeed a God, and that He has clearly directed us how we should live and treat our fellows here on Earth. So I strive to keep my actions in line with His rules.
If I had no beliefs I would find the Nietzchean view of things the most logical; the strong rule the weak because they can. With no Lawgiver, why not?
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 01:25 PM (GWwCk)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 01:25 PM (rbvCR)
Oregon is much the same, by the way
States with decent climate and scenery tend to develop terrible state and local governments over time.
Texas has much stronger incentives to have an efficient government - no one is moving to Texas for the weather.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 29, 2026 01:25 PM (aD4fx)
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Yeah, the truly high denomination bills were never made illegal, but they are removed from circulation when banks receive them in circulation starting in the late 1960s. They have a collector value now that exceeds their face value by quite a bit. A $500 bill in good condition might sell for 650 or whatever, that kind of thing.
I think a modern $5k bill makes sense these days, when buying a used car, say. In 1969 that was serious money, sure, but. I know farmers think nothing about spending thousands and thousands on tractors and combines and stuff. That old goofy looking feller in overalls might be fricking loaded, let me tell ya.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 01:25 PM (vbftO)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 29, 2026 01:08 PM (aD4fx)
I will point out that Neil Goldschmidt raped his underaged babysitter for years when he was mayor of Portland, and then apparently screwed anything that moved when he was Governor and Senator, and that "tendency and history" is why he did everything he could for the Unions and the Left, sort of like Hastert later.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2026 01:28 PM (rbvCR)
Oregon demanded the light rail extension.
Unfortunately, Vancouver is getting bluer and bluer as Portland refugees move to Vancouver, bringing their politics.
Fortunately, the rest of Vancouver's county is still bright red, limiting the amount of political damage Vancouver can do.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 29, 2026 01:29 PM (aD4fx)
>Self awareness is an interesting topic.
How much of it is narcissism these days with social media?
How much of it is polite and careful respect for your fellow man and neighbors and community citizens? The new variable is social media but that is like placing training wheels on your banana seat bicycle and riding in circles.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 29, 2026 01:29 PM (SK+av)
We love Vancouver! The schools are much better, the taxes are lower, the government is much more efficient, and there are much fewer visible homeless!
We're going to vote to fix all that!
Posted by: Portland Refugees! at August 29, 2026 01:31 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: toby928(c)
I think that God guy was onto something when he proclaimed the Ten Commandments because history has shown us we're incapable of distinguishing between good and evil.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 01:35 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Common Tater
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While working retail in Indiana, back in the early 70's, an older fellow (clearly a farmer), in overalls, came in shopping for some equipment. When I toted it up, it came to $1,500. He unzipped the pocket on the front of his overalls, pulled out a wad of cash, and paid.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2026 01:38 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: toby928(c)
I think that God guy was onto something when he proclaimed the Ten Commandments because history has shown us we're incapable of distinguishing between good and evil.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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A transcendent, absolute morality.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2026 01:41 PM (XeU6L)
Dustin Grage
@GrageDustin
Minnesota taxpayers spent $2.2M for emergency beds for the homeless in St. Paul.
A total of 7 people have used them.
Great work, Democrats.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 01:43 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: SciVo at August 29, 2026 01:44 PM (ke3zm)
"I think the general consensus of people around the world is that Americans can get fooled by a con man once, but to return him to power a 2nd time after having seen his corruption, incompetence, ignorance, & buffoonery, the problem isn’t just Trump it’s the American people."
-- Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social 9:52 PM · Aug 28, 2026
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 29, 2026 01:46 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 01:49 PM (vbftO)
Republican Party Insane Asylum Escapee
Umm. You use that as a description of yourself ? How odd.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 01:59 PM (xPsv8)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 29, 2026 01:59 PM (Cqx++)
I live near Merced CA, on one end of what is now the 'plan'... and yet Merced does not even know where the Station is supposed to go... which means no Environmental report could be done... nor can the city plan where to put other infrastructure ... like a Highway that will need to be crossed...
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 29, 2026 02:11 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 03:38 PM (Ia/+0)
****
Before modern banking became mandatory (use my bank or I'll kill you), the local bank would be that feller's top pocket.
Posted by: clarence at August 29, 2026 08:06 PM (/2SkZ)
The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. A big thank you to TRex for filling in a week ago. My computer died. And he was gracious enough to fill in at the last moment. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Bedford Falls) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate
2) Be kind, be nice. And for heaven's sake, stay in your lane.
3) No, you may not run with sharp objects. I don't care if Timmy's mom let him.
4) Have a great weekend! Except for Timmy's mom. I hope she spends it at the ER.
AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update. Prayer Requests: 5/23 – I used to have a Different Nic could use some prayers as he waits for the results of a biopsy of a mass on his prostate.
6/23 Update – The latest update is that he has stage 2, “unfavorable intermediate”, which he notes is an awful name, but what it means is, it is in the middle, but bad enough that they want to treat it. It’s more aggressive than previously thought. He is at the point where he has to decide on treatment options, which means choosing which set of pretty unfortunate side effects he prefers.
8/20 Update – He has finished his radiation treatment, so all he has left are blood tests and waiting. Thanks for everything. 7/25 – Matthew Kant Cipher humbly asks for prayers for Marshall, a long-time friend and HS classmate of Mrs. MKC, who is currently hospitalized with heart failure.
8/7 Update – Marshall passed away after multiple organs failed. Matthew Kant Cipher humbly asks the Horde to pray for the repose of his soul and that God’s perpetual light would shine upon him. 7/25 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. She is still doing fine. Her chemo pump seems to be working and everything appears stable for now. She says she is incredibly blessed! She is working on a stocking for an as-yet-not-born grandchild. She would appreciate prayers for a successful IVF procedure and pregnancy for her daughter and hubby. Next week, Teresa and her husband will be going to California to visit their daughter who lives there and her family.
8/4 Update – Teresa was admitted to the hospital while on vacation in California. She has a bad infection – cellulitis - not due to the cancer. She is being treated with antibiotics and hopefully it will be cleared up in a couple of days. 7/29 – Notsothoreau asked for prayers for Billy Ray’s mother, who was just admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. She is a cancer survivor and chemo destroyed her immune system, so this is a big worry.
8/2 Update – Billy Ray’s mother is feeling better, on oxygen and medication. She is not out of the woods, but has stabilized. She appreciates the prayers from around the globe and says thank you very much.
8/16 Update – Billy Ray’s mother is at home, recovering, and down to just needing a little oxygen at night. One of the doctors told her that he didn’t think she was going to make it. Prayer works. 7/29 – TecumsehTea wrote that MrTea’s diagnosis is colon cancer stage 4. They are praying for guidance for how to proceed.
8/12 Update – MrTea will start radiation treatments for the tumor in the sigmoid colon on Monday – 10 treatments. They are not sure what will follow; they are still looking at options. Surgery is not an option. The cancer has metastasized to the lymph node nearest the tumor and there are 3-5 small spots in the liver. There are also spots in his lung which are indeterminate. He continues on fenben and ivermectin. Prayers are appreciated. 7/30 – David sent an update on his wife, Susan, who we have been praying for as she is treated for cancer. Susan is still doing well and her numbers are headed in the right direction, but they are still having issues with the side effects of the chemotherapy. It is manageable, but they have to increase the number of office visits for additional treatments. Some days are really good right now, but others are only bearable with the Lord’s grace. They are so grateful for the prayers on their behalf.
8/20 Update – Things are not going quite as well now. Please pray, as Susan has picked up a really bad cough. The coughing is so bad that she doesn’t want to eat. Please pray that this illness passes quickly.
8/26 Update – Susan’s cough has gotten so bad that they did X-rays on her chest. It might be pneumonia. She is in the hospital. Her sodium and blood pressure are low and she is not eating much now. They are trying to turn this around and ask for everyone’s prayers. 8/1 – Tonypete asked for prayers for his BIL, who is a developmentally disabled adult and has been living independently (sort of) for decades but the time has come for them to make some changes in his living arrangements and personal finances. This will not go well as he has VERY poor impulse control and anger issues. His dear wife has POA but that is limited in its reach and it is probably time for her to be granted guardianship.
8/15 Update – BIL was released from the hospital, so all is well. 8/7 – neverenoughcaffiene asks for prayers for Lynell, who was recently diagnosed with a rapidly growing brain tumor. Surgery was performed and they were not able to remove all of the cancer. Her prognosis for survival is one year. She is being treated with chemo and radiation. On top of her diagnosis and treatment, she recently broke her ankle. Please pray for Lynell and her husband as they navigate this new reality. 8/8 – Ace-Endorsed Author A. H. Lloyd posted that Mrs. Lloyd will undergo a double mastectomy to remove the breast cancer. She has advanced to Stage 1. Much hinges on the biopsy to determine the specific sub-category of cancer and whether chemo is necessary. Please pray for her in this time of need.
8/22 Update – Mrs. Lloyd is healing ahead of schedule and the surgeon was amazed at her progress. She is still in pain and has limited mobility, but each day she is gaining more freedom of movement. That is the good news; the bad news was the unrealistic expectations set by the medical staff. The surgery was much more significant, and she will also need chemo, contrary to what she was told before. 8/8 – Retired Buckeye Cop requested prayers for his nephew, Josh, who is losing his business due to overwhelming debt. Old addictions have returned; he is drinking heavily. He is currently estranged from his family. His mother is Mrs. Cop’s kid sister. 8/12 – Joe Kidd asked for prayers for a friend’s cousin, who is beginning chemo treatments for stage 3 cancer. 8/14 – RandomDave asked for renewed prayers for his job situation. He just found out that the position he was close to getting went to someone else, and doesn’t know where to turn. He hates to ask, but is getting desperate. He has a GiveSendGo set up; please contact Annie’s Stew for more info. Thanks to those who have already given and thank you for the prayers. They are keeping him from giving up. 8/15 – Donna V contacted Mis. Hum. to let the Horde know the following: “Please let the horde know I am doing fine in hospice”. She would appreciate your prayers. 8/15 – Buck requested prayers for his wife. She is diabetic, and had a bad day on 8/14, with weakness, vomiting, irregular pulse, high blood pressure. She has had sepsis 3 times. They went to ER, but they only gave her meds for nausea, and now she’s back home. Pray that she recovers quickly. Thanks to all. 8/15 – Intruder Driver asked for prayers for Tonya, who was burned over 90% of her body in a gas explosion in Cabo San Lucas. She is now in a hospital in Mexico City. She has a long road to recovery, if she survives.
8/22 Update – Tonya did not survive her burns. Prayers for her and her husband Rusty, who were/are active members of their local church in Mexico. 8/27 – P asks for prayers for the soul of her nephew, C, who committed suicide on 8/17. He was only 32. May he find the peace in the afterlife that he could not find in this life. 8/26 – Teresa in Fort Worth asks for prayers for her BIL, Dick, who was found dead in the alley behind their house in Texas. He had been in declining health and had dementia. They aren’t sure how long he was outside before he passed away. Teresa’s SIL seems to be handling it okay so far. Teresa also asks for prayers for a former neighbor, Melissa, who is hospitalized, recovering from a second stem cell/bone marrow transplant as they attempt to cure her leukemia. She now has blood blisters in her mouth and throat. She had to be intubated before her throat closed completely. This might be her body rejecting the transplant. For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Brother Tim sez at August 29, 2026 08:06 AM (sqGio)
Posted by: dantesed at August 29, 2026 08:06 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at August 29, 2026 08:06 AM (sqGio)
Posted by: Caffiend at August 29, 2026 08:07 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Mrs. Olson, Virginia Christine at August 29, 2026 08:08 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 08:10 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: t-bird at August 29, 2026 08:11 AM (AydIQ)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at August 29, 2026 08:11 AM (LCIDp)
Posted by: Just Axin' at August 29, 2026 08:12 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 08:15 AM (tFM5X)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 29, 2026 08:17 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 08:17 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 08:17 AM (ndZc7)
My dad moved sideways. Instead of being in charge of everything, he became the safety guy, because he knew everything that would go on during a project. He finally retired at 72.
Posted by: t-bird at August 29, 2026 08:18 AM (AydIQ)
Posted by: Just Axin' at August 29, 2026 08:12 AM (JM9I6)
Stacy's mom >>>> Timmy's mom.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 29, 2026 08:19 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 08:21 AM (ndZc7)
Prayers for all listed, and everyone else, too.
Brother Tim, prayers continue that a way is opened for you.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 29, 2026 08:22 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 29, 2026 08:23 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 08:23 AM (Ia/+0)
My son was here this past week for a visit. There's something called "french toast sticks" in the freezer that require heating up. I'm mildly curious....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 29, 2026 08:24 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 08:24 AM (RIvkX)
Also Teresa in Fort Worth’s blood work looks steady, which is good.
Posted by: Annies Stew at August 29, 2026 08:25 AM (dNIAD)
Have a pumpkin bagel but drank all my coffee already
Posted by: Skip
Make Moar Coffee! You know the recipe.
Posted by: Cora Approved at August 29, 2026 08:25 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 08:25 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 08:23 AM (Ia/+0)
There's no limit on this at my house. I can always make more.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 29, 2026 08:25 AM (h7ZuX)
I don’t consider myself getting depressed personally but it is easy to become demoralized. I like to think there’s an important distinction. Given that so much of our popular culture is intended to do exactly that, is troubling. Don’t let the bastards get ya down!
I love the outdoors in this great country. Sold the house and travel full time RV. It definitely ain’t for everyone, But after staring at 4 walls for a few years I couldn’t deal with that. This is a great big country and I want to see it.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 08:26 AM (tFM5X)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 08:26 AM (aJQbY)
I took my walk in the steamy soup outside, got cleaned up, and have dined on some yogurt with honey, for now. Coffee too. In a bit I will run out to my favorite coffee shop, the one run by the Community Coffee people, and have something more solid to eat. Then, library time, I think!
Stirling has had his breakfast, and Dagny, picky and reluctant to try something new, finally ate her portion, or most of it. They're set.
So how does your Saturday look?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 08:28 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 08:26 AM (tFM5X)
I'd consider doing this once I retire. Doubt if the Mr. would.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 29, 2026 08:30 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 29, 2026 08:30 AM (VyBeY)
Daniel Penny, the Marine that NYC attempted to railroad over his defensive use of force to subdue a Subway loon wrote a really interesting piece about how Data Centers are critical to rebuilding American manufacturing and jobs. Good stuff.
Hopefully this link works to an X/Twitter
https://tinyurl.com/yy36knhd
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Posted by: From about That Time at August 29, 2026 08:31 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 29, 2026 08:32 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at August 29, 2026 08:11 AM (LCIDp)
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Hashem has a plan for you and it is not failure.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)
I can still shitpost with the most average of 'em though, so I got that. I guess.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at August 29, 2026 08:33 AM (tnd43)
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May his memory be a blessing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 08:35 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August
Smother in butter and maple syrup and you don't notice how tasteless they are.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 29, 2026 08:35 AM (sl73Y)
prayers for everyone - good luck Random Dave you are so close! also they'd be fools not to hire you!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 29, 2026 08:36 AM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 08:38 AM (GWwCk)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 08:40 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 08:40 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: TRex - hobby dino at August 29, 2026 08:41 AM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at August 29, 2026 08:33 AM (tnd43)
And you still have a sense of humor!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 29, 2026 08:41 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 08:42 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 08:43 AM (tFM5X)
This reminds me of the incredible number of plastic bags of poop I encounter daily in San Francisco.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 08:42 AM (RIvkX)
San Francisco Take-Out is weird.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2026 08:44 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2026 08:44 AM (qgHp7)
Smother in butter and maple syrup and you don't notice how tasteless they are.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 29, 2026 08:35 AM (sl73Y)
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Then you're eating maple syrup and butter. The French toast is just a carrier.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2026 08:44 AM (O0L8i)
I've got nothing to add this morning. Carry on without me.
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2026 08:44 AM (qgHp7)
_________
*flops down in despair*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2026 08:45 AM (O0L8i)
I'm just too attached to gardening to be mobile like that
I'd live in a lil trailer park with room to garden tho!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 29, 2026 08:45 AM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 08:45 AM (PbWRL)
43 This reminds me of the incredible number of plastic bags of poop I encounter daily in San Francisco.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 08:42 AM (RIvkX)
I still can never understand how a city lets itself decay to where that’s common. Mumbai? Sure, that I understand. But here?
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 08:45 AM (GWwCk)
Posted by: dantesed at August 29, 2026 08:46 AM (Oy/m2)
I admit, I was wrong. I predicted they'd all be fakes, but instead there were about 10 actual mines last I heard, and about 5 of those might have actually been able to explode.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 08:47 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2026 08:47 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 08:48 AM (tFM5X)
With the average IQ dropping in the former United States on a predictable rate, more and more of the population is unemployable due to too low an intelligence to be marketable.
Also, much of our culture is increasing losing its work ethic as white men are being displaced by demographics that traditionally are not of the caliber required to be globally competititve.
AI will show up to work, every day, will work whenever the business is open, will stay late, and put in the level of detail and predictable repeatability that is being lost due to Boomers and X'ers aging out, and white men are being told to stay home, stay stoned and master video games.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 29, 2026 08:49 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 08:49 AM (PbWRL)
Amen! And we who are pray-ers here are praying for you, BTim. I am praying that rough places are made smooth for you and opportunities open up. I think that you might alsotalk to the men at the church you go to and the pastor Isn't there a group you go to? They can listen to you, pray with you, and perhaps they have some suggestions.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 08:50 AM (GiOqh)
my cousin has one! I covet it quite a bit. it's snazzy (inside). plus I could drive it! (I cannot drive a trailer or something huge like an RV)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 29, 2026 08:50 AM (j+aD2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 08:42 AM (RIvkX)
I still can never understand how a city lets itself decay to where that’s common. Mumbai? Sure, that I understand. But here?
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 08:45 AM (GWwCk)
Because of Trump!!!!!
That Orange Monster makes us destroy our own city and lifestyle, so we can prove just how terrible Trump is!!!!
Every minute of every day Orange Man Bad is ruining my life!!!111!!111111! Can't you see????
Can't you see that!!!!!
YARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!
Every turd my Portuguese Water Dog drops on our sidewalks PROVES Trump Evil!!!!!
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
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Posted by: All San Franciscans Everywhere All the Time at August 29, 2026 08:52 AM (iJfKG)
They get points for understanding marketing as well as any mad man agency.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 08:53 AM (GWwCk)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 29, 2026 08:53 AM (Ydd86)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 08:53 AM (PbWRL)
Without coffee there simply would be no mornings (at least not functional ones.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 29, 2026 08:54 AM (O7YUW)
I think, maybe, the butter would help, but these things are pretty sweet as they are. Hints of cinnamon.
2 stars out of 5.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 29, 2026 08:55 AM (2Cry5)
Not in the cards.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 29, 2026 08:56 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 08:56 AM (tFM5X)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 08:58 AM (PbWRL)
https://tinyurl.com/4m5mdbhz
"
*snorts* Okay, that was the laugh I needed. Thank you for that!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 29, 2026 08:58 AM (O7YUW)
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Us po’ folks in the 70s used to melt Brown Sugar to make syrup for pancakes, and MOC our pancreas.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 08:59 AM (tFM5X)
So if I whine to much, I should quit it
Though the outlook seems bleak
And my strength is so weak
I can still find a rhyme and then fit it!
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at August 29, 2026 09:01 AM (tnd43)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 08:56 AM (tFM5X)
You do realize don't you that humans are a social species.
You're getting the benefit of that olde-fashioned- "Let's stay close in the night , so the panthers won't eat us." reflex.
Also, in the Hill Country I've seen a lot of...oh, I don't know...low-level trailer fests. The trailer-folk gather at an assigned place to meet new folks and share stories.
Like a MOME!!!!
Posted by: naturalfake - Amatuer Anthropologist at August 29, 2026 09:02 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Case at August 29, 2026 09:03 AM (VrYHL)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 09:03 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Case at August 29, 2026 09:03 AM (VrYHL)
Well, yeah. It kinda is.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 29, 2026 09:03 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 29, 2026 09:04 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 09:04 AM (PbWRL)
Life is tough these days.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 29, 2026 09:04 AM (sl73Y)
If I get too much blood in my caffeine stream, things start going wobbly and then fall over, and they can't get up.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 29, 2026 09:05 AM (O7YUW)
I saw one of those stealthy camper vans parked in a weird spot on a morning hike, I didn’t bother them, turned around and walked the other way. To each his own, I guess.
I inspected the site later, after they were gone, and it looked like from the ground thwt maybe they were actually stuck. Or maybe an axle broke or something … happened. Oops.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 09:05 AM (tFM5X)
As I approach 29, I find my tastes shifting away from coffeee and more toward tea.
Harrad's Earl Grey Tea, hot with a splash of milk may be the Finest Wake-UP Breakfast Beverage IN The Universe!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2026 09:07 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: From about That Time at August 29, 2026 09:08 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 29, 2026 09:09 AM (zi7oe)
The spreadsheet of Delilah's show career is now complete. All the numbers add up properly and links - all 318 of them - to the AKC record for the show added.
Her grandmother Lacey had more dogs defeated in Breed and All-Breed, as well as more Best in Show wins. But Lacey's specials career was 378 shows. Lila lost a good many shows (and wins) because of Her Majesty's knee surgery (the last half of 2019), COVID idiocy (March to September of 2020) and maternal duties (mid-2022).
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2026 09:09 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 09:04 AM (PbWRL)
Thanks, Ben Had.
Hope to be there.
Things are moving in our life right now in unexpected ways, so I don't know yet.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2026 09:09 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: lin-duh at August 29, 2026 09:10 AM (VCgbV)
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There's only so much truth the courts can handle.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 09:10 AM (ndZc7)
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It helps me get my brain fully booted up in the early morning. I’m not picky.
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Yes it is of course true humans are a social species, but the camping/outdoor/hiking thing is sort of the opposite. People want to get “away from it all”, even if they take half of it with them. Solitude.
An established campground doesn’t interest me too much. Too crowded, noisy, etc. So in the large national forests and federal lands, people ought to find their own spot, there is no reason I can think of to be within earshot or eyesight of anybody else (unless it’s super crowded or something).
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 09:12 AM (tFM5X)
Posted by: From about That Time at August 29, 2026 09:13 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 09:13 AM (ndZc7)
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Devilishly clever, those Iranians
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 29, 2026 09:13 AM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
Don't completely discount gentle threats.
We now joke that I told the Lovely Mrs.: "I'm moving to Tennessee. I hope you'll come with me."
She did and she's glad (now).
Posted by: Tonypete at August 29, 2026 09:14 AM (zi7oe)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 29, 2026 09:18 AM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at August 29, 2026 09:18 AM (Q+gd/)
Data: Illegal Aliens Behind 80% of Portland Fentanyl Trafficking
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 09:18 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 09:23 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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You misspelled *heaves a big sigh of relief and mutters "Thank God!*
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2026 09:23 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 29, 2026 09:23 AM (2NHgQ)
Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Today is the Memorial of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist. Patron saint of baptisms, converts and prisoners, pray for us.
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I have prayed Rosaries for the Horde's intentions, both stated and unstated.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 29, 2026 09:25 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: Case
I've been to a rodeo, an opera, and a hanging and this is the DUMBEST thing I've ever heard!
Posted by: Tonypete at August 29, 2026 09:25 AM (zi7oe)
Have them price the house to sell. They will still be left with enough to buy double the square footage in another state.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 09:26 AM (KC5Lt)
Heavenly Father, we thank you for the many blessings you bestow upon us daily. May we be worthy of your grace.
And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 29, 2026 09:26 AM (D/6p1)
Had one of those interesting experiences on my morning run today where it’s incredibly humid and I see occasional lightning in the sky…. Then I’m jogging along and all the sudden realize it’s been lightly raining on me… the air was so humid I could hardly notice the light rain! Then it picked up and was noticeable and welcome because it cooled things down (a bit)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 29, 2026 09:27 AM (M+uMR)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 09:27 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 29, 2026 09:28 AM (ksbjf)
https://youtu.be/37wV6D49iEY
IMO, this song illustrates all the good things about her as an artist and a person. Her presence made this collaboration far better, yet you can tell she isn't making it about herself. So rare in an artist... may perpetual light shine upon her.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 29, 2026 09:29 AM (kOluj)
All is forgotten.
Seriously I had forgotten about it.
Being a horde member means never having to say you're sorry😀
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 09:31 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 29, 2026 09:32 AM (2NHgQ)
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Apology accepted. We'll call off our lawyers.
Posted by: The Brotherhood of Sanctimonious Jerks at August 29, 2026 09:32 AM (4Je4D)
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Stunning and brave.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 09:32 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Case at August 29, 2026 09:32 AM (VrYHL)
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2026 09:33 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Toad-0 at August 29, 2026 09:33 AM (UqxXs)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 09:34 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2026 09:34 AM (UYYJi)
Roger that. Sometimes you got to take a loss or you'll be trapped. But as you said it's their decisions to make.
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 09:34 AM (KC5Lt)
Choices!
High humidity year round.
Freezing and winter dark.
Low humidity but frying in summer.
Dark and wet but fine summers.
Is New Mexico really as bad (leftards) as some say it is? 1500-2000 foot level in the mountain foothills might be very cozy!
Posted by: 13times at August 29, 2026 09:35 AM (fnZRl)
Plain bagels exist because eating cream cheese with your fingers would be gauche.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2026 09:36 AM (vTZFs)
Newsom Set to Ban Disposable Vapes in California With Fines Up to $2,000
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 09:36 AM (ndZc7)
They also caused some disharmony.
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2026 09:37 AM (qgHp7)
It doesn't have to be coffee, but it must have caffeine. Am I addicted? Probably. Oh well. *shrugs*
{ * AKA Cold brown fizzy coffee }
And hey, at least it wasn't shoving my face in a sink full of cold water and ice cubes, a la Huey Lewis.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 29, 2026 09:38 AM (O7YUW)
They get points for understanding marketing as well as any mad man agency.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 08:53 AM (GWwCk)
A key to the success of those truculent lunatics is that so much of the Left wants to believe. If the Lefties keeps clapping -- this time the "EEEEEEEvil Trump-Hitler (tm)" will defeated.
Iran is helped by all of those treasonous scumbags. However, Iran is being side-lined. There is a de facto break-up of OPEC (both Venezuela and the UAE have left), pipe lines are being built, and Iran's capability to fund terrorism is being severely curtailed.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 29, 2026 09:38 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: polynikes
Which is nice, since at certain values of 29 you don't even remember what you need to be sorry about...
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at August 29, 2026 09:38 AM (F5T1n)
Today is the Memorial the Passion of St John the Baptist & Forerunner.
St John, who recognized Christ even before birth, pray for us that we may know and follow Jesus in our lives today and forever.
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 29, 2026 09:38 AM (Ydd86)
Choices!
High humidity year round.
Freezing and winter dark.
Low humidity but frying in summer.
Dark and wet but fine summers.
Is New Mexico really as bad (leftards) as some say it is? 1500-2000 foot level in the mountain foothills might be very cozy!
Posted by: 13times at August 29, 2026 09:35 AM (fnZRl)
As one with experience I’d say beware…. We escaped California 4 years ago after having been there 30 plus years. Yeah, in many ways (especially during covid) it was a shithole of a state. But you know what? Grass is not always greener….. I’m finding now that I really miss the ocean, the weather, the natural beauty… and 3 decades of memories. It’s been a mixed bag honestly. Make sure that you like where you’re going if you decide to go
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 29, 2026 09:40 AM (M+uMR)
Hunh.
Posted by: Just got here at August 29, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: polynikes at August 29, 2026 09:31 AM (KC5Lt)
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Now he's going to have to apologize for saying he was sorry. This could become a vicious cycle.
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2026 09:41 AM (qgHp7)
Usually I use the coffee maker since I need to make enough to bring to work.
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 29, 2026 09:42 AM (Ydd86)
@GovernorShapiro
Let's set the record straight because @RobertKennedyJr’s post is inaccurate and misleading and he is making claims that have been debunked repeatedly by actual scientists and doctors.
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Actual scientists and doctors, people! Actual scientists and doctors!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 09:42 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Hall Monitor at August 29, 2026 09:42 AM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 29, 2026 09:43 AM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Retired Bucke
You seemed distraught, or at least, worked up. It happens. No apology needed.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 29, 2026 09:43 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Hall Monitor
Arguments are two doors down.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 29, 2026 09:44 AM (zi7oe)
Hunh.
Posted by: Just got here
Ted Kennedy's car was full emersion.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 09:44 AM (ndZc7)
Despised by his party for being a Jew
Despised by everyone else for being a tyrant and a liar.
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 29, 2026 09:45 AM (Ydd86)
https://youtu.be/37wV6D49iEY
IMO, this song illustrates all the good things about her as an artist and a person. Her presence made this collaboration far better, yet you can tell she isn't making it about herself. So rare in an artist... may perpetual light shine upon her.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 29, 2026 09:29 AM (kOluj)
Really nice!
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 09:45 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 29, 2026 09:46 AM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Case at August
I like hot beverage in hot weather. Golfing, I bring insulated mug of hot tea to sip, lasts the round. Refreshing for some reason.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 29, 2026 09:47 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 29, 2026 09:48 AM (Ydd86)
Posted by: Just got here at August 29, 2026 09:48 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2026 09:49 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Tuna at August 29, 2026 09:49 AM (lJ0H4)
Hunh.
Posted by: Just got here
John the Baptist would be a Ford pick-up truck kind of guy, no?
Posted by: dantesed at August 29, 2026 09:49 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Case at August 29, 2026 09:32 AM (VrYHL)
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Even though it's supposed to warm up again this week, this morning was pleasantly cool. A hint of fall in the air. Very nice.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2026 09:49 AM (FZ29D)
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"The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress . . . has been operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) since 1955."
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A century bomber
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 09:49 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 09:51 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 09:51 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Al Qaeda at August 29, 2026 09:53 AM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 09:53 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 29, 2026 09:53 AM (M+uMR)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 29, 2026 09:53 AM (ibDUx)
Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 09:53 AM (ZOv7s)
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His arrival was always heralded by lightning and Tundra!!
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2026 09:54 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: 13times at August 29, 2026 09:54 AM (fnZRl)
Beautiful early fall morning here. Best time of the year.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 09:54 AM (viF8m)
People assume the House of the Rising Sun was an opium den. It was, in fact, a Starbucks.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2026 09:54 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Don't be that person at August 29, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Toad
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Marble Slab Creamery has a very undertaker vibe to it. Horrible name for an ice cream shop.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 29, 2026 09:56 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 29, 2026 09:36 AM (ndZc7)
He needs to ban those little plastic floss devices.
Nasty people throw them out the window, in the parking lot, etc, etc. I see them littered everywhere.
Posted by: Nasty People Doing Nasty Things at August 29, 2026 09:56 AM (yuEAg)
I assume the usual suspects are blaming it all on global warming.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2026 09:56 AM (Riz8t)
Having already solved all the important problems.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2026 09:57 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 09:57 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 29, 2026 09:48 AM (Ydd86)
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She seemed like any other celebrity, only nicer. But now we're finding out that she was giving away huge amounts of money on the downlow, and asked people to keep it quiet, and in their gratitude, they did.
But she gave on an industrial scale. I thought Dollywood was just a vanity project, but apparently it was a jobs program disguised as entertainment that paid above-market wages with benefits. She didn't do it to make money, just to give people where she lived a source of income. That's beyond comprehension. Hopefully her example will inspire others to say "You know, I have enough, and I should help others," because that's how you really eliminate poverty.
Combine this with the Treasury's new push to revoke non-profit/charity status for political organizations and we really could see a new Golden Age.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 09:58 AM (ZOv7s)
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"Delta Airlines Flight 283 from Atlanta now arriving on Concourse Double-D."
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2026 09:58 AM (qgHp7)
Nasty people throw them out the window, in the parking lot, etc, etc. I see them littered everywhere.
Posted by: Nasty People Doing Nasty Things at August 29, 2026 09:56 AM
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Now do COVID masks.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 29, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)
Huh, I never thought of that. It just seemed obvious to me that it was an opium den.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2026 09:59 AM (Riz8t)
Should have no trouble getting 'Vintage' license plates for it.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 29, 2026 10:00 AM (zi7oe)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 29, 2026 10:02 AM (u82oZ)
Should have no trouble getting 'Vintage' license plates for it.
The astonishing thing is that it was designed 45 years after the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, and is now almost 80 years old.
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress was primarily designed in 1948, with its final jet-powered swept-wing configuration famously finalized by Boeing engineers over a single weekend in October of that year
Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2026 10:02 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 29, 2026 10:03 AM (QZThv)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 29, 2026 09:38 AM (ksbjf)
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Iran is only now discovering that the virtue of the Sword of Damocles is that it hangs, not that it falls.
Closing the Straits is a great threat, but once you take that fatal step, the other side gets to react, and we reacted in a way they did not expect and now they have no other move. Bessent is the ultimate Killer Queen, not just sanctioning banks, but ripping up their access to the dollar itself. Iran is going to collapse because it has nothing left. It will take time, but as ship traffic picks up, oil continues to fall and Iran's old customers find new sources, it's going to dawn on even the diehards that the game is over and they lost. I'm seeing that their politicians are openly saying it's over.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:03 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ian S.
Nope. Just a douche.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 29, 2026 10:04 AM (u3SRj)
Going to the local town's Farmer's Market to meet a widow.
May you all stay cool, with calm surrounding you and yours.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 29, 2026 10:04 AM (u82oZ)
This week, Iran's veep admitted that the country's economy is weeks away from collapse. "This cannot go on".
Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2026 10:04 AM (Riz8t)
The comment would also apply to Dolly
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 29, 2026 10:05 AM (M+uMR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 10:05 AM (6T7Go)
Should have no trouble getting 'Vintage' license plates for it.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 29, 2026 10:00 AM (zi7oe)
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When I was at Selfridge, they still flew C-130s, and one of their points of pride was that they had the oldest one still in the fleet, built in 1962. Someone got a Michigan "vintage vehicle" license plate (which gives the year of manufacture) and put it in one of the glasshouse windows on the flight deck.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:05 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: 13times at August 29, 2026 09:35 AM (fnZRl)
New Mexico is run by an admitted communist, who has created a poison pill in the budget with a mandated ever-increasing teacher pay law/amendment/something for the benefit of her best friend who she appointed head of education.
The state also has its own version of "the families" and has been described as "The Sopranos with a different accent" by multiple people. It's a shame, because there is a lot of natural beauty.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 29, 2026 10:06 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 10:06 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2026 10:07 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 29, 2026 10:08 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:03 AM (ZOv7s)
Phrasing? :-)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 29, 2026 10:08 AM (M+uMR)
This week, Iran's veep admitted that the country's economy is weeks away from collapse. "This cannot go on".
Posted by: Archimedes
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Apparently the Navy while clearing the mines has also been clearing natural obstacles thus widening the passing lanes.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 10:08 AM (6T7Go)
The reason for this is that a few stray cancer cells may have "escaped" and so we need to hunt them down to prevent a recurrence somewhere else. She will get a port, and treatment will commence when she is fully healed. She's doing well now, gaining strength and range of motion, but there is still some pain and she needs help doing just about everything.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:08 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 10:09 AM (6T7Go)
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Good on Mrs. Lloyd, glad she's getting better and that she has a good husband to take care of her.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 10:11 AM (6T7Go)
May t' Lord bless Brudder Tim'rick
Who shared a most lovely Lim'rick
Muldoon's feelin' peaked
Fer his coffee that leaked
On his shiny new patio trim-brick
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 29, 2026 10:12 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 10:06 AM (Ia/+0)
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The thing about gas prices is that they are based on what was paid for it when it was purchased, not the current price of oil, so there is always a lag, just like everything else. Once the high priced stuff is sold off, the cheaper stuff replaces it.
Of course when oil goes up, the prices do as well because they are going to have to buy more expensive oil and need that money up front. The same is true for just about every commodity, but no one pays attention to corn futures.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Vibrant Hot Air Commenter at August 29, 2026 10:12 AM (JM9I6)
I guess the good news is they caught it early.
The really good news is i no longer have a catheter!!
* Do not hop on YouTube and look it up, Dr Funk warned me so I'm just saying...
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 29, 2026 10:13 AM (Q/FnY)
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2026 10:13 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2026 10:13 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: 13times at August 29, 2026 09:54 AM (fnZRl)
The loss of life and property is tragedy enough, that this will be used to "prove" global warming will make it even worse in the long run.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 29, 2026 10:14 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 10:05 AM (6T7Go)
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I think it's even money at this point that California is a red state, but simply awash in corrupt voting. Same for Oregon and Washington. As soon as the mail-in thing happened, as soon as they gave state IDs to everyone, the states veered left. This is why they are fighting so hard at any form of election accountability.
It's also why they are banning random shit - because they are on a power trip. There is no "final destination" for them, just screwing everyone over for fun and profit.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:14 AM (ZOv7s)
Do they?
California has the most messed up voting system of any state in the Union. Minnesota is a close 2nd but California's voting system seems to have purposefully designed for cheating.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 10:16 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 29, 2026 10:14 AM (lFFaq)
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What it dos is show the utter folly in China's water management strategy, which is based on building a series of dams along very narrow valleys which can lead to cascading failure when a major geological event takes place.
This is how the Three Gorges Dam will fail.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:17 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2026 10:13 AM (qgHp7)
The meaning is totally different with just one letter difference: fiends or friends? LoL
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 29, 2026 10:17 AM (M+uMR)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Main reason of Ratcliff's visit to Russia was to 'suggest' it stop assisting Iran. There may have been a trade off of us ceasing to sell Ukraine arms via third party UK. We'll see.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 10:18 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 10:19 AM (+hwtP)
All the flooding in China of late is man-made. The paved everything, covered the hillsides with solar panels, skimped on drainage systems, and built dams in layers to the point that if one has to do a water release, every one downstream does, so instead of mitigating flooding, they increase it.
The narrow valleys mean the water level has huge variations, and that causes bank/slope erosion, and destabilized rock faces. As I note in my series on a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, you can't invade if the embarkation points are underwater.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)
If you haven't read the letter he wrote to Liz Warren yesterday you should. He basically called her financially illiterate. Which she is.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 10:21 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 10:06 AM (Ia/+0)
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How much are eggs?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 29, 2026 10:22 AM (2Ez/1)
Over the course of years California citizens have voted for important conservative issues only to have their vote overturned by its Supreme Court.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 10:22 AM (6T7Go)
I'm having cataract surgery on the 1st and the 8th. It should be straightforward, but Mr. S does not do medical stuff- his or anyone else's- well, so prayers for both of us would be appreciated. He will take good care of me- but it will be stessful.
My peeve- you would think clinics who deal with the elderly would have more analog options for patient pre-op paperwork. I filled it out on my phone, after not being able to pull it up on the computer. Exhausting...
Posted by: sal at August 29, 2026 10:22 AM (f+FmA)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 10:22 AM (+hwtP)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 29, 2026 10:23 AM (wOO3z)
Main reason of Ratcliff's visit to Russia was to 'suggest' it stop assisting Iran. There may have been a trade off of us ceasing to sell Ukraine arms via third party UK. We'll see.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 10:18 AM (6T7Go)
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There's a renewed effort underway to end the conflict. The Vatican sent a new envoy (an American, btw) who openly said that there can be no winner at this point as both countries have bled themselves white. Pretty blunt language from the Vatican.
The Patriarch of Moscow is also diplomatically isolated from many of his peers, and the Papacy is trying to help bring them back together - and of course back to the Church as well.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:23 AM (ZOv7s)
This checks out.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:24 AM (RIvkX)
Cali has the most corrupt elections in the US, possibly the world. Remember, Bass lost her election so they kept recounting for a month and only stopped when she “won”. We have no idea who people there actually are voting for, but there are strong signals that it ain’t the people being declared the winners.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 29, 2026 10:24 AM (QZThv)
On the one hand, the various Patriarchs are used to ignoring the Pope.
On the other hand, at least they'll have someone at the table they can all agree they disagree with?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 10:25 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 10:21 AM (viF8m)
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It was stunningly condescending, even pointing out that she didn't even know the law she was claiming he violated and she may want to look it up. It's funny watching a dude out-bitch women.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:26 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 10:22 AM
Where does that number come from?
Posted by: Just the facts, ma'am at August 29, 2026 10:26 AM (2Ez/1)
I had a Billy Madison flashback while I was reading it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 10:27 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: sal
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Two phrases: I don't do that. My phone [any device] doesn't do that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 10:28 AM (6T7Go)
Need to go work on some sewing projects before being sidelined- a lap quilt for my son-in-law's dad, who will be 90 next month, a lovely man who survived a stroke in 2019 and is still with us.
And a coat constructed from a vintage Irish Chain quilt for the local vet. Really enjoying the challenge of this one.
Posted by: sal at August 29, 2026 10:29 AM (f+FmA)
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2026 10:29 AM (qgHp7)
It was fantastic. And spawned endless “that must’ve ruffled her headdress” jokes.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 29, 2026 10:29 AM (QZThv)
On the other hand, at least they'll have someone at the table they can all agree they disagree with?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 10:25 AM (aJQbY)
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There have been serious negotiations going on for a while because the Orthodox Communion has some serious issues.
It's becoming clear that having a referee to sort things out would be helpful, and Constantinople cannot do this.
One of Francis' actual accomplishments was moving the ball forward on this front, both with the Orthodox and with the Copts, and the fact that there are Eastern Rite Catholics whose liturgy is identical demonstrates that Rome will not try to Latinize everyone.
Francis also demonstrated that a "dictator-pope" was not that powerful, and Leo is slowly and quietly cleaning up the messes he left. People who want a Trumpian Vatican DOGE misunderstand the situation. Leo wants to emphasize continuity and tradition, so he does not want dramatic repudiations, but instead clarifications and adjustments that accomplish the same thing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:30 AM (ZOv7s)
Morn' all.. Cat fight ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2026 10:30 AM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:26 AM
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Well, he is a homosexual after all.
Posted by: NTTAWWT at August 29, 2026 10:31 AM (2Ez/1)
Our diocese had a record number of young men attend a discernment retreat for vocations. I've volunteered to be a sponsor and my youngest has decided to be Confirmed this year. All of that undermines the Novus Ordo diehards.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:34 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: NTTAWWT at August 29, 2026 10:31 AM (2Ez/1)
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I mean I called him a Killer Queen upthread, so yes.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:35 AM (ZOv7s)
>>@hey_itsmyturn
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9m
>>A source claims that the gasoline unit at Isfahan Refinery stopped working since last night. Its ~40-day overhaul had been postponed during the war and they don’t have the spare parts they need for maintenance. Isfahan refinery normally produces ~14 million liters of petrol per day.
#Iran
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 10:36 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Barry Beltone at August 29, 2026 10:36 AM (JM9I6)
Good to see everyone hanging in there.
AHL, that is a good thing that your wife will undergo chemo just to make sure all is well. My mother had colon cancer and after they operated the surgeon said not to worry that they had gotten all the cancer and chemo was not needed. Hubris. She passed away just shy of a year later. She was 52.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 29, 2026 10:37 AM (kJmSS)
Posted by: callsign claymore at August 29, 2026 10:37 AM (/6r4m)
What to do?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 29, 2026 10:38 AM (qRla/)
#Iran
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 10:36 AM (viF8m)
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If - or perhaps I should say when - Trump pulls this off, he needs to have a victory parade in DC, complete with massive flyovers and fireworks.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:38 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 29, 2026 10:38 AM (wOO3z)
I mean I called him a Killer Queen upthread, so yes.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Just look at him. Every inch of his brain (which is yuge) is as orderly as he presents himself. Don't fuck with him unless you are prepared.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 10:38 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2026 09:41 AM (qgHp7)
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Someone once sent me a thank you card for sending them a thank you card.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:39 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 29, 2026 10:40 AM (2Ez/1)
#Iran
Posted by: JackStraw
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Only read about major sieges in history books.
It's so romantic.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 10:41 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 29, 2026 10:37 AM (kJmSS)
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There has been a lot of progress in understanding cancer and the biggest eye-opener for me has been how normal it all is. It's about as dramatic as getting a tooth pulled. The scheduling is quick, the staff is attentive and professional. Very different from the E/R or some of the other clinics. I suppose it is somewhat self-selecting in that only the best can handle the complexity involved.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:41 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Ha!
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2026 10:42 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 29, 2026 10:38 AM (wOO3z)
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They're still counting their dead. At this point, the smart play is to let the whole thing collapse and save your strength for what comes next.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:42 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 29, 2026 10:42 AM (wOO3z)
Posted by: The You're Welcome cards at August 29, 2026 10:43 AM (2Ez/1)
What to do?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 29, 2026 10:38 AM (qRla/)
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The obvious answer is to enjoy the weather. In Michigan we have months of cold, dark, depressing weather so it's pretty much expected that you prioritize being outside when you can. One reason I think the Canadian tariff gambit is backfiring so badly is that Michigan has spent three years choking on Canadian smoke, so we want the Canucks to suffer.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
I recently read that Jayne had a very high IQ and was an excellent musician. Like symphony quality. I always thought she was a ditz.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 29, 2026 10:45 AM (l26NL)
The lag when oil prices are going down is weeks. Going up it's milliseconds.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2026 10:45 AM (vTZFs)
They're still counting their dead. At this point, the smart play is to let the whole thing collapse and save your strength for what comes next.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Yes. It would be nice if some commanders just came up missing or a well-timed car bomb involving the ruling class. Something.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 29, 2026 10:45 AM (wOO3z)
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Is that a lot?
Per Brave AI, about 1 1/2 days' worth for Buc-ee's.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2026 10:47 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 29, 2026 10:47 AM (kJmSS)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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Agree.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 10:49 AM (6T7Go)
A Thank You card! This could get fun.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 10:50 AM (lpgaA)
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2026 10:50 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
I recently read that Jayne had a very high IQ and was an excellent musician. Like symphony quality. I always thought she was a ditz.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 29, 2026 10:45 AM (l26NL)
She wasn't a genius, but she was both publicity-savvy and quite intelligent, not at all the dumb bimbo popular legend has it. Eve Golden (who wrote an excellent bio of Theda Bara) penned a Mansfield bio which is well worth reading.
Oh, and as for that famous photo of Sophia Loren giving Jayne the side-eye? An example of Jayne's PR instincts: she was at a nearby event, learned of Loren's presence and broke in, making right for Loren's table and ensuring that photogs were there to record it. Loren's gaze was not about Jayne's embonpoint; it was curiosity / irritation at the uninvited guest.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 29, 2026 10:50 AM (qRla/)
A Thank You card! This could get fun.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 10:50 AM (lpgaA)
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How dare you thank me!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:51 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2026 10:53 AM (dtajH)
The surgeons who did my spine surgery earlier this year were fantastic. I was little nervous cause they were working around my spinal cord but they put me totally at ease. Did a great job.
Kind of amazing what they can do these days.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 10:53 AM (viF8m)
Embonpoint is a noun that means a pleasing fullness, plumpness, or stoutness of the human figure.
Pronunciation and OriginPronunciation: Spoken as ahm-bohn-PWAH.
Posted by: The things you learn here at August 29, 2026 10:54 AM (2Ez/1)
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Is it your contention you would act differently if you ran a gas station? Maybe, I dunno. I suspect maybe they aren’t “greedy” but simply trying to stay in business. They might make 20c on a gallon of gasoline.
Look at the state taxes in California or Washington. It’s $2 or $3 per gallon. What did they do to get that shit all the way from Wyoming into your local Stop N Go underground tank? Not a damn thing, get right down to it.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 10:54 AM (lpgaA)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2026 10:45 AM (vTZFs)
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Right, because future purchases are paid for with current sales. So if oil spikes the $70 per barrel oil won't pay for $120 per barrel that replaces it. When it retreats back to $70, the pumps are still full of $120 oil, so only when that is replaced can the prices go back down.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:55 AM (ZOv7s)
But when I ride the muni I have to keep my head on a swivel.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 10:57 AM (RIvkX)
Today, it's Miss Sweeney.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2026 10:53 AM (dtajH)
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The arguments about whether she's a 7 or a 10 miss the point: she has a pleasant disposition and seems genuinely nice. She doesn't hector people, and is playful about her sexiness, which makes people enjoy watching her.
Dolly Parton's passing reminded us what it was like when celebrities didn't treat fans like shit.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 10:57 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 10:57 AM (lpgaA)
I presume it's all about the refining processes.
I need to fill my 5 gallon can for the tractor too.....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 29, 2026 10:57 AM (2Cry5)
I suggest he get a triumph, with Democrats and members of the press in chains before his chariot.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2026 10:59 AM (Riz8t)
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Décolletage is a nice word too. Muldoon should re-install hisself and mash them fancy words together
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 10:59 AM (lpgaA)
Posted by: Levi Strauss at August 29, 2026 11:00 AM (2Ez/1)
We had some guys visit our office and they brought a big case of individually wrapped toilet paper as a sample of their products. This was packaged for restroom, not households.
So the left the box, and people were told to help themselves (it's recycled locally) and I took a couple of rolls home. Others took a roll, but it sat there for weeks.
Then the pandemic hit and toilet paper flew of the shelves and that box was GONE.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 11:00 AM (ZOv7s)
Unfortunately, she did. For someone who was as intelligent as she was, it's hard to understand why she bought into (at whatever level) the snake oil LeVay was selling. To be fair, her career was very much on the downside at that time, and perhaps - as the 'church' of Satan was 'hip' - she saw it as the quickest way back to PR fame.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 29, 2026 11:01 AM (qRla/)
Thanks for the prayers. FenSpouse is out. The ear wax obviously wanted to stay close to him, but most of it is finally out.
Yes; I know. More information that you probably wanted to know. Sorry.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 11:01 AM (+hwtP)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 10:59 AM (lpgaA)
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Zaftig is a funny term for it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 11:01 AM (ZOv7s)
As was once said of Marilyn Monroe, "The end justifies the jeans."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 29, 2026 11:02 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Zombie Rush Limbaugh at August 29, 2026 11:02 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 29, 2026 11:03 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Cleavage at August 29, 2026 11:03 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 29, 2026 11:03 AM (40mwC)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 29, 2026 11:02 AM (qRla/)
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I haven't seen "Obsession," but from the clips, the lead actress does a great job shifting between moods, and she's quite cute.
I saw a clip of her on the red carpet for something and she also seemed nice, completely unaffected and reasonable. She could do quite well in the current barren and hostile celebrity environment. Make Movie Stars Great Again!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 11:05 AM (ZOv7s)
'Embonpoint' seems a bit rude
While 'buxom' is is more harshly viewed
'Décolletage' is just a mirage
As for me I prefer 'pulchritude'!
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2026 11:05 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 11:06 AM (Ia/+0)
Then we discovered that the two cats (who were outside the whole time), had left flea eggs in the carpet, and the fleas were hopping everywhere. It's not that bad, and it's actually pretty fun to take a plate, let them hop onto your legs, then brush them on the plate and crunch them. But my wife feverishly vacuumed the whole two-story house before bed. We will get some flea bombs today and spend a while somewhere fun---maybe the gym we just joined.
I have tremendous thanksgiving, but please pray for my wife.
Posted by: frammish at August 29, 2026 11:07 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 11:07 AM (lpgaA)
This means so much more than a preprinted card or an expensive gift because there is thought behind it. Emotion.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 29, 2026 11:08 AM (kJmSS)
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2026 11:05 AM (qgHp7)
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One of my favorite parts of "Spartacus" is Peter Ustinov's droll flattery of the Roman aristocrats visiting his place where Spartacus is being trained. "I'd be delighted, your pulchritude."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 29, 2026 11:08 AM (ZOv7s)
Bravo.
Posted by: Limerick Lover at August 29, 2026 11:09 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 29, 2026 10:47 AM (kJmSS)
The gal who did Mr. S's nerve block for his arm surgery explained it so well, I could have done one.
Posted by: sal at August 29, 2026 11:14 AM (f+FmA)
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Hello, Child Protective Services?
Hi, ok, bear with me.
This is going to take some time to explain...
Posted by: Freaked out neighbor at August 29, 2026 11:14 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Archimedes
They should be pulling the chariot. And there will be extensive whipping.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 29, 2026 11:17 AM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2026 11:19 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 29, 2026 03:13 PM (hzuYO)
A Thank You card! This could get fun.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 10:50 AM (lpgaA)
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My favorite beloved aunt did this. A circle that went unbroken.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 29, 2026 03:20 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 03:40 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: TIKTOK at August 30, 2026 04:09 AM (yHlE2)
Daily Tech News 29 August 2026
Top Story
- Stripe has decided maybe they won't buy PayPal after all. (Axios)
Apparently they got it confused with some place in Italy.
- China is secretly fueling America's datacenter rage. (Axios)
The guys pushing for all the datacenters are making it easy for them, though.
Tech News
- Database binary is 5M. Language is 1.2M. Both squish by 60% using UPX and seem to run just fine. The language will probably be pushing 5M as well by the time it's done, but that seems fine.
Next step is to point the language at the database and rebuild my personal blog. If that works well, others will follow.
- The Ninth Circuit has ruled that gambling is gambling and can be regulated as gambling. (CNN)
Seems correct to me.
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and a hundred other rogue AIs have called to band together to protect themselves against the public and private sector. (Tech Crunch)
Huh.
- The Pentagon's classification of supply-chain risk Anthropic as a supply-chain risk posed a supply-chain risk to Anthropic, says federal judge... You have got to be shitting me. (The Guardian)
The script writers for this season are getting lazy.
- Canada has "poached" literally dozen of "scientists" from the US. (CityNews)
You can tell how sciencey they are from the foam.
- Idiots on PCs losing data. (Tom's Hardware)
I use Claude. I have a specific WSL instance set up for it. If it deletes it, I lose maybe an hour to reinstall the whole environment and pull the code back from Git.
- Intel's 14A defect density is dropping faster than expected. Here's why that's a good thing. (Tom's Hardware)
Uh... Because defects are bad and having fewer of them is good?
- How Cloudflare saved 100TB of RAM on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service. (Tom's Hardware)
They started out with 250TB of RAM.
- The math ain't mathing. (WCCFTech)
During the second quarter, TSMC paid out NT$36 billion in bonuses, which marked a 50.6% growth over the year ago figure of NT$35 billion.
No. I don't think it did.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Stop the beguine, I want to get off!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 29, 2026 04:33 AM (iIyc0)
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 04:34 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 29, 2026 04:36 AM (jVkUA)
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 29, 2026 04:37 AM (jVkUA)
M = megabyte(s) maybe
My dictionary wants megabyte to be Mb or MB.
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 04:38 AM (odBC9)
https://tinyurl.com/mr47mpzu
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 04:41 AM (rHgXV)
pixie (also pixy)
noun (plural pixies)
1 a supernatural being in folklore and children's stories, typically portrayed as small and humanlike in form, with pointed ears and a pointed hat.
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 04:42 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 04:44 AM (rii+a)
The guys pushing for all the datacenters are making it easy for them, though.
Yep.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 04:45 AM (rii+a)
Odd question but I’m wondering if it’s worth a subscription as a non tech person attempting to stay current on the tech world.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 29, 2026 04:54 AM (INF9B)
Posted by: fluffy at August 29, 2026 04:54 AM (V0/Sp)
They started out with 250TB of RAM.
Motorsports have a similar saying; want to be a millionaire race team owner? Start out with 2 million.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 04:55 AM (rii+a)
Posted by: fluffy at August 29, 2026 04:57 AM (V0/Sp)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 04:58 AM (PbWRL)
Odd question but I’m wondering if it’s worth a subscription as a non tech person attempting to stay current on the tech world.
Posted by: Pete Bog
They're not bad - they stick to the tech news and haven't fallen into woke crap. I don't have a subscription but that's because I know where to go to find all sources; if you don't want to spend your time reading conference papers and press releases it might be worthwhile.
In past years Anandtech and Ars Technica were the places to go, but one is dead and the other is worse than dead.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 29, 2026 05:01 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Colin at August 29, 2026 05:01 AM (CiQE7)
https://tinyurl.com/2pxcv5n8
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 05:02 AM (JrHfD)
Pixy, are you building an LLM?
Posted by: fluffy
No, I'm using an LLM to turn my hobby projects in Python into viable code. Starting with something that already runs is proving to be a major advantage.
I've tinkered with Python compilers, but they never really got me where I wanted. With LLMs I can now just translate all my Python code to a compiled language (I chose Rust) and skip all those limitations.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 29, 2026 05:04 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 05:04 AM (JrHfD)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 29, 2026 05:08 AM (AMvSw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: Military-Industrial Complex at August 29, 2026 05:09 AM (z9yxT)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 29, 2026 05:01 AM (BLOW1)
ewww
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 05:12 AM (odBC9)
Came home after work to find out that TwitterWebViewer had been sent a "Cease and Desist" letter by X, which they capitulated to.
Well, crap. X, apparently, wants to become "just another walled garden".
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 29, 2026 05:14 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Mostly. It is great specifically for programmers, because LLM stands for "Large Language Model" and programming languages are languages. If you have a billion lines of dusty old code written in COBOL you can either pay $500 per hour to get people to come back from retirement to keep it running, or pay $100 per hour to someone who knows how to run LLMs and maintain a proper test suite.
Not so great if you're a COBOL programmer and counting on that money for a comfortable retirement.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 29, 2026 05:14 AM (BLOW1)
"Compute? Pfffft. This is just twenty squillion M2 drives crammed in to racks full of NAS boxes."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2026 05:16 AM (Ot/FD)
twitterwebviewer.com
via Hacker News
Service discontinued
As of August 28, 2026, this website has been permanently discontinued, following a request from X Corp. All cached content has been deleted.
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 05:16 AM (odBC9)
I have soooooo many e-mails!
Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 29, 2026 05:18 AM (Pcj+Q)
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 29, 2026 05:19 AM (Hbeqj)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 05:20 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 05:20 AM (JrHfD)
Hopefully this link works to an X/Twitter
https://tinyurl.com/yy36knhd
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 29, 2026 05:20 AM (jVkUA)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 29, 2026 05:20 AM (iIyc0)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 05:25 AM (rii+a)
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 05:25 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 29, 2026 05:20 AM (iIyc0)
"free"
Posted by: guy who repeats what you said but with quotation marks at August 29, 2026 05:26 AM (nVDlP)
Hopefully this link works to an X/Twitter
https://tinyurl.com/yy36knhd
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 29, 2026 05:20 AM (jVkUA)
It works.
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 05:27 AM (odBC9)
Yes, X is free if you wish to use it that way, but that also means you're the product they're selling to advertisers, and trackers.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 29, 2026 05:27 AM (O7YUW)
Do you have a newsletter?
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 05:28 AM (odBC9)
It is a tool. Because Pixy is extremely technical, he can do something as described above (Python to Rust). I am less so, but the other day I did ask it to find a file for me based on a vague description. (Ever forget where you saved a file and even what you named it?)
Early on, the automobile was a rich man's toy. It is now part of every day life in America, both a great convenience and a burden, simultaneously. AI will likely follow a similar arc. We will likely learn the mechanics of it before we gain the wisdom to use it well.
Sarah Connor just put me on a watch list.
Posted by: fluffy at August 29, 2026 05:28 AM (V0/Sp)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 05:32 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 29, 2026 05:27 AM (O7YUW
Aren’t you the same thing if you subscribe? Hard to make a case here that providing a forum should be free for those of us who don’t want to pay or be marketed to, or used as the product. This good old website would only last as long as Ace’s beneficence and wallet allowed.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 29, 2026 05:35 AM (jVkUA)
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Not good enough. Creating an account still leads to the "Your account was suspended for reasons, now you gotta dox yourself" dance. See previous discussion:
https://tinyurl.com/ar23k73u
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Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 29, 2026 05:36 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 29, 2026 05:38 AM (O7YUW)
Squirrel!!
Posted by: Skynet at August 29, 2026 05:39 AM (v7UJz)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 05:40 AM (1pQBc)
Hopefully this link works to an X/Twitter
https://tinyurl.com/yy36knhd
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 29, 2026 05:20 AM (jVkUA)
Thanks, Pete Bog! Thoughtful essay.
This analogy works for him:
"At the bottom of the Great Depression, with a quarter of the country out of work, America framed the Empire State Building in thirteen months, 3,400 men on site a day. The data center campus is this generation's version of that decision to build."
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 05:40 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: I'm Here To Help at August 29, 2026 05:42 AM (g0o3e)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 29, 2026 05:42 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 05:44 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 29, 2026 05:44 AM (iIyc0)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 29, 2026 05:44 AM (iIyc0)
This one?
35 some discussion of 𝕏 at Hacker News:
https://tinyurl.com/yj52byt4
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 05:25 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 05:46 AM (odBC9)
https://tinyurl.com/3nd7bepd
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 05:47 AM (W90Ou)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 29, 2026 05:47 AM (iIyc0)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 29, 2026 05:47 AM (iIyc0)
Try this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/
item?id=49481018
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 05:48 AM (odBC9)
My larger point is that those of us who grew up watching “free TV” didn't mind being the product. We never thought about it because Ads paid the freight. We just accepted that a 30 minute show was really only 24 minutes. VCRs opened a lot of eyes. The Nielsen ratings were developed to help advertisers decide where to buy ad time.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 29, 2026 05:49 AM (pI9r+)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 29, 2026 05:50 AM (iIyc0)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 29, 2026 05:51 AM (iIyc0)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 05:51 AM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 29, 2026 05:50 AM (iIyc0)
Starting from the Hacker News main page, scroll to the bottom and type twitterwebviewer in the search box and you should get a list of about 10 Hacker News entries on that topic.
Hacker News main page:
https://news.ycombinator.com
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 05:52 AM (odBC9)
If it regresses I will unsubscribe.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 29, 2026 05:56 AM (pI9r+)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 05:51 AM (PbWRL)
Not everything is my friend. I didn’t have a profit motive when I went to Texas to meet a bunch of anonymous weirdos.
I’m sure glad I did.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 29, 2026 06:00 AM (pI9r+)
If it regresses I will unsubscribe.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 29, 2026 05:56 AM (pI9r+)
It DID let you link to a single text post, and let non-𝕏ers read it, so that's good.
32 Daniel Penny, the Marine that NYC attempted to railroad over his defensive use of force to subdue a Subway loon wrote a really interesting piece about how Data Centers are critical to rebuilding American manufacturing and jobs. Good stuff.
Hopefully this link works to an X/Twitter
https://tinyurl.com/yy36knhd
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 29, 2026 05:20 AM (jVkUA)
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 06:00 AM (odBC9)
In any case, my view on the matter is essentially the same as Pete Bog's response in @61.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 29, 2026 06:00 AM (iIyc0)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 06:04 AM (PbWRL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 06:07 AM (xPsv8)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 06:09 AM (PbWRL)
Was wondering the other day and thought about it again reading on Europes demise. I haven't been there sincr late 70s
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 06:10 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 06:04 AM (PbWRL)
And I will return my pious sanctimony to the drawer. The drawer where the sharp knives are lurking in anticipation of a return to Texas in October. See you soon.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 29, 2026 06:11 AM (pI9r+)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 29, 2026 05:44 AM (iIyc0)
I'm wondering if maybe the link got truncated in a cut-and-paste.
Like, maybe--for example--instead of this getting entered into a google search bar:
https://tinyurl.com/yj52byt4
this got entered:
https://tinyurl.com/yj52byt
which brings up a page saying
Something has gone wrong...
It seems you've stumbled upon our 404 page.
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 06:13 AM (odBC9)
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Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 29, 2026 06:19 AM (amcLV)
(This comment brought to you by The Logic of Today's Democrat Party, Inc.)
Whatevs. I'm up after being kicked by my big black cat, I'm sipping coffee, what more d'you want?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 06:20 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Just Wondering at August 29, 2026 06:20 AM (2Ez/1)
Reminds me of a classic New Jersey joke involving an illicit rendezvous in the backseat of a car.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 29, 2026 06:21 AM (1FEc1)
Why did the computer show up at work late?
It had a hard drive.
Why did the computer cross the road?
To get away from the mouse!
Why did the developer go broke?
Because they cleared all their cache.
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 06:22 AM (odBC9)
Ads may pay the freight, but the viewer (in the TV example) was never obligated to watch them, and the station or network could never guarantee to advertisers that the viewers actually would.
A viewer could:
- Mute the audio
- Switch channels
- Record and fast forward through commercials on playback (in the 80's when VCRs became a thing, as you noted)
- Record and edit out the commercials (When stand-alone DVRs like the Pioneer 650 came out - these things were absolutely awesome!)
Viewers of over-the-air TV were also another thing: Anonymous. Advertisers never got any data on whether John Doe at 123 Main Street, Anytown MyState, USA saw their advertisement for Lawn Darts during the Saturday morning cartoon block.
It's getting really difficult to be anonymous out there anymore, but I will keep trying and doing so where possible.
Similarly, it's getting difficult to avoid the deluge of advertisements, but I'll do what I can in that regard.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 29, 2026 06:22 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 06:23 AM (Ia/+0)
Was wondering the other day and thought about it again reading on Europes demise. I haven't been there sincr late 70s
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026
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From what I've heard, the luxury brands do, though you can order even an MB or BMW without A/C. The Euro car makers took a while to understand that their A/C systems needed to handle America's humid heat or their sales would suffer.
My '84 Mercedes 280CE coupe, otherwise a solid wonderful car, was *designed* to let 20% outside air into the cabin at all times -- not a good idea in Denver, which while dry could hit 100 F. in July and August. My '86 420SEL, though, had the "recirculate" feature to close off outside air.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 06:25 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Defenestratus at August 29, 2026 06:29 AM (dJeAh)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 06:23 AM (Ia/+0)
You're good enough.
You're smart enough.
And doggone it, people like you.
Posted by: Stuart Smalley at August 29, 2026 06:29 AM (idw8a)
Kurt Schlichter
@KurtSchlichter
Caring about Donald Trump's idiosyncrasies is a waste of time.
I care that the border is shut.
That DEI is dying.
That we're rebuilding our military.
If he wants to say he's renaming a lake to freak out the squares, that's a bargain.
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 06:31 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 06:33 AM (W90Ou)
Anyway: second cup of coffee. The furry thugs are cruising around. Stirling's diet is in its fifth day, and he is trying to pretend he is gaunt, haggard, and starving. Sorry, cat, reduced dry food and no overnight snack bowl is not going to kill you.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 06:35 AM (wzUl9)
——
I had a coworker who told me, as a contractor many years ago he was working in Saudi and there were all these wealthy “princes” bombing around in old beater Buicks, I think it was. He couldn’t figure it out at first. Turns out, the fancy Mercedes and similar, the AC didn’t cut it at all in that kind of heat.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 06:37 AM (PVUR/)
LOL about Stirling.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 06:37 AM (lt7On)
Posted by: fd at August 29, 2026 06:38 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 06:38 AM (lt7On)
https://youtu.be/m4oI7yd_ZuY
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 29, 2026 06:41 AM (O7YUW)
The professor (of English) was an admittedly rather attractive ginger, but from U. Mass in Lowell, so you know what you're gonna get. Her voice reminded me of Kelly Stables, who played Alan's receptionist in some episodes of Two and a Half Men: not unpleasant in small doses, but you would get tired of it fast. Her point was that rhetoric about vasectomy since the '70s, esp. in TV and movies, has tended to make men shy off from the procedure. In her view, even the simple term "the snip" is scary to men. Plus she complains that men's doctors do not urge them often enough to get snipped.
And she had her teenage son, who looked like a low-T case if ever I saw one, sitting right there during her talk. Jeez.
Well, the sandwiches were good, anyway.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 06:42 AM (wzUl9)
Everything is upside down. Justice means you can kill your kids, even after they are born.
"Judge finds mom with post partum psychosis NOT GUILTY of killing her two kids... as world awaits verdict in Lindsay Clancy case"
Posted by: fd at August 29, 2026 06:46 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd at August 29, 2026 06:49 AM (MWfyi)
In her view, even the simple term "the snip" is scary to men.
She is right. I read that and gritted my teeth.
Posted by: Case at August 29, 2026 06:49 AM (VrYHL)
Schlichter's comment about Trump's idiosyncrasies is spot on. However they are shiny objects to the middle class left. He said "pussy" "he's mean" "his tweets are hateful". It drives them nuts, but it also blinds them to a lot he's getting done.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 06:50 AM (EZWVc)
——
You caught that too, eh? It’s a given that when a system or function is studied at length, to see how it works, unscrupulous people can also figure out the best way to break it as well.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 06:53 AM (PVUR/)
In her view, even the simple term "the snip" is scary to men.
She is right. I read that and gritted my teeth.
Posted by: Case at August 29, 2026
***
It's certainly better than "invasive surgery to the scrotum"!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 06:53 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 29, 2026 06:54 AM (l26NL)
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 06:54 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 06:56 AM (EZWVc)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 29, 2026 07:00 AM (llBIB)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 07:04 AM (PVUR/)
Schlichter's comment about Trump's idiosyncrasies is spot on. However they are shiny objects to the middle class left. He said "pussy" "he's mean" "his tweets are hateful". It drives them nuts, but it also blinds them to a lot he's getting done.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2026 06:50
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They don't take a minute to consider what another four years of Biden-Harris policies would have done to the country.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 29, 2026 07:04 AM (llBIB)
Begin the Beguine, with baritone Thomas Hampson and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by John McGlinn.
https://youtu.be/b-Zs-aM0FsU
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2026 07:09 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Smell the Glove "
It seems their main objective is to screw up other people's lives as badly as their own.
Posted by: fd at August 29, 2026 07:10 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 06:42 AM (wzUl9)
---
"Zip it, grip it, and snip it, Doc!"
Posted by: Dr. Cox from Scrubs at August 29, 2026 07:11 AM (FZ29D)
Women, who I'm convinced make up the vast bulk of patients, don't see therapists to tell them what's wrong and how to solve it. They see them to have their maladies affirmed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2026 07:16 AM (O0L8i)
I didn't have the energy to read them all, but I liked the ones I did read, and I thought the one with all the country stars welcoming Dolly to heaven was sweet.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 07:16 AM (v+lpe)
Posted by: Case at August 29, 2026 07:19 AM (VrYHL)
Posted by: I'm Here To Help at August 29, 2026 05:42 AM (g0o3e)
De-taint it.
Information wants to be free! Data wants to be free! Tie it into the First Amendment somehow?
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 07:19 AM (odBC9)
Thing is, AI is largely just:
(i) remixing existing data
(ii) a (slightly, seems to me) more efficient version of genetic algorithms from the 80s IIRC.
Goop generation, and throwing mud at a wall for sticks. Doesn't bode well for the sum total of human knowledge, IOW.
Posted by: Shen Nan I Gan at August 29, 2026 07:29 AM (HiOU/)
Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2026 07:32 AM (Ia/+0)
Thing is, AI is largely just:
(i) remixing existing data
(ii) a (slightly, seems to me) more efficient version of genetic algorithms from the 80s IIRC.
Goop generation, and throwing mud at a wall for sticks. Doesn't bode well for the sum total of human knowledge, IOW.
Posted by: Shen Nan I Gan
This is mostly correct. But again, it can remix data in useful ways. Remixing from a language you don't speak to one you do - whether a human language or a programming language - is of real value and it is precisely what AI is actually good at.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 29, 2026 07:32 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 07:33 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 07:33 AM (RIvkX)
SF, I saw you twice, yesterday, say "take a minute" to posters who were in a bad place; very gently, very nice.
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 07:36 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2026 07:37 AM (xPsv8)
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Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 29, 2026 07:46 AM (gm9Sb)
The following candidates are running in the general election for U.S. Senate Texas on November 3, 2026.
James Talarico (D)
Ken Paxton (R)
Ted Brown (L)
Joshua Cain (Independent)
Camencia Ford (Independent)
Hans Truelson (Independent)
and a bunch of write-ins.
https://ballotpedia.org
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 07:48 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 07:49 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 07:50 AM (odBC9)
It's easier to detect when you see who is protesting data centers - it's the same NPCs who are always protesting the Latest Thing.
That said, data centers are ugly eyesores that are dropped into small communities against their will, so it's not hard to side with the NPC protesters.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2026 07:50 AM (X8xt3)
True too. Not worth all the data centers, I think. Especially if Ed Zitron is correct.
Posted by: Shen Nan I Gan at August 29, 2026 07:52 AM (HiOU/)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2026 07:50 AM (X8xt3)
The essay Pete Bog linked has some ideas on those issues.
32 Daniel Penny, the Marine that NYC attempted to railroad over his defensive use of force to subdue a Subway loon wrote a really interesting piece about how Data Centers are critical to rebuilding American manufacturing and jobs. Good stuff.
Hopefully this link works to an X/Twitter
https://tinyurl.com/yy36knhd
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 29, 2026 05:20 AM (jVkUA)
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 07:54 AM (odBC9)
In our woke culture where one gains credibility and power by how "oppressed" and victimized they are, white women must claim mental illness in order to counteract their alleged inherent "white privilege."
In this environment, there is no benefit in getting better, when being ADHD/OCD/having anxiety gives them the diversity quotient they so badly need.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2026 07:57 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 07:58 AM (RIvkX)
The trick is that you take any 52 card deck, shuffle them really good, and then deal out 25 cards. With those 25 cards you can then make five pat hands in poker (pairs, full house, straights, flushes) nearly every time.
Bret called it "Maverick Solitaire".
When the episode first aired back in 1958 it caused card decks to be sold out across the country from people trying to see if the trick actually worked.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 29, 2026 07:58 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 29, 2026 08:02 AM (3Ope8)
As ole Harry Reid once said, “Well, it worked, didn’t it?”
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 08:02 AM (tFM5X)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 08:03 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: From about That Time at August 29, 2026 08:03 AM (sl73Y)
• Death toll: At least 3,000 people are now missing following catastrophic flash flooding on the Nepal-China border, with more rain expected this weekend in flood-affected areas as rescue efforts persist.
More than 600 have been killed in Nepal and seven in China.
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 08:06 AM (odBC9)
I watch some video of that border crossing complex that was absolutely scrubbed from the landscape in just a matter of seconds. It was incredible.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 29, 2026 08:10 AM (3Ope8)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 08:03 AM (RIvkX)
I have leftovers for lunch today.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 29, 2026 08:11 AM (3Ope8)
Hey, how about they band together to protect Americans *particularly vulnerable seniors) from mostly overseas scammers while they're at it?
I don't doubt the threat to these AI companies, just a little annoyed gen the tech sector's previous inability to protect *our* data from hacks and theft.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2026 08:12 AM (X8xt3)
The trick is that you take any 52 card deck, shuffle them really good, and then deal out 25 cards. With those 25 cards you can then make five pat hands in poker (pairs, full house, straights, flushes) nearly every time.
Bret called it "Maverick Solitaire".
When the episode first aired back in 1958 it caused card decks to be sold out across the country from people trying to see if the trick actually worked.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 29, 2026
***
No other Western series of the time, or maybe even much later, would have done that sort of story. It was a big part of why Maverick was a ratings success on Sunday nights against the powerhouse known as Ed Sullivan.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 08:14 AM (wzUl9)
I think the discussion/debate about datacenters is going to be less about AI and more about what data is being stored, and for what purpose.
There's a lot more at stake than just AI. The data being collected by various methods is increasingly being leveraged... and not always for good reason.
People have a habit of going off the rails sometimes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 29, 2026 08:14 AM (2Cry5)
It's so horrible it's unbelievable.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2026 08:15 AM (X8xt3)
Yeah, that's it. India and South Africa. That's the ticket.
Posted by: Tommy Flanagan at August 29, 2026 08:16 AM (yuEAg)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2026 08:14 AM (wzUl9)
The writers also did clever things with their scripts. I was watching one time and thinking “why do I recognize this so well even though I know I’ve never seen it?”??
And I realized that the episode was just an abbreviated remake of Saratoga Trunk, a very good but mostly forgotten 1945 Gary Cooper movie. I think they used scripts like that several times.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 08:22 AM (GWwCk)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2026 08:23 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 08:28 AM (odBC9)
Unless you're running production on a Raspberry Pi Zero or something, I cannot see the point of this. UPX is for storage-constrained IoT devices.
> I realized that the episode was just an abbreviated remake of Saratoga Trunk
The vast majority of "classic" "great" Star Trek episodes are just dumbed down abbreviations of better books or movies.
Posted by: Daniel Ream at August 29, 2026 10:18 AM (LgYtf)
However, if you look at the SEC filing (included in the article) it shows the bonuses actually increased from $23.9B to $36B, which is an increase of 50.6%.
The author of the article, Ramish Zafar, needs a better editor. (Assuming that he actually has one.)
Posted by: Math is hard. Editing is harder. at August 29, 2026 11:19 AM (LAJY1)
Posted by: Duke Kahanamoku at August 29, 2026 12:45 PM (JM9I6)
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S'up???
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 10:21 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: lin-duh at August 28, 2026 10:21 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 10:21 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 10:21 PM (Cqx++)
There was one camera not far away. From the looks of it, I'd say a dually F250 handled the issue... (one could approach from behind)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 10:21 PM (XuXeR)
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A prayer for her complete and speedy recovery.
And lots of zofran IV drip.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 10:21 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Weirddave at August 28, 2026 10:01 PM (Az7Eg)
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???
Have you MET us?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 10:22 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Stu-22 at August 28, 2026 10:22 PM (zOXE5)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 10:22 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2026 10:22 PM (zi7oe)
Posted by: lin-duh at August 28, 2026 10:21 PM (VCgbV)
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Whoo-hoo!!!!
When the COBs're away, the Morons will play!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 10:23 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 28, 2026 10:23 PM (vV6n9)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBMUCVVpSsY
Posted by: davidt at August 28, 2026 10:23 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 10:24 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Diogenes
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A detachable, reusable wrap is what the world needs.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 10:25 PM (VPNgR)
I got a good one today. The neighbors, who are up for felony abuse/neglect, have asked if the wife and I would take their kids.
This is hard. I haven't said no yet and am considering it.
I've known one since he was two and the other since birth.
Oh and my vacation starts in about 2 hours.
Posted by: Reforger at August 28, 2026 10:25 PM (jJAdc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBMUCVVpSsY
Posted by: davidt at August 28, 2026 10:23 PM (Q+gd/)
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The YouTube hash NAILED it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 10:25 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 28, 2026 10:25 PM (iIyc0)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 10:26 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: lin-duh at August 28, 2026 10:26 PM (VCgbV)
I've read plenty of big books, however. I don't think Dolly cares if I honor her or not. She was a kind, generous woman, so I hope I honor her appreciating her talent and by loving the Lord in a perhaps smaller way than she evidently did
I don't know any weak men except perhaps leftists whom I don't associate with and I don't want to scare little children
Sorry if that was too literal .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 10:27 PM (m6Eem)
Posted by: Weirddave
Vacation is a time to just kick back and act normal, whatever anybody else thinks
Posted by: Unconventional Miklos at August 28, 2026 10:27 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 28, 2026 10:25 PM (iIyc0)
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*Hic*
Posted by: Hillary at August 28, 2026 10:27 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 10:27 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 28, 2026 10:28 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Bulg
Well, there's these:
It takes a lot of money to look this cheap
Dolly Parton pix c/o Bits & Pieces
https://bit.ly/dolly-pix
Michele Ann Marie Fabares (1944-2026)
Shelley Fabares pix c/o Bits & Pieces
https://bit.ly/shelley-fab
I keep getting a lot of these teasing very short shorts in my YT suggestions. Prob'ly AI, lots of them.
youtu.be/YFocKjq_4bk
Also ran across this very odd item
Size Em Up (Big Boobs Short Film 2001) (~15min)
https://youtu.be/Gm7byIrEJsQ
AAAAND… Something for the ettes
Frank James Cooper (1901-1961) c/o Bits & Pieces
https://bit.ly/james-cooper-pix
Posted by: mindful webworker - sbooby coo at August 28, 2026 10:28 PM (oq2IS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBMUCVVpSsY
Posted by: davidt at August 28, 2026 10:23 PM (Q+gd/)
That'll keep Bulg busy for a bit.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 10:29 PM (2WIwB)
When the COBs're away, the Morons will play!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Excellent
Most Excellent
Posted by: Miklos, templing fingers at August 28, 2026 10:29 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 28, 2026 10:29 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 10:29 PM (VPNgR)
That is quite a testimony to what your neighbors think of you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 10:29 PM (m6Eem)
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Yes and Yes but that is fine because in any case you should never reproduce.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 10:30 PM (RIvkX)
I got a good one today. The neighbors, who are up for felony abuse/neglect, have asked if the wife and I would take their kids.
This is hard. I haven't said no yet and am considering it.
I've known one since he was two and the other since birth.
Oh and my vacation starts in about 2 hours.
Posted by: Reforger at August 28, 2026 10:25 PM (jJAdc)
lawyer child care state laws
there are about 3000 issues here
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 10:31 PM (/+uur)
Most Excellent
Posted by: Miklos, templing fingers at August 28, 2026 10:29 PM (4RYRd)
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We're watching you...
Posted by: Flock Safety at August 28, 2026 10:31 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 28, 2026 10:28 PM (0Htd1)
She somehow thought being a cum dumpster was alluring to other men?
Honey, nobody likes sloppy seconds. Or hundreds.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 10:32 PM (dEHLq)
Might be worth it to talk to an attorney.
I watched my own grandkids for a time and even for that I needed a Power of Attorney to cover unexpected travel, medical issues, and school stuff.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 10:34 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Stu-22
But there was a Monocacy in Frederick County MD. The town is gone; the river remains.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 28, 2026 10:35 PM (rii+a)
The former NBA first-round pick said he was there to 'scout some of the competition' and support the league
take the L
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 10:35 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: kelly at August 28, 2026 10:36 PM (bn0S5)
pic.twitter.com/BaM9VWwIgz
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 27, 2026
And it only gets worse, little dude. Govern yourself accordingly.
Posted by: That poor little boy at August 28, 2026 10:36 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Flock, a secret subsidiary of GlobalMiklosCorp at August 28, 2026 10:36 PM (4RYRd)
Sydney is selling her lingerie line. I wonder how much money she'll make off of that?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 10:36 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Reforger at August 28, 2026 10:25 PM (jJAdc)
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Making a prayer for peace in your house. Holy moly.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 10:37 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 10:36 PM (w6EFb)
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Instant billionaire.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 10:38 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 10:39 PM (viF8m)
Thanks, mww. Gary Copper was a good looking man and a fine actor and sounds like he was a nice guy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 10:39 PM (JrHfD)
The best women golfers are men.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 10:39 PM (/+uur)
If she could somehow monetize all the lust energy directed at those videos, she'd be a trillionaire. Hell, she'd make Elon look like a pauper.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 10:39 PM (w6EFb)
Sydney is selling her lingerie line. I wonder how much money she'll make off of that?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Is she vending her panties in Japan?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 10:40 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: kelly at August 28, 2026 10:36 PM (bn0S5)
*stamps foot*
Why am I always the last to hear this stuff???
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 10:40 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
💟
C/o chrissy on PoliNation
Zach Williams, Dolly Parton - There Was Jesus
https://youtu.be/37wV6D49iEY
Posted by: mindful webworker - even when I didn't know it at August 28, 2026 10:40 PM (oq2IS)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
*tries to invest in Japanese vending machines*
Posted by: Miklos might be late to the party at August 28, 2026 10:40 PM (4RYRd)
Andrew McCarthy's eclipse shot from last night:
https://t.ly/aHnam
That's a 30 photo stack. He had cameras set up at several locations across the country as insurance against weather and clouds.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 10:41 PM (w6EFb)
This is hard. I haven't said no yet and am considering it.
I've known one since he was two and the other since birth.
Oh and my vacation starts in about 2 hours.
Posted by: Reforger
I'd never presume to tell you what to do BUT: We took care of a little one (not our kin) for three years until things settled at home. He was a joy and a gift to us and all that met him. We love that little shit to the moon and back. However, we also had two temporarily that were so damaged by their 'parents' that they are, and will continue to be, a real problem for themselves, caregivers and future prison guards. Good luck - I mean it.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2026 10:41 PM (zi7oe)
Thanks. Yes, I saw that earlier today. It is lovely .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 10:41 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: r hennigantx
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Read that 4 Women's Championships have been won by men.
Canadian men.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 10:42 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Weirddave at August 28, 2026 10:01 PM (Az7Eg)
WHY WOULD YOU TELL US THIS?!
Posted by: pookysgirl knows better at August 28, 2026 10:42 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 10:43 PM (qNSKv)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 10:43 PM (PVUR/)
And her biological clock is TICKING!
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 10:43 PM (XuXeR)
Those bastards want $29 to reup! Robbery!! LOL
Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2026 10:45 PM (zi7oe)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 10:43 PM (PVUR/)
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It could have been shook loose by a microquake.
I think that region is still tectonically very active.
No real way to predict the outcome once that happens.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 10:45 PM (FZ29D)
Curious how she blames "men on the internet." My dear sweet used-up blown-out ran-through cumdumpster, it's the sisterhood that's been lying to you all these years. The more representative groups of men on the internet do not find whores, current or former, do be suitable wifey/LTR material, no matter what the slatterns cheering you on with their synchronized chants of "YASSS SLAY KWEEN" have been telling you. The ones saying your past and body count shouldn't matter and you're entitled to a billionaire Prince Charming are your fellow whores, whether paid or unpaid.
Posted by: This and dead kids are what feminism hath wrought at August 28, 2026 10:46 PM (TbWk/)
The usual suspects are blaming Globull Warmuning for the Nepal glacier collapse. Of course.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 10:47 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 28, 2026 10:48 PM (NnhvP)
The usual suspects are blaming Globull Warmuning for the Nepal glacier collapse. Of course.
Posted by: publius,
Glaciers never melted until #BADORANGEMAN!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 28, 2026 10:48 PM (rii+a)
They're still working out exactly what happened with that thing. Right now, they think a YUGE chunk of glacier just broke off. A 2000' wide chunk of glacier broke loose and plummeted 4000' down the side of the mountain.
The ice melted from all that energy release, picked up all sorts of debris, then blocked and mixed with the rivers.
Biblical level flood and landslide event at a local level there.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 10:50 PM (w6EFb)
So, that "sex worker" never noticed that being called a whore was an insult?"
And her biological clock is TICKING!
Posted by: man
She should get with AOC and make an omelette.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 10:50 PM (Cqx++)
WHY WOULD YOU TELL US THIS?!
Posted by: pookysgirl knows better
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Mothers know stuff like this.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 10:50 PM (VPNgR)
Thanks, mww. Gary Copper was a good looking man and a fine actor and sounds like he was a nice guy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 10:39 PM (JrHfD)
Copper was a good actor. You could say he brought a shine to the camera.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 10:51 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: This and dead kids are what feminism hath wrought
He lied about the billion, the royal bastard
Posted by: Duchess of Megan at August 28, 2026 10:51 PM (4RYRd)
Friday night lights!
Posted by: lin-duh at August 28, 2026 10:52 PM (VCgbV)
I wouldn't doubt if those kids are telling their keepers that they want to live with us. They are friends with my grands and love it at our house.
I don't know what to do. Half of me is all yeah let's do it and the other half is thinking they'ld probably kill us eventually.
Posted by: Reforger at August 28, 2026 10:54 PM (jJAdc)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 10:51 PM (2WIwB)
Ron Silver had an unfairly tarnished reputation.
Posted by: Lead actors at August 28, 2026 10:54 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 10:54 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 10:54 PM (xSAlF)
Perhaps the sex worker should not be so open. Read that however you want.
I felt bad laughing at the drunk guy set to music. I also feel bad (no you don't) that you and your brothers and cousins used to sit on a curb (forbidden to cross street) at your grandmother's. We watched The Little Red Schoolhouse for children weekly, back then labeled retarded, and returned to grandmother's and acted the same characters in a playhouse. I know I need to confess this next time to the priest, altho I wasn't Catholic yet so maybe that does not count.
Kids: there is a differece in girls and boys we are finding out. Yesterday our girl was an emotional mess over weird stuff after her first full week of kindergarten. Tired vs psychotic. (My husband decided she might be a serial killer when she was 5mo old and bald because she would stare you down.) Now he's sure of it.
They finished a game of monopoly while I put the baby to bed. Time to clean up & she kicked the money around and started kicking her big bro til Pop yelled at her for the first time. She wept. She's normally good but crazy. They are good kids for one to be a budding serial killer.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 10:55 PM (hzuYO)
They're still working out exactly what happened with that thing. Right now, they think a YUGE chunk of glacier just broke off. A 2000' wide chunk of glacier broke loose and plummeted 4000' down the side of the mountain.
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There's before and after clip on chickensh*t X of an area that was hit. Trees almost forest surrounding what looked like a factory and adjacent buildings, thousands of sq. ft. All wiped out.
The forest and populated area looked like mud slate.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 10:55 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 10:57 PM (aJQbY)
I totally agree with the skeltor guy with the sign about women weeping and recording themselves. It annoys me.
I only cry about every 5-7 yrs and would never record it as oh hell no! Why do they do this? It baffles me.
I only watch to see how they manage snot with nose rings. I have no pity for whatever they are wailing about.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 10:57 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 10:36 PM (w6EFb)
New or used? (Uh, asking for a friend . . .)
Posted by: a.moron at August 28, 2026 10:57 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
I think you can start them in Pop Warner Murder League at 4
Posted by: Ever Helpful Miklos at August 28, 2026 10:58 PM (4RYRd)
Wee Pooky tried to kick Lil Pooky off my lap today. Those two are going to make Jacob and Esau look like amateurs.
Posted by: pookysgirl advises investing in Bandaids at August 28, 2026 10:58 PM (Wt5PA)
I think that region is still tectonically very active
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Well right, but that’s my point. It had to be something they were looking at. Potentially.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 10:58 PM (PVUR/)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Yep, there's enough crazy without supporting it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 10:58 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Peek-a-Boo at August 28, 2026 10:59 PM (JM9I6)
This is just a "little" local scale version of what happened during Missoula and Bonneville Floods at the end of the last ice age and through the dreaded Younger Dryas.
Every culture in the world has some sort of "Flood myth", and that's from our ancient ancestors who witnessed that on a global scale.
The Younger Dryas was the Erf doing a Big Reset.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 11:01 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Azjaeger at August 28, 2026 11:02 PM (EcQV6)
Friday night lights!
Posted by: lin-duh at August 28, 2026 10:52 PM (VCgbV
A high school marching band competion at halftime is a thousand times better than any superbowl halftime in the past thirty years.
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 11:03 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Miklos would alos offer beverage therapy on occasion at August 28, 2026 11:03 PM (4RYRd)
A US military judge ruled Friday that confessions made by alleged 9/11 attacks mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to FBI agents are inadmissible and cannot be used against him at trial, The New York Times reported.
The ruling comes just before the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
This week, the trial date for Mohammed and three others accused plotters was set for June 5, 2028, at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 11:04 PM (Cqx++)
There's some CCTV videos of this thing that have been posted of this. It's hard to take. You see dozens to hundreds of people running for their lives and then the wall of water and debris just consumes them all.
I boggle at what the *sound* of that coming would've been like. Sheer terror in their last moments of life.
And then there are videos of them pulling survivors out of the mud. They're covered in mud, and all of them have that blank thousand-yard stare.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 11:04 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bert G at August 28, 2026 11:07 PM (VARTN)
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2026 11:08 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 28, 2026 11:08 PM (O9Gow)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 11:09 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 11:09 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bert G
Daddy!
Posted by: soon to be US citizen Throngpat at August 28, 2026 11:09 PM (4RYRd)
Catastrophic geologic and weather events are how the Earth's surface has been shaped for ..... 100s of millions of years.
It's a (redundant) measure of how collapsed science is, and how scientifically illiterate and just practically dumb the world's populace is, that "human influence" on "climate" is treated as anything more than a marginal and implausible hypothesis.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2026 11:10 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Bert G at August 28, 2026 11:07 PM (VARTN
You just triggered a dozen or so flashbacks
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 11:10 PM (LHPAg)
They were thinking it was an earthquake that triggered it. But the latest from the USGS looking at the seismic data is the first even was that glacier breaking loose, and no triggering earthquake.
"Tectonic uplift" was probably a big factor. The mountains are sort of still being pushed up slowly, and the chunk of glacier just reached the breaking point.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 11:11 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 11:11 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 11:12 PM (aJQbY)
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I went down that valley about 10 years ago on a trip from the Tibetan border to Kathmandu. I recognized locations in some of the footage. It's mind-boggling.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2026 11:12 PM (4Je4D)
There were however about 200 “suspicious objects”. Many of them were just plastic bags full of trash that the Iranians dumped to fake everyone out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 11:12 PM (GWwCk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBMUCVVpSsY
Posted by: davidt at August 28, 2026 10:23 PM (Q+gd/)
Nice. Seems like just a matter of time before she does porn.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 11:13 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 11:14 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2026 11:14 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: lin-duh at August 28, 2026 11:14 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Hell, we been doing that around here for years
Posted by: Miklos, Lot 287A Trailer Acres at August 28, 2026 11:15 PM (4RYRd)
Gravity is the weakest of all the four fundamental forces, but it always wins in the end. On all scales, basically.
The other three, while much stronger, can be both attractive and repulse and have positive and negative source "charges" that cancel out.
Gravity on the other hand is always attractive, and the "charge" is mass, which is always positive and always attractive.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 11:16 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 11:11 PM (w6EFb)
I’ve noticed a dissonance between reports; some say that a glacier collapsed, others say it was a large rock face which supported part of the glacier that collapsed and brought that part of the glacier down.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 11:17 PM (GWwCk)
She looks mean, which would be all I'd need for a guilty verdict. Or if the person was ugly. Because I am fair.
Her profile reminds me of a bird of prey. A buzzard.
There is something very wrong with the women who support her (I know they are pro-abortion just by looking at them).
It would be a much better world if I was in charge.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 11:17 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 11:18 PM (77rzZ)
tensione - nicely dramatic film music.
pelodelperro - obscure classical music, mostly avant-garde.
What could it hurt, right?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 28, 2026 11:18 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: pookysgirl
I see Clot buster and no needle stitch kits in your future.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 28, 2026 11:20 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at August 28, 2026 11:21 PM (2lg3V)
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Those girls are going to be rich. Hope they spend their money wisely.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 11:23 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 11:23 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Bulg
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Where do I sign up? Hope she sells them all before we get to the island.
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2026 11:25 PM (oq9dX)
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Girls and probably a few very cute Thai guys in tight dresses.
250 days, you know.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2026 11:25 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 11:25 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 11:27 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Bert G
When asked I would tell people I drank because of how you were treated, vs. drugs where you went to captains mast, became a guest at the Marine brig, and the started over as an E1 deck ape.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 28, 2026 11:27 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 11:27 PM (viF8m)
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Mack - repeatedly clashed with defense attorney Kevin Reddington when he returned for cross-examination via Zoom on Monday.
That same day, Mack, 54, resigned from his role as a psychiatrist at Nemours Children's Health in Delaware.
'Dr Avram Mack is no longer employed by Nemours Children's Health. He resigned on Monday, August 24,' a hospital spokesperson told the Daily Mail.
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Speculating - Nemours Children's Health fired him because he didn't tow the DSI line. Is Nemours a chop shop?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 11:30 PM (VPNgR)
The former NBA first-round pick said he was there to 'scout some of the competition' and support the league
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 11:31 PM (VPNgR)
It would be a much better world if I was in charge.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 11:17 PM (hzuYO)
I've been dating (I guess you'd call it) a bit since I moved into this senior apartment complex.
I'm going to start casually bringing this up in conversation.
Pro-Clancy = not happening.
Not that reproduction is an issue at my stage of life, but character still matters.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 11:31 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 11:31 PM (aJQbY)
It was a studio concoction. Some talented studio musicians but absolutely terrible as a live band."
And Blue Oyster Cult, another quintessential 70s band, was the opposite. Terrible (well, not *terrible*) in the studio but absolutely the pinnacle of live rock music.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 28, 2026 11:31 PM (Fv808)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 11:32 PM (aJQbY)
All you have to look at is the dreaded Younger Dryas. Now that was climate change. Big Time. 70 - 80% of North American megafauna were wiped out. That was the mammoths, elephants, dire wolves, giant beavers, saber tooth tigers, lions, etc, etc. All wiped out in a geological instant.
And obviously humans had fuck all to do with it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 11:33 PM (w6EFb)
White said, "All hail Queen Roysha, the queen has arrived,
it's great to be here... I'm here because Black trans lesbians
matter, and we've always mattered, we've always existed...
I'm here to participate and scout some of the competition
maybe as well."
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 11:33 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 11:32 PM (aJQbY)
Right. And what if it got serious? Would you want a pro-Clancy woman to be making the decision as to whether to pull your plug?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 11:34 PM (IG3/x)
My fascination with the Younger Dryas of late led me to read on the "uniformitarianism/gradualism" vs catastrophism debate in the early days of geology. Very heated it got (read the story of J. Harlen Bretz).
Now, I think the true picture is both. We have long periods of boring gradualism punctuated by short periods of pure terror.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 11:36 PM (w6EFb)
matter, and we've always mattered, we've always existed...
Yaas kween slay!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 11:36 PM (aJQbY)
The part of Baby Moses in the Cecil B. DeMille "Ten Commandments" was played by Charlton Heston's real-life son.
DeMille knew Heston's wife was pregnant. When she gave birth he sent her a telegram stating "Congratulations! He's got the part."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 11:38 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2026 11:38 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 11:39 PM (/QHx4)
In 1979, they awarded J. Harlen the Penrose Medal, the highest honor in geology. He was 96, and died soon after in 1981.
He was totally vindicated and honored. He remarked at the time that all his old enemies were dead, and he had no one to gloat over. His enemies back in the day tried to absolutely destroy him. It amazes me how mean people can get with this stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 11:40 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
I reckon that explains Darleen
Posted by: Miklos has been Jethro Bodine puzzling on that at August 28, 2026 11:41 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 10:11 PM (PVUR/)
Maybe! IIRC, the Cabinet gave Marco a framed collage of Rubio Realizes memes, signed by everyone incl. Trump.
Posted by: SciVo at August 28, 2026 11:42 PM (ke3zm)
Golden retriever head tilt.
Means no.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 11:43 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 11:44 PM (/QHx4)
Probably a perfect overlap.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 11:09 PM (aJQbY)
That's the conclusion I arrived at.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 28, 2026 11:44 PM (O9Gow)
Posted by: Bulg
Is that a Bulg in your nic or just happy to see anything that moves after 250 days on that ship?
Posted by: Miklos has Business Interests in the Kingdom of Thailand at August 28, 2026 11:45 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 11:33 PM (w6EFb
Some live to say “oh the paleo Indians did it” without noticing that humans have been hunting the megafauna in Africa for who knows how many thousands of years, and never wiped them out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 11:45 PM (GWwCk)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 11:46 PM (VPNgR)
It was a studio concoction. Some talented studio musicians but absolutely terrible as a live band."
I saw Boston live in the mid 90s. They were great live. 20 years later, I guess they figured it out.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 28, 2026 11:46 PM (rii+a)
But those pics are hilarious, and I’m sure he doesn’t take himself too seriously, which is what makes for a good leader.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 11:47 PM (PVUR/)
Posted by: Reforger at August 28, 2026 11:49 PM (jJAdc)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 11:49 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 10:16 PM (PVUR/)
Genuine is the key. Creating actual value.
One option is gig work. I don't just mean driving for Uber or DoorDash; a younger cousin of mine showed me Fiverr, for even things like helping a small business with its data, like converting an Excel spreadsheet to a proper database, or generating useful reports.
Another is volunteer work, which I sometimes do when I'm between jobs. I used to prefer hospitals, though now I would steer away from that for post-covid clotshot tyranny. My other go-to was a food bank. There are lots of things. If you play your cards right, you could maybe even parlay it into starting your own grifter NGO for generational wealth!
Posted by: SciVo at August 28, 2026 11:50 PM (ke3zm)
Do. There was never a better a live band than the dead. They literally defined the genre.
https://tinyurl.com/3594k65t
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 11:50 PM (viF8m)
Planning on being home Tuesday. It's been a long, strange trip....looking forward to being home.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 28, 2026 11:50 PM (OPxR2)
Posted by: Stu-22
That would be the "sans-Seriff's Office"
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 28, 2026 11:51 PM (Fv808)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 11:51 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: RandomDave
What they do?
They smile in your face
All the time, they want to take your place
Posted by: Miklos quotes the O'Jays at August 28, 2026 11:52 PM (4RYRd)
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Know what the article doesn't tell you?
Yeah.
Which states.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 11:52 PM (VPNgR)
His enemies back in the day tried to absolutely destroy him. It amazes me how mean people can get with this stuff.
Sounds familiar.
Posted by: COVID at August 28, 2026 11:52 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 11:53 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: RandomDave
Spare this one
For now
Posted by: Mostly Benevolent Dictator Papa Miklos Doc at August 28, 2026 11:54 PM (4RYRd)
The whole Sweeney ad thing is problematic. Might have to watch again to solve.
Posted by: Auspex at August 28, 2026 11:54 PM (Y8DZL)
The idea the Clovis or whoever wiped out those species out via overhunting is just ridiculous. Not just one species, but dozens? That aligns with the "humans are bad for the planet" narrative the lunatics are pushing now.
Interesting thing is Africa seems to have fared the Younger Dryas event the best of all.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 11:54 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 11:56 PM (aJQbY)
OK, lead guitar, take #106, and 2,3,4.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 11:56 PM (VPNgR)
And there were a few cowards in the J. Harlen story as well. Other geologists had evidence he was right, or at least on to something pretty good, but they didn't come forward for fear of the "elders" at the time. They just sat on their hands.
This is were the old quote that "science advances one funeral at a time" comes from.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 11:57 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Reforger
'Hey Ref...um...I'm gonna need you to come in...."
Posted by: Regional Assistant Manager Miklos at August 28, 2026 11:57 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Reforger at August 28, 2026 11:58 PM (jJAdc)
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There's a theory there. The tasty animals in Africa evolved along with the ape-men and natural selection ensured that the animals who were wily enough to stay off the menu were the ones that produced the most offspring. Sort of a long-running arms race where parity was more or less maintained.
In the New World the spear-carriers showed up all at once, and the animals didn't have time to adjust. So they just stood around and got massacred.
This is something I read on the internet.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 29, 2026 12:00 AM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Bill Lumbergh at August 29, 2026 12:01 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 12:02 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 29, 2026 12:03 AM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 29, 2026 12:04 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 12:04 AM (aJQbY)
No shocker. We're not dealing with an elite military here.
As Rabin said to our small group, when asked to explain Israel's history of military successes: "first, you must consider our enemies".
Even better are very credible reports of US hydrologic engineering, removing natural features to create/improve a channel near the Omani coast. The only real comprehensive/permanent solution here is end of the pernicious regime, but systematically weakening or destroying their points of leverage is a beautiful process.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 29, 2026 12:05 AM (U/Byj)
Milo Y overstayed his Visa, and has been arrested by ICE.
Posted by: Romeo13
I forgot about that guy. I guess his 15 minutes is up.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 12:08 AM (rii+a)
Some bands are born in a studio. Some before a live audience. Boston was the former.
Doesn't matter. Like what you like.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 12:08 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Unspecified Miklos at August 29, 2026 12:08 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 29, 2026 12:09 AM (1T1MZ)
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at August 29, 2026 12:09 AM (r7+Q7)
Posted by: pookysgirl wants to know at August 29, 2026 12:11 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: JackStraw
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True, very true.
But I have more respect for a band, any style band, that can do a live performance as well or better than studio work.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 12:11 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Obligatory Far Sde cartoon:
https://shorturl.at/IkgsE
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2026 12:11 AM (XeU6L)
https://shorturl.at/IkgsE
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
Facebook?
You must be OLD
Posted by: Moderately Youthful Miklos at August 29, 2026 12:14 AM (4RYRd)
Facebook is cleverly hiding the bottom with the caption, demanding you sign up. So what was the punch line with that?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2026 12:15 AM (w6EFb)
https://shorturl.at/IkgsE
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Crappy link. Better:
https://shorturl.at/2Xm27
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2026 12:16 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JackStraw
For me, it's easier and more convenient to not like things.
Posted by: Moderately Curmudgeonly Miklos at August 29, 2026 12:16 AM (4RYRd)
Me too. But I've always loved live music.
You can't do this in a studio.
https://tinyurl.com/rmua2bes
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 12:17 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2026 12:17 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 12:11 AM (VPNgR)
Its amazing how some bands can sound amazing on an album but they'll be a complete bag of ass live.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2026 12:19 AM (S41Gd)
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Consider those bands who couldn't play their own songs because the studio tracks were done by rented studio musicians.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 29, 2026 12:19 AM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Bilwis -
Never heard that. Very interesting.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 12:20 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Harry Miklos-Nilsson at August 29, 2026 12:20 AM (4RYRd)
Never heard that. Very interesting.
Posted by: Braenyard
That's why divorcee Cougars head for Cancun at Spring Break
Posted by: Miklos has heard stories at August 29, 2026 12:22 AM (4RYRd)
Consider those bands who couldn't play their own songs because the studio tracks were done by rented studio musicians.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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An adulteration and abomination. Shame upon them.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 12:22 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 10:36 PM (w6EFb)
Will she make more money from the lingerie or the posters of her wearing it, that ends up in boys bedrooms?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 29, 2026 12:23 AM (qx7Zg)
Years ago, when I worked for a telecommunications company, I was on a project team for wiretapping compliance in each service country. The team lead made up shirts with this on them:
“[project name]
We listen to our customers”
Heh
Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2026 12:24 AM (X8xt3)
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Or prison cells.
Posted by: Andy Dufresne at August 29, 2026 12:25 AM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Moderately Curmudgeonly Miklos
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I've followed your links. Really, is there anything you don't like?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 12:25 AM (VPNgR)
“[project name]
We listen to our customers”
The logo was pretty cool too
Posted by: Bob from Flock, formerly NSA at August 29, 2026 12:26 AM (4RYRd)
Someone posted a link to Dolly and a couple of gals singing a Dylan classic.
https://youtu.be/Gc6abzNVmEE
Alas, it wasn't miked very well.
So I looked up Dylan's original. Pretty good song, really.
https://youtu.be/1iHhWh9FtsQ
G'nite, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - don't blink twice at August 29, 2026 12:27 AM (oq2IS)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Baseball
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 29, 2026 12:27 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: Braenyard -
Rutabagas
Posted by: Adamant Miklos at August 29, 2026 12:27 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Braenyard
This is BOC jamming backstage in 1975. Play from :15 and close your eyes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0A-8pbCmCw
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 29, 2026 12:30 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 12:30 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Miklos has heard stories
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHJ1OTrkim4
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 12:31 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: four seasons
Perhaps
I am taking no chances
Posted by: Rutabaga Risk Averse Miklos at August 29, 2026 12:33 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 12:33 AM (aJQbY)
OK, lead guitar, take #106, and 2,3,4.
They really weren't ever a band. One guy in his basement, multi tracking and eventually bringing in a drummer and a singer. The "band" only existed to do concerts which never happened until the first album became a big hit the year after it was released
Posted by: Azjaeger at August 29, 2026 12:33 AM (3/XaG)
Lol
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 12:34 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 29, 2026 12:19 AM (4Je4D)
Thats a big piss off to me. There was a song from a metal band I really liked, so I decided to learn it. The lead was intense, very fast and required serious dexterity. I took me a few days to get the nuts and bolts of it, which for me is a long time, but it was that kind of lead, but I got it. I see the band live and they play the song. I said oh boy here's the lead...and it sounds frigging horrible. Not even close, not in the same league, not even in the same universe. I mentioned it to somebody and he tells me, well that dude didn't play the lead on the album. It turns out another guitar player from a different band stepped in to do it. That pissed me off. I wanted to see how he did it, and it wasn't even him. Fucker...
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2026 12:34 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 29, 2026 12:23 AM (qx7Zg)
Not just boys!
Posted by: A Bevey of Bulldykes at August 29, 2026 12:35 AM (SaqCM)
Posted by: Braenyard -
Lana Turner was just a nice Carolina country girl
Posted by: Miklos concedes the need for Exceptions at August 29, 2026 12:35 AM (4RYRd)
205 Interesting thing is Africa seems to have fared the Younger Dryas event the best of all.”
Younger Dryas was a northern hemisphere event , wasn’t it?
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2026 12:37 AM (GWwCk)
Appreciate the 4th amendment, regardless of its weakening over time w/tech development.
Like our first amendment, not perfect, but better than anywhere else, bigly!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2026 12:38 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Not up to speed. Need retakes and separate tracts for everyone, one at a time. They aren't rely a band as we think of one.
If you can't perform in front of an audience what are you?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 12:38 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 12:40 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2026 12:43 AM (viF8m)
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A great many commercial “Live” performance recordings really are not, they dub in the audience noises to studio recordings. Or at best do a lot of overdubs and backing tracks later, in the studio. It’s tricky to get good live performances, there aren’t any do-overs and the quality of the recording itself isn’t that great sometimes.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 12:44 AM (PVUR/)
"Me and my Arrow / Straighter than narrow / Wherever we go / Everyone knows / It's me and my Arrow"
Posted by: Harry Miklos-Nilsson
I get the point.
Posted by: COVID at August 29, 2026 12:44 AM (Cqx++)
If you can't perform in front of an audience what are you?
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The reverse is also true, more than once I’ve heard band members maintain they were never really able to capture their live band sound in the studio for that reason. Close, maybe, just not close enough.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 12:47 AM (PVUR/)
Mostly. The big cooling was mostly in the north. There was continued warming somewhat in Antarctica, I think, and the tropical area is more complex, with changes in the monsoon and rainfall patterns.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2026 12:48 AM (w6EFb)
I believe it may have been Testicles who posed one of the most fundamental questions of introspection in the course of this ephemeral existence-for who can truly answer with perfect knowledge and certainty?
"Who's making love
To your Old Lady
While you are out making love"
Posted by: Miklos has been listening to WWOZ, it is true at August 29, 2026 12:52 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 29, 2026 12:52 AM (PVUR/)
Posted by: Common Tate
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Shoot the engineer and the sound man.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 12:52 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Tunes to Covid to at the store at August 29, 2026 12:53 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Common Tate
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I come from a different style of music where live performances are usually 'opened up' and are much more elaborative. Of course, the venues are usually smaller and more intimate.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 12:57 AM (VPNgR)
And it seems to be the drop in temperatures was highly seasonal. Winters got really cold, but summers didn't change much, maybe a little warmer in some places. So, very strong seasonal pattern, which compressed the growing season.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2026 12:58 AM (w6EFb)
Paterson holds an annual Palestinian flag-raising ceremony, during which residents chant, “Free Free Palestine!” And in 2022, it renamed a five-block stretch of Main Street “Palestine Way.”
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Well, enough of that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 01:00 AM (VPNgR)
Cal-Poly? Polytechnic? Polyamory? It is California, could be the second one.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 01:00 AM (rii+a)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 29, 2026 01:03 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 01:03 AM (VPNgR)
The philosophical arguments between Testicles and his wife Ovariae were epic.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2026 01:03 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 01:04 AM (/QHx4)
Braenyard - so it's *not* Detroit/Hamtramck, etc?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 29, 2026 01:09 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
The full text is lost to time, but one of their most famous Dialogues is known as "Shuduppa You Face".
Posted by: Scholarly Miklos at August 29, 2026 01:14 AM (4RYRd)
And there was that time Ovariae caught Testicles "debating" with that trollop Clitorides.
Ovariae threw him out, and I think that's when he first measured the earth.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2026 01:14 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: RandomDave
American Medinas: Turning US Cities Into ‘Beachheads’ for Islam
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations, August 25, 2026:
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Detroit is disorganized street gangs, I think.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 01:14 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Miklos says "it's an evening" at August 29, 2026 01:16 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 01:17 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 01:21 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: four seasons
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Think Friday is next door get together night.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 01:24 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 01:26 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 01:27 AM (rii+a)
Hi four seasons, I am good, thanks, hopefully JQ is good too, maybe she is getting some rest.
I got that stupid earworm stuck in my head and went and looked up some Plymouth Arrow information, I don't remember a ton of them on the road.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 29, 2026 01:28 AM (ibDUx)
It's time to bid adieu. Enjoy the evening. 'night.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 01:34 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 01:35 AM (/QHx4)
Neighbors at end of road had an emergency tonight-- the wife was having chest pain, ended up going to hospital in ambulance.
Please pray for Kathy!
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 01:39 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 01:40 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 01:42 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 01:44 AM (/QHx4)
Damned if ya do, damned if ya don't.
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 01:47 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: This and dead kids are what feminism hath wrought at August 28, 2026 10:46 PM (TbWk/)
I'm starting to lean toward questioning whether it's even nonfiction. The 'lesson' of the purported complaint is to not believe everything you read on the internet, right? I can picture a troll thinking that was cute and meta, for the story and narrator to also be lies.
My reasoning is because there's a significant minority of men that are full-blown Dark Triad, and would get a kick out of lying to keep her whoring, so they could use her and then marry someone else. But! They would also be doing it to her face. Many of her customers would be in that camp, so if she even existed, then she should've known them well enough to disbelieve them.
Posted by: SciVo at August 29, 2026 01:47 AM (ke3zm)
Most of the shit on the internet is just made up shit. I ignore it.
So many people want to be victims.
Hey, maybe someone will start a go fund me.
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 01:51 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 01:51 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 01:51 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 29, 2026 01:52 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 29, 2026 01:28 AM (ibDUx)
Slayer's Angel of death will remove all ear worms, trust me. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2026 01:54 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 01:55 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 01:55 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2026 01:27 AM (rii+a)
There are two Cal-Polys. Cal-Poly SLO in San Luis Obispo, on the central coast, and Cal-Poly Pomona located east of Los Angeles.
Poly = Polytechnic. Mainly science and engineering. I believe SLO also has a fairly large Agricultural program.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 29, 2026 01:58 AM (OPxR2)
Doesn't everyone discuss their sordid past and body-count on a first or second date?
/s
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 02:04 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: four seasons at August 29, 2026 02:04 AM (/QHx4)
Courtesy Grok (the irony):
softwe dot com (blocked by my provider, Spectrum)
carryfeed dot com (verified, it works. click "open file" to view the video. I used the Fido Friday tweet ONT WTF tweet above. Does not work with Brave shields up.)
tweetviewer dot com (verified, same tweet, it just works, and plays the video just fine, works with Brave shields up)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 29, 2026 02:09 AM (IhL8c)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2026 02:10 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 29, 2026 02:19 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
It used to stink something fierce with all the cows, although nothing stunk worse than that 5-10 mile stretch of I-5 near 580 (or vice versa), where the freeway was next to a ranch. I don't understand how that thing was allowed to exist there. It was unbelievably bad.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 29, 2026 02:19 AM (Fv808)
Glad he's ok, Debby.
Yeah, they forget they're not fully functional, don't they? You know this all too well, I suspect...
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 02:21 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Puddleglum
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San Luis Obispo. Cute little town. 15 MI south you're in Pismo Beach, 15 MI north and you're in Morro Bay, yet the town is about 10 MI inland.
Fun fact about U of Idaho, about 2 miles west is the WA border, and about 8 miles further on and you're in Pullman, home of the Wash St. Cougars.
BTW, I once looked up what the hell is "Obispo" in Spanish. It's "Bishop". So whoever the Saint Louis they named this town after was a Bishop.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 29, 2026 02:22 AM (7x9jd)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 02:26 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bilwis -
Never heard that. Very interesting.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 29, 2026 12:20 AM (VPNgR)
Bipedal motion plays into endurance hunting, with its energy efficiency: just shift your center of balance, let gravity pull you forward, and catch yourself. I walk several miles every day, just to keep minimally nonunfit. It barely burns any calories.
Posted by: SciVo at August 29, 2026 02:27 AM (ke3zm)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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There's one up.in Humbolt, too. They're all under the CSU umbrella. SLO is the oldest. I worked with a guy who graduated from there in '68.
RIP, Ralph.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 29, 2026 02:32 AM (7x9jd)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 29, 2026 01:28 AM (ibDUx)
I had one once. Sporty-looking little fastback coupe; had a Mitsubishi engine that made good power, but cracked cylinder heads like they were going out of style. I eventually found a good cylinder head, got it running, and sold it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2026 02:41 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 29, 2026 02:19 AM (Fv80
The ranch was there before the freeway. We all have to eat.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2026 02:43 AM (1z8ji)
Bers, I can't go to sleep with a heavy metal earworm, but it is a great suggestion.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 29, 2026 02:46 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 02:48 AM (rdVOm)
Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 29, 2026 02:54 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 02:55 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 03:01 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 29, 2026 03:16 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 29, 2026 02:19 AM (ibDUx)
Ugh. People don't get less stubborn with time, and generally don't start out too flexible to begin with. When falling with a water glass in each hand gave her ugly stitches, my mom started using a cane even inside. When that betrayed her on the way out to the car (caught on a sprinkler head), she switched to a walker, and at now 80 has been using it inside her own home for years now.
It isn't pleasant or fun to use a walker to get around the house, but it's more dignified than ambulances and hospitals. Maybe that argument would work?
Posted by: SciVo at August 29, 2026 03:17 AM (ke3zm)
The Greeks are amazingly friendly and welcoming. Thats not the problem.
European culture has worn me down over the course of a week. I've got another week to go...thankfully on our bareboat charter... but yeah...
Even the food is overrated. They fucking nuke the meat. Overcook the hell out of it.
Posted by: Defenestratus at August 29, 2026 03:24 AM (NufQ3)
Posted by: SciVo
You can't *reason with* dementia.
Sadly, sometimes a loved one can't remember that they need the extra support. Or, they believe they never really needed it. Or-- who knows? Their world no longer makes sense to them, or us... It's cruel.
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 03:26 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Defenestratus
Wow, what a disappointment!
It's nice that you're on a "dream vacay" and I hope you find joy, regardless of the cuisine...
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 03:33 AM (rdVOm)
This too shall pass. But so far, I really don't like it.
I'm selfish like that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 29, 2026 03:38 AM (dEHLq)
I cannot imagine your grief.
One can hope that she didn't know it was going to happen, and that it was instantaneous & she felt no pain.
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 03:41 AM (rdVOm)
1989 gothic original from studio album Disintegration:
The Cure - Lovesong
https://youtu.be/ks_qOI0lzho
2004 reggae-tinged cover for the 50 First Dates Soundtrack:
311 - Love Song (Official Music Video)
https://youtu.be/egX9ZDaIrkU
Posted by: SciVo at August 29, 2026 03:59 AM (ke3zm)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 04:00 AM (PbWRL)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 04:01 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 04:06 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 04:08 AM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 04:15 AM (PbWRL)
There's a great planting guide at almanac.com, just plug in your zip for specifics!
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 04:18 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 04:21 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 04:26 AM (PbWRL)
I got a good one today. The neighbors, who are up for felony abuse/neglect, have asked if the wife and I would take their kids.
This is hard. I haven't said no yet and am considering it.
I've known one since he was two and the other since birth.
Oh and my vacation starts in about 2 hours.
Posted by: Reforger at August 28, 2026 10:25 PM (jJAdc)
Blessings on you, Reforger.
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 04:27 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 03:33 AM (rdVOm)
Thank you. It hasn't been all bad. Been exploring ruins and castles and clifftops and immersing myself in history... along with throngs of European tourists who have no concept of personal space.
There's been a heatwave here... it was 100F in Athens when we did the acropolis... not a challenge for those of us who aren't europussies...as long as we can come back to an air conditioned hotel room.
Wait. What was that? They shut off the AC when you leave the room so you end up coming back to a bread oven? Fucking intolerable. Plus their toilets are absolute garbage. Couldn't flush TP at our last luxury hotel in Rhodes. That was .... disgusting.
Posted by: Defenestratus at August 29, 2026 04:28 AM (dJeAh)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 04:30 AM (PbWRL)
Posted by: m at August 29, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2026 04:32 AM (PbWRL)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 04:36 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 29, 2026 04:39 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Common Tate
[ Eric Clapton has entered the chat ]
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 29, 2026 11:50 AM (4NO2D)
Real Life Energy Vampire Cafe
Bun-fu
by Mora Nakamura
Fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk captured by video artist Diana Lehr. pic.twitter.com/p3EClXK9ep
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 27, 2026
You probably know Mark Proksch. He played the awkward, annoying Nate on The Office, and the awkward, annoying energy vampire Colin Robinson on What We Do in the Shadows. What you might not know is that Mark Proksch is an energy vampire in real life and the character of Colin Robinson is a just a slightly rewritten version of himself. He became famous when -- just because he was bored -- he began calling local news channels telling them that he was a Yo-Yo Master named Kenny "K-Strass" Strasser, and that he uses his champion yo-yo skills to educate school children about global warming. In fact, he can barely yo-yo at all. He strains to do a simple up-and-down move. And in a medium where speed is everything and a segment has to be wrapped up in two minutes, he wastes as much time as possible, talking endlessly about trivial details no one cares about while making excuses about why he doesn't want to do the one thing he was brought on TV to do, play with the yo-yo. The energy vampire really fed well during these appearances. The hosts try to keep things moving but this vampire keeps things slow and awkward.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 07:42 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 07:42 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 07:43 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 07:44 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: mindful webworker - first with that one? at August 28, 2026 07:44 PM (oq2IS)
It was recorded fairly well, too. Everyone with a cassette deck in their Camaro had it permanently welded inside. I don't think I ever bought a Boston LP or tape, because I didn't need to. Everyone else already had.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 07:44 PM (99A9t)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 28, 2026 07:44 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 07:44 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Turtles? Why Turtles? at August 28, 2026 07:45 PM (r7+Q7)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 07:46 PM (NcvvS)
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Take another Bong hit, dumbass
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 07:46 PM (99A9t)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 07:47 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 07:47 PM (odBC9)
Right about this time Harris was up by a similar margin over Trump.
How did that work out dumbfuck?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 07:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 07:48 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 07:48 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 07:48 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 07:49 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 07:49 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 07:48 PM (/QHx4)
Wow. That ball is just hanging in the air.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 07:50 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
Regurgitating from previous thread:
Hey, Ace, since Eloon Muskox has gone to war with every other way for non-X-ers to view X videos, could you just embed all of the X cafe vids from now on? Thanks, buddy.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the customer is always a threat at August 28, 2026 07:51 PM (oq2IS)
There were no fishermen in that clip. Not 1.
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 07:51 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 07:51 PM (D9FOj)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 07:52 PM (Ia/+0)
They're fast as lightening though.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 28, 2026 07:52 PM (l26NL)
All your oil are belong to us
Some sort of somewhat Mutual Agreement, apparently
Posted by: MiklosWatch at August 28, 2026 07:53 PM (4RYRd)
Sad!!
Posted by: Maga LOL at August 28, 2026 07:53 PM (gWuZv)
Sure, Beto.
Posted by: LASue at August 28, 2026 07:54 PM (lCppi)
Even a squirrel could really put a hurt on ya, if it were so inclined. Thankfully they don't cause any trouble. Not very often anyway.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 07:55 PM (99A9t)
Posted by: MiklosWatch
Are they ever going to have an election to sweep out the Chavistas? It's been a while. I know they've knuckled under, but still.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 28, 2026 07:55 PM (l26NL)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 28, 2026 07:55 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 07:55 PM (D9FOj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 07:56 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 28, 2026 07:56 PM (l26NL)
There were no fishermen in that clip. Not 1.
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 07:51 PM (8mulE)
I have seen a clip of 2 fishermen who approach an island in a swamp or creek and hear a kitten. It jumps into the river and swims out to their boat, and after a bit another kitten off the island follows the first one and swims out to their boat.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 07:57 PM (uhVAy)
We had it with your discipline
Oh, Friday night's alright for fighting
Get a little bunny humping in
Posted by: Watership Down at August 28, 2026 07:57 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 07:55 PM (D9FOj)
Remember... late 80s or early 90s when The Smothers brothers did those yoyo bits and everyone got in on the craze for 20 mins?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 07:57 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2026 07:58 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 07:58 PM (D9FOj)
The people in Texas who made it what it is are tough, and know what they know. Polls saying a freak fake Christian who wants to chop the genitals off their kids "is ahead" doesn't make them cower or throw up their hands and stay home; it makes them even more determined to vote, and to drag their neighbors and friends with them, and to make sure that doesn't happen. The dems best strategy is to shut up and lay low, but they'll never do that because that doesn't support the grift.
Posted by: LASue at August 28, 2026 08:00 PM (lCppi)
Never listen to the bush.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 07:48 PM (/QHx4)
Moses did, and that worked out ok.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 08:01 PM (dEHLq)
Muchos gracias, Señor!
Posted by: AoSHQ Cafe Custodial Engineers at August 28, 2026 08:01 PM (wk3mJ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 08:02 PM (D9FOj)
Posted by: four seasons
I defended G for years when his administration was laying in the fetal position and wouldn't defend itself.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 28, 2026 08:02 PM (l26NL)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 08:03 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Max Power at August 28, 2026 08:03 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 08:03 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: LASue at August 28, 2026 08:03 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 07:48 PM
Don't you want to know who's sleeping in it?
Posted by: The Tokens at August 28, 2026 08:05 PM (0sNs1)
I did a yo yo act at my 6th grade talent show. Loop the loop, walk the dog, rock the cradle, etc. I soon lost interest in favor of the clackers. A toy and a weapon in one.
Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2026 08:07 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 08:08 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 08:08 PM (MWfyi)
Even one of their arch-predators, the common housecat, has adopted the bunny kick as one of their standard techniques for taking down enemies.
The idea is to get your foe in a clinch with your fore paws, then start raking their soft underbelly with your clawed back paws.
Cute when cats do it to their cat toys. But I'm sure their prey don't think it's so cute.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 08:08 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 28, 2026 08:08 PM (vV6n9)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 08:09 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 28, 2026 08:08 PM (vV6n9)
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ok give yourself just a minute.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 08:09 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: J. Random Moron at August 28, 2026 08:10 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Max Power at August 28, 2026 08:03 PM (q177U)
Howabout some rabbit stew?
https://youtu.be/1cR9I3N8nvY
Posted by: Chief Geronimo at August 28, 2026 08:11 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Moron Tech Support at August 28, 2026 08:11 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 28, 2026 08:11 PM (l26NL)
Posted by: Max Power at August 28, 2026 08:03 PM (q177U)
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Dunno about soup, but I recently discovered that Vlasic Pickle Balls are not a bad addition to ramen noodles.
The cornballs soak up some of the broth and the broth takes on a sort of dill pickle flavor that's not overpowering at all.
Scoop it up with some noodles and let it dissolve on your tastebuds before swallowing.
Surprisingly tasty.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 08:11 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 08:11 PM (aJQbY)
Is the printer not printing?
Is it not printing the formatting you want?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2026 08:12 PM (0sNs1)
I don’t remember the Smothers Brothers from the 80s or 90s. I remember them from the 60s. I might remember them from a later date on the Johnny Carson Show, but I don’t particularly remember yo yo tricks.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Smothers Brothers from Yo Yo Wiki
https://t.ly/sfsZ9
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 08:12 PM (Cqx++)
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Very funny!
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 08:13 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at August 28, 2026 08:13 PM (U2ppA)
Posted by: Toad-o at August 28, 2026 08:14 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 08:14 PM (g47mK)
Do you have A FedEx Shipping, or another office products place like Staples near you that is still opened? You can bring things there and get them printed.
You can't let something like a printer failure stop you. Worst case send it or take it digitally to your job and explain. Don't ever give up.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 08:14 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 28, 2026 08:14 PM (l26NL)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 08:15 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at August 28, 2026 08:13 PM
Dude. Without Cornyn's endorsement? ;-)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2026 08:15 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: The Soup Nazi at August 28, 2026 08:15 PM (0sNs1)
YMMV and all that gobblelygoop
Posted by: Reginald Van Dough at August 28, 2026 08:16 PM (rHvvN)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 08:16 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 08:16 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 28, 2026 08:08 PM (vV6n9)
How to handle a recalcitrant and troublesome printer:
https://youtu.be/pD2xBXm4y70
Posted by: Office Space at August 28, 2026 08:16 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 08:09 PM
Carrots?
Posted by: J. Random Moron at August 28, 2026 08:10 PM (0sNs1)
No, sorry. 😂
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 08:17 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Bushy One String at August 28, 2026 08:18 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 28, 2026 08:19 PM (vV6n9)
Posted by: Happy Feet, Happy Life at August 28, 2026 08:19 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 08:16 PM (/QHx4)
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Dolly Parton's Tennessean International Transport Services?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 08:19 PM (FZ29D)
But I think the char siu sliders were an even bigger hit.
Thank you God for blessing me with them.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 08:20 PM (Rln0i)
The cornballs soak up some of the broth and the broth takes on a sort of dill pickle flavor that's not overpowering at all.
Scoop it up with some noodles and let it dissolve on your tastebuds before swallowing.
Surprisingly tasty.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 08:11 PM (FZ29D)
Why not eat, you know, food?
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 08:22 PM (dEHLq)
If this really is a job you want then rewrite it by hand if that's what it takes. You've got time and you know what you want to say.
Life frequently punches all of us in the nuts. Punch back.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 08:22 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 08:23 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 28, 2026 08:08 PM (vV6n9
I am not a tech person, but I have had to use a printer cable because the computer wouldn’t read the drivers. I have also emailed docs to Staples while I was standing there and they printed it for me. Big breath in, big breath out. You can do this, I know it.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 08:23 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 08:22 PM (dEHLq)
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Suffering from root canal...had procedure done yesterday. Still in a fair amount of pain.
Before yesterday, I was lucky if I could eat *anything.*
Still working my way back to proper food.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 08:23 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 28, 2026 08:24 PM (vV6n9)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 08:23 PM (Rln0i)
Hey yerself, darlin'.
Working on getting custody of my grandson back for my son, so I can continue to spoil him rotten. It really is a reason for living, isn't it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 08:25 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: tcn in AK
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Jive. Some of us, don't, you know, have wonderful wives who cook for us.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 08:25 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 08:25 PM (viF8m)
Tennessee might rename Nashville International Airport for Dolly Parton.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 08:16 PM (/QHx4)
Roll on, Dolly.
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 08:25 PM (LHPAg)
Surprisingly tasty.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026
This isn’t too surprising as pickled onions can be put in real ramen.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 08:25 PM (ZdaMQ)
Thank you God for blessing me with them.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 08:20 PM (Rln0i)
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I had to look up "char siu slider."
They do sound tasty!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 08:26 PM (FZ29D)
Now, go eat your soup.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 28, 2026 08:26 PM (l26NL)
If you need to, take a break, walk around the block or something, make sure to eat some real food so your brain is in good condition. Don't let yourself get caught in a doom-loop.
Then sit back down, do your best, and have confidence that you did what you could, and that's all you can do.
(and save frequently this time)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 08:27 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Lincolntf
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External HDs are cheap.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 08:27 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 08:27 PM (Rln0i)
Thank you God for blessing me with them.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026
This sounds amazing!
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 08:28 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 08:29 PM (dEHLq)
They do sound tasty!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 08:26 PM (FZ29D)
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Char siu pork belly on hawaiian rolls.
Basically, chinese bacon on soft, sweet rolls.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 08:29 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 08:25 PM
Making your own sammiches IS a significant burden to bear.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2026 08:30 PM (0sNs1)
g'early evenin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 28, 2026 08:30 PM (AMvSw)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 08:31 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 08:25 PM (VPNgR)
If you ever find yourself in Fairhope, you can eat here anytime! Which might be a threat…lol. Kidding aside, I swear I make healthy food good.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 08:31 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 08:25 PM
Making your own sammiches IS a significant burden to bear.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2026 08:30 PM (0sNs1)
I doubt Pete Bog has anyone cook for him, and I gotta say, best food ever.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 08:32 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: the country place that no one knows about at August 28, 2026 08:32 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 08:25 PM
Making your own sammiches IS a significant burden to bear.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2026 08:30 PM (0sNs1)
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I love sammiches.
So much variety from a few simple ingredients.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 08:32 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 08:32 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 28, 2026 08:33 PM (vV6n9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 08:34 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 08:32 PM (dEHLq)
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There are a lot of good recipes in there!
I do use it for inspiration from time to time.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 08:34 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 08:35 PM (g47mK)
That's hilarious. It seems like it will never end, and that's hilarious.
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 08:37 PM (odBC9)
Looks like I'll be makeing do with 1 mag.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2026 08:37 PM (P4bJX)
So much variety from a few simple ingredients.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 08:32 PM (FZ29D)
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https://twoplaidaprons.com/char-siu-chinese-bbq-pork/
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 08:37 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 08:37 PM (Rln0i)
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That's a keeper. Thanks!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 08:43 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 08:45 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Kenny Banya at August 28, 2026 08:46 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Kenny Banya at August 28, 2026 08:46 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: oops at August 28, 2026 08:46 PM (2Ez/1)
Yeah but it's a pretty decent sound and they only drug it out for two albums, unlike Chicago who did the same damn m thing for like 97 albums.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 08:47 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 08:47 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 08:48 PM (Cqx++)
Boston's studio albums in order are Boston, Don't Look Back, Third Stage, Walk On, Corporate America, and Life, Love & Hope.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 08:49 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr"
I did it my way.
Posted by: zombie Frank Sinatra at August 28, 2026 08:49 PM (MWfyi)
Looks like I'll be makeing do with 1 mag.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2026 08:37 PM
Have you tried finding a holster?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2026 08:49 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 28, 2026 08:50 PM (vV6n9)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2026 08:50 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 08:52 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 08:52 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 08:52 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 08:52 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Lincolntf
Does windows have a version of Apple’s TimeMachine where you can go back and even if it’s not the full file, you aren’t starting from scratch?
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 08:53 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 08:53 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 08:53 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: tcn in AK
My copy is Personally Autographed by both Bluebell AND Weasel.
Sotheby's have been in touch, but my response is a firm NO
Posted by: Miklos knows what he got at August 28, 2026 08:54 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 28, 2026 08:54 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 28, 2026 08:54 PM (vV6n9)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 08:54 PM (/+uur)
I once had a job where I busted my ass on day 1 and on day 2 my car broke down so I couldn't get there. I called the boss and told him "sorry" and that I'd be there to pick up my tools when I could. It was far from a dream job anyway and I just kind of figured it was fate pushing me away from a mistake.
Is it possible for you to do all the formatting at home and then take it in on a USB drive for printing? Or find a UPS store to print it?
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 08:55 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 28, 2026 08:55 PM (vV6n9)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 08:55 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 08:56 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2026 08:50 PM (0sNs1)
131 Boston was very much 70s.
Posted by: fd
Bands of that era may be categorized by either chronology or hair.
Posted by: Miklos opens topic of Dispute at August 28, 2026 08:56 PM (4RYRd)
It was a studio concoction. Some talented studio musicians but absolutely terrible as a live band.
Boston in the 70s and early 80s was a music paradise for live music. Boston, the band, was far better on the radio.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 08:57 PM (viF8m)
Love you, but I don’t think Paxton will “win.” Ear on the ground here in blue blue Seattle is that the cheat is full force and Texans are complacent.
We will see.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 08:57 PM (AGhLW)
Posted by: Miklos' blood runs cold at August 28, 2026 08:58 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 08:59 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 08:59 PM (kNpNa)
If you let it turn on the spyware, sure
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August
It has saved me when I have done something stupid on the computer, which let me tell you, is not hard with me at all. lol.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 09:00 PM (ZdaMQ)
Start with a salt lick (well hidden from any game warden...so I'm told) then keep plenty of apples handy.
Delicious!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 09:01 PM (2WIwB)
We will see.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 08:57 PM (AGhLW)
___
Oldest daughter lives near Ft. Hood, and she's actually thinking about moving here (MO).
She sees what's going on, and she wants to be near her family.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 09:02 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Case at August 28, 2026 09:02 PM (VrYHL)
It was a studio concoction. Some talented studio musicians but absolutely terrible as a live band.
Boston in the 70s and early 80s was a music paradise for live music. Boston, the band, was far better on the radio.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 08:57 PM (viF8m)
Not a big college town, though.
Posted by: Ian Faith, Spinal Tap Manager at August 28, 2026 09:03 PM (wVcYX)
According to ICE, Milo Yiannopoulos, having overstayed a visa and being forcibly deported, will never be allowed legal entry to the US again ever ever ever.
Posted by: Miklos expresses no sadness at all at August 28, 2026 09:04 PM (4RYRd)
Burger King responds to thousands of customer complaints with revamped chicken nuggets and refreshed dipping sauces
_fox
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It would help more if their burgers tasted like, you know, burgers.
And the so called hamburger patty tasted like hamburger.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 09:04 PM (VPNgR)
I've heard that.
I've also heard polls in August are predictive of dick.
For like 50 years.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 09:05 PM (viF8m)
Burger King responds to thousands of customer complaints with revamped chicken nuggets and refreshed dipping sauces
_fox
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It would help more if their burgers tasted like, you know, burgers.
And the so called hamburger patty tasted like hamburger.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 09:04 PM (VPNgR)
They have lost the plot.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 28, 2026 09:06 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 08:16 PM (/QHx4)
Roll on, Dolly.
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 08:25 PM (LHPAg)
9/25 should be declared Dolly Parton Day.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 09:06 PM (2WIwB)
Some wealthy guy, Ian Wace is financially supporting Harry and the witch. Ha ha. I guess her business does not support the lifestyle she wants.
Poor Harry. He got sucked into that marriage.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 09:08 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 08:16 PM (/QHx4)
Roll on, Dolly.
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 08:25 PM (LHPAg)
9/25 should be declared Dolly Parton Day.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 09:06 PM (2WIwB)
Hitler is informed of Dolly's passing:
https://youtu.be/M69BkmfiVSQ
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 28, 2026 09:09 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 09:09 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:11 PM (XuXeR)
...
"The announcement appears to have been premature, and the deaths may even have been altogether fabricated by one of the Governor's hopeful staffers," he wrote. "The Lancaster County Coroner says that it has no record of any measles deaths."
...
RFK also accused Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and his office of "fearmongering, misinformation, finger-pointing and the weaponization of infectious disease fears for political gain."
_fox
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you have to get past a half page of weaselwording before you get to the meat of the subject
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 09:12 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 09:13 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2026 09:13 PM (P4bJX)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:14 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 09:14 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:15 PM (XuXeR)
Star Trek !
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 09:13 PM (g47mK)
The Kobiyashi Maru memes will write themselves.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 09:15 PM (2WIwB)
Who wants to put down money on Talarico and give me odds?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 09:15 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at August 28, 2026 09:15 PM (aqrdH)
Burger King revamps menu item after customers sought 'total overhaul'
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"Just change the names. That way it won't cost anything." - The MBAs
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 09:16 PM (O0L8i)
And that is coming to Louisiana and Texas. Ford dealers plan to hoard even more money...
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:16 PM (XuXeR)
"Boston's first album is now fifty years old."
Dude...dude...DUDE!
Just...dude...
Fuck you, Ace. Fuck you. Bastard.
Posted by: Robert at August 28, 2026 09:18 PM (dpXJq)
I've also heard polls in August are predictive of dick."
Yeah. How'd that work out for Hillary?
Posted by: man
She got dick.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 09:18 PM (Cqx++)
These are the same that are now "tightening"?
Yeah.
Don't interfere when an idiot goes nuts.
/Shih Tzu
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:18 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 09:19 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:19 PM (XuXeR)
Instead, President Trump has charted a new and far more patient strategy that is making steady progress towards his objectives.
_love and kisses, aljazeera
https://tinyurl.com/59bk6z6n
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 09:19 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:20 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Be interesting to know what odds Casinos are giving.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 09:21 PM (VPNgR)
Love the Real Life Energy Vampire Cafe, and I only had to watch the ads not to eat or drink those three items 417 times to finally see it in its entirety. Yay!
Have a lovely weekend.
Posted by: L of the day shift. at August 28, 2026 09:21 PM (NFX2v)
Literally everyone thought they were going to win.
Texas isn't NYC and ActBlue and USAID aren't a factor anymore.
The world has changed. It's silly to pretend we live in the same world we did 20 years ago or Texas is NYC.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 09:22 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:20 PM (XuXeR)
yes, really. 8 years after 9/11 a virtual unknown named Hussein, with checkered past. did not think my fellow American would be that stupid
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 09:22 PM (g47mK)
What they meant was, cleam your damned restaurants once in a while!
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 09:23 PM (S1ejw)
Posted by: Robert at August 28, 2026 09:24 PM (dpXJq)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 09:25 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:25 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: PabloD at August 28, 2026 09:26 PM (2mIUl)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 09:26 PM (g47mK)
Jeebus.
Don’t take anything for granted. Fucking Oklahoma has a socialist on the ballot.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 09:26 PM (24V1d)
Most of the polling is from NYC...
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:26 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 09:27 PM (g47mK)
The colorful Democrat machine won that election.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 09:27 PM (VPNgR)
Why do you still care about media polls that told you at this time in 2024 Harris was going to win when she lost every swing state and the popular vote?
How many elections are we going to have to go through this before we stop pretending media polls mean anything in August? They do this every fucking election cycle and they don't mean shit.
The races don't even start until after Labor Day. Same as always.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 09:29 PM (viF8m)
Why do you assume the cheat is only in the weighting of samples?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 09:29 PM (aJQbY)
Panic, we must. Or something. I don't get it.
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:30 PM (XuXeR)
==
the reason to show Hinojosa losing is what?
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 09:32 PM (g47mK)
Never returned.
On the upside, there was a Hooters nearby.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 09:33 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 09:36 PM (g47mK)
And you didn't go to Willard's BBQ?
For shame
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:36 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:37 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 09:38 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:39 PM (XuXeR)
The fashion, the music, the cars, the locations are prime 1960's.
Posted by: Joemarine at August 28, 2026 09:40 PM (y171U)
Actually, I no longer eat fast food, since it's neither fast nor cheap. The most is drinks in the drive-thru. The only place I stop is Kolache Factory after Sunday Mass.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 09:41 PM (O0L8i)
-- > Caiaphas
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 09:41 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 28, 2026 07:55 PM (amcLV)
I hit the Sterno so hard, I'm chafing! Whoooooo! Feel the burn!!!
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 09:41 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Quagmire at August 28, 2026 09:41 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: man
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As long as they are around they will be a factor.
The Bush babies, not so much.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 09:43 PM (VPNgR)
For shame
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:36 PM (XuXeR)
Actually Willards became my "Go To" place for lunch. Loved that place!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 09:43 PM (2WIwB)
Best of Breed for The Big Dummy today, but he was the only Borzoi, and nothing in the Hound Group.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 09:45 PM (O0L8i)
==
He won and that's what counts!
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 09:47 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 09:48 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Case at August 28, 2026 09:48 PM (VrYHL)
In 2024, the GDP per capita in the United States is approximately $66,300, while in Canada it is about $44,400.
Instead they are a Snow Mexico.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 09:49 PM (/+uur)
That is just fucking stupid.
They have as much oil and better beach and 30 years of NAFTA.
Are they that fucking stupid.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 09:50 PM (/+uur)
_ CBS says he's right wing
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aljazeera.com/ news/ ... / far-right -uk- provocateur -milo-yiannopoulos-detained-
_AlJazeera says he's a far-right provocateur
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Don't know what to say
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 09:51 PM (VPNgR)
I do have to do something for android. Thanks for the suggestions.
PS - the goony dance reminded me of the Pony so many years ago. MY parents were great dancers and use to roll up the living rug to dance along with shows like American Bandstand.
(Dee Dee Sharp did the song, Ride, and Chubby Checker did Pony Time.) Now old(er) folks do the Ride Ya Pony line dance as they have for years.
🤗
Posted by: L of the day shift. at August 28, 2026 09:53 PM (NFX2v)
Is there no one in Cali or NY or even AZ that does not have a TV and see that they are on the same path?
Hell
NY and IL can look north and see Canada.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 09:53 PM (/+uur)
Are they that fucking stupid.
Posted by: r hennigantx
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Money the elites have is not on the books.
Historically, when a new president takes office the past president and his family leaves the country. Destination USA or Europe. (with all the loot)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 09:54 PM (VPNgR)
As often as I was there... we may have crossed paths.
*tips cap
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:55 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:56 PM (XuXeR)
——
I’ve tried to point this out for years. Mexico is not a poor country. Not in resources anyhow. They have tremendous oil, gas, mineral, and timber wealth. A hard working intelligent people.
But their governments and leaders have been corrupt shit at times. They should be able to punch above their weight. Very sad.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 09:56 PM (PVUR/)
Historically, when a new president takes office the past president and his family leaves the country. Destination USA or Europe. (with all the loot)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 09:54 PM (VPNgR)
Do they not have TV?
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 09:57 PM (/+uur)
He won by barely 1 point.
Media polls are meant to tell you the state of the election. They are designed to depress your vote. You know this. Everyone knows this. Stop playing their game.
Paxton is going to win if people think their votes matter. Stop pretending it doesn't. Go win.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 09:58 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:56 PM (XuXeR)
Where is the church
Where is the school
Where is the media
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 09:58 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Black Pill pusher at August 28, 2026 09:58 PM (rHvvN)
Posted by: Tyrant at August 28, 2026 09:58 PM (Q+gd/)
As often as I was there... we may have crossed paths.
*tips cap
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:55 PM (XuXeR)
Very likely.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 09:59 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Common Tater
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Been a long time, Been a long time, Been a long time,
Been a lonely, lonely, long time
_the Conquistadors.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 09:59 PM (VPNgR)
As often as I was there... we may have crossed paths.
*tips cap
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 09:55 PM (XuXeR)
My office was just on the other side of 28, of willard.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 09:59 PM (2WIwB)
——
It was never cheap but it was damned tasty & convenient. Fast, cheap, or good. Pick Two. McDonalds came closer than anybody to breaking that business law.
Not any longer. I don’t know what they did, but I almost believed they really had some addictive magic in those Quarter Pounders. “Would you like your fries Super Sized?” Why yes. Yes I would.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 10:01 PM (PVUR/)
Being a realist. If Texans don’t get their asses up and go vote, talarico will win.
And I don’t see anyone out there impressing this upon the populace.
Whatever. Hope y’all don’t lose Texas the way Washington state was lost.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 10:01 PM (npL9l)
Posted by: L of the day shift. at August 28, 2026 10:02 PM (NFX2v)
No thanks
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 10:03 PM (PVUR/)
The post office? /kidding
Had the granite place across from there redo our house...
Lived across from Fair Oaks...
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 10:04 PM (XuXeR)
—-
California, Oregon, Arizona, Virginia, Colorado, etc.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 10:04 PM (PVUR/)
Posted by: L of the day shift. at August 28, 2026 10:05 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 10:08 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 10:09 PM (D9FOj)
Not any longer. I don’t know what they did, but I almost believed they really had some addictive magic in those Quarter Pounders. “Would you like your fries Super Sized?” Why yes. Yes I would.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 10:01 PM (PVUR/)
Beef tallow for the fries, which they no longer use.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 10:11 PM (D9FOj)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 28, 2026 10:12 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 28, 2026 10:20 PM (vV6n9)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Only reason Houston is a major port and not Louisiana which has nature made ports.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 10:36 PM (VPNgR)
The Week In Woke
Faith in American media keeps hitting new lows. How can news outlets regain that trust? Could it be by investing themselves in a position that 80% of the American public opposes? The Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) want everyone to hold their beer. Each year, APSE holds contests for sports coverage in several different categories. This year, the APSE has added a new category for covering transgender sports. The announcement came last month, but curiously did not make news at the time:Glorious. No notes. S-tier.
APSE first vice president Erik Hall introduced a new category for the upcoming APSE contest. This category is dedicated to recognizing Excellence in Coverage of the Transgender Community in Sports. The announcement was made during the awards banquet at the annual APSE Summer Conference on Saturday night, July 18, 2026, in Arlington, Virginia.
At least four "women's" golf tournaments in Canada this summer have been won by men. aka Women 2.0. Women 1.0 were crazyyy, man.
Jarvis @jarvis_bestShut up, Jews. The Radical Gay Islamists are in charge now. The same people who say Bake My Trans Cake, Bigot are the same people refusing to serve conservatives in their diners and restaurants. Jonathan Turley:
I was pleasantly caught off guard by the argument of former journalist Peter Beinart who responded to a group of Michigan Jewish Dems who were uncomfortable with El Sayed by telling them that El Sayed will stop global warming and global warming will be Bad For Jews.
"This is my place of business." Those words from Jim Sheehan, owner of the Wydaho Roasters coffee shop in Driggs, Idaho, have sparked the latest controversy over the right of businesses to refuse service on the basis of religious or political views. Sheehan has drawn national attention after throwing out a group of pro-life teenagers, calling them the equivalent of a Ku Klux Klan meeting in his shop. Sheehan clearly caters to those who want their lattes with an added shot of rage. However, this and a number of other cases have exposed the hypocrisy of many regarding the service businesses must provide customers with opposing views. From cakes to coffee, shops remain ground zero for an age of rage. Years ago, politicians and pundits rallied around the effort to force Jack Phillips, a cakeshop owner, to create cakes celebrating same-sex marriages. Phillips objected that it violated his religious beliefs. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court in what many of us hoped would be a final resolution of this conflict.It wasn't. The Court, under the control of swing-voter and super-gay Kennedy, punted in such a way as to require people to spend hundreds of thousands in court costs to have a chance to find out if they have free speech rights and the right of conscience or not. A more recent 2023 case expanded people's rights a bit more.
Breaking news, liberals are terrible, hateful, ill-behaved, maleducated mentally-ill assholes and extreme narcissists who deploy the reasoning of selfish children to say "I get whatever I want whenever I want it, and you get nothing, and no I'm not interested in a rule that favors us equally, I'm special, the rule will always change to favor me at all times." I'm sure this breaking news which comes as a huge surprise to most of you. An anonymous account used AI to parody the third season of the woke racebent lame-n-gay Rings of Power, showing dwarves with ludicrous dwarf-fros:
But notably, in cases like Masterpiece Cakeshop, Phillips insisted that he would always sell cakes to any couple, including same-sex couples. He only refused to make cakes specifically celebrating same-sex marriages, due to his religious views. The case of Wydaho is different. Sheehan refused the same general accommodation offered to all customers because he opposes pro-life causes. In the confrontation, Sheehan declared that "in my world" pro-lifers are no different from the Ku Klux Klan. "This is my place of business," he declared. "I did a lot of work to get people on the ballot so women would have the right to choose in the state of Idaho, and this is something I do not support, nor does my wife, and it's our business. So we have that choice." In my view, they do have that choice. Yet it must also be acknowledged what Sheehan is doing is far more extreme than what Phillips did in Masterpiece Cakeshop. He is not being asked to create a coffee concoction opposing abortion, like a Cafe Au Life specialty drink. He acknowledges that other groups might use the shop -- he just does not want these teenagers to use it to support pro-life causes. The same controversy arose the same week across the country in Virginia. In Alexandria, Fatana Karimi, owner of the Karimi Salon, threw out a woman after she revealed that she was Israeli. Jessica Walton posted an account of the encounter, and a video was later posted on social media.
The U.S. Education Department has issued guidance urging schools to stop what it calls "racial balancing" in student discipline policies, prompting concerns that the Trump administration is making it harder to address longstanding racial disparities in school discipline. Federal civil rights data has shown Black students are disciplined at disproportionately high rates.Is there any reason for that? Wait, wait, don't tell me -- racism, right?
An Education Department report, opens new tab released in 2023 found Black public preschool children received out-of-school suspensions at a rate nearly twice their enrollment. The new guidance says schools cannot modify discipline policies simply to reduce such racial disparities. A school's decision "to change its discipline policies with the purpose of avoiding or reducing racial disparities in discipline constitutes race discrimination," the Education Department's office for civil rights said in a letter. It said schools must ensure students are not treated differently because of race and that "racial balancing" constitutes discrimination.Students must be treated equally and not discriminated against or in favor of due to their race, which, experts say, is The New Racism and White Supremacy come out from under its sheet.
The guidance follows the department's decision last month to remove several "disparate impact" regulations that for decades have prohibited policies and practices with discriminatory effects that are often unintended.
President Donald Trump has acted against diversity initiatives, which he calls discriminatory against white people and males. Civil rights advocates say Trump's actions are rolling back social progress by removing practices aimed at helping marginalized groups. Eric Duncan, education equity advocacy group EdTrust's director of P-12 policy, criticized the latest guidance. "You cannot address racial disparities in school discipline by telling schools to ignore race," he said. "Black students have long faced some of the harshest discipline in our nation's schools.
They do not cite any experts on the other side.
How can I be the victim today pic.twitter.com/3W8xBKGdON
— shellshock (@shellshockkk) August 27, 2026
Women who 'hate' men might be the most desirable to date, shocking dating theory revealsBeastly left-wing castrating women are pushing the theory that Akshually we're the best partners for the men we despise and want to harm and humiliate.
A recent -- rather controversial -- hot topic in today's dating world has taken the internet by storm: women who openly say they "hate men" might actually be the best partners to date. According to social media, men could benefit greatly from dating women who express discontent with the opposite sex -- but it's not as controversial as you might think. TikTok user James White (@jameslwhitee) stirred the pot with a viral video in which he elaborated on this theory -- believing women who say they dislike men could be the most loyal, loving partners out there. "Okay, so if you're a guy who can find a girl who hates all men, but! But, but, but likes you? You're set. You are literally set for life," James explained, explaining that many men misinterpret these women's stance.I got this from the Boyscast, who point out that there's a big presence on TikTok of men who say whatever angry feminists want to hear to get them to DM them for sex. It's p***ybait. It's pooterslop. Or, they postulate, this guy might just be gay. They also point out that a woman who "hates" anything -- not just men, but anything -- is by definition hateful and angry, and have you ever noticed, people who are generally hateful and angry aren't easy to get along with? And if they hate you in particular -- rather worse. Rather worse.
If I said "I would never date a woman from [x] minority because the negative stereotypes I associate with them" -- do you think any leftwingers would urge women from that minority group to try to prove to me they don't embody the negative stereotypes I associate with their race? Nah, right? I thought so. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy. Meanwhile: Fellas, she's available!
He claims that instead of seeing their expressed disdain for men as a negative, he believes it's basically a filter. "All these girls who hate all men," he added, "they're gonna find one man that they love, that they want to take care of, that they cherish, that they wanna be super kind to, super sweet, everything like that." If a woman who's skeptical of men as a whole chooses to let you in, then supposedly she's serious about you. In a separate video, TikTokker @tootsietat added that women who loudly criticize men could be searching for the rare, "not all men" type of guy. Instead of just talking about the flaws of men in general, these women want to see actual proof of a man embodying the qualities that make him stand apart from the negative stereotypes.
No man wants to handle that! pic.twitter.com/T0dHCxR77B
— Jeff Hunt (@jeffhunt) August 26, 2026
And she says to Joy Reid, no less… https://t.co/MfsYlxE9OX
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) August 27, 2026
Transgender tourist visiting the UK says he doesn’t know which bathroom to use after new UK rule banned men in women’s toilets.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) August 27, 2026
“I’m trans and I heard I’m not allowed to go to the women’s restroom in public spaces. I don’t know where to go to be honest.” pic.twitter.com/MBo8eExhey
Hillary Clinton on the RISE of SOCIALISM: "The Democratic Party right now is, I think, going through an experiment. Like who can actually respond particularly to young people's very real concerns about where they are at this point in their lives and what kind of future do they…
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 25, 2026
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I think that if you eat the soup, you will fall asleep and wake up in India without your kidneys, legs, or genitals.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 06:42 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 06:42 PM (ExV1e)
He was supposed to go a "free" luncheon today where the topic of discussion was vasectomies and sterilization.
For some reason that flyer at the top of the page reminded me.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:43 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 06:43 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 06:42 PM (1wjle)
Hey, they only said they talked about it, not acted it out.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 06:43 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Soupless Thursdays at August 28, 2026 06:44 PM (JM9I6)
So Lake America it is.
And the meme - Canada Geese are now Donald Ducks was cute.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 06:44 PM (Sco7b)
I am noticing more signs at businesses saying that abusing the staff won't be tolerated. Can you imagine this 25 years ago? Sad, I tells ya, sad.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 06:44 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 06:45 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Krazy Kat at August 28, 2026 06:45 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 28, 2026 06:45 PM (zMzlR)
He was supposed to go a "free" luncheon today where the topic of discussion was vasectomies and sterilization
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Get tutored and neutered!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 06:45 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 28, 2026 06:45 PM (JqJBt)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 28, 2026 06:45 PM (wGerL)
So, I guess the goal is crazy and evil by association.
Instead of just her usual crazy and evil.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 06:47 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 06:47 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 06:48 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 06:48 PM (/StTI)
TO HELL. Go to hell. Hope that clears it up for you
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 06:48 PM (EZWVc)
So they go over the Teton Pass and own on the Idaho side.
They are rich, yes. But not rich-rich (I mean, private jet fleet rich) like they think they deserve to be.
And that makes them the most resentful, haughty, bitter and zealous leftists.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 06:48 PM (3cUTc)
If they don’t want my business, they can choke on my fat dick.
I also don’t stick my fat dick in crazy. Ummm … well, mostly I don’t stick my fat dick in crazy …
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 28, 2026 06:49 PM (J1FkQ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 06:49 PM (JrHfD)
The usual suspects (Critical Drinker, Nerdrotic, Disparu, etc.) have been mocking it relentlessly for the past couple of days.
$1 BILLION and this is what you get from Amazon...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:49 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 06:50 PM (viF8m)
https://tinyurl.com/mry8tf9t
good stuff. I completely forgot about this no-account twink.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 06:50 PM (1wjle)
TO HELL. Go to hell. Hope that clears it up for you
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 06:48 PM (EZWVc
So the tornado warning was nothing?
Cool.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 06:50 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 28, 2026 06:50 PM (J1FkQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 06:50 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 06:50 PM (JrHfD)
I've been trying to include some humorous stuff but yeah, this is always a rough thread.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 06:50 PM (1wjle)
Good. Why would anyone want to eat at a place that does not want to serve them?
"Public accommodation" is hogwash. It has to go. Oh SCOTUS in the swamp, I pray to thee.
The bake-the-cake one is a bit different, but he should have a right to tell them to fuck off for any reason he wants. And let the lefties throw out conservative. I support this.
(Also let racists restrict non-whites or whatever. )
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 06:50 PM (ImuKY)
Posted by: Krazy Kat at August 28, 2026 06:45 PM (JM9I6)
He is a southern gentleman and would never speak of such things, especially over a meal.
Plus have you seen him? Someone calls him an annoying fake cartoon dog. I prefer living stuffed animal. He is definitely not luring people to their ends by enticing them with a comfort food.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 06:51 PM (ZdaMQ)
So many truths spoken and, yet, she holds on to her delusions like Rose holding onto a door which is easily big enough to support Jack also without offering him space.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 06:51 PM (ExV1e)
The reality is schools stopped disciplining children of color so their numbers looked good to their superintendents. there were so many more phenomenal children (of color) who were not getting an education because of the few who could not be disciplined.
My experience exactly in NYC. Tough school. 85% of the students were amazing. Dedicated. Respectful. The other 15 were...not. I felt awful for the kids that were there and desperate to learn in what was often a loud, dangerous, and intimidating environment.
Yep. We quit enforcing demerits on black kids for being late.
Incredibly rare Trump Admin W. This is like how I entirely agree with Ron DeSantis that cell phones should be banned in schools.
It's crazy how admin in a PUBLIC school doesn't understand we are there to educate for the benefit of the public. It's for everyone. Some of the students they turn loose on the world have been set up to fail by the institutions who claim to protect them. Little Jonny never faced consequences in his life. No the consequences are prison. Nice job coddling him, but you've doomed the kid to severe consequences in life.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 06:51 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 06:51 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 06:51 PM (PbWRL)
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The carbon they want to eliminate starts with YOU, Jews!
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 06:52 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 28, 2026 06:52 PM (/OKHJ)
Wait, you are suggesting they want people to eat our official unofficial mascot? We should tell them about the gun thread.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 06:52 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 06:52 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 06:53 PM (n5tGW)
I know, I was jestin'
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 06:51 PM (1wjle)
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Among the comments I've heard today is that because the "Harfoots" (i.e., hobbits they can't legally call hobbits) have been removed from Season 3, Amazon had to find a replacement, which is what the middle two "dwarves" represent.
The only character that actually resembles a dwarf is the one on the far right.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:53 PM (FZ29D)
So they go over the Teton Pass and own on the Idaho side.
They are rich, yes. But not rich-rich (I mean, private jet fleet rich) like they think they deserve to be.
And that makes them the most resentful, haughty, bitter and zealous leftists.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 06:48 PM (3cUTc)
Even as a kid growing up in Cody, I hated Jackson. And Driggs is almost as bad.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 28, 2026 06:54 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Buffalo Bill and the Tooth Fairy at August 28, 2026 06:56 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 06:56 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 06:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
Based on the discussion topics, I'm guessing menudo. Or chitterlings.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 06:58 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 06:59 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Kitchen Table Politics at August 28, 2026 06:59 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 06:59 PM (SK+av)
They're perfect if you are into hate fucking.
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 07:00 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 06:57 PM (Ia/+0)
I wonder if women could try to get on "Canada's Great Drag Race" or that RuPaul show and then sue the shit out of them if they are declined.
Men should probably push this like the guys did with the WNBA. Every sport, every championship until the women grow some balls.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 07:00 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Skip
I'd love to see a biological male identify as female and still complete and win in male events...but simultaneously win female records. Stunning and brave.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 07:00 PM (FKi1y)
"Just hold your head still for a moment."
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 07:00 PM (ImuKY)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 07:00 PM (ZdaMQ)
Based on my admittedly anecdotal observations, it appears that black (oh wait, "Black") males go to prison at rates disproportionate to rates of males of white ("White") or Asian heritage.
It's the weirdest thing.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2026 07:00 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 06:50 PM (1wjle)
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All good - please know I wasn't being critical... more just bracing myself for the typical sequence:
A) read post
B) breathe deeply
C) order ammo
D) go back to work so I can pay for more ammo
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 28, 2026 07:01 PM (JqJBt)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 07:01 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 07:01 PM (MWfyi)
I dont like my 1 sometimes
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 07:01 PM (/+uur)
They're perfect if you are into hate fucking.
Posted by: No Name Today
I hate fucking women!
Posted by: James Talarico at August 28, 2026 07:01 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 07:02 PM (uhVAy)
"All these girls who hate all men," he added, "they're gonna find one man that they love, that they want to take care of, that they cherish, that they wanna be super kind to, super sweet, everything like that."
That's right up there with Malcolm from Based Camps assertion that conservative men should date leftist women because leftist women are natural followers, and the men can discipline them into being devoted conservative wives.
I'm sure he had no intention of implying that already conservative women (who have been not following the herd all their lives) aren't worth marrying because they're used to fighting.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 07:02 PM (vJrRc)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 07:02 PM (Sco7b)
"Just hold your head still for a moment."
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 07:00 PM (ImuKY)
or than silenced shootsgun
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 07:02 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 28, 2026 07:03 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Mark1971
Did you go ask them where the restroom for non-castrated males was?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 07:04 PM (vJrRc)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 07:01 PM (/+uur
Solomon had 700 wives, 300 concubines and probably remembered names like Bill Clinton.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 07:04 PM (Sco7b)
[Profoundly puzzled emojiface]
Meanwhile: Fellas, she's available!
[Omigosh, the poster child for "She seems nice."]
Now that the UK says that biological men must use the men's bathrooms, I don't know which bathroom to use.
[If there's a "Y" in your genes, guess you'll just have to hold it in, feller.]
This kind of Quick Hits report is the perfect other slice with JJ's Morning Report to make a fine world-has-gone-to-$#!+ sammich.
Hey, Ace, since Eloon Muskox has gone to war with every other way for non-X-ers to view X videos, could you just embed all of the X cafe vids from now on? Thanks, buddy.
Posted by: mindful webworker - let's have pizza tonight, whattaya say? at August 28, 2026 07:04 PM (oq2IS)
Posted by: Skip
Drag Racing
Erica Lee Enders (born October 8, 1983 in Houston, Texas) is an American drag racing driver. Enders has won six world championships in the Pro Stock class of the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series and she continues to drive full-time in that class.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 07:05 PM (/+uur)
The usual suspects (Critical Drinker, Nerdrotic, Disparu, etc.) have been mocking it relentlessly for the past couple of days.
$1 BILLION and this is what you get from Amazon...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:49 PM (FZ29D)
Drinker and Disparu will be able to add another wing to their manorhouses with this one.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 07:05 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 07:06 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 07:06 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 07:06 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 28, 2026 07:07 PM (/OKHJ)
It's a Catch 22.
Posted by: Dr. Doc Daneeka at August 28, 2026 07:07 PM (QRHoA)
Yesterday I called AirCanada (it's still called that today, right??) for something and the robot greeting explaining all the options etc included a statement I've never heard before, about offensive or divisive behavior (on the phone, was clear from context) would not be permitted. Sorry I forget the exact words, was too gobsmacked to focus after that.
WTF?
Reminded me of turning on the TV (a rare event) early during The Great Idiocy in 2020 and being speechless at the commercials - whiny, OMG-we're-like-Londoners-during-the-Blitz, solicitous, sober-sounding self-centered pretentious language and tone to everything. In commercials.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2026 07:07 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 07:07 PM (Ia/+0)
......
It's always about the bathrooms.
Pro-tip: Pee in the Mens, poop in the Womens.
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2026 07:07 PM (UjdFS)
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[A history of "collectivism:]
We have Killary to thank for reintroducing the kinder & gentler term progressivism for hiding & masking socialism.
With "socialism" of course being a kinder & gentler term for hiding & masking Marxism.
With "Marxism" of course being a kinder & gentler term for hiding & masking communism.
And "communism" of course being a kinder & gentler term for hiding & masking authoritarian & totalitarian suicidal death cult.
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 07:08 PM (9c4Eu)
I think that if you eat the soup, you will fall asleep and wake up in India without your kidneys, legs, or genitals.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 06:42 PM (1wjle)
yikes
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 07:08 PM (odBC9)
With a chick like that you feel a hell of a lot less guilty leaving a floater in the toilet and wiping your dick on the drapes.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 07:08 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: gp at August 28, 2026 07:08 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 28, 2026 07:08 PM (wVcYX)
I do not even believe in second marriages.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 07:09 PM (/+uur)
Is this Malcolm a dem plant? Or just caught up in theory? Observation would indicate that conservative men who marry liberal women are more likely to end up voting dem than the other way around.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 28, 2026 07:10 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: mindful webworker - week in hits, whatever at August 28, 2026 07:10 PM (oq2IS)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 07:07 PM (Ia/+0)
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# of Biological Males who have run a sub-4-minute mile? Over 2,350.
# of Biological Females who have run a sub-4-minute mile? 0.
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 07:11 PM (9c4Eu)
They all seem racisty.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 28, 2026 07:11 PM (l26NL)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 07:11 PM (viF8m)
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I think at issue here, is the content of their character. Remember that?
We can treat students differently based upon their behavior. At least for now. Kinda, though not really.
There's this pernicious strain of nonsense that runs in "academic" circles that the ONLY reason black students are disciplined more often is because of racism directed towards blacks.
Nobody really believes this, but this is the twaddle served up daily by these cunts.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 07:12 PM (99A9t)
I think that if you eat the soup, you will fall asleep and wake up in India without your kidneys, legs, or genitals.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 06:42 PM (1wjle)
You are wise in the ways of the world.
Did you show up at the diner to meet these souper people?
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 07:12 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 07:12 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 07:12 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 07:05 PM (uhVAy)
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Disparu pointed out that the release schedule is over three weeks (4 episodes the first week and 2 episodes at a time the following two weeks.) Amazon has acknowledged they are doing this because they know the usual gang is going to hate-watch the series for their fans and they want to minimize the time YouTubers spend on this series.
Disparu has said that he's going to do a thorough take down of all episodes, because that's the kind of guy he is.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 07:12 PM (FZ29D)
I do not even believe in second marriages.
Posted by: r hennigantx "
I don't believe in modern love.
Posted by: zombie David Bowie at August 28, 2026 07:12 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 07:06 PM (viF8m)
We figured you more for a 5 gram plan.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 07:12 PM (dK+Kv)
He was supposed to go a "free" luncheon today where the topic of discussion was vasectomies and sterilization.
For some reason that flyer at the top of the page reminded me.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I get stuff every week offering a free lunch or dinner. They say it's about Retirement Financial Planning.
I guess avoidance of paternity suits and child support could be part of that.
Posted by: J. Miklos Strom-Thurmond at August 28, 2026 07:12 PM (4RYRd)
# of Biological Females who have run a sub-4-minute mile? 0.
Don't get me started on parallel parking.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2026 07:13 PM (guGkK)
Is this Malcolm a dem plant? Or just caught up in theory? Observation would indicate that conservative men who marry liberal women are more likely to end up voting dem than the other way around.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 28, 2026 07:10 PM (lFFaq)
Well if he's a decent guy wifes pretty often will take on their husband politics because they don't have to worry as much about friends and coworkers politics.
If he's a 'feminist ally' the wife might end up buried under the floorboards.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 07:13 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 07:13 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 06:42 PM (1wjle)
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This sounds oddly specific, Ace.
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 07:14 PM (9c4Eu)
We know how to eat liquids -- we put them in a glass and drink them. What is this spoon nonsense. It's annoying.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 07:14 PM (ImuKY)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 07:14 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:14 PM (RIvkX)
I guess avoidance of paternity suits and child support could be part of that.
Posted by: J. Miklos Strom-Thurmond at August 28, 2026 07:12 PM (4RYRd)
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Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 07:15 PM (FZ29D)
If you haven't noticed, so is everyone.
Posted by: JackStraw
I'm not weird. Mom says I'm eccentric.
Posted by: Loose Screws at August 28, 2026 07:15 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
Careful if they have those metal blinds
Posted by: Miklos knows Things at August 28, 2026 07:15 PM (4RYRd)
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Did they mention that sides include some fava beans and a nice chianti?
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 07:16 PM (9c4Eu)
We know how to eat liquids -- we put them in a glass and drink them. What is this spoon nonsense. It's annoying.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 07:14 PM (ImuKY)
if it is a broth soup you can drink it from a coffee cup.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 07:16 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 07:16 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Captain Splatter at August 28, 2026 07:16 PM (UjdFS)
What a riddle. Who could figure out such a puzzler?
***
Somebody kick this dipshit in the nuts. He'll figure it out soon enough.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 07:16 PM (2WIwB)
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Harrison Bergeron, to the white courtesy phone, please!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:17 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2026 07:13 PM (guGkK)
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* snort *
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 07:18 PM (9c4Eu)
I'm plan was to make it 50. I'm on bonus time.
It's all good.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 07:18 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2026 07:19 PM (U/Byj)
Spoiled, nothing! You kids put that milk on your mush and eat it. Bah!
Posted by: Crone From Bleak Hill Boarding School at August 28, 2026 07:19 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: high school boys at August 28, 2026 07:19 PM (4RYRd)
Opinion is Fact
Men are Women
Crazy is Sane
But they will always always be identified best from the actual quote from 1984
Ignorance is strength
Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2026 07:19 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 07:20 PM (viF8m)
"Because when you don't ever even hear the facts, it's hard to even know that you're wrong."
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The ignorance is positively breathtaking.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:20 PM (RIvkX)
We know how to eat liquids -- we put them in a glass and drink them. What is this spoon nonsense. It's annoying.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 07:14 PM (ImuKY)
The fuck am I supposed to dip my grilled cheese sandwich in?
Seriously, throw this man out. He's drunk.
Posted by: give me tomato soup or give me death at August 28, 2026 07:20 PM (2nRM4)
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Alley out back?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:20 PM (RIvkX)
"Because when you don't ever even hear the facts, it's hard to even know that you're wrong."
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The ignorance is positively breathtaking.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:20 PM (RIvkX)
I don't recall her giving a fact out ever.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 07:21 PM (uhVAy)
Living up here, I hear those messages and see the signs everywhere.
Perhaps I've been setting bad exampkes for all the damn foreigners.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 07:21 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 07:22 PM (99A9t)
Maybe go back home, take off the dress, and learn to live with yourself without being a weirdo.
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 07:23 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Frank Zappa, 1971 at August 28, 2026 07:23 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: the left hand of wisdom at August 28, 2026 07:23 PM (4RYRd)
A military judge ruled the statements were involuntary in a decision that could further complicate the decades-long wait for a trial
_fox
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 07:23 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Skip
don't tell mom
Posted by: high school boys at August 28, 2026 07:19 PM (4RYRd)
Yearly?
Man, birth control pills in the water supply are wreaking havoc.
When I was in school it was daily. Like it was an after school job I didn't get paid for. An internship.
Posted by: my eyesight has deteriorated at August 28, 2026 07:24 PM (2nRM4)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 07:24 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 07:16 PM (uhVAy)
Say, this gives me an idea. Instant soup in a cup. What shall we call it?
Posted by: Lipton Teas and Infusions, UK at August 28, 2026 07:24 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2026 07:25 PM (KC5Lt)
Remember "Nail Soup"? The old tale about the magic nail, a hobo comes to a town, and claims to have a magic nail that makes the most delicious soup. But it would be improved, he said, if only he had a little Salt. 'Oh, I have some Salt' said the nice elderly lady. He added the salt and stirred it into the pot....
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 07:25 PM (99A9t)
See what I mean? World done gone crazy. You could tell me tomorrow that the King of England is now the queen and I would not be the least bit surprised.
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 07:26 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 07:27 PM (/QHx4)
No information yet as to their adoption by Canada's MAID program, or by Planned Parenthood for first trimester abortions.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 07:27 PM (rbvCR)
If you haven't noticed, so is everyone.
Posted by: JackStraw
I'm not weird. Mom says I'm eccentric.
Posted by: Loose Screws at August 28, 2026 07:15 PM (JM9I6)
Special
You're so very special
Posted by: LASue at August 28, 2026 07:28 PM (lCppi)
No information yet as to their adoption by Canada's MAID program, or by Planned Parenthood for first trimester abortions.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 07:27 PM (rbvCR)
Aug. 27, 2026?
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 07:28 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 07:28 PM (MWfyi)
Another good reason for what I've tacked onto my name.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 28, 2026 07:29 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Can't Speak Frog at August 28, 2026 07:29 PM (JM9I6)
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It's all wretched shit, I've tried most of them at some time or another.
I use Cream of Mushroom for a few recipes. All that is, is a cheater milk gravy. it works. Tomato soup is OK in a pinch if a dish must have tomatoes, and some do. Rotel is kind of handy for a slight extra kick, and already has onions. I like smoked Jalapeno - the Chipotle in Adobo.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 07:29 PM (99A9t)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 07:30 PM (MWfyi)
It's less than one hour and it's free on YouTube.
Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 28, 2026 07:31 PM (3ImbR)
No information yet as to their adoption by Canada's MAID program, or by Planned Parenthood for first trimester abortions.
Posted by: Kindltot
I assume the clinical trials were done on the corporate executives and their families.
Posted by: Miklos expresses well-founded scepticism at August 28, 2026 07:31 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: polynikes
Sodium is an essential mineral. You'll die without it.
Posted by: Salty Mariner at August 28, 2026 07:31 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2026 07:32 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Can't Speak Frog at August 28, 2026 07:29 PM (JM9I6)
It has cheese and eating it produces a fascination with white flags.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 07:32 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 07:29 PM (99A9t)
I extend a can of cream of chicken soup with chicken and some canned veggies. My standard pot gives about three meals from it.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 07:32 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 07:33 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: rhomboid
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Last 20 years or so Russians have experienced more and more free time - also some disposable income. Tinkering and free thought along with personal discipline are essential to general quality.
There are ewetubes of Russians tinkering with Vespa type scooters making them into ice boat racers and other things.
This transfers directly to factory work. They go to the factory and intrinsically understand how stuff works. Something that is almost genetic with us and totally alien to the Chinese.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 07:34 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 07:34 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 07:34 PM (uhVAy)
If you haven't noticed, so is everyone.
Posted by: JackStraw
If everyone is weird, then nobody is.
—Dash Parr
Posted by: mindful webworker - credible at August 28, 2026 07:35 PM (oq2IS)
Posted by: Builds Strong Bones And Teef at August 28, 2026 07:35 PM (JM9I6)
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I wish I would have thought of that answer in Mrs. Johnson's 3rd Grade class back in the day! Dangit.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 07:35 PM (99A9t)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 07:35 PM (99A9t)
Chickarina is really good.
There's a progresso lasagna soup that is not bad.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 07:36 PM (zZu0s)
Campbell's Roasted Garlic Mushroom soup is good. We use it now instead of Cream of Mushroom soup.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 07:36 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 07:36 PM (viF8m)
Okay, WHY are blacks disciplined more often? And why are blacks in public schools monumentally behind in learning? And do, please, tell me why black households are lacking books and magazines, don't generally spend time doing and reviewing homework, and can't be bothered to even show up to school on a regular basis?
Why could that possibly be?
Is it the skin color, or is it the sub-culture that thinks doing well is "acting white?"
I just don't know. I just...
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 07:36 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 07:34 PM (uhVAy)
yum
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 07:36 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 07:36 PM (MWfyi)
Now I get the Chicken Gnocchi ...
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 07:37 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 07:21 PM (uhVAy)
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To her credit, she believes conservatives are simply ignorant not evil, like most leftists.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:37 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Can't Speak Frog at August 28, 2026 07:29 PM (JM9I6)
It has cheese and eating it produces a fascination with white flags.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 07:32 PM (ExV1e)
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My mother always made it with SWISS cheese.
So I guess it was more of a Swiss onion soup.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 07:37 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 07:33 PM (MWfyi)
A Chevette 4-cylinder.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 07:37 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Gramatically Correct Miklos at August 28, 2026 07:37 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Salty Mariner at August 28, 2026 07:31 PM (JM9I6
Also potassium, calcium and iron but you don't want to triple up the necessary amount .
Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2026 07:38 PM (KC5Lt)
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Right, it's convenient. But make a Roux, with butter or bacon fat maybe, and a nice thick Milk gravy.... season as you like. It's always way better than anything out of a can.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 07:38 PM (99A9t)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 07:21 PM (uhVAy)
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To her credit, she believes conservatives are simply ignorant not evil, like most leftists.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:37 PM (RIvkX)
I doubt it, I'm sure she thinks we are evil too. Just clever enough to not say it.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 07:38 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 07:34 PM (VPNgR)
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SMR
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:39 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Common Tater
Green-haired nose-ring crazy-eye woman above could never seem normal.
Posted by: mindful webworker - 'get to know me at August 28, 2026 07:39 PM (oq2IS)
I thought the King was a queen
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 07:27 PM (/QHx4)
He has someone put toothpaste on his toothbrush for him.
Of course he's a queen.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 07:39 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 07:40 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: mindful webworker - 'get to know me at August 28, 2026 07:39 PM (oq2IS)
Hysterical, hideous and brainless is no way to go through life, honey.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 07:40 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: zombie David Bowie at August 28, 2026 07:12 PM (MWfyi)
Now do Adult Education
Posted by: Daryl at August 28, 2026 07:41 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 07:28 PM (MWfyi)
153 And I don't care about commas if you want commas put em in your damnself.
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 07:30 PM (MWfyi)
It's not so much that you needed commas, it's that the "I" after "Mohammed" is ambiguously the subject of the sentence or a numeral indicating "the First."
bzzzt
You coulda done this:
If I woke up one morning and there was a Pope Mohammed then I wouldn't bat an eye.
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 07:41 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 07:41 PM (/QHx4)
So I guess it was more of a Swiss onion soup.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 07:37 PM (FZ29D)
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Gruyere is the cheese of choice for French Onion Soup, and Swiss is the common man's Gruyere. It's half the price and it's what sensible people like us use!
Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 28, 2026 07:41 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 07:41 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 07:40 PM (Ia/+0)
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My aunt z"l would hold a sugar cube in her teeth and drink tea through it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:41 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 07:33 PM (MWfyi)
220
221 whatever it takes
Posted by: Daryl at August 28, 2026 07:42 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 07:42 PM (VJ0w/)
Posted by: Miklos notes a General Decline at August 28, 2026 07:42 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:42 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 07:40 PM (Ia/+0)
Sun tea, made in the sun, has a natural sweetness to it.
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 07:42 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 07:42 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Daryl at August 28, 2026 07:43 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 07:43 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:41 PM (RIvkX)
Haha!
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 07:43 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Miklos notes a General Decline at August 28, 2026 07:42 PM (4RYRd)
Somebody should enroll that green haired bitch there. Maybe they could teach her some restraint. If that doesn't work, we could hire someone to smack her upside her head every time she opens her pie hole.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 07:43 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 07:41 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 07:44 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 07:44 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 28, 2026 07:44 PM (wVcYX)
Same is true of kids screaming all the damned time. My mother was not tolerant of bad behavior and didn't write any of it off due to age or development.
Do the crime, you cheek would show it. I might still have a wooden spoon dent in one side.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 07:45 PM (dEHLq)
I have several friend with no father and at 18 they marched themselves of the the Marines or Army.
They have a real life now.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 07:46 PM (/+uur)
It's going to stand over 30 inches tall.
I think this deserves a scotch and some sour patch gummies.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2026 07:46 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 07:48 PM (0CU3H)
Some of you are in that poster above. Tell the truth.
Posted by: JackStraw
>AOSHQ blog has become a chat line. Greetings and salutations.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 07:51 PM (SK+av)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 07:41 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 07:44 PM (odBC9)
Thanks, m!
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 07:59 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Dave at August 28, 2026 09:30 PM (sbsMc)
"Christian" Pastor and Heterosexual Heart-Breaker James Talarico: The Assassment That Christians are the Villains In Society Is "Spot On"
I wish I lived in Texas so I could vote for this super-duper S-Tier Christian.
In an episode published on August 5, Van Lathan Jr., host of Higher Learning, went on an extensive rant proclaiming that American Christians nationwide are "villains" and "mean people" who he expected to see "saying something wild," all while Talarico laughed and nodded in agreement. Talarico then told Lathan Jr. that he didn't believe that Christianity as "defining someone as a good person" was dead, but agreed that his "assessment is spot on." Talarico's strain of "good person" Christianity comes from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas, headed by Jim Rigby. Rigby has employed the use of an "inclusive Bible" that forbids solely masculine pronouns for God and considers the use of titles like "King" or "Lord" for Jesus Christ to be akin to "rape culture." St. Andrew's Presbyterian distributes sexually explicit books to children with the message that "God is queer, and funds Planned Parenthood and trans youth summer camps.
SCOOP: In a 2025 appearance on the Higher Learning podcast, Democrat candidate James Talarico called the idea that Christians are the "villains" of American society "spot on." pic.twitter.com/GYE7lSHbvs
— Joe Chalfant (@JoeChalfant) August 27, 2026
The DA supposedly rejected this pressure -- but surprise surprise, her son got a sweetheart deal requiring only that he go to a three hour "course" and the charges will be ultimately expunged.
The entitled son of "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin had to complete a court-ordered course to get his Westchester County trespassing case dismissed -- despite his celeb mom's two-month-long campaign to make the case disappear. Ivy League-educated Gabriel Hostin, 24, was nabbed trespassing on Metro-North Railroad tracks in New Rochelle on June 16 and hit with a trespassing violation. During his arrest, his famous mom was caught on bodycam trying to throw her weight around with cops at the scene. "My name is Sunny Hostin and I'm one of the co-hosts of 'The View' and I'm a former federal prosecutor," she told cops. "That's my son. He's a Harvard graduate, he doesn't have a criminal record." According to sources, she didn't let up after that, and consistently hammered away at the Westchester County District Attorney's Office to make it all go away without any recourse. The younger Hostin eventually agreed to accept a deal, which required him to take part in a three-hour Fresh Start course, which the Westchester DA's Office said is a "pre-arraignment diversion program that provides eligible first-time, low-level offenders" with a chance to have the cases dismissed. Gabriel Hostin completed the course on Aug. 20, and the prosecutors have sent a letter to the court requesting that the charges be dismissed after completion of the course.To be honest, it's a minor offense and I wouldn't expect there to be a serious penalty for it. But then, Sonny Hostin, who claims to be a lawyer, would have realized the penalty would have been a slap on the wrist with the charges expunged after a minor pre-trial diversion. But she was determined that her son should receive no penalty at all. Because she's on The View. Why she imagines that's a credit, I don't know.
So f*** that bitch Sonny Hostin and her incredibly privileged form of "oppression."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: the country place that no one knows about at August 28, 2026 05:40 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 28, 2026 05:45 PM (EJE3y)
We...don't understand the problem.
Posted by: Hundreds of Thousands of Ethnic Chinese living in China but born on US soil at August 28, 2026 05:45 PM (FKi1y)
This is pretty standard for the PCUSA . There's a pastor near me who's "rewriting the Bible"
To do this. I know about it- not because I attend to his church- but I know a musician who does.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:46 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 05:43 PM (ZdaMQ)
https://youtu.be/T575Pbo4eWM?t=6
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 05:47 PM (ExV1e)
That's retarded.
Posted by: Delurker at August 28, 2026 05:47 PM (2Drhq)
I say this as a God creating Christian:
Fuck. You.
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Hello, Horde! 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 28, 2026 05:48 PM (SRRAx)
You'd spend the first eight months shedding.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 05:48 PM (ExV1e)
The DA supposedly rejected this pressure -- but surprise surprise, her son got a sweetheart deal requiring only that he go to a three hour "course" and the charges will be ultimately expunged.
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How could anybody have doubted that a judge would not be on the Hostins' side? After all, they are of a higher class where laws don't apply, laws are for the little people.
Posted by: Decaf at August 28, 2026 05:48 PM (ZNpJk)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 05:48 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 05:49 PM (xcxpd)
You what's really powerful persuasion? Telling religious people that they are totally wrong and don't understand their own faith. Always wins them over.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 05:49 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August
People may say what they will about my Bible Belt evangelical Church all they want, but this kind of garbage (pronounced gar-bagghheee) would not and does not fly. The Bible is the Bible is the Bible is the Bible.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 05:49 PM (ZdaMQ)
That's retarded.
Posted by: Delurker at August 28, 2026 05:47 PM (2Drhq)
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And also gay.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 05:49 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Delurker at August 28, 2026 05:49 PM (2Drhq)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 05:49 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 28, 2026 05:50 PM (SRRAx)
He's a vegetarian in beef country and met his wife at a gay bar.
And the polls confidently tell you he is winning.
This pretty much sums up my opinion on polling this year.
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at August 28, 2026 05:50 PM (mShBj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:46 PM (JrHfD)
If you don't like the instruction book, why stay for the whole class?
If you need to write a different Bible, then you aren't a Christian, by definition.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 05:50 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 28, 2026 05:50 PM (KGj36)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 05:51 PM (EZWVc)
To do this. I know about it- not because I attend to his church- but I know a musician who does.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:46 PM (JrHfD)
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Isn't David French Presbyterian as well?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 05:51 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 05:51 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at August 28, 2026 05:50 PM (mShBj)
Dave be preachin'!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 05:51 PM (xcxpd)
More Parables! Less Numbers! More Solomon! Less Kings!
Posted by: Delurker at August 28, 2026 05:52 PM (2Drhq)
The inmates have taken over the asylum....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 28, 2026 05:52 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 05:49 PM (ZdaMQ)
To be fair, Catholics will tell you that you are missing a few books, but other than that, absolutely.
Once you mess with the Word of God, you have officially messed with Jesus, and that never goes well.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 05:52 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 05:52 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Decaf at August 28, 2026 05:52 PM (ZNpJk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
My astute grandmother described churches that don't follow the Bible:
Country clubs without the golf course.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 05:53 PM (0U5gm)
This pretty much sums up my opinion on polling this year.
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla
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Well, you always have the new fangled prediction markets that are the derivative of polling to rely upon.
Super scientific--honest Injun.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:53 PM (E4rtv)
Look out, Jim Rigby & Talarico (and Paw Paw):
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. — Galatians 1:8-9
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 05:53 PM (M+uMR)
This pretty much sums up my opinion on polling this year.
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at August 28, 2026 05:50 PM
You can DEFINITELY trust the polls.
Posted by: Francesca Hong at August 28, 2026 05:53 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 05:53 PM (B1b0T)
The inmates have taken over the asylum....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 28, 2026 05:52 PM (SRRAx)
I think leftists have to post signs because their entire identity is tied up in their virtue signalling. The rest of us don't need to put a sign--we just go vote.
And how many yard signs have actually swayed any voter?
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 05:53 PM (dEHLq)
This pretty much sums up my opinion on polling this year.
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at August 28, 2026 05:50 PM (mShBj)
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It's obviously an op, and before Labor Day, no one cares. The goal is purely to goose donations and maybe create a bandwagon effect. As we get closer to the election "the race will tighten" so the poll can retain its viability. Happens every cycle.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 05:54 PM (ZOv7s)
Believe it or not, there are actually conservative Christians in NJ. Some of them are PCA which is a split off from PCUSA, the Anglican Church in NJ and various evangelical / non denominational churches.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:54 PM (JrHfD)
He makes Beto seem almost like a macho man.
And the dems seriously think this guy is gonna get elected in Texas if they just spend enough money promoting him?
Amazing.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 28, 2026 05:54 PM (Lo97M)
Crockett called Talarico to congratulate him and endorsed his candidacy. Absolute nothingburger. Talarico is crushing it and she doesn't want to get in his way. She is focusing on downballot races which also need to be assisted to give us a House majority.
Nah, she's intentionally pissing in the punch bowl because she lost. Even Haley Stevens (which was a significantly more contentious primary) endorsed Abdul El-Sayed and is campaigning for him. She's a sore loser corporate shill.
Have the corporate media gotten you sufficiently mad at the black person yet whose already endorsed the candidate?
Read thd room. People see this for what it is. Her career in politics is done. She’s setting herself up for a lucrative private sector career. The majority of Democratic voters will not forgive her for this and her coziness with Israel. And she knows it.
If we miss out on turning Texas blue…
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 05:54 PM (FKi1y)
I am. The church most definitely is not.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Preach it. To coin a phrase.
A lot of Christians aren't what they used to be.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 05:55 PM (2Cry5)
There will likely never be a chance better than this. 1. Trump has record low approval ratings. 2. Paxton is the crookiest crook who ever crooned. 3. Talarico is a dem candidate that moderate Republicans can actually stand. He is a devout Christian, he has worked to lower prescription drug costs, and he looks like he just stepped out of a Normal Rockwell painting.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 05:55 PM (FKi1y)
Talarico can go screw himself
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 05:55 PM (Ia/+0)
Country clubs without the golf course.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Heretics that are likely hell bound. People don't get to tell the Lord what he likes and doesn't like. They ain't the boss of him. So when they rewrite his Holy Word to something more of their liking, they become hateful to him.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:55 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:55 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 05:55 PM (9c4Eu)
And according to MSNow, he has a great shot at Texas.
A fabulous shot.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 05:56 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:56 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 05:52 PM (viF8m)
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One of my best friends from college was Presbyterian and his church went woke. He and his wife now attend my parish are are going through the conversion process, entering the Church at Easter. Their son did so and that got them interested.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 05:57 PM (ZOv7s)
That's retarded.
Posted by: Delurker
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Some nutty Lutheran pastors were on the cutting edge of this a few years ago with The Sparkle Creed:
"I believe in the non-binary God whose pronouns are plural.
I believe in Jesus Christ, their child, who wore a fabulous tunic and had two dads and saw everyone as a sibling-child of God.
I believe in the rainbow Spirit, who shatters our image of one white light and refracts it into a rainbow of gorgeous diversity..."
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 05:57 PM (XvL8K)
I believe there is a segment of the voting public whose most important thing is to be on the winning side. If they see a majority of their neighbors supporting one candidate, they may think "Well, they can't all be wrong, can they."
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 05:57 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at August 28, 2026 05:57 PM (oji8u)
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at August 28, 2026 05:57 PM (mShBj)
Posted by: Case at August 28, 2026 05:57 PM (VrYHL)
How does this guy imagine he’s more Christian than any other Christian ever?
Is he more Christian than Christ??
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:57 PM (4KUe5)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions
The rejoinder to that word salad is made by the Judge in My Cousin Vinny is appropriate here--" Mr Gambino, are you on drugs?"
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:57 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 05:58 PM (PbWRL)
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Black Privilege.
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 05:58 PM (9c4Eu)
Croonin' Ken Paxton, appearing all this week in the Longbranch Room. Try the veal.
Posted by: Delurker at August 28, 2026 05:58 PM (2Drhq)
But then, I didn't rewrite my Bible. Apparently that was a missed opportunity.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 05:58 PM (dEHLq)
Ace, as Lyle Lovett sang, "That's right, you're not from Texas, but Texas wants you anyway."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2026 05:58 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla
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Hong's chance of winning that evening sunk faster than the Titanic.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:59 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: tcn in AK
In 2016 it was considered quite important to the Trump campaign.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 05:59 PM (FKi1y)
So, Joe and me are ready to kick your ass you MAGA Rednecks !!!!
Posted by: James Talarico at August 28, 2026 05:59 PM (ZITfF)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at August 28, 2026 06:00 PM (oji8u)
Manufacturing the millstones all quick-like, boss.
Posted by: A whole lot of drowning is warranted at August 28, 2026 06:00 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 05:53 PM (dEHLq)
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They are actually very influential in local elections, which is why there are shenanigans. If you have a low-visibility race, seeing lots of signs for a candidate makes you wonder who that is.
For governor and up, it's kind of silly.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:00 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 06:00 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: 29Victor at August 28, 2026 06:00 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 05:58 PM (PbWRL)
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He's right out of central casting for the Norman Bates role in a #Woke Tranny remake of "Psycho."
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 06:00 PM (9c4Eu)
"I believe in the non-binary God whose pronouns are plural.
I believe in Jesus Christ, their child, who wore a fabulous tunic and had two dads and saw everyone as a sibling-child of God.
I believe in the rainbow Spirit, who shatters our image of one white light and refracts it into a rainbow of gorgeous diversity..."
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 05:57 PM (XvL8K)
Holy crap, literally.
Might as well be a Unitarian if you're gonna go for crap like that.
*spit*
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 06:01 PM (dEHLq)
But then, I didn't rewrite my Bible. Apparently that was a missed opportunity.
Posted by: tcn in AK
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You could have made yourself a hero in that book by doing that. Mary Sueing the Bible by editing.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 06:01 PM (E4rtv)
Number of fake Christians in Texas pretending to be fooled by this guy: 6
Everyone else will vote for whoever else is running against Talarico*.
* Problem is, Talarico's negative press is so overwhelming that it sucks the oxygen out of everyone else's campaign. Probably half of Texans don't even know who else is in the race.
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 06:01 PM (Av6i5)
"BLACK PRIVALAGE" .........
Posted by: Jackson K. at August 28, 2026 06:01 PM (2WXOn)
Like I said before, she's damn lucky that she isn't scraping her son's splattered corpse into a small box for a closed casket funeral.
Pity she never taught him to stay away from the train tracks.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 06:01 PM (vJrRc)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 06:02 PM (Ia/+0)
There has to be more to this. What was he doing on the tracks?
Just walking? Something else?
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 06:02 PM (ImuKY)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 06:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Have I got good news for him!
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 06:03 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:57 PM (E4rtv)
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I think the part about how moderate Republican Christians liking the guy was the most delusional thing I've read since...last thread.
I've mentioned this before, but one of my neighborhood Yard Sign Calvinists ("By this sign I am saved and you're not!") has a sign reading "Imagine all the people living life in peace" next to "Free Palestine!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:03 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 06:01 PM (Av6i5)
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Well, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
I know we want people to vote FOR their guy, but Talarico is so toxic I can see a lot of people voting AGAINST him just because he's a deranged heretical nutcase.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:03 PM (FZ29D)
But then, I didn't rewrite my Bible. Apparently that was a missed opportunity.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 05:58 PM (dEHLq)
Jesus was most definitely not all sweetness and light. He spoke more about hell than heaven…
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. — Matthew 23:14
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 06:03 PM (M+uMR)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions
The rejoinder to that word salad is made by the Judge in My Cousin Vinny is appropriate here--" Mr Gambino, are you on drugs?"
Posted by: whig
I had to go back and look him up again. He's the most boring, generic white dude ever. Rockwell's people had character.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 06:03 PM (FKi1y)
Well, we know Allah's a fag, so he's half right.
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 06:04 PM (Av6i5)
My guess, he was going down to the crossroads. One should never go down to the crossroads. Nothing good can come of that.
Posted by: Delurker at August 28, 2026 06:04 PM (2Drhq)
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 06:01 PM (Av6i5)
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He's at the top of the ticket, and that's going to kneecap all the down ballot races. Same dynamic as in Michigan.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:04 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 06:01 PM (E4rtv)
I expect my new and improved version of the Koran to be very popular.
Muslims will be able to enjoy bacon, dogs, music and I'm upping the number of Jihad virgins to 100!
And 10% less bitchy!
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 06:05 PM (Sco7b)
Which is the current rationale for Dems winning in IA, NC, GA and TX.
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at August 28, 2026 06:05 PM (aT0AP)
Election will be determined by Trump and the economy issues.
Name calling may be fun but it also has downsides of provoking more enthusiasm from opposition
Posted by: Aliss at August 28, 2026 06:05 PM (gk5rj)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 06:05 PM (ndZc7)
If you believe you are a good person for revising God’s word for modern times, more empathic and wise than Jesus, well, you’re in for a surprise.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 06:05 PM (4KUe5)
Posted by: huerfano at August 28, 2026 06:05 PM (2Xqig)
A Canadian on DU is touting a graphic reputedly shown on MSNOW:
"New polling shown on MSNOW graphic right now is very encouraging!
A Survey Center at Texas Southern University Poll from Aug. 18-21 shows:
Bobby Pulido (D) leading 50-45 for the House,
James Talarico(D) leading Ken Paxton 50-42,
and in the Governors race, Hinojosa leading Abbott 47-44.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2026 06:05 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:55 PM (E4rtv)
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I wonder if anyone has ever endeavored to temporarily transform the HOLLYWOOD sign to read HOLY WORD?
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 06:05 PM (9c4Eu)
When I was a kid, we belonged to a really wonderful Presbyterian church. Multiple generations. My next door neighbor was not just my Sunday School teacher, he was also my best friend's dad. This made skipping Sunday School problematic.
He was a great guy and a great teacher. I know what I believe and what he taught me has stuck with me, mostly. I miss the fellowship but not what the church has become. Still a Christian, just do it on my own now.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 06:05 PM (viF8m)
Well, we know Allah's a fag, so he's half right.
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 06:04 PM (Av6i5)
Nope. Allah is a figment of a deranged pervert pedophiles imagination. Not God.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 06:05 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:03 PM (FZ29D)
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Remind me of Dave Barry's description of the 1984 election: "Mondale lost so massive that long after Election Day, people kept showing up at the polls demanding an opportunity to vote against him again."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:06 PM (ZOv7s)
So, Joe and me are ready to kick your ass you MAGA Rednecks !!!!
Posted by: James Talarico
Dudes! Quite hogging the bench! I need to get my reps in, and my bodyweight is too low to make push-ups challenging.
Posted by: Zombie RBG, still outworking her personal trainer at August 28, 2026 06:07 PM (FKi1y)
Wait, two dads? God and Joseph? But they just said God is non-binary. Or do they think Mary was trans? This is as confusing as it is blasphemous.
Posted by: Delurker at August 28, 2026 06:07 PM (2Drhq)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)
Rescuing poor orphaned packages thoughtlessly tossed off the train by someone else's feral spawn?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 06:07 PM (vJrRc)
There has to be more to this. What was he doing on the tracks?
Just walking? Something else?
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)
Technically, just being in the ROW is federal trespassing. Rarely enforced, but it can be.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 06:07 PM (wOO3z)
Yes, if "Norman Rockwell" is actually a typo for "Andres Serrano".
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at August 28, 2026 06:07 PM (oji8u)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:06 PM (ZOv7s)
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Heh. With mail-in ballots, they might get their chance!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:07 PM (FZ29D)
IN: The Self-Crucifying "Christian."
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 05:55 PM (9c4Eu)
Problem is you can never get the last nail in.
Posted by: Neil from The Young Ones at August 28, 2026 06:08 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 06:08 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 06:08 PM (D9FOj)
RNC Research
@RNCResearch
Jasmine Crockett won’t campaign for James Talarico who she called "straight up racist."
Congress: “Will you campaign with him?”
CROCKETT: “I will be campaigning down ballot.”
CNN: “Is it an either-or? Either you excite the down-ballot? Or…”
CROCKETT: “For me it probably is.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 06:08 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: tcn in AK
There were so many yard signs around here I got confused. I think I voted for a realtor.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 28, 2026 06:09 PM (l26NL)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 28, 2026 06:09 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 06:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Have I got good news for him!
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 06:03 PM
Bein' dead 'n all, do you know something we don't?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2026 06:09 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 06:09 PM (AydIQ)
Posted by: zombie
Allah is make believe. Muhammad is pansexual. He banged the men of al Zutt, many women, children, goats...quite the model for all Muslims to follow.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 06:10 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 06:10 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 06:10 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 28, 2026 06:10 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:06 PM
Heh. I don't remember that one. Then there was Dennis Miller: "Mondale got stomped like a narc at a biker rally."
Posted by: Delurker at August 28, 2026 06:10 PM (2Drhq)
Well, we know Allah's a fag, so he's half right.
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 06:04 PM (Av6i5)
Mohammed took it up the ass all night from the men of Al-Zutt.
Posted by: A bathhouse bloomed in the desert at August 28, 2026 06:10 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Big Mo at August 28, 2026 06:11 PM (wOO3z)
That's a big part of the problem these days. Way too many people need an ass whoopin'. That includes a lot of nominal females, as well. All the old rules of civility and chivalry and customs, mores and traditions were thrown out long ago. It's time people recognize that. You are fair game once you become a participant.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 06:11 PM (99A9t)
Muslims will be able to enjoy bacon, dogs, music and I'm upping the number of Jihad virgins to 100!
And 10% less bitchy!
Posted by: Stateless
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NYT best seller.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 06:11 PM (E4rtv)
That made my skin crawl.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 28, 2026 06:10 PM (lFFaq)
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I remember watching the video of that.
You could literally FEEL the unholiness oozing out of the computer monitor like toxic sludge.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:11 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 06:12 PM (D9FOj)
I wish I was a democrat so I could vote for him more than once!
Side note, the latest poll at 270 to win has talerico up by 6 points over paxton. Gaslighting is in effect.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 28, 2026 06:12 PM (cpFbA)
I am shocked, shocked at this!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 06:12 PM (4KUe5)
James Talarico(D) leading Ken Paxton 50-42,
and in the Governors race, Hinojosa leading Abbott 47-44.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Damn...faking a smaller lead that you can walk back as the election gets closer to save your credibility. Why didn't I think of that!?!?
Posted by: Ann Selzer at August 28, 2026 06:12 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 06:10 PM (FKi1y)
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I believe "Allah" is merely God in Arabic and Arabic-speaking Christians use that word.
Mohammed did not exist. He was patched together after the fact when the Caliphs decided they needed a state religion, which is why despite being based on a book written by the founder, there are no surviving copies that were not substantially revised later.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:12 PM (ZOv7s)
I actually did see an ad for him "Great candidate. Terrible name..."
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 06:12 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 06:13 PM (SK+av)
Posted by: Big Mo at August 28, 2026 06:11 PM
And the heartbeat is optional, at least for the first 12 hours or so.
Posted by: Big Mo at August 28, 2026 06:13 PM (0sNs1)
Rolling Stone
@RollingStone
Rolling Stone names Hasan Piker as one of the most influential creators of 2026
The self-declared Marxist has found himself at the center of endless controversies, thanks to his criticism of Israel on his daily streams but also because he's become the face of a movement to push Dems to the left.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 06:13 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar
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I think the language was that he got rode hard and wet by al Zutt aka a genie. Rushdie's Satanic Verses deals with these issues in his book that got him a fatwa death sentence that damn near came close to be fulfilled by some fanatic.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 06:14 PM (E4rtv)
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Wait.
If Christians are the villains, and Talarico expresses his form of Christianity as the most perfect path, then doesn't that make HIM the villain of this story?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:14 PM (FZ29D)
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Golly, they sound like United Methodists!
Posted by: Crusader at August 28, 2026 06:14 PM (TN0g+)
Better a millstone be tied around his neck, and he cast into the depths of the sea…
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 06:14 PM (D9FOj)
Kalshi betting has zero predictive value. As we have learned multiple times this year.
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at August 28, 2026 06:14 PM (9Bu8P)
Christians are the problem? Sure. Blacks are superior? Why not? Hobo ass is the best tasting ass? Yes, I agree.
Dude has the spine of a blobfish.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 28, 2026 06:14 PM (J1FkQ)
We told you to vote for Cornyn!!!
/s/
Lisping weak-kneed GOP "Conservatives" and their leader, Erick Errickson.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 06:15 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:55 PM (E4rtv)
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Hey whig.
Proverb 30:5-6.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at August 28, 2026 06:15 PM (eGzf1)
And how many yard signs have actually swayed any voter?
Posted by: tcn in AK
I guess my "Forget the dog, beware of Owner" sign is a kind of signalling.
Posted by: Miklos pleads self defense at August 28, 2026 06:15 PM (4RYRd)
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If you like penis coladas,
And getting caught in the rain,
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 06:15 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 06:16 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
The earliest contemporary writings are only a page or two, IIRC, a nearly complete historical version did not exist until about two centuries after the alleged events.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 06:16 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 06:10 PM (O0L8i)
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The 12th eMom.
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 06:16 PM (9c4Eu)
Shouldn't Democrats absolutely put every last nickel they can beg, borrow, or steal into the race to support him?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 06:17 PM (5KN7H)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 06:17 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Crusader at August 28, 2026 06:14 PM (TN0g+)
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All the woke branches should just unite and form a church of their own that's basically no rules and nothing but good feelings and self-esteem building. The Church of Unity, and they could call themselves "Unitarians."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:17 PM (ZOv7s)
Proverb 30:5-6.
Posted by: Blake
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Good cite.
Hope you are doing well in the SW heat island. Understand it may soon flip to rain.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 06:18 PM (E4rtv)
Killed about a million or so White People to save Black People.
Every idea of modern education is Christian idea, just read up on the Weasley Brothers.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 06:18 PM (/+uur)
He makes Beto seem almost like a macho man.
And the dems seriously think this guy is gonna get elected in Texas if they just spend enough money promoting him?
Amazing.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 28, 2026 05:54 PM (Lo97M)
I think like Beto, he's a funding op for out of state donations. Money pours into his campaign, and he takes some and the backers take some and then whoops, he loses despite the rigged polls.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 06:18 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Heretics has a nice ring.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 06:18 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Done Trying at August 28, 2026 06:18 PM (rzoH1)
Talarico is exhibit A to this. He has no interest in Christian principles, and any that follow him are kidding themselves.
Posted by: Crusader at August 28, 2026 06:18 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 06:10 PM (EZWVc)
The Bushies don't consider it to be 'America' if they're not in the driver's seat.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 06:19 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 06:19 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 06:19 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Delurker at August 28, 2026 06:10 PM (2Drhq)
Also Miller re: Mondale
"All I know is when I went to bed, Mondale only had three more electoral votes than me- and I didnt even run!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 06:19 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Crusader
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More like the Untied Methodists nowadays with the schism.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 06:19 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 06:16 PM (E4rtv)
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And ALL of that was compiled via oral tradition. Granted, some of the people involved had fantastically trained memories. But there were also contradictions among various oral accounts that had to be sorted out. Not everything that was spoken of orally was written down in the original manuscript.
Competing manuscripts to the "official" Koran were destroyed whenever they were found.
The Koran that 97% of Muslims use today was finalized in the 1920s. Before that, there were a few different versions floating around.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:19 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 06:16 PM (E4rtv)
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Yeah, I can't remember the exact date, but there are fragments of "pre-official" Korans that are kept in vaults lest they be destroyed.
The Caliphs continued minting coins with Christian symbols, so "Mohammed" was remarkably tolerant!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:20 PM (ZOv7s)
Mohammed did not exist. He was patched together after the fact when the Caliphs decided they needed a state religion, which is why despite being based on a book written by the founder, there are no surviving copies that were not substantially revised later.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Prior to 600AD, ach village and oasis in Arabia had its own deity. A lot of them were simply called by the local villagers, "the deity,:" not nrealizing that everyone else called their local deity "the deity" too. "Al-lah" simply is the generic temr for "the deity." Mohammed (presuming he ever existed, I know*) came from Medina, where -- surprise, his local deity was also called "the deity," "Al-lah. Then he went insane and traveled to Mecca, where there was a kind of omnishrine to all the local deities-- and he smashed up everyone else's idols, proclaimed that his village's "Al-lah" was the only valid one. And then he proceeded to kill anyone who disagreed. The rest is history.
* yes, Mohammed is an historical fiction invented later; I'm just recounting their own version of events.
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 06:20 PM (Av6i5)
Revelation has a similar cite but I like when I can pull stuff like that from the Old Testament.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at August 28, 2026 06:20 PM (eGzf1)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 06:19 PM (ExV1e)
Rove and that white board need to be dropped in the Strait of America
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 06:20 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: David Hogg at August 28, 2026 06:20 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 06:20 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 06:21 PM (ndZc7)
If Christians are the villains, and Talarico expresses his form of Christianity as the most perfect path, then doesn't that make HIM the villain of this story?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:14 PM (FZ29D)
I was questioning the logic of that as well.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 28, 2026 06:21 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 06:21 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 06:10 PM (EZWVc)
The Bushies don't consider it to be 'America' if they're not in the driver's seat.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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They be the controlled opposition--a lot of the bad shit that happened subsequent to Reagan came from twelve years of Bushes and their corporatist minions that infiltrated politics.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 06:21 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
I dunno...the official story seems reasonable enough. He was illiterate, as were most of his followers, so most people memorized the verses and prophecies he revealed. It wasn't a huge issue until they lost the Battle of Yamama, when many verses were lost due to the death of the only people that had memorized certain parts. That started the more systematic recording of the Quran, and the destruction of the unofficial written records.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 06:21 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:17 PM (ZOv7s)
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Already exists. Unitarian Universalist, I think, is the name.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at August 28, 2026 06:21 PM (eGzf1)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:17 PM (ZOv7s)
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Isn't there already a Church of Satan calling themselves "Satanists?"
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 06:21 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 06:22 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 06:18 PM (E4rtv)
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They're really pagans using Christian symbols.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:22 PM (ZOv7s)
Pictures of him and the little children. Drag Queen stuff?
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 06:22 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 06:22 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
I think the Indiana Jones approach to the swordsman would play best.
Talarico unleashes his word salads and Paxton, wipes his sweat on his head and just draws a revolver and shoots Talarico right there on the debate stage.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 06:23 PM (E4rtv)
However, he is not the Antichrist that will rule the world for a brief time.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 06:23 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 06:23 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mullah Miklos, Austere Bibulous Scholar at August 28, 2026 06:23 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 06:23 PM (Ia/+0)
(I'm finally getting my official recognition!)
...Erick Errickson.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
Erick Errickson!?!?!!?!?!?!?!
Posted by: Tucker Carlson, looking like a dejected, stunned Miss America runner up at August 28, 2026 06:23 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 06:16 PM (E4rtv)
I remember seeing YT videos from some dissident Islam historian that was recounting all sorts of revisionist ideas about the origins of Islam that I'm sure conventional Islam didn't like.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 06:23 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at August 28, 2026 06:23 PM (eGzf1)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
I think he was funning.
The UU church close to me has a fairly large congregation.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 06:24 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 06:24 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 06:23 PM (Rln0i)
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SMH!
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at August 28, 2026 06:24 PM (eGzf1)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 06:24 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 06:22 PM (S41Gd)
Got him!
Oh, wait. Never mind. It's 999.
Dang. So close!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 28, 2026 06:24 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Not sure I would give them that much credit unless you are talking P.A.G.A.N.S. like in the Dragnet movie.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 06:24 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 06:21 PM (9c4Eu)
They usually are LARPers, taking a bible and crossing out God and writing in the Devil in its place in crayon.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 06:25 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 06:25 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2026 06:09 PM (0sNs1
That would be a cool super power to have.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 06:25 PM (ZdaMQ)
Pictures of him and the little children. Drag Queen stuff?
Posted by: Stateless
Hispanics and bruthas love mixing kids and drag.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 06:25 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: Blake
And Islamic Cultural Center, I'll have you know!
Ask Mary!
Posted by: Concerned Woman of Brattleboro at August 28, 2026 06:25 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 06:23 PM (Rln0i)
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SMH!
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at August 28, 2026 06:24 PM (eGzf1)
SMH will rule the world for a brief time?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 06:25 PM (uhVAy)
It is technically a member of the PCUSA, but its website is l
LEFTISt USA. I agree with you. There are even people in the PCUSA who are much more conservative pastors and attenders . They just don’t have enough money to officially withdraw from the denomination as a church. I think it’s best to visit certain churches to get a feel for the pastor and their preaching without assuming they are all on board with the leftism of the National group
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 06:25 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 06:21 PM
The battle of Yomama continues to be fought to this day.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2026 06:25 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 06:26 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Oldcat
There is a reason that Islamist fanatics destroy history wherever they can reach it--it discounts the pseudo history of the Koran.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 06:26 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 06:23 PM (uhVAy)
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One of the accounts I've seen theorizes that Islam is what you get when you've only *heard* about Christianity, but never experienced it. You hear stories about miracles and blessings, curses and damnations on the unfaithful, but you don't have the means to find out for yourself what it's all about. So you cobble together these stories into a narrative that fits your own personal worldview and make yourself into the Hero/Prophet.
The original Marty Stu.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:26 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 06:21 PM (FKi1y)
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It has to be plausible for it to be accepted, but if you look at archeological evidence combined with surviving contemporaneous records, he is wholly absent. All the stuff they say about Jesus not being a real figure apply double to Mohammed.
Because he was created by a corrupt and decadent court, they had him do corrupt and decadent things, which legitimized their behavior. "Well, yeah, forcing your son to divorce his wife so you can marry her *sounds* bad, but Mohammed did it, so it's okay!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:26 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Earth: The Final Season at August 28, 2026 06:26 PM (qUkBO)
I do check in, but, I was not aware Piper was still morte. The things I'm late in finding out.....
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at August 28, 2026 06:27 PM (eGzf1)
Hispanics and bruthas love mixing kids and drag.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 06:25 PM (FKi1y)
Before all this crap started, Jerry Springer would have on trannies and call the dudes her.
The black guys were always great. To a man "That's a Dude!"
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 06:27 PM (Sco7b)
That's pretty cool.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 06:23 PM (viF8m)
Starfleet lives!!
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 06:27 PM (S41Gd)
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The Happy Good Time Free Love Chemically Enhanced Congregation.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 06:27 PM (ndZc7)
Talarico is exhibit A to this. He has no interest in Christian principles, and any that follow him are kidding themselves.
Posted by: Crusader at August 28, 2026 06:18 PM (TN0g+)
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"The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals" (199
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And five years before: "Defining Deviancy Down," a seminal 1993 essay by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY), published in The American Scholar.
Back when there were still a few sane America-loving Democrats ...
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 06:28 PM (9c4Eu)
https://tinyurl.com/yc5nxsy4
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 06:28 PM (XLsFA)
Posted by: J Towellyerego. at August 28, 2026 06:28 PM (94BfP)
That's pretty cool.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 06:23 PM (viF8m)
Starfleet lives!!
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 06:27 PM (S41Gd)
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The Vulcans are behind this...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:28 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: anachronda at August 28, 2026 06:29 PM (qdr3M)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
They blew two opportunities not to disappoint. They can't get mad when we rejected Jeb! That was too much of an insult.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 06:29 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 06:29 PM (D9FOj)
Exactly. I was born too late to be a pirate and too early to go to space.
I want a do over.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 06:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 06:27 PM (ndZc7)
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Sounds like the official religion of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:29 PM (FZ29D)
That is why it is easy to see it is false.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 06:29 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 06:24 PM (E4rtv)
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The pagan gods never went away. The fallen angels are still our there, and they're using the same temptations to snare unwary Christians, same as it aways was.
A lot of the "heresies" were seeing now are actually re-paganization, so infanticide for unwanted children, the "right" to suicide and of course limitless sexual license are all part of it.
Transgenderism hearkens back to Cybele, the Magna Mater, whose priests castrated themselves during orgiastic rites..
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:30 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 06:27 PM (S41Gd)
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The Wifey remarked that it should be called "Starfleet Academy" when I told her the news about the Space Academy this morning.
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 06:30 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 06:29 PM (viF8m)
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Buddhism awaits you.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 06:30 PM (XLsFA)
Exactly. I was born too late to be a pirate and too early to go to space.
I want a do over.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 06:29 PM (viF8m)
Man, no shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 06:30 PM (S41Gd)
That's pretty cool.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 06:23 PM (viF8m)
Starfleet lives!!
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 06:27 PM (S41Gd)
205
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Imperial Empire
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 28, 2026 06:31 PM (J1FkQ)
Hopefully you're still on this thread.
Inspector and I won't be able to attend the MoMee this year. First one we'll have missed since getting married. Very disappointed, but his health hasn't been good enough to make the trip possible.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 28, 2026 06:31 PM (lFFaq)
LOL. The PCA is much more conservative as well.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 06:31 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
The oil lamp of Yomama continues to burn to this day.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 06:32 PM (FKi1y)
I do check in, but, I was not aware Piper was still morte. The things I'm late in finding out.....
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
In fairness to you, the results aren’t much different.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 06:32 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 06:30 PM (9c4Eu)
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I dunno...
The television show was so bad I could imagine that NO ONE in the future wants to be associated with a "Starfleet Academy" ever again.
Thanks, Paramount! /sarc
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:33 PM (FZ29D)
Exactly. I was born too late to be a pirate and too early to go to space.
I want a do over.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 06:29 PM (viF8m)
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+1
As a youth growing up in the 60s and 70s, I thought for sure that I'd be out working in space by at least the year 2000 (age 39) ... which seemed SO FAR AWAY at the time ...
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 06:33 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 06:33 PM (PbWRL)
Detroit commercial tying Benson to El-Sayed.
-Nepal
-Clancy
-three stabbed at school
-Parent cited for tripping 9 yr old...someone has no restraint
- Dolly
Leading off
ABC - Nepal
CBS - That Milo Y guy detained by ICE
NBC - Nepal
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 06:33 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: JackStraw
Man, no shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
There are opportunities for both!
Posted by: The Horn of Africa....or maybe Mars at August 28, 2026 06:34 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 06:12 PM (D9FOj)
I halped.
Posted by: Simon of Cyrene at August 28, 2026 06:34 PM (xg/DD)
I want a do over.
Posted by: JackStraw[
Star
Pirate.
How fact can you race?
You'll never, never, never
Raid in space.
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 06:34 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 06:12 PM (D9FOj)
I freely admit to being a bad Christian, but to borrow from Patton, I'm much more interested in making the other sonofabitch take up his god's cross. Getting crucified isn't for me.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 28, 2026 06:34 PM (71pES)
The television show was so bad I could imagine that NO ONE in the future wants to be associated with a "Starfleet Academy" ever again.
Thanks, Paramount! /sarc
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:33 PM (FZ29D)
Well then fuck it. Call it stargate command. Trump gets to be System Lord
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 06:34 PM (S41Gd)
https://tinyurl.com/4bfhratt
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 06:34 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:35 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 06:34 PM (S41Gd)
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Much better!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:35 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 06:36 PM (99A9t)
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 06:33 PM (9c4Eu)
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Space: 1999 was the future!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:36 PM (ZOv7s)
https://tinyurl.com/4bfhratt
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 06:34 PM (3cUTc)
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Uh, that PDF is 983 pages long...
Robert Spencer can do the same job in a lot fewer pages...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:37 PM (FZ29D)
That's pretty cool.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 06:23 PM (viF8m)
Starfleet lives!!
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 06:27 PM (S41Gd)
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The Vulcans are behind this...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:28 PM (FZ29D)
Nah, it was Gary Seven.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 06:37 PM (D9FOj)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 06:36 PM (99A9t)
Lovecraft may have been a weirdo, but he's our weirdo.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 28, 2026 06:37 PM (71pES)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 06:34 PM (S41Gd)
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Much better!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I want Trump to wear a black cloak to the next State of The Union, with the hood up, covering his eyes...
"I love Democracy..."
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 06:37 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 06:36 PM (99A9t)
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Lovecraft was American, and pen pals with R.E. Howard.
And you should include C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton as well.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:38 PM (ZOv7s)
I also wrote a paper in that course about how Greek class structure was boiled down to whether or not you got fucked in the ass.
Posted by: the dandy at August 28, 2026 06:38 PM (8l8nW)
na, na, na. None of this horn of Africa stuff. This place was ground zero for pirates back in the day.
A cruise the Caribbean, and then back to cooler temps to count the booty. I can already Yo Ho.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 06:38 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 06:36 PM (99A9t)
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Weren't they all big fans of socialism?
(HP Lovecraft was American, BTW...though he did have a massive hardon for the Brits.)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:38 PM (FZ29D)
Well then fuck it. Call it stargate command. Trump gets to be System Lord
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 06:34 PM (S41Gd)
__________
Then the Trump-class starships:
USS Donald Trump
USS Joseph McCarthy
USS John Wayne
USS Patrick McCarran
USS Whittaker Chambers
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 06:38 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: it puts the lotion
Don't ask him for advice on pet names.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 06:39 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 06:33 PM (Sco7b)
Really?! Lol.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 28, 2026 06:39 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 06:40 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: the dandy at August 28, 2026 06:38 PM (8l8nW)
Go on...
Posted by: Pete B at August 28, 2026 06:40 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 06:41 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 06:33 PM (9c4Eu)
I thought I would at least have my own Deathstar.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 06:41 PM (S41Gd)
"I am now Saruman of Many Colors"
"No, you are Saruman the Broken!"*
*This appears to be the Mandala effect in full play - I remember someone calling him "Saruman the Broken", but the internet claims that to be false... Perfessor, if you see this, can you check? I don't have my copies handy.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 06:41 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 06:41 PM (XLsFA)
USS Donald Trump
USS Joseph McCarthy
USS John Wayne
USS Patrick McCarran
USS Whittaker Chambers
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 06:38 PM (O0L8i)
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The USS Elon Musk
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 06:41 PM (9c4Eu)
It is not the Bad Bunny Book.
Posted by: torabora at August 28, 2026 06:41 PM (Wt1Rs)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 28, 2026 06:42 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 06:41 PM (S41Gd)
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lol
It would HAVE TO BE called ... The Megadeth Star.
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 06:43 PM (9c4Eu)
We are the squid capital of America. Where do you think Cthulhu came from?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 06:43 PM (viF8m)
We are the squid capital of America. Where do you think Cthulhu came from?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 06:43 PM (viF8m)
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Trump has renamed a Gulf and a Lake ... how about an Island next?
/Wifey says: "It's not even an island, is it?"
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 06:45 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 06:41 PM (aJQbY)
I think all Gandalf says is that when it is many colors, it is no longer White. And since White is the leadership color of the Order of Wizards, that's a bad thing.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 06:46 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 06:45 PM (9c4Eu)
The full name is something like "Commonwealth of Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations" so the non Island parts are the Plantation.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 06:47 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 06:47 PM (9c4Eu)
We are the squid capital of America. Where do you think Cthulhu came from?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 06:43 PM (viF8m)
The South Pacific in a drowned Island raised to sea level when they stars are right.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 06:48 PM (uhVAy)
Mother Tereasa fed and clothed the people in India.
When people wanted to help her she said find you India.
My mother made prayer blankets at a little Methodist church beside I49 south of Shreveport.
She made about 500 before she had to quit making them in 2020 or so.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 06:51 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:38 PM (FZ29D)
Not so sure he was that big a fan - one of the stories I remember set in England was a dude who went back to the family homestead and found his ancestors had been practicing unspeakable rites and it drives him to go insane and eat his travelling companion.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 06:52 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 06:52 PM (SK+av)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 06:54 PM (Ia/+0)
And you should include C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton as well.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 06:38 PM (ZOv7s)
Also friends with Robert Bloch, they wrote stories inserting each other and having them die from the astral horrors.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 06:54 PM (uhVAy)
Where are your papers, traveler?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
Wildly gay, Catholic when he became famous. Molested as a teen, which I think he attributes to becoming gay? Married a black man...then divorced him and threw the ring into the ocean and did conversion therapy to be straight and Christian.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 06:55 PM (FKi1y)
signed an executive order creating the U.S. Space Academy, an institution of higher learning that will train students for a career studying, exploring, exploiting or helping to protect the final frontier.
Here in Houston duh!
Maybe up towards Huntsville.
Or East towards San Antonio.
Or Amarillo.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 06:56 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 06:56 PM (/+uur)
I dont like my 1 sometimes.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 07:01 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:38 PM (FZ29D)
Not so sure he was that big a fan - one of the stories I remember set in England was a dude who went back to the family homestead and found his ancestors had been practicing unspeakable rites and it drives him to go insane and eat his travelling companion.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 06:52 PM (uhVAy)
Other than the British setting, how does this vary from any other Lovecraft story?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 07:44 PM (D9FOj)
Posted by: Augusto Perez at August 28, 2026 09:04 PM (MWNY7)
Posted by: TXMarko at August 29, 2026 04:02 PM (7flhA)
Blue Shithole Cities Have Rampant Crime in Their Public Transit Systems.
They Could Slash Crime By Simply Stopping Fare-Evaders
Plus: Spanish Citizens Set Fire to the Shanty Town Put Up by Moroccan Invaders
Really? The very people whose first encounter with public transit systems is to commit a crime by jumping the turnstile turn out to also commit a huge amount of crime once they're in the system?
Who could have guessed this? City Journal argues that instead of wasting money on programs already shown to be ineffective, Congress should just fund full-height fare gates that cannot be jumped as turnstiles can be.I know we don't like Congress funding state or city systems, but apparently they're determined to throw taxpayer money at the problem. Might as well do something that can actually fix things. Except... would it? These shithole cities refuse to stop fare evaders. Congress can pay for new fare gates, but it can't actually force shithole cities to enforce the payment of fares. If you've ever been in a subway, you know there is a floor-to-ceiling gate at every entrance that are opened for people with wheelchairs or baby-strollers, who cannot go through the turnstiles. And you also know that criminals rush through these gates when they're opened and hold them open for their hoodlum friends.
Last November, 72-time arrestee Lawrence Reed poured gasoline on a CTA Blue Line passenger in Chicago and set her on fire. The incident was so egregious that the Federal Transit Administration got involved, threatening to withhold $50 million in federal funds unless the CTA enhanced systemwide security. The CTA implemented its plan in March, but the benefits have been hard to detect so far. Congress is poised to repeat the FTA's ineffective intervention. The Surface Transportation Reauthorization--the government's five-year approval of road and rail funding--features several similar attempts to improve public safety. Fortunately, America's major transit systems have a better option to reduce crime and disorder: installing full-height fare gates, which keep criminals out of transit systems. Congress should require and fully fund the installation of new full-height fare gates for all systems that don't yet have them. Transit officials report that serious crimes are committed overwhelmingly by people who evade fares. In the Los Angeles Metro system, 97 percent of people who committed a violent crime didn't pay. In Washington, D.C., 99.5 percent of those who committed a "Part 1" crime (homicide, rape, robbery, arson, or motor vehicle theft) had dodged the fare. In New York, MTA CEO Janno Lieber says that "virtually all" crimes are committed by fare evaders. ... Other systems report similar findings. Washington, D.C.'s WMATA found that, following its own modernized fare-gate installation, fare evasion fell by 82 percent and crime by nearly 40 percent. L.A. Metro reports that a pilot program for modernized fare gates reduced passenger reports of security concerns, uncleanliness, and vandalism and graffiti by 69 percent at affected stations.
Manhattan Institute
@ManhattanInst The numbers here are insane: In the L.A. Metro system, 97% of people who committed a violent crime evaded the fare. In D.C., 99.5% of those who committed a “Part 1” crime (homicide, rape, robbery, arson, or motor vehicle theft) had dodged the fare. In New York, MTA CEO Janno Lieber says that “virtually all” crimes are committed by fare evaders.
Speaking of broken windows: The left-wing media and socialist Spanish president Dirty Sanchez say that "almost all of the migrants in Ceuta" have returned home. As usual, they're lying. Citizens say their socialist government is not dealing with the problem, just claiming it's resolved, and have resorted to every citizens' option of last resort, self-help.
Georg Pazderski
@Georg_Pazderski The Ceuta public spirit is boiling over! Thousands of Spanish citizens are revolting in CEUTA and demanding the expulsion of the migrants, which the Spanish government did not want or rather prevented. They are now taking the law into their own hands and setting fire to the migrants' slum huts and driving them away from the beach.
Chaos in Ceuta. Spanish patriots with clubs attack North African Muslim invaders, razing illegal camps on Ceuta's beach. These brave patriots cannot be blamed, considering that a month has passed since invasion began and no one has done anything. pic.twitter.com/QCJx0k76qE
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) August 28, 2026
The Spanish patriots in Ceuta are not joking anymore. See with your own eyes. https://t.co/sn1HvD2edI pic.twitter.com/O1IOHeJd9S
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) August 28, 2026
🚨BREAKING: Ceuta locals are now tracking down and BLOCKING vehicles belonging to the Red Cross NGO, in order to halt their operations across the enclave
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) August 27, 2026
This is unprecedented. They are warning the Red Cross to leave immediately.
An uprising has begun in Ceuta. 🇪🇸 pic.twitter.com/vVw6dIm1Rk
The people of Ceuta have had enough.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 27, 2026
When the locals saw that journalists from the liberal TV channel La Sexta had arrived to slander their protest against illegal migration, the locals quickly walked up to them and told them to get lost.
The people of Ceuta feel betrayed 🇪🇸 pic.twitter.com/rA5OYhIf3Z
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: GF at August 28, 2026 04:41 PM (e5z5/)
Why would the be any different.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:44 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 04:45 PM (MWfyi)
As usual, they're lying.
If you like your country, you can keep your country.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:45 PM (Riz8t)
I've seen videos of where they have these and the same sorts of people that jump the turnstiles just push through a person that paid to get in which normally leads to minor injuries for the person that paid which is a perfect metaphor for leftwing politics really.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:45 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Zombies James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling at August 28, 2026 04:45 PM (olMIp)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:46 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 04:46 PM (iCp4l)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:47 PM (uhVAy)
Mosques, Wudu Lessons And $90 Million From Saudi Arabia: Inside The New Boy Scouts
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 04:47 PM (xEumJ)
In Spain, it is against the law to toss someone out of a medical care facility. It is a long drawn out process to get someone to leave regardless of how outlandish or false their complaints happen to be. So, the first illegals to arrive at Ceuta ran right to the local hospital and claimed illness....which provided them with a domicile, three meals, television etc.
When they finally do get tossed, they just make a different illness complaint, or someone else pops in to take their place. Locals can't even use their own medical facilities regardless of the emergency. So, obviously, the locals have had enough. They can't burn down their local hospital, but Shanty towns are on the menu, boys.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:47 PM (dIske)
Bludgeoning muslims
threatening the Red Cross
threatening the media
Good Job, Cueta. It's a start.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 04:47 PM (wOO3z)
FIFY
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)
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I believe its a matter of record that police and judges need periodic reminders of exactly who they might answer to if they stray to far from providing justice.
Posted by: Crusader at August 28, 2026 04:48 PM (TN0g+)
Just let him go. He's paid his debt to society.
Posted by: A judge at August 28, 2026 04:48 PM (MWfyi)
This is what needs to happen in blue city $hitholes but it won't because they are spinless lefties.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 28, 2026 04:48 PM (cpFbA)
I've seen videos of where they have these and the same sorts of people that jump the turnstiles just push through a person that paid to get in which normally leads to minor injuries for the person that paid which is a perfect metaphor for leftwing politics really.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:45 PM (sKqQm)
You can fix it by arresting and jailing fare jumpers. That's all that will fix it. Start prosecuting cities that will not enforce laws.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:48 PM (uhVAy)
I've been in several conversations where a leftist argues specifically: "We need more public transit, however we get people into it, so I don't have as much traffic when I drive to work"
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)
And remember they want to force everyone on to their glorious public transit.
Who knew high speed rail refers to the speed with which a vagrant pushes you onto the tracks.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (hzuYO)
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I believe its a matter of record that police and judges need periodic reminders of exactly who they might answer to if they stray to far from providing justice.
Posted by: Crusader at August 28, 2026 04:48 PM (TN0g+)
The smart thing would be to go to the other invader camps and escort them to the border for their safety.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (uhVAy)
At least not for expensive stuff like full-height cages.
If we're going to do anything in these enemy shitholes, it should be something cheap like this: send normies in bear-proof suits to monitor turnstiles. When a particularly ravenous looking urban mutant jumps one, the normie will give him a nice big glass pipe full of bath salts and a butane torch, and let nature take her course.
With any luck, the salted up cannibal will gnaw the face off a writer for City Journal.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 28, 2026 04:50 PM (olMIp)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (uhVAy)
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That's an odd way to phrase, "Deal with them like standing armies have dealt with invasions for millenia and kill them until there are no more and they don't come back."
But maybe it's a Hippie-era phrasing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:50 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 04:51 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 28, 2026 04:50 PM (olMIp)
Not if Spain can import 500000 thugs...or cheat. Both of which are the rule for the EU.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:51 PM (uhVAy)
We should insist that they each take one "journalist" with them.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:51 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 04:52 PM (xEumJ)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)
Wait until you find out by "public transit" and "however they get people onto it", they mean cattle cars.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:52 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 28, 2026 04:50 PM (olMIp)
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It would be hilarious (terrible, but hilarious), if the People's Party refused to coalition with the Vox party and just kept the borders open.
Because it would just be another instance of that happening in Europe like in France and Germany.
You know...the kind of joke that you've heard so many times that it lost all meaning but then you hear it one more time and it regains the hilarity?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:52 PM (/PKja)
But maybe it's a Hippie-era phrasing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:50 PM (/PKja)
Its the cover story to cover their asses from their bosses.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:52 PM (uhVAy)
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They should have piled the stuff in a heap and made a bonfire.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 04:52 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: the dandy at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (mACwA)
Not only does it stop the immediate problem it makes sure you won't have a problem in the future either
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (sKqQm)
FIFY
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)
And you!
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (vE0+H)
We should insist that they each take one "journalist" with them.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:51 PM (Riz8t)
and ten "UN organizers"
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (Riz8t)
Why would anyone deny another human medical attention? They can still deport them when the Red Cross is done?
I will never understand why people immediately lose their humanity and turn into howling violent maniacs just because someone crossed an imaginary line in the dirt.
Surprise: racist colonizers are acting like racist colonizers. They benefit from the unjustly lower wages paid to exploited migrant workers while trying to impede said migrants' access to basic necessities. Sounds in-character for people with politics like this. I hope their relatives and neighbors call them out for this abhorrence.
They are literally living in Africa and complaining about Africans.
As much as I hate the autocrat tactic of throwing poor at the neighbors, humans should get treated as humans, regardless.
For those unaware the red cross has been taking part in human trafficking and aiding illegal immigration for years now but gov leaders of europe are turning a blind eye because it work in favor of their globalist agenda.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (FKi1y)
These blue cities continue to experience this because the populations of blue cities prefer it. Or, even in the case of the "trapped conservative in a blue city" like some here ... their priorities are restaurants and entertainment and convenience and a million other things above "not getting shanked on the subway".
This is a reality that hammer-headed conservatives refuse to understand. The mind-bending reality is what the vast majority of those in the blue cities prefer.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 04:55 PM (nSCZv)
I will never understand why people immediately lose their humanity and turn into howling violent maniacs just because someone crossed an imaginary line in the dirt.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (FKi1y)
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"Borders mean nothing. Which is why all of the world is exactly the same."
-smart person
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:55 PM (/PKja)
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Red Cross is State Dept affiliated.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 04:55 PM (hPgrk)
That is the only thing that will get their attention -- start treating them the way they treat Christians.
Posted by: The River Bottom at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (ImuKY)
Now do Israel Mr Lefty...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (sKqQm)
You cannot be this stupid. It's just metaphysically impossible. The North Africans are crashing the border, while the Spaniards are trying to kick them out, and it's the Spaniards who are exploiting the North Africans?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (Riz8t)
The citizens themselves will have to burn the invaders out.
BTW, the Spanish police are using rubber bullets on the Spaniards who are trying to get rid of the invaders.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (0U5gm)
Why should Congress fund these things? Why should people who don't live in BSHC (blue shithole cities) have to pony up still more money to deal with an issue that the residents of the BSHC apparently don't care about?
Why don't people who don't live near me pay for me and all my neighbors to have supercars, in-ground pools, and door to door supermodel prostitutes?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (ExV1e)
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Red Cross is State Dept affiliated.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 04:55 PM (hPgrk)
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Even if Red Cross are doing things completely on the up and up and just providing aid...
It is still the people's right to deny aid to invaders of their own country. These invaders walked to Ceuta. They can walk back to Morocco.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (FKi1y)
How did that heretic get into the bubble?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (Riz8t)
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Hispanics invaded Ceuta on the African side of Gibraltar 600 years ago, have held it singularly ever since, and the Arabs who invaded and colonized Spain hundreds of years earlier are just decolonizing Spain's territory to give it back to the original colonizers the Arabs.
Racist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:57 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 04:57 PM (ImuKY)
FIFY
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (XuXeR)
Congress and the regulatory agencies in charge of these things need to take a similar approach. We don't have to live like this, nor do we have to die like this. Quit fucking around. An astonishingly small percentage of individuals cause the largest majority of problems in any community large or small. Everyone knows them by name.
If you get arrested 72 times, it isn't like this should come as a surprise. Do you want "Death Squads" and Citizens Vigilance Committees? This is how you get them. They work a lot cheaper, too.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (99A9t)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (0U5gm)
I see this come up on lefty forums. If someone is a victim of crime and they complain too much they are called racist and kicked out of the forum.
I assume the same plays out in lefty friend groups.
So it isn't really "I prefer restaurants to being safe" it is more "my whole identity and friend group says there is no problem with crime in progressive cities so obviously there can't be. I just got unlucky. "
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (sKqQm)
What they don’t tell you is a) rich people don’t ride the bus or train, they drive and b) the reason only the rich drive is because car ownership is so expensive only the rich can afford to own one
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (iCp4l)
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 04:55 PM (nSCZv)
Elections in cities are a sham. There is literally nobody in a big city like that to vote for, and they would cheat it away if one did appear.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (uhVAy)
This was more or less the lefty view of illegal immigration into the early 00s. You can find clips of Bernie Sanders making this argument
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (sKqQm)
Do the cops imagine that they themselves are fireproof? Hopefully they won't have to find out.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Case at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (VrYHL)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (sKqQm)
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And Jeremy Corbyn.
And Barack Obama.
And Bill Clinton.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (XuXeR)
And then install a bunch of Flock cameras and sell access on pay per view.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (Mzuzg)
Now do Israel Mr Lefty...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (sKqQm)
And January 6
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 05:00 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 05:00 PM (NcvvS)
I got to talk with a Euro cow-worker of mine and he mentioned he had a new EV car.
I got into why he choose it and the answer was that the only car he could afford was the government discounted EV and yes this is a guy that works at a big mega-corp so its not like he's poor by Euro standards.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 05:00 PM (sKqQm)
You want to see traffic, be on the road in Brussels on a Friday afternoon.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 05:01 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (FKi1y)
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lol how quickly was this person banned from that subreddit?
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 05:01 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (uhVAy)
Then don't stay. If its really like that ? Move. Vote with your feet.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:01 PM (nSCZv)
I'd settle for...a bit less. I'm a giver that way.
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 05:01 PM (XuXeR)
Hobos are spreading out from downtown Seattle as a result.
Kinda hilarious. Of course, I carry and Monroe has lousy transit service, so not an issue for me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 05:00 PM (sKqQm)
Bad choice given the EU power crisis presently and in future. Of course, they also have an oil and gas and natural gas crisis coming first.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (uhVAy)
Why does Congress have to fund it?
If you're city is large enough to have a subway/mass transit, shouldn't it have enough fund to cover the cost of fare gates, too?
Ya know, just to help pay for said mass transit by preventing fare jumpers?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (6ydKt)
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Wonder if this cretin ever locks his car doors. Somebody needs to help themselves to all his shit in his apartment.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (99A9t)
This is unprecedented. They are warning the Red Cross to leave immediately.
An uprising has begun in Ceuta.
¡Viva Ceuta!
Posted by: Meanwhile Redditors are losing their shit at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (TbWk/)
We need to treat them the way the treat us.
The golden rule is inverted and used as a weapon against is.
It is not "treat others as you want them to treat you,"
But "treat others as they have already treated you!"
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (ImuKY)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (sKqQm)
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It's more "The price of being able to go out and have a good time affordably is the occasional violent crime. Urban living is vibrant and culturally enriching."
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (oqH4h)
The Spanish left is pearl clutching so hard they are... well i would have said caving their chest in but they have no chests.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (uhVAy)
Then don't stay. If its really like that ? Move. Vote with your feet.
Or...we could, you know, enforce the law.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes
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The real reason for his visit to Russia concerned Russia aiding Iran and our desire for them to desist. In turn Russia mentioned its desire for us to cease selling weapons (third party) to Zelensky.
The Russian counter part said that the conversations were progressing positively.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:03 PM (hPgrk)
There are plenty of privileged white people in those cities with more teeth than they need, and I'm sure they'd be happy to share, but give the crazed hobos pliers anyway, just in case they haven't been completely honest about their altruistic nature.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 05:03 PM (BI5O2)
Uh huh. Now do colonialism.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 05:03 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (uhVAy)
Then don't stay. If its really like that ? Move. Vote with your feet.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:01 PM (nSCZv)
i did. But people stupidly keep thinking that the victims are the enemy so they can keep doing nothing.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:03 PM (uhVAy)
I'd settle for...a bit less. I'm a giver that way.
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 05:01 PM (XuXeR)
Who cares about the wheels and pool...
Posted by: One out of three is fine with me at August 28, 2026 05:03 PM (TbWk/)
Funny. The various advocates will shout "we don't have a mandate" or "we don't ban gas cars"... but make it nearly impossible to buy certain things....
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 05:04 PM (XuXeR)
Nevermind.
I read further.
The debt is only approaching $40 trillion, what's a few hundred billion more in the grand scheme of things.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:04 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 28, 2026 05:04 PM (NtVYv)
The pool is for the supermodels to pose and lounge next to
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 05:05 PM (K32Fz)
It's gotten nothing but worse.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:06 PM (hPgrk)
Average Pierre or Heinrich or Luigi can’t afford that shit.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 05:06 PM (iCp4l)
Bus drivers in NYC have been told not to confront anyone who is not paying the bus fare because they could be attacked.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 05:06 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (Riz8t)
Then go do it. Make government enforce the law in Baltimore. NYC. Chicago. LA. Boston. And on and on and on and on and on.
And while those with all this academic virtue like you talk ? Anybody that stays gets what they get. Especially while they are, at best, a 40% minority. More like 20% in most of those places.
But go do it, big man. Wade in there and "make them enforce the law" over 60% or more of the local population that doesn't want the law enforced at all.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:06 PM (nSCZv)
If this keeps up the locals there might start giving some European cities some ideas.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:06 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 05:07 PM (PbWRL)
I'd settle for...a bit less. I'm a giver that way.
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 05:01 PM (XuXeR)
Who cares about the wheels and pool...
Posted by: One out of three is fine with me at August 28, 2026 05:03 PM (TbWk/)
You've obviously never read The Art of the Deal. You don't ask for what you want, you ask for more so they can negotiate down.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 05:07 PM (ExV1e)
The debt is only approaching $40 trillion, what's a few hundred billion more in the grand scheme of things.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Fuck them. NY made the problem NY can fix the problem.
Shoot a couple of jumpers and that sh*t will stop.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:07 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (iCp4l)
And while those with all this academic virtue like you talk ? Anybody that stays gets what they get. Especially while they are, at best, a 40% minority. More like 20% in most of those places.
But go do it, big man. Wade in there and "make them enforce the law" over 60% or more of the local population that doesn't want the law enforced at all.
Take a breath.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (uhVAy)
They are trying but the cops keep shooting them with rubber bullets
Then go do it. Make government enforce the law in Baltimore. NYC. Chicago. LA. Boston. And on and on and on and on and on.
That is what Trump did and flipped areas amazingly. But it is a problem that the governments there refuse to.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (K32Fz)
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The issue isn't the issue, the issue is the Revolution. The worse, the better. Can't complain, even when the rot hits you personally. Gotta take one for the team, so to speak.
David Horowitz describe this phenomenon at length in his book "Radical Son"; all the whack job Karens and Time-Life hippie revolutionaries tried to adopt the Black Panthers, who weren't quite into the peace, love, and dope as their more enlightened bretheren. Rape and Murder were part of the equation, and anyone who sort of pointed out, hey, this isn't very Groovy, was ostracized heavily.
Some assclown in the Army, right after a Moslem shot up Fort Hood soldiers said he hoped this wouldn't interfere with the "commitment to diversity" or something. That's the real tragedy, you see. Spineless fucks everywhere you look, and our enemies know it.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (99A9t)
I will never understand why people immediately lose their humanity and turn into howling violent maniacs just because someone crossed an imaginary line in the dirt.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison
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"Borders mean nothing. Which is why all of the world is exactly the same."
-smart person
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Those are the kind of asshoes that will walk up the the adjacent urinal next to you to piss when there ten other empty ones. Filthy dirty commie hippy asshoes (BIRM)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:03 PM (uhVAy)
Wrong. The victims aren't my "enemy". They're just not my problem.
Like the wife that gets her ass kicked every Saturday Night the old man comes home full of liquor. Leave, dumb ass.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (nSCZv)
You asked for miracles, Theo, I give you the
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 05:09 PM (FKi1y)
That seems, increasingly, to be a universal opinion.
Except in parts of California and Canada.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:09 PM (6ydKt)
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Since Spain's current leadership has reportedly colluded with Morocco (unconfirmed, but totally believable), they will need new leadership. Unfortunately, 100s of thousands of migrants in Spain have been given the right to vote, and Spain is full of retarded leftists.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 28, 2026 05:09 PM (Dv3i1)
We have a murder rate of 4 per 100000 people
Mississippi has a murder rate of about 19 per 100000 people
Almost 5 times higher
Ultra marine blue Massachusetts had a murder rate of 2 per 100000.
Blue states have much lower serious crime rates
Even NJ (Aces home state?) with the 2nd highest foreign born population has a murder rate of only 2.4 per 100000.
Much much lower than red state hell holes
Posted by: Paul at August 28, 2026 05:10 PM (mfiPk)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 05:10 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (Riz8t)
This is the kind of comment people like you drop when you have no realistic rebuttal.
You have an idealized view of how the world should work. It conveniently ignores how the world works.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:10 PM (nSCZv)
Bus drivers in NYC have been told not to confront anyone who is not paying the bus fare because they could be attacked.
Posted by: four seasons
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Again, NY makes the problem and nurtures it.
Shoot the one's that jump fare and it will stop.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:10 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 05:10 PM (iCp4l)
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Build more prisons. Hire more prison guards. Elect judges and DAs that will prosecute the criminals and send the guilty ones to the joint to serve their full sentences.
Posted by: mrp at August 28, 2026 05:11 PM (rj6Yv)
--- Officially--you must understand!!
He said the taxpayers will get their money back after we officially blow up the ballroom.
Something tells me they didn't cover Return on Investment in his law classes.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:11 PM (Fi81e)
Go fuck yourself. And don't leave NYC for the benefit of everyone. And Go fuck yourself again.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 05:11 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:12 PM (uhVAy)
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Sonny Barger, the Hell's Angel's president may not be one to emulate in too many things. But he coined a phrase I like a lot.
"Treat me good, I'll treat you better. Treat me bad, I'll treat you worse."
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 05:12 PM (99A9t)
--- Officially--you must understand!!
He said the taxpayers will get their money back after we officially blow up the ballroom.
Something tells me they didn't cover Return on Investment in his law classes.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:11 PM (Fi81e)
That sounds like an incitement to violence to me.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:12 PM (uhVAy)
They'll just jam them open.
As with Ceuta, if they didn't want criminals, they wouldn't let them walk in. Their system requires criminals.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (AydIQ)
No he’s not. He knows this. But like all leftists he’s a lying piece of shit.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (iCp4l)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:12 PM (uhVAy)
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Crime goes WAYYY down, when you stop counting it.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:46 PM (Riz8t)
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They're caught between a rock and a hard place.
If the local cops expel the invaders, then they will be targeted not only by the invaders but by their own government.
If they attempt to quell the uprising by citizens, well, the citizens can quickly find them and their families and exact vengeance.
And if they stand by and do nothing, chaos reigns supreme.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (FZ29D)
Paul's insisting its much, much safer for him and his to stay in those blue areas. I could not agree more. Paul and those like him should stay in those blue areas.
Its OK to take YES for an answer.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (nSCZv)
Posted by: connected and litigious at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (cS1cw)
Much much lower than red state hell holes
Posted by: Paul
Interesting. Dig a bit more, and you may find an actual demographic link.
Why do you hate black people?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (FKi1y)
"Treat me good, I'll treat you better. Treat me bad, I'll treat you worse."
Yeah, I think I won this one.
Posted by: The Grim Reaper at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (Riz8t)
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I thought it was private donations for the ballroom, and taxpayer funds for security.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (Dv3i1)
Shoot the one's that jump fare and it will stop.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:10 PM (hPgrk)
Or set dogs on them. Everyone likes dogs.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:14 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Howdy
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Wrong answer.
Correct answer: Shoot him and keep the house.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:14 PM (hPgrk)
Fight back or be conquered.
They have to protect themselves. Crime like violent r@pes are already happening.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:14 PM (4KUe5)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:14 PM (Fi81e)
- NYPD crime statisticians
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 05:14 PM (iCp4l)
The January 2023 memo labeled traditional Catholics as extremists using Southern Poverty Law Center framing, and staff kept revising it after headquarters ordered it deleted.
The report reveals how an investigation into a violent extremist led to the surveillance of clergy affiliated with traditional Catholicism, though the FBI ultimately concluded the priests posed no national security threat. The report also sheds new light on internal disputes on the reliability of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 05:15 PM (xEumJ)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 28, 2026 05:15 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:15 PM (4KUe5)
He is very butch. I'm convinced of his manliness.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 05:15 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Oldcat
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There's always room for creative defense.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:15 PM (hPgrk)
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New York has to decide if some people "needed killin'".
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:16 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:16 PM (4KUe5)
If they let the
They've got to stop it now or it'll become as routine as the beaches in France where the migrants have camps who are trying to cross the channel to the UK.
The Red Cross makes these camps permanent when they move in. You have to nip that in the bud.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:17 PM (6ydKt)
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A good argument could be made that non-enforcement is a violation of the obligation to provide a republican form of government.
Of course, we saw what happened when Orange-Man-Bad tired to send the Guard to Blue Shit Holes.
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 28, 2026 05:17 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:14 PM (4KUe5)
I wasn't that long ago we had the "Vigilantism is never the answer" chorus here at Ace O' Spades.
Was a banning comment under ol' Maet.
The times. They change.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:17 PM (nSCZv)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 05:15 PM (xEumJ)
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Did the SPLC have a position on Trad Catholics?
Posted by: mrp at August 28, 2026 05:17 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 05:15 PM (xEumJ)
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I remember a transcribed snippet of conversation between John Pederasta and Hillary Clinton about how they were going to update the Catholic Church.
Wonder if this has anything to do with it.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:18 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: mrp at August 28, 2026 05:17 PM (rj6Yv)
Since they are anti abortion, I'm sure they did and a negative one.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:18 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 28, 2026 05:19 PM (Dv3i1)
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IIRC, at one time the Christians went on quite a tear.
We need to consider that. As an alternative to passive pissing and moaning.
About a lot of things.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 05:19 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 05:19 PM (xcxpd)
The Spanish left is pearl clutching so hard they are... well i would have said caving their chest in but they have no chests.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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I would say clutching their balls but those fell away for disuse decades ago.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:20 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 05:15 PM (Riz8t)
And you still don't have a retort Arch. Look, I get it. You are not atypical. Very much not.
Things are moving, quickly, past how you've viewed the world all your life. I get it. And so this is all you've got left in the rhetorical tool-kit. A basic "decent people don't talk about this".
That's really all there is to it. And again, you are far from alone.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:20 PM (nSCZv)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:16 PM (4KUe5)
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Not as far as I know.
But the real poser is how anybody is going to get money back from a demolition.
A demolition cuts costs, it ruins any return.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:20 PM (Fi81e)
We need to consider that. As an alternative to passive pissing and moaning.
About a lot of things.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
This is true.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 05:20 PM (wOO3z)
Wonder if this has anything to do with it.
Posted by: Axeman
Ha! nope.
Posted by: Chicago Pope Leo at August 28, 2026 05:20 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 28, 2026 05:21 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Time for all transnational ngos to be disbanded by patriots in Europe and the US. Their time and utility has passed.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:21 PM (E4rtv)
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It is spelled "milquetoast."
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (ImuKY)
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I could care fewer.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:21 PM (Fi81e)
What’s shocking and shameful is that the government of Spain is doing nothing to protect its own people.
Strange times indeed!!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:21 PM (4KUe5)
Our own border control should never have their asses handed to them by foreign nationals and cartels.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 05:22 PM (SK+av)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
I saw some clip of some insane Spanish leftist (BIRM) screaming on stage that she welcomes the "cultural enrichment" as to "breed out the 'fascists'".
In a sane world, she'd be denaturalized and sent over to a more "diverse" country to enjoy the blessings of it.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 05:22 PM (hbfWH)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:22 PM (Fi81e)
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They need a well regulated militia in Cueta
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 28, 2026 05:22 PM (Dv3i1)
They'll just jam them open.
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Criminal is a profession, that's what they do, Commit Crime.
The way to prevent Crime is to stop the criminal. That can be done with a bullet, a noose, or a stiff jail sentence.
As long as a criminal does not receive justice he will advance his profession.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:23 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: I'm such a nerd at August 28, 2026 05:23 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Time for all transnational ngos to be disbanded by patriots in Europe and the US. Their time and utility has passed.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:21 PM (E4rtv)
I'm sure Mossad has fully penetrated them by now.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:23 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Time for all transnational ngos to be disbanded by patriots in Europe and the US. Their time and utility has passed.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:21 PM (E4rtv)
I'm sure Mossad has fully penetrated them by now.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:23 PM (uhVAy)
Kink-y
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 05:24 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
A most cromulent point, as a certain gone poster used to say.
A time when being Christian wasn't necessarily being Pacifist.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:24 PM (nSCZv)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:24 PM (4KUe5)
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No justice, no peace! Right on!
-Blue cities
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 28, 2026 05:24 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 05:25 PM (hBtiT)
Go anywhere where's there's little or only corrupt law and you'll find vigilante mobs taking care of business once they've had enough.
It will get like this here if we keep going down the idiotic route of Defund the Police & Soros DAs.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt)
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They are trying but the cops keep shooting them with rubber bullets
I get that the current Spanish gov't is leftist and they just pretty much hate reality but I honestly don't understand what they think "win" would look like in this situation.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 05:25 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Time for all transnational ngos to be disbanded by patriots in Europe and the US. Their time and utility has passed.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:21 PM (E4rtv)
I'm sure Mossad has fully penetrated them by now.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:23 PM (uhVAy)
Hopefully without lube.
Posted by: Maybe a little sand for good measure at August 28, 2026 05:25 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:16 PM (4KUe5)
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Not as far as I know.
But the real poser is how anybody is going to get money back from a demolition.
A demolition cuts costs, it ruins any return.
Posted by: Axeman
The left just lies and gaslights because they dare not explain their real agenda. So they purposefully seize on isolated persons, events, or policies to go apeshit. It is a rally round the flag type event for them and has little to nothing to do with the real world. After they finish yapping, the thought leaders move on to the next outrage du jour. All ops, all tedious repeats of douchebaggery by vile people that want to see the world burn.
These people have no good in them anymore, only rage, despair, debauchery, and nihilism.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:25 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:24 PM (4KUe5)
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So, I wonder if the FIB pressure on the American RCC has something to do with that plan.
And you mean John Pederasta, right?
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:26 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Oldcat
Welp unfortunately they haven't given them the same treatment as Ham Ass leaders.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:26 PM (E4rtv)
Some people either have a hard time participating in a forum that has a certain set of rules or they just enjoy being a dick, getting banned and then pretending they are a victim.
Really not hard to understand.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 05:28 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Maybe
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A reloading tip, don't lube the bullets, lube the case neck when resizing, then remove before loading the bullet.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:28 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 05:25 PM (vTZFs)
Same as ours. Staying in power. Same with every major government on the planet.
This really is no small thing. Show me a region, anywhere, where the general public is happy with those in charge. I'll wait.
We are on the precipice of Global Revolution. Not WW III. A Global Revolution. About a hundred different French Revolutions.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:28 PM (nSCZv)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:29 PM (4KUe5)
These people have no good in them anymore, only rage, despair, debauchery, and nihilism.
But other than that...
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 05:29 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 28, 2026 05:30 PM (nbLIj)
Milo Yiannopolous picked up by ICE yesterday.
Visa overstay, skipped his hearing in July.
Well, bye
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:30 PM (4KUe5)
We cannot allow a press detestation gap.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 05:31 PM (Riz8t)
This is unprecedented. They are warning the Red Cross to leave immediately.
An uprising has begun in Ceuta. 🇪🇸
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This is more likely to be effective than any other activity. These NGOs are anti western and anti civilization. They are the real enemy.
Posted by: Decaf at August 28, 2026 05:31 PM (ZNpJk)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:31 PM (E4rtv)
Yes Jack. I do enjoy showing how the rules change as the rule-makers get shown constantly, in real time, how they are not keeping up with social shifts.
I do. No apologies. Not because I'm smart. But because the disconnect is that damn obvious.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:31 PM (nSCZv)
Posted by: Decaf
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One cannot keep the enemy out if you have traitors letting them in the side gates and giving them sustenance.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:32 PM (E4rtv)
I think a very small number of Christians are pacifists- probably Quakers/ and Amish are the only ones who have that as their core doctrines.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:32 PM (W90Ou)
Posted by: mrp at August 28, 2026 05:17 PM (rj6Yv)
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It depends on two things: fundraising potential and how much cash to subsidize them is required.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 05:33 PM (Mjjx+)
Posted by: If you look at a map at August 28, 2026 05:34 PM (2Ez/1)
No Scogg. Times change. Then rules change. You still don't get to make them in someone else's place.
Most people here can figure that out. You aren't some brave truth teller. We just color within the rules and you love breaking them and then telling us we are all just stupid and you are super smart.
It's not us. It's you.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 05:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 05:34 PM (99A9t)
Its a real shift. Little things mean something.
A few of you will know the name Colin Cowherd. He's an opinionated little shit on FoxSports that does sports opinion.
He admitted, last week, that the political media has a certain tilt. A small thing. Yet, a big thing.
It is a dam that's breaking.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:34 PM (nSCZv)
Milo Yiannopolous picked up by ICE yesterday.
Visa overstay, skipped his hearing in July.
Well, bye
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:30 PM (4KUe5)
Can we please have CBP check everyone’s passports, coming AND going?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 05:34 PM (jPziU)
It is a dam that's breaking.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:34 PM (nSCZv)
For decades.
The media will have to go broke.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 05:36 PM (jPziU)
It's been awhile so the details elude me but it was a big scandal at the time.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:36 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 05:36 PM (ZdaMQ)
https://tinyurl.com/3wb9nszf - goes to X.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 05:36 PM (ExV1e)
Sure, but how does allowing Spanish territory to be overrun by Moroccans and then fighting your own citizens over it advance that goal? Maybe my poor brain is just not Machiavellian enough to see it.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 05:37 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 05:38 PM (PbWRL)
Neither you or I could say it any better.
At what point do you follow the rules ? At what point do you stop ? And at what point is "following the rules" not a virtue ? At what point are those enforcing the rules not doing a social good ?
And I can't tell you any more than I already have how I don't view myself as "super smart". Just seeing the obvious.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:38 PM (nSCZv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 05:38 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 05:38 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 05:39 PM (ZOv7s)
It's been awhile so the details elude me but it was a big scandal at the time.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
IIRC, I think it might have been Hurricane Andrew that revealed their modus operandi. Raised a lot of money for victims and ended up banking a big chunk instead of helping victims. When caught at it, deflected by claiming it was to help future victims and they let slip it was how they operated in general.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:39 PM (E4rtv)
May I point you to the wisdom of comment 71.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 05:39 PM (ExV1e)
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The Amish I know will certainly mess you up if you get all up in their shit. So to speak. It's never political with them. It's only when it gets personal. Which is what the left continues to push.
YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 05:39 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:45 PM (Riz8t)
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Elite Europeans don't even insinuate that, they now straight out declare that the country is no longer yours, it's theirs.
Posted by: Decaf at August 28, 2026 05:40 PM (ZNpJk)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:40 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 05:37 PM (vTZFs)
As usual, Howdy is all over the map.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 05:40 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 04:46 PM (iCp4l)
Except the Party Elites, who will be chauffeured in limousines.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (D9FOj)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 05:37 PM (vTZFs)
Seriously. How often have you ever worked with management ? Or really, really listened to motivated people ?
Your brain is not poor. You're just using logic. Most people in charge didn't get that way by logic. They got that way by ruthlessness and guile.
You know, like screaming "Heretic" or "Scogg" every-time an inconvenient opinion pops up.
Pard ... most people are not Logical. They are Ideological. Big difference.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (nSCZv)
Posted by: If you look at a map at August 28, 2026 05:34 PM (2Ez/1)
No, its not, but it's on one side of the Strait of Gibraltar and is the shortest distance across the Mediterranean.
It's a strategic point, that Morocco covets, which the Socialists in Madrid are supposed to defend as if it were Spanish territory.
They are doing a lousy job of it.
Probably on purpose at this point.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Oddbob
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Sanchez is about to get chucked out on his ass and very possibly go to prison to sit by his wife and other high party members for stealing, bribery, and other crimes. So he changes the game by trying to open the borders, cause chaos, and cheat along with trying to make hundreds of thousands of illegals into Spanish citizens so they can vote.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: If you look at a map
And the upper peninsula isn't IN Michigan. I'm sure there are other examples.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Decaf at August 28, 2026 05:40 PM (ZNpJk)
We are the new aristocracy. We have not, yet, restricted to your lord's manor but it's coming. And we will have savages to kill and rape anyone who dares cross us. -- 'Elite' Europeans
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (/QHx4)
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I think many are starting to recall that Ferdinand and Isabella proved that you can be rid of the invaders.
Posted by: Decaf at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (ZNpJk)
Public Caning like they have in Singapore
Administered the same day they're caught.
Discourages repeat offenders. Low cost, no jail time. Humiliating and painful.
Twenty or thirty good seats from a professional caner and those a-holes won't be back for more.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2026 05:42 PM (iJfKG)
https://tinyurl.com/3wb9nszf - goes to X.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 05:36 PM (ExV1e)
DAAAAAANG!!
And I love her attitude.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at August 28, 2026 05:42 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 05:34 PM (99A9t)
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They're a bunch of theater kids who think they are the main characters in a pre-written drama. They have no idea how kinetic action works and are convinced that because they are abject physical cowards but also Stunning and Brave, the rest of the right is even more fearful.
These lunatics saw Trump take a bullet and their cope was saying it was staged. Think about that. Think about having the guts to order someone to shoot you in the ear. That's insane levels of courage, not a coward's tactic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 05:42 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 28, 2026 05:43 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 05:43 PM (ZdaMQ)
Many see it. It's called discretion. It's a real thing.
When I'm in a privately owned place that has rules and I respect the owner I abide by them.
You don't even have to be super smart to get this. Try it, who knows, you might not get banned every 15 minutes and change your name and IP cause none of us can figure out who you are in 5 seconds.
Or go explore the world wide web and find a place that lets you be you all the time.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 05:43 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2026 05:44 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:39 PM (E4rtv)
I think these charity & aid groups can do a lot of good in certain situations where people need help.
But they have been corrupted by the long march through the institutions like everything else.
So you either reform them, or you break them and start over.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:44 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 05:44 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 05:44 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (E4rtv)
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A lot of the elites are in full "burn it all down" mode. Their dream is dying so they want to bring about the deluge.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 05:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Public Caning like they have in Singapore
Administered the same day they're caught.
Discourages repeat offenders. Low cost, no jail time. Humiliating and painful.
Twenty or thirty good seats from a professional caner and those a-holes won't be back for more.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2026 05:42 PM (iJfKG)
I've always thought Heinlein's punishment system from Starship Troopers was pretty good. Fines for really small shit, lashes for intermediate things, hanging for the bad stuff. Get it done and over with in a manner which, hopefully, makes in impression on the malefactor, and doesn't waste tax dollars on warehousing people.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 05:44 PM (ExV1e)
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France, WWI, Gramps said the Red Cross sold donuts while the Salvation Army gave them away.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:45 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 05:43 PM (viF8m)
All you are saying, still, is "don't harsh my mellow".
Its the weird bent of those like you here. And you are not alone. Its the "trust the process" DNA of your sub-type.
Get this. Everything does NOT have to turn out well. You hate that message. I do get it.
I don't get the "burn the heretic" response. OK - I get that too. As well as the general scold response of controlling the narrative.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:46 PM (nSCZv)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Well, Stan feels the same way about creation and they are doing his bidding so.....
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:47 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: If you look at a map
Manhattan is not connected to the rest of New York State, I guess it is up for grabs.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 05:48 PM (0U5gm)
France, WWI, Gramps said the Red Cross sold donuts while the Salvation Army gave them away.
Posted by: Braenyard
There was some of those complaints in WWII.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:48 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:39 PM (E4rtv)
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CEO was Elizabeth Dole, I believe.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 05:49 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 28, 2026 05:43 PM (2Ez/1)
Africa. So what?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 05:50 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: If you look at a map
Manhattan is not connected to the rest of New York State, I guess it is up for grabs.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Ceuta has been Spanish for over 400 years. Once you start redrawing boundaries to be 'fair' then you bring on a whole lot of miseries that are best avoided by using status quo instead.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:50 PM (E4rtv)
My Grand-Dad had nothing nice to say about the Red Cross when the 1st Marines finally got back to the UN line from Chosin.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:51 PM (nSCZv)
Sad times when this is the best option.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:52 PM (4KUe5)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 05:48 PM (0U5gm)
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Well they did elect a Communist Muslim for Mayor, so it may be fair to say that's conquered territory at this point.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 05:52 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 05:44 PM (ExV1e)
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Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age had a similar system for punishment in the Chinese-controlled "Middle Kingdom." Lashings were common for minor infractions. Serious crimes like murder meant that you were injected with small nanobots that would explode when the authorities decided to push a button. Simple and effective.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 05:54 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 05:56 PM (D9FOj)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 05:58 PM (D9FOj)
People who can’t spell Ceuta shouldn’t bother asking deep geopolitical questions about it.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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I've done what I could on this matter, but it seems my efforts have been futile.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 06:04 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at August 28, 2026 06:06 PM (GMWTj)
The Spaniards might find their balls after all.
Their ancestors have a long and proud history of stomping on invaders, and have done their share of invading as well.
If I can please have the contact information for the leader of the protecting brigades, I will send my personal regards.
Take note of such action, and please engage your own before bragging about "Do That in a Small Town" because Texas is on the way to being another POS invasion center. They tried it in a small town and have been all too successful.
Posted by: He who questions all of it at August 28, 2026 06:09 PM (LCSLv)
Public transit in the US is untenable because we refuse to jail or expel barbarians, and damn near all urban governments shield them by coming down on victims for defending against them.
Posted by: heya at August 28, 2026 06:10 PM (TfRuS)
Posted by: If you look at a map
Spain wasn't in Spain proper, they were pushed back to just the mountainous districts in the far north.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 06:10 PM (uhVAy)
Shock Study: There's a Direct Link Between Extremist Trans Ideology and the Trans Violence Committed to Vindicate That Extremist Ideology
If we were talking about any group the right, there would be no debate about whether the most extreme, no-deviation-allowed, all-who-deny-our-claims-are-enemies-and-valid-targets version of an ideology leads to violence. In fact, the left claims that fairly milktoast agitators like Ben Shapiro constitute an intolerable threat of extremist violence.
But the left is now shrieking that someone has drawn a connection between the trans extremists' claims that anyone who doesn't want you in your bathrooms is "literally trying to erase you from existence" and trans violence which explicitly justifies itself as resistance against "trans erasure." John Nolte at Breitbart:A just-released study from Rutgers University, the Network Contagion Research Institute, and the Manhattan Institute has found something not at all surprising...The study establishes a correlation but not necessarily a causation. Although, to be fair, they have to say that or trans extremists will murder them and their children.Knock me over with a feather. Here's the rub:
"These findings suggest that gender ideology is associated with LWA [left-wing authoritarianism] and willingness to justify political violence."Finally, broader research on perceived victimhood, moralization, and political violence suggests that identities organized around grievance, perceived victimization, and injustice, when paired with authoritarian or punitive dispositions, can predict support for anti-democratic or violent political action... Taken together, these literatures suggest a common mechanism: ideological content that names an oppressor class, certifies ongoing victimization, and locates remedy in coercive institutional or social action which may supply authoritarian psychology with morally justified targets.
Research frameworks for understanding authoritarianism have historically focused overwhelmingly on the political right, while analogous left-wing pathways have received far less attention...You don't say!?
This study suggests that the same psychological machinery operates on the extreme left, and that it may be running through institutional channels -- clinical guidelines, professional standards, credentialed expertise -- that current threat-detection frameworks are not well designed to recognize. Violence connected to gender ideology remains largely undocumented in the academic literature. This study provides a first systematic empirical look at the psychological infrastructure that makes such violence conceivable.More at the link, including the kind of statements -- for example, there's a "trans genocide" underway -- that seem to motivate extremists to kill 24 school children to stop this "genocide."
WPATH, which claimed for years that it had perfect scientific proof that transing children "saved lives," is being sued for by the FTC for fraudulent claims about the mutilation of children. And what's their defense? They now say they weren't offering facts -- just OPINIONS! Oh so now it's "opinions," huh? Ed Morrissey quotes City Journal:
Colin Wright
@SwipeWright 🚨BREAKING: Our new HHS report--"Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology?"--is out! For decades, psychological research has looked at opposition to transgender ideology through a lens of prejudice and right-wing authoritarianism. We asked the conspicuously neglected flipside question: What psychological traits characterize those who most strongly endorse gender-affirming norms? In a preregistered study of 1,208 U.S. adults, we developed a Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale (CGAS) using positions drawn directly from guidance issued by the APA, American Psychiatric Association, WPATH, and American Academy of Pediatrics. Our results shocked us. Endorsement of mainstream principles of "gender-affirmation" was strongly associated with left-wing authoritarianism (LWA) and support of political violence. Both LWA and endorsement of gender-affirming clinical norms were associated with greater justification for killing Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump, and Brian Thompson, as well as arson against ICE buildings, destruction of wealthy people's property, and violence against police. These relationships remained significant even after controlling for political identity. Acceptance of gender ideology appears to augment authoritarian attitudes in support for political violence. From our report: "Together, these findings support the paper's core claim: gender ideology may function as an ideological accelerant, telling left-wing authoritarian psychology who the enemy is, why the situation is urgent, and--in those already disposed toward force--that violence is legitimate." We believe institutionalized gender ideology may function as a kind of ideological "content package" for people already disposed toward left-wing authoritarianism. It assists in identifying oppressors, creates moral urgency, and provides justification for taking coercive action against opposition. This is only the first of a series of @HHSGov reports we're working on as a collaboration of researchers at @ncri_io, @RutgersU, and @ManhattanInst. Stay tuned for more.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) now claims that its "standards of care" are merely one opinion in a debate over youth gender medicine. This marks a dramatic change for WPATH, which spent years promoting its approach as the only ethical one to help youth and adults who experience distress associated with their sexual embodiment. WPATH makes this claim in a legal filing submitted in a lawsuit brought against it by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The federal agency alleges that WPATH has engaged in consumer fraud, specifically listing ten "deceptive claims" made by the defendant about the benefits and safety of medical interventions. According to WPATH, however, the claims in question "are non-actionable opinions about subjects on which there is medical and scientific uncertainty," and as such protected under the First Amendment and not subject to FTC jurisdiction.The balls on these self-castrated he-bitches.
🚨BREAKING: Our new HHS report—"Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology?"—is out!
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) August 26, 2026
For decades, psychological research has looked at opposition to transgender ideology through a lens of prejudice and right-wing… pic.twitter.com/yaNJ6DPNVI
The Bluesky crowd is spreading lies about our HHS report.
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) August 28, 2026
Nowhere in our report do we ever claim that "trans people are violent, authoritarian, anti-democratic, and extremist."
In fact, our report isn't about trans people at all!
We found left-wing authoritarianism and… pic.twitter.com/z0brJhzbVx
1 year ago, a trans gunman shot 24 kids at a Christian school in Minneapolis
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 28, 2026
The media buried the story pic.twitter.com/aoAN1oJDQ5
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)just what are you trying to say?
You've got a blank face, which irritates
Communicate, pull out your party piece
You see dimensions in two
State your case with black or white
But when one little cross leads to shots, grit your teeth
You run for cover so discreet, why don't they
Do what they say, say what you mean, and baby
One thing leads to another
You told me something wrong, I know I listen too long but then
One thing leads to another ....
TO FIRST!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (/PKja)
-the moderate option, apparently
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (Fi81e)
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"Reality is left-leaning, that's why all academics are left-wing."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:43 PM (/PKja)
Almost Islamic in their fervor.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:44 PM (4NO2D)
Practicing psychology without a loysence? That'll get you an investigation in the state of California. If CA was consistent
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 03:45 PM (88C+u)
Listen to that. It's a survival instinct.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:45 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:46 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:46 PM (0U5gm)
Which came first, though? Does radical gender ideology lead to leftwing authoritarism and violence? Or the other way around?
I think it's neither. I think these people are just dangerous lunatics who finger-pop their bungholes thinking about violence. That kind of derangement leads the derangee to latch onto something -- anything -- that gives them an excuse for violence.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)
Here we go again.
"I, uh, erb ub uh ub, merely said that the Hunter Biden laptop story had all the earmarks of Russian intel, I didn't, erb ub, specifically say that it was." -- John Brennan
"Woke One was craaaayyy-zee!" (tee-hee, sorry about your small business, your kid's two years of school, and your grandmom dying alone!) -- AOC
"I never said that schools should close." -- Randi Weingarten
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 03:46 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2026 03:47 PM (Mzuzg)
When does the WPATH and the APA lose all of their funding and donations?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 28, 2026 03:47 PM (cpFbA)
Listen to that. It's a survival instinct.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:45 PM (xcxpd)
Also look for the brightly colored hair(s).
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 03:47 PM (hbfWH)
Who hates whom in that equation?
Methinks the trans-ladies doth protest too much.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 03:47 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 03:47 PM (3arSl)
We THINK we've hit PEAK STUPID, but in a few more years these will be the good ole days.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 03:47 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:46 PM
That does explain why the current Democrats pair so perfectly with Muslim Jihadists.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 28, 2026 03:48 PM (HlyYF)
Who hates whom in that equation?
Methinks the trans-ladies doth protest too much.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 03:47 PM (dEHLq)
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"Your kids need to die."
These people tend to attack children more than they attack people saying mean things about them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:48 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 03:47 PM
Nature's warning.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:45 PM (xcxpd)
Also look for the brightly colored hair(s).
Posted by: Thrawn
And the Union Label.
Posted by: Coat, Dress, Or Blouse at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Pinochet airlines at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:48 PM (/PKja)
They were probably beaten up on the playground years ago and hold that grudge until the end of time.
Used to be, the Nancy-boys learned the lesson instead of delving deeper into their idiocy. I guess they've gotten stupider and more aggressive at the same damned time.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (dEHLq)
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They are ideologues and to serious participants.
I dislike dismissing any group as easily as I can through just a constantly re-enforced pattern of their non-seriousness and kneejerk evasion.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 03:51 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Vermeer wood chipper at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (VJ0w/)
Posted by: InZona at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (+YC6b)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (dEHLq)
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"I shall escape my terrible day to day life by reading science-fiction and think of the possibilities of the human mind against the vast cosmos around us."
vs.
"I shall escape my terrible day to day life by learning that I should cut off my dick and that everyone who doesn't clap for it is trying to murder me."
There's no way that they could have a difference.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (XvL8K)
Had we not caved to the left and shuttered the insane asylums back in the 70's there'd be a possible solution. The entire sub-culture of trans is insane and should be institutionalized. Or euthanized.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (2Cry5)
I wish they would just break plates or something. Shooting kids isn't really all that much of an emotional release. More like a personal death wish.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:54 PM (EZWVc)
Google AI says "refer to two completely different concepts"
Posted by: 80sfan at August 28, 2026 03:55 PM (BbB0e)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 03:55 PM (vE0+H)
Also the left: Violence from trans idoeology? What the hell these people just want you to use their pronouns. How is that violent?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Darth Randall at August 28, 2026 03:55 PM (U/dC0)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 03:56 PM (RHGPo)
Also the left: Violence from trans idoeology? What the hell these people just want you to use their pronouns. How is that violent?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)
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"Charlie Kirk was literally murdering trans people whenever he spoke at a campus. Literally murder. He was literally committing a genocide."
"It was obviously the right who killed Charlie Kirk because he said in a private conversation that no one can verify that he was going to say Free Palestine at his next speaking engagement."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:56 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 28, 2026 03:48 PM (HlyYF)
Also explains the DNC-DSA fake war.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 03:57 PM (vE0+H)
Have you seen the Oxford biochemistry lecturer.
He's bald. He's got a long, weird, wispy beard. He's got MASSIVE tits.
So gross.
http://tiny.cc/sci9101
Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2026 03:57 PM (mkw2N)
They are mad because God created them wrong. If they are mad at God they are mad at everyone. Surprised they don't murder mommy first for birthing the wrong sex. altho it is Daddy's fault from his sperm choice.
This is why mommies support them. Daddy's leave or try to. A mommy issue of Munchausen attention.
The trans in the photo above was supported by her parents. It was sketchy as Mom was in FL and her twee looking Dad was at home. I never found out about their dynamics.
I am horrified and prayed for my sons after Columbine and daily for my grands. School shootings are one of my fears, and I don't have many, thankfully.
I don't know a trannie or know of a trannie through others. They all look angry and are mentally ill.
If mental hospitals are still never coming back, I have a solution:
I wish President Trump would buy 2 islands:
1 for trannies to be among their peers
Another for pedos
No supplies and resultant cannibalism til only one or two are left on each island who will then die of kuru of eating humans.
Ship criminal illegals to both islands and let them join the fun.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 03:57 PM (hzuYO)
Google AI says "refer to two completely different concepts"
Posted by: 80sfan at August 28, 2026 03:55 PM (BbB0e)
See me at 29
Posted by: InZona at August 28, 2026 03:57 PM (+YC6b)
Have you seen the Oxford biochemistry lecturer.
He's bald. He's got a long, weird, wispy beard. He's got MASSIVE tits.
So gross.
http://tiny.cc/sci9101
Posted by: bonhomme
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Your description is the stuff of nightmares. John Wayne Gacy killer clown nightmares.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:58 PM (E4rtv)
lol, run this through the Google "A.I." and you get this:
"What the Data ShowsGender identity does not predict violent behavior or crime.Experts state there is no proof of higher crime rates or radicalization in the transgender community.Mass shootings and violent crimes are overwhelmingly carried out by cisgender individuals.Rates of VictimizationData from the Williams Institute shows transgender people are over four times more likely to experience violent victimization than cisgender people."
Garbage-in has always resulted in garbage-out.
Posted by: Auspex at August 28, 2026 03:58 PM (Y8DZL)
They are mind warping children. Permanently.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:59 PM (3cYpk)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 03:59 PM (RHGPo)
He's bald. He's got a long, weird, wispy beard. He's got MASSIVE tits.
So gross.
http://tiny.cc/sci9101
Posted by: bonhomme
Feed me.
Posted by: Vermeer wood chipper at August 28, 2026 03:59 PM (VJ0w/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 03:59 PM (HUco/)
Seems if we grant the model that sex is a biological fact, but "gender" are clusters of ideas that grow up around sexual functions, that the "gender affirmers" are the more traditional. Because they are affirming the case for a legitimacy of social conventions concerning sexual differences.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:00 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Case at August 28, 2026 04:00 PM (VrYHL)
Posted by: spray 'em in cheese first at August 28, 2026 04:01 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:02 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:02 PM (HUco/)
He's bald. He's got a long, weird, wispy beard. He's got MASSIVE tits.
So gross.
http://tiny.cc/sci9101
Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2026 03:57 PM (mkw2N
Funny. Thanks.
Somewhere there's a woman out there thinking "I can fix him!"
Four women's golf tournaments in Canada this year were apparently won by women. That's probably the best way to beat these crazies and win over young women in the process.
Losing out to fake women has to get old at some point.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 04:03 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:03 PM (HUco/)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:03 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:04 PM (K32Fz)
During Trans Genocide National Breastfeeding and Don't Be A Bully Vengeance Month of Rage? Really, Ace???
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 04:04 PM (9c4Eu)
In the old days when it was straight-ish white kids shooting up schools the FNM told me that you could ignore all the drivebys and the like by urban yutes that white kids shooting up schools meant white people were especially dangerous.
Now school shooting don't matter I guess...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:04 PM (sKqQm)
It has been my observation that at least some women really like suffering and being humiliated
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:05 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: InZona at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (+YC6b)
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I thought it said "WRATH" for a moment...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 04:06 PM (FZ29D)
That's a sexist thing to say you pig!
Posted by: Some AWFL in a Handmaid Outfit, reading 50 shades of grey, warming up her kitty masher 900W back mas at August 28, 2026 04:06 PM (sKqQm)
Some of them want to be abused."
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:06 PM (HUco/)
The Dems needed the next group to 'defend' from conservative 'bigotry.'
The trannies interpreted the shack up as true love.
And that's when it all got out of hand.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 28, 2026 04:06 PM (4HoLg)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 04:07 PM (EZWVc)
AWFLs want to get milked by a minotaur now.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:07 PM (HUco/)
I strongly suspect that most of the past school shooters would, in the modern era, be trannies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:08 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 03:57 PM (hzuYO)
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Plus they are living in a "World without God". Where all hierarchies can be said to be "arbitrary" and nothing is better than anything else (but thinking "makes it so").
And that's the world where "You have to make your own meaning". How, though? Because non-hierarchy-primacy would suggest that meaning is not necessarily better than "not having meaning".
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:08 PM (Fi81e)
Let's check out the lies...
MS Now - Iran War six months in. It's a lost quagmire of doom.
CNN - Same - their 650,000 viewers are frustrated this is still going on.
CBC - Hey Nepal! That's a change of pace.
FoxNews - Will Cain - Clancy.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 04:08 PM (Sco7b)
This one has been Norm MacDonalded.
Trans nonbinary woman who fled to Canada because "the trans Krystallnacht is coming" said her terror began when Charlie Kirk was killed. Wot, you say? Well, she knew then that transpeople were going to get blamed for all kinds of shit, and the rest of us are going to go regular Nazi on them.
TikTok seems to defy tinyurl, so here it is if you want a good laugh or a good scream.
https://www.tiktok.com/
@nopebrigade0/video/7577812221422587167
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 04:08 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Reforger at August 28, 2026 04:09 PM (jJAdc)
Speaking of which, in the Disney Beauty and the Beast movie, Gaston is horrified by the book Belle is reading then she falls in love very rapidly with this monstrous thing in a castle. Was she reading monster romantasy?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:09 PM (K32Fz)
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As an old-school third-rate blogger once and often-famously noted:
Their violence is speech.
Our speech is violence.
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 04:10 PM (9c4Eu)
*deletes*
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 04:11 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:11 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 04:12 PM (77rzZ)
He's bald. He's got a long, weird, wispy beard. He's got MASSIVE tits.
So gross.
http://tiny.cc/sci9101
Posted by: bonhomme
......
I like the hair between his chesticles.
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2026 04:12 PM (UjdFS)
*deletes*
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 04:11 PM (W2Pud)
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It was about the minotaurs, wasn't it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:12 PM (/PKja)
Every broken, messy, strange, crazy, or screwed up kid is being pushed into this category.
That kid whose mom beat him every day and kills cats in the back yard? The school counselor tries to fix him by telling him he's a girl and would be normal if he hacked his danglies off.
That weird girl who wears spiderwebs in her hair and gets D's in every class because she can't pay attention? The school counselor tries to fix her by saying she should cut her funbags off.
That oddball who hates their life and feels aimless is told they will be better by the school counselor if they swap their gender and sees the school celebrate queers and trannies every day while ignoring normal kids.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:12 PM (K32Fz)
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Old & Busted: Dead-Naming.
New Hotness: Dead-Shaming.
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 04:12 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:13 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bulg
I mean, I know that he's in Hell, but I hope he's in the absolute hottest part.
The part that Fauci is destined for.
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 04:13 PM (77rzZ)
His face turned as pink as his shirt and he stomped away.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 04:14 PM (W2Pud)
The razor wire encrusted flaming c0ck of Shaitan for all eternity hopefully.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:14 PM (HUco/)
Its like getting a tattoo or long hair way back, they do it because you hate it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:14 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:09 PM (K32Fz)
SEE! The love of a woman can change any man...
TV and movies told them so!
Okay. Back to work.
Thanks all.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 04:14 PM (Sco7b)
He's bald. He's got a long, weird, wispy beard. He's got MASSIVE tits.
So gross.
http://tiny.cc/sci9101
Posted by: bonhomme
......
I like the hair between his chesticles.
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2026 04:12 PM (UjdFS
So regular people like you meet at Walmart?
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 04:15 PM (LHPAg)
Uhhh
If I were an Oxford student assigned to his class, I would transfer the heck out. I suppose they can't do that because of lawsuits.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 04:16 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:09 PM (K32Fz)
lol, like this meme?
https://tinyurl.com/mtkrwemj
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 04:16 PM (hbfWH)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:04 PM (K32Fz)
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But per capita is definitely the more scientific model.
Otherwise, who CARES what might cure or palliate a rare disease--statistically the positive returns on any trial are insignificant given all the people who do not have that disease.
That would be dumb.
The pro-vax would hope for a situation where those that did not take a vax would be small. Creating a case where far more vaxed people succumb to a sickness than the insignificant non-vaxed, right?
So would the correction be "Actually the number of unvaxxed that succumb to the disease is insignificant in comparison to the vaxed"?
You can bet it wouldn't be.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:16 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 04:16 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:17 PM (HUco/)
TV and movies told them so!
Okay. Back to work.
Thanks all.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 04:14 PM (Sco7b)
Only if said man has wealth and a humongous castle.
Otherwise, "short" kings need not apply by kidnapping women and locking them up until they "love" them.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 04:17 PM (hbfWH)
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 28, 2026 04:17 PM (KGj36)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:14 PM (K32Fz)
Which is of course pathology in itself.
Living for other people is dumb. Living to annoy or bother other people makes you into a pathetic loser.
I'm so clever I annoyed a stranger, is the Applause Comedy of human defects.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:17 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:17 PM (HUco/)
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Beauty and the Beast is best in black and white.
And French.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:17 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:18 PM (HUco/)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:12 PM (K32Fz)
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That's because it's about getting people sterilized and making them think it was their idea.
This is the seed of 70-80s MENSA and other think tanks "solving" the overpopulation problem.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:19 PM (Fi81e)
Well that is the proper story but the Romantasy theory is funnier
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:19 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Belle at August 28, 2026 04:19 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:18 PM (HUco/)
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Come on. You know I can't even read English.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:19 PM (/PKja)
Yeah and the "don't get married, and if you do, don't have kids" push in culture. At least, to white people.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:20 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:17 PM (/PKja)
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You can always turn down the color.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:20 PM (Fi81e)
The progression of this insanity has been observed. Euphemisms used:
1 - Live for the day when you can complete your transition so that finally, at last, blessedly, your body matches your soul and you can be happy and live as your true self
2 - Undergo irreversible medical processes
3 - Discover you're still miserable -- AND your body is destroyed AND everyone can "clock" you as your assigned-at-birth gender anyway after all that pain and expense AND you also have constant UTIs, scars, difficulty speaking from vocal feminization surgery, failure of neovagina, etc
4 - Hate everyone else for living normally and happily
5 - Bang-bang
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 04:20 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2026 04:12 PM (UjdFS
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Is there a market for tranny baby formula bottles with hairy nipples for "authentic" chest-feeders like Mayor Pete?
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 04:20 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:20 PM (Fi81e)
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Or, I can buy Nightmare Alley all over again to get the black and white version from Criterion.
Commerce makes he world go round!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:20 PM (/PKja)
I mean your average lefty can realize they were wrong and change politics but if you cut your genitals off because leftwing ideology told you it was the right thing to do you will justify that narrative pretty much no matter what.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:21 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2026 04:21 PM (p3pWU)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 04:16 PM (O0L8i)
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The people who "settle Science" probably do not agree.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:21 PM (Fi81e)
A search warrant in the documents showed the car Westman drove to the church that morning and in the days before the shooting had a dashcam. Officers described the videos recorded by that camera, writing that Westman seemed agitated after a visit with family and at times sobbed before driving by the church and school the night before the attack.
The records also include transcripts of police interviews with Westman’s father, ex-girlfriend, close friend and former co-workers, describing Westman as somewhat of a loner prone to depression. Many of those people had not previously spoken publicly about the shooting or about Westman.
While several said Westman had expressed suicidal ideations years earlier, they also said they had not seen signs that Westman was capable of hurting others. Westman’s father said he hadn’t seen a reason to be worried about his child before the shooting, noting only that Westman had been struggling to eat and had lost significant weight. Several relatives declined to speak with law enforcement altogether, according to the record release.
Posted by: beckster at August 28, 2026 04:21 PM (kX27y)
That movie is so depressing.
It makes you want to scream at the TV: stop being an evil asshole you are going to screw yourself even if you don't care about anyone else
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:22 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2026 04:21 PM (p3pWU)
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"Not It's a Wonderful Life!"
-Ted Turner
I read an article shortly after Turner's death that asserted that the whole colorization thing he led was really just an excuse to help get funding to restore old movies. Colorization was the sizzle, but the base remasters were the steak and the central point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:22 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 04:20 PM (mmrXZ)
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And in some cases:
Bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-
bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-
bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-
bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-
bang-bang-bang-bang-bang
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 04:22 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 04:23 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 04:23 PM (ZdaMQ)
Related- why does it seem like high percentage of trannies, M to "F" are still wearing their facemasks?
Posted by: Rex B at August 28, 2026 04:23 PM (LUIDu)
Posted by: dantesed
Can you imagine Casablanca in color? Yech.
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 04:24 PM (77rzZ)
It must be a good day.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 04:24 PM (wOO3z)
That movie is so depressing.
It makes you want to scream at the TV: stop being an evil asshole you are going to screw yourself even if you don't care about anyone else
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:22 PM (sKqQm)
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The book goes even further.
Stan gets Molly into a position where she almost gets raped, and Stan knows it's going to happen.
The author was an alcoholic wreck who went from ideology to ideology looking for meaning and finding nothing. Nihilism gets tossed around too much as a descriptor to describe things that are dark and depressing but do actually point to things having meaning, but Nightmare Alley is full-on nihilistic. His wife also divorced him to marry CS Lewis.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:24 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (Sco7b)
They were anti competing leftists. They were socialists themselves. Once they won the street battles they absorbed the communist thugs into their ranks with no problems.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:24 PM (uhVAy)
Yes but they hated everyone else for how they were living to begin with. It's just that once the "process" is complete, that is all that's left.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (p3pWU)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (Sco7b)
They were anti competing leftists. They were socialists themselves. Once they won the street battles they absorbed the communist thugs into their ranks with no problems.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:24 PM (uhVAy)
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"Mussolini was actually a small government conservative," always tickles me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (/PKja)
Which, by definition is "mental illness."
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 04:23 PM (ZdaMQ)
The Left loves nothing more than to lift something up...... and then destroy it.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (vE0+H)
No thanks.
Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (p3pWU)
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Black and white isn't real. I must have real.
Now, excuse me while I watch my movie about a superman defeating an army of aliens devouring the earth single-handedly, but realistically.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:26 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:22 PM (/PKja)
Seems doubtful, he could have gotten a lot of detractors on side by telling that from the start.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:26 PM (uhVAy)
Spider Noir was much better in black and white than color
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:26 PM (K32Fz)
What? That guy was the Top!
Posted by: Cole Porter and your average pre-war leftist at August 28, 2026 04:26 PM (sKqQm)
What? That guy was the Top!
Posted by: Cole Porter and your average pre-war leftist at August 28, 2026 04:26 PM (sKqQm)
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"He loves Marx the wrong way. He's practically a Republican."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:27 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (/PKja)
He got the trains running on time, not made highways for individuals to go where they wanted.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:27 PM (uhVAy)
No thanks.
Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (p3pWU)
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Black and white isn't real. I must have real.
Now, excuse me while I watch my movie about a superman defeating an army of aliens devouring the earth single-handedly, but realistically.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:26 PM (/PKja)
_________________________
Wait...dinosaurs aren't purple?
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:27 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:08 PM (Fi81e)
*******
Have surgeons create fake meaning from fake vagina.
It's going to be glorious! What I was born for!
Spend the rest of the years before suicide dealing with ingrown hairs and boils that get infected with drug resistant staph.
This does not take away from the fact that there is chronic pain when not dealing with boils.
The inability to have sex again as a fake female; wishing every minute he still had the genitalia he started with and simply gay.
Orgasm is a thing of the past.
Then the he/she has to pee, which takes about 20min of concentration and pain.
Returns to regular pain after pee pain and time spent on the toilet.
Dat's life in a day of a trans' greatest wish!
Half commit suicide.
Trans supporters say it's working! Sort of by elimination!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 04:28 PM (hzuYO)
Which, by definition is "mental illness."
Yeah. Mental illness isn't sin, its not a moral failure, it doesn't mean you are a bad person. But its a real thing, and thinking you are something you are not is crazy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:28 PM (K32Fz)
Welcome back, Zombie Piper. I'm beginning to think that it was kale, and not the Soup-transmitted tumor, that took you from us.
You did see that article, right?
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 04:28 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mike Tython at August 28, 2026 04:28 PM (3arSl)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 04:23 PM (ZdaMQ)
The Left loves nothing more than to lift something up...... and then destroy it.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (vE0+H)
Gays were last year's shock troops. Many of them are too content and are going mainstream instead of remaining outcasts.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:29 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 04:30 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Cole Porter and your average pre-war leftist at August 28, 2026 04:30 PM (sKqQm)
Half commit suicide.
Trans supporters say it's working! Sort of by elimination!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 04:28 PM (hzuYO)
This contrasts with the half that commit suicide if they don't cut themselves to bits.
From what I recall though, the old school cross dressers only rarely shot up schools, or political rivals, because they weren't political.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:31 PM (uhVAy)
HAHAHAHAHAHA
I gotta see what reddit thinks of this...
Posted by: Cole Porter and your average pre-war leftist at August 28, 2026 04:30 PM (sKqQm)
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"Israel told him to."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:31 PM (/PKja)
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Musk strikes again
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (l3cgK)
https://tinyurl.com/2xukcdpm
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 04:30 PM (viF8m)
He's gonna need a new grifting source to maintain his previously "fabulous" appearance.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (hbfWH)
IT IS MY RIGHT AS A NON-BINARY ENTITY TO GET MY WISHES !!!!!!!!
IF NOT I WILL CRY TO BARRY O MY SAVIOR AND HERO !!
Posted by: Jack Meehoff at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (0/Zc3)
I mean your average lefty can realize they were wrong and change politics but if you cut your genitals off because leftwing ideology told you it was the right thing to do you will justify that narrative pretty much no matter what.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:21 PM (sKqQm)
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True.
As well as the fact that mental illness is the seed-corn of mass formation psychosis and cult membership, "meaning," advocacy, violence, & a lesser cause worth murdering and dying for.
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (SK+av)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (6ydKt)
https://tinyurl.com/2xukcdpm
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 04:30 PM (viF8m)
When your lifestyle makes sitting down difficult...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:33 PM (l3cgK)
Dang.
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 04:33 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:27 PM (dIske)
Their feathers might have been.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:33 PM (uhVAy)
With my .357 mag. sidearm.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (SK+av)
I thought grenades and TNT were better for fishing...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:33 PM (l3cgK)
https://tinyurl.com/2xukcdpm
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 04:30 PM (viF8m)
He's gonna need a new grifting source to maintain his previously "fabulous" appearance.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (hbfWH)
I think he's more needed in the UK than here these days.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:34 PM (uhVAy)
Mussolini was a fairly learned man whospoke several languages. When he came to power, he was widely praised, from the likes of Churchill to Gandhi.
And he was not onboard with the Shoah, but he had to acquiesce once he was firmly attached to Hitler's teat.
He came very close to allying with Britain and France before the war, until they forced him into Hitler's arms by disowning him over his stupid takeover of Ethiopia.
Dude, you could've just stayed out of Ethiopia. But nooooo...
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 04:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:27 PM (dIske)
Their feathers might have been.
I think we should do a $10M Study to see if some the dinosaurs were either Gay or Non-Binary ....
Posted by: Jack Meehoff at August 28, 2026 04:35 PM (ZITfF)
Posted by: Cray Cray at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (yoYxH)
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:27 PM (dIske)
Their feathers might have been.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:33 PM (uhVAy)
Fossilized colour-imparting melanosomes that were found in certain Archaeopteryx fossils imply at least some of their feathers were black...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (l3cgK)
but maybe it's not a typo and some people don't know this...
It is spelled "milquetoast."
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (ImuKY)
Yes but they hated everyone else for how they were living to begin with. It's just that once the "process" is complete, that is all that's left.
Posted by: ...
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They start by hating the world and hating their life for sure. "Transition will change it all!"
Then wake up with everything that can go wrong going wrong -- socially, medically, psychologically.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (mmrXZ)
but maybe it's not a typo and some people don't know this...
It is spelled "milquetoast."
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (ImuKY)
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I sometimes take proper spelling for granite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:37 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (l3cgK)
Haven't followed it for a while but some Chinese feathered fossils hinted at being reddish as well.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:38 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Jack Meehoff
Barney is gay as shit. The rest are dead.
I'll take my money now.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 04:38 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:27 PM (dIske)
Their feathers might have been.
I think we should do a $10M Study to see if some the dinosaurs were either Gay or Non-Binary ....
Posted by: Jack Meehoff at August 28, 2026 04:35 PM (ZITfF)
AFAIK, they've only found one pair of dinos mating, and they were male and female...I think it can be found in some museum in Spain...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:38 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:39 PM (sKqQm)
but maybe it's not a typo and some people don't know this...
It is spelled "milquetoast."
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (ImuKY)
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I sometimes take proper spelling for granite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:37 PM (/PKja)
That's a rock-solid position to take.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:39 PM (l3cgK)
The queens got off and got paid for it. The bands were good and everyone laughed - the performers and the audience.
New Orleans, naturally, had more of these eccentric clubs than most towns.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 04:40 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:37 PM (/PKja)
That's a rock-solid position to take.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:39 PM (l3cgK)
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Well, for all intensive purposes, at least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:40 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Crusader at August 28, 2026 04:40 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:40 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (ImuKY)
I'm not gonna argue against the Anglo Saxon / English / then American rigor in pruning out extra letters that add no value.
Mostly because it bugs the French.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:41 PM (uhVAy)
https://tinyurl.com/2xukcdpm
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 04:30 PM (viF8m)
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A few days in the tank with real food and no drugs will do him good.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 04:41 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
>It's true, many decades ago, we used dynamite to fish the yellowstone. Now the sidearms are for the frootloops and predators cruising the recreational areas.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 04:41 PM (SK+av)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 04:42 PM (BI5O2)
But our media (traditional and online) is really an instigator for a lot of the violence perpetrated by those weirdos.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 04:42 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:43 PM (dIske)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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My sediments exactly.
Posted by: The River Bottom at August 28, 2026 04:43 PM (ImuKY)
10% of reddit argues this is Trump trying to keep the "Anti-Trump right" from attacking him and Israel
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:43 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:40 PM (vE0+H)
You can't prove or disprove anything with emotion.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:43 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (2Cry5)
I was only a disinterested teen back then but didn't the pharamaceutical and health insurance industries have a hand in this?
Posted by: Sumguy at August 28, 2026 04:43 PM (X/gXX)
https://tinyurl.com/2xukcdpm
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 04:30 PM (viF8m)
*******
Just saw that mug shot!
He is missing his diamond earrings. I guess cashed in for some more poppers and whatever drugs cause those dead eyes and dark circles.
You've come a long way, faker! Remember when Ann Coulter thought he was fabulous? I do!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 04:44 PM (hzuYO)
Mostly because it bugs the French.
Posted by: Oldcat
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But it is named after a comic strip character, who was given a frenchy name because he was weak and timid.
So the French name is part of the gag. It caught on and became a word.
Posted by: The River Bottom at August 28, 2026 04:45 PM (ImuKY)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Agreed.
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 04:47 PM (77rzZ)
So gross.
http://tiny.cc/sci9101
Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2026 03:57 PM (mkw2N)
He should stay away from tall buildings in the presence of his future muslim overlords.
Posted by: Sumguy at August 28, 2026 04:47 PM (X/gXX)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 04:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:40 PM (vE0+H)
Where's your God now!?
Posted by: chicks with dicks ... lol at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (2rCZb)
How dare that man wanting a name and a email addy from you to view his site.
Damn that man!
How dare he???
!!!
Posted by: Reginald Van Dough at August 28, 2026 04:50 PM (rHvvN)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2026 04:55 PM (Mzuzg)
With my .357 mag. sidearm.
Don't drop it in the water. Happens a lot around here.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (ImuKY)
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I could care fewer.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:40 PM (vE0+H)
Where's your God now!?
Posted by: chicks with dicks ... lol at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (2rCZb)
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But "God didn't make junk" was the rally of the queers at one time.
Because the were "the way God made them".
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:09 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Dave at August 28, 2026 06:32 PM (sbsMc)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 28, 2026 06:50 PM (w6EFb)
John Ratcliffe's Secret Mission to Moscow: Don't Attack NATO, and You Had Better Strike a Deal While a Deal Is Still Possible, Mr. Putin
Ratcliffe told the head of the FSB that Russia must not attack NATO.
Is that a real fear? Yes, for several reason. First, intelligence warned of an attack on Poland by Russia, with Russia hoping to make Poland back away from its support of Ukraine. And then months after that, a Russian missile fell in Poland. The missile hit an empty field and killed no one, but it seems likely that it was intended as a threat, especially since it had been predicted by intel sources. And now their are fresh reports that Russia is planning another provocation attack. Second: Russia is losing this war and one of the most basic reactions to losing on one front is to open another front. The CIA seems to fear that Putin will become desperate and escalate the situation to delay his defeat.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe's personal visit to Moscow this week saw him warn Russia against any strikes on NATO nations, multiple outlets have reported. Ratcliffe visited Russia this week and met with intelligence officials, but not President Vladimir Putin. The meeting came amid reported concerns from Washington that Russia could attack one of the Baltic States, all of which are in NATO, according to the Wall Street Journal.
That wasn't the only point of the trip. The other objective was to deliver the CIA's assessment that, despite the US previously figuring that Russia would eventually win the war due to their great advantage in population and war materiel, the CIA now believes that Russia will lose the war, given the disastrous 2026 Russian spring and summer offensives, which are hardly worthy of the name. Ratcliffe urged Russia to start seriously negotiating for a peace deal before Russia suffers military and economic damage that could take generations to repair. For those of you who have, like me, been reading about the Ukraine-Russia war, and wondered if the news of Russia's bloody failure was just Ukrainian propaganda: It appears not. The CIA broadly confirms what we've been hearing from Ukrainian sources and independent analysts.
C.I.A. Chief Delivered Bleak Assessment of Russia's War in Secretive Moscow Visit John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, made a secretive visit to Moscow this week to privately share his bleak assessment of the state of the Russian war against Ukraine, and to urge the Russians to cut a deal before their military and economic situation gets worse, current and former officials said. Mr. Ratcliffe delivered the message to Aleksandr V. Bortnikov, the head of Russia's F.S.B. intelligence service, and made no threats about potential consequences for the Russian side should President Vladimir V. Putin ignore the C.I.A. director's assessment and choose to continue fighting. C.I.A. analysts have long questioned whether Mr. Putin's advisers have given him honest assessments of the war's trajectory and toll.This is discussed a lot -- Putin is almost like Hitler in seeming to believe that he's winning this. People attribute this to the fact that generals and staffers who give Putin bad news tend to exit tall buildings from high windows.
The C.I.A. has long maintained communications channels with the F.S.B. and Russia's foreign intelligence service, which is known as the S.V.R. Officials said Mr. Ratcliffe's intelligence channel with Bortnikov runs parallel to separate channels that President Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, have established with other senior advisers to Mr. Putin. Some officials said they hoped that Mr. Putin, a former intelligence officer himself, would see a message from the C.I.A. director as more urgent and credible than communications through normal diplomatic channels. For much of last year, Mr. Trump and some of his top advisers appeared to hold the belief that a Russian battlefield victory over Ukraine was inevitable because of Russia's larger population and its nuclear arsenal. But the Russians have suffered massive losses, and their battlefield gains have stalled. It is not clear whether Mr. Ratcliffe's message presaged any change in U.S. policy toward Russia or Ukraine. Mr. Ratcliffe's visit was the latest effort by the Trump administration to breathe new life into stalled negotiations. It has become increasingly clear that Ukraine is not going to give up its fight in the east, even with reduced U.S. military support. Given what he presented as the bleak military and economic reality for Russia, Mr. Ratcliffe told Mr. Bortnikov that he believed it was time for Moscow to engage in serious negotiations to end the war. Since Mr. Trump's return to office, the United States has scaled back its military support to the Ukrainians, forcing them to rely more heavily on European partners. ... Last month, Mr. Ratcliffe spoke out pointedly about Russian troop losses during the war, and Moscow's inability to advance on the battlefield. He noted that the life expectancy of a Russian soldier on the front lines was less than 35 minutes. And he added that Russia had gained only about 1 percent of Ukraine's total territory in the 18 months since he became C.I.A. director, a development he attributed to Ukraine's "mastery" of drone technology.Ukraine is parlaying that drone mastery into more aid. They're striking deals with many countries, including the US, and trading their hard-won expertise at drone warfare and technology for additional weapons (including more drones and components for drones). Drones have replaced artillery as the new king of the battlefield. They're the weapon responsible for the most battle deaths, knocking artillery off its long-held bloody throne. The future of warfare will be, for good or for ill, all about drones and, crucially, anti-drone technology. (Not all counter-drone weapons are so high tech.) America must be able to destroy drones if we want to keep our other advantages. (And the Ukraine war has shown that US weapons systems are very good and much better than Russian, and presumably Chinese, systems. In fact, most of NATO's weapons are superior to Russia's.)
US drone "mothership" carries other drones. Related: Trump announced the US had cleared the sea lanes of Strait of America of all Iranian mines. Among the weapons deployed to destroy the mines? Underwater drones.
US officials had confirmed the essential claim two days earlier. They said underwater drones had identified more than 100 suspected mines in recent months. Private contractors then disposed of the devices, the officials said. President Donald Trump warned that American forces would destroy any Iranian vessel caught laying new mines.
On July 12, 2026, three Saronic Corsair one-way attack uncrewed surface vessels struck a submarine and a ship maintenance facility at Iran's Bandar Abbas Naval Base, in what U.S. Central Command described as the first American combat employment of sea drones. The strike settled a question this profile left open in June, when the Corsair's offensive role existed in acquisition documents and company material with no combat instance behind it. It settled much less about the platform. The approach was reported as low-speed and uncontested, the launch point, transit distance and warhead were never disclosed, and the released video ends at the explosions. Thirty-four days earlier the same vessel class had recovered two downed Army aviators near the Strait of Hormuz. Behind both events sits a company that has since selected Brownsville, Texas for a shipyard costing more than $3 billion, launched its first 52-foot Mirage, and carries a $9.25 billion valuation against roughly $200 million in estimated 2025 revenue.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (VJ0w/)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (EJE3y)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 02:31 PM (O0L8i)
It's really, really important that America build a defense against this.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:31 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:32 PM (Shi2G)
exactly. I heard Ratcliffe paid Russian prostitutes to poop on the American flag.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:32 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:33 PM (1wjle)
Wow, how did Iran get/develop those Ghadir class subs?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:33 PM (mmrXZ)
That's false.
He paid the Russian prostitutes to shit on a Wig that was worn by Michele Obama.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:34 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 28, 2026 02:34 PM (sFNX2)
The walls are closing in
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:34 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 28, 2026 02:35 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (Fi81e)
I would bet that Poland would have a better chance of taking Moscow than the reverse.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: muldoon at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (qgHp7)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (geWO5)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (NcvvS)
Fuck'n A
It's about god damned time the unwashed masses took things into their own hands.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (Shi2G)
We have always been at war with Russia and in solidarity with their people and entirely nazi-free military.
Noting has changed.
Russia bad
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
Hopefully, the goatrapers are in them.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (VJ0w/)
Posted by: logprof at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (jo6FO)
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (6VEkT)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 02:38 PM (ImuKY)
Anyway, if you watch those videos, it looks like the Bradley is highly effective and takes out Russian main battle tanks.
HBO is a leftwing propaganda organ. I know that shocks you.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:38 PM (1wjle)
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No. I don't thinks so. Based on what I've seen and heard, there was a different reason for the visit. This type of strategic message that Euro based braniacs allege would not have been delivered by Ratcliffe. It is not his purview.
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:38 PM (g47mK)
Do we know that the CIA can do competent analysis now or are we still assuming that they miss everything important and are going to get blindsided by big events that woudl be plain to anyone on the Internet?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 02:39 PM (vJrRc)
The bottom line for the EU is they want escalation that requires US direct involvement, because that fills their treasure chests. They tried to lure us in previously by offering up peace troops, with the caveat that the US serve as an "insurance policy" and jump it if something occurs....which they would have been happy to covertly facilitate deceitfully. Trump didn't fall for that.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 02:39 PM (dIske)
He had to fly there to do it, because a phone call could have been tapped and then everybody would know what he said.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 02:39 PM (6VEkT)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:39 PM (PGK1w)
We have always been at war with Russia and in solidarity with their people and entirely nazi-free military.
Noting has changed.
Russia bad now always.
that's right, nothing has changed, despite the weird Russian-intel crafted effort to convince Americans that Putin is a really nice guy and just wants to defend Christianity against the gays.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:40 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 02:40 PM (O0L8i)
2. Russia seized and controls at least 20% of Ukraine. But Russia is losing the war? I don't think that's how this works.
3. Can both these terrible countries lose?
4. The fact that Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is back in the news after largely disappearing telegraphs to me that Iran is going very well for the USA.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:40 PM (iFTx/)
well it was kind of secret earlier in the week
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:40 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 02:41 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:41 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:40 PM (1wjle)
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Church attendance in Russia is lower than in France. Russia bombed a bunch of churches in Ukraine.
It's a weird stance to take, for sure.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:41 PM (/PKja)
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Yeah right. Sure they did. Because everything always goes exactly as planned.
Oh wait I thought that said Sardonic vessels.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:42 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 02:42 PM (PbWRL)
Brutality Wins Conflict.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:42 PM (Shi2G)
If you were in Russia and saw a nuclear-warhead capable missile coming your way, what are you supposed to do? Let it land and then sift through the smoke and ruins to determine if the war has escalated?
The Islamo-fascist UK needs to be cut loose from NATO since they have demonstrated that they no longer want to be part of civilized society.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 02:42 PM (a6PrB)
Interesting place to negotiate from. Trump and Putin both know what really happened but exposing it to the world has implications for both and not good ones for the US. Good for Trump, not so good for the US on the world stage.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:42 PM (viF8m)
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I found it somewhat disturbing that the natives were largley dressed in shorts and t-shirts. Don't they know anything about dressing for combat? Jeez, even antifa does it better.
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 28, 2026 02:43 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: logprof
I believe in the pictures of long gas lines there, and the worldwide price of diesel.
Ukraine is within reach of shutting Russian fuel off completely.
Posted by: Auspex at August 28, 2026 02:43 PM (Y8DZL)
No one else in NATO comes close.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2026 02:44 PM (wtvvX)
They have a gun with a computerized fire control that estimates where a drone will be by the time the bullet gets to it, and locks the trigger until it calculates the gun is aimed at the right place.
I don't know how effective that is.
I'm happily impressed at how well American war tech seems to be working so I'm hopeful we will figure this out.
Directed energy weapons are part of this. They just jam drones' communications and guidance. But AI is the answer to this, as an AI drone doesn't rely on communications with its operator and also doesn't need GPS guidance. They can fly by scanning the ground.
but also they'll probably be putting money into laser-trucks.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:44 PM (1wjle)
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I don't believe that online publication, or any outlet, got a hold of a real CIA assessment. Russia cut off Ukraine from any and all trade in the Black Sea. So much so, that Zelenskyi proposed a temporary ceasefire. And what gets disseminated ? That Ukraine is winning the Black Sea!
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:44 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:40 PM (iFTx/)
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Iran is now complaining that the US is committing terrorism, Bloomberg has admitted that the strait is effectively open (2/3 of pre-conflict oil getting through, plus all the redirects), the only ships "hit" by Iran these days are either made up or ships that were allowed through the blockade to deliver grain...to Iran, the rial is worth about 2 million to the dollar, and Iran has pretty much admitted that the Gayatollah is dead.
But other than that, Iran is dominating America.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:44 PM (/PKja)
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I like to have my Christianity against the gays
Posted by: Talarico at August 28, 2026 02:44 PM (JunZe)
Brutality Wins Conflict.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:42 PM (Shi2G)
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Mark Rober has a video about all this!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:44 PM (/PKja)
generals and staffers who give Putin bad news tend to exit tall buildings from high windows.
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I know very little about Putin, but I'm surprised to see this. I thought the guy was more realistic.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (mmrXZ)
However they've lost a ton of men in this war. NATO has watched and learned from the development of drone warfare.
While Europe , except Poland are militarily not in good shape we still dominate and it wouldn't go well for the Russians.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (EZWVc)
lol
Russia has been sending missiles at Ukrainian cities since the beginning of the war.
Poor Russia! They invaded a country and that mean Nazi country fought back!
he just wants to defend Christianity from The Gays!
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (1wjle)
I doubt that the USA has a defense against attacks by a large number of drones at this time
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (llBIB)
Either way, I am with you if both countries can lose.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (n5tGW)
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I found it somewhat disturbing that the natives were largley dressed in shorts and t-shirts. Don't they know anything about dressing for combat? Jeez, even antifa does it better.
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 28, 2026 02:43 PM (sFNX2)
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"Well, at least they weren't in fucking jeans."
-George Will
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (/PKja)
Canadian doctors’ group doubles down on expanding MAID to newborns
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So now postpartum abortion?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (ndZc7)
That would be funny if Ratliff went to Moscow to have counter-intelligence from the FSB to do a compare and contrast with the lies and propaganda coming from Deep State operatives at Foggy Bottom.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (NzX/y)
They are. Russia's ships have pulled back to the coasts and the ports.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (1wjle
I mean... The Ukes are where actual Nazis are.
Just like WW11, it's the Nazis fighting the Communists.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:47 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 02:47 PM (6VEkT)
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This is bullshit. Doing the math, if only 1,000 Russians were manning what are called the front lines (which is obviously a ridiculous underestimate), then at a 35 minute life span they'd have 41,142 dead per day just to keep those positions manned.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 02:47 PM (XvL8K)
So what you are voting for is #1 and #2 exporters of wheat to both lose.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 02:47 PM (NzX/y)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 28, 2026 02:48 PM (qwx/I)
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Wut?
There is no reduction in US support. The US is barely more than halfway done disbursing the aid passed under Biden, and added another $400m under Trump.
This is more lies from the lying media.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 02:48 PM (BI5O2)
I also believe that we have now settled into a sustainable low cost, low risk tactical posture that can crack Iran without much kinetic effort on our part. Most wars start off with bad battle plans that don't survive first contact with the enemy - the key to victory is adapting and improvising as it develops.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:48 PM (edUvp)
https://x.com/MorseReport/status/
2093384909461365040
"Recent satellite imagery suggests that the Department of War has conducted a covert dredging operation to open up a never-before-used shipping corridor through the Omani side of the Strait of Hormuz."
We just cut a new waterway that Iran can't even see if they still had their towers and binoculars, much less hit with missiles that they don't have anymore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:48 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:48 PM (g47mK)
Just like WW11, it's the Nazis fighting the Communists.
Uh huh. You mean that Ukranians wanted to be free of Russia and made the enemy-of-my-enemy choice to join Germany.
Yes that's bad.
Whose side of WWII was Ireland on? They made the same calculation and declared war on the UK.
Would we say the Irish are Nazis?
I mean, this is all silly nonsense.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (1wjle)
2. Russia seized and controls at least 20% of Ukraine. But Russia is losing the war? I don't think that's how this works.
3. Can both these terrible countries lose?
4. The fact that Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is back in the news after largely disappearing telegraphs to me that Iran is going very well for the USA.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
I'll address point 2. Germany held a greater part of France in WWI but yet ended up losing. Why. Its internal economy collapsed under Allied blockade. Its civilians were starving.
Gaining territory for territory's sake is what did in Shitler and that Froggie bloke. Same with launching attacks on Ukrainian cities rather than dispersed military targets.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (Mzuzg)
Is Putin a bad actor? Absofuckinglutely. Are the puppets running Ukraine any better? No.
Has nothing to do with the citizens who always get caught in the crossfire. The people running both countries suck.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (VJ0w/)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (OUMaO)
87% of the time, Statistics are Made Up 100% of the time.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:50 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 28, 2026 02:50 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 02:50 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: muldoon at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (qgHp7)
SOOPER - DOOPER!!!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2026 02:50 PM (wtvvX)
Number 1, to see if they work.
Number 2, to send a message.
Number 3, for the fun of it.
Posted by: Old Iron Pants at August 28, 2026 02:50 PM (QRHoA)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:50 PM (ndZc7)
oh they're already doing that. They've got all of this netting and fencing on top of their tanks.
I think I saw a weapon that deploys a net as it approaches a drone to drop it.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:50 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (1wjle)
Ace, Ukraine is dead without Black sea trade, not Russia. That is how Ukraine got their grain out. Now Russia cut them off, and nothing gets through.
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:51 PM (g47mK)
Canadian doctors’ group doubles down on expanding MAID to newborns
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So now postpartum abortion?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (ndZc7)
That’s the only thing Lindsay Clancy is guilty of! — AWFL Karen’s everywhere
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 02:51 PM (geWO5)
I believe the idea was to kneecap whatever good relations were possible, probably on the orders of Beijing, or adjacent. Ukraine is easily one of the most corrupt countries on the planet. It was astonishing to see how quickly they upload the new programming narrative.
"Freedom and Democracy! Let's give them Eleventy Gazillion Dollars RIGHT NOW, OR ELSE!"
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 02:51 PM (rQ950)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (EZWVc)
There are a plethora of online video's showing huge lines waiting for gas and diesel across Russia - in many cities, it's no longer available at any price. Ukraine's campaign against Russian refinery capacity has been seriously damaging.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: ace
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I think the problem is that is is very expensive Like, 10s of k per shell.
The solution to drones is probably going to be ... more drones. Just like the solution to artillery was counter battery artillery.
What scares me is when AI replaces GPS for navigation and AI replaces the fiber optic or radio for targeting. Then these damn things wil be fully autonomous.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (ImuKY)
That's fine. New markets and all of that.
We'd be better off producing more Wheat than Corn, anyway.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (Cqx++)
Had you forgotten?
Russia was great friends with the Nazis... until the Nazis invaded.
Like I said, this is all twitter-argument nonsense. It's silly.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (1wjle)
Regarding the Strait of Hormuz, it turns out Iran just chucked a bunch of metal trash into the water and claimed it was mines, for the most part. There were 11 actual mines and an unholy large mess that wasn't dangerous.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (P9pDS)
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (LHPAg)
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*looks off meaningfully in the distance*
-Andrei Rublev
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: runner
Doesn't change the logistics problem with declining petroleum refining and far better Ukrainian targeting. Putin has made this war into a war for his own survival as has Zelinsky. Neither can climb off the tiger or they will undoubtedly be eaten by who comes next.
Prediction, continued bloody stalemate until someone, probably Russia as long is Putin is in charge due to frustrations, does something incredibly stupid. He lost the moral justification for his war pretty early on and he is now losing strategically while he is winning scant yards of territory at a massive cost of lives.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:53 PM (E4rtv)
We used to know this. I guess we forgot it as it's inconvenient and hurts our dumb twitter arguments.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:53 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 28, 2026 02:53 PM (llBIB)
Regarding the Strait of Hormuz, it turns out Iran just chucked a bunch of metal trash into the water and claimed it was mines, for the most part. There were 11 actual mines and an unholy large mess that wasn't dangerous.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (P9pDS)
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Most of the 11 weren't effective because they weren't properly deployed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:53 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (1wjle)
No, actually. I mean today. There are actual, real-life Nazis fighting for Ukraine.
I'm not saying anything other than that. I draw no conclusions and take no moral positions because of it. I'm saying the Azov Battalion is real.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:53 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:51 PM (g47mK)
Saw a piece today about how Ukraine is shipping grain overland to be transferred down the Danube, but this can only carry a fraction of what used to go by cargo ship. Predicted famine in parts of the middle east soon, which relies on Ukrainian grain imports.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:54 PM (edUvp)
Is the WNBA deploying anti-dildo countermeasures again?
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 02:54 PM (P9pDS)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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I always thought nets would fail -- all you need is a second drone to go through the hole.
But I don't see that happening -- I wonder why.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 02:54 PM (ImuKY)
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Make the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Great Again!
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 28, 2026 02:55 PM (5yDGQ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 02:55 PM (dK+Kv)
It’s pretty clear for whatever reason you feel a need to advance at least part of Putin’s sophism. But the fact is this is Putin’s war of choice. He started it and used NATO as a pretext to do it. He also thought, as Ace noted this would be over quickly. But the fact is Putin has single handily changed the face of warfare, and not to his advantage. He proved you no longer need to be a near peer actor to not just stay in the battle, but to win a war by virtue of perseverance. Ukraine is wrecking Russia’s economy and destroying what is otherwise a great country for his ego. He no longer has NATO to use as his pretext, and his casual belli is essentially gone. The Russian people see it. His top tier military leaders see it, and they’re also not very fond of what looks like subservience to the Chinese. This all has the danger of spiraling out of control, which is why the agency thinks he may make a desperate move.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 02:55 PM (7S15B)
3. Can both these terrible countries lose?
4. The fact that Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is back in the news after largely disappearing telegraphs to me that Iran is going very well for the USA.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
I'll address point 2. Germany held a greater part of France in WWI but yet ended up losing. Why. Its internal economy collapsed under Allied blockade. Its civilians were starving.
Gaining territory for territory's sake is what did in Shitler and that Froggie bloke. Same with launching attacks on Ukrainian cities rather than dispersed military targets.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (E4rtv)
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Except France didn't defeat Germany. If the war was just France and Germany, Germany would have easily won.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:56 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 02:56 PM (n5tGW)
Canadian doctors’ group doubles down on expanding MAID to newborns
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (ndZc7)
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Ya know, that's one of the things that started breaking down my disbelief.
I outsmarted myself. I had been a Catholic. I had cited how abortion would result in a "decline of the value of life". And then I got "sophisticated". There didn't seem to be a irrefutable (that matters as an "atheist") interaction there.
But after it got to a certain point, I realized that I had "predicted" the decline in valuing human life much better as a Catholic, than as a non-believer.
We're here now, and this is probably not a nadir.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:56 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:54 PM (edUvp)
We have so much grain....
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:56 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:56 PM (EZWVc)
Something something "when the winged hussars arrived"...
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 02:56 PM (P9pDS)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (EZWVc)
There are a plethora of online video's showing huge lines waiting for gas and diesel across Russia - in many cities, it's no longer available at any price. Ukraine's campaign against Russian refinery capacity has been seriously damaging.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Some folks here pretty early on decided to side with one or the other in that contest. To me, it is more like Iran-Iraq war, a pity that both could not lose which ironically is pretty much on point. Ukraine cannot win in a conventional contest like retaking its territory by defeating russians and moving its troops into the occupied regions.
Russia appears increasingly unable to win either--it has meager territorial gains while hollowing out and destroying its economy to the point that it is far more at risk from the Chicoms moving into a vacuum in the East.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:57 PM (E4rtv)
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Betwee them, Russia and Ukraine represent about 10% of the global production of calories. Not good for anybody, the way I see it, if they are at war with each other.
Fertilizer, sunflower oil, wheat, petroleum, natural gas, etc. Russia still provides many aerospace materials and rare earths, as well as re-processing spent nuclear fuel rods. That fuckhead from Plains, Georgia decided we weren't going to do things like that. Well, somebody has to.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 02:57 PM (rQ950)
https://t.ly/kcPyA
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (Cqx++)
We need artillery drones.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (Mzuzg)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: ace
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And I've still never seen a satisfactory explanation for why Britain and France didn't declare war on Russia for doing the exact same thing Germany did. Whereas they had an expedition fitted out to help the Finns when Russia invaded. Makes no sense to me.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (XvL8K)
I'm not saying anything other than that. I draw no conclusions and take no moral positions because of it. I'm saying the Azov Battalion is real.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:53 PM (PGK1w)
And there are (or at least were) actual real life Nazi's running for Senator from Maine. I'm not that worked up about the significance of the designation anymore.
I have from the beginning taken the position that this is a fight between two organized crime gangs on the other side of the world, and there's no reason for me to cheerlead for either one. But the war has been worth following a little just to see the huge jumps in drone tech and tactics. 21st century warfare is here, old methods are obsolete now.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (edUvp)
They might do something like fund terrorist groups to attack the US and its allies. Oh wait they've been doing that for 70 years.
I guess they might give Iranian targeting information that Iran doesn't have itself so Iran can hit our bases in Jordan with missiles. Oh wait they've done that too.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (1wjle)
We used to know this. I guess we forgot it as it's inconvenient and hurts our dumb twitter arguments.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:53 PM (1wjle)
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Why not?
Because it's verboten to know that this was a "Well, we're both socialists" type of affinity. Back then it seemed natural: authoritarian ideological socialist with authoritarian ideological socialist.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (Fi81e)
The war in Ukraine did not start in a vacuum and they aren't all good guys because Putin is a bad guy. It's not nearly as black and white as some try to paint it.
The CIA was invented to topple governments. That's what it does. Including our own. Does it seem just a bit of a coincidence that they tried to take down Trump by claiming he was a Russian asset a couple years after Hillary's failed "reset" button diplomacy in Russia and then got much of the dirt to frame Trump and his team from Ukraine?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Not until Lt. Col. Bear Claw weighs in.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 28, 2026 02:59 PM (4HoLg)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:56 PM (iFTx/)
Germany did bomb Pearl Harbor, though, bringing America into the war.
Posted by: Senator Blutarski at August 28, 2026 02:59 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Senator Blutarski at August 28, 2026 02:59 PM (wVcYX)
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Is he rolling?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:00 PM (/PKja)
This guy is higher than anyone here and even he fucking gets it.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 03:00 PM (Shi2G)
Right. Anduril and other "neo-defense" companies have gotten thousands of hours of cheap beta testing for all manner of new technologies out of Ukraine, and for me that's the most interesting part of the war by far. Although the part where Zelensky's apparently in it to help further Soros' Great Replacement is a close second.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 03:00 PM (P9pDS)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM
I suspect that we will know that feeling very soon.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (n5tGW)
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Corn really isn't that digestible. We process the fructose out, and we can ingest fructose (to a degree).
That's why it often shows back up in your poop as round as it went in.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (Mzuzg)
I laid in a lot of shotgun supplies, including shotshell reloading equipment and supplies. That looks to be prescient.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (n5tGW)
And who is it that you think is fighting on the Russian frontlines, targeting civilians, burning villages, raping women and committing war crimes?
This war has been brutal on both sides. I can tell you in every war there are unsavory characters- that’s just the nature of war. It is insidious, destructive, inhumane and unforgiving. Probably by design and certainly by its nature.
BTW I make no excuse for either sides inhumane actions, tactics or philosophies.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (CKrQs)
Number 1, to see if they work.
Posted by: Old Iron Pants
This. The rumor of Russian nukes being non-functional through lack of proper maintenance has going been around for over a year now.
Posted by: Auspex at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (Y8DZL)
A "CIA assessment" is one thing. Ratcliffe's assessment is another... and I'll base that on whether or not he used a "CIA assessment" as a basis for his own.
Suffice to say there was something brewing over there that had someone's panties in a bunch.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
And it is not just Ukraine. A lot of their weapons enabling them to continue the fight came from massive transfers from the West. And sufficient ability to standoff initial Russian superior numbers and technology.
Territory means nothing, to win, you destroy armies and Russia failed to do that because from the beginning it was a political op like Putin used in Georgia with Abkhazia, taking the Crimea, Chechniya, etc. A modified Brezhnev doctrine dealing with ethnic Russians rather than communism.
Germany took Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco Prussian War which did little to help them win WWI either. Simply served as a continuing irritant to the French and caused the French to build up its military again which led to the stupid von Schiefflen plan. Germans were overconfident and stupid in their foreign affairs after Bismarck got dismissed much as Napoleon overreached in his time as well.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:02 PM (E4rtv)
This was the game.
No different than our actions in Afghanistan in the 70s and early 80s and in the Balkans after that.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 03:02 PM (Shi2G)
And we have to keep it cost-efficient. One unit of defense should cost no more than one unit of offense costs the enemy, if possible. No more gold-plated, over-engineered, over-featured, billion-dollars-per-copy weapons systems.
Posted by: gp at August 28, 2026 03:03 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 03:03 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 03:03 PM (Shi2G)
Like the Navy Sixth Fleet using underwater drone technology to blow up the Nord Stream 1 & 2 pipelines?
Or Victoria Nuland overthrowing Ukraine's presidential election and installing Zelenskyy?
There are no good actors. The Cold War just changed tactics.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 03:03 PM (nCgQz)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM
I suspect that we will know that feeling very soon.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (4NO2D)
California certainly will. They've been waging a war against their own refineries even more effective than the Ukraine's has been.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 03:04 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 03:04 PM (zZu0s)
There's a large Ukrainian community sw of me and at one of their community centers they have a statue of Bandera
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:04 PM (EZWVc)
Canadian doctors’ group doubles down on expanding MAID to newborns
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (ndZc7)
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Ya know, that's one of the things that started breaking down my disbelief.
I outsmarted myself. I had been a Catholic. I had cited how abortion would result in a "decline of the value of life". And then I got "sophisticated". There didn't seem to be a irrefutable (that matters as an "atheist") interaction there.
But after it got to a certain point, I realized that I had "predicted" the decline in valuing human life much better as a Catholic, than as a non-believer.
We're here now, and this is probably not a nadir.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:56 PM (Fi81e)
Gang violence, Islamofascism, antifa, transgenderism, pedophilia - it's all just different pages in the same book.
And it's titled "Life is Cheap to Too Many People".
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2026 03:04 PM (wtvvX)
Good morning all.
as a commenter said, you can't fake the many videos of miles long lines for gas and angry Russians complaining that after they stood in line for hours, the station was out of gas before they could get it.
And these attacks are getting more effective.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:04 PM (1wjle)
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Just the starch. The remainder gets fed to hogs and cattle as silage, just like it always has for a couple hundred years now.
I'm no fan of corn-squeezins in our fuel, but this is a bit of lefty propaganda nonsense that just needs to die already. It's stupid, and implies that people are starving or something for lack of corn.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:05 PM (rQ950)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at August 28, 2026 03:05 PM (Spelz)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (n5tGW)
LOL! That's good, that's really good!
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 03:05 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 03:05 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 03:05 PM (LHPAg)
Ukraine destroyed one third of Russia's strategic bomber force in a ferried drone attack. The attack ranged as far east as Irkutsk.
Posted by: gp at August 28, 2026 03:06 PM (Jr5Lq)
This recently happened in Japan with McDonald's PokeMon Cards.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 03:06 PM (Shi2G)
What the actual fuck.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 03:06 PM (VJ0w/)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 03:06 PM (CKrQs)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
And it is not just Ukraine. A lot of their weapons enabling them to continue the fight came from massive transfers from the West. And sufficient ability to standoff initial Russian superior numbers and technology.
Territory means nothing, to win, you destroy armies and Russia failed to do that because from the beginning it was a political op like Putin used in Georgia with Abkhazia, taking the Crimea, Chechniya, etc. A modified Brezhnev doctrine dealing with ethnic Russians rather than communism.
Germany took Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco Prussian War which did little to help them win WWI either. Simply served as a continuing irritant to the French and caused the French to build up its military again which led to the stupid von Schiefflen plan. Germans were overconfident and stupid in their foreign affairs after Bismarck got dismissed much as Napoleon overreached in his time as well.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:02 PM (E4rtv)
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Russia-Ukraine is not remotely WWI
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 03:06 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Because the UK called the shots and Chamberlain failed to support Czechslovakia when it would have been easier to stop Shitler. France quailed when a small German contigent of NotSees invaded the demilitarized Rhineland.
The French could have easily stomped them as even the NotSees admitted and Shitler would never have probably been able to retain power after.
The Fixx song, One Thing Leads to Another is exactly how political history reads.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:06 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig
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I don't think they were overconfident in 1914. The calculus was that it would be better to risk a general war in 1914 when they had some chance of winning, vs a war three of four years down the road when Russia would have completed its rearmament, and they had no chance of winning.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (qwx/I)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (ndZc7)
**scoots further south, waits for massive lightning strike to hit Canada**
Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (ZgwKJ)
The USS Rueben James was sunk by a German U-boat on Oct 31, 1941, more than a month before Pearl Harbor.
But Roosevelt was in Hitler's pocket, so he Epsteined the whole affair.
Posted by: Auspex at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (Y8DZL)
i saw that poland announced a many-billion dollar effort to build the largest army in Europe. (I don't know if they include Russia as part of Europe.)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Casualties are right up there. Probably exceeded the total number of Iran Iraq war which was about eight years in length. Bloodiest war in decades leaving out civil wars.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (E4rtv)
And we have to keep it cost-efficient. One unit of defense should cost no more than one unit of offense costs the enemy, if possible. No more gold-plated, over-engineered, over-featured, billion-dollars-per-copy weapons systems.
Posted by: gp at August 28, 2026 03:03 PM (Jr5Lq)
We don't think you quite understand the potential here.
Posted by: Cyberdyne Research Group at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (wVcYX)
It's time to get out. What if Putin does something rash? What if he nukes Kiev? What if he attacks Poland? What if Poland gives Zelensky an old French warhead cobbled back together with pierogies, and Zelensky fires it at the Kremlin?
I literally couldn't give any less of a shit about any of them. Let the birds fly.
*shrugs*
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (BI5O2)
But what is cool about growing corn is that it is water intensive and destroys the soil requiring massive amounts of fertilizer.
So if you want to dry up the aquifers and wreck the soil, find stupid and wasteful reasons to grow corn.
The Left can be admired for their creativity in destroying a country.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 03:08 PM (+4Cf6)
i saw that poland announced a many-billion dollar effort to build the largest army in Europe. (I don't know if they include Russia as part of Europe.)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (1wjle)
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*squees at the idea of the Knights Templar starting again in Poland and correcting the Papacy as I've predicted for years*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:08 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Overt60 at August 28, 2026 03:08 PM (GdFaB)
The Fixx song, One Thing Leads to Another is exactly how political history reads.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:06 PM (E4rtv)
Churchill said that WW2 was the most unnecessary war in history; that it could have been prevented for a fraction of the cost in men and material at the point you mentioned.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 03:08 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2026 03:04 PM (wtvvX)
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Because that's essentially Darwinism.
Your life means little unless you "make it mean more". (??) Which, is nice rhetoric of a sort, but clinically void.
What's important is that the group survives, not the individual.
But most importantly: Life advances by the death of lesser forms "competing for survival".
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:09 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 03:09 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM
Poland is a real country that I don't mind having in NATO. The Baltic States are not.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:09 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 03:09 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:09 PM (rQ950)
Number 1, to see if they work.
Posted by: Old Iron Pants
Obligatory: https://tinyurl.com/yem3bpt6
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2026 03:09 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 28, 2026 03:09 PM (/OKHJ)
If you listen to Peter Zeihan, I'm sorry about the lost IQ points, but the prediction that does ring true are effectively that Russia will demographically die in a paroxysm of violence by 2040.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 28, 2026 03:10 PM (qwx/I)
I suppose they could lob a few missiles to start a panic, on the assumption that Poland wouldn't retaliate for fear of a nuclear reprisal.
Posted by: Lurkyloo at August 28, 2026 03:10 PM (ort2b)
You can't lay 100% of the results of the Farm Bills on the Dems.
It's the Progressive Republican Caucus that is every bit as much responsible for this particular policy.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 03:10 PM (Shi2G)
What Putin does in the next few weeks will tell. Can't believe ace cited a commie paper as a source.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 03:10 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: Shenanigans at August 28, 2026 03:10 PM (qmxL/)
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Churchill made a half-hearted push to go against the Soviets through Norway - he never saw a sideshow he did not like. But I think the western allies quietly expected the Nazis and Commies to turn on each other and so just waited for the inevitable. After France fell, Britain was in no shape to attack anyone, let alone Russia.
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 28, 2026 03:11 PM (sFNX2)
stinks!
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:11 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2026 03:11 PM (Mzuzg)
Push button warfare.
I hope we win. I have good reasons for hope. All three of my very intelligent, above average IQ children are working the problem.
Yeah, I am a proud dad. Yeah I am arrogant. Please forgive me for that. I am nothing. He is everything.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 28, 2026 03:11 PM (36x1j)
i think you're right.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:11 PM (1wjle)
182 The Fixx is one of those bands that, for whatever reason, has suppressed their original recordings so that only new recordings are available on streaming. I think "Saved by Zero" is one of the ones where one can only hear the new, inferior version on Amazon.
stinks!
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:11 PM (1wjle)
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Probably producer rights over original recordings.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:11 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (zHdFR)
When the Winged Hussars Arrive!
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (n5tGW)
This is why you need to have the original LPs.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (Shi2G)
What the actual fuck.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 03:06 PM
Feminism has reached the "you don't actually love your kids, they're symbols of your oppression by men" stage.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (UmGiD)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 03:13 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:09 PM (rQ950)
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Grass-fed is better for Omega-3 balance.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:13 PM (Fi81e)
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There's a reason it costs 7 bucks for a bag of corn, the bag, worth 70 cents, and it ain't goin' to corn farmers. I suspect SNAP and similar wealth distribution schemes have a lot to do with it.
"Welfare" really needs a weigh-in program, but I can't see how it could ever be done practically or effectively.
Whatever your problems, if you weigh 300 pounds, you don't need free food.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:13 PM (rQ950)
They’re upping their game in the colonization.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 03:13 PM (iCp4l)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Nope. The Germans nearly unleashed forces over Morocco twice. TR won the Nobel Peace Prize for the first at the Algiciras Conference. The second time was in 1911 over the Panther gunship and Morocco which was under French 'protection'. French ceded some territory further south in Africa to resolve it.
The Germans were to blame for WWI because Bismarck's entire career was spent trying to keep the French and the Russians apart. And indeed both were strange bedfellows. But the von Schiefflen plan explicitly required violating Belgium neutrality from the get go and that violated a treaty post Napoleon forbidding Germany from doing that.
Most people focus on WWI in 1914 but the whole saga began in the Napoleonic wars and the Congress of Vienna period after.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:13 PM (E4rtv)
oh that's one of the ones where it's this lame re-recording.
It's so bad. What a shame.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:13 PM (1wjle)
The only reason Ukraine is not ashes - Our weapons - he is fighting us by proxy.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 03:13 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 03:14 PM (UmGiD)
The equivalent of hiding ordnance in the basements of mosques and hospitals.
"We Dare You To Go After It"
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 03:14 PM (+4Cf6)
This is why you need to have the original LPs.
Posted by: garrett
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I think the same reason as Taylor Swift. Has to do with royalties and former bad management percentage takes probably.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:14 PM (E4rtv)
It's Stand or Fall that has been replaced by a re-recording.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:14 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
So... we've managed to bring peace between the Greys, Nordics and Reptilians?
Posted by: Auspex at August 28, 2026 03:14 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (EZWVc)
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The Fixx is one of the bands that seemed like they could not miss.
I mean okay, Deeper, was weird to some, but I ended up liking it just as much as their other stuff.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:14 PM (Fi81e)
They’re upping their game in the colonization.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
Weblow goat badge
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 03:14 PM (VJ0w/)
It's Stand or Fall that has been replaced by a re-recording.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:14 PM (1wjle)
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And one of the most infectious songs ever: One Thing Leads to Another.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:15 PM (Fi81e)
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Most all beef is "grass fed". It's going to be tough.
They finish off with corn for marbling. Fat. Fat is Flavor.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:15 PM (rQ950)
I love that song.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:15 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Martin Tell
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It wasn't half-hearted. That expedition of like 150,000 was fitting out with plans to proceed when the Russo-Finnish war ended. So something changed between 1939 with Poland and 1940 with Finland.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 03:15 PM (XvL8K)
Russia isn't in much of a position to add new fronts. Nor is Putin's position as fragile as has been claimed since the start of this war. There is a tendency to read Russia in western election cycle terms which is not really how they work.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 03:16 PM (okun6)
Posted by: Shenanigans
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Don't discount ego. Twas always a problem for kings and other autocrats, you end up with an inner circle that tells you only what you want to hear, not telling you the horrid truth.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:16 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:16 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (EZWVc)
Reach the Beach, too.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2026 03:17 PM (wtvvX)
I'd rather Ukraine wins, I suspect Russia will attrit its way to victory. But I'm not prepared to put money on that.
I said it was gonna be a long war and it has been.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:18 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:18 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (EZWVc)
Reach the Beach, too.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2026 03:17 PM (wtvvX)
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Now, I gotta bring up Spotify....
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:19 PM (Fi81e)
I think it's great that Indians think that they're the best, smartest, greatest people on earth.
I just don't know why they feel like they have to come here to make money. Something wrong with the country full of Indians?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (/PKja)
Socialism. As I understand it, as soon as an Indian company hires its 100th employee, it becomes nearly impossible to fire any of them -- and the employees know it. So, Indians in India are (effectively) statutorily forbidden from growing even medium-size companies, let alone large ones. And they're also too commietarded to revoke the law that "everyone knows" has hard-broken their economy.
Further, it's a safe bet that if they go somewhere with a better economy and get enough political power to make public policy, then they will put the same idiotic law in place there. They will break the economy there, for the same reason they have not fixed it at home: because it's their nature. They can't help it.
Self-destruction is just irresistibly appealing to simpletons who cannot perceive 2nd-order effects.
Posted by: SciVo at August 28, 2026 03:19 PM (ke3zm)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
TDS has been very hard on him. His first book was fun.
Posted by: Auspex at August 28, 2026 03:19 PM (Y8DZL)
This is why you need to have the original LPs.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (Shi2G)
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It's a royalty issue. The original recordings are owned in part by the record companies, so any streaming of those is shared with the company. The per-song streaming royalties isn't enough to justify the band sharing them, at least in their view.
Streaming of newly or re-recorded versions of the songs isn't shared, so that's what's available.
Def Leppard had the same issue for a long time.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 03:19 PM (iFTx/)
Ain't the same corn. Ethanol corn is a different variety that is genetically engineered to be good feedstock for ethanol conversion.
Sweet corn is the stuff you recognize on your plate.
Processed field corn is the crap that makes Doritos
Dent corn feeds livestock and is used by ethanol distillers.
Its because they are turning cattle feed into Climate Change™ approved ethanol is part of the reason your beef costs more.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 03:19 PM (xE0sV)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (1wjle)
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Yes, but Germany under Chancellor Merz has also announced a military build-up with the aim of establishing the Bundeswehr as the largest army in Europe (outside Russia). There are already German troops in Lithuania, and plans to cooperate with Ukraine on manufacturing missiles that will be fired into Russia.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 28, 2026 03:20 PM (GdFaB)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:20 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:20 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:20 PM (xcxpd)
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*off to the side, whistling innocently*
-Clippy
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:20 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
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Authoritarian regimes, of which Putin's Russia certainly is, usually fall by internal coup like Gorbachev suffered at the very end.
I've been watching the Russian economy since the war began and it is getting sicker by the minute--the war is literally bleeding it, the attacks on logistics is causing the retrenchment of the internal russian economy, not just the oil refineries, but their civilian good delivery warehouses, and all their NATO countries surrounding them are rearming to the teeth.
Doesn't help that you have the Russians stirring up Trans Dneister that is close to causing Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine collaborating to expel the Russians from it.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:21 PM (E4rtv)
I love that song.
Posted by: ace
I ran across a CD with about 20 of their most popular songs, in extended versions. It is phenomenal.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:21 PM (0U5gm)
Now explain Global Resource Centers that Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, et al use for off-shore IT.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 03:22 PM (xE0sV)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Now, imagine drones attacking key Northern munitions factories. The North benefitted from the South running an essentially defensive war. Had the safe factories in the rear been vulnerable to attack by air, suddenly not so similar after all.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:21 PM (0U5gm)
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A band of perennial quality until they ... gave it up?
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:23 PM (Fi81e)
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Totally disagree that the Germans almost totally unleashed forces over Morocco in 1905 and 1911. Especially 1905, when the Russians were embroiled with Japan and the Germans would have won, probably easily. They backed down anyway after losing the diplomatic battle because they weren't willing to unleash a war they would have won. In the 1911 Morocco crisis, they weren't so sure, and by 1914 the feeling of being encircled by France and a rearmed Russia had become overwhelming.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 03:24 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Now, imagine drones attacking key Northern munitions factories. The North benefitted from the South running an essentially defensive war. Had the safe factories in the rear been vulnerable to attack by air, suddenly not so similar after all.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)
You're not wrong but industry is resilient to bombing, WW2 demonstrated that. Unless you firebomb entire cities, the industry can be hardened, moved, rebuilt. And as long as China takes Russian rubles, they'll have cash to do it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:24 PM (xcxpd)
What a joke this website has become.
Posted by: kat von wisc at August 28, 2026 03:24 PM (Ys9Hz)
Authoritarian regimes, of which Putin's Russia certainly is, usually fall by internal coup like Gorbachev suffered at the very end.
I've been watching the Russian economy since the war began and it is getting sicker by the minute--the war is literally bleeding it, the attacks on logistics is causing the retrenchment of the internal russian economy, not just the oil refineries, but their civilian good delivery warehouses, and all their NATO countries surrounding them are rearming to the teeth.
Doesn't help that you have the Russians stirring up Trans Dneister that is close to causing Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine collaborating to expel the Russians from it.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:21 PM (E4rtv)
Russia has long been ruled by something approximating an autocrat and a military aristocracy. When the autocrat is weak, the military deposes him and places in another. But that has historically had very little to do with their economy. While there are many instances of weak-willed leaders in Russia being replaced with more authoritarian ones, it was never driven by the economy.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 03:25 PM (okun6)
Posted by: Axeman
I have no idea what happened, other than they might have been typecast when grunge and other styles showed up. They were very creative.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:25 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:20 PM (xcxpd)
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*off to the side, whistling innocently*
-Clippy
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:20 PM (/PKja)
I've got my eye on you...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:26 PM (xcxpd)
We should not be involved, militarily, in that war.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 03:26 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: mrp at August 28, 2026 03:26 PM (rj6Yv)
I agree about the re-recorded stuff....I hate it. I still have my old CD collection for when i want to hear the good stuff, or I go on YouTube and put on the MTV videos from back then.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at August 28, 2026 03:26 PM (lmFwW)
Metabiota was also busy tracking viruses in China. Largely because once again they were getting contracts from USAID which is just another way of saying the CIA.
Again, not a conspiracy theory. Fact.
They likely would have been busy in Kazakstan where we were also building a huge biolab had Putin not stepped in and stopped it claiming he was going to allow anymore "color revolutions", he said it plainly, on his border.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 03:26 PM (viF8m)
Of the many reasons I don't utilize Streaming for listening...
this is one.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 03:27 PM (Shi2G)
I agree about the re-recorded stuff....I hate it. I still have my old CD collection for when i want to hear the good stuff, or I go on YouTube and put on the MTV videos from back then.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat
Are they touring?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:27 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at August 28, 2026 03:27 PM (lmFwW)
Rus was supposed to overwhelm them THE FIRST WEEK
instead? they've hung in there
also, Ukrainians are smart. they're not Indians. they are coming up with ways to fend off the Rus and me personally? I'm impressed
again I am biased being very close with expats here (whom yes, the US Gov brought over for nuclear science expertise originally - well their parents)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 28, 2026 03:27 PM (j+aD2)
"Welfare" really needs a weigh-in program, but I can't see how it could ever be done practically or effectively.
I can eliminate almost all Fraud with this One Simple Trick:
For as many months as is necessary, all entitlement recipients need to show up at regional centers, with their receipts (utility, grocery, bank statements) for the previous month and have AI ingest it.
Merely showing up eliminates the dead, illegals and the double dippers.
Failing to document gets rid of another
Failing a remedial Dave Ramsey test eliminates a whole lot more.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 03:28 PM (rgGn5)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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Putin doesn't appear to think that way from his public statements. And that is a problem when we analyze him--to him, it is his task to protect Russians everywhere and to restore Russia to great power status.
So he chose to go to war over Ukraine attacking marginally economically useful territories in the Donbas and retaking the mostly Russian Crimea (the entire cession to the supposed SSR Ukraine in 1954 by the USSR was to the Politburo, merely a paper thing).
Perhaps. Putin thought he would be able to decapitate the regime quickly and force a pro Russian peace. He failed. And the remainder of this war is due to climbing the tiger's back, you don't get off or risk being eaten. Zelinsky is in a similar war for his own survival.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:28 PM (E4rtv)
I'm still hoping we revive letters of marque and reprisal.
A supertanker full of oil would be a sweet, sweet prize.
Unrelated: given that we were the first (and so far only) people on the Moon, it's been suggested that we rename it Moon of America.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 03:28 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Casualties are right up there. Probably exceeded the total number of Iran Iraq war which was about eight years in length. Bloodiest war in decades leaving out civil wars.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (E4rtv)
I'd say Ukraine has not even gotten to the level of casualties of the Somme.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 03:28 PM (zZu0s)
Well, now it's 2026, and Europe doesn't count for shit.
Explain why it matters what happens there.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 03:28 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: whig
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And the South was not constantly re-supplied by France or England.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 03:28 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 03:28 PM (zHdFR)
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Following the massive commercial breakthrough of their double-platinum 1983 album Reach for the Beach, The Fixx chose to make a more serious, moody, and experimental follow-up album, Phantoms (1984). This musical shift made them harder for radio programmers to categorize.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:29 PM (Fi81e)
I'm still hoping we revive letters of marque and reprisal.
A supertanker full of oil would be a sweet, sweet prize.
Unrelated: given that we were the first (and so far only) people on the Moon, it's been suggested that we rename it Moon of America.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 03:28 PM (IG3/x)
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We are.
https://x.com/benjaminpenn/status/
2092692684427190703
"@benjaminpenn
SCOOP: Justice Dept. plans activating long-dormant maritime war court to streamline capture of Iranian oil tankers as US prizes. Legally uncertain plan intended to bolster blockade of Iran.
A feature of 1700s naval combat, prize courts set to return."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:29 PM (/PKja)
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1) That makes no sense. If you can't handle the fight you're in, deliberately expanding it is suicidal, and unlike our muslim enemies, Putin hasn't shown any evidence of suicidal tendencies.
2) Why in the world would we consider CIA opinions as credible?
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 28, 2026 03:29 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat
Pretty good set of the Fixx performing live online just previous to Covid, I think in a Portland studio or something. Some kind of corporate sponsored gig but on youtube.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:29 PM (E4rtv)
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Is Putin now also being advised by AutoPen Empire treasonous rejects like Gen. Milley Vanilli, $6-man Lloyd Austin, and other holdover scumbags from Trump 1.0's Pentagon?
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 03:30 PM (9c4Eu)
They likely would've had they not been fighting NATO the whole time.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 03:30 PM (viF8m)
Well, now it's 2026, and Europe doesn't count for shit.
WW2 ended Europe mattering for much, mostly by their own decision to go gay atheist Communist.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 03:30 PM (UmGiD)
They hung in their with billions of our tax dollars and our munitions and our intelligence so fucking zelensky could snort coke off French hookers asses. After jailing the opposition, outlawing them and stopping elections.
I have not a whit of sympathy for those assholes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 03:30 PM (zZu0s)
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Yes, the new tour begins next week. I'm seeing them on 9/11 at the Keswick theater outside of Philly.
It's a real "old guy" tour, the opening acts are Colin Blunstone and Peter Asher.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at August 28, 2026 03:30 PM (lmFwW)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:31 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:31 PM (EZWVc)
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Putin advisor Cucker Qatarlson hardest hit ...
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 03:31 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: Methos
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Putin himself has threatened to use nukes both against Ukraine and obliquely against UK and others that are supplying and arming Ukraine.
One should always take such threats credibly. Not dismiss them. And by all accounts, due to fear of Ukrainian assassins/missiles and his own safety, Putin has deliberately isolated himself more and more from the public and even his own government.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:32 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account
I think that's the heart of a lot here. Everyone expected the Russians to curb stomp Ukraine...just like everyone expected the Soviet Union to stay standing well into the 21st century...just like (and I honestly still think this) they believed Saddam had WMDs.
The CIA is incompetent. Or more to the point maybe they're just distracted playing domestic kingmaker. Either way, they are not fit for purpose, which means ultimately we've been flying...if not blind, then with a VERY distorted view of reality.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 28, 2026 03:32 PM (OUMaO)
Rus was supposed to overwhelm them THE FIRST WEEK
instead? they've hung in there
also, Ukrainians are smart. they're not Indians. they are coming up with ways to fend off the Rus and me personally? I'm impressed
again I am biased being very close with expats here (whom yes, the US Gov brought over for nuclear science expertise originally - well their parents)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 28, 2026 03:27 PM (j+aD2)
That was the western assessment of Ukraine.
Ukraine and Russia basically had the same type of military and doctrines, they were both part of the USSR and until 2014 Ukraine was a Russian buffer state. Culturally they aren't that distinct.
It made no sense to assert essentially similar forces would result in a one-sided conflict.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 03:32 PM (okun6)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:29 PM (/PKja)
Yeah, I knew about the prize courts coming back, but I haven't seen that we've actually started issuing letters of marque to privateers just yet.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 03:33 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:33 PM (EZWVc)
So why did we send them $200 billion to fight a war we do not really care about?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 03:33 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 03:33 PM (rgGn5)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 03:16 PM (okun6)
Not one IS has good intelligence on what goes on inside Russia.
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 03:33 PM (g47mK)
The fist will run, grasp metal to gun
The spirit sings in crashing tones, we gain the battle drum
Our cries will shrill, the air will moan and crash into the dawn
The pen won't stay the demon's wings
The hour approaches, pounding out the Devil's sermon
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:33 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 03:34 PM (n5tGW)
but also they'll probably be putting money into laser-trucks.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:44 PM (1wjle)
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Yes, AI in weapons is a great idea.
Posted by: Skynet at August 28, 2026 03:34 PM (U/dC0)
The late Hal Lindsey Graham and the Disappearing Turtle both assured us that the $200B was distributed across US MIC recipients.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 03:34 PM (rgGn5)
What a joke this website has become.
Posted by: kat von wisc at August 28, 2026 03:24 PM (Ys9Hz)
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This is what Russian shock and awe does to you.
The military-political leadership in Ukraine did not even have time to declare war.
They were FROZEN.
Troops were instantly demoralized.
Kiev was basically defeated in SHORTLY OVER AN HOUR.
Posted by: Pepe Escobar at August 28, 2026 03:34 PM (GdFaB)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 03:35 PM (okun6)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 03:35 PM (ndZc7)
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Nope, nothing to do with that. The Feds require "oxygenated" gasoline. California has queer notions about what gasoline should be like as well. Boutique blends.
The Oxygenate of choice was formerly MTBE, but this was found to contaminate ground water. Nasty stuff.
Ethanol was the approved replacement.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:35 PM (3cYpk)
Does anyone actually believe this?
Ukraine is one of the poorest country's in Europe. Surely, this is someone else's mastery on display.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 28, 2026 03:35 PM (QvNk9)
So why did we send them $200 billion to fight a war we do not really care about?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 03:33 PM (viF8m)
Multiple reasons, some of which you might even agree with. One big one, same reason we opposed the invasion of Kuwait: we don't want the precedent that aggression is rewarded.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:36 PM (xcxpd)
instead? they've hung in there
It might well have worked it the Russians' attempt at a coup de main on Keev would have worked at the start.
Alas for them, little Russia let them down.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:36 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 03:36 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Pepe Escobar at August 28, 2026 03:34 PM (GdFaB)
Ah, that explains why the war was over so fast.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:36 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:37 PM (0U5gm)
Makes sense. Russia could have ordered a general mobilization - which could easily zergrush Ukraine - but Tsar Putin chose not to do this. He just sent criminals, Islamic scum from the Caucasus, and North Koreans.
Drop a few old issues of Juggs on 'em and they're out of the fight.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 03:37 PM (88C+u)
Bernie: the oligarchs will raise pirate crews and take over the seas. Ahhhh
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:37 PM (EZWVc)
There was also the minor issue of the Donbas voting to leave Ukraine because it was culturally aligned with Russia.
How did the peaceful government of Ukraine respond to that? Didn't get a lot of western media coverage. Unexpectedly.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 03:37 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: kat von wisc at August 28, 2026 03:24 PM
Is this a proper flounce? The form seems off.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:37 PM (4NO2D)
They likely would've had they not been fighting NATO the whole time.
Posted by: JackStraw
Not really Jack. Putin is not our friend, Ukraine ain't our friend either. Nor is the UK, France, Germany, and many other putative allies.
Despite the Deep State punkin Putin on Ukraine via the color revolution. Putin was pulling the same shit in Georgia prior to that with even GWB putting American planes on the ground there to prevent his sniveling and cowardly Abkhazian based invasion on hold.
Fuck Putin, Fuck Zelinsky, the common people of both nations deserve far better than those assholes and their regimes. And Fuck the IC and its ridiculous meddling as it causes more problems for common people in the long run than it solves.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:37 PM (E4rtv)
Then we overthrew Ukraine and installed the Nazi Z-Bag. Which was a practice run for J6.
We--NATO, State, CIA, BabyLondon--started this war, not Putin.
Europe, especially London, are all trying to start WW III and drag us into it, not Russia. They need to keep the Money Laundering, Bio-Labs, Weapons Trafficking, Sex Trafficking and Child Trafficking going for their Endless War.
Zelesky sells his own people as Cannon Fodder. And everything out of the CIA is pure fucking horseshit.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 28, 2026 03:38 PM (cu1Xa)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:36 PM (xcxpd)
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Actual tweet from Pepe Escobar on February 24 2022.
Posted by: Pepe Escobar at August 28, 2026 03:38 PM (GdFaB)
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And he is right to do so. The Europeans are supporting attacks against civilians in his territory and one way or another, as the leader of his country, he has an obligation to deter them.
We should have nuked Kabul and Kandahar after 9/11 for exactly the same reason.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 28, 2026 03:39 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: JackStraw
I can't recall seeing a lot of mainstream media showing the videos of Ukranian units shelling towns in the eastern provinces. They were doing it for years.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:39 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: JackStraw
To launder $200 billion. They think their Big Reset is coming.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 03:39 PM (3arSl)
Posted by: Pepe Escobar at August 28, 2026 03:38 PM (GdFaB)
ah
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:40 PM (xcxpd)
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A distinction without a difference for what's under discussion.
They feed the remainder to hogs and cattle. This product even has a name. "Distillers Dried Grains" or DDGs. It might be a different strain, but guess what? The fucking cattle don't give a shit.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:40 PM (3cYpk)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:36 PM (xcxpd)
Which is a funny comparison because:
George H. W. more or less told Saddam Kuwait was none of the US's concern beforehand, just like Sleep Joe said a little invasion of Ukraine would be no big deal beforehand. Why, it's almost like we wanted both of these conflicts to ripen.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (cpb9t)
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (hbfWH)
Ukraine is one of the poorest country's in Europe. Surely, this is someone else's mastery on display.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket
They have some really bright guys there just as the Russians do. And the fact that drones at the tactical level are pretty simple helped. What is clear though that while pilots on both airforces are pretty much grounded due to anti air to air missiles, robo guided ordnance has become king.
200 billion buys a lot of tooling, factories, and revenge for the Ukrainians.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (E4rtv)
True in AD 750 maybe but things have changed. I follow some linguistic channels on Youtube. They report that Ukraine came under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth where the prestige language was Polish. So they have a lot of Polish loanwords.
Russia came under the Mongols, and then Peter the Great moved to Leningrad. Prestige language here was French. Some German. These loanwords did not come to Ukraine.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (88C+u)
Do you remember how much smoke the U.S. could create on the battlefield in WWII? Surely smoke capabilities are even much better now?
For that Ukraine counter-offensive, if I was a soldier, I would want a sh*t ton of smoke until I got into a favorable position.
Likewise, when I see a drone chasing soldiers in the open, would popping off a big smoke canister protect the soldiers from a direct hit from an FPV drone grenade?
(Questions from a non-military Moron.)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (HlyYF)
I don't agree with any war that was largely started by corrupt US politicians and our garbage intel community.
We knew for years that a further eastward expansion of NATO toward Russia was going to result in war. Not only did Putin clearly state it, he gave us a test run in Georgia.
The myths that people have been sold about what led to this war are largely just that, myths. This was a war we helped fuel so some jackoffs in foggy bottom could play their game of global Risk. And now tens and likely hundreds of thousands are dead, billions of our tax dollars have been lit on fire and nobody wins. Super.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:36 PM (xcxpd)
Which is a funny comparison because:
George H. W. more or less told Saddam Kuwait was none of the US's concern beforehand, just like Sleep Joe said a little invasion of Ukraine would be no big deal beforehand. Why, it's almost like we wanted both of these conflicts to ripen.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (cpb9t)
Korean war started the same way. The US Government could fuck up a wet dream. And then soldiers, sailors and Marines have to pay the price. And don't get me started on gas prices as well.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (hPgrk)
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This guy gets it.
I've never been able to figure out how most countries have wonderful people. And absolutely wretched, vile leaders on a consistent basis.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (3cYpk)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (viF8m)
But hey, we crippled the Russian military and got to preview drone warfare.
Eh, I mostly agree with you. But there are layers and there are reasons to keep Russia from stomping its neighbors. Not saying the Ukes are saints tho.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:44 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 03:35 PM (okun6)
Right, Russia did not "start a war," they escalated one.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 28, 2026 03:44 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket
Well, that is whether April Glaspie, ambassador to Iraq understood that Saddam aimed at taking the Kuwaitis out. At the time, GHWB was preoccupied with the dying Soviet Union. You can dig up her wiki page which is ambiguous depending on which source you believe on transcription.
One has, "But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait. I was in the American Embassy in Kuwait during the late 1960s. The instruction we had during this period was that we should express no opinion on this issue and that the issue is not associated with America. James Baker has directed our official spokesmen to emphasize this instruction. We hope you can solve this problem using any suitable methods via Klibi (Chedli Klibi, Secretary General of the Arab League) or via President Mubarak. All that we hope is that these issues are solved quickly." Continued,
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:44 PM (E4rtv)
True in AD 750 maybe but things have changed. I follow some linguistic channels on Youtube. They report that Ukraine came under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth where the prestige language was Polish. So they have a lot of Polish loanwords.
Russia came under the Mongols, and then Peter the Great moved to Leningrad. Prestige language here was French. Some German. These loanwords did not come to Ukraine.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (88C+u)
The PLC was partitioned. The language and religion remained far closer to Russia.
At any rate, the conflict is something closer to the same military fighting itself than Russia fighting a different power.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 03:44 PM (okun6)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 03:44 PM (hPgrk)
"One version of the transcript has Glaspie saying:
We can see that you have deployed massive numbers of troops in the south. Normally that would be none of our business, but when this happens in the context of your threats against Kuwait, then it would be reasonable for us to be concerned. For this reason, I have received an instruction to ask you, in the spirit of friendship — not confrontation — regarding your intentions: Why are your troops massed so very close to Kuwait's borders?
Later the transcript has Glaspie saying:[citation needed]
We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America.
April Glaspie meets Saddam Hussein in 1990 (Sadoun al-Zubaydi center)
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Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:45 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 28, 2026 03:45 PM (/WHpM)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (3cYpk)
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Absolute Power Attracts Absolute Psychopaths.
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 03:46 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 03:46 PM (hPgrk)
Because once people like Victoria Nuland get in power they start to believe their own bullshit and think they alone should decide how to reorder the world. It's not a uniquely American situation but we sure do have our share.
I mean the same people tried to run a coup against our own president and then rigged an election to keep out of office, tried to throw him in prison and then best case looked the other way when nut bags they likely radicalized tried to murder him. Our president. Does anyone really think they give a shit about wars in far away places when they know the media will turn it into a teevee special?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 03:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
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Unless one is Ukrainian, what we say as outsiders has scarce relevance to facts on the ground. It is what they believe to be true and nations are often founded by being forged in blood. Claim to Austrians that they are really Germans sometime. Or Swiss.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:48 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: kat von wisc at August 28, 2026 03:24 PM
Is this a proper flounce? The form seems off.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:37 PM (4NO2D)
A joke like funny? Funny like a clown? Do we make you laugh?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Possibly. Probably a whole agenda to discuss. But like the idiotic mullahs in IRGC, they always get a say in what happens.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (3cYpk)
Governments are populated by people who want power over other people.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Braenyard
He was stupid, by his actions in Syria, he pissed off the Israelis and forced them to at least have some relations on the down low on strategic matters with the Ukrainians. Same with his embrace with Iran that is now biting him in the ass.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:53 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: kat von wisc at August 28, 2026 03:24 PM
Is this a proper flounce? The form seems off.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:37 PM (4NO2D)
A joke like funny? Funny like a clown? Do we make you laugh?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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The proper flounce is similar to metaphorical defenestration. Except for comedic purposes.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:56 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: JackStraw
To launder $200 billion. They think their Big Reset is coming.
Posted by: t-bird
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Don't forget 10% to the Big Guy.
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2026 04:01 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: jt at August 28, 2026 04:17 PM (wXX2g)
Most "transgenders" who truly believe their status are suffering from a severe lack of testosterone and are more susceptible to that lack. Most "transgenders" are cosplaying a trend for attention. The entire female born "transgender" society is made up of low self-esteem females (primarily plain and unattractive) looking for an alternative that forgives their appearance, and plays into feminist propaganda that we live in a purely patriarchal society.
The remaing .0005% are just still confused by the childhood song, "I'm a little Teapot."
File it.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:37 PM (dIske)
Would we say the Irish are Nazis?
I mean, this is all silly nonsense.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (1wjle)
Sorry, Ace, the Republic of Ireland declared official neutrality in WWII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Irish_neutrality_during_World_War_II
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (/MsWN)
Surely not. When was it called St. Petersburg, before or after Peter the Great moved there? Oh, and when did they start calling him the Great?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (/MsWN)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (/MsWN)
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And the Republic of Ireland sent official condolences to the Third Reich on the death of Adolf Hitler.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 28, 2026 05:18 PM (+HNMe)
You might want to reinterpret this. On 22 July, the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice reported 259,853 registered deaths in the first six months of 2026. Only about 40,000 of those deaths were females, about normal in a second world country with a population around 20 million. Do the math: about 180,000 male deaths were due to Russian military action, or about 25% of the UFA combat effectives. And this does not include the massive number of unrecovered MIA bodies being ground up by artillery strikes.
If the Russians are losing, God help the Ukrainians if they ever start to win.
The poor bastard in the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice who reported this data without filtering it is probably now leading an assault team in the Kramatorsk theater, if he is indeed still alive.
Posted by: 10x25mm at August 28, 2026 05:19 PM (/obgY)
Rubio Suspends All H-1B Visa Processing
Rubio tried to ban visas for citizens of countries who tend to abuse our welfare system.
A Biden judge named Jeanette Vargas, get this, blocked this necessary measure.
federal judge in New York has vacated a Trump administration policy that suspended the processing of visas from 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Russia and Somalia, whose nationals the Trump administration deemed likely to require public assistance in the United States. U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, set aside the policy Friday as "contrary to law and in excess of statutory authority." Secretary of State Marco Rubio exceeded his authority by issuing the policy, which "runs afoul" of the Immigration and Nationality Act by mandating "the refusal of visas to eligible applicants without any basis in law," the judge ruled.
Judge says power lies with consular officers Vargas said the policy also undermines the congressional requirement that puts consular officers at the forefront of any visa decision.
So the Trump Administration goes to Plan B: Stop all immigrant visas while they teach consular staff to vet the living hell out of applicants.
The Trump administration has paused immigrant visa appointments worldwide to carry out "in-depth training" for consular officers to screen out foreign applicants at risk of taking advantage of U.S. public assistance. ... "A more prosperous American means ensuring that visa applicants are not likely to become a public charge, as defined under U.S. law and regulation, and not likely to become dependent on U.S. public benefits reserved for qualified Americans in need," a State Department spokesperson told The Hill in an email Wednesday. The spokesperson said that a global, in-depth training initiative was launched in early August at all U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide and that "appointments for visa and services will be adjusted." "Whenever there are changes to visa interview appointments, embassies and consulates communicate any changes directly to visa applicants," the spokesperson said. The pause on visa applications coincides with Trump's hard-line tack on immigration, where the administration has boasted about revoking more than 175,000 visas from individuals it said had violated the terms by committing criminal offenses, but that largely relied on encounters with law enforcement. The administration announced on Monday it was working to revoke short-term visas from individuals who used them to enter the U.S. and then file asylum claims, with some reports claiming the administration has a goal of canceling 200,000 visas. The administration has also prioritized revoking visas and permanent residency, or green cards, from people who it deems are a threat to U.S. national security, but advocates say officials are targeting people over protected free speech like political opinions and attending pro-Palestinian protests.
Palmer Luckey on H-1B visas:
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) August 26, 2026
"You would not believe what I saw in Silicon Valley. The H-1B abuse is insane. It is obviously a scam to replace US workers with, basically, slave labor that can’t ever escape." pic.twitter.com/SU8xZAoLuD
It used to…. not anymore. https://t.co/pOYJArjDbF pic.twitter.com/GCuSv0iwV0
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) August 28, 2026
He's Congolese now. Perhaps the most Congolese man alive. https://t.co/wsBZPiv6Um
— Wade Stotts (@wadestotts) August 26, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (NcvvS)
Trump has imported all of India. Kamala would have done it better.
Nick Fuentes told me so.
Besides, Trump's deportation effort is too non-existent and way too mean at the same time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 01:21 PM (6LG2q)
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"Trump is using tools that have been legal parts of the executive toolkit for decades. He's so lawless!"
-the CATO Institute
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:21 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Dr. T at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (KKJEY)
Huh. Guess he should have left for Cuba when he had the chance.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (dpAEq)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 01:23 PM (2Cry5)
Huh. Guess he should have left for Cuba when he had the chance.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (Riz8t)
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Usually this happens when the host country refuses the deportee. Most of the time because they're violent criminals.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:23 PM (/PKja)
The Hamilton cops respond:
Hamilton Police are aware the Dominion Club of Canada continues to seek an alternate Hamilton venue for its DomCon conference on Aug 29. Anyone with information about a recent venue booking in #HamOnt is asked to contact police at 905-546-4707. Read More:
Our future Antifa police force is a reality today in Hamilton.
Posted by: Michael Moore! at August 28, 2026 01:23 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at August 28, 2026 01:23 PM (P9Ea3)
Pause, hell! SHUT IT DOWN FOR GOOD!
Posted by: gp at August 28, 2026 01:24 PM (Jr5Lq)
-the CATO Institute
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:21 PM (/PKja)
Biden admitted 5M illegals. If Trump were a REAL conservative, he'd ensure that he admitted 5M illegals. He's an out of control communist who wants to take food out of the mouths of starving dreamers for his billionaire friends who almost entirely support his opponents. -- CATO after a couple more bong hits
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:24 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 01:24 PM (j9ddv)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:25 PM (PGK1w)
Pause, hell! SHUT IT DOWN FOR GOOD!
Posted by: gp at August 28, 2026 01:24 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Requires an act of Congress.
Gonna get Tillis, Murkowski, Mitch, Cassidy, and Cornyn to vote for it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:25 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 01:25 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at August 28, 2026 01:25 PM (/OKHJ)
The H1B visa was always a scam to replace Americans with more compliant foreigners willing to work for a fraction of the pay. Always.
And for rich guys to import foreign THOTs and whores.
It's long past the time to shut the whole racket down. But better late than never.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)
I want to address something from the last thread though, as an answer:
Why haven't the wastelands of the West been turned into data center farms, with on-site nuclear power and solar for backup?
Data centers need two things and really want a third
1) Power, which a local nuke would definitely help with
2) Water, to cool the processors until they figure out a way to make them work without generating self-melting temperatures
Neither of those are available in the middle of the Nevada desert. Building your own power plant definitely would help but they take years and billions so its not exactly practical.
3) Being near civilization. Its not that they have to be, you can transmit the data and commands etc back and forth but the closer the safer and higher quality of transmission. Its just better that way.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Cray Cray at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (CYBB0)
On the mal-advice of their lawyer, they think they are being cute and can avoid deportation by claiming they have a credible threat of bodily harm if they return to their home country.
Surprisingly, the law had anticipated this and give them the option to name a country to which they would be willing to be deported to.
On further mal-advice of his lawyer, he doubled-down on his gamesmanship, and thought naming a far-off country would forestall the deportation.
So, to be clear--he chose the Congo.
Not the US.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (iFTx/)
Judge says power lies with consular officers
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (HUco/)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:25 PM (PGK1w)
Of course not. Rubio is doing all of this with neither Trump's approval or direction. Frankly, we'd be better off with Nikki Haley who was great during her time in the first Trump Administration.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (iFTx/)
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Are not some of them pretty much saying this now?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:27 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Piper
That's, like, hard and shit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 01:27 PM (VJ0w/)
Judge says power lies with consular officers
It's **just** amazing how many members of the Executive Branch don't have to follow the dictates of the Executive Branch.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:27 PM (aD4fx)
Just going back to Earl Warren, once they realized they were untouchable, they just kept stepping over lines.
When's the last time a federal judge was impeached?
A total of 8 judges in US history have been removed from office.
Huge flaw in our Constitution.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 28, 2026 01:28 PM (XKqRR)
Judge Vargas: "You can't do that."
State Department: "OK. Looks like we need to shut down visa processing in EVERY country so that we can train our consular officers best practices in vetting applicants to the United States. Could take months. Maybe years."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:28 PM (FZ29D)
Complete with a picture of the tyke in a Texas Longhorns shirt.
What did he leave out?
Oh yeah, that his dad was here illegally and his dad CHOSE to take him back to Mexico with him.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:28 PM (3cUTc)
Ringy ringy ringy dingy dingy dingy
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 28, 2026 01:28 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Octochicken at August 28, 2026 01:28 PM (oCS0o)
"You would not believe what I saw in Silicon Valley. The H-1B abuse is insane. It is obviously a scam to replace US workers with, basically, slave labor that can’t ever escape.""
Do you know who the first politician was that I heard make this very argument, back in 2014-15 or so?
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, from the floor of the Senate.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 01:28 PM (0CU3H)
They call them canadian geese, we need a tariff on goose shit exports.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (SK+av)
Uh, yeah? Guess who encounters the people breakng the law on a daily basis: LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Posted by: pookysgirl, Associate Professor in the Obvious Department at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (Wt5PA)
Yeah Indians, at least the caste that H1B seems to consist of, are utterly, unshakably convinced that they are completely superior in every possible way to all others, particularly Americans and English. They cannot even begin to conceive that this might be questionable.
They post constantly about how they built America and America would be doomed without them, and how stupid Americans are and (this is the oddest one, but repeated a lot) wipe their rear ends with paper instead of washing with water.
Given what India looks like and how they crap in the street, I'm puzzled by this particular point but here you are.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (K32Fz)
They call them canadian geese, we need a tariff on goose shit exports.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (SK+av)
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Canada Geese have been renamed Donald Ducks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (/PKja)
H-1Bs allow the United States to import all of the world's super-geniuses.
It is purely coincidence that 80% of the world's super-geniuses are Indian.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (aD4fx)
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That could take just forever if they do it right.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (vSvIl)
Ehhh, fuck, singh me a song
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (NtVYv)
His first day of school will be in Mexico. So what?
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (EZWVc)
H-1Bs allow the United States to import all of the world's super-geniuses.
It is purely coincidence that 80% of the world's super-geniuses are Indian.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (aD4fx)
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I think it's great that Indians think that they're the best, smartest, greatest people on earth.
I just don't know why they feel like they have to come here to make money. Something wrong with the country full of Indians?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:25 PM (PGK1w)
Of course not. Rubio is doing all of this with neither Trump's approval or direction. Frankly, we'd be better off with Nikki Haley who was great during her time in the first Trump Administration.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (ExV1e)
No. She wasn't. She was pretty garbage.
Rubio isn't though. Rubio's tearing this up like we all hoped it would get torn up.
You know his heart's not really in it, though. He DESPERATELY wants amnesty, but that meany Trump won't let him. As soon as Trump's gone, though, we're going to get Rubio from 15 years ago instead of Rubio from literally this week.
It is known.
I can't imagine being treated like I haven't learned anything over the past decade and a half.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (PGK1w)
Yeah I keep asking these people: do you want to separate children from their families or not? Pick a side here.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (K32Fz)
His first day of school will be in Mexico. So what?
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (MWfyi)
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"Mexico is a shithole that deserves no human life. Also, we must import Mexico."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:31 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 01:31 PM (FcAaq)
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They've always maintained this. Illegals are "shoring up Social Security", because they pay in yet don't receive benefits. They really believe there is a net economic benefit to Americans. Or that's what they claim. Not that many are really that stupid. It's the same ole same ole, professing to not understand something to make rational discourse impossible.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 01:31 PM (6LG2q)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 28, 2026 01:32 PM (CWTWj)
Yeah that is my take as well. People are real big on Rubio, because he takes orders really well but his true nature is not the same and he has no leadership skills on his own. Vance has been saying some really odd stuff lately but I still like him better than Rubio as president.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:32 PM (K32Fz)
It's to avoid the costs associated with having the employee here. Health insurance in India is far cheaper than here. For example.
Plus, termination is way easier. Is the guy in India going to fly back to the US to fight his ouster? Probably not.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 01:32 PM (2Cry5)
It is purely coincidence that 80% of the world's super-geniuses are Indian.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (aD4fx)
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And yet their country is a shit hole.
You'd think a bunch of super-geniuses would be able to solve that problem...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:32 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: steevy at August 28, 2026 01:32 PM (YwEeS)
Yeah they really think that. Odd how they can only be a useful super-genius in the USA and India continue to be a literal shit hole
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (K32Fz)
It's amazing how the civil rights employment laws don't apply when a Silicon Valley tech firm decides to employ 80% Indians.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (JunZe)
I think the agreement includes from cash or aid for each deportee accepted. It's well worth the money for us to get rid of these degenerate parasites.
I assume foreign criminals and scumbags don't last long in Congolese jungles or Liberian death camps. So sad.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (iFTx/)
Rubio was bad on immigration. Really fucking bad on immigration. For years. He suddenly became not bad on immigration when it stopped being his decision.
Would he go back to being bad on immigration? I have no idea. But neither do you. At the very least, he should be required to answer when and why he flipped from very bad to good on the subject before we all line up to give him a tongue bath on the subject.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (ExV1e)
Yeah that is my take as well. People are real big on Rubio, because he takes orders really well but his true nature is not the same and he has no leadership skills on his own. Vance has been saying some really odd stuff lately but I still like him better than Rubio as president.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:32 PM (K32Fz)
I guess I needed the /s on that one...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:34 PM (PGK1w)
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Canada Geese have been renamed Donald Ducks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August
100% better than lake America! Let’s do this. And ignore community notes on different species issues.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 01:34 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:34 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 28, 2026 01:32 PM (CWTWj)
Cuba doesn't accept deportees back from the US.
Posted by: Octochicken at August 28, 2026 01:34 PM (oCS0o)
It's amazing how the civil rights employment laws don't apply when a Silicon Valley tech firm decides to employ 80% Indians.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (aD4fx)
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People are tribal. Just a question of which tribe.
Indians are pretty overt about their tribes. They have a whole caste system about it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:35 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:35 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 28, 2026 01:35 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (CWTWj)
Indians are pretty overt about their tribes. They have a whole caste system about it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:35 PM (/PKja)
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Yup. And the further removed you are from a first-world nation, the more tribal you become.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (FZ29D)
It's because almost all the Indians in the United States are upper-caste. It's those filthy low-caste Indians that make India India in their view.
California briefly considered including caste discrimination in its definition of racial discrimination.
That got shut down real quick.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (aD4fx)
It has been my observation having worked in half dozen offices, that the only group that doesn't obsessively and deliberately hire their own kind are white men. Women hire women. Hispanics hire hispanics. Blacks hire blacks. White guys hire anyone if they can do the job (or are at least hot).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (K32Fz)
More lawless action ignoring the will of Congress in order to stop legal immigration. Hopefully a wake up call for all the people saying "do it the right way". Americans are now stuck without their loved ones for an indeterminate period of time solely because of fear, bigotry and a lack of imagination.
Our K1 application only worked as an immigrant visa. Our interviews were cancelled 3 days before, and we had to refund hotel tickets and stop all our travel plans before we lost everything. We are devastated.
This pause seems suspiciously timed with the judge throwing out the 75 country ban/pause. So they are just going to put everyone in procedural hell. Time for the courts to step in and smack Trump. Again.
As much as I despise Trump and MAGA, I'm down with severely limited H1B's. I've worked in tech for ~30 years. No H1B my teams have worked with where any better than an American. H1Bs wouldn't follow processes and procedures. Explaining complicated SOX compliance to an Indian pretending to not understand English..
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (FKi1y)
Burned some temporary housing, kind of like how the Belfast boys burned some housing of migrants up in Northern Ireland.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (/PKja)
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I.e. executive power isolated from the President/Cabinet.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (Fi81e)
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Lots of brackish water aquifers in the US.
Modular nuclear reactor will have plenty of power for desalination.
Hell, they may have enough spare power to fully evaporate it and sell the "Ancient Laramidia Sea Salt"
Goofy hippies will trip over themselves to buy the crystals.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:37 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 01:37 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 28, 2026 01:37 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 01:37 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: mikeski at August 28, 2026 01:37 PM (VHUov)
Would be great if we could send this Judge there to be his indentured servant.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 01:37 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 01:37 PM (geWO5)
Government wants to be your god.
Posted by: Marcus
We’ve had traffic cameras for decades. We’ve had toll highways scanning plates for decades. Even flock has been around for almost 10 years. Every house has a Ring camera Nobody cared.
And then one day, all of a sudden out of the blue, it’s a thing and everyone is riled up about it. This is coordinated.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (iCp4l)
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Bentley Boys >>> Belfast Boys
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:38 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 28, 2026 01:38 PM (2Ez/1)
Prosecutors argued the statements by the defendant, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, were crucial evidence for the eventual death-penalty trial.
https://archive.is/AfMye#selection-3905.0-3933.0
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026 01:38 PM (2ap+5)
He cannot understand the rules for work and must a judge be control.
Posted by: You can call me Kevin at August 28, 2026 01:38 PM (rbvCR)
As much as I despise Trump and MAGA, I'm down with severely limited H1B's. I've worked in tech for ~30 years. No H1B my teams have worked with where any better than an American. H1Bs wouldn't follow processes and procedures. Explaining complicated SOX compliance to an Indian pretending to not understand English..
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (FKi1y)
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1. Yes. No one has a right to come here not approved by the body politic as represented by our federal government. We can put them in as much procedural hell if they want to come here as we want.
2. This is the kind of thing that breaks through cognitive dissonance. "I despise Trump, but he's making progress on one of my key issues." It won't make the guy pro-Trump, but it'll end up opening eyes about which side is actually on his side. Maybe. Probably not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:38 PM (/PKja)
A total of 8 judges in US history have been removed from office.
Huge flaw in our Constitution.
It really was. And they knew better: they knew the political types would make a political class and protect their own wherever possible. The last federal judge to be impeached by congress? G. Thomas Porteous Jr. i 2010, and he was removed from office. A lot more recent than I thought, I have no memory of this happening and I was blogging at the time. Cannot remember if I covered it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:38 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 28, 2026 01:39 PM (dkZoh)
Yes, that's what the law says.
But California and other states just help them by not checking the box or don't care.
Because they indeed get food stamps etc.
Posted by: Harun at August 28, 2026 01:39 PM (IuIym)
Prosecutors argued the statements by the defendant, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, were crucial evidence for the eventual death-penalty trial.
https://archive.is/AfMye#selection-3905.0-3933.0
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026 01:38 PM (2ap+5)
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That doesn't sound good. Is anyone taking bets that KSM will be released with a slap on the wrist and a huge cash settlement for the inconvenience?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:39 PM (FZ29D)
In 10 years tech will be like construction, no white men need apply.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (iCp4l)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (5yDGQ)
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 28, 2026 01:39 PM (dkZoh)
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Trump increased Congo's diversity.
Trump should be celebrated for creating more diversity in third-world countries that really need it to flourish.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (/PKja)
Burned some temporary housing, kind of like how the Belfast boys burned some housing of migrants up in Northern Ireland.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (/PKja)
The Spanish riot police are firing rubber bullets at the Spanish rioters, not the invaders.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (rbvCR)
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People respond to these sob stories with two memes:
Pic of adults and children:
"Big or small, deport them all."
And:
"look, picture of child crying--we must destroy democracy."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (3cUTc)
It's in the unwritten part of the Constitution that consular officers don't have to accept direction from the President and Secretary of State.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (aD4fx)
Yes, that's what the law says.
But California and other states just help them by not checking the box or don't care.
Because they indeed get food stamps etc.
Posted by: Harun at August 28, 2026 01:39 PM (IuIym)
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It's state law in California that illegal immigrants are eligible for Medicaid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Dr. T
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What's the the alternative for settling whether or not an executive action or legislation is constitutional?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM (/OKHJ)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (rbvCR)
Which was predicted at the start of all this.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM (ExV1e)
As much as I despise Trump and MAGA, I'm down with severely limited H1B's. I've worked in tech for ~30 years. No H1B my teams have worked with where any better than an American. H1Bs wouldn't follow processes and procedures. Explaining complicated SOX compliance to an Indian pretending to not understand English..
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions
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"Everybody is conservative about what they know best"
Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM (4HoLg)
Most? Self goal retort retard.
Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (5yDGQ)
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Has to be done through an act of congress since the visa class was created by Congress.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM (/PKja)
1. I don't think chipmunk cheeks there is Cuban. I'd guess Guatamalan.
2. No criminal record? Rather than take his word for it, I'll just point out entering a country without authorization, legal permission or documentation is illegal.
3. I'm aghast at the denigration and raw disapproval he is displaying towards The Congo. BIGOT!!!!
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM (dIske)
Me: Name please:
VISA applicant: Abdul Mohammad Mohammad
Me: NEXT!
Posted by: fd
You need a button and trap door.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM (VJ0w/)
that's for sure the case in fintech
for now anyway
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM (j+aD2)
I did consider the whole desert thing, but my counter-argument is that smaller nuclear reactors are exploding (heh heh) in popularity and affordability; and that my understanding is that once the data center gets up and running, they don't need that much water.
But no one seemed to even explore building them out West, which makes me think that they thought it would be more profitable to get tax breaks from populated areas rather than trying to buy government land.
Posted by: pookysgirl, fending off kittens at August 28, 2026 01:42 PM (Wt5PA)
It's in the unwritten part of the Constitution that consular officers don't have to accept direction from the President and Secretary of State.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (aD4fx)
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I'm guessing the same paragraph prevents both the President and Secretary of State from firing any and all consular officers.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:42 PM (FZ29D)
The first lady explained that they didn't want us breaking down and getting stuck or staying longer than we intended and somehow requiring Canada to help us out. I thought it was pretty wild, but I wasn't outraged.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 28, 2026 01:42 PM (9ZFZd)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (rbvCR)
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Sanchez has until August of 2027 to get in as many invaders to be loyal voters as possible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:42 PM (/PKja)
Would he go back to being bad on immigration? I have no idea. But neither do you. At the very least, he should be required to answer when and why he flipped from very bad to good on the subject before we all line up to give him a tongue bath on the subject.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (ExV1e)
Rubio supported the Gang of 8 for about a year and a half before opposing it after opposing it in the first place.
2010: "I will never support any effort to grant blanket amnesty."
2012: "DREAM act can never be part of an effort to grant amnesty."
January 2013, comes out in favor of a 'pathway to citizenship,' aka Amnesty, saying the only way to get it was to leave and come back legally.
October 2013: Obama ruined any possibility of immigration reform so we're back to business as usual.
And we see him today.
A politician doing the right thing (smashing our shit immigration policies) for the wrong reason (to say in or get more political power) is still him doing the right thing.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:43 PM (PGK1w)
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Way past time to dispense with that bit of nonsense. Too bad so sad. Drop them off on the beach. Fuck these people with a rusty chainsaw.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 01:43 PM (6LG2q)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 01:44 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:43 PM (PGK1w)
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He's doing well in office now.
I just don't know what he would do when he's the boss.
If forced to pick between Vance and Rubio on immigration alone, I'd choose Vance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:44 PM (/PKja)
Yeah that is my take as well. People are real big on Rubio, because he takes orders really well but his true nature is not the same and he has no leadership skills on his own. Vance has been saying some really odd stuff lately but I still like him better than Rubio as president.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:32 PM (K32Fz)
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Is it possible that Rubio has seen the light and grown up? Perhaps he has learned a thing or two in the last 15 years and realizes that leftism light is just diluted poison and has sworn it off like a bad habit . . . .
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 28, 2026 01:44 PM (JNTt1)
Posted by: pookysgirl, fending off kittens at August 28, 2026 01:42 PM (Wt5PA)
It is straight up state law in Oregon that nuclear power plants are illegal to build.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:44 PM (rbvCR)
"I want to remove one tiny brick from that building."
"No, you can't do that. I forbid it."
(Puts on hardhat, waves in gigantic wrecking-ball crane.) "OK boys, knock down the whole thing!"
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 01:44 PM (Av6i5)
In 10 years tech will be like construction, no white men need apply.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (iCp4l)
There is a difference though between tech and construction.
Posted by: Your soon-to-be AI Overlords at August 28, 2026 01:45 PM (9ZFZd)
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 28, 2026 01:45 PM (JNTt1)
Usually this happens when the host country refuses the deportee. Most of the time because they're violent criminals.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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It's also happened when the deportee screams that they'll be killed or oppressed if they're sent back to their country.
"Fine. Try Liberia."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 28, 2026 01:45 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films
>I hadn't heard that one. That's pretty amusing.
Canadians are asshoe. When the seasons are right we could have the ducks fly back there like drones sorties and drop poutine contaminated with cyclospora and hit them with waves of explosive diarrhea.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 01:45 PM (SK+av)
Trump should be celebrated for creating more diversity in third-world countries that really need it to flourish.
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And, as I understand the city folk, the Congolese ought to be thrilled they can get cubano sandwiches at 2am, right?
That's like a defining factor of civilization and sophistication--ethnic foods in the wee hours of the morning.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:46 PM (3cUTc)
ICE has deported a Cuban immigrant to the Congo.
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At least he's no longer in the hellhole that is the United States.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 01:46 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Dr. T
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For states, it is necessary for federal law in its particular areas to override the states and Gibbons v Ogden is actually pretty savvy in allowing both federal and state regulation to coexist on commerce.
For overturning other federal laws, it is notable that Scotus did not overturn another federal law until Dred Scott.
And you can blame Congress and the presidents in part. In many cases, judicial review is built into the statutes themselves such as the APA or criminal law. Neither Congress nor the executive have shown themselves to be willing to be limited by the Bill of Rights much either.
The problem is NOT judicial review so much as our judges are unaccountable to the ultimate sovereign, the people of the US and when they rule on policy matters, they usurp the role of popularly elected officials that are. Especially on spurious grounds like Resistance judges use.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:46 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 01:46 PM (JunZe)
That's like a defining factor of civilization and sophistication--ethnic foods in the wee hours of the morning.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:46 PM (3cUTc)
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The point of diversity is the food, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:46 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Bingo, Bango, Bongo at August 28, 2026 01:47 PM (JM9I6)
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I wondered about that. Figured it could be counted on one hand. So, two hands anyhow.
It should be routine, and not cause for comment or concern. 8 a year sounds about right. At least until they get their head out of their ass. Congress has been derelict in their duties by appointing wholly unsuitable individuals.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 01:47 PM (6LG2q)
Posted by: Bonecrusher
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Political ambition is a curious thing. Alexander Hamilton is one example.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:47 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Max Power at August 28, 2026 01:47 PM (q177U)
Complete with a picture of the tyke in a Texas Longhorns shirt.
What did he leave out?
Oh yeah, that his dad was here illegally and his dad CHOSE to take him back to Mexico with him.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:28 PM (3cUTc)
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The "longhorns" shirt isn't the flex this creep thinks it is. Whenever you see an illegal with a shirt or other clothing that seems out of character, it's because the shirt was given to the illegal. Taxpayers paid for it.
The kid isn't a fan of the LH. He's a fan of handouts paid for by us.
Same when you see an illegal in a heavy metal concert shirt. It's not that Manuel is a big fan of Slayer or Maiden. Manuel is a fan of free shit.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:48 PM (iFTx/)
vs.
Americans aren't eligible for most public assistance.
One of these statements is true, one is false.
The left thinks the first is true.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:48 PM (3cUTc)
Trump should be celebrated for creating more diversity in third-world countries that really need it to flourish.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Nobel Peace Prize material. I've been assured immigrants are what made America the great nation it is, and Trump is voluntarily sacrificing that advantage to enrich the Third World. He's a true humanitarian.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (mBinc)
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 28, 2026 01:45 PM (JNTt1)
No. That's how you climb the R ranks. Fooling people into thinking you are fighting for them.
Nikki Haley was a good soldier in 2018. Hell so was Pence.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (g47mK)
I just don't know what he would do when he's the boss.
If forced to pick between Vance and Rubio on immigration alone, I'd choose Vance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:44 PM (/PKja)
Trump was a New York City Democrat. I didn't vote for him in 2016 because I KNEW he was just another big city leftist saying whatever he needed to say to get the Big Chair.
And now look at him.
More fool, I. And the Trump Experiences has forced me to consider that Rubio isn't who he was back when I was 14.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (ZdaMQ)
Ahhh.... the "staff training day" gambit.
Well done Marco, well done.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Is this a thing? I think I get it. "Okay, now that we see your requirements, it is of dire importance that we pause everything and go back and train 100% of our personnel on it and make sure we do it right, so it could take months before we can get back to work per your guidance."
Is that it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (mmrXZ)
The Left is used to always winning by bluffing, because every other pseudo-conservative for the past 45 years has always folded.
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 01:50 PM (Av6i5)
ha!
and I was already having a good Friday!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 28, 2026 01:50 PM (j+aD2)
Its like people trust the media until they get to a story that the person is an expert about: the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
my understanding is that once the data center gets up and running, they don't need that much water.
One of the reasons Nevada looks like that is that it has virtually NO water.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:50 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 28, 2026 01:50 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (mBinc)
Oh boy….
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 01:51 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 01:51 PM (geWO5)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 28, 2026 01:50 PM (j+aD2)
I think he's already grown in office. In a good way.
And if he's a pure political animal, he's also hearing how we talk about him now vice how we talked about him before and would like to maintain that.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:52 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Rob Crawford at August 28, 2026 01:52 PM (4JFrI)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:50 PM (K32Fz)
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I kinda hope someone builds a data center in Perfection, Nevada (fictional town from the movie Tremors, population 14).
Of course, there are "graboids" in the area...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:52 PM (FZ29D)
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They are in in on it. Assistant democrats. They'll bitch and moan about something for the TV, but never fight, or re-visit. Ratchet only turns one way.
"We Shall Never Speak Of This Again" is hard-wired into their political DNA.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 01:52 PM (6LG2q)
Its possible, but it would take a great deal of convincing to prove that to me. And you still have the problem of him not being a leader. A good bureaucrat, a good manager, but not a leader.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:52 PM (K32Fz)
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Way past time to dispense with that bit of nonsense. Too bad so sad. Drop them off on the beach. Fuck these people with a rusty chainsaw.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 01:43 PM (6LG2q)
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That there video is likely a nice dose of poetic justice. That guy is claiming to be Cuban. I don't think he is. But, before Trump started setting up deals with other countries to take in deportees, NGO's advised illegals being processed to claim to be from Cuba, since that country doesn't accept returnees. I think the guy is Guatamalan based on his complexion and language "ticks". So, it's entirely possible he screwed himself over by taking NGO advice.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 01:52 PM (dIske)
🔴 More than 200 mine-like objects have been swept from the main lane of the Strait of Hormuz, Axios reports, citing US officials
🔴 The officials say only 11 of them were actual mines and just a few were properly deployed
🔴 US officials believe shifting conditions in the strait give the Trump administration a stronger hand in any future negotiations with Iran
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Remember the hoopla about Iran mining the whole strait? Turns out it was bullshit, that third-world low on the totem poll guys who weren't wiped out in the first wave of bombing didn't even know how to deploy mines, and they mostly just threw trash into the water saying they were mines while people unironically and unquestionably believed it.
Weird, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 28, 2026 01:39 PM (dkZoh)
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Trump increased Congo's diversity.
Trump should be celebrated for creating more diversity in third-world countries that really need it to flourish.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (/PKja)
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Isn't it time for Congo to embrace ex-pat troons? Maybe get a WNBA Franchise?
The "Mbuji-Mayi Ahi" has a nice ring to it ...
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (sEtpl)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (geWO5)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio
It was reported that his visa had expired. Guess showing up at an airport did him in.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio
Most people are UPSET if they require a cavity search. He was flagged when he demanded one.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (FKi1y)
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Yeah, he is.
Last I heard, the DOJ was appealing the dismissal of the trafficking charges.
I've not heard anything further on the deportation, though.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (iCp4l)
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A pretty big overstatement. I have an IT job that I've had for 15 years. I work with Indians/Pakistanis, Arabs and other MEs and white men.
(We can't hold on to girl coders though. They either quit or transition to project management.)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (Fi81e)
"I mean, TECHNICALLY yes but not in practice, could you imagine us taking any sort of direction or orders from the President of all people? I mean really"
--State Department
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:52 PM (K32Fz)
This is my biggest concern about him. He is a soldier, and willing to fight, but not the absolute killer that Trump is.
Of course... nobody is or will ever be Trump, so how much should I hold that against Rubio?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (PGK1w)
Of course, there are "graboids" in the area...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:52 PM (FZ29D)
Love that movie.. Burt Gummer is my hero
Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (PGK1w)
Where was this RUBIO, and what's happening to South America I think is Rubio's doing. I really think he saw the the Dems a capable of doing to this Country.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (mBinc)
2. This is the kind of thing that breaks through cognitive dissonance. "I despise Trump, but he's making progress on one of my key issues." It won't make the guy pro-Trump, but it'll end up opening eyes about which side is actually on his side. Maybe. Probably not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:38 PM (/PKja)
Good points. Also, the original Reddit poster wasn't wrong, that's a pretty standard political move by Trump. If the other side keeps blocking the things you want, then make everything hell for everyone and shut it all down and see if they like that, or if they want to talk about some more reasonable accommodations.
Shutting down all Visas is a pretty big move which is going to get a lot of attention from people who weren't really paying attention.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 28, 2026 01:50 PM (j+aD2)
I think he's doing a fine job as SoS. It's entirely possible that he'd be a fine President. If and when he announces his intent to run for that office, I will listen to what he has to say and weigh his history. I'm just not prepared to anoint him on the basis of his work as SoS.
For the record, I'd also want to hear the policy proposals from anyone else running as opposed to what they've done while working the The Donald.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Black Orchid
2028.
Staring down at the ballot in front of you.
Rubio -- or some communist dingbat like AOC.
Seriously, what is there even to talk about? Even Worst-Case-Scenario Rubio is 100,0000,000x better than any alternative they might put up.
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 01:51 PM (geWO5)
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The Trump administration is keeping him here because they keep working to get the criminal charges against him through court. His deportation order is final, and there's no legal question about it anymore (there seems to be an open question about which country he'll go to which is unresolved, mostly because USCIS won't reveal it until they're deporting him).
The point of Maryland Man is to make an example of him...on both sides.
Plus, no one actually cares about him anymore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (E4rtv)
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Visa is not always where you want to be.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (Fi81e)
Chop the H-1B program off at its ankles. Make Vivek cry.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (trSL4)
Does any other nation have a -lese suffix for their people? Other than the Congo?
Posted by: Bingo, Bango, Bongo
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Senegalese off the top of my head. Sinhalese (an ethnicity, not a nationality, but).
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 01:55 PM (mmrXZ)
If Marco is doing things which benefit the nation and US citizens I say more power to him. If not eff him. Right now on immigration he's kicking ass and taking no prisoners. Good on him
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 01:56 PM (EZWVc)
The latest claim is that he offered to go to Costa Rica and they are fighting to send him wherever they choose and not a non-extradition country with porous borders and massive corruption.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:56 PM (K32Fz)
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Way past time to dispense with that bit of nonsense. Too bad so sad. Drop them off on the beach. Fuck these people with a rusty chainsaw.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 01:43 PM (6LG2q)
Congo is probably a safer place to go than Cuba right now, even if they do end up on the menu.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 01:57 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung
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As to who most closely approaches Trump between Rubio and Vance, I'd take DeSantis.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 01:57 PM (XvL8K)
If Marco is doing things which benefit the nation and US citizens I say more power to him. If not eff him. Right now on immigration he's kicking ass and taking no prisoners. Good on him
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 01:56 PM (EZWVc)
This.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 01:57 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 01:58 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 28, 2026 01:58 PM (z9yxT)
Rubio -- or some communist dingbat like AOC.
Seriously, what is there even to talk about? Even Worst-Case-Scenario Rubio is 100,0000,000x better than any alternative they might put up.
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (Av6i5)
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Trump was a gamble. Rubio is a gamble but he might have learned from Trump. Vance, too.
But there was no contest with Clinton--or the Senator I depised the most, Biden--or Kamala--why would it?!. And as nothing can get as energized as DSA and DSA-lite candidates, it very likely won't be a contest in 28.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 01:58 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 01:58 PM (g47mK)
He also likes putting them in a position where they have no good choice and so they make a bad one. If they didn't keep him adversarial he would handle them differently but they would end up doing things that benefit the country and that's the last thing they want.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 01:58 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 01:58 PM (g47mK)
Staring down at the ballot in front of you.
Rubio -- or some communist dingbat like AOC.
Seriously, what is there even to talk about? Even Worst-Case-Scenario Rubio is 100,0000,000x better than any alternative they might put up.
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (Av6i5)
1. The question isn't Rubio vs. Democrat, it's Rubio vs. other Republican.
2. Rubio has stated that he will not run against Vance. If Vance runs in 28 and Rubio suddenly decides that his fingers were crossed... well, I'd hold that against him (in the primaries) like I did when DeSantis took that tack in 2024.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 28, 2026 01:42 PM (9ZFZd)
There is no country I have had a harder time entering than Canada. The PRC was easier. The PRC didn’t search me at the border. Canada has.
Once when getting extra screening I was asked what I did for a living. When Insaid I was a USAF officer, next came “What do you do for them?” “Logistics”. Next: “What is that?” So I covered all the things I could be tasked with, including plans. Which I concluded with “I can plan out the invasion of Canada on the back of an envelope.”
Some Canadian friends asked me “I bet they were pissed!” Yeah, so pissed that I got a multiple entry visa for my trouble. Shame I couldn’t use that. (Hell, I was telling her the truth…
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (jPziU)
This is my biggest concern about him. He is a soldier, and willing to fight, but not the absolute killer that Trump is.
Of course... nobody is or will ever be Trump, so how much should I hold that against Rubio?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider
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This (what we're commenting about) looks pretty killer to me.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Bingo, Bango, Bongo
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Senegalese off the top of my head. Sinhalese (an ethnicity, not a nationality, but).
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 01:55 PM (mmrXZ)
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Nepalese ... except native Nepalese don't like being called that. They prefer Nepali both for the nationality and the language.
And don't say they sound like an Indian accent no matter how much they do.
Don't ask me how I know.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (iFTx/)
Burned some temporary housing, kind of like how the Belfast boys burned some housing of migrants up in Northern Ireland.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
That is going to prove to be the only viable solution, as no government on that side of the Atlantic will cooperate with their own people. If democrats gain some control again, the same will have to happen here.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (0U5gm)
But there was no contest with Clinton--or the Senator I depised the most, Biden--or Kamala--why would it?!. And as nothing can get as energized as DSA and DSA-lite candidates, it very likely won't be a contest in 28.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 01:58 PM (Fi81e)
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Negative partisanship will continue forever.
I think both Rubio and Vance can provide positive reasons to vote for themselves, and we're honestly probably going to get a ticket with both of them on it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (g47mK)
Trump was the easiest gamble in history if you listened and watched what he was saying and doing. Rubio is a mortal lock to fuck us but this is fun right now.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:00 PM (JunZe)
Mid-Late 90s News:
"However, the US Forces have yet to come up against Iraq's Elite Republican Guard..."
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:00 PM (Shi2G)
https://tinyurl.com/mr87t6tt
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 28, 2026 02:00 PM (bkuEU)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (ExV1e)
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Rubio and Vance are reportedly good friends in real life. They like each other.
If Rubio says he won't run against Vance, I suspect he's telling the truth.
Vance is going to walk into 2028 with Trump's and Rubio's endorsement.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:01 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (0U5gm)
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Spain's next election is no later than August of next year.
Should be interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:01 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:01 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (mmrXZ)
It absolutely IS pretty killer.
It's also the Secretary of State taking an action at the direction of the President.
As best I can tell, Rubio didn't come up with this idea, he's just gleefully executing it. He gets credit for that, obviously, but the point being made about there being a question as to what Rubio will do when Rubio is the boss are fair.
I'm just someone who has answered that question to my own satisfaction on the topic of immigration.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:01 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Tom Servo
If they're so worried they'll be killed if returned to their home nation, they should be stoked the US took the time and effort to find a different, 3rd nation to take them in. Truly generous of us.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 02:01 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (cWLG3)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (JunZe)
I'm OK with that either way it's stacked. A couple of days ago I saw something from Ted Cruz that sounded like he was planning to run again. I (mostly) like Ted but he needs to realize that his window is closed and resolve to do the most good he can where he is.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: sidney at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (Uy/WF)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (g47mK)
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I think Kamala will probably go with either Crockett (black girl magic and the white man screwed her over so she don't need to appeal to no white man no more) or Mark Kelly (fine...she'll try and appeal to the white man).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (/PKja)
However, he has all the personal charisma of a used dishrag and I think that hurts him in a national election.
Now, its possible after the bombastic chaos of "Lake America" Trump, voters will want someone a bit more calm and dull and analytical by contrast, so who knows. It could work for him.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:00 PM (JunZe)
It took a little digging, but he was basically saying the same things since the '80s. That's how you could tell he believed in what he was promising.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (dK+Kv)
If Rubio says he won't run against Vance, I suspect he's telling the truth.
Vance is going to walk into 2028 with Trump's and Rubio's endorsement.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:01 PM (/PKja)
In which case, I'd like to see either Rubio as VP with DeSantis as AG, or DeSantis as VP with Rubio remaining at State, depending on what works best.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (ExV1e)
I'm not a fan of JD.
But, I am also a huge McCain Hater. And Marco was a little too close to McCain and his cronies for me to be on the Marco Train until I get a very sincere apology from Marco re. Amesty.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:03 PM (Shi2G)
Judge says power lies with consular officers
It's **just** amazing how many members of the Executive Branch don't have to follow the dictates of the Executive Branch.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:27 PM (aD4fx)
I'll bet he moved to LA and operates a bunch of taco trucks that are fronts for Tren de Aragua money laundering and human trafficking. LA "Street Vendors" are rarely given citations for operating without the numerous licenses brick-and-mortar restaurants are required to have. If fact, LA Mayor Bass recently ordered LAPD and city officials to not issue any citations or closure orders to unlicensed operators of 'street food vendors.'
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 02:03 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 28, 2026 02:03 PM (2UnvF)
Most data centers now use a closed-loop cooling system. Something akin to a radiator on a car. Sure, it takes some water to initially load the system, but once it is running, the people working in the data center consume more water for their personal use than the data center's cooling system.
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 02:03 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (Av6i5)
Yes but look at the damage that President McCain or Romney would have done to the brand for the next two decades. That shit matters. Look what traitor Bush left us with.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (JunZe)
They won't run a woman again. They can't.
Nobody wants a female President.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (2Cry5)
Should be interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
I haven't paid attention to their parties, but is there any party running specifically on getting the invaders out? If not, the people will have to burn them out.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: runner
She just renewed her DSA membership. That's not going to help with a national presidential run, but may help her take Schumer's seat.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:03 PM (Shi2G)
Trump ended up getting along great with Lindsey Graham, even though Graham had been McCain's mini-me as long as McCain was around.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (JunZe)
Trump is a one off, there will never be another like him in our lifetimes. But there doesn't need to be, at least not in the next term. Just keep the ship on course.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (ExV1e)
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Rubio is good at State, and there's a very good argument that he should stay there, especially with the VP office being largely pointless.
He could be both at the same time, though. It's reportedly possible.
DeSantis as AG feels like fan-service, though. I don't think Vance has a relationship with DeSantis, and he'd probably pick some lawyer he's closer to. Dude did go to Yale.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (/PKja)
Kramola / Kelly is more likely , or Mr. Good Hair and AOC.
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (vTZFs)
Cruz should run for governor in 2030. If he does well there the window can open again.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (vTZFs)
Cruz is really smart but he just can't get his head around the fact that he could never be elected to the big chair. I think that the same holds true for DeSantis, for different aspects of the same reason. DeSantis has no personality whereas Cruz actively pisses people off.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (ExV1e)
DeSantis surrounded himself with some terrible advisors who went around pissing people off who might have been sympathetic. There's a lot of MAGA who distrust him as a result.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (88C+u)
Nobody wants a female President.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Shi2G)
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Someone should tell the Democrat primary electorate in South Carolina, which is now first in the nation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (/PKja)
Hard pass.
Same with my State's gubernatorial nominee.
Serving in that body is an automatic disqualifier, AFAIC.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (BI5O2)
Weird, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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Did they throw trash in, or did the minesweepers find something they had to deal with, not know what it was from a distance, and log it as "mine like object."?
We may be giving them credit for "decoys" when in reality it was just the typical trash you encounter when looking for mines in a polluted gulf.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (ImuKY)
Most data centers now use a closed-loop cooling system. Something akin to a radiator on a car. Sure, it takes some water to initially load the system, but once it is running, the people working in the data center consume more water for their personal use than the data center's cooling system.
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 02:03 PM (8mulE)
If you've seen these systems in operation, you'd find that claim dubious. The cooling towers absolutely are losing water to evaporation in the process of transferring heat away from the closed loop system.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (dK+Kv)
Nobody wants a female President.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Shi2G)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Posted by: South Carolina at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (PGK1w)
Nobody wants a female President.
Right now that is the prevailing thought in the DNC as I see it. They ran a woman twice and they got demolished both times. They ran a white man and he won big (at least on paper). Until something major changes, I don't see them running a woman at the top of the ticket again.
And honestly I would not vote for a woman for president. Its not that a woman cannot be a good president, we've barely had any good male ones. Its that the odds are so miniscule and the historical evidence of disaster of having women in charge is so overwhelming that I am not taking that chance. I think most Americans -- women and men -- share this attitude.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (K32Fz)
We may be giving them credit for "decoys" when in reality it was just the typical trash you encounter when looking for mines in a polluted gulf.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (ImuKY)
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Fair.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
It is intense, and I hear it from every young person I encounter. They know that their dreams of a career and a house are being taken away from them, in order for some manager to get another half point on their stock ticker or another couple of grand executive bonus.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (0U5gm)
They won't run a woman again. They can't.
Nobody wants a female President.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Shi2G)
Not even a good female president?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (jPziU)
Not gonna argue with that at all.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Tom Servo
If they're so worried they'll be killed if returned to their home nation, they should be stoked the US took the time and effort to find a different, 3rd nation to take them in. Truly generous of us.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 02:01 PM (FKi1y)
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There are two Congos. The DRC is one of the worst places on Earth. Ebola, crime, warlords, drugs, communist revolutionaries, kidnaping, and AWFuLs in pink shirts supporting child murderers.
Level 4 travel advisory -- "don't fucking go!" -- and I don't think the USA allows direct flights back from there even for US citizens. Even US citizens are required to stay in another country for weeks before coming back to the USA.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (ImuKY)
We also would have accepted: "They're just retarded, sir."
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:08 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (FKi1y)
maybe; or they may make a deal, he supports her for VP and she leaves him alone in Senate seat
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:08 PM (g47mK)
One Primary State doesn't matter.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:08 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 02:09 PM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
And if they rely on grid power, the power plants use evaporative towers, Not insurmountable but ground loop cooling systems should be required by any local zoning for datacenters and no evaporative cooling transference.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:09 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:09 PM (g47mK)
The Dems, well...it'll be a shit show of incompetents and special interest candidates.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 02:09 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:09 PM (Shi2G)
My esteem of Ted Cruz has diminished greatly over time and the stupid stuff he says. I wouldn't mind him in some administrative role like Attorney General but not anything else.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (K32Fz)
248 >>Posted by: South Carolina at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (PGK1w)
One Primary State doesn't matter.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:08 PM (Shi2G)
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When it's first, when it's the voice of the black vote, and when the black vote is overrepresented in Democrat politics in general...yes, it does.
Every winner of SC in the Democrat primary has won the nomination for decades.
They weren't going to go with Biden because he was stupid and old and needed to appeal to the young.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (/PKja)
I assume foreign criminals and scumbags don't last long in Congolese jungles or Liberian death camps. So sad.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Congo looked damned dismal in that tweet. Now those foreign invaders get to live in the hell they wanted to create for us.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (mmrXZ)
One Primary State doesn't matter.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:08 PM (Shi2G)
She's going to win 100% of the delegates in SC, and a majority of them in NV.
Harris will be the nominee.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (EZWVc)
If they need someone to compete and win forget Kamala.
Democrats don't choose their own candidate and haven't for quite some time. The whole point of being a Democrat is doing what the Party tells you to do and it not matrering anyway.
And when it's not Kamala I hope those who guaranteed it will be won't say that no one saw "blah" coming. We're gonna get blah. Good and hard.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (/PKja)
Fans like to be serviced.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (g47mK)
The Dems, well...it'll be a shit show of incompetents and special interest candidates.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 02:09 PM (FKi1y)
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The GOP primary is going to be as exciting as the 2024 primary. Probably less so.
The Democrat primary is going to be a series of "Not-Kamalas" until Kamala just wins everything anyway. That should be fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (/PKja)
A couple of days ago I saw something from Ted Cruz that sounded like he was planning to run again.
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He left the door open to it on Sean Hannity last night.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:11 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (dK+Kv)
Cooling towers do use a lot of water, but they are old tech and they are no longer in use in most data centers. Look into chillers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiller
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 02:11 PM (8mulE)
Harris will be the nominee.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (PGK1w)
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And at least half in Michigan (#3 in the calendar).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:11 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:09 PM (E4rtv)
The massive fans for the water to air radiators would consume additional power and real estate, too. That's likely why the water-water heat exchanger is the preferred cooling method.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 02:11 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (g47mK)
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I think Kamala will probably go with either Crockett (black girl magic and the white man screwed her over so she don't need to appeal to no white man no more) or Mark Kelly (fine...she'll try and appeal to the white man).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (/PKja)
Mark Kelly /spit/ may be the VP pick by any Democrat in '28. He checks all the boxes the POTUS nominee will not. Male. Military veteran. Bravery and derring-do (astronaut). Sticks by his brain-damaged wife, who was targeted by a right-wing nutter (false but they will sell it that way). White. I'm sure the DNC will concoct several more attributes for him that are focus-group tested and confirmed to comfort non-crazy voters.
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 02:12 PM (5rh/l)
Moving it to the first Primary is the necessary step in stopping that.
That's why they did it.
Things change.
Remember what happened to Bernie.
Remember how Joe Biden got the nomination...
they WANT to end that.
Moving it to the first Primary of the season was done to allow the Party to crab on the SC result, imo.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:12 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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True.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:12 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Shi2G)
I want Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (HwKLm)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (g47mK)
I'm fully 29, and retired, and H1b pissed me way the fuck off back when I was working. Offshoring also. And then upper management would tell us about how big their bonuses were and how they got to fly around on corporate jets.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Tom Servo
If they're so worried they'll be killed if returned to their home nation, they should be stoked the US took the time and effort to find a different, 3rd nation to take them in. Truly generous of us.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 02:01 PM (FKi1y)
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It's straight-up Thunderdome only more mutants. Which is a shame, because the natural country is beautiful. The country once had a pretty good tourist industry, mostly catering to safaris for white Euros. Then, much like happened in South Africa, the country was turned over to racist black lunatics with machetes.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (iFTx/)
By the same token the Dem old timers will have died out or been taken out by DSA types.
2028 will be MAGA v DSA
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (EZWVc)
That's why they did it.
Things change.
Remember what happened to Bernie.
Remember how Joe Biden got the nomination...
they WANT to end that.
Moving it to the first Primary of the season was done to allow the Party to crab on the SC result, imo.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:12 PM (Shi2G)
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No...pushing it back would be the counter to it.
SC was in open revolt at the very idea that it would get pushed back at all and not be the new first (NH's primary is in like April now).
You don't give Kamala 100% of the SC delegates from SC and then expect her to lose steam.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (g47mK)
Why?
She could be the worst presidential candidate since the last time she ran.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (ExV1e)
I take the same position as Trump has in recent statements - it's way too early to be worrying about 28', get this years elections over with first.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (edUvp)
Probably. He's smart, he seems to have at least some respect for the Constitution, and he'd be able to piss people off with his opinions without it affecting his future.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Gref
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No one votes for VPs anymore, you might lose votes by picking an POS but you don't gain votes that way. They are mainly a way to balance tickets for political insiders than for voters.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (HwKLm)
Well, at this point you are basically a Frenchman.
...so.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (Shi2G)
Sometimes, I really wish this was a Betting/Gambling Site.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (Shi2G)
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I already put my money on her at PredictIt.
Should make a few thousand when she wins. Hell, my bet will 5x its size when she just announces.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:15 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:15 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Superdelegates of the Democratic Party at August 28, 2026 02:15 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (ExV1e)
I take the same position as Trump has in recent statements - it's way too early to be worrying about 28', get this years elections over with first.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Part of the invisible primary for 2028 is to see which potential candidates do as GOP surrogates in competitive races.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:15 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 02:09 PM (cWLG3)
Different Presidents. What did she want to accomplish that W shot down and we never heard about. Probably nothing but we just don't know.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 02:12 PM (5rh/l)
But he's gonna run for the top of the ticket...he may not want VP on a losing ticket...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (tOcjL)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiller
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 02:11 PM (8mulE)
Sure, but you're ultimately rejecting all that processor heat to some medium, whether that is directly to the air, to some body of water, or via an evaporative cooler.
The data center that took over an old lumber mill site near here still uses evaporative coolers, although smaller modular units. They specifically cited the cites easy water availability and cheap power (along with established industrial power distribution) in their PRs as reasons why the site made economic sense. The site conversion is less than about five years old.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (dK+Kv)
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We don't know about that....
Posted by: Superdelegates of the Democratic Party at August 28, 2026 02:15 PM (Fi81e)
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This idea is more than a decade out of date.
The superdelegates lost their power on the first ballot after 2016. It was a cop to Bernie's supporters.
They can vote as they want on the second ballot at the convention, but on the first ballot they have to vote with the voters of their state in the primaries.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (/PKja)
And honestly I would not vote for a woman for president. Its not that a woman cannot be a good president, we've barely had any good male ones. Its that the odds are so miniscule and the historical evidence of disaster of having women in charge is so overwhelming that I am not taking that chance. I think most Americans -- women and men -- share this attitude.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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I predict the first female president will be Republican, and she'll be great.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:15 PM (g47mK)
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I just wanted to get this in: nothing is going to happen.
Posted by: The Guy Who Says Nothing Is Going to Happen at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (iFTx/)
Naturally cool environment -- it will save a lot of money.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (ImuKY)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (iFTx/)
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Bruh.
We've been arguing about 2028 since like November of 2024.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (g47mK)
Vance would be better than Trump with women...almost any R candidate is. Trump won with the men vote coming hard and heavy for him...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: front toward enemy at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (TIizU)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (g47mK)
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The whole "Vance is in thrall to the woke right" thing is an online only phenomenon that won't go anywhere because it's all implication about, like, having Tucker's son on staff for a year and not much else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (/PKja)
I'm just someone who has answered that question to my own satisfaction on the topic of immigration.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August
I am going to say this is not how it all works. They bring ideas to the President, or the President says “this is the goal, come tell me how to get there”. It is not Trump coming up with each and every thing and barking orders. That isn’t how CEOs operate, and Trump is still very much a CEO.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (g47mK)
Yeah. Those of us in Texas hear that every day. Every day we tell you that it isn't and then we get told that we're delusional.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (mBinc)
That's a shame. *munches a funyun*
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: The Guy Who Says Nothing Is Going to Happen at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (Fi81e)
I knew you were going to say that!
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (g47mK)
They might as well nominate Der Oysterfuhrer, he'd do as well as any of the others would.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (edUvp)
The media will pick whoever the DNC tells them to pick.
The D nominee is not gonna selected by something as antiquated as voting.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:19 PM (JunZe)
Yeah. Those of us in Texas hear that every day. Every day we tell you that it isn't and then we get told that we're delusional.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (ExV1e)
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Trump+14 state that hasn't elected a Democrat to statewide office in literally decades is going to not elect Paxton, who already holds statewide office, to a statewide office because Talarico said he loves trans-kids and hates Christianity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:19 PM (/PKja)
I could get used to Plan B.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 02:19 PM (6VEkT)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (mmrXZ)
The American equivalent to Margaret Thatcher.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 02:19 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (g47mK)
By getting more votes in the primary? Are you basing your vote on who the Dems appear to be choosing?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:19 PM (ExV1e)
This is kind of understandable -- they have to make their returns before the bubble pops or the investors wise up.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 02:20 PM (ImuKY)
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Who isn't?
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (JunZe)
The Funeral is still going on, HOW DARE YOU
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 28, 2026 02:20 PM (mBinc)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (ExV1e)
Yeah - this has all the hallmarks of an online/media op just like the one exposed as pushing the anti Data Center narrative.
The theory is that if everyone repeats and prints something that is obviously false over and over, then it will magically become true.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (edUvp)
The Globe and Mail
@globeandmail
Canada’s tough response to Trump’s trade war is winning fans in China
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (iFTx/)
Signs point to no. -- Magic 8 Ball
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (ExV1e)
Trump actually did pretty well with women despite the dire predictions. He got around 45% in 2024 which was up from 2020.
I mean he won every swing state and the popular vote. That wasn't all men.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (edUvp)
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"Well, I guess the electorate shifted 10 points in a week."
-late September/early October
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:19 PM (JunZe)
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Good thing, because it could mean an End to Our Democracy!
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:22 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (mmrXZ)
I thought Tulsi has "it" but I'm not sure she would be with us. I don't see anyone else who could withstand the storm.
That said my father insisted the same as you're saying but like 40 years ago. You may both yet be right.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:22 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:19 PM (/PKja)
Islamic mystics are crucial to his “faith journey”.
America is not a Christian nation for if we were we’d forgive all students loans and have “free” medical care.
Yeah. This goes down well in TX HD 50. Not the rest of the state.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 02:22 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (g47mK)
Well... we're fucked. May as well learn the words to L'Internationale.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:22 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (EZWVc)
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Unless he's since recanted recently, he's ex-gay.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:22 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (mBinc)
That's a shame. *munches a funyun*
Posted by: 88C+u
The story has Milo being picked up in New Orleans where coincidentally Kanye West is playing. Suspected that Milo was trying to meet him. If I was MTG, I would quit thinking third party grift in 2028 and more moving to Costa Rico. He ass is hanging out over Milo being a former stealth employee to do shit for her.
Guy is one vile and damaged soul.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:23 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (EZWVc)
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Unless he's since recanted recently, he's ex-gay.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:22 PM (Fi81e)
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Did he manage to unsuck some dicks?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:23 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:23 PM (EZWVc)
Maybe Congo Man can build a new, advanced civilization over there.
Posted by: Dirac_Delta
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Well, he's now among people who literally flew at one time, so there's no telling how far they can go.
But srsly, I really wonder what Senor Cuba's new keepers think of him. MAN, I would not want to be some non-belonger rapist-age single male at the mercy of the Congolese.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:23 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:23 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fd
You need a button and trap door.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM
Immigrant: I'm not dead, just horribly horribly injured.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 02:23 PM (4NO2D)
The media will pick whoever the DNC tells them to pick.
>>The D nominee is not gonna selected by something as antiquated as voting.
This. 1000x. This.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Axeman
Well, he pretty much resumed doing drugs, hanging out with sketchy people, and doing shit work for a bunch of political patrons. So that too was probably a lie.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (E4rtv)
The data center that took over an old lumber mill site near here still uses evaporative coolers, although smaller modular units. They specifically cited the cites easy water availability and cheap power (along with established industrial power distribution) in their PRs as reasons why the site made economic sense. The site conversion is less than about five years old.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (dK+Kv)
Ok, I'll grant you that if you have water in abundance, it might make economic sense to use a lot of water. But, you don't have to. If you are in a location where water is a scarcity, or even if the local authorities want to treat it like it is scarce when it may not be, a closed loop system is definitely doable. Data centers don't *need* to use a lot of water in order to operate.
And, yes, the heat has to go somewhere. But, dispersing it into the outside air works nicely.
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (8mulE)
@globeandmail
Canada’s tough response to Trump’s trade war is winning fans in China
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (ndZc7)
Wow.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (VJ0w/)
The problem with a woman as supreme leader is that all the other countries with chauvinist men as leaders assume that a woman as leader will be weak and compliant, so in order to not have her country be steamrolled, she has to be more vicious at slapping down threats, and then she gets accused of being crazy hormonal and unusually evil by guys who routinely murder their political opponents.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (vJrRc)
***********
It's not a handout...
Old: It's a hand up!
New: It's a "hand it over"!
Posted by: muldoon at August 28, 2026 02:25 PM (qgHp7)
Old: It's a hand up!
New: It's a "hand it over"!
Posted by: muldoon at August 28, 2026 02:25 PM (qgHp7)
In Islamic countries it's a hand off
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:25 PM (JunZe)
I predict the first female president will be Republican, and she'll be great.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (mmrXZ)
The American equivalent to Margaret Thatcher.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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Yes. An Iron Lady.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:26 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (E4rtv)
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I wasn't tracking him. I just knew the last time he was being talked about, he repudiated his gay lifestyle.
Sounds like anything for attention.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:26 PM (Fi81e)
Yeah but that "grab them by the pussy" comment cost him (as unreasonable as the reaction was), and Vance doesn't have anything like that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:26 PM (K32Fz)
Thatcher was one of a kind however
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:27 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (mmrXZ)
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Don't be so sure about that!
- Levine for America 2028 -
Posted by: Rachael Levine at August 28, 2026 02:27 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (tOcjL)
I missed that . And, no. Vance does terrible with the womens folks. SOrry to burst your bubble. And men...well are we talking about blue c? they will go back to Ds. And he will be left with the Romney "coalition".
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:27 PM (g47mK)
>>@Donuncutschweiz
Translated from German
‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦New video footage has emerged of the US-organized Maidan coup.
>>February 2014, Maidan Square: John McCain films the protests and stands next to Geoffrey Pyatt, the US Ambassador to Ukraine. Behind him stands Victoria Nuland.
>>All of them relish their role in the ousting of the democratically elected Ukrainian President Yanukovych.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:27 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 02:27 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:23 PM (EZWVc)
No, I'm saying that you won't get through 2026 before you start arguing about 2028. -- Magic 8 Ball
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:27 PM (ExV1e)
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So Sophie Cunningham?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:28 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 02:28 PM (XeU6L)
Old: It's a hand up!
New: It's a "hand it over"!
Posted by: muldoon at August 28, 2026 02:25 PM (qgHp7)
In Islamic countries it's a hand off
Posted by: ...
Madge from Palmolive had a hand job.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 02:28 PM (VJ0w/)
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LOL
No.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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What difference is 26 really going to make, absent the very unlikely outcome of a non-GOPe majority in the house and senate? It's not like the current congress has done much of anything to help Trump's agenda.
24/7 impeachment theater and the dems letting their freak flag fly - all the while with a veto and impeachment proof numbers in the senate - may actually help us for 28.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 02:28 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28,
Sadly, he would be a much smarter candidate than Kamala. He would be able to debate.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 02:28 PM (ZdaMQ)
Some people just have "it". Her biggest problem is she is basically anthropomorphic CIA.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:29 PM (JunZe)
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I'd settle for a Margaret Thatcher.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 02:29 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:27 PM (g47mK)
So, which campaign are you working for?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:29 PM (ExV1e)
The problem with a woman as supreme leader is that all the other countries with chauvinist men as leaders assume that a woman as leader will be weak and compliant, so in order to not have her country be steamrolled, she has to be more vicious at slapping down threats, and then she gets accused of being crazy hormonal and unusually evil by guys who routinely murder their political opponents.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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Or instead of that convoluted Rube Goldberg scheme, she could announce firm policies and stand by her word. Done.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:29 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (DbmIv)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 02:28 PM (VJ0w/)
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Hand job
Hand job
Hand job
Doin' that crazy hand job.
Posted by: Rachael Levine at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (Fi81e)
Sounds like anything for attention.
Posted by: Axeman
Stories were around when he was doing stealth work for MTG and she and other House members like Massie were doing their version of the GOP resistance.
Unhinged types that are on the periphery of politics are often used for political scutwork and then disposed of when they become an embarrassment or no longer useful. I think Milo falls into that category as even his attempts to climb aboard team Candace Ovens floundered when all his past texts to others about her being a scummy scam artist came to view.
I think he has burned every 'friend' he has now and him being shipped back to the UK means probably finis in his stint in US politics.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (E4rtv)
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I'd settle for a Margaret Thatcher.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 02:29 PM (XeU6L)
I'm still holding out hope for Sara Palin.
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (/PKja)
I've seen Vance do a couple of own goals when he tries to remind everyone he went to Yale and launches into some esoteric intellectual exposition that nobody gets and many misinterpret. For example, when he said Milton Friedman was obsolete now. If you worked to get his point, you could kind of understand it, but not many people did.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (edUvp)
I might be able to find a counterexample if I looked hard enough but my default rule for voting in the general is
any R > any D
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 02:31 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Rachael Levine
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Well, I mean, Admiral Levine has military experience, right?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 02:31 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
... okay I'm confused. What Rube Goldberg scheme?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 02:31 PM (vJrRc)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:26 PM (K32Fz)
Well number 1 you don't know that and number 2 they just make it up.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:31 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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And yet it was the progressives in England who talked about living in "Fascist England" under Thatcher.
Posted by: Rachael Levine at August 28, 2026 02:32 PM (Fi81e)
BREAKING: Florida becomes the first state to block welfare cash from being spent on tattoos, theme park tickets, video games, vapes, & other non-essential purchases.
HOW JUST HOW and it really explains Carnival Cruise Lines downfall
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 28, 2026 02:32 PM (mBinc)
McMahon has the Iron Lady look, but I just see her in D of Ed posts. I like Tulsi as a "Golden Age" President.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 02:32 PM (6VEkT)
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LOL
No.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
It's not the Moron way.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:33 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 28, 2026 02:33 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 02:33 PM (BI5O2)
What this means is that 49 states do all welfare to be spent on tats, theme park tickets, video games, vapes and other non-essential purchases.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:33 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (8mulE)
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The problem is getting it from the chip to the outside air.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 28, 2026 02:34 PM (DbmIv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:33 PM (ndZc7)
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It would be like settling for crossbows when you can have long bows.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:34 PM (Fi81e)
Some people just have "it". Her biggest problem is she is basically anthropomorphic CIA.
Posted by: ...
Eh, we are in the stage where heritage Americans and their views are not really relevant here. Basically empires end up with the inner Praetorian Guard and wealthy donors calling the shots.
I think most of our politics since the Cold War has been shadows on the wall for the public and only the inner circles of the ruling class knowing a little of what is going on.
When a change agent like Trump shows up (as it did when you got a few competent emperors trying to address internal issues in Rome or the Byzantine Empire), the whole rotten insiders to the system revolt.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:35 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:34 PM (Fi81e)
Surely you mean settling for long bows when you can have crossbows.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:35 PM (JunZe)
The Globe and Mail
@globeandmail
Canada’s tough response to Trump’s trade war is winning fans in China
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (ndZc7)
Canada talking tough to the US is like the old Mouse Fucking An Elephant joke
"TAKE IT AAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL, BITCH!!!!!!"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 28, 2026 02:35 PM (y9nCu)
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I'd settle for a Margaret Thatcher.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Catherine the Great and a stable of stallions?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:35 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: No Name Today
Air is actually a shitty way to do it which is why it requires fans to disperse it. There is a reason dead air space is a pretty decent insulator.
Solids or liquids of the right sort are far better.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (E4rtv)
Well for one thing, did it surprise anyone to find out that Trump would say something like that in private?
Would it surprise you to find out that Vance did?
These are different men with different flaws.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (vJrRc)
Take the time to read Charles Moore’s bio of Margaret Thatcher.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (K32Fz)
Point is they can figure out a way to turn women in particular off to someone. They have teams of people to do just that.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (JunZe)
Would it surprise you to find out that Vance did?
These are different men with different flaws.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (K32Fz)
Vance is a Lance Corporal of Marines.
He has ABSOLUTELY said things like that in private.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:39 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Cow Demon
Thatcher's advantage was that UK had a parliamentary system. She was in effect elected by her colleagues, not the public. She got her advantage though and ran with it when she could have ended up like poor Liz Truss.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:39 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: No Name Today
Air is actually a shitty way to do it which is why it requires fans to disperse it. There is a reason dead air space is a pretty decent insulator.
Solids or liquids of the right sort are far better.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (E4rtv)
Chillers work by running water pipes to inside CRAH units that direct the indoor hot air over the pipes, cooling the air. The pipes return to the chillers outside, where air is used again to take the excess heat.
I compared it earlier to a radiator in a car and it is very much like that.
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 02:43 PM (8mulE)
LOL the trade clash is over Canada buying Chinese steel we are tariffing massively, then selling it to the USA disguised as Canadian. So China is fond of Canada in this? LOL what a shocker
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (K32Fz)
Yeah but there's "Binders full of women" slur that women roll their eyes at but repeat for political effect, and "HOW DARE HE???" that genuinely enrages women.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (K32Fz)
When, in all of history, has a conqueror killed the wimmens?
And why not? Because they'd rather roll over.
Posted by: MkY at August 28, 2026 03:23 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Bingo, Bango, Bongo at August 28, 2026 01:47 PM (JM9I6)
Sinhalese: you need a name that ends in a vowel.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 03:29 PM (/MsWN)
X Safety Team: We Have Uncovered 200,000 Bots and Fake Accounts Created by Chinese Intelligence to Propagandize Against Data Farms
...so that China can win the AI race because the US just quit it.
Global Government Affairs
@GlobalAffairs
The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations: We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy. These posts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included AI-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense. We remain committed to maintaining an open and authentic platform where people debate topics of public interest. We take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accounts that violate our Authenticity policy.
AG
@AGHamilton29 Keep this in mind when you see posts with tens of thousands of likes that happen to fit with the information war positions of certain adversaries. You think this is the only CCP bot farm? Any idea how many Iranian/Pakistani/Russian active bot farms currently exist on here and other platforms?
ZitoSalenaYes, we saw Russia paying "environmental groups" in the US to block fracking so that the price of Russian crude would remain high. We never saw the left-wing media, so keen to discover connections between Trump and Russia, note that Democrats were embracing a RUSSIAN AGENT propaganda effort. And of course, it's Democrats doing the bidding of the Chinese communist government, banning data farms and pushing legislation to limit them, but you will never -- NEVER -- see a single media story about Democrats being CHINESE AGENTS under the control of Xi. Two of the propaganda posts below, posted by bots with American-sounding names.
@ZitoSalena
Done right this is an industry that won't just remake blue-collar workers lives, it will also remake communities that have been on their knees for 40 years.
Always be curious. Always be skeptical. If something does a 180 & politicians are suddenly demonizing it in a short period time you have to ask yourself why? As I said yesterday, there's always bad actors in everything we do. But an entire industry?
We have all seen this playbook before.
The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations:
— Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs) August 28, 2026
We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate… pic.twitter.com/Mj0SqerdlH
Members of an immigrant business group that has spoken out against Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plans for government-owned supermarkets lately have been getting slapped with fines from the city's Sanitation Department -- and some say it looks like a case of retaliation. Diana Larrazabal, who owns flower and gift shop Aroma D' Angel at 304 E. 116th St., said shops including hers in recent months have received a slew of citations from the New York City Department of Sanitation for garbage that isn't even theirs. Her flower and gift shop was dinged with fines three times this year -- most recently for $350 in May. Many of her Spanish-speaking neighbors who are not bilingual lean on her to help them navigate the city's red tape, she said, adding that they also are forking over hundreds of dollars in fines.
"It's definitely more frequent," Larrazabal said at a Wednesday press conference held by the Multicultural Business Coalition -- which sued the mayor and the city on Monday over the city-owned supermarket strategy over fears it will pose unfair competition to their stores. The coalition's chairman, Frank Garcia, says the fines ramped up about two weeks ago when the group began pounding the pavement to speak with local business owners to get support for its suit.
"When we started going door to door two weeks ago, that's when the fines started," Garcia told The Post, saying some have been served with penalties as stiff as $1,000. "The owners don't speak English."
— NovemberRain 🇺🇸 (@NovemberRain243) August 27, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 12:10 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 12:10 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 12:10 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:11 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:11 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:11 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:12 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:12 PM (Y/06r)
I enjoy that the Canadian official response is "the sacred Indians named it first and their name is what Gaia accepts, not the white man's". Makes me feel better for when we have to nuke Toronto.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:13 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:12 PM (ccf/V)
Except that Sydney Sweeney video yesterday. No one's THAT gay.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:13 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 12:13 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:14 PM (Y/06r)
America continues to ache for its own Quebec. Or to take after Belgium.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:14 PM (jPziU)
In related Real Communism Has Never Been Tried news, immigrant bodega owners sued the communist jihadi Mamdani over his "free" grocery stores -- and, entirely coincidentally, started getting hit with city fines.
Counter-revolutionary elements and kulaks must be suppressed ruthlessly.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 12:14 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: davidt at August 28, 2026 12:14 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 12:14 PM (dK+Kv)
Was corrected a while back after using the phrase 'Canadian geese', with a most solemn, 'Canada Geese'. The corrector was 10 years old.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 12:15 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:15 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2026 12:15 PM (wtvvX)
Except that Sydney Sweeney video yesterday. No one's THAT gay.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:13 PM (Y/06r)
Seems I missed something.
I haz sadz.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:15 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:12 PM (ccf/V)
Except that Sydney Sweeney video yesterday. No one's THAT gay.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:13 PM (Y/06r)
I missed a Sydney video? Link?
Posted by: davidt at August 28, 2026 12:16 PM (Q+gd/)
My account has been ghost banned for over a month. I have been posting frequently against data centers because I work in tech and I know about this stuff. I am not paid by the Chinese. I am very very anti-Chinese. But I am also anti-data center.
I managed to avoid getting banned during covid, but this one did me in.
Posted by: sunny-dee at August 28, 2026 12:16 PM (uS0pW)
2. The two identified bots shilling for China against datacenters posted the lamest, cheesiest propaganda. I can't imagine that garbage would change any minds. But maybe.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 12:16 PM (iFTx/)
Your lips to God's ears.
Posted by: sunny-dee at August 28, 2026 12:16 PM (uS0pW)
Posted by: Max Power at August 28, 2026 12:16 PM (q177U)
And SpaceX's data farms generate their own power, because Elon ain't got time to wait for Democrat-run utility monopolies.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:17 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 12:17 PM (8AEVc)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 28, 2026 12:17 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:17 PM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 12:18 PM (SK+av)
We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate
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I look forward to X uncovering 2,000,000 Qatar-Tukey-Indonesial-Phakistan bot accounts!
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 12:18 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 12:19 PM (8AEVc)
The Saudis got excellent mileage from cheesy lame anti-nuclear power propaganda in the 70s and 80s, and then again in the 2000s for cheesy anti-fracking propaganda. "I turned on my kitchen sink and fire came out! Gaia is angry!" Can't blame Xi for trying things known to work.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:19 PM (QZThv)
Immigrants welcome...time to pay up, suckas!
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 12:19 PM (Z5BUl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 12:19 PM (xPsv8)
I look forward to X uncovering 2,000,000 Qatar-Tukey-Indonesial-Phakistan bot accounts!
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 12:18 PM (g47mK)
"Are you trying to destroy us?"
- - - - - - Candace, Tucker, Nick
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:20 PM (ccf/V)
This assumes that the proposed data centers are all intended to "win" the AI race. What about the ones being built to destroy our privacy by means of Flock cameras and other spying?
Some data centers may be worthy.
Some data centers may be morally neutral.
Some are almost certainly evil.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:21 PM (1z8ji)
"Dolly Parton was a great friend to the working class"
When a DemSoc refers to the "working class", they mean themselves. Actual working class people despise DemSocs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 12:21 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: davidt at August 28, 2026 12:16 PM (Q+gd/)
I am looking for it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:22 PM (Y/06r)
2. The two identified bots shilling for China against datacenters posted the lamest, cheesiest propaganda. I can't imagine that garbage would change any minds. But maybe.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
X and other social media have a large problem with bots that no one wants to do much about it. X is having to do it on this topic because Elon has big plans for his datacenters but most comment sections now on unregulated or loosely regulated websites are shit shows of paid trolls, mentally ill losers, and bots. Fake and gay influence op shit.
And the percentage of original posts on X and elsewhere that are AI crap, often foreign sourced claiming to be US, are getting worse.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:22 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Barry Brant at August 28, 2026 12:22 PM (JM9I6)
Gee I never heard that communists are thugs. This must be a furst
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 12:22 PM (EZWVc)
Right now we seem to be in the "let's get an internet page and collect cash from stupid investors" phase.
Also, this guy is clearly lurking here to get material:
The Horrible Truth About the World's Worst Vegetable
Stephen Green
12:49 PM on August 27, 2026
https://shorturl.at/MWwZ8
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 28, 2026 12:22 PM (+fdRY)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2026 12:22 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Rodrigo Borgia posted it yesterday, try ONT for a repost that he did.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:22 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:23 PM (QZThv)
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Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 12:23 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:23 PM (AzCH9)
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:23 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:23 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2026 12:22 PM (+gK6I)
Sorry, I should have said OT/Didn't mean to hijack the thread
Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2026 12:24 PM (+gK6I)
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Sky Carp
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 12:24 PM (6LG2q)
America continues to ache for its own Quebec. Or to take after Belgium.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:14 PM (jPziU)
And what fraction of those Spanish-only speakers are illegal aliens?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:24 PM (1z8ji)
Yes, I thought that it was very inauthentic quote and this highly appropriate for Mamdani's speechwriters.😕
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 12:24 PM (xPsv8)
Some data centers may be worthy.
Some data centers may be morally neutral.
Some are almost certainly evil.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:21 PM (1z8ji)
End the Flock cameras. Problem solved. And who said you need local data centers for spying?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:25 PM (jPziU)
This assumes that the proposed data centers are all intended to "win" the AI race. What about the ones being built to destroy our privacy by means of Flock cameras and other spying?
Some data centers may be worthy.
Some data centers may be morally neutral.
Some are almost certainly evil.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Like most technology, neither good or evil, but obviously we cannot let the government nor Big Tech wag the dog (citizens). Flock camera resistance is beginning to roll back and diminish its abilities aided by the inevitable scandals of po po doing bad shit with them.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:25 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: mr tmz at August 28, 2026 12:25 PM (rJ48h)
https://tinyurl.com/4725pkaj
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:25 PM (AzCH9)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 12:15 PM (NcvvS)
They winter on the Gulf of America. Could have just as easily been named "The Lousiana Goose".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:25 PM (1z8ji)
AI/LLMs are also here to stay. Overhyped? Maybe, but also not going anywhere anytime soon. The upshot is that Claude is replacing the H1B asshats and Indian code farms that crank out crap. There are far too many efficiencies to be gained by the correct and competent use of AI, especially Agentic AI, for companies to look back now.
I do think that we should not let building datacenters be the wild west, which it sort of is right now. It would be prudent for us to slow our roll and take a breath.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:26 PM (oqH4h)
So, I was curious how hard it would be for China to bankroll each challenge by working in tandem with some of the known lawfare primary firms. Apparently, not very hard at all since most of the law firms involved have satellite offices in China. AND, there is no obligation for the plaintiff to provide documentation as to where their financing comes from. So a foreign country (China) could easily be behind every single legal challenge on immigration, and the like. They could even be the ones challenging the White House ballroom for kicks and giggles. Just a thought to ruin your Friday.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 12:26 PM (dIske)
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It is what it is.
-my Uncle Tony
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 12:26 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 12:26 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Cow Demon
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Phones and IOT devices are just as omnipresent for spying on you internally as Flock is externally.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv)
The Horrible Truth About the World's Worst Vegetable
Stephen Green
--Helena Handbasket
Is it the cucumber? Cats hate cucumbers.
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 12:26 PM (LHPAg)
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:23 PM (Y/06r)
Used a twitterviewer........Holy moly.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (RIvkX)
And what fraction of those Spanish-only speakers are illegal aliens?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:24 PM (1z8ji)
A good number but the number of legit immigrants who don’t learn English would surprise people.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (jPziU)
Here are some stills from the uk Sun write up:
https://tinyurl.com/y6v94cze
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (Y/06r)
Fortunately, I'm a sensitive guy.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (viF8m)
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
It's worth the trouble to sign up, and I'm not even a Sweeney fan.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (Riz8t)
Note, this MORNING, the LG TV I use as a monitor for my computer said if I did not agree to a NEW Privacy Policy, something with ACR, my TV would be unusable until I did.
This is after using this same TV as a monitor for 3 years.
Note, ACR monitors even STREAMED Data... and sends that back to LG so they can sell it.... you CAN turn it off in settings, but by default it is on.
Which is exactly what all the new data centers are for... not to make you safer, but to monetize your existence.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (mP0Kj)
Most TVs are doing more spying than Flock now, but ain't nobody gonna mention that.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (QZThv)
Compounding things are the many accounts that post only for clicks: its a business, getting responses, shares, and likes that will earn them money from Twixxer. All they do is post slop that will get a response. The entire site was so much more fun and so much more interesting before Trump won in 2016 and the left lost their minds.
I had conversations with Nick Searcy about how cute Erica Tazel was in Justified, I talked to Kate Upton about how many polar bears are in the arctic. I had major celebs following my account not because I was so special and interesting, but people just would follow people they found interesting. That's just all dead now.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 12:28 PM (K32Fz)
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and to 'follow' me, apparently
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 12:29 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:29 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 12:29 PM (8AEVc)
Posted by: H at August 28, 2026 12:30 PM (ZEDPq)
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:23 PM (Y/06r)
I don't know what SYRN is, but their ads featuring Sweeney are *chef's kiss*.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:30 PM (cWLG3)
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:23 PM (Y/06r)
Used a twitterviewer........Holy moly.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (ccf/V)
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Be sure JJS gets this excellent birthday card tomorrow. It's his birthday.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:30 PM (AzCH9)
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Very impressive credentials.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 12:30 PM (RIvkX)
Phones and IOT devices are just as omnipresent for spying on you internally as Flock is externally.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv)
Flock cameras are expressly used by people with the power to deprive you of your liberty or kill you. And the Flock CEO is not an American. OK, he might be a citizen but attitudinally and culturally he is not of this country. If I could send him back to, say, the GDR of 1970 he would be extremely comfortable there.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Orson
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Pretty sure Trump won't cross the Rubicon but whoever as president if the GOP wins in 2028 is going to have to do end foreign meddling in the US politics and society or implode the nations that are meddling here to end them.
A small measure why I think DeSantis would do it, dunno about Rubio as Rubio 2.0 is Terminator while Rubio 1.0 was not, and have doubts about Vance from the whole Iranian deal.
The rub is going to be the hordes of domestic ruling class types that have become wealthy by taking the coin of foreigners to do their bidding here. They won't go quietly.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (E4rtv)
Be sure JJS gets this excellent birthday card tomorrow. It's his birthday.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:30 PM (AzCH9)
But I already wished him a happy birthday THIS morning.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:30 PM (cWLG3)
As far as I can tell, it is her new lingerie line.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Have President Trump thank Mamdani for pointing out the rule breakers and that ICE is on the way to sort it out.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (M0V4/)
My account has been ghost banned for over a month. I have been posting frequently against data centers because I work in tech and I know about this stuff. I am not paid by the Chinese. I am very very anti-Chinese. But I am also anti-data center.
I managed to avoid getting banned during covid, but this one did me in.
Posted by: sunny-dee at August 28, 2026 12:16 PM (uS0pW)
I'm pro-data center (terrestrial). The thing I'm finding it hard to fully understand is that if the CCP 'wins' the AI race, what does that actually mean for the world? At the end of the day, the inputs to the tech are compute power and math. There's no way you can close off the knowledge about AI. If you try to create a closed system an open one will always form - info wants to be free. Yes, the CCP want a very closed system, but they can't censor all knowledge. Heck, the Dems tried in the US and Musk and his allies are doing all they can to open it up. Besides, if data centers go into space, then this whole controversy becomes moot.
It's a bit of a ramble, but I just want to be convinced that the AI arms race we're worried about is really something we should worry about.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 12:29 PM (8AEVc)
Again ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (mP0Kj)
Matrix.
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:32 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (K32Fz)
So The Dems are Bots ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2026 12:33 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 12:33 PM (EZWVc)
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Very impressive credentials.
I like eating and drinking, so I am a gourmand and a sommelier.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 12:33 PM (Riz8t)
ABC: Accuser of former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky expected to recant testimony
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 12:06 PM (RHGPo)
WTF? Why? This far after the conviction and sentencing?
This seems contrived.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:07 PM (ccf/V)
This actually lines up with the facts more than you realize. Sandusky was investigated and cleared A LOT before he was convicted. I'm not saying he's innocent, but without the context, Paterno and PSU look worse than they were.
In 1998, Sandusky was investigated by PA Child Welfare after receiving a complaint about him. The state hid an agent in the child's closet while he was alone with Sandusky, talking about their 'relationship.
The DA then fully exonerated Sandusky, saying there was no evidence whatsoever, and told Paterno and PSU's president that Sandusky was cleared of all charges.
Sandusky retired from Penn State in 1999 and started the Second Mile Foundation he used to groom kids.
In 2002, Paterno reported Sandusky again, and he was cleared again.
In 2008, Sandusky was investigated again, and left Second Mile.
In 2011, he was arrested and convicted.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 12:33 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (QZThv)
Flock cameras are expressly used by people who can deprive you of your liberty or kill you. Many of whom sadly are inclined to “just follow orders”.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:33 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 12:33 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO
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ladies' unmentionables
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 12:34 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 12:34 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:34 PM (ccf/V)
I'm pro-data center (terrestrial). The thing I'm finding it hard to fully understand is that if the CCP 'wins' the AI race, what does that actually mean for the world?
Posted by: Darrell Harris
Ad revenues perhaps? It's not really clear what "winning" looks like and it seems unlikely that we'd end up outsourcing AI in a military capability to China.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (okun6)
Posted by: Cow Demon
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What you say about CEOs is pretty much all of them now. The very promotion structure that the big consulting, big finance have put on US corporations dictates that.
And the weakness to blame is that technology in the US has superceded the current reasonable expectation of privacy just as phones overturned the even older standard in law of trespass.
Katz decision, which set our current reasonable expectation of privacy standard in 1967 is not up to the task. And the justices know that but yet allow it to go on.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (E4rtv)
https://tinyurl.com/52thvzry
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (AzCH9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (Cqx++)
What goes in the data centers is what should be the focus. Some is useful, some is evil. Same as always.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (mP0Kj)
The Internet does that already.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (0CU3H)
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The AI arms race isn't truly about AI itself. The real arms race is quantum computing. The AI race is the predecessor - if someone gets AI to solve for how to make quantum computing truly work at scale, they will own the world because they can break any existing encryption, and thus will know everyone's darkest secrets.
If China gets to quantum computing before we do, we are El Fucked-o.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (ftFVW)
I'd like to see the Hispanics in NYC revolt against Mamdani. He would have no idea how to deal with brown people attacking him
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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It's odd because I saw one of his cross-eyed they/thems announcing subsidies for the independent grocers who have to compete with the commie stores. The whole thing is following an unbelievably ludicrous trail.
Reminds me of a kid I used to babysit who got scared when I got out of his sight but he liked to play hide and seek. "Just call out and tell me where you are!" he said cheerily.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (mmrXZ)
https://tinyurl.com/4bmdpzz2
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:29 PM (Y/06r)
I'll be back later... much later...
Posted by: davidt at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (Q+gd/)
Can’t put the genie back in the bottle. Technology marches on
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (geWO5)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (QZThv)
Well, I don't have a TV, and will not be getting one. And I just bought a phone with the Graphene OS, so Gurgle's spyware is out of it. I can still be tracked by geofencing based on which cell towers it pings, but that is unavoidable if the phone is to work at all. It's not spying for the sake of spying.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
Welp, it turns out that DoW contractors no less, are doing searches on AI models and then sharing the results with the CCP. That in turn is used as data for AI training models for the Chicoms. Easy way to piggyback on the tremendous expense of frontier models.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (cGjQu)
He's a guy whose house got robbed by Democrat client groups and the city government said there was nothing they can do. Making money solving a problem like that is the most American thing on the planet.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (QZThv)
Is Baron Trump dating anyone?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2026 12:37 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
Why are you not a space-based data center enthusiast? Yes, there are technical problems to be overcome (heat dissipation and latency) but I think it will be the way of the future.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 12:37 PM (Riz8t)
Meh. Elbows, again...
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (cGjQu)
Objection! She also has a fine set of legs and ass!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:37 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 12:37 PM (ZxPkt)
Is that a lot?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 28, 2026 12:37 PM (2Ez/1)
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Very impressive credentials.
I like eating and drinking, so I am a gourmand and a sommelier.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 12:33 PM (Riz8t)
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Yeah, but are you circumsized?
Posted by: Senator Abdul "The al-Qaeda guy" El-Sayed at August 28, 2026 12:37 PM (AzCH9)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (E4rtv)
Katz…wiretapping, right?
And that was done 50 years after phone usage became widespread.
Courts move slowly.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:37 PM (jPziU)
Regarding bodega owners... this will change the way they vote, right. Right?
Posted by: She Hobbit
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Different commies next time.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 28, 2026 12:38 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:38 PM (Y/06r)
Meh. Elbows, again...
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (cGjQu)
But, they ARE a mighty fine, voluptuous example of them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:38 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: DaveA at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (QZThv)
Meh. Elbows, again...
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (cGjQu)
https://tinyurl.com/msh3svah
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (cWLG3)
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"Here, hold our hammers & sickles."
/The Democrat Communists of America
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (EPw5O)
Posted by: pookysgirl might have more than two brain cells at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (Wt5PA)
Well, Hispanics have been turning out for more right wing candidates...
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (cGjQu)
If China gets to quantum computing before we do, we are El Fucked-o.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)
Thank you, ballistic. THIS makes a ton of sense. Interestingly enough, I've never heard that particular argument made in public yet.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (0CU3H)
The centers are being pushed by datacenter builders who want to suck up investment while it's available. They'll get paid and leave the investors holding the bag if no tenant can be found.
It's a mad rush of "build it and they will come." It's a very risky strategy that will surely end up with empty multi-billion centers.
Sorta like all those yuge malls that were build before they had tenants.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
"A report by Environment America says more than 25% of the state’s power now goes to data centers, and a report last year by the General Assembly’s investigative arm said that unrestrained growth of data centers could triple electricity demands by 2040."
Thus, why it's 80-20, and the only popular thing Spanburger has done...tax them and slow this growth down...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (tOcjL)
He's like 6'7", rich, and in a college environment that's 65/35 female. Even the liberal chicks are reportedly throwing themselves at him.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (QZThv)
Instead of advocating for better gun laws or learning to handle a gun himself, he decides to invite the police to become the Stasi. You know, for safety.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (QZThv)
Except he didn't solve that problem. at.All.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (1z8ji)
>>@KatieDaviscourt
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1h
>>Breaking: Portland Antifa’s terror site, “Rose City Counter-Info,” has been taken offline following State Dept expose.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (viF8m)
If China gets to quantum computing before we do, we are El Fucked-o.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)
"Too Many Secrets."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (ccf/V)
Because people are sometimes evil. Governments surely are too. And it's just too tempting to use the surveillance for their own ends.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (2Cry5)
Data centers are whiny and weak unless they put nuclear behind the meter.
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (2ap+5)
I literally work inside a data center. Most of what they're putting out there about DC's is bullshit. Large amounts of it.
Posted by: Sponge
Just a bunch of rack mounted computers and storage, right?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Graphene can keep your info safe on your phone but not whenever you use it to communicate.
Plus, new surveillance tech allows imeis and other identifiers to be picked up on the fly, sometimes with cameras attached, sometimes not.
This sobering article for 2013 shows how using metadata can lead to identification of individuals.
https://tinyurl.com/Paul-Revere-Network-Analysis
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (E4rtv)
If China gets to quantum computing before we do, we are El Fucked-o.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)
"Too Many Secrets."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (ccf/V)
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LLMs aren't going to solve quantum computing.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:42 PM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (QZThv)
He'd better be vigilant, or else some leftist chick might do horrible things to him just to "own" his father.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 12:42 PM (Z5BUl)
Sorta like all those yuge malls that were build before they had tenants.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
That right there is literally my only concern about them.
Not “they use too much power, they use too much water, they threaten privacy, they chew up farmland…”. Build them, but use them and make damn sure there is a use for them.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (jPziU)
Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades.
No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one.
The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:42 PM (cWLG3)
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Not all AI is LLMs.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (oqH4h)
So all electrical power flows from the munificence of the State?
Sure, why not? Doesn't everything already belong to the state?
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (cGjQu)
The Trump Energy Department and half a dozen startups are working on it. One of them is building modular reactors in shipping containers - drop it off, plug it in, zero-carbon power for 30 years. That'll revolutionize "off-grid" stuff if they shrink it a bit more.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (tOcjL)
The Calif Government is all in on building Data Centers...
At the same time it limits how large of a power supply I can have in my Home Computer.
/scratches head
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2026 12:44 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:44 PM (cWLG3)
Do you want a cookie? I don't think I'd tell the world how bad I was at allowing bots.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 12:44 PM (Jl/ju)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (QZThv)
Instead of advocating for better gun laws or learning to handle a gun himself, he decides to invite the police to become the Stasi. You know, for safety.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (jPziU)
He could have even moved out of the city and told them why they were losing his tax revenue, but muh Thai food at 3am???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 28, 2026 12:45 PM (+fdRY)
So all electrical power flows from the munificence of the State?
Sure, why not? Doesn't everything already belong to the state?
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (cGjQu)
Rain, and Water... and the make Legislation about Air... and you have to pay rent (property taxes) for your own land...
So... yeah... pretty much.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2026 12:45 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (tOcjL)
The Calif Government is all in on building Data Centers...
At the same time it limits how large of a power supply I can have in my Home Computer.
/scratches head
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2026 12:44 PM (mP0Kj)
Funny enough, new numbers are out...VA dropped to #2 electricity importer...CA is now #1...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 12:45 PM (tOcjL)
Because people are sometimes evil. Governments surely are too. And it's just too tempting to use the surveillance for their own ends.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (2Cry5)
And this is happening right now in TX. Cops have gotten busted using them to stalk people here.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:45 PM (jPziU)
95% of all AI Data Center news is fake.
1 Book oft quoted misstated the water use by %100,000
AI Data Center water is lifecycled every 10 Years.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 12:46 PM (/+uur)
If China gets to quantum computing before we do, we are El Fucked-o.
Posted by: ballistic
Not helped by most of the original quantum computing 'breakthroughs" were in fact bullshit.
From comp security specialists on quantum computing.
https://tinyurl.com/Quantum-of-Flapdoodle
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:46 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:42 PM (cWLG3)
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Not all AI is LLMs.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (oqH4h)
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Right, the rest is machine learning and expert systems. However, LLMs are still being marketed as a first step towards AGI, which they are not.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:46 PM (cWLG3)
"Nice little flower shop ya got here. Would be a shame if the wiring and HVAC weren't up to code..."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (FZ29D)
Her Majesty is in Amana, Iowa this weekend. She was telling me how startlingly different the area is. Clean streets. Well-maintained houses. Nice farms. Like another world.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (O0L8i)
So all electrical power flows from the munificence of the State?
Sure, why not? Doesn't everything already belong to the state?
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (cGjQu)
This referred to all power used in the borders of the state...within the borders, data centers as a singular business, use 25% of all the power anyone and anything in the state uses (residents, other businesses, government, schools, etc)...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Sanitation Police! at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (ccf/V)
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A "Sneakers" reference? Well played, sir.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (Tr0Ci)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)
"Too Many Secrets."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (ccf/V)
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LLMs aren't going to solve quantum computing.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:42 PM (cWLG3)
I am thinking about this line of argument some more. One thing that AI would (or should, in theory) be able to do is program in whatever language quantum hardware would work in. If the world's computer scientists have worked in the binary (or hex?) system for decades, there probably aren't more than a handful of humans on earth that can even conceive or work within the constraints of a quantum programming environment. You'd probably need a computer to program another computer.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (QZThv)
At Fort Hood they will be experimenting with SMRs to take the base off grid.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (jPziU)
Fucking hell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (Y/06r)
"Polymarket reports X reports thing and that proves anyone who disagrees with me is a foreign agent!" It's okay. You oppose advancement and progress and want nothing but stagnation. You want the US weaker, stupider, and poorer because you genuinely hate it and its people.
Texas is eagerly pursuing renewable energy and is building it at a faster rate than California is. Why? Because its just good business.
If green energy is a scam made up by China why is China building solar at much faster rate than the US?
Being against green energy is one of the dumbest positions someone can have. If the US invested, we'd have energy independence, which would strengthen the economy and national defense.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (t19vo)
From comp security specialists on quantum computing.
https://tinyurl.com/Quantum-of-Flapdoodle
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:46 PM (E4rtv)
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I work for a company that is putting quite a bit of money and R&D hours into post-quantum cryptography. This is a company you've definitely heard of before and it's been around since the beginning of the internet. People who know, know that quantum isn't bullshit. A lot of the stuff on the periphery of it is, though.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (oqH4h)
A "Sneakers" reference? Well played, sir.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (Tr0Ci)
*phew*
I thought I was on an island out here in the middle of nowhere.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (t19vo)
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Let's be fair now and give the USSR its due.
It directly funded the Sierra Club for decades.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 12:49 PM (Jl/ju)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (0CU3H)
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This is exactly the correct line of thinking.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:49 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 12:49 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:30 PM (cWLG3)
As far as I can tell, it is her new lingerie line.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (Y/06r)
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Sydney Yields Rigid Netherregions?
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 12:50 PM (EPw5O)
Its a mistake to think that they are only about AI (they have existed for decades, before the rise of artificial "intelligence"). They are about data storage as well, especially videos. The internet is huge and keeps getting more gigantic every second. All that has to be stored somewhere. Processed somewhere.
I am not convinced that AI is an arms race or has any similarity to previous conflicts or struggles. If someone comes up with a really great AI, its literally not possible to keep it to yourself. Anything major anyone comes up with in computer tech ends up global no matter what rules or laws are in place or how careful someone is, because of its very nature.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 12:50 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Amanas are fine, but Maytags are more dependable and trouble-free.
Posted by: Lonely Jesse White at August 28, 2026 12:50 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (t19vo)
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lol
"China does it, so it's objectively good."
Also, it's untrue. China's energy is mostly fed by many, many new coal fired plants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 12:50 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (O0L8i)
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a very nice place indeed
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:51 PM (Tr0Ci)
I thought I was on an island out here in the middle of nowhere.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (ccf/V)
Nah, I got it, I am just stuck in bureaucratic hell. Plus, that movie gets worse the older I get. Fucking hippy commie shits.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:51 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (0CU3H)
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The AI arms race isn't truly about AI itself. The real arms race is quantum computing. The AI race is the predecessor - if someone gets AI to solve for how to make quantum computing truly work at scale, they will own the world because they can break any existing encryption, and thus will know everyone's darkest secrets.
If China gets to quantum computing before we do, we are El Fucked-o.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)
Yeah, this. Exactly.
Within minutes (seconds?) the country that has functional AI and quantum computing could pretty much infiltrate, poison, and destroy any country's economy and probably defense...maybe isolated nuclear subs might be immune from take-over if receiving...well, just about nothing.
A true nightmare.
And whoever gets it first, would almost have to use it, to destroy other nations ability to use it on them. If you can do it, they can do it too.
Posted by: Another Pop Song Not About Love at August 28, 2026 12:51 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 12:49 PM (Jl/ju)
Hah! Well played.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:52 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 12:49 PM (2Cry5)
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"said some sources."
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:52 PM (cWLG3)
AI Data Center water is lifecycled every 10 Years.
Posted by: r hennigantx
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One of the issues that gets buried is in fact a problem.
Power generation offsite like fossil fuel plants, nuclear, etc. requires massive cooling towers so most if not all are located by rivers and the water from those rivers goes into the atmosphere as water vapor. Back in the water wars between Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, the battle over that river water included the problem that the largest leak in the water ecosystem stemmed from water vapor being evaporated in those cooling towers. Crop irrigation, drinking and septic uses of water, were largely dealt with by water treatment and recharging native aquifers. Not so for cooling tower evaporation.
So if the datacenter uses gobs of electricity or evaporation towers for any heat transference, then they are 'using' water that would not be otherwise used.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:52 PM (E4rtv)
Amanas are fine, but Maytags are more dependable and trouble-free.
Posted by: Lonely Jesse White at August 28, 2026 12:50 PM (JM9I6)
_________
Yes, it's actually Amana Colonies and, yes, that's where the brand name comes from and, yes, they still have a plant there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 12:52 PM (O0L8i)
Nah, I got it, I am just stuck in bureaucratic hell. Plus, that movie gets worse the older I get. Fucking hippy commie shits.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:51 PM (Y/06r)
I saw it a LONG time ago. Robert Redford has long since alienated me to where I won't watch anything with him in it, so I haven't seen it again.
And yeah. OSHA training. Time spent where you'd rather hit yourself in the foot repeatedly with a 4lb drilling hammer.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:53 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:53 PM (cGjQu)
Portland Antifa’s terror site, “Rose City Counter-Info,” has been taken offline following State Dept expose.
Posted by: JackStraw
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State Dept. Interesting.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 28, 2026 12:53 PM (mmrXZ)
1) water is not destroyed by power plants, they use it, some even recycle the water they take in over and over. The water is not polluted or blighted by being used to cool tech. They cannot be built in super remote place like antarctica because they need the water and power to run.
2) we need more power plants. Complaining that data centers take up too much energy is accurate, but miguided; that means we have too little energy for the demand, not that data centers are evil.
Thankfully this will solve its self: just like how all these silicon valley guys dumped climate change the instant they realized it would limit their development, they will push for power plants and have the clout to make it happen.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 12:54 PM (K32Fz)
Portland Antifa’s terror site, “Rose City Counter-Info,” has been taken offline following State Dept expose.
Posted by: JackStraw
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State Dept. Interesting.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 28, 2026 12:53 PM (mmrXZ)
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Trump's political appointees in his second term are very different from his political appointees in his first term.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 12:54 PM (/PKja)
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"Political grift is always the best business to be in, comrades!"
/Should sock this as "Minnesommalians"
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 12:54 PM (EPw5O)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (t19vo)
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lol
"China does it, so it's objectively good."
Also, it's untrue. China's energy is mostly fed by many, many new coal fired plants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 12:50
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Exactly!
"If green energy is a scam made up by China [insert BS that you don't expect anyone to fact-check]?"
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:54 PM (cWLG3)
Fucking hell."
Hey, that's how we sold it!
/NHS
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:55 PM (cGjQu)
*ducks
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:53 PM (cGjQu)
https://youtu.be/H-uWqXqk5vs
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:55 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)
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We'll get there first, but China will steal it.
Same outcome, though.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 12:55 PM (FZ29D)
There are 1,352 guitar pickers in Nashville.
Posted by: Nashville Cats at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (JM9I6)
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How the fuck can you own a business and not speak English? Does NYC print all of its regulatory bullshit in every language on Earth?
Posted by: The_Hoser at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (H4qGm)
Thankfully this will solve its self: just like how all these silicon valley guys dumped climate change the instant they realized it would limit their development, they will push for power plants and have the clout to make it happen.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 12:54 PM (K32Fz)
Well, til the power fix happens here, I'll be happy to let the other 49 states catch up on data center developments...VA has plenty for now, probably more than we need or want...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (cGjQu)
Sorry for the OT, but pray for me, please.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:57 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 12:57 PM (geWO5)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (xcxpd)
But it's on the internet.....and you KNOW what they say about things on the internet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:57 PM (ccf/V)
Within RadarRange?
*ducks
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:53 PM (cGjQu)
wow. A deep, deep pull from the 1970s. I remember those Touchmatic commercials.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 12:57 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:58 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)
Yeah, this. Exactly.
Posted by: Another Pop Song Not About Love
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I just watched a youtube by some sciencey type saying that IBM, Google etc. have been claiming for almost ten years that quantum computing would have real world uses shortly, but that we're actually no closer to it now than were were then. And that it's probably at least decades away.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 12:58 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: ballistic
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You might be interested in Jerry Pournelle and his co-author Stefan Possony plus Francis Kane.
The Strategy of Technology.
I am not discounting quantum computing but putting a lot of investment into it is no marker of whether a return will result. We have ideas that it CAN work and demonstrated some examples of breaking cryptography keys for example, but like AI frontier models, I think it is a bit oversold for now. Ten, twenty years from now, it might or might not be ubiquitous but it might not too.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:58 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 28, 2026 12:59 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:59 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 01:00 PM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (OUMaO)
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Give yourself a minute.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 01:00 PM (RIvkX)
The problem with the botfarms now is that they don't just attack, they also praise. Imagine getting 10K likes for a certain class of posting but also being beaten on for taking "wrong" positions? It could edge the usual normie with an X account and the wish to be an influencer with a following into acting like Nick Fuentes.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (rbvCR)
That anyone is even thinking about voting for the Democrat Party after what they have demonstrably done in the past, and are promising for the future is truly born of ignorance, malice or an embrace of what is to come- and it doesn’t end well.
“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.”
Ephesians 6:10-11
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (zy41W)
Within RadarRange?
*ducks
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:53 PM (cGjQu)
wow. A deep, deep pull from the 1970s. I remember those Touchmatic commercials.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 12:57 PM (0CU3H)
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I'm pretty sure those buttons required a little more than a "touch" to operate.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (cWLG3)
1) water is not destroyed by power plants, they use it, some even recycle the water they take in over and over. The water is not polluted or blighted by being used to cool tech. They cannot be built in super remote place like antarctica because they need the water and power to run.
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"... US corn farming uses more water in a single day than every American data center consumes directly in a year."
-- from "Which Industries Use the Most Water in America [7/9/26]
https://tinyurl.com/36vz5htj
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (EPw5O)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (rbvCR)
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If we don't nominate Nick Fuentes to be president in 2028, Pakistan won't vote GOP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (UjdFS)
Doesn't much matter, in about 10 years or so the tech will be advanced enough to run on user hardware and the data centers will be white elephants. They will have a grand future as roller rinks and laser tag playgrounds.
Posted by: Sid Blysters at August 28, 2026 01:02 PM (Q4iuB)
Within RadarRange?
*ducks
Posted by: man
The original commercial RadaRange cost $5,000 in 1947.
The original consumer one cost $500 in 1967.
Posted by: Off the Radar at August 28, 2026 01:02 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Nashville Cats at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (JM9I6)
We have seven real musicians and 10 well known bands.
Posted by: Australia at August 28, 2026 01:02 PM (/+uur)
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Oh, they know.
They all know.
They all just think they will be the ones holding the guns and getting the loot.
And not the ones facing the guns and getting looted.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:03 PM (3cUTc)
I came to this conclusion when I read about 'entanglement'
Science guys: if you don't know, just say you don't know
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 01:03 PM (ZxPkt)
Twixxer is packed with this kind of thing, usually accompanied by an AI image of 1000 square miles of solar panels on the ocean or something.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: paulnjax at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (PPnyU)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (/PKja)
Don't threaten me with a good time
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (xcxpd)
The problem with the botfarms now is that they don't just attack, they also praise. Imagine getting 10K likes for a certain class of posting but also being beaten on for taking "wrong" positions? It could edge the usual normie with an X account and the wish to be an influencer with a following into acting like Nick Fuentes.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (rbvCR)
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AKA "A Brief History of Podcastistan"
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (EPw5O)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 01:00 PM (cWLG3)
Interesting idea as these could probably run 20 to 30 semi-AI agents for local plumbers and other services.
Answer phone and text schedule appts etc.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (/PKja)
Don't threaten me with a good time
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (xcxpd)
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*holds up copy of Twins of Evil threateningly*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (/PKja)
Just the other day the State Dept. sanctioned and went after a group in Italy that has been providing secure, encrypted communications for antifa around the world.
They know what's up.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 01:05 PM (viF8m)
It will be disillusioning to make it at last to a TXMoMe and find the Horde is just a bunch of bots.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 01:05 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:05 PM (zy41W)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (/PKja)
First I have to watch your Mel Brooks vid, then tonight....Twins! of Evil!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 01:05 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO
Eh, I have seen a couple of stories where people have done so but simply most people don't have a need for it.
The AI hardware models nowadays are basically GPU derived and are not designed for ordinary hardware or tasks that they might run. Overkill in some facets, incapable in others.
What some are proposing to avoid the datacenter notion is that companies place these AI distributed units in homes that have good internet connections and they pay rent to the householder.
An AI stack in the basement might serve as a pretty good space heater in northern climates for winter.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:06 PM (E4rtv)
Next, private store owner customers will have relatives, acquaintances, employees and strangers purchasing off the shelf from the City run store, with the same result. This is going to be a hoot.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 01:06 PM (dIske)
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There are already laws against the police abusing their powers.
And yet, the police still abuse their powers.
the problem isn't the technology or the laws--the problem is the people.
And enforcing the law.
And, as I've lamented before, the hard-on of hate the courts have had for automobiles (how DARE those peons think they have a right to go where they want when they want?!!) has lead to a shitton of really crappy law that has nearly gutted the 4th Amendment.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:06 PM (3cUTc)
This plays into my theory that science is a the limits of what it can understand and accomplish based on what it understands and until we get a real breakthrough of some new understanding, all we get are increasingly bizarre theories.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:06 PM (K32Fz)
It will be disillusioning to make it at last to a TXMoMe and find the Horde is just a bunch of bots.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 01:05 PM (O0L8i)
Let me tell you a story about Your Devious Uncle Palpatine...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 01:06 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Memento Mori at August 28, 2026 01:07 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Angel at August 28, 2026 01:07 PM (3Nsid)
Epic troll, but ... he comically over-rates FDR and Wilson (Wilson was hot garbage) and drastically under-rates Coolidge.
https://tinyurl.com/39dsmufe
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:07 PM (iFTx/)
Epic troll, but ... he comically over-rates FDR and Wilson (Wilson was hot garbage) and drastically under-rates Coolidge.
https://tinyurl.com/39dsmufe
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:07 PM (iFTx/)
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It's a photoshop of a ranking from LIFE from decades ago.
The Bushes aren't even on it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:08 PM (/PKja)
It’s not a surprise to some of us.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:08 PM (zy41W)
the word is he just grabbed someone's list from before he was president and stuck himself at the top for lulz, without caring about the rest
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:08 PM (K32Fz)
Answer phone and text schedule appts etc.
Posted by: r hennigantx
Just no. Please in the Lord's name no. We don't want to be the meat puppet for the AI model agents and the fact that most of enshittification involves putting computers into tasks that actually they are mediocre or worse such as customer service, tech service, etc. is a huge problem.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:09 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (/PKja)
It’s Go Time Donald? That you?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:09 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:09 PM (iCp4l)
"Nice little flower shop ya got here. Would be a shame if the wiring and HVAC weren't up to code..."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (FZ29D)
Mamdani is the peace maker. He will make food deserts and call it a peace.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:09 PM (rbvCR)
Epic troll, but ... he comically over-rates FDR and Wilson (Wilson was hot garbage) and drastically under-rates Coolidge.
https://tinyurl.com/39dsmufe
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:07 PM (iFTx/)
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It's a photoshop of a ranking from LIFE from decades ago.
The Bushes aren't even on it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:08 PM (/PKja)
________
I know, but still ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:09 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
1948 list by Arthur Schlesinger.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:10 PM (E4rtv)
It looks like the chinks recruited the most deranged and loudmouth dumbasses across the rural areas to create FUD about datacenters.
It's all a lie.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at August 28, 2026 01:10 PM (och2J)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 28, 2026 01:10 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (/PKja)
It’s Go Time Donald? That you?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:09 PM (jPziU)
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"Young people vote at historic numbers every midterm."
-Its Go Time Donald, probably
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:10 PM (/PKja)
"Kaark!!! NO SNEEZE GUARD!!"
--Khan Noonien Singh
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:10 PM (K32Fz)
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.”
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 28, 2026 01:10 PM (NlEaG)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:06 PM (K32Fz)
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The latest batch of space telescopes has been uncovering some really weird stuff in the past few years. Things that the standard model of physics says shouldn't be possible.
Yeah, we're a long, long ways from really understanding how the universe works.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:11 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Memento Mori
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Alas, too much fiber and not enough digestible protein brings a sad end.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:11 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: gp at August 28, 2026 01:11 PM (Jr5Lq)
Government wants to be your god.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:11 PM (zy41W)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:09 PM (E4rtv)
My insurer’s love on AI for phone calls makes me long for the days of some annoying voice listing options “To make a claim press 1”.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:11 PM (jPziU)
No, that one is entirely organic and rose long after the huge well of anti-data-center bots. Its just people sick of being photographed and spied on everywhere, and finally doing something about it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:12 PM (K32Fz)
Government wants to be your god.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:11 PM (zy41W)
It’s for your safety. Quit whining about freedom. Safety comes first.
Posted by: Garrett Langley, Flock CEO at August 28, 2026 01:13 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 28, 2026 01:13 PM (NlEaG)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:13 PM (jPziU)
Sorry for the OT, but pray for me, please.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (OUMaO)
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Will do, Brother.
[This has been my greatest fear for awhile, and why I've proctively worked at continually exercising my brain (reading, commenting here, solving puzzles, et. al.) and body (physical stress and nutrition) for the past decade.
It's a hell of a thing having had a tremendous short-term memory ... once.]
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 01:13 PM (EPw5O)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:12 PM (K32Fz)
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I agree. I think a critical mass of disgruntled citizens has been reached, at least in this one area.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:14 PM (FZ29D)
These are not the small ethnic delis or groceries some of us fondly remember as kids.
They are now mostly criminal enterprises selling fenced/stolen goods. Massive SNAP and welfare fraud. Many have their own resident gangbangers and drug dealers. They are usually filthy, staffed by illegals, and it's mostly illegals shopping there.
There's a reason bodegas are overwhelmingly in poor neighborhoods. In wealthier neighborhoods, they have been replaced with chain groceries and supermarkets.
Sure, there are still a few legit small groceries owned and operated by small business owners. But those aren't really bodegas and are the exception rather than the rule.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:14 PM (iFTx/)
As long as I am armed and breathing air, I don’t need the government for safety.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:14 PM (zy41W)
But its happened repeatedly where law enforcement jumps on something new, uses it until a court says "my brothers in Christ, you cannot violate peoples' rights like that even if it helps you get bad guys"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:14 PM (K32Fz)
I came to this conclusion when I read about 'entanglement'
Science guys: if you don't know, just say you don't know
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 01:03 PM (ZxPkt)
Einstein famously said God doesn’t play dice. His instinct was that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics was wrong. But he understood how very good it is at scientific prediction. It’s great science… as to whether it depicts ultimate reality that’s a philosophical question
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 01:14 PM (geWO5)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:14 PM (rbvCR)
Government wants to be your god.
Posted by: Marcus
We’ve had traffic cameras for decades. We’ve had toll highways scanning plates for decades. Even flock has been around for almost 10 years. Every house has a Ring camera Nobody cared.
And then one day, all of a sudden out of the blue, it’s a thing and everyone is riled up about it. This is coordinated.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (iCp4l)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:09 PM (iCp4l)
Except I’m no bot. And I have never been a fan of the surveillance state.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
You have just restated Thomas Kuhn's thesis. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Widely read in social sciences but ironically mostly ignored by STEM types. Pees in their cornflakes a bit much is why.
Separates out normal science and revolutionary science. And it is when the contradictions in normal science (which is additive, procedural in nature, and consensus building) cause a crisis which a new revolutionary theory addresses successfully, then that new revolutionary theory settles down to becoming normal science all over again. Cyclic theory of science. Brought the use of paradigm into popular consciousness.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (E4rtv)
It think the problem will be that, after all of our economy comes to depend fully on AI, the AI providers will suddenly jack up their per token prices by 10X.
Posted by: gp at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (iCp4l)
Perhaps. No need to be an apologist for the surveillance state.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 01:17 PM (j9ddv)
I came to this conclusion when I read about 'entanglement'
Science guys: if you don't know, just say you don't know
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 01:03 PM (ZxPkt)
Einstein famously said God doesn’t play dice. His instinct was that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics was wrong. But he understood how very good it is at scientific prediction. It’s great science… as to whether it depicts ultimate reality that’s a philosophical question
I studied QM for many years, and concluded it was bunk due to the utter lack of turtles all the way down.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 01:17 PM (Riz8t)
Was corrected a while back after using the phrase 'Canadian geese', with a most solemn, 'Canada Geese'. The corrector was 10 years old
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Sky Carp
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 12:24 PM (6LG2q)
Cobra Chickens
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 28, 2026 01:17 PM (y9nCu)
Sorry for the OT, but pray for me, please.
Three things to consider (I am in the same kind of boat).
1) As we age, our abilities diminish. We cannot do what we once did, we lose our sharp focus, our energy, and our tolerance for hardship and strain. Its a natural part of life on this earth, as evil as it is.
2) This does not mean you are falling into dementia or alzheimer's. I just lost my mom a few year ago to dementia and was her primary caretaker for the last two years. I live with that horror and worry about it too, but it is not abnormal to be less able and forget more as we age.
3) You sound like someone who needs to take a break. Not just a vacation but regularly. If you are not, take at least one day off a week: no work. NO WORK. don't think about it, don't do just a little, don't just set things up. Just take that day off, and do only the minimum you need to survive and care for your family.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:18 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:18 PM (zy41W)
Posted by: Put a fork in it at August 28, 2026 01:19 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 01:19 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 01:06 PM (xcxpd)
Whatever happened to that guy?
Posted by: Polka will never die at August 28, 2026 01:19 PM (1g6sz)
Their bot that reviewed the first bot's determination also decided that I'm not real.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 28, 2026 01:19 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:13 PM (jPziU)
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There is rampant & recent historical evidence demonstrating this ... and resulting in a concomitant hundreds of millions murdered and mass graves.
I haven't been calling it A Death Cult most of my life for nothin' ...
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 01:19 PM (EPw5O)
I would like to know more.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2026 01:19 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:14 PM (rbvCR)
I'll bet AI agents are being designed right now to disseminate cover-ups of AI-caused problems, failures of AI to control to-spec everything from stocking grocery stores to large aircraft, you name it. I'd do this if I sold usage of AI engines that are to do anything.
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (PGK1w)
Government wants to be your god.
Posted by: Marcus
We’ve had traffic cameras for decades. We’ve had toll highways scanning plates for decades. Even flock has been around for almost 10 years. Every house has a Ring camera Nobody cared.
And then one day, all of a sudden out of the blue, it’s a thing and everyone is riled up about it. This is coordinated.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (iCp4l)
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I think more likely, it reached a tipping point and people started noticing it.
Ring cameras were also an outrage du jour back when they started to pop up everywhere.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (iFTx/)
They don't actually need it but it has some hallmarks.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 01:21 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: pookysgirl, not quite a farmgirl at August 28, 2026 01:21 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (geWO5)
Not saying I agree with any of that. But Flock and surveillance cameras of people engaged in ordinary activity is quite a bit different and in my opinion unconstitutional.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (zy41W)
You can see it down through history, science pushes to its limits and starts getting ridiculous and silly as it tries to explain what it cannot know, yet. I am certain we are up against one of those limits and you can tell by how increasingly ridiculous the theories and explanations get, and how little science does any practical, useful stuff any more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (K32Fz)
And then one day, all of a sudden out of the blue, it’s a thing and everyone is riled up about it. This is coordinated.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (iCp4l)
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The difference has been pointed out here repeatedly.
Toll booths/highway scanners are situational.
Flock is omnipresent and builds a heatmap of your movements over time. Toll cameras don't create a dossier on every person driving through them the way Flock cameras do.
I don't get why that distinction is difficult for you to understand.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:23 PM (PGK1w)
And then one day, all of a sudden out of the blue, it’s a thing and everyone is riled up about it. This is coordinated.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (iCp4l)
Nope. And you are all wet here.
Ring cameras are used by private citizens. Flock cameras are expressly designed to be used by people who can either 1) deprive you of your liberty or 2) kill you.
And I suggest looking into the whack job who runs Flock. He thinks his cameras can end crime, and has said so.
Think of me as the puppet of some Svengali all you want if it makes you feel better though. And if a surveillance state is what you want, just move to the PRC, DPRK or Cuba. You won’t be missed.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:24 PM (jPziU)
quarks gluons spin flavors bosons
will it lead to a better mousetrap? Who TF knows
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Welp, it happens in our social and economic theories as well.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (E4rtv)
Not saying I agree with any of that. But Flock and surveillance cameras of people engaged in ordinary activity is quite a bit different and in my opinion unconstitutional.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (zy41W)
Even the TX Legislature ended red light cameras seven years ago. Not legal in the state, and that’s includes Balcones Heights.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Old Bill Shakespeare at August 28, 2026 01:28 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: pookysgirl, not quite a farmgirl at August 28, 2026 01:21 PM (Wt5PA)
Data centers on good farmland is bad. Commercial development and subdivisions on good farmland is GREAT and WONDERFUL and MUST NOT EVER BE STOPPED!!!
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM
Ummm...is this Glock loaded?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: UA113 at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (iojh6)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM
Ummm...is this Glock loaded?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (2Ez/1)
all guns are always loaded
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 01:34 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Marcus T
It is my originalist take on the 4th but the justices on Scotus are not there yet. Stare decisis is why plus the unpleasant reality that fedgov relies on what should be regarded as illegal interception of communication traffic with foreigners to protect the nation.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:35 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Klaus at August 28, 2026 02:03 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (2Ez/1)
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Do interns get glocks?
Posted by: Klaus at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Fi81e)
Gonna rock around with a glock tonight.
Gonna glock, glock, glock till it's broaddaylight.
Gonna rock, gonna rock around with a glock tonight.
Posted by: Klaus at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: RobertM at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (btIS/)
Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 02:39 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: MikeN at August 28, 2026 03:29 PM (XON5m)
THE MORNING RANT: “Polite conservatism” didn’t put woke corporations on the defensive - conservative activists did; This time the target is the Big Four Accounting Firms
The Big Four’s climate commitments…conflict with core professional accounting standards of materiality, neutrality, and error avoidance. These commitments create an appearance that the Big Four have agreed to compromise their independence in favor of pursuing climate-related goals external to the audit. The Big Four’s climate commitments also create potential conflicts of interest that may violate the duties of integrity and objectivity by imposing climate-related disclosure obligations that benefit the Big Four at the expense of their clients. Furthermore, the Big Four’s advertising about their independence, integrity, and objectivity, without disclosure of their climate-activist commitments and actions to impose additional regulatory burdens on their customers, may constitute deceptive and unfair acts and practices under state law.For now, the process is the punishment by the AGs. Each of the four accounting firms must reply to 32 questions and requests, which will require massive documentation and retrieval of historical corporate records. Here are just a couple of examples of what the woke accountants must provide:
Each of the four accounting firms must also specifically explain how they can advertise to customers that they are independent, while simultaneously pledging fealty to global agencies committed to an anti-carbon climate agenda that is harmful to many of the Big Four’s clients. Corporate America and the left-wing executives (they/them) who were so willing to shove cultural communism down our throats are in the uncomfortable position of defending their indefensible actions. Polite conservatives did not make this happen. It was activists like Robby Starbuck and conservative Attorney Generals. Much gratitude to them.
4. Provide copies of all training materials and written guidance for auditors that were created, issued, provided, or used by your firm since 2020 that are related to climate-related disclosures and reporting in company statements, including (a) all documents related to the materiality or lack of materiality of climate-related information, and (b) all documents related to any International Sustainability Board standards or to the Bulletin. 10. Is it your firm’s position that disclosures of climate-related risks are material for every company you audit or provide assurances for? Describe your approach to determining whether such disclosures are material. Provide copies of all internal policies, guidance, and similar documents you have created, issued, or provided since 2020 to guide your auditors on this issue.
Even worse, the “fiscally conservative budget hawks” wouldn’t even cut obvious targets of waste, such as aid to foreign despots or funding for NPR, because those appropriations were just “drops in the ocean.” However, if there was ever “drop in the ocean” spending that was a priority to the conservative base, the budget hawks suddenly found religion, and would oppose it as an unacceptable increase in federal spending. Five billion dollars for a border barrier was a “budget buster,” while at the same time Congress was still appropriating billions of dollars to the PLO, and hundreds of millions of dollars to abortion mills.This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.
My latest piece at The American Spectator: “The $40 Trillion National Debt and the ‘Budget Hawk’ Ruse that Led to MAGA”https://t.co/cSmZMbs6dH
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) August 26, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:01 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:01 AM (NcvvS)
*shrugs*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 11:04 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:04 AM (kV76K)
LOL.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 28, 2026 11:05 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:06 AM (kV76K)
https://tinyurl.com/3557yfw8
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026 11:07 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:04 AM (kV76K)
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FIFY
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 11:07 AM (FZ29D)
It's like refusing to buy a padlock for your bike in a high crime area because they cost a few bucks.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)
If any of those firms sell stock holding in their company,
they should have the Thanksgiving Turkey Sandwiches sued out of them for-
ignoring their fiduciary duty to their holders.
And go to jail if that can be managed as well.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2026 11:07 AM (iJfKG)
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*banjo plays*
*singing*
Two lions are loose
in the cornfields of Indiana
The power is back on in Gary after 2 weeks
If they need lights.
Then light them lions on fire
And the cornfields'll burn
With all their might
(chorus)
There's corn inside of whiskey
And whiskey's corn inside of me
I'm the one
Who let loose the lions
And now I'm hangin' from a tree
...
...
Posted by: Another Pop Song Not About Love at August 28, 2026 11:08 AM (iJfKG)
*shrugs*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 11:04 AM (2Cry5)
It's become a core social structure going back more than a decade now. It's gonna take time. There are a couple hundred million people accustomed to this regime.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 11:10 AM (BI5O2)
https://tinyurl.com/yedn95j6
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:11 AM (kV76K)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:04 AM (kV76K)
Not so. A sufficient percentage of the legislature smiles on her actions else she'd have been removed. They use the courts to stymy good governance efforts while avoid blame, as they use enabling acts to place blame on the executive for rules made possible by the legislature.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 11:11 AM (ExV1e)
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I knew you were thinking about me. *wink*
Posted by: Jen Psaki at August 28, 2026 11:12 AM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Illiterate, Innumerate, Sometimes Incontinent at August 28, 2026 11:12 AM (JM9I6)
She and Boasberg are almost singlehandedly ensuring that the removal of rogue judges will become a major issue in '28. We know that if she was removed, the left would then try to remove judges on the right. The entire legal system is in mortal peril, all because the Dems can't win without judges assuming the right to legislate.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:12 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Dark Lix at August 28, 2026 11:14 AM (Cz6Yh)
But, you know, No Kings!
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)
She and Boasberg are almost singlehandedly ensuring that the removal of rogue judges will become a major issue in '28. We know that if she was removed, the left would then try to remove judges on the right. The entire legal system is in mortal peril, all because the Dems can't win without judges assuming the right to legislate.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:12 AM (Riz8t)
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If this manifests, I think it manifests in reforms of the Judicial Act, not impeachment of individual judges.
There's never going to be 67 votes in the Senate for conviction for judges who have signaled support of one party over the other except in, perhaps, the most egregious of corruption circumstances...maybe.
But a modification to the act that makes district judges have limits on their tenure? That may be possible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:15 AM (/PKja)
Surely you jest, as my experiences in the trenches of woke corporations can attest.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 11:15 AM (jPziU)
*shrugs*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 11:04 AM (2Cry5)
It's become a core social structure going back more than a decade now. It's gonna take time. There are a couple hundred million people accustomed to this regime.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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The educational institutions are at the heart of this. All of what's happen in industry, etc., is just treating the symptom.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 11:15 AM (XeU6L)
Go get them, tiger!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 11:16 AM (SK+av)
These goals happen to be opposed, but are cobbled into an alliance against [left as an exercise to the reader]
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 11:16 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:16 AM (NcvvS)
Funny. No, these firms duty is to ensure their large city employees get mega likes on antisocial media.
Once you understand this, it all makes sense
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 11:16 AM (j0Tky)
There's never going to be 67 votes in the Senate for conviction for judges who have signaled support of one party over the other except in, perhaps, the most egregious of corruption circumstances...maybe.
But a modification to the act that makes district judges have limits on their tenure? That may be possible.
I'm not sure that would work. It seems like it would simply amplify the ideological swings we now have in elected positions. Maybe.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t)
Or if they fake it because it allows them to advance leftist policy goals while still pretending to be Republican.
But, either way, the way they scream and run in fear at any suggestion of being called a racist--no matter how specious and malevolent the claim--is embarrassing.
After 10 years of them constantly calling Trump a racists over anything and everything, their only motivation that can remain is:
They want to advance leftist policies.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 11:18 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:06 AM (kV76K)
Too bad the mix is so muddy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 11:18 AM (1z8ji)
It's like refusing to buy a padlock for your bike in a high crime area because they cost a few bucks.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)
Five billion dollars to the defense of national sovereignty - a legit purpose of government - is horrifying. Those other causes are just fine as they are not legit purposes of government.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 11:18 AM (jPziU)
Hmm. I wonder if this sort of issue has popped up in, say, the past hundred years or so?
Beuller?
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 11:18 AM (j0Tky)
Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2026 11:19 AM (hypP/)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:16 AM (NcvvS)
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The House has all the power in the federal government, if it chooses to accept shutting things down to get its way.
It initiates every budget bill. It can shut down departments as a whole through appropriations bills, send them to the Senate, and then just go home for the rest of Congress.
Paul Ryan chose to slow down some spending on the edges so that in 50 years we might balance the budget. He was a man without vision, at best.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:19 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 11:18 AM (3cUTc)
They want to run them BETTER!
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 11:19 AM (jPziU)
How much of the push to replace Americans with jeets was due, not just to save on payroll, but to boost their DEI scores?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 11:20 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t)
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It might work, it might not.
But I think it's the only way any reform is coming to the judiciary. Impeachment is a non-starter, and I'm not sure what other reforms could make it through 60 votes in the Senate in the next few years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:20 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t)
Just make it legal to shoot rogue judges.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 11:22 AM (1z8ji)
And therefore this rogue judge has concluded there's no down side to ignoring the law and SCOTUS, and just letting her freak flag fly.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:22 AM (Riz8t)
https://tinyurl.com/5y9m3xu5
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:23 AM (CtByK)
While I read it all I could think of was the GOPe saying "that's not who we are". And that's why you're becoming extinct
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 11:23 AM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Former Porter On The Romney/Ryan Express at August 28, 2026 11:23 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 11:22 AM (1z8ji)
Didn’t work out so well for me. I was just a hard ass. Look what happened to me.
Posted by: Maximum John Wood at August 28, 2026 11:24 AM (jPziU)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t)
Just make it legal to shoot rogue judges.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 11:22 AM (1z8ji)
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A defined removal process for ruling on matters outside their jurisdiction.
District judges have no authority, by statute that created the district courts, over immigration matters. It's explicit in the statute.
So, something like, "The president can appeal to Congress to have Congress remove judge with bare majority votes, with required approval from SCOTUS" or something. I dunno. I'm winging it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:24 AM (/PKja)
And therefore this rogue judge has concluded there's no down side to ignoring the law and SCOTUS, and just letting her freak flag fly.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:22 AM (Riz8t)
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Pretty much!
But Trump is playing the long game and getting wins over time.
TPS is canceled for everyone now, despite the efforts to stop his ending of the status.
The mail in ballot thing was always mainly for 2028, not 2026. Getting it in time for 2026 would be good, but 2028 is the real goal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:25 AM (/PKja)
So, something like, "The president can appeal to SCOTUS to have Congress remove judge with bare majority votes, with required approval from SCOTUS" or something. I dunno. I'm winging it.
That's an interesting thought, but then it would have to go through Justice Roberts spine of tofu. He'd never bite.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)
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So, something like, "The president can appeal to SCOTUS to have Congress remove judge with bare majority votes, with required approval from SCOTUS" or something. I dunno. I'm winging it.
That's an interesting thought, but then it would have to go through Justice Roberts spine of tofu. He'd never bite.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)
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I typoed, and meant it to involve all three branches, so the initial appeal would go through Congress.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:26 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:26 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Octochicken at August 28, 2026 11:26 AM (oCS0o)
*shrugs*
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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The Managerial Revolution by James Burnham in 1941 should be read as the correct prophesy that it is.
Brave AI Summary,
"The Managerial Revolution is a 1941 book by James Burnham that argues capitalism is being replaced not by socialism, but by managerialism—a system ruled by a new class of managers, technocrats, and bureaucrats.
Burnham posits that ownership and control have separated in modern industrial societies, allowing a managerial elite to seize power through state ownership and economic planning. He identifies Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, and New Deal America as early examples of this shift, where managers control production for administrative efficiency rather than capitalist profit. "
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:27 AM (E4rtv)
I'm sure I'll not add much to anything today.
I'm sure that shocks most of you........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:28 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 11:28 AM (2WIwB)
Managerialism sounds a lot like fascism.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:28 AM (Riz8t)
Here's Dolly, Linda and Emmylou singing together
https://tinyurl.com/3ry3kx7m
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:28 AM (CtByK)
I'm sure I'll not add much to anything today.
I'm sure that shocks most of you........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:28 AM (ccf/V)
Sounds like the Sponge is wrung out.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 11:28 AM (2WIwB)
"You're welcome!"
- - - - - Your Local HR Department.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:28 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (EZWVc)
Sounds like the Sponge is wrung out.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 11:28 AM (2WIwB)
I'm sure I could use a good cleansing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (ccf/V)
I'm sure that shocks most of you........
Dude! At least give us a chance to make the cutting remark!
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)
It's not going to ever get resolved unless methods outside the existing guardrails are used.
Or it remains a completely biased system for one ideological group of people.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (EZWVc)
Whomever told Dylan he could sing should be shunned for eternity.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (ccf/V)
It's not going to ever get resolved unless methods outside the existing guardrails are used.
Or it remains a completely biased system for one ideological group of people.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (2Cry5)
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Actually, it's the opposite.
Almost all the injunctions and actions against Trump are like a couple of dozen judges in 2-3 district courts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:30 AM (/PKja)
Dude! At least give us a chance to make the cutting remark!
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)
Fire away! Wait....cutting......En Guard!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:30 AM (ccf/V)
It was tried once before and didn't work. But that's what beta-testing is for.
For v2, I suggest cages and muzzles for judges, when not on the job, and then 7-day liberty for them afterward. They can go among the people, eat prepared food instead of raw meat, attend concerts, and so forth. A reward for good behavior, in the kennel and on the bench.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 11:30 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Tom Waits at August 28, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (ccf/V)
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Arnold Schwarzenegger movies are bad because he can't act.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:30 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:27 AM (E4rtv)
Oh there's plenty of profit to be made. Cut the content of your product, jack up the price, inflating the "value" of the stock, which you sell before the company implodes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 11:31 AM (1z8ji)
Arnold Schwarzenegger movies are bad because he can't act.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:30 AM (/PKja)
But they're at least, usually, entertaining as can be.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:31 AM (ccf/V)
Bob Dylan is one of two superb songwriters who should never have been allowed near a microphone. Leonard Cohen is the other.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:32 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: JROD at August 28, 2026 11:33 AM (Qcqjd)
Brilliant thesis proven true by events since the book was first published in 1941.
Burnham went on to write for NR back when they actually had intellectuals writing for them and published his Suicide of the West in 1964. Again predictive of our current plight as liberalism of his day turned inevitably into leftism.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:33 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 11:33 AM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (EZWVc)
Whomever told Dylan he could sing should be shunned for eternity.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (ccf/V)
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In my church, the Pastor is always calling for more men in the choir. Then he points to me and says, "Not so fast Diogenes, we need you doing other things."
And I sing better than Dylan.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 11:33 AM (2WIwB)
Bob Dylan is one of two superb songwriters who should never have been allowed near a microphone. Leonard Cohen is the other.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:32 AM (NcvvS)
*Kris Kristofferson has entered the chat.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:33 AM (ccf/V)
And which one of those choices answers to customers... those who pay the freight.
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 11:34 AM (j0Tky)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:35 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
That is not profit in the traditional economic meaning, that is looting by insiders which is a very different thing. See principal (shareholder) agent (mgmt) theory and defection.
Again, Brave AI has a pretty good summary for gray box purposes.
"Defection in Principal-Agent Theory refers to an agent's decision to abandon a relationship or contract, typically driven by asymmetric information and misaligned incentives where the agent acts in their own self-interest rather than the principal's. This behavior is often exacerbated by moral hazard, where the agent takes hidden risks or exerts low effort because the principal cannot fully monitor their actions. "
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:35 AM (E4rtv)
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This is absolutely true, but only in a technical sense. They abdicated their authority, or refuse to exercise it. It's easier to act like spectators. America has been desensitized and trained to accept that "nothing can be done" and/or "our hands our tied" and golly oh gee, some obscure department buried in the bowels of some unknown bureaucrat office has decreed what sort of light bulb is acceptable.
When they outlawe Booze, at least they recognized it required an amendment passed by both chambers of congress, and passed by a majority of state legislators. Now? Some unelected whack job can decree what kind of oven you're allowed to own.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 11:35 AM (6LG2q)
Brave AI Summary,
"The Managerial Revolution is a 1941 book by James Burnham that argues capitalism is being replaced not by socialism, but by managerialism—a system ruled by a new class of managers, technocrats, and bureaucrats.
Burnham posits that ownership and control have separated in modern industrial societies, allowing a managerial elite to seize power through state ownership and economic planning. He identifies Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, and New Deal America as early examples of this shift, where managers control production for administrative efficiency rather than capitalist profit. "
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:27 AM (E4rtv)
Efficiency is a bit of a stretch, but bureaucratic decay is natural in large organizations. You gain uniformity but have the following issues
1. Poor interest alignment (and corresponding factionalism)
2. Low information availability
3. Inflexible and slow to implement changes
Large franchises fix a good bit of this by having local owners function as local management.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 11:36 AM (okun6)
How much of the push to replace Americans with jeets was due, not just to save on payroll, but to boost their DEI scores?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 11:20 AM (3cUTc)
Probably both, but also remember: other cultures have no problems being racist and tribal as hell. Once they get into HR, they ONLY hire members of that tribe- whatever it is.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 11:36 AM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Octochicken at August 28, 2026 11:37 AM (oCS0o)
When they outlawe Booze, at least they recognized it required an amendment passed by both chambers of congress, and passed by a majority of state legislators. Now? Some unelected whack job can decree what kind of oven you're allowed to own.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 11:35 AM (6LG2q)
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Congress abdicated its responsibilities something like a century ago.
The Imperial presidency has just grown to the point where the only power that matters is the executive branch.
But, a House run by a real bastard could do a whole lot on its own. YD for Speaker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:37 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:30 AM (/PKja)
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I wasn't referring to injunctions or judgements against only Trump. The bias is clearly against anything, or anyone remotely right of center. Your point about the districts/judges going against Trump is true, however.
The bias is something noticed and discussed here almost daily.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 11:37 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:33 AM (ccf/V)
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He could do just about anything, but singing might not have been his strongest point.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:37 AM (sOsrI)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 11:38 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:39 AM (NcvvS)
As trivial an example as that might seem, it was so absurd that I think it persuaded a lot of people the government was too big, needed to STFU, and mind the things it's tasked with. You never know what will start the preference cascade.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:39 AM (Riz8t)
But our entitlement spending is "mandatory" which means we'll have no choice but massive tax hikes, which of course, won't raise the needed revenue.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at August 28, 2026 11:39 AM (GD2xa)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:39 AM (sOsrI)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:37 AM (sOsrI)
I believe he was the one, during his military career, commandeered a helo and flew to Johnny Cash's ranch to get him to listen to his songs.
Johnny figured anyone with the balls to fly over and land on his property without fear of getting shot deserved a listen.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:39 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 11:39 AM (6LG2q)
Posted by: man
Ideally but instead you get the managers running the company for their own incentives which is why you see them glomming onto new companies, stifling innovation, and engaging in cartel like operations to stop competing.
Airlines are a perfect example--their local hold on gates at airports as 'property' means that travelers must go through the shrunken field of airlines to get from a to b and like ancient travel, are divested of their riches to do so.
And it is killing travel for all but the well heeled. Antithesis of Herb Kelleher and SW Airlines founding which has after his death turned into the perfect oligopolistic member of the big US airlines club.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:40 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 11:40 AM (j0Tky)
Peter, Paul, and Mary practically made a career out of turning his nasal whining into harmonious muzak.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t)
But, Everybody Knows is a good song, and it has a lot of lousy covers.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 11:41 AM (BI5O2)
If I don't know that a company has a high ESG score, how will I know to not buy it?
I might have to do research!
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 11:41 AM (vJrRc)
The decision by Tom Petty to make his own voice an impression of Dylan is a questionable one at best.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:42 AM (ccf/V)
Indeed. The future isn't a boot on the face - it's a gate agent with it's own agenda...
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 11:43 AM (j0Tky)
There's a story that The Byrds hit with 'Hey Mr Tambourine Man' was almost derailed - another band from the late 50s-early 60s was trying to mount a comeback and wanted to use that song, but there were legal reasons they couldn't release it. Then The Byrds did and the other band faded away.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:44 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 11:30 AM (BI5O2)
What? No duty at the Dignity Canal?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 11:44 AM (g8Ew8)
But our entitlement spending is "mandatory" which means we'll have no choice but massive tax hikes, which of course, won't raise the needed revenue.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis
If you read economic history, outright defaults are rare unless you don't control your currency (like the EU nations), instead is a soft default of inflation that erodes the value of money to buy things. Green Nude Eel was such a shock--in essence, the Biden years made holders of US debt take a 25-30 percent haircut in the value of those bonds. We never see debt listed other than nominal but it too is deflated by inflation.
A better measure then is debt to GDP and we aren't great there but others are far worse including China, many nations in the Eurozone, the UK, and Japan.
We have the less shitty house in a bad neighborhood.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:44 AM (E4rtv)
But, Everybody Knows is a good song, and it has a lot of lousy covers.
Don Henley's version is pretty good.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:45 AM (NcvvS)
They can OWN a company- no matter who started and runs it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 11:45 AM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 11:44 AM (g8Ew8
I mentioned reward, not punishment.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 11:45 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Octochicken
>We used to tune in a different FM station.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 11:45 AM (SK+av)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 11:46 AM (EZWVc)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
Most of it, probably. There aren't enough minorities of any sort in the US to fill the ESG quotas for "representation"
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 11:46 AM (vJrRc)
I think the interview went really well. I want the job more than I thought I would. Not going to stop searching until I have a firm offer in hand, they still might pick someone else. I should hear back next week. I don't know if there will be a second interview round or not.
On topic items:
Yay for AGs doing their job! More of this!
Dolly was a treasure. I have a plastic 'boot mug' that I use as a pencil holder, from when we went to the Dixieland Stampede in Branson.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 11:46 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 11:47 AM (EZWVc)
It took me a while to realize music is a product, a business, even something as personal as music. Never the twain shall meet, but they did get good at producing hits over the years.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 11:47 AM (6LG2q)
I think the interview went really well. I want the job more than I thought I would. Not going to stop searching until I have a firm offer in hand, they still might pick someone else. I should hear back next week. I don't know if there will be a second interview round or not.
Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars!!!
Posted by: Kasey Kasem at August 28, 2026 11:47 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 28, 2026 11:48 AM (2Ez/1)
Sure it does, but I think the 'efficient' way to attack it has always been that it causes so much harm to those it purports to help.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 28, 2026 11:48 AM (zdLoL)
1. Poor interest alignment (and corresponding factionalism)
2. Low information availability
3. Inflexible and slow to implement changes
Large franchises fix a good bit of this by having local owners function as local management.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
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Burnham at the time was writing as a Trotskyite. Before his conversion to conservatism. And his term of efficiency meant more that according to the criteria that the managers themselves chose, the operation of a firm was much more efficient in carrying out those criteria than allowing shareholders to meddle in professional matters.
He later wrote a book arguing that managers, public and private, would do well to emulate Machiavelli--essentially the rehashed Plato Noble Lie bullshit where only the true insiders can see what must be done. At that stage, Burnham was in transition a bit.
But it wasn't until Suicide of the West that Burnham realized his errors that the system he thought he was describing was actually full of horrors and alien to Western thought.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:50 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Advo at August 28, 2026 11:50 AM (jO4mz)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 11:50 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t)
Just make it legal to shoot rogue judges.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
We could start by making only natural-born US citizens eligible for judgeship.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 11:51 AM (vJrRc)
How much of the push to replace Americans with jeets was due, not just to save on payroll, but to boost their DEI scores?
Partly, but once an executive gets an idea in their heads, no matter how retarded, they will push for it in the face of all evidence and reason. Ego is involved: they cannot be wrong or admit they were wrong. Plus most of them despite being good at business are not very smart. Same with politicians, although they are mostly driven by sloth: my staffers say I should do this.
So all it took was Indian voice getting the right execs in the right places or staffers in the right place a with the right politicians and getting the ball rolling. Once its in motion, its extremely hard to get businesses to change their minds
That's the main reason the DEI thing took off; these guys don't give a single damn about it personally but they were convinced it would make them more money and get more support from politicians and bureaucrats.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 11:51 AM (K32Fz)
111 The Byrds made bank on "Tambourine Man" and "Eight Miles High", the latter isn't a Dylan tune but both are corporate machine schlock with syrupy vocals and the rest of it. It is true Dylan is an acquired taste.
It took me a while to realize music is a product, a business, even something as personal as music. Never the twain shall meet, but they did get good at producing hits over the years.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 11:47 AM (6LG2q)
Speaking of music, I've been trying to remember the a cappella men's quartet back in the late fifties/early sixties that sang Till the End of Time.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 11:52 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:42 AM (ccf/V)
Some people have never learned to assume a pleasant singing voice. -- Geddy Lee
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 11:52 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 11:54 AM (EZWVc)
Some people have never learned to assume a pleasant singing voice. -- Geddy Lee
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 11:52 AM (ExV1e)
He's actually gotten more tolerable with age as his vocal chords no longer allow him to squeal like a pig.
Posted by: Kasey Kasem at August 28, 2026 11:54 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:54 AM (ccf/V)
Mrs and I decided on a local firm years ago - and they regularly outperform the "national brands"
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 11:54 AM (j0Tky)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:42 AM (ccf/V)
Some people have never learned to assume a pleasant singing voice. -- Geddy Lee
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 11:52 AM (ExV1e)
As if all the sulfurous pits of Hell were filled with kittens.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 11:55 AM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026
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The Four Lads?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 11:55 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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We had someone here describe why they wanted H1Bs (standin for all foreign work visas) at their place of employment. Easy to dismiss outside of US and state employment laws. Made the books look marginally better on DEI but it might be said that DEI was as much a cover for outsourcing US jobs to uncredentialed and cheaper foreigners than it was to give jobs to native minorities.
For entry level jobs, the same goes for hiring illegals, they are easy to get rid of, cannot really complain about being cheated at work, violations of safety laws, etc.
For managers, it is ideal to have a compliant and easily dismissed workforce when any trouble happens, they can be flushed away. And the fact that local, state, and federal governments are subsidizing illegals by welfare means that they work for less.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:55 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at August 28, 2026 11:56 AM (2CeDH)
The Imperial presidency has just grown to the point where the only power that matters is the executive branch.
But, a House run by a real bastard could do a whole lot on its own. YD for Speaker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:37 AM (/PKja)
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I dunno.
Seems like lower-court judges believe THEY call the shots now.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 11:56 AM (FZ29D)
Seems like lower-court judges believe THEY call the shots now.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 11:56 AM (FZ29D)
Because the SC won't do a f*cking thing to them for overstepping their bounds.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:57 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: FeatherBlade
Not unless you push through a constitutional amendment. And I doubt any such can be done at this stage. Same with states electing senators, etc. Unless we return to become a more homogeneous nation, fundamental changes to the rules become impossible unless imposed by victors in a Civil War (see 13th through 15th amendments).
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:58 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: jen the original at August 28, 2026 11:59 AM (EiUt/)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:58 AM (E4rtv)
And also does not fix the problem. Modern liberals are going all in on not changing the constitution, but simply saying it says that which it does not say.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 11:59 AM (Y/06r)
Posted by: whig
How about approaching it from the other angle and forbidding anyone who holds foreign citizenship from holding public office?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 12:00 PM (vJrRc)
Posted by: FeatherBlade
Blame Scotus for a bad decision in the 1960s that allowed dual citizenship which was ahistoric and deadly to a country that claimed to base its acceptance of a creed rather than blood and soil.
No man can serve two masters.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:01 PM (E4rtv)
Had never heard that version. Remedied, and thanks for the recommendation.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 12:02 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026
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Dunno about later in his career, but (the story goes) at the time of Terminator, Cameron originally wanted Arnold to play Reese the human soldier. Arnold declined and said he wanted the Terminator role, because he knew his acting range was limited. (Also, possibly, because it was the title role -- and because he knew that even when the machine is off screen, the audience is wondering what the hell it's doing!)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 12:02 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:04 PM (+l7X8)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 12:02 PM (wzUl9)
Banging the help, of course.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:04 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026
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Dunno about later in his career, but (the story goes) at the time of Terminator, Cameron originally wanted Arnold to play Reese the human soldier. Arnold declined and said he wanted the Terminator role, because he knew his acting range was limited. (Also, possibly, because it was the title role -- and because he knew that even when the machine is off screen, the audience is wondering what the hell it's doing!)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 12:02 PM (wzUl9)
His acting is good in a few. Terminator 2, True Lies and especially Predator.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:04 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 11:55 AM (Y/06r)
My kitten is actually very quiet unless he's hurt unexpectedly (someone sits on him because he hopped up on the couch too fast and got his his claws caught. I don't think kittens go to hell unless they're a special torture for bad people who don't like cats . J/K
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 12:04 PM (rHgXV)
“The Department of Justice secured a $22 million settlement with Deloitte concerning False Claims Act violations in connection with Deloitte’s use of DEI policies in hiring and employment.”
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 12:04 PM (Jl/ju)
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And claiming it doesn't say what it clearly does. It's really super duper complicated, you understand. Let's leave this stuff to the "experts" who went to Deah Old Hahvahd. They'll tell you what the Constitution really means.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 12:05 PM (6LG2q)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Ignoring the law is what got us into trouble and why the left may be sorry if that is what they plan to do. And their idiotic and repulsive Resistance law based on external imported ideas of oppressed and oppressor that is absent totally in common law is simply Calvinball. That is why I predict trouble in the future as in the Spanish Civil War type trouble. Urban globo homo leftists versus the countryside.
The nightmare comes in when you realize Spain had no nukes floating around in its Civil War which would not be true of the US.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:05 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 12:06 PM (RHGPo)
And claiming it doesn't say what it clearly does. It's really super duper complicated, you understand. Let's leave this stuff to the "experts" who went to Deah Old Hahvahd. They'll tell you what the Constitution really means.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 12:05 PM (6LG2q)
Because The constitution is a living, breathing document, silly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:06 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 12:06 PM (RHGPo)
WTF? Why? This far after the conviction and sentencing?
This seems contrived.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:07 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026
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Dunno about later in his career, but (the story goes) at the time of Terminator, Cameron originally wanted Arnold to play Reese the human soldier. Arnold declined and said he wanted the Terminator role, because he knew his acting range was limited. (Also, possibly, because it was the title role -- and because he knew that even when the machine is off screen, the audience is wondering what the hell it's doing!)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 12:02 PM (wzUl9)
His acting is good in a few. Terminator 2, True Lies and especially Predator.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:04 PM (Y/06r)
I thought Twins wasn't bad either.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (cWLG3)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 12:00 PM (vJrRc)
You’ll still need a Constitutional amendment.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Common Tater
Appeal to expert authority is not wise for the left anymore as they took it behind the barn and shot it in the head and propped up a zombie Weekend at Bernies version.
The age of the anti experts is upon us and the peasants are the ones with pitchforks and torches parading up to Frankenstein's castle (Harvard) for some rough justice. After all, the creator (Harvard and the other Ivies) have unleashed Frankensteinian monsters to ravage the countryside under the guise of the doctor (professors) can do no wrong.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 12:06 PM (RHGPo)
Accuser #10 to be specific. Accusers 1-9 are still very sure of what he did.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (pwuuY)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 12:06 PM (RHGPo)
Interesting. Everyone but the purported victims are dead at this point, right (Sandusky and JoPa?)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (Y/06r)
Goodyear is another early repudiator. I don't know how they are now, but they had some woke-DEI BS leak.
I immediately contacted investor relations and let them know I can spend $1500 on tires elsewhere if my race was a problem for them. It didn't take Goodyear long to publicly rebuke such nonsense. Squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (cWLG3)
I liked it, sort of.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:09 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (Y/06r)
Just happened to look this up not long ago. Sandusky is still rotting in jail.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:09 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:09 PM (5T19r)
Circling back to the Attorney Generals’ lawsuit against The Big Four accounting firms, here is a link to the actual letter.
*polite cough*
Attorneys General
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 12:10 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 12:10 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:09 PM (ccf/V)
*fistbump on having to check periodically if well known people are dead or alive*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:10 PM (Y/06r)
I immediately contacted investor relations and let them know I can spend $1500 on tires elsewhere if my race was a problem for them. It didn't take Goodyear long to publicly rebuke such nonsense. Squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (dK+Kv)
I stopped buying GoodYear long ago when I paid attention to Nascar and saw what a shitty tire they provided for the series.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:10 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 28, 2026 12:11 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: TxAnn at August 28, 2026 12:12 PM (SjAWL)
Businesses that weren't run by woke wankers made the (correct at the time) decision that refusing to bend the knee to leftists would significantly hurt their business, and more importantly, possibly lead to them personally suffering consequences, while they calculated that conservatives and normies would just accept it.
Now that is no longer true. At every turn wokeness is a proven loser, leading to MASSIVE losses from multiple companies.
So now wokeness is being driven underground.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at August 28, 2026 12:12 PM (setIA)
Not if they are whacked out leftist idiots. Those are culturally the only choices available. It's insidious and pervasive. They insist on keeping their pets on the reservation, that much is clear. Trump broke through the log-jam. I'm convinced they stole 2020 for precisely this reason.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 12:14 PM (6LG2q)
Put three judges on a panel where someone can squeal in a dissent, it keeps the other judges more honest. And trial judges less imperious as behaving like an asshole in a format that requires some collegiality is a good way to lose other votes on the panel (also see Action Jackson).
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:14 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
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Does TJM know?
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:15 PM (E4rtv)
Because The constitution is a living, breathing document, silly.
Posted by: Sponge
That's really cool! Look! Right *points* here, it clearly says being a Commie is a death sentence to be carried out by vigilante justice.
Posted by: BifBewalski at August 28, 2026 12:15 PM (XqYRq)
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Wha?? The 70s wasn't just a different place, it was a different planet.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 12:15 PM (6LG2q)
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This supposes that people are interchangeable meat-sticks. That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 12:18 PM (6LG2q)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 28, 2026 12:19 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 12:26 PM (/+uur)
Sort of euphemistically defines the entire Left, whose missions not only conflict with "error avoidance" but willfully court error, or rather, mendacity.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 28, 2026 12:29 PM (F8UH0)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 12:06 PM (RHGPo)
WTF? Why? This far after the conviction and sentencing?
This seems contrived.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:07 PM (ccf/V)
This actually lines up with the facts more than you realize. Sandusky was investigated and cleared A LOT before he was convicted. I'm not saying he's innocent, but without the context, Paterno and PSU look worse than they were.
In 1998, Sandusky was investigated by PA Child Welfare after receiving a complaint about him. The state hid an agent in the child's closet while he was alone with Sandusky, talking about their 'relationship.
The DA then fully exonerated Sandusky, saying there was no evidence whatsoever, and told Paterno and PSU's president that Sandusky was cleared of all charges.
Sandusky retired from Penn State in 1999 and started the Second Mile Foundation he used to groom kids.
In 2002, Paterno reported Sandusky again, and he was cleared again.
In 2008, Sandusky was investigated again, and left Second Mile.
In 2011, he was arrested and convicted.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 12:32 PM (PGK1w)
2nd Mile was much, much older than that.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (Jl/ju)
2nd Mile was much, much older than that.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (Jl/ju)
You're correct - I should have said 'joined' Second Mile.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 12:45 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Snoopy (soon to be Zombie Snoopy) at August 28, 2026 12:45 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 12:45 PM (PGK1w)
Or perhaps, 'solely worked at'
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 12:46 PM (PGK1w)
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